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After the people of Qingfeng Mountain had finished discussing their plans in the Hall of Righteousness,
They then dispersed.
They went to prepare for the upcoming great battle.
After Song Jiang and his men returned to their lodgings...
Kongming and Kongliang were still guarding the entrance.
Song Jiang, Hua Rong, and Wu Yong were discussing matters inside the house.
"Brother Gongming, Zhu Tong, the head constable, and Lei Heng, the head constable, are old acquaintances of yours,"
Hua Rong looked around the somewhat empty room.
He began to persuade them.
"Why don't you call them both over as well, brother, to discuss important matters together?"
"this....."
Song Jiang looked troubled.
It seems a bit difficult to explain.
Seeing this, Wu Yong laughed.
"Hua Zhizhai, you don't know this,"
"Those two captains, Captain Zhu Tong, although he also went up Qingfeng Mountain at Brother Gongming's invitation,"
"But he harbored some resentment towards the gold that had landed him in prison."
"You've probably noticed it yourself, ever since we came to Qingfeng Mountain,"
"This Chief Zhu has always been taciturn, and he is no longer as close to us as he used to be."
"It would be quite inappropriate to contact him now."
"Let's wait until later and find a way to resolve his inner conflict, then let him know his brother's intention to grant him amnesty."
"As for that Lei Heng, the head constable,"
Wu Yong said this,
I couldn't help but shake my head.
"This man's martial arts skills are decent, but he's somewhat unreliable."
"There are some things that it's best not to let him know for the time being."
"So that's how it is,"
Hua Rong nodded.
Then he looked at Song Jiang beside him.
"So, Brother Gongming, why have you summoned me and the scholar here now...?"
"well,"
Song Jiang sighed.
He did not immediately answer Hua Rong's question.
Instead, he looked at Wu Yong with a puzzled expression.
"Scholar, what exactly does this Supervisor Dong mean?"
"A couple of days ago, I treated him to a good meal and wine in this village."
"Before parting, they also gave him a lot of gold and silver,"
"Why did this person turn around and lead his army to besiege our Qingfeng Mountain in the blink of an eye?"
Chapter 680 Wu Yong's Guess
"Brother Gongming, what's so hard to understand?"
Wu Yong sighed with a complicated expression.
"Brother Gongming, do you perhaps think that everyone is as righteous as King Chao?"
"this....."
Song Jiang was taken aback for a moment.
"I've been in the underworld for many years, so naturally I know,"
"In this world of outlaws and villains, there are ultimately more petty people than honest people."
"People like Chao Tianwang, who are so righteous and loyal, are ultimately a minority."
"That's it,"
Wu Yong said helplessly,
"My brother treated this double-spear general so well that day because he wanted to recruit him as an ally,"
"So that we can work together in the future to contribute to the great cause of Zhao'an!"
"And Dong Ping agreed at the time,"
"But that was just a backup plan he had prepared for himself."
"Now that fellow has been taken in by Murong Yanda and given the position of commander of the Qingzhou Commandery."
"It is clear that he has been given an important position by that Prefect Murong."
"In that case, our backup plan is naturally dispensable to him."
"On the contrary, if we can capture and kill us, we can destroy this Qingfeng Mountain stronghold."
"He will then be able to achieve great merit and win the favor of Murong Yanda."
"This person is utterly ungrateful!"
Hua Rong gritted his teeth and roared angrily.
"If only we had captured him in the village that day and handed him over to Liangshan!"
"What's the point of saying all this now that things have come to this?"
Song Jiang sighed.
"Brother Gongming, don't worry,"
Wu Yong smiled, waving his feather fan.
"I had heard of this Double-Spear General's name many times when I was in Yuncheng."
"Although this person is highly skilled in martial arts, he is reckless in character, which is why he earned the nickname 'Dong Yizhuang' (meaning 'Dong the One-Bump')."
"Furthermore, he has only recently pledged allegiance to Murong Yanda,"
"Even if Prefect Murong likes him very much, I'm afraid his trust in him is limited."
"According to my estimation, he brought at most two thousand government troops with him when he came to besiege Qingfeng Mountain."
"If there are too many people, Prefect Murong will probably be very uneasy."
"And our Qingfeng Mountain now has over a thousand followers, most of whom are still young and strong,"
"Furthermore, this village is located in a strategically important position, making it easy to defend and difficult to attack."
"Dong Ping's desire to take over Qingfeng Village is nothing but wishful thinking."
"It's good that Mr. Jialiang is confident, that's good."
Song Jiang immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
Qingfeng Mountain is no longer just his place of residence.
Or perhaps it's about whether he can achieve his grand plan of appeasement in the future.
If we lose Qingfeng Mountain,
Song Jiang feared that he would soon be like a homeless dog, wandering the world.
"Actually, Xiao Ke always felt something was strange,"
Wu Yong pondered for a moment before speaking.
"Even if that double-spear general Dong Ping is reckless, since he was able to become a military supervisor,"
"He should at least be someone who knows about military affairs."
“Last time we entertained him in this village,”
"Although he didn't get to know much about the true nature of the village, he did get to see how dangerous it was."
"If that's the case, then why did Dong Ping dare to come to Qingfeng Mountain with only that small number of government troops?"
"Does the scholar mean that there might be a trap involved?"
Song Jiang immediately became nervous.
"There must be some reason for this,"
Wu Yong would definitely say,
"I think that Qingzhou's attack on Qingfeng Mountain at this time might not be because of us, but because of Liangshan Marsh..."
Chapter 681 Supporting Liangshan
"Liangshan? What does that have to do with them?"
Song Jiang and Hua Rong looked at each other in bewilderment.
“Brother Gongming, Magistrate Hua, have you forgotten the intelligence our spies sent back some time ago?”
Wu Yong analyzed,
"Now that Liangshan has defeated the government troops of Dongping Prefecture, I'm afraid the imperial court in Tokyo..."
"We will definitely have to send troops to attack them this time."
"But the troops from other areas are unfamiliar with the place and its people, so naturally they can't compare to the local troops in terms of understanding the situation."
"Therefore, I believe that even if the gentlemen of Tokyo were to actually mobilize troops to besiege Liangshan,"
“The government troops from the various prefectures of Shandong will certainly have to go and cooperate.”
"At this time, Dong Ping led his troops to besiege Qingfeng Mountain,"
Hua Rong had already understood.
"Could it be because he didn't want to go and annihilate Liangshan?"
"That's very likely,"
Wu Yong nodded.
"But we'll have to wait until the government troops from Qingzhou arrive to find out exactly what happened."
"Perhaps this dual-wielding general doesn't want to go to the marshland,"
"They want to take my head back to exchange for merit,"
"That's not impossible!"
..
Although Wu Yong analyzed a lot for Song Jiang,
But what exactly happened?
Ultimately, we'll only know for sure once we're on the battlefield.
Just as everyone on Qingfeng Mountain was preparing to face the government troops,
the next day,