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Chapter 312 Surrender Liangshan

As expected, when the Liangshan heroes heard what the boss said, they immediately became unhappy.

You can ask them to surrender their guns, pay money, or even give up their lives, but they cannot hand over their wives.

In later versions of "Water Margin", how many people were forced to go to Liangshan by their wives and then went down a dark path.

"I don't have any money, and I don't have a wife!"

"That's right! Boss, there's nothing much to say, just get ready to fight!"

Inspired by Chen Xiaodao, all the heroes at the scene were like they were injected with chicken blood, ready to fight to the death.

"Don't worry! We are defending the hilltop, and they are attacking. Let's see what tricks they have to play. When the time comes, we can just fight back and block the attack with our own weapons!"

Chen Xiaodao raised the telescope again and continued to observe the situation below. A man with a strange hairstyle and wearing barbarian clothes caught his attention.

"Wow! I didn't expect that this time a real barbarian would come!"

After he finished speaking, all the Liangshan heroes present were looking for the barbarians in the opposing team.

You know what! It's quite unusual.

In the past, it was always a group of "Second Qi Army" and "Second Barbarians" who came here. When did the real barbarians come here?

Let me explain here what the two barbarians are and what the two Qi armies are!

The Second Qi Army is easy to understand. It is the army that originally belonged to the Great Qi. After the barbarians took over, the local garrison soldiers of the Great Qi, or the defeated captured army, were reorganized after they surrendered to the barbarians.

As for the second barbarian?

This ingredient is a bit complicated!

They were not barbarians, but an army forcibly conscripted after the barbarians conquered them.

For example, consider Goryeo! Ever since the barbarians conquered Goryeo, they had forced them to send troops to join the expedition, joining the two barbarian armies on land and the Goryeo navy on the sea.

Secondly, among the two barbarians, some are from Qi.

The treatment of the Qi people and the Qi people by the barbarians is also different.

When the barbarians were outside the Great Wall, there were those who surrendered to them, those who were the first to be captured, and those who made great contributions while serving as dogs for the barbarians.

Such people are usually “given” the status of a barbarian, and naturally become “second barbarian”.

They also imitated the barbarians, wearing their strange hairstyles and clothes.

Of course, the difference between the barbarian and the second barbarian can be seen from their expressions.

One was born inside the Great Wall, and the other was born outside the Great Wall. Their growing environments were different. The real barbarians had very rough skin, which was the black and red kind.

The second group is the real barbarians, because they are brave and aggressive and love wrestling, so they are the most likely to cause trouble.

Just by giving you a sharp glance, his aura is very scary!

So they could tell at a glance that the person in front of them was a real barbarian!

The heroes of Liangshan felt very honored to be able to send a real barbarian to deal with them. It turned out that this barbarian valued them so much?

How could they know that the barbarian who came to lead the team was none other than Babutai, who was beaten to a pulp by Li Jize on the battlefield in Qingzhou and fled with his tail between his legs.

Babutai is so unlucky!

He was originally a trusted general of the regent and even had actual military power, but in the end he was defeated in the Qingzhou Campaign and was demoted to the bottom.

The problem is, he's not doing his job poorly, he's just taking the blame for the Sixth Prince.

It was originally a war between Bochijin and Li Jize, and the two were deadlocked in Qingzhou, each holding half.

Li Jize had built half of Qingzhou into his base and headquarters, so he could continue to fight indefinitely. But Bo Chijin couldn't do that. The entire north had just been pacified, and there were still the rebel forces to deal with...

He could only ask Babutai to help him "sit in meditation" while he hurried back to deal with the remaining government affairs.

As a result, the regent managed to escape successfully, but Babutai was in trouble. How could he be a match for Li Jize?

They were tricked into making a feint to the east and attacking in the west, and their logistics were directly cut off at sea.

There's no other way! If we don't break through, we'll die.

At least he brought back half of the troops, so the Regent spared his life and allowed him to redeem himself and fight the bandits.

I originally thought that dealing with a group of bandits would be a small matter as long as we didn't attack Li Jize and his Qin army.

but……

After arriving here to take up his post and seeing the files about the Liangshan heroes, he knew that these guys were not easy to deal with! In fact, they were very tricky.

Nonsense! If it weren't a problem, how could they possibly adopt the foolish method of "fortifying the city and clearing the fields", abandoning the surrounding people and fertile fields, and trying to starve these people on the mountain to death?

But they have been starving until now, not only have they not starved to death, but they have grown vegetables in the mountains and built a village of their own.

"This is so difficult! The Regent is trying to trick me!"

Babutai, riding on a tall horse, looked at the file, frowned, and complained in his heart.

Damn it! Is this how a confidant is treated? Always the vanguard?

"General! Everything has been arranged. Do we need to attack?"

While he was still lost in thought, a messenger hurried over and knelt down in front of Babutai's horse.

Babutai put away the file, then raised his hands to make a canopy shape and looked towards the opposite hill.

result……

He found that Chen Xiaodao opposite him was holding a single-channel telescope and looking at him. The two of them looked at each other.

Babutai complained directly to the other generals beside him, "Damn it! Between us and these bandits on the mountain, who are the officers and who are the bandits? Why do these guys' equipment look so sophisticated?"

The generals were also looking at him in confusion. Why did such people have muskets? Were they really a group of bandits?

"Furthermore, this general has discovered something particularly suspicious. It can be said that the earliest recorded use of firearms in this land was by this bandit group! Where did they get their firearms? Could there be craftsmen in these mountains?"

Obviously, no one can answer this question!

First of all, bandits are bandits. Although they may have certain advantages, they will never be able to become powerful.

Therefore, even in the areas ruled by the barbarians, the barbarians have never mobilized real armed forces to fight.

At best, they were just a group of troops composed of Qi prisoners and yamen runners. Even the real organized army that had previously belonged to the Great Qi had never come.

Because no one takes them seriously, who would care about them?

There is no intelligence to find out about them.

Secondly, what threat can an armed force that can only defend a mountaintop pose?

The troops that can really fight are definitely not the troops that defend the city, but the troops that fight in the field.

Local garrison troops can never defeat field armies. This was true in the era of cold weapons and in the later era of hot weapons.