Chapter 786: Plot

Lang's divine bravery was unique through the ages. Bai Lang's fierceness in trapping the formation was something only Wenhou Lu Bu could block under the heavens. Mere Wang Zhi was just a clown, and how could the Jiedushi army under his command compare with the elite troops of Xiliang, Bingzhou, and Youyan? Bai Lang ignored the arrows that were shot one after another, swept his horse spear, and brushed all these arrows aside. The next moment, he crashed into the line set up by Wang Zhi with his horse.

The horse spear swept across, and heads flew. The soldiers who held spears to block Bai Lang's cavalry charge all lost their lives in one blow. Bai Lang entered the formation, his long spear flying and sweeping left and right, and no one dared to block his horse. When Bai Lang killed his way in, it was like waves rolling, and one person broke through Wang Zhi's entire front army. Those small generals who didn't have time to run were all beheaded by Bai Lang in front of his horse.

"Who will take this monster for me!" Wang Zhi shouted until his voice broke, but no one around him dared to stand out. Seeing Bai Lang break up the front army—that's right, the infantry behind him also rushed over screaming after seeing Bai Lang break the formation, killing into the huge gap he opened, making Wang Zhi's front army of one thousand directly collapse.

Bai Lang galloped freely, and there were already thirty or fifty lives under his hands. This front army was driven by him to rush towards Wang Zhi's central army. Wang Zhi was also furious, spurred his war horse, held the Ti Lu spear, and killed over. Just as the spear rose, Bai Lang had already pressed the horse spear down, took advantage of the momentum to roll and pick, and this Wang Zhi had already been accounted for. After the horse spear pierced his chest and picked him up, he fell to the ground.

With this, Wang Zhi's army of five thousand collapsed in one breath. Bai Lang and his troops took advantage of the situation to cover and kill. Wang Zhi's army abandoned their armor and fled, directly retreating all the way back to Jiangzhou Prefecture. Five thousand troops lost more than three thousand, making Cai Zhifu of Jiangzhou Prefecture seriously consider whether he should run away quickly—after all, his father was Grand Preceptor Cai, so it wouldn't be a big problem even if he abandoned the city and fled.

On Shi Yi's side, he had one thousand troops with him. Unlike Bai Lang, Shi Yi didn't charge the formation directly, but first set up a formation and then jumped on his horse to challenge. Wang Zhi's deputy general immediately sent his subordinates to fight, but Shi Yi picked thirteen generals in a row, and the whole army was discouraged. Afterward, Shi Yi saw an opportunity, took Wang Zhi's deputy general directly, and the one thousand people behind him charged, directly scaring the opposite side to shout and scatter.

These three thousand people ran out, but only a thousand or so, and they crossed Jiangzhou Prefecture and ran directly to Huainan. Shi Yi returned to the army and cleaned up the battlefield with Hu Sanniang. Bai Lang had defeated the main force of the Huainan Jiedushi here, and the weapons and grain obtained were very many. Even the copper coins used for post-war rewards were over ten thousand strings, which could greatly reduce the pressure on Shi Yi and the others. When Bai Lang returned, he also talked to Shi Yi about expansion.

"Attack the surrounding manors, as long as you don't attack Jiangzhou Prefecture, even if you capture the county town, it doesn't matter—the officials in the court don't care anymore, and the emperor won't know." Bai Lang said, and Shi Yi said that it was probably true. The captives in his hands could be used to build bridges, repair roads, reclaim land, and renovate water conservancy. Anyway, it was agreed that they would be released after the work was done.

Shi Yi captured several surrounding manors and nearby county towns, but he only brought one thousand people. Afterward, he had to distribute land, and the county also had to be governed—Shi Xiao was a scholar, so he was just right to be a county magistrate. Anyway, he was forced to the shelves, so it depended on his own ability. Bai Lang had no interest in being a county magistrate. He couldn't do it in the past, and now he didn't want to do it at all.

No matter what, he had passed the Jinshi examination and had been an official...

Jiangzhou Prefecture was in chaos, but seeing that the rebel Little Heavenly King Shi Yi did not send troops to attack Jiangzhou Prefecture, after more than ten days, Jiangzhou Prefecture became calm—Shi Yi not only did not attack Jiangzhou Prefecture, but also did not cut off the trade routes and pedestrians coming to Jiangzhou Prefecture. On the contrary, it became safer to walk on the road now.

Because Shi Yi was really exterminating bandits in the area he controlled, whether it was mountain bandits or water bandits, they were all exterminated, and they were used to let the soldiers under his command see blood. This had already been done better than most Great Song governments. The captured grain and money also allowed Shi Yi to rest with the people in the area he controlled, allowing the people to have some savings.

"Exemption is impossible, one tax out of ten." Shi Yi said so. This exploitation could be called a saint. The key was that he removed the middle layer and actually collected it—at present, the territory controlled was limited and could be done, but it might not work if the place expanded in the future.

Zengtou City was taken down, Song Jiang and Wu Yong tricked Lu Junyi into Liangshan, Shi Wengong fled and didn't know where he went, the Five Tigers of the Zeng family all died, and the Zeng family's troops and grain all belonged to Liangshan. Since then, Liangshan had become powerful. Although Chao Gai was still the master of Liangshan, in fact, the person in charge of Liangshan was Song Gongming...

The Gathering Hall was changed to the Loyalty Hall, and this Song Gongming also had to arrange seats, saying that he had received the Heavenly Book from the Mysterious Lady, and Liangshan was divided into 108 stars of Tiangang and Disha. Chao Gai was definitely the first chair, and Song Gongming couldn't directly kick Chao Gai down and become the master of the mountain village—although Heavenly King Chao also said after Zengtou City that he was willing to resign from the first chair of Liangshan Marsh and give the position of village master to Song Jiang.

But Song Gongming didn't accept it in the end. Bai Lang also felt that this person was not a completely hypocritical guy. Song Jiang, who was called the Timely Rain, had many things that were truly from his heart. "I have killed several magic stars, can Song Jiang still gather 108 magic stars? Chao Gai is definitely not a magic star descending to the world. If Shi Yi says he is a Ziwei star, it is okay, but that is not any magic star."

As for Bai Lang himself, if he had to say, he was also the White Tiger Star Lord, how could he be compared to the mere Tiangang Disha magic stars. And Bai Lang, Shi Yi, and Hu Sanniang were all official leaders of Liangshan. Although they had no duties on the mountain but were blooming in other places, if Liangshan didn't let them in when arranging seats, it would be considered not giving face and being enemies. Therefore, Shi Yi and Bai Lang would definitely be listed in Tiangang, and their positions would probably be quite high because they were relatively early in terms of time and martial arts to go up the mountain.

So they had to be arranged. Not to mention Hu Sanniang, the martial arts of Shi Yi and Bai Lang were simply earth-shattering, and there was no one in Liangshan who could compare, especially Bai Lang fighting the seven heroes of Zengtou City alone, which was something that Lu Junyi, who was unparalleled in spear and stick, who was now in Liangshan Marsh, could not do. Such heroes must be listed in Tiangang—although Bai Lang himself didn't care about this at all. It was interesting what star name Shi Yi would have.

What he cared about was that there were mountain bandits everywhere in the Great Song. For example, he heard the news of the chaos in the northern prefecture. Among them, there was information about an old bandit surnamed Chen and a female bandit surnamed Chen breaking the prefecture and finally settling in the so-called Yuanbi Village. This bandit who settled in the village said it more explicitly—"Only fight rebels, not government troops." This made Bai Lang feel a little familiar, "It seems like I have seen this thing in some book by Xun Ge'er. What did he say at that time?" ===== CHAPTER 787 =====