Chapter 787: Thunder Department

"Let's not talk about him, anyway, Xun Ge'er said a lot of things, and I will naturally think of it later." Bai Lang heard another piece of news that made him a little dumbfounded, "So Heavenly King Chao became the Tiangui Star? Song Jiang became the second-in-command Tiangang Star? Then Wu Yong and Gongsun Sheng were still the third and fourth, I was the fifth Tianyong Star, and Shi Dalang was the sixth Tianxiong Star, as for the Jade Qilin of Hebei, he sat in the Tianmeng Star position..."

Thinking carefully, it should be so. With the bravery of Bai Lang and Shi Yi and their foundation outside, it was impossible for Song Jiang not to let their seats rise. Besides, these two didn't fight him for the position, and they couldn't affect Song Jiang's various arrangements outside. Couldn't his confidants still occupy all the key positions on the mountain?

As soon as the duties of each leader came out, Bai Lang knew that Heavenly King Chao was sidelined. This person really became a mascot. It was just that Song Jiang's morality was better than Li Mi's, otherwise, Heavenly King Chao would have been killed in a fire. "He actually gathered 108 magic stars? It's just that five have returned to their positions, so the Tiangang Disha are not complete after all. As for what kind of consequences there will be... let's see."

At this time, Song Jiang's Liangshan Marsh force had been formed. Because it was in Shandong, it became a confidant of the court, so Grand Marshal Gao wanted to mobilize troops to pacify Liangshan. At this time, Bai Lang and Shi Yi attacked everywhere. Except for Jiangzhou Prefecture, the rest of the manors were almost under their control. After distributing the land, they could arrange for all the disaster-stricken or wandering people, and there was still a lot of land left.

"Don't worry about scarcity, worry about inequality, it was always like this." Bai Lang had expected it long ago, and Shi Yi was also used to it—the Great Song did not prohibit annexation, and such things were very common. After distributing the land, they looked for people who could read to do things. Bai Lang didn't care about this kind of thing at all, and let Shi Yi and the others have a headache. Fortunately, Shi Yi adopted the method of village elders discussing and handling daily affairs, which was still effective after the land was just distributed.

Later, as annexation inevitably occurred, this method would soon lose its effect. At present, it was no problem to use it for emergency relief. Some frustrated scholars also joined Shi Yi's rebellion, but in Bai Lang's view, there was a reason why these people were frustrated and couldn't get fame—"Just a bunch of pedants, not even as good as Wu Yong's crooked ideas."

The level of these people as officials was not very good, let alone compared with Song Yasi, who was involved in both black and white. Even Heavenly King Chao should be better than them if he was sent to be a minor official. However, there was no one now, so they had to use them.

After all, after distributing the land, the recruited soldiers were okay in terms of ideology. After making it clear that they were fighting for their own land and that they would get more land after becoming soldiers, the combat will of these people was still okay. It was just that their nutritional status and combat skills had to be supplemented. This matter also made Shi Yi have a headache, and Bai Lang just had to muddle along.

Hu Sanniang showed quite good management ability and could be considered Shi Yi's virtuous helper. Now Shi Yi had a territory of hundreds of miles, a population of more than 100,000 under his rule, and raised 5,000 professional soldiers to practice every day. Thanks to Jiangzhou Prefecture and Wang Zhi, the Huainan Jiedushi, there was no shortage of weapons and armor in the army. As long as they were trained, they would be 5,000 elite soldiers.

It was not that they couldn't raise more soldiers, but Bai Lang still had this opinion: they had to raise elite soldiers, and raising elite soldiers required providing them with enough protein, which was relatively expensive. At least one egg had to be provided every day, and meat had to be provided every three or five days. Only with enough protein intake and enough training could they raise elite soldiers with strong bodies.

The Great Song Imperial Guards during the Taizu period were fed like this. Shi Yi was just raising soldiers according to the regulations of the past.

Song Jiang was proud of himself at this time. He wanted amnesty, but the emperor wanted to pacify the bandits, so Song Gongming had to show his muscles. At the very least, he had to capture seven or eight Shandong prefectures and break the government's encirclement five or six times before he could talk about amnesty. Therefore, Song Jiang also had to fight everywhere, especially to fight Gao Qiu's army first.

The real enemy of Liangshan also appeared. There was a land army general named Yun Tianbiao in Jingyang Town, Shandong. He liked to play GuanYu on weekdays and wrote a popular novel, "Spring and Autumn Great Discussion"—basically the knowledge of a poor pedant. Seeing that Liangshan was powerful, he was also angry all day long, but he only had hundreds or thousands of troops under his command, so he really didn't dare to pull the tiger's whiskers of Liangshan's 200,000 troops.

Bai Lang and Shi Yi occupied the plains. If they wanted to expand, they could cross the Yangtze River to attack Shuzhou Prefecture. After capturing Anqing, the natural barrier of the Yangtze River would be in their hands, and they could go downstream to attack Yingtian Prefecture and take the entire south of the Yangtze River. They could also go north to take Huainan, which was flat and had no danger to defend, allowing Bai Lang and Shi Yi to gallop. Cutting off the canal transport in the south of the Yangtze River was also a small matter. Shi Yi's rebellion could be said to be in the heart of the Great Song, and it was also in urgent need of pacification.

Unfortunately, there were no troops. Unless troops were transferred from upstream or the north, there were no troops around that could suppress Shi Yi—but there was still Song Jiang's Liangshan Marsh causing trouble. Shi Yi and Bai Lang also used combat to replace training, each leading more than a thousand people to attack in all directions, leaving Jiangzhou Prefecture alone so that the court could take the initiative to cover its face, while privately, the two men's military edge had already pointed directly at Anqing.

Huai-Xi and Huai-Nan were both shaken, but as long as the prefecture was not lost, the emperor could continue to be prosperous and happy. The one who made him not prosperous and happy was Liangshan Marsh. No matter what, Song Jiang also broke the prefecture, forcing Grand Marshal Gao to mobilize troops—Grand Marshal Gao actually couldn't fight, and Tong Guan wanted to grab this credit more. The six thieves were not completely integrated. The struggle this time finally let Grand Marshal Gao win.

Gao Qiu mustered 100,000 Imperial Guards and Bingzhou Prefecture troops, directly wanting to attack Liangshan. Among them, there was a side army, which was the four towns of Jiaxiang, controlled by Yun Tianbiao, the land army general of Jingyang Town. However, at this time, someone rebelled. A bandit surnamed Chen broke the prefecture and looted the place. For a time, the government in Shandong was overwhelmed, and even Gao Qiu's army had to stop and clear the overall situation before discussing it.

At this time, the court also transferred the navy to attack Shi Yi. The navy general had the compound surname Ouyang, named Shou Tong, and was a disciple of Wang, the instructor of the 800,000 Imperial Guards. He used an iron whip well and was good at water. This person was the navy general of Poyang Lake. Before, Shi Yi and Bai Lang had never fought him, but now this person was ordered to fight Shi Yi.

Where did Shi Yi have a navy? He still used civilian boats to cross the Yangtze River. Facing Ouyang Shou Tong's attack, Shi Yi naturally let go of the lake shore and specifically went to find his water fortress to fight. This water fortress leaned against the shore, and the fortress wall could not stop Shi Yi's attack. Shi Yi fought on foot with a spear, and a few people followed him—if there were more people, they would be intercepted and killed by arrows from the warships on the lake. Things should have been like this, but there was no one in front of Shi Yi who could stop him, and even if arrows were shot on the lake, they would be brushed away by him with the Hao Long Dan. ===== CHAPTER 788 =====