Chapter 171 Everything is ready, ready to rob the execution ground
Any price?!
Cao Jie coveted her body, and this was obviously not included in the price.

But if you want to take advantage of me, Cao, that's impossible.

After some bargaining, the two made an alliance that Chen Liqing needed to fight for him for three years in exchange for Chen Xizhen's life.

If Chen Xizhen cannot be rescued, the agreement will be invalid.

Saving one Song Jiang is saving him, saving two is also saving him.

During this trip to Jiangzhou, he did not have the chance to obtain Lu Zu's inheritance, but the three volumes of the heavenly book of the Queen Mother of the West and Chen Liqing's three years were also huge gains.

Cao Jie was not afraid at all that they would go back on their word.

Once you have set a goal, you need to plan a foolproof strategy to achieve it.

It is easy to rob an execution ground, but it is difficult to escape unscathed.

Fortunately, Cao Jie has integrated the underworld and white world of Jiangzhou, and arranged them one by one, which is very easy to do.

First of all, Li Jun, Zhang Heng, Zhang Shun and others are the most important link. Whether they can leave Jiangzhou smoothly depends on their water skills.

After arriving at the north bank, everyone needs to cross the Dabie Mountains directly to Bozhou.

If there is no local person who is familiar with the geography to lead the team, it will not be easy to pass through the wild mountains and wilderness, and it will take a long time.

"Brother, I have already contacted you a few days ago about what you arranged."

"Brother Mu Hong, what do the Four Heroes of Huangmen Mountain say?"

"Hearing my brother's name, I am willing to go north with us."

"it is good!"

Although Huangmen Mountain is not large in scale and there are only four or five hundred minions on the mountain, these leaders have quite a history.

The eldest boss, known as "Moyun Jinchi" Ou Peng, was from Huangzhou and was a military household; the second in command, known as "the divine calculator" Jiang Jing, was from Tanzhou, Hunan and was a failed juren; the third in command, known as "the iron flute fairy" Ma Lin, was from Jiankang Prefecture in Nanjing and was a small foreign idler; the fourth in command, known as "the nine-tailed turtle" Tao Zongwang, was from Guangzhou and was a farmer.

Four people, four professions, this is unique among the more than twenty mountain leaders that appear in Water Margin.

As for Huangmen Mountain, it is located on the only road from Jiangzhou to Liangshan, that is, in the Dabie Mountains.

The strength of the mountain stronghold is not strong, but Ou Peng and others act cautiously and have never caused a big commotion like the one in Qingfeng Mountain.

Therefore, the government did not plan to send troops to suppress them, and the four brothers lived a decent life. When Ou Peng had nothing to do, he would send people to inquire about the surrounding areas.

The name of Shandong Cao Jie is well-known.

Opening up Huangmen Mountain is equivalent to opening up a straight line from Dabie Mountains to the north.

That night, Cao Jie, Gongsun Sheng, Huang Wenbing and others conspired and analyzed the matter again.

"Brother, Chen Xizhen and Brother Song Jiang are imprisoned in two different places. If we want to rob the prison, we may not have enough manpower! Cai Jiu has ordered thousands of soldiers to guard it strictly."

"Fortunately, the Taoist priests from the Shenxiao Sect will leave Jiangzhou tomorrow. Cai Jiu asked them to stay for one more day, but they refused."

"Then we will rob the execution ground! Chen Xizhen cannot die. If he lives one more day, Yizhou will be in chaos, and the eyes of the whole Shandong will not be on Liangshan. And we can also earn his daughter Chen Liqing and use her for our own. Mr. Gongsun, what do you think Chen Liqing's strength is?"

"He is definitely a great general! When robbing the execution ground, he can be used as the vanguard, and I guarantee that no one can stop him."

"Brother, everything is ready except for the east wind. We are sure to win. Moreover, with the speed of Brother Dai Zong, he will be able to reach Liangshan tomorrow. By then, Master Wu will come down the mountain to meet us. As long as we cross the Dabie Mountains, no one can stop us from returning to Liangshan."

The day of beheading soon arrived.

Early in the morning, a minor official went to Caishikou to clean the execution ground, and selected more than 500 constables, soldiers, and executioners to wait in front of the prison gate.

Nearly a thousand soldiers were on standby. When the time came to Si, Cai Jiu set out to personally supervise the execution.

In the big prison, several jailers brushed Song Jiang's hair with glue, tied it into a goose pear-shaped bun, inserted a red silk paper flower, and brought him to the altar of the Green-faced Saint, and gave him a bowl of meat rice and a bowl of wine.

There is a name for this place, it is called the long rest meal and the eternal farewell wine.

But how could Song Jiang eat it?

He waited for Cao Jie to come and break the prison, but he never came until he got tired of waiting.

Now I just feel that I have been completely abandoned.

You have to eat this meal even if you don't want to.

So a few jailers forced some food into his mouth, and that was considered as eating. Then a pair of fully armed jailers escorted Song Jiang out of the prison.

The soldiers and constables outside then loaded him into a prison cart, pushed him forward and backward, and took him to the vegetable market entrance of the city, dragged him out and threw him on the ground, surrounded him with guns and sticks, waiting for the executioner to arrive at three quarters past noon to start the execution.

Similarly, Chen Xizhen was also escorted there.

The people of Jiangzhou knew for several days that they were going to execute the rebel bandit. The news spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred. Jiangzhou was in an uproar, and countless people came to watch.

Song Jiang looked around, dejected.

I felt that I would die today, and I couldn't help but burst into tears.

"Humph!"

Chen Xizhen was locked in the collarbone, his body was covered in blood, and he sneered: "I actually regarded you as a great enemy, but I didn't expect you to be such a waste."

"You crazy Taoist priest, now that we are both going to die, you still call me your archenemy? I don't know when we became enemies, you should let me die knowingly!"

Chen Xizhen was silent.

At this time, Song Jiang saw Huang Wenbing, and he followed the arrogant Cai Jiu with a gloomy smile on his face.

Looking around again, Song Jiang saw Li Tieniu holding two axes.

He is now the head of Jiangzhou, so he can be close to the execution ground and occupy the most advantageous terrain.

Seeing that the time was almost up, minor officials from both sides came up to open the shackles and forced Chen Xizhen and Song Jiang to kneel on the ground. The two executioners, with their upper bodies naked and red cloth tied around their waists, walked aside and stood still.

Chen Xizhen closed his eyes, he had already accepted his fate.

Song Jiang didn't know whether Cao Jie was here to rob him. He couldn't help shaking all over and pleaded with a trembling voice: "Good man, I just hope to leave my body intact."

He had been a minor official for more than ten years and knew the rules.

This executioner beheads people. He may cut off their heads with one blow, or chop them half to death to make them suffer, or kill them with one blow, but the head is still connected to the body. This is all due to the skill gained from chopping winter melons and tofu in his hands.

Therefore, the families of prisoners often had to pay a quick execution fee, asking for a quick death and a complete corpse. Now that no one was spending the money for Song Jiang, he could only hope that his reputation as a timely rain would be enough to make things easier for the executioner.

The executioner didn't even look at him.

How could an executioner from a small state master that technique of "severing the life with one blow while leaving the head still attached to the body"? He needed to go to Tokyo City and get stabbed in the face to see it!
At this time, someone on the high platform shouted loudly: "It's three quarters after noon!"

Cai Jiu looked up from afar with a look of regret, and said to Huang Wenbing: "It didn't even attract the bandits to rob the execution ground. All my arrangements were in vain!"

Huang Wenbing smiled darkly: "Sir, who do you think this is?"

(End of this chapter)