Chapter 1111 Rushing to Erlong Mountain and Meeting Lu Zhijie
Early July.

Jeju sent 4,000 soldiers to attack Liangshan, but only 800 people escaped back to Jeju.

As soon as the news came out, not only did the Jeju Prefecture no longer dare to discuss the expedition against Liangshan, but even the nearby Dongping Prefecture began to "change color at the mention of Liangshan".

Afterwards, Chao Gai, Wu Yong and Liu Tang spent half a month learning the military discipline of Liangshan.

end of July.

Zhu Gui got the news that the governor of Jizhou had raised another 100,000 strings of "birthday money" locally and sent it to the Grand Tutor's Mansion in Bianliang City, thus suppressing the expedition to Liangshan.

Seeing that Liangshan was safe, Su Mingzhe took three hundred swordsmen and shieldmen, as well as leaders such as Chao Gai, Wu Yong, Liu Tang, and Lin Chong, and rushed to Erlongshan.

Erlong Mountain is located near Qingzhou Prefecture on Jingdong East Road.

Jingdong East Road is mountainous, with famous mountains including Mount Tai, Mount Laoshan, Mount Yimeng and so on.

Most of these famous mountains are occupied by Taoist temples.

In addition to famous mountains, there are also many unknown hills on Jingdong East Road.

Many of these hills are located in dangerous locations.

During the prosperous times, there were also many temples and Taoist temples on these hills and dangerous peaks.

It was only in recent decades that these small mountain temples and Taoist temples fell into decline and gradually became deserted due to the loss of incense.

Among them, Deng Long from Erlong Mountain was originally the abbot of Erlong Mountain Temple. Because there was no incense, he gathered a group of ruffians, established a stronghold, and became the king of the mountain.

The crowd went to Erlong Mountain, first passing Dongping Prefecture and Yanzhou, and then entering Jingdong East Road from Xintai.

After arriving at Jingdong East Road, more than 300 people split up into small groups, disguised themselves as vendors, passed through Yizhou and Mizhou, and arrived in Qingzhou.

After a quick march of seven or eight hundred miles, they arrived at the destination in less than ten days.

"Heavenly King, this is White Tiger Mountain. Going forward, it's Erlong Mountain!"

As Su Mingzhe said this, he invited Chao Gai to rest for a night on Baihu Mountain.

There is a village at the foot of Baihu Mountain called Kongjiazhuang.

The owners of Kongjiazhuang were named Kong Ming and Kong Liang, who were apprentices of Song Jiang, the bailiff of Yuncheng.

Zhu Gui sent people to explore the road conditions and look for places to set up branch camps.

I don’t know how Qiao Lie fooled the brothers Kong Ming and Kong Liang, but they actually gave up their own hill.

Today, the White Tiger Mountain has been renovated by Liangshan. As there are not many dangerous terrains, Liangshan stationed 500 men here for defense in order to strengthen its foundation.

In addition, two leaders were sent.

The two leaders were brothers. The elder one was named Liu Bai and the younger one was named Liu Qing. They were originally private salt dealers in the Jiangnan and Huaibei areas.

Later, when Wang Qing fled to Jianghuai and wanted to seize the private salt business, he and the Liu brothers followed the Fangshan Mountain King 'Liao Huoxing' Liao Li to fight.

Liao Li was no match for Wang Qing and was beheaded. Then all the people in Fangshan either died or surrendered.

Brother Liu Bai had also surrendered.

However, the two men once injured Duan Erlang, a general under Wang Qing, on the battlefield.

Duan Erlang is Wang Qing's brother-in-law. When he saw the surrendered Liu Bai brothers, he insisted on avenging himself.

In desperation, the Liu Bai brothers could only escape and wander around the world.

Later, the two brothers met the secret spy sent by Zhu Gui to the south. After some communication, they came to Liangshan.

Seeing that the brothers were not only proficient in martial arts but also quite courageous, Su Mingzhe sent them to Qingzhou to develop the private salt market.

Brothers Liu and Bai resumed their past business and with the support of Liangshan, they built up Baihu Mountain into a prosperous place. Now they pay Liangshan two to three thousand strings of cash in dividends every month.

Now, Su Mingzhe brought Chao Gai and others to occupy Erlong Mountain. When the Liu Bai brothers found out, they immediately realized that these were the people who came to "earn merit".

Previously, Liangshan had set up twelve mountain strongholds on Jingdong East Road and Jingdong West Road. Each stronghold was about two hundred miles apart and were not under the jurisdiction of each other.

Just wait for the Liangshan uprising. These mountain strongholds can not only help hide the troops, but also cooperate with the Liangshan troops to catch the government troops off guard.

Now, the intention of building another branch village on Erlong Mountain near Baihu Mountain is naturally "obvious".

Brother Liu Bai felt somewhat dissatisfied.

However, a person's reputation is like a tree's shadow. The reputation of "Tower Heavenly King" Chao Gai is as loud as that of their original leader Liao Lidu.

Therefore, facing Su Mingzhe's arrangement, although the two brothers were dissatisfied in their hearts, they did not dare to make trouble, and even had to be honest and humble.

Everyone got to know each other, rested for a night, and everything went peacefully.

the next day.

The group traveled for another day and arrived at the foot of Erlong Mountain from Baihu Mountain.

It was getting late.

Su Mingzhe had already ordered everyone to set up camp and rest for a night, preparing to fight Deng Long again the next day.

Unexpectedly, before the barracks were set up, a mountain breeze blew and Su Mingzhe actually vaguely heard the sound of fighting on the top of the mountain.

When he opened his spiritual sense, his face suddenly became strange:
"Everyone, did you hear any sound?"

Chao Gai and Lin Chong had high cultivation and the sharpest hearing, so they listened carefully but heard nothing.

However, Wu Yong, the wise man, had a sensitive nose. He sniffed and smelled a bloody smell in the mountain wind:

"My lord, it seems like someone is fighting?"

Su Mingzhe pointed to the mountain and said with a strange look:
"There seems to be a sound of fighting on this mountain! Could it be that Deng Long is fighting with someone else?"

Wu Yong also thought of this and quickly advised:

"My lord, if that's the case, we should send someone up the mountain to investigate without delay! If Deng Long is fighting with others, we can save ourselves a lot of effort!"

"Yes, Mr. Jialiang is right. I'll trouble you and Brother Liu Tang to guard the rear. I will lead the team up the mountain with Tianwang and the coach!"

Su Mingzhe already knew the result and was not in a hurry.

Chao Gai and Lin Chong didn't know what was going on, so they nervously picked up their swords and spears and rushed up the mountain.

Erlong Mountain has a dangerous terrain and many places are too steep to allow two people to pass through.

On weekdays, there are bandit sentries in these places.

Today, everyone went up the mountain safely and didn't encounter anything.

When they reached halfway up the mountain, Chao Gai and Lin Chong could finally hear the sounds of fighting and killing.

At this point, everyone hurriedly climbed up the mountain.

A quarter of an hour later.

When everyone arrived at the gate of the village, they saw it was wide open and a strong smell of blood wafted out.

Su Mingzhe knew what was going on and continued to lead the way. Soon, he led everyone to the parade ground on the top of Erlong Mountain.

This was originally the square in front of the main hall of the Erlongshan Temple, and was also the training ground for the monks of the temple.

Today, there stands a shirtless monk holding a Zen stick in his hand in the square.

Hua Heshang had just fought a fierce battle to subdue the bandits in the mountain stronghold. When he saw another person coming up the mountain, still wearing armor and weapons, he thought that the soldiers had arrived. He secretly groaned in his heart, but had to shout sternly:
"Who is coming?"

In order to prevent infighting, Su Mingzhe quickly shouted:
"But Lu Tijie?"

"It's me!"

Lu Zhishen felt the voice sounded familiar, but before he could remember who it was, he heard the voice he had been thinking about day and night.

"Senior brother——"

When Lin Chong heard Su Mingzhe calling "Lu Zhijie", he felt angry and took two quick steps. When he saw the Flower Monk, he could not help but burst into tears:

"Brother, where have you been all this time? I've been looking for you for a long time!"

Lu Zhishen didn't expect to run into Lin Chong here. After a closer look, he found that the person who greeted him before was Liangshan's leader Su Mingzhe. He was immediately surprised and asked:

"Brother, why... did you come to Erlong Mountain with Brother Su?"

At this time, a sturdy man with large blue spots on his face rushed out. When he saw Chao Gai, he was so angry that he shouted:
"Evil thief, return my birthday gift to me!"

(End of this chapter)