Do you have the strength to force me to join the Liangshan bandits?

Chapter 397 Song Jiang: I can't live like this anymore! [3rd update, please vote!]

Xu Ning didn't even bother to look at Song Jiang. If it weren't for the prospect of being granted amnesty, why would he have gone with the person who had harmed him?

"most!"

Cai Fu nodded in satisfaction, glancing sideways at Song Jiang:

"What? Brother Song Jiang has a different opinion?"

In his haste, Song Jiang couldn't change his expression, so he could only say with a bitter look:
"Brother, please don't misunderstand, I'm just blaming myself..."

"Fortunately, Brother Xu Ning can represent us to lend a helping hand to my brother. It couldn't be better!"

Cai Fu chuckled: "Brother Xu Ning, your family is still up in the mountains, why not take them with you to Qingzhou?"

"Brother, please wait a moment, I'll go fetch my family right away!"

Xu Ning gave Cai Fu a grateful look.

If Cai Fu hadn't said that, he really wouldn't have been able to bring his family along, as if he were never going to come back...

Of course, he really didn't want to come back.

So Xu Ning led a group of trusted henchmen up the mountain to retrieve his family's belongings, armor, and horses.

Cai Fu, with a flourish, plopped down on the reclining ox rock and asked Song Jiang:

"What are your plans for the future?"

One sentence silenced Song Jiang.

He could have used the pretext of Liangshan Marsh's branch stronghold to ride on Cai Fu's coattails, but now he wouldn't dare...

The question is, once Song Jiang leaves Liangshan and Cai Fu, what kind of person is he now?
If Cai Fu were to occupy Qingzhou, and Erlong Mountain were under Qingzhou's jurisdiction, he would be implicated in any subsequent imperial campaign against Cai Fu.

Therefore, if Song Jiang still wanted to accept the imperial pardon, the wisest choice was to stay away from Cai Fu...

Song Jiang looked at Wu Yong, and Wu Yong nodded. The two golden partners instantly reached a tacit understanding.

"If brother takes control of Qingzhou, Liangshan will be left vulnerable..."

Song Jiang cautiously probed:
"Why don't I go back to Liangshan Marsh and protect this legacy for you, brother!"

"My elder brother is in Qingzhou, and I am in Jizhou. We are positioned in a pincer movement, so we can help each other if the imperial court attacks!"

Cai Fu laughed: You're such a clever little devil!

However, how could Cai Fu possibly let Song Jiang return to Liangshan Marsh? Liangshan Marsh was the base where Song Jiang started his rise to power!

If Song Jiang were allowed to return to Liangshan, he might have two years to rebuild his business!

Therefore, Cai Fu refused without hesitation:
"I have my own plans for Liangshan Marsh. Brother, you think of another one."

This is absolutely outrageous!
Song Jiang was almost in tears: You're about to carve out your own territory and establish your own country, yet you're still occupying this position without doing anything!
How to break?
Song Jiang had no choice but to look at Wu Yong again. Wu Yong covered the lower half of his face with his feather fan and winked at him.

Whatever!

If I can't afford to offend them, can't I at least avoid them?
Song Jiang gritted his teeth and glared:
"Brother, I'll head to Shaohua Mountain now!"

"If the elder brother is in the east and the younger brother is in the west, and we echo each other from afar, wouldn't our momentum be doubled?"

Shaohua Mountain?
Isn't that the territory that Shi Jin and Zhu Wu used to be?

Cai Fu chuckled. Had he already forced Song Jiang to the point where he dared not stay in Shandong?

After leaving Shandong, is the title of "timely rain" still effective?

"Okay."

Cai Fu chuckled: "Since you've made up your mind, brother, I'll give you a farewell dinner."

"Brother, you don't need to be so polite!"

Song Jiang quickly declined, saying, "Brother still has to attack Qingzhou. Don't let my sake delay your urgent business!"

Cai Fu laughed heartily, wanting to pluck a blade of grass to carry, only to find that all the flowers and grasses had been eaten...

Fortunately, Xu Ning returned at this moment: "Brother, let's go!"

"gone!"

Cai Fu stood up and patted Song Jiang's arm with a smile:
"Brother Song Jiang, may you rest in peace!"

Song Jiang: (_)
……

The government army camp.

"Big brother is back!"

Han Shizhong, who had been waiting anxiously in front of the camp gate like a statue waiting for his husband, rushed to greet Cai Fu with great excitement as soon as he saw him return.
"Brother, you brought back so many prisoners?" Cai Fu was taken aback: "What prisoners?"

Han Shizhong was also taken aback: "Brother, aren't those disheveled and ragged men your prisoners?"

"what?"

Cai Fu had been walking at the front of the group the whole time, and only when he looked back did he suddenly realize:

Why did my team get so long?
In front of them were Liangshan bandits dressed in imperial guard uniforms, while behind them were many disheveled and ragged Erlongshan bandits!
what's the situation?
"Brother, they are all our old brothers from Shaohua Mountain!"

Chen Da and Yang Chun quickly stepped forward to explain:
"They followed us to Liangshan Marsh, and then they followed us to Erlong Mountain..."

"Now that we've followed our brother, they've followed too!"

Xu Ning also explained to Cai Fu: "After I was forced to join Liangshan, I personally trained a group of hook-and-sickle spearmen in order to break Huyan Zhuo's chained horses."

“They were all willing to follow my orders, so they went down the mountain with my younger brother.”

Cai Fu's sharp gaze swept over them: "How many people are there on both sides combined?"

Zhu Wu: "Our Shaohua Mountain originally had seven hundred henchmen, and now there are still about five hundred of them."

Xu Ning: "I trained a thousand hook-and-sickle gunners, but after several battles, only six or seven hundred remain."

Cai Fu laughed: "There must be three to five thousand people here?"

Zhu Wu, Chen Da, Yang Chun, and Xu Ning were all stunned and quickly counted the number of people in each other's heads.

Sure enough, the screening revealed more than 3,000 people, who were neither the original henchmen of Shaohua Mountain nor the hook-and-sickle gunmen.

These lowly thugs all bowed down to Cai Funa, wanting to follow him, which is why they stuck with him.

Song Jiang, unaware of the truth, did not dare to stop them.

Well, even though Song Jiang understood the truth, he didn't dare to stop them.

"most!"

Cai Fu expressed his satisfaction with this.

After this battle, including casualties, there were an additional 10,000 men!
Their loyalty is also acceptable, after all, they were originally just lowly henchmen of Liangshan Marsh.

Song Jiang was so angry he almost vomited blood.

He watched helplessly as many of his underlings followed Cai Fu away, wanting to stop them but unable to muster the courage.

After Cai Fu's men had all left, Song Jiang let out a cold snort:
Fortune changes every thirty years, so don't underestimate someone who's poor in middle age!

As long as I have these brothers, I can make a name for myself anywhere!

But then again, how many brothers do I still have left?

Song Jiang's gaze swept across the entire group: Wu Yong, Song Qing, Kong Ming, Kong Liang, Lin Chong, Qin Ming, Huang Xin, Lei Heng, Mu Hong, Guo Sheng, Chai Jin, Zhang Heng, Hou Jian, Zhu Gui, Zhu Fu, Ou Peng, Ma Lin, Jiang Jing, Bai Sheng, Ling Zhen, Xiao Rang, Jin Dajian, Zhang Qing...

Seriously? Only these few?

"Hulu-hulu-"

The sound of Li Kui snoring came over, and Song Jiang remembered:

And there's Iron Bull!

By the way, Brother Hua Rong is still at Liangshan Marsh...

Song Jiang's heart was bleeding. When he separated from Liangshan, there were still more than forty leaders!

There are only about twenty left now...

I can't live like this anymore!

"Oh!"

Just then, one of the henchmen swayed twice and collapsed to the ground, motionless.

"Brother, let's go down the mountain quickly!"

Wu Yong quickly urged Song Jiang, "If we don't go down the mountain to find food soon, all these brothers will starve!"

Song Jiang then realized that he had only eaten half a steamed bun, but many of his underlings were still hungry...

"Get off the mountain!"

Song Jiang gritted his teeth and glared:
Once we get down the mountain, we'll find a rich, unsavory man with a weak constitution and give him a good beating!

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