Magical Water Margin: They all call me brother

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The spear shaft spun halfway in his palm, leaving a trail of afterimages, before the tip precisely struck the tiger's right forepaw as it pounced. The steel-like, dark lightning collided with the demonic claw, sparks flying. The recoil traveled along the spear shaft, causing Liu Hong's forearm muscles to throb, and Lei Heng, struck by the double-tailed comet's furious blow, let out a low growl of pain.

Her attack failed, and suddenly her demonic wings unleashed a storm of blood and gore. Her three-meter-long wing bones swept across, tearing and blowing away the roadside reeds!

"boom!!!"

Liu Hong's pair of golden wings also stirred up a storm of molten gold. The two equally huge wings slammed together, instantly producing a loud sound like the forging of iron!

The violent shockwave instantly ripped apart the ground, blew away reeds, and scattered pebbles and reed fluff, along with fragments of the two people's gold and white feathers, in all directions! It was like a magnificent tornado!

With his four wings flapping, Liu Hong continued his attack, wielding his Shadow Scale Spear and unleashing a flurry of spear flowers that forced Lei Heng into a retreating retreat. However, just as he was about to deliver the fatal blow, the demonic tiger seized the opportunity to twist its waist, its steel whip-like tail sweeping across the muddy ground, aiming straight for the spear shaft.

The moment the spear shaft collided with the whip, a thunderous roar erupted, breaking Liu Hong's deadly strike! Both men were jolted back three or four steps before regaining their footing.

While Liu Hong and Lei Heng fought for more than ten rounds without a clear winner, Suo Chao and Zhu Tong were once again locked in battle. Zhu Tong used his spiritual power to control nine flying swords to stab at Suo Chao, but Suo Chao did not act recklessly this time. He immediately retreated and keenly noticed that when the flying swords were sixty meters away from Zhu Tong's body, they suddenly plummeted straight to the ground.

Sixty meters—that's the limit of her psychic manipulation range.

Warriors can fight mages, it's just very difficult. The best weapon is the bow and crossbow, because the effective range of spells is generally around fifty meters, and very few spells can reach the super long range of one hundred meters.

At a distance of 100 meters, the Song army's crossbows could fire at will!

Suo Chao took a deep breath. This man from Hebei actually used the archery skills of the Yan-Yun region, moving constantly on horseback, maintaining a distance of 100 meters from Zhu Tong, who had lost her warhorse, and staying outside her spell range.

As he galloped away, Suo Chao once again placed the golden axe across his horse's back, drew back the heavy iron bow, and fired rapidly at her! Although she was riding a galloping horse, the accuracy of these arrows was terrible, but the speed of the shot was the advantage.

Zhu Tong dared not be careless and could only defend with all his might. The four generals switched back and forth in the center of the battlefield, fighting one after another without a clear winner. The soldiers on both sides were truly stunned, and they beat the drums and cheered loudly!

Just then, Zhu Tong and Lei Heng felt a vague unease, sensing that something was amiss. Waves rippled around the battlefield, and the reeds swayed and rustled, but these sounds were drowned out by the drums and cheers of the two armies. Under the pressure from Liu Hong and Suo Chao, the two men had no energy to be distracted.

Just then, a sudden volley of arrows came from behind the imperial army! Caught off guard, Lei Heng's infantrymen were felled like wheat under a sickle, and the entire government army formation was thrown into chaos!

Liu Hong breathed a sigh of relief, a smug smile spreading across his face—the terrain of Liangshan Marsh, stretching for eight hundred li, was intricate and complex, especially the dividing line between the water and the land, which was like interlocking jagged teeth, with peninsulas and bays intersecting one another, and islands of all sizes scattered like stars.

Zhu Tong considered this place a dead end, but Liangshan, who had mastered the technology of navigating boats on dry land, saw it as a dead end at all. Wu Song was leading the remaining three hundred Liangshan guards and a dozen small boats, passing through peninsulas and bays, outflanking the government troops from behind!

I didn't let Lei Heng fly because I was afraid that if she flew in the air, she would see my sister's flanking maneuver and then suddenly make her move.

I've been fighting here for ages, waiting for reinforcements. What are you, Zhu Tong, waiting for?!

Chapter 80: Capturing the Woman and Securing a Minor Victory at Liangshan

"Sister Wu Song's reinforcements have arrived! All troops, charge!!!"

Seeing that Wu Song's troops had arrived, Lü Fang and Guo Sheng could not wait any longer. They drew their halberds and immediately launched an attack!

At this moment, twenty armored soldiers and two hundred crossbowmen with giant shields formed a 110x2 square formation. Upon hearing the order, the first rank of one hundred Liangshan soldiers, at a distance of more than one hundred and fifty meters, first unleashed a barrage of deadly arrows. Although the damage was reduced considerably due to the distance, it still threw the Song army into disarray.

After firing their arrows, the first rank of soldiers immediately retrieved their crossbows, grabbed their spears and shields, and charged forward like tigers descending a mountain! Although the entire formation was chaotic, their momentum was overwhelming!

Meanwhile, the second rank of soldiers, armed with crossbows, hid behind the shield wall of the first rank of soldiers. After reaching a distance of eighty meters, they placed their crossbows on the shoulders of their comrades and fired forward.

In an instant, a dense volley of arrows pierced through the Song army's shield wall. The sound of arrows piercing flesh drowned out the screams of agony all around. A Song clerk had his neck ripped open by a triangular arrow, the arrowhead still attached to half of his throat bone as it emerged from the back of his neck.

Behind them, Wu Song's three hundred Liangshan guards continuously unleashed a barrage of deadly arrows that blotted out the sky!

Zhu Tong was stunned by the momentum of the Liangshan troops. He didn't know how many ambushes were behind them. If he ordered the cavalry to charge at this moment, they could definitely crush the two hundred Liangshan troops in front of him in one wave. "Your formation is only two rows thick, yet you dare to approach the cavalry and even fire your crossbows in advance. Who do you think you are!"

But then what? Even if I manage to defeat those two hundred men, what if there are too many ambushers behind them, and they manage to surround me?

These Liangshan bandits are indeed troublesome. One of them, the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, and the other, the Vanguard Commander, are both formidable figures. For the small reward from the county government, I'm willing to fight them in the wilderness. But I can't risk my life fighting these powerful men!

"Ambush! Retreat! Retreat!!!"

In an instant, Zhu Tong lost all will to fight and led his three hundred soldiers in a swift retreat.

Wu Song was unwilling to let these people escape, so he immediately led Du Qian and Song Wan to surround them. Just as Song Wan arrived at the designated position with a hundred soldiers, Zhu Tong's ninety-five light cavalry had already pierced into Song Wan's army formation in a cone shape!

"boom!!!"

The bodies of the first rank of Liangshan infantrymen exploded one after another like withered branches. Spears, propelled by the charge of their warhorses, rushed to pierce the chests of the Liangshan soldiers, sending them flying amidst spectacular bursts of blood.

The bandits had just raised their shields in defense when they were successively rammed by three warhorses, their spinning bodies crashing down on even more Liangshan soldiers! In an instant, the screams of soldiers, the sound of flesh and blood breaking, and the neighing of warhorses echoed through the sky!

"point!"

Zhu Tong suddenly pointed the tip of his Nine Dragon Blade to the left, instantly splitting the cavalry formation into two rows. He charged left and right through Song Wan's army with his spear held high, instantly splitting Song Wan's army into three sections, throwing the entire formation into chaos.

The most brutal clash occurred at the heart of the formation. Before Song Wan could react, Zhu Tong's mount reared up, and she unleashed a mental blast almost touching Song Wan's face. The psychic energy ripples caused her to foam at the mouth and roll her eyes back. Before she could even faint and fall, Zhu Tong rammed her away!

When the ninety-five horsemen broke through the enemy lines, the hundred infantrymen had already turned into a scene of panicked defeat, with mangled limbs and mangled flesh scattered on the ground. Amidst broken spears and halberds, there were still soldiers who were not quite dead, convulsing in pools of blood—their intestines were being dragged out three or five zhang by the frightened warhorses.

Zhu Tong threw away the pieces of flesh from his blade and fled without looking back. Two hundred infantrymen, led by Lei Heng, also quickly escaped by stepping over the corpses of Song Wan's troops.

"Don't let them get away!"

Liu Hong was quite annoyed. If he couldn't catch Zhu Tong's cavalry, he could at least catch Lei Heng's infantry.

At this moment, Wu Song, with a gloomy expression, led his infantry to fill the gap left by Song Wan, and surrounded Lei Heng's two hundred infantrymen. She was quite shocked to see the power of cavalry for the first time.

Seeing his allies trapped, Zhu Tong wanted to turn back to rescue them, but he realized that he had been able to break through the blockade because he had run away as soon as he realized he had been ambushed, without giving Song Wan any time to secure the breach.

Now, the remaining Liangshan guards planted their shields in the ground and propped their spears against them, forming a hundred-meter-long chevaux-de-frise that blocked their way! And they even had shields!

Hiding behind these deer antlers were not Liangshan bandits, but clearly defected local militia from Daming Prefecture.

Flanking from both sides, with the deer antlers providing restraint, Zhu Tong gritted his teeth. No! Lei Heng is still trapped inside; I must save my sisters! At worst, I'll try one more charge!

But the next second, Lei Heng also chose to abandon the two hundred soldiers, spread his wings and flew into the sky. Zhu Tong breathed a sigh of relief and then gave up on turning back, leading ninety-five cavalrymen to escape quickly.

Unfortunately, Lei Heng did not fly far before Liu Hong easily caught up with him and they fought a bloody battle in the sky. The Golden-Winged Roc was twice as fast as the Winged Tiger, so escaping Liu Hong's pursuit was no easy task.

At the same time, Li Cunxiao also attacked from the flank, spitting out a beam of molten silver trident lightning from his small mouth, which instantly pierced through Lei Heng's chest, waist, and legs. Then, like a cobalt blue storm, it quickly approached, and with one claw, it forced Lei Heng to retreat step by step.

Lei Heng's strength is now similar to Liu Hong's. The two fought for thirty or forty rounds and were still evenly matched. However, at the same time, while fighting Liu Hong, she also had to face a powerful blue dragon in the air. She was immediately overwhelmed and unable to advance or retreat. After about twenty rounds, she was trembling all over and foaming at the mouth by Li Cunxiao's thunderous breath. Liu Hong knocked her weapon away with a stick, and the Scale Shadow Stick turned into the Scale Shadow Lock, capturing her alive in the sky.

"You said you prepared 108 wonderful little gadgets for me in the dungeon of Yuncheng County? Good, good, I also prepared some gadgets for you in the dungeon of Liangshan Marsh. You must play with your brother for a while longer!"

Liu Hong laughed loudly, which terrified Lei Heng.

After the battle, Liangshan calculated their losses. In the attack by Zhu Tong, Liangshan suffered fifty dead or wounded, with Song Wan seriously injured. However, they captured two hundred infantrymen alive, and Lei Heng was also captured. With a casualty ratio of one to four, it was considered a great victory.

After the battle ended, Liu Hong immediately spread the news of this great victory. Originally, many people did not stand with Liangshan. Although you fought against the landlord and distributed land to the people, which was good for them, could you really defeat the government?

The last victory was merely a defensive battle fought to seize the natural defenses of Liangshan Marsh. If you cannot defeat the government after leaving Liangshan, then everything we have gained is just a mirage, and even Liangshan will be treated as bandits and killed.

Given that, it would be better not to take sides in the first place.

But now, relying on Liangshan's defense and counterattack, Liu Hong defeated the Vanguard once, and then fought a bloody battle outside Liangshan, defeating the Bearded Man twice, directly demonstrating the power of Liangshan! The two great victories won the hearts of the people of Yuncheng, who called him the Great Sage. The other three wealthy men, seeing that the situation was not good, packed their bags and fled before the Liangshan troops arrived, wishing they had only two legs so they could run faster.

At this point, nearly all of the dozen or so villages near Liangshanbo in Yuncheng County, with a population of almost 10,000, were out of control! County Magistrate Shi Wenbin was nearly driven mad.

Keep in mind, Yuncheng County only has a population of 40,000. Liu Hong has only been here a few days, yet he has already incited a quarter of the county's population!

Chapter 81: Lei Heng Receives Whipping in the Dungeon (Bonus Chapter for 1700 Monthly Tickets)

At this moment, Liangshan was immersed in the joy of a great victory. In the past few days, the people had confiscated the property of more than a dozen rich men. Gold, silver and copper coins were piled up like mountains, ancient books and paintings were everywhere, and wine, meat and grain were stored in warehouses! The richest rich men had tens of thousands of strings of cash, and even the poorest ones had two or three thousand strings of cash.

After looting these fifteen villages, a total of 90,000 strings of cash were amassed, almost equivalent to a birthday tribute. Of this, 30,000 strings were distributed to the people to win their hearts, and the remaining 60,000 strings were taken back to the mountain stronghold. 30,000 strings were distributed to the leaders and henchmen who participated in the operation, and 30,000 strings were kept as common property to develop the stronghold.

Currently, the total amount of money in the stronghold is 75,000 strings of cash. Liu Hong has not yet figured out how to use this money to arm the stronghold to the teeth.

To celebrate this great victory, Liu Hong held a three-day lavish banquet, allowing his men to eat and drink to their hearts' content! The brothers and sisters, carrying the riches and treasures of the wealthy man, ate his delicacies, and slept with his pampered relatives, wives, and daughters, living a carefree life. This delighted the people, who believed that justice truly existed: those who defile another's wives and daughters would be defiled in return.

Of course, those concubines who were forcibly taken by the wealthy man, those who wanted to leave, and those with families were all released. Those who were abducted to the mountain were all the wealthy man's wives and relatives—it is impossible for women from normal wealthy families to become concubines, and this can be used to quickly distinguish them.

Liu Hong also took good care of his homeless concubines. Those who were willing to stay in the village were all given land as normal villagers. Those who were willing to go up the mountain were treated as brothers and sisters.

After Liu Hong fulfilled his promise to provide his brothers with plenty of food and drink, and to distribute gold and silver by scale, and even helped some officers settle down and get married, the fighting power of the Liangshan soldiers skyrocketed!

These local garrison troops, operating within the bloated and corrupt military system of the Song Dynasty, could be summed up in one word: slacker. I was fighting tooth and nail for nothing, so what else could I do but slack off?

After they arrived at Liangshan, inspired by Liu Hong, they were all focused on one thing: charge! Their leader really did distribute money, food, and women! Everyone's fighting spirit was ignited.

At this moment, Liu Hong also discussed with Suo Chao and simplified the Song army's military discipline, modifying it to be more suitable for Liangshan, and issued it, requiring everyone to obey orders and prohibitions.

At first, the gang of thieves didn't take it seriously, but after the offenders were severely punished, everyone realized that their boss was serious. Under Liu Hong's combination of kindness and severity, they gradually became obedient.

This boosted morale, stabilized the army's spirits, and led to a great victory. Liu Hong went to check on the two hundred captured Xiang Army soldiers from Yuncheng. They were imprisoned in a corner of the Southern Camp, while Lei Heng, the "Winged Tiger," was imprisoned in solitary confinement.

At this moment, Lei Heng was in an extremely disheveled state. Her bright silver armor and red robe had been completely stripped off, revealing her fair and delicate skin beneath. In the instant that the cold glint of black iron mingled with the fragrance of her body, sections of crimson rope, like the spitting tongues of venomous snakes, began to climb onto her voluptuous body.

Liu Hong pondered the binding techniques he had used before his transmigration. With a long, slender red rope, he traced advanced tortoise-shell patterns across the snow-capped mounds of her chest, the valley between her legs, and her snow-white abdomen. Each knot was precisely wedged into the gilded bodice, leaving bloody burn marks on the undulating peach-colored silk at the foot of the undulating snow-capped peaks, making her beautiful breasts stand out even more.

Two strands of crimson rope pierced into her honey-colored waist, turning the battle-worn bruises and the flushed face of desire into an amber halo.

A rope, jujube-colored, was deeply embedded in the valley between her legs, digging into her pink lips. In an instant, it was soaked with honey-like fluid and became incredibly wet. Her lithe and beautiful legs were tightly bound, unable to be separated even a little. The honey-colored long legs showed coral-like marks as the tendons moved, making them exceptionally sensual and revealing.

Lei Heng whimpered, her delicate nipples becoming engorged and aroused by the rough red rope, causing two blushes to rise on her face and a hint of flirtation to linger in her eyes.

With her body bound, Liu Hongliu's wings were pulled high, and Lei Heng was hung from the roof beam. Her arms were tied behind her back in a Guanyin pose. The transforming lasso used to capture Li Cunxiao also came in handy, looping around her fair and alluring neck, preventing her from transforming into a flying tiger to escape.

Suo Chao was completely desperate, which is why Liu Hong dared to let her go to persuade her to surrender. Lei Heng was a completely different case, so it was safer to help her first.

After being bound, Lei Heng was already blushing deeply. With this set of tortoise shell bondage, Liu Hong had seen everything he should and shouldn't have seen. He had also touched everything he could and shouldn't have touched.

"I have long heard of the great name of Lei Heng, the Winged Tiger, the Infantry Captain of the Patrol. Today I have met him and he is indeed a hero! He was able to fight me to a standstill. If my ambush troops had not surrounded the government troops, the outcome of this battle would still be uncertain."

Liu Hong praised Lei Heng's combat abilities.

"Now that Liangshan is newly established, everything is in need of rebuilding. I wonder if you would be willing to join Liangshan? I am willing to set up a patrol agency and let you be in charge of all criminal investigations in Liangshan. From now on, my brother and I will eat and drink together and divide the gold and silver by the scale."

"Bah! A bunch of bandits! How could I defile my ancestors and become an outlaw like you? You better pray you don't fall into my hands, or I'll show you what it means to wish for death but not to live."

Even though he was imprisoned, the Yuncheng constable remained defiant, his righteous face revealing a strange and alluring grotesque expression.

"By then, I'll have a good taste of your body~"

Lei Heng licked his blood-red lips, looked at Liu Hong's muscular physique, then at his own nine-tailed whip beside him, and squinted his eyes in ecstasy.

"Ah~ I can even hear the ecstasy that the whip will create when it strikes you! The sound of it lashing your muscles and your painful cries will surely create the most beautiful harmony in the world."

Liu Hong was somewhat puzzled. "You're a prisoner, why are you constantly provoking me? What's your motive?" Unless…

Looking at the man's demonic abilities, Liu Hong had some understanding. He pretended to be enraged, turned around, picked up the Nine-Tailed Whip, and suddenly lashed Lei Heng, who was hanging from the roof beam.

"Alright, since that's the case, then I'll first listen to what kind of beautiful music can be created by the sound of this whip lashing your body and your painful cries!"

Liu Hong swung his nine-tailed whip, each fork adorned with barbs soaked in rose dew. As the whip whistled through the air, it carried a sweet, cloying fragrance, which, like a venomous snake's tongue, licked at the suspended, alluring body, bursting open like a string of blood-red crabapple blossoms before her slender chest.

"Snapped!"

The first whip mark slanted across her breasts, tearing her already half-undone bra open and revealing a glimpse of her naked body. The second lash precisely gripped the deep crevice of the red rope, its barbs hooking onto the sweat-soaked silk ribbon, and ripped it open with a sudden burst of light. Instantly, waves of flesh surged, and a blush appeared, shattering the candlelight in the room, making the scarlet whip marks on her breasts clearly visible.

"Snapped!"

Liu Hong gradually mastered the trajectory of the whip, and the third lash precisely struck the tip of Lei Heng's nipple, causing her to gasp in pain. The blow made her breasts surge like a turbulent sea, shaking like a mountain, creating erotic yet violent flesh-colored ripples in the air.

“Pah! Pah! Pah!!!”

Three more lashes, like venomous snakes, lashed towards the base of her legs, which were bound by red ropes. The barbs at the tips of the whips even drew eerie mandala patterns on her honey-colored skin. Lei Heng finally let out an alluring cry from his taut throat. His sweat-drenched back rubbed against the tortoise-shell-shaped red ropes, producing a sweet, metallic scent as the ropes rubbed against his flesh.

Her toes trembled inch by inch as she dangled in mid-air, causing the roof beams to shake and scatter incense ash. Biting the rope, her pink lips released a torrent of lustful desire, her crimson lips and fragrant tongue uttering cries of spring.

This woman, after being hit a few times, actually climaxed. It turns out that she was both a sadist and a submissive who enjoyed being abused at the same time. No wonder she deliberately provoked her.

Liu Hong held back, letting the nine-tailed whip affectionately lick every inch of her skin, leaving the patrolman covered in wounds. Every inch of her alluring skin was marked with a brutal red welt. The whipping brought her to climax after climax, and she cried out in pleasure. After several orgasms, she even urinated!

"Hurry! Good brother! Faster, faster!"

Lei Heng closed his eyes, enjoying the painful pleasure. Just a second before Liu Hong brought the woman to orgasm, he suddenly put down the whip, turned around and walked out of the house, causing Lei Heng to plummet to the bottom of the valley just before reaching the heights of ecstasy.

"Liu Hong! What do you mean?!"

Lei Heng was unbearably itchy all over, her lust was irrepressible, and her whole body felt like it was burning with fire. But after Liu Hong aroused her, he ignored her and turned to his two female apprentices to vent his lust.

Lu Fang and Guo Sheng were also very surprised at this moment, not understanding why their master suddenly had such a strong sex drive. After being kissed and kissed repeatedly, they half-heartedly became entangled together and spent the night together amidst Lei Heng's curses.

Chapter 82: Song Jiang Goes to Liangshan Alone (Bonus Chapter for 1750 Monthly Tickets!)

The somber and tense atmosphere of the Yuncheng County government office contrasted sharply with the joy and happiness of Liangshan.

Shi Wenbin, the magistrate of Yuncheng, had not slept for two days. He was helpless in the face of Liangshan Marsh. He wanted to wipe them out, but Zhu Tong was defeated, and Lei Heng and two hundred soldiers were captured.

It's obvious that with the power of a county magistrate, let alone annihilating Liangshan Marsh, it's wishful thinking to even protect one's own village from the blades of Liangshan's soldiers. Sorry, it's impossible.

Shi Wenbin wanted to report to his superiors, but the prefect of Jizhou had been dismissed from his post due to the defeat of Suo Chao in the last battle and had gone to Kaifeng to apologize to Grand Tutor Cai. There had been no follow-up since then, and the entire Jizhou was in disarray. He didn't know who to report to or who to ask for reinforcements!

Even if I find it, and my superiors find out I suffered such a huge defeat, won't I lose my official position like the prefect of Jeju?

Just as Shi Wenbin's hair was falling down like leaves from worry, Song Jiang suddenly appeared from the side.

This man had eyes like phoenix eyes and eyebrows like silkworms. His long, pointed ears swayed gently, and his bright, clear eyes were like peach blossoms. His lips were red, his teeth white, a touch of crimson adding to his captivating beauty; his complexion was deep purple, his skin flawless like ice and jade. He possessed lofty ambition and a refined character. His pen dared to challenge even the Prime Minister Xiao, and his reputation rivaled that of Lord Mengchang.