Magical Water Margin: They all call me brother

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After a fierce battle, Lin Daiyu was exhausted and collapsed in Liu Hong's arms, panting heavily. She showed a frail appearance that Lin Niangzi had never seen before. Liu Hong, on the other hand, was not out of breath and his heart was not racing. He even turned his head and looked at her with a smile.

"what!"

Lin Niangzi's heart pounded wildly, filled with excitement, nervousness, and even a hint of incestuous guilt. Although she had served her husband alongside Jin'er before, she was, after all, just a maid.

Although her husband now says she has taken Liu Hong as her concubine, she used to call him uncle. But based on his behavior in bed just now, he is clearly not her husband's concubine, but her husband's wife!

However, her husband's performance just now was so incredibly pleasurable that she felt completely at ease, and since she had already given in...

Lin Niangzi reluctantly agreed to Liu Hong's advances.

Her pearl hairpins dangled halfway, scattering across her dark, cloud-like hair. Her light silk gauze was half-undone, revealing her jade-like bones and icy skin. Her lotus-like arms stretched out lightly, like snow cranes entwining their necks, and her peach-like cheeks drooped slightly, like spring crabapple blossoms glistening with dew.

Her jade-like feet swayed lightly, revealing delicate pink lips between her beautiful legs. Her Xiang skirt half-concealed her figure, revealing ripples of snowy white skin beneath. Slender fingers lightly tapped her breasts, like white plum blossoms adorned with crimson buds. Her lips parted slightly, her breath like a gentle breeze rippling autumn waves.

"Sister-in-law, I'm coming in."

Liu Hong deliberately used blasphemous words to stimulate Lin Niangzi's body and mind. As soon as the jade spear entered, Lin Niangzi let out an alluring cry amidst the tearing pain and the ultimate pleasure.

His spear was so large that as soon as it entered, it made Lin Niangzi's eyebrows furrow as if she were a startled magpie stepping on a branch, and her ten fingers clenched as if she were a fox hunting a rabbit, leaving ten red marks on Liu Hong's strong skin.

Liu Hong was also aware of his rapidly increasing size, and he caressed the beauty in his arms even more gently, slowly probing inside.

Daiyu, having recovered, gently embraced her wife, and together with Liu Hong, they attacked the still somewhat panicked Lin Niangzi from both sides. The three snow-white bodies intertwined, their red lips kissing wildly, their four arms caressing each other. Under such a fierce onslaught, Lin Niangzi's body gradually softened and became wet from the kisses and touches. Pain turned into pleasure, and that pleasure became a babbling brook, dripping incessantly downwards.

Her slender waist and snowy belly undulated like a soaring swan or a swimming dragon; her soft breasts and fragrant buttocks swayed like raging waves. The silver hooks of the gauze curtains swayed as if clouds were rising over Wushan; the golden threads of the brocade quilt floated and sank like waves crashing on the Luo River.

Where the three shadows intertwined, the warbling of orioles mingled with the fragrance of musk orchids. The stamens of the crabapple blossoms opened and closed, their lower bodies wet and revealing two delicate petals. Amidst the rapid and disordered breathing, two layers of golden stamens and jade nectar seeped out.

Once she got into the mood, the gentle and timid Lady Lin surprisingly displayed an extremely strong attitude in bed! This was completely opposite to Lin Chong's strong personality outside of bed but weak personality inside.

Finally, she even pushed Liu Hong down onto the bed, straddled his waist, breathed heavily, her eyes were pink, and without any instruction, she twisted her waist and swayed her hips, creating waves of flesh that made people's blood boil, frantically extracting the essence from the man beneath her.

Liu Hong wasn't in a hurry. Although Lin Niangzi was strong and proactive in bed, she was still just a mortal. Her physique was no match for Daiyu's. After only two orgasms, she was completely exhausted and eventually collapsed on the bed, her fragrant and snow-white body at Liu Hong's mercy.

In the end, the couple, overwhelmed by the intense pleasure of Liu Hong's penetration, could no longer bear it and summoned Jin'er to serve them.

The maid was shocked to see her master and mistress completely subdued. With a shy blush, she took off her clothes, loosened her hair, and revealed her fair skin and alluring curves. She merged with Liu Hong and, surrounded by Daiyu and her wife, shared the ultimate pleasure with him.

Chapter 127: The Zhu Family Village Shows Its First Signs of Prominence

After a night of debauchery, Lin Niangzi experienced Lin Chong's pleasure. While women can marry and have children, the pleasure between them is far less than that of true love between a man and a woman. As a result, she became increasingly decadent. Sometimes the three of them would enjoy themselves together, and sometimes Jin'er would be added. Their behavior became more and more perverse and extravagant.

As for the relationship between the three, plus Pan Jinlian, Lü Fang, Guo Sheng... Liu Hong racked his brains but still couldn't figure it out, and finally chose to ignore it.

I'm a bandit now! I don't care about the law, so why should I care about the rules of having multiple wives and concubines?

Meanwhile, after completing the first phase of accumulating power and spending a peaceful winter on the mountain, Liu Hong launched another attack in the spring of 1113!

This time, Liu Hong's target was no longer the minor wealthy landowners in small villages. Those people were too weak; they just owned a large mansion in the village.

Now, Liu Hong has grown stronger and more powerful, and he is preparing to take action against some tough targets and wealthy landowners.

These wealthy landowners are absolute behemoths.

First of all, they were very powerful, and their influence was far greater than that of small landlords based in a village or township. They could often manage more than a dozen villages and a vast area of ​​land.

Among them, the most outstanding was the Zhu Family Village, which had a territory of three hundred li in circumference and managed a population of one hundred thousand. Liangshan was able to manage a population of one hundred thousand because it won over the people by fighting against local tyrants and distributing land to them.

The Zhu Family Village managed a population of 100,000 through violent rule and forceful control. They even hired Luan Tingyu, known as the Iron Rod Instructor, to train thousands of servants who were farmers in peacetime and soldiers in wartime.

Moreover, their manors or fortified villages were often built in strategic locations in remote and dangerous areas, making them easy to defend and difficult to attack. They were practically small castles, and the government could not do anything to these local tyrants. In fact, in order to maintain local rule and capture fugitive criminals, the government had to rely on these local tyrants to cooperate with the government.

We are just officials who come and go, but these people are the permanent masters.

There was nothing they could do; their power was simply too immense. The government was forced to acknowledge the legitimacy of these forces in the local area and to retain their super privileges that placed them above the law.

In return, these powerful forces acknowledged the government's nominal control, recognized the Song Dynasty's imperial power and the county magistrate's rule, and were obligated to maintain order in the surrounding areas and collect taxes for the government.

Of course, they would only hand over one-tenth of the tax revenue demanded by the government to the government. As for how much tax these big landowners asked the people to pay, that was beyond the control of a small county magistrate, and even the prefect of Jizhou might not be able to manage it.

It can be said that Liu Hong, like the Zhu Family Village, is now a local overlord of the Liangshan Marsh.

Liu Hong calculated that there were three powerful families in the vicinity: Zhu Family Village, Hu Family Village, and Li Family Village. Among them, Zhu Family Village was the most terrifying. Zhu Family Village was built on a steep and dangerous mountain ridge, with three layers of walls, one inside the other, all made of solid stone, about three zhang high, and heavily guarded.

There were two gates, one at the front and one at the back, and two drawbridges; there was no other passageway. The village was surrounded by makeshift shelters on all four sides. Swords and spears were stuck in the walls from all eight directions. War drums and gongs were lined up on the gate towers. Ballistae and large arrows were stored in the arrow towers. The village was surrounded by rushing water and dense forest, and there were six or seven hundred households in front of and behind it.

This is no longer a fortified village or manor; it's practically a small stronghold, as exaggerated in scale as Liangshan.

Below these three overlords, there were also minor overlords like Chao Gai, Song Jiang, and the Ruan family, totaling dozens of families. However, their strength was not yet at a level that the government could not control.

Now, Liu Hong's goal is to annex these local tyrants, accumulate strength, and try to play with the Zhu Family Village.

Making peace with the government and acknowledging the existence of Liangshan was far from enough, because the Song Dynasty's imperial power could only cover the area inside the county town. The fields and villages outside the county town walls were beyond the reach of the feudal bureaucrats.

In this lawless land, the Zhu Family Village, a powerful force, is the real threat to his expansion of power. If he wants to win over the peasants as his base and truly establish himself in Jeju, the Zhu Family Village is a real threat that he cannot avoid no matter what. Without eliminating the Zhu Family Village, all his plans are just castles in the air.

Having figured this out, Liu Hong began to target some local tyrants, first inviting Chao Gai and the three Ruan brothers, who were considered heroes among the local tyrants, to join him.

Secondly, they directly attacked those wealthy landowners who were equally despicable and bullied men and women.

The war outside the city walls of Jeju County has begun once again.

This time, based on the local farmers' level of education, Liu Hong put forward an extremely simple sixteen-character propaganda slogan to win over and incite the suffering farmers under the big landlords, so that they would not stand on the landlords' side, but instead unite with him.

They share the land, the food, the clothes, and the money.

These sixteen characters were very simple, yet very effective. In an instant, these small landlords began to collapse from within. Some could muster four or five hundred soldiers, while others could only muster one or two hundred. Their training level, weaponry, and fighting spirit were all at or even lower than those of the local militia.

The morale of his many soldiers was further dampened by Liangshan's relentless propaganda offensive.

If I win, I will be oppressed by landlords and gentry; if I lose, my whole family will get a share of the land—so why should I win this battle?

Meanwhile, the morale of the Liangshan forces was soaring. In each battle, hundreds of musketeers would unleash terrifying volleys of fire, tearing apart the enemy's flesh and blood, shattering their formations, and demoralizing their troops.

Then, with Lin Chong and Suo Chao, two top cavalry generals, leading ten good horses and ten cavalrymen that Liangshan had barely managed to put together, they launched a cavalry charge with twelve riders, tearing apart the battle line.

Under the sunlight, smoke and dust obscured the sun, and ferocious beasts roared. The valiant female general, who possessed half the body of a tiger and leopard, roared as she charged out of the Liangshan battle formation, leading eleven riders. Like a whirlwind, she charged straight at the enemy's formation, which had been blasted apart by a barrage of musket fire!

Her upper body was clearly that of a beautiful woman with a fierce expression, her snow-white breasts wrapped in iron armor, and her silver hair dancing wildly with her murderous aura; but her lower body was that of a tiger or leopard demon covered in black and gold spots, and her sharp claws kicked up three feet of mud when they scratched the ground.

"Cavalry! Cavalry is charging!"

"Quickly, summon Instructor Bao to help us in this battle!!!"

The landlord's soldiers were already terrified by the firepower and deafening force of the muskets. Before they could react, Lin Chong had already stormed up to them like a blizzard!

A legendary eighteen-foot spear came to life in her hand, crashing into the battle formation like a giant python. It slaughtered the local gentry and their servants, routed a hundred-man army, sent three or four flying, and another three or four being pierced by the spear. In an instant, countless shattered bodies flew into the sky and then rained down on the ground. Lin Chong, all alone, charged with the awe-inspiring momentum of a thousand troops, embedding himself firmly into the enemy's bodies like a nail.

The most powerful instructor within a radius of dozens of miles, Bao Jiaotou, rode up to challenge him. In just one exchange, Lin Chong wielded his eighteen-foot spear and beheaded him. His flying head drew a brilliant and magnificent scarlet arc in the sunlight, just like a crimson embroidered ball tossed up in the Lantern Festival market.

Not to be outdone, Suo Chao and his ten cavalrymen charged into the fray. Suo Chao was the second to charge into the battle, his golden axe stirring up a storm of blood! The giant axe cleaved open his chest, causing ribs to burst open, and when it swept across his waist and abdomen, it ripped out a waterfall of intestines. The ten cavalrymen also brandished their spears, following behind the two cavalry generals, roaring as they charged into the enemy ranks, charging at anyone they saw and stabbing at any enemy they encountered. Although their skill was not great, following Lin Chong, Suo Chao had no problem winning when the situation was favorable.

Before the head servant carrying the banner could even scream, Lin Niangzi, with her tiger-like body, suddenly stood upright on her hind legs, raised her front paws high and swung them around. In an instant, she ripped the man open, crushing his skull into a porcelain bowl embedded in the mud. Brain matter mixed with sparks splattered onto the tip of her blood-dripping spear, making the beastly golden pupils in her almond-shaped eyes even more ferocious.

At the same time, Suo Chao's warhorse barely kept up with Lin Chong's charge. Its iron hooves crushed the last half of the broken flag, and its giant axe chopped down the last servant. The two riders, silhouetted against a hundred-foot-long cloud of blood, charged and crashed. The half-guts they carried, pierced by the spear and the giant axe, still swayed in the morning breeze, like the sutras fluttering on a summoning banner. The twelve riders tore the enemy formation in two in one fell swoop!

Once the enemy formation was broken by the twelve riders, it was time to mop them up. Hundreds of Liangshan soldiers advanced with relatively orderly steps. In the era of cold weapons, a well-trained and dense formation was like a father beating his son when it came to a broken and chaotic formation.

One side was well-trained and united; the other was chaotic and fought independently. Before the battle even began, victory was already decided.

After several battles, these small landlords suffered increasingly crushing defeats. Some even abandoned their ancestral fortified villages and lands, fleeing Jeju Island in a panic, handing over their land, people, and farmland.

Chapter 128: The Blue-Faced Beast Takes on a Critical Mission

After Liangshan achieved frequent victories and seized the territories of these small and medium-sized landlords, its negotiations with others also yielded initial results.

Ruan Xiaoer, Ruan Xiaowu, and Ruan Xiaoqi maintained an attitude of neither agreeing nor refusing, and refusing to cooperate.

These three mermaids were rather special. Although they were extremely powerful and had driven away all the landlords and gentry in the nearby fishing villages, they were used to being free and unrestrained. After shattering the old order, they were too lazy to establish a new one—do whatever you want, just don't disturb this old lady's carefree fishing.

Therefore, the three women had no intention of cooperating with Liangshan and chose to remain neutral.

Chao Gai, the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King, was indeed getting restless. The scale and speed of Liangshan's expansion were truly frightening. What if the Great Sage of Chaos was next to target me?

There was no other way, so Chao Gai formed an alliance with Song Jiang's father, Old Master Song, and some local strongmen she could barely respect, just in case Liu Hong attacked, so that they could at least help each other out.

Meanwhile, the most powerful village around the 800-li marshland, the Zhu Family Village, was not idle either. As the first leader of Liangshan, Liu Hong was far more terrifying than Wang Lun, not only in terms of combat power but also in terms of ideology, which made the Zhu Family Village feel the danger faster and earlier than in the normal timeline.

There was no other way, so the Zhu family first arranged a marriage with the Hu family, agreeing that their third son, Zhu Biao, would marry the third daughter of the Hu family lord, Hu Sanniang, thus forming an alliance through marriage.

Subsequently, the head of Zhu Family Manor became sworn siblings with the head of Li Family Manor, and won over the support of Li Ying, the head of Li Family Manor, who was known as the Sky-Piercing Eagle. Thus, the three local overlords united together.

After confirming that the other two powerful landlords would not betray them, the Zhu Family Village began its annexation campaign, demanding that other small landlords join the Zhu Family Village. They promised that as long as the landlords handed over their people, money, and grain, the landlords would protect them from attacks by Liangshan.

It is written as "We unite" and read as "Big fish eat little fish".

For a time, these local tyrants and bullies were in a very difficult situation. They were surprised to find that they only had two choices left: either be gradually swallowed up by the Zhu Family Village or be publicly tried and hanged by Liangshan.

One is worse than death, the other is immediate death.

None of these landlords wanted to choose, and the only capable one, Chao Gai, the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King, ignored them as well.

In the eyes of the landlord, Chao Gai was also strange. She was clearly one of us, but she was usually generous, righteous and never bullied the weak. She liked to associate with chivalrous people and was charitable. She was simply the biggest traitor of our class!

She shouldn't be a powerful landlord, but rather a chivalrous outlaw, or a nobleman like Lord Mengchang or Lord Xinling from the pre-Qin period.

There was no other way. These wealthy landowners, whose status and power were neither high nor low, reluctantly chose to unite and sue the government. Even if we sold out more of our local interests to the government, at least the government would be able to control us, right?

At this moment, the county magistrates under Jeju Island remained unusually silent, even suppressing information from being reported to their superiors.

First, the local magistrate believed that these landlords were just as despicable as Liangshan. Weren't they all local tyrants who occupied their own territories and committed all sorts of evil deeds? Whether you collect the local taxes or Liangshan collects them, it's actually the same. Liangshan's collection can at least make the local cattle and horses, no, the farmers, live a little better, which will increase our political achievements.

Secondly, the county magistrate has already reached an agreement with Liangshan. He really doesn't dare to offend Liu Hong, who is at the height of his power. If you landlords can beat Liu Hong, that's fine. But if you lose, you'll die on the spot. What are we county magistrates supposed to do when we face the furious Liangshan?

With nowhere else to turn, these people finally decided to unite. Some contributed two hundred men, others three hundred, and eventually they managed to gather a formidable force of two thousand men within Jeju Island, seeking refuge together.

The package included seven wealthy landowners, five hundred elite servants, and one thousand five hundred cannon fodder.

Moreover, these seven wealthy men, knowing they were no match for the Liangshan bandits and having nowhere to turn for help from the authorities, even spent a large sum of money to beg for the assistance of a hero.

When this news reached Liangshan, everyone became tense. Although they had won the battles one after another, it was because they had an overwhelming numerical advantage. No small landlord could muster more than 500 men, while Liangshan's total number of soldiers had always remained at 600.

All the battles we won before were due to a complete crushing defeat in terms of technology, numbers, and morale.

This time was different; the enemy had actually mustered two thousand men in one go! Five hundred of them were elite retainers whose fighting strength was comparable to that of the local militia, and the remaining fifteen hundred were also a problem.

Four times the number means that the enemy can stretch a battle line four times longer than ours on the battlefield, quickly encircling our flanks and rear, and annihilating us.

"What are you afraid of? The enemy has only gathered together. If they were to separate, we would travel thousands of miles across the entire Jeju Island and the entire Dongping Prefecture to capture them alive and put them to public trial."

"And now, we can wipe them all out in one fell swoop."

Seeing everyone so tense facing two thousand soldiers, Liu Hong immediately relieved everyone's pressure with a calm and casual remark. Thinking about it carefully, the leader had never led them to a single defeat, so the pressure was greatly reduced, and they continued to advance without fear.

After reassuring everyone, Liu Hong and Li Cunxiao nervously flew out to scout the terrain and formulate a plan overnight, making full preparations for the battle.

In the end, a total of 600 men, including 100 heavily armored musketeers, 300 musketeers, and 200 Liangshan guards in leather armor, entered the battlefield in perfect unison, led by their many leaders and carrying six Liangshan banners as well as Liu Hong's own "Acting on Behalf of Heaven" banner.

The six hundred men were in a well-ordered formation, obeying orders without question, and moving like a wall. They could be considered an elite force. Under the training of Lin Chong and Instructor Zhang, these six hundred men were already quite formidable.

On the other side, seven local tyrants, similar in strength to Chao Gai, the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King, led 500 elite guards armed with yellow birch crossbows, carrying spears and shields, along with 1,500 conscripted militiamen armed with spears, clubs, and farm tools, into the designated battlefield. Compared to the dense ranks and orderly steps of Liangshan, their formation was much more scattered.

800 meters, 600 meters, 500 meters!

When the two armies were still 500 meters apart, the Yuanwai Allied Army suddenly stopped. The sound of iron hooves and the neighing of warhorses could be heard as a swift blue figure rode out of the army formation.

Liu Hong took a closer look and saw that the newcomer was 2.4 meters tall, extremely tall and beautiful, riding a swift blue horse, holding a steel spear, wearing a fish-scale armor, and a red robe with civil and military sleeves, looking majestic and imposing, actually dressed as a cavalry officer of the Song Dynasty.

The face beneath the phoenix-winged helmet was both captivating and terrifying.

Her right cheeks were as bright and beautiful as the full moon on Mid-Autumn Festival. She had phoenix eyes, peach-blossom cheeks, pearly lips, and a high nose bridge, which made her even more fierce than the steel gun in her hand.

However, on her left cheek, numerous fine blue-green dragon scales grew, resembling phoenix wings spreading across her beautiful face. The tips of the wings were cleverly concealed within her dashing eyebrows that slanted upwards towards her temples. A thunderous dragon horn, resembling that of a deer, stretched out from under the brim of her hat, outlining half of her rugged shape in the air.

"Hey! You bandits of Liangshan! Yang Zhi, the Blue-Faced Beast, is here! Does anyone dare to fight me to the death?!"

The female general raised her heavy iron spear high and shouted curses loudly with great spirit, which stunned Liu Hong.

Yang Zhi, the Blue-Faced Beast? What's she doing here? And why has she joined these wealthy men's group?!

Chapter 129: The Ancient Serpent Spear - Mysterious and Unpredictable (Bonus Chapter for 2350 Monthly Tickets!)

Yang Zhi (Devil)

Level 11 (Level 4 Warlock + Level 1 Scale Armor Monk + Level 6 Dragonvein Warlock)

Life 110, Psychic 86

Strength 24+6, Agility 26, Constitution 22

Intelligence 10, Perception 10, Charisma 20