Guan Sheng Righteously Wins Over Three Generals; Li Kui Recklessly Traps Everyone

Now to tell the story: Song Jiang had arranged the two armies at Gaizhou, prepared the lots, and with Lu Junyi lit incense and prayed. Song Jiang picked up one lot and saw that he had drawn the eastern route; Lu Junyi drew the western route. There is no need to say more—they would set out as soon as the snow stopped. Hua Rong, Dong Ping, Shi En, and Du Xing were left behind with twenty thousand troops to guard Gaizhou. On the sixth day, an auspicious date, Song Jiang and Lu Junyi prepared to set out. Suddenly someone reported that in Yangcheng and Qinshui, two places under Gaizhou, the people, officers, and soldiers had long suffered under Tian Hu and had been forced to submit to the rebels. Now that they heard the court’s great army had come, the troops and people in the cities had seized the Yangcheng commander Kou Fu and the Qinshui commander Chen Kai and sent them to the front of the camp. The elders and people of the two counties, leading sheep and carrying wine, came to offer the cities and surrender. Song Jiang was very pleased. He richly rewarded the troops......