Song Gongming Attacks Zengtou City by Night; Lu Junyi Captures Shi Wengong Alive

There is a poem: The net of Heaven is vast, its changes hard to fathom; good and ill, true and false, are not easily seen through. They did not keep the court's laws and rites, and out of nothing brought great disaster on themselves. Song Jiang at Liangshan gathered in righteousness as he wished; Chao Gai beneath the Nine Springs could rest in peace. Good and evil are always repaid—that saying is no lie; in the end their home was broken and their family destroyed—truly a matter for sighing. Now, at that time Duan Jingzhu came running up in a panic and said to Lin Chong and the others, “I went north with Yang Lin and Shi Yong to buy horses. There I picked more than two hundred fine, strong steeds with excellent coats. When we reached the borders of Qingzhou, we met a band of brigands. Their leader was called the Road God Yu Bao Si, and with more than two hundred men he seized all the horses and sent them to Zengtou City. I do not know what became of Yang Lin and Shi Yong. I fled back overnight to report, so that men can be sent at once to demand the horses back.”......