Zhang Shun Drills Holes in the Sea-Eel Boats; Song Jiang Defeats Grand Marshal Gao Three Times

Now Grand Marshal Gao Qiu was sitting in the marshal’s headquarters in Jizhou. He summoned Wang Huan and the other military commissioners to discuss matters, and issued orders to gather all the troops from every route into the city. The military commissioners in the city were all to put on full armor and lie in ambush within the city; every camp was to make ready and form up in the city; no flags were to be planted on the city walls, except one yellow flag over the north gate bearing the two words “Heavenly Edict.” Gao Qiu, the imperial envoy, and all the officials waited on the city tower for Song Jiang to arrive. That day on Liangshan’s side, Featherless Arrow Zhang Qing was sent first with five hundred scouting cavalry. They rode once around Jizhou and then returned north. Before long, Magic Traveller Dai Zong also came on foot to scout. Someone reported this to Gao Qiu. Gao Qiu himself climbed onto the low wall of the barbican, with a hundred attendants behind him, a great canopy spread over him, and an incense table set before him. In the distance he saw Song......