Before dawn, Li Yanqing led a large army into Yuncheng County, one of the important root bases of the Liangshan Army, and the hometown of many Liang army generals, including Song Jiang, almost half of the population of the county were family members of the Liangshan army.

After Li Yanqing led the army into the city, he immediately imposed martial law and posted a notice to the people, promising the people of the county that the officials and soldiers would not kill innocent people, and hoped that the people of the county would immediately persuade their children to abandon the secret and turn to the light, and if they continued to be obsessed, they would not only be severely punished by the government, but also affect their families.

At dawn, the soldiers escorted a group of more than 100 old and weak women and children to the barracks, these are the families of the generals above the commander of the Liangshan Army, and the first white-haired old man was Song Jiang's old father, Song Taigong, who refused to leave his hometown to go to Sucheng County, and became the first prisoner of the official army after the city was broken.

This group of frightened family members were escorted to Li Yanqing, they were so frightened that they knelt down, begging for mercy, Li Yanqing looked at them coldly and said: "The officials and soldiers promised not to hurt the innocent, but you are not innocent, your sons, husbands or fathers and brothers followed Song Jiang to rebel, so that nearly 100,000 officers and soldiers were killed, and tens of thousands of innocent people were separated from their flesh and blood and lost their homes, they are all sinners of the imperial court, you are the family members of the sinners, and the lightest punishment will also be exiled to Lingnan, I will not kill you, and the imperial court will convict you." ”

The family members immediately cried bitterly, Li Yanqing waved his hand, and asked the soldiers to take them down and imprison them, at this time, a soldier brought Song Taigong up, Song Taigong was so frightened that he was weak and trembling, and he couldn't say a word.

Li Yanqing smiled and asked the soldier to move a chair for him to sit down, "Don't be afraid first, I won't kill you or torture you, after all, you are Song Jiang's father, and you are very valuable." ”

Song Taigong calmed down a little, and said in a trembling voice: "I'm afraid he won't listen to my advice and surrender!" ”

Li Yanqing smiled slightly, "I know you can't persuade him, and I don't need you to persuade him to surrender, you just write a letter to him and tell him that everything is safe." ”

Song Taigong slowly lowered his head, he knew that he might not be able to write this letter himself.

Li Yanqing smiled and asked the soldiers to take Song Taigong down to write a letter, and then asked the sergeant standing next to him waiting for the report: "What's the matter?" ”

"Mr. Mo asked the lowly to come and report to the general that the materials in the warehouse have been counted."

Li Yanqing was overjoyed, hurriedly turned over and got on his horse, urging the horse to run in the direction of the warehouse.....

Mo Jun went north with the 5,000 army, and he brought hundreds of logistics soldiers from the Xuanwu battalion at the same time, and Mo Jun took over the warehouse after entering the city, and he quickly figured out the family background of the warehouse in Yuncheng County.

In the warehouse in the north of the city, Mo Jun took Li Yanqing into the largest warehouse, which was full of grain, all of which were packed in hemp bags and neatly stacked, like a hill.

"There's an inventory here!"

Mo Jun took an account book and said to Li Yanqing: "There are three grain depots, a total of 34,500 stones, and there are 13,000 stones in this warehouse. ”

Li Yanqing nodded, 34,000 stone of grain, enough for his army to eat for a year, he asked again, "Is there forage?" ”

"There are good barley and black beans, and there is a big warehouse in store, which has nothing to do with grain."

"What about the others?" Li Yanqing asked with a smile again.

"Others are armor, bows, arrows, shields, oil, firearms, and the like......"

"And fire oil and firearms?" Li Yanqing asked with some interest.

"It's the spoils left by the Liangshan army from the previous defeats of the imperial court, it seems that Liangshan doesn't like to use them very much, and there is a warehouse full of them, some years."

"What else?" Li Yanqing asked silently.

"There is also money and silver, 110,000 taels of money in stock, 85,000 taels of silver, the account books are recorded like this, I probably looked at it, it should be about the same, there is not much difference."

Mo Jun took a silver ingot and handed it to Li Yanqing, "It's all official silver from the Xikou mine, ten taels and one ingots." ”

"These coins are just used to reward military merits, and I will go back and discuss with the commanders and envoys to see how they will be distributed."

Li Yanqing's interest was still in the oil and firearms, and he walked quickly to the warehouse where the oil and firearms were placed, which was a large and lonely warehouse, some distance from the other warehouses, and this was also to prevent the explosion of firearms from spreading to other warehouses.

The storehouse is made of bluestone, about five or six zhang high, very strong and sturdy, and the inside is divided into two by wooden boards, half of which is used to store fire oil, and the other half is used to store firearms.

Li Yanqing first looked at the fire oil, it was all the standard containers of the imperial court, a large wooden barrel, fifty catties a barrel, with a label sealed on it, about two thousand barrels, it was obvious that these fire oil were captured intact by the Liangshan army without being used at all, which made Li Yanqing can't help but scold secretly.

He then looked at the firearms next door, there were many types of firearms, mainly rockets, but also fire crows, fire thistles, fire crackers, thunderbolts, etc., and hundreds of barrels of gunpowder, all of which were covered with dust.

Li Yanqing was more concerned about gunpowder, he blew off the dust on the gunpowder barrel, carefully inspected the barrel by bucket, and saw that in the end, he finally found that there was no mixture of nitrate, sulfur powder and toner, each with about a dozen barrels, which made Li Yanqing overjoyed, his fifteen earth-shattering thunder had been used up, although he had a lot of gunpowder, but the gunpowder formula at hand was not good, he had to make gunpowder according to his own formula, and the raw materials were not found in Qizhou and Shouzhang County, but he didn't expect to find it in Yuncheng County.

Li Yanqing hurriedly said to Mo Jun: "I'll give Mr. an iron shell blueprint and gunpowder recipe when I go back, and ask Mr. to find a few blacksmiths and gunpowder makers in the city to make earth-shattering thunder for me." ”

Mo Jun said with a smile: "It's easy to find a blacksmith, we have it among the logistics soldiers, but if you want to find a gunpowder maker in this kind of small county, I don't think you can find it, and the gunpowder craftsman can only be found in the gunpowder kiln workshop in the capital." ”

"Well, there is no need for a gunpowder craftsman, I will find a few henchmen and soldiers for Mr. and prepare them myself according to the proportion of the formula! Wang Gui and I have been matched personally, it shouldn't be difficult, I'll bring Wang Gui to guide me when I go back, he has experience. ”

Mo Jun nodded and smiled happily: "I'll go collect some pig iron first, and try to start preparing gunpowder today." ”

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Song Jiang only learned the news that Li Yanqing had captured Yuncheng County in the afternoon of the next day, and this news was undoubtedly like five thunderbolts for Song Jiang.

He actually didn't care too much about the safety of Liangshan, there was the glory of Chao Gai, to some extent, Song Jiang still wanted to burn Liangshan with a fire, completely separating Chao Gai and the Liangshan army, but Yuncheng County was different, that was his foundation, and his old father still lived in the county.

For a whole afternoon, Song Jiang locked himself in the big tent alone, and no one was allowed to disturb him, and at night, Wu Yong came to Song Jiang's big tent, he looked at the tent and asked in a low voice: "Doesn't the general still refuse to see people?" ”

The soldier shook his head, "The general doesn't see anyone." ”

Wu Yong felt a little funny, since Yuncheng County was so important, why only 3,000 people were sent to garrison? Moreover, he issued a strict order that the beacon fire in Liangshan must be saved, and this didn't create conditions for the enemy army to implement the plan of diverting the tiger from the mountain?

Of course, Wu Yong also understood in his heart that their army was staring at the main force of the official army, and it was natural to think that there were no worries, how could Li Yanqing be haunted in Yunzhou, and his strength was getting stronger and stronger, and it had reached the point that they could not ignore it, in the final analysis, it was not because of the light enemy against Li Yanqing that such a major event as the loss of Yuncheng County appeared?

At this time, Song Jiang's voice came from inside the big tent, "Is it a military advisor?" ”

"It's a subordinate!"

A sigh came from inside the tent, "Come in!" ”

Wu Yong lifted the curtain and walked into the big tent, the tent was dark, after a while, Wu Yong's eyes adapted to the darkness in the tent, only to see Song Jiang wearing a cloak, sitting cross-legged on the ground with his back facing outward, Wu Yong hurriedly stepped forward and bowed, "See the general!" ”

After a while, Song Jiang didn't speak, and Wu persuaded in a low voice: "As the prince of Tai, I think he will be fine, and the general doesn't have to worry too much." ”

Song Jiang shook his head, "I know that my father will be fine, he has a high use value, and Li Yanqing will even take care of him, which makes me worry that it is not my father." ”

"That general is ......"

Song Jiang smiled bitterly, "I didn't really understand the strategic intention of the Planter Dao until now, he had no intention of fighting me at all, he used the main force to drag us down, and then Li Yanqing continued to attack in Yunzhou, turning Yunzhou upside down, if I refused to return to the army, the Planter Dao would continue to increase the troops to Li Yanqing, until the old nest of the Liangshan Army was lost, and the army's heart collapsed, and the Planter Dao would attack and fight to the death with me, and now we have fallen into his trap, what do you say I should do?" ”

Wu Yong nodded and said: "This is actually what I want to persuade the general, the biggest weakness of the master is the lack of troops, I am afraid that there are only more than 20,000 troops in his camp, and now our advantage is that there are more troops than him, I think we should make use of our strengths and avoid weaknesses and give full play to our advantages." ”

"How do you play to your advantage?"

Wu Yong pondered for a moment and said, "It is recommended to attack!" ”

Song Jiang was silent for a moment and said, "But I think it is a wise move to withdraw the troops back to Yunzhou." ”

At this moment, a soldier made an urgent report outside the tent, "General Qiqi, the enemy situation has been discovered three miles away from the camp!" ”

This news suddenly surprised Song Jiang and stood up.

"Immediately get all the troops into position and set up the cannons for me!" Song Jiang shouted anxiously.

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