In this way, the three-way army that Murong Rongda had carefully deployed with great ease in Qingzhou Prefecture had already been completely wiped out before it reached Liangshan, which was a result that no one expected.

They dispatched a total of more than 30,000 elite soldiers and nearly 100 generals, but in the end, thirty percent of them were killed and wounded, one percent escaped, and more than half of the remaining ones could only be forced to surrender, which increased Liangshan's strength.

Especially Hua Rong and Qin Ming, this makes Liangshan have two more powerful Ma army generals, even Huang Xin can be regarded as a qualified deputy general.

Of course, the more than 15,000 surrendered people were not directly retained, but some of them were selected to be strong and of the right age as supplements, and then the remaining people were incorporated into the reserves, usually doing farm work, hunting, construction, shipbuilding and other miscellaneous work, and when they were busy, they could also be used as a supplement to the army and do some auxiliary work.

In this way, the number of people on Liangshan who can really be regarded as the main army has reached about 25,000, and it is divided into three armies, including 10,000 horse troops, 10,000 infantry troops, and more than 5,000 water troops, and there are also two three-story dragon head warships - which were captured from Huang Tong and them.

In fact, if you don't care about the quality and have to blindly use force, today's Liangshan can expand the number of people to more than 50,000 people in one go - just like the king of Jin, Tianhu, the king of Chu, Wang Qing, and the king of Wu, Fangla, they are all two or three hundred thousand horses at this time, in fact, they are all full of old, weak, sick and disabled.

In his opinion, although the number of people on the battlefield is very important, it is by no means the key, well-trained soldiers, coupled with well-commanded generals is the best match in his mind, and it can greatly reduce military needs, after all, professional soldiers are not producing, and the more people, the greater the pressure on logistics.

In this battle, Liangshan not only increased nearly 10,000 elite soldiers, but also added nearly 10,000 production personnel, which can be described as a substantial increase in overall strength, so this attack by Qingzhou Mansion not only did not weaken Liangshan, but greatly improved their combat power.

After learning the news of the defeat in front of him, Murong Rongda stayed on the spot for a full ten minutes, and then sat down on the chair in a dejected manner, he never imagined that his full force blow would finally achieve such a tragic result.

You must know that Qingzhou Mansion is the core of the entire Qingzhou, and its strength is undoubted, there are about 50,000 elite soldiers, and this time he also sent more than 30,000 people, which can be regarded as going all out, and now this result clearly tells him that Liangshan's strength is much stronger than he expected, and it would be good if people didn't come to fight his Qingzhou City.

So on the one hand, he confessed to it, and he didn't want to provoke Liangshan anymore - he didn't even dare to shout any slogans to exterminate the thieves, for fear of provoking this tiger again, and on the other hand, he also wrote an urgent document about the situation here, and sent a fast horse to report to the capital.

Ye Ling also seized this opportunity in a timely manner, and took the opportunity to start "rectifying" the entire Qingzhou, although the two cities of Jeju and Dengju were called under the rule of the imperial court, they were actually already regarded as the vassal forces of Liangshan, which can be seen from the fact that the new Taishou sent by the imperial court did not dare to come to the post for more than a year.

After all, the previous Taishou died under Liang Shan's hands, and almost all the inside of the city government was cleaned, and who was impatient to come to look for death.

And these two prefectures, plus the following counties, towns, townships, villages, etc., have successfully become the territory of Liangshan, but Ye Ling is not like Wang Qingtianhu, they directly use these places as their own places to expropriate and pull strong Ding, but really run here.

This is also the request made by Li Ying, the leader in charge of the cottage money and grain, since he went up the mountain, Li Ying has not been involved in armaments much, but is responsible for financial revenue, or more directly, that is, to make money in business.

In business, in fact, the most important thing is three points: first, a keen sense of business; second, sufficient distribution sites and the number of customers; Third, it is necessary to have sufficient principal and dominance.

And the first and third points of this Liangshan naturally have, what is really lacking is actually the second point, after all, now all kinds of people on the mountain add up to 350,000, every day produced fish, shrimp, fruits and vegetables and other special products and daily necessities are already a very exaggerated number, there must be enough places and people to collect and sell.

Previously, the commercial radiation scope of Liangshan was limited to Jeju Mansion, Dengju Mansion, Zhujiazhuang, and other places, and the radius was hundreds of miles, which was actually ten times larger than the area of the era that Wang Lun was in charge of, but Li Ying still felt that it was not enough, and he reported to Ye Ling more than once, hoping to expand the commercial area a little more.

What Li should want is not the taxation and servitude in these places - and this is the favorite way to collect wealth from the imperial court and down to the major rivers and lakes, what he wants is just a place where he can buy and sell freely, just like the Qing government in later generations was bombarded by the strong ships and cannons of the Eight-Nation Alliance, what the other party wanted was not to cede land, but to open treaty ports, which was a steady source of wealth.

Of course, Li Ying would not know these things in the future, but his innate keen business sense allowed him to accurately grasp these key points, which made Ye Ling also have to admire, this is indeed a natural business wizard, but it is really a waste to be a general.

Therefore, for Li Ying's request, the leaders on the mountain, including Wu Yonggongsun Sheng, also felt a little strange and even thought that he was doing something redundant, but Ye Ling was fully supportive, and after repelling the troops of Qingzhou Mansion this time, he took advantage of the situation to expand the commercial radiation of the cottage to most of Qingzhou, seven or eight prefectures, and millions of people.

This made Li Ying's excited mouth can't close, just like a woman who hasn't shopped for several months has finally entered the mall - and caught up with the big discount, he hurriedly and his deputy Du Xing together to command his subordinates to start doing big business in these areas, buying and selling, and the business is called a happy one.

In the face of Liangshan's arrogant behavior, the local governors of Qingzhou's prefectures and counties were all sweating in a hurry, but they didn't dare to do anything to these caravans in Liangshan - these people are here to do business, but it's not terrible, what is terrible is the Liangshan army behind them, it's easy for you to deal with these businessmen, but what should you do if the Liangshan army really comes? That is a powerful army that has easily defeated even tens of thousands of troops in Qingzhou City, how can they be defeated by such a small number of people?