Salmon Island is located between Black Mountain Island and Great Sheshu Island, with a series of small mountain ranges running north-south in the middle, and a peninsula sticking out of the north, northwest, and southwest, and the whole shape is like a small beast running happily towards the mainland.

In later generations, Salmon Island was called Temple Island, a happy and peaceful fishing village, but in this era, it was a very scary place. Because from the Five Dynasties to the Yuan Dynasty, Shamen Island was a place for prisoners, and since the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty, this island has become a place of exile for felons.

The Zhou Dynasty, like the Song Dynasty in history, set up many prison camps throughout the country as places for exiled prisoners, such as in "Water Margin", Lin Chong once assassinated Cangzhou Prison City, and Wu Song also sent Mengzhou Prison City. However, according to the degree of crime, there are also different distinctions in various prison cities, and most of the prisoners assigned to Salmon Island belong to those prisoners who have committed particularly serious crimes and are about to be sentenced to death, just like Lu Junyi in "Water Margin", which is directly sent to Salmon Island.

Shamen Island is not only a penal colony for prisoners, but also a prison camp, which is called "Shamen Village" here, and the head of the village is called the owner of the village. From the owner of the village down, there are also soldiers and horses in prison, section level, and small prisons. When the history books record the situation of Salmon Island, it says: "If you match Shamen Island, many people will die." This means that most of the prisoners assigned to Salmon Island died. But what's going on? Originally, because Shamen Island was not large, the official quota for exiled criminals on Shamen Island was 200 to 300, and the garrison of Shamen Village was responsible for guarding them, but later more and more prisoners were exiled to the island, and at most there were more than 1,000 people, and the supply of food, fresh water and other materials could not keep up, and some prisoners were starved to death.

Salmon Island is surrounded by the sea on all sides, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and no one cares about the prisoners who torture and kill prisoners at will, and many prisoners directly throw many prisoners who exceed their quota into the sea in order to make profits from the grain withholding. In addition, there are many ingenious methods of torturing people, which are even more unheard of. For example, Shi Bu Bag: When Wu Song was in the Mengzhou Prison City Camp for Labor Reform, his fellow inmates once taught him a trick of "Tubu Bag", which was to fill the sack with soil and press it on the prisoner's stomach, so that the prisoner could only breathe out but not in, and finally suffocated to death. Specifically, they put pebbles into the sacks, tied them tightly, and then used the sacks to beat the prisoners. There are also cruel methods such as feeding sawdust, feeding loach fish, etc.

The current owner of Shamen Island is called Dong Qing, who has been in office for four or five years, but he is a cool official who does all kinds of evil, and it is said that in the years he has been in office, there are hundreds of prisoners who have been buried in the belly of the fish for his amusement alone.

On this day, when Dong Qing was thinking about how to exploit the prisoners in the public house, he saw a prison hurriedly run in and report that when he was choosing bait in the prison, he was stopped by the old immortal again. When this guy heard this, he was furious, and scolded:

"This dead old man, if it weren't for the orders of the prince of the capital, the master would have fed you fish a long time ago, starting today, I will halve his meals, and when I report to death, I can't blame the master."

When the prisoner saw this, he nodded and went away.

Every once in a while, he will select a prisoner to drive a boat to the open sea, and then cut some holes in the prisoner's body and throw them into the sea, attracting shark bites through the smell of blood, but he used it for fun, and called it "choosing bait", and most of the prisoners who died in the belly of the fish in recent years were tortured to death by him in this way.

Recently, he took a fancy to a "fishing bait", but when the prisoner went to pick up people twice, he was stopped by an old man in the same prison, but when this old prisoner was sent from Tokyo, the privy envoy Tong Guan had a special explanation that he would take him back in a few days, so he didn't touch him, and he didn't want to interfere with it now

Isn't his action self-defeating?

Just when Dong Qing's anger was still subsided, he saw a prisoner come in and report that Steward Wang from Daxieshu Island in the west was leaning on the dock in the south with a big boat, saying that he was here to send a gift. He couldn't help but feel a little strange when he heard it, now that it's not the New Year's holiday, how could this king give gifts here? But it's always a good thing that someone gives something, so he got up and walked out.

Wang Gouzi was already waiting on the dock, he watched Dong Qing coming from a distance, and then ran over desperately and said with a smile:

"How dare the owner of Lao Dong Zhai come over in person, as long as someone passes the word, the small one will report in the past."

And this Dong Qing also knows that the Wang family has a good relationship with Dengzhou officialdom, and he has good strength, and he is also a little polite to this Wang dog. Then I heard him say:

"Now that it's not a New Year's Day, how dare you let the king break the money outside, and the housekeeper has said something about it."

"It's the owner of the village who said it, a few days ago, the Zhang family firm on Daxie Shu Island colluded with the bandits to plot misdeeds, fortunately it was stopped in time by my family members, and the surname Zhang was killed on the spot in the chaos, but there were more than 100 cronies below, and the staff felt that instead of sending it to Dengzhou Mansion to trouble Lord Jin, it was better to send it to the owner of Dong Zhai nearby, and I think these people would also add some fun to the owner of the village."

Sure enough, there is nothing to do! Dong Qing sneered in his heart, he also knew about the Zhang family, but it was a big fish shop on Da Xie Shu Island, and the Wang family had long regarded him as a thorn in the side, which would remove the need to wipe his ass himself, and see how much the surname Wang paid. So he said nothing, but glanced with his eyes at the boat.

Wang Gouzi immediately understood, and immediately said: "There are three hundred stone of grain on the ship, and two thousand taels of silver. ”

Dong Qingjian said, secretly thinking that there were a lot of chips, so he pretended to be generous and said:

"Wang Yuanwai and I have been friends for many years, why should some small things be so polite, but when will those prisoners be sent."

"I'll send it tonight, and I'll ask the owner of the village to bother when the time comes."

"It's okay, just tell your family, and it will be as he wants."

Wang Gouzi was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately ordered the men who accompanied the ship to unload the goods, and he called a boat and hurried back to report the news.

At the end of the night, three boats docked on the dock south of Shamen Island, and the sergeant guarding had already received Dong Qing's orders, but when he saw more than 100 people using three large boats, he couldn't help but suspect and was about to come forward to investigate. But he saw that the king dog ran over in a hurry, handed over a bag of silver casually, and then said, it was Wang Yuanwai who thanked the affection of the owner of Dong Zhai, and sent two hundred stones of grain. The sergeants had already stared at the bag of silver, and they cared about how much food they cared about.

So more than 100 prisoners passed calmly under the escort of Wang Jiazhuang Ding, and then dozens of people came down from another boat, and then more than a dozen guards who were busy sharing the spoils were silently cleared under the siege of these people, and at this time, hundreds of armed men quickly came down from the three big boats, and quickly disappeared into the darkness in different directions.

Wang Gouzi took a group of Zhuang Ding with more than 100 people, and swaggered to the gate of the prison city, but the section level guarding the village recognized him, so he asked loudly:

"Why is Steward Wang so late?"

"There are a lot of people on the island over there, and the staff told them to leave later, so as not to gossip."

"Your family members cherish their fame very much!"

The section teased and said no more, and then heard the sound of the gate opening.

"Kill!"

At the moment when more than 100 people entered the walled gate

, The man who only listened to the leader, suddenly burst out of his mouth with a cold voice. Immediately, they were still tied up in a string of prisoners, and they quickly dispersed, each drawing a long knife and killing in groups of three or five.

The section guarding the door was stunned by the sudden change, and he didn't even have time to say a word before he was cut in two by a huge axe.

"Brother Bao, you guard the gate of the village, and I will go and get the owner of the bird village."

This person is Li Kui, the main attack task that he and Bao Xu fought for with them tonight, but they didn't want to encounter the same thing as last time on Black Mountain Island.

I saw Li Kui give Bao Xu an order, and regardless of whether he agreed or not, he immediately picked up a pair of board axes and led a group of team members to kill the yamen of the prison city.

At this time, he was sitting in the public room, and suddenly heard a burst of dense footsteps outside, and when he was wondering, he heard the door being kicked open with a "pop", and then a big black man with a double axe rushed in.

"You ......"

"I'm your grandfather!"

Before Dong Qing could finish speaking, he was chopped down in a pool of blood by an axe.

For more than half an hour, more than 100 of Li Kui's people had already killed the prison city, and in dozens of public houses, no one survived.

By the middle of the day, there was no resistance in the prison city, and at this time, Gu Haotian arrived with the personal guard battalion and the follow-up team.

"Petty officials, the prison city has been completely cleaned up, leaving only those prisoners, who are being guarded by the brothers."

Li Kui saw Gu Haotian coming, and immediately came over happily to report.

"Where is that Dong Qing, and bring me to see him?"

"Dong Qing!"

Li Kui was stunned when he heard this, and before leaving, Gu Haotian repeatedly confessed that he wanted to arrest this village owner alive, and it was useful, but he was excited just now and cut him off with an axe. How good is this, for a while he couldn't help but sweat like rain.

"I guess you killed me!"

Gu Haotian guessed the result at a glance, and couldn't help but be angry when he thought that this guy was so reckless as a battalion commander.

"You are now the battalion commander, not a hunter in Yiling, you have to use more brains to do things, go! Go to confinement by yourself, figure it out and come out. ”

Li Kui didn't dare to say a word when he saw it, and went away in a gloomy manner.

In fact, attacking Shamen Island was an idea that Gu Haotian had already had when he arrived on Da Xie Shu Island, and he only postponed it because he was worried about affecting the Dengzhou battle plan. After taking Dengzhou, Gu Haotian specially ordered Ruan Xiaoqi to lead the fleet to block the shipping lanes around Shamen Island, and when he had his hands freed up, he would immediately attack here. However, from the current point of view, the whole operation is still very smooth, but Li Kui's recklessness has brought some trouble to the follow-up prisoners.

By dawn, all of Salmon Island had been taken. According to the data reported by various action groups, only about 200 of the 500 garrisons on the island remained, and only about 30 of the 200 people in the prison city were killed by Li Kui and others.

After breakfast, Gu Haotian organized personnel to check the prisoners under the leadership of the surviving prison officials, and he himself called the soldier and horse prisoner surnamed Zhu to check the prisoner's register, but when he opened the recent roster, he suddenly found a familiar name, and his heart couldn't help beating wildly for a while, and he stretched out his hand to grab the one surnamed Zhu on the side, and asked anxiously:

"This man is still alive!"

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