Shijie Village is a village next to Shuibo, located in Jeju, in addition to farming, most of the people in the village have the sideline business of fishing, which was very rich in the early years, but later the eunuch Yang Jian secretly controlled several prefectures around Shuibo, and instructed the local government to levy harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and even fishing should be taxed according to the number of fishing boats.

In this way, it is even more a vicious circle, there are traitors and evil officials who oppress them, and there are bandits raging under them, and the real people of good families are miserable, but the situation in Shijie Village is much better than other places, because there are three good men here, Ruan Xiaoer, Ruan Xiaowu and Ruan Xiaoqi, since they followed Chao to cover Liangshan, this place has not been bullied by bandits again, and even the people of the government have not been bullied excessively, and they are afraid of the revenge of the Ruan family on Liangshan.

This Ruan's three heroes are three of the seven people who followed Chao Gai to intercept the birth gang in the early years, and they are also loyal to Chao Gai of the righteous Bo Yuntian, but unfortunately Chao Gai died when he attacked Zengtou City, Song Jiang took over the cottage, and Liangshan's development strategy has also changed from robbing the rich to helping the poor, roaring mountains and forests to eradicating traitors and waiting for Zhao'an, and the three Ruan brothers are not only the commanders of the Liangshan Water Army, but also the people who resolutely oppose Zhao'an, but unfortunately their arms can't twist their thighs, and the three brothers can't change the overall situation of Liangshan.

On this day, the three of them secretly took a dozen people to Shijie Village by boat, and waited in the high reeds by the lake as usual, waiting for Ruan Yuan from Juye County, Jeju to deliver salt. Na Ruan Yuanwai was a distant relative of the three of them, and he was just an ordinary farmer in his early years, but because of the need for a large amount of salt and iron materials on Yangsan, the three Ruan brothers found this Ruan Yuanwai and guided him to start a business, and asked him to secretly provide salt, iron and other goods to Yangsan.

The Ruan brothers had been waiting for a long time at this time, and Ruan Xiaoqibai was boredly tearing at the weeds, and his face looked a little anxious.

"Second brother, why hasn't this Ruan Yuanwai come yet? It stands to reason that the handover time has long passed, what is he still rubbing?"

Ruan Xiaoer was cautiously looking around, not paying attention to him, but Ruan Xiaowu next to him wiped the war knife while smiling and grabbing: "What are you anxious about, the court is watching closely now, it is common for him to be careful, anyway, we ...... it"

As he was talking, Ruan Xiaoer suddenly interjected with a smile: "Don't say it, he's here!"

Ruan Xiaowu and Ruan Xiaoqi stood up instantly, and the dozen or so Liangshan water troops accompanying them also quickly gathered here, and looked at the path in the reeds, at this time, Ruan Yuanwai was leading five or six people to push a wheelbarrow and carry dozens of bags of salt from afar.

"Let's go over and help!" Ruan Xiaowu called, intending to bring the brothers over.

didn't expect Ruan Xiaoer's expression to change suddenly, and he grabbed him.

"Oh no! Run, Run!!"

"What's wrong?" Ruan Xiaoqi looked at him confusedly.

Ruan Xiaoer didn't care to explain more, and pulled him to run away: "Didn't you see Ruan Yuan's appearance giving us a look? The few carts behind him must be officers and soldiers, we may have been surrounded, hurry back to the ship!"

Suddenly, everyone was in a state of confusion and hurriedly followed him to the water's edge.

In a short time they passed through the thick reeds to the edge of the river beach and took a closer look, but they stopped for a moment and looked frightened.

At this time, there was already an extra Taishi chair on their small boat, Zhao Bufan, who was in plain clothes, was sitting calmly, holding a paper fan in his hand and shaking it gently, Hu Sanniang, who was dressed in a strong suit, stood quietly behind him, and dozens of elite soldiers were lined up on the shore in front of the boat, and the bright bows and crossbows were reflecting bursts of light. Wu Song, Yan Qing, Lu Fang, Guo Sheng and other generals also held their weapons and guarded on both sides of the crossbowmen.

Ruan Xiaoer gritted his teeth and looked at Zhao Bufan from afar, and cold sweat began to break out all over his body.

"Who are you?"

"Zhao Bufan!" replied with a smile, seeing that the Ruan brothers were already pale, Zhao Bufan couldn't help but put away the paper fan and got up slowly: "Okay, don't be stubborn, there are crossbowmen in all directions, you can't go!"

Ruan Xiaoqi's face was full of resentment, and he asked angrily, "How do you know who our connector is?"

"There are people from the government in every township and town in the surrounding area who are watching, all checkpoints have been blocked, and salt is strictly supervised, concentrated in the county seat and sold in limited quantities, how could I not know that you let Ruan Yuan get such a large amount of salt outside?" Zhao Bufan said the earlier deployment, but did not say anything about Li Ying's informant, and completely concealed it.

In fact, the earlier deployment was to cast a net everywhere, although it could also be used to ambush and cut off the salt road in Liangshan, but it could not be so precise and calm at present, and it was precisely because Li Ying told Liangshan about the various channels of foreign procurement that it had a focus on the original basis, which can be said to have greatly saved effort.

At this time, the three heroes of the Ruan family finally understood his plan, all of them were like ashes, and they knew better what terrible consequences this would bring to Liangshan, but the three of them obviously did not mean to be captured, they glanced at each other, and rushed towards Zhao Bufan with their war knives, intending to fight to the death.

It's a pity that before they can rush out a few steps, a huge net was suddenly lifted from the weeds and debris on the ground, wrapping them all up in an instant, Lu Junyi, Shi Wengong and others followed closely from the reeds, and while they were restrained by the fishing net, they rushed up directly and knocked them all unconscious, and tied them tightly with ropes.

The three Ruan brothers who have been proud of the green forest for many years have since been arrested!

Only three days later, Li Jun, Tong Wei and Tong Meng, who had done private salt business in Xunyangjiang earlier, were ordered to go down the mountain to buy salt, and they were also rounded up in Yuncheng County.

At this time, Liangshan began to quickly lack salt, not to mention meeting the taste of tens of thousands of brothers in the village, even the most basic needs are difficult to meet, not to mention that in addition to tens of thousands of heroes on the mountain, there are a huge number of family members, the demand is very terrifying, a few days without salt to eat, people will begin to listless, difficult to lift the spirit, appetite is gradually gone, people who are not in good health will quickly appear gray hair, edema and other diseases, the longer the time, the more terrible this destruction will be, until the body completely collapses.

The leader on Liangshan finally realized Zhao Bufan's intention to block the route at this moment, but unfortunately it was too late now, he didn't feel that salt was important on weekdays, and when he really didn't have it, he could feel what was terrible, and he couldn't survive for a few days, many old and weak women and children had begun to show signs of disease, and the leaders on the mountain argued endlessly about this, and many leaders led by Zhou Ang, Han Cunbao, Wang Huan and Sun Li and others all advocated surrendering as soon as possible.

Song Jiang was also helpless, but he was really unwilling, because if he surrendered now, he could only obey Zhao Bufan's arrangement, and what he hoped to get was the Zhao'an edict issued by the emperor himself, because only then could he become a minister with real power and firmly control the brothers under his command, instead of being at the mercy of others.

After careful discussion with Wu Yong, he decided to send 5,000 elite men and horses to attack Yuncheng County in the southwest of Liangshan, intending to rob the salt in the city, in their opinion, it should not be difficult to break Yuncheng County.

It's a pity that he never dreamed that all this had already been in Wen Huanzhang's plan.

Earlier, Zhao Bufan's plan was to clear the wilderness and directly make the surrounding area of Shuibo a deserted place, but Wen Huanzhang was afraid that the people would suffer, and proposed a strategy of dividing and attacking, and now Liangshan sent troops to attack, he naturally had already made arrangements, and Yuncheng is not only the only place where there is a dry road to Liangshan, it is also the closest to Liangshan, of course, it is completely prepared, as early as after Liangshan failed to attack Shouzhang, Luan Tingyu and Xuanzan secretly led a thousand elite infantry to enter here.

Knowing that the Liangshan bandits really came to attack Yuncheng, Luan Tingyu and Xuanzan immediately acted according to the order, and Luan Tingyu led the troops to take the initiative to meet the battle ten miles outside the city, and fought with the Liangshan soldiers and horses on the plain for half an hour, and then quickly retreated in defeat, and fled all the way to the east gate of Yuncheng.

The commander of Yuncheng County and the county lieutenant had been told earlier and knew that this was a ploy, so he did not panic and took local soldiers and horses to shoot arrows at the head of the city to assist them in retreating into the city.

Liangshan people saw the city gate wide open, as long as they followed the defeated soldiers into the city gate under the rain of arrows, they could easily break through Yuncheng, how could they hesitate at all, and directly launched a full-scale attack on Yuncheng at the moment.

The three leaders of the Demon King of the Mixed World, Fan Rui, the Flying Sage Li Gon, and the Eight-armed Nazha Xiangchong, took the lead in advancing with 2,000 sword and shield soldiers, while Mu Hong and Sun Li respectively led the middle army and the rear army to stay outside the range of the city, ready to support at any time.

The breakthrough of Yuncheng is in sight, and the bandits in Liangshan are like being beaten with chicken blood, flocking densely to the city wall, all of them scrambling.

At this moment, a dense burst of rockets suddenly shot out from the head of the city.

Before the people of Liangshan could react, many rockets fell to the ground one after another, and in an instant, the black hay on the ground burned rapidly, and the fire spread at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the fire was almost as overwhelming as a torrent of bursting embankments.

"Ahh

"It's fire oil! All the hay piled up here and there has been soaked in fire oil!"

"I've been tricked!!!!!!!

All kinds of frightened screams resounded in the sky, and more than 2,000 sword and shield soldiers of the front army were swept away by the fire in an instant, only the part of the people who rushed to the front was not attacked by the fire because of the proximity to the city wall, and Fan Rui, the demon king of the mixed world, had also rushed to the city, saw the tragic scene behind, and found that there was no fire around him, and he took a look, only to find that there was a separation zone around the city wall, and all the items that could be burned were cleaned up, so the fire could not burn over.

At this time, he was so anxious that he opened his throat and shouted: "Rush to the city, rush to the city!"

The soldiers and horses of Liangshan in the fire heard the shouts, as if a drowning person grabbed a life-saving straw, desperately rushed to the city, and was crowded at the foot of the city wall, and at this time Luan Tingyu had already taken the soldiers and horses back to defend the city gate passage, so that the people and horses of Liangshan were all trapped at the foot of the city wall, and they could not enter the city, and they retreated to the sea of fire, and the head was a rain of arrows with rolling stones and cheats, and there were heavy casualties for a while.

"If you don't surrender yet, when will you wait!"

The Yuncheng County Commander and the county lieutenant at the head of the city mobilized the soldiers to shout, and the people of Liangshan, who were cornered, had no choice, and they threw down their weapons and cried loudly.

"Don't shoot!We're surrendering!We're surrendering!!"

"We surrender, get out of the way, let us in!!"

“......”

The Liangshan bandits all collapsed, threw away their weapons and curled up at the foot of the city wall, and the slaughter finally stopped.

At the same time, the Chinese army and the rear army in the distance were also frightened by the tragic scene, Sun Li and Mu Hong hurriedly ordered a retreat when the fire was burning, but when they turned around, they found that a monstrous fire had ignited behind them at some point.

Xuanzan led more than 100 cavalry to gallop, brandishing torches, and igniting the dry grass soaked in fire oil around the enclosure, which formed a blazing wall of fire, enveloping a large area of wilderness, and it could be said that they were completely locked up, and the fire did not spread far away from the periphery, but burned towards them.

When Mu Hong saw this scene, his face turned pale with fright, and he hurriedly rode his horse to Sun Li.

"Leader Sun, what should I do now?"

"What to do?"

Sun Li was angry and scolded angrily: "I just said that I can't mess with Zhao Bufan, it's better to surrender as soon as possible, you don't believe it, now it's okay, what else can I do, the back road has been blocked by the fire, so I can only rush to the city wall!"

Mu Hong was shocked: "Running under the city wall, won't the fire burn us alive under the city wall?"

Sun Li couldn't care that Mu Hong's position was higher than him at this time, and he glared at him angrily: "The surrounding area of this Yuncheng is all plains, full of weeds and trees, plus the officers and soldiers sprinkled a lot of dry grass soaked in fire oil in advance, so the fire can burn, but they must have cleared out the isolated open space on the periphery, otherwise the fire will not burn farther and farther, and there must be an isolation zone around the city wall, otherwise the fire will continue to burn to the city, and the officers and soldiers cannot be so stupid!"

"Speaking of which, when we were chasing the officers and soldiers just now, it seemed that we really saw a piece of land that had been shoveled bare, if only we could consider it more at that time!" Mu Hong blamed himself angrily.

"At that time, we were chasing the officers and soldiers, who could have thought of this, and besides, they had already chased here, and they could still stop? If you shout to stop, thousands of soldiers and horses can stop in an instant? If you really want to see through this plan, it can only be that on the way to the defeat of the officers and soldiers, it will already be too late when we rush here!" Sun Li scolded angrily, not caring about him, he slapped the war horse at the moment, and roared loudly to let the soldiers rush to the foot of the city wall.

Sun Li's choice is also correct, although the fiasco is doomed, but after all, it is possible to keep one by one, as for breaking through to the back, then they will be even worse, when the sea of fire spreads, the local soldiers and horses in Yuncheng County who are ambushed outside the isolation zone have all picked up the crossbow and waited, although the number of people is not large, and the combat effectiveness is also low, but when the Liangshan bandits rush out of the sea of fire in a mess, they are faced with a crossbow, and they will die as much as they rush out......