Sun Li rushed to the city wall with his soldiers and horses, Mu Hong had no choice, followed closely behind him, just wanted to escape from this sea of fire as soon as possible, because the war horse under his crotch was frightened in the fire, and he ran wildly, and he couldn't control it at all, and the two were forced to abandon the horse and run wildly.

Not long after, they relied on their martial arts to rush through the isolation zone outside the city wall, came to the foot of the city wall, and successfully escaped from the sea of fire, and they were already crowded with Liangshan bandits, all of whom had already dropped their weapons and chose to surrender on their knees.

Sun Li quickly extinguished the flames on his arm, looked up at the bright bows and crossbows and hanging rolling stones and sassalwoods at the head of the city, and didn't think about it at all, and directly threw down the bamboo steel whip and iron spear in his hand. Mu Hong next to him glanced at him, then looked up at the city, finally sighed helplessly, and then threw out the weapon in his hand.

Soon, the city gate began to accept the surrendered soldiers, and Sun Li and Mu Hong, who were full of black faces, also followed the soldiers in frustration, slowly following the team, and when they walked through the passage of the city gate, Sun Li also saw Luan Tingyu standing solemnly, and his face was full of indescribable bitterness.

Of course, Luan Tingyu also saw him, and took the initiative to come over with a smile.

"Senior brother, I really haven't seen you for many years!"

Sun Li smiled bitterly: "I didn't expect that Senior Brother not only has extraordinary martial arts, but also commands troops to fight so well, I am completely defeated today!"

"It's not my credit, I'm just acting on orders, and the plan was formulated by Lord Zhao and Mr. Wen!" Luan Tingyu said with a smile.

Sun Li's lips trembled for a moment, and he said suddenly: "Senior brother, I was forced to fall into the grass, if it really comes to the time when the head hits the ground, can I save the lives of my wife and children?"

"This ......" Luan Tingyu hesitated slightly, but then asked with a smile: "Are you willing to follow Lord Zhao?"

"If Lord Zhao can really ignore his past suspicions and not hold me accountable, of course I can't ask for it!" Sun Li nodded again and again.

"Then you don't need me to keep your family small, wait with peace of mind, Lord Zhao will definitely come to you in person, and your skills will definitely be reused, and you will naturally be able to atone for your sins in the future!" After saying this, Luan Tingyu quickly retreated and looked at the other captives again.

Sun Li's anxious heart finally let go, his spirit was lifted, and he followed the many captives to move forward again, and his steps became much brisker......

The battle of Yuncheng ended victoriously, nearly 2,000 Liangshan elites died in a short period of time, and the rest all surrendered, and the five Liangshan leaders were forced to give up resistance and put on heavy shackles and shackles and go to prison!

Liangshan was already full of contradictions, many leaders advocated surrender, continuous defeats and the cut off of salt, also made most of the ordinary soldiers want to fight anymore, and the fiasco of the Battle of Yuncheng brought them a heavy blow.

After Zhao Bufan, who was far away in Juye County, got the battle report, he knew that this battle would definitely become a fatal blow to crush Liangshan, so he did not stay in Juye for too long, and returned to Shouzhang with Wu Song, Yang Zhi and others, and waited for Liangshan to come and surrender.

But as soon as he returned to Shouzhang City, he walked into the county government with his front foot, and Wen Huanzhang came over with his back foot.

"Lord Zhongshu!

Zhao Bufan happened to walk to the corridor in the backyard at this time, and when he saw Wen Huanzhang trotting over, he couldn't help but gently shake the paper fan in his hand and looked at him angrily.

Wen Huanzhang is a pure literati, he doesn't know any martial arts, and he obviously has run a lot of roads at the moment, and he is still panting when he comes closer.

Seeing him like this, Zhao Bufan couldn't help but roll his eyes and scold with a smile: "Huanzhang, I've been on the road all night, why don't you let me rest for a while and come back, look at your anxious appearance, could it be that the bandits in Liangshan can still turn the sky upside down?"

Wen Huanzhang swallowed his saliva, calmed down the violent wheezing slightly, and said with a little embarrassment: "Big ...... My lord, it's not that my subordinates are troublesome, it's really General Lu Zhishen who is injured, and my subordinates don't dare not report it, if something happens, my subordinates can't afford it!"

"Lu Zhishen is injured?" Zhao Bufan's eyes condensed slightly, and the paper fan in his hand suddenly closed. "How badly is he's injured?"

"The injury is not light, but the medical officer said that there is no major problem, but it will take a while!"

Zhao Bufan calmed down, frowned and asked, "Then how did he get hurt?"

Wen Huanzhang didn't answer in a hurry, took a deep breath, and waited for his breath to completely calm down, and then slowly took over the words.

"Lord Hui, this matter is indeed very bizarre, at first it was General Lu who received a quick return from the local government, saying that the ancient town west of Shouzhang passed by more than a dozen strange strangers, not to mention that they all wore swords, and there was a carriage with them, and the arrest was about to be checked, and this group of people took out the forbidden army token, only saying that there was a military aircraft and it was not allowed. Because the order issued by the lord to the surrounding government was that anyone who passed by the checkpoint must be checked, and when he noticed that something was wrong, he let people secretly monitor him while running to Shouzhang to report it.

General Lu and his subordinates felt that there was something wrong with the forbidden army after listening to the information, so they rushed to intercept General Lu's personal guards, and the other party still showed the forbidden army token at that time, saying that it was a top-secret mission on the order of the emperor, and the subordinates recognized that the token was real, and it was not an ordinary forbidden army token, it was only a ban order that only the forbidden army on duty at the palace had a ban order, and it was also a little uncertain at that time.

If it were someone else, I was afraid that I would have been really scared by him that day, no one dared to search for the holy things, and his subordinates did not dare, but it was General Lu who took the lead that day, he didn't care so much at all, he just said that except for your order, no one's token is good, even if the king of heaven and Lao Tzu come, he has to check. This was also completely unexpected by the other party, and they immediately drew their swords and fought with General Lu and the others.

At that time, the martial arts of those people were very high, especially the person who was the leader was extremely powerful, and even according to the feeling of his subordinates, the leader's martial arts were still above General Lu, fortunately, there were more people we brought over, and they were all General Lu's personal guards, and their martial arts were good, so they could suppress them.

After that, the leader quickly fled with the remnants of the people, we saw that General Lu was seriously injured, and did not dare to continue the pursuit, after finding that there were more than 300 catties of salt hidden in the carriage, we guessed that these people were probably related to the Liangshan bandits, so we immediately returned to Shouzhang County. The local government's arrest then traced the origin of the group of people, but according to the news transmitted this morning, they only tracked down Puyang in Kaide Prefecture, and only knew that this group of people was purchasing salt in Puyang, but there was no clue at all about the specific source. ”

Zhao Bufan frowned when he heard this.

In recent years, Lu Zhishen has been training soldiers and horses in northern Xinjiang, and he also specializes in martial arts on weekdays, and his strength has improved compared to that year, but according to Wen Huanzhang's statement, it is obvious that the other party's martial arts are still above Lu Zhishen, and he can even suppress him when he is crazy, then the other party's strength is at least very close to Shi Wengong, but Lu Zhishen can also hurt that person when he launches a madness, which means that that person's martial arts cannot be much higher than Shi Wengong, that is to say, this person and Shi Wengong are between the best, and there is such a leader on Liangshan?

After thinking about it in his heart, Zhao Bufan faintly felt that these people were not from Liangshan, so he couldn't help but unfold the paper fan with his hand, shook it lightly and asked, "Did you find some useful clues at that time?" Is there anything else in the carriage besides salt?"

"Yes! There seems to be a small leader among the dead people, we found two tokens from him, but the subordinates don't know where the tokens are!" As he spoke, Wen Huanzhang took out two delicate tokens from his arms, one was black and shiny, inlaid with gold edges, and a strange-looking ghost character was engraved in the middle, and the other was ordinary, with the word Wansheng written on it.

That Wansheng's token, Zhao Bufan can't understand it, but the ghost word order has seen it with his own eyes, it is the sign of the twelve ghost pawns, and the periphery of the token is inlaid with gold edges, which means that this person is a golden ghost, although the twelve little ghosts of the ghost pawn have been killed several times, and the red ghost Xue Ling has also broken away from the ghost pawn, and now I don't know how many little ghosts there are, but this is no longer important, the important thing is that this matter is clearly Tong Guan intervening in secret, and he still wants to secretly send salt to the Liangshan bandits.

Tong Guan!!

silently recited the name in his heart, and the fierceness in Zhao Bufan's eyes was already visible to the naked eye.

Wen Huanzhang next to him glanced at him and didn't ask anything, just waited quietly.

After a while, Zhao Bufan put the two tokens in his arms and said lightly: " Mr. Wen, you send people to spread the word to the local government, so that they will continue to send more manpower in the future, I don't care what method they use, in short, we must set up strict checkpoints on all roads, but anyone who intends to approach the surrounding areas of Liangshan must be strictly investigated, if anyone leaks salt through, then in the future I will break through Liangshan, torture the origin of salt, and learn from whose territory it leaked, whoever will take full responsibility, I don't care what background he is, no matter which force the people are, I only know that before the expedition, the saint said that no matter who does not obey the order, I can cut it first！”

"Subordinates understand!" Wen Huanzhang bowed down and responded.

............

The holy decree in Zhao Bufan's hand was like Shang Fang's sword, forcing the local officials to go all out, for fear that there would be a slight mistake, even if those local officials were discordant in the past, they now have to cooperate closely, which can be said to be unprecedented unity.

In such a situation, all the forces in the local area, such as the box soldiers and the fast catchers, were mobilized, and it was natural to seal Liangshan to the ground.

After a long time, it seems that it is late April, and the bandits in Liangshan can't hold it after all, the disease is spreading on the mountain, the situation is critical, the leaders are better, after all, there is preferential treatment, and ordinary minions are either thin yellow muscles, or edema and premature aging, the scouts in charge of the investigation have often seen batches of minions fleeing, Zhao Bufan also learned from the mouths of those escaped who were caught, that the leaders on Liangshan were already discussing the matter of surrender.

Soon, Song Jiang sent Zhou Ang to send a letter of surrender, but he also put forward a condition, that is, he hoped that Zhao Bufan would make a list in the name of the imperial court and openly accept their surrender.

Zhao Bufan knew that they were worried that they would be slaughtered after surrendering, and it was reasonable to put forward such conditions, so he agreed to the request without hesitation, and immediately asked Wen Huanzhang to draft an official document in front of Zhou Ang, publicly announcing the matter to the surrounding prefectures. In this way, it is naturally impossible to be untrustworthy, and the leaders of Liangshan have also settled down, and agreed that at noon on the first day of the fifth month, Song Jiang and Wu Yong will take the lead in presenting the surrender letter outside the east gate of Shouzhang County with many leaders.

Everything was decided, and on the day of surrender, Zhao Bufan also put on the White Tiger Cloud Swallowing Armor again, put on the dragon pattern robe, and personally led a large number of soldiers to wait outside the East City.

At noon, Song Jiang slowly appeared in the field of vision with the leaders of Liangshan under his command, they rode their horses to 500 steps away and then took the initiative to dismount, in the eyes of many officers and soldiers threw away the blades in their hands, and walked over on foot, and the leading Song Jiang personally held the book of surrender, with a solemn face.

Seeing this scene, Zhao Bufan smiled, gently pulled the reins of the horse, controlled the not very quiet war horse, and quietly waited for them to come closer.

"Report !!!"

Suddenly, several fast horses galloped from the northeast, and the high-pitched neighing made Zhao Bufan's brows furrow instantly, and Song Jiang and other Liangshan leaders who had already walked two hundred steps away also paused.

The people who came were obviously scouts scattered outside, and they didn't look at the many Liangshan leaders, and rushed straight to Zhao Bufan.

"Lord Qiqi, the leader of Liangshan, the black whirlwind Li Kui, and the god of mourning, Bao Xu, rushed into the village with many bandits, wantonly killing, looting salt, and have slaughtered two villages in a row, and are currently rushing to the vicinity of Dongping Village, they also said that grabbing salt can make Liangshan no longer surrender, and they can fight to the death with adults, and even said in vain that they want to cut off the heads of adults, and their subordinates don't know if there is fraud or not, so they rushed to tell adults!"

These words came far away in the silent wilderness, Zhao Bufan sat on his horse, silent and silent, just quietly looked at Song Jiang in the distance.

The leader of Liangshan changed color in unison.

Song Jiang's lips trembled, and a long complication flashed on his dark face, but in the end, he let out a long sigh.

"These two reckless men actually did it!"

When the words fell, he slowly closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, the man was already moving forward quickly with broken steps, and came to the front alone, knelt deeply on the ground, buried his head and handed out the surrender letter with both hands, and shouted loudly.

"Liangshan Song Jiang and all the brothers sincerely ask for surrender, I hope that the adults will have mercy on us because they are forced by this world, and tolerate the sins we have committed in order to survive!"

Shi Wengong turned his head and glanced at Zhao Bufan, got the signal, immediately turned over and dismounted, and walked forward with a solemn face to take the letter of surrender.

Since then, the dust has settled!

Zhao Bufan also put his mind at ease, smiled and said softly: "Song Gongming, how should I understand the behavior of Li Kui and Bao Xu?"

Song Jiang buried his head deep in the ground, and responded loudly: "Bao Xu's biggest hobby in life is to kill people, originally in the dry tree mountain grass, he said that he had robbed the Zhongshu Lord, made enemies with each other, and knew that he could not be spared, so he opposed the surrender, this morning he and Li Kui forced each other to die, intending to force us to give up the surrender, but it didn't work, the villain had already drunk to stop Li Kui, but Bao Xu instigated Li Kui to go to the village to grab salt, intending to coerce him, I waited until that time to set off, didn't pay too much attention, didn't think that the two of them could not be coerced, and really slaughtered the village to vent his anger!" ”

Zhao Bufan asked softly as if he was smiling.

"Then what do you think I should do with the two of them now?"