Before dawn, Li Yanqing led a large army to occupy Yuncheng County. Yuncheng County is one of the important bases of the Liangshan Army and the hometown of many Liang army generals, including Song Jiang. Almost half of the population in the county is the family of the Liangshan Army.

After Li Yanqing led his army into the city, he immediately implemented martial law and posted a notice of peace. He promised the people of the county that the government troops would not kill innocent people. He hoped that the people of the county would immediately persuade their children to abandon the secret and turn to the light. If they continue to be obsessed with it, they will not only be severely punished by the government, but will also affect their families.

Just as dawn, the soldiers escorted a group of more than 100 elderly, weak and weak women and children to the military camp. These were the families of generals above the commander of the Liangshan Army. The leader of a white-haired old man was Song Jiang's old father, Song Taigong. He refused to leave his hometown to Xucheng County. As a result, after the city was broken, he became the first prisoner of the official army.

These frightened families were taken to Li Yanqing. They were so scared that they knelt down and begged for mercy. Li Yanqing looked at them coldly and said, "The government army promised not to hurt innocent people, but you are not innocent. Your son, husband or father and brother followed Song Jiang to rebel, killing nearly 100,000 officers and soldiers, and tens of thousands of innocent people separated their flesh and blood and lost their homes. They are all sinners of the court. You are the families of sinners, and the lightest punishment will be exiled to Lingnan. If I don't kill you, the court will condemn you."

The family members burst into tears. Li Yanqing waved his hand and asked the soldiers to take them down to imprison him. At this time, a soldier brought Song Taigong up. Song Taigong was so scared that he became weak and trembled all over, and could not 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 are very valuable."

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

Li Yanqing smiled slightly, "I know you can't persuade him, and you don't need to persuade him to surrender. Write him a letter and tell him that you are safe."

Song Taigong slowly lowered his head, and 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. Then he asked the soldier who was standing next to him and waiting for the report and said, "What's the matter?"

"Mr. Mo asked Bei Zhi to come to report to the general, and the warehouse materials have been counted."

Li Yanqing was overjoyed and quickly turned over and rushed to the horse, urging the horse to run towards the warehouse...

Mo Jun followed the five thousand troops northwards, and he brought hundreds of logistics soldiers from Xuanwu Camp at the same time. After Mo Jun entered the city, he took over the warehouse. He quickly found out the assets of the warehouse in Yuncheng County.

In the warehouse in the north of the city, Mo Jun took Li Yanqing into the largest warehouse. The warehouse was filled with grain, and all the grain was placed in a sack and neatly placed, like a hill.

“There is a record of inventory here!”

Mo Jun took a book of accounts and said to Li Yanqing: "There are three grain warehouses in total, with a total of 34,500 stones. There are 13,000 stones in this warehouse. I have counted it and it is consistent with the book of accounts. Then the total amount of grain should be accurate."

Li Yanqing nodded, 34,000 stones of food were enough for his army to eat for a year, and he asked again: "Does there be any forage?"

"There are excellent barley and black beans, and a large warehouse is stored, which has nothing to do with food."

"What about something else?" Li Yanqing asked with a smile again.

"The other ones are armor, crossbows, arrows, shields, tinder oil, firearms, etc."

"There are also tincture oil and firearms?" Li Yanqing asked with some interest.

"It was the spoils left to the Liangshan army by the imperial defeats in the past few times. It seemed that Liangshan didn't like to use them very much. It was a full warehouse, and it was a while ago."

"What else?" Li Yanqing asked without saying a word.

"There are also money and silver. The stock price is 110,000 jin and 85,000 taels of silver. This is how the account book is recorded. I probably looked at it and it should be similar, and there is no big difference."

Mo Jun took a ingot of silver and handed it to Li Yanqing, "It's all official silver in Xikou mine, ten taels per ingot."

"These money is just for rewarding military merits. I will go back and discuss with the commanders to see how to allocate them."

Li Yanqing's interest was still on tincture oil and firearms. He quickly came to the warehouse where the tincture oil and firearms were placed. This was a large isolated warehouse, a distance from other warehouses, which was also to prevent the firearm from exploding and affecting other warehouses.

The warehouse is made of bluestone, about five or six meters high, very strong and strong. It is divided into two wooden boards, half of which is used to store tincture oil, and the other half is used to store firearms.

Li Yanqing looked at the turmeric oil first, which was standard container of the imperial court, including large wooden barrels, fifty kilograms per barrel, with labels on them, about 2,000 barrels. Obviously, these turmeric oils were seized intact by the Liangshan Army without use, which made Li Yanqing curse secretly.

He then looked at the firearms next door. There were many types, mainly rockets, including fire crows, fire caltrops, fire wisp, thunderbolt cannons, etc., and there were hundreds of barrels of gunpowder, all of which were covered with dust.

Li Yanqing was more concerned about gunpowder. He blew off the dust from the gunpowder barrel and looked carefully one bucket after another. In the end, he finally found that there were no mixed nitrate powder, sulfur powder and toner, each with about a dozen barrels. This made Li Yanqing overjoyed. His fifteen thunders were used up. Although he had a lot of gunpowder, the formula of the gunpowder at hand was not good. He had to make the gunpowder according to his own formula. There was no raw material in Qizhou and Shouzhang County. Unexpectedly, he found it in Yuncheng County.

Li Yanqing hurriedly said to Mo Jun: "Let me go back and give you a drawing of iron shells and gunpowder formula. Please find a few blacksmiths and gunpowder craftsmen in the city to make the thunder for me."

Mo Jun smiled and said, "It is easy to find a blacksmith. There are some of our logistics soldiers, but I probably can't find a gunpowder craftsman in such a small county. Only gunpowder kiln workshops in Beijing can be found."

"Well, there is no need for gunpowder craftsmen. I will find a few confidant soldiers to give them to the teacher and prepare them according to the formula ratio! Wang Gui and I have both personally matched them, so it should not be difficult. I will ask Wang Gui for guidance in the future. He has experience."

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

.........

Song Jiang only learned the next afternoon that Li Yanqing had captured Yuncheng County. This news was undoubtedly like a thunderbolt for Song Jiang.

He actually didn't care much about the safety of Liangshan. It was Chao Gai's glory. To a certain extent, Song Jiang wanted to burn Liangshan and completely cut Chao Gai and Liangshan army. But Yuncheng County was different. That was his foundation. His old father still lived in the county.

All afternoon, Song Jiang locked himself in the big tent alone, and no one was allowed to disturb him. At night, Wu Yong arrived in front of Song Jiang's big tent. He looked at the tent and asked in a low voice: "Is the general still unwilling to see anyone?"

The personal soldier shook his head, "The general will not see anyone."

Wu Yong found it a little funny. Since Yuncheng County is so important, why did he only send 3,000 people to guard it? And he also issued a strict order that Liangshan beacon must be rescued. Wouldn't this create conditions for the enemy to implement the plan to lure the tiger out of the mountain?

Of course, Wu Yong also understood in his heart that their army had stared at the main force of the official army, and naturally thought that there was no worries. However, Li Yanqing was elusive in Yunzhou and his power became stronger and stronger, and it had reached a point that they could not ignore. After all, wasn’t it because of underestimating the enemy of Li Yanqing that such a major incident such as the fall of Yuncheng County occurred?

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

"It's the subordinate!"

A sigh came from the big tent, "Come in!"

Wu Yong lifted the curtain and walked into the big tent. The tent was pitch black. After a while, Wu Yong's eyes adapted to the darkness in the tent. He saw Song Jiang disheveling his hair, sitting cross-legged on the ground with his back facing outward. Wu Yong hurriedly stepped forward and bowed, "See General!"

After a while, Song Jiang did not speak, and Wu Yong whispered: "I don't think he will be in trouble with the identity of the Ephemeral Lord. General, don't worry too much."

Song Jiang shook his head, "I know my father will be fine. He has high value in use. Li Yanqing even takes special care of him, which makes me bothered that it is not my father."

"That general is"

Song Jiang smiled bitterly, "I didn't really understand Zhong Shidao's strategic intention until now. He had no intention of fighting with me. He used the main force to hold us back, and then Li Yanqing continued to attack in Yunzhou, which would turn Yunzhou upside down. If I refused to return, Zhong Shidao would continue to increase troops for Li Yanqing until the Liangshan army's old nest was lost and the morale of the army collapsed. Zhong Shidao would attack and fight to the death with me. Now we have fallen into his trap. What do you think I should do?"

Wu Yong nodded and said, "This is actually me who wants to persuade the general. The biggest weakness of Zhong Shidao is that his troops are insufficient. He may only have more than 20,000 troops in his camp. Now our advantage is that we have more troops than him. I think we should play to our strengths and avoid our weaknesses and give full play to our advantages."

"How to use your advantage?"

Wu Yong pondered for a moment and said, "I suggest to go out and attack!"

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

At this moment, a soldier reported urgently outside the tent, "Report to the general, I discovered the enemy's situation three miles away from the camp!"

The news immediately surprised Song Jiang and stood up.

"Immediately, let all the troops enter the position and set up the fire cannon for me!" Song Jiang shouted in a hurry-
Chapter completed!