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While Qingzhou and Song Jiang were plotting against Liangshan,

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Zhao Yuan, who was originally in charge of overseeing the reconstruction of Shangzhen,

He also received news that annoyed him.

"What did you say? The salt village in Dengzhou was attacked?"

Zhao Yuan frowned as he looked at the spy in front of him.

"Who did it?"

"That's unclear at the moment,"

The scout shook his head.

"Once the salt village is attacked,"

"I rushed back to the mountain to report the news."

"However, in my opinion,"

"Those who attacked the salt village, although they were dressed as bandits,"

"But the weapons they carried were all uniformly arranged,"

"I always felt that it was government troops in disguise."

"Government troops..."

Zhao Yuan angrily raised his hand and slammed his fist on the table next to him.

The reason why the commercial towns surrounding Liangshan Marsh are so bustling is...

It mainly relies on two major businesses.

One is white sugar.

There's another one.

It involves refining coarse salt into refined salt.

Dengzhou, on the other hand, is located by the sea.

Liangshan had previously built a salt fort there.

They were specifically responsible for hiring the local people.

Coarse salt is produced on the beach using a sun-drying technique.

There are nearly a thousand people in Yanzhai.

Throughout Shandong

It could be considered a large bandit camp.

Who would have thought that I would be attacked like this!

"Go back to the mountain!"

Zhao Yuan stood up with a gloomy face.

"Send someone to find military officers Xu Guanzhong and Zhu Wu to discuss matters in the Hall of Righteousness."

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In the Hall of Gathering Righteousness,

Zhao Yuan's face darkened.

Xu Guanzhong frowned and said,

"There are also a thousand people in that salt village,"

"How could it possibly be so easily breached?"

Zhu Wu, who was standing next to him, nodded in agreement.

"Brother Xu is right,"

"A village with a thousand people is considered a large village,"

"Even the government troops of the prefecture should not dare to attack easily."

There is indeed a reason for this.

Zhao Yuan looked at the scout expressionlessly.

"Tell the two strategists the details."

"Yes!"

The scout nodded.

He explained it in detail.

The details of the attack on Yanzhai that night.

Originally, the salt village was located in Dengzhou.

Although it was also built in a strategic location

But because at that time,

Liangshan is short-handed.

The salt village has a leader.

These were the two captains that Zhao Yuan selected from the Liangshan army.

Li Fu and Tian Liang.

Although these two were skilled in martial arts,

They couldn't compare to the leaders of Liangshan.

But it came from the Liangshan army.

However, he was extremely loyal to Zhao Yuan.

When the village was first built,

Zhao Yuan also specially dispatched two teams of Liangshan soldiers, each a hundred men strong, to go there.

Then he instructed the two to choose a strategic location to set up camp.

Li Fu and Tian Liang

As Zhao Yuan instructed

Set up camp

Building a salt village,

They recruited local residents to dry salt on the beach.

Everything went smoothly.

But everything depends on the problem.

But it all started a month ago.

The government dispatched troops to suppress Liangshan.

At that time, the government army was powerful.

The whole of Shandong

I don't have a high opinion of Liangshan.

Naturally, there are countless examples of this.

The same is true for Dengzhou.

original,

Because of Liangshan's influence,

The government offices and bandit strongholds of Dengzhou.

Although envious of the profits from salt production in Liangshan...

But fearing retaliation from Liangshan,

Whether it is government troops or soldiers,

Or just bandits,

However, none of them dared to provoke Liangshan.

But when news spread that the government had dispatched a large army to besiege Liangshan...

They believed that Liangshan would surely be defeated by the government troops of Dengzhou and the bandits of the Green Forest.

They immediately became envious of Liangshan Salt Village.

Not only the Dengzhou government,

Even the bandit strongholds.

Soldiers were dispatched in turn.

Go and attack the salt village.

They wanted to seize Yanzhai for themselves...

Chapter 913 Being Deceived

Li Fu and Tian Liang were the two men.

He led the soldiers of Yanzhai to defend the village.

They repelled attacks from government troops and bandit camps several times.

"Why wasn't this matter reported to the mountain stronghold?"

Xu Guanzhong frowned.

"That period coincided with the government troops' encirclement and suppression of Liangshan,"

The scout explained,

"The two captains are worried that this will cause trouble for Liangshan,"

"Furthermore, by then, both the government troops and the bandit camps had already been driven back."

"Therefore, we did not report these things to Liangshan."

"What then?"

Zhu Wu inquired,

"How come the village was suddenly breached again?"

"We've been tricked,"

The soldiers from the saltworks, who had relayed the message, said angrily.

"Not many days after the government troops withdrew,"

"Suddenly, they attacked two nearby villages,"

“They didn’t just kill people in the village,”

"They also set fire to the entire village."

"The villagers had no choice but to flee in all directions due to the famine,"

"Two or three hundred villagers fled to Yanzhai,"

"The two captains are kind,"

"After their desperate pleas, they let all the villagers into the village."