Outlaws of the Marsh

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Dengzhou City.

Located at the northernmost tip of the Shandong Peninsula, it is on the verge of the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea, connected with the Liaodong Peninsula, and faces Japan and the Koryo Peninsula across the sea to the east.

If Li Yan does not appear, hundreds of years later, this place will serve as an important gateway for foreign exchanges and trade, and will be the political, economic, cultural, and military center of Jiaodong.

Li Yan appeared, and this time will definitely be greatly advanced.

Of course, Dengzhou is just a small city at present.

Although it is only a small city, Dengzhou has already threatened Shuibo Liangshan.

Because Dengzhou has one-third of the troops stationed in the Shandong Peninsula, and the only navy in the Shandong Peninsula—the Dengzhou Navy.

The Dengzhou navy was wiped out by Shuibo Liangshan back then, but the imperial court may have considered that Dengzhou is too special, and that places such as Shamen Island need assistance in defense, so they built another navy soon after.

But because all the money from the imperial court was used to build the Longevity Mountain for Zhao Ji, and because of the frequent disasters in the past two years, there was really no money to build a navy, so that Dengzhou only built a navy of 500 people in the end. .

But there are fewer people and fewer ships—there are only two large ships with a load of [-] shi, and only fifty large ships with a load of [-] shi.

Although the Dengzhou navy is too poor, mosquito legs are also meat.

Besides, the key is not the ship, but the threat. The Dengzhou Army is the only threat Liang Shanshui Army has on the Shandong Peninsula.

Plus just passing by here.

Coupled with the super condition of Sun Li.

Therefore, Li Yan decided to take down Dengzhou City and unplug the threat of the Dengzhou Navy.

Because the equipment came from the Song Army or several states of the Song State, the Liangshan Horse Army was dressed exactly the same as the Song Army.

This was also done by Li Yan deliberately, because it was convenient for them to travel within the territory of Song State.

It was also because of this that they easily sneaked into Dengzhou City.

The specific operation is as follows. Sun Li first found an excuse to transfer the 500 horse troops under his jurisdiction outside the city, and then ordered the [-] troops to act on their own, while he himself returned, and then led the [-] Liangshan horse troops back to the city. Dengzhou City.

The rest is simple. Sun Li and five hundred Liangshan horsemen captured the city gate, and then Li Yan personally led two thousand horsemen into the city. They were far inferior to Jeju, Dongping, and Dongchang in all aspects. Dengzhou City, which is similar to Yanggu County, is so broken.

At the same time, Lin Chong led Ma Yi's army, Ruan Xiaoer and Li Jun led Liang Shanshui army, and attacked at the same time by water, and took the Dengzhou water army in one fell swoop.

Afterwards, Sun Li led [-] people to deceive and open the gate of Dengzhou Village, and then took the risk of taking the gate of Dengzhou Village. All the Hundred Forbidden Army was pulled out, and then under the leadership of Sun Li, Lin Chong and others pulled out all the battalions of the Xiang Army and the Township Army in Dengzhou.

It has to be said that after the Liangshan Army fought in Koryo for a year, the combat strength of each army has increased significantly, especially the pro-guard army and Ma Yijun who have been the main force in recent months, their combat strength is really leveraged , it is simply not something that these Song troops who have not fought much can compete with.

Except for those who were killed and a few who escaped in the chaos, the rest of the Song army were all captured by the Liangshan army, and then they were directly boarded and transported to Nanjing, Koryo to participate in labor reform.

As for Sun Li's 300-horse army, after Sun Li's instigation, more than 200 of them joined Shuibo Liangshan, and the remaining less than [-] were dismissed by Sun Li.

So far, Dengzhou has no more soldiers.

Next came public trials, distribution of food, and recruitment of immigrants.

Li Yan no longer cares about this kind of thing, let alone such a small town.

At present, the immigrants during this period are mainly moving to Hainan Province. Therefore, Cheng Wanli received immigrants at Yangkou Port, and another household, Cao Jiangjing, was also at Yangkou Port. They sent people to pick them up, and Li Yan also Don't worry about Dengzhou anymore.

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In front of the county government office.

Seeing people enthusiastically signing up for immigration, Li Yan estimated that at least [-] immigrants could be recruited in Dengzhou this time, and then said to Zong Ze beside him, "Master Zong, can you see the Master Cheng who is in charge? Look at him, how high-spirited he is, as if The whole body is motivated, do you know why?"

Zong Ze remained silent, as if he hadn't heard Li Yan speak.

Seeing that Zongze didn't answer, Li Yan was not angry, but said to himself: "Because he can concentrate on doing meaningful things. The most disappointing thing about the current Song Dynasty court is that it doesn't give people who want to do things." Opportunities for people, those who are in power are all sycophants and bullies. Like Mr. Zong, you are capable and dedicated to the country, but you are forced to return to your hometown just because you have done something truthfully. It’s okay, I really don’t know why such a court deserves your allegiance?”

After Zong Ze was promoted to Dengzhou Tongjuan, he found that the rich and powerful forces wantonly annexed land. Dengzhou only has hundreds of hectares of clan and official land, all of which are barren land.

Zongze angrily wrote to the imperial court, stating the truth, asking for an exemption, and finally relieved the people of Dengzhou from the heavy extra burden.

However, it was precisely because of this that Zongze was persecuted by those powerful forces, so he had to take the initiative to sue his old age and return to his hometown.

What is chilling is that not long after, Zhao Ji (in fact, it may not have been approved by Zhao Ji, because Zhao Ji is busy cultivating immortals now, and may not have time to take care of these trivial matters) allowed Zongze to retire and return home.

What's even more exasperating is that Zongze was falsely accused of despising Taoism by writing books in the valley of the Lu Valley to spend his old age. Started, and then passed away.

At this moment, Li Yan beat Dengzhou down and intercepted Zong Ze who was about to be dispatched.

Zong Ze didn't answer Li Yan's words, but said: "As far as I know, there are at least 20 people this year..."

Li Yan said: "50."

Zong Ze's eyes moved slightly, and he said, "What is Li Zhai mainly doing with so many farmers?"

Li Yanzhao said truthfully: "I have knocked down nearly half of Goryeo. Lelang County and Zhenfan County are now our Han people. I plan to move 200 million Han people there (because Gyeongsangdo was occupied again, 100 million There are not enough Han people, so Li Yan and others are planning to move 200 million Han people there, so that the ratio of Han people to Korean people will exceed two to one. In Korea, at least Li Yan’s occupation will be completely Sinicized), so that these two counties will never They all belong to us Han people..."

Goryeo's affairs cannot be hidden.

Li Yan and Liang Shanjun made such a big commotion in Koryo, no matter how stupid Zhao Ji and others are, they will definitely hear the news, but sooner or later.

It won't even take long for Goryeo to send envoys to Zhao Ji to complain. You know, no matter how you say it, Song State is still the suzerain state of Goryeo.

Therefore, Li Yan had no intention of keeping this matter a secret.

Hearing Li Yan say that he conquered nearly half of Koryo, Zong Ze was dumbfounded at first, and then couldn't believe it!
But after a while, Zongze believed it again, because Zongze really couldn't find any other reasonable explanation to explain why Li Yan took so much effort to get so many farmers out of the sea.

Li Yan continued with a sincere tone: "Master Zong, come and help me, I promise not to let you waste the rest of your life, and I promise not to let you have any regrets!"

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(End of this chapter)