Found to have written a seditious poem on a wall in a restaurant in Jiangzhou, Song Jiang is sentenced to death. The chieftains of Liangshan Marsh rush to Jiangzhou and rescue him just when he is going to be beheaded. After fleeing Jiangzhou, the group is stranded at a riverbank. Just then Li Jun, Xue Yong and other friends Song Jiang made recently in the Jieyang region arrive in their boats on their way to save Song Jiang. They ferry the outlaws to the Mus' manor.