Hua Rong
When Murong Yanda, the governor of Qingzhou, is informed that Hua Rong, the garrison commander of Qingfeng Fort (清風寨; in present-day Qingzhou, Shandong), which is in his jurisdiction, has joined the outlaws at nearby Mount Qingfeng (), he orders Qin Ming to lead a military force to eliminate them. Earlier, Qin's martial arts student Huang Xin, who was sent by Murong to Qingfeng Fort to deal with Hua Rong, had captured Hua. But Hua and Song Jiang, Hua's friend and the source of the row, were rescued from him by the three bandit chiefs of Mount Qingfeng - Yan Shun, Wang Ying and Zheng Tianshou. Huang is forced to hole himself up in the fort. Qin Ming is sent as Mount Qingfeng is deemed hard to suppress.