The soldiers in the city were completely dead. In other words, they are not soldiers at all, just a group of farmers who were taken over by the county lieutenant for free.
Seeing the murderous soldiers, who were as ferocious as tigers and wolves, they dropped their weapons on the spot without seeing blood, and surrendered directly with white flags.
The magistrates of the county government were too timid. They didn't even dare to say a harsh word. Their legs went weak and they knelt in front of the cavalry, begging for their lives.
There is no integrity at all from the magistrates of Shangyong County, Fangling County, and those two counties. It seems that the living environment can also corrode a person's mind, turning an upright person into a greedy waste.
If I look at this kind of county magistrate more than once, I feel like my eyes are dirty. He casually ordered his men to drag them down, kill them and feed them to the dogs, not caring at all about the pleading and flattery of the county magistrate and many officials around him.
The entire county was pacified very easily, which was beyond everyone's expectations, but it also made him very happy. If the subsequent county towns are like this, then my strategy of conquering the entire Hanzhong seems to be easily achieved.
In the two previous counties of Shangyong and Fangling, the county magistrate's determination to resist and his unyielding spirit almost made you, Zhong Yu, think that all subsequent counties would be like this.
If someone discovered me by accident, how much effort would it take to fight her way through step by step
Let me just say, how can all officials be so good? If an official is not corrupt, then he is not a good official. It turns out those two people were just a special case.
After a little integration of the situation in the county, two hundred people were left to take care of it.
By the way, I will clean up the green-skinned scoundrels who took advantage of the situation and kill them all to avoid a lot of trouble in the future. It would be better to take advantage of the chaos of war and sort it out thoroughly.
He said he had 100 cavalry and 600 soldiers. Go and clean up the densely packed gentry all over the West City. If this kind of deep-rooted local wealthy family is not cleaned up, how can I dare to lead troops to conquer with confidence!
By killing them, you can also get a lot of property, land and real estate, which you can use to reward loyal and brave soldiers and capable civil servants who are loyal to you.
You don't even have to worry about money and food for the next few decades. As long as you keep killing all those nobles, their hundreds and thousands of years of accumulation will be yours. What a rich fortune that is.
They did not encounter much resistance. Those nobles could do well in studying and learning, but it was still not possible to serve as soldiers and fight.
He had never had much contact with military matters, so he was surrounded by his own troops without realizing that the atmosphere around him was wrong.
He easily destroyed their manor's city defenses, captured everyone in the clan, and killed them all.
However, there are more noble families in Xicheng, more than twenty families, and a population of tens of thousands. It would take him two or three days to kill these 700 people one by one. It seemed that he would be delayed here for a while.
Time passed slowly, and Zhong Yu's plan was implemented in an orderly manner. One by one, the manors were tricked into opening the city gates and breaking through the defenses.
Then the soldiers who had been preparing for a long time and gearing up rushed in with sharp blades in hand, killing everyone on sight and slashing at the door.
There is no mercy at all, and the methods are extremely ruthless, ranging from old people with white hair and mobility difficulties to babies who are waiting for feeding. They also cut them in half, took off their heads, and piled them at the gate of the manor.
Blood flowed all over the ground, and crying continued all night long. The entire manor became eerie, and the surrounding villagers did not dare to approach it for several months.
It wasn't until the later county magistrate took office and decided to allocate the entire manor to the soldiers who had retired from the battlefield that they gradually became popular. I think it was only those soldiers who were used to seeing life and death and had seen too many dead people. Be fearless!
This process of cleansing and massacre lasted for three days, until the entire Xicheng County was filled with murderous spirit and blood, the souls of innocent people were flying everywhere, and the air in the entire county became a few degrees colder.
All the people were frightened by the massacre and were almost ready to take risks and fight to the death to eliminate this torture.
Zhong Yucai stopped his purge, why did he stop? That's because the entire county has been exhausted and all the nobles have been killed. There is no need to continue.
Tens of thousands of heads were piled up on both sides of the road, and they would last for half a month, letting everyone in the county know the consequences of your own actions, and then they would be arranged to be burned.
But the results were also gratifying. A large amount of property, armor and food were moved out from the hands of some noble families by Zhong Yu's soldiers.
It was loaded into hundreds of vehicles and transported to the warehouse in the city and sealed up.
Zhong Yu calculated that the property could support an army of tens of thousands of people, the armor could arm more than a thousand soldiers, and the food would be enough to feed 100,000 people for a year.
It seems that his strategic policy is indeed correct. These nobles are indeed worms. The nobles in a mere county can accumulate so much property. Not to mention how much wealth can be accumulated by one county, one county, one state, and all the families in the world
Even if he is the enemy of the whole world, he only needs to shout out the slogan of King Li Chuang in the late Ming Dynasty: "No food, no taxes", and use the wealth of the nobles to support his army and administrative system. Then he can gather a large number of people to support him and have a good fight with those wealthy families.
I don't believe that the bones of those nobles are really that hard, and they are not afraid of being encircled and suppressed by so many armies. If this is the case, I really don't mind a real bloodbath to carve out a bright future for my country.
Taizu said, "Catch the local tyrants and divide the land." "Win over the majority and attack the small group." Isn't this the case
As long as I follow Zhang Jiao's example and win over most of the lower class people, they will definitely support me and turn their backs on those noble families, who are squeezed out by the wealthy noble families in the world and become the most solid force for me.
And I just need to let them understand that fighting for myself is fighting for them. I will allocate a large part of the land and property to them, and they will definitely try their best, just like the tiger and wolf army of Qin State, who heard about the war first.
Only people who have nothing will not care about their own lives, and those ordinary people are precisely the people who have nothing and can't even afford food.
As long as they master this power, they, who account for more than 99% of the world's population, will definitely make those 1% of the population understand that the mud-legged people they usually look down on also have the desire to destroy everything.
After killing 10,000 people, he got 400 luck points, all of which were used by Zhong Yu to summon soldiers.
Another eight hundred soldiers were ready to go. After joining these soldiers, he had 1,200 infantry.
There were only two hundred people left to guard the county town. Zhong Yu could be sure that after his side's killing spree, the entire county town was frightened by his overwhelming power.
At least for a few years, they would not dare to resist their orders, let alone rebel.
One data can clearly explain this reason. Before the war, there were more than 50,000 people in Xicheng County, but after the war, there were only 40,000 people left.
One fifth of his people died in a war, how could they dare to have other ideas? Aren't you afraid that you will be the next person to die
What's more, they don't have the nobles taking the lead, so what kind of trouble can they cause!
(End of chapter)