There is no reward for no merit, but Zhou Xing has merit now, and his merit is very great.

It is impossible not to be rewarded for your merits. Zhou Xing happily took the gold cake and said: "Thank you, Lord, for the reward!"

Liu Zheng also had great merit in beheading the bandit leader Cong Qian, and was rewarded with three gold cakes. Zhang Fei and other meritorious soldiers also received their own rewards.

Ambushed Wang Ying and Po Congqian's Wubao and captured 3,000 people.

"Master Mingfu, how should we deal with these prisoners?" Li Ye, the meritorious officer, asked.

Liu Bei replied without hesitation: "We have few soldiers, so we can select the strongest ones and recruit them as soldiers, and release the rest back home."

Zhou Xing followed up and said: "We have obtained more than 60,000 dans of food from the bandits. We can first take out 10,000 dans and distribute them to the people of Mouping who were harmed by the thieves. In this way, the lord can give both kindness and power, deterring the thieves and bandits, and winning the hearts of the people with kindness. Donglai

The day of peace is not far away."

"The words of the military advisor are exactly what I want. The people of Mouping have been robbed for money for a long time. Now that I am in Donglai, I should let them live a good life!"

Liu Bei selected more than 1,000 able-bodied people from the 3,000 prisoners to be soldiers, and released the rest, allowing them to go home and farm in peace.

Jian Yong was left behind and together with the Mouping County Magistrate, distributed 10,000 shi of grain to the people in the county.

Liu Zheng led 500 soldiers to stay in Wubao to temporarily guard the captured money and grain. Then Liu Bei led Zhou Xing, Zhang Fei and Li Ye, and led more than 3,000 soldiers and horses to Dongmou.

On the way, Liu Bei seemed very happy. This time he led his troops to suppress the bandits, which can be said to be very smooth.

Two of the four major bandit leaders in Donglai have been killed, and Mouping Wubao has been captured. It is now very easy to break the Wubao in King Dongmu's camp.

"Military advisor, do you have any strategy to attack Dongmuwu Fort?"

Zhou Xingxiao replied: "Lord, if we want to break Dongmuwu Fort, we don't need to be clever or attack with strength. We can break it with the power of the lord. When the time comes, Li Gongcao will only need to go to the fort to persuade him to surrender. I believe

The people in the fort should surrender in surrender."

"What if they don't surrender?" Zhang Fei asked from the side.

"Wang Ying and Cong Qian are both dead, and Moupingwu Fort has been destroyed, how can they still defend it? If they really don't surrender, Zhang Sima will have another chance to make meritorious deeds."

"The two thieves, Wang Ying and Cong Qian, were beheaded by the military advisor and Liu Ziquan. I didn't kill any of them. This time, I want to be the first to break into Wubao and make the first contribution."

Liu Bei didn't say anything. He listened to the conversation between the two of them. He believed Zhou Xingzhi's words and thought that as soon as his troops arrived, he should be able to persuade the thieves in the fort to surrender.

In the Wubao of King Dongmu's Camp, everyone has learned that Wang Ying was beheaded, Muping Wubao was breached, and Qu Shuai Congqian was also beheaded.

Then someone came to report that Liu Bei had come in person with his troops, and everyone in the fort was panicked.

Now that Wang Ying is dead and his sons are young, the bandits in the fort are leaderless and all the leaders have their own opinions.

Some people suggested gathering a crowd to defend the fort, some suggested surrendering to Liu Bei, and some suggested abandoning the fort and leaving.

Amid the quarrel among the people, Liu Bei led his troops outside the fort.

The people who stayed in the fort before, including those who escaped, now number more than 4,000.

There were a lot of people, but there was no leader. Wang Ying and Cong Qian were killed one after another. Most of them knew that they could not hold Wubao.

Looking at the soldiers and horses with flags flying outside the fort, the people inside the fort couldn't help but tremble in their hearts.

Li Ye, the meritorious officer of Donglai County, went to the fort to persuade him to surrender: "Your Qu Commander Wang Ying is dead, Mouping's Commander Cong Qian is also dead, and Mouping's Wubao has been breached by us. With your strength, you can't hold it at all."

Wubao, leaving the fort and asking for surrender is your only way to survive."

"General Liu has a benevolent heart and is not a man who kills indiscriminately. As long as you surrender and surrender, you can return home safely. But if you are stubborn and refuse to surrender, when the fortress is breached, the leader will be killed without mercy!"
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Someone on the Wubao barrier shouted: "Li Gongcao, don't waste your breath anymore, we will never surrender!"

"Aren't you afraid of death?" Li Ye asked loudly.

"Hahaha," the people on the barrier laughed, "Wang Shuai treats me like a brother. Now that he is dead, I will protect his wife, children and Wubao even if I die!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the gate of Wubao was opening.

Zhang Fei was well prepared and immediately slapped his horse and shouted: "Follow me into the fort."

He held a spear in his hand, slapped his horse and ran wildly, and quickly rushed into the Wubao, and the soldiers behind him also rushed in.

When the people on the fortress who refused to surrender saw this, they understood what was going on. Others must have secretly opened the gate of Wubao and surrendered to Liu Bei.

He suddenly pulled out his sword, put it across his neck, looked up to the sky, and shouted sadly: "Wang Shuai, I can't protect your wife and children, I can't protect your Wubao, I have no shame in living in this world, I will let you go!"

It was too late for the people next to him to stop him. After shouting, he pulled his hand and committed suicide.

Liu Bei and Zhou Xing looked outside the fort, sighing that it was a pity.

He was able to kill himself for the royal camp, which shows that he is a very loyal person. If such a person can be used by himself, he is a die-hard loyalist.

Zhang Fei led the troops to enter the fort first, followed by Liu Bei and Zhou Xing.

No one in the castle resisted. Just by seeing Zhang Fei's black face, they knew that this was the legendary brave and invincible "black-faced general". How could they dare to resist?

After taking control of Wubao, more than 50 kilograms of gold, more than 100,000 yuan, and more than 20,000 shi of grain were seized.

Although it is not as much as money and food, for Liu Bei, this is not a small amount.

All the people in the fort became prisoners, and Liu Bei selected a thousand of them as soldiers, and released the rest. These people are now useless.

Wang Ying is worse than Cong Qian. He is not so ruthless in robbing the people and treats the tribesmen well, so the money and food he saves is far less than Cong Qian.

Liu Bei took out some money and grain and gave it to Wang Ying's wife and children so that they could go home and live in peace. He also took out five thousand stones of grain and distributed it to the people of Dongmou County.

Now, Liu Bei faced two choices: continue to destroy the bandit Guan Cheng in Changguang County, or lead his troops back to Huang County.

Li Ye, the meritorious Cao Cao, proposed to lead troops to escort the money and grain back to Huang County, and then raise troops from Huang County to suppress Guan Cheng.

Huang County and the three counties of Dongmou, Changguang and Guangzhou are like the points of a triangle. The distance from Dongmou to Changguang is the same as the distance from Huangxian to Changguang. If we continue to march to Changguang now, it will be inconvenient to transport too much money and grain.<

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Liu Bei is also inclined to this. Now he has seized 500,000 shi of money and 70,000 shi of food after excluding the 15,000 shi distributed to the people.

There is so much food, and there are many mountain roads from Dongmou to Changguang, which is definitely not easy to walk.

"Military advisor, what do you think?"

Whatever decision Liu Bei makes now, he wants to listen to Zhou Xing’s opinion first.

Zhou Xing thought for a while and said: "We killed two thieves in a row, Wang Ying and Cong Qian were beheaded, and the lord's power has spread to Donglai. I think we should continue to go to Changguang County to suppress Guan Cheng at this time.

If Guan Cheng can be eliminated again, the only remaining traitor in Donglai is Guan Hai. Guan Hai is hiding in the mountains and forests of Luxiang, and we can then concentrate our forces to wipe him out."

"But we have so much food now, do we have to follow the army to transport it to Changguang?" Li Ye asked.

Zhou Xing smiled slightly: "Now we have five thousand soldiers and horses. Although two thousand of them are newly surrendered soldiers, they are enough to strengthen my momentum. My lord can lead two thousand soldiers and horses to transport food back to Huang County. Zhang Sima and I will
Chapter completed!