Liu Jing, wearing a tall black crown and a wide robe and thick fur, sat on the high poop of the ship, looking through Zhong Shuixiang's information.
Zhongshui Township is named after Zhongshui within its territory. To the west of Zhongshui is Zhongshui Township, which belongs to Ling County, Changsha County, and to the east of Zhongshui is Xinping Township, which belongs to Leiyang County, Guiyang County.
As we all know, Leiyang is famous for its iron management. Among the dozens of counties in the four counties of Jingnan, only Leiyang has an iron official. And Xinping Township, because iron is produced within the territory, has a government-run smelting workshop in the township.
Zhongshui Township, which is only separated from Xinping Township by a river, actually produces iron, but because it is too close to Xinping Township, it is difficult to develop due to its influence.
However, many surnames in Zhongshui Township have private smelting workshops, which can not only make farm tools, but also weapons. Their children, tribes, and guests can hold them and guard the Wubao. Not to mention the village pavilion, even the county temple cannot help them.
Unfortunately, they encountered an anomaly like Liu Jing, and their happy days were about to come to an end. Liu Jing had already decided that he would abort at least half of his surnames from Pingyang and Zhongshui.
In addition to collecting their population, capital reserves, and strengthening himself, the more important reason is that he wants to build Pingyang and Zhongshui Township into the rear area of Lingxian County. In the future, he will fight against Liu Biao's army in Lingxian County. He hopes that the two townships can
Be his solid backing.
Therefore, Erxiang can only have his own voice, and others must obey unconditionally. In one sentence: Those who obey me will prosper, and those who go against me will perish!
Liu Jing's fleet did not make a quick trip, but traveled at a normal speed. It took a day and a half to arrive at Zhongshui Township leisurely in the afternoon of the next day.
There were not many people at Xiangdu to greet his arrival. There were only a few officials from Zhongshui Township and five or six people who seemed to have local surnames. The messenger sent by Chu Fang was also among them.
Chu Fang arrived at Pingyang Township the night before yesterday, rested overnight, and captured Gong's Wubao at noon yesterday. It is expected that before sunset today, he will escort Gong's supplies to Zhongshui Township and meet Liu Jing.
When Liu Jing heard this, he immediately felt relieved. The Gong family's Wubao only lasted for a long time before it fell. It was not too unexpected. After all, all five Gong family brothers died, and the younger members of the clan also died.
They surrendered one after another and had no ability to withstand Chu Fang's attack.
Then, Liu Jing turned his attention to a few village officials and asked with a gentle face: "How many of you are the only ones in such a big Zhongshui Township?"
Several village officials looked at each other, and one of them replied: "Reporting to the Ming court, before Gong and Gong Fei gathered people to raise troops, the village officials either rebelled or fled. We are the ones who fled before."
Liu Dingding nodded and turned his eyes again. When several local people with big surnames saw him looking over, they immediately paid homage to him with a very humble attitude.
Liu Jing kept their surnames in mind, whether it was true or false, since they were so understanding, Liu Jing would naturally let his family go.
Liu Jing asked Wang Qiang to stay behind the fleet and led more than 200 infantry and cavalrymen into Zhongshui Township, Mazhou. Yu Zheng took over the city defense as soon as he entered the city. Now is an emergency, so he has to be careful.
Although the three families of the Wang family, the Pan family, and the Zheng family that helped the Gong family were almost completely wiped out. Now their vitality is seriously damaged and they are probably unable to cause trouble again. However, be careful and you are not making a big mistake. The closer to victory, the more likely you will be.
You can't be careless.
While waiting for Chu Fang's arrival, several more surnames came to see Liu Jing. Among them were some from Pingyang Township. Obviously, the genocide of the Gong family had greatly touched them, so they did not wait for Chu Fang's arrival.
Send someone to interview Liu Jing one step ahead of time.
Liu Jing also decided to cross them off the list.
At dusk, Chu Fang's convoy escorting Gong's goods finally arrived outside the city of Zhongshui Township.
Liu Jing personally went out of the city to greet Chu Fang. Chu Fang's armor was almost undamaged. Judging from his style of charging forward at every turn, it can be seen that he did not encounter much resistance when he attacked the Gong family.
Liu Jing smiled and asked, "Ziping, did your trip go well?"
Chu Fang nodded and said: "It went very smoothly. There are no strong men in Gong's Wubao. They are all old, weak, women and children. The Wubao was captured in just one attack. On the contrary, it took a lot of time to build the ladder.
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Liu Jing was not in a hurry to ask how the harvest was. Just looking at the endless supply of baggage convoys, he knew that the harvest must be huge.
Liu Jing took Chu Fang into the city to talk in detail, and at the same time held a banquet to celebrate Chu Fang and others. However, this was just a cover-up to confuse others. After nightfall, Liu Jing asked Chu Fang and Ma Zhou to lead hundreds of people each to quietly leave the city and say goodbye.
The Zheng family and Pan family who had assisted the Gong family before the attack on Wubao were quite unexpected and successfully captured Wubao that night.
The next day, the Wang family was well prepared. Facing the joint siege of Chu Fang and Ma Zhou, they resisted for two days and one night before Wubao fell.
At this point, since Liu Jing went south, he had wiped out four surnames, Zhongshui and Pingyang townships. The big surnames were all frightened. They did not dare to delay any more and came to see Liu Jing one after another.
In the evening of that day, there were ten new arrivals in total. Liu Jing hosted a banquet in Zhongshui Township Office, and other arrangements were made for his descendants and tribes.
But the food on the table was getting colder and the wine was getting hotter and hotter, but Liu Jing never showed up.
Someone whispered in a low voice: "Why is the Ming court so late in arriving? After all, we are also local tyrants, but the Ming court looks down on us so much."
"Silence. You don't want to die? The disaster of Gong, Zheng, Pan, and Wang is right in front of you. Do you also want to bring disaster to the family?"
"..."
However, as time passed by, the others gradually became unable to sit still. At this moment, there was a sudden burst of footsteps outside the hospital, and the ten surnames couldn't help but look at each other.
Then, groups of soldiers armed with crossbows and swords rushed into the courtyard with murderous intent. The ten surnames immediately reacted. Two people rushed out of the lobby decisively and tried to escape by climbing over the wall from the side. Unfortunately, they were shot by crossbow arrows before they could get close.
kill.
The remaining eight people all had a look of horror on their faces. They shouted and fled to the back room in a panic. However, since Liu Jing had set up a killing trap, how could there be any omissions? There was also an ambush behind, with several men wearing single clothes and short swords.
He bumped into the sword of a soldier, and several people were killed in an instant.
Now there were only four intact ones left. They retreated to the hall in embarrassment. At this time, the soldiers outside the hospital had already poured into the hall. Facing the soldiers who were surrounding them from all directions, they collapsed emotionally on the spot, discarded their weapons, and knelt down to ask for surrender.
However, Liu Jing had given an order in advance that no one would be left alive this time. Naturally, the soldiers would not show mercy and swarmed up, pinned them down, and beheaded them all with swords in hand.
The action outside was almost at the same time as here. Ma Zhou led many soldiers to kill all the children of the ten surnames, and no one escaped the net.
After killing the ten surnames, Liu Jing immediately sent troops to raid the Wubao.div