Zhu Zhi died, and the Wuxian army lost their only backbone. After the main force under Tai Shici went to the city, the south gate was immediately broken.

The south gate was breached, and the defenders of Wu County could not organize a counterattack, and the final result could only be broken together with the east gate and the north gate.

After defeating the armed forces of the defenders of Wu County, Zhang Xiu indulged his 20,000 soldiers to massacre the city.

When the south gate was just breached, the news that Zhu Zhi was shot to death by Zhang Xiujun was frantically circulated in Wu County. The Jiangdong soldiers guarding the west gate could not receive the news of the Taishou for a long time, and under the impact of the frightened people, they could only let go of the city gate.

After the news of Zhu Zhi's death in battle was confirmed, it was not just ordinary people who fled outside the city. First, some of the powerful clans defending the city were defeated, and stragglers poured out of the West Gate among the civilians, and then the entire West Gate guards collectively abandoned their posts and fled.

Zhang Xiujun did not count the number of people who escaped from the west gate of the city, but two days later, Zhang Xiujun roughly counted the number of people killed in the massacre.

The conservative number of killed is 50,000, and if Zhang Xiujun is not surrounded by three queyi, I believe this number will be doubled!

Wu County is both grams, and Wu County is flat. After resting in Wu County for a few days, Zhang Xiu received two war reports.

The first battle report came from Danyang County, and the news on this battle report could make all the Jiangdong soldiers feel excited.

The rebellious general, Marquis Sun Ce of Wu, led 60,000 Jiangdong soldiers to return to the division by land.

It is conceivable that for the Jiangdong Shimin, the return of the little overlord Sun Lang undoubtedly means that all their hopes are back!

Of course, Zhang Xiu will not take the initiative to spread the news. Sun Ce has only led his army to Danyang County at present, and has just broken through Lingyang, and there is still a considerable distance from Wu County and Huiji County.

However, Zhang Xiu did not dare to take it lightly. Long before half a month. After learning that the assassin he had carefully cultivated had failed, Zhang Xiu began to prepare for Sun Ce's massive counterattack.

If it is Zhang Xiu's established strategy to clean up the wealthy families in Jiangdong, then Tuwu County is one of the methods that Zhang Xiu adopted specifically to deal with Sun Ce!

As we all know, Wu County is the foundation of the Sun family, and Wu County is the core of the Sun family's foundation. Zhang Xiu had no doubt that at least nine of the ten people in Wu County supported Sun Ce from the bottom of their hearts. But for Zhang Xiu, even if Zhang Xiu adopted a Huairou policy and a relaxed policy that was no different from Sun Ce, at least five out of ten Wu County people still did not accept Zhang Xiu.

This is a question of first impressions. Since the people of Wu County already have Sun Lang, why change to Zhang Xiu. The psychology of Chinese people trying to be stable has existed since ancient times.

Not to mention that Zhang Xiu will not tolerate the politics of the family at all, so without taking special measures, Wu County will not be able to guarantee stability.

You must know that the main force of Zhang Xiu's southern expedition is these 40,000 Xiliang soldiers. Zhang Xiu himself brought 20,000 and Zhang Liao commanded the other 20,000. If there are other armies, then count the eighteen thousand rabble under the command of Zu Xun, the commander of Danyang.

With Zu Xun, he will definitely not be able to stop Sun Ce, which has been proven by history. Even if the current ancestor has the entire Danyang County's armament, for the little overlord Sun Ce, it is just a copy replaced with an enhanced version. Although the version has been upgraded, the essence has not changed!

Looking at the development of the battle situation, Zhang Xiu could only personally lead the army to confront Sun Ce. After all, whether Sun Ce can return to Jiangdong is related to the success or failure of the entire battle, and Zhang Xiu has to fight this battle.

Zhang Xiu led the army to fight Sun Ce, and Zhang Liao must also shoulder the heavy responsibility of cutting the throat of Jiangdong and blocking Huiji County. Then Wu County, which had just been defeated, could only rely on the temporary patchwork of "county soldiers" under Shu Shao to maintain public order and stability.

However, if at this time, the powerful armed forces of the clans and clans of Wu County were united and they would take action from behind Zhang Xiu's back, the prisoners and outlaws organized by Shu Shao under various coercion and temptation would definitely not be able to play the role of "county soldiers".

When the backyard catches fire, if Zhang Xiu has the ability to win the return hometown and the hard-working army and good at fighting in the mountains and forests with an absolutely inferior force in an extremely unfavorable climate and geographical environment, it is better to directly start a war with Cao's army in Huainan to annex the Central Plains!

Therefore, Zhang Xiu can only choose to "take precautions" in advance, and first completely solve all the wealthy families in Wu County.

The second battle report came from Zhang Liao. The content of this battle report can not only make all the people who survived the massacre in Wu County feel the deepest happiness from the bottom of their hearts, but also make those counties and counties that have been purged by Yuan Yin, Zu Xun, Shu Shao, and Pei Yuanshao sincerely sigh "Fortunately, I met Zu Xun and Pei Yuanshao"!

Because our generals Zhang Liao and Zhang Wenyuan, after experiencing the repeated attacks and harassment of the powerful forces of the Jiangdong clan and the stubborn resistance of the Shijia clan, finally lit up his butcher's knife!

Unlike Zhang Xiu's purge, which had to be carried out by an agent, and the slaughter of every city had to come up with a trick of "selective slaughter of the city", Zhang Liao directly said that he would kill and kill all of them, without the slightest hesitation and softness.

After capturing Wucheng, which had twice as many armed soldiers as the villagers, Zhang Liao decisively slaughtered the city to show his zero tolerance for the wealthy family.

Not only Wucheng, but then Zhang Liao also slaughtered these two cities after capturing Yuhang and Fuchun.

Zhang Liao slaughtered three cities in a row, and no less than 100,000 Jiangdong soldiers died at his hands within a month! It is notorious for a while, and it can stop children crying at night!

Zhang Liao's slaughter of the city seemed to be cut first and then played, and it was not until the slaughter of Sun's hometown Fuchun that he sent a report to Zhang Xiu to ask for guilt. But anyone with a little brain knows that for such a big matter as the slaughter of the city, how dare the generals who lead the army outside dare to act without the acquiescence of the sovereign!

On the other hand, the effect of Zhang Liao's large-scale killing is also great, and Qiantang, the last county in Wu County, decisively opened the city and surrendered before Zhang Liao's troops came to the city!

Of course, this was all when the big clans of Qiantang fled to Huiji County en masse, and Qiantang took the initiative to surrender.

So far, the entire territory of Wu County has fallen into the hands of Zhang Xiujun.

At the beginning of September, Zhang Xiu ordered Zhang Liao to continue to lead his army south and attack Huiji County with momentum. On the other hand, the generals led the troops from Wu County to the west of Danyang.

Wu Jun has done it, and Jiangdong has already done half of it. Although the current Zhang Liao may not have grown into the world's top famous general who broke Sun Wu's army in the Battle of Hefei sixteen years later, he used 20,000 Xiliang soldiers to deal with a weak Huiji County. The difficulty is much simpler than using 800 dead soldiers to break the 100,000 Wu army.

Huiji County was relieved to give Zhang Liao, Zhang Xiu commanded 20,000 main forces to face Sun Ce's main force in Jiangdong, it stands to reason that the pressure should be very great, but Zhang Xiu seemed very relaxed.

No, on the march to Danyang, Zhang Xiu often left the brigade with the Wuwei battalion, and calmly hunted with several of his own generals.

This time, Zhang Xiu didn't pretend to be calm and calm to calm the army's mind, in fact, Zhang Xiu could really be called a winner this time.

First, Zhang Xiu obtained Gu Yong, a heavyweight talent, when he attacked Qu A, and when he was in Tuwu County, he took in the young Lu Xun.

Wu Jun has four surnames, namely Gu, Lu, Zhu, and Zhang. After Sun Quan founded the State of Wu, these four surnames were extremely active in the political arena of the State of Wu, and each had its own merits, including Gu Hou, Lu Zhong, Zhu Wu, and Zhang Wen. Among them, the two surnames Gu Lu and the two major families of Yu and Wei in the four clans of Huiji are collectively known as the four major families of Jiangdong, which are extremely prosperous

Sun Hao, the queen of Wu, once asked his prime minister Lu Kai, how many people are in your family? Lu Kai replied: "There are more than ten second ministers, five marquis, and generals. ”

Gu Yong is the representative of the Gu family of Wu County.

And Lu Xun is the son of the Lu family of Wu County.

Although Zhang Xiu has an established policy of cleaning the wealthy families of Jiangdong, talents of the level of Gu Yong and Lu Xun are within the scope of Zhang Xiu's "extrajudicial benevolence".

Let's talk about Gu Yong, who later became the prime minister of Wu State, just the year of his establishment this year, but now it is only a small county order in Jiangdong, and Gu Yong will not rise step by step until Sun Quan takes the throne.

Gu Yong had previously served as the county magistrate of Lou County, and because of his ability and political achievements, he was transferred to Qu'a, a heavy county in Jiangdong, but he didn't die and bumped into Zhang Xiunan's expedition to Jiangdong. In the battle of Qu'a, Danyang Taishou Wu Jing was defeated and captured, but Gu Yong took the initiative to surrender and became the first Jiangdong clan figure to surrender!

No one knew Gu Yong's motive for surrendering, but Gu Yong's move was a success that made Zhang Xiu take the initiative to show mercy when he slaughtered Wu County, saving the lives of the entire Gu clan in Wu County!

Thinking that one Gu clan alone was not enough to stir up the mind of the entire Wu County, Zhang Xiu once again showed his undoubted side of employing people, and appointed Gu Yong as the county leader of Wu County, second only to Wu County's Taishou Shu Shao. He also made him take care of the aftermath of the counties of Wu County, re-presided over the election of the chief officials of each county, and organized the grassroots political power.

Of course, although Zhang Xiu did not have any extra explanations to Shu Shao. But Shu Shao Shu Taishou is not a fool, if Gu Yong and Gu dare to make some small moves behind their backs, Shu Shao doesn't mind announcing to Jiangdong Shimin that being fierce again is my true character Shu Zhongying.

In fact, Zhang Xiu was completely overwhelmed. Although Gu Yong was born in a big family, he is completely a real countryman who is not right about things!

As for Lu Xun, it was completely Zhang Xiu's initiative to order to leave the Lu clan of Wu County during the slaughter of the city.

What Zhang Wen, Zhu Wu, these big clans Zhang Xiu can be slaughtered without blinking, but there is no need for the current Lu clan to be slaughtered at all. is not only because of Lu Xun's outstanding military talent, because of the handsome men of the Lu family after Lu Xun, but also because of the current situation of the Lu family of Wu County.

In recent years, Lu's life has been very unsatisfactory.

All this is only for one reason, the Lu family and Sun Ce, the lord of Jiangdong, have a personal vendetta!

All this has to be said a few years ago, when Lu Kang, the head of the Lu family, was still alive, and the Lu family was still prominent in Jiangdong.

At that time, Lu Kang served as the Taishou of Lujiang, the position was not very high, but it was definitely not low, the most important thing was that Lujiang County and Lu's hometown Wu County were only across the river, and at the time when a city and half a county were counted as a prince, the Lu family was not prominent in Jiangdong.

At that time, Sun Ce was still driven by Yuan Shu and lived a life under the fence.

As we have said before, before Sun Jian started his family, the Sun family could only be regarded as a small and medium-sized clan in Jiangdong, and it can be said that there is a world of difference compared with the Lu family, one of the four surnames with deep roots. Now that Sun Jian is dead, the Sun family has not returned to its original state, and it is not even as good as before, and even his hometown Jiangdong cannot go back.

The feud between the Sun family and the Lu family started very simply, it was just a visit. That time, Sun Ce went to meet Lu Kang, but Lu Kang did not meet Sun Ce at all, but only let his subordinates receive the young Sun Ce. What kind of temper does Sun Ce have, besides, he is still at a young and vigorous age, Lu Kang can annoy Sun Ce this time.

You know, the consequences of annoying Xiaobawang are very serious!