Xu Sheng and Yuan Yao finally had a false alarm.

Zhu Zhi, who almost splashed blood on his own door, did not catch the assassin on the spot, nor did he hunt down any of the black and white assassins, and Zhu Zhi finally locked the scope of suspicion on the 1,000 remnants of the defeated soldiers who returned to the city with his defeat yesterday.

Zhu Zhi would think so, in fact, it is not wrong. The assassin didn't come out sooner or later, but jumped out after his defeat. After a little thought, there are Zhang Xiu's subordinates mixed in the defeated army that fled back to the city yesterday, the possibility is very great!

As for whether it could be done by someone else in the city, Zhu Zhi was the first to deny this idea.

How can it be! Right now, everyone is a grasshopper tied to a rope. Zhang Xiujun had already clearly put forward the posture of being the enemy of the Jiangdong family, and if the powerful people of the family clan in Wu County did not want to lose the city early, they would have no motive to attack him under Zhu's rule.

Because, on the second day after Zhang Xiu sent Pei Yuanshao, he officially announced the implementation of the Juntian system in the Jiangdong occupation area!

The specific content and method is to first purge the wealthy families in Jiangdong, and then distribute the land controlled by the wealthy clans of the clans to the landless or landless people at the bottom according to the capitation. In this process, there is no objection to the right of possession of land by the small and medium-sized landlord class and the nature of private ownership of land.

Because in order to become famous, Zhang Xiu's excuse for purging the wealthy families of Jiangdong was that nine and a half of the ten wealthy families of these wealthy families were armed against Zhang Xiujun. However, the small and medium-sized landlords have not yet accumulated arms, so naturally they do not need to be purged at the same time. After all, Zhang Xiu is only an anti-family gate valve rather than an anti-landlord class, and it is impossible to be the same as the agrarian revolution in later generations.

When a discerning person sees this, it is easy to see that Zhang Xiu's ultimate plan to rely on the strength of the clan and the clan is to rely on the strength of the common people to establish his own power.

In fact, it is not impossible to take this road to compete in the world, but in the period when the family gate valve of the Three Kingdoms was rising, most of the people in the world only saw that the rich manpower and material resources of the family had accumulated more than 100 years, and few people were willing to choose such a road, or were willing to take such a road thoroughly.

Because everyone Jie Haoxiong saw the strength of the wealthy family, and at the same time, they all saw how much resistance they would face to take the bottom route now!

The most intuitive is like Zhang Xiu's southern expedition to Jiangdong, if the wealthy family is on Zhang Xiu's side, Zhang Xiu will be able to take the entire territory of Jiangdong in two months at most! Not only can it be easy to take this incomparably empty Jiangdong without bloodshed, but Zhang Xiu can also recruit a new army with a scale of tens of thousands before Sun Ce returns to the division!

Taking a step back, to put it simply, if Zhang Xiu hadn't fooled Sun Ce and the main army of Jiangdong to Yuzhang County, two or three thousand miles away, before the southern expedition, the probability of success in the southern expedition to Jiangdong would definitely be less than one percent!

A few days later, Pei Yuanshao and Shu Shao escorted the wealthy families from all over Wu County to the city of Wu County.

In terms of how to deal with the total number of tens of thousands of captives, Zhang Xiu chose to kill them on the spot!

That's right, you heard it right, it's a pit kill!

At the head of Wu County, all the people could see that tens of thousands of people from their own family were driven by Zhang Xiujun's Biao army, using shovels and hoes and other things to dig big pits not far from the city!

What is the purpose of digging a pit during the war? The answer to this question was well known to the ancients. Especially in this kind of situation where the face has been torn, everyone knows how Zhang Xiu intends to deal with these tens of thousands of captives who consume a lot of grain and grass every day.

Now that you have become an enemy, you can only kill and not let go!

The people in the city knew the thoughts of Zhang Xiujun under the city, but the scene of Zhu Zhi's defeat was still vivid, even if there were two or three bloody brave people who rushed out of the city gate to save their own family despite the ban, but before they got close to Zhang Xiujun's fifty steps, they were already shot by Zhang Xiujun's bow and crossbow pitcher. There are some that slipped through the net, and Zhang Xiujun deliberately stayed to sharpen his knife.

After Zhu Zhi repeatedly ordered the city gate to be closed, the soldiers in the head of Wu County could only stare at the city with red eyes.

The people in charge of supervising the work under the city were the Qianghu tribesmen who did not understand the Han language. Those who were slacking off and procrastinating in digging the pit were directly killed on the spot by the Qianghu foot soldiers, or used as live targets by the archers on horseback. Therefore, although he knew that the day of digging the pit was his own death period, the progress of the whole pit was still quite fast.

Seven days later, several huge pits that can accommodate more than 5,000 people have been formed!

On this night, all the captives no longer slept on the ground and clothes, but were directly driven to the pit by Zhang Xiujun to spend the night.

Zhang Xiu's generals, Hu Che'er and Pei Yuanshao, who were in charge of the pit killing, both thought of the possibility of a big riot on the eve of the pit killing. Riots of the tens or hundreds of people occur almost every day when the digging of the pit begins, after all, not everyone is willing to sit idly by.

But it was all in vain. You can't beat the Xiliang soldiers with weapons on the frontal battlefield, so what is the result of the riots now?

Drove all the captured people of the wealthy family into the pit in advance, and this night Hu Che'er only arranged half of the usual guards on duty, but it was a quiet night.

But there were still people who alarmed Hu Che'er and Pei Yuanshao when it was almost dawn. But it was not the prisoners in the pit who were struggling to the death, but there was a sneak attack from Wu County.

If he wants to kill the family members of the defenders in the city, Zhang Xiujun will naturally guard against possible attacks in the city sooner or later. Although there were five or six hundred people in this sneak attack, they were still killed by the Xiliang army and the Qianghu soldiers who were good at field warfare.

There were not many people in the tens of thousands of wealthy families in the pit this night, and most of them were afraid that the soil would suddenly fall on their heads in the middle of the night, so Zhang Xiujun started the pit killing operation as soon as possible!

However, their worries were in vain, Zhang Xiu planned to kill them in front of the 20,000 soldiers in the city, so as to achieve the greatest deterrent effect.

On the erection day, the city wall of Wu County was crowded, and the whole battalion of Zhang Xiujun under the city was dispatched.

All the wealthy families in the pit finally felt the weight of death, and chaos began to occur in the pit.

There were those who cried and begged for mercy on their knees, those who climbed the pit with their hands and feet, and those who held each other and waited for death.

Zhang Xiu was dressed in a military uniform, and a pair of cold eyes scanned the dying state of this group of people who were suddenly knocked down from the clouds.

The sword was unsheathed, and at the moment when the sword fell, Pei Yuanshao hurriedly walked over and said, "General, there are thirty or forty village elders in the pit over there!" ”

Zhou Cang, who was next to Zhang Xiu, sneered twice: "Only when you were dying did you think of begging for mercy collectively? ”

Pei Yuanshao: "They said that they didn't ask the general to let them live, they just asked the general to let those women and children go, and just kill them!" ”

Cao Xing: "No! Chop the grass and eradicate the roots, how can there be a pit killing of people by selecting and classifying people from ancient times to the present! ”

Hu Che'er, Zhou Cang and others next to him agreed with Cao Xing's words.

Zhou Cang: "This pit killing is for the convenience of the brain, if it is so troublesome, it is better to kill those people other than women and children directly!" ”

This time, even Tai Shi Ci nodded.

After Zhang Xiu made the decision to kill in a pit, what he didn't expect was that the generals of this era looked very lightly at the extermination of people like pit killing, just like leading troops to fight and charge into battle. Not only did no one object, but basically everyone actively carried out Zhang Xiu's orders.

Even the military masters Bo Xu Yan and Wang Kai, who were responsible for inspecting Zhang Xiu's logistics, praised Zhang Xiu's decisiveness!

In order to ensure the pit killing, Zhang Xiu had already transferred the main forces of the other three armies besieging the city to the south, and each battalion left only 1,000 soldiers and horses to guard the camp.

No one would have thought that Zhang Xiu suddenly put the drawn sword in the sheath, and said with full anger: "Accurate!" ”

All the generals were shocked, and without waiting for them to say that they would leave behind the poison caused by women and children, Zhang Xiu spoke first: "In all the things of the war, women and children have nothing to do with it, and the matter has come to this point is really affected by the family. We are only trying to destroy the Sun traitors, and it is not the work of the king and the righteous to implicate innocent things. I didn't want Jiangdong to be a river of blood, mourning everywhere, at this moment I thought about it again and again, and decided to open a way out! ”

The generals couldn't figure out why Zhang Xiu changed his mind when he was buried in the pit, but they all heard the resolute meaning from Zhang Xiu's words, and in the end, no one persuaded him.

Pei Yuanshao walked back, and sent a sergeant with a loud voice to convey and repeat Zhang Xiu's original words: "General Pingkou said: Women and children have nothing to do in the war, and the matter has come to this point is really affected by the family. We are only trying to destroy the Sun traitors, and it is not the work of the king and the righteous to implicate innocent things. I didn't want Jiangdong to be a river of blood, mourning everywhere, at this moment I thought about it again and again, and decided to open a way out! ”

There was another commotion under the pit, and the women were pardoned with their children in their arms, while the men were even more dead-faced!

However, the strange thing is that as soon as Zhang Xiu's pardon was issued, the number of soldiers climbing the earth wall at the bottom of the pit or throwing Zhang Xiu's soldiers with clods of soil dropped sharply, and the crying and screaming became significantly quieter, and the men began to push the women and children out of the pit one after another.

There are also some women who are unwilling to give birth secretly, and the Zhang Xiu soldiers outside the pit are happy to pull one less person up.

As Cao Xing and Zhou Cang said, it was too troublesome to pick out women and children from the pit. Starting early in the morning, sorting is not completed until noon. There is also a deliberate delay, but Zhang Xiu turned a blind eye.

Anyway, it's not him who worries, it's the people watching from the city walls.

When it was almost over, Zhang Xiu drew his sword again, and he was about to fall!

More than a dozen Zhang Xiujun rode fast horses and galloped under the city of Wu County, shouting: "The people in the city have heard clearly, these are already good examples outside the city." If you are obsessed and do not open the city to surrender, after our army breaks the city, everyone in the city, regardless of women, children, old and young, will be left behind! ”

It was Zhu Zhi's voice that answered them: "Release the arrow!" ”

Zhang Xiujun's horsemen are not stupid, they know that they are pulling hatred when they go out, and while shouting, they are wary of the situation at the various battlements on the city wall.

Seeing a scattered burst of arrows shot from the city, Zhang Xiu awe-inspiringly slashed the sword in his hand!

Jia Xu, the poison man who had been squinting at everything, had a pair of old eyes flickering.