In the battle a few days ago, the results of the battle had already spread, and anyone with a discerning eye knew that once the main force of the southern army was defeated, there was no way to return to heaven.

After the three-way army went south from the central capital, it passed through the prefectures and counties, and all of them surrendered to the wind.

Wu Feixiong's soldiers came to Hejian Mansion, and after leading the army to surround the four gates, he ordered the soldiers to shout and surrender, while pondering how to attack the city with several young generals.

Before the siege plan was ready, I saw a white flag on the tower of Hejian Mansion.

When Wu Feixiong was overjoyed, he remained cautious, fearing that it would be the opponent's strategy to deceive and surrender, so he ordered a platoon of cavalry to test the truth first.

Xiao Tianyou, the defender of the city, was originally a person from the Northern Dynasty, but because he was afraid that Wanyan Kang would cut power and seize wealth, he descended to the Southern Dynasty.

How do you know that Yan Gang will be defeated after the battle, Xiao Tianyou's intestines have been repentant for the past few days, and he has been panicking all day long, and he doesn't know what to do. As soon as Wu Feixiong's army arrived, his generals heard the surrender shouts of the rebellious leaders under the city, and they persuaded him to surrender the city.

Xiao Tianyou looked at the eyes of his subordinates, and knew that if he insisted on not surrendering and said that he had to attack with an army outside the city, this group of subordinates would have to cut off their heads and sacrifice the city.

After the white flag was raised, the people under the city approached to test the virtual time, and Xiao Tianyou immediately ordered the people to open the city gate and led a cadre out of the city to welcome the army.

Seeing this, Wu Feixiong immediately sent additional men to control the city gate, and after finding that there was indeed no ambush in the city gate, he rode his horse outside the city gate and asked: "Who is the general of Hejian Mansion?" ”

Xiao Tianyou saw that Wu Feixiong was wearing a silver helmet, majestic, and a group of personal soldiers and entourage, obviously the appearance of the chief general of the first army, and immediately knelt on his knees: "Sin general Xiao Tianyou, knock on the general." ”

Wu Feixiong stretched out his spear and picked it under his armpit: "Get up and speak." ”

Xiao Tianyou only felt a strong surge, and unconsciously stood up, after getting up, he was even more afraid in his heart, and he was a little at a loss for a while.

Wu Feixiong arched his hand to the north and shouted solemnly: "Your Majesty is benevolent and virtuous, and you will only be punished for rebellion." General Xiao, although you have repeatedly, but this time you can take the initiative to donate the city, which can be regarded as a great achievement. If you haven't done anything angry and resentful in this riverhouse, you don't need to worry too much. ”

"According to the new law, the guilty will be ... There may be a lot of money. Xiao Tianyou looked at Wu Feixiong's face and said hesitantly.

After Yan Kang ascended the throne, the "Reform Code" established by him has spread throughout the country. After the dismissal of officials and the seizure of wealth in the central capital, Xiao Tianyou has read the new law one by one, and this is what he is most worried about.

Wu Feixiong smiled: "The law of the imperial court is heavier than Mount Tai. His Majesty is extrajudicially gracious, and Xu Er and others will leave three times their legal property and moderate farmland, and you can do things according to the rules. ”

"Your Majesty is benevolent, dare to disobey your orders!" Xiao Tianyou bowed, and everyone behind him also bowed in unison.

Wu Feixiong swept everyone behind Xiao Tianyou, and saw that the eyes of a few people flashed, and he couldn't say that he had made some small calculations, so he said in a deep voice: "There will be an ugly sentence in front of me." After the general entered the city, if anyone dared to deceive the officials, transfer and conceal property. I'll know you then, but I won't recognize you with the big knife of the law enforcement team! ”

Xiao Tianyou's expression was dazed, and he said continuously: "Sin will not dare, sin will not dare!" ”

With Xiao Tianyou's strong cooperation, the handover of the Hejian Province army went very smoothly. There were originally 12,000 garrisons in Hejian Mansion, and Wu Feixiong dismissed most of the old and weak, picked out 5,000 elites, and prepared to lead 3,000 to go south with the army, leaving 2,000 soldiers and horses to garrison.

But in terms of government affairs, it is a little troublesome.

Xiao Tianyou took the lead in handing over most of the family property, leaving two houses and a small half of the property, and dismissed most of the servants

There is still half a point of dissatisfaction.

Other officials of Hejian Mansion and some of Xiao Tianyou's subordinates, but there are still people who are lucky and try to keep more family wealth.

Although they have not been checked one by one, how much net worth can an official in which position he have, and how much is the difference between the net worth of a partial general and the main general, Wu Feixiong is clear in his heart. The goods handed over by Xiao Tianyou, the guard, were equivalent to nearly 100,000 taels, and the left-behind adults of Hejian Mansion only paid 16,000 taels of silver.

After seeing the list handed in by Yan Ke, Wu Feixiong sneered: "Some people really don't shed tears when they don't see the coffin!" ”

With Wu Feixiong's order, Wan Yan Ke's main house and five outer houses in the city were seized at the same time. Since Wan Yan Ke and below, dozens of officials in Hejian Mansion have been imprisoned, and finally the family property is equivalent to nearly one million taels of silver.

When Wan Yan Ke was imprisoned, he still shouted desperately: "The surname is Wu, Lao Tzu is the minister of the clan, you are a member of the general, dare to do this!" ”

Wu Feixiong was originally a Song general, which is not a secret at the top of Dajin, and this matter can be regarded as a pain point in his heart.

After Yan Ke shouted such a sentence, he was immediately beaten with twenty boards, and his arrogance was suddenly gone. Wu Feixiong immediately organized an interrogation, and wiped out all the charges against Yan Ke, forming a twist. Early the next morning, he sent a message to Pegasus to Zhongdu, asking Yan Kang to show it.

Wan Yan Ke stayed behind as a government, and in addition to accumulating countless wealth, he did a lot of things to bully men and women, and forcibly robbed them, and there was more than one life under his hands.

After Yan Kang finished reading the folds, he directly approved a few big words on it: handle it according to law!

The soldiers who sent the letter went back overnight, and when it was the next day, they sent back the recital that Yan Kang had approved. Wu Feixiong looked at these big characters and laughed loudly: "Okay! Good! Good! ”

At noon, Wan Yan Ke and the eighteen dogs who had committed serious crimes were escorted to the entrance of the vegetable market.

Wan Yan Ke saw that something was wrong, and began to cry bitterly, begging desperately.

Wu Feixiong was unmoved, and with an order, nineteen heads fell to the ground in unison.

With the help of Yan Ke's head, Wu Feixiong issued another order to order the officials in the city to hand over illegal goods again, with a time limit of one day.

Originally, the list of excess property handed over by all the officials of Hejian Mansion was only more than 500,000 taels when added together, but as Wan Yan Ke's head fell, this number immediately quadrupled.

As Wanyan Ke's head landed, not only the officials were shocked, but many wealthy businessmen and gentry in Hejian Mansion also came to the door to ask for a meeting and offered to donate to support the army.

In this regard, Wu Feixiong did not refuse, and registered all the materials donated by the wealthy businessmen and gentry, and the materials needed in the army were retained, and all other goods were sent to Zhongdu.

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The city of the first to be taken by the three-way army, Hejian Mansion is the closest to Zhongdu, Zhending Mansion is second, and Taiyuan Mansion is the farthest. But the second city taken by the three-way army was Taiyuan Mansion.

When Ma Tie set off, he and the generals made a decision to take Taiyuan. He selected 100 strong martial artists from the army, and rushed to Taiyuan first, taking the opportunity to infiltrate the city. As soon as the army arrived, the siege of Taiyuan on all sides was unsuccessful, and Ma Tie did not order a strong attack, but ordered the soldiers to beat drums and feint on all sides.

In the middle of the night on the second night, when the army outside the city was beating drums on all sides again, the defenders were a little slack. Unexpectedly, a group of people suddenly appeared near the west gate, evaded the city gate with lightning speed, and received the army outside the city into the city.

There are no more than 10,000 defenders in Taiyuan City, and the morale is extremely low.

Ma Tie was not greedy for merit, but only firmly guarded the west gate, and the army marched into the city in an orderly manner, besieging the other three city gates without attacking. After dawn, the army entering the city steadily advanced from the city to the city

The inner defenders attacked.

The Taiyuan defenders still wanted to resist stubbornly, but the soldiers under their command had no intention of fighting, so they had to lead the people to surrender.

According to the regulations that had been set up long ago, after Ma Tie collected the surrendered troops, he would kill the officers above the centurion level as a punishment. With dozens of heads to lay the foundation, the rest of the Naxia reorganization work is going very smoothly.

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Wu Shiman was in trouble.

He sat in the middle of the road and took the Zhending Mansion first. Zhending Mansion is 600 miles away from Zhongdu, and there is no soldier stationed in the prefectures and counties along the way, so Wu Shiman recovered 600 miles of lost land without much effort.

In Wu Shiman's mind, Wan Yangang and the remnants of his army were completely frightened, and as soon as their own army arrived, most of this person knelt down in Zhending City to greet the heavenly army.

As soon as the army on the middle road arrived, the four gates of Zhending Mansion were closed, and the city wall was crowded, obviously ready for battle. Wu Shiman first ordered people to approach the city wall and shout to surrender, but before the shouter could speak, he died under the random arrows.

Wu Shiman was furious and ordered to attack the city immediately, and wanted to break the body of Wan Yangang, a dog thief, into ten thousand pieces.

Xiao Baili persuaded Wu Shiman in time on the side, not to let the soldiers go to death in vain because of a momentary anger. The army in the middle of the road went south, and the materials they carried were extremely simple, and there were no siege equipment such as trebuchets and ladders, so they could not rely on the corpses of men and horses to fill the city.

As the saying goes, when two countries intersect, they don't cut each other. Wan Yangang brazenly attacked the shouting soldiers, obviously to provoke the opponent, and at the same time cut off his own back road, and strengthened the soldier's fighting spirit.

After Wu Shiman barely suppressed his anger, he immediately summoned officers above the battalion level to discuss siege countermeasures.

"Lao Tzu wants to take down the head of Yan Gang, the old dog, within three days, and kick it as a ball!" Wu Shiman let out cruel words.

The generals used their brains, offered suggestions one after another, and finally decided on a multi-pronged strategy.

First of all, the army shouted from all sides, only the head of the rebel was punished, and the rest were not guilty, and those who offered the head of the rebel were rewarded with ten thousand taels of silver.

Secondly, hundreds of people who were good at shooting were selected, and they roamed in all directions with strong bows, and fired arrows inside and outside the city. These arrows that entered the city were all arrows and wrapped in letterheads, encouraging the capable people in the city to raise their arms and set things right.

Both of these tactics were used to shake the hearts of the enemy's troops.

At the same time, Wu Shiman sent people back to the prefectures and counties along the way to gather craftsmen to make siege equipment. On the one hand, he ordered the army to start digging in the middle of the barracks, first, to make a cloth bag for filling, and secondly, to prepare for the opportunity to dig a road leading directly to the city.

At this moment, most of the defenders in Zhending City are the descendants of Wanyan Gang, and it is difficult to achieve results by attacking only by words. And the letters that were shot into the city were ordered by Wan Yangang to be strictly investigated and handed over, and if anyone dared to hide them and not hand them over, the whole family would be beheaded.

The private soldiers of the families of the dignitaries in the city had already been ordered by Wan Yangang to hand over to help defend the city. Under such circumstances, even if many people have the heart to dedicate themselves to the city and make meritorious contributions, they are also powerless.

It took three days of hard work for craftsmen from all over the country to spend all the materials at hand to produce twelve trebuchets and eight ladders, which were finally ready for use.

However, Wu Shiman found that the effect of these improvised siege equipment was unsatisfactory.

It took an hour for the trebuchet to break in half.

Because the ladder was not wrapped in raw cowhide or iron sheets, it was burned clean by the enemy with rockets.

The tunnel that was about to be dug into the city was also discovered by the defenders, and water from the moat was introduced to pour it in. Countless manpower was wasted, not to mention, and the lives of dozens of soldiers were lost.

Wu Shiman used the strategy of filling the city with negative soil, and immediately stopped it. The damage of the soldiers rushing to the city was too great, and the city was high and the river was deep, and the dirt bags they dropped were difficult to achieve.

Wu Shi was so angry that he was anxious, but he was helpless, and he could only look at the city and sigh for a while.