Huang Zu is indeed finished.

Because Xu Huang brought troops here, he directly surrounded Xiling County, and wanted to annihilate the Huang clan's forces in one fell swoop.

Huang Zu himself had no cavalry, no sailors, and cavalry with inferior mobility to Xu Huang, so he didn't dare to run away at all, so he could only defend Xiling County, looking forward to a miracle in his heart.

As a result, a miracle did not come, but a boulder came.

Xu Huang surrounded the trebuchet he brought around Xiling County, arranged trebuchets on all sides, bombarded on all sides, and then besieged the city on all sides, not planning to give the people in the city a way to live, and he didn't think that they had the ability to fight to the death.

Huang Zu was trapped in the lonely city and could not break through, so he could only fight a bloody battle, but the result of the bloody battle was a large number of casualties.

There is also the fact that the city wall of Xiling County is not tall, the moat is not wide and deep, and the level of city defense has not reached the passing line, so although they work hard enough, under the bombardment of the Wei army's trebuchets, the living environment in the city is still getting worse day by day.

To make matters worse, food began to run out of food in the city.

In order to escape, Huang Zu secretly transported a lot of grain to the ship, but the ship was burned, a large amount of grain was also burned, and there was not much grain stored in the city, and soon fell into a situation of food shortage.

In order to hold on for a longer time and strive for a miracle, Huang Zu ordered Xiao Hu to release grain, and repeatedly reduced the food distribution of the old and weak women and children, completely ignoring the life and death of the old and weak women and children, and only providing the soldiers and strong men with the minimum food.

As a result, the situation of old and weak women and children starving to death soon appeared in the city, and Huang Zu was powerless to reverse this situation.

It was not easy for the soldiers in the city to hold on to the city under the threat of trebuchets, and Huang Zu also did his best to mobilize all the resources that the Huang clan could mobilize, where was there more energy?

At the beginning of July, Xiling County could not hold on.

On the morning of the fifth day of the seventh month, Xu Huang broke through the city and started a fierce street battle with the only remaining Huang Zu's guards.

The Wei army became more and more courageous, and broke through the defense line set by Huang Zu's army in one go, and Xiling County was quickly occupied by the Wei army.

In the afternoon of the same day, Xu Huang personally commanded the army to besiege Huang Zu's last stronghold, his home.

Huang Zu's family members resisted desperately, defended Huang Zu's mansion, and tried all kinds of methods to block the attack of the Wei army, but after all, they could not stop the strong offensive of the Wei army, and they were soon attacked into the mansion, and the army was defeated.

Huang Zu's last resistance failed, his son Huang shot to death, and a large number of men in the family were killed in battle, he retreated from the front yard to the inner hall, hiding with his wives and concubines, and there was no way out.

Huang Zu was very sad and angry, he also knew that he could not live, so he wailed, first killed his wife and concubine, and then killed his young children, so that they would not be humiliated, and then killed himself with a knife, ending his humiliating and wonderful life.

Xu Huang was not polite at all, because Huang Zu's malicious slander and insistence on resisting Guo Peng also brought some casualties to Xu Huang, he was very angry, and in order to get Guo Peng's commendation, he exported evil anger for Guo Peng, so he directly destroyed Huang Zu Manmen.

The Huang clan, a great clan entrenched in Jiangxia, was destroyed in this way.

Not only that, the twenty-six families of the Haoqiang family that cooperated with the Huang family and entrenched in Jiangxia were exterminated by Xu Huang on the grounds of causing too many casualties to the army, and all the men were killed, and the female dependents were not slaves, and the cameras were sold, or they were simply accepted as military prostitutes, so as to deter the rest of the young people.

The bloody human head and Xu Huang's iron-blooded style directly frightened all the living Jiangxia people, and the Wei army killed all the original owners of Jiangxia County neatly and neatly with the spirit of slaughter, and stood on the land of Jiangxia County as a conqueror.

Jiangxia County was no longer Jiangxia County of the Jiangxia people, but completely became Jiangxia County of the Wei Empire.

Jiangxia's resistance was also over, and Xu Huang immediately sent someone to contact Le Jin and Guo Jia to inquire about the situation on their side.

At this time, Xu Huang didn't know that just a day earlier, on the fourth day of the seventh month, Zhu Ling had accepted Liu Cong's surrender, and Jingzhou's resistance was over.

Xu Huang probably didn't expect that he would become the one who fought the most battles, destroyed the most enemies, and won the most in the entire Jingzhou crusade.

Originally, he thought that he was a strategist player, and he was partial to the division all the way, and he didn't belong to Lejin's Central Plains Front Army in terms of establishment, so it was nothing great.

As a result, I never expected that I was the one who made the greatest achievements, because the other two armies did not encounter decent resistance at all.

The main force of the Jingzhou army surrendered without resistance, and all the cities fell intact into the hands of the Wei army, saving an unknown amount of reconstruction costs.

Although Guo may not be very happy, but the matter has come to this point, he must not provoke the will of Jingzhou people to resist again.

As soon as Huang Zu died, the three counties of Jingbei fell completely, and all of them were occupied by the Wei army and became the territory of Wei.

At this moment, Le Jin and Guo Jia, who were in Jiangling City, were already planning to reorganize the Jingzhou army, use Wei soldiers as officers, fully control the Jingzhou army, and then go south to the four counties of Jingnan, take Wuling, Guiyang, Changsha and Lingling counties, and completely pacify Jingzhou.

This is the flat push plan, and after the flat push is over, Jingzhou will completely become the territory of Wei.

Before that, Guo Jia had already learned everything Kuai Yue and others had done for Wei through Kuai Yue, and reported to Guo Peng about their harvest in Jiangling City, asking Guo Peng for further instructions on how to solve the "heroes" in Jingzhou.

Guo Jia's watch seal was sent to Luoyang in an expedited manner for 600 miles, and was soon learned by Guo Peng.

However, everything Guo Peng knows is definitely much more real than the beautified version that Guo Jia heard from Kuai Yue.

At present, except for the death of Liu Biao, there is no direct evidence to prove that Kuai Yue and others did it, and Guo Peng knows everything else.

Including the surrender of Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, the collaboration between Cai Mao and Kuai Yue, how they blocked the news, how they helped Liu Cong ascend the throne, how they repelled Wu Ban, and how they kept an intact Jingbei county and sent it to Guo Peng.

Such a deferential bunch.

Such a group of people who think about their own interests.

Such a real group of people.

Guo looked at the information collected by the Linzi camp, compared Guo Jia's seal, and found that Kuai Yue and the others were not only real, but also good at using stream-of-consciousness descriptive techniques, and good at rhetoric and evasion.

From the death of Liu Biao to Liu Cong's accession to the throne to the wars in Jingzhou and Yizhou, and now to the complete surrender, how can there be less operations by this group of people?

Guo had long identified his preferences, his preference for ruins over intact manors.

But many times, intact estates voluntarily surrendered, and he could not fail to accept them, because there was no shortage of such estates in his ruling area.

Although the fewer such estates the better for him, he was not ready for a full-scale war at the moment, and he could not now blatantly target these estates from a policy point of view and destroy the foundation of the estate's economy.

Make a gesture and show that you will accept this situation, the world is still shared by me and you, but there is only a difference between who has more and who has less.

The two most prosperous and populous counties in Jingzhou are Nanyang County and Nan County, these two counties are intact, with a large number of scholars and heroes, and even if Guo gets it, it is impossible to completely grasp it.

Jiangxia County is probably better, because Huang Zu offended him, he can destroy his family in a righteous and bright way, and use soldiers to destroy Jiangxia County, although Jiangxia County's population and economic development itself is not good.

After the war between Liu Biao and Zhang Xian, the four counties of Jingnan lost some powerful forces, which can be regarded as one of the few contributions made by Liu Biao to Guo Peng, which Guo Peng is quite satisfied with.

So on the whole, although Guo Peng, the two richest counties in Jingzhou, cannot directly intervene, the future is promising.