As night fell, torches gradually lit up in Lijiazhai, and dozens of villagers began to patrol around the city wall.

Because of the rampant bandits, the remnants of the landlords and squires built Wu forts to protect themselves, but they could not afford to repair the stone and steel walls like the Liu family, so they could only replace them with wooden walls.

Such a building is simply vulnerable in Liu Jiajun's eyes.

When the night completely fell, and it was not yet time, Wei Jingguo directly ordered an attack.

More than a dozen soldiers lurked under the city wall and directly blew out several large holes in the city wall with gunpowder packs.

The Liu Jiajun, who shouted to surrender and not kill, swarmed in from the gap like a ghost in the night, but Zhuang Ding who dared to resist was directly killed.

In order to hide people's eyes, Wei Jingguo and others did not use all muskets, but used bamboo spears and long knives together.

Rao is like this, and the excellent training still makes them invincible in Lijiazhai.

How could these landlords Zhuang Ding resist it, and in less than two quarters of an hour, Lijiazhai was completely captured.

The owner of Li Jiazhai, the famous official gentry of Neixiang County, Li Mingyu's family was all pulled out.

In front of the people of the whole village, Wei Jingguo, who was covered with his face, announced many incriminating evidence of the Li family, and directly executed all 47 of his male relatives on the spot, leaving the old and young to fend for themselves.

As for the Li family's goods, of course, they were all scavenged, and when Wei Jingguo and the others left, they directly burned down the Li family and other mansions, leaving not even a single hair.

Lei Hong and others had already discussed the details, and in order to ensure the success of the revolution, they could not care about benevolence, righteousness and morality at the moment.

As for these homeless people in the inner countryside, there will be the Liu family to clean up the situation at that time, and it will also be convenient for them to win people's hearts.

Overnight, there seemed to be a large stream of rogues in Nanyang and Xiangyang Mansions.

The men and horses of the three battalions of the Liu family were divided into three waves, attacking the landlord and gentry's stockade everywhere, and it only took more than half a month to uproot the three county towns of Dengzhou, Neixiang, and Guanghua, as well as the gentry strongholds outside the prefecture.

For a moment, people in the three places were panicked.

In the Neixiang County Yali, the squires who came to cry and avenge their grievances and beg for troops to suppress the thieves have crowded the county government hall, and the gentry who originally held Lei Hong's jokes are now regarded Lei Hong as a savior.

Lei Hong, who was wearing a green official uniform, made a look of anxiety and constantly reassured everyone:

"Rest assured, this official will send someone to Nanyang Mansion to ask for help now, and we must save everyone's Zhuangzi."

"Master, don't we have soldiers in the county, hurry up and send them."

A gentry who jumped to his feet in a hurry shouted on the spot, causing the gentry to cry and cheer up.

Lei Hong's face turned pale, "What nonsense, these soldiers are begged by the county to defend the county seat, if they are sent out, what if the rogues come to attack the county seat." ”

"Besides, I borrowed all the people, so there is no reason to work hard for our inner countryside."

"I'm willing to pay for food, I just ask the master to send troops quickly." , the gentry cried out.

"Lei Zhixian, if you don't send troops again, be careful that I let my son join you, he is on an errand in Beijing."

Lei Hong was so angry that his face turned pale, "No, these soldiers and horses must stay in the city, come here, hurry up and go to the mansion to report the news." ”

Jiang Baolin clenched his fists and walked into the main hall, "The small ones will be arranged." ”

In the eyes of the squires of Neixiang County, the three guards under Jiang Baolin went straight to the north gate with Lei Hong's handwritten letter, which made some of the squires who were worried about the county seat feel a little relieved.

It's a pity that what these people don't know is that these three guards did not go to Fucheng with letters, but went around in a big circle and found Wei Jingguo and others, and directly conveyed Lei Hong's order to them.

That night, Wei Jingguo quietly lurked outside Neixiang County with 2,000 soldiers and horses.

Today's Neixiang County has long been recaptured by the thousand militia groups brought by Lei Hong.

As soon as the time arrived, the militia of the Liu family guarding the gate directly opened the east gate of the county, and the shouts of killing suddenly resounded throughout the county.

"The Rogue is in town!"

For a while, the sound of crying and fighting in the county resounded in the sky.

In Neixiang County, Lei Hong, Jiang Baolin and others gathered the remaining militia in the county government early, and when the people led by Wei Jingguo arrived, the two sides immediately staged a sample scene of a big battle.

Naturally, in this war, all the warehouses that stored the information of the whole county of Neixiang County were burned to the ground.

Liu Jiajun, who entered the city, specially picked the mansions of the squires in the city to attack, and overnight, all the men of the gentry in the city were slaughtered, which really made the people of Neixiang County feel miserable.

Fortunately, the newly arrived magistrate was brave, and with the assembled militia to resist desperately, he finally drove all the rogues out of the city.

When the inventory was counted after dawn, it turned out that not only the squires in the city were killed, but also many officials in the county government were also killed.

Of course, these in the official documents submitted by the Neixiang government to Nanyang Mansion became the rogue to attack the city at night, and the county magistrate Lei Hong led people to fight back desperately, and finally repelled the rogue thieves, but the Neixiang county was seriously damaged, and more than 400 good families were slaughtered.

Sun Ping's family also survived the turmoil, although it was a little strange why few of the ordinary people on his side were looted, but at the moment, like everyone else in the county, his attention was attracted by the notice issued by the county government in Neixiang.

In the messy county, Jiang Baolin led the militia to patrol around, while maintaining law and order in the city, while shouting around with gongs.

"Fathers and fellow villagers, the Liukou has been repelled by the county lord, everyone don't worry, because the county treasury was destroyed by fire, starting from the afternoon, the lord will re-register the situation of the whole city, and everyone who arrives can receive ten cents."

This is also the result of Liu Ximing's discussion with Lei Hong and others, and now all kinds of information of the county government have become false information, so they will be burned to the ground, and then the whole county will be re-registered.

The Liu family army led by Wei Jingguo changed and became a militia under the jurisdiction of the government, and the ordinary people only felt that there were so many militia groups in the city, but they didn't know how many times it had increased all at once.

Two days later, a group of people with the names of Han Yuan and Hengshun came to Neixiang County, and with the cooperation of scribes at all levels arranged by the Liu family, they directly pocketed all the land in the county and registered it.

At the same time, temporary porridge shops, medical centers and other places have also begun to be built in the city to help the people in the city restore their livelihoods.

Groups of people began to disperse throughout the county, gathering displaced people from all over the county, and gathering to build villages.

Neixiang is located in the Nanyang Basin, and most of the land is plain, so the Liu family suddenly increased more than one million acres of good land.

The system of the Liu family has long been mature, and these villages have all built city walls and buildings according to fixed regulations, which are almost like small county towns.

Lei Hong and the others' tactics were swift and hidden, and with the cooperation of local officials from all over the country, the higher-level yamen in these places have been blinded all the time.

After all, in the eyes of the Ming court, as long as the county seat is still under control, and there are magistrates and other official officials, it will not be considered a loss of land.

By February of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the five prefectures and counties of Dengzhou, Neixiang, Guanghua, Yangxian, and Xukuo had basically been quietly controlled by the Liu family.

The five prefectures and counties together have a total of more than 700,000 people and more than 450 acres of land.

If you add the more than 360,000 people that the Liu family originally had, the people under the jurisdiction of the Liu family in the Central Plains exceeded one million for the first time, not to mention that there were tens of thousands of Han people and hundreds of thousands of natives in Luzon.

What's more critical is that because of Liu Jiajun's indiscriminate attack on the local squire, a total of more than 300 taels of military funds and 2 million stones of grain were plundered.

This made Lei Hong and others dumbfounded, which shows how far these gentry's wealth has accumulated.

Of course, the Ming Dynasty is not ignorant of this, after all, there are so many hometown gentry who have destroyed the door.

But once the Liu family came to the name, they acted very secretively, and the government couldn't find any details when they checked it.

After all, everyone knows that these places are rampant, but fortunately, the county seat has not been lost, and even the respective palm seal officials have not been specially reported, so it is better to have more than one thing for the local government to do.

The most important thing is that by the end of the year, these hard-hit prefectures and counties have even paid half of the annual grain tax.

At this moment, the higher-level departments such as Nanyang Mansion, Xiangyang Mansion and the Household Yamen are happy, and for the higher-level Yamen, being able to complete the tasks on their heads is the key.

When the performance appraisal was made at the end of the year, Lei Hong, Dou Yuquan and other five people, who had just taken office, also got a superior credit with the help of Huang Zonghui, the head of the ministry.