The Chinese army showed a strong mobilization speed, and on the day Xu Shiyang ordered that the troops accompanying him outside the city have secretly entered the city and arranged defensive positions with the county government as the core.

The next day, units of the nearby field army began to arrive one after another.

On the third day, the field army had completed the encirclement of Dengfeng, and on the same day, it caught Tan Sanjia, who came down the mountain to see the situation.

On the fourth day, the militia and reserves also arrived one after another, and the monks on Shaomu Mountain kept sending people down to say something, but Xu Shiyang was too lazy to talk to them.

On the fifth day, the Chinese army mobilized more than 20,000 troops at all levels, and on the border, 20,000 Han soldiers could already destroy a regional power!

While the troops completed the encirclement of Shaomu Mountain and Dengfeng County, they also imposed a curfew in Dengfeng County and temporarily blocked many streets.

On the sixth day, more troops arrived, and there was a guy who didn't know whether it was a snitch or a flying man, and he couldn't help but try to perform light skills (not as exaggerated as stepping on his left foot and stepping on his right foot, but it would not be too much to say that he was as light as a swallow, and it was very quick to climb over the city wall) to escape Dengfeng.

However, the man was killed by a sniper.

By this time, everyone in Dengfeng City had realized that the situation did not seem to be good, and the ruthlessness of this imperial army made people a little uncomfortable.

So all the liquor shops and tenants in Dengfeng County closed their doors tightly, did not go out a single step, and quietly waited for the final result - anyway, the imperial army would not slaughter their own city.

It's just that some heroes, as well as lay disciples who are connected with Shaosen Temple (many of them are running monks' properties at the foot of the mountain, and can be regarded as the shopkeepers of temple-owned enterprises), are a little uneasy.

They are not fools, the empire surrounds Dengfeng, and the target can only be Shaosen Temple, but I don't know where this big temple with the number one martial arts decency provoked the empire, and it made it so popular.

It can't be the destruction of the temple, right?

On the seventh day, the time to come has come.

With Xu Shiyang's order, the imperial army outside the city suddenly entered the city and went door-to-door with the army in the city to check all the population of Dengfeng County.

The few people in the county who have nothing to do with Shaosen Temple have only been warned not to go out for two days, and if a thief enters the house, they will immediately bang a gong or shout to remind the nearby soldiers to come and arrest them.

If you don't have two days of food at home, or if you have to go out for an urgent matter (for example, if a patient needs a doctor urgently), you can apply for the army to send someone to monitor the outing.

For the tenants and shopkeepers of the temple, the military allowed only women, children, the elderly, and the real sick to stay at home, while men over the age of 14 and under the age of 60 had to leave the city and live in temporary camps built by the empire outside the city.

The steward who ran the shop in Shaosen Temple, all lay disciples, and other martial arts people in Dengfeng City were all taken out of the city in groups of ten and detained in the military camp outside the city.

The monks who were at the foot of the mountain during the siege were all arrested.

Xu Shiyang ordered that if anyone dared to resist, they could be killed on the spot.

The reason why it is so strict is because Bai Hangyun said that there are thousands of monks and soldiers in Shaosen Temple, and there are tens of thousands of lay disciples and a larger number of tenants under the mountain.

In addition, as recognized as the first major school of martial arts, there are a large number of heroes, young heroes, and women from all over the country in Dengfeng County, and it is said that there are thousands of people.

Xu Shiyang has reason to doubt the position of these people, and if there are careerists who organize them, this is a real threat.

Moreover, Shaosen Temple has already encroached on the jurisdiction of the empire in Dengfeng, which in Xu Shiyang's eyes is like a separation, and if it is not suppressed by the most severe means, it is inevitable that there will be a big mess in the future!

No one will allow such grassroots separatist forces to emerge in the core of their own country, which is a direct provocation to the country.

It took three days to clean up Dengfeng County, the first day was fine, but on the second day, some chivalrous people who did not know the height of the sky were dissatisfied with the detention and had a confrontational mood.

At first, there was no armed resistance, so the soldiers beat the heroes with rifle butts and batons.

Later, the beaten knights relied on their own kung fu and began to try to fight with non-lethal weapons such as sticks and fists and feet.

Unfortunately, even if they didn't shoot, the heroes couldn't beat the field soldiers, because they lacked cooperation and the intensity of the attack was not as strong as the murderous field army, and they were beaten by the soldiers' bayonet skills.

By this time, there were no dead people on both sides, but as the military became more and more heavy, the hearts of the monks and heroes became colder and colder, and they found that the troops had the intention of not giving up until the city was cleaned up.

In this case, who dares to say that the empire will not kill people in the end?

After all, the Imperial Army is not known for its soft-heartedness.

On the third day, in the north of Dengfeng City, someone heard a gunshot.

What started as a mass arrest of criminals turned into a street fight.

In fact, that shot didn't hit anything, and no one knows who fired the first shot (the hero also has a gun), and even whether the gunshot was a hallucination can't be investigated.

All it is known is that after that, the tense nerves of both sides were cut, and the field soldiers began to open the way with platoon guns, and those who resisted were killed.

The knights and monks also began to fight back with real weapons, cold weapons such as darts, axes, javelins, bows and arrows, and all kinds of military and civilian firearms were also added, which actually made some field soldiers who were caught off guard suffer a lot of losses.

Some hid in corners or rooftops and sniped at the Chinese with civilian-modified muskets, while the field troops responded with more blazing firepower.

The number of casualties skyrocketed, and the military paid hundreds of casualties that day. The casualties of the knights and armed monks were about five hundred.

During the night, more troops began to enter the city, and nearby garrisons even brought field guns into the city and fired mercilessly at the buildings where the resisters were entrenched.

As soon as the cannon sounded, the will of the unorganized knights and warrior monks began to dissolve, and then Xu Shiyang ordered a notice to be issued to the whole city in his own name, urging the resistance in the city to immediately lay down their arms and surrender, and he promised to give everyone a fair trial.

Xu Shiyang was famous enough, he was even the idol of most of the ranger boys in the empire, and when the knights learned that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was also in the city, and personally arranged the operation, some people were sad to fire at the idol.

The determination of the resisters quickly dissipated, and in the early morning of the next day, the gunfire in Dengfeng City completely subsided, and most of the knights and warrior monks stood out from their hiding places, surrendered their guns, and a few committed suicide directly in the city.

It took the Chinese army two days to completely clean up the city.

In eight days, the Chinese army arrested almost 30,000 people, killed more than 800 others, and dozens committed suicide.

During the operation, 75 Chinese troops were killed and 119 wounded.

This loss is already comparable to a real battle.

Xu Shiyang gritted his teeth and looked at Shaomu Mountain.

Now, it's the turn of these lords!