Sun Kewang couldn't attack for a long time, so he was ruthless and sent rogues to wreak havoc in the entire Huangzhou Mansion.

Sun Kewang's purpose is to create momentum. To be able to take Shenjiazhuang, it is of course better to capture the former governor and the former Shangshu alive.

If you fail to take Shenjiazhuang, then the entire Huangzhou Mansion will be turned upside down, and you don't believe that the government will ignore it.

It can be seen from this that Sun Kewang is still very loyal to Zhang Xianzhong, and Zhang Xianzhong's personality charm is still good.

For a time, the old wealth of the landlords in the countryside of Huangzhou Mansion suffered. However, most of the landlords who did not have a strong village and the squires who did not have a strong force to defend themselves were attacked and harassed by the rogues, and at least they were ruined and destroyed, and at worst, they were empty of people and money, and their families were gone.

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Huangpi, Huang'an, Luotian, Huanggang and other prefectures and counties near Macheng urgently asked for help, and letters of urgency were constantly delivered to the governor's yamen.

"Brother, the rogues have ruined Huangzhou into a mess, it's time to take care of it." Fang Kongzhi smiled: "No matter what, then Sun Kewang still thinks that you Zhu Demon King is easy to bully." ”

As a civil official and Zhu Shunming's immediate boss, Fang Kongzhi could have directly commanded Zhu Shunming and ordered him to send troops to attack the Liukou in Huangzhou Mansion.

But Fang Kongzhi just woke up Zhu Shunming in a joking tone, and he surrendered his identity a little.

Fang Kongzhi was very aware of the situation in front of him. Zhu Shunming's original 5,000 soldiers and horses slaughtered nearly 100,000 troops of Liukou, and almost all of them were wiped out.

Now Zhu Shunming's army has expanded, and the entire Wuchang Mansion is all his men. Looking at the entire Huguang, there are almost no more powerful power groups than Zhu Shunming.

Fortunately, Zhu Shunming is not arrogant and domineering, but is reasonable and well-founded, and he is very talkative.

Zhu Shunming has today's status, and Fang Kongzhi's role in it is not small. If he hadn't recommended Zhu Shunming as the commander of the Changsha guard, and if he hadn't allowed Zhu Shunming to come to Changsha and other places, Zhu Shunming's power would not have swelled so quickly.

"It's easy to drive the rogues away, but how to resume life and production after the rogues are gone is the big problem." Zhu Shunming said unhurriedly: "Huangzhou is close to Anhui and Jiangxi, densely populated, but farmland is highly concentrated. A large number of peasants lived a life of half-starvation. ”

"According to intelligence, Sun Kewang's troops have been active in Huangzhou for less than a month, and the number of people has increased from 7,000 to 30,000."

"Even if the Liukou are driven out of Huangzhou and Huguang this time, those farmers who have no food will be a great hidden danger."

Fang Kongzhi understood the little abacus in Zhu Shunming's heart. He glanced at Zhu Shunming meaningfully and said, "According to what you see, how to deal with it?" ”

Fang Kongzhi was a little frightened. On weekdays, Zhu Shunming is inconspicuous, but he didn't expect to have such ambitions in secret. Could it be that he wants to follow the example of the warlords at the end of the Tang Dynasty?

In the eyes of outsiders, Zhu Shunming is a confidant military general trained by Fang Kongzhi. If Zhu Shunming is unlucky, sooner or later it will affect Fang Kongzhi.

Besides, Fang Kongzhi also needs Zhu Shunming to collect silver, grain and other materials for him.

Zhu Shunming pondered for a moment and said: "Yunyang is next to Shaanxi, Henan, and Sichuan, and in order to govern this place, the imperial court specially established the Yunyang Admiral to govern the capital of Yushi Xingtai. In other words, Yunyang is a special zone. ”

"Huangzhou is also close to Anhui, Jiangxi and Henan. Why don't we follow the example of the imperial court and set up Huangzhou as a special zone? ”

"Special Zone?" Fang Kongzhi recalled: "What's so special? ”

"I can't tell you where I can tell you for a while. One of the most important points is that 'the gentry pay as one', and everyone has to pay taxes. ”

Fang Kongzhi looked up at Zhu Shunming, shook his head and said, "This is inconsistent with Emperor Taizu's iron law, and it is not easy to operate." ”

"Paying taxes or saving lives, the landlords and gentry who want to come to Huangzhou Mansion should weigh it clearly." Zhu Shunming said very easily, but the bloodiness and resoluteness in his words made Fang Kongzhi tremble.

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More than half of the casualties in Shenjiazhuang are still resisting stubbornly.

Mei Zhihuan hung his arms, the corners of his mouth were full of blisters, unkempt, and smelled of gunsmoke. His hands were swollen from shooting too many arrows. After many days of nervous exhaustion, he quickly aged, and his gray hair turned silver.

The Zhuangwai Liukou continued to attack, and the accent turned out to be from Huangzhou Mansion. Why did the people of Huangzhou Mansion take refuge in the Liukou? Mei Zhihuan was a little puzzled.

"The more the rogues fight, the less our people fight, the situation is not good." Mei Zhihuan was a little deflated and said: "Why hasn't the imperial court sent reinforcements yet? Isn't that Zhu Shunming quite capable? Why sit back and watch the rogue run rampant? ”

Li Changgeng smiled: "It's hard work, sit and drink tea." You and I have lived a life, and you can't break the world? ”

"How did a rogue become a rogue? Just to survive. Why would the people of Huangzhou Mansion be thieves? It's just survival. You and I are working so hard to survive. ”

"Looking back on you and me in this life, it's not a loss. It's just that why did Da Ming become like this......" Li Changgeng shook his head and sighed.

“…… Master, the rogue has retreated, the rogue has retreated......" The little guy shouted excitedly and ran into the inner hall.

The two hurriedly came to the wall. The rogues were retreating. The rogues discarded their siege equipment under the walls and retreated in an orderly manner to the northwest.

"Shh......h

The two of them took a long breath at the same time, sat on the ground with their butts, didn't care about their image, and followed the young soldiers in the city and countryside to dance, shouting, crying and laughing.

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Shi Xuanwei's sailors docked at Huanggang, and Li Ke led the newly established Huangzhou Wei into Huanggang County, the capital of Huangzhou.

Li Ke was originally a hundred households under Zhang Pan, shrewd and capable, good at sniping, and made a lot of contributions in the battle of Yunnan.

Zhu Shunming expanded the army, promoted Li Ke to the commander of the guard, and jumped three or four levels at once.

The reason why Li Ke was promoted to be the commander of Huangzhou Wei was that in addition to his great contributions, Zhu Shunming also took a fancy to Li Ke's talent in shooting.

Zhu Shunming planned to equip the Huangzhou Guard with firearms as a unit, or a unit with firearms as the main force and cold weapons as the supplement.

With sufficient funds and freedom, Sun Yuanhua's process of developing firearms was much faster. The beak gun that Zhu Shunming once tried has been finalized and mass production has begun. This batch of weapons will be the first to equip the new army of Huangzhouwei.

Li Ke Huangzhou Wei had 6,000 people, only more than 500 veterans, and the rest were all captured rogue recruits. After a month of training in queue formation, these recruits basically had the appearance of soldiers.

However, the combat effectiveness has not yet been formed, and the recruits are completely blank slate in terms of technology and tactics.