In Yanju Mansion, the former Canglong Banner has been removed, and now the flame unicorn flag is hanging in the entire seven counties of Yanju Mansion. This also declares that from now on, Yanju Mansion no longer belongs to the Yongjun, but to the Zhao army.

Living in the city, in the streets and alleys, the people who came and went to inspect were all soldiers in armor, and there were still ruffians and hooligans who were pulled out by the soldiers of Zhao, leaving a burst of begging for mercy.

Speaking of which, the fact that this Yanju Mansion could be won so smoothly was also greatly unexpected by Li Chenfeng, the commander of the Northern Route Army. originally thought that there would be a bitter battle here, but who would have thought that he would take down the entire Yanju Mansion without bloodshed.

After asking the four generals, I realized that the surrender of these people also had a great relationship with Xu Ye. It turned out that since Situ Fei transferred Xu Ye away from the Left Guard, he began to mix sand with it, wanting to collect the 20,000 soldiers for his own use.

I have to say that among the Liangzhou army now, only the Left Guard trained by Xu Ye is the most elite. In addition to the fact that a large part of the Left Guard Army are veterans in the past, and now they can take refuge in Xu Ye, it is also related to Xu Ye's strict training and Xu Ye's ability. When Xu Ye learned that Situ Lei wanted to lead the countries of the Western Regions into the country, he was determined to take refuge in Zhao Jun, so he also took advantage of the situation to give a hint to his old department. As a result, 20,000 troops surrendered the city directly, and the Zhao army took down the northern important land without spending a single soldier and without bloodshed.

"General Xu is really powerful, no wonder he is valued by the lord." Yang Wangqing, the military envoy who accompanied Li Chenfeng this time, sighed.

"That's good news, I thought I was going to have a hard fight here. Unexpectedly, the team with the largest combat power in the Liangzhou Army became our people like this. Now, the more than 15,000 brothers sent to the west will have no worries. Li Chenfeng said with a laugh.

Yang Wangqing also nodded and said: "Originally, this place was to support the operation in the west, and at the same time to suppress the Liangzhou army in the east and south of Liangzhou, forcing it to not be connected to the west. Now it seems that this goal has been achieved better than expected. Next, we're going to expand the results. ”

Li Chenfeng said: "To the west or to the south?" I thought it would take more than ten days to take over, but now ...... "the army is the main war, and they are naturally not good at managing the local people's livelihood." Not only that, once the military administration lasts too long, it will definitely not be beneficial to the locality.

Yang Wangqing said: "I have already sent someone to report to the rear, and there should be no major problems in government affairs." Now, what we need to do is hand over these 20,000 soldiers to the recruit battalion for them to select, train, and then make arrangements. Secondly, if we take here, the Liangzhou army will definitely get the news, and the next step is to block the attack of the Liangzhou army. However, this is not difficult for us, after all, we are already connected with Xiazhou. ”

"Divide a part of our forces and march westward, join up with the cavalry, and then immediately put the three northwestern provinces in order, and turn them into our solid rear. According to Wei Zilin and Lord Wei, there are many horse thieves and landlords in the land of these three prefectures, and this needs to be solved. It's also a good thing for us to settle them sooner rather than later. ”

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At the same time that Li Chenfeng invaded Yanju Mansion, Xue Qinglan and Wei Zilin led more than 15,000 cavalry out of the northern Turkic steppe and entered the area between the northwest of Dunhuang and Yiwu. And Xu Ye, who went to hunt down the bandits earlier, was already waiting here.

"General Xu, we meet again! How's it going? ”

Xu Ye said: "Although I am nominally the general of the Left Guard who guards the three prefectures in the northwest, in fact, I can only be in charge of the two prefectures of Yiwu and Dunhuang, and I have no troops in my hands to guard the places. As for Jiuquan Mansion, it is controlled by Situ Fei's people, and it is willing to suppress me, but also because this is the only relatively wealthy place among the three northwestern prefectures. Of course, this wealth only refers to the three provinces in the northwest. ”

"I have more than 10,000 soldiers under my command, but except for 1,000 are government soldiers, the rest are all villagers I personally recruited. These soldiers are all people who cannot live because they are persecuted by Gaochang and other countries, local tyrants and horse thieves. The combat effectiveness is not strong, but none of them have any good feelings about the current Liangzhou government. ”

"After learning that these three prefectures may become the running valley of their former enemies and the future situation of the Zhao army, these ten thousand soldiers are willing to submit to the command of King Zhao with me. Now, Yiwu and Dunhuang have all been taken over by my people, of course, I was originally in charge. But in the land of Jiuquan, I can't take over. The civil and military officials here are all Situ Fei's cronies, and they deliberately blocked behind me. ”

Wei Zilin and Qin Daolin looked at each other and smiled, and said, "In this way, General Xu has made a great contribution." Now, we will immediately take Jiuquan as a passage to intercept the westward advance of the Liangzhou army. However, if you want to come here, the Liangzhou army doesn't have the energy to pay attention to us anymore, and now our Dazhao army is dispatched from the north and east of Liangzhou respectively, and is approaching the central part of Liangzhou. Even if Situ Fei learned about the situation here, they wouldn't have drawn too much military strength here. ”

Hearing this, Xu Ye was overjoyed and said, "In this way, we will have no problem here." However, just in case, it is better to take over the land of Sanfu and put the place in order. Otherwise, the power of this place may become an obstacle for us. ”

Wei Zilin said in a deep voice: "That is the case, then so be it, General Xu sent people to guide the soldiers under General Xue to capture the land of Jiuquan as quickly as possible." And I, together with General Xu, began to comprehensively rectify the land of the three prefectures. I want to see how powerful these three places are. As he spoke, a sinister look flashed in his eyes.

It was late at night, the night sky was covered by dark clouds, and the faint moonlight was gradually covered by dark clouds, and the fields were dark.

At the foot of the city wall of Yanshou City, the Jiuquan Prefecture Governance Office, more than a dozen black shadows suddenly appeared. Standing in the blind corner that the patrol force could not cover, he threw a rope four or five meters long towards the head of the city, and then only heard the soft sound of Gaden, and the black shadow immediately clinged to the corner of the wall. The autumn wind of the north-west call has drowned out the slight sound.

There was no movement on the top of the city, and after waiting for a while, the dozen or so black shadows suddenly exerted their strength at the same time, stepping on the wall like apes, and flexibly climbing towards the top of the city. These people, all dressed in gray linen, were glued to the wall, and they almost blended into the city wall. A patrol passed, and the shadow immediately stopped climbing.

"I heard that the Zhao army has captured Yanju Mansion, I don't know what the situation is now?" The soldier muttered as he walked.

"Is this something you kid can handle? Don't meddle in your business. Adults have their own opinions, and besides, Zhao Jun hasn't killed us yet. ”

"Brother Hu, this Yanju Mansion is located to the west of us, and the Zhao army occupies the Yanju Mansion, but it completely separates us from the eastern part of Liangzhou. Now, the land of Sanfu to the west and the Ganzhou Mansion and Suzhou Mansion to the south have all become the targets of the Zhao army. If Zhao Jun kills here, how can we stop it? In these four places, the regular soldiers are only more than 10,000 people in the hands of General Xu. The rest are all new pawns who have never seen blood, and it is difficult for the mansions to resist. Brother Tiger, didn't you see it today? The faces of several adults turned pale and pale...... I'm just afraid ......"

"What, scared? Afraid of what? This place is located in the middle of Jiuquan, and when the Zhao army is coming, there will definitely be news. Besides, there are 2,000 soldiers in the city, and 3,000 young men have been recruited, and they are said to be defending, so they can't wait for General Xu's support? Also, don't talk nonsense in the future, beware of losing your head. These things have nothing to do with us, what should we do...... "A few patrol soldiers muttered and left!

The shadow moved, and climbed up again. After a while, the dozen or so black shadows jumped onto the city. Immediately, dozens of black shadows climbed up under the cover of the more than ten people before.

"Let's go, go to the car gate immediately, and enlarge the army into the city!" One of them ordered in a deep voice. Suddenly, nearly 100 people immediately went down the city wall. As soon as he turned the corner, he saw a team of patrol soldiers of Yanshou City coming over.

The distance between the two sides was only a dozen paces, and there were about forty or fifty patrol soldiers, and when they saw the gray-clothed man, they were also stunned. I was about to open my mouth to shout. But when he saw these gray-clothed men, he escaped from the snow and aimed a crossbow machine at the patrol soldiers. It was a fierce burst of crossbow arrows, and the screams echoed in ...... night sky.

In the dark night, this scream loomed, like a ghost crying wolf.

At a distance of twenty paces, the crossbow arrow was extremely powerful, and it could penetrate the armor and directly take life. The worst. The other side had more men than the patrol soldiers, and the attack was steady and ruthless, and all forty or fifty patrol soldiers were soon killed......

However, their dying screams also alarmed the soldiers on the city gate. When the eyes saw this scene. At first, he was stunned, and immediately shouted in horror: "Enemy attack, there is an enemy attack......

"Exposed? Forget it, kill me! One person's face remained unchanged, he snorted coldly, and with a crossbow arrow in one hand and a horizontal knife in the other, he rushed towards the city gate.

An officer dressed as a city gate order, carrying a weapon, ran forward, "Don't panic, there are few of them, kill them, kill them!" This shout immediately made the panicked defenders react, and rushed towards those people with their weapons.

The leader snorted coldly, strode forward, and waved his finger across the enemy at the oncoming enemy, and at the same time, the crossbow arrow of his finger knocked down a defender not far away.

"When...... When ......" two crisp sounds, splashing two sparks, the gray-clothed man slashed the spear stabbed at the opposite side like lightning, and immediately as fast as lightning, the brush stabbed out, with an afterimage, and with a pop pierced the chest of a soldier. I didn't see him pull it out, and he walked swiftly under his feet, passing in front of the other person, and with a flick of his backhand, he rushed past him.

"Puff ......" A slight blood mark appeared on the soldier's neck, and blood mist spurted out.

"Da Zhao Jiashi is here, those who dare to stop it, kill!" At the end, the man in gray yelled. The horizontal knife in his hand brought up a touch of cold light, and appeared in the crowd one by one, suddenly stabbing straight, suddenly with an arc, and everywhere he went, as if entering a no-man's land, he only killed the soldiers who defended the city.

It has to be said that these defenders are really vulnerable. However, they are not veterans of the battlefield. The veteran of the Liangzhou Army, in the Yongjun War in recent years, has been transferred, and there is almost nothing left.

Nearly 100 people, nearly 100 horizontal knives, each cold light, slashed left and right, but killed 200 defenders in all directions, and they couldn't resist at all. The main thing is that these defenders heard that the attack was on the soldiers of Zhao, where do they still have the heart to resist?

"Li You, hurry up and open the city gate and release the Mingdi!"

"Crunch, squeak......" The gates were slowly opened. Then, one of them took out a rattling arrow from his waist. A piercing whistling sound echoed through the city.

As the chirping sounded, a rumbling sound suddenly sounded in the dark distance outside the city. Suddenly, the rumble became louder and louder, and a fiery dragon approached from a distance.

The fire dragon gradually approached, and the soldiers on both sides around the city gate found that it was more than a thousand cavalrymen who had been killed. The speed of the cavalry was so fast, in an instant, the leader raised his horizontal knife and shouted: "Da Zhao Iron Cavalry, invincible in the world!" Rush in ......"

In an instant, shouts of killing rang out, and the cavalry of the Zhao army rushed to the city gate.

The defenders hurriedly stopped the resistance, but at this time, they heard one of the cavalry leaders shouting: "I am under the command of the general of the Left Guard, and the general of the left has surrendered to the Zhao army, and now, you will lay down your arms and surrender immediately." Otherwise, the army will enter the city, and all of them will die. ”

Left Guard General Xu Ye? Surrendered to the Zhao army? This...... The nearly 1,000 defenders who came to hear the news couldn't help but be stunned.

The first person rushed into the city gate, rode his horse and stationed, and shouted: "I am the captain of the cavalry battalion of the second town under the command of King Zhao, and if you don't surrender, when will you wait?" Do they all want to call for death? ”

"Zhao Jun? It's really Zhao Jun who is here! Looking at the flame unicorn flag, the faces of the defending officers changed greatly. The surrounding defenders also looked at each other, and they all looked at their commander in unison. Beat? Or not to fight?

"I want to surrender!" Suddenly, one of them threw down his weapon and said loudly, and then he turned around and shouted, "Brothers, now that General Xu, the general of the Left Guard Army in the west, and more than 10,000 soldiers under his command have surrendered to the Zhao army, how can we, the thousands, fight with the Zhao army?" Let's go down! "This person was arranged by Xu Ye under the command of this city, and today, it finally has a role.

Several officers looked at each other, and for a moment, they all threw down their weapons and bowed their heads. And the hundreds of defenders also threw their weapons in a hurry, and shouted: "We are willing to surrender!" We are willing to surrender! ”

"Very well, all surrendered soldiers, wait here for orders at once. The first outpost, stay and deal with the aftermath. Kill the rest of the brethren with me, and the city of longevity will be ours from this night onwards. The battalion captain said with a laugh.

A battle that lasted only one stick of incense. In just a few moments, the banner of the Zhao army was hung over Yanshou City, and on the street, the cavalry of the Zhao army wearing armor were also patrolling. The sound of the horse's hooves made it difficult for everyone in Yanshou City to sleep peacefully.

"Jiuquan Thorn History? Kill! Zhu Jiu Clan! Confiscation of family property! ”

"Yanshoucheng County Order...... Kill...... Zhu Jiu Clan! Confiscation of family property! ”

"The defender of Yanshou City...... Kill...... Zhu Jiu Clan! Confiscation of family property! ”

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The Zhao army, who entered the city, did not stop acting after taking Yanshou City, but brandished a long knife and slaughtered all the officials in Yanshou City. These people are all representatives of the landlords of Jiuquan. It was also an obstacle to the Zhao army's rule of Jiuquan. If it's someone else, these people aren't necessarily a hindrance. But for Zhao Jun, who wants to implement the new policy, these people are harmful and not beneficial. Suddenly, the entire Yanshou City screamed, as if soaked in blood, and the blood flowed like a river......

In Yanshou City, all the officials were left behind, killing the nine clans and confiscating their family property. Among the defenders, all the officers, except for those who were recognized by Xu Ye, the rest were also left behind, and all of them were killed on the spot.

"Luo Yi, you are under the command of General Xu, are you familiar with Yanshou City?" In the Yanshou City County Office, in the blood-filled hall, Xue Qinglan, who arrived later, asked the first defending officer who surrendered in a deep voice.

"General Hui, although I don't dare to say that everything is clear, most of them are known." Luo Yi replied in a deep voice. He had already received Xu Ye's orders, and he obeyed Zhao Jun's instructions. He also knew the purpose of Captain Zhao's question.

"Very well, this general needs to know the list of all the great families in the city, the list of all the people of the most disrepute, the list of all those who do not produce and harm the people. This is related to the welfare of the people of Yanshou City and even the entire Jiuquan, can you do it? Xue Qinglan asked in a deep voice.

"The subordinates understand that the subordinates must tell all the people who meet the requirements to the adults."

"No need, the third and fourth sentinels, you follow Luo Yi and clear the whole city. Except for those who have a good reputation on weekdays, the rest, don't count killing! Confiscation of family property! Not a single one of these scourge people will be left! Xue Qinglan said fiercely.

"Obey!" The two sentinels answered in unison.

In order to facilitate the next rule, in order to facilitate the implementation of the new policy, under the orders of Wei Zilin and Qin Daolin, the powerful clans in Yanshou City suffered a bloody massacre. Alive, twelve out of ten.

Similar to the longevity extension of Jiuquan's governance, on the same night, almost at the same time, all the six counties under the jurisdiction of Jiuquan were taken by the Zhao army overnight. Most of the defenders in the county surrendered under the coercion and persuasion of Zhao Jun and Xu Ye. The civil and military officials of the six counties had no intention of being spared, and all of them were "killed" in the battle.

Not only that, in the next three days, in the entire territory of Jiuquan Mansion, the blood was surging, and almost no one dared to go out lightly in all the cities and on the streets. Among the various cities, the landlord Haoqiang, or, twelve out of ten, was still guarded by Zhao Jun in his mansion, waiting to be disposed of.