While speaking, Ge Wei, Xun Yun, Cao An, Meng Xian, Zhang Hang, Chu Honghang, Qu Liulang and others all came to the Assassin's Mansion, and even the two captains of the crossbow and arrow battalion, Yu Feng and Zhou Duo, came, Yan Xiaowu, Zhu Bofu and others did not come because they wanted to lead the White Wolf Battalion to be responsible for patrolling.

After Wang Ze asked Hu Bingchang to re-analyze the situation, he said to the commanders: "The 'private' soldiers of these powerful families are as few as dozens or as many as hundreds, and there are at least twenty or thirty powerful families in the entire Jinan City and nearby counties and counties, which are enough to make up thousands of 'elite' soldiers. ”

The generals were also shocked into a cold sweat when they heard this, they only thought that it was very easy to attack the city, but who knew that there was such a fire 'powder' barrel in the city.

Seeing that all the generals already knew that it was powerful, Wang Ze said: "Now the time is yin, and there is still an hour before dawn, Sixth Brother Qu, you quickly go and inform He Liang to kill all the uncooperative prisoners on the ship, leaving only 300 people to guard the ship, and all the others will enter the city to listen to my orders." ”

"Mr. Hu, please quickly gather your family and fellow villagers to sweep these heroes with us!" This is an order to Hu Bingchang.

"Uncle Ge, looking for the eldest brother, the two of you will lead the cavalry to block the squares of the southern city and the eastern city first, and the people in these two places will not be allowed to go out of the house' door, Cao An, Zhang Hang, Chu Honghang, and Zhou Duo will lead the army to sweep the 'sweep' Xicheng with me first, Meng Xian, you and Shen Sanshui will meet He Liang and Qu Liulang and then sweep the 'sweep' of the northern city with them!"

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On the night of June 29 in the ninth year of Tianbao, this day was recorded by the historian of the Northern Qi Dynasty at that time, "the thieves and the thieves seized the city at night, the Qizhou assassin Shi Ji Shi, the county lieutenant died for the country, and the loyalty and filial piety were 'excited' and 'swinging' for nine days, the thieves were angry at the people to slaughter the city, the gentry had many people who were slaughtered, and the unscrupulous people from all sides flocked to it. ”

For the Haoqiang family, this night was a tragic beginning, but for Wang Ze, this was the beginning of his real fame.

After assigning the task, Wang Ze personally led hundreds of people from the Blue Wolf Battalion, plus more than half of the Crossbow Battalion and more than 200 people, Xu Zheng's White Wolf Battalion, who had inspected Xicheng before, followed by more than 1,500 fishermen and sailors, and went to sweep Xicheng.

Not long after, Hu Bingchang also rode up on horseback, followed by nearly two hundred young people, and when he saw Wang Ze, he hurriedly said: "Dare to let Lang Jun know, because the north city in Jinan City is dependent on Jishui, so it is mostly the family of wealthy merchants, and the east city is because the government at all levels gathers many officials and eunuchs to live, and the south city is mostly ordinary people, but this west city is the place where the family of the powerful general 'gate' in the city lives, so it is better to be more careful!" ”

Saying and pointing to a large mansion in front of him, Hu Bingchang said: "The front is the mansion of the Xianbei Haoqiang Lou clan in Qizhou, it is said that the Lou family is the Empress Dowager Zhaoming (Gao Yang's mother) clan, and it has always been a difficult existence to provoke in Qizhou, and its starting point is the twenty or thirty years after Gao Huan took power, so most of the land owned by the Lou family is forcibly seized over the years, and it is the most popular anger in Jinan City, so it is advisable to take it first!" ”

Wang Ze immediately followed his words and decided to capture Lou's house first, Lou relied on the fact that he was the Empress Dowager Lou's people in the city to build a wall nearly two zhang high, and the conversion unit in later generations was four or five meters.

At this time, the people in Lou's mansion had already prepared for defense, and they 'shot' to death a few soldiers of the Blue Wolf Battalion who were about to climb over the wall.

Wang Ze was furious when he saw this, and ordered Zhou Duo to lead the crossbow battalion to suppress the archers on the wall, and then the soldiers of the blue wolf battalion took the opportunity to throw dozens of bombs into the wall, and after the violent explosion, they quickly seized this section of the high wall.

Although the Lou clan relied on his power to build a high wall and hide bows and arrows, he was not an army after all, and he was quickly seized by the blue wolf battalion without a battle array.

After the blue wolf battalion seized a section of the wall, nearly 200 guards were immediately defeated and retreated, and in only a quarter of an hour, Wang Ze seized the big 'gate' and entered the courtyard.

You don't need to think much about what happened after that, although Wang Ze strictly forbade all departments to 'rape' and 'adultery' and plunder, but the murder was a matter of letting go.

Wang Ze ordered Cao An to lead 300 people to continue to sweep Lou's inner house, and the other surplus more than 1,000 people went to his Haoqiang's house to sweep the house.

For the first time, I felt that the robbery was so hard and hard, and it was only until dawn that it only swept half of the Haoqiang in Xicheng, but fortunately, Qu Liulang, who swept the 'sweeping' of the North City, led nearly a thousand people to help in the battle.

Wang Ze saw that among the people who followed behind Qu Liulang, nearly half of them were ragged and down-and-out young people, obviously they had never seen it, so he hurriedly asked Qu Liulang what was going on.

"Xiao Langjun, you don't know, these heroes in the city have done too much evil, isn't this when we swept the 'sweeping' of the northern city, many poor people living inside and outside the city knew about it, and they all begged us to take revenge and complain! I discussed it with He Liang, and let our people take them and gather these people to help us, even if it is to help move our belongings. Qu Liulang looked at Wang Ze and said carefully.

"Some of these people may really have enmity with the powerful in the city, but it is impossible to be all of them, and it is very likely that some of the people joined in because they were greedy for their property. , but I'm not afraid, as long as it can be used by me, it's good," Wang Ze thought in his heart.

"Grandpa Mao's class struggle was grasped as soon as it was grasped, and what he said really made sense, although he couldn't put forward such a slogan clearly, but he could change the list! In the past, Ah Weng's way of doing things for heaven was good! ”

Thinking of this, Wang Ze said to Qu Liulang: "Sixth brother, if it is already bright today, you quickly lead the navy back to the ship, and be sure to block the waters of dozens of miles up and down Jinan City." If there is a Qi army sailor, there is no need to hesitate to destroy it immediately! ”

As soon as Qu Liulang heard Wang Ze's order, he immediately patted his chest and promised: "Xiao Langjun, don't worry, we can't compare to others in martial arts on the road, but we are the first to fight on the water, and we will definitely ensure our retreat!" As he spoke, he took his men and horses out of the city and ran to the water.

Then Wang Ze said to Xu Zheng again: "Xu Zheng listens to the order, you quickly send 300 people out of the city to the surrounding villages to recruit people, as long as it is not related to the heroes in the city, you can recruit them!" Xu Zheng also took more than 100 soldiers from the White Wolf Battalion and more than 200 young men out of the city.

In the end, Wang Ze said to Cheng Hu: "Second brother, please preside over the recruitment of troops in the city!" Be sure to choose a good manpower, don't want those 'treacherous' and cunning people! ”

Chu Honghang, who was next to him, asked Wang Ze innocently: "Lang Jun, don't we have to retreat quickly after robbing the property in the city?" Why do you have to recruit people? ”

"Stupid!" Cheng Hu said with a smile, "Recruit more people to help us move the looted property!" Saying that, Cheng Hu also ordered a team of people.

"Da Lang, since Mr. Hu said that there are more poor people in Nancheng, then I will go to Nancheng to recruit soldiers!" Cheng Hu rode a horse and said to Wang Ze.

Wang Ze nodded and replied: "Second brother, hurry up, Yan Xiaowu is in the south of the city to maintain order, and let him send someone to help you when the time comes!" Cheng Hu promised to ride the horse away.

After instructing these things, Wang Ze had time to get ready to see what Lou's house was like, although Lou's wall was also made of rammed earth, but the two feet high under the wall were made of large stone barriers.

The outside of the rammed earth wall above was first smeared with yellow mud mixed with wheat bran, and then with lime fired from good bluestone, and a layer of fine hemp fiber chopped into an inch long, which not only prevented the rain from eroding the wall, but also looked very tidy.

Entering the courtyard, the road in front of the hall is paved with good green bricks, and the house is a large courtyard with at least five entrances, and the first courtyard alone has the size of several acres, and it is also a loss that the courtyard is too big to guard, otherwise it is not easy to attack at that time.

At this time, Cao An, who had finished sweeping the back house, came over and said to Wang Ze: "Xiao Langjun, except for a few people who went out of the city to collect the summer rent, the rest are here!" ”

While going to the inner house, Wang Ze asked Cao An: "How is our harvest this time?" This is a big 'fat' sheep, and you can't let me down! ”

"Xiao Langjun, this time there are nearly 30,000 stones of grain in Lou's warehouse, 5,000 horses of cloth, not much gold and silver, only 100 catties of gold, 500 catties of silver, but Lou's has a lot of 'fine' weapons, there are 500 long knives alone, 1,000 spearheads, and 20 pairs of armor!" Cao An's face was excited.

"Oh? Unexpectedly, the Lou clan has hidden so many weapons, what are you going to do? Do you want to rebel? Wang Ze thought silently in his heart.

"The Lou clan has hidden so many weapons, even if they have no ambition to rebel, they still don't believe in the Northern Qi Imperial Court, or the Northern Qi official government! After all, Empress Dowager Lou is very old, and over the years, Gao Yang has cleaned up a lot of Xianbei nobles through the hands of Yang Su and other high-ranking Han officials, and Lou's hiding of these weapons may be to prevent Gao Yang from extinguishing himself when he rises! Wang Ze analyzed as he walked.

There were no people who were in a hurry to see the Lou family, Wang Zexian and Cao An came to the Lou family's arsenal, only to see a long knife with a 'fine' handle placed on the weapon rack, which seemed to be the standard weapons of the Northern Qi Dynasty, although the blade was wrought iron, but the blade was all steel.

The spear tips were neatly stacked, half of the wall was placed, and the most powerful thing was the twenty pairs of iron armor, which seemed to be the full-body armor of the Northern Qi armored cavalry equipment during this period, and it was also the kind of armor that only had more than a hundred generals.

Wang Ze couldn't help but reach out and stroke' it, even on a hot day, he could feel the slightest chill in it, each piece of armor had been turned over a hundred and ten times with heart, and he could vaguely see the lines of the folded section.

"That's a good armor!" Wang Ze couldn't help but praise while stroking, and then looked at the other weapons, although there were not many.

Later, he looked at Lou's granary and treasury, and the grain piled up in it was like half of a mountain, Wang Ze said to Cao An: "Erlang, you first arrange reliable manpower to transport all the gold and silver in Lou's treasury to the boat on Jishui, and the money and grain will be used as the money for recruiting soldiers!" ”

At the moment when Cao An received the fate to send gold and silver, Ji Xiang led dozens of horsemen and horses to come, and as soon as he arrived outside Lou's 'door', he jumped off his horse and ran quickly in front of Wang Ze, and after saluting, he said to Wang Ze: "Qi Langjun, I have captured the informant, and now I am waiting for Lang Jun outside the 'door'!" ”