The sound of dogs barking one after another in her ears made Chen Qiong's heart rise with a burst of killing intent.

This is a powerful gentry family with the most land in Thanh Hoa City, and there were often frictions during the past when Chen Qiong, the royal family of the Chen Dynasty, served as the city lord.

But Chen Qiong can only be helpless about this.

As a royal family, it is already Chen Qiong's luck to be the city lord of Qinghua City.

It's good to do things for Daming!

After Chen Qiong went through a complicated mental journey, she held the embroidered spring knives that had just been taken out of the oil drum, and a hideous smile rose at the corner of her mouth.

The long knife swung forward.

"His family's money cellar is under the dry well in the backyard, and there are more than 13,700 acres of fertile land outside the city."

A group of brocade guards led the Ming officers and soldiers and directly smashed open the closed door.

In front of the head are the officers and soldiers with shields, followed by the officers and soldiers with spears, in the gap of the people are the officers and soldiers with strong crossbows, and finally the sword soldiers who press the formation.

Chen Qiong held her head high, stepped over the threshold stone on tiptoe with an elegant posture, and walked into the richest family in Qinghua City.

Several big dogs with black bodies, perhaps because of the murderous aura of the Ming army, were pressed to the ground, trembling with fear, and their tails swaying cautiously.

Chen Qiong's eyes sank, and the embroidered spring knife in his hand leaned down.

A few dogs barked and whispered, and a touch of blood dissipated.

The Ming army was already warning loudly, but they couldn't understand the dialect of the Annamite people, but it did not prevent them from believing that the anger on the faces of these Annamite people with swords and guns was directed at them.

Whoosh.

Knock knock.

One by one, the crossbow arrows shot out, taking away the rebels who dared to stand in front of the Ming army.

Today's dispatch are all the officers and soldiers of the Beijing Guard stationed in Yingtian City.

These troops who took turns to enter Beijing, defend the Beijing division, defend the imperial city, and ensure the safety of the Ming Emperor had the combat effectiveness and cooperation that could be proud of the world in the Hongwu year.

The shield soldiers blocked the resistance of this family, the red tasseled spear was synchronously retracted, and the strong crossbow was replenished, even if the enemy in front of him fell, he would be replenished by the sword soldiers at the back of the formation.

This is the purest and most efficient way of killing people in the Ming army.

When the officers and soldiers under the dry well in the backyard came with the news that they had found countless gold and silver money, all the Ming soldiers looked at Chen Qiong, who was also killed and covered in blood, and they already had a sense of identity.

This man is a friend of Da Ming.

As long as it is a friend of Da Ming, then this person is also their friend.

Therefore, the captain in the army told his own documents to write down Chen Qiong's name in the credit book for this killing.

Seeing that his name was placed on the top line of the merit book, Chen Qiong wrapped her sleeves and wiped the blood stains off her cheeks.

In his fluent Jianghuai official dialect, he asked, "Can I also remember merit?" ”

The lieutenant looked at Chen Qiong lightly, feeling that this person's problem was somewhat inexplicable, but thinking that the other party was under the order of the prison state, he had to patiently explain: "You are wearing our Daming's clothes, speaking the official language of Daming, and using the embroidered spring knife of Jinyiwei, and you have made a meritorious contribution, Daming will naturally not be missing you." ”

Chen Qiong was full of joy, and her eyes were full of light: "So, I am a Ming person now!" ”

"Akito?" The captain looked Chen Qiong up and down, and then snorted twice: "You have to send your name to the island of Xuanwu Lake." ”

It turns out that he can't be considered a Ming person now.

Chen Qiong was a little disappointed and frustrated, he knew about the Xuanwu Lake in the north of Ying Tiancheng, it was a royal important place, and there was a special place on the island to store the entire Daming fish scale book and population household registration.

After a short period of frustration, Chen Qiong regained her spirit, looked at the Ming army in front of her with her head held high, and then waved her knife and pointed at a mansion not far away.

"That family is even more guilty!"

Although he is not a Ming person, but the Annan people can't do it at all, from the time he erected the Ming embroidered spring knife and cut it on the neck of his fellow Annan people, he Chen Qiong is not an Annan person.

It was just an inexplicable excitement, but it couldn't stop surging up from the bottom of Chen Qiong's heart.

Even he didn't even realize that his eyes were blood-red at the moment.

"You're really not afraid of ruining this man?"

On the tall building of the City Lord's Mansion, Zhu Gaochi put his hands in his sleeves and stood by the window looking at the killing sound of Qinghua City.

All over the city, countless officers and soldiers under the command of Chen Qiong rushed to the magnificent mansions like wolves.

Rivers of blood.

Corpses everywhere.

Even the boxes of gold and silver that were hidden in a sewage tank in the west of the city were searched out by Chen Qiong, who had been completely killed and fell into a frenzy.

Zhu Yunxi's eyes are clear, but people can't get close to each other, so they can only look down from afar.

And Zhu Yunxi, who is standing on top of a tall building, makes people feel that he is an existence that idlers dare not climb.

At this moment, Zhu Yunxi looked at Qinghua City calmly, because of Chen Qiong's lead, no family could escape the sword and axe.

The people who were left behind had already walked towards the main street in front of the City Lord's Mansion with their families, and the first people to arrive knelt in front of the City Lord's Mansion in panic.

"We need someone who will make the Cochin Road clean." Zhu Yunxi said silently.

Zhu Gaochi frowned and said, "However, this is not the best choice. Dividing them is the safest way. ”

Zhu Yunxi looked back at Zhu Gaochi and smiled slightly: "We don't have much time to stay in Annan, everything has to be speeded up." ”

Zhu Gaochi snorted, obviously retaining his own opinion on this issue, and he changed his words: "How do you judge that he will agree to be Annan's sinner, be Daming's lackey, and kill Annan's for Daming." ”

"I'm not sure." Zhu Yunxi was very frank and said with a smile: "If Chen Qiong doesn't agree, then now the family who was the first to kill him is doing this." ”

Zhu Gaochi shrank his head for no reason.

He suddenly felt that Chen Qiong was really a poor person, not only did he not have any choice, but even the meaning of existence was not irreplaceable.

It's just that soon, Zhu Gaochi put away this pity.

For Da Ming, especially for the Southern Expedition army this time, there was no fault in Brother Xi'er's choice.

So Zhu Gaochi said very simply: "Then here in Qinghua City, after Chen Qiong has killed all the people and confiscated all the gold, silver, money and land, how are you going to arrange him?" ”

Zhu Yunxi smiled faintly, and looked at Zhu Gaochi with deep eyes: "Don't you ask me how I will arrange the capture of Qinghua City?" ”

Zhu Gaochi pursed his lips, waved his hand indifferently and patted the windowsill: "Gold and silver must be circulated in Annan and buy things from those people." The grain stored in the homes of the powerful gentry and the grain harvested from the fields were naturally returned to the people of Thanh Hoa City. The land of those powerful gentry, this time it is called the Marquis of Jingchuan, and they first cashed in the deal with you. ”

Money is used for circulation, to buy what the Ming needs.

The grain is owned by the people of Annan, and the Ming Dynasty harvests the hearts of the people.

The land was owned by the magnates of the Ming Dynasty, and the transaction of domestic land replacement was completed.

All the arrangements are perfect, and the only thing that needs to be paid is to connive at Chen Qiong, who can no longer be a native of Annan, and lead the Ming army to kill his former compatriots.

And Daming will give him a heavy reward to reward his loyalty and dedication to Daming.

All, in the end, the only ones who did not benefit were the dead Annam magnates and gentry.

Zhu Gaochi saw that Zhu Yunxi did not say a different answer, and smiled a little helplessly: "So, should you tell me now how to arrange that Chen Qiong." ”

Zhu Yunxi asked, "What do you think is the most important problem for us now?" ”

"Chen Xuan, who was coerced by his cousin Li Jichen to the south?"

Zhu Gaochi immediately spoke, shook his head and said: "Young man Chen Xuan may be regarded as a master of success, but now he is also old, but he is extremely desecrated, so there is nothing to worry about.

When Li Jichen heard that the Ming Dynasty was coming, he looted Daluo City, and then coerced Chen Xuan to flee to the south. Qinghua City has also been ransacked by them here, which shows that Li Jichen has not only done such a thing in Qinghua City, but also done the same in other places. ”

Zhu Yunxi tilted his head to look at Zhu Gaochi: "So, what do you think of Li Jichen." ”

Zhu Gaochi blurted out without thinking: "Incompetence, short-sightedness, and both ends of the first rat are not enough to achieve things." ”

"One is not enough to worry about, and the other is not enough to get things done." Zhu Yunxi looked at Zhu Gaochi, who made an evaluation of Chen Xuan and Li Jichen, and said with a smile: "Therefore, the south is not a problem that we need to consider carefully at present. To the north, Chen Yuandan, who commanded the rest of Annam, organized the officers and soldiers of Annam outside Lang Son Pass, and resisted the general's conquest, is the most important thing we need to deal with at the moment. ”

"Chen Yuandan is a very smart person."

Yan Shizi of the Ming Dynasty finally gave a positive evaluation in the process of commenting on Annan.

I saw Zhu Gaochi's brows furrowed, but he did not lose his appreciation.

He said calmly: "Since we started outside Jianchang City, we may have entered Chen Yuandan's attention. He set aside four empty cities, including Jianchang City, and I think I'm afraid he really hopes that we can enter the city and occupy it.

As long as we choose to take these four empty cities, we will inevitably divide our troops and garrison them. After all, in our opinion, this is already the Jiaozhi Road of the Ming Dynasty, and it is necessary to invest in governance.

In this way, our battleable troops will be invisibly reduced, and even if he Chen New Year's Day uses a few empty cities to drag us from continuing to Daluo City, he can use all his strength on the side of Langshan Pass to resist the general's attack. ”

Zhu Yunxi nodded in agreement: "I think so too." ”

Zhu Gaochi continued: "In fact, Chen Yuandan's ability to be the Situ of the Chen Dynasty in Annan, when Chen Xuan was taken away by Li Jichen, can also stabilize the situation in Daluo City, and can unite the officials and troops in the city to fight against the Ming Dynasty, which is enough to show that he is a figure with means and skill. ”

Zhu Yunxi interjected at the right time: "Such a person is not what Da Ming wants to see. ”

Zhu Gaochi nodded and sighed: "So, we need to solve this trouble as soon as possible." As long as he is here, we may not be able to capture the people of Daluo City to be our friends. ”

At this point, there is nothing to talk about.

Zhu Yunxi turned around and said softly: "Chen Qiong, I will leave it to you to manage in the future." ”

Zhu Gaochi bowed and turned around, but saw that Zhu Yunxi had already gone downstairs.

……

The entire south bank of the Lang Son Chi Poor River became a scorched earth.

The Ming army on the north bank threw tens of thousands of catties of gunpowder on the south bank in just three days to bombard the officers and soldiers of Annam.

Everyone believed that the Ming Dynasty was going to consume the energy of the south bank, and only waited for the arrival of a zero boundary point, and then the whole army would attack and directly cross the river to capture Langshan Pass, thus opening the gateway to Daluo City.

For three days, there were not many casualties among the officers and soldiers of Annan.

But every day, from morning to night, the bombardment from the north shore made them miserable.

The Chinese army has issued the strictest military order, and no one can leave their position, so as to prevent the Ming people from taking the opportunity to cross the river and go ashore.

"It's time for us to cross the river."

On the north shore, Zhu Quan, the king of Damingning, who put down the binoculars, said calmly to the deputy general of his forward army in a calm tone.

The adjutant general nodded: "The subordinates have already ordered the forward army, and they will obey the general's orders at any time." ”

Zhu Quan asked, "How is the general's side, has he arrived at the predetermined position?" ”

The adjutant replied: "Half an hour ago, a message came from the general that the army had arrived at its position and that the general himself would lead the army across the river. ”

Zhu Quan sighed with emotion: "Since the generals can personally lead the army to cross the river to fight, then the king should also be the first person to cross the river in the vanguard army." ”

"This ......" The adjutant general hesitated, but still nodded and took the order, and conveyed the military order of the forward general.

Knock knock.

In the Ming forward army on the north bank of the Qiqi River, there have been bursts of war drums, and the war drums have been continuous in the past three days, and every time the war drums sound, it was when the Ming began to bomb the Annamite people on the south bank.

Today, however, things are starting to look a little different.

No one noticed that the Qiqiu River, which was still flowing a few days ago, began to become scarce, and the river channel was gradually exposed.

Everyone was attracted by the indiscriminate bombardment of gunpowder thrown from the Ming army.

Shortly after the Annam people waited for a moment and did not hear the gunpowder bombardment, one by one the burning objects from the north bank were projected into the sky and smashed on the camp of the Annam army on the south bank.

Zhu Quan was dressed in iron armor and held a long knife, standing by the Qiqiu River.

Behind him are the forward officers and soldiers, the invisible Ming Dynasty, and in front of them are the tens of thousands of Annan troops, which is the future of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Quan immediately crossed the sword and shouted: "Brothers, kill across the river, make twelve turns of military exploits, pay homage to the marquis, and reward countless money." ”

There were no empty promises, Zhu Quan only used interests to stimulate the officers and soldiers of the forward army.

However, this is the most direct and powerful.

The 3,000 forward officers and soldiers who participated in the battle to cross the river began to wave their fists and smash them on their chests.

"Tiger!"

"Tiger!"

"Tiger!"

Zhu Quan's body was high, his eyes were resolute, and he waved his long knife and pressed towards the south bank: "Cross the river with Ben and rush into battle!" ”

Scold.

Zhu Quan put down the mask on his steel helmet and was the first to wade into the Qiqiu River, where the river had become shallower.

"Only I am victorious!"

His Royal Highness the King of Damingning, the main general of the vanguard army of the Southern Expeditionary Army, took the lead, led the whole army with a fierce attitude of not fearing death, rushed to the front, and roared with great ambition.

"Kill!"

The entire vanguard army erupted into a tsunami-like shout.

With the last gunpowder of the battalion being thrown onto the south bank, the Ming began to attack.

(End of chapter)