The arrival of reinforcements immediately changed the situation in Quzhou.

The soldiers and horses of the Ling family, who originally took the initiative, were first assaulted by the Wu Qian coalition army, and the damage was not small. Then, it was attacked by the defenders of Quzhou head-on, and for a time it was attacked by the enemy, and after leaving thousands of corpses behind, it could only retreat in a hurry.

But at this time, they no longer want to retreat safely can no longer be, this way to retreat west, they encountered a pursuit all the way, a few days down, there are thousands of dead and fled, and when they finally retreated to the border of Huazhou, they have already lost their troops and are embarrassed.

And this is not the most fatal, what is even more deadly is that their tragic situation fell into the eyes of the soldiers and civilians in the prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of Huazhou in the rear, and it also destroyed the little courage of these people to resist.

As a result, this 20,000 Xu Ling family's descendants were defeated all the way, but the Ling family's territory in Huazhou was taken all the way, and when June entered the second half of June, nearly 100,000 troops had surrounded Huazhou City, so that they had no way to retreat.

As for the surrounding more than a dozen large and small state capitals, they all changed their banners and surrendered, making this place a real isolated city.

Then, before launching the final attack, Wu Tiexiong repeated his old tricks, intending to directly use words to subdue the Ling family, so as to take the city and control the Ling family at the lowest cost.

But the Ling family is obviously much more backbone than the Yao family, even if it has reached the point of exhaustion, it actually has no intention of opening the city and surrendering, and still sticks to the gates, fighting to the death.

Seeing this, the coalition forces no longer showed mercy, and simply took the Quzhou rebels, who had a deep enmity with the Ling family, as the vanguard, and launched the most ferocious onslaught from all sides.

After all, there are now 100,000 coalition troops outside the city, and there are less than 30,000 defenders in the city, and most of them are troops who have been wounded and exhausted after a long battle, so it is impossible to show stronger combat power.

Facts have also proved that this tactic is correct, although the Ling family still gritted their teeth and held on for two days, but on the third day, the east gate of Huazhou was still captured in one fell swoop.

And with the fall of a city gate, it means that the string of the defenders is broken, and all four gates are broken, and the city of Huazhou is broken.

When tens of thousands of troops swept into the city, the remaining soldiers and horses no longer dared to make senseless resistance, and they all abandoned their weapons and surrendered, allowing them to drive straight into the Ling family's mansion.

Soon after, the sky-high fire rose from the Ling family's house and burned for a day and a night before it was completely extinguished.

Afterwards, after investigation, Ling Ze, the head of the Ling family, almost all of the 246 people died in this fire.

After that, two versions of this matter circulated throughout Jiangnan -

It is said that the Ling family saw that their house was not protected and refused to be humiliated, so they simply set themselves on fire.

But more people believe in another theory, that is, after the victorious soldiers and horses dominated by the Wu Qian family and the Quzhou rebels entered the Ling family, in order to take revenge and rob the Ling family's property, they simply slaughtered all the people in his family, regardless of the old and the young, and left no one behind.

This statement is more accepted than the previous one, not only because of the tragedy of the Zhang family's destruction before, but also because the people of Huazhou found out afterwards that the Ling family's family property was really completely gone.

Whether it is floating wealth such as gold and silver, or various antique utensils that are not easy to be destroyed, or even land deeds.

A fire can destroy so much property, I'm afraid no one can believe it. The only possibility is that all of them were looted by the soldiers and horses who entered the city, and then in order to hide people's eyes, they simply killed the Ling family.

But no matter what the truth is, anyway, a fact has been placed in front of everyone, the Ling family has been wiped out, and it has been completely erased.

This was enough to make everyone else in Huazhou feel frightened, and they didn't dare to resist again. 、

In this regard, the three wealthy families in Jiangnan who may have colluded with the Zonghenghui have been wiped out one after another in just one or two months, leaving only the Zhu family in Luzhou, southern Zhejiang, which is the farthest away from everyone.

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"Rubbish, all rubbish, idiot!" Zhu Zhen, the head of the Zhu family, roared, and slapped the urgent letter he had just received on the table.

Because of the distance, he only learned the bad news five days after the Ling family was destroyed, which made him angry, but more fearful.

He can see that this time, the sky in Jiangnan has completely changed, and those wealthy families with greater power are really going to attack themselves and other small families.

And the time and reason they chose this time were very appropriate, just when they were waiting for a little greed, but they didn't dare to really turn their faces with other forces in Jiangnan, especially, in fact, they didn't even really have a real connection with Zonghenghui.

God is pitiful, although his Zhu family is known as one of the nine surnames in Jiangnan, but because of the relationship between strength and position, there is no conspicuous place inside and outside, and who will hit them on the head and pull them for their own use?

But he understands that there is no excuse for the crime he wants to add, and once those families have made up their minds to destroy their own families, it is useless to say anything.

"The Yao family is cowardly, and they don't even dare to surrender in a fight! The Ling family was even more stupid, they should have defended their own territory, but there was still a glimmer of life, so they actually took the initiative to go to Quzhou to die.

"If the three of them can defend themselves and form a union, and they can protect themselves, maybe they can talk to each other, and now ......"

Zhu Zhen couldn't speak anymore at this time, his whole body was trembling, and he didn't know whether he was afraid or angry.

"Master, what should I do?" It wasn't until he calmed down a little that someone below asked.

Everyone also felt panicked in their hearts, and they needed him, the backbone, to come up with ideas.

"We can't definitely fight it, but if we surrender directly, if we don't say anything else, we people will definitely not survive." Zhu Zhen swept to the dozen or so people in charge of the family in front of him, and his tone was quite calm.

They all nodded approvingly, yes, even if it was for the sake of the future, those people would definitely not leave themselves and become troubles.

"Then there's only one way left, get out of here." Zhu Zhen finally said his countermeasure, "Either go to sea, or go to the depths of Yandang Mountain and hide." We'll come back when they turn back with their army and go to battle the Kwoks in the north!" ”

Although in this way, they will inevitably leave behind the Zhu family's family business that has been here for hundreds of years, and will suffer for a long time in the future. But compared to being really exterminated and killed, this is an expedient measure that everyone can accept.

After seeing that everyone acquiesced to this decision, Zhu Zhen did not delay any longer, and immediately said: "Then hurry up and let people prepare and prepare, and after two days, the Ju clan will leave here......"

When the forward team of the coalition army came to Luzhou half a month later, they got the news that surprised them a little, the Zhu family had already fled from this place and did not know where to go.

In any case, at this point in time when the army is about to be used against the north, Jiangnan has finally temporarily eliminated all hidden dangers, and has truly achieved unity of mind, and can fight with foreign enemies with confidence!