The Xiao family, as the number one local wealthy family in Hanzhong County, also has a strong dock wall style in the world.

Dock Fort, also known as Dock Wall, the earliest origin of this kind of building can be traced back to the period of Emperor Xiaowu of the Han Dynasty, but it really began to be popularized among the people at the end of the Western Han Dynasty.

At that time, there was a great hunger in the north, and the local heroes rose together, and the local heroes built dock forts and camps one after another for self-protection in order to support the army and protect themselves.

The shape of the dock fort is about to build a dock on flat ground, surrounded by walls, open doors before and after, build watchtowers in the dock, and build corner towers in the four corners, just like a small city.

And often in the dock wall, the local tyrants will hoard a large number of troops, grain and grass, and have the power to rebel under objective conditions.

If some privileges are the political and economic umbrella of the wealthy family, then the existence of this kind of dock wall for soldiers and grain is the military umbrella of the wealthy family.

It was also the greatest confidence that Xiao Pu dared to openly threaten Mi Yang at that time.

With the existence of dock walls, every local wealthy family is a "small prince" who can divide the place at any time.

It was precisely because he knew this that Mi Yang would issue an extermination order to those wealthy families who openly disobeyed him, and at the same time, he also sent a large number of soldiers and horses to the place.

Maybe in the eyes of some later generations, if you want to exterminate the Mi Yang, you only need to issue a decree, and you don't need to make too much preparation when your lips touch.

But at least in this Han Dynasty, if you want to completely eliminate a local wealthy family, you are essentially fighting a war.

Before a war, how can there be anything that is not strictly prepared?

Local tycoons don't just get caught.

And if it weren't for the danger of this matter, why would Guan Yan worry about Mi Yang that day?

At present, the 3,000 elite Liang army led by Zhang Wei is facing a dock wall covering a large area.

Although the dock wall was built by almost every powerful and powerful family.

However, thanks to the backward productivity of the world, unless it is a wealthy family, the dock wall generally occupies a small area, and the fortifications are not very tight.

However, as a representative of the wealthy family in the Han Dynasty, the dock wall built by the patriarchs of the Xiao clan in the past dynasties can naturally be regarded as covering a wide area, and the wall is high and the city is strong.

When Mi Yang intended to attack the local clans in the territory before, he had sent Si Wencao's spies in advance to investigate the powerful families in the territory in detail.

He had a good idea of the scale of the Xiao family's dock wall.

But knowing the scale of this Xiao Clan's dock wall, he finally made up his mind in his heart to attack those places that were doing evil.

In the past few decades, a Xiao family has expanded his family's dock wall to such a scale, what if it is given to him or other wealthy families for a while?

I think that the suzerainty system that has a great influence in history will come into being at the right time.

Mi Yang treats those wealthy families in the territory who are evildoers, and in his heart treats them as enemies on the battlefield.

Therefore, after knowing the scale of the Xiao family's dock wall, he gathered the leaders of a number of wealthy families in the territory to Nanzheng in the double name of enjoying the military parade during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

This was a necessary preparation for him to clear all the dock walls in the territory.

In the current generation, the patriarch is the backbone of every family, and their prestige has been passed down for hundreds of years, and has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of every family.

They are the spiritual leaders of every family's private soldiers.

And as long as Mi Yang sent troops to attack the dock walls of those big families, the patriarch was not in the dock walls.

Then, no matter how many private soldiers a family has, how often they train in peacetime, their combat effectiveness and military morale will drop to the extreme in an instant.

Just as the people of the Xiao clan in the dock wall now behaved.

In the face of the thousands of elite armor soldiers who suddenly appeared, since Xiao Pu was not in the dock wall now, even though most of the Xiao family members were in the dock wall at the moment, they all looked very flustered and frightened.

There is another reason why they are so flustered and frightened, that is, in order to completely turn Chuyang County into his private property, he took the opportunity of colluding with the county commander of Chuyang County to replace most of the county soldiers in Chuyang County with Xiao clan soldiers.

This shows that the current problems faced by the Shaw dock wall are not only that Shaw is not in charge of the overall situation, but also that the defensive forces in the dock wall are far from enough.

After all, before Zhang Wei led the army to the outside of the Xiao clan's dock wall today, all the Xiao clansmen, including Xiao Pu himself, did not expect that their dock wall would really be attacked one day.

The Xiao clan of Weiyang has been the king and hegemon in the local area for too long.

Under these two practical factors that are enough to make people collapse, the military spirit of the few Xiao clan soldiers in the dock wall has already collapsed.

Fortunately, there are still some elders of the Xiao clan in the dock wall, otherwise the dock wall of the Xiao clan may be self-defeating.

However, although some Xiao clan elders could barely suppress the panic in the dock wall by virtue of the prestige of a few people, they also knew that this was not a long-term solution.

Therefore, when Zhang Wei's army had not yet besieged the city, they immediately sent some clansmen to Chuyang County to transfer back most of their clansmen.

At this moment, when they recognized that the thousands of troops outside the dock wall were all Liangzhou regular army, they also knew that this army must have been sent by Mi Yang to clean them up.

In this case, it was already predictable that something bad would happen to Shopu.

Now all they can rely on is the thousands of ethnic soldiers in Chuyang County.

As long as those thousands of clan soldiers can return in time, then their family will still have a glimmer of life.

But what those Xiao clan elders didn't know was that their every move had already been expected by Zhang Wei.

Otherwise, he would not have sent Shi Bao to lead an elite army in advance and ambush on the road between Chuyang County and Xiao's Wubi.

And Zhang Wei was able to anticipate this in advance, not because of how clever he was, but because he was followed by a patriarch from the same background as Xiao Pu.

This patriarch was one of the officials who were willing to submit to Mi Yang on the high platform that day, named Yu Lin.

Yu Lin's family is also a local wealthy family in Chuyang County, but compared with the Xiao family, the Yu family has a gap in both power and status.

Despite their difference in power and status, they are one kind after all.

They know each other best.

After Zhang Wei led the army to the outside of the Xiao Clan's dock wall for hundreds of steps, he, who had rich experience in battle formations, quickly realized the fact that the people of the Xiao clan were unstable on the wall of the Xiao Dock Wall through the reactions of some Xiao clan soldiers on the wall of the Xiao Dock Wall.

After perceiving this, Zhang Wei originally wanted to seize the opportunity to attack immediately, but his actions were more dissuaded than Yu Lin.

Yu Lin bowed to Zhang Wei when he came to him and said, "The minister knows that there is a tunnel inside the Xiao Clan's dock wall, which can lead directly to the outside of the dock wall.

That tunnel was built by the patriarch of the Xiao clan in the previous generation to leave a back road just in case.

Now the people in the thief dock are unstable, and the tunnel wants to defend against emptiness.

The captain might as well send an elite army to sneak into the dock wall through that tunnel, so that he can take the thief dock wall in one fell swoop without much effort. ”

After listening to Yu Lin's words, Zhang Wei's face showed great joy.

Uncle Mu is really right, the Lin faction is really useful in the army.

Enemies may not know each other, but former comrades must know each other very well.

Zhang Wei wasn't too worried that Yu Lin would lie and deceive him, because Yu Lin's current life was in his hands.

Seeing the night in the sky gradually darkening, Zhang Wei had already made a decision in his heart.

He immediately summoned a Sima and asked him to select hundreds of soldiers in the army who were not seriously blind.

Then when the sky was completely dark, let him lead the hundreds of elite soldiers to follow Yu Lin from the tunnel in his mouth and sneak into the wall of the Xiao Clan's dock.

However, after instructing this, Zhang Wei specially told this Sima to keep Yu Lin within reach of his blade at all times.

Although it is not possible for Yu Lin to deceive him, it is indispensable to guard against others.

...

As time passed, the sky slowly darkened.

When the darkness completely covered the sky in Chuyang County, a compound on the wall of Xiao's dock was brightly lit.

This is the ancestral hall of the Xiao family.

At this time, several elders of the Xiao clan were sitting around and discussing countermeasures.

The people they sent out to contact the reinforcements during the day had been gone for two hours, and according to the time calculation, under the rapid march, the thousands of tribesmen should have returned.

But now, according to the people on the city wall, except for the torches played by thousands of Liang soldiers outside the dock wall, there is no fire in the direction of Chuyang County.

Torches must be lit when rushing at night, and the lack of fire in Chuyang County means that there are no reinforcements rushing towards this place.

This fact made these Xiao clan elders worried.

There must be demons when things go wrong, especially now when the Xiao family is facing a big disaster.

But now that the dock wall has long been surrounded by Liang Jun, in this case, all they can do is wait.

A gray-haired patriarch came to the courtyard and looked up at the dark sky.

More than ten years ago, he was one of the three elders in Chuyang County.

During the more than ten years he served as the third elder, he used his power to seek a lot of benefits for his family, otherwise the Xiao family would not have been able to develop to this point.

Although he did many illegal things in the process, as long as it was for the sake of his family, he never regretted what he had done in the past.

But when Xiao Shi was facing a catastrophe today, a trace of regret appeared in his heart for the first time.

Perhaps he had expected this day in his heart, but when this day came, his heart could not be calm.

Looking at the inky sky above him, he couldn't help but secretly think:

The sky is so dark tonight, does it represent the next fate of his Xiao family?

Just when this Xiao clan elder was deeply worried about this in his heart, he suddenly heard a burst of shouts and killings outside the courtyard.

The shouts of killing grew from far to near, from small to loud, and was rapidly moving towards this place.

This sudden scene not only frightened the clan elder, but also the other Xiao clan elders who were discussing countermeasures also became overwhelmed because of this terrifying shouting and killing.

Several Xiao clan elders instantly gathered together in the open space, looking at the closed door with frightened eyes.

A conjecture appeared in their hearts, as if the sky had fallen-the Liang army had attacked.

Just when their hearts were growing more and more frightened because of this conjecture, the closed door in front of them was soon violently smashed open by some Liang soldiers covered in blood and armed with torches.

And after the gate was knocked open, Sima, who was assigned a task by Zhang Wei, rushed into the courtyard with Yu Lin.

After a while, the small courtyard was surrounded by hundreds of Liang troops with sharp blades.

Hundreds of sharp blades flickered with a strange fire under the light of the torches, and this strange fire was announcing the final outcome of the Xiao clan in Chuyang.

After Yu Lin saw the elders of the Xiao clan who were surrounded by regiments, he immediately pointed at them and said to Liang Jun Sima Yan:

"Those few are the elders of the traitor Xiao Pu, if they are captured together, there will be no day for the Xiao clan to turn over."

When Yu Lin came out to identify those Xiao clan elders, his appearance happened to be seen clearly by those Xiao clan elders.

The moment they saw Yu Lin, these elders of the Xiao clan who had gone through vicissitudes of life couldn't guess how the Liang army could easily attack their dock wall.

A kind of betrayal anger immediately appeared in the hearts of these Xiao clan elders.

One of the elders of the Xiao clan pointed at Yu Lin's nose and scolded angrily: "My Xiao clan and the Yu clan have been married for generations, and they are friendly to each other, you are my patriarch's relatives and friends!"

I didn't expect you to be such a wolf-hearted person, aren't you afraid that other clans will attack you Yu Lin Qun! ”

There is no scruple in the reproach of the dying man.

In the face of the insult of this Xiao clan elder, Yu Lin's face first showed some shame, his eyes were a little dodgy, but soon the shame on his face dissipated.

The person who knows the times is Junjie, and he does things for Liangzhou Mu, what is wrong!

Anyway, there is no turning back now, so continue to go all the way to the end.

Liang Jun Sima didn't want to care about the unclear things between the wealthy families, he looked at the Xiao clan elders in front of him, and he coldly spit out a word from his mouth:

"Kill!"

When this word reached the ears of the hundreds of Liang Jun on the field, a moment later, some Liang Jun rushed towards those Xiao clan elders with sharp blades in their hands.

Soon after, several mournful sounds rang out in the courtyard.

After executing those Xiao clan elders, Liang Jun Sima looked at the Xiao clan ancestral hall in front of him.

He took the torch from one of his subordinates, and then decisively threw the torch into the wooden Shaw ancestral hall.

Under the actions of Liang Jun Sima, many Liang Jun also threw the torches in their hands into the Xiao ancestral hall in front of them.

The firelight in the sky filled the entire Xiao Ancestral Hall in an instant, and the red flames became brighter and brighter as time passed.

The fire in the Xiao ancestral hall was constantly rising, as if it was about to burn away all the evils hidden in the deep ancestral hall.

Looking at this scene in front of him, this Liang Jun Sima's gaze became more and more determined.

Since then, there has been no evil Xiao in the world.

Since then, there have been no local tycoons in Liangzhou who can disobey the decree.

...

When Zhang Wei led the army to break through the Xiao's dock wall, the same scene was happening in various parts of Liangzhou one after another.

More and more local wealthy clans were broken by the Liang army, and more and more local wealthy clans were wiped out by the Liang army.

Under the iron and blood of Mi Yang, a far-reaching earthquake is occurring in the entire Liangzhou.

And the aftermath of this earthquake also spread around Liangzhou at a very fast speed.

However, it was not Chengdu that was first affected by the aftermath, but Guanzhong, which is not far from Liangzhou.

A confidential piece of information called "The Great Change in Liangzhou" was quickly sent to Cao Zhen, the general of Cao Wei.