After everything was dealt with, Su Hao asked Gao Ting and other high-level military attaches of Qingzhou Wei to be invited to reward them for meritorious deeds, for Gao Ting, he did not have much discrimination, after all, he himself was also the court official of the Ming Dynasty before, or Jinyi Wei Qianhu, as the so-called eldest brother does not laugh at the second brother, no one should laugh at anyone, everyone is the same.

On the other side, Qingzhou City.

After arranging the affairs in the city, Liang Ping took thousands of soldiers and horses to stay in the city of Qingzhou, and Jiang Shizhong and others pulled out the camp again and headed towards the Laizhou Mansion and Dengzhou Mansion.

The state capital is not a traditional big house, but from the state to the government, so there are not many jurisdictions, only Ye County, Pingdu Prefecture and Jiaozhou three counties and prefectures, of which Pingdu Prefecture governs Changyi County and Wei County, and Jiaozhou governs Gaomi County and Jimo County, and the Fucheng is directly governed by only the county seat of Ye County, which is attached to Guo County and Ye County on the periphery of the Fucheng.

For Jiang Shizhong and others with more than 30,000 troops, the county without a large army has no power to resist at all, and even Weixian, which is known as the capital of Donglai, could not hold out for long under the Hongyi cannon and a large number of siege equipment, and it was declared to fall in just one hour.

Five days later, the army appeared outside the capital of Laizhou.

"Lao Tian, how do you say this battle should be fought?"

Looking at the Laizhou Capital City, which was not inferior in height to the Qingzhou Capital City, Jiang Shizhong frowned and said, "Still want to attack?"

Although now they have an absolute advantage in strength and equipment, but if this kind of heavy city wants to gnaw down, the price will not be low, if it is not for Gao Ting's defection on the side of Qingzhou Mansion before, they want to take Qingzhou Mansion, at least ten days of fighting, thousands of dead and wounded.

If there are too many casualties here, then it is unlikely to take Dengzhou Mansion, and the blow to morale is also very serious, since Su Hao's incident to the present, it can basically be regarded as smooth sailing, and any battle is easy to win.

Although it is easy to breed arrogance in successive battles, leading to the defeat of arrogant soldiers, but winning consecutive battles is the best way to cultivate morale, when they just won the city of Jinan, the soldiers and horses under their command still have considerable awe for the imperial court, even if it is themselves, after all, the Ming Dynasty has ruled the world for more than 200 years, and it is a behemoth for anyone, but even the battles and successive victories have made these soldiers basically have no awe for the imperial court.

If the morale is broken here, it is likely to make the awe in the hearts of these soldiers reappear, which is very detrimental to the next battle.

"Then Brother Jiang, do you mean to attack the heart?"

Hearing this, Tian Ming frowned, this siege is actually just a few routines, strong attack, relying on human life to consume, water attack, fire attack, these two methods have too many restrictions, and the effect is not obvious, and the last is to attack the heart, counter, and hit morale, these two methods are also the most common siege, after all, in the face of some heavy cities, relying on human lives to fill, is not a good choice.

"Hmm."

Jiang Shizhong nodded: "Now that the Second Mansion is isolated, those guards must already be panicked, and if it really doesn't work, it's not too late to attack."

"Then I'll have a letter of surrender sent into the city first."

Tian Ming nodded, persuading this kind of thing, if it succeeds, then naturally everyone will be happy, even if it is not successful, it will not hurt, it is just a strong attack.

….

Soon, a long arrow was shot at the tower with a message of persuasion.

On the tower of the city, Zhou Xian, the governor of the state capital, looked at the letter of persuasion in his hand, his expression was cloudy, and his face was full of confusion.

Now Jinan Mansion, Qingzhou Mansion, and Dongchang Mansion have all fallen into the hands of the rebels, and the land route has been blocked, and looking at the posture of the rebels, it is not a matter of time and a half for the imperial court to quell the rebellion.

Although the taxes collected in the previous summer are still in the city, and now the food in the city can support about two years, but there are not many soldiers and horses in the city, only more than 7,000 people, nearly 2,000 are guards who came to the state guard, and the other more than 5,000 people are the villagers he forcibly recruited.

What's more, the rebels also have Hongyi cannons, and there are quite a few of them, he knows very well the power of Hongyi cannons, and the soldiers defending the city don't have much fighting spirit, once the rebels attack the city for a long time, those soldiers who defend the city will definitely not be able to hold it.

"Commander Luo, what do you think?"

Zhou Xian handed the letter of persuasion to Luo Hui on the side.

After receiving the letter of persuasion, a different color flashed in Luo Hui's eyes, Zhou Xian's attitude was intended to surrender, otherwise he would have burned the letter as soon as he got the letter, and he wouldn't even look at it, let alone give him the letter.

But if you see through it, Luo Hui naturally won't say it stupidly, after all, everyone wants face, and if you want to surrender, you have to find a nice excuse.

After thinking for a while, Luo Hui spoke: "Prefect, this rebel army is powerful, there are many soldiers and horses, and there are siege equipment such as Hongyi cannons, if you want to defend the city, it is as difficult as climbing to the sky."

Speaking of this, Luo Hui paused for a moment before continuing: "Even if we die in this city, it is our duty, but the people in this city are innocent, if we defend it and let the rebels suffer too much damage, once the city is broken, I am afraid that the people in the city will be slaughtered."

Hearing Luo Hui's words, Zhou Xian's face showed a faint smile, although he wanted to surrender, he also had to have a step down, after all, he didn't want people to say that he was greedy for life and afraid of death, although this is the truth, but it is not good to say it.

After thinking for a while, Zhou Xiancai then asked, "Commander Luo, how long do you think we can hold out, and what will happen to the casualties?"

Zhou Xian's words seemed to be asking for the certainty of defending the city, but in fact, he asked Luo Hui to make the steps a little firmer, and it would look better when he walked down, and it was best to shape him into the kind of image of a thief who had to serve the people in the city for the safety of the people in the city.

Hearing Zhou Xian's shameless words, Luo Hui instantly became extremely tired, but greasy is greasy, this kind of thing is beneficial to everyone, Zhou Xian wants to go down the stairs, and they want Zhou Xian to be the first bird.

After organizing the language, Luo Hui said: "Prefect, the rebels are powerful, if the rebels attack, we will support it for half a month at most, and most of the soldiers and civilians in the city will be killed or injured, and after the city is broken, I am afraid that other soldiers and civilians will also be angry."

"In that case, let's Kaejo!"

Zhou Xian was righteous and awe-inspiring: "In order to prevent the soldiers and civilians in the city from being harmed, this official has taken the charge of greedy life and fear of death!"

Hearing this, the surrounding officials were in good spirits, to be honest, no one wants to defend the city now, Qingzhou Mansion and Jinan Mansion have been captured, and Laizhou Mansion is completely an isolated island, although there is still Dengzhou Mansion, but Dengzhou Mansion is also difficult to protect itself, and it is impossible to support them.

….

What's more, the treatment of the rebels to the guards and ordinary people is too good, if you join the rebels, you will be given silver, fields, free from forced labor, and free from land taxes, which is the treatment that only shows talent and fame, even if it is ordinary people, the rebels are also exempt from salaries and all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and those ordinary people have long regarded those rebels as saviors.

Therefore, the guards and the common people in the city did not have the idea of defending Laizhou City to the death, and it was completely a subordinate strategy to force those guards and people to go up the city wall with knives, and those guards and the people did not know when they would turn against each other.

If they can hold it, they don't mind fighting for wealth, after all, they can still hold the city in this situation, and after the imperial army quells the rebellion, the people they present will have a bright future, but in this situation, it is completely impossible to hold the city, the officials who resisted before have died in the hands of the rebels, and they don't want to follow in the footsteps of those colleagues.

Although it is also a big crime to take refuge in the rebels, but with Zhou Xian, the prefect, taking the lead, even if the court really quells the rebellion in the future, the first person to be liquidated is also Zhou Xian, and their little shrimp will be exiled at most, so they will not kill them, after all, they have too many small shrimps, and if the court really wants to kill, at least thousands of people must be killed, so whether they will be exiled in the future or killed now, they can still carry it.

Outside the state capital, Jiang Shizhong and Tian Ming both stared at the gate of the capital city, for them, if they could not attack it, they should not attack it, although they could take it, but the price was too great.

At this time, the city gate suddenly opened slowly, and Zhou Xian walked towards the camp with the city officials.

Seeing this scene, a smile appeared on the faces of Jiang Shizhong and the others.

………

Jinan Mansion, Jinyi Wei Yamen.

"Master, Jiang Baihu and they have sent back the good news and come to the state

Both the Mansion and the Dengzhou Mansion have been taken."

Ding Zimo hurriedly took a piece of information and came to Su Hao.

"Did you take it?"

Hearing this, Su Hao's expression became serious, and taking the Dengzhou Mansion and the Laizhou Mansion meant that the time to become the emperor had come, which was decided after he and Tang Xiangjin discussed it for a long time.

For them now, Zhu Yuanzhang's set of accumulating grain, building high walls, and slowly becoming the king is not suitable for them, because Shandong is now the land of four wars, and the east, west, north and south are the forces of the imperial court, even if they are not called emperors, the imperial court will not let them go.

On the contrary, if they are crowned emperors, they can also change their names to justice, and the people under them will also return to their hearts, and they will have more fighting spirit.

"Let's start preparing for the enthronement."

After thinking for a while, Su Hao said in a deep voice, "Don't make mistakes."

"I understand."

Ding Zimo replied, Xu Hongru had also been called the emperor before, but Xu Hongru's enthronement ceremony was extremely simple before, and the emperor was more like a farce, not only could not unite people's hearts, but made people see jokes, now that they occupy most of Shandong, Su Hao's enthronement ceremony naturally cannot be simple, at least it must be decent.

After Ding Zimo retreated, Su Hao came to the corridor and looked at the northwest from afar, holding five golden particles in his hand, which were the crystals of dragon qi.

Before, he had always thought about refining these five dragon qi crystals into divine weapons, but it was too late to do it, and now he wanted to ascend the throne and become the emperor, these dragon qi crystals could also come in handy, before he had secretly asked someone to help find a few good feng shui treasures, although it was not a dragon's lair, but it was not bad, if Su An was relocated and buried, and then the dragon qi crystals were buried in it, it would definitely protect future generations.

….

Thinking of this, Su Hao opened the system panel and chose the technique of paper-cutting.

1800 points!

Understand!

A lot of knowledge about making paper came into his mind, Su Hao casually took out a piece of white paper and began to fold it, and after a while, a paper ingots appeared, and after a while, the silver ingots in one place shone brightly, and the light of the silver almost blinded people.

Looking at the silver ingots all over the ground, Su Hao waved his hand, and all the silver ingots turned into blank pieces of paper and returned to his hands.

Naturally, he didn't get bored to learn the art of paper-cutting, but to fulfill the promise he had broken at the beginning.

When he was first buried, he invited hundreds of lonely souls and wild ghosts from the mass grave to guard the grave for Su An, and promised to worship and sacrifice for three years, but because of the Fan family's affairs, he broke his promise and did not go to the sacrifice, nor did he ask others to worship and sacrifice on his behalf.

After all, that side is the territory of the Fan family, and if he asks someone else to worship and sacrifice on his behalf, it is likely that Su An's cemetery will be discovered by the Fan family, so he chose to break his promise.

Now that he is ready to relocate Su An to the funeral, he naturally has to make up for the broken promise, and the silver ingots made through the technique of paper-cutting contain his mana, which is far from comparable to the paper money of those ingots tied by ordinary people, and it is enough to make up for his breach of contract with these ingots.

As night fell, a paper bird flapped its wings under the cover of night and headed northwest.

The next day, in the middle of the night.

In the wilderness, a paper bird slowly fell from the sky, and Su Hao jumped off the paper bird.

Looking at the grassy cemetery, Su Hao was full of emotion, time is like an arrow, time is like a shuttle, Su An's death was the second year of the apocalypse, and in the blink of an eye, six years have passed.

With a wave of his hand, the internal force surged!

In just an instant, the weeds in a radius of several feet were twisted into a sky full of grass clippings, and were carried away by the internal force, revealing a mound of graves with a luster of iron and stone.

Seeing this scene, Su Hao also felt a little guilty in his heart, these lonely souls and wild ghosts were poor people, because of his breach of contract, he was trapped in this small grave for six years, although those paper people gave those lonely souls and wild ghosts a place to stay, but it was also a kind of bondage, as long as he did not release the shackles on the paper figures, those lonely souls and wild ghosts would always be trapped here, until those paper people rotted and could not get out.

As the shackles of the paper man are untied, hundreds of illusory

The figure rushed out of the mound, and the next moment, the lonely souls and wild ghosts rushed towards Su Hao as if they had seen the enemy.

Seeing the lonely souls and wild ghosts rushing over, Su Hao was unmoved, these lonely souls and wild ghosts are just poor people, they can only stay in a place like a mass grave on weekdays, they have almost no ability to hurt people, and they can't even show up in front of ordinary people, only the kind of people whose yang energy is weak to the extreme will be hurt by these lonely souls and wild ghosts.

But for him now, if he is willing, a single thought can knock these lonely souls and wild ghosts away.

When the lonely soul and wild ghost found out that Su Hao couldn't help it, Su Hao took down a large handful of magic incense from the paper bird on the side, and there were hundreds of them.

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