Chapter 531: You can't live if you do your own evil

Xiangfan County, since February fell into the hands of the anti-king, the most prosperous county in Poyang Prefecture in the past, a year ago here is still a village in five miles, a town in ten miles, the river through the streets and alleys, hooking Xiangfan 800 streets, with a winding thousands of miles of rivers and lakes, half of the reputation of the bustling street, poor less than half a year's effort, it is already the people's livelihood withered, the villages and towns are dilapidated and uninhabited.

"Iniquity"

On the day of the night walk, Leng Zhuo led his soldiers and horses to bypass another city in the northwest of Jiaocheng and southeast of Xiangfan, Baizi City, more than half a month ago, this Baizi City was still the county seat that constituted the main battlefield of the two sides of the war.

And after Leng Zhuo captured Jiaocheng, most of the scattered Jiaocheng defenders retreated here, because the troops were stretched, so Leng Zhuo did not take advantage of the situation to seize here, and the defenders who retreated here were also seriously injured by the commander Han Tao and passed out, and the dragons were leaderless, just closed the city gate tightly and did not dare to go out of the city.

Leng Zhuo naturally didn't know about this section, so they went around Baizi City and tried to choose a remote path, but this is Xiangfan, and there are also dense villages and towns on the remote road, Leng Zhuo was still a little worried, but after walking all the way, he put his heart back in his stomach.

Along the way, I passed through several large villages one after another, saying that it was a village, but the scale of the pick up was comparable to a small town, with a population of more than 1,000 households, but these villages had long been out of people, after all, this was the place where the two sides fought before, and the huge village was burned down for most of it.

And the town that is passing through now is a big town in the southwest of Baizi County, and there are many bluestone and white-tiled mansions in the town, Leng Zhuo's three thousand soldiers and horses have temporarily blocked this place, and a military general has already rushed to the town with people, and Leng Zhuo also rode into this bluestone street, but he sent out a sigh.

Just looking at the shops on both sides of the street, it is enough to see the prosperity of this town in the past, but walking on the street on horseback, Leng Zhuo saw that the doors and windows were wide open, as if the scene of bandits, the blood stains on the street may have been washed away by the rain, but the threshold of the shop, and the wall outside the window, there are still a lot of dark red blood stains, which are particularly eye-catching.

There was only a small clash of swords in the town, and the calm returned, but this calm seemed a little abnormal compared to the huge town.

After half an hour's effort, the scattered soldiers and horses returned one after another.

"Young master, the defenders in the town have been taken, there are not many people, only about two hundred, the most fierce resistance of more than a dozen people directly cut down, the rest of the number has been dropped, and now they are all imprisoned in a big mansion, and a lot of food for food has also been collected, and people have done it"

"Well, I know, let's hurry up and eat and rest, and pay attention to arranging sentry detectives" Leng Zhuo said, turned his head, looked at the street side, a round tower on the crossroads, a four-story restaurant, turned his head, and said to Zhuge Liang: "Strategist, let's rest here."

Zhuge Liang nodded, and a group of people entered the restaurant, obviously there was also a military disaster here, and there were some days when no one took care of it, not to mention a layer of ash on the ground, and even the tables and chairs were horizontal, indicating that no one was running here.

On the fourth floor, the soldiers rearranged the tables and chairs, wiped them clean, Leng Zhuo and Zhuge Liang found a place near the window and sat down, looking at the streets of the town, looking down from here, it seemed that they could see the prosperity of the past here.

Kicking and kicking, Leng Zhuo looked out the window silently, did not speak, and sighed in his heart, at this time, there was a sound of going upstairs on the stairs, but it was Xu Chu who came up with a thin man, and before Leng Zhuo asked, Xu Chu had already said angrily: "Young master, I just saw this thin man hiding behind the pillar below with a bad peek, and when he saw us coming, he wanted to run away, and he wanted to click him directly, but he said that he was the shopkeeper of this restaurant."

"Oh" Leng Zhuo's eyes swept to the thin middle-aged man, and said, "You are the shopkeeper of this restaurant"

"My lord, what the little one said is true, there is absolutely no half-truth, if there is a lie, it will make my whole family die a good death" The shopkeeper knelt on the ground and swore an oath.

"Okay, stand up and talk, what's your name, why are you hiding, and run away when you see someone"

The shopkeeper thanked him, then stood up and said with a wry smile: "Back to the adult, the small one is called Gu Sheng, the big shopkeeper of this Hongyun Restaurant, as for why you ran before, if you don't like to hear it, you are scared."

"Oh?"

Gu Sheng opened a restaurant, naturally he was clever and good at observing words and feelings, and secretly looked at Leng Zhuo and the others, and said cautiously: "Can the little one take the liberty of asking, who is the adult?"

"Bold" Xu Chu stared at the tiger directly, and suddenly frightened Gu Sheng shrank his neck.

Leng Zhuo smiled and said, "No need to do this, I believe that the Gu shopkeeper should have nothing to do with those anti-king armies, right" Leng Zhuo said and looked at Gu Sheng.

"Yes, yes" Gu Sheng couldn't hear the other meaning of Leng Zhuo's words, since the Xiangyang Wang Army was said to be an anti-army, it was naturally the Chuzhou Army, Gu Sheng nodded, and suddenly knelt on the floor with a pop, and said: "My lord, you can be regarded as coming, you have to make decisions for us poor people."

Gu Sheng came like this, but Leng Zhuo was a little puzzled, and hurriedly said: "Shopkeeper Gu, what are you doing, get up and talk quickly"

Gu Sheng snorted, and said with tears: "My lord, you don't know, how did I come here in the past half a year, that group of anti-king troops is simply a group of locusts, we have more than 5,000 households in Chenfeng Town, nearly 20,000 people, and now there are not even 1,800 people left, fleeing, killing, catching, grabbing, robbing, a good town, I can't even smell the roosters and dogs barking, we look forward to the rebel army can be killed, and this group of rebels will be killed, the sky has eyes, finally let me wait for this day"

Leng Zhuo asked Gu Sheng to tell him in detail what had happened in the past six months, and Gu Sheng naturally didn't say anything and told it.

Since February, the entire Xiangfan was occupied by the anti-king army, at first it was just an ordinary military disaster, and there were no eyes for swords and guns, so some people fled at that time, but the local defenders were defeated too quickly, and more people did not flee at all, and for the common people, even if it changed for a day, it was not necessarily a bad thing for them.

After that, it was stable for a month, but in April, the territory of Xiangfan County was lively, in order to raise food, the anti-Wang army began to loot in all directions, and the looting was ruthless, naturally some people resisted, this resistance can be regarded as an opening for killing, but there is still moderation after all.

But after the anti-king army began to recruit soldiers, everything changed, and the recruits led by gangsters and ruffians began bloody plundering of various villages and towns, and Situ Nalan, the king of Xiangyang, was also a straw bag, when he first entered Xiangyang City, he killed for money, as long as there was a lot of gold and silver, grain and grass, and beautiful women sent up, he didn't care about the plundering of the soldiers below.

No matter what the top doesn't care about, no one restricts it, and all of a sudden, the entire Xiangfan County has become a hell on earth, and in less than three months, it will become what it is now.

"This Situ Nalan ......" Leng Zhuo thought about words in his mind for a long time, and couldn't find an adjective, this guy is so virtuous, and he rebelled, if there was no support from Li Tang's back, it is estimated that he would not even have the qualifications to bubble.

And Zhuge Liang heard some information, and said: "Young master, this Situ Nalan conscription and food, Na Beauty, will be a good Xiangfan to make the people bored, the place is tired, but it has helped us a lot, originally this Xiangfan is prosperous, even if we are hiding our whereabouts, we can't hide from the villages and towns, if this Situ Nalan treats the people well, it is still a little difficult for us to attack Xiangyang, but now it seems that this time to the north, our army will definitely return with a big victory"

Leng Zhuo also nodded, whoever wins the hearts of the people wins the world, this Situ Nalan plays like this, even if there is no Leng Zhuo, it is estimated that he will not live long, the previous worry is in vain, Situ Nalan, wait for Ben Shao to go to Xiangyang to get your head

After eating rebellion in the town, after noon, the sun was not so hot, Leng Zhuo led the troops to continue to advance, and using this period of time, the front team sent to explore the cavalry has captured the next town, which can be said to be a smooth mess, and Leng Zhuo and his party only need to hurry all the way.

It is almost unimaginable that such a thing happened in the area occupied by the enemy, but it happened anyway.

The anti-king army of the king of Xiangyang was almost all gathered in several places, and Leng Zhuo and his party entered the hinterland of Xiangfan County, but they encountered not many soldiers and horses.

Leng Zhuo led 3,000 soldiers and horses to march day and night, but he didn't encounter the slightest obstruction, and even alarmed Xiangyang City's lurking to Liping City, the southeast gateway of Xiangyang City, and almost didn't even move a few knives, he controlled this Xiangyang portal, which was less than eighty miles away from Xiangyang City.

Just wait for a day of rest, early tomorrow morning, three thousand soldiers and horses will take Xiangyang directly, but when Leng Zhuo arrived in Liping City, in Jiaocheng, Fu Yu, the general of the Black Scales Folding Fuzhonglang, was standing at the head of the city, his face flickered, the expected bloody battle in front of Jiaocheng City did not happen, and this choke point between East Lake and Xiangfan did not even have a ghost shadow.

Fu Yu's soldiers and horses on this road in addition to the two thousand black scale demon guards under his command, the rest is more than 10,000 new troops that are still usable, Fu Yu had planned to sacrifice more than 10,000 people, fight in Jiaocheng, and then use the ability of the black scale demon guards to dive, disappear from the East Lake, and then sacrifice these 10,000 soldiers and horses in exchange for the opportunity to get out of the shell of the golden cicada, but he didn't expect that Jiaocheng, which made him cautious for most of the day, was actually an empty city.

Accidental, but more incomprehensible, easy to take Jiaocheng, then there is no need for any golden cicada to get out of the shell, it is completely possible to use Jiaocheng to defend, Fu Yu asked people to contact Baizicheng, and at the same time ordered his soldiers and horses to repair the city wall, intending to block the Chuzhou soldiers and horses who caught up here.

And he stood at the head of the city, wondering, where did the soldiers and horses that captured the city go?