Chapter 149: Attacking the Heart
After changing his strategy and setting a siege plan, Lu Yuan became less interested in attacking the city in the following days.
Those captives who went first were lucky.
did not follow in the footsteps of the first group of troops, and most of them died at the foot of the city wall.
But even so, the captives were not free.
After several sieges, the remaining 7,000 captives were organized and began to dig trenches, set antler traps, and build low walls around the city.
But it was Lu Yuan who was ready to completely isolate Luyang Mansion City from the outside world.
The actions of the officers and soldiers outside the city were naturally seen by the rebels of the Seven Star Gate in the city.
After they calculated that the officers and soldiers were going to besiege the city, they were naturally unwilling to sit idly by and organize a commando team to go out of the city to destroy.
However, for these surprise attacks, Lu Yuan had already prepared.
The hundreds of people who left the city crashed directly into his encirclement, were directly annihilated, and none of them went back.
After this defeat, the thieves in the city were completely honest. Every day, standing on the city wall, watching the projects in full swing outside, one by one became ostriches.
Outside, if you want to surround it, they have made up their minds to defend it, and now there is no way out.
Whether they were besieged or not, there is not much difference.
And Lu Yuan didn't pay attention to them anymore after making sure that the thieves in the city had broken their courage.
He left behind 3,000 Xiandeng troops, 3,000 volunteers, and 5,000 soldiers to continue to build fortifications and besiege the city.
He directly led 4,000 Xiandeng troops and 5,000 soldiers, a total of 9,000 troops, to seize Linwu County in the south of Luyang Prefecture.
This county is the only place in the entire Luyang Mansion that still continues to hang the rebel flag and worship the Seven Star Gate, and it can be said that it is the most stubborn diehard.
And Linwu County is so stubborn, the reason is normal, because this county is where the Seven Star Gate is located.
The old nest of the main altar of the Seven Star Gate is on the Yuanluo Mountain in Linwu County.
The entire Linwu County, from the gentry and wealthy families to the common people, can be said to be inextricably linked to Qixingmen.
Most of the families in this county are either disciples of the Seven Star Sect, or the peripheral forces of the Seven Star Sect or the disciples themselves, and these people are involved in this rebellion.
In such a rebellious place in the county, it is impossible to expect them to surrender to the imperial court.
According to the news that Lu Yuan has gotten in the past few days, now in Linwu County, ordinary people have begun to pay for men, and those big families have also begun to have money and grain.
At this time, he was still so iron-headed, and gathered a team of thousands of people, ready to defend to the death.
To the south of Linwu County is Yangshan Mansion, where the territory of the Miao rebels is located.
Since Lu Yuan planned to besiege Luyang Mansion City, he naturally had to prevent those Miao people from going north.
Therefore, it became necessary to seize the county seat of Linwu, completely eradicate the peripheral forces of Qixingmen, build a defense line here, and block the Miao people.
Of course, in addition to this goal, Lu Yuan personally led the army here, and he also planned to try his luck at the main altar of the Seven Star Gate to see if he could gain something.
Although I also knew that it was impossible, what if the Seven Star Gate's door exercises, as well as the Pure Water Xuanniu, a god-blood xenomorph, had not had time to transfer away and remained in the main altar?
If he can grab one of these things, it will be all blood for him.
Therefore, in the spirit of grabbing it is earning, Lu Yuan came to visit it in person.
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Entering the territory of Linwu County, Lu Yuan's feeling was suddenly different.
The local people here are not afraid of the army like the local people in other places in Luyang Mansion.
There is also fear here, but in addition to fear and fear, there is a touch of hostility and hatred.
There were even times when he led his army through some mountain trails, and he was attacked spontaneously by the local people.
These guys hid in the shadows of the mountains, attacked with cold shots, and then ran away after the fight, without hesitation.
Along the way, such a constant attack, although the casualties caused are not many, but the annoyance is annoying enough.
What made Lu Yuan feel the most uncomfortable was perhaps because most of the people in this county were disciples of the Seven Star Sect, and many of those attackers were people who had practiced martial arts.
All of them are good, and many of them have also practiced internal strength and are proficient in local geography.
Even if Lu Yuan sent his elite scouts from Orion to pursue, he often couldn't get any benefits in the mountains and forests, not only did he not catch up with anyone, but he was killed a lot by the other side.
After walking down such a road, the army only traveled more than 30 miles, encountered no less than 10 attacks, and caused more than 100 casualties.
What is even more serious is that this state of being beaten all the time has seriously dealt a blow to the morale of the military.
This is something he cannot bear.
Finally, after passing through another mountain forest, after being attacked again.
Lu Yuan couldn't stand it anymore.
He sent his disciples to take action and capture the attackers.
A group of third-rate martial artists made a move, and the effect was naturally extraordinary.
Unlike the previous failures, most of the dozens of traitors in this attack were quickly killed, and the rest were captured alive.
After interrogation, these people were all residents of the surrounding villages and towns, because some people in the family were disciples of the Seven Star Sect, so they stood up against the attacking army this time.
In the entire Linwu County, almost all the people participated in the rebellion. Every family is a traitor, and there is no innocent person at all.
"In Linwu County, there are all traitors. These people stubbornly resisted the orders of the imperial court, and they were so thieves that they could no longer be educated. ”
Lu Yuan looked at the interrogation results reported up, his face turned completely pale, and he looked at his disciples and said, "You and others will lead their headquarters and go to various villages and towns for me to arrest all the local rebels."
Didn't those traitors in this county resist to the end and refuse to surrender?
I want to see that I have taken all their relatives and fellow villagers, and made them into a pre-arranger, and drove them to the siege.
Those rebels in Linwu County still dare to harden their hearts and kill their family relatives. ”
He was disgusted by the attacks he had been coming from these days.
In two days, the army had traveled thirty miles, twice as slow as before.
And after walking for a few miles, there is an experience of a traitor attack, which is really disgusting.
At this time, when he heard that almost all of the people in this county were thieves, and he was determined to resist the imperial court to the end, the last trace of patience and kindness in Lu Yuan's heart also dispersed.
The local people, like those Miao people, belong to the die-hard elements that cannot be insected or saved.
The best way to deal with these unstable factors is to physically remove them like the Miao people.
If you can't solve the trouble, then solve the person who caused the trouble.
The family members of these Seven Star Sect disciples are the source of trouble. If they are not cleaned up, Linwu County, and even the entire Luyang Mansion, will never be stable.
Lu Yuan had such a realization in his heart.
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General Fenwu's order was quickly carried out.
His disciples soon led their own subordinates, according to a battalion of 500 people, scattered to various villages and towns, and began to arrest the local rebels.
In fact, the locals of Linwu County, after making the decision to resist to the end, had the action of relocating and evacuating the people, allowing them to avoid military disasters and avoid being retaliated against by the imperial court.
However, tens of thousands of people in a county, scattered over a hundred miles of land, dozens of villages and towns, where can they be evacuated.
Therefore, when Lu Yuan sent people to arrest the rebels, although many villages and towns were empty, there were always one or two of the three or five villages and towns that did not have time to evacuate, or did not evacuate.
Even those who had been evacuated and hiding, many of them were found hiding and arrested.
This strategy really worked.
After sending a large army to search for the local villages and towns, there were many fewer attacks on the road.
Because there were many of them, people from the villages and towns.
At this time, their family was all ended, and naturally it was impossible to come out and make trouble again.
And those who have not been killed at home are also afraid of attacking again and exposing their family's hiding place, causing the whole family to suffer, and they dare not come out to do activities again.
In this way, the army marched, and without the harassment of those flies, it was immediately quiet.
This continued for several days.
By the time Lu Yuan finally arrived at Linwu County with a large army, many of his disciples had already taken thousands of captives and rushed to rendezvous.
However, at this time, the camp had not yet been established, so Lu Yuan did not immediately attack the city. Instead, let people build the camp first and wait for the others to return.
After waiting outside the city for another two days, all the disciples who had been sent out finally returned.
At this time, after several days of searching, the number of rebels arrested from all over the country directly exceeded 10,000.
However, most of these tens of thousands of captives are old and weak women and children, and women even account for more than half.
Who let the men in their family either be surrounded in Luyang Mansion City, or the rest are in Linwu County, ready to resist stubbornly.
These people are gone, and what is left behind are women, children, and the elderly.
Lu Yuan didn't have much pity for these people.
The fathers, husbands, and sons of these people all rebelled against the court at this time and stood on the opposite side of him.
Don't arrest them at this time, and break these rebellious resistance.
Then if you really follow the normal process to attack the city, and your own men die, it will not be hundreds or thousands, but tens of thousands.
Lu Yuan is a Fenwu general, and on the battlefield, he is only responsible for the lives of his subordinates.
As for the family scrolls of these traitors, whether they are dead or alive depends on whether those traitors are ruthless or not.
If the other party can really be ruthless and kill his wife, parents, and children, then there is nothing to say, this kind of heartless and crazy person must be eradicated, and no one can be left.
If you can't be ruthless, then you can naturally break the city and easily take over Linwu County.
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Thundered!
Huge drums thundered, and army after army marched out of the camp and gathered a hundred paces away from the city.
Lu Yuan stood on the high command car, looked at Linwu County, which was obviously nervous in the distance, his expression was cold, and he directly ordered: "Get those traitors out of the house." ”
The order was passed down, and after a while, a large crowd of men, women, and children, crying and shouting, was driven by the soldiers towards the front of the army.
Although it is said that they were driven to attack the city, these people did not have any weapons, which was the experience summed up by the soldiers after suffering losses.
Many of the family members of these Seven Star Gate traitors have practiced martial arts, even children and women, they can dance twice when they get a sword.
In the past few days, when these rebels were arrested, many soldiers had suffered losses, and they were attacked by these rebels and lost their lives.
This time Lu Yuan didn't expect that these people would really be able to capture the city.
The real use of these traitors' family scrolls is not to attack the city, but to break the resistance of the thieves. Disrupt the morale of the opposing army and make the rebels in the city surrender directly.
The first batch of traitors in Wuyang, two or three thousand people quickly rushed to the front of the city wall.
"Huzi! I'm your mother. ”
"Father!"
"Daddy!"
"Boss."
"Brother Zhao Song, help me!"
These traitors were driven to the vicinity of the city wall, and immediately cried and cried out for help from the traitors on the city wall.
Such a scene really moved the people above.
The rebel defenders in the city came from all the towns and villages in the county. Many of them were still accompanying their relatives two days ago, but at this time they were summoned and prepared to defend the city and resist.
At this time, relatives gathered here in the past few days, and many of the rebels on the city wall saw their parents, wives, brothers and sisters, and children.
"Mother, why are you here?"
"Da Lang, don't squeeze forward, don't squeeze forward."
"Mother-in-law, what's wrong at home?"
Recognized the traitor who was involved in his own volume, and looked at the human roll huddled below, and his eyes suddenly split.
Some people even scolded loudly.
"The court of the dog day, if you have the ability to fight on the battlefield in a dignified manner, what kind of ability is it to coerce the relatives?"
"It's not a disaster for parents and families, these court dog thieves don't pay attention to morality, they are too vicious and shameless."
On the city wall, there was a mess all of a sudden.
And at this time, Lu Yuan also sent a team of men and horses, carrying the stairs, and mixed in the crowd and climbed towards the city wall.
Seeing that the officers and soldiers wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to attack the city, there was suddenly a rebel leader on the city tower, and he ordered to throw arrows and stones to block the enemy army.
Some of the traitors whose families were in the city did what they were told.
Immediately, he threw the burned gold juice rolling stone towards the city tower, and the arrow in his hand was loosened and shot into the crowd.
Needless to say, there was a sudden scream. The already chaotic crowd suddenly became even more chaotic, and the stampede continued.
"Fuck you, there's my mother-in-law below, who dares to do it."
"My old parents are down there, and I'm going to save them."
"My son is in the crowd, big guy, don't do it, don't do it!"
"Whoever dares to release an arrow, I will cut him!"
"Everyone is a fellow villager, can you bear to kill the big guy's relatives?"
On the tower of the city, some traitors who were involved in the family scrolls immediately turned red when they saw that someone really wanted to attack the officers and soldiers who were mixed in the family scrolls.
Some of them were so grumpy that they raised their swords and slashed at those people.
When some of the people around saw it, they also got out of the way, neither stopping nor following.
Those officers wanted to stop it, but when they looked at the unkind eyes one by one, they suddenly felt a chill in their hearts. I swallowed what I wanted to say.
But this mess will soon be over.
Because under the city wall, some officers and soldiers who climbed fast have already climbed the city wall.
And those traitors saw it, hesitated, and didn't dare to make a move.
After all, his family is below, and if he kills these officers and soldiers, then his family will be the next to die.
Ultimately.
I don't know who was the first to throw down the weapons in their hands, and after a bang, a large number of rebels put down their weapons and surrendered on the ground.
"This city, ruined."
In the distance, Lu Yuan saw this scene, and a smile suddenly appeared on his face.
My own strategy worked.
In just one day, the city was destroyed.
It seems that this old nest of the Seven Star Gate is still not as iron as imagined.
It's good that he doesn't want to kill people on a large scale.
After all, they are all low-level people, not people who have committed the most heinous crimes.