The ferry is very close to the city gate, only a few dozen steps away, just at the edge of the shooting range.
Seeing the Peng family members fleeing in all directions, the archers of the Yuan army on the city began to shoot freely.
A stray arrow, as if it had eyes, flew straight towards Peng Lang.
What a coincidence, this flying arrow with little remaining power hit Peng Lang's throat.
Peng Lang covered his neck with both hands and used all his strength to turn his head, finally seeing his father's face.
Peng Lang opened his mouth and wanted to speak, but no sound came out.
"Lang'er!"
Mr. Peng let out a wailing cry, and before he could get up to catch his son, Peng Lang fell headlong onto the river beach.
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Yuan Yao did not order a pursuit, but drove the Peng family members out of the city and immediately closed the city gate.
Counting the casualties, a total of thirty-six people were killed, twenty-seven were seriously injured, and more than sixty were slightly injured.
More than 70% of the casualties occurred near the south gate, mainly due to the return of more than 400 Peng family members, which caused the battle to fall into a brief stalemate.
Fortunately, after Huang Yi entered the city, he massacred people and created quite a chaos. The Peng family could not figure out what was true and were driven to a corner of the south gate in confusion.
Without Huang Yi, Yuan Yao would have had to fight in the streets with the Peng family after entering the city. To capture the entire Shangliao City, he would have to pay greater casualties.
Not long after the city gate was closed, hundreds of Peng family fishing boats came from the east and west, still full of Peng family members.
Although these people were very aggressive, they had nothing to do with the three-foot-high stone wall. They could only yell and curse.
All of Yuan's soldiers were extremely tired, lying down or sitting with their eyes closed to take a rest, just thinking that the scoldings of the Peng family fell on deaf ears.
Yuan Yao was wary and divided the more than 300 people who could move into three teams.
One team lay on the city wall to rest, while the other team suppressed more than a thousand Peng clan members in the city, either killing or binding them, so that they had no ability to resist. The last team searched for supplies to defend the city and found food to fill everyone's stomachs.
It was meal time at this moment, and many clan members in the city had already cooked pots and cooked rice, but these soldiers of Yuan Army were in vain.
An hour passed quickly, and the team that rested first began to patrol the city and defend the city, while the other two teams ate and rested.
Relying on hundreds of boats to connect them, groups of Peng family members soon gathered outside the city.
Soon, the men began cutting down trees and creating ladders and bumpers on site.
Yuan Yao frowned:
"The momentum of these people seems to be much worse than before!"
"Although everyone seems to be preparing siege equipment, people's hearts are already divided. Look at the group of people over there, everyone is hurriedly building ladders, but the group of people over there are listless, working harder and harder. The more boring you become.”
"It seems there aren't as many people as before!"
Huang Yi also looked at the city, but he didn't think much about it for the moment.
"Thousands of them beat 500 of us. They lost several times in a row and even had their hometown stolen by us. It is inevitable that their morale will be lost."
"Let's be ready to defend the city!"
Yuan Yao shook his head, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.
This river island is formed by alluvial silt, so it is extremely fertile. It is mostly fertile farmland and does not have many trees.
Fortunately, there was a small bamboo forest. The Peng family members quickly cut down the bamboo forest and built more than a dozen bamboo ladders.
Yuan's troops in the city also all boarded the city and were ready.
But the imagined battle to defend the city did not happen. Yuan Jun just watched the Peng clan members carry ladders to the bottom of the city more than a hundred steps away. But before the attack was launched, groups of people broke away from the siege team.
Soon, these thousands of Peng clan members scattered in groups of three to five hundred and fled in different directions. Only more than twenty ladders and countless weapons were left behind.
Yuan Jun did not dare to leave the city rashly, but just watched the thousands of people disperse.
Everyone was confused until they saw a Biao army coming from the north.
The leading general rode his horse to the front of the city and asked loudly: "I am Sima Ludai of another department. Can you, young master, be in the city?"
Seeing that the person coming was indeed Lu Dai, Huang Yi said excitedly: "General Lu! I am Huang Yi!"
"Captain Yuan and I are both here, everything is fine!"
"Quick, open the city gate!"
Lu Dai was surprised and happy. He quickly dismounted and walked quickly into the city gate.
"Young Master, the rescue is late, please forgive me!"
Seeing that Yuan Yao was safe and sound, Lu Dai also let out a sigh of relief, knelt down and bowed his head and said:
"No need, Duke Ding. If I had known you would come so quickly, I would have waited for you at the entrance of the bridge on the north bank!"
Yuan Yao calculated the time and found that Lu Dai arrived very quickly. It seemed that even if he didn't attack Liao by surprise, he could still hold on until Lu Dai came to support him.
Lu Dai stood up and said respectfully: "After the general returned to the camp, he learned that the young master had left the camp, so he immediately ordered his troops and horses to help the young master."
Yuan Yao nodded: "Then you should have met Yuan Bao and the others on the way. How is Yuan Bao now?"
Lu Dai: "Captain Yuan was seriously injured. When General Mo saw him, he had already passed out..."
Seeing the change in Yuan Yao's face, Lu Dai hurriedly said: "But don't worry, young master, I heard that Doctor Zhang's close friend Hua Tuohua, the miracle doctor, just arrived in Haihun this morning. After I sent Magistrate He to take office, I stopped by to take him." Taken back to the camp!"
"I believe that Medical Officer Zhang and Divine Doctor Hua will come to the rescue together, so Guard Chief Yuan must be fine!"
If it were any other time, Yuan Yao would have been extremely excited when he heard Hua Tuo's name.
But at this moment, Yuan Yao's mind was filled with Yuan Bao's bloody chest, and he was just silent when he heard this.
Looking down, Yuan Yao saw that Lu Dai's body was also stained with blood.
"How did Duke Ding come here? Didn't I break the wooden bridge?"
Lu Dai suddenly realized: "It turns out that the young master broke the bridge!"
"It was all thanks to the young master's formation that he killed Peng Hu, the general of the Peng family. The last general was able to easily defeat more than a thousand Peng's tribesmen on the north bank."
"When the general arrived at the bridge entrance, the broken bridge had been repaired by the Peng family and was almost passable. It happened that the general had picked it up and made it ready-made!"
"If the young master hadn't used his troops like a god, how could he have achieved such a great victory!"
General of the Peng family? Peng Hu?
Yuan Yao immediately thought of the eight-foot tall man who killed the Zhao brothers, but he didn't expect that he was the Peng Hu who gathered tens of thousands of people to cause trouble in the history books!
After some exchanges, Yuan Yao also figured out why the thousands of Peng family members just left.
After Yuan Yao planned to kill Peng Hu, the Peng family was leaderless, so Peng Cai had no choice but to land from the water and personally command the troops.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the wooden bridge was repaired, Lu Dai led 1,500 Yuan troops to attack from behind.
The leader of the Peng family, Peng Zhao, was at the back. Faced with Lu Dai's attack from behind, he was once again caught off guard.
The last time he was defeated by Yuan Yao's fire horse formation, this time he was killed directly, being chopped to death by Lu Dai who rushed up with his sword.
Lu Dai and his men even charged and killed each other, causing chaos among the Peng family on the north bank.
Lu Dai was not a reckless person. He also ordered people to wave flags and cheers from behind, so that Peng Cai could not tell the truth from the truth, and he did not know how many troops Yuan Jun had.
Peng Cai did not dare to engage in battle easily. Fortunately, most of the Peng family members on the north bank had already been transferred to the south bank or boarded the boat by Peng Jin.
So Peng Cai left a few hundred people to guard the bridge, and he took thousands of people and ran to the foot of Shangliao City.
However, Shangliao had already been captured by Yuan Yao. Seeing that he could not return home, Peng Cai ordered his men to build wooden ladders and bumping trees in preparation for a storming attack.
But at this time, there was a fortified city in front of them, and there were pursuers behind them. Moreover, there were rumors that Mr. Peng and his son were both dead. The Peng family's ragtag group was already divided.
So before they had time to formally attack the city, as soon as they heard that Beiqiaokou was not defended, the leaders of the various clans, large and small, took their people and ran away.
Yuan Yao didn't expect that he would win so easily in the end.
The next day, Yuan Yao moved his camp to Shangliao City.
Shangliao City is not large, and there are not many residents. The largest areas are the ten granaries built by the Peng family.
Each granary has a capacity of 20,000 dendrobium, and all ten granaries are almost full.
Naturally, Yuan Yao would not give up on such a fortified city that contained a lot of food and was easy to defend but difficult to attack.
Moreover, Shangliao's geographical location is also extremely important. Shangliao City guards the Xiushui River and is a barrier for the three counties in the northwest of Yuzhang.
Cross the Xiushui River from Shangliao and walk a hundred miles south to reach Nanchang City.
If something changes after Yuan Yao goes to the county to govern Nanchang, he can quickly return to Shangliao and use Chaisang, Liling and Haihun counties as bases to make further plans.
After only one day's rest, Yuan Jun immediately began to clean up the surrounding Peng clan forces.
Peng Cai, the core figure of the Peng clan, disappeared after that day.
Many major branches of the Peng family ran away at night before Yuan Jun could take action. I heard that most of them ran eastward to Pengze, Poyang and other places.
Many small branches hid in the mountains, and Yuan Jun had few soldiers and had no spare time to search and suppress them.
Yuan Yao also followed He Kui's advice and pardoned the thousands of tenant households with foreign surnames who were originally attached to the Peng family, and gave them land that originally belonged to the Peng family for farming.
During this process, some small households with the surname Peng came to them and said that their surname was not Peng before, but they changed their surname to Peng due to various unavoidable reasons.
These people came to Yuan Yao because they were jealous of those tenants who had land to share, and they also wanted a share of the pie.
Yuan Yao was too lazy to deal with these losers and let He Kui, the county magistrate, make his own decision.
He Kui was quite resourceful and distributed all the vast hectares of farmland owned by the Peng family in Shangliaohezhou and Dongjinting to other households in Haihun County.
In exchange, these households need to hand over their land to the county government, which will then distribute it to the tenants who are attached to the Peng family and those who don't know their last names.
This is the best of both worlds, killing two birds with one stone!
First of all, the vast hectares of farmland occupied by the Peng family in Shangliaohezhou and Dongjinting are both larger in quantity and of better quality than those owned by all other households in the county.
So when other households were asked to give up their land in exchange, these people were naturally willing to do so.
But after all, the Peng family has been in the sea for more than a hundred years, and most people are still afraid that the Peng family will make a comeback and are worried about the Peng family's revenge, so they dare not accept the Peng family's fertile land.
He Kui immediately posted a notice stating that from now on Shangliao City would be the garrison of Yuan Yao's army, with horse-mounted infantry troops permanently stationed to protect the safety of the county people.
At this time, everyone finally felt relieved, and He Kui asked the government officials to publicize the policy of first come, first served, first come, first picked. In a short time, the exchange of land deeds broke the threshold of the Haihun County government office.
On the other side, the tenants who were dependent on the Peng family were originally landless people, but now that the government directly gave them land and farm tools for free, they were naturally happy.
As for whether they were assigned to middle field or lower field, they didn't have the capital to choose one or the other.
Taking advantage of the popular support, He Kui recruited more than a thousand strong soldiers for Yuan Yao in just half a month.
Among the hundreds of households in Shangliao City, there are still more than a thousand people left at this time. Because each of these clans had clan soldiers participating in the battle against Yuan's army, Yuan Yao punished all of these more than a thousand people as slaves.
After the war, Yuan Yao also rewarded people according to their merits and fulfilled his promises one by one.
Huang Yi, who had outstanding military exploits in this battle, was given the title of general by Yuan Yao.
For soldiers who had meritorious service in killing the enemy, a record of military exploits was first established, because the families of these soldiers were all in Chaisang, and now there were only two ways to allocate land and houses to them.
One is to move the family to Shangliao to divide the fields, and the other is to reward Chaisang on the spot.
If you are willing to move to Shangliao, it is best. There are ready-made fertile fields and houses, farm tools, cattle and slaves for them.
The Peng family is not an ordinary surname from a powerful family, it is a real wealthy landowner. Yuan Yao is not worried about not having anything to reward him.
Those who were unwilling to move again would send the compiled military exploits book to Lu Su, the magistrate of Chaisang County, who would reward him on his behalf.
This also initially established Yuan Jun's military merit reward system.
Yuan Yao rested in Shangliao for more than half a month, and his troops increased without losing anything. The horse and infantry army expanded to 3,000 people. Moreover, he heard that the three counties of Haihun, Chaisang and Liling were reforming the official administration and encouraging farmers to farm mulberry trees. Refugees continued to come after hearing the news. cast.
The households and soldiers in the three counties under Yuan Yao's rule can be described as increasing day by day!
I think it won't be long before these three counties in the northwest of Yuzhang will become Yuan Yao's strong base.
But after all, Yuan Yao didn't have much time to stay in Shangliao to farm and train troops. After only half a month's rest, Yuan Yao ordered 2,000 horse infantry, and together with Zheng Bao's 2,000 navy, went straight to Nanchang.
It's a pity that Yuan Bao can only stay in Shangliao forever.
Yuan Yao felt as if he had been struck by lightning when he heard the news, and was speechless for a long time.
Is this the fate of Yuan Bao, the personal guard?
He couldn't blame him harshly. After all, the surgical master Hua Tuo and the medical master Zhang Zhongjing couldn't bring people back from hell.
All I can say is that time is destiny!
If Yuan Bao had not pulled out the arrow at that time, would it not have caused irreversible bleeding, and would the situation have been different?
If he had worn armor and brought more soldiers and horses when he left the camp, would Yuan Bao not have to die?
In countless nights, Yuan Yao asked himself countless times.
From that day on, Yuan Yao made it a point to never leave his armor. Whenever he got up, he would put on his armor and strictly organize his military affairs.
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Shangliao is not far from Nanchang, where Yuzhang County is governed.
Yuan Yao has not received a letter asking for help from Zhuge Xuan for a long time.
After he captured Chaisang, Zhuge Xuan would send a letter asking for help every two or three days, asking Yuan Yao to lead troops to Nanchang City to help him resist Zhu Hao's attack.
But Yuan Yao has not seen the envoy sent by Zhuge Xuan for more than a week.
Yuan Yao couldn't help but suspect that something had changed in Nanchang, so he accelerated his march.
Two thousand horse infantry arrived at Nanchang City in two days.
Seeing the "Zhuge" flag rustling on the city wall, Yuan Yao finally felt relieved.
Zhuge Liang, here I come!
