Qingzhu held a large black bow in his hand and stood on the highest north watchtower of the City Lord's Mansion in Xishui City, looking at the two groups of people running from the north and south, holding torches along the road towards the City Lord's Mansion.
One of the three powerful families outside the city, Qi, Wang, and Li, joined forces, and the other was the manpower gathered by fifteen large families including Gongsun, Yin, and Zhao in the city, and Ma and Zhang outside the city.
These two groups of people were noisy, cursed, and rushed in, causing everyone in the city to panic. Every house closed its doors and did not dare to show up.
Taking over Xishui City, everything went smoothly at the beginning.
Qingzhu, with a thousand men and horses, originally only took over the dock to prepare for the majority of the men who followed, but was not prepared to take over the city immediately.
As a result, the personnel left by the Wen family to deal with the aftermath came to the house and honestly handed over all the maps, account books and official rosters with a very sincere attitude.
They took the initiative to hand over power, so Qingzhu had no reason not to do so.
Qingzhu was worried and sent people to check the warehouse. The grain, grass, equipment, silver, and materials were all correct.
As a result, the two parties handed over smoothly, and each engraved and stamped the letters, which was regarded as completing the handover of Xishui City.
After completing the handover, the Wen family's remaining personnel immediately left, as if there was a vicious dog chasing behind them.
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Qingzhu didn't think much about it - all the things that should be handed over were handed over, the account books and maps were clear, and even the things in the warehouse were not missing. What more could you ask for?
Qingzhu felt that it wasn't that difficult to stand alone.
When she was in Nanhe Mansion, her job content was basically: take as many people as possible, go where, and kill as many as possible.
Even if there are other things to pay attention to, they are just trivial details such as whether to completely exterminate the house, whether it is possible to set fire to it, and so on.
This is the first time that she has been on her own and handled such relatively complex administrative work independently. With such smooth progress ahead of her, Qingzhu can't help but feel a little elated.
Of course, taking over the city gates, weapons warehouses, and grain warehouses, dividing the troops to guard the city walls, and stationing troops at the docks outside the city are all basic operations. Qingzhu did not even need to give orders. The subordinates assigned to her had fought many battles in the five southern mansions. As a veteran officer, he is very familiar with these things.
Nothing happened on the first day, everything went smoothly.
The next day, Qingzhu, based on Zhechong Division's experience in suppressing local areas, announced that Xishui City would temporarily enter a state of military control, taking over key businesses such as monitoring the grain store, and sent people to inspect the city, collect labor, and build camps to prepare for the arrival of the subsequent army.
Those who are close to Zhu are red and those who are close to Mo are dark. After seeing Lu Wu's method of doing things, Qingzhu didn't know what step-by-step was, let alone a soft policy. In her opinion, there were only two ways: issuing orders and killing those who disobeyed them. Work——Lian Qingzhu is like this, and the people below him are only more ruthless.
But in fact, Lu Wu first won the hearts and minds of the military in the five southern mansions, and then subdued the leading nobles, so naturally no one else resisted.
However, Qingzhu skipped the procedure of subduing the local wealthy families and directly ordered military control - in the eyes of the local wealthy families, it was to completely loot their wealth.
So on the night of the third day, all the wealthy families in Xishui City and outside the city rebelled.
Being caught off guard, coupled with a night attack, and people cooperating inside and outside, the two city gates suddenly fell.
"General, we have too few people in the city, so we should withdraw first. We will be in trouble if we are surrounded in the city lord's palace later." said a female guard.
There were at least two to three thousand bandits who entered the city, and there were only two hundred troops stationed in the city. No matter how elite they were, they would not be able to fight this battle.
If they were fighting in formation outside the city, maybe these two hundred people could defeat the rabble of two or three thousand.
However, in a chaotic battle in the city, it is difficult to take advantage of the military formation, not to mention that the thieves entered from the north and south gates opposite each other, which shows that the men and horses guarding the north and south city gates are in trouble.
Moreover, at this time, it was difficult to summon the men and horses responsible for guarding the city wall. The only ones who could really organize them were the one hundred men and horses around the general Qingzhu.
Even with Qingzhu's pride, facing such a situation, he could only retreat first.
"Little boys, pay attention. I heard that the general was a bitch and I captured her alive. Let's all come together to avenge the third master!" Qi Bao crossed the city gate and walked quickly while shouting to boost morale. .
He didn't even believe this himself, it was just to boost morale.
There were already two groups of troops entering the city in front of him. If he could really capture the female general, it would not be his turn.
Qi Bao is one of the coaches of Qijiazhai. He has fought many times with large and small weapons, and of course he knows that he cannot run away when facing battle.
Otherwise, if you run all the way to the enemy and end up breathless from exhaustion, isn't that going to end in someone's death?
"Master Bao said, when that bitch general is captured, everyone will have a share -" Someone cheered loudly.
"Master Bao will be the first to go, and I will be the second to go!"
"Damn it, why are you second?"
"I'm older than you."
The team was filled with a happy atmosphere for a while.
The next moment, there was a "Zheng" sound, and a long arrow made of solid iron flew through the air, and shot Qi Bao who was walking in front through the neck. The remaining momentum did not disappear, and shot through behind him again. One person was nailed to the chest of the third person.
After killing three people with one arrow, Qingzhu pointed the divine arm bow in his hand forward.
——Now the long bow in Qingzhu's hand has been replaced by the divine arm bow, which was a trophy captured from the Chu army.
The men and horses behind Qingzhu came out. Several soldiers fired with crossbows first, and then the archers stepped forward and fired two rounds quickly, killing seventeen or eight people. Then the spearmen, sword and shield men moved forward one by one - gathered together There were too few people to form two groups of arrays separately, so they had to go up together.
However, these men and horses under Qingzhu's command were considered elite in the Chu Kingdom. Although there were only more than sixty of them now, with just one charge, they killed hundreds of them, howling like ghosts and wolves, and fled wildly, leaving the city gate open.
It wasn't until he stepped out of the city gate that Qingzhu felt relieved - without a war horse, even if Qingzhu reached the peak of his skills, he still had no chance of being able to fight through nearly ten thousand people.
In order for her to successfully protrude out of the city, several guards around her sacrificed their lives to divert the thieves, and then allowed them to sneak along the city wall to the city gate - those guards were probably in trouble, as there were too many people on the other side.
In addition to the manpower lost at the two city gates and the soldiers who did not have time to gather them, more than a hundred people were lost in the city alone this time.
Moreover, the other party has so many people in series, which shows that it has been prepared for a long time. The garrison at the dock may also have been plotted.
If the dock is lost, subsequent armies will be in trouble if they want to cross the river.
Thinking of this, Qingzhu hesitated for a moment, then took out a falcon from the bag next to him.
This is a strange spiritual bird trained by his friend Gong Yeqin invited by Spirit Snake General Gou Chen. It can fly thousands of miles alone to a designated place (of course, this bird must have been there before). Lu Wu specially asked for it and gave them four Used to call for help.
Qingzhu didn't want to use this bird - she had no chance to turn the tide. Although the opponent had many people, they were just a mob. Even if he only had 800 elite men, Qingzhu was somewhat sure of defeating the opponent.
However, since the other party was able to hook up with so many people and forces in just one day, it was definitely not a temporary move. His own face was nothing compared to the important event of the founding of the Deer Kingdom.
