Liu Xin led his army to capture Linqiong County in one day, and the news soon spread to various counties in Shu County. Many aristocratic families were frightened when they heard this.

All the aristocratic families were concerned about the situation of Liu Xin's army. At the same time, ten government decrees from Linqiong County were soon spread in various counties. Although the poor people did not dare to say this after hearing this news, they were all hoping that Liu Xin's army would take down their county as soon as possible so that they could be exempted from tax for three years.

Some timid families have begun to prepare for escape, but Liu Xin’s ten decrees are deeply malicious towards them. They have begun to transfer some of their family’s children and money.

On the surface, of course, everyone was united in fighting against Liu Xin's tyranny to the end. The Pi County family in the northern part of Chengdu County had even contacted the counties in the northern part of Shu County, hoping to unite to fight against Liu Xin.

Linqiong County was captured on May 12, and on May 15, Liu Xin led a large army to Jiangyuan County, 70 miles northeast.

Jiangyuan County is closest to Linqiong County, and they also know that Linqiong County has been taken down by Liu Xin, and they also know about Liu Xin’s ten decrees. They have also withdrawn all the people back to the county town.

It was already afternoon when Liu Xin arrived outside Jiangyuan County. They did not make any mistakes about all the fields and crops outside the county town, and they started camping not far from Jiangyuan County. Zhang Ren led the auxiliary soldiers and craftsmen to make siege ladders. The ladders that were more than five meters long could not be transferred on the mountain road, so they could only be remade in Linqiong County.

The officials of the prefect's office had already gone to the city to negotiate with the defenders of Jiangyuan County and advised them to give up resistance, but the other party still chose to defend the city to block Liu Xin's army.

There was no room for negotiation, so Liu Xin's army built tents and made ladders, waiting for tomorrow's siege again.

The next day, the siege became more skillful. How did the Jiangyuan County defenders have seen such a siege artifact? Zhang Ren directed the siege. [Carriage] The archers on the [Carriage] had only changed two waves and the opponent could no longer withstand the pressure. The soldiers on the city wall began to flee, and Liu Xin's army quickly entered the city.

All officials of Jiangyuan County and the heads of several major families were taken down by Liu Xin, including all their families, and a total of tens of thousands were sent to Rui County. Liu Xin left Xin Bi to serve as the magistrate of Jiangyuan County. Ten new orders in Jiangyuan County began to be issued, and the people all returned to the outside of the city. In just one day, Jiangyuan County returned to normal order.

He continued to leave 1,500 elite infantrymen, and 3,000 soldiers were in Jiangyuan County. Liu Xin did not stop in Jiangyuan County and began to advance towards his next target, Guangdu County.

Song Hui, the magistrate of Guangdu County, was determined to surrender to Liu Xin. When they learned that Linqiong County and Jiangyuan County were all taken down by Liu Xin within one day, Song Hui summoned aristocratic families in the county to discuss countermeasures, and he proposed to everyone to surrender to Liu Xin.

"I heard that Liu Xin disliked the aristocratic family very much. His new ten policies obviously meant to cut off the aristocratic family's foundation. If we defect to him, we will all become ordinary people within five years!" said a head of a aristocratic family.

"But now we have no strength to fight against Liu Xin at all. The other party is the prefect of Shu County and the parents of our entire Shu County.

Linqiong County and Jiangyuan County were taken down for only one day, and we were only 70 miles away from Chengdu County. How can we defend it? If we resist, everyone who might be sitting will become prisoners." The county magistrate of Guangdu County said at this time.

Guangdu County is a big county, with more than 10,000 households registered in the county, and the real population is definitely more than 100,000. It is one of the four major counties in Shu County. Although their strength is stronger than Linqiong County and Jiangyuan County, all the surrounding counties were taken down by Liu Xin, and their escape routes were gone. Even if they could block Liu Xin's attack, it would be of little significance.

"Whenever Liu Taishou's army went there, he did not commit any crimes against the villages and farmland outside the city. If he did not commit a major crime, he would rarely pursue it.

I once chatted with the Chengdu County Master Zhang Shou family. Now the Zhang family lives very well in Chengdu County. 60% of the stone usage in the entire Chengdu County come from the Zhang family. The Zhang family has opened three brick kilns outside the city and cooperated with others to establish a caravan. The income is not bad at all compared to when he was a county magistrate before." Song Hui said at this time.

Everyone saw the meaning of Song Hui's surrender to Liu Xin, and the county magistrate and the magistrate also meant this. The strongest person in Guangdu County was the Song family. Song Hui chose to surrender to the situation in Guangdu County had basically been decided.

When Liu Xin ordered the army to come to Guangdu County on May 17, he saw that the people of Guangdu County were still busy outside the city. When they saw Liu Xin's army arrive, they all looked at it from afar, without any intention of escaping.

Liu Xin asked Zhang Ren to negotiate with Song Hui, Guangdu County. As a result, Zhang Ren came back soon to tell Liu Xin that Song Hui had led all the officials of Guangdu County and representatives of the aristocratic families greeted them outside the city.

Liu Xin took Guangdu County, and he had already taken all the southern part of Shu County. He brought Song Hui and other Guangdu County officials back to Chengdu County. These officials needed to serve in the prefect's office for more than one year before they could be sent out by Liu Xin. He left Yang Wei as the county magistrate and only gave him 3,000 soldiers to issue ten major decrees and then returned to Chengdu County.

It was only May 20 that he had just taken over the three counties of Linqiong, Jiangyuan and Guangdu. Next, there were three counties, Liu Xin, and Huang Zhong as the commander, Jian Yong as the military advisor, Zhao Yun, Guan Hai, Zhang Ren, Wei Qin and other dozens of generals followed, leading the elite sixth battalion, with 10,000 soldiers and 10,000 auxiliary soldiers and 38,000, a total of 38,000 attacks on Pi County.

Pi County is the second largest county in Shu County and is adjacent to Chengdu County. Even if Huang Zhong attacked Pi County with help, it took ten days to capture it. The army of Chengdu County lost more than 3,000 people, while Pi County lost more than 10,000. Huang Zhong asked Zhao Yun to send all members of the entire Pi County family to Chengdu County. After reading the statistics, Liu Xin found that the number of people exceeded 20,000.

The population of Pi County is nearly 300,000. Liu Xin asked Zhao Yun to migrate all the maids in these aristocratic families' mansions to Rui County. After the new policy was issued, the entire Pi County had begun to develop according to a new model. Liu Xin ordered Guard Qin to be the magistrate of Pi County, leaving him with half of the elite troops. The first battalion Huang Zhong began to go north again.

On June 3, Fan County opened its doors to welcome Huang Zhong's army into the city.

On June 9, Guangrou County opened the city and welcomed Huang Zhong's army into the city.

On June 17, Canling County was finally captured by Huang Zhong after three days of resistance.

When they arrived here, all the nine counties of Shu County had been in the hands of Liu Xin. Starting from the May conquering Shu County, they only took more than 40 days, and the soldiers were injured by only more than 6,000 soldiers, and 70% of them were regular soldiers and auxiliary soldiers.

When Huang Zhong's army arrived at Mianhu Road, there were only 20,000 people left. Every time they took a city, they had to control the city order by Liu Xin's soldiers, posting Liu Xin's "Ten Government Orders" to protect the caravans to start trade in the city, and then hire the people to work in the total money. This is a unified way for the Shu County army to control the newly occupied cities.
Chapter completed!