The city gate was only halfway pushed open when suddenly five crossbow arrows shot at the general's back.

Puff puff! The crossbow arrow penetrated the general's back, and the general screamed and rushed forward.

"Charge!" Li Chenggang waved his hand, and the following troops followed the order and moved forward, rushing up the suspension bridge like a torrent and towards the city gate.

The soldiers who opened the city gate were startled, and then someone woke up and shouted.

But it was too late. The Luzhou army quickly rushed to the city gate and swarmed into the city gate.

More than a dozen city gate defenders either fought back or retreated, allowing hundreds of regiment soldiers wearing linen to rush into the urn city, while the gates of the urn city were actually open.

Kill! The Luzhou army rushed directly to the Wengcheng gate. None of them were originally from Luzhou. They complied with the orders, mainly because they did not endure the brutal killing.

Soon, the Luzhou army rushed through the Wengcheng gate.

After passing the Wengcheng, rush to the horse path and go up the horse path to seize the city wall defense.

There were only a hundred or so armored soldiers on the city wall. They faced a massive siege army. Many soldiers shouted "our people". Make no mistake, there were not many soldiers blocking the attack.

The Luzhou army seized the city wall. Li Chenggang entered the city and learned about it from the prisoners, and realized that he had "misunderstood" General Tong Zhen.

It turned out that General Tong Zhen captured Naxi County first, and most of the town army guarded the Zhao family soldiers in the city. All the men of the Zhao family were killed.

In other words, Tong Zhenjiang truly accepted the cooperation with Wei Fufeng, but he was anxious to destroy the Zhao clan first and then went to see Li Chenggang alone, probably because he wanted to see the capital defense envoy.

But Li Chenggang misunderstood and thought that Tong Zhen was trying to lure the enemy into an ambush in Wengcheng.

In addition, Li Chenggang's order to kill was also related to Wei Fufeng's order, so Tong Zhen's death was very aggrieved.

After understanding the situation, Li Chenggang ordered the army to continue entering the city, and took advantage of the fact that the town army in the city was unaware of it and captured it by surprise.

As a result, of the 800 soldiers who captured the city by surprise, more than 100 were killed and more than 600 were captured. The victors were inexplicably turned into prisoners.

After capturing the town army and harvesting the weapons of thousands of soldiers, Li Chenggang's confidence doubled and he rounded up the prisoners who were willing to surrender overnight.

At dawn, 3,000 troops were left to guard the city, and more than 10,000 troops marched towards Hejiang County.

Arriving at Hejiang County near noon, the result was the same as in Naxi County. The town general Li Na had already captured Luo Shi on his own.

But unlike General Tong, General Li Na took the initiative to evacuate Hejiang County when he saw the Luzhou Army coming.

As soon as Li Chenggang saw the town army leaving the city, he sent someone to see the town general Li Na and lied to him that he was the defense envoy of the capital.

The town general Li Na hesitated cautiously and decided to leave the town army to meet him, but was ambushed by crossbows and arrows.

After killing the town general Li Na, Li Chenggang sent troops to surround the 800 town troops. Using his reputation as the capital's defense envoy, he captured the 800 town troops under the intimidation of 10,000 troops.

Eight hundred captives of the town army lost their armor and weapons and dispersed into the Luzhou army.

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At three o'clock in the day, Wei Fufeng received a battle report that Naxi County had been captured.

He breathed a sigh of relief and ordered the army to turn around and go back after breakfast, and returned to Luxian City at dusk.

Back in Lu County, the governor An Ran became a prisoner and he and a group of his close subordinates were imprisoned. Wei Fufeng went to meet with the wealthy Gao family in person.

The Gao family's mansion has a tall gate tower. Under the white stone steps, stone lions squatted on the left and right. A group of Luzhou soldiers standing guard in front of the door saw Wei Fufeng getting out of the car and hurriedly bowed their heads in military salute.

Zhang Wencheng, the military envoy, accompanied

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Wei Fufeng walked into Gao Mansion together.

Zhang Wencheng is from Shouzhou, Huainan. He is thin, has a long face and small eyes, and his appearance is not good-looking.

But Zhang Wencheng was capable of both civil and military affairs, and this time Wei Fufeng gave him the important task of capturing Lu County.

Walking into the mansion, Wei Fufeng whispered: "Wencheng, you did a good job this time. Based on your merits, you should be promoted to commander."

"Thank you for the promotion, sir." Zhang Wencheng responded respectfully with a military salute.

"You deserve it, but before I promote you, you have to do one thing well." Wei Fufeng said.

"Please give me your orders, and I will try my best to complete them," Zhang Wencheng responded.

"You go to the county government office to collect documents. All the fields belonging to the three major wealthy families will be allocated to more than 30,000 military households according to quotas. How many days can you complete it?" Wei Fufeng said.

"If it is only distributed according to the contract, I can complete it in three days, but I will need a clerk from the county government." Zhang Wencheng replied.

"Okay, if it's not enough, you can use it as a literate person." Wei Fufeng said.

"No!" Zhang Wencheng responded, and Wei Fufeng said again: "You go now."

Zhang Wencheng nodded in response, turned around and left after the military salute, and soon General Youya came forward to accompany Wei Fufeng to lead the way.

Wei Fufeng walked into the main hall and ordered the main men of the Gao family to be brought.

Thirteen men, old and young, were escorted into the hall. They looked frightened, and some of their legs were trembling. There was only one man in brocade robes in his early forties, with a stern expression and a very strong character.

"I am Wei Zheng, the military governor of southern Sichuan. Is this the head of the Gao Yunqi family?" Wei Fufeng sat alone at the head of the throne, looking at the man in brocade robes and speaking calmly.

"It turns out to be Wei Shijun. I don't know why Wei Shijun accused the Gao family. The Gao family has no regrets about Wei Shijun." Gao Yunqi said coldly.

"Gao Yunqi, let me tell you that the Luo family and the Zhao family were exterminated." Wei Fufeng said calmly.

Huh? There was a middle-aged man who was so frightened that he couldn't help but hurriedly lowered his head and covered his mouth with his hands.

Gao Yunqi's face also changed with shock. He forced himself to calm down and said, "What do you want?"

"The Gao family can survive, naturally because our army wants to cooperate with you. You are worthy of our army, and our army knows it well. You three powerful families just want to sit back and watch, and use our army to separate southern Sichuan. If it fails,

You can stay out of the matter. If successful, you can kill our army and replace it." Wei Fufeng said coldly.

"Wei Shijun, the Gao family has no intention of harming you. Instead, they hope that Wei Shijun will take over Luzhou. Over the years, the Gao family has been oppressed by the Zhao family, and everyone knows it." Gao Yunqi hurriedly bowed and said sincerely, but he listened.

came to life.

Wei Fufeng smiled and nodded, saying: "As long as the Gao family is willing to cooperate, I will tell you frankly that the Gao family can only own the land with the rank of governor. The Gao family can keep their frivolous wealth. The Gao family cannot own more than 100 nursing homes. The Gao family head

Serve as the governor of Luzhou and serve our army in governing the country."

Gao Yunqi looked stunned when he heard this. The other men turned around and looked eagerly. He quickly turned solemnly and said respectfully: "Gao Yunqi is willing to serve the envoy."

"Okay, Governor Gao will take office tomorrow." Wei Fufeng stood up and said with a smile, then walked out of the main hall.

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At the next watch, Wei Fufeng returned to Jufu. Although he was very tired, he was in a good mood and went to see Lin Qingxue.

Walking into the patio courtyard, he saw a lantern hanging in the small pavilion. Wei Fufeng saw the standing figures of Lin Qingxue and Xiaoxue at a glance, and he quickened his pace and walked over.

"Sister." Wei Fufeng walked outside the pavilion, called happily and cordially, and walked into the pavilion without stopping.

In the pavilion

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When they met face to face, Wei Fufeng found that Lin Qingxue's charming face was very cold, and her beautiful eyes seemed to be looking at an 'enemy', which was obviously unfriendly.

"Sister, what's wrong with you?" Wei Fufeng subconsciously felt a chill in his heart and asked in surprise.

"I heard that you killed the wealthy people of Luzhou?" Lin Qingxue asked coldly.

Wei Fufeng was surprised and nodded: "Yes, sister, what do you mean?"

"The wealthy people in Luzhou are not enemies of you, and they even support you in seizing Luzhou, but you actually kill those who are gracious and revengeful." Lin Qingxue asked coldly.

Wei Fufeng frowned subconsciously. He composed himself and said gently: "Sister, the purpose of the support of the Luzhou wealthy family is to use me to separate the southern Sichuan. If the separation fails, they can stay out of it. If the separation succeeds, they will kill me and replace me."

"Nonsense, the wealthy families are all officials and gentry seeking peace. Since you are the military governor of the imperial court, they will only respect you and live in peace with you." Lin Qingxue said angrily.

Wei Fufeng shook his head and said: "Sister, I think it is simple. Nowadays, the officials appointed by the imperial court cannot gain respect in the local area. The Jiedushi has no military power, so he can only be a puppet at his own mercy."

"So you kill the wealthy families who support you and seize their property and military power." Lin Qingxue asked bluntly.

Wei Fufeng was at a loss for words, paused, and said: "Sister, most matters in the officialdom will be life and death. When I come to Luzhou, only my sister and Lao Feng can be trusted, and the rest can betray me at any time."

"Sister, the wealthy people of Luzhou have long had ambitions to separate the country. They openly have thousands of armored soldiers, but secretly they have tens of thousands of vassal serfs. If I can successfully separate the country through my actions, they will kill me to replace me. Even if they don't kill me, they will imprison me.

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Lin Qingxue said coldly: "It's because of your cold and ruthless heart that you commit such suspicious crimes."

"Am I suspicious? Sister, will a wealthy family with strong military power really respect me, a foreign official? Why should they support me if there is no profit pursuit? Just an official seal? If the official seal of the imperial court is easy to use, how can this world be done?

Will we fall into troubled times?" Wei Fufeng argued rationally.

"You took away their property, why bother killing them." Lin Qingxue said coldly.

"Sister, a snake can't survive without a head. If the rich clan doesn't die, Luzhou will fall into war. They can call on their soldiers and serfs to fight back. Once it falls into war, thousands of people will die, especially us. The consequences will be faced by the military power.

rebellion." Wei Fufeng defended.

"Why are you so childish? What you did is outrageous and cannot be tolerated by God." Lin Qingxue said in an annoyed tone with a high-pitched voice. After speaking, she turned and walked away from the small pavilion.

Xiaoxue hurriedly bowed to Wei Fufeng and followed her to the pavilion.

Wei Fufeng watched the two women go with a wry smile on his lips. He could understand Lin Qingxue's hateful mentality.

Lin Qingxue came from an official family, and her family was destroyed by the army during the war.

At that time, Lin Qingxue and her mother escaped death by worshiping gods in a Taoist temple. Later, they went to another Taoist temple to learn martial arts. Six years later, they left to seek revenge.

Wei Fufeng's behavior of killing wealthy families was obviously a replica of Lin Qingxue's enemies, which was naked killing and plundering.

But Wei Fufeng cannot be merciful. If he keeps a man from a wealthy family, he will not be able to cut off the hidden dangers of the wealthy family.

A little boy cannot kill him with a knife, but he can become a rallying tool for those who care.

The leader of the family soldiers can use the existence of the young master to create a series of banners to avenge the master.

That's why when Xiang Yu started an uprising, he had to create a puppet of King Chu as a rallying cry.

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