The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire - Chapter 68

[Chapter 68 Under Yangping Pass]

After the cavalry entered the city gate, they went straight along the street, rushed over all the pedestrians on the road, and rushed to the county office in the city.

I hope to take the lead in controlling all the officials, so that all the resistance forces in the city are leaderless and can only fight on their own.

The resistance of the county government in the city was not strong. It was located in the most central part of the city, surrounded by city walls, and surrounded by countless soldiers. There were not many left-behind forces in the entire mansion.

In the face of hundreds of cavalry like wolves and tigers, how can they resist for how long?

But in a moment, all the soldiers were killed and the officials were under control.

These officials had given orders to Zhong Yu before entering the city, and they were of no use, so they killed him directly.

In order not to have to leave someone to guard and disperse his strength.

If there is a slight omission and let these officials escape, then there will be endless troubles. It is better to kill them directly, which is clean and easy.

These cavalrymen faithfully carried out Zhong Yu’s orders, and did not even give the officials a chance to beg for mercy. Directly in their surprised and shocked eyes, they sent them to meet the Buddha.

After that, he left the county office and headed for the barracks in the city.

The troops in the barracks, after so much noise for half an hour, should already know the enemy in the city and have already concentrated their troops.

However, there are dozens of him at the gate of the city, dozens of people at the county office, plus the personnel who patrol and maintain public order in various parts of the city, as well as some people who eat empty wages, and there are people who go home on vacation.

If they were all removed, there would be no more than five or six hundred people in the entire military camp.

Many of them were ordinary soldiers with little training, very low combat effectiveness, and poor morale.

With only his 100 cavalry and two or three rounds of charging, he can disperse them all, and then let his cavalry be slaughtered.

Sure enough, when his cavalry arrived at the barracks, the troops had just assembled, and the formation was not very neat.

Seeing that his cavalry arrived so quickly, even if the cavalry was not an infantry, was very frightened.

There were even some riots. Those cavalrymen just rushed a little, and the whole county soldiers ran away crying and shouting, and let the officers beat and scold them, and they couldn’t concentrate again.

However, in a short period of time, these county soldiers were completely beheaded by all the cavalry. Only a few dozen people escaped, but they were too frightened and dared not turn back to resist.

At this time, Zhong Yu also occupied most of the county, leaving only the residences of the nobles and officials in the north of the city. There were those wealthy families who led their servants to resist, and there were five or six hundred of him.

For a while, he even fought vigorously with Zhong Yu’s soldiers, making Zhong Yu unable to attack that area for a while.

You can only wait for the soldiers scattered in the city to converge and concentrate on attacking together.

However, the resistance strength of those servants also made Zhong Yu sigh a little. It is worthy that most of the servants are the sons and daughters of those wealthy families, and have been deeply loved by those noble families for generations.

Loyalty is not comparable to those of ordinary county soldiers.

After a while, when the scattered soldiers came together, especially the cavalry came over, even the loyalty of the servants could not help but change slightly.

Those are cavalry, and they are invincible against infantry. I don’t have any long weapons on my side, not even a crossbow, so how can I resist them!

Seeing those cavalrymen coming, Zhong Yu looked very happy, he knew that this meant that the task he had assigned to them had been completed.

As long as the nobles in this area have been destroyed, they have officially occupied the entire Nanzheng County.

As soon as Nanzheng County was reached, the entire Hanzhong County basically had no strength to resist itself.

The resistance of the servants did not last long, and with the addition of cavalry, they were quickly dispersed.

Afterwards, he was beheaded and killed by the swarms of ordinary soldiers, without even a bubble.

And the big purge also began. In this place where officials and nobles live, Zhong Yu directly ordered not to let one go, and killed them all.

The resistance and loyalty of those servants just now made Zhong Yu understand that these servants of the gentry are hidden dangers. They, who have been deeply loved by the master for generations, may resist themselves at any time in order to avenge the master’s revenge.

It is better to kill directly, come clean, save yourself from future troubles, and get a batch of luck points, allowing yourself to recruit more troops.

The cleaning of the entire Nanzheng County lasted for a whole morning. The city was full of blood, and corpses were scattered everywhere. Numerous corpses fell on the road, and no one went to collect them.

Originally, there were more than 8,000 people in the county seat, but after being cleaned by Zhong Yu, only 4,000 people remained.

Being able to live in the county town, in addition to those who specialize in serving those nobles, most of them are servants of the nobles themselves, which accounts for a very large proportion of the population, and it is not bad to have 4,000 left.

After killing so many people, I got 160 Luck Points, and I was directly exchanged by Zhong Yu for an army of 320 people. It was not without losses for the one who killed just now. More than 100 people died. Fan’s addition, he has another 1,400 people.

Four hundred people were left to stick to the county seat, and the remaining 1,000 were taken by Zhong Yu to Baozhong County, which was only more than twenty miles away from Nanzheng County.

After that, we have to rush to Mianyang County, which is only more than 20 miles away from Baozhong County.

Since the time to capture Nanzheng County was relatively short, and the news had not yet reached these two counties, Zhong Yu took over these two counties very easily, and did not encounter much setbacks and resistance.

At this time, in the entire Hanzhong County, only Anyang County in the north was not occupied.

This is not in a hurry, Anyang County is located in the northernmost part of Hanzhong County, and the news of UU reading www.uukanshu.com is blocked.

If he wants to receive the news that he has captured the entire Hanzhong County, it will take him at least four or five days. These times are enough to clean up all the gentry in the newly occupied four counties.

It was another five-day purge, and he killed more than 18,000 gentry in the four counties.

A total of 750 points of luck have been obtained by myself, and all of them have been used to exchange for the army, and a full 1,500 soldiers have been added to my army.

Five hundred people were left to garrison in Hanzhong County, and two hundred in each of the other three counties.

Zhong Yu only had 1,700 troops that he could mobilize. He took them to the southwest, where there was the entire Hanzhong’s gateway to Yizhou, where Yangpingguan was located.

As long as he can capture the entire Yangping Pass, the pressure of the entire Yizhou on his Hanzhong County can be completely ignored.

When they arrived at Yangping Pass, they did not cover up the whereabouts of the army, but opened up to the checkpoint.

He directly took out the Hanzhong County Shou Seal Letter that he had forged before.

Yangping Pass originally belonged to Hanzhong County. With the order of the governor, the guard opened the gate of the checkpoint, and he took the opportunity to enter and easily took down the entire Yangping Pass.

It’s still the old rule, all the defenders were killed. There were a total of 500 defenders, which provided themselves with 20 points of luck, and an army of 40, which completely supplemented themselves. Because of this action lost troops.

Zhong Yu also left 500 people down, and ordered all the troops to strictly guard the pedestrians from all over the place, all blocking the two sides of the checkpoint and not allowing passage.

He took the remaining 1,200 people back to Baozhong County.

I plan to rest there for a night, and then go to Anyang County to capture the last county seat in Hanzhong County that is not under my control.

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