Steel Dynasty - Chapter 601

[Chapter 601: Capturing the King of Wei alive]

The artillery fire and beacon smoke all over the city were the last elegy for the King of Wei to rule Jinling City.

Ye Qingyun led the soldiers to rush into the Wei Palace. In the end, they only found some slaves and servants who had not had time to escape.

“The King of Wei must have escaped.” Ye Qingyun frowned. This was what he expected. After all, it was the same strategy as last time. They adopted the method of besieging the city on three sides and allowing the enemy to escape.

Now the most important purpose of the last battle is to capture Jinling City. As long as Jinling City is broken, the south and north of Wei will fall into their hands, and Wei will be faced with a situation of north-south pincer attack.

“You few stay and guard the Prince of Wei’s Mansion. The other soldiers follow me to capture the Jinling Mansion.” Ye Qingyun looked solemn. This Wei land is famous for its wealth and wealth. If we capture the Mansion, it will greatly solve the problem of feudal lords. The country’s financial problems, and this is also a great credit to him.

After that, he continued to lead his soldiers to attack the south across the Wei Palace.

Today’s Jinling City is still in chaos. The soldiers of the Wei army are not interested in fighting. They either surrender or take the opportunity to rob the city and escape outside the city. Ye Qingyun rarely encounters decent resistance along the way.

The battle went extremely smoothly after entering the city. Soldiers from the Dengzhou Army poured into the city from three sides. In the evening, they basically occupied Jinling City and took over the government offices, treasury, granaries, barracks and other facilities in the city.

When night fell, Ye Qingyun wiped the blood on his sword. He couldn’t remember how many soldiers fell under his sword today, but fortunately, the war was over.

“Captain, a man calling himself Zhang Yi came from outside the city. He said that the King of Wei is in his hands.” A captain bowed and said.

Ye Qingyun stopped wiping the accessories and said, “Zhang Yi? Who is this?”

“Zhang Yi’s Zhang family is the largest family in Jinling City, and his daughter is the concubine of King Wei.” At this time A voice sounded, and Li San walked in from outside the camp.

“Zhang family?” Ye Qing sneered: “They are really smart.”

“This is not surprising. Even a fool can see that the situation in Wei is over. How long will it take if we don’t find a new owner now?” Li San He said lightly, he arrived outside Jinling City during the siege, and now the secret guards will be stationed in every city captured, on the one hand, for publicity matters, and on the other hand, to eliminate the local wealthy families.

This kind of purge includes two aspects, one is to provide intelligence and strangle the wealthy families with disloyal intentions, and the other is to supervise the disbandment of the tribe, hand over the family property, and completely reduce the wealthy families to ordinary people.

In order to reduce the casualties of the soldiers and undermine the will of the wealthy families to resist, Xiao Ming did not adopt a policy of extermination.

It is precisely because of this policy that many wealthy families still have illusions and hope to maintain their foundation through meritorious service. There have been similar examples in the war against the prefectures and counties near Pengzhou City.

“The new master on the other side? Huh, why not kill them all.” After what happened in Yangzhou City, Ye Qingyun now hates the wealthy clan extremely.

“This is impossible. If His Highness hadn’t allowed the wealthy clans to surrender, how could you, thirty thousand people, have occupied Jinling City so easily? The massacre in Yangzhou was said to be for revenge, but in fact it was just to allow you to raise military rations. Moreover, the wealthy clans in Qingzhou are currently just dying. After the main culprit was found, the others were moved to various places to work in farming. Now they are keeping their peace. “

Ye Qingyun nodded, “Your Highness is planning to do this this time?”

“That’s not true. Your Highness said that this time the wealthy families in Wei will be handed over. The local people will judge, the most guilty will be beheaded, the servants will be sent to the army to do hard labor, the innocent will be reduced to ordinary people, and their property will be confiscated. “

” Haha, as expected of your Highness, this method is much worse than that of the wealthy families in the feudal country. Come, the wealthy families in Wei have disappeared.”

Li San nodded. His duty this time was to establish militia and production teams in various states and counties. After Jinling City is stabilized, the wealthy families will be tried. But in Before this, even the wealthy families who surrendered had to be temporarily detained.

The two chatted for a while, then Ye Qingyun signaled to the bodyguard to let Zhang Yi in.

After a while, Zhang Yi, wearing a patched dress, walked in. Behind him was the embarrassed King of Wei.

“I have met the governor, Zhang Yi, the head of the Zhang family in Jinling City, a grassroots man, presented King Wei to the governor.” Zhang Yi said nervously.

Ye Qingyun took a look at Zhang Yi. He was half a century old, with gray hair and a thin figure. With his patched clothes, he looked like a beggar.

Li San and Ye Qingyun were both a little surprised when they saw Zhang Yi’s appearance.

Then the two of them looked at the King of Wei. Ye Qingyun had not seen the King of Wei, but Li San had met the King of Wei. At this time, he said: “Your Highness, the King of Wei, if you had known earlier, why would you bother today? If Your Highness had agreed to form an alliance, now you would not You don’t have to be a prisoner. “

” Damn it, this king can be bullied by slaves like you. Even if I am defeated, I am still Xiao Ming’s uncle. He will still be entertained by him when he comes to Qingzhou City.” King Wei. Cursed.

Then he turned to Zhang Yi: “You wolf-hearted thing, you were greedy for your family’s property and did not escape in time. Instead, you caught me and came to claim credit. I really regret that I didn’t kill your whole family.”

Zhang Yi’s face turned blue and white. As the King of Wei said, after the Dengzhou Army invaded Jinling City, he ordered his servants to collect gold and silver, but when he was ready to leave, the Dengzhou Army had fully occupied Jinling City.

Just when he was desperate, he discovered King Wei mixed in the crowd. It turned out that King Wei was finally ready to escape after the officials’ persuasion, but it was already too late, so he had a plan in mind, which was to capture Wei. The king will atone for his sins.

Facing King Wei’s scolding, Li San didn’t take it seriously. He said calmly: “Your Highness, King Qi, has been thinking about how His Highness King Wei colluded with the Qingzhou wealthy family to murder him. It’s up to you whether you can serve him well and deliciously. It’s a blessing.”

When King Wei heard this, his expression turned extremely ugly.

Ye Qingyun said: “You ordered the soldiers to loot and massacre, and more than 100,000 innocent people died tragically in Yangzhou City. How could His Highness get around you, a foolish king.”

After that, he said to the soldiers in the account: “Put Zhang Yi and Wei The king is imprisoned and awaiting orders from His Highness.”

“Yes.” Upon hearing this, the soldiers immediately pointed their bayonets at Zhang Yi and King Wei.

Zhang Yi was shocked and shouted: “The governor must have made a mistake. Even if the common people captured the King of Wei, they had no merit but no fault.”

“Humph, you are the head of the Zhang family in Jinling City, and your daughter is the sidekick of the King of Wei.” Concubine, do you think this general is stupid? What’s more, it’s shameless for you to betray your master.” Ye Qingyun said angrily.

Zhang Yi felt like he was mourning after hearing this, and his body began to tremble uncontrollably.

The two were escorted away, and Li San said: “The victory of Jinling City has been determined. It is only a matter of time before Xiao Han, the son of King Wei, is trapped in Chuzhou. The remaining state soldiers and major generals are not worth mentioning at all.”

Ye Qingyun nodded, this battle of Jinling City can be said to be a decisive battle.

(End of chapter)