Iron Dynasty

The artillery fire and beacon smoke in the whole city were the last elegy of King Wei's rule over Jinling City.

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

King Wei must have escaped. Ye Qingyun frowned. This was what he expected. After all, the same strategy as last time, they adopted a method of besieging the city on three sides while letting the enemy escape.

Now, the most important purpose of the last battle is to occupy Jinling City. As long as Jinling City is broken, the southern and northern parts of the Wei land will fall into their hands, and the Wei land will be attacked by the north and the south.

You guys stay and watch over the palace of King Wei, and the other soldiers will come with me to take down the Jinling treasury. Ye Qingyun looked solemn, this Wei land is famous all over the world, if you take the treasury, it will be a great solution to the seal. The country's financial problems, and this is also a great credit to him.

After all, he continued to lead the soldiers to attack the south across the Wei palace.

Today's Jinling City is still in chaos. The soldiers of the Wei army have no intention of fighting. They either surrender or take the opportunity to loot the city and flee outside the city. Ye Qingyun rarely encounters decent resistance along the way.

The battle became extremely smooth after entering the city. The Dengzhou Army soldiers poured into the city from three sides. In the evening, they basically occupied Jinling City and took over the city's government offices, government treasuries, granaries, barracks and other facilities.

When night fell, Ye Qingyun wiped the blood on the 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 King Wei was in his hands. A school captain bowed and said.

Ye Qingyun stopped while wiping the accessories, and he said, Zhang Yi? Who is this?

The Zhang family where Zhang Yi belongs is the largest family in Jinling City, and his daughter is the concubine of King Wei. At this moment, a voice sounded, and Li San walked in from outside the tent.

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

It's not surprising, even a fool can see that Wei Di's situation is over, and now it won't be time to vote for a new owner. Li San said lightly. A city's secret guards must be stationed, on the one hand, for publicity matters, and on the other hand, to eliminate the local nobles.

This purge involves two aspects, one is to provide information to strangle and dissident nobles, and the other is to supervise the dissolution of the trilogy, hand over the family property, and completely become the nobles of ordinary people.

In order to reduce the casualties of the soldiers and disintegrate the will of the nobles to resist, Xiao Ming did not adopt the policy of extermination.

It is precisely because of this policy that many aristocrats still have illusions, hoping to keep their foundations through meritorious deeds. There have been similar examples in the war against prefectures and counties near Pengzhou City.

The other new master? Hmph, it's better to kill them all. After going through the incident in Yangzhou City, Ye Qingyun now hated the aristocrats.

That's not possible. If it wasn't for His Highness allowing the nobles to surrender, how could you, 30,000 people, take over Jinling City so easily? The massacre in Yangzhou is said to be for revenge, but in fact it was just for you to raise rations, and the current Qingzhou nobles are just dead. The main culprit was the main offender, and the others were relocated to various places to work in agriculture, but now they are keeping their own way.”

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

That's not true. Your Highness said that this time, the wealthy family in Wei will be handed over to the local people for trial. Those who commit the most crimes will be beheaded, the servants will be sent to the army to perform hard labor, and the innocent will be reduced to common people, and their property will be confiscated.

Haha, as expected of His Highness, this method is much worse than the wealthy family of Fengguo. In this way, the wealthy family of Wei Di has vanished.

Li San nodded. His duty this time was to build up the militia and production teams in various prefectures and counties. After Jinling City was stabilized, he would judge the wealthy clan, but before that, even the surrendered wealthy clan had to be temporarily detained.

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

After a while, Zhang Yi, wearing a patched shirt, walked in, and behind him was the embarrassed King Wei.

I have seen the Governor, Zhang Yi, the head of the Zhang family in Jinling City, the Caomin, dedicated King Wei to the Governor. Zhang Yi said nervously.

Ye Qingyun glanced at Zhang Yi. He was half a hundred years old, with gray hair and a thin body. With his clothes covered in patches, he looked like a beggar.

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

Then the two looked at King Wei, Ye Qingyun had never seen King Wei, but Li San had seen King Wei, and at this time he said: His Royal Highness King Wei, I would have known why today, if your Highness promised to form an alliance, now Don't be a prisoner.

You bastard, this king can be bullied by other dog slaves. Even if this king is defeated, he is Xiao Ming's uncle. When he arrives in Qingzhou City, he will treat him with delicious food. Wei Wang cursed.

Then he turned to Zhang Yi: You are greedy for your family's property and didn't escape in time. Instead, you grabbed this king to ask for credit. This king really hates that you didn't kill your whole family.

Zhang Yi's face was blue and white, just as King Wei said, after the Dengzhou army invaded Jinling City, he ordered his servants to clean up the gold and silver, but when he was ready to leave, the Dengzhou army had fully occupied Jinling city.

Just when he was desperate, he found King Wei in the crowd. It turned out that King Wei was finally ready to escape under the persuasion of the officials, but it was already too late, so he had a plan in his heart, which was to capture Wei. The king will make atonement.

Facing King Wei's scolding, Li San didn't care, he said lightly: His Royal Highness King Qi has always been thinking about the matter of His Royal Highness King Wei colluding with the Qingzhou nobles to murder him, and it will be up to His Royal Highness to serve him deliciously. of creation.

When King Wei heard the words, his expression was extremely ugly.

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

After that, he said to the soldiers in the account: Put Zhang Yi and King Wei in custody and wait for His Highness's order.

Yes. When the soldiers heard this, they immediately pointed their bayonets at Zhang Yi and King Wei.

Zhang Yi was shocked, and he shouted: The Governor must have made a mistake. Even if the Caomin captures King Wei, it will be fine.

Hmph, you are the head of the Zhang family in Jinling City, and your daughter is the concubine of King Wei. Are you stupid? What's more, you betray your master, you are shameless. Ye Qingyun said angrily.

When Zhang Yi heard the words, he was suddenly approving, and his body began to tremble uncontrollably.

The two were detained, and Li San said, Jinling City is set to break through. It's only a matter of time before Xiao Han, the son of King Wei, is trapped in Chuzhou. The few 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 final battle.