Poor Family Chapter 565

  Chapter 565 Killing Thieves and Establishing Prestige

The sky was getting brighter, and the field outside the southeast corner of the navy camp was full of corpses, a total of 283 corpses. Many river thieves were only injured at first, but they were also killed by the red-eyed sailors The soldiers hacked to death with a knife, and the corpses were gathered together. Li Yanqing was checking the weapons and armor they carried. He could see that the weapons and equipment of the Jiang thief were very weak. There was basically no leather armor on their bodies. It's the rank of country soldier.

   "These weapons are still the ordnance of the township soldiers seized ten years ago, and they are still in use now!"

  Beside Zhou Ping recognized these crude weapons, shook his head and said: "I really don't understand, the Black Heart Dragon King has accumulated a lot of wealth, why doesn't he buy better armor, knives and spears?"

   "Maybe he thinks it's unnecessary!"

  Li Yanqing said lightly: "After all, they are river thieves, and their targets are ordinary merchant ships and ordinary people. They don't need such good equipment."

  At this time, Zhang Hu ran over to report: "The county lord, Zhang Shun sent a group of prisoners of war, about twenty people."

   "Look and go!"

  Li Yanqing and Zhou Ping walked quickly to the river.

   Kneeling by the river, more than 20 water thieves, hands tied behind their backs, were terrified, surrounded by township soldiers, at this time someone shouted: "The county lord is here!"

The soldiers of the township stepped aside one after another. Li Yanqing and Zhou Ping came up and saw several small boats moored on the river. One of Zhang Shun's men cupped his fists and said to Li Yanqing: "These are the twenty or so prisoners of war we captured last night. The leader asked me to hand it over to the county magistrate!"

   "How was the battle on the water last night?" Li Yanqing asked.

   "Last night they only came with a dozen small boats and more than a hundred people. We wiped out half of them, but unfortunately Du Yang escaped."

   After a pause, the subordinate bowed and asked again: "My leader also wants to know how many enemy troops your army wiped out last night?"

   "Five hundred people were wiped out, including Du Heixin's eldest son, Du Yue. Tell Zhang Shun on my behalf that we must strike while the iron is hot. We will set off for Dongting Lake in the next two days."

   "The villain understands, please tell me!"

  Zhang Shun saluted, and the two boats turned around and left. At this moment, Yang Ju stepped forward and asked, "Mr. County, what should we do with these prisoners of war?"

   "Is there a good way for the county magistrate?"

  Yang Ju thought for a while, "Either hand it over to the state and let the state handle it!"

  Li Yanqing shook his head, "The gang of rotten Confucians in the state are superstitious and enlightened, maybe let them go, leaving disaster for the village!"

   "What does the county lord plan to do?"

  Li Yanqing didn't answer Yang Ju's words, but turned back and asked Zhang Hu, "How many prisoners of war are there?"

  Zhang Hu bowed and said: "If you add these 22 people, there will be a total of about 240 people!"

  Li Yanqing said coldly: "Tie them up, push them to the riverside and kill them all!"

  Beside Yang Ju was shocked, "Mr. County, they have already surrendered, how can they kill them again?"

  Li Yanqing snorted coldly, "They have done a lot of evil and killed so many people in merchant ships. It is already cheap to kill them now."

  Li Yanqing immediately ordered Zhang Hu, "Take them away in batches, then tie them up, take them to the riverside and kill them!"

   "Follow the order!" Zhang Hu rushed away.

Yang Ju was so frightened that her face turned pale, and she couldn't say a word for a while. At this time, Zhou Ping sighed and said, "Although killing them is cruel, think about how they killed the captured rural soldiers ten years ago, and think about how they killed them." Looting merchant ships is also tying up merchants and throwing them into the river, and those young female relatives are even more miserable. It can only be said that their fate today is also their own fault."

  Zhou Ping said to Li Yanqing again: "I am in favor of killing them, but will killing them now make the Black Heart Dragon King no way out, and fight us to the death?"

  Li Yanqing said indifferently: "Only a strong fighter will fight to the death in the face of a dead end. This kind of mob who will collapse in a single battle, the iron will will only accelerate their collapse."

  Zhou Ping was sincerely convinced, bowed and said: "Honor the county!"

  Li Yanqing immediately ordered, "Bring me Mai Shi and Xie Bo!"

   After a while, both Mai Shi and Xie Bo stepped forward quickly, knelt down on one knee and said, "See the county lord!"

   "How is the navy training on the river now?"

   "Some basic formations are no longer a problem, but they still lack some heat, and they need to train for more than ten days."

  Li Yanqing shook his head, "I don't have time anymore, I will train for another day today and start tomorrow morning!"

   "Follow the order!"

  The two rushed away, Zhou Ping asked in a low voice: "Master, are you too eager?"

  Li Yanqing said slowly: "Du Heixin must have been furious when he got the news. I was afraid that he would calm down. Once he calmed down, he might run away. We must seize the opportunity to wipe out the Black Heart Dragon King in one fell swoop!"

Last night, Li Yanqing witnessed the fighting power of this Jiang bandit with his own eyes. It was not an army at all, but a group of thieves who collapsed when they were ambushed. It was ridiculous that he thought highly of them. Li Yanqing had decided not to wait anymore Send troops directly to suppress the bandits.

The news that Jiangbian was about to kill the Jiang thief spread throughout Jiayu County. Thousands of people ran out of the county to watch. More than 200 people were kneeling by the riverside with their hands behind their backs, their eyes covered with a black cloth, and their mouths closed. They were also blocked, and many river thieves collapsed to the ground in fright.

  Behind them, hundreds of soldiers held sharp swords and were eager to try. At this time, the drums on the Jijiang platform were loud, and Zhang Hu waved the soul-calling flag and shouted: "Let's cut!"

  Hundreds of soldiers raised their sabers and slashed down, causing the tens of thousands of people watching by the river to cry out in surprise.

  According to Li Yanqing's intention, the heads of this group of river thieves will be gathered together with those of the Black Hearted Dragon King and other gangsters, and a Zhenjiang Tower will be built by the river to warn future generations of river thieves.

  The massacre of more than 200 river thieves at one time by the river not only shocked Jiayu County and Ezhou, but also shocked the entire prefectures in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River.

Although many officials disagreed with this, Li Yanqing won the unanimous support and support of the middle and lower class people. The people who suffered from the harassment of Jiang Zemin saw the hope of Jing'an in the Yangtze River, so Li Yanqing was affectionately called "" Jiang Shen'.

Three days later, the news of the death of the eldest son and the annihilation of the five hundred soldiers finally reached the ears of Du Heixin of Dongting Lake. Du Heixin was shocked at first. The bandit's subordinates killed every single one of them. After being shocked, Du Heixin immediately became furious. He vowed to bloodbath Jiayu County and let the entire county's soldiers and civilians be buried with his son.

But his military advisor Yang Zhaoru quickly calmed down and realized that something was wrong. Their surprise attack on the naval camp in Jiayu County had originally been planned more carefully, with insiders and spies. It doesn't need to be so troublesome, the navy can kill the opponent directly by killing it.

  But this time, there was a big somersault. What is the problem? Yang Zhaoru believed that the problem was that they didn't know the other party's general at all. From the description of the soldiers who escaped, they encountered an ambush deployment that only the regular army had. Yang Zhaoru couldn't believe that this ambush was actually carried out by a county magistrate.

  Who is this magistrate of Jiayu County? Yang Zhaoru felt that this was the most urgent thing to figure out before he could consider how to take revenge.

   At noon that day, Yang Zhaoru received another news that Jiayu County killed more than 200 prisoners of war by the river a few days ago. This news made Yang Zhaoru feel like a bolt from the blue.

  He realized that this time they had met a devilish enemy.

  Yang Zhaoru walked quickly to the Juyi Building where the village master was, and saw that there were two to three hundred people, old and weak, women and children kneeling at the entrance of the courtyard in the distance, crying, "We want to see the village master!"

  These old and weak women and children are the family members of the five hundred men brought by Du Yue. They are very anxious and want to know the situation of their family members. Is it dead or alive? But Du Heixin couldn't give them any answers.

  Although Yang Zhaoru knew the answer, he didn't dare to meet them, so he had to take a long detour and enter the yard of Juyi Building through the side door.

  A dozen or so steps away from the room, I heard Du Hei's yelling and cursing from inside the Juyi building. Several maids at the door were trembling with fear, and a dozen guards bowed their heads in fright, not daring to take a breath.

  Yang Zhaoru was taken aback. After so many days, is the village master still angry? Seeing bloodstains on the steps, he was even more puzzled, so he asked a soldier, "What happened?"

  The soldiers whispered: "Fifth Madam and two servant girls were killed!"

  The fifth lady, surnamed Jiang, was Du Heixin's concubine. Yang Zhaoru was taken aback, and quickly asked, "What's going on?"

   "Today, the village owner sent someone to clean up the room in the big yamen, and found a lock of the fifth lady's hair. The village owner was furious, and killed the fifth lady and her two personal servant girls with his own hands."

  Yang Zhaoru sighed secretly. In fact, many people knew that Du Yue had an affair with several of his father's concubines. This fifth lady happened to be in the limelight, and Du Hei was full of anger. How could he not kill her?

only. ． ． ． ． When is it now, the village owner is still angry about this kind of thing, Yang Zhaoru is so anxious that he can't help but quicken his pace.

  Yang Zhaoru walked into the lobby of Juyi Pavilion, and saw Du Hei's face livid with anger, chopping the furniture in the lobby with his sword.

   "The enemy is about to kill, please calm down the village master."

  Yang Zhaoru shouted, as if reciting a immobilization spell, Du Heixin's knife-wielding hand suddenly stopped in mid-air, and his whole body froze.

   "What did you say?" Du Heixin turned around and asked in surprise.

  【Ask for a monthly pass! 】

  (end of this chapter)

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