Chapter 103 Occupation

By the time Ying Yi returned to the west gate of Yuzhou, Zhou Li had already secured Hu Dawei's surrender troops. But at this time, the city was already in chaos.

Ying Yi handed the two carriages to Zhou Li and said, "In the carriages are the daughters and young children of Ding Qirui's family. They are under temporary custody."

"Yes, sir."

Zhou Li understood this and called two soldiers to pull the carriage down.

Ying Yi said: "Bring me all the prisoners."

Zhou Li then drove his soldiers and thousands of prisoners outside the west gate.

When these prisoners saw Ying Yi, they all trembled and turned pale, frightened by him.

Ying Yi said coldly: "As a prisoner, whether you live or die is only up to me. Do you want to die or live?!"

Crows.

After a while, several trembling voices came out: "I want to live."

"good."

Ying Yi waved his hand: "Zhou Li, give them swords and guns."

There was a commotion among the prisoners.

Without saying anything, Zhou Li asked people to bring in swords, guns and weapons, and piled them in front of Ying Yi.

Ying Yi said: "Fight for me and live. Those who don't want to, die!"

The prisoners looked at me and I looked at you. Someone took the lead and picked up weapons. After a while, thousands of people had weapons in their hands.

Zhou Li looked nervous at the side.

But Ying Yihun didn't care and pointed at Yuzhou City: "Come with me to suppress the rebels in the city and calm the riots, and I will pardon you. Zhou Li, you lead the people behind to hold down the battle."

Holding the knife in hand, Xin walked into the city: "Follow me."

The prisoners had already been defeated by Ying Yi's bravery. Someone took the lead, and a swarm of swarms followed Ying Yi and rushed into the city.

As soon as Ying Yi entered the city, he exhaled and shouted, the sound was like thunder, overwhelming the whole city: "Those who surrender will not be killed, and those who rebel against Yuzhou will be killed without mercy!"

The clever ones among the prisoners heard the words and shouted: "Those who cause chaos in Yuzhou will be killed without mercy!"

At this time, everyone in the city was shocked and shocked, thinking that there was someone with such a loud voice in the world. However, some of the rebel soldiers who had returned from the battlefield near the White River Valley knew who was coming, and their faces turned pale with horror.

"The God of Death is coming, run away!"

"The God of Death flew into the sky and fell to the ground. Commander Zuo was killed by him. Run away!"

Like an infectious disease, the rioters in the city spread from one to ten, and then to a hundred, and everyone was in panic. Some threw their guns and disarmed, some hid in people's houses, and some ran away from the city gate.

Ying Yi led a group of prisoners into the city. When he saw a street, he separated into a group of people and said: "Gather the prisoners and meet outside the east gate!"

Then there was a lot of commotion, and it was not until dawn that Yuzhou City gradually became quiet.

At this time, Ying Yi was already in charge of the county government in the city.

As early as outside the city, we identified the rebel soldiers who were later captured in the city. There were more than 4,000 people in total, hundreds of whom died early in the chaos or were killed by Ying Yi.

Of these more than 4,000 people, Ying Yi killed 2,000 of them on the spot outside the city, all of whom were common people in the city due to cholera.

At that time, Ying Yi called out all the people in the city and asked them to identify each one. If they identified one, they would kill each one. The people who were killed were heads rolling and blood flowing like rivers.

Although this killing was cruel, it made the people feel at ease.

He also selected 1,000 people from the more than 3,000 people previously captured at Ximen and handed them over to Zhou Li, allowing Zhou Li to temporarily maintain law and order in the city. The remaining two thousand people were asked to guard the remaining two thousand people who were killed outside the east gate.

After roughly handling everything, Ying Yi went to the city and took up his post in the county government office. While asking Zhou Li to make arrangements to bring peace to the people, he waited for Zheng Yunzhi's arrival.

Ying Yi is not good at handling specific government affairs and can only do it according to his own ideas. When Zheng Yunzhi arrived in the afternoon, he saw that the city was peaceful and praised Ying Yi, which made Ying Yi a little embarrassed.

Zheng Yunzhi and his party, in addition to the five members of the Zheng family and some maids and servants, also included Zheng Wu, Zheng Liu, Zheng Jiu, Uncle Huai and others. Sun Xiucai also came.

When they met, Sun Xiucai said first: "Your Excellency, Crescent Valley is temporarily under the care of Lian Baihu. My subordinates knew that Your Majesty was done and were anxious, so they came with the county magistrate."

His face was rosy, as if he had drunk wine, and he was very excited.

For Sun Xiucai, it suddenly felt like a dream. It seemed that before he fell asleep, he was just a failed scholar in Xiaowangzhuang, and Ying Yi was just a reckless man who made a living by hunting. But after waking up from the dream, Ying Yi has become a hero who has defeated tens of thousands of troops and is about to occupy Nanyang, and he is the hero's old minister Conglong!

This feeling - how can one be so excited?

Ying Yi nodded with a smile and said, "If you don't come, I will ask someone to call you over. There are too many things going on here, and I wouldn't be at ease without you."

Sun Xiucai was overjoyed.

Ying Yi said: "There are more than 30,000 prisoners over there in the Bai River Valley. I have asked Zhu Bingkun to select them. But more than 30,000 people are not a small number. I want you to go and see them. Among them, the leaders of the bandits are all selected and killed. Official The military generals will make a selection and kill those with bad deeds. Those without bad deeds will be selected as candidates for military expansion, and the rest will also be useful - Nanyang is full of waste and needs a lot of labor."

Sun Xiucai bowed and said, "Don't worry, sir, I will leave immediately."

He left in a hurry.

Only then did Ying Yi talk to Zheng Yunzhi.

"My father-in-law, Yuzhou has been conquered, and next is the whole of Nanyang. We must strike while the iron is hot and capture them all." He invited Zheng Yunzhi to the seat of honor: "But my son-in-law is not good at government affairs. The government affairs of Nanyang must be entrusted to my father-in-law. ”

Zheng Yunzhi also seemed to be in a dream. He twisted his beard and sighed: "I didn't expect that you would have a foundation in such a short time. It's really... eh..."

He still remembered what Ying Yi looked like when he first saw him.

Ying Yi smiled and said, "Time is also destiny."

He said: "I have already ordered the troops and horses to rest. Since my father-in-law has arrived, I will send out troops later. This Yuzhou will be left to my father-in-law."

Zheng Yunzhi nodded: "Okay."

Then he said: "The people sent by Zhu Bingkun didn't make it clear. Please tell me first. The court must submit a letter to explain as soon as possible."

Ying Yi perked up and said, "I almost forgot."

Then he said: "Liu Zongmin and Zuo Liangyu were killed by me personally during the battle. Zuo Liangyu's son, Hao Yaoqi and other leaders were all killed after being captured."

"What about...Ding Qirui?" Zheng Yunzhi asked with concern.

Ying Yi smiled and said: "I hurried to Yuzhou because Ding Qirui wanted to escape. He recruited thousands of soldiers and horses, probably because he was worried about Zuo Liangyu, but he didn't expect that Zuo Liangyu's defeated troops returned to Yuzhou and caused an uproar in the city. There was a commotion. I rushed to catch up and he was already dead."

After a pause, he seemed to remember something, and said: "By the way, my father-in-law, there was also a man named Hu Dawei who was killed by me. He was the general who recruited thousands of soldiers and horses from Ding Qirui."

"The mighty tiger..." When Zheng Yunzhi heard this, he was horrified by Ying Yi's audacity and said, "Is it him? I know this person is also a general. What a pity."

Ying Yi shook his head: "I was too anxious at the time, how could I care so much?"

Then he said: "Ding Qirui and Zuo Liangyu are all dead, Hao Yaoqi and Liu Zongmin are also dead. Many of their men were killed and injured. Most of the remaining ones were captured by me, and only a few escaped. My father-in-law wrote to the court, and you can still The heads of the two bandit leaders were presented together, and I still keep those heads."

Zheng Yunzhi smiled bitterly, pointed at Ying Yi and sighed repeatedly.

Ying Yi smiled and said: "My son-in-law plans to occupy the entire Nanyang in no more than five days..."

Listening to these words, Zheng Yunzhi pondered and said: "I have something to say before, but now I want to say it. If you want to obtain fame and great righteousness, it is better to take it slow in Nanyang first."