Domineering

Chapter 256 (Subscribe)

On May [-], almost the entire city of Jiangnan County was completely deserted.

Especially in some urban areas near Shuiying in the north of the city, more than [-] houses raised white flags.

There are few pedestrians on the street, and the market is depressed.

In the streets and alleys, people also have sad faces when they meet by chance.

In front of the restaurants and teahouses in the city, as well as the many notice boards set up by the government, the gathered crowd couldn't leave Chu Xisheng and the Iron Banner Gang.

At this time, the atmosphere in the lobby of the Governor's Mansion was extremely depressed.

Wang Sheng, governor of Dongzhou, sat solemnly in the first place in the hall.

This is a hale and hearty middle-aged man in his eighties.

He is indeed 'middle-aged' now. For a person like Wang Sheng who has been promoted to the third rank with a life expectancy of 300 years, 80 years is only one-third of his lifespan.

Not only did he live a long life, but he was also proficient in the way of maintaining beauty. He looked only about 30 years old, with handsome features and a rich spirit like jade.

Only Wang Sheng's face was so cold that it was about to drip water.

There was also endless chill in his voice: "Didn't the Jiangnan County Naval Battalion just report victory to the Governor's Mansion? It is said that the Iron Banner Gang has been defeated and is heading for the east pier in the downstream city. How could it suddenly be defeated? Not only did it lose troops More than 67 people, and [-] warships were damaged? Could it be that Dong Tianyue falsely reported his military exploits?"

Dong Tianyue is the commander of the Jiangnan County Navy Battalion.He commanded [-] warships and [-] sailors.

"My lord, Dong Tianyue has absolutely no guts!"

As soon as Wang Sheng's voice fell, a young man in the hall replied.

This person is the governor's shogunate counseling to join the army. He clasped his fists together: "I just checked all the battle reports carefully, and I can conclude that Dong Tianyue was caught in a trick to lure the enemy. The Iron Banner Gang cheated and defeated the Jiangnan County Navy Battalion and the Seventeenth Company. Lure the big boat from the dock to the wide river, and then lay down here with three thousand strong archers.

They fired [-] arrows in an instant, and the rain of arrows was so powerful that it almost swept across the upper decks of all the warships, causing heavy damage to the generals of the Jiangnan County Navy Battalion.At this time, Tie Xiaosheng organized thousands of elite soldiers to jump and board the ship, which eventually led to our defeat. "

Wang Sheng frowned: "Since it was a trick to lure the enemy, why didn't Dong Tianyue mention it in the battle report? Also, where did they get the three thousand strong archers?"

The so-called "strong archers" in the southern army must be at least the eighth-rank rank, able to hold a twenty-stone military heavy bow, draw it thirty times in a row, and have the ability to hit the bull's-eye within a hundred steps .

For those frontier troops in the north, the standards have to be improved a lot.

With three thousand strong bows, it is true that a single salvo can sweep away the decks of five or six warships.

The problem is that the Iron Banner Gang, where are there so many eighth-rank strong archers?

"The reason why Dong Tianyue didn't mention it must be because he was ashamed to speak out and was worried about being blamed by adults."

The young counselor joined the army, and replied calmly: "As for the three thousand strong archers, they should be from the hunters of the Western Mountains. Most of the hunters in the mountains are at the peak of the ninth rank, and they just have no money to buy them." The secret medicine cannot be promoted to the cultivation level.

But now the Iron Banner Gang has swept all the rich and powerful households along the river, whether it is an eighth-grade secret medicine or a twenty-stone military heavy bow, it is not difficult to collect it. "

Wang Sheng was taken aback when he heard this. Xiushui County is a large medicine-producing county in the south. It is not difficult for the Iron Banner Gang to gather two to three thousand pairs of eight-grade secret medicines temporarily.

As for the twenty-stone heavy bow, Daning has plenty of martial virtues, which wealthy family in the countryside didn't keep a hundred and eighty?

Fighting with weapons in the countryside for water and fields is extremely ferocious, with 2 people at every turn, equipped with a large number of armored weapons, as if marching to fight a war. (In 1991, 5000 people from two villages in Chenzhou, Hunan Province fought with guns and cannons for three days.)
However, he was still full of puzzlement: "Then how did they send these three thousand strong archers there? Are all the spies of our Governor's Mansion and Jinyiwei blind? Just watching like this?
The Tianping army was in the ancient market, so they didn't see any movement on the opposite river?Also, these three thousand hunters may have difficulty even standing still on the water, so they can still participate in water battles and shoot arrows on the boat?Isn't it absurd? "

The young counselor joined the army lost in thought: "It should be with the help of dense fog and grain transport ships. Recently, the east pier of the city is shrouded in clouds and fog all day long. They have ten large ships departing from here every day to transport grain, grass and arrows to the upstream. If I guessed right, these three thousand strong archers should have mixed into these grain ships, avoiding our spies.

As for how they opened their bows, I saw a sentence in the battle report, the Iron Banner gang is like a city!They connected dozens of large ships together, and the Xishan area was densely covered with streams and rivers, and it was also close to the Shenxiu River. These hunters were not completely unskilled like the northerners. "

What's more, the battle reports from Xiushui County are all here. This is indeed a big defeat that hurt the Jiangnan County Navy Battalion, how ridiculous can it be?

Wang Sheng had nothing to say.

In fact, he can also infer some truth from these battle reports, but he is just unwilling to accept this fact.

"This Dong Tianyue is really useless and incompetent."

Wang Sheng rubbed his brows and felt a headache: "I asked him to go to Xunyang County to assist the Xunyang County government to eliminate the water bandits on the river. Who told him to make his own ideas and go to do things for a group of water bandits in the [-]th Lianhuanwu?" Dao, entered Xiushui to fight?

If he really has the ability to stand up to the battle and win it, that's all, but he doesn't know how much he weighs, and my elite navy has been completely damaged! "

Even if a state army with a scale of [-] was wiped out, Wang Sheng would not be so angry.

The problem is that the naval division is different from the land division. The large warships of the navy division are very expensive and difficult to build.

The process of making a warship is extremely complicated. First, they need to collect suitable large wood and dry it in the shade for up to half a year. During the subsequent building process, they also hire magicians to embed a large number of runes to ensure the robustness of the ship.

Those soldiers of the navy, if they lose it, they will lose it. They just need to save a little compensation money and recruit people outside.

Anyway, martial arts in this world don't know how many people there are. Once they die, they will be born again.

But these warships were lost, and the combat power of the Jiangnan County Navy Battalion could not be recovered within a year or two.

In addition, those eight-armed bed crossbows and scorpion crossbows, trebuchets, and even four-armed god-killing crossbows on the ship were all very valuable weapons.

The hateful thing about Dong Tianyue is that he threw a total of 54 brand new warships, four four-armed crossbows, and military heavy weapons worth millions to the Iron Banner Gang, so that those rebels could be killed on the river. The combat power has greatly increased.

The young counselor joined the army but did not answer this time.

How could Dong Tianyue dare to fight without the permission of the governor's office?
In the past few days, the Jiangnan County Naval Battalion had watched the [-]th Lianhuanwu suffer heavy casualties under the attack of the Iron Banner Gang, and ignored it.

Xiushui County's big defeat was actually because the Governor's Mansion could not withstand internal and external pressure, implying that Dong Tianyue would go downstream to 'test'.

But when things got to this point, Dong Tianyue could only take the blame.

It was also Dong Tianyue himself who was incapable of underestimating the enemy, which led to the defeat of the navy under his command, and he was to blame.

He just cupped his fists with a sincere expression: "My lord, the Iron Banner Gang originated from the Chongzhou Naval Battalion in the past. There are nearly two thousand veterans in the gang who are proficient in water warfare. Since the destruction of the Chongzhou Naval Battalion, most of them Relying on the water to do business, the net worth is rich, not only there are many people who have cultivated to the sixth and seventh ranks, but also have complete battle plans and magic weapons, and strong combat power.

They still have a lot of manpower, and they have recruited tens of thousands of coolie boatmen from Xiushui for their own use. Now they have these 54 military warships, which can be said to be like a tiger with wings added, like a dragon with water.

The combat power of those three thousand strong archers is even comparable to that of elite frontier troops, placed on the frontal battlefield, it is enough to suppress the state army of [-] people.I also heard that the Iron Banner Gang took in [-] powerful miners from the west of Xiushui County. All of them wore armor and trained day and night.

In the past few days, they plundered 700 million taels of magic silver and god gold, and countless materials. They used the money to recruit skilled recruits, and bought a third-grade treasure armor and many bows and crossbows at high prices.

According to Jin Yiwei's news, they have already recruited two fifth-rank masters. They are both green forest heroes from the north. They are on the black list.In addition to the four four-armed God-killing crossbows left by Dong Tianyue, their number of God-killing crossbows has reached thirteen.

In today's situation, the Governor's Mansion can no longer sit on the sidelines.Whether it is a war or a caress, there must be a decision first.Otherwise, the strength of the Iron Banner Gang will increase day by day, and if it drags on for one more day, their strength will grow stronger.If we don't respond, the situation will get out of control sooner or later. "

Governor Wang Sheng frowned, with a wry smile on his lips.

He didn't know that he should have made a decision earlier.

But this decision is really difficult to make.

Behind Sikong Chan, the prefect of Xiushui County, there are powerful officials in the palace, and he will not let him manipulate him.

Recently, this person even contracted Xiushui gentry to invest tens of millions of taels of magic silver. He tried every means to crucify Chu Xisheng and the Iron Banner Gang for the felony of treason, which also put him, the governor of Dongzhou, in an embarrassing situation.

He could no longer treat the turmoil in Xiushui as an ordinary civil disturbance. If he bowed his head to the Iron Banner Gang and compromised, it would attract criticism from political opponents and many censors.

But standing on the side of Sikong Chan and suppressing the Iron Banner Gang, Governor Wang Sheng couldn't swallow this bad breath.

Sikong Chan and the inspector of Dongzhou joined forces to force him down, which has violated a taboo in the officialdom and offended him deeply.

Standing in the position of Sikong Chan, it may be that he has no choice, but Wang Sheng can't tolerate it.

If everyone in the Dongzhou officialdom is like this, then what authority does he have as the Governor of Dongzhou?

And how easy is it to destroy the Iron Banner Gang?

Since Chu Xisheng raised his flag and raised his troops, the momentum has grown. Now there are 3 sailors on the river, and at least [-] soldiers on land capable of fighting.

Now even the [-] Tianping Army under Wei Lai's command were forced to leave the ancient market and set up camp ten miles back to avoid the advance of the Iron Banner soldiers.

What Wei Lai is worried about is that the Iron Banner Gang will bring back [-] strong archers and many military warships, and spread them along the east bank where the ancient market is located.At that time, the Tianping Army will be powerless to resist and suffer heavy losses.

Iron Banner Gang's master lineup is also quite impressive.

Even if those few mysterious masters are not counted, only the few black-listed masters recently recruited by the Iron Banner Gang are enough to replace the Iron Madman and support the Iron Banner Gang's gate.

What's more, if the Iron Banner Gang formally rebelled, Mo Zhanlou would definitely intervene and send a large number of experts to come.

How much military power does the entire Eastern State have to dispatch for this?How many masters?How much food?How many instruments?

What if the final siege fails?
Thinking of this, Wang Sheng felt that the breath in his chest was moving backwards, piercing his heart and lungs like needles, and there seemed to be 1 gongs and drums beating and humming in his head.

Now he can't wait to tear up that Xiushui prefect, Sikong Chan!

"Then what about Mount Tai?"

Governor Wang Sheng rubbed his forehead: "Didn't Sikong Chan spend all his money and hire people to encircle and suppress Chu Xisheng? It is said that Blood Bat Mountain is also difficult to get off. After suffering heavy casualties, they were really angry. They still can't take down Chu Xisheng?"

The young counselor joined the army with a calm expression and shook his head slightly.

Sitting next to Wang Sheng, Shi, the governor's mansion, silently handed a thin document to Wang Sheng.

Governor Wang Sheng took a look in his hand and found that the text on the cover of the book was "On Martial God Machine * Dongzhou Chronicle * Iron Banner Gang Supplement".

He raised his eyebrows slightly: "When was this supplement released? It seems that the master Xie of the Lunwu Tower still couldn't handle it."

Wang Sheng has long been aware of the fighting skills of the two principal and deputy owners of Dongzhou Lunwu Building.

Even behind Xie Zhenqing, there is the support of him, the governor of Dongzhou.

Sikong Chan wants to let Lunwulou publish a supplement to further convict Chu Xisheng of his crimes. How can Wang Sheng make him happy?

But this landlord Xie is a woman after all, and she has no responsibility at all.

It's only been a few days, and I can't bear the pressure anymore.

When Governor Wang Sheng opened the booklet, which only had more than 30 pages, his complexion sank again.

The fact that Chu Xisheng ranked high on the black list and was ranked third on the Dongzhou black list by Dongzhou Lunwulou did not surprise Wang Sheng at all.

Just the day before yesterday, the Dongzhou Procuratorate raised the reward to Chu Xisheng again, as high as 14 taels of magic silver!
What really made Wang Sheng's scalp tingle was the long list of names under Chu Xisheng's introduction!
'Catcher of the Rock Eagle' Zhao Qiye
Wang Qingbing, the head of the "Three Swords of Linhai"
'Stone Armored Tiger' Mi Chang

'Star Hand' Gu Yingkui
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Since April 25th, since the battle at the east dock of the city, the number of fifth-rank masters who died in the joint efforts of Chu Xisheng and the five-tailed wind beast has already counted as many as seven.

The list is even longer at the end -

'Water sleeve' Zuo Guangzheng
'Blood Rain Sword' Yu Chiyang
'Ghost Hand' Kan Nakazawa
'Iron Knife' Luo Xiang

'White Ape Sword' Yan Liu

'Iron Sword' Luan Xiu
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The total number of people is astonishingly 43, all of them are famous sixth-rank masters. Among them, there are more than a dozen of them who have been lucky enough to be listed on the list of famous heroes, and there are even fifth-rank fighters like Yu Chiyang.

Governor Wang Sheng continued to flip through the book, only to see that there was a long list of names behind, and the number was even more frightening.

'Mountain Cone' Zhu Mingshan
'Flame Knife' Dai Lei

'Blood Eye Sword' Qionghua and
'Shuangfeng Dao' Kang Ming

'Blue Dragon Fist' Cheng Weisen
——There were 24 fifth-rank masters and 85 sixth-rank masters, all of whom died from two mysterious masters.

The people who were killed by the eight-armed King Kong Jianbu Yancheng and Ye Zhiqiu have not been counted, because of these two, one is from the outer sect of Wuxiang Shenzong, and the other is hired by the Iron Banner Gang.

As for those below the sixth rank, it doesn't matter!
This is simply a catastrophe in Dongzhou martial arts!
Ten days ago, no one would have imagined that after the death of the iron madman of the Iron Banner Gang, the martial arts in the eight counties of Dongzhou would pay such a price.

Nearly one tenth of the fifth and sixth rank masters died within a few days in the narrow strip from Taizi Lake to Taishan County.

Especially the Killing Building, Blood Bat Mountain and Six Gates all suffered heavy casualties and many dead.

"Lunwulou is a supplement released half an hour ago."

Shi, the governor's mansion, looked extremely helpless: "It's not that Xie Zhenqing couldn't bear it anymore, but Dongzhou Pressed the Procuratorate's official document and brought this matter to the left servant of the Ministry of Rites. In addition, the six doors damaged four five-rank After the chief arrester in red was also furious, the seventeen chief arresters of Qinglong lineage joined hands to put pressure on the Lunwu Tower, and another official in the palace handed over a note. The left servant of the Ministry of Rites had no choice but to order Xie Zhenqing not to intervene in this iron battle. Supplement to the Banner Gang."

The tricky thing about this matter is that the Eunuch Party and the Dongzhou Inspectorate and others follow the formal procedures and are upright.

They can try to delay it, but they can't stop it.

Once you show your signs, you will definitely be impeached.

"As soon as this supplement was published today, the whole city in Jiangnan County was silent, and the people's expressions changed. In his article, Wang Chaoyang, the owner of Dongzhou Lunwu, tried his best to frame and slander the Iron Banner Gang. It is proclaimed to be a villain who is vicious and devoid of conscience. However, the achievements of Chu Xisheng and the Iron Banner Gang are indeed astonishing. They have seriously injured the vitality of the entire Dongzhou martial arts. By the way—"

Shi, the head of the governor's office, remembered another thing: "Just a day ago, Tianji Pavilion also released a new issue of "Tianji Wushu". It may be that they knew Chu Xisheng's impressive record in Taizi Lake, and they will Chu Xisheng is ranked 86th in the Qingyun overall list, and Shenxiu's ranking of the top ten knives has also been promoted to the seventh place."

The people in the hall couldn't help buzzing.

The gold content of Qingyun General List and Shenxiu Top Ten Swords is extremely high.

Those who can enter the top [-] of the Qingyun general list can basically step into the ground list as long as they don't die.

Governor Wang Sheng only cared about Chu Xisheng.

"I just want to know, can Sikong Chan kill Chu Xisheng in Taishan County?"

He delayed for so many days just to give Sikong Chan a chance.

If Chu Xisheng, the culprit, can be resolved, then the Governor's Mansion will be able to push the boat forward and flatten the Iron Banner Gang.

"It's hard!"

It was the same young counselor joining the army, with a wry smile on his face: "Chu Xisheng and the five-tailed wind beast are fighting guerrilla warfare in Taishan County. This place is famous for its complicated terrain. The field of vision is blocked by the hills, and the farthest can only be three miles away, and Wu Xiu's spiritual sense and spiritual consciousness cannot reach far.

Chu Xisheng's whereabouts inside were erratic, left and right, east and west, like a dragon that sees the head but does not see the tail.Blood Bat Mountain and other forces are caught in a dilemma. Although they set up nets in the mountains to search, but there are fewer people in each net, and they will die if they run into Chu Xisheng.If there are too many people in the network, the network will inevitably be sparse, and it will be impossible to block Chu Xisheng.

I even suspected that Chu Xisheng deliberately lured them to Taishan County, and in turn hunted and exterminated them.Now whether it is the Blood Bat Mountain, the Six Gates, or the Killing Building, there is a lot of panic and the trees are all fighting.Their five ranks are all acting in groups, and if there are less than three of them, they will never dare to enter the dense forest and deep mountains.So their net is actually riddled with holes. "

Here is another turning point when discussing joining the army: "However, neither the Six Gates nor the Blood Bat Mountain can give up, and there are bound to be more experts who will come to help. Since five days ago, Sikong Chan raised the reward for the Killing Tower to 300 million taels of magic silver, many experts from other states are also coming, and even attracted the interest of some fourth-rank experts. So everything is hard to say—"

Governor Wang Sheng was lost in thought.

His counselor joined the army did not give him the answer he wanted, but explained all the useful information to him.

After a long time, Wang Sheng's expression became serious: "Prepare to mobilize troops from various places! Within ten days, all 2 soldiers and horses of the Tianping Army will be stationed in the ancient market, and another 3 troops will be drawn from Jiangnan County and Xunyang County. Under his command, [-] Governor-General Standard Army and [-] Punishment Army were stationed in Linxiu County, Xunyang County.

In addition, the Governor's Office is responsible for the preparation of food and grass, and it is necessary to prepare as soon as possible the food for the [-] troops to fight for one month.In addition, please His Royal Highness King Wu send two fourth-rank enshrined over here to replace me in Jiangnan County City, in case of minor disturbances at night! "

He still hasn't decided what method to use to quell the Xiushui chaos.

However, there is nothing wrong with making preparations in advance to calm the chaos.

Even if you want to negotiate with the Iron Banner Gang and recruit Chu Xisheng, you must first force them with force.

And once he chooses to put down the rebellion, Wang Sheng is ready to lead the army himself and wipe out the Iron Banner Gang in the shortest possible time.

In recent years, there have been many thieves and bandits on the ground in Dongzhou, rampant cults, and demons everywhere. There are also many demons at the top of the list, and giant spirits and monsters gather to hide in Yunmeng Mountain, seven thousand miles away in the south.

If the war is delayed for a long time, there will be turmoil in the whole state, and a group of evil peaks will rise.

Therefore, the speed of quelling chaos must be fast, the faster the better!
(End of this chapter)