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Chapter 700: Zhang Family Falls, Su Yao Eats Full
Late at night, at the main gate of Wangjiabao.

"Is this the end?"

"Lord Su, you took down Wangjiabao by yourself???"

When Lu Bu, Zhao Yun and others rushed over, they saw the door slowly opening.

Under the illumination of countless torches, Su Yao, covered in blood, was alone, carrying a huge scythe in one hand and holding the unconscious Zhang Yan in the other, and walked towards them step by step.

Behind Su Yao, a group of Zhang family servants, able-bodied men, and those warriors who they had placed high hopes on knelt down one after another.

This scene left Lu Bu, Zhao Yun, Wang Ling and others stunned.

They knew the champion Hou Wuyong very well.

However, his bravery and courage in breaking into Zhangjiabao alone, not only successfully capturing Zhang Yan alive, but also quickly and thoroughly disintegrating the resistance of the Zhang family, is truly astonishing.

"Your Excellency is mighty!"

Lu Bu took a step forward, bowed, and his voice was filled with sincere admiration.

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Yun and others also stepped forward to express their congratulations and respect to Su Yao.

"They are just some chickens and dogs, not worth mentioning."

Su Yao just smiled slightly and threw Zhang Yan to the ground:
"Tie this man up, take him back to Hongnong City and hand him over to Wenhe, and execute him publicly to serve as a warning to others."

"Yes, my lord!"

Lu Bu and Zhao Yun responded in unison, then stepped forward to tie up Zhang Yan and escort him away.

Then they looked at the people who were trembling and afraid to stand up, and asked:
"Sir, what should we do next?"

Su Yao took a deep look at the tragic situation in Zhangjiabao and nodded:

"The army will enter the city and clean up the place. All the property and population of the Zhang family will be registered. Except for the Zhang family members, all other people who surrender will be dealt with according to the law based on their closeness to the Zhang family and the crimes they committed."

They all surrendered, that's right.

It turned out that when Su Yao single-handedly broke into the Zhang family ancestral hall, beheaded the dignitaries, and captured Zhang Yan, the warriors gathered by the Zhang family completely lost the courage to resist.

Especially, when they tremblingly saw Su Yao coming out, asking them to open the city and surrender, and stating that only the Zhang family members would die, their last bit of will to resist was shattered.

These servants who were recruited and controlled by the Zhang family immediately surrendered as if they had been pardoned. They rushed to lead the way for Su Yao and help him open the city gates to welcome the army into the city.

Then, after Lu Bu, Zhao Yun and others led their troops into the city, they did so either to reduce their crimes and gain merit, or simply to avenge the Zhang family's long-term enslavement of them.

These Zhang's formerly loyal servants immediately turned into the most active elements in trying to get rid of Zhang.

Some of them took the initiative to lead Lu Bu's soldiers, or looked for various secret places to capture those members of the Zhang family who tried to escape and hide, or went to the secret rooms and cellars where the Zhang family hid their treasures, and counted out boxes of gold, silver, treasures, food, cloth and other supplies, and registered them.

Others volunteered to act as guides, leading Su Yao's soldiers to the outside of the city, to hunt out Zhang's minions scattered in the countryside, who had oppressed the people and committed many evil deeds, and hand them over to Lu Bu, Zhao Yun and others for disposal.

What's more, some people who had suffered from the oppression of the Zhang family, seeing that the Zhang family was finally defeated, also boldly organized themselves and joined the ranks of cleaning up the Zhang family.

They waved farm tools and sticks to carry out the final reckoning with the remnants of the Zhang family. Some members of the Zhang clan were even beaten to death before Su Yao's army arrived.

Those who were lucky enough to survive were captured by the army and taken to the city of Hongnong County to be executed on a chosen day.

At night, the Zhangjiawu Fort was brightly lit, and soldiers and civilians were busy shuttling back and forth in the firelight. They brandished their weapons and rushed into one room after another, killing or capturing the Zhang clan members one by one. For a while, the sounds of shouting and wailing were endless in the sky above the fort.

Under Su Yao's resolute order, Zhang's fate was doomed.

Although the men of the Zhang family fought desperately, they could not escape death in the end.

The women and children of the Zhang family were given slightly less tolerance.

Thanks to Su Yao's continuous efforts to strengthen military discipline, among the thousands of people captured, except for a few women who were bullied by the violent civilians, most of them were not wantonly abused and killed by the crazy soldiers as in previous cases of house confiscation and family extermination.

Different from the previous gaming experience through the screen.

When placed in such a real environment, Su Yao felt even more the cruelty of war.

Of course, he could laugh and mercilessly harvest the lives of enemy soldiers one after another and turn them into his own EXP.

But at the same time, he could not completely abandon his compassion for those weak people who were unarmed and crying for mercy.

Su Yao knew very well that in troubled times, life was difficult enough for the people, and he could not allow his army to become a new tool of tyranny.

We must not allow the spirit of tyranny to spread within our ranks.

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Therefore, even though the destruction of the Zhang family was a foregone conclusion, Su Yao still ordered the soldiers to strictly abide by military discipline and not to do anything improper to the female family members. Once discovered, they would be severely punished.

Of course, this does not mean that these people will be let off the hook.

The female relatives of the Zhang family left behind will first be properly settled in various mansions in the city for protection, and will then be sent to Hongnong City in batches in the coming days to be rewarded to those who have made contributions.

As for the young Zhang children
"Even the Mongols wouldn't kill a child taller than the wheels, so I can't be lower than them."

Su Yao pinched his chin, ignored the question from Lu Bu and others about who the Mongols were, and directly ordered all the children to be packed up and taken away, giving them a chance to start a new life.

"Gather all these children, bring them back to Hongnong City, and hand them over to Jia Wenhe. Ask him to find someone to educate them again and teach them the difference between good and evil."

"Yes, sir!"

After Su Yao issued one order after another, the aftermath work in Zhangjiabao was carried out in an orderly manner.

The wailing and crying in the city gradually subsided, replaced by the busy footsteps of soldiers and the occasional command.

As time passed, the morning sunlight gradually shone on the earth, and detailed information about the Zhang family's property and population was counted one by one.

It was not until this time that Su Yao realized that he had really underestimated the power of these aristocratic families.

In the capital, the treasures and mansions he had confiscated from the noble families in the capital were not as much as the accumulation of this local tyrant whose name he had never even heard of!

This is a problem that Su Yao overlooked.

In this era without banks and digital economy, wealth is not entirely concentrated in cities, but is distributed in large quantities throughout this vast countryside.

Land is the source of their wealth.

The amount of money and grain that the Zhang family had accumulated by monopolizing this basin in the county was so huge that Su Yao was shocked.

The mountains of grain in those granaries were not only enough to meet the needs of his thousands of troops on the Western Expedition for several months, but could even provide some support to the capital to a certain extent, alleviating the soaring grain prices caused by the war.

In the Zhang family's storehouse, the golden copper coins piled up in strings were dazzling and dazzling.
(End of this chapter)