Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 252

Chapter 252

Zhu Zhi looked at the soldiers led by Ling Cao who were approaching the city wall step by step, and he couldn't help feeling a little bit of crisis in his heart.

Soon he heard another killing sound coming from the direction of the city wall of Shuimen in Qiantang County. Looking over from the tower above the city gate, he saw Mu Lan leading the troops along the city wall to kill Lumen.

Zhu Zhi's side was attacked on three sides, so he had to go around the other side of the city wall and retreat to the water gate of Qiantang County.

But even if they retreated to the water gate, they would not be able to withdraw from Qiantang County without a boat. It can be said that Zhu Zhi has been trapped in a desperate situation.

From the top of the city gate, Zhu Zhi took a look at the formation of spears, guns and carts blocking the gate outside the city wall, then at Ling Cao, who had set up a formation inside the city wall, using crossbow arrows to clear the way, and approached the city wall little by little, and then at Ling Cao. The unstoppable Mulan over there led three thousand soldiers.

Zhu Zhi sighed deeply in his heart, "Oh, young master, Zhu Zhi is sorry for you! Zhu Zhi lost the Qiantang today, and he really owed the young master's great trust, and the only way to pay for it is to die! All of you, There is no need to fight anymore, just surrender, Zhu Wei will not treat you too much!"

Zhu Zhi looked at the situation around him and looked at the soldiers he had trained so hard for many years. They were unable to resist Zhu Wei's attack and had no courage to fight, so he became a little discouraged.

After he suddenly yelled in his mouth, he pulled out the ring-shou knife and cut it across his carotid artery. As the blood sprayed out, Zhu Zhi quickly fell limp in the gate tower.

Zhu Zhi's suicide act was so sudden that Zhu Zhi's personal guards guarding around the city gate hadn't reacted yet. When they heard the sound and looked over, Zhu Zhi had already fallen to the ground.

"General!", "General, how can you do this!", "What should we do!", "Surrender! Surrender!"

All kinds of voices spread, but finally they merged into the word surrender, so the overall situation of Qiantang County was settled.

This Zhu Zhi is not a very capable general at all, he can only be said to be a mediocre person. He has no way out at this moment, only his loyalty to the Sun family, he is naturally unwilling to be captured and humiliated by Zhu Wei, and would rather die like this Let it go.

After that, the soldiers under Zhu Zhi abandoned their weapons and surrendered one after another, even the personal guards around Zhu Zhi also lost the courage to fight again.

Then there was the harvest after the war. In fact, there were no other good things, that is, in the grain depot in Qiantang County, there was enough grain storage for more than ten thousand people to feed for more than a year. In addition, there were some weapons and equipment and a few copper coins.

After all, Zhu Zhi is only the captain of Wujun, and he is only a military general, not a civil servant. He was able to gather troops to train troops in Qiantang County, obviously not because of his own accumulation of supplies, but because of Sun Ce's help in the dark. Maybe it was Zhou Yu. Supplies were sent to him to meet his needs for forming an army and training troops here.

In this way, it is naturally impossible for Zhu Zhi to have too many materials in his hands. Before Sun Ce really took control of the real power, it would cost a lot of money to secretly control such an army of more than 7000.

Although Zhu Zhi occupied Qiantang County, he could get some tax and other income, but it was far from enough for his military training.

The materials that can be stored in Qiantang County now are the ones that Sun Ce specially raised for Zhu Zhi for his own Jiangdong strategy. After all, Zhu Zhi’s status as the captain of Wujun can control the army with integrity, so Zhu Zhi is Sun Ce An important ambush hidden in Jiangdong.

In the original history, Sun Ce's attack on Jiangdong was too smooth, and there was no need for Zhu Zhi to go to Danyang County to help, so that Zhu Zhi would attack Xu Gong and help Sun Ce take Wu County first.

Otherwise, if Sun Ce went from north to east, Zhu Zhi would be able to send troops from south to north to respond, and Liu Yao would naturally have no power to fight against the attack from both sides.

Of course, these materials stored in Qiantang County are really nothing in the eyes of Zhu Wei now. For Zhu Wei, the biggest gain in conquering Qiantang County may be the capture of nearly [-] Qiantang soldiers.

Of the more than 7000 soldiers that Zhu Zhi privately produced, only more than 1000 were killed or injured in the previous siege battle. Most of the other soldiers retreated to the city wall, and now they have surrendered collectively.

During the subsequent collection of prisoners, Zhu Wei asked Mulan and Ling Cao to come forward first and explain Zhu Wei's rules. Those who were unwilling to become Zhu Wei's soldiers could leave alive, but they had to cut off their right thumb to prevent them from wandering around. Become a bandit, or be recruited as a soldier by other forces in the future, and become the enemy of Zhu Wei.

Then, Mulan also introduced Zhu Wei's military reward system to these prisoners, such as rewards for meritorious services, insurance for injuries, etc. Soon, most of Zhu Zhi's soldiers here were willing to change their identities and become Zhu Wei's subordinates. soldiers.

In fact, who are these soldiers serving as soldiers? According to the rules of this era, it is normal to change masters after a defeat. What's more, Zhu Wei's treatment seems to be very good.

The rest is more than 1000 people, including the soldiers around Zhu Zhi who are still a little hesitant. On the one hand, Zhu Zhi has just died, and their mentality is still a little bit hard to change. On the other hand, they are also afraid of being cut off their right thumb. I dare not speak directly and leave.

Zhu Wei promised to give them three days to think about it. Anyway, it would take some time for Zhu Wei to rectify Qiantang County.

Now that Qiantang County has been conquered, the territory naturally belongs to Wang Lang, and Qiantang County can be considered to be under the control of Kuaiji County, but weapons, money, grain and grass basically belong to Zhu Wei.

Because Zhu Wei almost completely took over Zhu Zhi's army, many weapons naturally returned to these soldiers, and the remaining weapons and equipment were not superfluous.

In this way, Zhou Xin has no interest in dividing weapons. The weapons and equipment in Qiantang County are not as good as the weapons and equipment that Zhu Wei purchased for Wang Lang before.

However, Zhu Wei did not receive all the grain from the Qiantang County grain depot into the Three Kingdoms game system in front of Zhou Xin. These grains are still the public grain of the army, and everyone can use them.

It's just that according to the background of Kuaiji County, Wang Lang doesn't care much about food.

Anyway, now that the threat from Zhu Zhi's side has been eliminated, there is nothing to fight in Kuaiji. With the original 7000 recruits and more than 1000 local county soldiers, it is enough to maintain the stability of Kuaiji and Wang Lang can feel at ease.

Kuaiji County was originally located in the hinterland of Jiangdong, and Wang Lang was attached to Liu Yao's name. There was no threat from foreign enemies. The only thing that needed to be guarded against was the rebellion of the ancient Yue land in the southern mountains.

But now the Kuaiji under Wang Lang's control is still stable, and those Shanyue who are far away in the mountains in the south have no reason to rebel.

Therefore, Wang Lang can continue to be the local leader in Kuaiji with peace of mind, develop and manage Kuaiji County according to his own wishes, and ignore the Central Plains war.

Of course, the news that Zhu Zhi in Qiantang County was captured by Zhu Wei in the first battle quickly spread to Wujun and Danyang.

When Liu Yao heard the news, he sent a commendation to Zhu Wei, and at the same time sent good news to Zhu Wei. Zhu Wei's request to succeed the title of Marquis Qian Tang and the post of prefect of Yuzhang has also been approved.

That is to say, Zhu Wei is indeed the veritable Marquis of Qiantang in the Han Dynasty, and also the official prefect of Yuzhang...

(End of this chapter)