Li Qing looked at Liu Zhizhou, who was kneeling on the ground trembling, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, as long as you cooperate with this king, this king guarantees that not only will not touch you at all, but will also make you prosperous and rich."
"Your Majesty, what do you want the lower officials to do?"
asked Liu Zhizhou as if grasping a life-saving straw.
Li Qing said to Liu Zhizhou: "What you have to do is very simple, take your henchmen to separate the strong men, women, old and weak women and children in the city from this king, and everything in Suzhou City will be sealed, and you will take the strong men in the city to load all the things in the city with grain, grass, gold and silver, silk, cloth, etc., and transport them to Hangzhou through the canal, and this king will send troops to guard them along the way."
"King, you are going to empty the entire city of Suzhou," Liu Zhizhou said in a lost voice.
Li Qing sneered: "If you don't want to do it, some people are willing to do it."
"If the official goes to do it, he will bring someone to do it."
Liu Zhizhou said immediately.
"Zhou Hai, send someone to assist Liu Zhizhou in handling this matter."
Li Qing said indifferently.
"Yes, the last general commands" After leaving, Liu Zhizhou was protected by dozens of Xia soldiers, and the lives of Liu Zhizhou and his whole family were all in the hands of Li Qing, so Li Qing was not afraid of any clever tricks he played; After returning home, Liu Zhizhou immediately gathered a group of his own henchmen, and in order to speed up the search, Li Qing also asked a thousand Japanese soldiers to cooperate with the action.
The entrance of a private house in Suzhou City.
A group of officials dragged a little girl out of it, and the little girl shouted for help: "Daddy, Daddy" "Official, you can't do this, let my daughter go, she's only fifteen years old, as long as you and my daughter, you can move everything here," a middle-aged man chased out and prayed.
"It's useless for you to beg us, this is Lord Zhizhou's order."
The leader of the catcher said; "Handcuff him and take him away."
When the man saw that the servant refused to let go, he immediately resisted, pushed the catcher to the ground, and the catcher got angry and hacked the man to death with a knife and said: "Mother, give you a shameless face." ” "Daddy, daddy, daddy," said the little girl, crying bitterly.
At this moment, another woman rushed out of the house, saw the man lying in a pool of blood, and cried bitterly: "Daddy, daddy."
Seeing another woman, she said with a very ugly face: "There is still a girl in his mother's house, tell the brothers to search carefully, if one person is missed, our heads will have to be moved." ” "Yes, my lord" Xiang This situation is everywhere in the whole city of Suzhou, as long as there is a slight resistance to the people immediately killed, at the beginning there were only dozens of servants and thousands of Japanese soldiers, but because the speed of action is too slow, Li Qing is very dissatisfied, so he ordered Shimazu Tadahisa to take 10,000 Japanese soldiers to cooperate, under the supervision of the Xia army, the Japanese soldiers and the Song army surrendered the entire Suzhou city to the bottom, except for the people who defected to the Xia army, the rest of the people were arrested.
The Xia army used the captured strong men to transport all the grain, grass, gold, silver, jewelry, cloth, silk, medicinal herbs, and all the materials in the city to the temporary warehouse by the wharf, which was guarded by the elite of the Xia army and no one was allowed to approach, and the strong men in the city were imprisoned in the west of the city, and the women from the age of fourteen to forty were all imprisoned in the west of the city, and as for the others, Li Qing gave them all to the Japanese soldiers with a stroke of his pen, and let them dispose of them.
It took the Xia army three days to clean up the entire city of Suzhou; Zhou Hai reported to Li Qing: "The entire city of Suzhou has been basically cleared, and the total value of gold, silver and jewelry seized in the city is more than 10 million silver coins, nearly 5 million stones of grain and grass, more than 3 million pieces of brocade cloth, and more than 80,000 women of suitable age."
"How many strong men are there," Li Qing asked Zhou Hai.
"There are more than 50,000 strong men; There were originally more than 500,000 people in the entire city of Suzhou, but now there are less than 150,000 left.
Zhou Hai said to Li Qing: "Lord Wang, that group of Japanese soldiers is too bad, it is simply a beast killing indiscriminately."
"Now it's up to them to conquer the city for us."
Li Qing said; "Tomorrow, you send people to attack everywhere, take down the entire territory of Suzhou to this king, and transfer all the stolen baggage to Suzhou City first, and don't need this king to teach you the rest."
"Yes, the last general understands, the prince can rest assured" In fact, not only Suzhou, Xiuzhou, Huzhou is also the same, the whole Suhu Lake is a little wolf smoke, everywhere you can see a team of Xia army cavalry watching a team of Japanese soldiers escort a group of strong men and women to transport the baggage to the nearest assembly point to assemble, and then converge into a large number of baggage together to transport to Hangzhou City, as for the looting of many people to carry the burden of the Xia army themselves did not count.
Speaking of Hangzhou City, Zhou Tao led 8,000 sailors to take Hangzhou City without blood, and now the 15,000 reinforcements of the Xia Army have arrived in Hangzhou City from the sea, and the materials in the city have been carried onto the ship, and they are continuously transported to Changguo Island, and the Xia Army in Hangzhou has captured not only the baggage, but also a large number of merchant ships, which are requisitioned by the Xia Army together with the sailors on board to transport materials.
Hangzhou City was covered, and Zhou Tao was waiting with a group of generals.
Soon Zhou Tao saw a cavalry, the person who came was Zhao Ge, at this time Zhao Ge was in high spirits with only more than 100 cavalry around him, and there was no one who dared to attack the Xia army in the entire land of Wuyue; Before arriving at the city gate, Zhao Ge tightly reined in his war horse and shouted: "Phew, hoo, hoo" The war horse lifted its hooves high, and threw the reins to the soldiers behind him under Zhao Ge after the war horse stopped; At this time, Zhou Tao had already greeted him and saluted: "The last general, Zhou Tao, greets General Zhao." ” "General Zhou is exempt."
Zhao Ge said with a smile; "General Ben is hurrying up, it seems that he is still a step too late."
"General, please."
Zhou Tao said with a smile: "The last general has already arranged the wine and food, please be sure to appreciate the general."
At the kind invitation of Zhou Tao, Zhao Ge came to the Zhizhou Mansion of Hangzhou City, Hangzhou as an important port city of the Great Song Dynasty for foreign trade, Hangzhou City is several times richer than Suzhou, the whole banquet can be described as extravagant, and there are more than 100 dancers dancing together to help the fun, even the emperor can not enjoy this meeting a few times "General Zhou is really enjoying it," Zhao Ge said with a smile; "Wine and food plus beauty, I guess the prince probably won't dare to enjoy it like this."
"The last general usually does not do this, this is specially prepared to meet the general."
Zhou Tao said with a smile.
Zhao Ge said to Zhou Tao: "General Zhou had better keep a low profile, this secret is a spy all over Yipintang, if this matter reaches the ears of His Majesty, no one can save you; Let them all withdraw, now is the time of wartime, not the time to enjoy. ” Zhou Tao shuddered when he heard it and said, "Yes, don't hurry up yet." ” After everyone went down, Zhao Ge said to Zhou Tao; "General Ben won't stay here for long, this time Ben will go south to Hangzhou is not a big deal, there are two main large quantities of supplies will arrive in Hangzhou one after another, you have to be ready to accept it, as soon as possible to transport these baggage to Changguo Island; The second is Yuezhou and Mingzhou, and the prince has repeatedly ordered them to take these two states to ensure the absolute safety of Changguo Island":