Although in this siege, the ballista, the latest siege weapon developed by the Metallurgical and Manufacturing Bureau, indeed made Huan Hu and the rebels in Suiyang County disgraced and embarrassed, but in fact, the anti-rebel army was in the process of siege

When we were in Suiyang County, Huan Hu and his direct troops were nowhere to be found in the city - this guy had already taken them with him at night.

Chen Shou, Jin Gou and their direct troops fled, leaving only thousands of rebels recruited from Suiyang County. So the next day, Nanliang Marquis Zhao Yuanzuo felt that the atmosphere in the city was not right, and immediately reminded Pang Huan to order

When the entire army attacked the city, the anti-rebel army barely used any effort and captured the former royal capital of the Song Dynasty.

At that time, Zhao Yuanzuo, Marquis of Nanliang, felt something was wrong. On the one hand, he deployed city defenses to appease the people in the city, and on the other hand, he went straight to the county warehouse in the city.

As a result, he found that five of the six county warehouses were empty, and one was burning with raging fire.

Zhao Yuanzuo, Marquis of Nanliang, knew what was going on at the first glance: that guy Huan Hu had never thought about defending Suiyang and fighting a tough battle with the Wei army.

"It's really cunning..."

With a slight snort, Nanliang Marquis Zhao Yuanzuo felt quite disdainful and despised Huan Hu's behavior of running away without fighting.

Of course, he was disdainful, but he also understood that Huan Hu made a very wise choice by giving up Suiyang.

After all, how could he compete with the entire Wei state?

Even if they were lucky enough to defeat the anti-rebel army, Wei might still send Wei Wu Army, Shang Shui Army, and Yan Ling Army. When will this continuous flow come to an end? Simply give up Suiyang and run away with the treasures that Nangong Yao collected.

It was a wise choice to flee to the east of Song County and make a comeback in a place beyond the reach of the Wei State.

Of course, Huan Hu had never thought of retreating so quickly. In fact, he was frightened by the ballistae sacrificed by the anti-rebel army that day - with this thing, no matter how high or strong the city wall in Suiyang County was,

, I can’t hold on for a few days!

Then what are you still guarding? Just run away quickly.

As a result, Huan Hu withdrew immediately, leaving the Nanliang Marquis Zhao Yuanzuo and the anti-rebel army to gain the victory of capturing Suiyang in vain - although Zhao Yuanzuo was very disdainful of this.

After learning that the county warehouse had been evacuated, Nanliang Marquis Zhao Yuanzuo and General Pang Huan also thought of Nangong Yao's private treasury. They spent a whole day rummaging through the boxes in the mansion and finally found the room built in

Underground secret vault.

Unfortunately, this is an empty secret vault.

"...There is already some dust on the ground. This place was emptied at least a few months ago."

Pang Huan returned to Nanliang Marquis Zhao Yuanzuo and analyzed the secret treasury.

He estimated it earlier than Zhao Hongrun, but in fact, both Pang Huan and Zhao Hongrun guessed wrong, because as early as two years ago when the Wei court first ordered the private army of domestic nobles to attack Song County, Huan Huan

Tiger has already made preparations to withdraw from Suiyang.

Huan Hu was very self-aware. Although he successfully used the head of "Ding Hu" to intimidate Chengling King Zhao Shen and Anping Marquis Zhao Tan from touching Suiyang's ideas again, he also understood that although this noble private army was fighting

Under the banner of "Su Wang Zhao Run", in fact, they are completely different from the three real Su Wang armies, Yanling Army, Shang Shui Army and Youma Army, and Huan Hu himself did not repel "Wei Gongzi Run".

of confidence.

Therefore, from that time on, he had actually been preparing to quietly transport the gold and silver treasures in the secret treasury in Nangongyao's mansion to the eastern part of Song County.

It has to be said that Huan Hu was very lucky, just in time for the old prince Zhao Yu to ascend to the throne and fight for power. Prince Su Zhao Run returned to Shangshui to avoid suspicion and did not participate in this crusade against Song County.

On the surface, it was Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Southern Liang who was transferred from Daliang by the old prince Zhao Yu on an excuse to go to Song County in place of Su Wang Zhao Run.

The county seat on the north side had been occupied by the private troops of the Su-royal nobles such as Chengling Prince Zhao Shen and Anping Marquis Zhao Tan. Therefore, they were too lazy to cross the county to attack Huan Hu and marched directly to Rencheng.

This gave Huan Hu enough time to empty out the mountains of treasures in the secret vault of Nangongyao Mansion in Suiyang County.

On that day, Nanliang Marquis Zhao Yuanzuo wrote a successful report in his own handwriting, which was sent to the prince Zhao Run one day later.

Pang Huan, on the other hand, personally patrolled the streets with his soldiers to see if he could make a fortune from the nobles in the city.

Unexpectedly, after only patrolling the streets once, Pang Huan came back cursing.

It turned out that after Huan Hu captured Suiyang County, the rich and aristocratic families in the city had already been plundered by this bandit, and almost 99% of their wealth was taken away. As for the disobedient nobles and aristocratic families,

He was captured and killed by Huan Hu early.

So much so that in this Suiyang County, Pang Huan still couldn't see what wealth was left to be gained - unless he ordered to rob civilians.

Of course, he only dared to think about "looting civilians" because of the "Jinxiang Massacre" as a warning, and secondly, the current crown prince, Zhao Run, hated massacre and looting of civilians the most.

"It's all a waste of time..."

After returning to Nanliang Marquis Zhao Yuanzuo, Pang Huan said with some frustration.

After hearing this, Zhao Yuanzuo, the Marquis of Nanliang, said calmly: "In any case, our army finally 'captured' Suiyang, so it is not a waste of time."

"But I didn't catch Nangong Yao's fortune..."

Pang Huan said with a gloomy look.

It's not that he is greedy for money, but that he has learned through certain channels some things that are temporarily kept secret by the court. For example, while Prince Zhao Run has increased the powers of the six ministers, he also intends to improve the treatment of the country's elite troops and allow the troops to

A portion of the war profits are intercepted and used to increase soldiers' military pay, increase pensions, etc.

Because of this, when Pang Huan was ordered to conquer Suiyang, he was actually eyeing Nangong Yao's wealth, but he didn't expect that Huan Hu was so cunning and transferred it early.

The more he thought about it, the more unwilling he felt. Pang Huan frowned and asked, "Master Hou, do you want to pursue Huan Hu?"

Zhao Yuanzuo, Marquis of Nanliang, glanced at Pang Huan and said calmly: "The prince's original intention to conquer Huan Hu is mainly to recapture Suiyang and station troops here to prevent Chu from having any ill intentions towards Song County... Since our army

We have already captured Suiyang, so don't add any unnecessary extravagance. If you lead troops to catch up with Huan Hu, you may not be able to defeat him, let alone intercept the property from his hands. You will waste your energy in vain and miss the expedition in a few months.

Loop, do you think it’s worth it?”

Pang Huan thought about it for a while and was convinced, so he stopped mentioning the pursuit of Huan Hu. He just garrisoned troops in Suiyang and took no other action.

Sure enough, two days later, Nanliang Marquis Zhao Yuanzuo received an edict from Chuigong Palace, ordering Pang Huan to lead the anti-rebellion army to temporarily garrison the city and continue to train soldiers before the Fenxing army came to take over Suiyang County.

, in response to the war in Hetao a few months later.

As for Zhao Yuanzuo, Marquis of Nanliang, he was immediately recalled to Daliang.

At the same time, Zhang Qigong had already received a handwritten letter from Prince Zhao Run in Chengshi County of Song County, and learned that the anti-rebel army had captured Suiyang - to be precise, it was Huan Hu who abandoned Suiyang County and took the initiative to surrender.

Retreat eastward.

"...His Royal Highness, this is a plan to make "two tigers fight", calling Song Yun and Huan Hu to kill each other? Oh, according to what His Highness the Prince said, this plan is indeed feasible...ah, brilliant!"

Zhang Qigong clicked his tongue and praised.

At this moment, a dark figure flashed into the study. Zhang Qigong subconsciously turned around and saw that it was a man covered in a black cloak.

A pair of eyes that I don't know how to describe made people like Zhang Qigong feel a little creepy.

After calming down, Zhang Qigong lowered his voice and asked, "Are you the leader of the Black Crows, Mangya?"

"One of the leaders." The man in black corrected him with a strange smile, and then said with a deep smile: "I heard from Mr. Gao Kuo that it was sir who was looking for me? Jie Jie... Sir, you must know that I am only responsible for killing people."

"I want you to kill someone!" Zhang Qigong narrowed his eyes and said in a deep voice: "Two days later, the Beibo Army will deliberately defeat the enemy and ask our army to capture Changyi... When the city is broken, we will cooperate with our Wei army to capture the city.

You will slaughter all the Chang clan and several other nobles on my behalf, and leave bloody words on the wall of the main hall... "Those who surrender to Wei will be punished!"

Seeing the flash of fierceness in the eyes of the frail scholar in front of him, Mangyao was stunned for a moment, and then he laughed.
Chapter completed!