In the second year of the Great Song Dynasty, on the fifth day of October, Sun Tu, the capital supervisor of the prefecture, returned to Qingzhou City and underwent drastic changes.

At the end of the Yin Dynasty and the beginning of the Mao Dynasty, Sun Tu led the army without bloodshed, easily knocked on the door and entered the city, and immediately rushed straight to the government and captured 278 officials below Murong Yanchao from the prefect.

At the end of the day, more than 700 people were taken, and more than 500 officials and their families were escorted and tied up on the cross street of Qingzhou City.

This action immediately attracted the attention of the whole city, and when it was discovered that these officers and soldiers who had entered the city did not disturb the homes of ordinary people, many people had the courage to go out to find out the news. And when they went out, they saw a group of officials and their families being forcibly pressed to kneel on the ground, and behind everyone stood an officer and soldier with a sharp eyebrow and a sharp sword, and it was self-evident what they were going to do next.

Subsequently, several soldiers strode through the streets and alleys of the city, and loudly announced to the four directions the crimes committed by these officials: "Today, there are officials and others in Qingzhou who colluded with the thieves of Erlong Mountain to kill our Qingzhou officials and soldiers and kill the people of Qingzhou. Fortunately, Sun Tu, the governor of Qingzhou, led the army to set things right and break his conspiracy in time. Today, on the orders of the capital eunuch, in order to warn the world, to reassure the people, to reassure the army, and to comfort the dead soldiers, 527 government officials and their families involved in this matter are executed! ”

When these words reached the ears of every household, the whole city was shocked, and many people could not believe their ears. This Sun Dujian is too bold, right, he really dares to kill more than 500 people together? And many of them are officials from Qingzhou Mansion?

But the facts told them that Sun Tu really dared to do such a thing. After the charges of these people were clearly announced, with his order, hundreds of soldiers in the vicinity of Cross Street raised their swords high, although the people in front of them cried, insulted, or cursed, these people did not hesitate at all. Quickly pick up the knife and slash down.

Whether it was the soldiers of the Xiang army, or the people of the two mountains who returned to Sun Tu later, their hearts were full of hatred for these people who almost killed them at this time. Especially the former, many of their friends and even relatives died that night under Murong Yanchao's calculations and the assassination of the government officials. Now that they have the opportunity to take revenge, they naturally will not hesitate in the slightest, and even have a hint of pleasure.

Suddenly, blood burst out, and the head fell to the ground. Hundreds of people settled accounts at the same time at this moment, including not only the family members of those officials who seemed to be implicated, but also several important officials in Qingzhou Mansion - the prefect Murong Yanchao, the same governor Fangping, and the official Shen Bian......

In fact, before the head landed, they still had a trace of luck in their hearts, feeling that Sun Tu had not yet dared to kill himself and other court officials without authorization, thinking that he was just doing all this to intimidate everyone.

It wasn't until someone gave an order that they realized that Sun Tu was really determined to put himself to death this time. This made Murong Yanchao scold in horror before he died: "Sun Tu, you dare to kill this official without permission, you are so kingless and fatherless, you will definitely be spurned by all generations." One day, the court will destroy you, and you will not be good—"

He couldn't utter the last word of death, because the knife behind his back had fallen suddenly, slicing his head flat. At the same time, the other prisoners around him also fell down with their heads falling to the ground, and the blood flowing from Bo Bo quickly spread and gathered together, and then slowly surged towards the low place in front of him, and soon gathered into a pool of blood in the low lying of a street.

The pungent bloody aura lingered over the entire Qingzhou City for a long time, and it also made the people shocked, but also really knew the fierceness of the officialdom battle, and also understood the ruthlessness of this young Sun Dujian's methods, he was even more ruthless than the Murong Prefect, who was once known for his fierceness!

In fact, since Sun Tu came to Qingzhou in June and July, the disputes here have never stopped. The control of Qingzhou City also changed hands several times, and the government and the Xiang army clashed several times, and in the end, it turned from a secret fight to an open struggle, and finally caused a series of tragedies.

seized the army's rations, broke into the government, killed the army, and until today's execution of Manchurian officials...... This kind of thing that no one dared to imagine before was actually staged one by one in just a few months, until the losing party finally broke down and died. This brought too much shock to the people of the city, and finally made everyone understand a truth, Sun Dujian has truly become the master of Qingzhou City this time.

Qingzhou, I am the Lord!

A few days later, when the corpses were disposed of and buried, the smell of blood in the city gradually dissipated, and some gossip spread among the people of Qingzhou - Sun Dujian was the reincarnation of Yama, and he came to the Great Song Dynasty to cause killing. Not only here, but also in Jiangzhou before, and even in Bianliang, Tokyo, many people died because of him, and even he once had a name, Iron-Faced Yama!

The name of Sun Yanluo is thus flourishing among the people, although no one dares to call Sun Tu this way on the surface, but secretly, even ordinary soldiers call him that. Of course, this does not mean that the soldiers have any opinion of Sun Tu, on the contrary, this behavior made Sun Tu completely win the hearts of the whole army, including those newly returned to the two mountain bandits, and they also obeyed this young capital eunuch.

The emphasis in the army has always been on strength, and once a general is not only capable, but also can think about what the soldiers think and be anxious about what the soldiers are anxious about, it will be easier to get their love and support. And Sun Tu, obviously, has achieved the ultimate in both of these things.

He dared to constantly fight against the prefect as a mere metropolitan eunuch, and he won every battle. He was able to lead the Xiang army to win continuous battles, put down the two bandit cottages that had been entrenched in Qingzhou for many years, and finally led the troops back to Qingzhou in time to regain the initiative...... No matter who can do one of these things, they are already stronger than more than eighty percent of the generals in the world, not to mention that Sun Tu has done all of them in just a few months. Now in the minds of all the soldiers, Sun Dujian is a rare famous general in the world.

And more importantly, Sun Tu put the interests of the soldiers first and dared to stand up for his brothers. This time, in order to get justice for those brothers who died, he brazenly entered the government and killed all the people involved, which made all the soldiers grateful, but also dead to him.

So even if many people know that this will inevitably lead to endless troubles, but no one in the Qingzhou army has a heart of rebellion, they all believe that as long as Sun Du is imprisoned for a day, the Qingzhou army will not disperse, and everyone can still stand proudly on this land of Qilu with a straight chest.

And when all this quickly spread to the boundaries outside Qingzhou, the officials and soldiers there also had a sense of reverence for Sun Tu. How many soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty have been wronged because of the imperial court's national policy of emphasizing literature and suppressing military force, but they have no way to complain. Now that there is this turmoil in Qingzhou, it is natural that everyone has seen a glimmer of hope, and many soldiers hope that their superiors can stand up for themselves like Sun Dujian and regain everything that should belong to them: property, dignity and reputation......

In the past few months, Sun Tu's various deeds in Qingzhou have spread throughout Shandong, making him an outlier and unstable factor in the eyes of many officials, and also making him a great hero in the eyes of many warriors and soldiers. As for how it will be characterized in the end, it depends on the meaning of the imperial court.

Of course, all this will not be revealed and known until a few months later, after killing all the officials of the government and completely grasping the power of Qingzhou, Sun Tu's next thing to do is to stabilize the military and civilians in Qingzhou Mansion, etc., and at the same time make full preparations for continuing to conquer and suppress the thieves in Erlongshan.

However, this matter ran into big trouble from the beginning. On the night when Sun Tu killed all the people waiting in the mansion, a fire suddenly burned from the granary of the mansion, burning a large amount of military food that was forcibly taken from the military camp by Murong Yanchao a few days ago......

When Sun Tu was woken up at night and hurried to the granary, it was already on fire, and no matter what means were used, the fire could not be extinguished, and in the end they could only watch with regret as the granary and the thousands of stones of grain in it turned into ashes.

Sun Tu looked at this red fire, and his eyes flashed with anger: "What the hell is going on?" Is it so important that no one is strictly defensive? ”

"The last general will be convicted, and please punish them all." The commander of the C-shaped battalion, who was in charge of related matters, stood up with a face full of self-reproach and replied: "Because the army has been fighting continuously for many days, and it has long been exhausted from rushing back to Qingzhou in the starry night. Moreover, all the thieves in the city have been arrested and executed before, so the last general thinks that Qingzhou City is completely safe. When the last general had sent everyone back to the camp to rest, only five men were left to guard the granary. Unexpectedly, they were all killed, and even the granary was set on fire......"

Sun Tu's gaze swept over the people in front of him: "So, someone deliberately put this fire?" You can probably guess who did it? ”

"From the current point of view, there are only two people who dare to do such things, one is the remnants of Murong Yanchao's party, and the other is the thieves of Erlong Mountain. Especially the latter is more likely, after all, they should also know very well that after I make a decision in Qingzhou, I will use troops against them. At this time, setting fire to destroy our Qingzhou military rations will naturally buy them a lot of time. Huang Wenbing was quick to give his own thoughts.

At this time, Lin Chong added another point: "I heard from those people who surrendered to Erlong Mountain that they said that the reason why they cooperated with the government officials and others that day was because Deng Long, the owner of the village, was bewitched by a horse thief named Han Benshan. And in the battle of Dongshi Kip before, he escaped first, so could it be that he took advantage of the chaos to touch my Qingzhou City and set this fire? ”

Sun Tu nodded with a straight face and said, "There is some truth in these statements. Then the next thing to do is to impose martial law on the whole city, no matter what the other party's origin is, you can't let him act arbitrarily. Besides, do they think that putting this fire on the fire will slow down my action to level Erlong Mountain? I have decided to recuperate for half a month and then send troops, this time, we will completely set foot on Erlong Mountain! ”

"Eunuch, but the military rations have been burned, and the next daily needs may not be able to be met, how can you still use swords and soldiers?" Huang Wenbing immediately frowned and said. The reason why the soldiers and horses have not moved the grain and grass first is that he, a person who is not very familiar with military affairs, knows it well.

"This official has his own way." Sun Tu had a confident expression, some things had been hidden for so long, and they were taken out when the time came!