Chapter 552: Wangchuan Fort

After ten years of ups and downs, Xu Mingyang had already cultivated.

Of course, he knew that standing up in times of danger could highlight the ability and importance of him, a new official, to take office and pass judgments.

Who knew that the civil and military generals in Jingzhou refused to lose their backbone, and they refused to let Xu Mingyang out of the city no matter what, and kept saying that they would not let the general judge put his life in danger, and they were worried that Xu Mingyang would leave.

In this way, the effect is even better, not only Xu Mingyang dared to risk the arrow stone for the sake of state affairs, but even his wife did not let Xu Mei personally ride a horse to follow the Ming army to break through, and wanted to gallop to Xiangyang for help, such a story spread, Xu Mingyang's loyalty and patriotism are well known.

In fact, the Liukou did not surround Xiangyang City, they were driven away by the "Red Banner Army" and were constantly narrowing the encirclement and ran outside Xiangyang City.

When the cavalry of the "Red Banner Army" continued to compress the scope of the Liukou's activities, the infantry also followed up to participate in military operations.

Fortunately, after sending a hundred cavalry for help, only three days later, a cavalry of the "Red Banner Army" accompanied the men and horses who moved the rescue troops to Jingzhou City.

Xu Mingyang saw Xiao Fengyang and saw the well-equipped fifty horsemen, and immediately opened the city gate.

Next, all the defenders of Jingzhou breathed a sigh of relief, because the Marquis of Dongping sent an official letter, stating in a high profile that as long as there was no civil strife in Jingzhou, there was no possibility of the Liukou seizing the city.

Seven days later, more than 3,000 rogues were killed, more than 10,000 were taken prisoner, and nearly 200,000 exiles and refugees were rescued, most of whom were locals of Jingzhou.

Due to the innate hatred of the rich, these thugs whose humanity is distorted often enjoy torturing the rich to death, and the ladies of the families of high-ranking officials and nobles are even more happy.

The devastation in the area devastated by the bandits, even if the winter did not affect food production, has left many families without food rations.

In fact, the grain was not lost, and the vast majority of it became captured by the "Red Banner Army", and the Red Banner Army encircled and suppressed these rogues by encircling and annihilating them, so the benefits were great.

The Jingzhou region is richer than most places in Henan, there are too many well-off families, and too many gold and silver treasures have been looted by the rogues, and now these precious metals have basically become the wealth of the "Red Flag Army".

It is a great fortune that he was not killed by the officials and soldiers and risked his life to spare his life, and it is impossible for ordinary people to dare to ask the army to return the food and property that was stolen by the bandits.

The first military dog of the "Red Banner Army", "Ge Erben", who has fully recovered, is really a good dog, and he is actually able to search for food, gold and silver treasures in the courtyard of the deep mansion that has been ransacked by the rogues.

Often, it stood still and kept calling, and Ge Daben commanded dozens of strong laborers to clean up and excavate, and nine times out of ten they could find secret rooms or hidden warehouses.

Seeing the benefits of carrying military dogs, the "Red Banner Army" teenagers fell in love with working dogs.

During this time, as long as it was a dog that Ge Daben fancied, Gu Jixiang would try his best to buy it, and now the "Red Flag Army" has more than 100 military dogs, and the military dog soldiers have expanded to a general flag.

This team not only found many old bandits who were hiding, but also found too many gold and silver treasures, food, and cloth.

The "Red Banner Army", which was rich in money and food, organized war refugees outside Jingzhou to set up a big pot to boil porridge to help all the war refugees, and no one could know that they were plagued by the bandits, in fact, a big reason was the result of the deliberate indulgence of the rogues by the Marquis of Dongping.

Where did the common people know about the conspiracy and trickery, they only saw the rogue murder, arson and robbery, and when they were coerced by the rogue and life was worse than death, the "Red Flag Army" appeared in time like a savior.

This army not only saved everyone and killed many rogues, but also fed them with two bowls of hot rice porridge when they were hungry and cold.

Huang Han refused the invitation of Jingzhou's civil and military generals to enter the city on the grounds that there were too many rogues and needed to be exterminated as soon as possible, and he went west along the Yangtze River to inspect the terrain under the leadership of Xiao Fengyang and others.

Jingzhou is not the old capital of Chu State, it is one of the birthplace centers of Chu culture, the city wall is thick and the circumference is more than 20 miles, there are six city gates, and the city gate buildings are tall and majestic.

Huang Han did not have an ox to break to take Jingzhou to gain a foothold, so he could only choose a place similar to a small island in the river by the Yangtze River, forty miles west of Jingzhou City, surrounded by water.

Since this place is not far from Sichuan, Huang Han named this castle that was about to be born "Wangchuan Fort".

The area here is not large, less than three square kilometers, and it is possible that only a dozen or so households have been scattered due to continuous flooding, and now it has been looted by rogues and has become a barren land.

The castle was built according to the topography by the river, the castle surrounded by water was dug with silt, and the wharf connected with the Yangtze River was built in the castle, just like Dengzhou and Shanhaiguan Water City.

The location of the castle was decided, and there were no less than 250,000 prisoners, homeless people, and war refugees in hand, so of course they could not waste their time.