The chaos in the city of Xindu lasted until the early morning of the next day, when Wang Shi officially climbed the city wall of Xindu with ladders and other equipment, and there were signs of calming down slightly.

Xin Bin stood at the northeast corner of the city wall of Xindu, overlooking the new capital city of the Qiang Kingdom after the Xiang Kingdom, and saw that it had nothing to do with prosperity and majesty, including the palace garden that was not far away and nearly half of the palace was built. Between the palace walls and terraces, corpses were scattered everywhere, and there were also large traces of black ash left by the fierce fire.

Fortified fortresses are often breached from within, not to mention that Shinto Castle is not an impregnable fortress in the first place.

There are also a large number of corpses piled up on the wall, and there is almost nowhere to stay, and through the examination of the corpses of these pawns, it can be seen that there are very few who really died directly under the arrows of the king's master, and the vast majority of the dead pawns still died in the fight with each other. The state of death is strange, and the instruments left between the corpses are completely unstandardized.

As the king ascended the city wall, it was vaguely visible under the morning sun that there was still no shortage of areas in the city with thick smoke and endless fighting.

There are also some ragged people gathered under this section of the city wall that Wang Shi climbed, seeing that the figure of Wang Shi's pawn continued to appear on the wall, his expression was crazy and messy, and he couldn't even express the complicated feelings in their hearts at the moment, but just crawled on the ground and kept pausing to show their surrender to Wang Shi.

"That piece of palace is where the forbidden garden is located, and the temple of protecting and protecting the country is in that place......"

In the night, there were also Jin people in the Qiang army who surrendered across the city, and at this moment they were led to Xin Bin's side, tremblingly pointing to different areas of the city to introduce the distribution in the city.

There are more than 3,000 people in the king's division, and it is still a little difficult to completely control the Xindu City. Xin Bin did not immediately order to sweep the whole city, after clearing a stronghold at the head of the city, he first sent two battalions of 600 soldiers to the forbidden garden of the country not far away to control the core of the city.

The news of Wang Shi's entry into the city also spread rapidly in the city, and more and more survivors in the city saw that there was no hope of escape, so they all abandoned their weapons and surrendered. Simbin sent a group of soldiers to sort out the soldiers, and then ordered them to clear the gates that had been filled with wood and stone chores.

After such a busy time, nearly an hour later, the nearest city gate was finally cleared out, and then Xin Bin led a part of the main force of the king to enter the city through the city gate.

Although after last night's scuffle, a considerable number of soldiers have fled from the city to Siye, but the number of those who remain in the city at the moment is still considerable. Fleeing and not being able to escape, and being unable to prevent it, this part of the soldiers can only abandon their weapons and surrender.

As the kings entered the city from the city gate, they prostrated on both sides of the road, wailing and begging for mercy, led by their respective commanders.

Soon, the soldiers gathered alone exceeded the total strength of the Wang Division at this moment. But with the overnight civil strife, the original powerful people in the city either fled or died, and the simple numerical advantage was far from enough for these people to be fierce in their hearts.

What's more, as a veteran of the king division for many years, before he completely controls the situation in the city, Xin Bin will not let these soldiers easily see through the reality of the king master. After all, aside from the political significance of the Xindu Castle, it was just a new goal that Wang Shi had overcome in the course of his conquest. In the process of the growth of the Wang Division, he has accumulated rich experience in accepting prisoners.

Under the order of the king's soldiers, these soldiers have identified the generals and commanders in the original city defense system of the army, and their own king's soldiers and tigers and wolves rushed in to arrest and suppress these people, and those who dared to resist were killed on the spot!

As a result, the generals of the Qiang Army, who were originally high and invincible in the eyes of these soldiers, are now like lambs waiting to be slaughtered under the power of the king, and they can't help but realize more deeply that today's Xindu City has indeed changed the sky.

Through this simple and crude means, it is possible to directly and effectively complete the destruction and establishment of authority. And those who enthusiastically identified the generals were fortunate to become the first to be recognized by the king, as an important help to help the king's master build a new order in this ruined city.

With the help of this group of soldiers in the city, the clean-up of the city, the reorganization of the subordination, and the elimination of the recalcitrant people were carried out together.

This group of selected soldiers has a strong adaptability to the sudden change of identity, and they themselves have a better understanding of the internal situation of the city.

With the cooperation of these people, Wang Shi's control of the city has also made gratifying progress. More survivors in the city were collected, and the main roads of the city were restored in a short period of time, and more importantly, many of the original high-ranking figures of the Kingdom were found out one by one.

With these captives of the magnates of the kingdom, Simbin had a more comprehensive understanding of the changes in the situation before and after the battle of Sindu.

These messages need to be recorded in the battle report, and then presented to the general for personal viewing, as an important evidence of meritorious deeds, and the military members who are independent of the combat system are responsible for sorting out, and will also share the information that will help the current situation with the general.

Xin Bin also learned about the many changes in the situation in Xindu during this period, and when he learned that the reason why Wang Shi was able to break through the city, the most direct reason was that Zhang Jackal's father and son, who had previously controlled the city, suddenly attacked some allies, and this message was outlined by Xin Bin Zhu Pen, expressing doubts and more evidence needed.

Because of the unique experience of sneaking into the Shihu Mansion who was still the king of Zhongshan at that time in his early years, even though more than ten years have passed, Xin Bin is still quite impressed by Zhang Jackal, an important follower under Shi Hu.

Although there were many restrictions back then, and he didn't have any direct contact with Zhang Jackal, even through the analysis of the situation before and after, he felt that the timing of Zhang Jackal's father and son choosing to attack the city was really a bit strange, and there must be other inside stories in this.

However, the information they can learn about these captured magnates is mostly hearsay, let alone the deeper inside story. And the people who really knew the whole story, such as Zhang Chang, the son of Zhang Jackal, have conclusive evidence that his people led the crowd out of the city in the second half of the melee and fled to the northwest.

It is determined that the upper echelons of the Qiang Kingdom who are still on the run, as well as the queen Liu and the crown prince Shi Shi of the lord Shi Hu, but in the chaos, no one can tell the direction of these people's escape.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the situation that Master Wang has at the moment is still sparse, and he still needs to continue to dig deep and sort out. As time passes, many details are revealed, and the fog will gradually fade.

It was not Xin Bin's task to pursue those fugitives from the Kingdom before and after the destruction of Xindu City, and he did not have enough mobile strength to pursue, but if he could grasp more detailed information, it would also provide more convenience and help for the pursuit of the remnants of the enemy by several other royal divisions.

Sure enough, in the afternoon of the next day, Wang Shi found many corpses hidden in a remote palace in the process of cleaning up the forbidden garden, and sorted out the corpse of Shibao, the king of Wei of the Qiang Kingdom. Observing his death, it is very likely that he died of indiscriminate killing, and the perpetrator of the violence is no longer known, and this merit will naturally be recorded on the head of the king who broke the city.

Many details and clues have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. But in the midst of this, Xin Bin noticed a strange phenomenon, that is, as the two most important targets of the Karma Kingdom, Shi Hu and the powerful minister Zhang Jackal, there was no conclusive information pointing to them.

As the key question of Wang Shi's interrogation, the answers obtained are naturally very many, and there are different opinions, but there are very few that can be verified. This creates a strange phenomenon in which the two men are known to the whole city, but they seem to have disappeared out of thin air, and there is no conclusive evidence of whether they were alive or dead, and where they were.

Even Zhang Jackal's family members were searched out of a private house in the process of going through the city. But even these Zhang family members can't provide Zhang Jackal's exact location.

As for Shi Hu, the lord of the Forbidden Garden, there are many testimonies of the magnates of the Qiang Kingdom that pointed out that he was imprisoned in the Forbidden Garden by Zhang Jackal, but Wang Shi Shi did not sleep for several days in a row, and almost turned the Forbidden Garden upside down, and the body of Shi Hu's son Shi Bao was salvaged from a dry well during the search, but only Shi Hu was missing, and he was not even seen to be conclusively imprisoned here.

Obviously, either Zhang Jackal deceived these magnates of the Qiang Kingdom, or these magnates deceived Wang Shi. Later, by killing more than a dozen magnates of the Qiang Kingdom, Xin Bin was sure that the former was more likely to be greater. In this way, there is a high probability that Shi Hu, the lord of the Qiang, was coerced out of the city and fled by the tribe belonging to Zhang Jackal.

But just when Xin Bin was about to pass on this important information to the Metropolitan Governor Xie Ai with a little regret, there was another breakthrough in the matter, that is, Zhang Jackal's body was accidentally discovered.

A few days have passed, this corpse is already in a terrible state of death, almost cruelly dismembered, before it was abandoned at will due to cleaning up the periphery of Huguo Temple, or when Wang Shi received the information that Zhang Jackal died on the street outside Huguo Temple and then re-examined, he determined the identity of Zhang Jackal through the soldier talisman and other things carried by the corpse.

With this unexpected discovery, Xin Bin's original disappointed mood fluttered again, and he announced that all the people in the city, as long as they could provide information about Shi Hu, could also be verified, and they would all give high rewards.

However, what really broke this deadlock was a little whim from Simbin. That is, he suddenly recalled the old things that were lurking in the country of Qian, and got a lot of care from Zu Yue, so that he could successfully return to Huainan to create a meritorious career, and now he led his troops to attack the capital of the Qi country, and the situation has been very different, and he also wants to repay Zu Yue a little in addition to official business, so that people can search for Zu's family to take care of it.

Through this clue, Xin Bin suddenly discovered that Zu Yue's son Zu Qing had once played some kind of important role between Shi Hu, the lord of the Qiang, and Zhang Ling, the powerful minister. This ancestor Qing is the upstart of the Qiang Kingdom valued by Shi Hu, the lord of the Karma Kingdom, the intimate son-in-law of Zhang Jackal as his arm, and at the same time an important general in the original Karma Kingdom.

It's no wonder that Xin Bin will ignore this clue on Zu Qing, first of all, Zu Qing reached the most prominent period in Xindu City or before and after the Huguo Temple Incident at the beginning of the year, and when Zhang Jackal came to power to gain power, Zu Qing's role in the Huguo Temple Guard System is no longer known to outsiders, not to mention that before Wang Shi arrived in Xindu to attack the city, Zu Qing had already been relieved of military power by Zhang Jackal, completely faded out of the current situation, and was even under house arrest for a time, at least these Qiang magnates who were scattered outside the Huguo Temple and were captured, they didn't know much about this.

Moreover, Wang Shixin has not been in the letter for a long time, and the first thing he pays attention to is the many clues floating on the surface, which will be discovered further down with the passage of time. Therefore, it was only at this moment that he realized the rich information contained in Zu Qing and paid attention to it.

In fact, the information about Zu Qing was ignored, and Xin Bin also had to bear some responsibility. He had already received some information about Zu Qing at the beginning, after all, Zu Qing was once one of the main powerful people in Xindu, and it was precisely because of this identity that Xin Bin consciously avoided information about Zu Qing.

Simbin had benefited from the ancestral covenant and was willing to provide some protection to the descendants of the ancestral covenant as far as the ministry allowed. But he didn't expect Zu Yue's son Zu Qing to be so powerful in the kingdom of Qian, which made Xin Bin's heart a little complicated and contradictory.

A general of the level of Zu Qing is not something that a striker of Xin Bin's level can handle, and all kinds of crimes must be sorted out and at least handed over to the striker Governor Xie Ai for judgment. If you take into account Zu Qing's special background, maybe the general will personally ask.

In this way, Simbin's position is a little awkward, he is not a famous man with a heart of Lelu, and he has not forgotten that Zuyo has an old favor for him. And the son of Zuyo was so powerful in the kingdom of Ka that he could no longer be sheltered. So he subconsciously ignored it, hoping that even if this Zu Qing was guilty, it would be handed over to other generals in the forward to deal with, rather than he would personally deal with Zu Yue's descendants.

The reason why he took the initiative to think about it this time, Xin Bin's focus was not on Zu Qing, but he wanted to inquire if Zu Yue had any other family members alive, if he was sure that he had nothing to do with Zu Qing's actions in the country, he was willing to come forward to protect part of Zu Yue's family in order to repay Zu Yue's favor to him back then.

It was because of this whim that the clues about Zu Qing were collected and sorted out for the first time, highlighting his special identity, and the information about Zu Yue's residence in the east platform of the Guardian National Temple for a long time was also screened out.

Huguo Temple was once the most important core of Xindu, and Wang Shi naturally did not ignore this, but the focus was still on the west hall where Empress Liu and Prince Shi Shi lived. As for the scope of Dongtai, due to the limited strength of the Wang Division, it was only a rough combing to ensure that no remnants of the Qi Kingdom were left to wander here, and in the continuation of the new round of search, the order was ranked very low.

Zu Qing once played a very important role in the process of Zhang Jackal's struggle for power, and according to the confessions of those powerful people in the country, Zhang Jackal also attached great importance to this son-in-law who helped him a lot, and repeatedly treated him as a son. As such an important role in Zhang Jackal's forces, how could Dongtai, where Zu Qing had been stationed for a long time, have no mysteries?

After realizing this, Xin Bin tilted the focus of his investigation slightly to the east platform of Huguo Temple. It has to be said that the Buddha has indeed reached a very high level, and there are as many as a dozen pavilions and pavilions in this Dongtai alone, and there is no lack of magnificent buildings.

This area is used as a pavilion for the collection of scriptures, and the most stored are all kinds of Buddhist scriptures and Buddhist scriptures, although the Buddha of the Kingdom of Karma has become popular, and there is no shortage of Shamen devout believers, but it is clear that when the real crisis comes, these Shamen classics are not worth the danger of their lives to come and scramble, so they are still well preserved.

After Xin Bin ordered a focused search of this realm, hundreds of royal soldiers entered the area and carried out all the Buddhist scriptures stored in those pavilions. In addition to those Buddhist scriptures, there are actually a lot of Buddhist utensils, most of these Buddhist utensils are exquisite and luxurious, aside from the superb craftsmanship, the material is mostly gold, jade, copper, tin and other rare things.

Those who had fled from the internal strife before would probably regret it if they saw this scene and realized that they had left it behind. However, these artifacts were not the focus of Wang Shi's search, and when they emptied the various pavilions, they soon discovered a mysterious place.

It is an inconspicuous pavilion among the buildings in Dongtai, except for some miscellaneous furnishings on the first floor, the upper stairs have been removed, and the location of the upper floor is even more porous to peep into, and the doors and windows have long been nailed by thick wooden boards.

Discovering this strange place, the soldiers hurriedly reported, and after Xinbin got the news, his heart beat violently, and he summoned two battalions of soldiers to personally lead the place to completely seal off the place, and then ordered the soldiers to erect stairs and pry open the planks that nailed the doors and windows from the outside.

As one of the windows was opened, a strong smell suddenly gushed out of the pavilion hall, and even the soldiers standing nearby couldn't help but hide their noses and retch.

"Did you find anything?"

Simbin asked nervously as he stood below, holding his head high.

"Yes, yes...... W-What the hell is that! ”

Hearing the soldier's slightly surprised and even somewhat frightened tone, Xin Bin was even more excited, he couldn't wait for the soldier above to relay what he had seen, and climbed the stairs himself, but when his head just poked in, he was almost pushed out by the strong stench in the room.

At the moment, when he didn't care about these details, Simbin raised his hand and cut off the corner of his robe to cover his mouth and nose, and then turned over and stepped into the room through the window.

The room had been sealed for a long time, not to mention the turbid breath and strong smell, because the blocked doors and windows were only opened, and the light was also very dim.

This room is very large, but there are not many furnishings, not even the basic curtain decoration, and there is not much left outside a few lonely columns, which can be seen at a glance. Xin Bin looked inward, and the first thing he saw was a skeleton, Rao was a battle-hardened man, accustomed to life and death, and after seeing that corpse, his pupils also shrank suddenly.

The corpse lay across the hall, its hands and feet showing their pale muscles and bones, and its abdominal and intestinal organs were all dragged to the ground. Such a death is not a sharp weapon to inflict harm, it is more like being eaten and bitten to death by a murderous thing, and the view of the bite is very regular, it is clearly bitten to death by someone and eaten to satisfy hunger!

As for the murderous creature, it was now prostrate on a couch at the end of Simbin's field of vision, covered by a wide robe, and his face covered by a messy beard, which was also the source of the strongest smell in the room at this moment.

More soldiers rushed into the middle of the room, and after receiving the signal from the general, they slowly approached the couch.

The murderous creature on the couch seemed to be asleep before, and trembled slightly as Master Wang's footsteps approached, and then he slowly raised his head, revealing a pair of bloodshot and cloudy eyes under his messy hair, and the throat was turbid, and it took a while to condense into a tone that could be vaguely heard: "Dog, dog thief, dare to harm me...... Kill ...... Thief, thief...... I am the great, great Zhao Tianzi, I am the lord of the world, I want to eat you, it is your honor...... Dare to backfire...... Kill, kill! ”

The murderous creature aggravated its tone and howled violently, and at the same time, its body suddenly lunged forward. When Master Wang saw this scene, he felt furious in his heart, and a few people subconsciously wanted to slash, and Xin Bin suddenly shouted: "Don't move!" ”

His eyes were fixed on the person who jumped off the couch, although this person roared viciously, but his movements were very slow, especially with his jump, the blood in his abdomen gushed outward, and with the messy hair flying, revealing a bloody face, one ear has been completely gone, and the right side of his face is showing an obvious wound that has been bitten, and a large piece of flesh and blood is missing, and even teeth are looming!

In such a state, the man naturally rushed not too far, and after two steps, he fell to the ground with a great pain all over his body, his tone turned to a whimper, and his body twitched involuntarily.

Xin Bin stepped forward slowly, turned over the man's body, looked down carefully, and signaled the two of them to step forward and carefully move it to the sunlit area, took out his saber and cut off his man's messy hair, and then lowered his eyes to observe it carefully for a long time, and then chuckled: "Shi Jilong, it's been a long time!" ”

Shi Hu's body was in pain at the moment, and he was even more hungry and thirsty, his mind had completely fallen into confusion, and he couldn't hear what Xin Bin said at all, his chest rose and fell violently, but only thick blood kept gushing out from between his throats, and he couldn't make any sound at all.

For a long time, when the sun shone on his body, the flipped flesh and blood involuntarily bounced and relaxed, and the itch instantly penetrated deep into the bone marrow. He made a sound in his throat, and suddenly reached out and grabbed the ankle of one of the soldiers of the nearby Wang Division, his eyes were full of begging, but in exchange for only indifference.

This kind of itching could not be stopped, wave after wave was more violent, Shi Hu lay on the ground, could only clench his fist and continue to hammer the ground, beat the wound, and use the pain to suppress the itch around his body, for a while, the flesh and blood of the whole body cracked, and he roared again and again.

"Dog, dog! Hebei overlord? An old dog who has betrayed his relatives and left him! ”

Xin Bin chuckled in his mouth, but he no longer watched Shi Hu so self-harming, no matter how demeaning his mouth was, the living Shi Hu and the dead Shi Hu were two completely different meanings. He hurriedly asked someone to step forward and hold down Shi Hu's twitching limbs, and summoned the healer to come here as soon as possible.

Who would have thought that the tyrant of the Qiang Kingdom, who had ravaged Hebei for decades and brutalized countless people in Hebei, would be imprisoned by his subordinates in such a dark pavilion when he was poor, and then he was completely forgotten, and he was even more in danger of being eaten by the lives of his close servants!

If it weren't for Xin Bin's sudden notice that Dongtai was unusual and ordered someone to search in advance, this unprecedented fierce thief would probably only be able to starve to death here, just like the people of Zhuxia who have been brutally abused and killed in the past few decades!

The doctor came to this point and quickly diagnosed Shi Hu's injury. Shi Hu's state seems to be sinister and terrifying, but in fact, the most serious thing is the lack of food, many bite wounds on the body after a certain amount of hemostasis and bandaging, there will be no danger of life for the time being, and in the evening, you can already drink a little liquid food.

Knowing that Shi Hu's situation had stabilized a little, Xin Bin first ordered the news to be blocked, and then wrote a letter by himself, and he was sure to return the news that Shi Hu had been captured alive to the general!