Qiaocheng is an important town in southern Henan, a few years ago after Shi Cong transferred the town of southern Henan, it was naturally taken as the foundation of the place, on the basis of the early years of the ancestral management and built a large scale, now the city is tall and strong, accommodating tens of thousands of soldiers is not cramped, the tiger is in this realm, deterring the surroundings.

In the north of the city, there is a grand mansion, which is not inferior in scale to ordinary small cities, occupying almost one-third of the entire city's area. This is where Shi Cong's nest is located, and his cronies gather here.

Shi Cong has always believed that the first life of a man, sacrificing his life to fight and throwing blood, is to be rich and powerful. In previous years, with his humble door, he had to be inferior to others all his life, but fortunately he caught up with such a great change in the world, the revolution of all things, and the exchange of high and low, which is a God-given opportunity for aspiring hot-blooded men to live in this world.

Ranked as a prince, a huge room with a lot of money, a surplus of grain, a beautiful trick like a cloud, and enjoying the bliss of the world, this is Shi Cong's lifelong wish. So this old nest, which he spent several years building, also met almost all his demands.

In the whole mansion, the most conspicuous are the warehouses located in the center of the mansion that are several feet high and round and thick, which are full of the wealth and goods he has plundered in recent years, the gold and silver are stacked like mountains, the pearls and jade buckets are loaded in baskets, and the treasures and swords and armor are countless.

And near these warehouses, there is an unusually gorgeous pavilion, in which hundreds of young beauties are adopted, some of them are taken from captivity, and some are offered by various families in the realm, all of which are beautiful and beautiful.

If there is nothing to do in the town, Shi Cong will live here more, feasting and drinking, and enjoying himself freely. When the excitement came, he also summoned his meritorious cronies to rejoice here, as a reward and a means to win people's hearts.

Shi Cong can be said to have no regrets, if there is still one dissatisfaction, that is, the position is still secondary. Therefore, in terms of being in charge, after sitting in southern Henan, Shi Cong not only plundered the local area, but also frequently used things in the south to hunt for meritorious deeds, hoping to get the same treatment as Shi Kan, the king of Pengcheng, to be crowned king, rather than a mere founding prince.

Finally waited until the southern thief was in chaos, he and Shi Kan joined forces to defeat the old enemy Zu, originally thought that the main should be overjoyed, and then added his soldiers and horses to let him take advantage of the victory in the south to attack the pseudo-Jin, then if there is a meritorious creation, then he is really the king of hope.

However, they did not expect that the Lord only ordered them to return from captivity, and had no intention of continuing to use troops to the south. Seeing that the southern thief was hit by Su Jun's rebellion, he was already extremely weak, and his newly victorious division with heavy troops was imprisoned in the town and could not go south to hunt for merit, Shi Cong could be said to be tormented and annoyed to the extreme.

So before, he also had a lot of wandering wrecks in the town, ravaging places more and more intensively to vent his grievances, and he didn't even pay attention to the defense of Huainan, but just sent Peng Biao to a virtual town.

Earlier, Shi Cong also had no shortage of fantasies, hoping to use the weak Huainan to seduce the southerners to attack. Although the lord did not let him attack from a distance, if the southerners provoked first, he naturally had the obligation to fight back, and he would be able to take advantage of the twists and turns at that time.

When Hefei was lost, Shi Cong had already planned to pass through Huai and play the national capital, but there was no reply, so the fighter plane was delayed. When the southern thief Qiao Jianliang County attacked Huainan again, it was menacing, and the quick battle was decided, and he didn't even have time to react.

This time, the order came in time, and the lord was furious, and sent several envoys, all to reprimand him for his dereliction of duty and humiliation of the country. Although Shi Cong was frightened by this, he was more angry, if it wasn't for the country's slow response, ignoring southern Henan to the extreme, leaving the southern thief a chance to breathe, how could there be the shame of losing the land this time!

There were many appeasements and evil before, but now there is a problem, and the fault is all on me? It's annoying! For this reason, Shi Cong has a slight grudge against the lord Shi Ledu.

Since you have lost it back to Huainan, then you can fight it back. So although he was indignant in his heart, Shi Cong still raised his troops and prepared to repel those southern thieves who did not know whether they were alive or dead. However, after this fight, Shi Cong found that these southern thieves were really tenacious, and their combat power, especially their weapons, were better than those of the Zu clan in the early years.

At this time, Shi Cong paid attention to this southern army, and the commander of the southern army, the pseudo-Jin concubine Shen Weizhou, was also taken to heart by him. The struggle was fruitless, Shi Cong was planning to re-develop the people's power in the town and fight again in the future, but he didn't expect bad news to come one after another.

The state ordered him to return to the defense and not allow any more defeats, and at the same time to levy civil and material resources to prepare for the army in the country. The reinforcements in the country, Shi Cong did not have any resistance, and after some temptation, he also understood that it was difficult for him to recover Huainan by himself. But the problem is that the leader is actually the king of Zhongshan!

Regarding the ability of Zhongshan King Shi Hu to fight, Shi Cong thought that he was inferior, and even feared it, but he had no good feelings. This person is poor and vicious, not only cruel to the enemy, but also tyrannical to his own people, and even there is no lack of private abuse and killing of generals in the army, just because the other party dares to fight and steals the limelight, he is a complete villain!

Shi Cong was already respectful of the King of Zhongshan and did not dare to approach, and the King of Zhongshan was indeed disgusting, and only made these fake sons surnamed Shi slaves, beating and humiliating them at every turn, and did not give them the slightest respect at all. But now, the king of Zhongshan is in charge of the army, and his own department has been reduced to a servant and miscellaneous servant who prepares food and grass for the army.

The relationship between the two sides is not harmonious, and their own troops have lost their land and humiliated the country. Shi Cong didn't even dare to imagine what kind of humiliation King Zhongshan would give him if he came here!

However, the matter has come to this point, Shi Cong can only admit it hard, and with a panic and anxiety, he redoubles the levy and oppression of the villagers in the town, so as to be able to prepare foolproof, so that the king of Zhongshan rarely has the opportunity to play on the topic and take the opportunity to make trouble.

However, he thought that the country's heroic army was coming, and the southern thieves might be shocked and retreat to Huainan, but he didn't expect that the southern thieves had doubled their arrogance recently, relying on the prosperity of their boats and ships, and actually wantonly crossed Huai to breed trouble, causing chaos in the countryside, making his work for the army to be backup extremely unsmooth, and his mood was entangled to the extreme.

If they do not send troops to attack, the southern thieves will definitely be more unscrupulous in this realm, and may incite even greater turmoil. But if you send troops, defeat will be even more worrying, if you win, you will not be happy, or you may be misunderstood by the king of Zhongshan for him to take advantage of the arrival of the army to grab the credit, will be even more disgusted with him and make it difficult!

With such a tormented mood, Shi Cong can be said to be living like a year, although there are still tens of thousands of male soldiers in the town, but there is a sense of powerlessness that is excluded and persecuted by heaven and earth. The movements of the southern thief in the realm came frequently, as if a knife stabbed him in the heart, and he meditated all day long thinking about how to deal with it in order to put himself in a safe place.

A few days ago, even Yingchuan, Chenjun and other places in the heart of Yuzhou actually appeared traces of the Southern Army, which made Shi Cong shocked, and he no longer dared to shrink back. If he really allows the southerners to wreak havoc like this, when the king of Zhongshan comes to the south, what he will have to face is not the question of whether he will be troubled, and he may even lose his life!

Therefore, Shi Cong immediately requisitioned 3,000 cavalry in the town, and the detachment will lead the way to go out to sweep away the enemy troops in Chenjun and other places.

For the King of Zhongshan, Shi Cong did not dare to slack off, and ordered him to write a long letter, describing the current riot scene in the realm, and at the same time explaining that he was by no means greedy for merit, but the southern thieves were too rampant, and he could not help but fight back.

Despite this, Shi Cong still couldn't feel at ease, and was originally going to personally lead his troops to patrol the realm to shock the people of the four fields, but soon news came from the north: Shi Lang, who was guarding Luoyang, was arrested and whipped in public because of his slight disobedience to the King of Zhongshan, and the whole family was detained in the prison car with an iron fence and escorted back to Xiangguo. If it weren't for the intercession of the generals at that time, Shi Lang might not be able to save his life!

After learning of this, Shi Cong couldn't help but be even more shocked, although he led more troops outside the town and less in China, but he also had no lack of understanding of the current disputes and contradictions in China. And Shi Lang's experience made him realize that the King of Zhongshan went out this time, and he really didn't come well, and he wanted to use them to shock people in the future!

For a while, Shi Cong was left behind for the ravages of the Nanren in the realm, and he began to think about how to keep his family business, power and life. Now Luoyang has gathered more than 200,000 soldiers, if he resists, he will inevitably have only one way to lose, and now he can only temporarily bow his head in order to be saved a little under the aggressive arrogance of the King of Zhongshan.

Therefore, Shi Cong sent another envoy to endure the heartache and transport part of the family wealth accumulated in the past few years to the north to prepare to be dedicated to the king of Zhongshan, as a sign of sincerity. If you wait until the king of Zhongshan enters the town and then say something, I am afraid that it will be too late.

At the same time, he sent envoys to Xiangguo and Xuzhou respectively, on the one hand, to appeal to the lord for preservation, and on the other hand, he also wanted to advance and retreat with Shi Kan, the king of Pengcheng, who was sitting in Xuzhou, in order to resist the ferocity of the king of Zhongshan.

Although many responses have been made, Shi Cong still can't let go, and he drinks alone at night until late at night. During this period, several beautiful soldiers were so angry that they were dragged down and beaten with a cane, but they didn't expect the soldiers to be heavy, and they accidentally killed a concubine who had always been loved by him.

Shi Cong was doubly annoyed by this, rushed out of the pavilion with his sword, and cut off the heads of the executioners with his own hands. The bloody picture made his heart feel a little less restless, and he couldn't help but feel remorse, and ordered his soldiers to collect the corpses of those soldiers and bury them, while he walked to the warehouse in the mansion with a stunned face.

In the past, what he felt most happy about was not counting the head of the victory after the big victory, but calculating and weighing the gold and silver treasures he had looted and accumulated in the secret room, especially when he and several murderers in the township took advantage of the chaos to kill the family of the wealthy sect in the township, the gold and silver were coaxed and robbed, and he was robbed of the huge wealth that he thought he had accumulated in his life! That joy is enough to remember for a lifetime!

Most of the murderous comrades have died in the war. He was the only one who survived, and he was alive and well, and the wagons of the wealth could not be carried, but now, the barns were half empty. Some of them have been sent to Luoyang as money to buy their lives, and the other part has sent their family members and henchmen to be transported away and hidden, thinking that they will last to rely on.

"Tear down all these warehouses, or leave no trace!"

Standing silently in the empty warehouse for a long time, Shi Cong picked up a piece of dangbaiqian that was left behind during the transportation and shaped like an elm pod from the corner, held it tightly in the palm of his hand, and then turned his head and instructed his own soldiers. He was worried that if the King of Zhongshan saw this place and asked about the purpose curiously, it might be another disaster.

After leaving the warehouse, Shi Cong was even more stunned, and suddenly found that the fire suddenly rose into the sky in the night in the south of the city, and his face changed suddenly: "What happened in the south of the city?" Hurry up and find out! ”