Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 714
Qiaocheng is an important town in southern Henan. After Shi Cong moved to the southern part of Henan a few years ago, he naturally took it as his foundation and built it on the basis of his ancestors' management in the early years. Today, the city is tall, wide and strong, and holds tens of thousands of troops. It is not cramped, and the tiger occupies this place, shocking the surroundings.

In the northern part of the city, there is a grand and majestic mansion, which is not inferior to ordinary small towns in scale, almost occupying nearly one-third of the entire city.This is the old lair that Shi Cong managed with all his heart, and his confidantes and friends gathered here.

Shi Cong has always believed that, for the rest of his life, a man would risk his life and shed his blood for the sake of power, status and wealth.In previous years, with his poor family, he would be inferior to others for the rest of his life. Fortunately, he has caught up with such a great change in the world. The revolution of all things, the exchange of high and low, is just a godsend opportunity for an aspiring and passionate man to live freely in this world.

To be ranked among princes and nobles, to have a rich family with accumulated funds, to have a surplus of grain and rice, to be full of beautiful girls, and to enjoy the bliss of the world is Shi Cong's lifelong wish.So this lair that he spent several years building almost met all his demands.

In the whole mansion, the most conspicuous ones are the warehouses in the center of the mansion that are several feet high and have a thick circumference. They are filled with the wealth and goods he plundered in recent years. There are countless treasured swords and armors.

And near these warehouses, there stands an extremely gorgeous pavilion. In the pavilion, hundreds of young beauties are adopted, some are obtained by looting, and some are donated by various families in the territory. They are all beautiful and charming.

If there is nothing to do in the town, Shi Cong will live here more often, feasting and having fun all day long.As a result of the excitement, he also summoned the meritorious cronies under his command to have fun here, as a reward and a means of winning people's hearts.

As a poor fellow, Shi Cong has no regrets after traveling so far. If there is one dissatisfaction, it is that his reputation is still second to others.Therefore, in terms of leadership, after taking charge of southern Henan, Shi Cong not only looted the local area, but also frequently used it in the south to hunt for meritorious service, hoping to receive the same treatment as Pengcheng King Shi Kan to be crowned king, not just a mere founding prince.

After finally waiting for the southern bandits to make their own way, he joined forces with Shi Kan to defeat the old enemy Zu Clan. At first he thought that the Lord should be overjoyed, and then he added more troops to let him take advantage of the victory to attack the false Jin Dynasty. , then he is really expected to be crowned king.

However, they did not expect that the lord only ordered them to return the captives, and had no intention of continuing to use troops to the south.Seeing that the Southern Bandits were extremely weak after being attacked by Su Jun's rebellion, while his newly victorious army was imprisoned in the town and could not go south to hunt for meritorious deeds, Shi Cong was extremely tormented and annoyed.

So before that, he also had a lot of unrestrained behavior in the town, and he ravaged the place more and more to vent his grievances. He didn't even care about Huainan's defense, but sent Peng Biao to a virtual town.

Earlier, Shi Cong had no shortage of fantasies, hoping to use the weak Huainan to lure the southerners to attack.Although the Lord did not allow him to cross Huaiyuan to attack, if the southerners provoked first, he would naturally have the obligation to fight back, and he would be able to make a detour at that time.

After Hefei was lost, Shi Cong had already planned to cross Huaihe River and go to the capital of the country, but there was no reply for a long time, so the fighter plane was delayed.When the southern bandits built Liang County and attacked Huainan again, the attack was so fierce that the quick battle was imminent, and he didn't even have time to react.

This time, the middle school instruction came in time, the Lord was furious and even sent several envoys, all to reprimand him for neglecting his duty and humiliating the country.Although Shi Cong was terrified by this, he was more angry. If it wasn't for the fact that the middle school was so slow in responding and neglected the south of Henan to the extreme, leaving the southern thieves a chance to breathe, how could there be such a shame of losing ground this time!
There have been many appeasements and evils before, but now there is a problem, and it is all my fault?What an annoyance!For this reason, Shi Cong held a slight grudge against the master Shi Ledu.

Since it was thrown back to Huainan, it would be better to call back.So even though he was resentful, Shi Cong mobilized all his troops and prepared to attack those reckless southern thieves.However, after this fight, Shi Cong discovered that these southern thieves were really tenacious, and their fighting strength, especially their weapons, was even better than that of the ancestors in the early years.

Only at this time did Shi Cong pay more attention to this southern army, and the commander of the southern army, Shen Weizhou, the puppet son-in-law of the Jin Dynasty, was also taken seriously by him.The fight was fruitless, and Shi Cong was planning to use the strength of the people in the town to fight again in the future, but he didn't expect bad news to come one after another.

Guozhong ordered him to return to the defense and be cautious, and no more failures were allowed. At the same time, he conscripted people's resources and material resources to prepare for the national army.Shi Cong didn't have any resistance to the national reinforcements. After some testing, he also understood that it would be difficult to take back Huainan on his own.But the problem is, the leader is actually King Zhongshan!
For Zhongshan Wang Shihu's fighting ability, Shi Cong thought he was not as good as him, and he was even in awe, but he never liked it.This person is poor and vicious, not only cruel to the enemy, but also tyrannical to his own people, and even privately tortured and killed generals in the army, just because the opponent was brave and brave to fight, he stole the limelight from him, he is a full-fledged villain!

Shi Cong originally respected Zhongshan King at a distance and did not dare to get close to him, and Zhongshan King was really disgusting, he only treated them as fake sons with the surname of Shi as slaves, beat, scolded and humiliated them frequently, and did not give them any respect at all.But now, King Zhongshan came in charge of the army, but his own troops were reduced to servants who prepared food and grass for the army.

The relationship between the two sides is not harmonious, and his own department is humiliating the country by losing ground.Shi Cong couldn't even imagine how humiliating King Zhongshan would be to him if he came here!
However, Shi Cong had no choice but to bite the bullet and admit it. With fear and anxiety, he redoubled his conscripts to squeeze the villagers in the town, in order to be able to prepare for everything, so that the King of Zhongshan had little chance to make use of the problem and take advantage of the opportunity to make trouble.

However, he thought that the great army in the country was approaching, and the southern bandits might be deterred and hide in Huainan, but he didn't expect that the southern bandits have become more arrogant recently, relying on their boats and boats, they actually wantonly cross the Huaihe River to breed The incident caused chaos in the countryside, which made his work as a backup for the army extremely difficult, and his mood became extremely entangled because of this.

If there is no attack by troops, the southern bandits will become more unscrupulous in this area, and may instigate even greater turmoil.But if you send troops, defeat is even more worrying, and if you win, you are not happy, or you may be misunderstood by King Zhongshan as he wants to grab merit before the army arrives, and you will be even more disgusted and difficult for him!
With such a tormented mood, Shi Cong lived like a year. Although there were still tens of thousands of soldiers in the town, he felt powerless because he was pushed out by heaven and earth.The movements of the southern thief in the environment came frequently, as if stabbing his heart with a knife, and he was thinking hard all day about how to deal with it, so as to put himself in a safe place.

In the past few days, even Yingchuan, Chenjun and other places in the heart of Yuzhou unexpectedly showed traces of the Southern Army, which shocked Shi Cong, and he dared not shrink back anymore.If the southerners are allowed to continue to wreak havoc, when King Zhongshan comes to the south, what he will have to face will no longer be the question of whether he will be made things difficult for him, and he may even lose his life!

So Shi Cong immediately recruited [-] cavalry from the town, and the detachment will lead them out to clean up and drive away the enemy troops in Chenjun and other places.

As for King Zhongshan, Shi Cong didn't dare to be negligent, and ordered him to write a long letter, describing the current riot scene, and explaining that he was definitely not greedy for meritorious deeds, but that the southern thieves were too rampant, so he had to fight back .

Even so, Shi Cong still couldn't feel at ease. He originally planned to lead his troops to patrol the territory in person to deter the commotion in the surrounding fields. He was captured and whipped in public, and the whole family was imprisoned in a prison cart by iron bars, and escorted back to Xiangguo.If not for the generals pleading for mercy at that time, Shi Lang might lose his life!

After learning about this, Shi Cong couldn't help being even more horrified. Although he led more troops outside the town than inside the country, he still had a lot of understanding of the current disputes and contradictions in the country.And Shi Lang's experience made him realize that King Zhongshan's trip this time is really a bad person, and he intends to use them to suppress the future and scare people's hearts!

For a while, Shi Cong forgot about the rampage of the southerners in the border, and began to think about how to keep his family property, power and life.Now that Luoyang has assembled more than 20 soldiers, if he resists stubbornly, he will inevitably be defeated. Now he has to bow his head temporarily, so as to be able to survive under the aggressive arrogance of King Zhongshan.

Therefore, Shi Cong sent another envoy to express his sincerity by sending some of the family wealth accumulated in the past years to the north to be dedicated to King Zhongshan.If he waited until King Zhongshan entered the town to make a statement, it would be too late by then.

At the same time, he sent envoys to Xiangguo and Xuzhou respectively. On the one hand, he wanted to appeal to the Lord for safety, and on the other hand, he wanted to join forces with Shi Kan, the king of Pengcheng who was in Xuzhou, to resist the might of King Zhongshan.

Although many countermeasures have been taken, Shi Cong still can't let go of it, and drank alone until late at night.During the period, several beauties were aroused by his slight disappointment, which aroused his anger, and ordered them to be dragged down and whipped.

Shi Cong was even more annoyed by this, rushed out of the pavilion with his sword, and chopped off the heads of those execution soldiers with his own hands.The bloody scene made him feel a little less restless, and he couldn't help feeling remorse. He ordered the soldiers to collect the corpses of those soldiers and bury them, while he walked to the warehouse in the mansion with a sad face.

In the past, what he felt most happy was not counting the heads of the victorious fruit after a big victory, but planning to weigh the gold and silver treasures he had plundered and accumulated in the secret room, especially he couldn't forget the time when he and several village thieves took advantage of the chaos to enter the home of the wealthy family in the village. Among them, gold and silver were looted in his arms, and in one go he robbed the huge wealth that he thought he had accumulated all his life!That kind of joy is enough to remember for a lifetime!
Most of those gangsters back then died in the war.He was the only one who survived, and he was still alive and well. The goods he received could not be carried by the trucks, but now, most of these warehouses are empty.Some of them have been sent to Luoyang as money for their lives, while others have been dispatched by their family members to take them away and hide them outside, thinking that they will finally rely on them.

"Demolish all these warehouses, or leave no trace!"

Standing silently for a long time in the empty barn, Shi Cong picked up a pawn coin shaped like an elm pod that was left behind when carrying it from the corner, held it tightly in his hand, and then turned his head to tell his soldiers.He worried that if King Zhongshan saw this place so far and curiously asked about its purpose, another disaster might start.

After walking out of the warehouse, Shi Cong felt even more depressed, and suddenly found that the fire suddenly shot up into the sky in the night in the south of the city, and his expression changed suddenly: "What happened in the south of the city? Go and find out!"

　There will be one more later. . .

　　
　
(End of this chapter)