The Chu court believed that with their current strength, they could not confront the Ming Dynasty on a broader battle banknote. They could only shrink the front line and gather more solid forces to carry out a pure defensive battle in a limited space, hoping to extend the combat time indefinitely and look forward to changes in the outside world. To put it bluntly, they were counting on the Qi people to intervene.

Although this hope is slim, it is not completely gone. If they can support the Ming army for two or three years under the attack of the Ming army, or defeat the Ming army in a certain direction in such a large-scale battle, the Qi people will indeed be able to take action. After all, weakening the Ming people is also one of the most important goals of the Qi country.

There are precedents for such a thing. In the early days of the Chu State's early emperor Min Wei ascended the throne, the political situation was turbulent. Qi took the opportunity to attack and once defeated Chu State almost to the verge of destruction. However, Min Wei was in charge of the army at that time, taking Chengwuben, An Ruhai and others as generals. Yang Yihe took over the logistics in the rear and forcibly turned the Chen battle into a ball. As a result, Qin Yue saw that this was a great opportunity to pick up peaches, so he immediately sent troops. Li Zhi and Luo Kuanluo Yishui's father) led a large army to launch a fierce attack on Qi State. Qi State fought on multiple fronts, and after suffering a great loss, he had to withdraw his troops and stop the battle.

Now Min Ruoying also wants to repeat the old stories of his ancestors. It’s just that his bargaining chips are more grateful than his father. During the period of Nwei, whether it is Cheng Wuben, Guo Jiuling, An Ruhai or Yang Yihe, they are all outstanding people of the generation, and now he has very few talents available to him.

Reducing troops to Xiangzhou, Junzhou, Wenzhou and Shangjingcheng is now Min Ruoying's limit. It is indeed a lot more than the number of Ming soldiers who fought, but in terms of elite level and combat effectiveness, it will be a big question mark.

In the battle bill, a warrior with a hundred warrior and a farmer who had just put down his hoe were completely different. Since his combat effectiveness was not as good as others, he could only shrink the front line and rely on the thickness to build strength.

Xingzhou was abandoned under such a strategy.

The officials here in the court fled, and Xingzhou immediately fell into an anarchy state. If only the officials of Chu had escaped, it would have been very likely to cause chaos in the city, but the impact would not be too great in the countryside, because the fact that the imperial power did not go to the countryside still existed in the Chu State. The local tyrants ruled the countryside, and whether there were government officials or not was not great. However, after the court gave up Xingzhou, the looting in Xingzhou completely pushed Xingzhou to the extreme of chaos.

Kind people cannot survive in such a chaotic situation. They basically have only one ending, either starved to death or killed. Only the extremely vicious guys can survive in this difficult situation. The so-called heroes are usually born in such an environment.

The bandits and bandits became the masters of this ground in a very short time, and were rampant in Xingzhou without restraint. They naturally refused to fight against the Huofeng Army's rangers, but bullying good people is their best.

Under such ridicule, some heroes from Xingzhou who had lofty ambitions stood up at the right time and organized villagers to protect themselves. While resisting the plunder of the Fire Phoenix Army, they either beat or incorporated these bandits when they seized the opportunity. In a very short time, Xingzhou formed several local wealthy armed groups.

It is a bit of praise for saying that they are a group. At least in the eyes of Suqian and others, they are at most armed farmers. The only thing that makes Suqian a little hindered is that these places have gathered a large number of local people. Considering that they will rule locally in the future, if they kill too much, they are worried that they will have a counterproductive effect.

Of course, Qin Feng had this idea, so when his army arrived in Jinzhou, it stopped moving. The 20,000 Western Army in Suqian and 10,000 cavalry from Jiangshangyan.

The cavalry was used to drive away the Huofeng Army's cavalry, while the 20,000 Western Army in Suqian was used to push the local tyrants.

The generals first knocked them down, and then the emperor came over to give them kindness and comfort. This is naturally the only way for the rulers to win people's hearts. Those who are afraid of being killed and hurt will only scold the butcher generals in their hearts, but few people will wonder why these people dare to do this.

Qin Feng knew what the local tycoons in Xingzhou wanted to do? In fact, it was not just Xingzhou. The situation encountered by the army under the command of Jiangshangyan and Zhou Jiyun was even more serious, because Xingzhou was still a plain area and was basically in a zone without any danger. On the way forward of Jiangzhou's troops, the terrain was much more complicated, and too many people wanted to get benefits from this banquet. Or in the eyes of these people, a great opportunity for them to gain benefits such as the change of dynasty and the Battle of Destruction of the Kingdom was a great opportunity for them to gain benefits.

However, they obviously do not understand the consistent policies of the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Empire hated such local tyrants from the root. Are there any major clans in the Ming Dynasty? Of course, there are, but they all get rich through business. The lives of these people are firmly held by the Ming court. If you really have any ideas, you don’t even need to alarm the emperor. An official in charge of the criminal name in the local area can do this≥ Now these people have realized the urgency to fight for a higher social and political status for themselves, but in the foreseeable future, their hope will be a long road.

The Ming Dynasty did not give local tyrants the opportunity to control the land and the villagers. The land was scattered to all households and strictly prohibited land annexation, which was to break up the local group behavior. It would not work in the Ming Dynasty if the imperial power did not go to the countryside. It would not take many days for a government decree to be signed from the highest institution in the capital. Even those remote villages in the Ming Dynasty would post such documents to convey the imperial decree to everyone's mind.

Ignoring literacy? It doesn’t matter. Mr. Xiao Hua, the Minister of Rites of the Ming Dynasty, has done nothing else over the years. He is basically striving for his villages and schools and scholars. This goal is not to cultivate elites, but to be precise, it is just a minimum level of literacy. Now Mr. Xiao is adhering to the idea of ​​broad-sourcing and scattering seeds on a large scale, and there will always be people who will emerge from the top.

There are many adults who are illiterate, but there are not many children who are illiterate in the Ming Dynasty, especially in the Ming Dynasty. The advantage of this kind of literacy is that it allows the people at the bottom to understand the country's basic policies towards them in the shortest time.

All the strategies of the Ming Dynasty in the end point to a goal, with a high degree of centralization, so that the local governments have no capital to bargain with the central government at all.

Now, like the local wealthy families in Xingzhou do not understand the basic policies of the Ming Dynasty. Based on their experience in treating the Chu court, they hoped that they could still gain the same privileges as before under the rule of the Ming Dynasty. This idea was wrong from the root.

Everyone knows that the Ming Dynasty destroyed Chu was a foregone conclusion, but there are always some people who want to gain enough benefits in such a major change, and at least they must maintain their own interests without harm.

In Qin Feng's view, if their interests were not damaged, the interests of the Ming Dynasty would be damaged.

To deal with such people, the Ming Dynasty was simple and rough, with only two words to eliminate. If you don’t take advantage of this period of time to eliminate these unstable factors, and when the Ming officials truly enter this place and start to rule, it will be inconvenient to start, as this will bring endless trouble to future governance.

Kill these wealthy families and then distribute their land, houses, and grain to the people at the bottom. Those people will soon forget the previous massacre and be grateful for the benefits of these people who distributed them to them. The Ming Dynasty has already done such things easily. Whether it was in the Ming Dynasty or later in the Western Region, this was how the Ming Dynasty did it.

The reason is very simple. The proportion of such a wealthy family is too small, and the people at the bottom are ten times or even hundreds or thousands of times that of them. Qin Feng knew how to do such an ulcer problem without thinking about it.

Suqian had never been in the Ming Dynasty system after all, so he was a little reluctant. Jiang Shangyan had to come up and remind him what he should do. Such things cannot be waited for the emperor to give orders, and the emperor could not give such orders.

When doing dirty work, ministers should have this awareness. When the blame comes, the greatness, brightness and righteousness will naturally belong to His Majesty the Emperor.

The Qian family in Shuangfeng County, Jinzhou was the first to be affected.

At the height of the storm of violence, the head of the Qian family opened the granary at home, recruited young and strong men, and armed them. With food and armor, they naturally gathered a large number of armed forces. The armed forces of 3,000 people and the tens of thousands of people gathered in his fortress and village are the capital that he thought he could talk to the Ming Dynasty about conditions. He believed that he could at least get a county magistrate. Judging from historical experience, the new ruler always hoped to get local support in the shortest time. Of course, being a county magistrate is not the purpose, but only by becoming an official of the Ming Dynasty can he continue his absolute prestige in the local area.

He was confidently waiting for the Ming Dynasty's special envoy to come to negotiate with him, and he looked forward to taking Qian to a new height and a bright future.

Unfortunately, what he was waiting for was not the special envoys to recruit and support, but the army in Suqian.

Without surrender or negotiation, the Western Army of Suqian arrived in Shuangfeng County with lightning speed and launched an attack on the Qian family's fortress at a dusk.

The Qian family, which had no intention of fighting at both ends of the rat, was destroyed in just a few hours in front of the army that looked like wolves and tigers.
Chapter completed!