In the second new army camp, Colonel Kong Ke and Army Sima Zhangzhong were at the peak of first-rate and second-rate respectively. However, before they even left the camp, they were defeated by their subordinates, the military lord Xuanjian.
In the third recruit camp, the captain Qiao Chu, who was born in the Qiao family, had top-notch strength, but died at the hands of the guard Chang Gao Jianli.
Including the fifth, sixth, seventh, ninth, and newly discovered tenth recruit battalion captains, a total of more than 600 people died in Jia Xu's purge, including seven captains, five army commanders,
and eighteen military princes.
After Di Renjie's secret investigation, it was found that most of these officers were from imperial families, and a small number were civilian officers brainwashed by the imperial party's rhetoric of "loyal to the Han and loyal to the Majesty".
On the surface, Jia Xu sent spies to monitor these rebels, but secretly let the snare killers lurk around him in disguise.
Luowang is a subordinate organization of Heibingtai. It has only one responsibility, which is to assassinate and kill all those who are unfavorable to the Qin army.
In order to control the army, the rebellious officers will naturally win over the officers under their command. There is no reason not to agree to the offer of the Snare Killer to defect to him.
Before the incident, these officers thought they had escaped the surveillance of Heibingtai, but they did not know that among their cronies there were snare killers. As a result, they bumped into the blade of snare.
This purge of Jia Xu had been planned for a long time. In order to completely control the 30,000 new troops, more than 600 people were purged at once. It can be said that he was not ruthless.
Although most of the purged rebels were ordinary soldiers, there were also a large number of officers, accounting for 60% of the total officers of the New Army.
The sudden loss of six levels of officers would be a fatal blow to any army, but Jia Xu was obviously well prepared.
The purge operation had just ended, and the bloodstains in the military camp had not yet been cleaned away, when the appointment of the new officer was announced.
Jia Xu ordered Qin Ji to be the commander of the rebellion, commanding 30,000 new troops. Qin Chu, Qin Xi, Qin Ying, Qin Gao, Qin Lu, Qin Xi, Qin Liang and Qin Si were the commanders of the seven generals. Their commanders were purged.
There are seven new recruit battalions that are missing captains.
The 30,000 new troops, from general to captain, were basically replaced by Qin family members, completely controlling the new army.
The strength of the Imperial Party mainly comes from two aspects, one is the Seventh Battalion of the New Army, and the other is the Reorganized Army of the Family.
The imperial party carefully planned and deployed manpower bit by bit to the new army, but Jia Xu purged them all at once.
Now it is impossible for the imperial party to rely on the new army to seize power. The only thing they can rely on is the reorganized army of the family, but the reorganized army of the family is obviously also targeted by Jia Xu.
Among the five thousand aristocratic families reorganizing the army, only two thousand people did not participate in the rebellion. These soldiers came from Qin, Jia, Wang, Yue, Xue, Li and other families close to the Qin family.
Although not all of the remaining 3,000 generations of family soldiers were loyal to the Han Dynasty, it was obviously impossible to tell the difference at this time, and they could only be purged as treason.
"Sima, someone keeps inciting the soldiers to cause trouble, and the soldiers don't listen to us at all."
After hearing the report from his subordinates, the army commander broke into sweat and asked anxiously: "Hasn't there been an order from above?"
"No."
"how so?"
Although the rioting family soldiers had no weapons, they numbered three thousand in number, while the number of soldiers guarding the camp was only five hundred.
As far as the current situation is concerned, these violent soldiers cannot be suppressed without using a knife, and once the killer is killed, it may completely intensify the conflict, and eventually the same roommates will fight and blood will flow.
Therefore, without orders from the top, a mere military commander would naturally not dare to let his soldiers kill him, and this would naturally increase the arrogance of the soldiers of the family.
"Sima, the general has an order that anyone who steps out of the military camp will be killed without mercy. In addition, the general has led two thousand troops to help."
"That's great."
The Army Sima was overjoyed and quickly ordered the soldiers to fight back. This was in line with the wishes of the Imperial Party hidden in the crowd. After all, not all the soldiers of the Three Thousand Generations Family were from the Imperial Party.
Although the imperialists continued to spread rumors in the army that the Qin army would treat them as cannon fodder, some people still believed it with suspicion, so these people only protested and wanted to leave the camp, rather than directly fighting.
Now that the Qin army took the lead, what they said was confirmed. These people must have tried their best to escape in order to survive. Isn't this the cannon fodder they need most?
As the saying goes: beat the old master to death with random punches.
Although the soldiers of the aristocratic family do not have weapons in hand, they are powerful in numbers. If they fight one by one in close combat, they can still steal weapons.
Gradually, more and more people died, most of them were soldiers of the family, which also made some people feel timid.
According to this posture, even if all three thousand people died, they probably wouldn't be able to break out of the military camp. But at this moment, a large number of soldiers with weapons suddenly appeared among the family soldiers, and the number was around a thousand.
Seeing this, Sima Qin's face turned pale. He didn't know how these weapons got into the military camp, but he knew that this was definitely a serious crime, and he would definitely be found guilty of dereliction of duty and dismissed from his post.
With the addition of thousands of clan soldiers holding weapons, the 500 Qin army was gradually losing ground. Just when they were about to be unable to hold the camp gate, Qin Inspector led another 2,000 clan soldiers to arrive in time.
After seeing this scene, Qin Jian showed a ferocious smile, pointed his spear forward, and shouted: "No one will be spared from all the rebels."
"kill……"
Under the leadership of Qin Jian, two thousand pro-Qin clan soldiers rushed into the camp shouting and waving weapons, and a new and more brutal purge operation began.
The original plan of the imperial party was to wait for the soldiers of the aristocratic families in the camp to rush out, and then immediately attack the Prince of Qin's Mansion together and capture Qin Hao's wife and children, thereby intimidating the defenders in Luoyang City.
But up to now, they have not been able to break out of the camp. Obviously, something must have happened to the troops along the way.
"Master Kong Rong, something bad has happened. Jia Xu is not dead. All the people we placed in the New Army have been eliminated by Jia Xu. Now the New Army is completely owned by the Qin Army." Yang Jun ran over with a look on his face.
Said anxiously.
"What?"
Liu Che, Kong Rong, and Ma Rixi screamed together, and Kong Rong even shouted in disbelief: "This is absolutely impossible."
In order to confirm that Jia Xu was really dead, Kong Rong personally attended Jia Xu's funeral and saw Jia Xu's 'corpse' with his own eyes.
Liu Xie's face suddenly turned extremely ugly. If this news was true, there was only one possibility for Jia Xu to commit suicide, and that was to deliberately lure them into arrest and completely clean up the loyalists in one fell swoop.
"It's absolutely true. According to reliable information, Jia Xu has succeeded Mu Guiying and become the actual controller of the Qin army." Yang Jun said anxiously.
Liu Che's face suddenly turned pale. He suppressed the fear in his heart and gritted his teeth and said, "This damn old thief."