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In the Chaisang military camp, Xu Shu was listening to a report from a water surveillance and found dozens of five-stone warships on the river about ten miles northwest of Chaisang, which were slowly approaching Chaisang.

Xu Shu stroked his beard and laughed. This was the army sent by Huang Zu to sneak attack Chaisang. If there were no inference errors, they must have been operating tonight. According to the arrangements of Liu Jing in advance, Liu Jing led his army to ambush the outside, while Xu Shu was in charge of Chaisang and led his army into the trap.

Xu Shu walked to the door with his hands behind his back. The sunset was like blood in the distance, and the afterglow spread on the head of Chaisang City, giving the city a layer of red color. The old people said that the red sunset was a manifestation of blood disaster. Although Xu Shu sneered at this statement, today's sunset was like blood, but today's sunset seemed to reflect this.

At this time, Liu Hu rushed over quickly, clasped his fists and said in a muffled voice: "County lieutenant, we are all ready."

The county magistrate was just Xu Shu's official name, but in fact Xu Shu was Chaisang's military advisor, assisting Liu Jing, controlling military affairs, and being the second largest figure in the Chaisang army. Even Liu Hu was still respectful to him.

"Horse Hu Jun, do you know what I asked you to concentrate the army?"

Liu Hu shook his head, "The tiger doesn't know"

"You follow me to arrest people and catch me the forty Jiangxia soldiers hiding in the Zhou family."

Liu Hu's eyes suddenly widened. There was actually Huang Zu's army in Chaisang City. He was extremely excited and eager to try, "County lieutenant, then let's go."

Xu Shu nodded and walked out quickly with Liu Hu.

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Just as Huang She was deployed, he selected forty elite soldiers from the army, disguised himself as a tenant farmer from the Zhou family in Wuchang, and drove more than a dozen grain ships to Chaisang, saying that he was coming to deliver grain to the owner Zhou family. The Zhou family immediately came forward to protect him. In addition, they did not bring any weapons, so the small fleet was put into Chaisang City.

The forty people disappeared silently. The Zhou family hid them in the mansion and waited for the opportunity to come. In the room, the head of the family Zhou Gu was a little nervous. He had just received the order from Huang She. The Jiangxia army would attack the North City Water Gate in the evening tonight, and ordered forty dead soldiers to seize the Water Gate in advance.

The reason why I chose to attack Shuimen is because both Shuimen and Lumen have urns, and it is difficult for forty people to rob Lumen, but Shuimen can use Caohe to sneak into the urns. These forty people are good at water, so they are selected to attack Shuimen.

Thinking of the approaching night attack, Zhou Gu couldn't help but feel extremely nervous. Although he had been waiting for this day for a long time, it was really coming, but Zhou Gu began to feel uneasy, fearing that an accident would happen at the last moment.

At this time, footsteps came from outside, and a housekeeper reported: "The head of the family, County Magistrate Zhu and County Magistrate Xu came, saying that there was a problem with the Zhou family's land tax, and the Fourth Master could not handle it, so please go out."

"Useless stuff"

Zhou Gu cursed in his heart. At this critical moment, he didn't want to have a quarrel with the government, so he had to put on his outer robe and head towards the lobby.

In the lobby, dozens of yamen runners surrounded Xu Shu, and next to him was the county magistrate Zhu Xun. Zhu Xun slowly drank tea with a tea bowl, his face was dull.

Xu Shu's face was as deep as water, and said to Zhou Xin in a stern tone: "I have checked the papers from Chaisang over the years. The mansion has 60 hectares of land in Chaisang, but he has not paid a tuition of rice to the government. How do you explain it?"

Zhou Xin was sweating profusely. Of course, he knew the reason. The 60 hectares of land were specially treated and exempted by Huang Zu. In return, the Zhou family would provide Huang Zu with military rations. The problem here is that the land tax should be handed over to the government, and after summarizing it up layer by layer, concentrated in Xiangyang, and then Xiangyang allocated part of it to the army.

Because the Zhou family privately gave the land tax that should be handed over to the government to Huang Zu's army, the Zhou family's de facto tax evasion was formed. According to the Han law, escaping land tax was a first-class crime, and beheading was certain. The number of tax evasions in the Zhou family would be even more confiscated.

Zhou Xin didn't know how to explain, so he didn't dare to tell Huang Zu, so he had to bow repeatedly, "There is another hidden truth in this matter. I have reported to the head of the family, and the head of the family will come to explain."

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Gu walked in, "What's the matter?"

Zhou Xin hurriedly stepped forward and whispered: "They are saying that there is something wrong with our Chaisang Tianfu."

"What's the problem"

Zhou Gu said dissatisfiedly: "Our land tax has always been handed over to the county government office, but it is not handed over to the county government office. Of course, there is no record of the county government office. Xu County Wei went to the county government office and found out that my Zhou family has been innocent for generations and when did the land tax be leaked?"

Zhou Xin was stunned. He secretly admired the head of the family, and he just gently pushed the matter to the county government office. Xu Shu would never go to the county government office to investigate, so the matter was left to nothing. He quickly patted his forehead and said to Xu Shu: "I am really confused. Every year, the Zhou family escorted grain ships to Wuchang to pay the land tax. I was confused for a moment and forgot."

Xu Shu smiled coldly, "Then please explain to the head of the family, why did more than a dozen grain ships come to Chaisang yesterday?"

Xu Shu said this sentence lightly, but he was like a thunderbolt to Zhou Gu. He suddenly realized that Xu Shu was either here to investigate and apply for land taxes, or to capture the forty Jiangxia soldiers. Before he could react, more than a dozen yamen runners surrounded Zhou Gu and Zhou Xin.

Xu Shu walked forward with his hands behind his back and looked at Zhou Gu and said, "The life and death of the Zhou family is just in your thoughts. The head of the family is a smart person. Do you want to protect the family or your loyalty to Huang Zu? You can choose for yourself."

Zhou Gu stood there for a while before he sighed deeply, lowered his head, thinking for a long time, but he had no choice. Everything about him had been paid attention to by the other party, and he felt like he was trapped. At this time, does the Zhou family still have any choice?

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It was almost the second update, and a fleet slowly approached the mouth of Caohekou. All the lights and fires of the ships were extinguished, and they were silently sliding in the mountains. At the bow of the first large ship, the yellow helmet was penetrated by armor, and a steel crescent halberd was holding a cold look at the dark Chaisang city wall in the distance.

"My husband, there seems to be no movement," said Su Fei, the deputy general next to him, whispered.

Su Fei is the number one figure in the Jiangxia Army, second only to the Huang family's father. He served as the commander of Jiangxia. He has followed Huang Zu for many years and has always been the right-hand man whom Huang Zu valued.

Su Fei was a little worried. From his understanding of Liu Jing's affairs, he felt that Liu Jing was not a careless person. On the contrary, he was very meticulous and cautious. How could he have poured out troops for Yangxin County and only guarded the five defenders? You must know that Chaisang is much more important to Liu Jing than Yangxin County.

Although Su Fei felt something was wrong, he could no longer persuade the Huang family father who was burned by the fire of hatred. Huang Zu had already determined that Huang Yong died at the hands of Liu Jing. He was furious and his anger for revenge made him vow to seize Chaisang and chop off Liu Jing's head.

Although Huang She was a little calmer than his father and had thought of some ways to seize the city, he was just as anxious as he wanted to catch Liu Jing. Su Fei sighed secretly. Both of the fathers were blindfolded by hatred. He knew that Huang She actually wanted to steal the daughter of the Tao family, so he was so anxious and hardworking.

At this time, Huang Shi's eyes were excited to find prey. He ignored Su Fei and stared at the iron fence of the Water City Gate. Suddenly, he saw a small fire flashing in the iron fence. Huang Shi's eyes suddenly widened, staring at the dark water gate without blinking. At this time, the fire flashed twice in a row.

Huang She was immediately overjoyed, "They succeeded."

He turned around and ordered, "Tell me the order, and the fleet enters the Caohe River and sails into the Water Gate."

Large ships entered the Caohe River in turn, riding the wind and waves, and sailing towards the Water City Gate. It should be said that Huang Zu was still very experienced. He knew that entering the Water City Gate, the masts of the ship were a problem. In order to solve this problem, he specially selected ten low-masted sailboats, which could just be driven into the Water City Gate.

The fleet was getting faster and faster, and Huang Sho became more and more excited. He had already seen the iron fence open. At this moment, a scene seemed to have made his blood rush appear in front of him. Tao Zhan fell on his bed like a little sheep, while Liu Jing's head was hanging on the gate, dripping blood. This was his dream again and again, and it was about to come true today.

Su Fei felt the yellow ejaculation's eyes were bloody and red, and he was a little bit devilish. He was secretly surprised and hurriedly said: "Mr. I'll go command the central army."

He turned around and wanted to leave, but Huang She grabbed his wrist and said viciously: "I am the leader, and I am the leader, why do you want to escape?"

Su Fei explained with a wry smile: "Prince, the lord and the general cannot be on the same boat, this is the rule."

"What a bullshit rule"

Huang Sho scolded: "What I said is the rule. If I ask you to stay, you must stay."

Su Fei was also slightly angry and stared at Huang Xia's eyes sternly. After a while, Huang Xia let go of his wrist and snorted, "Go to go."

Su Fei turned around and walked to the door of the cabin, but heard Huang She behind her and said coldly: "I will enter the city later. I have my own affairs. You are the chief general, and you will command the battle for me."

Su Fei then realized that Huang She wanted to enter the city first, probably to seize Tao Zhan. This man usually looked calm, but now it seems that he is actually exactly the same as his brother Huang Yong.

It’s just one manifested outside, the other is hidden in the heart, and it will only be reflected at critical moments.

Su Fei showed a cold feeling of disdain at the corner of his mouth, and he turned around and went out of the cabin door.

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The water gate was pitch black, and the iron gates in front and back had been lifted. The fleet could enter the urn city without any obstacles. In the water gate cave, a black shadow was waving to the big ship outside the city, "Hurry up"

Huang Shoo's big ship sailed into the Watergate Cave first and entered the urn city very smoothly. Even Huang Shoo felt a little incredible. Is it really easy to enter the urn city?

But the facts were in front of him. They entered the urncheng. He even saw the walls inside the urncheng. Then the second and the first large ship also sailed into the urncheng. The accident happened at this moment. The two iron gates that were originally hanging high suddenly fell down and hit the water heavily, causing a wave.

The fourth ship could not dodge, and with a loud bang, hitting the iron gate outside, the wood chips flew away, the ship swayed violently, and the hull was crossing the water. The soldiers on the ship exclaimed in surprise, and many soldiers fell into the water in the violent shaking.

This is the signal of action. The fire suddenly surged into the sky at the gate of the water city, and the sound of drums was like thunder, and the shouts of killing were heard one after another. There were countless ambushers in the dark night, and arrows were like rain, shooting inside and outside the city. The soldiers who were ambushing at the mouth of Caohe launched rockets together, and soon ignited several large ships of sails. The soldiers on the ship screamed in horror and dived into the water and fled.

The ship caught fire and was unable to move across the water gate, which blocked the retreat of Caohe ships, causing dozens of ships in Caohe to be in a dilemma and a mess.

In the urn city, the dense arrows were shot for unknown periods, and suddenly the fire broke out. More than a thousand soldiers appeared on both sides of the Caohe River in Weng City. The general with a serious expression was Wei Yan.

With a wave of his hand, dozens of soldiers rushed onto the ship, and soon bet a young general was besieged, wearing a golden crown and a look of horror.
Chapter completed!