The Chronicles of Longevity on Liaozhai Road

After a while, the city was completely occupied by Yang Hengde's army. Then, the gate of Dongshan County was also opened, and more troops entered Dongshan County along the gate.

At this time, Yang Heng, who had received the report in the big tent, came to the front of the formation with his own soldiers.

The first thing that caught Yang Heng's eyes was the countless corpses under the wall. These corpses showed various painful expressions, revealing to Yang Heng the tragedy of the war.

Yang Heng narrowed his eyes for a moment, but opened them quickly, turned his head and said to Wang Hua, "You have done a lot to capture this city, and you will be rewarded a lot when you return to Beijing."

Wang Hua shook his head in pain, "Your Majesty does not ask for the reward of being a marquis, but only asks His Majesty to bury these people as soon as possible, so that they can be buried in peace as soon as possible."

Naturally, Yang Heng would not refuse this small request, he nodded hastily, and then said: "I will leave this matter to you, and the soldiers in our camp will be dispatched by you."

After saying this, Yang Heng's eyes narrowed suddenly.

It turned out that when Yang Heng and Wang Hua looked at each other just now, his Fayan suddenly saw that there was a black air above Wang Hua's head.

And in the sky, there are still streaks of black air constantly gathering here, and this black air is also constantly rolling, as if there are innocent souls howling there.

This cloud of black air is not something else, it is the evil debt caused by Wang Hua driving the people to attack the city.

Yang Heng hastily glanced sideways at the top of his head, and found that although there was a trace of black energy gathering on his head, it was quickly dispersed by the mana on his body.

At this point, Yang Heng breathed a sigh of relief.

If there is so much black energy gathering on the top of his head like Wang Hua's, I'm afraid I won't be able to become a fairy in this life.

It seems that my decision yesterday was still correct. I will leave the work of soliciting evil debts to the people under my hands, and I only need to enjoy the results.

After a while, Liu Yue, who had entered the city, sent scouts to report back.

"The city has been cleared. General Liu invites His Majesty to enter the city."

Only then did Yang Heng nodded in satisfaction, and then slowly entered Dongshan City with his own soldiers and countless follow-up soldiers.

After entering the city, Yang Heng was led into the county government office by the generals.

Yang Heng sat firmly on the county lord's seat, looked at the generals below, smiled all over his face, and nodded in satisfaction.

This time driving the people to attack the city was indeed a bit wicked, but the generals under him did not lose their morale because of this, which made him very satisfied.

At this time, General Liu Yue, who was the first to attack the city, came out of the squad to report to Yang Heng:

"Your Majesty, when the last general attacked the city, Zheng Huaixing, the magistrate of Dongshan County, was captured. I don't know how to deal with it."

Yang Heng's face became gloomy when he heard this name. It was this person who stopped his army in Dongshan City for a few days and lost thousands of troops. Heng's reputation in the south has declined a lot.

"Bring him up to me."

Following Yang Heng's order, there was a sound of chains outside, and after a while, a middle-aged literati was brought in front of Yang Heng outside the lobby.

Yang Heng looked at the straight middle-aged man standing below, and his face became even more ugly.

"The defeated general, why didn't he kneel when he saw me?"

The middle-aged man looked up at Yang Heng, with a disdainful smile on his lips.

"A good horse does not deserve two saddles, and a loyal minister does not worship two masters."

"Hehe, an idiot who blocks the Heavenly Army and doesn't know the time, dares to speak so nonsense in front of me."

After saying this, Yang Heng squinted at Xue Feng who was standing below.

When Xue Feng saw Yang Heng's eyes, he immediately understood what he was going to do, so he took a step forward and drew out his sword, and directly slashed at Zheng Huaixing's knee.

Then there was a scream, and Zheng Huaixing fell to the ground involuntarily.

And the two soldiers behind him rushed forward, each grabbed his arm, and pulled him up forcefully, making Zheng Huaixing look like he was kneeling in front of Yang Hengde.

But even so, Zheng Huaixing was struggling desperately.

Looking at his miserable appearance, Yang Heng finally calmed down some of the anger in his heart.

"You are a small county magistrate, why dare to stop the heavenly soldiers."

"The reward of eating the king, the matter of being loyal to the king, there is only death, so why fear it?"

Yang Heng looked at the kneeling face, although he was twitching constantly due to the pain, he felt a little love for talent in his heart.

But this idea was quickly suppressed by him.

If I let him go because of his stubbornness, then I will attack countless cities in the future, and if the other defenders follow suit, then I will be out of luck.

Therefore, Yang Heng hardened his heart and said to the people below: "This person ruined my great affairs and caused heavy casualties to the people. The crime is extremely heinous. If you don't kill him, the people will not be angry."

"Send me an order to pull him out and execute him in a hurry."

Following Yang Heng's order, two soldiers dragged Zheng Huaixing out of the county government office.

But Zheng Huaixing had no fear of Ling Chi who was coming, and kept cursing Yang Heng.

And his cursing wiped out all the little favor Yang Heng had for him.

After this annoying guy was dragged out, Yang Heng breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the lieutenant general below, and said: "Now we are only one step away from Nanjing, as long as we win Nanjing , we have a foundation in the south of the Yangtze River, and we will use this as a base to sweep the south."

When he said this, Yang Heng himself was a little excited.

"Which one of you would like to be the pioneer?"

At this time, Liu Yue came out of the crowd, cupped his hands and said: "The last general is not talented, and I would like to be the vanguard."

Regarding Liu Yue, Yang Heng was still very relieved.

"Okay, since General Liu has volunteered himself, then I will appoint you as the front vanguard, leading 3 horses to lead the way, opening roads in the mountains, and building bridges in the water."

Then Yang Heng sent another order: "The other armies rest for two days, and then follow me as the Chinese army and continue to march towards Nanjing."

Afterwards, the generals dispersed separately to rectify their own army and horses, and went to appease the people.

And Yang Heng himself also returned to the back of the county office, ready to rest for a few days, and then continue the unfinished journey.

But before Yang Heng slept for a long time, a soldier came to report.

"Your Majesty, although Zheng Huaixing was tortured,...but the people in the city are vying to take his flesh and make it into a bodhisattva to worship at home."

Chapter 673 Compromise

Hearing this, Yang Heng stood up abruptly from his seat, then pushed the soldier away, came to the yard, opened his yin and yang eyes, and looked outside.

Seeing this surprised Yang Heng quite a bit.

It turned out that he saw bursts of faint yellow air falling continuously over the small county town, falling into the main rooms of every family.

And with the condensing of these yellow qi, another invisible will began to condense slowly.

Is this okay?

This was clearly Zheng Huaixing who had just died, and wanted to use this to become a god.

If it is a capable minister and general under his command who wants to become a god after the battle, Yang Heng will not stop him.

But his enemies actually want to take advantage of this to revive him, which is not what Yang Heng is willing to do.

So Yang Heng hastily sent orders to his own soldiers.

"Order the army to enter the city again, collect Zheng Huaixing's statues and tablets from house to house, then gather them outside the city, spray them with black dog blood, throw them into the cesspit, fish them out, dry them in the sun, and burn them with flames again."

Yang Heng wanted to use this method to suppress Zheng Huaixing's idea of ​​becoming a god.

After the personal soldier got the order, he immediately went out to make arrangements.

Soon, countless soldiers poured into Dongshan County from all directions, and went door to door to collect Zheng Huaixing's tablets.

Originally, these people in Dongshan County had fought against Yang Heng's soldiers for several days and suffered heavy casualties, so they hated them very much.

But this time the soldiers dared to search the city from house to house, which completely touched their bottom line, so resistance everywhere emerged endlessly.

However, those soldiers did not get used to these ordinary people. Although they did not dare to kill them directly with knives, it was commonplace to beat them with whips and iron rods.

So by the next morning, on a wilderness outside the city, various tablets had been piled up high.

Some of these tablets are well-made, and some are hastily pasted a piece of paper on the wooden tablet.

However, although their styles are different, their functions are the same, that is, to enshrine Zheng Huaixing, the original magistrate of Dongshan County.

And Yang Heng's expression was not good after receiving the report from the people below, and at the same time, he also admired this Zheng Huaixin.

This person seems to be a good official who loves the people like a son, otherwise, the common people would not follow him to resist Yang Heng for a few days.

And it seems that even in death, his influence has not declined.

His hero, my enemy.

Since this is the case, it is even more necessary to erase his influence from Dongshan County.

Therefore, on the day when these wooden signs were collected, all kinds of black dog blood were transported from all directions, and then buckets of buckets were poured on these wooden signs.

Strange to say, as the blood of these black dogs sprayed on these wooden signs, the wooden signs, which were originally ordinary, began to sizzling as if being scorched by flames.

Afterwards, these wooden signs sprayed with black dog blood were thrown into the latrine by the soldiers, soaked for several hours, then fished out to dry, and burned again with flames.

But this time, among these flames, there were not only orange-yellow ordinary flames, but also traces of red light emerging from them.

After all this was done, Yang Heng waited and watched in the county government office, only to see that the spirit of Zheng Huaixing that was about to condense had begun to fade away.

It was only when Yang Heng came here that he breathed a sigh of relief. That night, Yang Heng had a good night's sleep.

But when he had breakfast the next morning, he came to the yard and glanced casually, which immediately startled him.

It turned out that when he inadvertently opened his yin and yang eyes to look at the entire county, he found that there was still a faint power of faith condensed in every household, and this condensed power of faith was faster than yesterday.

If this continues, by noon today, Zheng Huaixing's soul will be condensed, and he will be able to ascend to the gods in one fell swoop.

This time Yang Heng was a little annoyed, these people dared to be so stubborn, yesterday just burned the tablets, today they set them up again, this is courting death.

Therefore, Yang Heng sent an order for the second time, ordering the army to start searching the city again.

The soldiers who entered the city again this time were not as elegant as the previous one. Now they came to the door of a house, kicked it in and rummaged for a while.

The reason for this rage was that these soldiers also found it troublesome. They were supposed to have a rest yesterday, but they were ordered to go into the city to collect these broken logs.

I thought I could take a day off today after finishing the work yesterday, but the order came down again, asking them to search the city again.

These soldiers think that these ordinary people are causing trouble for themselves, so now they are all suffocating.

And those ordinary people didn't resist like yesterday, they just looked at the soldiers who came to search with hatred.

These soldiers moved quickly, and searched the entire county at noon, and the information sent to Yang Heng was: there was no Zheng Huaixing memorial tablet in the entire county.

Yang Heng was taken aback by this.

This is impossible.

If there is no tablet, then why did Zheng Huaixing's soul condense so quickly?And the power of faith keeps gathering.

In the end, Yang Heng really had no other choice, so he directly ordered the soldiers to find a few rich merchants in the city and call them in front of him.

It should be said that the rich people in this city are more afraid of death than those ordinary people.

Maybe those common people still have some backbone and can be mighty and unyielding, but those wealthy businessmen are different. They can do anything for their lives and the continuation of their families.

Sure enough, the people they found were just as Yang Heng thought. As soon as Yang Heng asked, they told all the reasons for the incident.

It turns out that after burning those memorial tablets of Zheng Huaixing yesterday, the common people still have resentment in their hearts.

So on the surface they didn't dare to resist and remade Zheng Huaixing's tablet, but they still remembered Zheng Huaixing's.

Therefore, these common people could only kneel at home, praying to Zheng Huaixin from afar.

And because of Yang Heng's tyranny yesterday, these people missed Zheng Huaixin even more, so they missed Zheng Huaixin even more strongly.

This is what the people want.

There is a saying: the heart of the people and the heart of heaven.

Therefore, under such circumstances, Zheng Huaixing's soul was re-condensed.

It is also easy to destroy this situation. As long as Yang Heng mobilizes the dragon energy of the Great Song Dynasty to suppress it, Zheng Huaixing's newly condensed soul will be smashed to pieces immediately.

But this will consume the luck of the Great Song Dynasty.

Just for a little Zheng Huaixing to damage his dynasty's luck, Yang Heng would not do such a stupid thing.

Then there is only one way to go, and that is to negotiate with this Zheng Huaixing and make him a god who protects his dynasty.

If Zheng Huaixing agrees, then everything will be fine. If he disagrees, Yang Heng will have to use his magical powers in the end to forcibly break his spirit.

Next, Yang Heng ordered his subordinates to set up a dharma altar for him.