The order to surrender was soon conveyed, and in the valley, there were waves of relaxed but deliberately lowered cheers. Surrender means that they no longer have to die of starvation by freezing.

The weapons were thrown aside like garbage, and took off their armor and put on only cotton coats. The soldiers were disarmed and gathered by their commanders. On the edge of the valley, ropes hung down, and the surrendered soldiers would climb up along these ropes.

At the top of the valley, the veterans of the Death Camp were on high alert, while the young and strong stood excitedly in the direction of the gap left by the veterans, holding ropes one by one. The first surrendered county soldier exposed his head from the edge of the valley, looked around nervously, using his hands and feet, and stood tremblingly to the top of the cliff.

"Where are you going!" A veteran of the suicide camp glanced at him with contempt, and pointed a big knife in his hand. The guy was startled and immediately ran towards the gap. Two young and strong men came forward happily.

The guy who climbed up cooperated to stretch out his hands, and with a thud, a rope was put on his wrist. Soon, the second and third, one after another, the county soldiers climbed up with difficulty, and then tied up like candied haws. They were in groups of fifty people. After they were tied up, they were carried to the depths of the mountains.

In addition to the casualties, there were more than 3,500 county soldiers trapped at the bottom of the valley. At Wu the next day, they all became prisoners of the death camp. Teams of posts kept walking towards the high mountain and flat land that Qin Feng was interested in. Now, he was in need of a large number of people to clear the land for him.

Liu Xingwen was the last one to climb up. He was depressed and stood on the top of the cliff. Looking at the bandit leader surrounding him, he lowered his head with great conscience, took off the sword around his waist, held it in both hands, and walked to Qin Feng.

"Liu Xingwen, the commander of the Dayue Shayang County soldiers, surrender to you!" His voice was a little choked, he held the knife in both hands and turned his head, bent one knee, and then he was about to kneel down.

Qin Feng laughed, held him with one hand, dragging him up, "General Liu, there is no need to be too polite. We will have more opportunities to cooperate in the future. Please, General Liu is my distinguished guest!"

Listening to Qin Feng's words, Liu Xingwen showed a smile that was even worse than crying.

Fengxian County, Liuping Town, Ge Qingsheng's legs were weak, and he sat directly on the cold ground. During this period, he was so scared that he was already the second time. The first time he heard that the Qi general Kou Qun was killed by a punch, he knew that the disaster was about to come. This time, it was a bigger bad news. The five thousand Shayang County soldiers who went to suppress the bandits were destroyed, and nearly a thousand people died. The remaining more than 4,000 were all captured by the bandits.

The poor Fengxian County Magistrate Ge Qingsheng has now become a lonely ghost. Liang Da lives in the county town. He has no choice but to go home day and night with the county yamen runners and more than 100 county soldiers given to him by Lu Feng, and go to the township to collect food and grass. Of course, to put it nicely, that is called collecting, and to put it badly, that is robbery.

Amid the crying and howlings and the curse of grief and anger, Ge Qingsheng pretended to be unable to hear anything, searched the only little food from the homes of the people, and then walked to the next family.

He had to scrape the ground three feet and had to raise enough food. Now, he had finally raised tens of thousands of kilograms of food, but the army that asked for this food was useless.

Ge Qingsheng felt that two-thirds of his head was no longer on his neck, and he would fall down at any time. Although the defeat of the army in the fight against the enemy had nothing to do with him, who said that such a big thing happened to his territory? Who would he take the blame if he didn't take it?

Sitting on the ground, without any grace, and regardless of the strange eyes of the soldiers of the yamen runners and county soldiers around us, our county magistrate Ge burst into tears.

"Mr. Ge!" Looking at the crying county magistrate, Lu Feng shouldn't have said anything. This county magistrate is good at everything, but he is a little soft-hearted. If crying can solve the problem, he would have been louder than him. "Now is not a time to be sad, we have to discuss a solution!"

"What else can I think of? We must not be able to keep our heads." Ge Qingsheng said sadly.

"That's not necessarily!" Lu Feng snorted, dragging Ge Qingsheng from the ground, dragging him directly into a room, and unceremoniously drove the original owner out of the room. "Mr. Ge, this time, there are people taller than us on it, what are we afraid of?"

"Aren't you afraid?" Ge Qingsheng was shocked.

Lu Feng took out the bid list of the bandits from his arms, "Look, this is the price offered by the bandits. As long as their requirements are met, they will release them. Sir, the person above is not related to the big men in our Shayang County. General Liu doesn't need to say that Liu is the first in our Shayang County. With these people, these families are holding on, what are we afraid of? If there is something wrong, naturally these guys will hold on."

"The entire army of five thousand people was destroyed." Could it be that such a big thing can still be hidden? Ge Qingsheng shook his head repeatedly.

"We don't have the energy to hide it, but the big men in the county town have absolutely no energy to hide it." Lu Feng sneered. "I will go to the county town to find the county governor and the people of Liu, and throw this bag over. If this matter is really exposed, we will certainly lose our heads, but can they escape? This time, we have to be united."

"But there is another Liang Da in the county town. How could it be hidden from him? It cannot be hidden from the Qi people, and it cannot be hidden from the court?" Ge Qingsheng said sadly.

"Stabilize him first." Lu Feng pondered for a moment, "During this period, you still have to raise grain and send it to the mountains, telling Liang Da that we are spared no effort to suppress bandits, and have forced the bandits to the point of ending their lives, just waiting to get people in the end."

Ge Qingsheng opened his mouth wide, "I'll send food into the mountain to whom, can I give it to those bandits?"

"Of course." Lu Feng nodded and said, "This is also impossible."

"This, isn't this a collusion between officials and bandits?" Ge Qingsheng trembled again.

"My good lord, I want to solve the crisis in front of me and keep the heads of the two of us. It is not just a collusion between officials and bandits, but also a collusion between them from top to bottom and left to side! How could I pass this level without weaving a lie?" Lu Feng said. "Mr. Ge, those bandits are not vicious people. They are entrenched in our Feng County. Even if we pass this level, we will definitely be indispensable when dealing with them in the future. Lord Ge, if we want to be safe, we can only have a good relationship with them. When you send food in, you might as well meet with their big men and discuss it well, so as not to lose peace. Now we really have no capital to compete with him. Not to mention that we don't have it, we will not even have the county town."

Ge Qingsheng was stunned by his words. It turns out that this collusion between officials and bandits is not a matter of one-time business, and this beheading business has to be carried out for a long time.

Looking at Ge Qingsheng's hesitant expression, Lu Feng said again: "Master Ge, you can make your own decisions. Either do what I said, or you will reveal the real situation, and then wait for someone from Yuejing to clean up all the Shayang County. If you and I lose your head, even my family will be implicated. Lord Ge, I don't want my family to be exiled, thrown into prison, and do hard labor."

Listening to Lu Feng's threat, Ge Qingsheng cried with a sad face, "What else can I do? I can only do this. Lu Feng, you go to the county town, what if the people in the county town disagree?"

"Hmph, they are afraid they are more anxious than we are to reach an agreement with the bandits." Lu Feng sneered.

"Okay, then that's it. You go to the county town, and I'll send food to the mountains here while deceive Liang Da. But this guy is not easy to cheat. You have to hurry up wherever you go." Ge Qingsheng gritted his teeth.

"Of course, after reporting this to the county town, they naturally handled the matters they had negotiated with Liang Da and the bandit leaders, and we only had to run errands." Lu Feng sneered, "At that time, even if there was a mistake, we were just accomplices."

Shayang County is now the largest city on the southern border of Yue State. The Qi people crossed the border and defeated the Yue people step by step. Five hundred miles of rivers and mountains were lost and were cut to the Qi people. The rich families and officials and gentry in these places were naturally not comparable to those of the common people. Of course, they escaped quickly. In the end, almost all of them were concentrated in Shayang County, which instead caused a strange phenomenon. Shayang County was more prosperous than before.

A large number of rich people gathered here, and of course, a large number of laborers fled to this place. The number of people in the city has almost expanded by one-third. Naturally, they are still rich and poor, but they are still unable to survive.

The Liu family, the number one clan in Shayang County, is deeply rooted. There is a rumor in Shayang that if a county magistrate who works in Shayang County cannot have a good relationship with the Liu family, it will definitely not work long in Shayang County. The magistrate of Shayang County either becomes an ally of the Liu family after he takes office, or he will be covered with beds and leaves. There is no third way to choose. This shows that the Liu family's power in Shayang County. The troops of Shayang County have always been controlled by the Liu family, and the yamen above and below are filled with Liu family's disciples and allies. In Shayang County, if you say that the old master of the Liu family is the real master of Shayang County, no one has any other righteousness.
Chapter completed!