Chapter 3342 Atrocities

Do you want to be the master of Northern Qi with just one word?

Not only did the people refuse and protest, but most officials within the imperial court also opposed it.

Mingcheng moved into the Northern Qi Palace, captured more than a dozen ministers, and forced them to admit himself.

The ministers refused to acknowledge him and called him a traitor and traitor.

Mingcheng killed them all without hesitation, then arrested a dozen ministers and continued to question them.

He was so violent that he angered everyone.

These ministers refused to obey, so Mingcheng directly ordered them to be killed as well.

In this way, hundreds of ministers were killed.

The officials of the imperial court were almost massacred.

Even those who were timid and afraid of death, who wanted to please him and wanted to acknowledge him, were despised by him and killed because of their duplicity.

Overnight, the court that Xiao Er had worked so hard to build fell apart.

Almost all the ministers in the capital died.

The bloody smell of the palace filled the entire capital.

Such cruelty is chilling.

But it does work.

The remaining ministers, as well as the eight great clans, quickly expressed their obedience to his orders. In addition, the army has always been under his control, so he immediately integrated the army to fight with the Zhou army.

The Northern Qi army was depleted by continuous wars over the years and was stretched thin.

In addition to these two battles, he was beaten to pieces by the silver-faced general. Mingcheng raided Northern Qi's family and was able to gather less than 30,000 troops.

Too little.

He was well aware of Dazhou's strength.

Although Zhao Yuanjing was injured now, they still had an army of more than 100,000 troops.

With only thirty thousand people, it is almost impossible to defeat them.

Mingcheng quickly decided to expand the army.

Where do people come from?

Naturally, they are recruited from among the people to recruit young men.

Mingcheng became ruthless and sent out more than 10,000 soldiers to recruit strong men. If he pulled one in, he would be rewarded with one tael of silver.

For the money, the soldiers went crazy.

They formed groups in twos and threes and scattered in all directions, arresting people crazily in Northern Qi.

They range from 70- or 80-year-olds who can barely walk, to 7-8-year-old children.

As long as he is a man, they will take him away and exchange him for money.

After some people were dragged away, they were greedy for money and went back to continue dragging others away.

The number of troops increased dramatically.

In just three days, Mingcheng's army expanded from 30,000 to 100,000.

And all this only cost him 70,000 to 80,000 taels of silver.

After gathering these 100,000 troops, he turned around and attacked Canglan Town, trying to open a gap in Canglan Town, invade the territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and then drive straight in.

However, he had calculated well and it was not easy to capture Canglan Town.

From the time he went crazy arresting people, the Zhou army noticed it.

Zhao Yuanjing was injured. Although he could not go into battle in person, he could still give advice from behind.

Yun Dai, Hui Yuan, You You and Wei Jintai were in charge and quickly stabilized the army. There was no trouble caused by the injury and fall of the silver-faced general.

When they noticed Mingcheng's behavior, they were shocked and even more angry.

Even if it's a war, how can you do this?

This is to torture Beiqi to death.

When everyone is dead, can he be the emperor of one person?

Even boys under ten years old were captured and used as soldiers. This was basically to exterminate the Northern Qi people.

Huiyuan could analyze calmly at the beginning: "The people of Northern Qi were originally dissatisfied with Mingcheng. He is so cruel. The soldiers may not be able to fully comply with his orders. If they really fight, I am afraid they will have to use extraordinary means... Sigh."