Everyone was taken aback and couldn't help but exchange glances.

Lu Qing's eyes widened, and then he shouted sharply, "Have you all remembered this?"

"promise!!"

Everyone tensed up, then responded loudly in agreement!

"Midnight has arrived, kill!!"

With Lu Qing's command, the main gate of the Lu residence swung open, and the assassins and servants of the Lu family immediately rushed towards the government office with their weapons. Inside Shunyin City, the other families also raised their troops at the same time, and rushed towards several city gates as agreed.

There were no troops stationed in Shunyin City. The government officials and the guards at the four gates numbered only a little over three hundred. Faced with the sudden attack by the rebels, they were unable to organize any effective defense.

Within an hour, Shunyin fell into the hands of the rebels.

The imposter Lu Qing, after occupying Shunyin, did not stay. While sending messengers to Bohai, he also immediately led 20,000 troops from various clans and powerful families south to join forces with the rebels in Anping County. They planned to then join forces with Liu Kui's troops to launch a pincer attack on Hejian.

At the same time that Lu Qing raised his army in Shunyin, Liu Kui, the King of Bohai, also raised his banner and led his troops to capture Nanpi, the capital of Bohai.

At the same time, the capitals of Anping and Qinghe counties in Jizhou, Le'an, Pingyuan, and Beihai counties in Qingzhou, and Jibei, Dongping, and Taishan counties in Yanzhou were all attacked by the rebels.

More than 130 Shandong gentry families participated in this rebellion. Although they raised an army hastily, they had been entrenched in the various prefectures and kingdoms of Shandong for many years, and had manpower and food supplies, making them a formidable force.

By dawn, all the capitals of the aforementioned prefectures and kingdoms had fallen into the hands of the rebels.

After the rebels in Hebei, Qinghai, and Yanzhou captured the local capitals, they immediately blocked the official roads and began to send troops to the various counties under their jurisdiction.

Seeing the strength of the rebels, many county officials without garrison troops surrendered without resistance, and even some officials from aristocratic families organized their powerful clans to join them.

Within two days, ten prefectures and more than fifty counties in the eastern part of Ji and Yan provinces and the western part of Qing province all fell into the hands of the rebels.