Despite the twists and turns and losses in this process, Chaoyang City has completely fallen into the hands of the rebels. Along with the whole process, there are probably the coastal areas of Chaoyang County and even several states, and the last established armed force was destroyed.

In the past, in addition to the local wealthy people, there were hundreds of officials, wealthy families, powerful men, rich men, ship merchants, and heads. They gathered in this Chaoyang City, all fled from all directions. Now, with their wealth and relatives and slaves, there are probably thousands of people, all of whom were blocked by the rebels in this tooth city. This is a huge gain.

Although they seemed very tragic and in a desperate and desolate atmosphere, they took the attitude of scattering their wealth, intending to recruit people to do the stubborn thing again; but the local residents in the city were not all fools. After the orthodox government troops and the agglomeration of Turkish groups were destroyed, no one was willing to be the first to be the mantis armed and chariot;

On the contrary, some people began to speculatively leave the city, in the name of protecting the people who were trapped in the whole city, and had private contact and negotiation with the rebel army, hoping to seek some subsequent benefits and capital for themselves in the situation after the rebel army entered the city.

So, after the last little slaves were killed and the meager armed resistance was temporarily pieced together by the guards, these groups that were abandoned from the inside out were completely lost and were completely captured by the rebels in the despair and powerlessness of the sky falling.

In the later rough identification, we found that there were many big fish with identities hidden, such as the local judge of the salt and iron and the envoy of the patrol, and a newly appointed "Chaozhou Governor" who came from Fujian, and the officials and documents he brought. As for other people, such as Sima, Chief Secretary, Neijia, Chief Register, Joining the Army, and even county magistrate, county magistrate, county magistrate, county magistrate, county magistrate, county magistrate, county magistrate, and county magistrate, there were as many as twenty.

There are dozens of other top figures with some official status or retirement background. It seems like the previous stage of the countryside cleaning operation, which in disguise drove away the nearby prefectures and counties, as well as the relationships and origins of the government, and forced them to gather here; it allowed the rebels to clean up the local area in the next step, saving a lot of effort.

However, when counting the heads and prisoners afterwards, they found that a few people ran away or disappeared, such as an official general who should have appeared among the prisoners, a few people including the head; and on the wall in the north of the city, several ropes fell straight down the city, and two abandoned bodies were found; it seemed that while breaking through the city, someone else fled from here overnight, and ran straight into the forest to the north.

However, the rebel army had no desire to continue pursuing. After all, in these mountains and forests, there is still the main place for various poisonous insects and miasma, as well as various earthly barbarians. The rebel army has no plans to contact and conflict with it for the time being.

The identities of the officials in the city who appeared on the coast of Lingdong were further confirmed;

Their attacks can be said to be a result of many accidents, full of coincidences; because among them are the rebuilt Quanzhou Army and the Zhangzhou Army who crossed the sea from Fujian in the north, as well as the attacking troops from Guiguan in the west, and the frontiers of the Annan Protectorate/Jinghai Jiedushi;

It can be said that the former scattered troops sent by several parties landed on the coast one after another, and received the local group of land and troops echoed by the local army, and easily overturned and destroyed the rebel army's occupation in the openly local area, which was already quite extensive and disorderly. However, later, there were inevitably some uneven distribution of fat and conflicts in the local area, so they divided their troops to "treat the thief atmosphere" and "recover lost land".

The most powerful one was the Zhangquan coalition army from Fujian, with more than 2,000 soldiers and horses. Later, they received some support and supplements from Cui Yu, an observer from East Zhejiang, from the sea, and sent corresponding follow-up officials to maintain the recovery of the ground. Therefore, in the later development, almost half of these official troops dominated the situation; thus, they occupied the most territory and the official positions were granted.

The most powerful and good at fighting among them were the border guards under Zeng Gun, the governor of Annan Protectorate in the west. Although only one general led by more than 800 people, the garrison troops who were garrisoned in the local area were unable to resist the rebels who were several times or even dozens of times.

The second was the 1,000 attacking soldiers sent by the Guiguan Manager Li Zan. Most of them were from the local garrison soldiers and local soldiers. Although they were brave but cruel but bloodthirsty, the military discipline was the most corrupt. As a result, many conflicts with the local area soon arose, and after several internal strife, they fled and dispersed, and eventually became a vassal of the Annan garrison soldiers. Therefore, they were respected among the three main forces of the official army.

However, compared with the Lingdong area located in the Pearl River Delta Plain, which is densely populated and relatively wealthy, although there are more than 30 states under the name of the Lingxi Provincial Administration, there are many mountains, few lands, relatively barren, and sparse households; in addition, the land is relatively mixed and restrains a large part of the force; therefore, it is because they do not have enough spare time to organize more troops and support, but they are all allowed to withdraw money and grain on the spot.

Therefore, although they were ordered to disturb the rear of the rebel army, they lacked subsequent support and supplements, and were basically in a dilemma of one less death. Therefore, in order to compete with the Fujian-based military and horses, they could only use the remaining soldiers gathered in the local area and the strength recruited by the land regiment to make up the numbers, and then divided the troops to seize the cities of several places, and the specific combat power also declined significantly.

But what surprised Zhou Huaian was that he seemed to have had an accidental fight with him twice; the first time was in the offensive and defensive battle in Changle County, the official army that seized the gatehouse by night and was beaten back by himself;

Then, in the battle of the camp that was ineffective the day and night before, the cavalry and infantry responsible for fighting the vanguards were the only remaining 300 Annan garrison soldiers and more than 100 Guizhou (now Guilin) ​​to attack the enemy, as well as several personal guards. Therefore, the battle was resilient and experienced, and there was also a bit of courage to continue.

After all, according to his understanding of this era, these Annan Protectorate’s frontier guards were often called “Long March athletes”. They were the earliest professional military groups in the Tang Dynasty’s military system, and often served much longer than other official troops. Especially, the Annan Protectorate where they were located was at the forefront of high-frequency military conflicts in suppressing the Tuman barbarians and fighting against Nanzhao for many years.

Therefore, even among the people from all walks of life who are now weak and chaotic, they are quite high-ranking. You should know that the source of the Pang Xun Rebellion that disrupted most of the world back then was that a group of Guizhou garrison soldiers who served overtime wanted to return to their hometown in Xuzhou on their own, and broke through half of the country and caused a military revolution in a snowball-like manner.

If the troops from the rear battalion were not activated by him in advance, and the defensive counterattack bonus was made according to the sufficient fortifications. I am afraid that facing these enemies who have turned from the camp in the south of the city and are just trying to kill and have the upper hand, they will also be a bit mysterious and sad; the minimum proportion of casualties will be even more injured.

However, for Zhou Huaian, whether it was the Fujian soldiers or the Annan garrison soldiers, these events that did not seem to be in the historical records as he knew; was it because the scale was too small and the impact was too limited, or the relative geographical closure of the Lingnan region that was subtle in the long river of history and was unknown? Or because of his own appearance, the rebel army had undergone subtle changes on the historical event line here?

Of course, there are not potential opportunities and benefits. At least he has mastered at least more than 300 prisoners in his rear battalion. If he can absorb the previous part in subsequent ideological transformation and labor, even if he cannot use it directly, it will be beneficial to improve the combat effectiveness and organization of this team.

After all, as far as Zhou Huaian knows, there are actually many examples of directly recruiting and absorbing defeated officials during the process of the transition, but most of them are mainly middle and lower-level officers and soldiers. Although doing so brings many potential hidden dangers and instability, such as the time of escape or afterwards, the time for rebellion was reversed; it also in disguise increased the regularization and organization of the army under its command.

For Zhou Huaian, the vision and experiences and lessons from later generations were enough to give him various means to make people vote and ways to cut off his own way of retreating, and to slowly fabricate and transform and train these prisoners.

In the next time, three teams, including the probe team, the census team and the work team, cooperated with the key rebel troops in the city to carry out a series of routine procedures for liquidation, torture and public trials against the reactionary forces and their followers and lackeys of the old regime;

Although there were such inappropriate voices in this process, such as a new leader named Li Yuyuan who offered to massacre the city or wash the streets to vent it well; but soon, these leaders who had initially eaten the wise and tasted taste were watched by various people, and then sent to the labor brigade to guard the reformers with their eyes that were caring for mentally retarded and "You are shameless, I am shameless" expressions, and then sent to the labor brigade to guard the reformers.

As a result, there were trials and sentences in batches almost every day; and the flowing goods and materials were shipped out of the mansion and collected into the rebels' garage. Every day, many people in the city were mobilized voluntarily or less voluntarily.

Under the temptation and drive of the streets to distribute supplies, they gathered around the established venues; then witnessed, exposed and condemned these with their own eyes, and were always hidden under the hypocritical disguise and the superior transcendent identity, and indulged in various ways to induce the minions and fish to make the people, and the disabled people were so successful, and the officials and the great wealthy families were extremely accomplices.
Chapter completed!