On the wall of Shanyang City, Sun Ru, who had a broad-minded appearance and sharp eyes, had a gloomy face and listened to the news from outside the city, and looked at the fixed smoke traces that were rising faintly on the Huai River shore in the distance, and finally turned into an undeniable sigh.

After all, after the defeat and collapse of the battle at Yangzhou City, he was the only one who was able to escape to Shanyang City alone. With the assistance of his left-behind subordinates, he searched the whole city for more than a thousand defenders who had not yet had time to escape, barely stabilizing the panic situation in the city.

He opened the warehouse and took out a lot of money and food to win people's hearts. He rushed against time before the Shouhao army came to fight for victory, and recruited three thousand men from the people in the city, which gave him the initial confidence to stick to the city.

However, just as he tried hard to demolish the private houses and prepare materials, he was waiting for the Shouhao army who arrived outside the city to start siege the city; the other party stopped and stopped making a joint camp and was about to siege for a long time.

However, this happened to be the result he expected. He just reorganized the troops in the city, and controlled most of the civilians and their wandering and unemployed young people according to the yard area, limiting the daily water and materials quota as a backup force to support and transport the corresponding city gates and walls.

Just as he was busy in the city, a change suddenly occurred outside the city. After they got up overnight, they suddenly found that the Shouhao army outside the city had abandoned the camp overnight and retreated.

Then through spies and exiled people, he realized that Yang Hanzi of Shouhao Army had fought against the Taiping thieves from Jiangnan for some reason after defeating Liu Hanhong, Bi Shiduo and others.

This was undoubtedly great good news for the soldiers and horses in Caizhou who could only curl up in Shanyang City. Therefore, he sent people to the countryside again to "recruit" more food and grass and men as usual.

However, Chuzhou was the first to land and revolt, and the Caizhou soldiers, who had been reeling from the land. Therefore, the place was already destroyed and nine out of ten rooms were empty and deserted. Apart from the rotten madams and wild dogs, there were no more living things on the road; let alone enough Ting Zhuang and Food were found.

The other county towns where the population of Chuzhou is still crowded, were also rebelled by local tyrants with the strong background, and voluntarily expelled and killed a few generals and officials who remained in the city to protect themselves. With his power alone, he would not be able to take it down for a while, or taking it down would be a result of not being worth the loss.

So Sun Ru could only send gold, silk and treasures to Caizhou, and asked for help with humble words; while relying on the city to sign and gather food and grass to maintain the current situation, he sent more spies to penetrate the surrounding area, looking for suitable targets that are more prosperous and weak.

When the Shouhao army successfully captured Yangzhou, it was defeated by the Taiping thieves, and finally the news of being trapped in Guangling City came. He was ecstatic and immediately sent a messenger to contact and test the other party's attitude based on the relationship between the new dynasty of the Great Qi Dynasty.

As a result, he had several waves of messengers who had left and returned without returning, and there was no news; and the Taiping thieves also appeared in Chuzhou. After expelling and annihilated more than ten small grain-carrying teams under his command, Sun Ru could only shrink his strength with some pain and return to the original situation of avoiding war in the city.

After all, relying on this weak army that is less than 4,000 now, even if it takes the initiative to attack and fight in the wild, it may not be able to get it. Instead, it exposes its confidence and reality, bringing more unexpected risks to defending Shanyang City, an important Huainan stronghold.

However, this time, the Caizhou reinforcements, led by Qin Zongheng, who was believed by General Qin, encountered ambush and interceptor in Mokou Town, but gave him a big problem of choosing one of two and being in a dilemma.

If he couldn't wait to send troops to rescue him, there would be a risk that Shanyang City would be taken advantage of, and he might even be able to get into the plan of snaking out of the hole and intercepting the attack halfway or surrounding the point to attack the aid, and even the last bit of self-sustaining capital in his hands was lost.

But if he delayed sitting and watching, as long as someone from the reinforcements could escape, it would be completely unacceptable to the terrible consequences of the Qin Dazhi. Although he was also a villager of Qin Dazhi and had served in the Zhongwu Army, he could not ensure that he could be let go.

Thinking of this, Qin Zongquan was finally among their subordinates, and his years of gaining power had greatly suppressed Sun Ru's pain and reluctance to lose his strength. He turned his face toward the general "carpenter" beside him with a serious name, "carpenter" and said:

"Batu, you can lead the cruising team and upright to Mokou Town to act according to the opportunity! We will bring more flags, drums and trumpets to make the momentum. Remember to not get too entangled or fight hard after encountering the enemy. You must use more strategies."

"I'll save you... I'll ask the soldiers to rest assured..."

Ma Yin did not quickly take the order and left: but when the crowds under him rushed out of the east gate with great fanfare and left, they rushed to the west of Shanyang City one after another, staggering, supporting each other, dragging flags and weapons.

Qin Zongheng, who survived death in Mokou Town, was also mixed with it. Looking at the Caizhou army flag and the general flag with the words "Sun" and "Soldiers and Horse Envoys" full of meaning, he spat out a mouthful of saliva full of dust.

In Guangling City, which is in a tight outside and loose inside atmosphere in the south, Yang Xingmin also privately met the "representatives" who were said to have escaped from the place where the Taiping thieves ravaged. They were scrambling to sumo and kneel on the ground, crying and crying:

"Let me know the truth, that peace thief is really careless, cruel and unkind, and he is so great for the world..."

"We have tried our best to endure humiliation and be filthy, and live in power and deal with it, just to protect our hometown and wait for the future revival of the court."

"However, after these bandits came, they captured and killed them indiscriminately. Many great men either broke their heads and killed them in the streets, or went to remote places with shackles. 1"

"I also use those humble tenants and slaves like dust as the reason to humiliate many loyal and kind families in the famous village, as well as many innocent and innocent relatives and children, to publicly humiliate the peddlers and barbarians."

"Those who dare to disobey or resist during this period will be killed by the crime of being implicated and killed, and the world is full of corpses is miserable; even those who are temporarily lowered and obedient cannot get it well, and they must lose their family and go to another place to live... "

"This ward not only needs to take away the land that we have maintained for generations, but also take away the wealth and future of our livelihood. We will also dig out the foundation of our prosperous family and the family of Prosperity to live in the countryside."

"If the emperor stays, he will ignore it, he will be afraid that the government army will regain his hometown in the future and will never see any relatives from the hometown again. They will all be accomplices who follow the thieves to occupy the land and houses!"

....

After listening to all this patiently and comforting these representatives of Chen Qing to rest, Yang Xingmin rubbed his brows with some fatigue, and said to the long sword of his personal guards Yang Feng:

"I'll deal with them all in secret when I look back, make sure not to leak any rumors!"

"I'm afraid that something is wrong at this time, so I'm here to join you with all my heart!"

Another general, Zhu Yanshou, couldn't help but say:

"Did you ever wonder how this generation came through the tightly sealed site of the thief army and entered the Guangling City surrounded on all sides?"

Yang Xingmin sighed helplessly:

"Didn't the thief army deliberately let it in? How could this generation be so kind? It's not to take the opportunity to attack our morale?"

"Then aren't you afraid to remember my soldiers in the city's unity of hatred against the enemy? As long as you have a little luck, you will be able to use the soldiers!"

Zhu Yanshou frowned, but continued to persuade:

"When someone is teased, I vow to fight to the death with the thief army, will we agree or not? Can you make sure there are no spies who are treacherous? "

But Yang Xingmin sighed coldly:

"Since you have made up your mind to work hard on Guangling as the foundation for a long time, the established strategy will not allow these people to be shaken. Why should you give them a chance to cause trouble? As the saying goes, it is better to be ruthless than to be indifferent under the overall situation. Even if all of them are innocent, we must not take such risks."

He then slowed down his tone and said to another Tian Bo:

"By the way, Dechen, our army is probing the sentry and risking its life to retrieve some abandoned firearms from the edge of the battle formation. You, Koro, some skilled craftsmen, come and study it carefully to see if the hardware smith in the city can try to imitate one or two, which can also be used as a helper for our army to stick to it, right?"

——I am the dividing line—

In the square in front of Shengyang Hall in Chang'an City, Huang Chao, who was wearing a wide and beautiful rosy uniform, could not hide his thin body and a sallow complexion, was also accompanied by a group of civil and military officials, watching the latest batch of firearm samples used under the command of the ambassador of the city patrol of the various gates and the Yin of Jingzhao Meng Kai.

"This thing is so good, it's much lighter than a crossbow to come to the door. It consumes only a little gun medicine and lead. The amount of an ordinary Hulu arrow can roughly allow the firearm to send out a hundred and eighty shots."

Meng Kai first picked up several tubular objects that were thick in front and thin in the back, and sent them to the corresponding person for consideration.
Chapter completed!