Even though the rebel army had planned a temporary uprising, its equipment was still much worse. In addition to the veteran Manichaeans, which had relatively complete swords, guns, swords and shields, the weapons of ordinary people were mostly chopping hatchets, feces and forks at home, and the shields were even more diverse, including iron pots, bamboo baskets, pot lids, wooden barrels, etc., and some people rushed forward with a wooden board.

However, with the cover of the night, the most intuitive impression of the rebels' army was not that they were uneven equipment, but that they were brave and brave to move forward. Even though they were frightened, the rebels still started shooting when they entered the range.

The arrows roared down, scattered but not small in total, causing casualties to occur in the rebel army. Once armor such as bamboo baskets and wooden barrels touched the arrows flying from top to bottom, they would be penetrated instantly.

However, the official army on the city tower was only five or six hundred, and it was difficult to form a dense attack network. In addition, the city gate below was wide open and there was no stop. Many people from the rebels rushed in.

Xu Ziling, who was guarding the city gate, and Fang Jie also turned to attack when reinforcements came, leading the Manichaeans to kill the city.

After Fang Jie took the Fang Tian Painted Riven sent by the Maniacs, he suddenly felt like a god descending to earth, with his moves wide open and close, and from a long attack, the formation of the official army was instantly torn apart, and the Maniacs followed in one after another.

In order to reduce the damage of the rebel army, Xu Ziling stepped on Chixiao and flew up the city tower, killing the crossbowman who shot arrows all the way. After entering the city gate, Fang Jie also rushed to the city tower as soon as possible, striving to quickly control the city wall.

At this time, the lieutenant of the official army had sent people to ask for help from the government office several times, but the news came back that the official army there was previously robbed because the magistrate Zhao Zidao was sent to the south of the city by the magistrate Li Jingyuan. After learning that Zhao Zidao was in the north of the city, Li Jingyuan knew that he had been attacked from the east and west, so he hurriedly sent someone to recall the searched official army, but it took some time to go there, and it was probably too late to rescue the city tower.

The officials on the city wall had long been a little palpitations. At this time, they saw that the rebels had entered the city, cut off their retreat, and gradually lost their fighting spirit. After half of them were killed by Fang Jie and the Manichaeans who were washed up on the wall, the rest of them knelt on the ground and asked to surrender, but were all cut off by the Manichaeans.

At the same time, the people outside the city had already begun to rush into the city. Fang Jie and Xu Ziling also ran down the city wall and rushed towards the officials guarding the streets.

The number of official troops was not large, and when the rebels continued to pour in, a feeling of fear gradually spread.

"Reinforcements are here!"

Hearing the surprise screams behind, the depressed official army was shocked.

The captain turned around and found that about two or three hundred officials were rushing towards him. He was surprised, but the leading general shouted: "The big thing is wrong! Captain Teng."

The captain's face changed slightly and he said in a deep voice: "Is it because you are the only two or three hundred reinforcements?"

"Teng, Lord Teng," the general said gasping, "Mr. Li heard that there were five or six thousand thieves and had already entered the city, so he took the official troops to Xianju County with them."

The captain was furious: "What a Li Jingyuan, what a greedy person!"

The general looked at the rebel army getting closer and closer and said anxiously: "Mr. Teng, the situation is over now, let's retreat quickly. If it's too late, it's impossible to escape."

The captain was indignant and knew that the general was telling the truth. In order to avoid unnecessary sacrifice, he immediately ordered the entire army to retreat slowly.

However, Fang Jie did not want him to leave easily. He led the rebels to chase them tightly. The official army fought and retreated, leaving hundreds of corpses, and was able to get rid of the exhausted rebels.

In order to prevent the wealthy families in the city from escaping overnight, Fang Jie divided the rebel army into four groups and controlled the four gates in the east, west, south and north respectively.

At the same time, Liu Ying led a team of people to surround Zhao Zidao's government office and Li Jingyuan's residence, and found that Li Jingyuan had already escaped with his whole family, but Zhao Zidao's family in the government office did not have time to escape.

Before returning, Xu Ziling followed Fang Jie to chase the government army. When he passed by an alley, he heard the sound of fighting nearby, so he spoke to Fang Jie and led four or five Manichaeans to patrol over.

After getting closer, I found that the woman was fighting with someone in the afternoon, with several corpses lying on the ground.

Among the women who surrounded and killed the women, two were constables, and the rest were Zhao Zidao's escorts. After the woman killed several people, she was already exhausted at this time. It seemed that she would be taken by the arresters in a short while.

Xu Ziling felt a little funny about the woman being treated like this, but she didn't think much about it and immediately took the Manichaeus people to help her.

The arresters chased the woman all the way, obviously not knowing that there had been a huge change in the city. When Xu Ziling came, they only thought he was the woman's accomplice.

The Manichaeans who came with Xu Ziling were all elite, and their strength was almost the same as the constable. As soon as they joined the battle, the pressure on the arresting groups increased dramatically.

After several rounds of battle, when Xu Ziling saw that he pierced a guard's chest with a sword, the arresters knew that they could not do anything, so they all turned around and ran away.

After the catchers escaped, the woman glanced at Xu Ziling, took back her swords and sat down on the spot to adjust her breathing.

The Manichaeus people looked at each other and looked at Xu Ziling, wanting to see what he was going to do.

"You go and help the envoy first," said Xu Ziling. "This girl has kindness to my rebel army. I have something to say to her alone."

After hearing this, several scholars gave Xu Ziling a slight salute, then turned around and left.

After a long silence.

The woman who closed her eyes and breathed, asked softly: "Are you rebels from the uprising? Have you now attacked the city?"

Xu Ziling smiled: "You are being chased by these constables, but you are implicated by us."

Seeing that he agreed, the woman opened her eyes and asked, "Do you have anything to do with Liangshan?"

"Of course there is!" Xu Ziling said.

Hearing his answer so decisively, the woman narrowed her eyes slightly and put her hands on the hilt of the knife.

"The leader of Liangshan, I have four or five of them," Xu Ziling looked at the woman, saw her strange expression, and smiled: "It can be said that I and they will never stop until death. Why, are you from Liangshan?"

But the woman said coldly: "Liangshan and I also have an irreconcilable grudge. When I arrive at the end, I will definitely kill Chao Gai, Song Jiang, Li Kui, Yang Xiong, Qin Ming and others."

"Oh?" Xu Ziling was stunned for a moment and asked, "What's your name?"

The woman whispered: "Do you know that Zhu, Li and Hu, the three villages of Dulonggang?"

"You are Hu Sanniang?" Xu Ziling said in surprise.

The woman was slightly stunned and said, "Do you know me?"

Xu Ziling said: "When you talk about Hujiazhuang, I remembered that Hu Taigong of Hujiazhuang had a daughter named Hu Sanniang, who also used a double sword, probably you. But I only heard that Li Kui slaughtered the Zhu family, but I didn't know that you escaped."

Speaking of this, Hu Sanniang looked a little depressed, silent, as if she was trapped in painful memories.

Xu Ziling comforted him: "I and Liangshan will sooner or later, so why not make an alliance with you and me, help each other and plan together in Liangshan?"

Hu Sanniang said in confusion: "Liangshan is a rebel, and you are also a rebel. If you don't overthrow the court first, how could you match it?"

"No, no, no, we are different from Liangshan," Xu Ziling said in a straight voice. "Although we all rebels because of the oppression of the government and framed, our rebel army has a profound layout and strong support from Manichaeism. In the eyes of the people, it is far beyond the reach of the bandits such as Song Jiang. If Liangshan, which is unpopular with the people, is not to be resigned by the court, it will be a dead end. After they are recruited, they will be arranged by the court to conquer our rebel army, and then..."

"Okay," before Xu Ziling finished speaking, Hu Sanniang interrupted him, "I will believe in you for the time being, but I will only follow you. Before facing Liangshan, I will not let me contribute to your rebel army. Moreover, once you are defeated by the official army, I will immediately terminate my cooperation with you."

Hu Sanniang's decisiveness was beyond Xu Ziling's expectations. Even though she said it was a bit ruthless, Xu Ziling still nodded and said, "A word is certain."

Xu Ziling did not have to recruit Hu Sanniang for the rebel army, but he felt that she was a tragic person and wanted to help her. Because the rebel army would eventually face the people of Liangshan, and would give them a heavy blow. If there were more variables, it might be able to kill all the so-called Liangshan heroes.

...

When Xu Ziling brought Hu Sanniang to the government office, everything in the city was settled. The rebel army controlled the entire Taizhou city, and the Manichae church members also began a new round of solicitation work.

As before, all the officials in the city, including Zhao Zidao, who was lucky enough to die, were dragged on the street by the Manichaeists, and only a few civil servants with positions but no power were spared.

Religion's participation made the war even more cruel and bloody. Even if Xu Ziling could understand their hatred for these corrupt officials, he did not dare to agree with their actions. It would be fine to kill, but he had to abuse and kill in various cruel ways. It was obviously a broken belly, but he had to call it "see if the hearts of these dog officials are black."

After asking the Manichaeans who were guarding the gate, Xu Ziling took Hu Sanniang to the lobby where Zhao Zidao had been arrested and saw Fang Jie who was discussing things with Liu Ying and others of the Manichaeans.

When Fang Jie saw the two of them coming together, he winked at Xu Ziling and said, "Are you back?"

Xu Ziling said lightly: "She promised to cooperate with us, but she will only take action when fighting Liangshan."

Fang Jie smiled and said to Hu Sanniang: "Welcome to join my rebel army."

But Hu Sanniang said coldly: "Find a room for me."

Fang Jie touched his nose and called a Manichae clan, asking him to take Hu Sanniang to the free room in the backyard of the government office.

"How is it?" Xu Ziling asked after Hu Sanniang left, "Is the city gate all controlled?"

Fang Jie nodded and said, "We have sent soldiers to guard it. But there are not enough staff. Our army lost nearly 600 people in the previous battle."

Xu Ziling pondered for a long time and said, "Let's recruit some in the city. Distribute the equipment of the official army, and then let the blacksmiths in the city quickly build weapons. The equipment of the rebel army is too poor. If we don't attack them in this battle, we might not be able to win."

"I understand all these and have already given instructions," Fang Jie waved to the Manichae church members at the door, and said to Xu Ziling with a smile: "There is one more thing to tell you."

"What's the matter?" Xu Ziling asked.

Fang Jie smiled and said, "You will know later."

Xu Ziling was quite confused, but he still refused to ask questions.

After a while, two Manichaeans came in with a beautiful woman. The woman was wearing a gold-colored embroidered dress, obviously a lady from a wealthy family.

The woman slowly walked to Xu Ziling and gave a gentle salute.

The Manichae church members next to him said, "She is Zhao Zidao's daughter. She is not married yet. She is barely worthy of you, Special Envoy Xu."

Xu Ziling didn't understand what was going on. Just as she was about to refuse, Fang Jie whispered in her ear: "If you don't want it, she will be given to other tribes."
Chapter completed!