As the gentry promised to temporarily let go of the land and fully assist Jiang Weak in resuming the government affairs of Fengjing, Jiang Weak's decree began to be implemented.

"Fang Yue, you first go and recruit some brave men for training, tentatively appoint a thousand people, and assemble in the name of each Zhuang Zhuang brave man, don't use it in the name of the imperial court, and then play the banner of the imperial court after the official document is issued. ”

"Wow!" Fang Yue nodded and bowed to leave.

"Lord, the grain and grass needed for this training ......" Dong Ping looked at Jiang Wan worriedly, these grains, I am afraid that those wealthy families will not help to pay, these days he can see it, don't look at those people are grateful to Jiang Weak, but if they want to give them more money and food, these people will push back and block, and it is already the limit to send some family generals to help.

"There are thirty warehouses of grain in the government treasury, and two warehouses are opened as military rations, and when they report to the imperial court, they say that the rebels and traitors have plundered five warehouses when they are in trouble. Jiang Qiao said indifferently.

Dong Ping comprehended, obviously, Jiang Wan was not ready to do things in vain, in addition to the two warehouses of military rations, Jiang Liang obviously had to stuff three warehouses into his pocket, but Dong Ping was also a retainer of the Jiang family, so he naturally would not object to this matter, the stronger the Jiang family, the better his life would be in the future.

In addition, he selected excellent armor, 1,000 sets of weapons, 500 crossbows, 3,000 bows and 20,000 arrows from the warehouse, and sent them back to Hanoi while the rebels and thieves had not completely blocked the retreat, and Uncle Liang knew what to do. Jiang Qiao said with a smile.

"Wow. Dong Ping understood, and after agreeing, he withdrew from Jiang Qiao's study, he had done this kind of thing before, he had done these things when he was in Macheng, how to operate He was better than Jiang Wan.

Jiang Wan summoned all the well-sealed gentry, and after they spread out the truth one by one, saying that if they couldn't do anything, they would not defend the city, and the wealthy clan who was still hiding before suddenly panicked.

For these people, it is better to know the reason than to know the benefit, the city is broken, and the loss to Jiang Weak will not be too great, but their loss is enough to make these wealthy families break their muscles and bones, so many officials have run away, not worse than Jiang Weak, at most, the career will not be smooth in the future.

The granary grain sounds like a lot, but it is not enough to feed the army and people in this city, Jiang Weak can't do too much, since these wealthy clans want to be protected by themselves, they should naturally make some benefits, and the families of each government must receive unified training, and they can no longer fight separately, and at the same time, the military grain and grass and the food for the relief of the people, the government will pay a part, and the wealthy family will contribute a part, so that the money and grain that can be operated will be a lot more, and more things can be done.

It is a matter of their own net worth and interests, even if they know that Jiang Weak's words have more intimidating elements, but these wealthy families are really worried that Jiang Weak will be forced to pick and choose, and they can only reluctantly cede some benefits.

The busiest person during this period of time is Dong Ping, who is busy all day without touching the ground, running between various families to count money, food and manpower, and in just half a month, about 4,000 people have been raised from each family.

"Lord!" On this day, Jiang Liang finished handling some logistics matters and was about to go back to rest, when he saw Dong Ping running in in a hurry, he couldn't help but say, and pulled Jiang Liang to walk out.

"What happened?" Jiang Qiao frowned.

"The rebels are besieging the city. Dong Ping said as he walked.

"This time the action is not slow!" Jiang Miao smiled, strode towards the city tower, and said at the same time: "Pass my order, all departments are ready for the battle and stand by at any time." ”

By the time the group climbed the city wall, Fang Yue was already standing on the city wall, making the final pre-battle encouragement, but the effect didn't seem to be great.

"My lord, these people seem to be frightened. Wang Hai, who had just come back, was already standing at the head of the city with his armor on his head, and when he saw Jiang Wan coming over, he stepped forward and said in a low voice.

Jiang Wan looked around when he heard this, but saw a famous soldier guarding the city in a depressed mood, and when he looked outside the city, everywhere he looked, there were pieces of rebels dancing in the wind, like an ocean.

There are many rebels, and Jiang is not surprised, but at the moment, these rebels are ......

Raising his eyebrows, Jiang Wan smiled: "I don't want to see you in the near month, these rebel thieves have a bit of appearance." ”

"What the lord said is good. After Fang Yue, who came up, bowed to Jiang Weak, he pointed to the rebel army outside the city and said: "Although these rebel thieves are still in a chaotic formation, they are at least in a position, and they are no longer the usual crowds as before, and they have plundered the county treasury, although there is a shortage of weapons, but they are not without the power to fight back." ”

"It's kind of interesting. Jiang Wan nodded, looked at the group of soldiers defending the city, and ordered people to gather the soldiers defending the city and prepare for pre-war mobilization, at least not before the battle, the morale was intimidated by the rebels and thieves.

All the soldiers around the South Gate were gathered, and the Venerable Master's eyes fell on Jiang Wan, but this sense of oppression, if it were an ordinary person, I am afraid that it would not be able to bear it.

Jiang Wan is naturally not an ordinary person, standing on the platform of the city tower, his eyes gradually became sharp, and the two eyes swept over everyone like knives, and everyone couldn't help but stagger their eyes when they looked at Jiang Wan.

"Lift your head up for me!" Jiang Qiang's waist pole stood in the crowd like a javelin, looked at these soldiers coldly, and said loudly: "Among you, some are rebels in the past, some are the families of wealthy families in the city, and some are brave men who have only recently been recruited into the army, but no matter who you used to be and what your identity is, now, you only have one title, and that is soldiers!"

"This battle is very difficult to fight, these rebels and thieves outside the city, to say the least, there are 30,000 or 50,000 people, surrounded on all sides, we have no way to retreat, we can't retreat, and there is nowhere to retreat. Jiang Miao looked at these people and sneered: "The brave wins when they meet on a narrow road!" But I can't feel any brave spirit from you!"

Jiang Qiao's side, including Fang Yue, all the generals frowned when they heard this, this is an encouragement, it is clearly a frustration.

Jiang Wan ignored everyone and said loudly: "But we can't lose this battle, maybe you will think that even if the thieves outside the city come in, they will kill those rich families in the city, and they have nothing to do with you, but they have changed the court, and they can continue to live a peaceful life." ”

Jiang Wan sighed: "Presumably, you should not have forgotten the scene when the rebels attacked a month ago, you can gamble, you still have your family, will your wife and children survive in the hands of the rebels?"

"If you lose the bet...... Perhaps you will be lucky enough to see your wife being humiliated, your beloved son being mercilessly cut off from her head, and your father and mother dying in mourning. ”

Many people seemed to have a similar picture in their minds, the hand holding the weapon, gradually increasing its strength, and the heavy breathing diffused in front of the castle tower.

Jiang Wan grinned, showed his white teeth, and spit out cold words: "That's all it takes, fight or not, how to fight, it's up to you to decide, if you want to go home, please put down your weapons, this official will never leave difficulties." Jiang Wan stood up, led everyone down from the city tower, and went straight to the Xicheng city wall.

After Jiang Qiao said the same words on the four city walls, he didn't care anymore, and there was a tragic aura on the entire sealing city wall.

Dong Ping felt uncomfortable in this atmosphere.

He didn't know why Jiang Liang said those words, obviously he was very uncomfortable, but the effect was extremely strong, not to mention those soldiers, even Dong Ping, a scribe, after thinking of the scene after the city was broken that Jiang Qiao had described before, he had the urge to go into battle with a knife and defend his homeland.

"Lord, the morale is up!" Fang Yue looked at Jiang Weak with admiration, not in the name of righteousness, but Jiang Weak's way was obviously more touching than those righteous words full of slogans.

"If you can't get up like this, you can only say that this well is hopeless. Jiang Wan nodded.

An hour later, the rebel army finally began to attack the city, although it had the appearance of some military formation, but in the end, it was only some farmers who had just picked up their weapons for a few days, and the execution of an order alone was several grades slower than that of a well-trained army.

Just watching the dense rebel army holding rudimentary weapons pushing all kinds of siege weapons from various counties and slowly approaching the city wall, the feeling of black clouds pressing the city made many recruits who were full of momentum a little timid, and many archers opened their bows and arrows, but they didn't know where to shoot.

"Listen to my orders, raise your bow and release arrows!" Jiang Wan stood at the head of the city, thousands of rebel troops seemed to be nothing in his eyes, watching the rebel army step into the firing range, slowly raised his arm, and with an order, the raised arm suddenly waved down.

"Huh~"

A rain of arrows burst out of the air, followed closely by, and under the command of Jiang Qiao, the archers quickly bent their bows and arrows and released their arrows again.

The poorly equipped rebel army fell in pieces, and the formation that was not very strict suddenly became chaotic, some people began to retreat, and some people still wanted to move forward bravely, Jiang Qiao found that among the rebel army, there were many more commanding generals, these people did not have much ability, but the only advantage was that they were not afraid of death, and they shouted and scolded and beat back and forth in the crowd with a rudimentary shield, and officially because of the existence of these people, the rebel army was not forced to retreat by this series of arrow rain.

However, these are enough to make most of these rookies in the city who are just new to the battle formation psychologically cross that hurdle, and then without Jiang Qiao's order, generals at all levels can effectively command soldiers to release arrows.

Under the city, in the rear of the rebel army, Xie Qi paid attention to the development of the war under the escort of his own guards, and watched the soldiers at the head of the city launch a counterattack in an orderly manner, Xie Qi couldn't stop regretting it in his heart, he knew that this was the case, no matter what that day, he should have killed Jiang Weak at any cost.

"My lord, the morale of the defenders of the city is high, but the morale of our army is declining, and before it gets close to the city wall, it is frustrated in formation. A rebel general with a cold face stood beside Xie Qi, looked at the battle in front of him with indifferent eyes, and frowned: "If it goes on like this, the morale of our army will collapse first, it is better to collect the troops for the time being, gather elite soldiers, let the army feint, and then look for flaws in the enemy, and use the elite soldiers to break through its corner first, open up the situation, and then break the city!"

"What do you know?" Xie Qi glared at the rebel general with dissatisfaction and said: "That Jiang is weak and cunning like a fox, and Anzhi is not a plan to lure the enemy?

"However, the morale and combat strength of our soldiers are not as good as the Han army defending the city, although the number is ten times, but the combat power is far less than ten times, in the opinion of the last general, ......"

"Enough!" Xie Qi said with a somewhat ugly face: "The soldiers and horses in this city are all newly recruited, how can there be such a gap, don't shake the hearts of our army." ”

"Ran Jiang is weak and proficient in troops!" said the rebel general with an expressionless face.

"You mean, this commander doesn't know anything about military affairs?" Xie Qi suddenly turned his head and looked at this person calmly.

"From a certain point of view, the adults are far from the weak rivers with the use of soldiers, so why should the adults ......?"

"Shut up!" Xie Qi's face became even more difficult to look at: "It is enough to have Ben Shuai here, you go to Meng County to supervise the grain and grass, don't make a shortage." ”

"The last general commands!" The rebel general was still expressionless, arched his hand, turned around and left, but when he left, he couldn't help but look at Xie Qi and admonished again: "If you don't listen to good advice, you will lose this battle!"

"Get out!" In the rear of the rebels, Xie Qi's angry roar resounded through the four fields......