This night, the town of Longhua is brightly lit, since the evening when I learned that the puppet Tang thief army appeared on the edge of the mountain, the Ming army in the town is like a big enemy, Diao Leixun has not rested all night, and arranged for soldiers to strengthen the city fortifications.

Diao Leixun and they have not forgotten that a few months ago, the puppet Tang thief army robbed Longhua Town, although the puppet Tang thief army did not swagger into the city at that time, and the Ming army defending the city at that time was also determined, and the puppet Tang thief army did not attack the city.

The armory and grain depot in the city were on fire because of the gangsters' rebellion, and the houses of many large families in the city were robbed, and they were also looted by some gangsters.

In short, they insisted that the puppet Tang thief army did not attack the city, let alone loot Longhua Town.

In order to control the negative impact and avoid the punishment of the officials, Su Jiakang, Diao Leixun and other civil and military officials in the back also pinched their noses and admitted this 'fact'.

However, although the official said so, many people had seen it with their own eyes, and the Ming army defending the city wanted to flee in a swarm, but in the end they were driven back by the puppet Tang thief army, and some people saw the puppet Tang thief army mixed in the looting later.

As for the time when the defenders in the city sent food, fruits and vegetables to the puppet Tang thief army outside the city, many people saw it with their own eyes.

Therefore, everyone didn't say anything, but everyone knew that the previous Longhua Town was indeed looted by the puppet Tang thief army.

Now that the puppet Tang thief army has come out of the mountain again, and it will soon be under Longhua Town, the Ming army and even the ordinary people in the formation are naturally panicked.

That night, many people who learned the news fled from Longhua Town overnight, some were ready to go to the countryside for refuge, and some were ready to flee to Zhengtai County.

However, ordinary people can escape, but Diao Leixun, the master of the Thousand Households in Tong'an, can't run, because he has the responsibility of guarding the city.

At the same time, Diao Leixun also has a certain degree of confidence in defending the city, the puppet Tang thief army is only a few hundred, and there are more than 500 people in his own thousand households, plus the young and strong people who have been temporarily mobilized, there are seven or eight hundred people, he doesn't believe that those god-killing puppet Tang thief army can capture Longhua Town.

In addition, Zhengtai County is only twenty miles away from Longhua Town, and once Longhua Town is in danger, the defenders in Zhengtai County can come over for reinforcements at any time.

And in Zhengtai County, there are more than 400 people from a fairy stone thousand households and two hundred households sent by Fuzun to recruit soldiers.

As long as the puppet Tang thief army dares to run to Longhua Town to attack the city, then he can completely drag them down, and then cooperate with the reinforcements from Zhengtai County to completely annihilate the attacking puppet Tang thief army.

Longhua Town was brightly lit, and when preparing for the war all night, the county government was not calm in Zhengtai County, and the county government was lit up in the middle of the night, and then many civil and military officials were woken up by the people sent by Su Jiakang and then came to discuss matters overnight.

The lights in the county office were lit up overnight, and by the next morning, many people in the city noticed that the atmosphere in the county was different from before.

In the school yard in the south of the city, the soldiers of the Ming army are coming out one after another, and then stationed at various city gates, and began to strictly interrogate the people entering and leaving the city, so that many villagers who carry melons, fruits and vegetables into the city to sell in the morning cannot enter the city for a long time, and a long queue is formed at several city gates.

These people in line also saw several officers and soldiers riding out of the city, as soon as they left the city gate, they were galloping, looking at the direction, they should be heading to Longhua Town.

Many people wondered in their hearts, what happened, they were fine yesterday, how could they work hard overnight, these officers and soldiers looked like they were facing a great enemy.

However, the news of the puppet Tang thief army going out of the mountain was not concealed at all, and it was okay in the middle of the night, this news was only circulated among the high-level civil and military officials in the city, but in the morning, some big families in the city also learned the news one after another.

Before noon, several grain stores in the city began to raise the price of food in the store quite tacitly!

The sudden increase in food in the city further made the people in the city suspicious, and by the afternoon, the news of the puppet Tang thief army leaving the mountain had spread all over the city.

All kinds of gossip also began to circulate, all kinds of news is true and false is difficult to distinguish, and some people even say that the pseudo-Tang thieves have thousands of thieves, last night they attacked Longhua Town, and now they have captured Longhua Town, and they are coming towards Zhengtai County.

And Zhangkou is the wife of the eldest brother-in-law of my second uncle's family is in Longhua Town, and I saw the pseudo-Tang thief army killing into the city.

For the many messages in the city, Su Jiakang didn't have the heart to deal with them at first, but after listening to the messages reported by his subordinates, it became more and more outrageous, and even many gentry in the city sent people to the county government to ask if the puppet Tang thief army had really broken through Longhua Town, Su Jiakang finally couldn't sit still, and immediately asked people to post a notice to calm the people.

It is said that Zhengtai County and Longhua Town are as stable as Mount Tai, but a small group of bandits has appeared, and the officers and soldiers have prepared soldiers and horses, and it will not take a few days to completely exterminate them, and the people do not need to panic.

When this Anmin notice came out, Su Jiakang also sent people to arrest a few people who had no hair in their mouths and were spreading messages everywhere, and they each hit dozens of boards on the spot.

In this way, the situation in the city has calmed down a little, but the people are still very worried.

This time, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like there is only a small group of bandits, if there are only a few dozen bandits, the government will have such a big reaction? Not only did they scout and ride everywhere and strictly guard the city gates, but even the officers and soldiers in the school field went up to the city wall, and they knew at a glance that they were preparing for war!

Many people who claim to be knowledgeable already think that they have seen through the lies of the government, thinking that it must be the puppet Tang thief army that is attacking on a large scale, and the government is hiding the news in order to prevent everyone from escaping, so as to recruit young people to help defend the city.

"I heard that the puppet Tang thief army is as high as thousands, and there are only five hundred soldiers in this county, how can I hold it, I better leave the city early and hide in Zhuangzi to be safer!"

This is the idea of many wealthy families in the city, so although Su Jiakang issued a notice to settle the people, there are still many gentry and wealthy families in the city who began to drag their families out of the city.

However, these wealthy people who left the city did not know that at this moment, the countryside outside the city was far more dangerous than the city!

Why, because the goal of the Tang Dynasty is not to attack Longhua Town or Zhengtai County at all, their main purpose is only to contain these Ming troops, and the secondary purpose is to walk around the surrounding countryside to collect grain and people!

At this moment, the Ming army and those rich families who fled from the city didn't know that on this day, the Tang Dynasty did not go to Longhua Town at all, but went to several villages that had already been booked, including an old friend of the Tang Dynasty: Fengjiazhuang!