Chapter 228: Capture Chen County

However, Qi County obviously does not have these arrangements. On a hot summer day, everyone doesn't hide in a shady place, who is idle and has nothing to find guilt and run to the city wall to guard? This is not Wuwei County in the northwest!

All kinds of negligence allowed Tang Ning's sneak attack to succeed smoothly. By now, he no longer had any doubts about capturing Qi County. As soon as the city gate was opened, the city defense of Qi County was directly abolished. He immediately issued an order, and the whole army accelerated forward.

While the order was passed down, the two groups of soldiers led by Gan Xing and Sun Tian were already approaching the west gate of Qi County.

After receiving the good news from Ning An, both of them were very excited, and urged their subordinates to hurry up. Those who can be selected into the infantry army are the elite of the righteous army. These days, even in the training of the rush belt, Tang Ning has not lacked their rations. After a while, they rushed to the west gate of Qi County.

"Hurry up!" Wu Guang led people to meet him in front of the city gate, and when he saw the arrival of two large groups of light infantry, he immediately asked Gan Xing to fully take over the defense of the west city gate and guard against a possible counterattack by the officers and troops. Subsequently, Wu Guang and Sun Tian's brigade converged together, and under the guidance of a guide who was familiar with the terrain of Qi County in the rebel army, they went straight to the city defense camp school and arsenal in Qi County.

Although the city gate was successfully taken, it is still not careless. After all, the city defense battalion in Qi County still has a certain combat power, and if they are allowed to assemble smoothly, it will inevitably bring great trouble to the rebel army. Therefore, it is imperative to take the city defense camp and arsenal as soon as possible!

"The anti-thieves have invaded Qi County!"

"It's not a good thing, let's run for your life."

"A lot of thieves."

The west gate was seized, and no one found it because it was fast enough to be hidden. But when the rebel army of hundreds of people entered the city, the news could no longer be hidden. These people, who were in tattered clothes and armed with spears and swords, were neither officials nor soldiers nor the nearby militia groups, and they knew at a glance that they had come with bad intentions. Occasionally, the people of Qi County who met and went out on the road reacted the same way when they saw this scene, exclaimed, turned around and fled. There are also people who realize that something is wrong, so they turned around and rushed towards the county government of Qi County, wanting to report to the government.

"Ignore them!" At this time, it was too late to find out that the rebels had entered the city. Wu Guang restrained his subordinates, ignored these Qi County people, and after turning two corners in a row, he took a shortcut of more than a mile and rushed to the city defense camp school in the northwest corner of the city.

The city defense battalion of two hundred-strong teams assembles here on weekdays. According to the Qin system, the local army exercised twice a week. On weekdays, except for those who are on patrol duty, other soldiers are not allowed to bring weapons and armor, and all of them are stored in the arsenal. Before the battle, it was issued by the quartermaster who held the key to the arsenal. As a result, the school grounds and arsenals of the city defense battalions are often not far away, and some are even located right next to the camps.

The same is true in Qi County. As the most important point of a city's armed forces, the school grounds and camps of the city defense battalion are undoubtedly the most difficult to gnaw. In addition to the soldiers patrolling the four gates, according to the data on paper, there should be at least 14 teams of soldiers in the school barracks in Qi County, that is, nearly 140 people. In addition, there should have been four teams of cavalry, including forty horsemen and between fifty and eighty war horses.

However, it is on paper because it is not real.

When Wu Guang led people to the gate of the school field, the two soldiers in the camp didn't even understand the situation at all. One of them had white hair and age spots on his face, and he dozed under the vines.

Another person with a splashy appearance was holding a pu fan with his bare arms, and he did not raise the alarm at the first time, but looked at them blankly and asked strangely: "Where are you from the militia?" ”

There was no movement at the city gate, and the splash skin didn't think of the possibility of rebellion at all, but regarded it as a local militia group that was transferred to the autumn exercise in advance.

"This ...... Officers and soldiers? ”

Along the way, many of the rebel soldiers were ready for a bloody battle. But the progress that went smoothly to the extreme, coupled with the negligence and slackness of the local army, couldn't help but make these rebel soldiers look at each other. The empire, which was originally sacred and invincible in their hearts, seemed to have suddenly faded a layer of aura. The fear of the officers and soldiers also dissipated most of them unconsciously.

In fact, this is not to say that the Qin army has really decayed to this extent, it has something to do with the distribution of the Qin army. At that time, the Qin army was mainly divided into four parts, one part of which was fighting against the Xiongnu in the north, which had to be elite, after all, the Xiongnu were not vegetarians; Some of them followed Zhao Tuo to attack South Vietnam, which also had to be elite, after all, it was to expand the territory; There is also a part of the elite stationed in Guanzhong to guard Xianyang, which is also necessary, and no emperor can rest assured that a bunch of waste guards the Jingshi. So when it came to the last part, that is, the local stability maintenance troops, this quality was not very easy to guarantee, and after a long time, they felt that there could be no problems in the hinterland of the empire, so there was this scene that Wu Guang saw at the moment.

Even the colonel's military field and camp are like this, and the defense of other places can be imagined, in short, Tang Ning took Qi County without much effort, and seized a large amount of grain, grass and materials, of course, there are tens of thousands of people in Qi County, which is the resource that Tang Ning values the most.

After resting for two days, Tang Ning sent Ge Ying and Wu Guang to sweep the surrounding places of Qi County, Xuan, Kuzhe, and Qian, and the method was the same as attacking Daze Township and Qi County, all the way to Chenxian County, and by the time they reached Chen County, they already had six or seven hundred military vehicles, more than 1,000 cavalry, and tens of thousands of foot soldiers.

Originally, before attacking Chen County, Tang Ning also planned to prepare well, after all, this Chen County is not as good as Qi County, although it is also called a county, but in fact, this is the Chen State of the Warring States Period, which is now Huaiyang, but after the unification of the Qin Dynasty, he was changed to a county, but the territory and the city have not changed, Chen Sheng was called the king after capturing this place in history, especially the importance of this city, otherwise Chen Sheng would not have swelled to that extent.

But what Tang Ning didn't expect was that Ge Ying suddenly sent someone to send a letter back saying that according to reliable reports, the county guard and county order of Chen County are not there at the moment, only the county commander is guarding the city with soldiers, and he can contact the informants in the city who are dissatisfied with the Qin army, and can help open the city gate, so it is best to attack Chen County now, otherwise if it drags on, there will be no such a good opportunity.

Originally, Tang Ning always thought that what was written in the "Historical Records" was too exaggerated, how could it be that the surrounding area was beaten, and the county guard and the county order were not in the city? Could it be scared away? But now that it seems to be true, why let go of such a good opportunity? So he immediately ordered Ge Ying and Wu Guang to capture Chen County.

PS: Because I'm really not good at writing war dramas, I won't write down the process of capturing Chen County, so as not to be self-defeating, anyway, it shouldn't take too much effort to read the description in the historical records.