Lin Fengxiang failed to attack the city from the south, suffered heavy losses, and knew that it was hopeless to attack again. Therefore, as soon as he received the news that the city was broken on Yang Xiaoshan's side, although he still had doubts in his heart, he still rushed with the main force of 1,000 men and horses, leaving only two or three hundred people to guard the southern position.

And after Li Kaifang received the news, he was also skeptical. He did not bring the main force, but sent a brigade commander with 300 brothers to come and check the situation first, and if the situation was true, then transfer the main force.

The two teams arrived at the West Gate almost at the same time, and together there were more than 1,300 people, and the combat power was enough to control Yong'an City at this time. Fortunately, Yang Xiaoshan's notice in advance was in place, and the two teams came in time, cleared the fleeing Qing soldiers, and successfully entered the west gate of Yong'an. Lin Fengxiang took the lead, walked in front, found the injured Chen Yucheng, and hurriedly came over to inquire about the situation.

"Brother Chen, are you okay?" When Lin Fengxiang came, he also saw the dead bodies all over the road, and he couldn't help but glance at Chen Yucheng in his heart, it was really rare to block in such a place for so long.

"I'm fine, I was shot in the shoulder and didn't hurt the bones. You guys go to support Yang Xiaoshan, he went to find the Yongan grain depot. Chen Yucheng was still worried about the safety of his eldest brother Yang Xiaoshan, Yang Xiaoshan only took fifty people and went deep into the hinterland of Yong'an, not knowing if there would be danger.

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Yang Xiaoshan, under the leadership of that village warrior, took a shortcut along the path and went straight to the granary, and luckily bypassed the team of Arjinga to the west gate on the way.

After hundreds of years of expansion and inheritance, the outside of the granary here is like a military fortress, and the wall is very similar to the city wall, with three or four people three or four meters high, like a miniature version of the small city. The overall structure of this is a bit like a courtyard house, and the doors of all the rooms are facing the center of the granary.

The rooms in the granary are not for grain, but for people. The grain was placed in a cellar in the ground, which could hold thousands of stone of grain. The open space in the middle of the granary is used for drying grain, and there are several stone mills and two deep wells in the corners.

The situation of the Yong'an army is severe, and the garrisons of the granaries have been transferred to various city walls to support. The rest were guarded by some old and infirm.

After Yang Xiaoshan asked the leading townsman to deceive the door of the warehouse, he immediately led the brothers to rush in, and those guards were originally old and weak, and they didn't even have the courage to resist. Yang Xiaoshan and the others quickly took control of the entire granary, he seized the keys to the various door locks, tied up the guards, and locked them in an empty room. Then arrange for the brethren to go up to the wall of the granary to defend it.

As soon as Yang Xiaoshan finished all this, the prefect Wu Jiang came with a large team of people.

It turned out that the prefect of Wu found out that Al Jing'a had taken all his cronies away, and he felt that something was wrong, and later someone reported that Al Jing'a was preparing to escape. At this time, the Wu Governor's Mansion woke up like a dream, knowing that Yong'an would definitely not be able to hold it. As the leader of the local government, the last thing he can do is to burn the grain in the granary, so that even if the bandits take the city, they will not be able to grab anything to eat. If you are loyal to the court to the last moment, you can count yourself as a good soldier and leave a good reputation of loyalty.

Wu Zhifu didn't expect the Taiping army to come so quickly, he led all the Qing soldiers and villagers he could command to rush over, but found that the grain depot had fallen into the hands of the Taiping army. At this moment, the doors of the warehouse on all sides are closed, and the flag of the Taiping Army has been planted on the wall of the warehouse.

"It's over, it's over." When Governor Wu saw this formation, his mood fell to the bottom. He knew how strong the granary was, and it was not much worse than the outer city wall, and he felt a sense of resignation.

"Look, my lord! The long hair on this doesn't seem to be very crowded, sparse and sparse, we may not be able to conquer it. An entourage saw Governor Wu's mind and cheered him up.

Governor Wu raised his eyes, and sure enough, as the entourage said, there were indeed not many bandits here. I weighed it left and right in my heart, and felt that the entourage was right, and I could gamble again. What he can do now is to raise the morale of his subordinates, and he can't think of a better way than to reward silver, "Kill a long hair, and reward ten taels of silver." Governor Wu shouted, doubling the original reward in one fell swoop.

When everyone under his command heard this, their hearts suddenly lifted, ten taels of silver was enough for an ordinary family to eat for a year. For the sake of money, everyone wanted to give it a go.

So the remaining 400 or so Qing soldiers and village warriors, tempted by the silver, began to use ladders to climb the wall from all corners outside the granary.

Yang Xiaoshan and the others did not dare to be careless, and while organizing archers to shoot, they knocked down their ladders with spears and stabbed down those who wanted to climb up. Although they occupied a favorable geographical position, the number of Qing troops was really a bit large, and they were in danger for a while. If it weren't for Yang Xiaoshan's effective organization and scheduling, he would have almost been captured by the Qing army.

Finally repelled the first wave of the Qing army's attack, Yang Xiaoshan hurriedly checked the situation of the team.

"Chengfu, how are the casualties on our side?" Yang Xiaoshan ignored his exhaustion and first counted the casualties. He took five or six brothers as a reserve, and wherever there was danger, he would go to help defend himself, which was the most physically exhausting.

"Yang Junshuai, two brothers died and eight were wounded, three of them were seriously injured." Liang Chengfu is not in a very good mood, there are not many people, and there is a casualty rate of 20% in this round, and it may be even more difficult to hold in the next round.

"How many bows and arrows do we have?" Yang Xiaoshan asked again.

"It's all gone, we didn't have many bows and arrows with us, and the situation was urgent just now, so we ran out all at once." Liang Chengfu lowered his head and said with some self-reproach.

Yang Xiaoshan kept thinking in his heart that the defensive weapons of this grain depot, such as cannons, guns, bows and arrows, had already been moved to the Yong'an city wall. Now there is a shortage of people, and there are no defensive weapons to defend them, and if the Qing army attacks again, it is estimated that it will be difficult to hold this granary. The key thing is that I don't know when the reinforcements will come, and I don't know what the situation on Chen Yucheng's side is.

Yang Xiaoshan gritted his teeth and made a gambling decision.

"What, we're going to rush out?" Lan Chengchun and Liang Chengfu were very surprised when they heard Yang Xiaoshan's thoughts.

"Yes, we can no longer be beaten in the granary. Now you have to take the initiative to kill him and catch him off guard. Our goal is to take down the prefect of the Qing court, as long as we take their heads, this Yong'an will be completely taken, not only will the granary be secured, but we can also disarm them all and let the brothers outside enter the city as soon as possible. Yang Xiaoshan said his plan.

"I did it, I'm afraid of a bird! If you want to play, play big. Lan Chengchun responded first.

"Yang Junshuai, how sure are you?" Liang Chengfu didn't agree immediately, although he wasn't afraid of death, he didn't want to die worthless.

"Fifty percent, but if we stay here, they're likely to bring the cannon over, and then we don't even have a chance of one percent." Yang Xiaoshan guessed correctly, Governor Wu had indeed sent someone to bring in artillery to support.

"Okay, I did it too. Rather than die in a nest, it is better to be heroic. Liang Chengfu slapped his thigh and decided to fight.

"Okay, you choose fifteen of you to go with us. The other brothers continued to defend the granary, and the wounded brothers went to the cellar to seal the entrance, so that in case we all died, they must wait until reinforcements arrived. Yang Xiaoshan made the final arrangement.