The impact of the Arrow Book Secret Letter was even greater than Chen Wu expected. ←，

Although Qian Boming had deliberately asked for secrecy, when it came to the officers of the entire Third Wing, even He Shixiang was raided and imprisoned, how could such a big matter be hidden. Soon, the entire Wu'an officers and soldiers knew that there were people in the city who were colluding with the thief army in an attempt to cooperate with the outside. For a while, the morale of the army floated again.

As hard as it is to believe, anyone who really knows knows that the evidence in this case is conclusive.

As the news spread, more insider information was revealed. In addition to several captains who have been put into prison, He Shixiang also has a fellow party who has not yet been dug up!

Hearing this rumor, some officers who had a good relationship with He Shixiang immediately dispelled the idea of helping to find out the case, and began to busily clear up the relationship.

Seeing that He Shixiang's case had caused a lot of turmoil in the city, the Governor's Office quickly came forward to clarify the rumors. However, the covert investigation did not stop, but increased its intensity and scope. If they don't find out He Shixiang's mysterious "friend" for a day, Qian Boming and Kang He will not be able to feel at ease for a day.

Wu'an's changes failed to hide from the rebels outside the city.

Under normal circumstances, the change of guard of the city guards is very regular. Even if there are occasional adjustments, the scale will not be large. Seeing that the officers and troops at the head of the city suddenly changed their guards in the morning, and all the officers and troops of the entire third wing were withdrawn in one go, and then the alarm bell rang and the whole city was under martial law, the leaders of the rebel armies immediately knew that the plan had succeeded!

"Do you want to take the opportunity to attack the city?"

Zhou Naichun, the leader of the Little Knife Club, said that he felt that this was a great opportunity.

However, neither Chen Wu nor Wang Huifang agreed.

The influence of the Book of Arrows takes a certain amount of time to ferment. Attack immediately, and the Wu'an official government will be forced to suppress this matter first under external pressure. Of course, it won't work if it drags on for too long. Qian Boming is not a fool after all, there is no problem in checking and checking, but he will always be suspicious. In Chen Wu's predetermined plan, if the officers and soldiers were fooled, he would set aside a day for them to let the problem ferment and escalate. And then a big attack.

Of course, Chen Wu and the others did not waste the precious time of this day. While preparing for the next major attack, he continued to strengthen the earth slope made of earth, and piled it up to the level of the city wall.

Early the next morning, the thirteen forces gathered.

Together, thousands of displaced people were forcibly recruited again. Seeing the gathering of so many displaced people, the officers and soldiers immediately understood that the thieves were ready to start a real siege. Prepare early and wait for the city.

The drums of war rumbled.

The first group of displaced people who had been temporarily incorporated into the first camp rushed out at the urging of the overseers. After resisting the blows of trebuchets, bed crossbows, and archers, the surviving homeless people stepped on the dirt slope and rushed to the head of the southern city, where they fought with the array of elite officers.

A fierce battle ensued.

Although the displaced people paid a heavy sacrifice to build such a road, it was also delayed for a full week. But now. This qiē effort has paid off. The rebels no longer need to use rudimentary ladders to attack the city, and they can directly climb to the top of the city. Although these untrained displaced people are still vulnerable to the official army. But after all, there is the possibility of a head-on fight.

Unfortunately, in an instant, the first wave of displaced people was defeated by the official army and fled in all directions.

There are many people who even choose to surrender directly on their knees.

In their opinion, they are simply forced to be thieves. If they surrender, the officers and soldiers should not be embarrassed for them. At this time. If the officers and soldiers defending the city choose to accept surrender, it can indeed greatly disintegrate the fighting spirit of the displaced people. But the officers and soldiers defending the city in Wu'an made a cold decision.

Thief thrower, kill!

How could the people of the empire, who were truly devoted to the empire, turn to the thieves? Now that the battle has been chosen. Surrendering after not being able to fight is naturally not enough to prove innocence. Moreover, the tricks used by Chen Wu along the way also made the officials and soldiers vigilant, they were worried that these homeless people were just surrendering by fraud, and the elite of the thieves were mixed in.

Rather than accepting these surrendered soldiers and bothering to imprison and guard them, it is better to kill them directly, or drive them back.

After all, to raise a homeless person, you have to spend some extra food.

Before Zhang Qisheng absconded from Longshan, he burned the grain in Changping and the treasury, and the food of the thief army was not abundant. The officers and soldiers of Wu'an know this.

From these two considerations, it cannot be said that the official and military have made such a decision. But their refusal to accept the surrender of the displaced people undoubtedly cut off the last way for these displaced people to survive. If you go back and be killed by the warlord's team, you will be killed if you surrender, so you might as well fight with the officers and soldiers, maybe you can hold out until Mingjin withdraws his troops.

The rumors that Chen Wu has been spreading among the army of displaced people these days have played a subtle guiding effect.

As he did in Changshan Town, he specially arranged a group of people to spread rumors such as "Wu'an seized the food for the Empire's disaster relief", "Zhang Qisheng burned Changping after listening to the governor's order", and "Everyone had to die when the Imperial Counterinsurgency Army came". The difference is nothing more than that at that time, there were rumors that there were 200,000 stone relief food in Longshan, and now this number has doubled.

These rumors, coupled with the fact that some of the homeless "kind-hearted big brothers" who occasionally distributed a little food, appeared to tell how the imperial government brutally oppressed them, and successfully aroused the hatred of the exiles against the empire. When people are cornered, being dominated by this kind of hatred will naturally give rise to thoughts such as "let it go" and "kill one person enough".

Because of this, the momentum of these besieging refugees is even more ferocious than the government thinks.

Even if they are broken up by the government, they will soon be forced to reorganize and kill again after retreating.

Throughout the morning, the displaced people launched seven or eight waves of offensives, like the tide of the Hongze River, one wave after another poured into the city. Although without exception, all of them were blocked back by the array of officers and soldiers, this continuous attack was not without effect, in exchange for at least hundreds of officers and soldiers killed and wounded!

For this, the displaced people pay five or even ten times the price.

The corpses piled up like hills on the earthen platforms and castles of the battle, attracting a large number of vultures to hover overhead!

The leaders and soldiers of the major forces have become numb to such casualties. However, their mood soon became detached. In the case of the loss of the displaced people, Chen Wu was unrelenting and pushed out the more advanced cannon fodder.

The draw to decide the fate of the forces present began.

There are a total of thirteen signs, and the first to attack the city is drawn to the first one, and the last one is the thirteenth. Send two or three families each time depending on the situation, and start from the beginning after one round until the city is broken!

In the solemn atmosphere, the sequences were revealed one by one.

Chongfan, the leader of the Red Eyebrow Army, and Luo Tian, the leader of the sect, their faces were like dead parents, and under the gaze of others or gloating, or pity, or coercion, they walked out of the tent with gloating expressions and began to gather their subordinates.

The scale of the Red Eyebrow Army is relatively large, with thousands of people; Pai Jiao is a small force at the bottom, with a total of only six or seven hundred people.

After this battle is over, if you can't do it, you will be removed from the list.

Although they were very reluctant, under the cold gaze of the Good Friends Association and the Taiping Army, they did not dare to disobey, and they could only blame themselves for their bad luck. Having said that, in the face of a siege city of Wu'an's level, good or bad luck is actually about the same. The first to attack is not much different from the next two days. It's just that everyone habitually regards the people who come out of the crowd as the most unlucky.

can get up from Wu'an and Dongguan Mansion and pull up a force, the Red Eyebrow Army has also been operating locally for many years, and it has some skills. Maybe ninety percent of the thousands of people are ordinary villagers of the township party, but there are always so many elite backbones. Equipped with a batch of weapons eliminated by the Taiping Army, although it cannot be compared with the Volunteer Battalion, it is much stronger than the ordinary homeless people in the morning.

With their joining, more bloody and tragic battles appeared on the head of Wu'an City.

Chen Wu's Taiping Righteous Army was also very unlucky, and he drew the No. 3 lot. After the Red Eyebrow Army and the Pai Jiao were forced to retreat after suffering heavy casualties, it was soon their turn. However, they can't stand the great cause of the Taiping Righteous Army. Chen Wu transferred 800 people from the new barracks, and sent two more brigades of the Volunteer Battalion, so he lightly organized a team of 1,000 people and launched a non-stop attack on Wu Cheng'an.

For a whole day, the fight didn't stop!

It was probably the previous week's fortification and incidental siege that made the officers and soldiers too comfortable, but now they suddenly became fierce and stormy attacks, which made Kang He, who was in command, feel heavy pressure and the determination of the rebels.

However, this is just the beginning.

Then, for three days, the crazy offensive on the side of the coalition forces did not stop. Every day, thousands of corpses were piled up beneath the walls. Although Chen Wu had accumulated enough siege equipment in his hands to launch an unprecedented wave of attacks, he was unmoved no matter how heavy the casualties were and how the leaders of those small forces pleaded.

But even so, the casualties inflicted on them by the coalition forces were enough to move Wu An.

Just a rough estimate, the 1st Garrison Brigade suffered more than 500 casualties. The 2nd Wing, which had withstood most of the attack, suffered heavy casualties under such an attack, and was almost incapacitated, and was forced to withdraw from the city head a day earlier to rest.

Without such a backbone, the pressure on Wu'an's city defense has increased greatly.

It's just that after attacking for so many days, the coalition side is actually under great pressure.

Although the homeless people don't want money and are everywhere, they are not inexhaustible after all.

Brutal casualties, cooling weather, and constant attempts to flee out of fear have caused the number of displaced people outside Wu'an to decline rapidly. The original nearly 200,000 displaced people, since the siege of Wu'an, there are only 1670,000 left. Among them, those with better physique and those who dare to work hard have basically been exhausted in the previous battles. Nearly half of the rest of the homeless people, including the old, the weak, the sick, the disabled, and the women, had to be removed. The other half are also weak, or have been frightened by the previous siege tragedy, and would rather die than come forward.

It can be said that in a short period of time, the drive of the coalition forces to the displaced people has reached a limit. (To be continued.) )