With the continuous attack of the Taiping camp, the officers and troops on the southern side have basically entered a state of rout. At most, a quarter of an hour later, Chen Wu will be able to take the south gate and enter Longshan City.

No matter how you look at it, the shape shì is a great thing.

But at this time, black smoke suddenly rose from the center of Longshan City and the eastern city.

At first, neither Chen Wu nor Wang Huifang of the Good Friends Association paid much attention to it. Because when the riot was created before, the Good Friends Society's own internal response had set fire, and in this chaotic situation, there must have been a splash of skin to take advantage of the fire to rob. But the speed at which those two fires spread was extremely alarming, almost instantaneously rising into the sky, giving people a sense of covering the sky and the sun.

This kind of fire, which is almost exaggerated, is very unusual.

After roughly judging the location of the fire, the expression on Chen Wu's face froze. Soon, he felt the same mood as Qian Boming, the governor of Taiping County last night, and issued a strict order: "At any cost, immediately take the south gate and let the horse team enter the city!" ”

Dian Yong next to him was the first to know Chen Wu, but since he came into contact, he had never seen Chen Wu so out of shape, or even angry, and couldn't help but ask, "General Tiangong, what happened?" ”

Chen Wu raised his head and stared at the two black smokes, and only replied after half a sound: "The official army set fire to the treasury and burned the treasury and Chang Ping!" ”

What the?

Several generals nearby, whether it was Dian Yong, Xu Shizhong or Mo Guohao, who had just taken refuge, suddenly changed their faces.

They already knew what it meant to close the position often, and there was at least a hundred thousand stones of grain in it, which was almost ten times the amount of grain depots such as Lushan and Yicheng. After negotiating with the Good Friends Association, Chen Wu insisted on Dongcheng. It's also because they value these grains. Be prepared to use it as a basis for recruitment.

I never expected it!

Mok Kwok Ho has been on an errand in Long Shan for many years. Extremely familiar with the terrain. After careful observation for a moment at this moment, Chen Wu's inference was roughly confirmed.

"Nalong Mountain City Guard, it won't be so ruthless......"

Seeing Mo Guohao's confirmation, Shi Xianqian gasped and muttered to himself.

The two granaries supply the grain of the entire Long Son Province, and their value and significance are immeasurable. With so much food, is the government really willing to burn it?

Do you really dare to burn again?

This one goes down. Aren't you afraid that the 100,000 civilians in Longshan Mansion will starve to death?

In the shock of the rebel generals, the rebels at the head of the city received orders and stepped up the siege of the city.

Soon, the iron gate of the south gate was raised, and the gate was wide open.

Chen Wu couldn't bear it any longer, and regardless of the possible danger in the city, he took Ning An'an's horse team and generals and rushed towards Chang Ping on the east city wall. Lin An thought about it for a while, and also borrowed a horse to follow—he had previously offered to follow and watch the battle, and Chen Wu thought that he was in control. acquiesced to Lin Anliu's request; Now it's because of the change, I don't care about him.

The news that Longshan was broken and the thieves marched into the city. At this time, it has spread in Longshan City. Every family looked panicked, as if the end had come. But in fact, in the face of Longshan, which is enough as a foundation, whether it is Chen Wu or Wang Huifang, they do not intend to destroy it casually like Yicheng and Linxian. What is really burning and looting everywhere is the local ploppy bandits in Longshan City.

Chen Wu's horse team galloped in all the way, and he saw at least several groups of thieves.

For those who dared to stand in the way, Chen Wu directly ordered someone to shoot him. Those who know how to get out of the way will not have the leisure to care. A moment later, the horse team dispersed a group of fleeing officers and arrived at Anxian Fang.

The largest granary in the entire Longshan Mansion, Changping Warehouse, is in this block!

Outside the archway of Anxian Fang, there must be at least two or three miles away from the entrance of Changping. From such a distance, Chen Wu could faintly feel the heat wave coming, as well as orange flames and black smoke rushing into the sky. It is conceivable what the regular closing position looks like.

After dismounting and rushing over, they could not even get 100 meters close to the fire.

"It's a good Zhang Qisheng, but the general underestimated him!"

Watching countless precious grains turn into ashes, Chen Wu said this sentence almost word by word, and he really hated it in his heart.

Since the beginning of the army in Changshan Town, due to his experience in the game before the crossing, he can almost be said to have acted smoothly. It was the first time that Chen Wu suffered such a big loss at once, which made Chen Wu's heart really uneasy. What's even worse is that without these hundreds of thousands of stone of grain, the strategy he previously formulated would not work, and many places would have to be torn down and restarted!

"How's that okay?"

Looking at the terrifying fire, the other generals of the rebel army also found it difficult to maintain their composure. Someone mentioned that Yì immediately sent troops over to extinguish the fire, but Chen Wu vetoed it without thinking about it.

Such a fire that almost burned the prairie was a hundred times stronger than the fire in Changshan Town that night. If you want to extinguish a fire, it is simply impossible. If you forcibly save it, I'm afraid that a few people will be burned to death.

I have to say that Zhang Qisheng's desperate move hit the soft underbelly of the righteous army.

"The government really dares to do it!"

Shi Xianqian had nothing to say.

If this fire continues, Longshan Mansion is afraid that tens of thousands of more people will die.

Zhang Qisheng, the city guard, is not afraid of his reputation?

"What would he not dare?"

Chen Wu's face turned pale, and he snorted coldly: "The moment Longshan fell into the hands of the rebels, he was no longer a subject of the empire. Even if you burn food, the one who starves to death is a thief. Zhang Qisheng's move, if he reports to the empire, he will only be rewarded. I can even guess how he got into the book: he held on to the city for many days, killing countless thieves; Although there were no reinforcements from outside and they were invincible, they still took the lead before breaking the city, desperately burning grain and grass to prevent them from falling into the hands of thieves. Look at it, it's meritorious! Give gifts to the princes of the center, and then ask the people in the faction to operate, maybe you can make a merit and offset his unfavorable responsibility of defending the territory! ”

Although these words are a little mean, they are deeply rooted in the essence of imperial politics.

If it came out of Zhang Qisheng's mouth, Lin Anluo was not surprised at all. can be said from the mouth of Chen Wu, a twenty-year-old anti-thief leader, it seems a little discordant.

It made Lin Anluo more and more convinced that Chen Wu must come from a big family with great power!

"Let's go to the treasury of the castle guard."

Despite the same lack of hope, after circling here for a while, Chen Wu still rushed to the castle guard mansion in Longshan with his horse team later.

Zhang Qisheng does not seem to have chosen to die with the city, but disappeared after the people of the Good Friends Association entered the city. Because the rebels besieged the city on three sides, and the Longshan City was huge, it was possible for Zhang Qisheng to go out of the city or hide. When Chen Wu's horse team arrived, the city guard mansion was basically empty, and only some panicked subordinates remained.

The Friends of Good Faith had arrived a quarter of an hour earlier.

They, too, seem to have nothing to gain. In addition to gold coins, silver coins and other valuables that were difficult to carry, other valuable items in the treasury were taken away, and grain was burned. Xu Maodian had the intention to organize people to extinguish the fire, but unfortunately, it was also in vain.

"Damn Zhang Qisheng, it's better not for me to catch him!"

Wang Huifang's face was extremely vicious, and he couldn't wait to catch the former city guard and light the sky lantern.

However, seeing Chen Wu coming over with an embarrassed face, he suddenly felt a lot more comfortable in his heart - Dongcheng's Changping position was also burned!

When people are unlucky, if they find that the people around them are more unlucky than themselves, the feeling of depression will be much lighter. What's more, although the relationship between the two sides is said to be allies, they are wary of each other, and it is not too much to say that they are potential enemies. Under this dark psychology, Wang Huifang inevitably gloated.

Isn't the Taiping Rebels strong? Non-East City Non-Alignment?

And now?

"Lord Wang, Zhang Qisheng set fire to the granary, why didn't your people stop it?"

Seeing his true thoughts from Wang Huifang's eyes, Chen Wu, who was irritable, couldn't help but question.

"What General Chen said is not right." Wang Huifang's face was innocent: "There are indeed many lurkers in the city of the Good Friends Association, but firstly, the competent people are used as internal responses, and secondly, I didn't expect Zhang Qisheng to be so vicious." The grain in this treasury is still half of mine, you think so! ”

You really can't blame him for this.

Chen Wu also knew it in his heart, but he was very unhappy. Seeing that with a boom, the fire burned down the beams of the grain depot, and sparks and flying ash were scattered all over the sky, Chen Wu barely collected his mood and asked, "What is the plan for now, what does the Lord Wang Guild plan to do?" ”

The Good Friends Association has been carefully preparing for many years, and it has occupied Linxian County, so there must be some food in stock. Chen Wu took the grain from Yicheng and Lushan counties in a row, although the consumption was also amazing, it could still be supported for a while and a half. But if you count the 100,000 people in Longshan, the food supply on both sides is very tight.

After seeing the fire in the grain depot, Wang Huifang obviously considered the same problem, and said murderously: "Since the grain depot can't be counted on, there is only one way-"

"Go east ahead of schedule!"

The original plan of both sides was to take Longshan City as the foundation, recruit troops and buy horses to run it, and then march east to sweep Taiping County. Now, more than 200,000 stone of grain in Longshan Province has been burned, and they have no capital to fight steadily, so they can only launch an attack before the food runs out, and then use the newly grabbed grain to support the army to continue to conquer more territory.

This method of warfare is exactly the same as that of the exile army of previous dynasties. At the beginning of the uprising, there was often no opponent for hundreds of miles, but as long as it was defeated, most of the time it would be doomed.

Of course, Chen Wu knew that it would not work without a foundation, but in this situation, it seemed that there was no other way!

"Of course, if the general doesn't want to go east, it's feasible to march in other directions." Wang Huifang's eyes flickered, and he began to mention him with bad intentions: "Even if the Ganding Mansion has been abolished, you can still take the road north to enter Anqing County." Alternatively, heading west into Gwangan and south into Daeze-gun are both good options. ”

"Ben will be a native of Taiping County, and he is reluctant to leave his hometown." Chen Wu glanced at Wang Huifang coldly and said, "It's the master, since you have such a vision, why don't you take people to develop?" ”

This look made Wang Huifang's scalp tingle a little, he laughed a few times dryly, but did not speak.

The garrison brigade of Taiping County has been abolished, and such a good situation has been laid, only those who have their heads pumped will lightly abandon this place and run to other counties! (To be continued......)