The matter of the green fox came to an end for the time being with the concession of the Good Friends Association.

The harvest of a hundred sets of crossbows made Chen Wu's armament strength soar. He took out twenty sets from them and distributed them to his own personal guard and to Ganxing's military intelligence department. The remaining 80 sets were temporarily equipped with the Taiping camp. Because the matching crossbow arrows are limited, and the damage cannot be repaired, this thing will not be used lightly, and it is a killer weapon for victory.

Although the equipment was issued, the aftermath caused by this incident was not so easy to eliminate.

The first was the hunt for the remnants of the Omani Blackguards.

As early as dawn, Chen Wu closed the eastern half of the city - or did not open the city gate at all, and sent people to search for it. Under the large bounty offered, the rebels received reports of suspicious people, and with this information, they successively arrested several caught fish who did not have time to escape.

Second, the Good Friends Society began to move eastward in a big way.

Probably influenced by the semi-public face-turning of the two parties, Wang Huifang issued an order to advance eastward half a day after he returned. The main force of the Dharma Protector Buddha, together with the foundation of the Good Friends Association, almost poured out from the nest. Only a small force was left on Longshan's side, and the rest of the seizures continued to be sold.

When they left, they took away at least more than 20,000 civilians in Xicheng.

Without such a powerful force to suppress it, the Xicheng side immediately fell into unprecedented chaos. Even in the daytime, you can see burning, killing and looting everywhere. Because of the lack of food and the lack of physical security, most of the people who did not leave with the army began to flee. A small number of people in Xicheng chose to move to Dongcheng, where Chen Wukong zhì lived. There are also some forces that have hidden a little food, and they have begun to take the opportunity to fill the gap between the departure of the Good Friends.

In order to prevent the spread of chaos, Chen Wu had to send out the Taiping camp and temporarily block the north-south road.

He was still patiently waiting.

Only a day later, with the arrival of the third batch of supplies from Longhe, the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce and the Hongning Gang. The time was also ripe for the Taiping Rebels to advance eastward.

In this third batch of goods, in addition to grain, oil, iron ingots and other materials, there is also a special batch of goods.

A group of people, to be exact!

These people are shackled on their hands and feet, probably not seen in the light for many years, and their skin is unhealthy and pale. Although due to malnutrition. Make them look vain. But from the original physique and skeleton, it can be vaguely seen that these are tall warriors.

They are the Gaochang death row prisoners that Chen Wu spent a lot of money to get from the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce.

The Gaochang people are an ethnic minority in Guang'an County, west of Taiping County, with a population of no more than 10,000 people. Because they lived mainly in the mountains and forests, and lived by hunting and selling furs, many of the people were natural archers. Around the last year, thousands of Gaochang people rebelled because they were oppressed by the local government.

Needless to say, the northwest of the empire was fairly stable at that time. It was pacified by the army in a month.

After that battle, at least a thousand Gaochang soldiers were captured. Those who have no life in their hands are all reduced to hard labor to help with mining; If someone dies, he will be directly beaten to death row. Since the beginning of this year, several groups have been beheaded. The batch of death row prisoners in Chen Wu's hands were obtained by the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce after buying off the government and forging an accident.

Thirty people in total!

According to the records of the Guang'an government, these Gaochang death row prisoners had died due to a sudden plague.

The corpses were also hastily cremated for fear of the spread of the plague.

In order to buy this batch. Chen Wu really paid a lot of price. Due to the length of their captivity, they were not immediately able to enter the battle. It takes a period of recuperation to regain its original combat strength, which is another large expense.

However, these upfront investments are worth it.

These thirty Gaochang death row inmates were all carefully selected by the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce. Not only does he have an excellent fighter, but he also has superb archery skills. To put it mildly, every one who pulls it out can compete with the current commander of the infantry bow battalion and the former Orion Ning An.

There are their joining. Chen Wu's infantry battalion will also usher in a transformation of strength just like a horse team.

As for how to buy their hearts and minds and let these Gaochang archers use them for their own use, it is very simple.

Chen Wu ordered the people to remove the shackles from their hands and feet, and made a promise: after serving themselves for five years. Set them free, and then a sum of money will be paid for them to rebuild the destroyed Gaochang tribe!

After all, it was Chen Wu who paid for them, and these Gaochang shooters did not doubt Chen Wu's words. The hostility in their eyes immediately turned into excitement and gratitude. Among the thirty people, Gao Yueli, a leader with a high prestige, immediately took these clansmen to swear allegiance to Chen Wu.

Because of the irresolvable hatred with the emperor, the fighting spirit of this group of Gaochang shooters is definitely the most determined group in the rebel army.

Chen Wu also won the hearts of the people at the right time, appointed Gao Yueli as the deputy commander of the infantry bow battalion, and informed them in public of the treatment of the infantry bow battalion here.

Chen Wu has always been very generous to the elite combat power of his subordinates. The Gaochang people in Guang'an County have always lived a poor life, and even people often starve to death in winter. Hearing that these newcomers could get the same treatment, these thirty Gaochang shooters couldn't help but cheer.

What attracts them the most is not the additional monthly subsidy, but the food supply!

"General Gao Yi!"

Gao Yueli had a thousand words at this time, and only this one sentence was gathered. He was already a death row inmate, hopeless, and could be pushed out for beheading at any time. As a result, in a short period of time, there has been such a big change in life, and suddenly from the sea of suffering to heaven, Gao Yue's gratitude is really difficult to express in words.

"General Tiangong is really good."

The person in charge of the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, Wei Qijia, who resembles an old pedant, couldn't help but applaud when he saw this scene. At the same time, he couldn't help but be surprised that Chen Wu was well-informed.

The Gaochang rebellion, after all, was last year, and it happened in neighboring states and counties, and it was quickly put down, so the impact was not great. If it weren't for Chen Wu's mention, the Wei Qi family might not have thought of it, let alone buying a group of death row inmates to serve. This anti-thief leader who has risen in a very short period of time is really a bit of a doorway.

"It's just a good situation, it's nothing, and thanks to the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce for helping to transport it."

"What General Tiangong said, I won't tell you anything, our Chamber of Commerce actually makes a lot of money from small and medium-sized enterprises. It's a pity that ......" Wei Qijia sighed: "The last batch of goods has already been sold." ”

"In Rumsan it is."

Chen Wu said a meaningful word, waved his sleeves, and picked up the tea bowl.

Wei Qi's family was also interested, and when he saw this, he excused himself to be busy, so he got up and said goodbye. I just couldn't help muttering in my heart: This Tiangong general is really confident.

"However, the old man may really have to go to Wu'an."

………

After easily winning the hearts of these Gaochang people, Chen Wu no longer had the value of continuing to stay in Longshan City.

On the third day of the Eastward Advance of the Good Friends Association, the Taiping Camp was launched and also embarked on the eastward journey.

This time, instead of bringing the entire city of homeless people as he did in Yicheng and Lushan, he began to pick and choose. The rebel army has grown to its current size, and ordinary outcasts are not so useful. Especially those old and young and women, bringing them will not help much, but will waste food in vain. In the end, the more than 10,000 displaced people who were taken from Longshan were either related to the Taiping army, such as the families of those craftsmen in the Craftsman Bureau, and the rest were almost all young men.

The value of such a group of displaced people is extremely great, whether it is used for labor or to drive them to attack the city, it is no less than the displaced people of Mo Guohao and Xu Shizhong's left and right armies.

Another advantage is that such an army of displaced people can move faster.

Since the towns along the way had basically been breached by the front army, Chen Wu only took a week to rush to a hundred miles. During this period, the left and right armies of the Taiping Righteous Army were also constantly attacking the city. When the first garrison brigade of Wu'an, the county seat, did not move, the counties of the entire Taiping County could basically only rely on their own city defense battalions and temporarily recruited militia groups to confront. This kind of resistance is powerless in the face of tens of thousands of displaced people and thousands of elite urban defense battalions.

On October 17, after besieging the city for three days, the Left Route Army broke through Chaojing County.

The county commander of Chaojing County hanged himself, and more than 30% of the two large city defense battalions were killed in the battle, and the rest all surrendered.

On the 19th, the Right Route Army released several groups of rebels in advance disguised as fleeing civilians and infiltrated Chikang County. With them, they responded to the attack when the army attacked the city, and Chikang County was captured after only one day of resistance. After a day's rest, the army on the right continued eastward, sweeping four or five villages and towns along the way. Although many of the displaced people who set out from Longshan were killed or wounded along the way, the total number of people not only did not decrease, but expanded to more than 60,000.

At the same time, the front army of the Good Friends Society also marched roughly in tandem with the two armies, advancing to a place less than fifty miles away from Wu'an in one go.

If you count the Ganding Mansion, which was empty due to famine, at least half of the entire Taiping County has fallen!

For a time, the Good Friends Association and the Taiping Righteous Army were incomparable, and they shocked the entire Taiping County.

Not everyone is smart enough to see clearly. Many eyes can only take care of the surrounding forces, and do not see what the real main force of the empire is doing, only see the rebels easily conquering the city. In the face of their attack, the officers and troops lost their cities and land, and they were defeated and retreated, and they were unable to resist. The center of the empire has also been slow to act, let alone send any decent counterinsurgency army. Half of the county's territory, the moon is falling, which is clearly the weather of the dead country.

The Qianyuan Empire's qi is running out!

I don't know who said such a sentence first, and the rumors spread quickly.

The horse bandits, rogues, and even the ambitious Haoqiang and Huidaomen in Taiping County were bewildered by the great shape of the righteous army. Some people who just want to eat with the bastard and get some benefits are vying to take the initiative to defect. There are even some people who claim to have seen the power of "Tianshi" clearly, and follow the example of the righteous army and the Good Friends Association, and raise a rebel army by themselves to "fight for the world".

Within the scope of the county town of Wu'an and Dongguan Mansion, the Red Mei Army, the Changsheng Army, the Little Knife Society, and the ** Gate have emerged one after another......

Many of them are well-known local forces! (To be continued......)