Dengzhou.

As the county seat of Songjiang County, Dengju has a population of 400,000 and is the most prosperous city in Songjiang County. Although in the past few years, due to the advanced age of the governor Chi Chang, he has gradually neglected to take care of political affairs, but due to the favorable wind and rain, the local richness, and the fact that there are enough officials and troops to suppress it, Dengzhou can still be called a song and dance.

In fact, not only Dengzhou, but also the entire Songjiang County can be called a peaceful and prosperous era. Aside from the occasional invasion of pirates across the border, there are no other problems.

It is precisely because of this that when Wei Chichang, who has not appeared in the Governor's Mansion for a long time, gets a report from the civil officer, he will be so dismissive.

"Thousands of thieves fled into the Bayan Mountains, and may flow to my Songjiang? How is this possible! ”

He shook his head again and again, not believing it at all.

Even an experienced hunter may not be able to cross the Bayan Mountains, and it is impossible for a group of thieves to want to cross it.

"Back to the governor, according to the notice that came with the Di Bao, the nearly 10,000 people who escaped are the elite of the anti-thieves, and the thieves are treacherous, so they have to be guarded against." The hand dutifully reminded him, but he obviously didn't take it seriously when he looked at his face, he was just doing his duty.

"Alright, the Governor already knows."

Wei Chichang yawned, and seemed to be a little out of spirit, obviously lacking interest in this topic. However, out of the rules, he still sent an official letter to the two prefectures of Yuyang Chi, but how many people will care, only God knows.

………

The same scene was played out again in Yuyang Mansion a week later.

"The person in charge of countering the rebellion seems to be Shen Haoen, the general of the city guards, right? This is to promote his own great martial arts! The city guard of Yuyang Mansion flicked his finger on the official document and scoffed at this: "What kind of Taiping Army Good Friends Association, known as hundreds of thousands of righteous soldiers, so many people were pacified by him Shen Haoen overnight. As a result, less than 10,000 thieves escaped, so the government should be on guard? I look down on our Songjiang too much! ”

Dissatisfaction is dissatisfaction, also out of the rules of officialdom, he also routinely sends official documents again.

Because both sides did not take it seriously, they delayed again and again, and the result was that when the official government of Jinghu County and Dingguang County in Baima County received the official document, it was already early March. If there were really thieves coming over, I am afraid that these few months would have been enough for them to pass through Bayan Mountain. There is no movement now, no matter how you think about it, they are all dead in the barren mountains and mountains, and the corpses are afraid that they will rot.

The Zou County Decree of Dingguang County has already regarded this official document as a joke.

After reading it, he casually passed the letter to the left and right, stroked his beard and said: "As said in the newspaper before, the leader of the homeless thieves learned of the official army's crusade, and was frightened to flee hundreds of miles away. Such rats, why do you need to make a big move. ”

A group of homeless people are just thieves, and Zou County Ling has never looked at them.

"What the county master said is very true!"

"The old man above is just too careful! Are the Bayan Mountains so good? Back then, our county sent so many people, but in the end, it was not in vain, how many people died in it and never came back. ”

"It's a pity for the little ones, those thieves can't get over and they are cheap. If they really come, let's let them see the bravery of the Songjiang boysreads();。 It is also the group of wine bags and rice bags in Taiping County that will let a gang of thieves attack the county town in a few months! ”

sang and sang left and right, which made Zou Xianling feel very good, and couldn't help but brag a few words. threatened that if the thief dared to appear, he would carry a three-foot sword and personally go into battle, and behead ten or eight of his thieves in order to repay the emperor's kindness!

However, if Zou Xianling learned at this moment that the 10,000 rebels had disguised themselves as officials and ran ten miles outside his city openly, I don't know if he could still laugh so happily.

Under Chen Wu's order, tens of thousands of troops marched straight towards Dingguang County.

The 400-strong horse team, each divided into a 100-strong brigade, made a detour and accelerated to the other three city gates of Dingguang County, preparing to block the county seat.

Subsequently, the two teams of cavalry slowed down their horses and swaggered towards the west gate of Dingguang County.

If there are too many people, it may arouse the vigilance of the Dingguang County Defense Battalion. Twenty horsemen, all of whom seemed to be Imperial cavalry, could approach the gates without arousing any suspicion, and then suddenly accelerate and rush in to take the gates.

As long as the gate is taken, the rest is ...... There is no such thing as zài.

While the three-way cavalry detoured and blocked the door, these twenty cavalry from the western official road did not arouse the slightest suspicion of the Dingguang County City Defense Battalion. Seeing that the cavalry trotted close to a hundred paces away, several soldiers of the Dingguang County Defense Battalion who were basking in the sun on the city gate tower got up lazily and prepared to ask a clear question.

That's when the change happened.

As the distance narrowed further, the twenty cavalrymen not only did not enter the city with horses, but suddenly began to charge at an accelerated pace. As soon as he entered the city gate cave, a soldier of the city defense battalion was startled, looked at the galloping war horse, quickly turned sideways, and cursed loudly: "Turtle grandson! Which part of you is in a hurry to reincarnate? ”

So far, there has not been any crisis in his heart!

The unique geographical location of Songjiang County, coupled with the three hundred years of peace of the empire, made the officials and soldiers in this county comfortable for too long. The Daqing Pass in the north and the Tiannan Army in Tiannan County in the south became two strong barriers. The only pirates who could come from the east were also watched by a garrison brigade, and they couldn't harass Dingguang County, which was far western.

This carelessness cost him his life!

Yan San, who was in the lead, rushed two steps away from him, and the bright sword light flashed. With a powerful impact, the head of the soldier of the city defense battalion flew up, and he fell to the ground almost instantly.

"The officers and soldiers have killed people!"

Several people from Dingguang County, who were preparing to leave the city, were frightened.

They did not expect that the officers and cavalry from outside suddenly attacked the city defense camp, and without warning, they drew their swords and killed people, and scattered after screaming. The cavalry who rushed in did not chase them, but rode their horses in a circle, killed the soldiers of the city defense battalion of the other two cities, and then jumped off their horses, rushed to the head of the city with their swords, and began to control the west gate of Dingguang County.

"Where did the officers and soldiers trespass on Dingguang? The brethren stopped them! ”

Seeing that the few comrades who went there were all cut down, the remaining soldiers of the city defense battalion couldn't figure out what was going on, but they also knew that something must have gone wrong. The captain in charge of Simon shouted loudly and ordered a hand to ring the bell to warn. However, although Yan Dongxing and them are cavalrymen, their kung fu is not bad. In the face of their skillful swordsmanship, an ordinary city defense battalion really couldn't make any waves.

After being cut down several in succession, the remaining half of the city defense battalion soldiers were stunned.

At Yan Dongxing's drinking order, they lost their weapons in horror and surrendered reads();!

The West Gate quickly fell into control.

More cavalry came up from behind and swarmed along the west gate. After arresting one person and asking for the road, he went straight to the school field of the city defense camp.

The armies of the Taiping Battalion and the Volunteer Battalion would soon arrive in a hurry.

At this time, there was also a faint alarm bell from the city wall in other directions, and it was obvious that there was a problem with the "official army" cavalry brigade blocking the door. However, the four hundred horse team was not a force that Dingguang County could resist at all. Before the hundred households of the two city defense battalions had time to gather their hands, they were scattered and captured by the cavalry in a panic.

"What the hell is going on?"

The two hundred households, until they were captured, were all confused, and they did not understand why the "official army" did something to their own people.

一qiē is more smooth than expected.

With 6,000 elite soldiers in the presence and surprise attacks to seize the gate, it is too easy to master a small city of tens of thousands of people. Before dark, the chaotic order was re-pacified by the "officials and soldiers", and the county's grain depot and money bank were immediately taken over. Except that the city gate is closed and no entry is allowed to go out, Dingguang County is no different from the past.

There were a few scoundrels who dared to take advantage of the fire to rob, and they were directly tied up with fifty military sticks, and then no one dared to make trouble.

"This county wants to give you a copy to General Leji! The soldiers attacked Dingguang County and looted the place, killing innocent soldiers and civilians indiscriminately......"

In the county government, Zou County, who was so anxious that he jumped to his feet, was denouncing or intimidating Chen Wu, the "Tiger General". The expression of lust and inwardness was faintly tinged with fear of the army outside.

The county order of a small county town, Chen Wu, who was surrounded by guards, didn't take him to heart at all, he played with the county order seal in his hand, and at the same time looked through the newspaper sent by Yuyang Mansion with Yuan Xingwei and Shi Xianqian.

Although the situation in the empire should not change abruptly, after all, he has been isolated from the world in the Bayan Mountains for more than two months, and he does not dare to guarantee that all affairs and affairs will be the same as expected. The newspapers sent by Zhongzhou to local governments are undoubtedly the best channel to understand the situation in various places.

After spending a quarter of an hour, Chen Wu had a detailed understanding of the situation in various parts of the empire, and he was completely relieved.

To the south, the Kingdom of Oman is ready to move, and it seems that it is really preparing to take the initiative to attack before early summer.

And Wudou Midao, in the southwest of the empire, was not surprising and was forced to rebel in advance. The army divided into two roads, all the way in Longxi, like a bamboo, won one after another; Along the way, he fought repeatedly with the division of Danyang County, and after a small setback, he entered a stalemate. At the same time, the empire had already urgently appointed Chengguo Gong Qian Taizhuo as the general of Zhenxi last month, with full responsibility for quelling the Wudou Midao rebellion.

In this case, no matter what you do in Songjiang County, the empire is powerless!

Chen Wu and Yuan Xingwei communicated in a very casual whisper, which made Zou County's voice gradually quieter, and the more he listened, the paler his face became. He had dealt with the officials of Tiannan County many times, and he knew the accent there very well. Maybe he didn't pay attention to the anger at first, but now that he calmed down, he soon noticed the abnormality. Moreover, the content of the discussion between the two made him even more frightened.

There are only four words to describe: great rebellion!

Inadvertently thinking of the official document that was still sneering at noon, Zou Xianling thought of something, his face changed greatly, and then he was puzzled and incredulous.

It's a pity that I realized the truth at this time, and it was too late!