The bed crossbow is a sharp weapon, and there is no doubt about the lethality of the city used to defend the city. In a salvo, more than one javelin pierced at least two people due to the good angle, like a sugar gourd on a bamboo skewer, nailing their bodies to the ground.

Combined with the shooting of the infantry archers, more than a dozen Longshan people were killed or injured in an instant.

Suddenly encountering such an attack, the people below who filled the river panicked. Some people tried to escape, but they were immediately killed by the rebels behind, and the leaders of the rebels were still there shouting: "Retreat and die!" Go and drop the dirt bag, lose three and you can live! ”

In order to prevent the officers and soldiers from concentrating on bed crossbows and stone throwers, Chen Wu's rebel army and the Good Friends Society attacked on both sides at the same time. Compared with Chen Wu's Taiping Righteous Army, although the Good Friends Association's side is not the main direction of attack, it is only to confuse the officials and soldiers, but the means are more cruel than Chen Wu's, that is, to force the captured people of Longshan to keep filling the river. This is actually not a clever method, it seems that those people are constantly filling the river, but in fact, the people of Longshan who are driven away are often focused on dodging the attacks of the official army, and the efficiency is extremely low.

In contrast, the people of Longshan on Chen Wu's side are much more active because they have a specific goal.

If you lose three packs, you can survive!

First make people desperate, and then give people hope, this is what Chen Wu is better than the Good Friends Association.

The sooner you fill it out, the sooner you'll be able to get out of this hell. Thinking of it this way, the nimble one had already run back and forth—just fill two more bags, and he wouldn't have to be driven to death again. Driven by this survival **, the river reclamation efficiency on Chen Wu's side far exceeds that of the Good Friends Association.

It seems that in a short period of time, hundreds of dirt bags have been successfully thrown into the moat by the displaced people.

With such an astonishing speed, cold sweat broke out on Mo Lun's face.

Can't be soft-hearted!

Previously, he only ordered the infantry archers and bed crossbows to attack, and did not use the stone thrower, which had already taken into account the situation of the officers and soldiers. At the same time, there is also a faint expectation that the people of Longshan, who filled the river below, will scatter and flee after being hit. But the thieves were so tightly organized that Morun realized that they couldn't stop them from attacking the city without being completely ruthless.

"Stone thrower, use stone thrower!"

On the head of the city of Longshan Mansion, a total of eight stone throwing machines were arranged. Due to neglect of maintenance, two of them were almost unusable.

Fortunately, Chen Wu and the others chose to enclose three and put one, so there were still two stone throwers on each city wall.

The type of stone throwing machine owned by Longshan City is similar to Chen Wu's, and it is also a torsion stone throwing machine. Although the delicacy and accuracy are slightly inferior to the style that Chen Wu came up with, the specifications are much larger than Chen Wu's two small stone throwing machines, which are enough to throw fifty catties of stones nearly two hundred steps away, and the lethality is amazing. If it is replaced with one or two pounds of stone bullets, dozens of them can be scattered at once, and it can carry out intensive strikes on a wide range of enemy troops.

If he could, Moren really didn't want to use this against the innocent people below. Not to mention compassion, even if he repels the thief army, his reputation will be stinky. But in the current situation, if these people are allowed to fill the river, Longshan Mansion will lose the first barrier in a very short time.

"Do it!"

He closed his eyes and gave the final order to the officers and soldiers who had already twisted the winch.

At the head of the city, two stone-throwing machines that had been adjusted to the angle shook, and the rope stretched to the extreme contracted violently, throwing the stone projectile at the other end of the cross arm into the air. Like a goddess scattering flowers, the two trebuchets combined with sixty stone bullets smashed into the crowd of Longshan people under the city, and there were a large number of casualties in an instant.

This sudden and terrible blow almost stunned the people of Longshan who were carrying sacks.

They had never seen such casualties before, some of them begged for mercy loudly after coming back to their senses, some sat on the ground with their legs limp and collapsed, and some even fainted directly from blood and brains.

"Go on!"

Moren hardened his heart, unmoved, and once again gave orders to the officers and soldiers who operated the stone thrower.

Three waves of stone throwers smashed down, and more than 100 of the people of Longshan, who were driven to fill the river, were killed and injured, and they completely collapsed. Chen Wu sent the rebels who supervised the battle to cut down more than a dozen people in a row, and only then did they barely re-suppress them, and continued to drive them to fill in.

Although many of the rebel soldiers were unbearable, they also knew that if these people did not do it, it might be their turn to die. Everyone knows very well which one to choose between other people's lives and their own, not to mention that these Longshan people are actually strangers to them.

All the way from Yicheng to here, many of the rebel soldiers already have a bit of ruthlessness that only real soldiers have, which is indifference to life.

Under the pressure of swords and guns and the forced drive of the rebels, it took half a day before and after, and the moat was finally filled in with a road that could barely lead to guò. Most of the people of Longshan Mansion who were arrested were killed or injured as a result. From the front of the rebel army to the foot of Longshan City, there were broken and broken limbs everywhere. The surviving people of Longshan were crying, and many officials, soldiers, and civilians in the city were also crying, and their morale fell sharply.

"You can try to attack a few waves, and put some pressure on the officers and soldiers of Longshan first."

Chen Wu took the high-ranking members of the rebel army to observe outside the city for a moment and made a decision.

With this decision, in the evening of the same day, the food distributed by the Taiping Rebels to 80,000 displaced people was reduced by 20% on the basis of the previous days.

Before that, the displaced people could only barely eat half full of food every day, so that they would not starve to death. Now it will be reduced by two percent, and it will really reach the point where people can starve to death. Many homeless people who couldn't bear it, especially the Lushan homeless people who joined later, began to be dissatisfied and noisy, followed by restlessness and tandem.

However, these Lushan people soon found that almost everyone was dissatisfied with the rebels, but few dared to respond and come forward.

Furious, they quickly thought of a reason - the boot camp!

Those who are young, strong, prickly, and dare to make trouble in Lushan have all been recruited into the new barracks by Chen Wu in advance.

This recruit battalion of four or five thousand people, although it has been in a semi-free-range state and has no training, but after all, it has an establishment and can enjoy the treatment of the rebels. Although it is much worse than the Volunteer Battalion, and the food is also rationed, and it cannot be eaten openly, it can at least ensure that it is basically full, which is much better than those homeless people outside.

Regarding the deliberate reduction of food supply, the rebels also explained in advance. Whoever dares to make trouble with the outcasts outside will be expelled from the recruit camp!

This simple order immediately made these recruits honest with their people.

Don't make trouble, you can eat enough. If you make trouble, you will have to lose your job and have to be court-martialed. How are other people doing, and what are they doing?

With such thoughts, many of the rebels in the new battalion not only did not follow suit, but began to take the initiative to assist the volunteer battalion in suppressing the displaced people in order to maintain their own status. The reasoning that should be explained has been said in advance, there is only so much food for the rebels, and if you give more food to the displaced people outside, you will have less.

Sounds easy to understand, doesn't it?

Thus, the short-lived farce was quickly quelled before it was completely dark, and not even a slightly larger ripple was caused. However, the problem was not solved. People have to eat to live, even if the troublemakers are suppressed, they still have to starve to death if they don't have food to eat.

Some people vaguely thought that the rebels might do something the next day.

As the clever people among these displaced people expected, early the next morning, after the rebels were cooking here, the displaced people quickly saw the scene that had appeared outside Lushan City: in addition to the distributed grain, there were baskets of cooked rice on the carts of grain.

"The rebels are recruiting heroes! Those who dare to go up to attack the city will have a full ...... of rice."

With the example of Lushan before, coupled with the deliberate restraint last night, the volunteer battalion that preached was frightened by the swarm of the homeless people before they could say a few words. Looking at the homeless people who were ten times more enthusiastic than last time, the leader of the volunteer battalion hurriedly ordered people to maintain order, and then began to select from them.

Two hours later, the first batch of 1,000 displaced people had eaten their fill, and were pulled to the front of the battle in a state of anxiety.

These temporary cannon fodder were once again incorporated into the Xiandeng camp that only existed at this time. Each of them carried a small bag of dirt and continued to reinforce the road that had been filled in yesterday, while a bamboo gun was issued. Some people who have proven themselves in Lushan and signed up again this time have been specially singled out, and the treatment is obviously much better. Some were given wooden shields, and a few were given some martial arts, and even a set of paper armor.