"In other words, there are almost no organized resistance forces in Yicheng now?"

After listening to the confessions of several people, Dian Yong was first happy, and then sighed a little and made up his mind. Wang Baihu's hometown is in Lijia Village outside the city, so he can leave it alone for the time being. Zhou Baihu is in the north of the city, and he also brought two henchmen, so he can't just let it go. He immediately ordered two teams of people to be separated, and tied a veteran soldier to go forward to capture Zhou Baihu.

There are only two high-grade military attaches in the entire Yicheng, and after they are caught, even if there are scattered soldiers of the city defense battalion or government officials who want to resist, they are still leaderless.

"The rest, follow me."

He greeted him, left three teams to guard the schoolyard and the prisoners, and led the others to the arsenal, which was only half a street away.

The news of the rebellion of the rebels has gradually spread in the city. The arsenal is very close to the school field, and the news has been obtained. It's just that the quartermaster with the key to the arsenal was not there, and the four soldiers of the city defense battalion in charge of guarding couldn't contact anyone for a while, and they didn't dare to smash open the gate to get the bow and crossbow armor without permission, so they could only wait in place in a daze. Seeing that the school field was controlled by the rebels, seventy or eighty people came towards the arsenal, and the four soldiers of the city defense battalion who were in charge of guarding them, you look at me, I look at you, and dispersed in a hurry.

Even if he is held accountable afterwards, it is better than being hacked to death by the rebels here!

So, after Dian Yong led people to capture the arsenal, he saw such a scene. The storehouse that sealed all the ordnance and armor of the Yicheng City Defense Battalion was closed and intact. And the soldiers guarding it have taken off their robes and fled without a trace.

"It's too smooth."

The rebel soldiers who followed the fight, seeing that the arsenal didn't even move their knives and fell into their hands, they really couldn't accept it.

Has the rule of the empire been eroded to such an extent?

The answer, of course, is "no"!

As the commander of the rebel army, Chen Wu was well aware of the current situation of the empire. Those local city defense battalions located in the hinterland of the empire and without strategic locations to speak of, like the Eight Banners Green Battalion before the crossing, have indeed been eroded and have no combat power to speak of. However, the main battle force of the empire, the power at the prefecture and county levels, has not been affected much for the time being, and it has maintained an extremely high or even first-class military strength in the Eastern Continent. The rule of the empire is also maintained by these troops.

Of course, aside from the above reasons, Yicheng's resistance force is useless, and there is another point that cannot be ignored: Chen Wu and they have indeed done a good job.

If the Yicheng government had gotten the news early, gathered the officials, soldiers and civilians in advance, and distributed all the swords, armor, salaries, and silver, the situation would have been different. The second-rate garrison troops in these places, no matter how useless they are, will always have the strength to fight in the face of a group of rebels composed of mud legs.

Dian Yong may not know this as clearly as Chen Wu knows, but he also knows that the city defense battalion in Yicheng is not representative. Otherwise, it would not be possible for the empire to single-handedly confront the Varsa people in the northwest, the Lena dynasty in the north, and the Omani kingdom in the south.

Fortunately, the Empire's war against the Northwest Tile Thorn is imminent, and the center will not be able to draw a large army to encircle and suppress them for a while. Thinking of this, Dian Yong breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, looked at the closed door of the arsenal in front of him, and gave the order to smash it open to the accompanying rebels.

Although the city defense battalion responsible for the defense is gone, the gate of the arsenal is still intact. Due to the heavy wood and a thin layer of iron on the outside, the gate of the arsenal has an incredibly tough face. The rebels cut down the willow tree at the door, held it up, used it as a simple battering ram, and began to bang on the door.

"Boom!"

A dull crash sounded.

Dozens of volunteers divided into three waves, and hit more than a dozen times in a row, but they failed to shake the gate of the arsenal. In the end, Dian Yong personally took a hand and exerted a lot of strength, and then he broke the door with a bang. Immediately, a strange smell of pungent leather, black oil, and quicklime came from the warehouse.

The influx of rebels paid no attention to the strange smell, and they were stunned by what they saw.

There were more than ten large weapon racks, each stacked with twenty Imperial swords. Although many of them have been corroded by rust due to improper storage, no matter how rusty they are, as long as they are sharpened a little, they are still far beyond the current level of the righteous army.

Next to the weapon rack were large bundles of shoddy spears.

The connection between the spearhead and the barrel of the spear was tied with red tassels, and it seemed that it was used for the training of the militia regiments in various places, and there were at least a few hundred rods. Although the texture is much worse than the sword on the weapon rack, compared to the king blacksmith in Changshan Town, the level is one underground and one heavenly.

For the struggling soldiers who lacked everything, so many weapons alone were enough to make them cheer with happiness. But what surprised them even more was that at the other end of the arsenal, there were at least one hundred and fifty sets of light infantry standard leather armor, plus four sets of chain mail that only a hundred households were qualified to wear. Although most of the leather armor is old, and some of the leather strips are worn off, they are still usable.

That's at least 150 sets of protective gear!

What impressed Dian Yong the most was that in addition to these swords and armor, there were also twenty imperial war bows hanging on the walls of the arsenal. Although they are all eight-bucket bows, he is too soft to use, but he can completely give them to Nanbao. In the corner, there are ten bundles of feather arrows in total, and you can vaguely smell the smell of lacquer on the shaft and tail feathers.

This is a full set of weapons that will arm the elite of the rebels to the teeth!

As for the four sets of chain mail, it is even more incredible. The iron rings made of wrought iron are stacked in series, and ordinary bladed arrows cannot penetrate at all, and they have a defensive power far beyond leather armor. The cost and time of crafting this set of chain mail alone is enough to make at least five sets of leather armor.

For a while, even Dian Yong had the thought of "this is called real armor" in his heart.

It is worth mentioning that the arsenal is quite complete. In addition to the armament, other scattered ones include tung oil, horseshoe, horse-rejection, rolling wood, thistle, flint...... All kinds of inconspicuous and inconspicuous objects. For example, if all the rolling logs in stock were moved to the city, they could kill and injure at least a few hundred thieves. And if Chen Wu's rebel army was smashed by rolling wood, gold juice and hot oil during the siege, he was afraid that it would collapse immediately.

"It's ours."

Sun Tian, who came in later, saw so many weapons and armor, and his eyes were straight. After the surprise, he cheered and immediately wanted his men to change their clothes.

However, Dian Yong stopped him.

Although the weapons and armor are changed now, it can indeed immediately improve the combat power of the rebels. If things are in a hurry, Dian Yong will not talk about so many rules. But the fact is that the situation in Yicheng has completely fallen into the control of the rebels, so he ordered the soldiers to count the weapons, armor, and all kinds of supplies, and no one was allowed to take them privately.

After Chen Wu and his army arrived, it was left to him to decide.

Sun Tian's thinking was still relatively simple, and he didn't understand the Tao inside, so he wondered: "General Dian is the general of the earth, how to divide these weapons is not a matter of your words......

Dian Yong couldn't help but laugh at this ignorant remark and didn't answer.

After seeing Chen Wu's series of methods, and attacking Yicheng so smoothly, he was already somewhat optimistic about this rebel army. And if you want to do it for a long time, you can't help but pay attention to the way of ministers and generals. A rebel army can have many generals, but only one leader. Maybe no one will care about the Righteous Army when it starts up now, but when it gets bigger in the future, there will be more villains with charm, so it's hard to say.

So, it's better to pay attention to some things from the beginning.

Dian Yong is undoubtedly a smart man.

Just when the excited rebels were still counting the captures in the arsenal, there was a faint sound of drums and noise from the west city gate. Dian Yong, who knew that the Yicheng official army had no resistance force, immediately understood that it was the brigade of the righteous army that had arrived. He immediately left all the rebels who accompanied him, and only took a few followers to rush towards the west gate, preparing to report to Chen Wu with Sun Tian, and narrate the details of Yicheng.

Before they could return to the West City Gate, the two of them had already seen a large number of ordinary rebels pouring into the city.

Seeing this scene, Dian Yong knew that Yicheng was really finished!