"The anti-thieves have attacked Yicheng!"

"It's not a good thing, let's run for your life."

"A lot of thieves."

The west gate was seized, and no one found it because it was fast enough to be hidden. But when the rebel army of hundreds of people entered the city, the news could no longer be hidden. These people, who were in tattered clothes and armed with spears and swords, were neither officials nor soldiers nor the nearby militia groups, and they knew at a glance that they had come with bad intentions. Occasionally, the people of Yicheng who met on the road and went out, and when they saw this scene, they reacted in the same way, exclaimed, turned around and fled. There are also people who realized that something was wrong, turned around and rushed towards the county government in Yicheng, wanting to report to the government.

"Ignore them!"

At this time, it was too late to find out that the rebels had entered the city. Dian Yong restrained his subordinates, ignored these Yicheng people, and after turning two corners in a row, he took a shortcut of more than a mile and rushed to the city defense camp school in the northwest corner of the city.

The city defense battalion of two hundred-strong teams assembles here on weekdays.

When he went to the city to do errands before, Dian Yong had come here more than once to see it.

According to the imperial system, the local army drilled twice a week. On weekdays, except for those who are on patrol duty, other soldiers are not allowed to bring weapons and armor, and all of them are stored in the arsenal. Before the battle, it was issued by the quartermaster who held the key to the arsenal. As a result, the school grounds and arsenals of the city defense battalions are often not far away, and some are even located right next to the camps.

The same is true of Yicheng.

As the most important point of a city's armed forces, the school grounds and camps of the city defense battalion are undoubtedly the most difficult to gnaw. In addition to the soldiers patrolling the four gates, judging from the number on paper, there should be at least fourteen or so teams of soldiers in the school barracks in Yicheng, that is, nearly one hundred and forty people. In addition, there should have been four teams of cavalry, including forty horsemen and between fifty and eighty war horses.

However, it is on paper because it is not real.

If the garrison of Yicheng is really as strong as when the country was founded, then Chen Wu would better obediently go back to Changshan to move stones. In fact, as early as ten years before the launch of "Empire", Yicheng's city defense force was already strictly empty. The proportion of empty salaries alone is more than 40%. In other words, the two teams of 200 people that should have been regulated are actually only 120 people, and the other 80 people only exist on paper. Only when someone from above the empire comes to inspect it, the local military attaché will temporarily recruit scoundrels and the like, and change into official clothes to make up the number.

This kind of method can be seen naturally as long as it is a drill. However, this kind of empty salary has long become the default rule of the local troops, and the inspection above and the local military attachés have also been in collusion. As long as filial piety is received, Shangguan will turn a blind eye and be safe with each other.

Of course, even if there is forty percent of the empty salary, the remaining more than 100 people are still a number that is difficult for the rebels to gnaw. Don't forget, by this year, the name of the city defense battalion has long been ruined in Yicheng, and whose good family is willing to be a soldier. Those who are really willing to eat this bowl of rice are all splashes or veteran oilers who have no other livelihood. These people are lazy and lazy, they may not practice once in a few months, and only God knows how much combat effectiveness there is.

For various reasons, when the guide took a hundred infantry soldiers to the gate of the school field, the two soldiers in the camp didn't even understand the situation at all.

One of them had white hair and age spots on his face, and he dozed under the vines.

Another person with a splashy appearance was holding a pu fan with his bare arms, and he did not raise the alarm at the first time, but looked at them blankly and asked strangely: "Where are you from the militia?" ”

There was no movement at the city gate, and the splash skin didn't think of the possibility of rebellion at all, but regarded it as a local militia group that was transferred to the autumn exercise in advance.

"This ...... Is it the emperor**? ”

Along the way, many of the rebel soldiers were ready for a bloody battle. The progress of Ke Shun lì to the excessive, coupled with the negligence and slackness of the local army, could not help but make these rebel soldiers look at each other. The empire, which was originally sacred and invincible in their hearts, seemed to have suddenly faded a layer of aura. The fear of the emperor's ** power also dissipated most of it unconsciously.

If the army of the empire is all of this color......

The courage of many rebel soldiers suddenly grew.

"What do I ask you? Where did you come from? Seeing that the atmosphere of the rebels outside the school was weird, and no one answered, Splashy finally became a little vigilant and asked, "What about the transfer order of Shen County?" Who called you here? ”

The raised voice woke up the dazed old soldier under the vines, and looked over with a yawn, looking very dissatisfied with the awakening of him.

"I knew it for a long time, but I really didn't expect it to come to this point......

Dian Yong sighed with mixed feelings, he was originally going to seal the school door first. But what else is there to say about this scene in front of you?

With a wave of his hand, five teams of eager rebels rushed in.

Seeing the ill intentions of these rebels who came in, the two finally realized that something was wrong. Splashy turned around and ran into the camp, while the dazed veteran shouted, "It's not good, there's a mob to make trouble......

Before he could finish speaking, he was stabbed to death by the rebels with a spear.

The rest of the rebels walked over the corpse and caught up with the fleeing splash, slashing him in the back and screaming and falling down.

This scream aroused the attention of the soldiers of the city defense battalion in the camp. A few shirtless soldiers who were gambling muttered a few times, and walked out with their coats on and scolding, wanting to see what was happening, but they ran into dozens of murderous rebels head-on. These people couldn't help but be stunned, and subconsciously looked around.

"What the hell is going on?"

"Is Lao Tzu dazzled?"

"Wang Laolai, pinch me quickly."

However, a few people were stunned, and the rebels would not be stupid. Sun Tian, who was holding back his heart and wanted to win the deputy of the first team, rushed to the front first. Relying on Chen Wufa's leather armor on his body, he has a desperate style of fighting, and he will cut people when he sees them. At this time, a few gamblers screamed and dropped their half-worn coats and gambling sieves...... Scatter and flee!

"The officers and soldiers have fled!"

I don't know who shouted, the morale of the rebels soared, and Sapo generally chased after them.

Nan Bao, the leader of the Bugong Battalion, who was stunned, never dreamed that the officers and troops in Yicheng would be so vulnerable. After half a ring, he smiled bitterly, pulled out the hunting bow on his body, and aimed at one person. Although his archery skills are not as good as Dian Yong, they are not worse than Chen Wu. After squinting for a moment, he let go of the hand pulling the string.

The next moment, the soldier who had run the farthest screamed and fell to the ground.

With the help of archers, the rebels killed all of them in an instant and began to search the barracks one by one. Soon, the rebels searched out six or seven soldiers who were hiding in the barracks of the school yard and did not dare to come out. With the exception of one who briefly resisted and was killed, and one of the volunteers was slightly wounded, the other five groups of rebels were unscathed. When I found the horse shed prepared for the four teams of cavalry in a corner of the school field, there was actually a bare-chested guy who had been drunk last night and was leaning on the trough where the horses were fed and falling asleep!

The previous fight failed to wake him up.

"The officers and soldiers are so vulnerable!"

Whether it was the rebels who shot in, or the five teams of soldiers blocking the gate of the school field, there were thoughts of disbelief and ecstasy in their hearts. Soon, the entire school grounds were searched, and all the officers and men of the city defense battalion who were alive were disarmed, tied up, and locked in the barracks.

"What about your chief? What about the rest of the city defense battalion soldiers? ”

Dian Yong kicked a few panicked officers and soldiers, and interrogated them sharply.

In the entire city defense camp of Yicheng, except for the ten people who were killed in Changshan Town, only these ten people in the camp remained. Counting the other three gates, the total number is thirty or forty. No matter how much you eat empty salary, it is impossible for the two brigades to have only such a point. There are at least dozens of soldiers from the city defense battalion, and I don't know where they went.

With such a force, Dian Yong can't turn a blind eye.

"Uncle Huidian, the old house of the Wang Baihu family was repaired, and seven or eight brothers were called to help. Zhou Baihu only combed a few days ago to comb a Qing man, and he stayed there last night and hasn't come back yet. And also...... Oh yes, the poles selling smuggled salt in the south of the city are fighting, and Mrs. Shen called more than a dozen brothers to arrest people because of the lack of manpower to catch people......"

The threat of being held to the neck with a knife on the wrist caused these people to weep bitterly and rushed to tell the whereabouts of the other soldiers of the city defense battalion.