"I remember...... It's Nanjiazhuang over there. ”

After recalling it, Old Man Zheng was surprised: "Could it be that the weather is dry and dry, and he accidentally went off the rails?" It's not right, Nanjiazhuang is at least five or six miles away from here, and you can see it so far away, how strong is the fire? Could it be that the whole Zhuangzi is burning? ”

When this inference was spoken, Old Man Zheng couldn't help but be moved.

"Not good!"

He didn't care about talking about the woman's buttocks, so he slammed the horse's belly hard, and accelerated towards Nanjiazhuang. Jiang Ji also realized that something was wrong, and chased after him. As the distance approached, pillars of smoke rose one after another, making the hearts of the two almost sink to the bottom. What kind of accident can make the fire like this?

What are the people in Nanjiazhuang doing, why don't they put out the fire?

With doubts, the two climbed over a hill in front of them. However, the situation that appeared in front of their eyes stunned the two.

Nanjiazhuang in the distance has become a sea of fire. A little closer, densely packed, with a few thousand people, marching in a chaotic procession. Jiang Ji's eyes were sharp, and he could see clearly, almost everyone in the team was holding bamboo spears and spears. And, just in front of the army, not far from them, several riders with knives were trotting over the hill.

Because of this raised hill, the two sides are only separated by 100 meters, and they haven't even seen each other before!

"This ...... This...... It's amazing! ”

Old man Zheng was older after all, and he stared blankly for a few seconds, and his face turned white.

Jiang Ji didn't react yet, but he was pulled hard by Old Man Zheng, turned around and ran back: "It's not good, go back to Yicheng and report to Master Shen, the mud-legged people in the countryside have rebelled!" ”

"Rebellion?"

Jiang Ji didn't react for a while, and said a little dazedly: "But the county commander still has orders, want us to urge the warden and them back?" ”

"Command a fart!" Old man Zheng scolded harshly while desperately beating the horse: "That old man who doesn't know what stupid things he has done, I'm afraid that he will be killed by those rebellious mud legs a long time ago." I used to wonder why he didn't come back quickly after he took a concubine a few days ago, and his feelings were such a catastrophe! ”

The warden was killed by the rebels!

The swords, guns, spears and spears in the distance, as well as the thousands of people who were pressed by the black pressure, made Jiang Ji feel as if he had been bombarded by thunder. Being scolded by Old Man Zheng like this, he finally realized the severity of the matter, and hurriedly followed Old Man Zheng to flee back.

However, the three horsemen behind had already noticed these two poor men with greatly changed complexions and dressed in brave clothes.

"Chase, you must not let them go!"

Realizing that the other party was going back to the Yicheng government to report the news, the three riders released by the rebels immediately took action. One of them turned around and reported to Chen Wu's main formation, and the other two began to chase after him like crazy.

The distance between the two sides was only about 100 paces, although Jiang Ji and Old Man Zheng ran one step ahead, but they were riding old horses after all, and when they found that Nanjiazhuang was coming abnormally, they galloped for a while, and their bodies were already exhausted. The rebels are different, and although the horse team released to explore the path is not as good as the real war horses, it can at least ensure that they are relatively strong. After the two sides chased and fled for a few miles, the distance between the two sides began to get closer.

The old horse's body and endurance were not enough after all, although he was whipped by Jiang Ji and Old Man Zheng, and barely maintained a distance. But after this blood passed, he could no longer run. No matter how the two of them kicked, they couldn't maintain their speed anymore.

The two riders behind took the opportunity to catch up, closing the distance to less than fifty paces.

"I can only fight!"

Jiang Ji and Old Man Zheng also carried knives, and when they saw that they couldn't run away, they took out their knives and prepared to fight with the two thieves behind. At this moment, the two were only glad that the thief they were chasing did not have a bow, and they didn't know whether they didn't have it or couldn't ride and shoot. Otherwise, they would have been shot long ago, and they would not have been able to escape here.

However, just when the distance between the two sides was shortened to twenty paces and they were about to engage in battle, a scene that made Jiang Ji and Old Man Zheng desperate appeared. A man in leather armor and a stiff bow on his back rode a green horse and flew after him from behind. The horse is abnormal, and with the help of the mountain downhill, it is like walking on the clouds. Just as Jiang Ji looked back in horror, the man immediately pulled out his bow and shot an arrow from a hundred paces.

"This man's brain is confused......"

Old man Zheng also happened to look back, and couldn't help but sneer when he saw this.

Shooting people from a hundred steps away is already very difficult, and both sides are riding horses, so it is even more difficult. Tens of thousands of people in the entire Yicheng have never heard of this kind of archery. But Old Man Zheng's laughter was only half of it, and the remaining half was choked in his throat. He could see it clearly, and the arrow was shooting like a meteor chasing the moon. The old horse under Jiang Ji screamed, suddenly lost his balance, and fell to the ground with a bang.

Jiang Ji, who was defenseless, was thrown out entirely, and did not move after rolling on the ground a few times.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the villain has descended!"

Seeing that the person behind him chased closer in a blink of an eye, and pulled the bow again, Old Man Zheng felt a chill in his heart. Knowing the current affairs, he hurriedly reined in his horse and raised his hand to shout, lest the person behind him shoot himself too.

Old man Zheng stopped, and the two horsemen behind him immediately caught up and outflanked him with a slight slowdown.

Now, even if Old Man Zheng wants to regret it, he can't escape.

………

A moment later, the unconscious Jiang Ji and the trembling old man Zheng were taken back to the front of the rebel army.

The unlucky Jiang Ji broke two ribs, but his life was worry-free. His poor old horse was finished, and he had to be slaughtered at night to feed the Volunteers and the Infantry - a treatment that ordinary rebels did not have. Old man Zheng, who remained sober, was summoned separately by Chen Wu and Dian Yong, and the two figured out the official errand Guò to interrogate the current situation in Yicheng.

After Chen Wu instigated a riot in Changshan Town, although he tried his best to block the news, and believed that the administrative efficiency of Yicheng was amazingly slow, he was still uncertain whether the Yicheng government was aware of anything. The oncoming Jiang Ji and Old Man Zheng are the best sources of information.

"Ask you anything, answer honestly. If you dare to deceive in the slightest, be careful of your life! ”

After some intimidation, seeing that Old Man Zheng had reached the point where he couldn't stand on his feet and was about to be scared to pee, Chen Wu and Dian Yong asked carefully.

The result turned out to be even better than the two expected.

According to what Old Man Zheng said, not only has Yicheng County not responded so far, but even the Yicheng County Order does not seem to feel the problem. It's just that he was a little puzzled by the warden's delay, so he sent two people over to urge him. In order to verify this result, the two of them put Old Man Zheng down, and then splashed Jiang Ji with cold water to wake him up, and asked him the same. The answers of the two are almost identical.

Unless the government can predict the prophet and let the two of them string up in advance to come over and play a bitter meat trick, what Jiang Ji and Old Man Zheng said should be the truth.

Determined this, Chen Wu and Dian Yong were relieved.

At the current rate, in two to three days, the army will be able to move around Yicheng. And now the Yicheng County Commander has not noticed it in the slightest, so the sneak attack of the Taiping Righteous Army should not be a problem.

The ending of Yicheng is almost doomed!

After interrogating the two officials who were accidentally captured, Chen Wu and Dian Yong put their energy back on the rebels.

After the First Battle of Nanjiazhuang, Chen Wu's rebel army expanded to more than 4,000 people. According to the military system of the empire, this is already a brigade. What is this concept? Not to mention a small county town like Yicheng, the city defense battalion of Longshan Mansion is only a light infantry wing of 1,000 people, plus a light cavalry brigade of 100 people. Even Wu'an, the county seat of Taiping County, only has two local garrison brigades, plus a light cavalry wing of 1,000 people.

In terms of numbers alone, the rebel army has reached almost half of the military strength of the county.

It's a pity that there seem to be many people, and there are still only two brigades in the rebel army that really have a little combat power. The other so-called rebel armies relied entirely on numbers. Historically, such peasant uprisings abounded. In the early stage, when the wind was blowing, it seemed to be mighty, but once the scale was large and attracted the encirclement and suppression of the imperial army, there was a chance that it would collapse in an instant.

Chen Wu knew this, and he had already decided that after conquering Yicheng, he would take a short period of time to rectify it.