Qian Xianling actually committed suicide.

After inquiring about the other Lushan officials who had surrendered, Chen Wu couldn't help but be a little surprised.

Seeing others escorting him from the city before, Chen Wu thought that this county commander would also surrender, but he didn't expect that he still had backbone. The truth is that as early as the day when the messenger asking for help rushed back from Longshan, Qian Xianling realized that he might not be able to hold it and left poisoned wine in his study.

There was a slight emotion in his heart, but this incident actually had no effect on the righteous army and him.

The occupation and liquidation of various places in Lushan by the rebel army is proceeding in an orderly manner. As for Qian Baihu, who had just successfully persuaded him to surrender, Chen Wu praised him a few words with a pleasant face, and arranged for him to give him a large group of people, so that Qian Baihu led the rebels to start going door to door, and raided the big households and landlords in Lushan.

With this military attache who is familiar with the local situation, the efficiency of the rebels should not be too high!

The people of Lushan will inevitably end up being driven away as refugees like the people of Yicheng. However, there must be landlords and tyrants who are unwilling to fall into this kind of fate. In order to prevent these energetic guys from mixing in the team, Chen Wu had to preemptively clean them up.

This work of offending people is the work of a hundred households.

When he captured Yicheng before, Chen Wu had relatively plenty of time, coupled with the unstable foundation and insufficient manpower, he did not dare to use such a ruthless means of raiding the family and exterminating the clan, but only took the food and wealth relatively gently, and let go of a batch through Xue Guang's design, and finally achieved the goal of controlling the entire Yicheng. But on Lushan's side, Chen Wu didn't plan to stay longer, so he had to make a heavy hand.

But anyone who was pointed out by Qian Baihu and met the requirements was first confiscated of their property. Those who dared to resist and the male strong men in the family were either suppressed on the spot, or they were directly imprisoned in the county government jail after being beaten to death. As a result, the county government prison, which could only hold dozens of people, was filled with more than 200 people, all of whom were big families in Lushan who had no time to escape.

The hidden dangers that might arise in the entire Lushan City were swept away by Chen Wu with bloody means.

After so many dirty hands, Qian Baihu, who was a little resistant at first, now has no way out, and is tied to the rebel car, and has to obediently help to do things. With him, a local, coming forward, Chen Wu's action in Lushan was quickly implemented. Just like what was done in Yicheng before, a large number of rebels began to forcibly requisition the grain and livestock of the Lushan people in different blocks, and easily turned these tens of thousands of Lushan people into displaced people.

If you don't follow the rebels, you can only starve to death!

Subsequently, the rebels began to absorb blacksmiths, leathermen and other craftsmen in Lushan, and constantly improved the war potential of the rebels.

………

The first battle to conquer Lushan was brilliant.

Chen Wu's rebels not only seized tens of thousands of stone of grain again, but also captured hundreds of sets of leather armor and weapons that could be used after repair. In this way, Chen Wu already had nearly seven hundred sets of imperial leather armor in his hands, and the total number of paper armors that had been made one after another reached eight hundred.

This number is staggering.

After being fully armed, the 500 people in the Taiping Battalion are already wearing armor, and their equipment can be on par with the second-line emperor ** team in the local area. Some of the outstanding soldiers of the Volunteer Battalion who attacked Lushan were also promoted and rewarded, and the wounded were also given extra food, which made the morale of the entire Volunteer Army even higher.

While the rebels were still fully digesting the results of the capture of Lushan, Chen Wu hesitated for a short time and added a new battalion head, the new barracks.

As the name suggests, it is a pure recruit with no equipment and no training.

Moreover, there is no upper limit on the number of people in this battalion.

The purpose of forming a new battalion is very simple, first, to replenish the battle damage of the Volunteer Battalion and the Taiping Battalion nearby; The second purpose is the most important, in order to better control the displaced people!

After the more than 40,000 Yicheng refugees and Lushan people who came with the rebel army merged, the total number has exceeded 80,000, and it is known to the outside world as 100,000 rebels. Previously, there were only more than 40,000 people, and they could barely control it with the Volunteer Battalion and the Taiping Battalion. Now the number has suddenly expanded to 80,000, and the resistance of the newly merged Lushan people to the rebel army is very great. In this case, the Volunteer Battalion alone is no longer able to control it, not to mention that they have to set aside time to maintain training.

Based on this, Chen Wu set up a new barracks.

Lushan, Yicheng Center Xiang Yijun, those who are in good health, or those who may rise up to make trouble, are all recruited into them for unified management. On weekdays, let the recruit battalion help the main force of the rebel army share some of the pressure and manage the homeless team. When fighting, they can also be used as high-level cannon fodder. As long as the treatment is slightly better, I can make do with enough food, and I feel that I am different from the homeless team, and I don't have to worry about these people not working hard.

Under his order, this move is a full 4,000 people!

Originally, there were about 1,000 people from Yicheng, and the remaining 3,000 people were all from Lushan. Stripping such a group of people from the ordinary people of Lushan and dividing the management, it will be difficult for the remaining 30,000 or so Lushan people to make trouble, so they can only obediently obey the orders of the righteous army.

After being delayed for two days because of the new barracks, the displaced brigade continued to march non-stop after capturing Lushan.

In just a few days, the people of Lushan were forced to abandon their heavy rags and bags, and became displaced people like the people of Yicheng. Subsequently, the itinerary of the rebel army was stabilized again, advancing ten miles a day, and slowly marching towards Linxian.

If this county is also taken, all three counties in Longshan Prefecture will fall into the hands of the rebels, and the surrounding area of Longshan City will become a power vacuum.

At that time, Chen Wu could make a decision on whether to attack Longshan City immediately depending on the reaction of the county seat Wu'an.

After two battles in Yicheng and Lushan, especially the latter's siege battle, the high-level of the rebel army was full of confidence in taking Linxian. Dian Yong and Xu Shizhong were even discussing privately whether Linxian County could also be captured in one day. Some people think that yes, the key is whether the rebels are willing to pay a sufficient price; Some people also find it difficult, because the Longshan government will definitely reinforce Linxian, and the resistance of the rebels may far exceed that of Lushan.

In the end, when the two parties camped for dinner in the evening, they asked Chen Wu's opinion.

As a result, all Chen Wu got was a smile that seemed to have another meaning.

It's not that he doesn't want to say it or pretends to be profound, but Chen Wu is not sure. Because, as far as the current situation is concerned, how long it will take to capture Linxian does not depend entirely on the rebel army and the government. There is another force that may intervene, and this force is quite strong.

Friends of Goodwill!

That's right, it's the one Shi Xianqian will defect to in the future, the Huidaomen in "Empire" who only launched a rebellion a few years later.

Its predecessor was the Smelling Fragrance Sect, which was rampant a few decades ago, and it was said that there were more than 100,000 members at its peak. It's a pity that the sect at that time was carried away by the little status gained, and he couldn't see the sky clearly, so he took advantage of an earthquake to launch a rebellion. Although it once ran rampant in the two provinces, in fact, it only attacked some small cities such as Yicheng, and failed to shake the foundation of Taiping County, and was finally pacified by the empire in the constant flow.

The current Good Friends Association is the resurrection of a handful of remnants of the Wenxiang Sect and a resurgence.

Without Chen Wu's interference, the Good Friends Association would have launched an uprising a few years later, echoing the Five Dou Mi Dao. But after Chen Wu crossed over, history has gone to a different point. Most of the officers and troops of Longshan Mansion were wiped out, and Yicheng and Lushan were attacked one after another. The Good Friends Association, whose foundation is in Longshan City, can it still endure it?

Chen Wu didn't dare to jump to conclusions, but he believed that the Good Friends Association, which had always had bad intentions, was likely to take the opportunity to jump out.

If the other party can calm down and choose to wait and see, then Chen Wu will follow his first plan, capture Linxian, and besiege Longshan. If the Good Friends Association really jumped back, then most of Linxian would be gone without the attack of the rebels. At that time, Chen Wu's Taiping Righteous Army will not only save a lot of time, but also have an additional reinforcement on some kind of Cheng Dù. If you make good use of it, it will only be easier to capture Mt. Long. The disadvantage is to set aside a lot of energy and intrigue with the other party.

The struggle between the rebels and the rebels was sometimes more brutal than the battle against the Empire.

After thirteen years of baptism in "Empire", he will not have the slightest carelessness and paralysis.