In addition to cash, in the warehouse of the Huai'an Chamber of Commerce, the rebels also copied a lot of goods that were too late to be transferred.

The business of the Huai'an Chamber of Commerce mainly focuses on cattle, horses, livestock and raw silk, and the former is basically purchased and transported away by carts and will not stop at the Chamber of Commerce. There is a lot of raw silk, and half of the warehouse is piled up, and if you take it out and sell it, you should be able to exchange it for a lot of money. It's a pity that Chen Wu is a rebel army, and he has no channels or opportunity to sell it, so he can only wave his hand and let the rebels temporarily seal it for later use.

In contrast, the Rong family's assets are much larger.

After all, the Huai'an Chamber of Commerce in Yicheng is only a branch, and the money earned has to be regularly transported to the headquarters in the county seat of Anqing County. The Rong family is different, almost all the industries and family wealth are in the Rong Mansion in Yicheng. If you can get all the wealth that Master Rong has accumulated over the decades, the rebels will not have to worry about money and expenses for a long time.

Although the current rebel army does not have many places to use money, it is enough to have weapons in hand and grain and grass in the battalion, but when its power grows, it will need wealth sooner or later.

Because of this, Chen Wuzhi will get the Rong family's family property!

However, the people who covet the property of the Rong family are not one or two around this Yicheng. The black scarf thief who Chen Wu and Dian Yong teamed up to pit once moved the Rong family's idea. They tried to take advantage of Mrs. Rong's visit to Xiaoliang Mountain in Longshan Mansion to incense, take hostages, and then extort 100,000 gold coins. It's a pity that the Rong family's guards are still very handy. The black scarf thief and his party went to more than 20 people, but not only did they not succeed, but they lost several of them and had to return in a huff.

Chen Wu was not in a hurry to make a move after breaking the city yesterday, and there were also factors in this regard. But now, there is only this one left in the entire Yicheng, and he has no scruples. After making sufficient preparations, two hundred volunteers were transferred in one go.

With such a big movement, it is naturally impossible to hide it from the people of the Rong family.

In fact, as early as yesterday, the Rong Mansion had recalled almost all the men in the city, closed the courtyard gate, and sent people to stand guard 24 hours a day to monitor the movements of the rebels. When Chen Wu's rebel army approached within five hundred meters of the Rong family's mansion, the news had already come down from a four-meter-high lookout. The servants and nurses of the Rong family, who had not closed their eyes all night and were tired and tired, rushed over and prepared to kill the thief.

Almost at the same time, the news of the thieves' imminent attack reached the inner mansion and reported it to the old housekeeper of the Rong family and the famous Mrs. Rong.

Since the thieves broke the city yesterday, Master Rong only took his eldest son and a few henchmen out of the city in a hurry, and Mrs. Rong was in a very bad mood and didn't eat breakfast. I finally had a little appetite just now, and asked the maid to serve a bowl of rock sugar lotus seed porridge, but before it was served, the news of the anti-thief attack came, and there was no more to eat. She stood up, lifted the corner of her skirt and walked around the carpet a few times anxiously, and couldn't help asking, "Steward Luo, in your opinion, how long can our Rong Mansion support the thieves to attack?" ”

"Madam, this is the seventh time you have asked since yesterday."

The old housekeeper smiled bitterly and said tirelessly: "The old man said that our Rong family's nursing home is very capable of fighting, but the number of people is too small after all. Even counting the house slaves, there will be no more than 100 people who can fight. It's not a problem to deal with ordinary strongmen, but these thief armies that can even be eliminated by the official army are not something we can resist. It was only a matter of time before the thieves broke through the Rong Mansion. If they are not afraid of death, we are afraid that we will not be able to survive even a day. ”

"How can this be?"

Mrs. Rong was a little discolored, and her already white face became more and more bloodless, looking pitiful. It was this weakness that people couldn't help but care for in their arms, coupled with a little scheming, that allowed her to hold down Master Rong's other wives and concubines and sit in the position of the main room.

"Even if you ask me, I can't help it......"

The old housekeeper muttered in his heart, but he had no choice but to try his best to comfort her: "Madame, don't worry too much, Master Rong hurried out of the city yesterday, and must have rushed to Longshan Mansion overnight for help." I think it won't take a few days for the imperial army to come to quell the rebellion, and our Rongfu only needs to survive these few days. There are so many thugs outside, and there are specially thickened courtyard walls, as long as you pay attention up and down, forgive those anti-thieves who will not be able to get in for a while. ”

"What Steward Luo said is very true."

Although she had heard this statement more than once, Mrs. Rong was still a little more sure. Just now, someone came to report that there were only about 200 thieves, so it must be helpless to help the Rong Mansion. As long as you give those daring untouchables a little bitterness, maybe they can really drag the official army of Longshan Mansion to arrive.

Surely, yes.

After regaining some of her self-confidence as the mother of the Rong family, Mrs. Rong settled down and instructed Steward Luo: "Pass my word, the outer courtyard must fight bravely to kill the thief." Kill a thief, a reward of ten gold, more killing, more reward; Whoever kills five thieves shall be granted ten acres of land; can kill ten thieves, and after the official army quells the rebellion, the Rong family will help find a title! ”

Knighted!

Even if you only have one title, it's not easy, let alone the other gold fields. After Mrs. Rong's words came out, the servants in the courtyard outside immediately cheered, and the originally low morale suddenly rose. At the same time, the news that Master Rong had left the city yesterday to move the rescue troops to Longshan Mansion added a lot of confidence to these nursing homes.

As soon as the imperial army arrives, what waves can these thieves make?

………

"Is this the Rong Mansion?"

Although he had seen it more than once in "Empire", and even came here twice because of the mission, Chen Wu still made a rather surprised look.

This is a mansion of excellent size and decoration, with thousands of square meters of mansion not only a magnificent attic courtyard, but even an exquisite small garden. In addition to being very suitable for living, the courtyard wall of the mansion is also specially reinforced, a full two and a half meters high, and broken glazed tiles are inserted on it. If you want to climb over the wall with your bare hands, you may be cut if you are not careful. On the inside of the courtyard wall, there is a high platform that can be used by many people to stand on, and the courtyard inside can stand on the platform to calmly attack the invading enemies outside.

The most striking thing is that there is also an observation deck more than four meters high next to the main entrance of the courtyard.

The lookout was made of sturdy wooden frames covered with thick planks that were strong enough to withstand the fire of ordinary arrows. A person from above can not only look at the situation in the distance, but also condescendingly kill and wound thieves with bows and arrows. In the case of precautions, such a system is enough to easily defend against any threat near Yicheng.

The baron's mansion in Changshan Town, compared with the mansion of the Rong family in front of him, suddenly became a small courtyard of the rich man in the countryside, which was not worth mentioning.

The rebel soldiers who followed Chen Wu obviously felt the trickiness of the Rong Mansion, and from time to time there were low voices. However, compared to when they were first formed, their table is much better. Even Yicheng was captured, and they didn't think that the mansion of the nobles in front of them would be able to withstand their attack.

"Stop!"

With Chen Wu's order, the two hundred rebels stopped at a distance of 100 paces.

From this distance, Chen Wu clearly saw that there were four people with bows and arrows standing on the lookout platform of the Rong Mansion. Taking advantage of the terrain, they can easily snipe at any of the rebels. If they advance rashly, the rebels may suffer many unnecessary losses.

"The thieves have stopped!"

The people in the Rong Mansion kept staring at the actions of the righteous army, and couldn't help but shout out.

The reaction of the rebels made many people in the Rong Mansion breathe a sigh of relief, and also made the four guards armed with bows and arrows a little disappointed. The bows and arrows that were finally prepared, they still wanted to give the righteous army a little color, and by the way, kill a few more in exchange for the bounty offered by Mrs. Rong. Unexpectedly, these anti-thieves are not stupid.

"Rongfu's reliance, is it these bows and arrows?"

Chen Wu, who was surrounded by the rebels, observed the reaction of the Rong Mansion, and his smile was a little more sarcastic. These Rong family members are really arrogant enough, thinking that they can stop him with this arrangement?

At the sound of an order, Nanbao's infantry battalion stood out of the queue.

Seeing their actions, there was a little commotion in the Rongfu Courtyard at the lookout, and I didn't expect that the thieves also had archers, but they weren't particularly worried. After all, they were condescending, and they were covered by thick planks in front of them, and if the thieves thought that they could shoot at them with their numerical superiority, they were very wrong.