The men in Hongxian County are busy making weapons and conducting special training, and the women in the city are not idle.

Xiao Pan chose some brave women and taught them how to deal with their wounds.

The alcohol brought from the capital ran out after a fight with the scarf thief, but fortunately, Cheng Qing could draw the drawings of the still at any time, and summoned the craftsmen of Hongxian County to make it overnight, so that the new disinfectant alcohol could be distilled before the scarf thief came.

Xiaopan finally picked out the women who dared to sew the wound with a needle, and some women did not dare to sew the wound but wanted to help, so they were assigned to sew the brace.

The "Alternates" who have been assembled need protective gear.

If you don't have enough armor, you have to do everything you can to protect yourself.

Women who knew how to needle and thread sewed pottery, iron and even bamboo into the chests and backs of the clothes of the "candidates", as well as the elbows and knees.

The hat should also be sewn, and the head is also the key.

He Wan took another group of women to make military rations.

If you really want to fight, you can't end the battle in a moment, you are hungry and have no strength to kill the enemy, you want to stop and eat, how can you have spare time, and you can only eat something to fill your stomach when the battle is suspended.

The He family is rich, and He Wan is also a person who has never been lost, but she knows how not to be ashamed to ask, and after doing some investigation, He Wan set the formula for military rations.

Southerners like to eat rice, so He Wan took the women to steam rice balls.

Adult man's fist-sized rice balls have a layer of bean noodles inside, soybeans are fried and ground into flour, and mixed with rice to smell fragrant.

Bite into it again, and the rice ball is wrapped in a ball of pickles, the staple food is there, the vegetables are there, and the pickles can also provide salt.

In the middle of the rice ball, there is a walnut-sized piece of jerky...... Cheng Qing tasted one, and he felt that the specifications of such military rations were not low, Rong Jiu, who was tied to the city wall, hated it to death, and the mud legs guarding the city were better than him!

When Rong Yuniang had not yet married into the Shi family, Rong Jiu had suffered hardships.

That kind of suffering is nothing more than being bullied and excluded by a group of brothers and sisters in the family, and when it comes to food, the Rong family is not lacking.

But after Rong Jiu was arrested, Cheng Qing thought of the food that this person dumped on the side of the road, and never gave Rong Jiu a little meat, two meals a day, both coarse grain porridge, Rong Jiu was very backbone on the first day and did not eat or drink, and he was dizzy when he was hungry the next day, and he couldn't swallow the coarse grain porridge in his throat, and Rong Jiu relied on hatred to force himself to swallow the coarse grain porridge.

After drinking porridge for three days in a row, Rong Jiu was weak, and he looked at the flesh on his arm and wanted to take a bite to relieve his hunger.

The soldiers defending the city had already eaten the rice balls made by He Wan and others, and Rong Jiu smelled the fragrance, and he was very spineless in his saliva.

If it weren't for the fact that his mouth was gagged, he would have bribed the soldiers defending the city with something of value on his body.

It's not to beg the soldiers to let him go, it's to change a rice ball to satisfy his hunger.

It smells so good—

He is willing to spend a hundred taels of silver to buy such a rice ball!

When he is rescued, he can buy a hundred of such rice balls!

No, when he is rescued, what kind of delicacies from the mountains and seas can't be eaten, and he wants to grab rice balls with these mud legs?

Rong Jiu scolded himself for being unproductive.

Now not only is Hongxian looking forward to the arrival of the scarf thief, but Rong Jiu is also looking forward to the arrival of the scarf thief, he wants to take advantage of the chaos to escape, and he also wants to be rescued.

The scarf thief came to Hongxian County, proving that Huai'an City was defended, and someone came to save him......

On the fifth day after Cheng Qing took over Hongxian, she raised a little bit of meat for the yellow-faced and thin-skinned homeless, and the scarf thief had not yet come.

The "alternate soldiers" who were temporarily called in also had a bit of a look.

Although the clothes on their bodies are different, and the weapons in their hands are also strange, even if Lang Qianhu is called to see, these candidates are in good spirits.

On the fifth day, there was no trace of the scarf thief, and Lang Qianhu wondered if the scarf thief had fled from elsewhere and would not pass through Hongxian.

"Or, the scarf thief broke through Huai'an City, and he was busy cleaning up the battlefield at this time?"

Li Baihu stood on the city wall and looked into the distance.

Cheng Qing is neither as optimistic as Lang Qianhu nor as pessimistic as Li Baihu.

However, the situation of Huai'an City should not be very good, Cheng Qing sent two guards from the Maoguo Mansion to Huai'an City with tokens to report the news, I don't know if the two entered the Governor's Mansion smoothly, anyway, the two guards have not returned so far.

Cheng Qing was very reluctant to go.

It was a person from the Maoguo Mansion, and for every loss, Cheng Qing's personal debt would be thicker.

She is not afraid of indebtedness, nor is she afraid of giving pension money, she doesn't want anyone to die.

It's not a game, and the dead can't come back to life.

One life after another, Cheng Qing recorded all the debts on the head of the scarf thief.

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In Hongxian County, there is a faint expectation that the scarf thief will come early and finish the matter early, so as not to panic all day long, and there will be unextinguished fires in the prosperous Huai'an City.

50,000 scarf thieves is an exaggeration, and there should be 30,000 scarf thieves who attacked Huai'an City.

The fatal thing is that when the turban thieves besieged Huai'an City, Governor Shi was not in Huai'an, and no one in the city could mobilize Huai'an's Cao army, and the Huai'an prefect hurriedly organized people to resist the enemy, and failed to resist the 30,000 army of the turban thieves.

The thieves seemed to have an internal response in the city, and they actually knew the troops of Huai'an City, and finally broke through the poorly defended city gate and poured into the city.

As soon as the scarf thief entered the city, Huai'an immediately fell into chaos.

The scarf thief aims to kill all the dog officials in the world, and as soon as he enters the city, he goes straight to the Caoyun Governor's Mansion, after all, the biggest dog official in Huai'an City is not the Huai'an Prefect, but the Caoyun Governor!

Governor Shi's son took Governor Shi's seal and mobilized the army to resist the enemy, and the scarf thief had already killed at the gate of the Governor's Palace.

At the critical moment, a brocade-clothed guard with 100 households, with 500 guards and soldiers, rushed to the governor's palace and held out until the Cao army arrived.

The turban thieves attacked Huai'an City for four days and three nights, and the number of Cao's army was more than that of the scarf thieves, but the combat effectiveness was not good, and the commander was not there, and there was no backbone, even the son of Governor Shi could not fully command this team.

For a while, it was the Cao army that had the upper hand, and for a time it was the scarf thieves who had the upper hand.

The scarf thieves who entered the city burned, killed and looted, causing great economic losses and casualties to Huai'an City.

On the fifth day, Governor Shi rushed back, took over the command of the Cao army, and defeated the turban thief!

The scarf thieves hurriedly evacuated with the food and property they had snatched, and Governor Shi was full of slaughter.

In this battle, the city of Huai'an was full of devastation, and the situation in the governor's palace was also very bad.

Governor Shi's only son was not in good health, and he tried his best to fight with the thieves, and before Governor Shi returned to Huai'an to turn the tide, Young Master Shi vomited blood twice.

Rong Yuniang was frightened by the thieves and was not pregnant.

She herself fell, her husband couldn't count on it, and she didn't know what her younger brother Rong Jiu was doing now.

Rong Yuniang's worries turned into tears.

She cried for her newborn child, her husband who was getting sicker, and her brother whose life and death were unknown, despite the body that had just had a miscarriage, and struggled to get up to see her father-in-law.

- Only when Governor Shi speaks, can he save his younger brother!