There is no shortage of water in Hongxian County.

Although the drought in Huainan has dried up the moats in Hongxian County, it has not affected the groundwater level in Hongxian County, and almost every household in the county has a well, and many families have large water tanks under their eaves just to prevent fire.

Cheng Qing considered that the scarf thief would attack with fire, and told the people in the county to prepare more water, in addition to the large water tank to be filled, don't let go of any wooden barrels, wooden basins, and containers that can store water at home.

Even if the thieves don't set fires, the weather has been dry this year, and there is nothing wrong with preparing more water.

The scarf thieves besieged the city, and the people in the county had nothing else to do, so they responded to Cheng Qing's call and filled the containers that could hold water in the house, which really came in handy tonight!

Flames fell from outside the city, arrows soaked in oil tied with strips of cloth, and used by the scarf thieves as arson.

Most of the houses in the county are wooden and brick structures, the walls are brick and stone, the roof beams must be wood, and there are even many houses with pure wooden structures.

If there is no one to command, the people will panic and will not know which fire to save first.

With Cheng Qing here, the people are willing to obey the command, there are rules and regulations for firefighting, and some small fires are extinguished after a bucket of water.

Where there is already a fire, everyone can work together to fight the fire and control the fire.

Because it was discovered early, the fire was not large, dozens of places where there were flames were destroyed, and a few houses were lit with thatched roofs, and only burned the houses, and there were no casualties.

The arson caused by the scarf thieves was controllable, but it completely ignited the anger of the people of Hongxian County.

When the two armies are fighting, any trick can be used.

But the Turban Thieves were not set fire to the soldiers defending the city, but aimed at the common people, and the people added a lot of hatred to the Turban Thieves in addition to fear.

Even the old man in his sixties and seventies wants to go to the city wall to fight the thieves to vent his anger!

Of course, Cheng Qing does not allow the old man to go up to the city wall, the old man and the child need to be protected, and sending the city wall to face the thief with a weapon is simply sending him to death.

When the scarf thieves attacked Huai'an City, they set fire everywhere, and tonight they shot so many burning arrows into Hongxian, but Hongxian quickly controlled the fire, which was really unexpected by General Zhao.

General Zhao was speechless, is the champion so powerful?

Fortunately, there is only one champion in Dawei.

If it is an official of the imperial court, everyone looks like Cheng Qing, and the rebellion of the rebel army will definitely not succeed.

Three sieges in these two days, the righteous army died a total of more than 3,000 soldiers, a small Hongxian County, it is more difficult to attack than Huai'an City, the decision to attack the city was made by General Zhao, if you can't capture Hongxian, what prestige does General Zhao have in the hearts of the righteous soldiers?

General Zhao's heartache and loss of troops also hated Cheng Qing, and Hongxian could not be captured, it must be because of Cheng Qing.

Tonight, General Zhao ordered to attack Hongxian at all costs, and there was opposition in the rebel army, General Zhao said that in addition to looting food and property, Cheng Qing must be captured after the city is broken.

Cheng Qing made General Zhao jealous, and General Zhao wanted to get rid of such a threat for the righteous army!

"He must be caught, it is best if he can be captured alive, if he would rather die than obey, he will be killed on the spot!"

General Zhao wanted to capture Cheng Qing back to Huainan, maybe the military division had a way to persuade Cheng Qing to surrender, if Cheng Qing was willing to return to the righteous army, like a military adviser to the righteous army, the righteous army would be like a tiger with wings.

If you can't catch it, kill it.

Those who follow me prosper, and those who oppose me die, anyway, you can't keep Cheng Qing in the cheap dog court!

Cheng Qing naturally didn't know that the boss of the scarf thief had already targeted her, so she felt that the scarf thief's attack tonight was more fierce than expected, and the thieves who rushed in front were not afraid of death, and they had to rush forward after being hit by an arrow.

The walls of Hongxian are not very high.

Some thieves broke through the blockade and cut down the people fighting the fire.

Although the thieves were quickly killed by the militia who did not go up to the city walls, the people were still frightened.

Could it be that you really can't hold it tonight?

"Don't panic, everyone, listen to the orders of this official-"

A few more scarf thieves rushed into the city, and Cheng Qing was giving orders, and those scarf thieves seemed to have determined her identity and rushed towards her with knives.

"Catch him, he is the champion of the dog court."

"Catch him, General Zhao said, whoever can capture this Cheng Zhuangyuan alive, the general will reward a thousand taels of silver!"

A thousand taels of silver!

The thieves who followed the rebellion used to estimate that they had never even seen what a hundred taels of silver looked like, and the reward of one thousand taels of silver was too exciting, enough to make them forget the fear of death, and they killed one after another in the direction where Cheng Qing was.

Cheng Qing was angry.

The commander of the scarf thief wanted to kill her, and she was not surprised.

Cheng Qing was angry because a child like Rong Jiu could be worth 100,000 taels of silver, but she was only worth 1,000 taels?

That "General Zhao" is too visionless!

The thief didn't have a chance to rush to Cheng Qing's side, so he was solved by Wu Er and the Cheng family.

Takeji is murderous.

These thieves have no vision at all, and the only "six yuan and first" of their young master's dynasty is the pride of the Nanyi Cheng family, and even the entire Nanyi County and Xuandu Mansion, is it worth a thousand taels? !

If Master Cheng Wu knew that someone was setting a price for Cheng Qing like this, he would be eager to smash the scarf thief to death with silver.

It was He Wan, who heard that Cheng Qing was only worth a thousand taels of silver, and her face was strange.

One thousand taels?

It's 10,000 taels, and He Wan can afford it.

If only he could use silver to mark the price, He Wan could buy a few "Cheng Qing" in one go...... As for what to do with buying a few "Cheng Qing" to go home, He Wan didn't have time to think about it.

Outside the city wall, the corpses of the scarves were all over the place, and the thieves piled the corpses of their companions under the wall, and climbed up little by little with the corpses.

Lang Qianhu grabbed Sun An: "If you go on like this, the city wall can't be defended, your archery skills are good, can you aim at the thief's boss?" ”

The fire burning on the city wall brought light, which could illuminate the distance of two zhang under the city wall, and farther away, it would be pitch black, and Sun An couldn't see where the thief's commander was hiding.

"Just be able to see it!"

Lang Qianhu scolded his mother in his mouth.

At this moment, someone behind the scarf thief shouted:

"The rebels don't want to hurt the ordinary people, the rebels only kill the court dog officials!"

"Hand over the champion Cheng Qing, and the righteous army will immediately retreat."

"Say it again, hand over the champion Cheng Qing, and the righteous army will withdraw immediately!"

At least thousands of people shouted in unison, so loud that the entire county could hear it.

The county seat, separated by a wall, fell into an eerie silence.

Do scarf thieves really only kill officials and not people?

If you hand over Lord Cheng, will the scarf thief retreat?

It's definitely fake!

…… But what if it's true?

Many eyes fell on Cheng Qing.

In the night, Cheng Qing, who was wearing an official uniform, was thin and thin, as if no matter how strong the night wind was, it could blow the young Cheng away.

Rong Jiu gloated.

——For the mud-legged people to defend the city, the mud-legged people are grateful, and at the critical moment, how can that gratitude be more important than the mud-legged people's own lives.

Cheng Qing didn't say a word.

A teenager just called out "Master Cheng", and was immediately whipped by his grandfather with a cane: "Rabbit, rabbit cub, do you still have a conscience, it's not to keep Hongxian, Lord Cheng has already left, and now you want to hand over Lord Cheng to the scarf thief, unless you step on the old man's corpse!" ”