On the eighth day of the lockdown of Yancheng, the restrictions on the city have begun to be reduced, and Wang Hongjun has already caught Lin Yue, the culprit, so there is no need to seal the city again, and the food in Yancheng is indeed completely gone.

However, Wang Hongjun did not directly open the entire Yancheng, but opened a city gate, limited the number of people who went out of the city every day, and if the prey hunted after leaving the city was sold to the defenders of Yancheng, Yancheng would be purchased at the previous price of 120%.

The reason why the purchase price was raised was actually to let them hunt more prey and return to Yancheng on the one hand, and on the other hand, to prevent some people from running away directly after leaving the city. After all, Yancheng has been locked down for so long, and there are all kinds of gossip inside and outside Yancheng, and some people will lose their sense of belonging to Yancheng because of this. Buying food at a higher price will somewhat change the minds of some people who want to run away.

However, it is not much of a loss for Yan Cheng to attract people by purchasing food, after all, the market is regulated by price, and the purchase of food here has increased by one hundred and twenty percent, and this extra price will be transferred to these people through other means. For example, most people sell their food at a price of 120 percent, which may cause the price of their food to rise by 120 percent when they usually eat in Yancheng, and once the two are offset, they don't have much advantage for the residents of Yancheng.

But not everyone knows about economics, so there must be people who are attracted by the 20 percent price increase.

Qiu Chen learned that the blockade of Yancheng had been lifted as soon as possible, and after learning that the purchase price had been increased by one hundred and twenty percent, Qiu Chen sneered and said to himself: "This must be Li Minghua's idea, no one except him can think of such a shady move." ”

However, Qiu Chen didn't say that people would expose his trick, after all, Qiu Chen didn't want others to leave Yancheng.

In the past few days, Qiu Chen has already contacted many other officers in Yancheng, and most of these people have friendships with Qiu Chen, so it is relatively easy to persuade them to rebel against Wang Hongjun with Qiu Chen, even if they don't agree, some of them also promise that once Qiu Chen rebels and resists, if they are short-handed, they will not be too embarrassed Qiu Chen.

So far, Qiu Chen and Lin Xing have successfully pulled in many officers, and at the same time, many soldiers have a tendency to defect to Qiu Chen, after all, Qiu Chen's prestige in Yancheng is not small, especially Qiu Chen is still under the banner of avenging Zhou Yan, and many of these people have been driven.

Qiu Chen and Lin Xing were pulling people around in Yancheng, Wang Hongjun soon received the news, he had been attracted by Lin Yue before, but now he turned his head and found that the leader of the riots in Yancheng was no longer Lin Yue, but Qiu Chen.

This made Wang Hongjun even more angry, although Lin Yue's strength was strong, but it was just a person, and Qiu Chen was different, he could be said to be the number two person in Yancheng, even if he resisted Wang Hongjun, Wang Hongjun felt that his head was as big as a cow.

Originally, I thought that after catching Lin Yue, I would just suppress public opinion in Yancheng, but now that even Qiu Chen has been instigated by Lin Yue, then this chaotic force in Yancheng has developed faintly.

"Mobilize the officials and officers who have ties to the enemy to prevent them from wielding too much power, and send some shadows to watch their every move and prevent them from rebelling"

Wang Hongjun issued an order again, originally Wang Hongjun didn't want to do this, after all, if these people are restrained, it may make them feel that Wang Hongjun is on guard against them, after all, there is no suspicion that people are not used, and now they are more restricted, which will make them feel disgusted, and then alienated.

But now Wang Hongjun has to do this, because if Wang Hongjun restricts them, even if some officers and officials rebel, they have no soldiers and no power, and there is no danger to Wang Hongjun. And if they are not restrained and left to their judgment, Wang Hongjun is very likely to lose a lot of troops.

After capturing Lin Yue, Wang Hongjun also strengthened the search for Qiu Chen, Lin Xing and others, but Qiu Chen acted more secretively, and Wang Hongjun couldn't let Goutu find them in the previous way, so the progress of the search has been very slow, and only some suspects have been arrested in two days.

Some of the people who followed Qiu Chen and them were caught by the Yancheng army because of negligence, and Wang Hongjun didn't dare to be sure that they were rebels after catching them, so they were all thrown into prison.

The soldiers of Yancheng, who are accustomed to modern combat methods, need to have clear information before attacking, if they can't be sure whether the opponent is good or bad, these soldiers will not easily hurt people and kill people, at most they will only be arrested as suspects. Wang Hongjun is the same for this, if he can be sure that the people he catches are rioters, he won't have much concern, but the problem is that their information is not clear now, and if they catch suspicious people, they can only arrest and interrogate them slowly.

If he kills someone, Wang Hongjun dares to do it, but he won't do it openly, unless he finds a legitimate reason to kill him, otherwise he can only start from the secret at most. After all, if he wants to serve as the city lord of Yancheng, he also needs a certain popular base.

Wang Hongjun was starting to hunt down Qiu Chen and them, and Qiu Chen also began to prepare for a counterattack on Wang Hongjun.

On the second day after Yancheng was unblocked, a surprise attack team of more than 100 people attacked Yancheng's arsenal, and they used the method of attacking east and west to lure out some of the guarding soldiers, and then took the opportunity to take some weapons.

The arsenal in Yancheng is not large, and there are basically no guns in it, but the main ones are some cold weapons such as swords, guns and bows, which are usually stored here in non-war situations, and Lin Xing through his understanding of the defense around the arsenal, has planned a fine strategy to carry out a sneak attack, although this team did not defeat the soldiers stationed there, let alone capture this arsenal, but they successfully stole two or three hundred weapons.

And the main purpose of this surprise attack team is not this, their real purpose is to attract the attention of Wang Hongjun and the Yancheng soldiers. After receiving the weapons, the surprise attack team immediately hid them in the predetermined location, and then fled in all directions in the Yancheng City, causing as much sensation as possible.

Wang Hongjun hesitated to obtain insufficient information, thinking that Qiu Chen had begun to organize troops to resist, and immediately prepared 1,000 troops to search and arrest.

However, Qiu Chen's main purpose is to die in the arsenal, but in prison. Although Wang Hongjun has strengthened his troops to garrison the prison, he has no choice but to Qiu Chen's internal response, he arranged for a few soldiers who have been surrendered but have not yet announced their identities to infiltrate the prison guards, and then put some medicine in the food and water of the defenders, so that they are not capable of fighting, and then Qiu Chen organized more than 200 people to quickly attack the prison, and soon took the prison and rescued those imprisoned companions.

If the sneak attack on the arsenal was Qiu Chen and Wang Hongjun's official declaration of war, the attack on the prison was the first battle of this war, and in the prison attack and defense battle, real casualties also began to appear.

Qiu Chen felt extremely sad about the appearance of casualties, but there was nothing he could do. When attacking the prison, Qiu Chen had already persuaded his subordinates not to kill them, just try to control them, after all, both sides were comrades-in-arms. But once the fight really starts, either you die or I die, and it is difficult to control that degree.

More than fifty people were wounded in this small battle, and three died as a result. Although the casualties were small, they opened the real prelude to the war.

Yancheng is beginning to be in turmoil

There were more than 3,000 soldiers stationed in Yancheng in three regiments, of which about 1,000 were arranged to guard the city gate and city walls, 1,000 were trained and hunted out of the city, and 1,000 were in Yancheng to maintain order. Originally, Qiu Chen led a regiment to train and hunt out of the city, Ge Bai led the second regiment to patrol the city to maintain order, and Li Minghua led the third regiment to guard the city gate.

But since Lin Yue stirred up the troubled waters in Yancheng, everything was messed up, first Qiu Chen was removed from the position of regiment commander and led directly by Wang Hongjun, but many soldiers in the regiment did not obey discipline because Qiu Chen was removed; The second regiment also had problems with a small number of soldiers under the influence of Lin Xing, but it was generally deployable; In addition to defending the city, the soldiers of the three regiments also began to hunt outside the city to maintain the basic living needs of Yancheng.

Now there are only about 1,000 soldiers in Yancheng who can really be deployed freely by Wang Hongjun, and the rest either need to stick to their posts or do not obey.

And Qiu Chen's side has only been able to control more than 300 troops so far, of which one-third are the men who follow Shanqingzi Tian Mu and others, and one-third are the reserve soldiers that Tian Mu can convince; One-third of them are Qiu Chen and Lin Xing's old subordinates, and they are willing to run to take refuge in desperate circumstances.

In addition, there are about a thousand or so residents of Yancheng who are inclined to cooperate with Qiu Chen and their side, and although they cannot act together as combat forces, they can be used as a basis to provide some help to Qiu Chen.

After Qiu Chen and the others were laid out of prison, they quickly withdrew, broke into pieces again, and hid in Yancheng. However, this time, since it has begun to be exposed, Qiu Chen's hiding has become more difficult, and the chance of being caught has also begun to increase. However, because Qiu Chen and they were put in prison, it caused a sensation in Yancheng, and also let the residents of Yancheng see Qiu Chen's strength, and many people who didn't know where to take refuge began to lean towards Qiu Chen's side.

The situation in Yancheng became tense for a while.

In addition, a few miles outside Yancheng, an army of about two thousand men was rapidly approaching

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