Not to mention Yang Yi's surprise, Wei Ergou also saw those men unwrap several of the long strips, revealing a woman with scattered temples and closed eyes—the package was full of unconscious young women.

The men, unwrapping a few parcels and reaching out to probe the unconscious women's snorts, let out a momentary lowling laugh, then tightened the parcel again, and continued to look in the direction of the city gate.

After about a cup of tea, I saw a group of soldiers who had changed their guards coming down the steps leading to the inner city wall, yawning loudly one by one, as if they were extremely tired.

When the group of soldiers who had changed their guard passed by, they saw a dim light drifting like a ghostly fire in the darkness towards the base of the city wall where the men were hiding.

When Yang Yi and Wei Ergou's eyes adjusted to the stimulation of the light, they saw a short and fat Qing soldier in his forties, wearing a weasel skin dressed in the Qing army, a warm hat covered with black cloth, and wearing bubble nail cotton armor in front of those men.

When those men saw the Qing soldier appear, a flattering smile appeared on their faces, and they vied to flatter the Qing soldier with one leg.

The Qing soldier looked at those men with a proud face, ignored their courtesy, and shouted in a low voice: "Hugh wants to make trouble with this false article of putting dishes in his mouth, have you brought the silver?" ”

"Bring it, it's all here, Master Tan." The men replied indiscriminately, and the soles of their hands reached into their bosoms, and took out more or less a burlap bag, which must have been full of white silver.

The Qing army, known as Tan Junye, snatched those silver money bags, weighed them, and stuffed them into his cotton armor, then looked at those men and said: "Now that this long-haired offensive is getting tighter, Shen Zhizhou and the chief master are seeing Tianjie supervising the battle in that city, and it is not easy for us to find a gap to come down to see you, this is a big deal to risk losing your head, if you continue like this, I am afraid that your business will not be able to do it for a long time, you better plan early." ”

As soon as they heard the officer surnamed Tan say this, those men whispered and begged: "Master Jun, the long hair outside the city has real money and silver, and what is lacking is women, as long as you can transport these ladies out, the long hair is a lot of silver, where are you not accumulating virtue and doing good, you must not cut off the wealth of the brothers." As he spoke, the men took out some loose pieces of silver and stuffed them with him, and the officer surnamed Tan was satisfied and instructed them to wait for them at the arrow tower in the west of the city after a stick of incense, and he would lower the soft ladder to meet them.

At this time, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou fully understood that these men in front of them were not only thieves with chickens and dogs, but also so mad that they colluded with Qing army officers to defend the city, smuggling out of the city the women who were taken from Cangzhou City or were stunned, and then sold them to the Taiping Army outside the city for profit.

According to the violent temper of Yang Yi and Wei Ergou, if they want to encounter this kind of bestiality in ordinary times, they must directly kill those men who are inferior to pigs and dogs along with the Qing army officers, but when the two of them were full of righteous indignation, they both forcibly suppressed the ** of the bladed villains in their hearts, and lurked motionlessly, until those men left the city root and walked in the direction of the arrow tower, the two of them followed like ghosts, silently walking in the direction of the arrow tower.

Since the traitors who abducted and sold the women of good families were able to bribe the soldiers who defended the city to transport the trafficked people out of the city, why didn't they also take this opportunity to flow out of the city without realizing it?

Let's say that Yang Yi and Wei Ergou followed the men who didn't know that the praying mantis catching cicadas and the yellow finch were behind, and they came all the way to the arrow tower located at the corner of the west city wall, and saw a heavy eaves resting on the top of the mountain, with green glazed tiles cut edges, and the arrow tower with arrow windows on the two-story floor stood on the city wall.

When the men saw the soft ladder, they smiled happily, and then helped each other, firmly tied the cloth bag containing the unconscious woman on their shoulders to their backs, and then grabbed the soft ladder and climbed up with agility.

"Hey, these grandsons, seeing that they are so skillful, this kind of hurtful thing must have been done, I'm so angry!" Looking at the men who were born with ropes and were as fast as apes, Wei Ergou scolded quietly in anger.

"If we can't bear it, we will make a big plan, we are now shouldering a heavy responsibility, we must not delay the big thing because of the courage of the moment, if we can resolve the war in Cangzhou City as soon as possible, then there will be no more innocent women victimized, fatty, calm down!" Yang Yi actually hated to rush forward immediately to break those men's corpses into thousands of pieces, and then rescue those innocent women and let them go home, but their current priority was to get out of the city as soon as possible, so they had to suppress the anger in their hearts and persuade Wei Ergou not to be reckless Meng Lang and cause trouble.

Besides, those men went up along the soft ladder, and after the last man went up, the soft ladder was taken up, only to see that the city wall was a figure of longing, and some Qing soldiers with guns and knives appeared alternately with those men, obviously helping those men to go down from the city wall on the other side, so that they could leave the Taiping army camp outside the city and ship.

After the figures on the city wall were reduced, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou bent down and ran to the root of the city in a few steps, and then as soon as the two of them mentioned their true qi, their whole bodies were like geckos, climbing up against the wall.

Yang Yi and Wei Ergou are now different from what they used to be, to climb the city wall and arrow tower about 20 meters high, for ordinary people, if there is no rope ladder, it is bound to be difficult to climb to the sky, but for Yang Yi and Wei Ergou, it is just to stretch and stretch their muscles.

While speaking, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou had already climbed to the city wall, and through the gap in the battlement, the two of them saw that the Qing soldiers guarding the city were using pulleys and large baskets to carry those men and "goods" down the city wall on the other side under the command of the officer surnamed Tan, and they were completely unaware of the arrival of Yang Yi and Wei Ergou.

Looking at those busy Qing troops, Yang Yi sighed secretly in his heart, just ask if such a greedy ** army is stationed in the city, even if Li Guang is reborn and Di Qing is reincarnated, I am afraid it will be difficult to command and control them, let alone rely on such an army to defend the country and protect the territory and the people.

Shaking his head, Yang Yi finally understood why when Hong Xiuquan got into trouble, he could easily defeat hundreds of thousands of troops of the Qing Dynasty with thousands of Guangxi peasants who had no combat experience. How can they hope that they can resist those Taiping troops who are like tigers and wolves and have dreams?

However, when he thought of Cangzhou City under the onslaught of tens of thousands of troops commanded by Lin Fengxiang, it seemed that the defenders of Cangzhou City were not all such scum, and he felt a little comforted in his heart, this strange feeling even felt strange to himself, could it be that he had really regarded himself as a subject of the Qing Dynasty in his subconscious?

Yang Yi shook his head a little self-deprecatingly, the poverty, weakness and decay of the Qing Dynasty have long been concluded by history, as a passerby of time, why worry about everything that is already yesterday's yellow flower, or hurry up to get out of the city.

At that moment, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou climbed lightly across the battlement, and saw that the soldiers who were supposed to be standing guard and on duty were all like shopkeepers running the hall, helping those men to get out of the city, and they were very busy, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou were like entering a no-man's land, easily stepped onto the wall of the city wall on the other side, and moved down against the wall again without hurrying.

Yang Yi and Wei Ergou were far away from the men and their "goods" who had come down from the city, and the light was dim on a snowy night, so those men were in a hurry to go down, so no one noticed that there were two other "fellow practitioners" on the wall who were watching them.

At this moment, I saw that there was a firelight at the root of the city wall outside, which shook in a circle, perhaps for fear of exposing the target and incurring the shelling of the Qing army in the city, the firelight only appeared for less than ten seconds and disappeared, but the men who were put down were all overjoyed, presumably the firelight should be a signal from the party below who responded to them.

After a while, those men and the big basket containing those innocent women came to the base of the city, and those men quietly stepped out of the big basket, and saw more than a dozen big men wrapped in yellow scarves and wearing the Taiping Army horn running from the shadows, and without saying a word, one of them picked up a cloth bag containing the women and ran quickly in the direction of the barracks.

Yang Yi and Wei Ergou waited for a while, and after confirming that the Taiping army and human traffickers were gone, they slid down from the city wall, and after landing, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou discerned the direction and touched in the direction of the Taiping army's barracks.

To get to the Taiping military camp, you have to cross the deep moat, and the Taiping soldiers and traffickers who responded must have used ropes and large baskets to lower the embankment in advance, and then go up to another river bank according to the law.

At this time, there would naturally be no tools on the moat embankment, but at a distance of five or seven or eight meters, how could Yang Yi and Wei Ergou be stumped, but seeing the two of them ups and downs, they had already reached the other side of the river.

Lying on the riverbank, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou looked at the Taiping army camp opposite, and found that the Taiping army's already extensive military camp had nearly doubled, and all the deep trenches were dug outside, and there were many watchtowers dotted on it.

In the trench, the huge barracks is a fierce battle flag, blazing torches, the sound of soldiers fighting and the neighing of horses are endless, a noisy and noisy lively scene, and the dead silence of Cangzhou City is in sharp contrast.