Chapter 362 (Thank you for the Chinese New Year's salty films, old birds reading books, a lot of rewards and monthly tickets from crazy giants, and Xie Tiancai's monthly ticket for the heart lock brothers.) Anyway, I didn't even know that there was a ghost fighting activity in Zongheng. ）

The mixed army of more than 4,000 Jinyi Guards and Bazhou Guards officers and soldiers was drawn out the next day, and Song Nan had already written down the situation last night and ordered the horse to enter Beijing to report the situation, but if the imperial court completed the procedure and sent troops, it was obviously too late.

The closer I got to the county seat of Wen'an, the more unbearable the scene in front of me became, with corpses lying swollen and lying in the wilderness, emitting a foul smell everywhere. Dozens of villages and towns along the route were also scorched, and weeping people and children sat on the ruins, staring blankly at the officers and soldiers, their eyes lifeless.

Song Nan thought it was done by the officers and soldiers, and called Chen Wei to ask sternly, Chen Wei swore that it was not his own soldiers and horses, so Song Nan sent someone to ask about the situation, and the news was that this qiē was done by thieves and soldiers. In order to replenish the supply of soldiers, the thieves and soldiers went around to pull the strong men into the gang, robbed the people's food as military rations, killed people and burned houses if they did not obey, and committed adultery and plunder.

Song Nan was relieved, originally he still had some psychological problems about the counterinsurgency, after all, the officials forced the people to rebel, the root of this qiē was the policy mistakes of the imperial court, and how to deal with these rebels was Song Nan's psychological problem; There were even some fears that historians in the future would be branded as the executioner of the peasant uprising, but now it seems that these fears were unfounded.

If you don't experience it yourself, you don't know the true face of these guys, but you can think about how many of the so-called peasant uprisings in history were voluntarily carried out by the people, and I am afraid that many people were coerced into it and were powerless to resist.

Within thirty miles of Wen'an County, the road is becoming more and more steep and difficult to travel, Song Nan naturally does not want to encounter the thieves in this kind of place, dozens of cavalry Jinyi Guard Banner School continue to explore the road ahead, and dozens of groups of scouts have also been released in the surrounding hillside wilderness, but no trace of the thieves has been found.

At dawn, the team finally crossed the continuous mountains in the north of the city and came to the flat ground in the north of the county, looking at the torches on the head of the city, Song Nan breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that the thieves are still in the county seat of Wen'an.

Song Nan ordered the army to take a short rest, and took the generals to check closely, the thieves at the head of the city obviously knew that the officers and soldiers were coming, and maintained a high degree of vigilance.

Song Nan looked at the not strong and tall city wall, and had a bottom in his heart, this city wall could not be defended at all, which may explain why the thieves would take the risk and directly attack Chen Wei's soldiers and horses, because if they defend the city, they will not be able to withstand the attack of the army, on the contrary, because of the restrictions of the city wall, the superior forces will not be able to play.

"My lord, what shall we do?" Chen Wei asked.

Song Nan said: "After dawn, I will test how to make a calculation about the firepower of the thieves defending the city, I hope they can go out of the city to confront me, so that my brocade guard cavalry can come in handy, but unfortunately now it seems that you can only rely on your soldiers and horses to attack the city." ”

Chen Wei has nothing to say, if he wants to atone for his sins, he can only rush to the front; The army rested in place for more than an hour, and when the sun in the east showed its face, Chen Wei's soldiers and horses had already set up a position in the north of the city. I thought that the thieves at the head of the city must be densely arranged, but the actual situation is that the number of thieves at the head of the city is not large, and it looks like only hundreds.

Although everyone muttered in their hearts, especially Chen Bao, who had followed Xu Shangyi to attack once. He thinks that the thieves must be playing some tricks, and there must be deception in them; Someone went to tell Song Nan about these worries, but in exchange for Song Nan's faint words: "What if there is fraud?" Do you want to look at it? Prepare for the siege. ”

Chen Wei cheered up and ordered a team of soldiers to approach the city with a big shield on their heads, and the thieves at the head of the city really moved, buzzing several rounds of arrow rain down, shooting and wounding more than a dozen soldiers, but then the arrows became sparse and pulled.

Chen Weiwu was cautious and kept tempting, and the thieves on the city had no arrows to shoot in the end.

Song Nan frowned and said, "Commander Chen, when do you plan to attack the city." ”

Chen Wei scratched his head and said, "I always feel that the thieves have tricks. ”

Song Nan scolded: "There's a fart trick, obviously there is no bow and arrow to shoot, why don't you attack quickly, what are you waiting for?" ”

Chen Wei suddenly realized that he was really frightened by the thieves, so he shouted: "The archers come forward to suppress, Chen Bao, take five hundred people to fill the river." The rest prepared to attack the city. ”

The drums beat and five hundred archers rushed forward and rained down on the head of the city, not seeking to kill but to suppress the defenders of the city and fill the moat with their burdens of mud. The thieves at the head of the city seemed to be at a loss, and they pointed nervously at the head of the city, and when the moat was filled in a road, and thousands of soldiers carried the ladder and swarmed up, all the thieves at the head of the city suddenly disappeared.

Song Nan suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart, not that he was afraid that the thieves would have any ambush, but that he suddenly realized that there were not many soldiers and horses in this Wen'an County, so he didn't even dare to defend at all, and as soon as the officers and soldiers attacked, the thieves in the city were so frightened that they fled.

After realizing this, Song Nan immediately ordered Wan Zhi and Hou Dabiao to take 400 cavalry each around the city to check to see if any thieves had escaped from other city gates.

Sure enough, when the north gate was breached effortlessly, there was not even a ghost shadow in the city, and from the south gate and the west gate, hundreds of thieves fled out, and were carried by Wan Zhi and Hou Dabiao, and drove back to the city like pigs.

Thousands of soldiers and horses quickly grated through the grates in the city, and it was basically determined that except for the seven or eight hundred so-called 'thieves' who did not even have decent weapons, there were only old and weak women, children, and children, and the rest of the thousands of thieves had disappeared.

On the county government square, Song Nan saw seven or eight hundred ragged thieves squatting on the ground with their heads in their hands, these people looked like ordinary people, looking timidly at the officers and soldiers around them, their bodies trembling.

Song Nan lifted the horsewhip and shone a whip on the body of a thief soldier, the thief screamed, and actually cried, he cried, and many thieves also cried with Wow, and shouted: "Spare your life, spare your life." ”

Song Nan and everyone couldn't cry or laugh, Hou Dabiao shouted: "Don't cry, whoever makes any more noise will be cut directly." ”

Only then did the thieves stop their grief, and they stared at each other with tears in their eyes; Hou Dabiao said: "Who is your leader, come out and speak." ”

Everyone's eyes converged on a person, who was squatting there with his head in his hands and not making a sound, Hou Dabiao walked over and kicked him, and he raised his face, but he was a simple descendant.

Hou Dabiao said: "You are their leader? What is your name? ”

The latter scratched his head and said, "My name is Liu Erwa, I'm not a leader." ”

Hou Dabiao raised his whip and said angrily: "You still deny it, when you ask who is the leader, these people are all looking at you, are you the head of the thief?" ”

Liu Erwa hurriedly said: "Wronged, military master, who loves to be the leader, I don't want to be, they insist on giving me the title of a general, telling me to take these people to defend the city, saying that the city has lost my life, what can I do." ”

Hou Dabiao frowned and rolled his eyes to look at Song Nan, Song Nan came over and said, "Don't be afraid, make it clear, they asked you to take people to guard the city, where did they go?" ”

Liu Erwa said: "Master Jun, I really didn't tell a lie, I was originally a tenant of the Danjia Manor, and when Liu Liu and Liu Qi made trouble, everyone followed to make trouble, and I also followed; Later, they killed the officers and soldiers, and everyone said that no one could run away from a dead end, and they had to follow Liu Liu and Liu Qi to rebel; I didn't dare to rebel, but if I didn't rebel, Liu Liu and they wouldn't spare me, so I had to follow. ”

Song Nan frowned and nodded, "Go on." ”

Liu Erwa said: "Later, after killing more officers and soldiers, everyone was a little scared, some people wanted to run, but Liu Liu and they caught a lot, and they cut off their heads in public in this square, and no one dared to run; Liu Liu, they said that they wanted to take someone to the capital to become the emperor, and I didn't want to leave, so they made me a general, and brought this person to take it with me, and asked me to defend the county seat, saying that if I lost the city, all of us hundreds of people would be beheaded when I turned around, and I had no choice but to take the big guy to the city; Official, I don't have a single life in my hands, I'm just playing around. ”

Song Nan said: "What are these people? ”

Liu Erwa said: "They were all caught in the surrounding villages yesterday, and they are all honest villagers. ”

Everyone around nodded one after another, and someone shouted: "Official, we are all honest and farming, these people just pulled us to join the gang, my house was burned, there was no place to go, and I was afraid that they would kill people, so I stayed here." ”

"Yes, the Liu Liu, my cow was also slaughtered and eaten by them, and the daughter-in-law of Da Hei in my village was also ruined by the gang of, and Da Hei was cut down a few times with them; I can't stay here, we're not thieves. ”

Everyone shouted and complained, Song Nan's brows were twisted into pimples, they were all newly arrested strong men who stayed in the city, the main movement of the thieves was unknown, and he was still one step late in a hurry, this time the trouble was really big.