Time flies like a white horse, and three days pass in a flash.

In the past few days, the news about the fall of Xia Lin and the siege of the city by the Heavenly Master and thieves has spread in the city.

What is the scholar clan, in the county where the news is relatively closed and does not circulate, the scholar clan controls the guidance of public opinion.

After the news spread, the "rumors" about the five days of plundering after the Heavenly Master thieves broke the city made the people in the city panic.

Although the city has now abolished the overnight fee, due to the previous exploitation of the yamen, there are many poor people in the city, and the city gate is closed, not allowed to enter or exit, under the guidance of people with good intentions, many people began to make trouble in the city.

Many shops were smashed and looted, and theft was frequent.

Nowadays, the officials in the city are quick to arrest, and more work every day is not to suppress the law, but to collect the corpses and wash the ground, so as not to cause a plague.

And all kinds of chaos caused all kinds of shops to close one after another.

And the most closed is the grain store.

When the people saw that they had money, they could not even buy food, and they had no food to eat, and there were more people who made trouble.

……

Fukuzawa Village.

More than a dozen black smoke soared into the sky.

Now the whole village is filled with the smell of coal.

Now it's not just coal for burning sulfur.

The newly built blacksmith also uses high-calorie coal as fuel for ironmaking, which will make the metal more malleable and malleable, and can improve the quality of the weapons and armor produced.

Due to the fall of Xia Lin, the Heavenly Division Army began to carve up Qingzhou, and a large number of people in the surrounding counties began to flee south.

In the past few days, people and even deserters have been coming to take refuge.

That's right, it's a deserter, a real, formally trained elite soldier.

The fall of Fengxian and Nanyang made the Qingzhou army almost annihilated, but there were still thousands of Qingzhou troops, divided into more than ten or twenty units, scattered and fled, in order to prevent being recognized and arrested by the yamen of the county along the way, they pretended to be refugees.

But as a soldier who has been on the battlefield, as soon as he trains in the reserves, he is exposed.

Although there were only five deserters who defected to him, Chen Mo still gave them extremely high treatment.

The five of them are not martial artists, but if they fight alone, even Han Wu and Hu Qiang, who have begun to contact cultivation, are not the opponents of the five.

Only Zhang He, who has been cultivating for a longer time, can be slightly better.

He hired five people as instructors to teach Shen Yongwei the training methods and experience from the Qingzhou Army.

Chen Mo knew that although Shen Yongwei trained hard, he taught everything he knew and what he should teach, but after all, he was not a person in the army, he could only be regarded as half a bucket of water, and if he wanted Shen Yongwei to reach the level of the regular army, he had to train in the way of the regular army.

Although the Qingzhou Army is an elite unit, the treatment in the army is not particularly good, and under the lure of Chen Mo, the five of them have no reason to disagree.

The mothers-in-law in the cottage were not idle, and under the guidance of Hu Tie, Hu Shi, Hu Shan and several other hunters, they made arrows.

Under the guidance of Lu Yuan and others, bamboo armor was made.

As for the driving force that drives these mothers-in-law to make, of course, it is money.

Make an arrow and get a penny.

A qualified bamboo armor will be appreciated.

Although it is not much, it has a great attraction for mothers-in-law who have nothing to do and want to subsidize their families at home, and they are scrambling to do it.

The sunset slanted in the west.

Wang Ping came over to report to Chen Mo on the refugees he had taken in today, and after speaking, he said: "Immortal Master Chen, the barren land in the village has been divided, and if the refugees are admitted to the village, there will be no land to divide." ”

Chen Mo nodded, he had a plan in his heart, he called Han Wu: "In the evening, you bring a few people, pretend to be refugees who go south, and say that there are people outside Pingting County who give porridge every day." Remember, the bigger the noise, the better, and don't reveal your identity. ”

"No."

Caught up in the war and began to flee south, most of them were hungry people, who had been on the road for a few days, tired and thirsty, and heard that there were people outside Pingting County every day who gave porridge, and those who fainted from hunger, whether it was true or not, rushed towards Pingting County.

People are all conformists, and when they saw so many people going in one direction, they immediately followed with curiosity.

The next day, the defenders on the city wall looked at the large number of refugees outside the city, and everyone was stupid, thinking of the news that the heavenly master thieves in the city were going to besiege the city soon, cold sweat broke out on their backs, and they ran back to the yamen in a panic to report.

As a result, it was originally a group of refugees waiting outside the city for soup kitchen, and when it spread to the city, it suddenly became a siege of the Heavenly Master and thieves.

Such frightening news spread like a tidal wave into the city, causing great chaos.

The officials and arresters who were still barely maintaining order, and the villagers who were recruited to maintain stability, also became self-endangered in such a voice.

Chang Yuan was naturally frightened, once the city was broken, he would be the unlucky.

He was so frightened that he didn't have time to bring his official hat, so he hurriedly took General Sun and went to the city wall to supervise the battle.

When he learned that it was just a group of refugees who had come to beg for food, Chang Yuanfang breathed a sigh of relief and ordered the garrison not to let this group of refugees get close to the city wall, and those who violated the order were shot.

The refugees did not know the truth of this incident, and when they saw that they had walked for so long and had no porridge to drink outside the city, a group of people immediately began to make trouble.

Chang Yuan knew that he couldn't be soft-hearted about this, once there were more and more refugees piling up, and some people made trouble, then all the refugees would riot, and then there would be trouble.

Chang Yuan ordered to be shot.

"Woohoo!"

A round of arrows rained down, and nearly 100 refugees fell to the ground with a bang, blood gushing out, and their eyes were full of disbelief.

Isn't it said that there is a good soup kitchen?

Saw blood, and died.

There was an exclamation from all around, and the surrounding refugees began to disperse gradually.

Han Wu mixed in the crowd, returned to the village as soon as possible, and told Chen Mo the news.

"Immortal Master Chen, a lot of people died, it's too miserable." Han Wu gasped slightly and said, "Immortal Master Chen, didn't you say that there are people outside the city who give porridge every day, what?"

Han Wu also believed it.

Chen Mo's eyes narrowed slightly, and there was no trace of turmoil in his heart, and said: "You release the news again tonight, saying that tomorrow afternoon, I will give porridge outside the village, and everyone will have a share." It's still the same as last time, the bigger the noise, the better. ”

It's night.

Hu Qiang rushed back, found Chen Mo, and said: "Immortal Master Chen, you are really like a god, Taishan County was really captured by the Heavenly Master Army, and the next stop is Qingting County." ”

In this regard, Chen Mo's expression was calm, the last time Hu Qiang came back and told him that the Heavenly Division Army had arrived in Xialin, he guessed that the Heavenly Division Army would arrive in Taishan County in the next few days, and Taishan County was not far from Qingting County.

The news of the fall of Taishan County spread, and fear was bound to sweep through Qingting and Pingting counties.

Chen Mo knew that the time had come.

……

The next afternoon, the outskirts of the village were crowded with people.

Some refugees who have been to outside Pingting County thought that this time it was fake again, but when they saw the large porridge buckets placed at the entrance of the village, they were surprised and undescribed.

(End of chapter)