Chapter 362 A Step Late

Chapter 362 (Thanks to the New Year's salt films, old birds reading books, a lot of rewards and monthly tickets, thank you for your heart lock brother's monthly ticket. By the way, I didn't even know that there was a ghost-playing activity.)

The mixed army of more than 4,000 Jinyiwei and Bazhouwei officers and soldiers was launched the next day. Last night, Song Nan had written down the situation and went to Beijing to report the situation, but if the court completed the procedure to send troops, it was obviously too late.

The closer it is to Wen'an County, the more unbearable it is to see the scene in front of it. The horizontal and vertical bodies are swollen in the wilderness, emitting stench everywhere. Dozens of villages and towns along the way were also scorched. The crying people and children sat on the ruins, staring at the officers and soldiers in a daze, with no vitality in their eyes.

Song Nan thought it was done by officers and soldiers, so she called Chen Wei to ask strictly. Chen Wei vowed that it was not his own soldiers and horses, so Song Nan sent someone to ask about the situation. The news was that all this was done by the thief. In order to supplement the source of soldiers, the thieves pulled the strong men into the gang, robbed the people's food as military food, killed and burned the houses, and * plundered all kinds of evil.

Song Nan was relieved. Originally, he still had some psychological grudges about the suppression of rebellion. After all,*, the root of all this lies in the policy mistakes of the imperial court. How to deal with these rebels is Song Nan's psychological problem; he is even a little worried that he will be called the executioner of the suppression of the peasant uprising by historians in the next year. The name of the hand, but now it seems that these worries are purely superfluous.

If you don't experience it yourself, you don't know the true face of these guys. You can think about how many of the so-called peasant uprisings in history are voluntary by the people. I'm afraid that many people are trapped and unable to resist.

Within 30 miles of Wen'an County, the road is becoming more and more dangerous and difficult. Naturally, Song Nan does not want to encounter thief soldiers in such a place. Dozens of cavalry guard flag schools continuously explore the road in front of them, and dozens of groups of scouts were released in the surrounding hillside wilderness, but no trace of thief soldiers was found at all.

At dawn, the brigade finally crossed the continuous mountains in the north of the city to the flat ground in the north of the county. Looking at the torches on the top of the city, Song Nan was relieved. It seemed that the thief soldiers were still in Wen'an County.

Song Nan ordered the army to rest for a while and bring the generals to come closer to check. The thief soldiers at the head of the city obviously knew that the officers and soldiers had come and maintained a high level of vigilance. Before they approached, there were arrows and bows sounded. More than a dozen arrows shot far away and fell more than ten feet away in front of Song Nan and others.

Song Nan looked at the wall that was not strong and tall, and had a bottom in his heart. The wall could not be defended at all. This may explain why the thief soldiers would take the city directly out of the city to attack Chen Wei's soldiers and horses, because if they defended the city, they could not resist the attack of the army. On the contrary, they would not be able to exert their superior forces because of the limitations of the city wall.

"Your Excellency, what should we do?" Chen Wei asked.

Song Nan said, "After dawn, I will test how to deal with the firepower of the thief soldiers to defend the city. I hope they can go out of the city to fight against me, so that my brocade guards can come in handy. Unfortunately, now it seems that it can only be relied 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 for more than an hour. When the sun in the east appeared, Chen Wei's soldiers and horses had already made a position in the north of the city. I thought that the thief soldiers at the top of the city must be densely arranged, but the actual situation is that the number of thief soldiers at the top of the city is not large, and it looks like only hundreds.

Although everyone muttered, especially Chen Bao, who followed Xu Shangyi to attack once. He thought that the thief soldiers must be playing something else, among which there must be fraud; someone went to tell Song Nan about these worries, but in exchange, Song Nan's faint words: "So what if there is fraud? Are you watching? Prepare to attack the city."

Chen Wei cheered up and ordered a team of soldiers to approach the city with a big shield on their heads. The thief soldiers at the head of the city really moved. Several rounds of arrows buzzed down and injured more than a dozen soldiers, but then the arrows became sparsely pulled up.

Chen Wei Wu was careful and kept testing. In the end, the thief soldiers on the top of the city had no arrows to shoot at all. Everyone in the city stared with big eyes and small eyes.

Song Nan frowned and said, "Chief Chen, when are you going to attack the city?"

Chen Wei scratched his head and said, "I always feel that the thief has tricks."

Song Nan scolded, "There is a fart trick. Obviously, there is no bow and arrow to shoot. Why don't you attack? What are you waiting for?"

Chen Wei suddenly realized that he was really made like a bird of the bow by the thief, so he shouted, "The archers are suppressed. Chen Bao, take 500 people to fill the river. The rest are ready to attack the city.

The drum sounded, and five hundred archers rushed forward and shot a round of arrow rain at the head of the city. They did not ask for shooting, but to suppress the defenders in the city and let the soldiers with mud bags fill the moat. The thief soldiers at the head of the city seemed to be at a loss and nervously pointed at the head of the city, waiting for a road to be filled out. When thousands of soldiers rushed up carrying the ladder, all the thieves at the head of the city suddenly disappeared.

Song Nan suddenly had an ominous feeling in his heart. He was not afraid that the thief soldiers would be ambushed, but that he suddenly realized that there were not many soldiers in Wen'an County, so he did not even dare to defend at all. As soon as the officers and soldiers attacked, the thief soldiers in the city were scared to escape.

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

Sure enough, when the North Gate was broken effortlessly, there was not even a ghost in the city. From the South Gate and the West Gate, hundreds of thieves fled and were driven back to the city like a pig.

Thousands of soldiers and horses quickly grate in the city and basically confirmed that except for the so-called 'thief soldiers' who did not even have 700 or 800 decent weapons, the rest were only old and weak women, children and children, and the remaining 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. These people looked no different from ordinary people. They looked at the officers and soldiers around them timidly and trembled.

Song Nan picked up the whip to shine a whip on the body of a thief soldier. The thief shouted and actually cried. When he cried, many thief soldiers also cried and shouted one after another, "Forgive my life, forgive me."

Song Nan and everyone couldn't laugh or cry. Hou Dabiao shouted, "Don't cry. Whoever is noisy again will cut it directly."

Only then did the thieves stop their grief and stared at each other with tears in their eyes; Hou Dabiao said, "Who is your leader? Come out and talk."

Everyone's eyes gathered on a person, who squatted there with his head in both hands and squatted silently. Hou Dabiao walked over and kicked him. Then he raised his face, but he was a simple descendant.

Hou Dabiao said, "Are you their leader? What's your name?"

The later student 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 looking at you. Are you the leader?"

Liu Erwa hurriedly said, "I'm wronged, military master. Who likes to be the leader? I don't want to be. They just gave me the title of a great general and asked me to take these people to defend the city, saying that I lost my life. What can I do?"

Hou Dabiao frowned and rolled his eyes 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, I really didn't lie. I was originally a tenant of the Dan family's manor. When Liu Liu and Liu Qi and others made trouble, everyone followed them, and I followed them. Later, they killed the officers and soldiers, and everyone said that no one could run away from the dead end, and they must follow Liu Liu and Liu Qi to rebel; I don't dare to rebel, but if I don't rebel, Liu Liu and others won't forgive me, so I have to follow.

Song Nan frowned and nodded, "Go on."

Liu Erwa said, "Later, more officers and soldiers were killed. Everyone was a little scared. Some people wanted to run away, but they were caught a lot by Liu Liu and others. They cut off their heads in public in this square, and no one dared to run away. Liu Liu said that they would take people to the capital as emperor, and they blocked me. A big general, what a person came to bring me and asked me to guard the county, saying that if I lost the city, all hundreds of us would be beheaded. I had no choice but to take the big guy to the city. Official, I don't have a life in my hand, and I'm just playing with it.

Song Nan said, "What are these people?"

Liu Erwa said, "They were all captured in the surrounding villages yesterday. They are all honest villagers."

The people around nodded one after another, and someone shouted, "Master, we are all honest and farming. These people dragged us into the gang. My house was burned and there was no place. I was afraid that they would kill people, so we stayed here."

"Yes, Liu Liu, who was killed by God, my cattle were also killed by them, and the big black daughter-in-law in my village was also ruined by those days. The big black was cut several times with them desperately; I have no choice but to stay here. We are not thieves."

Everyone shouted and complained one after another. Song Nan's eyebrows were twisted into a pimple, and those who stayed in the city were all newly captured. The main force of the thief soldiers was unknown. He was still a step late to catch up, which was really troublesome.