Troubled times: Start practicing spiritual practice by taking care of your sister-in-law

Chapter 117 The time has come, let’s raise our troops tonight

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

In the past few days, news spread in the city about the fall of Xia Lin and that the Tianshi thieves would soon besiege the city.

What is a gentry? In a county where information is relatively closed and uncirculated, the gentry controls the direction of public opinion.

After the news spread, the "rumors" that the Heavenly Master thieves had looted the city for five days after breaking through the city made people in the city panic.

Although overnight fees have been abolished in the city, there are still many poor people in the city due to the previous exploitation by the Yamen. In addition, the city gates are closed and no entry or exit is allowed. Under the guidance of thoughtful people, many people have begun to cause chaos in the city. .

Many shops were smashed and looted, and thefts were even more frequent.

Nowadays, most of the daily tasks of the city's government officials are not to suppress lawbreakers, but to collect corpses and wash the ground to avoid causing a plague.

Various chaos caused various shops to close one after another.

The most closed ones are the grain stores.

When the people saw that they had money, they could not even buy food. They had no food to eat, and more people started to cause trouble.

……

Fuze Village.

More than a dozen streaks of black smoke shot straight into the sky.

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

Now it's not just coal that's used to burn sulfur.

The newly built blacksmith shop also uses high-calorie coal as the fuel for iron-making, which will make the metal more ductile and plastic, and can improve the quality of the weapons and armor made.

Due to the fall of Xia Lin, the Tianshi 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 deserting soldiers have been coming to seek refuge.

Yes, they are deserters, real elite soldiers who have received formal training.

The fall of Fengxian and Nanyang almost destroyed the Qingzhou Army, but there were still thousands of Qingzhou Army, divided into dozens or twenty groups, and fled in all directions. In order to prevent being recognized and arrested by the yamen in the counties along the way, they disguised themselves as refugee.

But as a soldier who has been on the battlefield, he was exposed as soon as he practiced in the reserve team.

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

The five of them are not warriors, but if they fight alone, even Han Wu and Hu Qiang, who have started to practice, are no match for the five of them.

Only Zhang He, who has been practicing for longer, is slightly better.

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

Chen Mo knew that although the Warrior Guards trained hard and taught them everything they knew and needed to teach, they were not in the military and could only be regarded as half a bucket of water. If they wanted the Warrior Guards to reach the level of the regular army, they would have to Train in the manner of a regular army.

Although the Qingzhou Army is an elite force, the treatment in the army is not particularly good. Under Chen Mo's inducement, the five of them had no reason to disagree.

The women in the village were not idle either, making arrows under the guidance of Hu Tie, Hu Shi, Hu Shan and other hunters.

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

As for the motivation that drives these women to make, of course it is money.

Make an arrow and get a reward.

A qualified piece of bamboo armor will be rewarded with hundreds of articles.

Although it is not much, it is very attractive to women who have nothing to do and want to subsidize their families. They are rushing to do it.

The sun sets in the west.Wang Ping came over as usual to report to Chen Mo on the refugees he had taken in today. After he finished speaking, he said: "Master Chen Xian, the wasteland in the village has been divided. If we accept more refugees into the village, there will be no land left to divide."

Chen Mo nodded. He had already planned in his heart. He called Han Wu: "In the evening, take a few people and pretend to be refugees going south. Say that there are people giving porridge outside Pingting County every day. Remember, there is no noise. The bigger the better, don’t reveal your identity.”

"promise."

Coerced by the war, most of the people who began to flee south were hungry people. After traveling for several days, they were tired and thirsty. They heard that people outside Pingting County were giving porridge every day and fainted from hunger. Regardless of whether it was true or not, They all rushed towards Pingting County.

People follow the herd. When I saw so many people going in the same direction, I immediately followed them out of curiosity.

The next day, the defenders on the city wall looked at the large number of refugees outside the city. They were dumbfounded. Thinking of the news that the Tianshi thieves were going to besiege the city in the near future, cold sweat broke out on their backs. They were panicking. He ran back to the Yamen to report.

Ever since, what was originally a group of refugees waiting outside the city to give porridge, when word reached the city, it suddenly turned into a siege by the Celestial Master and thieves.

Such frightening news spread to the city like a tide, causing huge chaos.

The government servants and police officers who were still barely maintaining order, and the rural warriors recruited to maintain stability, all became insecure amid such voices.

Chang Yuan was naturally frightened. Once the city was breached, he would be the unlucky one.

He was so frightened that he had no time to put on his official hat, so he hurriedly took General Sun and went to the city wall to supervise the battle.

After learning that they were just a group of refugees who came to beg for food, Chang Yuan breathed a sigh of relief and ordered the garrison not to let the refugees get close to the city wall. Anyone who disobeyed the order would be shot.

The refugees didn't know whether this was true or not. When they saw that they had walked for so long and had no porridge to drink when they arrived outside the city, a group of people immediately started to make trouble.

Chang Yuan knew that he couldn't be soft-hearted about this matter. Once more and more refugees piled up and someone started making trouble, all the refugees would riot, and then there would be trouble.

Chang Yuan ordered him to be shot.

"Shhhhhh!"

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

Isn’t that the soup porridge we promised?

When you see blood, people die.

There were exclamations everywhere, and the surrounding refugees began to gradually disperse.

Han Wu mingled in the crowd, returned to the village immediately, and told Chen Mo the news.

"Master Chen Xian, so many people died. It's so tragic." Han Wu panted slightly and said: "Master Chen Xian, didn't you say that there are people giving porridge outside the city every day?"

Han Wu also believed it.

Chen Mo narrowed his eyes slightly, and said without any disturbance in his heart: "Tonight, please let out the news again, 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 noise is getting louder and louder. Bigger is better.”

That night.

Hu Qiang rushed back, found Chen Mo, and said: "Master Chen Xian, you are really good at predicting events. Taishan County was indeed captured by the Tianshi Army. The next stop is Qingting County."

Regarding this, Chen Mo looked calm. After Hu Qiang came back last time and told him that the Heavenly Master Army had arrived at Xia Lin, he had guessed that the Heavenly Master Army would arrive in Taishan County in the next few days. Taishan County is not far from Qingting County. .

When news of the fall of Taishan County spreads, fear will surely sweep through Qingting and Pingting counties.

Chen Mo knew that the time had come.

……

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

Some refugees who had been 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 could not express their surprise.

(End of this chapter)