The Nameless of the Common Clans

When I came here, there was a firelight pointing the way in the direction of the city wall. Although I stumbled, I was still able to find the place. But now, when I went back, in the dark environment with no lights and no fire, although Chen Mo had a good memory, it was difficult to find his tent in the darkness. Chen Mo After groping for a long time, I simply gave up and found a place where a dozen people gathered together to squeeze in to keep warm. Although it was early spring, the night was still very cold, and it was impossible for it to stay outside all night.

There was one more person, and for these people, they just moved in dissatisfaction, and the night passed like this.

At dawn the next day, Chen Momo cleared the environment and quickly found it.

"Mom, you didn't sleep last night?" Chen Mo looked at his exhausted mother and asked with some distress.

"My son hasn't been home all night, how can I feel relieved?" Mother Chen sighed.

The gong sound of gathering outside sounded. Chen Mo took the wooden arrows handed by Dalang and put them into his quiver one by one. He said guiltily: "It was too dark after I came back last night and I couldn't find my way. I spent the whole night crowded with others. It’s the son’s fault to make his mother worried.”

"It doesn't matter, did you receive a reply last night?" Mother Chen shook her head. For her, it was enough for her son to come back safely.

"Well, I have made an agreement with them to send you into the city tonight?" Chen Mo nodded. Although he was not out of danger yet, at least he no longer had to worry about his mother's safety, and he was half relieved.

"That's great!" Aunt Cai breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this. She has been frightened these days and it's really hard to go hungry and have a full meal. If she can go to the city and have a place to stay, even if it is worse than before, it will still be better than now. good.

Mother Chen looked at Chen Mo and frowned slightly: "Is it that simple?"

Even if the county magistrate didn't doubt whether they were doing it carefully, he shouldn't agree to such a thing so rashly at this time, right?

"Yes." Chen Mo nodded, looked outside the tent and said, "Mom, they're here again. Let's go. Everyone, bring everything."

The sound of gongs outside the tent became louder and louder. If he couldn't be dragged out, those Taiping Cult people would not have any merciful thoughts, and a beating would be lenient. At that moment, everyone came out of the tent and started to gather along with the crowd.

A small boss died yesterday, and the new boss was obviously worried that he would be killed like last night. He deliberately distanced himself from everyone and kept urging everyone to move forward, but he only yelled and cursed.

In this state, even if Chen Mo didn't know much about the art of war, he could tell that it would be difficult to achieve anything today. The battlefield was not fierce. The people attacking the city were forced back by the defenders' arrow formations several times before they even touched the city wall. .

Zhou Fang looked at the ridiculous battle formation with a gloomy look, turned around and said solemnly: "Who can tell me, what are you doing? Are you trying to exhaust the defenders to death?"

A group of Taiping Religion generals looked at each other, one of them frowned and said: "Someone was killed in the chaos yesterday. The relationship between our army and these believers is gradually becoming tense. The officers and soldiers are also afraid that they will be attacked in secret if they push too hard."

A leader died yesterday, which is actually just a small matter. What is really fatal is probably the relationship between the two parties. From the beginning, when they coerced the people to attack the city, there was a lack of trust between the Taiping Army and these so-called believers. Some people gathered to make trouble before. Zhou Fang used thunderous means to suppress it, but it only treated the symptoms rather than the root cause.

This time tens of thousands of people came to attack the city. The real core combat strength of Taiping Religion is actually less than a thousand people. In addition, the army composed of hunters drawn from various places. If Quyang can be successfully defeated in this battle, at least it can Use Quyang's supplies to completely win over those hunters.

However, Quyang did not flee like other counties. Instead, it organized fierce resistance. In this way, when the people were forced to join, internal conflicts would continue to intensify as time went by.

Of course, these deep-seated things may not be understood by this group of people, including Zhou Fang. Now the Taiping Sect in Quyang is like sitting in a crater that is about to erupt at any time. It really makes these tens of thousands of people completely broke out, and those teams organized by hunters and rangers from various places have not yet returned home, they will definitely be swallowed up in the end.

A Taiping Religion general looked at Zhou Fang and frowned: "Commander Qu, if you don't think of any more strategies, I'm afraid these people will gradually become unable to suppress them."

This can be seen from today's battlefield. The people who were coerced here were unwilling to contribute, and the Taiping Sect's troops were also worried about being mishandled on the battlefield and did not dare to push too hard.

"Ha~" After a long silence, Zhou Fang waved his hand and said: "Retreat the troops. Since they don't want to live a good life, there is no need to live a good life. Send my military order. Before capturing Quyang, the food supply will be halved. I am not teaching food. Come to feed the idle people!”

After hesitating for a moment, Zhou Fang added: "Of course, when telling them, don't say this, just say that the food is exhausted. If we don't break the city, we will all have to starve to death here together."

"Here!" Several Taiping Religion generals felt that this was also a solution. They nodded and set off to deliver the order, ordering the gongs to be sounded and the troops to withdraw. On such a lifeless battlefield, there was no point in continuing to fight.

When the people around heard the sound of the gong, they rushed back. They were lifeless during the battle, but now they are full of energy when they withdraw.

"Mother, we are not going back!" Chen Mo took Heizi from Aunt Cai's arms, pulled his mother and said, "Stay closer to the city wall, and we can escape tonight."

He had already planned to arrange for his mother and others to enter the city, so he took all the belongings he could bring along with Heizi. It didn't look like fighting, but more like fleeing.

Everyone stopped as they were told and found a big tree nearby to take shelter from the wind. There was a quarrel in the distance. Dalang went to investigate. After a while, he hurried back and said to everyone: "There is nothing to eat, those Taiping Sect people "I told you, there will be less and less food before Quyang is captured. If you want to eat, go to Quyang City tomorrow, and we can take whatever is in the city."

Chen Mo frowned when he heard this, stood up and looked into the distance. The noise continued and became louder and louder. He turned to look at Dalang and said, "They didn't do anything?"

According to past experience, if so many people are causing trouble, the Taiping Sect people may have impatiently taken action.

"Never." Dalang shook his head and said: "For some reason, those Taiping Sect people today have a very good temper. They kept explaining to everyone that there was no food left in the army. They originally wanted to use the food in the city to feed everyone after they broke through the city. , Now that the city has not been captured, most of the food has been consumed, and there is nothing they can do. "

"I'm afraid there are still more. By doing this, they are forcing everyone to attack the city with all their strength!" Mother Chen sighed.

"I'm not stupid, how can I let him do what he wants?" Dalang said disdainfully.

Chen Mo didn't speak. He just sat under the tree alone, looking at the noisy crowd in the distance, thinking about countermeasures...