The king behind the empress

Chapter 256 Collusion inside and outside
Nanzhou County City.

Shi Zhipei stood on the south gate tower, looking at the rebels outside the city with a little anger in his eyes.

He did not hesitate to risk his future, even his life, and forcibly beheaded Yan Wenfu, the county guard, in order to save the disaster-stricken people in Nanzhou County.

As a result, the White Lotus Sect rebelled, and all his efforts were in vain. Most of the refugees outside the city were swept up as thieves. Beheaded on the spot.

There were originally hundreds of thousands of refugees outside the city and the people swept by the White Lotus Sect rebels from other counties, but it was only ten days later, and the 10,000+ people were only tens of thousands left.

As for the few people, they were either killed or driven out of the vicinity of the county town.

But judging from the current situation in Nanzhou County, those old and young who have been ransacked are basically sentenced to death if they are driven out.

"These traitors, damn it!!!"

Looking at the messy refugees outside the city, Shi Zhipei felt an indescribable depression in his heart, he punched the city wall suddenly, and the bright red blood flowed down his fist to the city bricks, but he But it didn't seem like there was any pain at all.

"Shi Gong calm down."

Liu Hong took a step forward and enlightened Shi Zhipei, "Our national strength of the Great Zhou is still there, and when the Yulin army arrives, all these rebels will definitely be executed."

Behind Shi Zhipei and Liu Hong stood Qi Xiu and Yuheng. They have been following Shi Zhipei to protect his safety since they joined Shi Zhipei in the city. As for Yuan Zhi, he is still lying on the bed. It will be difficult to get up for a while while recuperating in bed.

Qi Xiu stood on the top of the city and looked at the rebels outside the city without saying a word, his face was full of solemnity and uneasiness.

Shi Zhipei turned his head and noticed Qi Xiu's expression, and his heart sank, "Qi Qianhu, I see that you have been worried these days, but what's wrong with those rebels outside?"

"Ah."

Qi Xiu nodded, pointed at the disorderly army outside and said, "My lord, what do you think of the disorderly army outside?"

"Feel?"

Shi Zhipei was stunned for a moment, then turned his head to look at the chaos outside the city, and after a while, he said hesitantly, "Chaos?"

Most of the predecessors of these rebels were ordinary people, and most of the anti-thief leaders of the White Lotus Sect had never fought, so their way of managing people was basically a big boss followed by several little boss.

And those small bosses will directly pull them into their own teams if they see refugees. Almost all the teams of the rebellion army are managed in this way. Naturally, there is no order at all, and they look messy at first glance.

"That's right, it's chaos."

Qi Xiu nodded and looked at the refugees outside the city with a look of disdain in his eyes, "To put it bluntly, those people outside are mobs."

"The soldiers don't know the generals, and the generals don't know the soldiers. Tens of thousands of them gather together, it's more like a gathering of refugees, it doesn't look like an army at all."

Although Shi Zhipei didn't know much about the military, he couldn't help being a little dazed after hearing what Qi Xiu said.

Like before Qi Xiu entered the city, the first thing he did was to train those county soldiers. Although he only trained for a few days, it made a big difference to those county soldiers. At least those county soldiers are now assembled Standing up, the first thing people see is an army, not a group of rogues.

On the other hand, those refugees outside the city, what they were before, are what they are now, and it seems that they have not changed at all.

"Qi Qianhu means that among those refugees, there are no talents who understand soldiers?"

"My lord's guess is correct." Qi Xiu exhaled, and said slowly: "This situation is obviously not right."

Hearing what Qi Xiu said, Shi Zhipei's eyes also changed, because those leaders of the White Lotus Sect, as long as they are not fools, must know that they can't do anything by relying on refugees, and they can only be effective if they are trained into an army.

Otherwise, if things go on like this, they will be able to bully and bully ordinary people by relying on their numbers, and they will be defeated for thousands of miles when they encounter regular troops, just like before Qi Xiu, with only more than 600 people, they defeated tens of thousands of soldiers. refugees.

Although this had a lot to do with Qi Xiu's commanding ability and the fact that Qi Xiu's troops were too elite, the defeat of tens of thousands by [-] also fully demonstrated how weak these rebel teams were.

And they were all beaten up like this, but the leaders of the White Lotus Sect couldn't find anyone who could command the troops and could only train soldiers.

Although Nanzhou County has not experienced any wars, so there are no well-known military talents, but those county captains who were attacked by the White Lotus Sect were not all rich and poor.

You must know that the imperial examinations of the Great Zhou Dynasty are not about stereotyped essays, military tactics are also a very important part of the imperial examinations of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and those who can become county lieutenants must be familiar with military tactics, even if they can't train any particularly elite army, but they still have the ability to train refugees into ordinary soldiers.

But after these days of observation, there are basically no trained soldiers in the chaotic army outside.

There are two possibilities for this situation. The first is that those county lieutenants who fell into the hands of the rebels would rather die than surrender, and are resolutely unwilling to train troops for those rebels.

And the second is that those county lieutenants stayed and left the county before the White Lotus Sect rebelled, and they never fell into the hands of those rebellious troops.

"No wonder... no wonder those rebels broke through those counties so quickly."

Shi Zhipei was trembling with qi, it was impossible for those county captains to have such noble morals, so it could only be that they withdrew in advance before the rebellion broke out.

"I was still thinking that they were guarding the city. Even if the county soldiers were not good enough, those county towns would not be lost so quickly. Now that I think about it, they should have retreated in advance before the rebels arrived, and then put those cities , gave it to those rebels for nothing!"

Shi Zhipei gritted his teeth, and his gums were about to bleed, "There are tens of thousands of people in a county, and this is tens of thousands of lives!"

"Throw it all to the rebels, how dare they, how dare they do this!!!"

Qi Xiu had recovered several county towns before, but now thinking of the miserable scene in those county towns, he couldn't help but fell silent.

After a long while, Qi Xiu said slowly: "After the rebel army besieged the city, it is not so easy to escape from the rebellion army, but almost none of them fell into the hands of the rebel army, which means that they must have known about Bailian in advance. Teach you to rebel."

"Even... Maybe they left the county on the eve of the White Lotus Sect's siege."

Hearing this, Shi Zhipei turned his head abruptly. He had a very elegant temperament, but now he was full of gloom, "You mean to say that the Yuan family colluded with the rebels?"

　I'm sorry, I didn't intend to delay the update this time. I went out at seven o'clock in the morning. I just got home now. I haven't even eaten. I'll post the saves I wrote last night. The rest of the chapters will be sure before eleven o'clock Issued to.

　　I apologize to everyone. I just said that I would not delay the update, but it turned out to be delayed again, but this time it really happened for a reason. I didn’t expect to come back so late. I’m sorry.

　　
　
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