"Seal the city to defend yourself? Mingfu, isn't this bad? There are no thieves committing crimes at the moment. If you rashly seal the city to defend yourself, forget about it. If a thief does commit a crime, forget it. If it is a false alarm, the higher-ups will investigate and take responsibility."
Locking down the city was a big deal, but Sijing felt there was no need to do this.
And to be honest, Sijing had always felt that Chen Binghe was a little too nervous.
Although he was quite nervous.
Since more than ten days ago, news of a rebellion has spread, but they have inquired and asked but they still don't know what happened or where the thieves are causing trouble.
Some people say Yizhou and Mizhou, some say Dengzhou, some say Jizhou, some say Damingfu, some say Yanyun, some say Xixia invasion, and some even say Song Dynasty's Northern Expedition.
All kinds of news suddenly flooded the entire Xintai County, and every news was said as if it were true, causing officials to panic.
A few days ago, his good friend in Laiwu wrote to him asking him if the Song Dynasty was on the Northern Expedition and if he needed to run away now, so Sijing was also uneasy.
But things like closing the city to self-defense...
Isn't it?
"Is it not good?"
Chen Binghe himself was hesitant and asked: "But news of rebellions has been rampant recently. Not to mention other places, Yizhou is so close to us. If something happens, we will not be able to survive alone, so we have to prepare early. I When you are ready to eat the king's salary, you should share your worries for the king, and you can't be mediocre and inactive!"
Sijing hesitated for a moment.
"Although this makes sense, in the Ming Dynasty, sealing the city to defend itself is a big deal. If nothing else, rashly sealing the city to defend itself, and the residents in the city have insufficient reserves, is quite dangerous. No matter what, the residents of the city must be wooded. Time to pick?
Moreover, there are farmers outside the city and Meng'anmouke households. If we leave them in the village and we close the city to defend ourselves, they will have objections. When the time comes, there will be trouble, and the matter will become big, the farmers outside the city will all come into the city. , do we accept it or not? "
Chen Binghe thinks Sijing's statement makes sense.
There are more people outside the city than in the city, and a small county town cannot accommodate so many people. Once the news of closing the city is announced, it is difficult to say that farmers outside the city and Meng'an Mouke households will not come to the city en masse.
It will definitely cause great chaos.
If you make such a big fuss over an uncertain fact, something will really happen.
After much thought, Chen Binghe felt that it was better to be prepared.
While preparing to close the city and defend themselves, more people were sent to Yizhou to inquire about the news.
Then Chen Binghe arranged to inventory the city's grain depots and arsenals, and stepped up reserves to prepare for emergencies.
He also sent people to hire idle people, leprechauns, and beggars in the city to form a logging team to collect wood on the hills outside the city to reserve enough wood.
Sijing followed Chen Binghe's suggestion and privately sent people to contact the Meng'an Mouke households living in the village to let them be more cautious.
In fact, this is also a shirking of responsibility.
I've told you what happened. What you want to do is your own business. You can enter the city, but if you don't enter the city, if something happens, you will bear the responsibility yourself.
Faced with Sijing's warning, only a few villages sent the old, weak, women and children in the village to live temporarily in the city, and most of the people did not move.
Now is the spring plowing season, which has delayed the spring plowing and affected their harvest for the whole year. No one will care about them if they are hungry.
Therefore, they did not go to the city themselves, nor did they allow the Han serfs under their control to go to the city.
The sky is vast and the earth is vast, and spring plowing is the greatest.
The Jurchens who moved south and lived in the Central Plains also gradually understood this truth, and they did so at all costs.
In this regard, both Sijing and Chen Binghe expressed their helplessness. Anyway, they have said everything they need to say. It is hard to persuade them with good words. Damn it, if you don't listen, there is nothing we can do.
In the next few days, Chen Binghe and Sijing soldiers divided into two groups, stockpiling supplies while arranging military defense and intelligence exploration. They did a pretty good job.
In the afternoon of the 29th, Sijing hurriedly rushed to the county government office with a person.
This man was one of the sentries sent by Chen Binghe to Yizhou to find out the news. He was injured and was very weak when he came back.
Chen Binghe soon learned that this man had been attacked when he entered Yizhou to investigate the news, and all four of his companions died. He fled for his life all the way to Tengzhou, and then passed through Yanzhou from Tengzhou, making a big circle before returning.
"Both counties in Yizhou have fallen, and the rebel army has taken control of Yizhou! The rebel army is huge, numbering in the thousands!"
Chen Binghe was shocked and immediately looked at Sijing.
"Something really happened!"
Sijing's face was filled with nervousness.
"Yes, something really happened, we need to report it immediately!"
"That's right! Report it immediately! Someone, come to me immediately..."
Before Chen Binghe finished speaking, a loud noise suddenly came. Chen Binghe and Sijing were frightened and looked at each other at a loss.
Chen Binghe suddenly reacted and ran out of the county house in panic. Sijing also stumbled out of the county house and looked towards the place where the sound came from.
Indeed, they didn't see anything for a while, but the noisy sounds surged towards them one after another like a raging ocean tide, directly shocking their faces and breathtaking.
Panic is panic.
Women's screams, men's roars, and all kinds of throat-piercing high notes came together, stimulating the hearts of Chen Binghe and Sijing, making their hearts beat faster.
Something did happen.
Su Yonglin had personally led the elite soldiers of the Shengjie Army to sneak into the woodcutting team arranged by Chen Binghe, rush into Xintai County City, and seize the city gate.
The entire operation went smoothly, except that one of the gold soldiers guarding the city suddenly detonated Su Yonglin's unknown gunpowder weapon in a panic, causing a huge explosion.
The explosion was really loud. Su Yonglin covered his ears in time and fell to the ground, but he still felt his ears buzzing from the shock. It took him a while to recover.
When he got up and looked around, he found that there was a place on the tower that had been blackened by smoke and exploded into a mess.
Immediately afterwards, a dark broken arm fell from the sky and landed right in front of Su Yonglin, almost hitting him and shocking him.
Taking a closer look, Su Yonglin was surprised.
Good guy, this firearm is not bad!
However, he had no time to think about this now. After gathering his troops to control the city gate, he immediately rushed in, quickly attacked the various government offices in the city, and divided his forces to seize the remaining three city gates.
Now that it has been exposed, we must act even faster without any hesitation.
Anyone with weapons on the road would be killed, and anyone wearing official uniforms would be arrested. The whole county was in chaos, filled with miserable shouts as if it was the end of the world.
Chen Binghe and Si Jing hurriedly organized a defense, summoned more than 100 available manpower, and headed toward the west city with weapons in hand, trying to control the situation and save the county seat.
But they didn't go a long way when they ran into a commando led by Su Yonglin.
When Su Yonglin saw a group of people on the other side, he immediately ordered his troops to form formation on the spot.
The elite soldiers of the Shengjie Army were now very familiar with forming formations. They quickly completed the formation and rushed over without saying a word.
Before Chen Binghe and Sijing could react, the Shengjie Army's military formation rushed in front of them and struck them with a combination of punches. This sparse temporary force was quickly defeated and completely annihilated by the Shengjie Army.
Su Yonglin felt the pleasure of dimensionality reduction.
The army formed in military formation was so lethal against this group of stragglers.
Su Yonglin saw that the two of them were dressed in extraordinary clothes and knew that they were important officials, so he did not kill them, but captured them alive.
The county government soon fell, and the defense of Xintai County completely failed. Su Yonglin immediately controlled the four city gates, sealed them, and divided his troops to kill the remaining Jin soldiers in the city. By dusk, he had completely controlled the entire county.
Subsequently, Su Yonglin ordered the promulgation of a peace notice, announcing the implementation of military control and curfew in the city, but ensured that Qiu of the victorious army did not commit any crimes, so as to temporarily calm people's hearts.
