Chapter 21: Detective
As Yang Chong, the county magistrate and the officials of the yamen were brought back one by one, the entire yamen quickly started to operate again.
Not only Yang Chong, but also those minor officials followed one or two young men. These people were scholars sent by An Tai to learn the way of governance.
Of course, in addition to these people, they naturally have to monitor their guards in the name of protection. After all, even An Tai and Yang Rong and others have guards arranged by Liu Feng, let alone those of them who have been newly surrendered.
The people in the yamen were all eating and drinking, and no one could go out without Liu Feng's permission. The decrees issued were also teleported through black armor guards.
The purpose of this is to prevent fires in the backyard. Liu Feng didn't want to cause trouble when he and the imperial army fought to the death.
With the implementation of Yang Chong's series of measures to safeguard the people, Yinyang County returned to its previous appearance in less than a few days. In addition to the more soldiers patrolling the streets, and the more severe soldiers in the city gate inspected the passing crowd, it did not cause any inconvenience to the lives of the people.
If the people hadn't heard the shocking shouts of the soldiers in the city during training these days, the people would not have believed that the city had changed hands.
On the fourth day after Liu Feng entered the county town, the county magistrate Li Shun, who had never been seen, suddenly disguised himself as a grocery store.
"Hello, what do you need?"
The guy in the store asked with a smile on his face.
"I want to see your shopkeeper!"
Li Shun said as he placed half a piece of copper coin on the counter.
The guy saw the half of the broken copper coin, his pupils shrank slightly, nodded and bowed, "Please please in the guest."
Li Shun nodded, quietly picked up the copper coins and followed the mate to the yard behind.
"Sir, please show me the copper coins."
After arriving at the yard, the guy's smile changed his face and said expressionlessly.
"Give!"
Li Shun gave the copper coins again, and saw that the guy also took out a broken copper coins from his arms and righted them. The two copper coins were perfectly sewn together to form a unique Daqian Tongbao.
"Identity is confirmed, please keep your token."
The guy breathed a sigh of relief and handed the copper coins back to Li Shun. At the same time, four or five men and women holding crossbows came out from the surrounding corners. One of the middle-aged men bowed to Li Shun and said, "Secretary Huang San has seen Lord Li, but he didn't expect Lord Li to be our spy."
As the person in charge of the Secretary Office in Yinyang County, Huang San naturally recognized Li Shun, the county magistrate, but he had never known that he was actually a member of the Secretary Office.
"Are you clear about the rules?"
Li Shun said lightly.
"Of course, it is clear that once the spy reveals his identity, the subordinates of the secret inspectors in various places must obey their orders. I wonder what Lord Li has to give?"
Huang San said respectfully.
Li Shun narrowed his eyes and asked, "How many people are there in total?"
"Thirty people, all scattered everywhere."
"I have important tasks to do to call them all back."
Li Shun ordered.
"Yes! Lord Li, please rest in there, I'll do it right away."
Huang San responded and hurriedly left the grocery store with several people.
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"I didn't expect that Chen Sheng's movements were so fast that he could even reach five county towns in such a short time, with 300,000 troops!"
In the backyard mansion of the yamen, Liu Feng looked at the information in his hand in surprise. Chen Sheng's snowball was a bit fast. Although there was a lot of water in the army of 300,000 troops, there were at least 50,000 or 60,000 elite troops. This is already a force that cannot be ignored.
Because of this, Chen Sheng and his group became the biggest rioters in Laiyang Prefecture, which naturally attracted the attention of most people. Therefore, among the rebellion-striking army sent by the prefecture, the most troops heading straight to Chen Sheng, with 80,000 troops, accounting for half of the total force.
The remaining 80,000 people were divided into four parts and went to four places respectively. Yinyang County, where Liu Feng was located, is one of them.
"How many gun tips and arrowheads have been created?"
Liu Feng put down the information in his hand and asked a young man standing next to him with his hands hanging down. The man was named Zhao Ming, who was Antai's right-hand assistant and was now responsible for arranging all the blacksmiths in the city to create iron gun heads and arrowheads.
"Report to the lord, because the arrows were in stock before, there were already 70,000 arrows, and there were 6,000 guns completed. However, there were not many pig iron in stock. The remaining pig iron can only create at most 1,500 guns and 10,000 arrows."
"It's too few. The imperial army arrived soon. I couldn't let my soldiers fight with bamboo guns. This was simply a death sentence. I sent people to collect iron materials from house to house, and they were all integrated into gun heads and arrows. I want to have a long spear for each of the entire army before the imperial army arrived, and at least 150,000 arrows were required."
"Yes! I'll do it right now!"
Zhao Ming left in a hurry after saying that.
In this state of looseness on the outside and tightness on the inside, the imperial army finally arrived at the boundary of Yinyang County on the seventh day, and there were 24 days left before the end of the mission.
When the foreign spies came back to report the discovery of the traces of the imperial army, Liu Feng also ordered the city gate to be blocked as soon as possible, and martial law was imposed in the city. Except for soldiers and recruited civilians, no one was allowed to go out, and those who violated the situation were killed.
After he arranged the matter, he took his men to the top of the city. Not long after, thousands of vanguard cavalry appeared from the horizon in the distance, rolled in, and headed straight to the south gate of Yinyang County.
This cavalry knew at a glance that it was an elite force and was prohibited. When it was hundreds of meters away from the city wall, with a loud shout, thousands of cavalry held their horses almost at the same time, like a whole.
Seeing this scene, Liu Feng felt both glad and envious. After all, if he met this cavalry in the wild, his men would probably not be able to stop them from charging.
I saw a cavalry driving his mount out, approaching the city wall a few steps and shouting loudly: "Listen to the people in the city, open the city and surrender immediately. My general is magnanimous. Except for the thief leader, the rest can be avoided from death. Otherwise, once the city is broken, the city will be scorched earth."
Hearing this, Liu Feng's eyes turned cold and he said to a guard beside him: "Get a bow and arrow!"
At the same time, the option of his official position in the system directly selected one of the military officers.
After choosing this official position, Liu Feng suddenly felt a little hot. When he took the bow and arrow, he suddenly felt extremely familiar with the bow and arrow in his hand. He instinctively pulled the arrow and pulled the strings, and shot an arrow at the cavalry below.
The power of this arrow was obviously somewhat different from the two stone bows. The arrow instantly crossed a hundred steps away and directly nailed the cavalry below to the horse's back.
For a moment, the city shouted, "Magnificent."
Chapter completed!