Chapter 1255: Carrying on the Past and Opening up the Future (One Hundred and Forty-Five) Disguise

Lengshui Village has now become a ruin. When the Yue rebels fled to Cang'er Mountain last year, they fled along the road in front of Lengshui Village to Lengshuigou, and then fled all the way to Cang'er Mountain. Lengshui Village was first looted by the rebels who fled here, and almost all the food and livestock in the village were robbed. Then the Qin army chased them, and the people of Lengshui Village, who had just lost everything, immediately fell into the slaughter. The Qin army could not catch up with the rebels who fled into the mountains, so they turned around and killed all the men in the village, chopping off their heads as a result of the war.

Lengshui Village, without men, was abandoned. As the Qin army failed to suppress the rebels on Cang'er Mountain, they changed the suppression to siege, and Lengshui Village became an important checkpoint again. The Qin army built a military camp here, blocking the road into the mountain from Lengshuigou. There are more than ten military camps like this that block Cang'er Mountain, distributed around Cang'er Mountain. Lengshuigou was the largest of them. It originally had 300 soldiers stationed there. However, as the land reform work in Shu County was carried out, the chaos in Shu County became more and more serious. Some places had already started small-scale riots. In comparison, Ziyang County was relatively good. This also made Zhou Liang a little overwhelmed. He was responsible for the suppression of bandits in Ziyang, Ningqiang and Nanzheng counties. Originally, he didn't have to care about these agricultural riots, but he was short-handed and soft-mouthed. Officials from all over the country saw that the army was more effective than the yamen runners and constables, so they kept making requests to him, so that he had to send out the army in his hands constantly, which was a bit overwhelmed.

Due to insufficient troops, they began to draw troops from the military camps that besieged Cangli Mountain. 200 of the 300 people in the Lengshuigou military camp were drawn to suppress the riots in various places.

In any case, in Zhou Liang's view, after more than a year of blockade. The bandits in Cang Er Mountain have long been a force to be reckoned with, as evidenced by the fact that they have never tried to go down the mountain to attack the military camp. Without food, water, or supplies in the mountains, these people would have long since become savages. Leaving a hundred people to watch over the military camp is enough, not to mention that these people are just going out to suppress the rebellion. It will only take a few days to go back quickly.

Military camp under the night. The shadows were dragged long on the ground by the moonlight, and on the top of the military camp, several lanterns weakly emitted a faint blush. Lengshui Village, a few miles away, is a ruin. Although it has only been more than a year, only broken walls and ruins are left here. When the military camp was repaired, everything that could be demolished was basically demolished.

This army trained by Meng Tian was once the leader of the Qin army. But in the past two years, it has been ordered to enter Shu to suppress the peasant army uprising. A well-trained army can naturally easily deal with the mob of peasants, without any suspense, and win in one battle.

However, after more than a year of stationing in Shu County, this once fierce army, like their generals, is slowly degenerating. The once strict military discipline is slowly disappearing from them. Burning, killing, looting, and plundering are much easier than struggling to keep those few salaries.

Maybe their fighting power is still there, but an army that has thrown away discipline is no longer as brave as it used to be. On the top of the military camp, two soldiers leaned against the wall, one holding a chicken leg and a wine pot, eating and chatting, and their weapons were casually leaning against the wall.

For these soldiers, the happiest thing is that every ten days when they are on duty, they can take silver to the brothel in the town and have a good time. This was unimaginable in the past. Meng Tian’s military discipline was very strict back then, and later Zhou Yu took over, and the military regulations were even stricter than before. A person who had no foundation in the Qin army wanted to sit firmly in the position of general, so he naturally had to be severely punished.

Ordered to enter Shu County to suppress the peasant army uprising, this army was like a bird out of a cage. If there was a strict general leading it, it wouldn't have been a big deal. But their general Zhou Liang was the first to be assimilated by the officials of Shu County. Under the temptation of money and women, Zhou Liang completely fell. The first to follow suit were the middle-level army, then the grassroots officers, and finally all the soldiers.

When the two soldiers were happily chatting about which woman in the town was the most beautiful and which woman lived the best, they didn't notice that two black shadows had crawled all the way to the bottom of the military camp wall on all fours, hiding right under them.

A moment later, the sound of neat footsteps came from the direction of Lengshui Village. The two soldiers turned around when they heard the sound. Under the moonlight, a team of about a hundred Qin soldiers were lined up in an orderly queue, striding towards the direction of the military camp.

The two soldiers glanced at each other, "How come you're back after just two days? Aren't you going to be transferred to Ningqiang this time?" One soldier said casually.

"Maybe the situation there has been pacified before you leave the county. What can a bunch of peasants do?" Another soldier laughed.

"Ningqiang!" The soldier who spoke first was stunned, looking at the soldiers who were moving faster and faster, "Then why are they coming from the direction of Lengshui Village?"

This question also stunned the other soldier, blinking his eyes, staring at the Qin soldiers who were approaching quickly, and suddenly he was shocked, "No, they are not our people, they are..."

Before he could say a word, there were two strange noises from the lower wall of the stockade. Two soldiers groaned, and two short crossbow arrows were stuck in their throats. The chicken legs and wine jugs in the hands of the two soldiers fell to the ground. They covered their throats with their hands and wanted to shout, but the arrows were shot so accurately that they completely destroyed their throats. The two men covered their throats and collapsed to the ground.

Under the stockade wall, two rope loops flew up and caught the parapets on the stockade wall. Two agile figures pulled the ropes and climbed up the stockade wall in an instant. Then ropes were thrown up one by one, and more people climbed up. With a creaking sound, the hanging suspension bridge was lowered. Then, the stockade gate was easily opened from the inside.

In the Lengshuigou military stockade, shouts of killing rang out in an instant.

The Cang Er Mountain uprising army led by Niu Teng succeeded in one strike. Hundreds of rebels took advantage of the sharp decrease in the number of guards in the Lengshuigou military camp and the reduced vigilance, and occupied the Lengshuigou military camp without paying any price. More than a hundred Qin soldiers stationed in Lengshuigou were killed by the angry rebels, without leaving a single one alive.

"What's the situation now?" Niu Teng, standing in a pool of blood, looked at a man dressed in local clothes in front of him and asked. This man was a spy lurking in the local area from the National Security Bureau of the Great Han Kingdom.

"Ziyang County is now extremely empty. Five days ago, a large-scale peasant riot broke out in Ningqiang County. The peasants poured into the county town and surrounded the county government. They were only one step away from killing the officials and rebelling. Zhou Liang personally led the army to Ningqiang to quell the riot. Now is the best opportunity."

"How much time do we have?"

"One day!" The spy said: "Zhou Liang had already quelled the Ningqiang riot two days ago, and will return to Ziyang the day after tomorrow at the latest. We have one day to take Ziyang, and then calculate Zhou Liang. Zhou Liang is the only combat-capable Qin army in Ningqiang, Ziyang, and Nanzheng counties. If we destroy him, these three counties will be ours. Now the peasants in these places are on the verge of an outbreak. As long as we ignite this first fire, I believe it will soon become a prairie fire."

Niu Teng took a deep breath: "I have been staying in this place for a year. In the mountains, we don't know much about the outside world. How much work have you done and how many people have come? I don't want this uprising to be like the peasant army uprising last year, which rose quickly and fell quickly. "

"General, don't worry. The National Security Bureau has invested a lot of money this time. In the past year, we have secretly infiltrated a large number of people and stored a batch of weapons and armor. The key is to fight this first battle well, and then take advantage of the fact that it is difficult for the Qin army to mobilize troops to extinguish us for a while, and then grow rapidly. "

Niu Teng laughed: "If we still can't win this battle, I will write the word Niu backwards. You go, tomorrow, I will take Ziyang, and then destroy Zhou Liang, and you can start preparing for the uprising. "

"Okay, then I'll go first. "The spy saluted Niu Teng, turned around and disappeared in the darkness.

Watching the man disappear, Niu Teng turned around and shouted loudly: "All troops assemble!"

An hour later, hundreds of rebels all changed into Qin army uniforms and headed towards Ziyang.

Ziyang County Magistrate Guo Qing has been feeling guilty these days. Because of the land reform, riots have occurred frequently in various parts of Shu County, and the garrison has been exhausted. The large-scale farmers in Ningqiang entered the city to besiege the county government a few days ago, which made him extremely worried that it would happen in Ziyang. Ziyang is not like Ningqiang. The people here are more fierce and aggressive. The exposure of Ziyang farmers a year ago not only shocked Shu County, but also shocked Qin. Guo Qing felt that if Ziyang also had a riot like Ningqiang, it would definitely not be to besiege the county government, but to rush in with knives and guns to kill him.

Zhou Liang took the garrison to Ningqiang to quell the riots there. There were no soldiers in the city, so Guo Qing felt uneasy! Especially a few days ago, Guo Kuo, his distant relative, and two yamen runners lost their lives inexplicably, which made him even more frightened.

"My lord, I'm back, I'm back!" Outside, the county chief rushed into the county government happily.

"What are you back for?" Guo Qing was a little annoyed by the chief clerk's shouting. He was in a bad mood and was frightened by this jumpy guy.

"Sir, General Zhou's troops are back. Just now, the city gate reported that the troops have entered the city." The chief clerk said happily: "Sir, you don't have to worry about it anymore!"

Hearing that Zhou Liang's troops had returned to the county, Guo Qing's heart finally settled down, but in front of his subordinates, he put on airs, "What am I worried about? What do I have to worry about?" (To be continued)