Nanzhou County City.

Shi Zhipei stood on the city gate tower on the south side, looking at the rebels outside the city with a look of anger.

He did not hesitate to save his future prospects, even his life, and forcibly killed the county magistrate Yan Wenfu 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 into thieves. As for the young and old who could not join the army, they were either robbed of the only little wealth they had on their bodies or were killed on the spot.

The refugees outside the city and the White Lotus Rebels swept the people in other counties, originally there were hundreds of thousands, but in less than ten days, only tens of thousands were left.

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

But judging from the current situation in Nanzhou and County, the young and old who were looted were basically sentenced to death.

"Damn these thieves!!!"

Looking at the messy refugees outside the city, Shi Zhipei felt an indescribable depression in his heart. He punched the city wall with a sudden punch. The red blood flowed down his fist towards the bricks, but he seemed to have no pain at all.

"Shi Gong sighed in anger."

Liu Hong took a step forward and enlightened Shi Zhipei, "My Great Zhou national strength is still there. When the Yulin Army arrives, these traitors will definitely be killed."

Behind Shi Zhipei and Liu Hong, Qi Xiu and Yuheng were standing. Since they entered the city and met with Shi Zhipei, they have been following Shi Zhipei to protect his safety. As for Yuanzhi, he is still lying on the bed to recuperate, it will be difficult for a while.

At this time, Qi Xiu stood on the top of the city and looked at the rebels outside the city without saying a word, his face full of solemnity and anxiety.

Shi Zhipei turned his head and noticed Qi Xiu's expression, and his heart sank, "Qi Qianhu, I think you have been worried these days, but are there any problems with the rebels outside?"

"Um."

Qi Xiu nodded, pointed to the silence army outside and said, "Sir, how do you feel when you look at the silence army outside?"

"Feel?"

Shi Zhipei was stunned for a moment, then turned his head to look at the squandered army outside the city. After a while, he said hesitantly: "Ruan?"

Most of the predecessors of these chaos were ordinary people, and even the thief leaders of the White Lotus Sect had never fought a war, so their way of managing people was basically a big leader followed a few small leaders.

And those small leaders will directly pull themselves into their own teams when they fall in love with refugees. All the teams of the rioters are managed in this way, so naturally there is no order at all, and they look messy at first glance.

"Yes, it's just chaos."

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

"The soldiers do not know the generals, and the generals do not know the soldiers. Tens of thousands of them gather together, which is more like a gathering of refugees, without any military force at all."

Although Shi Zhipei didn't know much about the military, he couldn't help but feel a little surprised when he heard Qi Xiu say this.

Like Qi Xiu's first thing he did after entering the city was to train those county soldiers. Although he had only trained for a few days, it had greatly changed the county soldiers. At least the county soldiers gathered together now, the first thing that people saw was an army, not a group of rascals.

On the other hand, the refugees outside the city did not seem to have changed at all.

"Qi Qianhu means that those refugees don't have the talents who know soldiers?"

"My sir's guess is right." Qi Xiu breathed and said slowly: "It's obvious that something is wrong with this situation."

After hearing what Qi Xiu said, Shi Zhipei's eyes also changed, because as long as the leaders of the White Lotus Sect are not fools, they must know that relying on refugees alone will not be able to do anything. As long as the refugees are trained into an army, they will have combat effectiveness.

Otherwise, if this continues, they will be able to bully ordinary people by relying on the number of people, and they will be defeated by the regular army, just like before Qi Xiu, he defeated tens of thousands of refugees with just over 1,600 people.

Although this has a lot to do with Qi Xiu's command ability and the fact that Qi Xiu's troops are too elite, defeating tens of thousands of them by 1,600, fully explaining how weak these thieves are.

And they were all beaten like this, but the leaders of the White Lotus Sect did not find anyone who could command troops and could only train troops. That means one thing: the leaders of the White Lotus Sect could not find any trainers.

Although Nanzhou County has not experienced any wars and therefore has no more famous military talents, the county magistrates who were captured by the White Lotus Sect are not all worth the money.

You should know that the imperial examinations of the Great Zhou Dynasty were not the eight-legged essays, and military strategy was also a very important part of the imperial examinations of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Those who can become county magistrates must be familiar with military strategy. Even if they cannot train any particularly elite army, they still have the ability to train refugees into ordinary soldiers.

But after observations over the past few days, there were basically no trained soldiers outside.

There are two possibilities for this situation. The first is that the county magistrates who fell into the hands of the rioters would rather die than surrender, and would never train the army for those traitors.

The second is that those county magistrates stayed away from the county before the White Lotus Sect caused chaos, and they did not fall into the hands of the rioters at all.

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

Shi Zhipei's whole body was trembling. It was impossible for those county magistrates to have all received such noble moral integrity, so they could only withdraw in advance before the thief rebelled.

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

Shi Zhipei's teeth creaked, and his gums were almost bleeding. "In a county, tens of thousands of people are often killed, but these are tens of thousands of lives!"

"Don't throw them all to the rebels, how dare they do it? How dare they do it!!!"

Qi Xiu had recovered several county towns before, but now when he thought of the miserable scenes in those county towns, he couldn't help but feel silent.

After a while, Qi Xiu slowly said: "After the siege of the siege, it will not be so easy to escape from the siege, but almost no one fell into the siege, which means they must have known in advance what the White Lotus Sect was about to rebel."

"Even... they left the county town on the eve of the White Lotus Sect's siege."
Chapter completed!