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Qingzhou City.

More and more mobs gathered outside the city, and now there are 50,000 of them.

"Open the door! Open the door! Open the door!"

"Charge! There is a large amount of food in the city. As long as we break through the city gate, we won't starve to death!"

Countless people came one after another and used the most clumsy methods to bang on the city gates.

The people who hugged the thick tree trunks came one after another.

Captain Chen led 25,000 soldiers to guard the north gate, but now there are only 22,000 soldiers left.

Looking at the crowd of mobs outside the city gate, Captain Chen's eyes became more and more vicious.

"Keep shooting! Shoot them all!" Captain Chen was filled with anger.

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last night.

The military camp was attacked by a mob overnight and the camp was burned down.

All military supplies, including military rations, were burned!

The able-bodied men and women they had captured with great difficulty also took advantage of the chaos to escape, resulting in heavy losses.

The deputy was worried and couldn't help but remind him: "Captain, we have less than 30,000 bows and arrows. There are more and more mobs, and we can't kill them all..."

"Why not..."

Captain Chen became even more annoyed after hearing this!

These are not what he wants to hear!

"Shut up! Take 5,000 men with you and seize the government office! Take control of the government treasury and granary!"

Upon hearing this, the deputy was horrified!

He looked at Captain Chen in shock for a long time and couldn't recover from his shock.

"Oh, Captain, this is absolutely unacceptable!"

The prefect was the person in power who controlled the entire Qingzhou and was an important link between the imperial court and the local areas.

Even their military camps were under the control of the prefect.

The situation is chaotic now, and the prefect must be very busy.

Unexpectedly, the captain wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to seize power!

Seeing that his deputy was slow to move, Captain Chen became even more impatient and kicked the man to the ground.

"What are you still standing there for? Go now!"

"I'm telling you, I must take over Qingzhou! Don't you understand? The world is going to be in chaos!"

Captain Chen didn't finish his words, but his deputy finally understood what the captain was thinking. He felt uneasy but also a little excited.

"Yes, I understand. I'll go right away!" The deputy stepped back respectfully and immediately led his men away.

The number of civilians shot and killed by Captain Chen has reached 30,000, but the mob behind him is still fearlessly breaking through the city gates.

The bodies of the dead civilians were piled up and burned by the mob.

The arrows that killed civilians became weapons of the mob.

There were not many people in the mob who had bows and arrows, but together they had more than two thousand.

The more than 30,000 arrows became the weapon for the mob to check and balance the army. They took advantage of the chaos to shoot and kill thousands of officers and soldiers, and their morale was boosted.

Qingzhou government office.

Prefect Liu was already extremely worried.

There were many civilians rioting inside and outside the city, and the military camp did not obey his orders. Taking advantage of the chaos to cause riots and arrest people in the city was undoubtedly adding fuel to the fire.

Prefect Liu guessed that Captain Chen must have had ulterior motives and had already taken strict precautions.

He secretly wanted to unite the wealthy families and prominent clans in the city to jointly resist this civil unrest.

But the situation was more serious than Governor Liu had expected.

The Lin family, the most aristocratic family in the city, actually took advantage of the chaos last night and fled the city!

Other big investors also fled one after another.

Qingzhou has long become an empty city!

The two mysterious thefts dealt a heavy blow to the Lin family. Prefect Liu knew about it and spared no effort to solve the case, but could not find any clues.

But the Lin family is a century-old family, and a lean camel is bigger than a horse. Even they had to flee overnight, which shows that they must have received some important news.

The more Prefect Liu thought about it, the more panicked he became.

The situation in the city was out of control and most of the people had already fled in panic.

There was nothing he could do.

Finally, Prefect Liu made up his mind that the best solution was to leave as soon as possible before the mob broke through the city gate.

The mind is made up.

Prefect Liu no longer hesitated and immediately ordered his subordinates to evacuate overnight.

When Deputy Wu led his troops to encircle the government office, it was already empty.

Even more than half of the grain in the granary was emptied!

If the prefect had not been short of staff, he would not have left these grains.

Deputy Wu ordered the soldiers to move all the grain back to the government warehouse, left someone to guard it, and then immediately went to the north gate to report.

"Report to the captain, the prefect has already fled the city with his men! They have emptied the treasury and most of the food! What should we do?" Deputy Wu was in a panic.

He never expected things to develop so quickly!

He was not mentally prepared at all!

The slight urge to do something big that had just emerged in my mind had already been extinguished by the cold water, and I no longer had any idea at all.

If he is asked to choose between doing great things and saving his life, is it necessary for him to choose?

Captain Chen didn't expect that the prefect would also abandon the city and flee!

The feeling of joy was replaced by anger before it even had a chance to rise!

If Qingzhou becomes an empty city with no money, no food and no weapons, then what's the point of him robbing it?

Captain Chen has a lot of plans in his mind and is definitely not a brainless and reckless man.

He glanced at the dark figure outside the city, his eyes flickering.

"It seems we can't stay in Qingzhou any longer." Captain Chen murmured in a low voice.

"Pass on my order. Send 10,000 men to collect food and water in the city. The rest of you go back and pack your luggage. We will leave Qingzhou on time at Chou hour."

"Just leave this empty city to the mob below." Captain Chen's voice was cold with a hint of cruelty.

Deputy Wu didn't expect the captain to make a decision so quickly. He was pleasantly surprised. It seemed that they didn't have to risk their lives by following the captain.

"Yes! I will do it right away!"

The night is as dark as ink.

The people living below the city wall could not see clearly that the officers and soldiers on the city wall had quietly evacuated.

Only the flags were fluttering in the wind, like swaying human figures.

Wait until daybreak.

Finally, some sharp-eyed citizens discovered that there was no one on the city wall.

"Look! There's not a single soldier on the city wall!"

"Really! Those soldiers are gone! Do they have some conspiracy against us?"

"They must be afraid of us! What are you waiting for, brothers? Let's quickly break through the city gate while they are away!"

"Charge! Once we get into the city, we'll have food to eat and water to drink! Our wives, children and elders won't have to die!"

The mob leader immediately seized the opportunity and organized the mob to attack the city gate again.

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Beside the official road.

The villagers of Taohua Village have arrived at their destination.

The resting place is a flat sandy riverbed.

Shen Yuehua organized the villagers to boil water and cook.

"Dad, the riverbed here is dry. I guess the water source upstream has been cut off long ago."

Chen Shuli and Su Yunhai held torches and walked upstream along the riverbed for several miles, but they could not find any water.

"It seems that the drought situation is more serious than I thought." Su Yunhai also looked solemn.

The team only had eight truckloads of water.

But there are more than 200 villagers, and eight trucks of water can carry at most two tons of water, so a lot of water is consumed every day for cooking and drinking.

It won't take more than a few days.

You don’t have to worry about other things, but water is definitely the top priority, and you need to spend time and energy looking for water every day.

The two returned empty-handed.

The night was safe and sound.

The villagers had a rare good night's sleep.

The next morning, after breakfast, everyone set out on a new day's journey.

They don't know.

The people in Qingzhou city, the prefect, and tens of thousands of troops in the military camp followed closely behind.