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Nearly 100 huge sea ships sailed on this sea area, although the sailors strictly abided by the post system, but everyone couldn't help but feel a little relaxed in their hearts, there was no way. You can't do it without relaxing. The sea areas of the two basic point provinces of Haihai and Haiquan are the sphere of influence of the Third Fleet. Now that I'm landing on my own land, what's the problem?

As the sailors thought, the Qin family's transport ship, greeted by the families of the Third Fleet who were temporarily serving as dock guards at the docks, set foot on the land of the coastal province without difficulty.

Since the target of the Third Fleet after surrendering was the entire imperial sea, not only did it not reduce the number of personnel stationed there, but it expanded it a lot. It is also because of this that the Qin army can be guided to land so quickly.

While the officers were busy settling the soldiers, Zhao Hu was already receiving the secret guards hidden in the coastal province.

These secret guards were infiltrated by Zhao Hu when he was in office, and as Zhao Hu became stronger in the Southeast Peninsula, there were more and more of them, especially after the decision was made to occupy Haibin Province, Zhou Wen and Sun Jie, the two newspaper leaders, put most of their forces in Haibin Province.

"Lord, after a series of melee battles during this period of time, there are five major warlords in the coastal province, twelve middle warlords, and more than thirty small warlords attached to the command of these large and medium warlords." The secret guard said respectfully.

There are more than forty warlords in one province? Hey, it's as chaotic as the Southeast Peninsula. Zhao Hu shook his head and sighed, "Let's talk about the situation of the five major warlords." ”

"Yes, the five major warlords of the Coastal Province are the commanders of the Coastal Provincial Garrison Division, which occupies the capital of the Coastal Province, with more than 100,000 troops; The commander of the 4th Brigade of the garrison division that occupies the south of the province, with more than 50,000 troops; The garrison of Kaesong, which occupies the northern part of the province, has more than 30,000 troops; The commander of the first wing of the 3rd Brigade of the garrison division occupying the western part of the province, with a strength of more than 40,000 troops; The patriarch of the Lu family, who occupies the eastern part of the province, has more than 35,000 soldiers. The secret guard said in detail.

Liu Ming, who was fortunate enough to attend the meeting, had not yet woken up from the elusive secret guards, and was startled by this detailed information, and was secretly shocked in his heart.

The daring of his own refuge object is really not ordinary, not to mention that he laid such a tight intelligence network in advance, this group of elusive secret guards alone is a huge strength, think about it, if Zhao Hu doesn't like anyone, wouldn't it be easy to let these secret guards assassinate? It really makes people break out in a cold sweat just thinking about it.

Since he is now a subordinate of the Qin family, he should work for this, otherwise he will be reserved as an outsider, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to explain it inside and out.

With such a small number of troops?

Zhou Wen was very puzzled, it stands to reason that any county government in the empire can recruit the strength of a division, how can it be that except for the commander of the garrison division who exceeds the strength of a division, the others are at the level of the brigade?

The secret guard respectfully explained: "Commander, at the beginning of the warlord melee, it was true that as many strong men were recruited, but after the loss of strong men, agriculture and commerce in various places almost all stopped, in order to maintain the rule, and in order to be able to make more wealth, so the warlords consciously carried out reasonable recruitment.

In other words, the forces in their hands are now regular, and if things don't go well, they can expand their forces several times at any time. ”

Zhao Hu frowned slightly, and then said: "Well, that is to say, let's take the first Lu family to face as an analogy, once the Lu family is artificially unable to compete, his strength will instantly increase several times?" ”

"Yes, although the Lu family seems to have the smallest number of troops, because it is the rise of the family, the officers in the army are all family members, so they belong to the strongest of the five major warlords. And he is also the most ambitious among so many warlords, and the other warlords have a bit of a mentality of making a fortune and leaving, but this Lu family has the ambition to change the day. The secret guard said.

"So, the Lu family is the biggest enemy of this coastal province? So who are the capable people in the Lu family? Zhao Hu asked.

The secret guard shook his head and said: "Except for the head of the family, who is okay, the others are all idle people, but although they are mediocre, they are also better than ordinary people. However, the Lu family was also very shrewd, and used their in-laws and gold, silver, and treasures to attract a group of imperial officers to take charge of the war for them, and because of this, they were able to dominate the eastern border of the province. ”

"So this Lu family isn't so easy to get along with?" Zhao Hu frowned and said.

Liu Ming, who had not spoken, finally found an opportunity to cough and said, "My lord, since the subordinate Third Fleet is settled here, I also have a certain understanding of the warlords in Haibin Province, especially the Lu family who is close to the station. ”

Zhao Hu smiled in his heart, Liu Ming was willing to speak, and looking at his self-title, it should be said that he was a bit of a member of the Qin family, looked at Liu Ming and nodded, "Well, please talk about it." ”

"Subordinates don't dare to be."

Liu Ming first thanked Zhao Hu for his invitation, and then said: "My lord, don't look at the Lu family is the most cohesive among the five major warlords, but because it is a family rule, the upper and lower officers are all family members, so military discipline must not be like the regular army, such as their own nephews or uncles who are corrupt and bribed and oppress the people, such a thing happened, if those officials who have the right to manage the army dare to implement military law, what do you think the people of the Lu family will think?" How? ”

The secret guards are all cronies among the cronies, and they can intervene at any time because of intelligence issues, so he nodded hurriedly and said: "What the chief of the navy said is that within the territory controlled by the Lu family, except for the land where the Lu family is rooted, although other places are superficially subservient to the Lu family, because the people are in dire straits because of the oppression of the Lu family's swordsmen, if it weren't for the Lu family's control of the army, I'm afraid the people would have rebelled long ago." ”

Zhou Wen asked suspiciously: "What's the matter?" Didn't you say that their Lu family was very ambitious? Since you have ambitions, how can you not even manage military discipline? The people don't understand the collection? ”

Liu Ming said with a smile: "Lord Zhou Wen, it's just that the upper echelons of the Lu family are ambitious, and those low-level people below are just thinking about how to fill their wallets and how to enjoy themselves." ”

"Ao, I see, it must be that their mentality of being a local tyrant has not changed, and if you look at it this way, the Lu family is nothing remarkable." Zhou Wen nodded and said.

"Don't underestimate anyone." Zhao Hu waved his hand, thought for a while, and said: "Well, according to our current position, then our current target can only be the Lu family, but now due to the lack of troops, we can't fight head-on, and we are currently mainly using other means to attack the Lu family." ”

Liu Ming couldn't help but suggest: "My subordinates think that the most important thing is to increase our local forces, as long as the strength is enough, you don't need to care about any tricks." ”

"My lord, the proposal of the chief of the navy is very good, but his subordinates think that while transporting troops, they should start to closely monitor the Lu family with all their might, and immediately start to sow discord internally, so that there will be problems between the officers they recruit and the members of the Lu family, and even increase the disputes between the Lu family and the people under their rule, and even create a bloody case to make the two sides more antagonistic." Zhou Wen proposed.

Regarding Zhou Wen's proposal for this poisonous plan, Zhao Hu nodded and agreed indifferently, since he was an enemy, of course he had to do everything.

When the secret guard was about to go down to carry out the mission, a secret guard suddenly came out and saluted and said: "Lord, the Lu family has discovered that our army has suddenly increased the garrison of the Third Fleet, and in order to prevent accidents, they have already started in advance, and now more than 10,000 people have been mobilized to attack us!"

Everyone didn't care about the Lu family getting the news so quickly, no force would not spy on the surrounding forces, and they didn't do anything to cover it up, and it could even be said that it was completely fanfare, and it was really strange if they weren't discovered. It's just that when I heard that the other party only sent 10,000 people, they all had strange looks.

Is the Lu family very confident in the combat effectiveness of their army, or does they look down on us at all? I don't believe that the Lu family will not know how many troops we have landed. Zhou Wen raised his eyebrows and said coldly.

Liu Ming sneered coldly: Hmph, I have a wing of the local Third Fleet's road soldiers, plus the strength of the adults to form a brigade, they actually sent more than 10,000 people, hmph, they don't take us seriously at all, I'm afraid they still think that we are all old, weak, sick and disabled.

Well, let them see who is the old, weak, sick and disabled. Zhao Hu got up and said in a very peaceful voice.

Be! Zhou Wen and these people were much more excited than Zhao Hu.

The horn sounded, and the soldiers of the Qin family were accustomed to this kind of penetrating and powerful sound, and immediately rushed out of the tent fully equipped when they heard the sound, led by the most swordy officer, and assembled one by one, and after a while, a phalanx of integrated brigades appeared in front of everyone.

Those family members of the Third Fleet looked a little stupidly at the Qin family phalanx that had been assembled without a single sound, and then looked at the marine troops who were a little flustered and felt a little flustered now when they were assembled, and the hearts of the family members were a little complicated.

At the beginning, after learning that these people had taken refuge in a colonel who had come from a local unit of the Imperial Army and had gone to the southeast peninsula to occupy the mountains as the king during the civil strife in the empire, they were all extremely reluctant, after all, they were all from the good people and the military, how could they go to a small bandit? It's just that I was worried about the family members who fell into the hands of the other party, so I acquiesced.