Located in the very center of Yangon City, the Lord's Mansion was built in the style of a battle fortress and covered a large area with separate small walls. In peacetime, it is used by the lord of the castle for life and work, and in wartime, it can be used as the last fortress to resist. In a large city, the status of the castle lord's palace is as important as the imperial city and the palace city of Yuanjing.

During the invasion of the Liang Dynasty, the original lord of Yangon City was killed in battle. According to the decree of the Yu Dynasty, when the city lord was missing and the Yuan capital city did not send a new city lord, in order to maintain order and stability in the city, the scholars in the big city could organize themselves and perform the duties of the city lord.

This is how the patriarch of the Wang clan became the acting city lord. It's just that he is the acting city lord and is not qualified to live in the city lord's mansion, so the current city lord's mansion is not inhabited, and no one has cleaned it for several months, and it is a desolate scene. But for the army that is fighting outside, sleeping in the wilderness is a common thing, and having a house is already an excellent treatment, so naturally it will not be picky about anything.

There was still an hour before the night, and the soldiers of the first battalion, five hundred Jin Wuwei, who had been busy for a long time, were resting in the city lord's mansion. They had only half an hour to rest, and many of the warriors chose a warm, empty house and slept almost upside down. They were all high-level martial artists, and they quickly fell into a deep sleep to quickly recover their mental and physical strength.

The fighters rested, but the officers did not. At this time, Yu Canghai was sitting in the central hall of the City Lord's Mansion, Xiao Wu, Ma Yuan, Yu Taiping, and officers above the rank of chief were all around him.

Yu Canghai looked at Xiao Wu and asked, "Are the city gates all arranged?" ”

Xiao Wu replied in a deep voice: "General Huiyu, the north gate and the south gate are blocked. The soldiers of the second battalion guarded the east and west gates, with two hundred men at one gate, and all of them were led by a hundred households. Only enter, not out. Without the general's order, without more than twenty times the number of local warriors storming the city gates, no one in Yangon could get out. ”

Yu Canghai nodded and said, "There are still a hundred people in the second battalion, and the brothers in the third battalion are guarding various road points in the city, maintaining law and order and enforcing the night curfew, you go and arrange these two places." Something went wrong, and the military law dealt with it. ”

"No." Xiao Wu took the order and left.

Yu Canghai looked at Ma Yuan again and said, "At night, I will see the first battalion pressing, and as soon as the soldiers get up, they will start to arrange preparations and make various response plans." If you don't think about winning, you should lose first. Let the soldiers prepare for the worst, and there will probably be a fierce battle. ”

"No." Ma Yuan replied in a deep voice: "Even if the whole city is the enemy, we can also fight a bloody way." ”

Yu Canghai smiled, turned his head to look at the elders gathered around, and said, "Previously, several spies sent to Yangon City provided us with a lot of useful information, especially the list of various forces in Yangon City. These people, you have already visited in the afternoon. Now go again, and visit them one by one with the soldiers of the Fourth Battalion, and reiterate to them the consequences of not coming in the evening. ”

"No." More than a dozen chiefs took the order and left. After some orders, Yu Taiping was left alone in the lobby and did not arrive.

Yu Taiping looked at Yu Canghai in surprise and asked, "What do I do?" At the dinner in the evening, we didn't prepare anything, we ate dry food, what did we take to entertain the guests in the evening? Are you telling me to prepare food? ”

Yu Canghai sneered and said, "Based on the information of several spies, Yangon City has been completely eroded. But as long as there is some strength now, no one will have clean hands and feet. All of these people invited tonight are theoretically targets to be purged. ”

Yu Canghai walked to the door of the lobby with his hands behind his back, and Yu Taiping followed closely behind him. For her now, when she is out fighting, what makes her feel most relieved is not Wen Jing standing behind her. Instead, she stood behind Yu Canghai by herself, which was the most reassuring place for her. Although Yu Canghai's height is not as tall as herself, she has such a feeling in her heart inexplicably. Outside the lobby is an open space, which used to be the place where the city lord's mansion held large and small banquets. But for months there was no one to take care of it, and the clearing was full of fallen leaves, dust, and weeds.

Yu Canghai pointed to the open space and said: "The dinner is held here, I sit in front of the guests, and they have to stand, and they have to stand in a military posture and stand tall. I would drink wine and eat meat, and they would be hungry and watch me eat. Whoever refuses, I will kill him. They take advantage of chaos, lawlessness, and only look out for their own interests. It's delusional that I want to entertain them well. ”

Hearing Yu Canghai's words, Yu Taiping grinned, and even Raymond and Wen Jing, who were following behind them, laughed. Yu Taiping smiled: "You are really domineering, what are you going to do?" ”

Yu Canghai had already thought about it, so he said: "Of course, you can't catch them all and kill them all." Otherwise, they will not sit idly by, and we will suffer great losses in the event of a counterattack. Then the cleaning task was a complete failure. But if you don't kill, it's not enough to establish authority, and it's not enough to explain to Shenwu Hou, Fadu, and civilians. So kill a batch, pull a batch. ”

Saying this, Yu Canghai turned to look at Yu Taiping and said, "There is something I want you to do." ”

Yu Taiping hurriedly straightened up, took a step back, and saluted: "Please give the order of the general." ”

Yu Canghai nodded and said, "When I entered the city, I learned that the warriors guarding the city gate were all hired, so I had an idea. We are on a cleaning mission, and now we are short of people, and we have money. I want you to go to the city and gather a group of warriors, samurai and above, and let them help us complete the task. ”

Yu Taiping pondered for a moment and said, "There is no precedent for summoning local warriors to participate in military affairs. They are all civilians, not even a private army, without the slightest discipline, cooperation, organization at all. Our soldiers, a formation of hundreds of people, can withstand thousands of local warriors. ”

Yu Canghai waved his hand and said, "If there is no precedent, set a precedent." These summoned warriors, sending some soldiers to manage, can also exert a little strength, is better than nothing. Moreover, our soldiers can block ten with one, but they can't block hundred. No matter how powerful the soldiers are, they won't be able to do the trick. At least when doing things, multiple people have more power. As now, we have less than 200 non-commissioned officers to maintain law and order in the city, which is too small to take care of it. ”

Yu Taiping nodded and said, "I'll arrange it." ”

Yu Canghai advised: "You go to make a recruitment plan first, and you can discuss it with Mr. Wen." The people recruited by these people are called mercenaries for the time being. When you recruit, don't be stingy with money and don't have to worry about anything else, the more people you have, the better. ”

"No." Yu Taiping saluted and took Wenjing away.

"If I have 50,000 people, fifteen days is enough to complete the cleaning task. But in fact, it is not difficult to cleanse, and if it really doesn't work, it will be killed all the way, and the difficult thing is how to restore order. Yu Canghai watched her go away and muttered to himself.

Raymond said behind him: "If it was before the war began, we had money, not to mention 50,000, 150,000 could also be recruited." But now it's difficult, after the war, a lot of people died in the prime of life. Now the few remaining warriors are afraid that they will also be recruited by those local forces. And we are not short of money now, but we are short of food. Pingdong County is short of food, and we ourselves are all dry food for the army, how to raise local warriors. ”

When Yu Canghai heard this, his eyes lit up, and he said: "The teacher reminded me that at night, let these local forces spit out all the warriors in their hands, otherwise they will raid the family and exterminate the clan on the grounds of raising an army privately and intending to rebel." As for food, these forces will definitely have it in their hands, at least in the Wang family's warehouse, there are five warehouses. The others are not as bad as they are there, just take some. ”

Raymond was stunned: "Can recruiting warriors have anything to do with the private army?" Isn't that the case for everyone, that force doesn't adopt warriors? ”

Yu Canghai grinned and said, "These local forces usually raise warriors and collect armor. In wartime, a general is armed with a private army. This is originally a thing, but usually everyone is the same, and no one is interested in them, no one cares, or they can't manage it. But you see the nobles and officials living in the capital of Yuan, who dare to raise a bunch of warriors in the mansion, and the Marquis of Shenwu does not dare. Therefore, these local forces are raising warriors, and when they are in need and when they are being managed, it is a big crime. ”