It was late at night for the "general", and Chen Mo's door was suddenly knocked.

"General Gao" Chen Mo opened the door, looking at Gao Shun outside the door with some surprise, Gao Shun should have already set off.

"There is something to remind the general, it is to rush back overnight, the troops are still moving forward, and after this matter is finished, the last general will leave." Gao Shun saluted Chen Mo and said.

"What's the matter" Chen Mo welcomed Gao Shun in and asked with a smile.

"The salt prison is indeed the important tax place in Hedong, but it is not a military town, the terrain here is easy to attack and difficult to defend, if you want to enter the east of the river, you should first go down to Puban, here is the east of the river, as long as you occupy here, Sangquan, Wanquan, Ronghe and other places are under control." Gao Shun took Chen Mo to the map, pointed to the direction of Fenglingdu and said: "And there are mountain ranges to block, east to the Dayang area, borrowing can be preserved." ”

"I know, but I asked you to stay in the salt prison, but not for Mrs. Guo" Chen Mo pointed to the map, the salt prison was only forty miles away from Anyi, Chen Mo looked at Gao Shun and smiled: "The general only needs to hold this city, and I will do the rest."

"The general only has two soldiers and horses in his hands, this" Gao Shun frowned.

"Two departments are enough, into the east of the river, naturally there is a way to recruit soldiers and horses, the general is worried about knowing, but this time I am afraid that the enemy is not only Guo Tai, the general only needs to remember, without my general's order, no one can put in the soldiers and horses" Chen Mo looked at Gao Shun solemnly and said: "After arriving at the salt prison, just strengthen the city defense and recruit soldiers and horses, in addition, the surrounding villages, if you can protect yourself, you will protect yourself, if not, those who are willing to enter the city for the winter can help them provide the necessary shelter, in short, just ensure that the salt prison is not broken." ”

"Huh" Gao Shun nodded, since Chen Mo had his plan, then he didn't have to say much, and got up immediately to say goodbye and leave.

In the next two days, Chen Mo took Li Qing to and from various departments to ask for grain and grass, as long as someone dared to embarrass him in this matter, Chen Mo didn't say much, and directly started to rob it, and then found Li Ru to deal with it, and lingered with Yun Si at night.

This expedition, it is naturally impossible to bring his family, even if Chen Mo occupies Hedong, he is not ready to tear his face with Dong Zhuo, and Yun Si and the others staying in Luoyang will not endanger their lives.

However, this time there will be a few months to say goodbye, and there will be some reluctance in my heart.

Three days later, Chen Mo left Li Qing to be responsible for transporting grain and grass, and then left Luoyang with two men and horses, and went straight to Xiaopingjin Ferry, the river was already frozen, and after trying to run horses, Chen Mo ordered the generals to cross the river and arrive in Hebei County.

"How many county guards are there in the county" Chen Mo did not go around the city, but directly led troops into the city, recruited the county commander and county lieutenant, and asked.

"Who is the general?" the county commander asked with a frown.

"Hedong Taishou" Chen Mo took out his seal and showed it to the other party, and then said: "From now on, the county guards of each county will accept my dispatch. ”

"This" the county magistrate frowned, "there are only sixty-seven county guards in the county. ”

"Leave seventeen people, the remaining fifty people, follow me," Chen Mo said directly.

"Envoy, it's not proper, the county also needs to maintain stability, and thieves have been rampant recently," the county commander frowned.

"Re-recruited, besides, even if the thieves come, sixty-seven people can't hold it." Chen Mo directly asked the county lieutenant to recruit all the county guards in the county.

The county order can't, Chen Mo is obviously not discussing with him, his arms can't twist his thighs, and he can only watch Chen Mo transfer most of the county guards in the county.

After recruiting people, Chen Mo didn't talk nonsense, and directly led people out of the city, and selected five people from Dian Wei's subordinates to serve as the chief, and the chief Wu was selected from these county guards.

After "Bao Geng" left the city, Chen Mo looked at Bao Geng and said.

"The last general" Bao Geng hurriedly stepped forward and saluted.

"Lead the soldiers and horses of the headquarters, rush to Puban, arrange for Puban to guard, and I will arrive in three days at the latest." Chen Mo said.

"Oh" Bao Geng agreed, led the troops to leave, Chen Mo directly led the men and horses straight to Dongyuan, got the Dongyuan County Guard seventy, and then kept turning to the west, and when passing by Hebei County again, the county order had just recruited fifty county guards away, so, within 30 days, Chen Mo was successfully recruited to four hundred soldiers and horses with some combat power, and the chief was selected from the army to lead, and the original chief was arranged as the team leader, and the team rate was promoted to the general, so a rectification, Chen Mo had one more soldiers and horses in his hands.

Later, Chen Mo ordered Hebei, Dongyuan, Dayang and other counties to support another 100 people from each county, so that he could gather 2,000 people.

"General, these recruits don't have much combat power, what's the use of them" Bao Geng looked at these patchwork soldiers and horses with some disgust, most of them were brave and brave who had just been recruited, which made Bao Geng, who had always been accustomed to taking the route of elite soldiers, very uncomfortable, these people were going to go to the battlefield, I am afraid they would have to disperse in a hurry before they could fight.

"Bluffing." Chen Mo smiled when he heard this: "Guo Taisuo's department has at least 10,000 soldiers and horses, plus the Hun cavalry, and unlike the Gepi thieves in the past, they are rogue bands, even if they break through the city, they will not occupy it. ”

Bao Geng nodded, this is indeed a bit difficult, but does bluffing work

"You are responsible for stationing here, re-selecting new generals in the army, and telling them that as long as this battle can be won, they will be able to keep their official positions after the war." Chen Mo looked at Bao Gengdao.

"Wow" Bao Geng agreed.

The military marquis, generals, and team leaders in Chen Mo's army were basically trained together when the generals were selected in the West Garden, and they were considered to be the same door, and they were later accepted by Chen Mo a lot, and the ability of these people is more than enough to be at least a military commander, but there were no soldiers in their hands before, so they could only hold these positions, and now that they are in power, these talents are naturally the first batch to be promoted.

"General, what should I do next" Bao Geng followed Chen Mo and asked with a bow.

"Defend the city." Chen Mo found the map and looked at it, and said with a smile.

"Puban is a heavy land, so I will keep you down, and your soldiers will add a new recruit to you, when there is no war, you can train the recruits here, you don't need to be very powerful, you just need to know the military discipline, and the baggage sent by Li Qing will also be hoarded here, so this place is very important, it is the throat of our army, and it must not be lost." Chen Mo said in the end, his expression was a little serious.

"The last general will take orders, the city is in the people, and the city is broken and the people are dead." Bao Geng said solemnly.

Chen Mo didn't say any polite words, and after nodding, he left with Da Lang and Dian Wei's subordinates and went straight to Sangquan.

After revealing his identity, unlike before, after Chen Mo stationed his soldiers and horses in Sangquan, he consolidated the city defense.

"Envoy, but the bandits have been killed," the Sangquan County Commander said with some doubts.

"Not for the time being, but the bandits come and go like the wind, my soldiers and horses are temporarily unable to resist it head-on, now it is winter, I want to take this place as the center, and explain with a smile in collaboration with Sangquan Shili, while ordering people to go to the salt prison, let Gao Shun promote the military marquis, generals, and team rates of the various departments, and then recall Cui Geng, Zhong Yun, and Yu Sheng, these three people are all outstanding talents when the West Garden was selected in the past, Gao Shun has occupied the salt prison, the situation has been stable for now, and it is a bit of a waste to put the three of them there.

After the three arrived, Chen Mo had already reorganized Sangquan County, the original county guard was incorporated, and recruited a group of people from the city, and then personally traveled to the townships, persuaded the clans, the three elders and the county to assist in defense, and set up a beacon tower.

After staying in Sangquan for three days, Chen Mo went to Xie County to concoct according to law, there are nineteen counties in Hedong, of which Linfen, Pingyang, and Xiangling are occupied by white wave thieves, Anyi Chen Mo is not ready to move, and the remaining fifteen counties, Chen Mo spent a month to garrison all the troops, but most of them are left with a team rate, and the rest are new troops, and the army squadron rate, Tun general, and military marquis were all promoted by Chen Mo to military horses, and they were divided into counties, so that Chen Mo had more than 6,000 men and horses in his hands in January.

This is not counting the people gathered by the clans in the townships around the country, most of the east of the river was connected by Chen Mo, all of them were controlled by Chen Mo, although they were all recruits, but these people were enough to defend the city, and Chen Mo took the Dian Wei Department to start looking for the main force of Guo Tai's department.

At least for now, Chen Mo, the Taishou of Hedong, has taken all the counties in his hands through this series of actions, and has some friendships with the local clans, which can be regarded as a preliminary foothold.

Next, it's time to take advantage of Guo Tai's tributary Kou Liwei, but Guo Tai and others have not shown up recently, which makes many people a little anxious, but this matter, Chen Mo is not in a hurry, just now there is more Chun Yuqiong's grain and grass, and the looting income, those grains and grass should be able to let them eat for a while, but it will not be too long, they still have to come out and continue to loot, Chen Mo has already done a good job of joint defense between the counties, and occupied the salt prison, as long as before the spring of the next year, it is enough to force Guo Tai and these thieves out.

As for Anyi, who was the county governor, Chen Mo didn't care about it.

These days, the Hedong Wei clan sent people over, asking Chen Mo why he closed the salt prison, but the words were quite polite, the salt prison is an important source of wealth in Hedong, the Wei family as the Hedong wang family, the trade of the salt prison, they are very dependent, now Chen Mo directly closed the salt prison, no one is allowed to enter or leave, although the Wei family has some inventory, but once the supply of the salt prison is cut off, the loss to the Wei family is not small.

Chen Mo is focusing on begging for thieves, and after the thieves are broken, they will unseal the secrets, so that the people of the Wei family can be at ease.

Since he entered Hedong, there has been no news from the Wei family, until he felt that his interests were damaged, so he came here, although he said it politely, but he was somewhat suspicious, and as a Hedong family, Hedong's economy and local officials are inextricably linked to the Wei family, Chen Mo wants to sit firmly in Hedong, if it is a normal situation, he can only hold the Wei family, and it is easy to be overtaken by the Wei family step by step, so this time, Chen Mo chose the sword to go sideways, Hedong as the foundation of his choice, there can only be one voice, but the reputation of persecuting the famous family, Chen Mo can't afford it, but the prestige of the Wei family must be suppressed, so from the very beginning, Chen Mo's attitude towards the Wei family was very clear, first suppressed, then co-opted, and the people of the world had nothing to say.

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