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Walking out of Zhang Yichen's study, Luo Cheng frowned.

He felt that Zhang Yichen's words were reasonable, but he would never do this if he let him get rid of Zhang Xutuo and take the county soldiers into the mountains alone to suppress the bandits.

Don't look at the fact that he now has 230 village soldiers who have won the first battle, and 200 new recruits.

But with these people, go into the mountains to suppress bandits, it may be meat buns beating dogs.

Defending the city and attacking are two different things, defending the city is the home game, there is a city to follow, and there is money behind it. However, when they entered the mountains to suppress bandits, they fought away from home, and there was no geographical advantage or peace.

Zhang Yichen is a civil servant after all, and the angle of considering the problem is still somewhat limited. He only thought about his black hat, but he didn't think about the risks of doing so.

He went straight to see Zhang Xutuo.

After meeting, Luo Cheng directly told Zhang Xutuo about the conversation with Zhang Yichen just now.

"Hmph, self-righteous, clever." Zhang Xutuo commented on Zhang Yichen.

"I've seen through his little cleverness a long time ago, but I just didn't say it. But you, you can come and tell me this, I was a little surprised. Last time, you and Qin Qiong let Wang Bo go, which made me very disappointed in you. In a short period of time, you have matured a lot. What do you think about this? ”

"It's good to be able to hide it, but it can't be hidden after all. Now that it has happened, we should not think about how to hide it, but how to deal with it. ”

"Wang Bo's rebellion is both a crisis and an opportunity. If it is dealt with, I think it will be a good thing. ”

"How do you start?" Zhang Xutuo leaned back in his chair and played with the tea cup in his hand.

"Pacifying the anti-thieves is, of course, a great achievement."

"Since Wang Bo and the others dare to openly rebel, I thought that the county could simply mobilize the soldiers and horses of the whole county to have a big encirclement and suppression. As long as we move fast enough, as long as we have enough results, then we can turn disadvantages into advantages. ”

"Big Operation?"

"Yes, just fence off the entire Changbai Mountain, and then completely clear it. In recent years, a large number of fugitives have gone to the mountains for their lives, some people have opened up wasteland and cultivated land to evade taxes and avoid taxes, some people have occupied the mountains as kings in it, and they have robbed in all directions, and Changbai Mountain has become an extralegal place under the rule of my Great Sui, how can this be done? ”

"Let's just take a big operation, clean up the entire Changbai Mountain, destroy those cottages, destroy the bandits, re-register the fugitives that caused them, and include the reclaimed land in the official registration."

"The situation is becoming more and more turbulent, Changbai Mountain has now become a source of turmoil, and if you let it go like this, then there will be a big mess here sooner or later, while this pus-filled bag is not big now, you should squeeze him in advance, clean him up, and you can't let him continue to grow up."

Zhang Xutuo sat up straight.

"Your idea is quite big, but if you want to complete this big action you said, the hundreds of people I brought are not enough."

"Then let's have a winter drill, anyway, now that the autumn harvest is over, it is also a time for winter leisure. It is just right to recruit all the county soldiers in the county and in the counties, and it is also possible to call a group of township regiments from the townships. According to what I said, many officials in the county are a little dissatisfied with the training of the county soldiers, so why not take this opportunity to show the strength of the county soldiers. ”

Qi County is one county and has nine counties.

Regardless of whether there are many or few people in each county, there are five townships.

After Zhang Xutuo arrived, he expanded the scale of the county soldiers, and at the same time strengthened the recruitment and training, and now there are 12 county barracks in Quanqi County, and another 45 townships, each with a township corps.

There are 500 people in a county barracks and 200 people in a township corps, which is already very large in terms of this scale.

The twelve county barracks alone can recruit 6,000 county soldiers, not to mention the forty-five township regiments, and 9,000.

Basically, now Zhang Xutuo's county barracks and township corps have incorporated the young and strong people of the entire Qi County into his local armed system, and all the people are soldiers.

Just 6,000 county soldiers are enough to encircle and suppress Changbai Mountain.

If you summon some more township regiments, it will really be a battle of Changbai Mountain.

"It's not difficult to recruit county soldiers and townsmen, but have you ever thought about how much supplies, money and food are needed to dispatch so many men and horses?"

The county soldiers and villagers served in rotation, which was regarded as free errand service, with no salary and salary, and even had to bring their own dry food to be on duty. But if it is to leave the training camp, then even if it is a mission, this extra money and food expenses outside will have to be borne by the county barracks, and if it is to suppress bandits, it will also involve rewards for war merits and pension allowances for casualties.

Not to mention, it is by no means a simple matter to recruit thousands of soldiers and townships to fight bandits.

"The county soldiers and the township warriors each draw half and bring their own food." Luo Cheng proposed.

Half of the 6,000 county soldiers are drawn, that is 3,000, and half of the 9,000 township soldiers are drawn, and there are 4,005.

That's 7,500 people in total.

However, if a group of farmers want to encircle and suppress the bandits in the mountains of several counties across the border like Changbai Mountain, the number is indeed not enough.

Changbai Mountain is not a mountain peak, but a continuous group of mountains.

There are nine counties in Qi County, but there are six counties connected to Changbai Mountain.

Licheng, Zhangqiu, Zouping, Changshan, Zichuan, Tingshan, six counties surround this continuous mountain, only the northwest of Qi County Zhu'a, Linyi, Linji three counties do not connect.

Before Zhang Xutuo came, the county soldiers of Qi County lacked training and poor equipment, and after he came, he vigorously rectified and strengthened training, which was a little bit like this.

But after all, the county soldiers are not the government soldiers of the Wei Mansion, this group of people is a militia, and they take turns to train for a month a year. The training is insufficient, the equipment is not precise, and although there are many of them, the actual combat effectiveness is not much.

As for the township warriors in various counties and townships, they have just been pulled up, and they are basically mainly young and middle-aged men who have not yet been established, and there is a general lack of training and equipment.

Zhang Xutuo withdrew his troops after defeating Wang Bo last time, and the biggest reason was that the soldiers were not good enough to have enough food and weapons.

After thinking about it for a while, Zhang Xutuo called Jia Wuben.

Jia Wuben is Zhang Xutuo's think tank.

"Luo Zhutou's plan is not bad, just do it once and for all."

Saying that, Jia Wuben took out a map of Qi County painted on sheepskin, the geography of the mountains and rivers on it was very rough and simple, there was not even a basic scale, it was very abstract, Luo Cheng felt that this kind of map had no actual combat effect at all, at most it would make you understand the direction and location.

"If you want me to say, let's not move, since we want to move, then as Luo Zhutou said, simply recruit all the county soldiers and townsmen, and treat it as a big winter exercise. Changbai Mountain spans six counties, so let's have a soldier to send six roads. In each county, we arranged a road of soldiers and horses, consisting of 500 people in one county barracks and 1,000 people in five township regiments. ”

"These six-way armies are responsible for blocking the six sides and attacking them separately."

"Then the county leader personally led 3,000 people from six county barracks, plus 3,000 people from 15 township corps, and went deep into the mountains to chase and suppress."

Zhang Xutuo thought for a while, "The soldiers and horses of the six routes are mainly responsible for blocking and encircling, and then the remaining six thousand soldiers and townsmen think that they can be divided into two roads, east and west, and encirclement and sweep." ”

After speaking, he raised his head and asked Luo Cheng, "Shicheng, are you willing to be a pioneer?" ”