Zhuang Fudi anxiously paced repeatedly in the command post, constantly calculating the situation he was facing now and what he could do in some extreme situations, at this time the footsteps outside the door sounded, it was the Wuwei County administrative officials represented by Li Wen and several military lords in charge of military intelligence together after receiving Zhuang Fudi's order and hurriedly rushed to the command post to meet Zhuang Fudi.

"Now that the situation is critical, I won't be polite to you. Judging from the information we have, after Tuoba Shishu's Eastern Turkic army suffered a crushing defeat at the front, it should have sent all the main forces of his remaining army to the south on horseback, preparing to bypass our forward defense line and directly attack the county town of Wuwei County under our feet. Therefore, in order to be fully prepared, I need the cooperation of all the adults, and I want you to count all the grain, grass, population and city defense of Wuwei County in the shortest possible time. As for the army, it is much simpler, you immediately count all the Western Regions armies in formation, including the Wuwei County Township Protection Regiment, the more detailed the better, and the faster the better. At the same time, count all our ordnance and military rations? After Zhuang Fudi saw that all the people he was looking for had arrived, he stopped procrastinating and said to them directly.

After receiving Zhuang Fudi's order, everyone left Zhuang Fudi's command post again in a hurry, and returned to their offices to begin to sort out the information that Zhuang Fudi needed. Among them, because the army has the least manpower and the least information, it quickly took the lead in counting a result, which was compiled into a book and handed over to Zhuang Fudi by the military owl.

Zhuang Fudi couldn't wait to open the statistics book of the army provided by the military owl. The above record is the current situation of all the armed forces and ordnance, rations and other materials in the entire Wuwei County: there are now 5,000 soldiers in the entire Wuwei County, of which the old, weak, sick and disabled and those responsible for logistics and transportation are the majority, and there are less than 1,000 combatants in the actual establishment. In addition, there are a total of 2,000 people in the Baoxiang Regiment, and these people also took away most of the young and strong people because Zhuang Fudi focused on arranging the forward defense line, so most of the 2,000 people in the Baoxiang Regiment are some old, weak, sick and disabled.

It should be mentioned here that the old, weak, sick and disabled in the Western Regions Army are not very similar to those referred to by other forces, for the Western Regions Army, the age is near the lower limit required for conscription and near the upper limit required for conscription, and the soldiers of these two ages are all counted as old, weak, sick and disabled. As for the weapons and materials hoarded in Wuwei County, they are even more scarce, most of the muskets have been given priority to the front line of defense, and a large amount of gunpowder and projectiles have also been transported to the front line early to prevent the shortage of ammunition caused by the front line being cut off from the logistics supply line.

However, due to the majority of musketeers on the front line, a lot of bows and crossbows and corresponding arrows were hoarded in Wuwei County. Although most of the military rations at this time were on the front line for the use of the army on the front line, there was still a lot of savings in the military warehouse in Wuwei County, so there was no need to worry too much about food. In terms of armor, it is not impossible to achieve a pair of bright light heavy armor in each person's hands, so on the whole, except for the physical fitness of these 7,000 people, the other aspects are still within the acceptable range of Zhuang Fudi.

Zhuang Fudi walked to the city defense layout map of Wuwei County hanging on the wall behind him, and planted the flag in his hand on the city wall shown on the city defense map one at a time. Then he frowned, adjusted the position of the arrangement slightly, and finally used these seven thousand people to barely fill the entire city wall defense line of Wuwei County.

Just after Zhuang Fudi had roughly arranged the army, Li Wen also compiled all the data required for the internal affairs of Wuwei County into a book, and Li Wen sent this booklet to Zhuang Fudi's command post as a representative. After Zhuang Fudi saw the booklet, he couldn't wait to take the booklet, open it and read the record on it carefully.

According to the data contained in that booklet, Wuwei County now has 50,000 permanent residents, plus some floating population who are stranded in the county seat of Wuwei County due to the war. Therefore, 70,000 people were squeezed into the entire city of Wuwei County, and among the more than 20,000 floating populations stranded, caravans from various countries in the west were the mainstay. In Levin's words, once the battle began, the merchants of these caravans were not expected to join the army to help in the battle, as long as they could obey the control and not be a disadvantage from scurrying around the city.

In addition, the city defense facilities were just renovated last winter, so the entire city defense fortifications are still impregnable. Although because Wuwei County was one of the earliest footholds occupied by Li Wenyuan, at this time, out of psychological effect, everyone regarded this as the rear, so some urban defense facilities with complex workmanship such as rolling wood and stone did not have too much inventory. However, correspondingly, the workmanship is simple, and the effective clap rod has a lot of hoarding, and the grain stored in the private warehouse in the city can be enough to support the Western Regions army on the front line to rush back to rescue Wuwei County.

After getting the information in his hand, Zhuang Fudi reluctantly loosened his frowning brows and said to Li Wen: "Hey, in the current anxious situation, the only thing that can make me feel a little relieved is the two booklets on the table in front of me. Master Li, tell me the truth, how much water is in this booklet? It's a matter of life and death in Wuwei County, and you can't joke anymore at this time. ”

"Chief of Staff Zhuang, what are you talking about? Your life is your life, and my Li Wen's life is also my life. Not to mention that the head of the family promoted me to this position, I must do my best to take care of Wuwei County for the head of the family. Even if there is no order from the head of the family, I can't joke with my life at this critical moment of life and death, can I? There is no deviation in what is written in this booklet, and even if there is, it is less than all the reserves in reality, and there is no overstatement. Li Wen looked at Zhuang Fudi and said solemnly.

Zhuang Fudi saw the solemnity of what Li Wen said, and thought of Li Wenyuan's importance to his retainer, so he nodded and said to him: "Okay, since the things recorded in this booklet provided by Lord Li are true, then I will trouble Lord Li to appease the people for me." As for the war, leave it to us professionals. ”

(End of chapter)