Lew must be in a state of disarray right now.

After receiving the news, he immediately set off for the county seat of Qingzhou, and after arriving at the county seat in the early hours of the morning, the first order was to impose martial law on the whole city.

No one knows the consequences of falling out with Akito better than him. Now that the Ming people are in Qingzhou County, they can easily create considerable trouble, but what he needs is a stable Qingzhou City.

The sky was bright, Qingzhou City ushered in a new day, and what made Lu must have felt a little comforted was that the Ming people in the city seemed to know nothing, what to do or what they were doing, without the slightest anxiety, but the locals of Qingzhou, looking like a mournful woman, and the gossip was flying all over the sky.

Lu must understand that these Ming people in Qingzhou are well-informed, and of course they know what has happened, but their attitude seems to be indicating the attitude of the Ming people of Kaiping County.

This was just a small accident, and it would not change the good relationship between Qingzhou County and the Ming Kingdom. He comforted himself in his heart, if the Ming people really wanted to make a fuss because of this matter, then these Ming people in the city might have escaped clean last night.

Lu must not have doubted that these Ming people had such ability, because the ordinary people of Qingzhou City were very willing to help them. In the past two years, these Ming people have given too many favors to the locals of Qingzhou.

In fact, even Lu must be inseparable from these Mingren. Their shops employed a large number of Qingzhou people, they brought goods that were not available in Qingzhou County, they opened porridge sheds, they gave relief to the victims, and they played an unparalleled role in the stability of Qingzhou County, and in some places, they even replaced the role of the government.

In such a strange order, Lu must have done only one thing, and that was to firmly control the army. did his best to make the life of the army under his command better, at least better than at that time in the Deng clan. Only in this way can he gather people's hearts.

To tell the truth, he did a good job, at least he belonged to his core army, and now he is indeed loyal to him. From the previous incomplete armor and tattered weapons, to now the weapons of the Ming people have been uniformly replaced, although they are all outdated weapons eliminated by the Ming people, but compared to before, it is always much better. The endless supply of food from Kaiping ensured that his troops could be fed and not hungry, and he even saved some food.

Of course, where there is sunshine, there is also darkness, and when he vigorously satisfies the core troops with stronger combat effectiveness, he can't help but be less concerned about the rest of the recruited troops.

After retreating all the way from Kaiping County to Qingzhou County, he spared no effort to expand the army, because he was afraid that the Ming army at that time would not take advantage of the great victory to enter Qingzhou, and the Qin people, who did not know the Ming people, also joined the army enthusiastically, which made Lu must have expanded the army to 100,000 in a short time.

But to Lu Cer's surprise, the Ming army's attack came to an abrupt halt, and then the army left Kaiping County, which made Lu must have felt that the punch with all his strength had completely hit the air, and it was extremely uncomfortable.

When the army is recruited, it is necessary to feed them, or it will be terrible for them to start a rebellion with weapons. After barely holding on for a period of time and confirming that the Ming army had no intention of attacking Qingzhou at all, he once moved the idea of disbanding the redundant army. Because at that time, the Qin State had already signed a complete armistice agreement with the Ming State.

But at this time, Deng Hong fell.

Deng Hong was placed under house arrest in Yongdu, and Lu must have received the holy decree to return to Beijing to report on his work. Lu must be willing to return to Yongdu at this time? You must know that he is Deng Hong's henchman, and he is more relied on by Deng Hong than Xiao Qiang in the Tiger Prison.

I have to say that in this process, Ma Yue's father and son made a mistake, if it was not the holy decree that came first, but the crown prince Ma Chao who arrived in Qingzhou first, Lu must have honestly pledged his allegiance to the court or handed over power. He is not Xiao Qiang's ambitious person. But the problem was that the order in which the Qin court dealt with this issue was reversed.

When Lu must be afraid and do not obey the edict, the prince Ma Chao came to Qingzhou again, not to appease Lu Ming's heart, but to make Lu must be more determined to support the army and respect himself.

Under such circumstances, the 100,000-strong army will naturally not be disbanded. Lu must not be worried that the Ming army will attack him at this time, but he is worried that the imperial court will clean itself up, and the more soldiers and horses, the more the imperial court will naturally throw a mouse.

The development of things was as he expected, the tone of the court became softer and softer, and the softer the court, the firmer Lu Ming's mind became. So far, Lu must have confirmed that the imperial court will not do anything to him, because the troubles of the imperial court have come one after another.

Xiao Qiang of the Tiger Prison was unstoppable and aggressive, Bian Wushuang of Qingzhou signed a peace treaty with the Chu people privately and transferred troops to the border, his meaning was unclear, and in turn it seemed that Lu must be very peaceful.

At this time, Lu must have thought about reducing the army again. This school exercise is a harbinger of disarmament. The form has gradually stabilized, he no longer needs too many troops, defending Qingzhou, 30,000 is enough, and now he needs more Ding Zhuang to reclaim the land and restore the people's livelihood. Of course, he knew that relying on Ming blood transfusions to feed Qingzhou County for a long time was an extremely unhealthy and extremely unsafe model.

Qingzhou has nothing to give to the Ming people, only war horses. But at the current rate of exporting war horses to the Ming Kingdom, I am afraid that in another year or two, Qingzhou will not have war horses that can satisfy the Ming people, and at that time, what will Qingzhou sell?

And at this most critical time, something happened to Daxin. That damn Xiao Lengzi, for a mere two or three thousand stone of grain, attacked the Ming Shang. If you want to do it, you can do it, but you have to be clean, but you were actually escaped, and you also bumped into the hands of the Wind Chasing Battalion, and even several of your subordinates were captured alive. At this moment, a person with complete evidence and material evidence made people unable to argue and hide.

From this point of view, this Xiao Lengzi is really not a pity to die. If he still appeared in front of him alive, he would stab him a few times. He ruined the overall situation of Qingzhou.

This incident now makes him extremely torn between two sides. First of all, the fault is indeed Xiao Lengzi, the former Ming merchants, who were often robbed in Qingzhou, but that was all done by small bandits, and the Ming people never complained about it, but this time, it was the hands of the serious army.

But Akito was too ruthless. If you report this matter to yourself, of course you will give them a satisfactory answer, at least Xiao Lengzi's head can be sent to Kaiping Chen Zhihua.

But as soon as the Ming people made a move, they not only crossed the border to attack, completely annihilated Xiao Lengzi's 2,000 cavalry, but also surrounded Daxincheng, which was so arrogant and domineering that Lu must have felt extremely angry.

There is no such slap in the face. This is bullying yourself and you will never dare to speak up!

Lu must have imagined the anger of the army when they got the news, after all, it was his own brother, even if it was wrong, so what? There's no reason to teach outsiders a lesson. And he cut off his head directly.

The senior officers who knew about this matter were very angry, but they were still rational and knew the current predicament of Qingzhou County, but what about those middle and lower-level officers? What about the big-headed soldiers with simpler heads?

Lou must have felt a splitting headache.

War with the Akito? This is an impossible option, even if there is only one giant wood camp in Kaiping County, Lu will definitely not choose like this, not to mention, there is also a wind chasing camp now.

He still remembers the combat effectiveness of the Wind Chasing Battalion.

Moreover, he can't afford to fight, although the Ming people have been importing grain to Qingzhou, but their auxiliary methods and quantities have a very clever control, he is desperately saving grain, and now there is only a pile of grain in the warehouse for no more than a month. Once the war starts, this consumption will not be enough to last half a month, you must know that wartime consumption and peacetime consumption are completely two different concepts.

Secondly, he didn't feel that he could take advantage of the war, even if he won the battle at the beginning, he would provoke more Ming troops, and eventually he would end up in failure, and once he failed, he would have nothing.

"General, what we need to do now is to immediately calm the mood in the army." Han Kun, Lu's number one aide, was also worried, "We must not allow the anger to spread, once the anger spreads on a large scale, it will force the general to make a choice." "How to appease?" Lu must have touched his forehead with his hand: "What about more than 2,000 people?" All of them were killed, and Xiao Lengzi was even beheaded under the big new city. ”

"General, no matter how difficult it is, you have to do it. Qingzhou, there can be no war now. can't afford to fight, let alone beat the enemy, it's not Han Kun's Changming army's ambition, this is a fact, when it comes to fighting, no matter whether he wins or loses, General Yu doesn't have a trace of half-star benefits. Han Kun said: "Now we must put all the blame on Xiao Lengzi's head, we might as well render his behavior even worse, and try to make everyone feel that he deserves it." Second, the general should make all officers and soldiers understand that the reason why they are now able to eat well and wear warm clothes is inseparable from the support of the Ming people. ”

"What about all of this?"

"In addition to these, it is also important to say that the Ming court is furious about this, and has mobilized a large army to prepare to come and attack us. And you, in order to save Qingzhou from war and hunger and cold, will go to Taiping County alone to resolve the misunderstanding with the Ming army. Generals, our soldiers, are actually war-weary. As long as this period of time has passed, the anger will naturally be quelled. Han Kun said.

"I'm really going to Kaiping County? What if they have bad intentions towards me? Lou must have hesitated.

Han Kun shook his head again and again: "General, Chen Zhihua will never do anything to you." Han still dares to guarantee this. ”

"But you also said before that everything the Ming people did was to seek to seize Qingzhou in the future!"

"What the Ming people want is a peaceful annexation of Qingzhou, not war." Han Kun said slowly.

Lu must have been silent for a long time: "You are right, they want to annex peacefully, this is our chance, so that we can have more resources and bargaining chips, and war is neither their option nor mine." I went to Kaiping County. ”