Chapter 365: Capable Ministers in Troubled Times (II)

Relying on the foundation of being an official in Shandong for many years, Lu Jiancheng purged Shandong's armaments in Shandong, in addition to rectifying Shandong's original eroded town army. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Lu Jiancheng also knew that the town army was already embarrassed and useful.

In addition to purging the Shandong Township Army, Lu Jiancheng also vigorously advocated and encouraged all parts of Jinan Prefecture to develop local township warriors and be responsible for local public security. to reduce the pressure on the town army.

At the same time, Lu Jiancheng also intends to build the township warriors in various places into a strong army. On the issue of dealing with local villagers, the vast majority of magistrates will choose to take measures to restrict the development of local villagers. lest the combat effectiveness of the local townspeople surpass the local townsmen, and then evolve into a thorny problem. The imperial court has always taken a precautionary stance.

However, it is under this trend that Lu Jiancheng is going against the current. openly contradicted the tune, vigorously supported the development of local Xiangyong, and even once went to the imperial court, suggesting that the imperial court attach importance to the development of Xiangyong, rather than restricting the development of Xiangyong. The town army is no longer usable, and the emerging force of the township warrior is likely to replace the town army as an important combat force in the court in the near future.

Lu Jiancheng's statement was naturally not recognized by mainstream officials, and even many officials thought that Lu Jiancheng was crazy and would have such an absurd idea.

Lu Jiancheng didn't care, and still looked at Xiang Yong. It can be said that the Xiangyong of Jinan Mansion is under the hands of Lu Jiancheng, day by day, slowly developing and growing.

Thanks to the blessing of the villagers, the security of Jinan Prefecture has been greatly improved. In the entire northern region where thieves have swarmed, only Jinan is an exception. Jinan has never been plagued by the problem of thieves.

This also shows from another perspective that Xiang Yong does have merits.

Lu Jiancheng had already anticipated that the canal was likely to become the next target of the Liao army. And measures have been taken about this for a long time.

Jinan Mansion is a painstaking place created by Lu Jiancheng. Lu Jiancheng has deep feelings for Jinan Mansion. It can be said that to a certain extent, Lu Jiancheng has subconsciously regarded Jinan Mansion as his second hometown.

After the Liao army ruined Beizhili, Lu Jiancheng would never allow the Liao army to continue to go south to spoil the land of his hard work, Jinan Mansion.

In order to prevent the further expansion of the Liao army, they plundered south. Lu Jiancheng made Dezhou, which is located on the border between Beizhili and Shandong, the focus of this deployment.

The reason why the focus of this deployment is Texas. Lu Jiancheng is mainly based on the following considerations.

First, Dezhou is located at the junction of Shandong and Beizhili, and the Liao army wants to invade the territory of Shandong, and Dezhou is the only way for the Liao army.

Second, Dezhou is located along the canal and is an important canal city along the Dazhao Canal. If the Liao army intended to be in the canal, due to geographical factors. Dezhou would be the first Shandong city to be invaded by the Liao army.

Third, when Lu Jiancheng first came to Shandong, the first place to become an official was Dezhou, and the local people in Texas had a good impression of Lu Jiancheng. Lu Jiancheng has a deep popular base in Texas. This also facilitated Lu Jiancheng to mobilize the forces of Dezhou to launch a counterattack against the Liao army.

Due to Lu Jiancheng's careful preparations, Texas was heavily guarded. Moreover, Dezhou is the southernmost city that the Liao army wants to attack this time. The inconspicuous place of Dezhou and Lu Jiancheng, an inconspicuous official among the hundred officials of the Great Zhao, did not attract much attention from the Liao army.

There are not many soldiers and horses in the Liao army to attack Texas, and they are full of soldiers, counting the miscellaneous soldiers of the Menggu tribe and the rest of the tribes. There are only about 20,000 troops. Of the 20,000 or so troops, 10,000 of them came down from Dongguang City to support the reinforcements attacking Dezhou: the Liao army attacking Dongguang City had already taken Dongguang City. It was a rare victory in the Liao army's division of troops this time.

In other words, the Liao army attached great importance to the Dezhou City Military Department this time. Originally, there were only 10,000 soldiers and horses sent to attack Texas City.

The 20,000 Liao army went surprisingly smoothly in its first attack on Texas. Along the way, the defenders of Texas were either the Texas town army or the Texas township bravery. seemed to be very afraid of the Liao army, and was frightened along the way, and retreated in front of the Liao army. Until they retreated to the city of Texas, the defenders of Texas had reached the point where there was no way back.

The defenders who invaded Texas were very proud. Among the Liao army, there is still such a saying in the Liao army. The north of the Great Zhao Dynasty was the martial land of the Great Zhao Dynasty. The farther south you go, the more martial you will be, which means that the closer you are to the south, the weaker the combat effectiveness of the Great Zhao army.

The Liao army, which went deep into Dezhou, couldn't help but think that if this was the case, the more southern the Zhao army became, the weaker it became. What the Texas defenders did after encountering them was to retreat in addition to retreat.

A decent counterattack was not organized at all.

At this time, the Liao army was still kept in the dark, and they did not know that the enemy they had to face was not a weak army. After the high danger of Jingshi City, the edict was issued, but all that was required in the edict was to require the town troops in various places to go north immediately after receiving the edict of King Qin. Xiang Yong is not in the scope of King Qin's army. In other words, Xiang Yong exists as a local self-organized force to maintain local law and order, and Xiang Yong has no obligation to be the king of Qin.

As a result, Texas was able to preserve most of its military strength, and the King of Qin sent out was only the majority of the town army in Texas. After the withdrawal of the town army, the townsmen of Texas shouldered the role of guarding Texas and acting as the mainstay of the Texas garrison.

In addition to the Xiangyong in Dezhou, this time Lu Jiancheng also gathered all the Xiangyong forces in Jinan Mansion that he could gather with his personal influence, and personally sat in Dezhou! It greatly boosted the morale of the military and civilians in Texas!

At the same time, this time, Lu Jiancheng dispatched as many as 50,000 villagers, which was also greatly unexpected by Lu Jiancheng himself. These 50,000 people are all the hard work of Lu Jiancheng over the years. I thought I could mobilize so many troops at once. Lu Jiancheng couldn't help but feel excited.

The Liao army that went deep into Dezhou fell into Lu Jiancheng's strategy, and Lu Jiancheng took the Liao army that invaded Dezhou to lure the enemy into depth, and finally gathered heavy troops to annihilate the Liao army that entered Dezhou.

The Liao army is in the middle of it. The Liao army didn't even bother to set up tents outside the city of Texas, and in their opinion, it was only a matter of minutes to deal with the defenders of Texas. The fierce pursuit of the Texas defenders along the way has strengthened the Liao army's view of the Texas defenders.

The Texas garrison was nothing more than a weak division. The Great Liao Army's attack on Texas is like a bag to get something!

The Liao generals were even glad that they had been assigned to the attacking Dezhou instead of other cities. Soon, though, the brutal reality will tell them that they were wrong. (To be continued.) )