Xuanhua Prefecture, Xuanhua County.

"Did he really say that?" After receiving the report from the soldiers, the Empress Dowager Cixi's face increased with joy.

"Empress Dowager Qiyu, that Wang Sirui really has this to say!"

"Well, go back and tell them that after a month, if Wang Sirui has not sent troops, he will urge him to send troops as soon as possible, and if he still does not send troops after two months, he will be ordered to send troops with a holy oracle." Cixi was overjoyed in her heart, and she did not pay attention to Wang Sirui's remarks about blatantly disobeying the will of the imperial court.

If Wang Sirui said this in person, then Cixi might still consider the truth of this statement.

But if she had overheard it from the people she had sent, and had said it at their military meeting, it must be true.

Moreover, how did the Empress Dowager Cixi not know how difficult it was to train an army? Becoming an army in one month and recovering the capital in three months, even if she gave the order, she knew very well that this was not possible at all.

And the reason why the Empress Dowager Cixi knew that it was impossible, but still gave such an order, the reason was very simple, she just kept persecuting Wang Sirui.

She not only wants to inflict the greatest loss on the foreign soldiers, but also makes Wang Sirui herself suffer heavy losses.

As for the official position from the second grade, after the war, just give him an idle position.

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Wang Sirui, who successfully fooled the imperial court, has not been idle for a period of time, and all the personnel under his hands have been working at full speed in a short period of time, and their daily affairs are fully arranged.

Wu Zixuan and Tian Zhichao were arranged to recruit soldiers nearby, and they could recruit defeated soldiers or ordinary people, but there was one point, they had to be under thirty years old and could easily lift a hundred pounds of heavy objects.

Ma Sanru was arranged to go to Yanqing Mansion, not far away, to inquire about the news, after all, the army was about to expand, and it would not work without enough food.

In one place, Yanqing Mansion has not been affected by the war for the time being, and when it comes there, Ma Sanru can also observe whether it is possible to recruit soldiers there.

As for Wu Yang, he was left by Wang Sirui to train the army.

The training method they used is a new set of training methods recently compiled by Wang Sirui, although some of the content has been covered before, but this time it has changed the previous situation.

Because time did not allow, Wang Sirui could only temporarily abandon those formations and queues and other training.

It is mainly from three aspects, the first is physical fitness, the second is marksmanship, and the third is tactical coordination.

It will take two months to let them adapt to these, and when the time comes, not to mention that they will easily kill the foreigners, at least they will not suffer too much loss.

Physical training is very simple, every day is to run circles around the camp, five kilometers in the morning, five kilometers in the afternoon, for the people of this era, although it is also a little unbearable, but after two or three days down to fully adapt to this rhythm.

Then there is the weight-bearing cross-country, but the 10-kilometer run every day is thunderous.

In the morning, there was marksmanship training, first push-ups, and then each person held the gun flat, and hung a brick on the barrel of the gun with a rope, until they were able to hold on for ten minutes without shaking violently.

In the afternoon, there was tactical training, which was a simple three-person team, which included designing positions, cooperating with cover, and so on. Even if they can't fully understand the meaning of this in two months, at least they shouldn't make any big mistakes.

The more than 200 people who received the training first will be the instructors in the future, and the remaining 100 or so veterans will come to replace them for training after these people leave, and then become instructors.

It can be said that these 300 or so people are Wang Sirui's squad leaders in the future, and if nothing else, the class brought by their new barracks in the future will be their soldiers.

Only in this way can they have more time to adapt to each other and not lose their lives on the battlefield because of certain problems.

Although Yanqing Mansion was not affected by the war, the situation in the city was not much better.

The rout first swept through Yanqing Mansion, and the defenders of Yanqing Mansion were also unintentionally defended, and even stepped into the footsteps of robbery earlier.

And because a large number of routs entered Yanqing Mansion, it had already caused panic among the people of Yanqing Mansion. Although the prefect of Yanqing Mansion is still there, there are not many people under his hands, and he has long been unable to control Yanqing Mansion.

Now, but he can't escape in advance, he can only sit in the mansion, and then stare around, and once he finds the figure of the foreign soldier, he will immediately leave with his family.

The enemy is coming, and the city cannot be defended, so there is no problem in escaping. But before the enemy comes, you run away, and that's a big problem.

When Ma Sanru led a team of more than 50 people into the city, he found that many people were looting, gold, silver, treasures, grains and vegetables, etc., and he would definitely not let go of any of them.

Seeing this, Ma Sanru immediately led people to the grain depot in Yanqing Prefecture, because the wheat had just been harvested at the end of May and early June, and at the beginning of July, the grain payable from various places had also been put into storage.

It is only late August, and those people are mainly gold and silver, and there are very few people who only grab grain and not gold and silver.

Facts have proved that Ma Sanru's judgment was not wrong, and when he rushed to the grain depot, he found that the door of the grain depot was closed, so he forcibly broke in.

Nuoda's grain depot was only one-third empty, and there were about 100,000 catties of grain in the grain depot, and then Ma Sanru opened the other two grain depots, which were full of at least 150,000 catties of grain.

The four grain depots together have about 550,000 catties of grain, and if their six battalions are full of 4,000 people, this grain will be enough for them for three or four months.

Immediately, Ma Sanru immediately ordered people to block the granary and forbid anyone to approach, and on the other side, he sent someone to inform Wang Sirui and ask him to bring people over to transport the grain away.

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"Quick! Fast! Fast! Bring all the wagons with you. After getting Ma Sanru's reply, Wang Sirui immediately ordered all activities to be stopped, and even those newly recruited recruits were pulled out.

Hundreds of thousands of catties of grain, if all of them are taken back by Wang Sirui, then they will not have to worry about food problems in the next few months.

If he can put all his energy into training, Wang Sirui will naturally be able to train the troops better.

"Lord Wang, why are you in such a hurry to gather troops?" Xiao Dezi saw that the chickens and dogs were jumping in the whole camp for a while, and immediately came out to ask.

"Father-in-law, my subordinates found a large amount of grain in the Yanqing granary, I will take someone to transport the grain back, do you want to go over and have a look?" Wang Sirui explained with a smile.

Xiao Dezi was a little hesitant, but finally nodded: "It's okay, if our family goes with us, there will be less trouble." ”

Xiao Dezi had followed the royal family to Yanqing once before, but at that time, there was chaos in the city, and the royal family did not enter the city, but found some food nearby, and simply made up a meal and continued on the road.

Although they also knew that there must be food in Yanqing, who made them all frightened at that time? No one dares to risk their lives for a meal.

And Xiao Dezi was afraid of death, and secondly, he wanted to spy on Wang Sirui, and at the same time had a good relationship with Wang Sirui, so he planned to go to Yanqing to transport grain together.