Three, four, four, and village Yong are assembling

"There are 100,000 thieves, what can I do?" Li Qingshui was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and his face was full of chagrin: "Our Baishui finally solved the people's food and clothing through the new crop taro, as long as time passes, all the people can live a good life, how come they haven't even lived a good day, and 100,000 rogues have been killed again?" Is...... It's so damning! ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly: "Lord Xianzun doesn't need to panic, the so-called soldiers are coming, the water is flooding, although the thief army is numerous, we can't just wait to be killed." (

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"What's the head teacher's plan?" Li Qingshui asked urgently.

"I don't dare to say a clever plan, but there is still a little way." Zhu Yuanzhang said seriously: "The strength of our county is only 3,000 townships, but if we take Chengcheng, Baishui, Pucheng, Luochuan, Dali, and Huaxian...... These surrounding cities can get in touch and gather all the guards and village warriors in these places, and tens of thousands of troops can be gathered, although they may not be able to win the Liukou, but it is more than enough to defend the city! ”

Li Qingshui heard this and sighed: "Can it still be like this?" I'm afraid it's not going to be good......"

During the Peasant War at the end of the Ming Dynasty, wherever the Liukou went, the county towns were eroded, why didn't there be several county seats, or several state capitals united to fight? In fact, the reason is very simple...... The officials of the Ming Dynasty could not run around casually. For example, if you are the county commander of Baishui, you can't stick your hand in Chengcheng, even if someone in Chengcheng calls the king and the emperor, Baishui's county order is not qualified to take care of it, let alone transfer troops to fight it...... That is ultra vires.

As mentioned earlier, if a thief army is chased by the officers and soldiers of Baishui, he only needs to run towards the boundary of Chengcheng, and the officers and soldiers can only stand on the border and stare at you, and they can't chase after you, otherwise they will commit a big crime.

Of course, Li Qingshui understands this rule, and when he heard Zhu Yuanzhang's idea to combine the soldiers from several counties, he didn't dare to agree! I am not qualified to say yes.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw his embarrassment, so he smiled and said: "Master Li, dare to ask you, what are you doing when you study and become an official?" ”

"Of course, it is self-cultivation, Qi family, governing the country, and leveling the world!" Li Qingshui hurriedly replied.

"Now that the thieves are coming to the city, it is the time to realize the ambition of 'leveling the world', but the adults are hindering the rules and dare not act rashly, isn't it ridiculous?" Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"Silk ......" Li Qingshui gasped.

Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly: "The county orders of several nearby counties belong to the seven-grade sesame petty officials who have no one in the court, they dare not disobey the orders, they only dare to guard their own city conscientiously, but the county lord, you have a strong help in the court, even if you do something out of line, as long as the teacher says a few words of love and creates a momentum, bad things can be said to be good, and good things can be said to be excellent things...... If you come out to take the lead and form a large coalition army in several counties, you may not be questioned afterwards, if we really repel the thieves, you will be greatly rewarded! Otherwise, all the nearby cities will be breached by the thieves one by one! When the time comes...... It's already late. ”

Speaking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang changed his tone: "If you want the people to live and work in peace and contentment, you still have to obey the orders of the emperor and let the thieves slaughter the villagers, and leave it to the county lord to consider for yourself." ”

Li Qingshui was so pressed by his heavy tone that his forehead sweated, and he said with difficulty: "Rong Benguan think about it...... Rong Benguan thought about it......" After finishing speaking, he walked out of the courtyard with light steps, said goodbye, and his heavy back could be seen in the snowflakes flying.

As soon as Li Qingshui left, Ma Xiaotian came to Zhu Yuanzhang's side and said in a low voice: "Brother Zhu, why are you talking so much to this official?" We just need to block his news, and then lead our troops over to block the 36th Battalion, there is really no need to make such trouble. ”

"No way!" Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said: "Eight of the thirty-six battalions have a total of 100,000 people entering Shaanxi, what a big deal is this?" If we go to fight with them and drive them away, we won't be able to hide it from the eyes and ears of the court anyway, and then the people of the court will wonder, why did an army come out of thin air here to defeat the thirty-six battalions? And then they will follow this line and check, and they will definitely find out our heads in the end......"

Zhu Yuanzhang paused, and said: "But in the name of the coalition army of several counties, even if we pull out tens of thousands of people and defeat the thirty-six battalions with real swords and guns, we will not arouse the suspicion of the imperial court...... Even if it arouses suspicion, the Donglin Party will help us wipe our butts and ensure that it is clean. The kung fu of the Donglin Party to wipe the ass can be called a must! ”

Ma Xiaotian suddenly realized: "So that's the case? ”

"Moreover, this can also give this Li Qingshui a try, to see if he is a conformist person or a person who knows how to be flexible, if it is the former, he will inevitably become a hopeless bureaucrat like other Donglin Party members in the future, but if it is the latter, then he can still be saved."

Zhu Yuanzhang said this, suddenly saw the courtyard door open again, Li Qingshui ran in again, just now he ran out in despair, looking very depressed, now reappeared, but he looked refreshed, his eyes were firm, he said seriously: "The head of the sect, the official has decided, in the name of the official, to launch all the surrounding county coalition forces, if the court investigates it, the official will bear it!" The official can be beheaded and demoted because of this, but he can't watch the people of these counties being poisoned, if other county commanders dare not do this, let the official do it! ”

Yo! Zhu Yuanzhang raised his eyebrows slightly, and Ma Xiaotian couldn't help but look at him differently.

"It's not too late, this official will write letters to several surrounding counties!" Li Qingshui said proudly: "In addition, this official also plans to write a letter to Lord Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides, hoping that he can give us some help, for the sake of the same Donglin Party, Lord Hong will definitely help us." Even if we can't get the troops, we should have no problem with some weapons and armor. ”

"Okay, bring a pen and paper and write a credit to the county lord." Zhu Yuanzhang ordered loudly, the guards hurriedly sharpened the ink and laid the paper, Li Qingshui waved his pen, and a few letters were written freely, he was a real high-level intellectual, his writing was excellent, and he wrote beautifully, and several letters were written with great momentum.

After writing it, he called the "henchmen and officials" and asked them to quickly distribute them to the county seats, and then Li Qingshui said: "The head of the chief sect, I am ashamed to say that this official has been here for several months, but he has not focused on the training of the militia group, and has only focused on agriculture, and is now temporarily clinging to Buddha's feet...... Can I give my official a tour of the vigilante groups in my county? ”

"Why not?" Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "Come with me!" ”

A group of people came outside the city under the heavy snow, Zhu Yuanzhang had already sent someone to make a notice in advance, the elite soldiers of Huanglongshan Laozhai were all hidden, leaving only 3,000 recruits to Li Qingshui to review, although these 3,000 people are recruits, but also participated in the battle to the west of the mountain, the capture of Puzhou City, the trek of Zhongtiao Mountain, etc., and after more than a year of training, at this time has been quite a posture. And their equipment has improved dramatically over the course of a year or so, and each of them is equipped with at least a spear with an iron tip, and some have a bow.

Pull it out and stand at one stop, which is more neat than the guards at the end of the Ming Dynasty!

Li Qingshui couldn't help but be moved: "The county militia is so elite? ”

This is the elite? Then the old team and the old 2 team of our Huanglong Cottage are not allowed to fly into the sky? Ma Xiaotian smiled secretly in his heart. Zhu Yuanzhang said seriously: "It's not elite, when Baishui Zhu Ba attacked two years ago, our militia was scared away, and it was finally recalled after more than a year of training, this time I hope they will not be scared away." ”

"Oh? I see! The little suspicion that Li Qingshui had just raised was immediately suppressed by Zhu Yuanzhang. He was still thinking: since there is such a militia group, why did he still hear that this place was once captured by Baishui Raider? But Zhu Yuanzhang's ability to observe his face is so powerful, his expression changed slightly, Zhu Yuanzhang had already guessed the problem and immediately remedied.

Li Qingshui couldn't help but say: "If the township warriors in Chengcheng, Dali, Luochuan, Puxian, Huaxian and other places also have such strength, we may not be able to fight with the thieves!" ”

When Zhu Yuanzhang and Ma Xiaotian heard this, they couldn't help but glance at each other and laughed-

In the next few days, Li Qingshui issued a notice, inviting the people to enthusiastically sign up for the Township Warrior Army to protect their families and defend the country, and it didn't take long for more than 2,000 people to sign up in Baishui, and the result was that the Republic of China expanded to 5,000 in one fell swoop.

When Li Qingshui was in Gaoxin, the first reply came from Chengcheng, Chengcheng * County ordered Xin Lancheng to be quite big, as soon as he opened his mouth, he said that he could send 5,000 villagers to fight with Li Qingshui, led by the head of the Chengcheng People's League. But it is people's freedom to choose a name, and Li Qingshui doesn't have much to say. Then the Dali County Commander also replied that he could send 3,000 villagers, led by the head of the Dali People's League, the head of the Red Girl.

Just after a three-person pass, there was another red girl here, and Li Qingshui felt a little dizzy.

After fainting, I was also a little happy, so I got together 13,000 villagers, it was really smooth! I didn't expect it to be so easy! If he knew that he had gathered together an army of 10,000 thieves under the command of Baishui Zhu Ba, plus an army of 3,000 thieves under the command of Xue Hongqi of Yulin, he didn't know what he would be afraid of.

A few days later, Luochuan also came to a thousand township warriors, led by a Xiucai named Li Panlong. It is said that this Li Panlong is an old acquaintance of Zhu Yuanzhangjun, he chased and killed Miao Mei at the beginning, and almost killed Miao Mei, but was later scared back by Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang was a little worried about being recognized by Li Panlong, so he prepared for the worst, but he didn't expect Li Panlong to recognize Zhu Yuanzhang at all.

A few years ago, he glanced at the front of the military formation, and it was far away, and his memory had long been blurred after so many years, he no longer recognized Zhu Yuanzhang and others, but he was energetic and circled around Zhu Yuanzhang, and wanted to discuss some training methods with Zhu Yuanzhang all day long, it seems that this guy is also a person who likes to fight.

Finally, Pucheng and Huaxian also each produced 800 township warriors, and the township warriors of the five counties together formed an army of 15,600 people, known as 20,000 to the outside world, and the momentum was impressive. (To be continued.)

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