Chapter 153: To Tokugawa-gun
The battle ten years ago also hurt these three counties the most, directly causing chaos in the Northwest Prefecture, Kitayama Prefecture, and Tokugawa Prefecture, full of horse thieves, rogues, and bandits, even the local government can only shrink into a city protected by a city wall, and there is nothing to be done about the security on the border.
However, for the First Regiment, which already has a full-fledged First Division, a 3,000-strong personal guard brigade, a 2,000-strong Firehead Brigade, a cavalry brigade of more than 3,000 people, and now has nearly 20,000 soldiers, the First Army Corps is not afraid of these horse thieves and rogues at all.
On the night before leaving Longdong Prefecture, Qin Duan presided over a military enlargement meeting, which was attended by officers above the deputy commander level of each wing, including officers above the deputy commander of the logistics department.
At the meeting, Qin Duan introduced the current shape of the northwest region, and Qin Duan made a concluding speech, asking everyone to be vigilant and strengthen precautions, the enemy may appear anytime and anywhere, war is cruel, we must obey the command, orders are prohibited, there are those who do not obey the orders of the superiors, those who escape from the battle, and those who are dealt with by military law. At the same time, I encourage everyone here to hold up their chests and meet the challenge to win the final victory in the war.
At the same time, a plan was drawn up to suppress bandits all the way, to feed the war with war, and to quickly make these recruits mature, which was the greatest purpose of this meeting.
The next day, Qin Du led the whole army to leave Longdong Mansion and go to the Northwest County. When Qin Duan and his entourage entered the territory of Northwest County, they could feel the destructive impact that the Luope people had brought to this area in recent years.
Bo Nam Province in the Northwest County is a relatively large economic province, the original pottery and porcelain manufacturing industry in Bo Nam Province is quite good, many famous craftsmen and workshops produce here day and night, and the various pottery porcelain produced is very famous in the eastern continent, and even in the western continent is also very popular.
The tea house hotel is doing a prosperous business, and businessmen from all over the world stay here for a long time in order to get their goods as soon as possible. And now. Dilapidated kilns are everywhere, large pits for extracting earth have long been covered with thick weeds, and along the way, there is a sparsely populated markettown, and there is hardly a slightly decent market town to be seen, which looks particularly depressed. Unspeakable vicissitudes.
Suppress bandits, there are a lot of rogues along the way, and the rogues are not stupid, who has nothing to do to send them to death, intercepting an imperial army of nearly 20,000, it is no different from looking for death, but these rogues and bandits don't come to him for trouble, Qin Duan took the initiative to find the door, and trained the troops in actual combat. Whoever dies in battle is unlucky, in such a troubled era, there is no shortage of soldiers, you don't see it, Zhang Xianzhong, the bandit leader in the south, immediately recruited tens of thousands of horses, what is the difficulty of Qin Duan wanting to replenish a hundred and ten people?
Whoever doesn't want to die, then Ping Yue has to practice hard. Desperately cutting during the war, Qin Duan is to use the method of preserving the fittest. It's cruel to use blood to leach out an elite core force, but this is the northwest, and the chaotic shape is not allowed to train slowly.
It won't be long before the Hungarian army arrives in Tokugawa Prefecture. Qin Duan was reluctant to arrive in Tokugawa County, and the position of this county guard was not secured, so it was wiped out by the Huns, so he could only recommend Xuanyuan with blood!
Liang Qiming, Zhu Yongqing, Shangguan Yonglun and other cadres saw Qin Dui using such a cruel method to train troops, and no one dared to laugh at him behind his back, a scholar-born civil official. I don't know how to train troops.
On the contrary, there was a kind of heartfelt awe of his ruthlessness, and when he spoke to him, his unruly tone was less, and even some officers didn't even dare to raise their heads when they saw Qin Duan.
Especially the brigade commander of the third brigade, Rika, usually in the barracks, there are few people who are not afraid of her, and even her soldiers, some people call her "devil" behind their backs, but even when she sees Qin Dui, she doesn't even dare to breathe, and sometimes when she sees Qin Dui, she even stammers when she speaks, which makes the officers of the entire legion more in awe of Qin Dui, the Tokugawa County Warden and Legion Commander, and even the deputy corps commander Liang Qiming doesn't dare to interject when Qin Dui hasn't let him speak yet.
From Bonan Province in Northwest County to Tokugawa County, Qin Dui walked relatively slowly along the way, but there was one point, and the bandits along the way were almost wiped out by him. There are such results, first, his ruthlessness, regardless of casualties, and second, the cooperation between the brigades and regiments has become more and more tacit.
Therefore, before Qin Duan arrived in Tokugawa County, the entire northwest region was shaken, and even the bigwigs who were far away in the capital couldn't believe it.
A scholar from a civilian background, when he went to the turbulent place in the northwest, was not wiped out by the bandits and bandits along the way, but wiped out the bandits along the way, which can be said to be something that has not been heard of for thousands of years, which disappointed many big people in the capital.
Of course, some people are disappointed, some people are happy, and the eunuchs led by Wei Zhongxian are the happiest, although they have eliminated the bandits all the way, which is not a particularly big credit, but it is really good news for the Great Qin Empire, which has been in a downturn in the entire situation recently.
It is said that the Emperor of the Apocalypse listened to Wei Zhongxian's report on Qin Dui's feat on the northwest road, and happily ate an extra bowl of rice, which is a very remarkable thing, because for the affairs of the Milan Empire, the Emperor of the Apocalypse has no appetite these days, and he has not eaten much at all, which makes Wei Zhongxian and the people in the palace worried, but he just couldn't find anything to make the emperor happy.
Therefore, as soon as he received the news from the northwest that Qin Du had suppressed the bandits all the way and wiped out the bandits along the way, Wei Zhongxian couldn't wait to tell the Emperor of the Apocalypse the news.
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Qin Dui's suppression of bandits all the way soon made the officials of the prefectures and counties along the way look sideways, and they didn't dare to slack off Qin Dui, and they didn't dare to miss him when it came to food and shelter, including weapon replenishment. Even some state and county officials began to send him money to exterminate the bandits in their territory.
Qin Dui depends on the actual situation, if it is easy to clear out, go to the deep mountains and old forests, I'm sorry, let's talk about it later, Lao Tzu's territory is still occupied by bandits!
From Bonan Mansion to Tokugawa County, Qin Du walked for a whole month, and his whole person was tanned a lot, but because of the daily crawling, his body was much stronger than before, his biceps had begun to appear, and his body's agility was greatly enhanced, and he walked vigorously. Of course, the "Vajra Jue" he practiced played a large role.
The people in the entire legion did not dare to look at the corps commander as a weak scholar, although this adult had not studied with others, but many officers in the legion who thought they were good at martial arts were not sure that they could defeat the corps commander, but that was half a month ago, since half a month ago, Liu Wu, one of the three masters in the first legion, Liu Brigade Commander said that he couldn't even catch a move from the corps commander, so the officers were dumbfounded, and they no longer dared to compare their martial arts with the corps commander.
This made Qin Dui's officers and soldiers in the First Legion more and more mysterious, and everyone became more and more in awe of himself as the commander of the legion, and of course, there were many people who worshiped Qin Dui and regarded Qin Dui as their idol.
There are even many girls who are pregnant with spring and regard it as their dream to marry a man like the commander of the legion.
Leaving the quicksand province of Kitayama County, the troops entered the territory of Tokugawa Prefecture, where the situation was even worse than that of Kitayama County, where the fertile fields had been barren for many years, overgrown with weeds and uncultivated; Roads and bridges are in disrepair and difficult to walk; The irrigation ditches are even more clogged and unusable; There are few pedestrians on the road, and most of the people you meet are ragged and have vegetables, and where there is still the style of the "Northwest Granary" in the past. Splendid rivers and mountains, fall here! In this situation, Qin Duan couldn't help but sigh with his palms......
Since more than ten years ago, after the defeat of the Northwest Army and the Beihun in the Great War, the Beihun people controlled the northwest of this communication line across the east and west continents, there were many checkpoints along the way, and the safety of business travel was not guaranteed, and the economy of Tokugawa County began to shrink, but in recent years, coupled with the annual harassment and invasion of the Beihuns, the common people of Tokugawa County are not happy, and in the case of personal safety and property safety are not guaranteed, where can we talk about developing the economy. As a result, large numbers of people have fled their homes and sought to find another place to make a living......
On the eighth day of the fifth month of the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse, Qin Du led 20,000 troops to escort a large number of logistics materials such as grain, grass, weapons, and medicine, and finally arrived safely at Tokugawa Castle, the seat of the Tokugawa County Government of the terminal station.
"Wu Sang, the lowly Tokugawa County garrison, leads the other colleagues of Tokugawa County to welcome Lord Qin, the county guard."
At the gate of Tokugawa Castle, Wu Sang, the general of the Tokugawa Garrison, led hundreds of officials of Tokugawa Prefecture to wait for Qin Dusk at the gate of the city.
"Lord Wu is exempt, all adults are exempt, Qin has just come to Tokugawa County in the northwest, and he will rely on the support of your lords in the future."
After Qin Duan helped Wu Sang up, he said to the officials at all levels who were kneeling on the ground and saluting. As for Wu Sang, who helped him up, Qin Duan inquired clearly before he came to Tokugawa Castle.
Since the end of the Northwest War ten years ago, the entire Tokugawa Prefecture has been under military control, and in this Tokugawa Prefecture, except for the former Tokugawa County Commander who was inexplicably killed by the rebels who broke into his mansion by the rebels, the Tokugawa Castle Garrison Wu Sang held the highest position.
According to the spies dispatched, more than half of the more than 50,000 troops in Tokugawa Prefecture are in his hands, and even the Tokugawa County Guards who took office are not as effective as him in speaking in the army. This made Qin Duan have to be wary of this Wu Sang.
Qin Du even suspected that the death of the previous Tokugawa County Warden had something to do with this garrison general Wu Sang, you must know where there would be so many homeless people in the heavily guarded Tokugawa Castle, not to mention, he also rushed into the county guard house guarded by hundreds of elite soldiers, and killed the sleeping Tokugawa County Warden, there must be something strange in this that he didn't know.
"My lord, we are looking forward to the stars and the moon, and we have finally looked forward to you."
Wu Sang excitedly held Qin Dui's hand and said excitedly, if Qin Dui hadn't been wary of him in his heart, he would really believe his words. (To be continued......)