After returning to the fortress of Qianhusuo the next night, Wu Shigong immediately gathered all the leaders to hold a meeting overnight to discuss and make arrangements for his expedition.

At the beginning of the meeting, when Wu Shigong announced: During the period of his expedition, Xue Yongli would be fully responsible for the internal and external affairs of the fortress of Qianhusuo. Wu Shigong's decision was strongly opposed by Xue Yongli himself. He insisted on going out with Wu Shigong in order to fulfill his responsibility to protect Wu Shigong's safety.

For this reason, Wu Shigong persuaded Xue Yongli for a long time. Wu Shigong told Xue Yongli: Now in this thousand households, there are only two people who have prestige and ability to become leaders, Wu Shigong and Xue Yongli.

And this time I went to King Qin, because of the roll call, Wu Shigong would definitely not be able to be absent. If Xue Yongli also accompanied Wu Shigong on the expedition, in case there was any accident here, there would be no one who could be the backbone of the family here.

You must know that the current Thousand Households Office is no longer the Thousand Households that were only responsible for farming. There are so many workshops, there are escorts on two trade routes, and there is the buying and selling of salt.

Moreover, Wu Shigong must have brought most of his main force to King Qin, so that the number of soldiers left in the fortress of Qianhusu will be reduced a lot.

And without such a powerful deterrent of force, now that they have basically surrendered to Wu Shigong, whether the bandits in the mountainous areas in the north of Runing Province and the remaining bandits in Guide Mansion will be honest and obedient, that is a question mark.

Therefore, now in the fortress of Qianhusuo, it is necessary to leave a strong person with strong military command ability to lead the remaining soldiers. And now Wu Shigong's subordinates, only Xue Yongli can be qualified for this position. No matter what you say, it is impossible for Wu Shigong to give up the base of the fortress of the Thousand Households.

After listening to Wu Shigong's reasoning, Xue Yongli reluctantly agreed to Wu Shigong's arrangement. However, Xue Yongli insisted: let Wu Shigong bring almost all the cavalry and most of the infantry, as well as most of the firearms, to ensure Wu Shigong's safety.

In the end, it was decided that Wu Shigong's expedition would bring 400 cavalry and 600 infantry. In addition, Wu Shigong will also bring 350 medium and heavy guns, as well as two Franc cannons and two three-pounder guns.

In order to strengthen the defense of the fortress of Qianhusuo, Wu Shigong will transfer 200 soldiers from the militia group in the county town to the fortress of Qianhusuo, and in addition, Wu Shigong will also transfer 100 soldiers from the remaining laborers of the military households, and the military households who have participated in military training during the slack time will be transferred to the fortress of Qianhusuo. With the reinforcement of such 300 people, the defense problem of the fortress of Senhusuo can basically be barely solved.

Wu Shigong did not dare to transfer troops from the former Li Harrier's cottage occupied by Qian Qi in the northern mountains of Runing Mansion. If it weren't for the lack of manpower, the current Wu Shigong would even want to strengthen the strength of that cottage. He wanted to prevent the bandits from doing everything they could.

Zuihou, Wu Shigong also arranged with Zhang Xuebin, Zheng Zhen and Yuan Xingshan to let them manage the internal affairs and business of the Qianhu Office. Wu Shigong set a principle for them: during the period when Wu Shigong left the Thousand Households, let Zhang Xuebin and them just need to handle affairs according to the rules set before. If you encounter any problems, try to delay as much as possible, don't intensify any contradictions, and wait for Wu Shigong to come back.

After the discussion was over and everyone was about to disperse, Wu Shigong opened his mouth and shouted to Zhizhi and Deng Qifan: "Monk, Sour Ding, you two stay for a while, I have something to say to you." ”

Deng Qifan and Zhizhi stayed with Wu Shigong for more than a year, although Wu Shigong also forbade them to travel, only let them move around the area of the fortress of the Thousand Households, and did not let them pass on any letters and messages, and even a few times someone came to Wu Shigong to inquire about the news of the two of them, Wu Shigong pretended to be confused and pretended not to know. However, because the two of them are also very interesting and have easy-going personalities, these two people get along well with the top and bottom of the Qianhu House.

But despite this, these two people fell into Wu Shigong's old rough nest, and they must have inevitably given nicknames to those old roughs. Deng Qifan's nickname is "Sour Ding", and because of the influence of the palace secret recipe incident, although he maintained his virginity, he still gave him a nickname, called "Flower Monk". Therefore, today Wu Shigong calls Zhizhi a "monk", and he can be regarded as accumulating some virtues.

Seeing that everyone else had left, Wu Shigong then said to the two of them: "The two of you have been with me for more than a year. I don't want to talk about the past, who is right and wrong, and who is wrong, and who is resentful. Still, I think we got along very well. ”

"And this time I'm going to King Qin in the capital, I don't know what to do, so there's no need to force the two to stay. If I offended the two of you in the past, I will also apologize to you here. I'll arrange it tomorrow, and I'll send you two home. After finishing speaking, Wu Shigong stood up and bowed to Zhizhi and Deng Qifan.

Seeing Wu Shigong saluting, Zhizhi and Deng Qifan also hurriedly returned the salute. The wisdom folded his hands and said first: "Amitabha! My lord is the king of diligence this time, and the soldiers will definitely have casualties. The little monk also knows some ambiguity. If the adults don't dislike it, how about being a little monk in King Qin's team? ”

Deng Qifan continued: "My generation is studying for the sake of fighting the sword in the world. The Tartars poison the Li people, how can I sleep peacefully at home? is not talented, and is willing to untie the reins for adults. Knowing that they could fight on the battlefield, the students even wrote a poem: Capture ...... early"

"Stop! Stop! Wu Shigong hurriedly stopped Deng Qifan's impassioned impassioned laughter, and then said jokingly: "Sour Ding Ye, Master Juren, you can spare me." I know your determination. But if you want to speak, please speak Mandarin as well? Don't be so sour, you're going to sour me to death. ”

Deng Qifan also laughed. He also jokingly replied: "Everything else is fine as an adult, but some of them don't learn and don't know how to do it." However, the student has a question, what does Mandarin mean? Isn't it the vernacular that Bai Ding said? ”

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There were three people in the room, and there was laughter.

The ladies in the inner house had already learned the news that Wu Shigong was going to go on this expedition. Therefore, when Wu Shigong returned to the inner house, none of his four wives slept. Seeing these wives of his own suppressing the worries in their hearts and smiling at themselves, Wu Shigong's heart was a little helpless.

Wu Shigong had no choice but to constantly comfort his wives. After constant rhetoric and assurances, Wu Shigong finally survived this difficult night.

Because the soldiers who accompanied Wu Shigong on the expedition this time lived in the barracks of the fortress of Qianhusuo, it was very convenient for Wu Shigong to gather all the soldiers who went out on the expedition the next day.

After giving these soldiers a period of time so that they could say goodbye to their families in a hurry, Wu Shigong led the more than 1,000 soldiers to set off and set off to Guide Mansion City and gather with the soldiers from other thousand households.

However, when he was about to set off, Zhou Xun, the leader of the militia group who led the county town, hurried to the fortress of Qianhusuo to find Wu Shigong and asked Wu Shigong to go on the expedition together.

After Zhou Patrol arrived at Qianhuso, except for the order to set fire to the city wall of the county town when the Holy Spirit Society rebelled, and later captured some prisoners, he did not catch any battles, but he has been training recruits. This made Zhou Xun, who had a strong belligerent factor, feel a little unbearable. Therefore, after learning that Wu Shigong was going to go on the expedition this time, Zhou Xun was noisily about setting off together.

In view of the fact that Zhou Xun's heroism and war romanticism were still very strong, Wu Shigong also met Zhou Xun's request. Let Zhou Xun be responsible for leading all the infantry and set off together.