"General, don't worry, when we return to the army, we will only need 20,000 horses to wipe it out!"

Seeing that Zhang Xutuo was worried, Luo Shixin said with confidence.

"Hehe, Shubao, what do you think?"

Regarding Luo Shixin's words, Zhang Xutuo didn't say anything, but turned his head to ask Qin Shubao.

"It depends on the time. Within a month, an army of 30,000 could be leveled. Half a year later, I am afraid that 100,000 troops will be needed. It's just that the general will go back this time, and I'm afraid he won't be able to take charge of the army again for half a year. ”

Qin Shubao reluctantly said his judgment. As a general of the defeated army, even if Zhang Xutuo has some ways, it is impossible to regain control of the army within half a year. “

Hehe, Uncle Bao thinks too highly of me. If there were no other accidents, I would not be in charge of the army for a year. ”

Zhang Xutuo reluctantly said his predicament, and his words made Qin Qiong and Luo Shixin worried.

Chen Quan and Dongfang Undefeated led the army of nearly 100,000 people to the east and went straight to Beihai County, the seat of Qingzhou Governance, and the Qingzhou Thorn Shi frantically mobilized the Sui army of the entire Qingzhou and grabbed the strong men everywhere, gathered 120,000 people in Beihai City, and prepared to defend Beihai. At the same time, more than a dozen large and small rebel armies near Qingzhou also set their sights on this army with Lu Mingyue's remnants as the main body, to see if this rebel army could be guarded by more than 100,000 Sui troops under the leadership of Chen Quan and Dongfang Undefeated, two strong men who are said to have the strength of grandmasters and great grandmasters.

You must know that at this time, no rebel army has yet been able to occupy a state office. Even Wagangzhai, which made the biggest disturbance later, was still in the stage of robbing houses at this time. At the stage when Li Mi had not yet defected, Wagangzhai was still just a copycat force.

Chen Quan also set up camp under Beihai City as everyone wished, making it look like he would attack the city at any time, but secretly asked Kou Chong Xu Ziling to run around with more than 3,000 people day and night, kicking up dust, cooperating with dummies, and disguised as 100,000 people. And he himself led 90,000 men, marched day and night, marched quickly, and suddenly appeared under the city of Donglai three days later and immediately attacked the city, and took the city of Donglai, which was already empty, by surprise, and controlled the whole city of Donglai in just half a day.

In the next four or five days, Chen Quan, in the time that everyone had not fully reacted, even went down to Pingdu, Jimo, and Changyang, while occupying most of the densely populated areas of Donglai County, and cut off the control of Qingzhou Thorn Shi over the rest of Donglai County. At this time, the forces of all parties suddenly realized that Chen Quan had never thought of swallowing the entire Qingzhou in one bite, and he just wanted to occupy Donglai from beginning to end.

Qingzhou Thorn Shi looked at the empty camp outside the city, trembling with anger, and in anger, he ordered his subordinates to lead 80,000 horses to Donglai in the future, but Chen Quanqin led an army of 20,000 to attack the southwest of Daze Mountain at night. Nearly 60,000 of the 80,000 troops were captured, and less than 10,000 were brought back to Beihai City by the generals of the unified army. In this case, Qingzhou Assassin Shi no longer dared to eliminate Chen Quan lightly, but was trembling and afraid that Chen Quan would come to attack him.

It's just that Chen Quan did not lead the army out of the scope of Donglai County, but in the next month, he captured Huangxian, Muping, Wendeng and other places, completely occupied the entire territory of Donglai County, and then placed the army in the west of Pingdu City 20 miles away, staring at the enemy who might come to attack. Since then, Chen Quan has completely occupied Donglai County and has become one of the top anti-Sui forces in the world, officially entering the sight of all forces within the Great Sui.

"Hey! In such a large Donglai County, the recorded population is only 300,000! Even if you add hidden households, I'm afraid it's only more than 500,000. ”

Looking at the population record of the Yamen guarding Donglaicheng County, Chen Quan couldn't help but sigh.

In most of the Shandong Peninsula, the population is only about 500,000, including the nearly 100,000 people brought by Chen Quan and the more than 60,000 people who were later captured, it is only about 700,000. In later generations, a random county was pulled out, and the population was larger than this.

"Don't be dissatisfied. Even in the Ming Dynasty, the population of this place is only more than two million, which is already a prosperous area compared to the sparsely populated southern parts of this era. ”

Glancing at Chen Quan, Dongfang Undefeated continued to look through the other documents in the Donglai County Guard.

Now that no Sui army has come to attack Donglai County, the first priority in front of the two is how to govern this Donglai County. Those captured Sui Dynasty officials, Chen Quan could not have believed it. Those disciples of the Shi clan, such as the Cui family, who occupy a lot of land in Donglai, Chen Quan will not use any of them. So in the early stage, they could only rely on the two of them themselves. Fortunately, both of them have rich management experience, and they can still manage 700,000 people.

In terms of the army, Chen Quan recruited 30,000 again, increased his strength to 60,000, and continued to implement high-intensity training. In just half a year, these 60,000 troops were trained into the elite of this era. Although most of them have never seen blood, whether it is equipment, discipline, or even personal combat power, they are quite strong. In fact, if the population is sufficient, Chen Quan would very much like to get an army of 600,000 at once, but unfortunately the population is so large, and it is already the limit to draw out 60,000 people. No matter more, it is time to affect the development of the Donglai area.

In terms of government affairs, Chen Quan's first order was for Yan Kuan to set up a public security department, leading 5,000 public security patrols wearing uniform black uniforms and holding Xiuchun knives, to be responsible for the public security work in the entire counties of Donglai County. In a short period of time, ensure that the counties are in good order.

The second order is to let Wang Cheng, who was the same as Yan Kuan, who was the head of the beggar in Yangzhou at the beginning, set up the Household Information Division. He led more than 400 craftsmen and Langzhong recruited from Yangzhou, and absorbed the local craftsmen Langzhong in Donglai, divided into eight teams, and carried various materials to various places with the cooperation and protection of the Public Security Department, and organized the people from all over the country to rebuild and expand their houses. Then, with abundant grain, cloth and other materials, local people were hired to comb the roads and water conservancy facilities in various places in lieu of work. Although the implementation of such work was slow in the beginning, everything was difficult at the beginning, and when it was on the right track, it would be able to get up quickly.

Third, Dongfang Undefeated will set up an intelligence department to begin to comprehensively collect all intelligence at home and abroad, and prevent the enemy from infiltrating and spying on its own intelligence. However, intelligence personnel cannot be trained in a short period of time, so the establishment of the intelligence department is quite long, and it cannot be used in a short period of time.

Finally, Chen Quan was personally responsible for the formation of the Department of Education, and began to implement education in Donglai, Pingdu, Jimo, Changyang, Huangxian, Muping, Wendeng and other cities with relatively concentrated populations. Although the area is vast and there are few teachers, Chen Quan handed over hundreds of educational videos to his disciples and hundreds of specially trained personnel, and set up primary schools in these places with projection equipment and a large number of books and stationery to teach local children under the age of 10. At present, we do not have the conditions to carry out adult training, and we will wait until the ability of those who have received Chen Quan's personal training has improved to a certain extent.

After the implementation of this policy, the territory of Donglai quickly stabilized. After Chen Quan led his troops to eliminate the last cottage bandit in the territory, the entire Donglai was completely settled. Next, Chen Quan set his sights on the power of the family in the territory.