Hanzhong Mansion, Xing'an.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it was not called Xing'an, but Jinzhou.

In the eleventh year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, heavy rain continued day and night, and the flood spread and flooded the entire state city.

The current Xing'an Institute is the new city established at the foot of Zhaotai Mountain in the south of the city that year.

And from that year on, Golden State was also renamed Hung Yen State.

The meaning of Xing'an is prosperity and peace.

Perhaps it is really the name of Hung Yen that has been achieved well, and there have been no major disasters in the surrounding areas of Hung Yen in the following decades.

For decades, the east has gone to spring, and the city of Xing'an has gradually prospered and been peaceful as in the meaning.

The war and turmoil in the outside world do not seem to have much to do with Hung Yen, although in recent years there have been bandits who have invaded the vicinity of Hung Yen.

But as the largest city in the eastern part of Hanzhong Province, those rogues had no way to break the strong city walls.

It's just that now Xing'an may no longer be able to stay out of it, and it will no longer be able to continue to prosper and be peaceful as its name implies......

At this time, the city of Xing'an was completely under martial law, and the residents of the city were not allowed to go out of the city without permission or even half a step out of the city.

Zhou Yumao's expression was solemn, his brows were tightly locked, and he pressed the Yanling knife and walked along the street all the way to the west of Xing'an City.

Dozens of family members wore armor and bows and knives, and followed Zhou Yumao on foot.

The soldiers along the road were shocked when they saw Zhou Yumao, who was wearing armor and surrounded by everyone, and hurriedly knelt down and saluted.

Zhou Yumao's gaze did not stop at them, and directly strode past the saluting soldiers, and walked briskly towards the city guard office on West Street.

The soldiers who were ignored did not have the slightest complaint because they were surrounded by Zhou Yumao, but they just felt relieved.

The look on Zhou Yumao's face was not good-looking, and no one wanted to touch its moldy head at this time.

The City Guard Office is a military department responsible for the defense of Hung Yen City, and the chief officer of the City Guard Office is the deputy Qianhu, which is under the jurisdiction of the Thousand Households of Hung Yen Prefecture.

At this time, the city guard office was full of soldiers, and those soldiers guarding outside the city guard office were all wearing armor and high helmets, all of them with bows and knives.

Zhou Yumao's eyes moved slightly, and after a glance, he noticed that there were still a large number of war horses tied to the stable on one side.

And these soldiers guarding outside the city guard office are elite at a glance, not to mention their excellent armament, just by looking at the momentum, they know that they are the elite of the battle.

Before doing guerrilla warfare in Hanzhong, Zhou Yumao was originally leading troops in Yansui Town, and his eyesight was not bad.

These soldiers are full of murderous energy, walking and standing, all revealing capable and aggressive, and they are definitely the elite of the elite.

Such an elite is definitely not more than a hundred people in a battalion.

Chasing all the way to the front, Zhou Yumao's eyes narrowed slightly, slowed down, adjusted his breathing, and then walked straight towards the gate of the City Guard Department.

However, just as Zhou Yumao was about to step into the city guard, a hand crossed in front of him and blocked his way.

The atmosphere was tense for a moment, and Zhou Yumao's face did not change much, but the family members behind him changed color one after another.

The expressions of the soldiers outside the garrison of the city were still indifferent, but many soldiers who were originally guarding in the distance had already approached them.

Zhou Yumao raised his right hand, signaling the people behind him to be calm, and then clasped his hands into fists, bowed slightly, and lowered his head and said in a deep voice.

"Hanzhong guerrilla Zhou Yumao, please see, please pass it on."

The general in charge of guarding the door of the office also hugged his fist as a return salute, and then said.

"General Zhou, please wait here for now."

Although he said the word please, there was not much politeness in the words.

The expressions of the family members who followed Zhou Yumao sank again, but they did not make any further movements.

Originally, Zhou Yumao thought that he might have to wait at the door for a long time, but he didn't expect to receive the news of being allowed to enter.

After a short hesitation, Zhou Yumao took a step towards the door, but just as he crossed the door, he stopped and turned his head to the group of family members behind him.

"You wait outside."

Faced with Zhou Yumao's personal military order, all the family members behind him restrained their expressions and bowed their heads to obey the order.

After Zhou Yumao finished the military order, he turned around and walked into the city guard office, and then he didn't encounter anyone's obstruction along the way.

Walking all the way to the outside of the main hall in the City Guard Office, Zhou Yumao slowed down.

Outside the main hall, more than a dozen generals stood in columns, and an invisible sense of oppression rushed towards them.

Zhou Yumao took a deep breath and walked into the main hall.

Stepping into the main hall, Zhou Yumao directly lowered his head, half-knelt on the ground, bowed down, and said in a deep voice.

"Humble Zhou Yumao, knock to see the general."

On the main seat in the main hall of the City Guard Office, Chen Wang was dressed in a fish-scale half-body armor, and he was wearing a robe with narrow sleeves and cloud shoulders and sleeves, and sat on it.

Looking at Zhou Yumao, who was kneeling respectfully at the bottom, Chen Wang nodded secretly in his heart.

is also a battalion general and has a stomach, in fact, strictly speaking, Zhou Yumao does not need to kneel and bow.

However, Zhou Yumao still knelt down in a proper manner, and his attitude was very humble.

Chen Wang's purpose is to test whether Zhou Yumao is honest and serves under his command.

Now it seems that Zhou Yumao has no intention of doing it to him face to face, and he is still measured.

As the saying goes, officials crush people to death at the first level, and there is a clear distinction between the upper and lower levels in the army.

Those subordinates who are often disobedient in dramas are not many in reality.

Although Chen Wang didn't know what Zhou Yumao was thinking in his heart, at least now Zhou Yumao was honest and respectful, which was enough.

There are only more than 1,000 soldiers under Zhou Yumao's command, and if he really wants to fight, the role is better than nothing.

There are hundreds of thousands of servants under Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong, and more than 1,000 people will be submerged if they can't even lift the waves.

Moreover, Chen Wang had already reviewed it yesterday, and his combat power was good among the mainland soldiers, but there was no way to compare it with the border army.

The armor rate is very high, and the main soldiers in the battalion are wearing cloth armor or cotton armor, but it is unknown how many pieces of iron are inside and how much protection there is.

Chen Wang raised his hand slightly, and continued.

"Guerrilla Zhou has been in the dust all the way, please take a seat."

Hearing Chen Wang's order, Zhou Yumao answered again, and then sat on the seat on the right head along the way.

Chen Wang sat on the chair and looked at Zhou Yumao who was sitting on the right,

Zhou Yumao did not wear a helmet on his head, but a scarf.

Zhou Yumao is not very old, about thirty years old, his eyes are calm, his face is slightly dark, his face is full of dust, and his eyebrows are full of exhaustion.

"I just arrived in Xing'an, and I am not very familiar with the surrounding situation, how is the Liukou near Xing'an now, and there is any news about the Zhou guerrilla?"

Zhou Yumao just sat down, and when he heard Chen Wang's question, he quickly stood up and lowered his head to report.

"Seven days ago, he fought with the Harrier King Cheng in the east of Ziyang City, and after receiving the information from the general, he didn't dare to slack off, and moved the camp back to Xing'an at night."

"Five days ago, Jinyin Penglu led a large number of soldiers and horses from outside Xing'an City to Ziyang, the horse army was about 5,000 people, and the infantry team was hungry for more than 1,000 people."

Chen Wang's eyes condensed slightly, and Lu Shi really turned around and ran towards Ziyang, I am afraid that he is already in a confluence with the Drill Harrier Wang Cheng.

Although Lu Shi was the leader of the thieves, his predecessor was just an ordinary villager, and he had some knowledge.

At the beginning, Lu Shi was like a headless fly, and when he really began to plan his actions, it was when he pursued all the way to the territory of Xixiang County.

After arriving, Lu Shi went all the way to the east, then passed Hanyin, took the road to Xing'an, and then traveled southwest to find Wang Cheng, the Harrier who was looking for Ziyang.

It is absolutely impossible to know the distribution of cities in Hanzhong Prefecture based on Lu Shi alone.

Lu Shi should have gathered the elite cavalry and horse army under Zhang Yuan's command, and among those elite cavalry and horse army, there were people who knew geography to give advice to Lu Shi.

"You and Wang Cheng have been fighting for many days, how many casualties are there, how many people are there under Wang Cheng, and what is the situation in Ziyang County?"

Chen Wang frowned slightly, and asked questions one after another.

Zhou Yumao didn't think about it for long, just paused, and then continued to report.

"Wang Cheng is cunning, occupying a mountain in the northeast of Ziyang County and setting up camp, we waited for many days to besiege only to uproot its peripheral strongholds, and when we were about to attack its main village, we received the news of the general, so we failed to achieve much success."

"Over the past few days, there have been more than 300 dead in the army, and more than 2,000 thieves should have been killed or wounded, but most of them were hungry soldiers."

"There are nearly 30,000 people under Wang Cheng's command, the number of elite cavalry should be 700, there are more than 4,000 horse soldiers, the rest are hungry soldiers of the infantry team, and there are many women, children, old and weak."

This information Zhou Yumao was already ripe before he came, Chen Wang is now a general of Hanzhong Mansion, and he led troops to pursue him all the way, and he will definitely preside over the attack after that, so he will naturally ask questions.

If you don't know anything, you will inevitably leave an impression of incompetence.

In order to be able to answer the questions, Zhou Yumao naturally typed the draft in advance.

"There are now more than 400 militia members and 1,000 guards in Ziyang County, and the county has mobilized strong men to defend the city, and the grain and grass in the city are quite sufficient, and they can last for more than a few months."

"Last year, all the cities have strengthened the city walls, and all kinds of equipment and materials for defending the city have also been prepared, which is quite abundant, and if the Liukou does not have siege equipment, they should not be able to capture Ziyang County."

Chen Wang looked at Zhou Yumao who was standing at the bottom, and information about Zhou Yumao began to appear in his mind.

As a general of Hanzhong Mansion, he naturally got information about Zhou Yumao from Hong Chengchou.

Reinforcing the city wall, making city defense equipment, and preparing materials for defending the city were all measures taken by Zhou Yumao to stabilize the bandits in Hanzhong Mansion.

As a guerrilla, Zhou Yumao is completely qualified, and even exceeds the passing mark by a lot.

The Hanzhong Mansion is once again in turmoil, and it is not Zhou Yumao's responsibility.

Before the Fengxian civil rebellion broke out, Zhang Yuan and Wang Cheng had always been in a state of suppression, and bandits and robbers from all over the country could not pose a threat to the cities.

At that time, Hanzhong Mansion was quite stable.

However, when civil uprisings broke out in Fengxian and Chenggu and other places, the Hanzhong Guards who were responsible for attacking Zhang Yuan were affected and quickly defeated, which made Hanzhong Mansion lose control.

At that time, Zhou Yumao was confronting Wang Cheng in the eastern part of Hanzhong Mansion, and he was really out of reach in the face of the chaos in the central part of Hanzhong Mansion.

The civil uprising in Fengxian County was completely unexpected, and if it weren't for the government's pursuit of taxes that was too severe and too humiliating, the occurrence of the civil uprising could have been completely avoided.

Originally, Zhou Yumao was also a guerrilla in Yansui Town, and his combat exploits were quite outstanding, but later Hanzhong Mansion set up a guerrilla, and he was transferred to Hanzhong Mansion.

"There are more than 6,300 soldiers who followed me safely back to Hung Yen, including more than 2,400 guards and more than 1,300 militiamen."

Zhou Yumao raised more than 100 family members under his command, with a total of 1,200 battalion soldiers under his command, including 2,500 auxiliary soldiers, and the combat effectiveness was okay.

Although Chen Wang didn't ask this question, Zhou Yumao still reported it all together, anyway, these questions will definitely be asked at that time.

"Six thousand three hundred ......"

Chen Wang calculated in his heart that this number was not less.

These guards also have militia, and they are not pure recruits.

Zhou Yumao trained these guards and militiamen for a period of time.

No one in the militia wears armor, they are militia after all, and naturally they are not allowed to wear armor.

Most of these militiamen were pikemen, and their task was to assist in the defense of the city and to help transport baggage in peacetime......

And, of course, acting as cannon fodder on the battlefield.

During the Chongzhen period, the militia in various places was not managed by the local squires, but was recruited by the magistrates of various counties and prefectures as the troops to defend the city.

"How many soldiers and horses are there in Xunyang."

Chen Wang put his hand on the table and knocked lightly.

He was going to talk about these things later, but since Zhou Yumao had reported in advance, he decided to start on this matter first.

Zhou Yumao didn't expect Chen Wang to ask about the situation in Xunyang, Xunyang City is located in the northeast of Xing'an City, close to the direction of Xunyang Mansion, where there are no rogues.

Several bandits that were originally entrenched around Xunyang have also been exterminated by him, Wang Cheng is entrenched in Ziyang, and if you want to go from Ziyang to Xunyang, you must pass through Xing'an City.

Xunyang is not a threat now, so Zhou Yumao did not deliberately remember Xunyang's information.

It's just that if it's a garrison, Zhou Yumao still has some impressions, and after recalling it, Zhou Yumao also gave an answer.

"Xunyang City now has more than 300 guards and more than 500 militiamen."

Chen Wang's eyes flashed, there were 800 people in Xunyang City, 6,200 people in Xing'an, plus the soldiers and horses in his own headquarters, the total number of soldiers and horses he could mobilize now was 13,300 people.

Thirteen thousand three hundred sounds like a lot, but if you compare it to hundreds of thousands, then it's not a lot at all.

Chen Wang's body leaned forward slightly, stared at Zhou Yumao, and asked,

"If I ask you to mobilize all the people in Xing'an and Xunyang, how many people can you mobilize in total."

Zhou Yumao did not immediately answer Chen Wang's question this time, and he did not prepare the draft in advance.

Moreover, Chen Wang's question reminded him of an extremely terrifying thing.