In less than half a day after the Shen family prepared 50,000 stone grain and grass, Su Qi'an and Xie Cang led 20,000 troops to the front line.

The purpose of their trip was Haizhou City on the front line.

Dongzhou is a vast land, divided into nine counties before and after, in order to facilitate the jurisdiction, there is a state city in the front and back.

In order to distinguish them, the rear is called Dongzhou City, and the front line is called Haizhou City, also called Haicheng.

This trip to Haicheng, the journey is about four or five hundred miles, with the speed of Su Qi'an and Xie Cang's two armies, it is estimated that it will take about three or four days to reach Haicheng.

This time, in addition to the 20,000 troops, he was accompanied by 50,000 people who transported grain and grass, adding up to several thousand.

With a team of this size, walking on the official road, Su Qi'an did not have the slightest fear of being ambushed, and marched towards Haicheng according to the rhythm.

Not to mention Su Qi'an, anyone with a normal mind would not think of ambushing Su Qi'an's army.

The combat effectiveness of an army of 20,000 is not a joke, let alone an army of 20,000 people, in terms of combat effectiveness, it ranks in the forefront of the Daliang army.

If you really run into it, just push it over.

As the army advanced one after another, Su Qi'an rode a horse, his face was indifferent, no one could guess what he was thinking, what could be determined by the position was that the current Su Qi'an definitely had some qi hidden in his heart.

At this time, if someone dares to take the lead and deal with him, it can only be said that good luck has come to an end, and Su Qi'an definitely doesn't mind sending them on the road.

With the passage of time, about two days later, Su Qi'an, Xie Cang, Fang Jingzhi and others entered the boundary of the nine counties on the front line.

Although there is only a boundary between the front line and the rear, when you step into the front line, you can clearly feel the tension of the front line, and even the air is filled with a strong aura of slaughter. Ь.

The crowd did not enter the first county town of the front line, but walked through, although as far as the eye could see, most of them were remote villages and towns, but as they went deeper, they always gave Su Qi'an a feeling of depression.

This feels very familiar to Su Qi'an, and he felt it deeply when he was in Ningzhou in the north.

The division of the nine counties before and after Dongzhou is not an exaggeration to say that since then, the people living in the front-line county have completely separated their lives from the people who enjoy a comfortable environment in the rear.

The mighty Dongshan Army and Split Mountain County passed through, which naturally attracted the attention of some people living in towns and villages.

Although he was only watching from a distance, Su Qi'an could feel the tightness in the eyes of these people, as well as a little bit of fierceness.

This is not aimed at Su Qi'an, but caused by dealing with pirates and pirates all year round.

These are not sheltered by the county seat, but exist in various towns and villages on the outskirts of the county, remote villages, but are the favorite prey of pirates and pirates.

Raids at any time are commonplace, and if you are lucky, the people of these villages can resist the soldiers of the county town to come to support, and if you are unlucky, when you arrive, the entire village and township will have been looted, and the women and children, old and young, will not survive.

Therefore, in the eyes of these people, hatred is naturally planted, and vigilance is always maintained.

Only when you come to the front line, only when you step into the front line, can you truly feel the pain of the people on the front line.

If the rear is an oasis that gives people life and can survive, then the front line is a desert where no grass grows.

I have heard Fang Jingzhi talk about the experience of serving on the front line before, and when I really came here, I felt that the people on the front line have paid too much.

If you want the people on the front line to live a good life again, you don't have to worry about it every day, you can only eliminate these pirates and pirates, send them back to their hometown in the East, and establish a perfect defense line on the front line in Dongzhou, like Yuezhou.

Only in this way can the people on the front line live a good life, but it is difficult to do this, and it is a long way to go for Su Qi'an.

No matter how difficult it is, there is always someone to do, Su Qi'an took a deep breath, retracted his gaze, and ordered the whole army to speed up and march to Haicheng as fast as possible.

At the same time, the atmosphere in the city was very depressing, although the streets were guarded by soldiers to maintain order, and there were various vendors in the city.

But no one was happy, their faces were very sad, and some people's eyes looked at a mansion in the city from time to time,

Shake your head and sigh.

The front line fought such a big defeat, losing more than 10,000 people, and even losing two counties, which has never been seen in the history of fighting against pirates and pirates.

What's worse is that they can't recapture the lost two counties in time, although the governor sent troops to besiege it, but no matter how you look at it, the effect is not great.

The fiasco at the front line is reported to have been transmitted back to the rear, and all the officials are very shaken, and the inspector appointed by the imperial court has already led his soldiers and horses to Haicheng.

There is no need to guess, most of the inspectors came this time for accountability, and it is estimated that their governors are enough to choke this time.

The front has just experienced a crushing defeat, and with the presence of this Inspector, the front line will most likely be in turmoil.

And the mansion that the people in the city looked at was not an ordinary mansion, but the Haicheng Prefecture Mansion.

At this time, the atmosphere in the state capital was even more depressing than in the city, and there were about ten people sitting in the palace.

These people were all wearing armor, their faces were indifferent, they had swords hanging from their waists, and they didn't say a word, but everyone could feel the strong momentum exuded from their bodies, and at a glance, they knew that they were the big men of the nine counties on the front line.

The two people sitting above were none other than Wu Dingguo, the governor of the nine counties on the front line, and Zhong Liang, the governor of the right capital.

Sitting on both sides below are the county guards of each county, and the officials of the nine counties on the front line are different from those in the rear.

Whether it is a county guard or a county order, in addition to being responsible for the security and government affairs in each territory, in wartime, they also have to lead an army and use it as a general.

Therefore, don't look at them as civilian officials, but the momentum exuded by them is a little more ferocious than the officials in the rear.

This is why when Su Qi'an saw Fang Jing again, he always felt that he was very different from before.

It's just that there is a little more ferocity and strength in the body, which are cultivated in the battle between the front line and the pirates and pirates.

The nine counties before and after, why do they rotate officials every one to three years, in addition to preventing them from cultivating their own power in the local area, and more importantly, stimulating the blood and energy of these officials.

The implementation of this policy is good, but the effect is not good, if it can really be implemented, it will not be found in the rear Zeng Mo, Han Cheng and other garbage goods.

Whoever makes them have a deep background, as long as they are good up and down, whether they rotate or not, is not a matter of the above sentence.

And most of the people sent out are eccentric, unsociable, and have no background.

Anyway, the purpose is to rotate, and who to send is not to go, which also leads to the development of officials in the nine counties before and after to two extremes, the front line is fighting to the death, and the rear is indulging in pleasure.

Although Wu Dingguo can realize that there are great drawbacks in this matter, at present, he cannot change it.

He is on the front line, and he has to fight against pirates and pirates all the year round, and their money and food are basically provided by the rear, so he is really going to fall out with Zhou Zibin and Feng Nan, and he will take some eye medicine at a critical moment, and the front line is not comfortable.

Xiushu.com himself is a rough person, and he has always looked down on sleek people like Zhou Zibin, and he doesn't disdain to be in the same stream.

Even if he paints those garbage goods, Wu Dingguo may not want them, compared to those garbage, Wu Dingguo prefers these cold doors.

Therefore, as long as the supply of grain and grass can be maintained every year, and the personnel arrangements are in place, he will not manage the corruption in the rear, and he will not be able to manage it, and he will only manage the nine counties on the front line.

With this idea, Wu Dingguo devoted himself to the battle on the front line, but it was this kind of single-mindedness that brought about such a fiasco today.

Not only did they lose their troops, but they also wounded one-fifth of the soldiers, and within a few days of the end of the battle, the 100,000 grain and grass transported from the rear were discovered by pirates and hidden in the granary, and they were burned with a fire.

This is no longer a fiasco, it is a shame!

After more than 40 years of leading the army, I didn't expect to make such a big mistake in my later years.

This was unacceptable to Wu Dingguo, and after such a fiasco, Wu Dingguo immediately mobilized his men and horses to launch a counterattack, wanting to recover the lost two counties.

But as time passed, I wanted to attack and win, but in the end it turned into a stalemate.

Unable to recover the two lost counties,

Wu Dingguo was quite anxious, and today he convened the county guards to discuss and negotiate a plan.

"When it comes to this, let's talk about it, as long as the two lost counties can be recovered, even if the governor of Pontus loses his official and is beheaded, the old man will admit it."

"Governor, this—"

"This and this, it's all at this time, if you have something to say, don't grind." Wu Dingguo glanced at a county guard who wanted to speak.

When the county guard was said this, he didn't hesitate, got up, and faced Wu Dingguo Road.

"Governor, my subordinates feel that this is not the time to think about how to retake the lost two counties, but how to deal with the punishment of the overseer."

"That's right, Metropolitan Governor, the responsibility for the loss of the two counties is not yours, who would have thought that these guys would sneak into the city half a year ago, and directly cooperate with us inside and outside to catch us off guard."

"Now that the two counties have been lost, we have seen the effect of the strong attack in the past few days, it is not possible at all, they have been prepared for a long time, and the goal from the beginning is the land of the two counties."

"If you continue to attack now, the gains outweigh the losses, and the Inspector will arrive at the front line in the near future, with the contradiction between the Metropolitan Governor and this person, and the fact that this person is a villain who will repay him, he will definitely take advantage of this opportunity to find ways to rectify the Governor of You."

"That's right, I think it's better to deal with this person's difficulties in a timely manner, recover the land of the two counties, or let it go later, and ask the Metropolitan Governor to think twice!" xь.

Someone took the lead, and then several other county guards naturally spoke up to dissuade them.

The conflicts and contradictions between Wu Dingguo and Su Qi'an in the rear have long been known to them.

In their eyes, this inspector from the imperial court was no different from those officials who indulged in pleasure in the rear.

It's just that he wants to take advantage of being on the front line and fight a few battles to make military achievements, so that he can be promoted in the future.

How can there be such a young wait in Da Liang, and in just a few years, the battles fought are more and more sinister, and the news that comes back is called a god.

Defeated the cavalry of Darong in the north many times, suppressed the rebellious Liangzhou governors one after another, took about 1,000 people around him, went to Yuezhou to command the local army, annihilated the pirates in Yuezhou, and retreated.

This is also too evil, no matter how you look at it, it is an exaggeration.