After spending two nights in Anren City, the guard sent a convoy of several hundred people to the other side to assist in transporting grain to Dongxiang. Feng Shen infiltrated the team with the help of Yang Tongsheng, and then arrived in Dongxiang.

Yang Xing's main force is concentrated here. Feng Shen secretly killed a soldier, changed into his costume and slipped out to the tavern to listen to a captain and a chief brag to each other.

From the two of them, they learned that Gangshan, Mawei and Yunshan had all been occupied, and the siege of Fuzhou was shrinking, but the Yang family father and son did not seem to have made up their minds.

"Listening to them, many of the old soldiers brought out by Yang He hope that he will defeat Fuzhou and become king, and it is best to be ahead of Lou Zishi. But Yang Xing objected, saying that now was a good time to attack, and he should not delay in such a thing as being king.

It seems that the father and son quarreled twice, and although Yang Xing agreed to send a few troops south to assist, his main force remained in Dongxiang."

"So, how many people are there in Togo right now?" Zhao Jingzi asked.

"There are more than 3,000, certainly less than 4,000. Because during the chat, Nashi Chang unintentionally revealed that Yang Xing's subordinates still had ten generals left, and each team of the Jiangshan Army was about 300 to 350 people, so I estimated that he still had this number in Dongxiang."

Feng Shen replied, "But I saw on the street that the soldiers and soldiers of Jiangshan were very elite, either veterans or strong ones who were recruited later. Looking at it, I think most of them must have been on the battlefield.

chatting with the two, the tone was more inclined to Yang Xing, and he felt that the old marshal said that the king would attract officials and soldiers early, so it was better to take more towns and give everyone land to talk about it.

Oh, when it comes to the fields, it's because they complain that Lao Shuai has taken away too much grain and left less for Yang Xing. Therefore, Young Marshal Yang had no choice but to fetch food everywhere and did not move forward, and even they lost a lot of opportunities for meritorious service and wealth, etc."

Hearing this, Zhao Jingzi gently patted the table: "Look, isn't it exposed?" Yang He asked for manpower and food from Yang Xing, I think this is the biggest reason why Yang Xing can't move!"

"This is really important news." Li Dan exchanged glances with Han An and Yang Dayi: "If you talk about a lot of things like this, it can be explained." Then he told everyone:

"Yesterday evening, the inspection department on the East River, with the cooperation of the militia, caught a small work who wanted to sneak through the horse's back mouth water card at night, and that guy admitted on the spot that he was a subordinate of Tatehana and was sent to Dongxiang to contact.

Tatehuazi hadn't seen Yang Bing for a long time and was in a hurry to go north, so she made an appointment to meet Yu Gan during the Mid-Autumn Festival!"

It turned out that during this period of time, Li Dan and others not only recruited a team of 2,000 people for training, but also set up the Yugan Sixiang Inspection Division, which set up branch divisions in Baima, Santang, Wuni, Fenggang, Jiangbu, and Shagang.

Each sub-division has 60 patrol villagers, who are responsible for arresting suspicious people, checking their identities, rushing to help and warn, etc., and organizing local militia to carry out sentry patrols, chase and intercept personnel, protect people back and forth, and conduct daily training.

The main and deputy sub-inspectors and even chiefs of each branch are served by the veterans of the original green shirt team, and the branch builds a polder, and uses the bamboo tendon ramming method to build a polder with a circumference of 200 to 300 steps, and there are village dormitories, branch signing rooms, watchtowers, stables and thatched halls, raising four mules and horses, and two carriages.

The patrol villagers are all blue clothes and trousers, green cloth shirts, behind which is the complement of the word "Yong", leggings, wearing cloth rope and straw shoes, hanging bamboo armor tied with bamboo pieces in front of the body, wearing rattan helmets, ten swords and shields holding knives and bamboo shields, forty people holding guns and spears, and five archers and five scouts and heralds.

Militias are also set up in each village and village, with the same uniforms, weapons or bamboo guns. There is one person out of every five families, fifty for the tithe, six for the whistle, and five for the district team. The sentry commander and above are veterans of the Tsing Shirt team.

A total of six district teams have been set up in the towns and villages outside the city, and the first district team is divided into Baima and is stationed in Yangbu in the south;

The second district team is divided into three ponds, which is located along the northwest port;

The third district team is stationed in Leijiawan in the north, and the fourth district team is stationed in Jiangbu in the west of Shixi;

The fifth district team is stationed in Yangjiaotang; The team of the sixth district is divided into Shagang, and the team headquarters is in Gubu Town in the east.

In this way, a three-level defense system of militia, inspection divisions, and regimental training has been formed.

At the same time, a proclamation was issued in the name of the county order, saying that if Xiaoyu residents of the county found outlaws, they should immediately monitor and report to the militia, and the militia would be mobilized and divided step by step

The inspection department reports that the sub-division can judge whether to dispatch the township brave, send people to the accident site to inspect and verify the results, and then report to the Southern Inspection Division for knowing.

In addition, the newly established Shuiguan camp (based on the original left post of Zhou Qin) also played a great role.

At present, there are about 1,300 members of this team, which is divided into five parts: the Central Army Brigade, the Donghe District Team, the Buhe District Team, the Santang District Team, and the Jiangshang District Team.

Strict organization is the reason why those female cadres who have no way to guide and try to be confused and wander across the border have been repeatedly arrested. For example, the meticulous work caught last night was the result of the tripartite cooperation between the militia, the sailors, and the inspection sub-division.

Each meticulous work and spy can be valuable, twenty taels of life, five taels of death, everyone present at that time had a share, and the participants were naturally interested!

"Zhong Siqi went to interrogate with Zhou Dutou, and I asked him to know more about the current situation inside them." Li Dan said, "From Feng Ziyi's report, can we conclude that Yang Xing will not go north for the time being?"

Everyone nodded, and Li Dan suddenly remembered and asked, "Ziyi, you just said that you came back from Meigang?"

"Yes! Because the road was full of outposts of the Jiangshan Army, I could not return the same way, so I went north to Meigang.

Later, with the help of the monks of Yingtian Temple, I found a kind person who was willing to help, and asked him to send me to Yangbu for two taels of silver. Then he was sent to the inspection sub-division.

I heard from the monk that Yang Xing had sent his generals to Meigang, but the local four surnames Hu, Yu, Yao, and Li organized a regiment to train 1,000 people and defeated the Jiangshan army."

"Oh?" Li Dan sat up straight in surprise: "I thought Meigang had fallen, could it still be holding on? If that's the case, Old Zhou, you can send a fleet to contact us and see if we can join forces?"

Zhou Qin immediately agreed, but Li Dan inexplicably added:

"Also, there is a child named Hu Juren in the Hu family in Meigang, who is known as a 'prodigy, you can inquire about his current whereabouts on my behalf, and if it is convenient, you can lead his family to take refuge in the county." After speaking, he asked Feng Shen if there was anything else he needed to report.

Feng Shen nodded and said, "There is another piece of news that should be useful to us. I heard Yang Tongsheng say that after the defeat of Huangxi Town, more than 200 officers and soldiers fled to Zhongzhou and died.

Now Yang Xing has no time to take care of them, these people are hiding in the villages, but all the boats on the continent were requisitioned by the county when they were building pontoon bridges, and there is water on all sides and there is no boat to get out."

"Oh? And how did the news get to the city?"

"It's a water-based fellow who crossed the river with bamboo and passed the news on. Yang Tongsheng had borrowed a villager's house for one night to invite a friend to visit Zhongzhou, so the man lied that he was a tenant farmer of the Yang family, and when he saw him, he told him about it."

Feng Shen said: "Two hundred people eating and drinking is not a small number, there are not many people on the island in the first place, where can there be such a large number of soldiers? And I don't want to report it, I just want to hand over the news and let the shore try to inform the government to pick people up quickly."

"Do they have a leader?"

"It's a general, I heard that the surname is Dong."

Yang thought about it and said to Li Dan, "Why don't I go to this matter?"

Li Dan looked at Han An, saw him nodding and agreed, "It's okay, you follow Lao Zhou's fleet when he goes to Meigang, so that Meigang can rest assured, and at the same time see if you can bring back the remnants of the officers and troops on Zhongzhou."

These people have fought hard battles, and they have fought against Yang Xing, if they are all brought back, it will be of great benefit to improve the combat effectiveness of the group training! Everyone was aware of this.

Master Ba, who was more thoughtful, suddenly interjected and asked, "I remember that at the end of the war, hundreds of people were captured by Yang Xing in the end, I don't know what happened to these people, Zi Yi has heard of it?"

"Yes," Feng Shen nodded, "They cut wood on the Tagu Ridge outside Anren City. When I came from the north wall of the city, I saw a lot of timber piled up by the Xima River, and I thought it was strange, so I asked Yang Tongsheng, and he told me.

As for what the rebels were going to do with it, it was not clear. I don't have time to look into it."

"Shipbuilding?" Zhou Qin was born on the water, and her first reaction was that she felt that the other party wanted to build a ship.

"It's possible to build a boat down the river, not only to control the water surface and cut off the two banks, but also to go directly into the lake!" Li Dan frowned calmly and said:

"Since there is time, then Yang Xing may take this step. Besides, Anren also has craftsmen. It seems that he didn't want to pin his hopes entirely on the lake bandits. The two of them still don't trust each other, and that's in our favor!"

After speaking, he glanced at Master Ba and smiled, "You probably wonder if you want to rescue these people too?" Master Ba laughed.

Before Li Dan could speak, Han An waved his hand first and said, "I don't think it's necessary for the time being. At present, the gist is to deal with the north with all our might, and it is better not to alarm Yang Xing first.

Moreover, those captives were not as dangerous as the officers and soldiers on Middle-earth, and the rebels still needed them, and they would not be killed. Is it possible to wait for us to free up our hands and then consider the captivity?" Li Dan nodded in agreement.

When Feng Shen returned, he finally had a general understanding of the situation in the south.

Knowing that the father and son of the Yang family had different opinions, it was estimated that Yang Xing would not have the strength to go north for a while, and Li Dan realized that Meigang and Huangbu were two important frontiers that must be defended!

The role of Meigang was to spy on the Jiangshan army and threaten Dongxiang if necessary, and Huangbu was the starting point for the future southward journey to Anren.

He instructed Zhao Jingzi and Feng Shen to set up a new inspection sub-division in Meigang if Meigang was willing to cooperate, and at the same time two people from the Staff Section and the Intelligence Section were stationed at the same time.

The former is responsible for reconnoitring and mapping the terrain in the Meigang and Dongxiang areas, grasping trends, and disrupting sabotage activities. The latter was responsible for infiltrating and buying the Jiangshan Army, understanding and liaising with the gentry family and the forces opposing the Jiangshan Army.

In Huangbu, the General Staff Section and the Intelligence Section each stationed one person, the former carrying out the same task for Anren, while focusing on reconnaissance of the enemy's deployment and making plans and preparations for attacking and capturing Anren, while the latter focused on communication with the resistance in the city and monitoring the movements of the enemy defenders.

Li Dan realized the importance of Huangbu and decided to include the town in the scope of the Baima Inspection Division and the First District of the Militia. But that's not enough!

In the end, he decided to let Song Xiaoniu and Crab King Wu bring two hundred spearmen (bamboo guns), thirty rattan players (sword and shield soldiers), thirty crossbowmen, twenty horsemen (and firemen), and a sentry (and herald), and drove six horse-drawn carriages and more than twenty ordinary carriages, and took seventy or eighty mules and horses to the foot of Nanxia Mountain in Yangbu to set up a village.

He put a rapid reaction force here.

This team, together with the original more than 100 villagers in Huangbu, as well as all the strength of the first district team, the White Horse Inspection Division, and the back mouth of the water army, should be enough to block the attack of Anren's enemies.

Arrange the south side, so that he can deal with the north side with all his strength.

Li Dan ordered all the inspection divisions and militia district teams to cut off all the claws that Tatehuazi might reach out to Yu Gan to spy on the army, and at the same time intercept him and any messengers to Anren, Dongxiang and other places in Huxi, and even to Anren, Dongxiang and other places, and reward the captured messengers (see the aforementioned).

And the two tentacles he stretched out to the lake area, the west is the Santang Inspection Division, the east is the Wuni Inspection Division, and the two sub-inspections are Song Qian, and the latter is Ma Jiu.

The main reason for choosing these two people is that this place is too close to the front line, and people with rich combat experience are needed to lead the team and press the formation.

Yang Dayi went to Meigang, Ma Jiu went to Wuni Town, and even Song Xiaoniu was sent to Yangbu. Thinking about his aunt, Li Dan sighed softly, explained the matter to Liao Sanqing, and called Brother Mao Zai, he wanted to go home and take a look.

From returning to the county, Li Dan only went home for three nights, and then hurriedly went back to take a look, change clothes or eat something, and then ran out to do things again. No way, there are too many aspects to take into account!

Even when he got home, he thought of the wall project on Mian Mountain for a while, and he wondered how much was there to be left?

After a while, I thought that the construction speed of Beiguan was a little behind, and I needed to remind and speed up.

There is also the production of cement, the transportation of stones, the sewing of military uniforms, .......

The sewing of military uniforms was led by Su Siniang, and the main craftsmen came from eleven tailor shops in the city.

Originally, they operated in the usual way of making ready-to-wear clothes, but Li Dan immediately realized the problem and helped Su Siniang split the entire process of making military uniforms into eleven

process, and then the assembly line work is paid by the piece, and the work speed and efficiency are immediately faster.

And Aunt Qian, together with the Chen Song clan who was still in the city, took Needle, Pei Xi, and Moon Shadow to make rank armbands, and the old Ji family was responsible for the complement, leg wrapping and tent, and the Chen Gang family united six carriage shops to modify or build new carriage .......

In short, there are now various organizations in the city, which are responsible for the production of logistics and materials, and the whole Yugan City is starting to become more like a huge arsenal.

People are busy all day long, but in fact, everyone is thinking about one thing: why haven't the lake bandits come yet?

"Brother Dan, you say...... Why haven't the lake bandits come yet? When are they coming?"

When they met, Aunt Qian couldn't help but ask this question, and then she sighed deeply for asking a stupid question for her stepson.