Faced with the increasingly grim situation, Ding Kui immediately convened his main subordinates to discuss.

Xue Chong first recounted the situation of the troop strength, "If by the end of July, we have at least four infantry battalions and one special operations battalion, and the cavalry will still remain at about 800 people, excluding those in important positions; by the end of August, the infantry battalion is expected to reach six, and the number of cavalry will remain unchanged, and there will be 4,600 quasi-combat soldiers. ”

Fei Ze continued: "Four thousand six hundred quasi-soldiers can hold the new city of the base, and only one thousand people are needed to defend the front of the base gate, and it is enough to arrange four teams to rotate.

Special operations battalions, infantry battalions, and cavalry units can be arranged on a mobile basis, and two infantry battalions are needed for the outposts, and we can draw up to 2,600 men for field battles. ”

"The defense of the Chunlu River crossing is the responsibility of the 201st Division, and the residents of Lengshui Town, Yudi Town, and Yinye Town can be evacuated to the county seat through the ferry, the residents of Zhishui Town and Baini Town can be evacuated to Port City through the outpost, and the residents of the other five towns can be transferred to the base new city.

The situation in Juyang City is more complicated, one is the large number of people, the other is that there are too many materials in the trading houses, and it is difficult to tell whether there will be spies from their own country mixed in, and the subordinates can only transfer women, children and the elderly first. "Liu Yu is under the most pressure.

"If the lady needs to be transferred to the base in advance, the others can go with the team, and the old slave will do his best to ensure their safety. "Ding Kun is in charge of the Lord's Mansion.

"The Security Bureau has arranged for those who stay, and if there are people in the city who cannot get out temporarily, their subordinates can arrange to take care of some of them. Ding Zhong saw that no one wanted to say it.

"What name do you think Le Pi will invade my territory?" Ding Kui first threw out a question.

Liu Yu and Fei Ze glanced at each other, Fei Ze nodded, and Liu Yu said: "If Le Pi leads the army, then they will definitely invade here in the name of aristocratic warfare in the early stage, and they will not give up the excuse that Le Jia has an enmity with you, after all, it is not beneficial for them to openly go to war with our country." The others nodded yes.

"Noble War!" Ding Kui stood up and paced in the council hall, "They don't dare to kill civilians without permission, the matter of leading the people to evacuate can be put aside first, and those who have no assets don't need to be ignored, even if they plunder, they can't grab anything."

Since they have the overall situation in mind, hehe, we will start demolishing the city wall tomorrow! All those who can move to the base new city will be transported over, and the area will be set aside in the base new city for all professional guilds, so that they can all move to the base new city.

Well, they already know that there is my base in the swamp, so from now on, the base new city will be named 'Hengfu City', which will always bring us blessings, Qian Bu temporarily served as the acting mayor of Hengfu City, and began to form various management departments of Hengfu City.

The special operations battalion is responsible for holding the outpost, the quasi-combat soldiers are stationed in Hengfu City, and the infantry battalion and cavalry team are temporarily responsible for the city defense of Juyang City. In addition, inform the Jiang family and the Long family, and be ready to support me at any time. Who else is going to help me? Think about it. ”

His mind jumped so fast that everyone was still understanding the important decision he had made in front of him, tearing down the city walls and establishing a new city, and they would not be able to digest it for a while, and as for who could help fight the noble war, no one present had a clue.

"This, I don't know if the Eighth Legion will work?" Xue Chong's thoughts were very pure, and he didn't know much about the affairs of the nobles, so he thought of what to say.

"No, without the order of the Military Command Department, it will be difficult for the Eighth Army to leave the barracks. Liu Yu can understand Xue Chong but disagrees.

"Even if the Eighth Army has a military order, coming to help the Ding family fight is afraid that it will cause suspicion. Ding Kun still remembered the old marquis's instructions.

"Shaodian Dan is dead, the grievances of the previous generation should be over, if the royal family still has the previous attitude, it is better to change someone to be the king. Ding Kui's heart suddenly felt irritable.

This sentence is a big rebellion outside, calling the first king by name, pointing out that the king had grievances with the elders of the family, and the royal family deliberately suppressed the Ding family, the most outrageous thing is to say that the king is changed at this time.

However, there is nothing wrong with this statement itself, the reason why Shao Dian Dan suppressed the Ding family is because Ding Dao once supported the eldest prince, but Shao Dian Dan and Ding Dao are gone, and Ding Kui is still the brother-in-law of the current king, so there is no reason for the royal family to continue to suppress the Ding family, but to let Ding Kui recover.

The people in the council hall were all silent, and Ding Kui's words were not easy to answer.

In addition to Xue Chong, Ding Kun, Qian Bu, Liu Yu and Fei are Ding Dao's old departments, Ding Zhong has followed Ding Kui since he was a child, almost all of them are the hardcore of the old Ding family, no one thinks that Ding Kui is wrong, but he doesn't accept it suddenly on the table.

"Your Excellency, you are still the concubine of the former king. Xue Chong was so frightened that he felt that he needed to remind Ding Kui.

Speaking of the horse, Ding Kui is even more angry, if it weren't for the hidden dangers in Shaodianluan's body, it's hard to say whether it would be his turn to be a concubine, except that he didn't suffer a loss but benefited, then Shaodiandan was forced to marry a princess to him.

Of course, the guardian of the royal family is still there, and the secret of Shaodian Luan must not be spoken.

"Yes, is there a problem with the king helping his brother-in-law fight?"

This rhetorical question left Xue Chong speechless.

"The Eighth Legion is too far away for us to come early, and maybe they won't arrive by the time we're done, and we can't afford to pay a legion. The young master is just complaining, don't take it seriously. Qian Bu, who had rarely spoken, spoke.

He has the oldest qualifications on the field, and he is the most suitable to come forward to persuade Ding Kui.

"Hey, there's still no money to blame. ”

A legion of 100,000 people, an average reward of ten gold coins, adding up to one million gold coins, if you want war reparations, you have to fight back, fight to your own country to ask for it, Ding Kui does not feel that he has the ability to ask for it.

"Those who are willing to help the lord are too far away from us, and those who are close are unwilling, and only when they really fight do they know whether they are willing or not. The subordinates think that it is difficult to get others to prepare now, and if the fight really starts, the lady will raise her arms, and naturally many people will be willing to come to help. ”

Liu Yu was in a mood when he saw Ding Kui for the first time in the meeting, and out of his duties as a staff member, he brought the topic back to the meeting.

"Well, I'll talk about the Eighth Legion later. Our own country is coming, it is not only us who will be affected, but also the merchants of Cao State, Meng State and our country will not be happy, the market in Juyang City is suspended, and those merchants who have lost the most are them, we can make a fuss in this regard. "Ding Kui is back to normal.

"That's true, if Lejia starts a noble war, the merchants who have business dealings with Juyang City will definitely oppose it, and the longer the war drags on, the greater the damage of these merchants, and the more likely it is to help us. Fei has a say in this.

Ding Kui returned to his seat, pinched his chin and said, "Well, the essence of businessmen is to pursue profits, and the most important thing in their eyes is profit, and aggravating their interests will lead them to my boat."

Director Fei, tomorrow a decree will be announced, in order to celebrate the birth of the lord's children, Juyang City will reduce the commercial tax from now on, and the tax on all goods will be reduced by 20% until the end of this year. ”

"Hehe, the lord is leading them on the boat, it's just forcing them to get on the boat. Liu Yu said with a smile.

A 20 percent tax reduction is nothing in the eyes of small traders, but it is a considerable income for merchants who trade a lot of money. The giant sheep city, which is mainly engaged in import and export trade, is full of merchants engaged in large-scale commodity trade.

"This little lord has made a contribution before he was born. Fei had to accept Ding Kui's decision.

It seems that Ding Kui lost a lot of money for the child in Long Yan's belly, but in fact, most of the loss was money that could not be reached, and he also won prestige for his first child. This kind of strategy is only what he can think of, and others dare not make a fuss about his children.

"The Security Bureau must step up the collection of information about its own country, and at the same time strictly investigate the 'rats' in the territory, and contact the Espionage Department more when necessary. Ding Kui did not ignore the foreign spies.

Because the new king is still young, it is not yet time to cultivate cronies, the spy department still maintains the original team, although the young canon is out of favor, but he has a lot of people in his hands, and no one wants to get along with him for the time being.

"There is only a little more than a month left for everyone to prepare, and whether or not you can survive the difficulties of foreign invasion depends on all of you. Ding Kui finished understanding the situation and ended the meeting.

"Now there are 3,000 strong crossbows and 500,000 crossbow arrows in the arsenal of Hengfu City, which is enough to deal with a medium-intensity battle. "As is customary, Champo reports after the meeting.

"Grandpa Qian, do you think we need to use a strong crossbow this time?"

"Why not? Infantry battalions don't necessarily have high combat effectiveness when using conventional weapons, but it's completely different with strong crossbows, four infantry battalions can sweep away a division's private army. ”

"That's right, there is more than one division of private troops in the Cokejia, and unless we have forty infantry battalions, we can't grasp the initiative on the battlefield. We still have to focus on defense, and we just need to rely on fortifications to hold Hengfu City and outposts, and keep the secrets of the crossbow as long as possible. ”

"Then what's the use of us spending so much effort to develop crossbows? Crossbowmen can't form combat effectiveness without the test of actual combat. Qian Bu didn't understand what Ding Kui meant.

"The problem is that we have too few crossbows and soldiers, and if we have 10,000 crossbowmen and several years of combat reserves, we will not be afraid to expose the secrets of crossbows at that time.

It takes time to train crossbowmen and make crossbows, and we have the advantage of mastering it earlier than others, so we have to firmly control the leading advantage.

Ten thousand crossbowmen and several years of reserves can guarantee a year ahead, and it is better to have a year in a state of war, when our crossbowmen can maintain their strongest combat effectiveness. ”

"But you can only have a maximum of 10,000 of the strongest crossbowmen, no matter how much you can't realistic. If there is a national force that copies the crossbowmen troops, sooner or later it will surpass us, and then a crossbowmen regiment will be able to completely suppress us. Qian Bu faintly saw Ding Kui's ambition.