please make me king

Chapter 636 The situation in Ruzhou
From Nanyang Fucheng to Ruzhou, it needs to pass through Nanzhao County, pass through Luyang Pass to reach Lushan County, and it takes more than three hundred miles to reach Ruzhou.

Originally calculated according to the normal speed of Ming army infantry at [-] miles a day and [-] miles in seven days, a total of seven days' footsteps.Lu Xiangsheng white horse frost knife, five days to go to the place.

When he arrived at the place, Lu Xiangsheng didn't care about the fatigue of the people and horses, and hurriedly received the visiting Henan Bingbeidao.

This Ruzhou originally had Ruzhou Guard, which was also the station of Henan Bingbei Road.The full name of this Henan Bingbei Road is sub-xun Henan and Bingbei Road, which governs one prefecture, two prefectures and seventeen counties.That is: Henan Prefecture, Shanzhou, and Ruzhou, three important places.

The chief officer of Henan Military Preparation Road met Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Yunyang. After the two parties sat down, they didn't care about greetings, so they hurriedly asked: "My surname is Wei, my name is Jie, and my name is Yingzhi. I have seen the military gate."

"Thieves are rampant now, and the army and the people are panicked. Fortunately, the military gate came, and my heart is at ease. I just don't know how much the military gate will come to lead the troops this time? What is the law?"

When Lu Xiangsheng heard this, he couldn't help but frowned, and asked, "How is the situation in Ruzhou now? Just tell me!"

When Wei Yingzhi heard the words, he couldn't help but pour out bitter water: "From here to Xisong County and Lushi, from here to Luoyang and Dengfeng in the north, from here to East Yuzhou and Xuzhou, if you look around on three sides, you are all thieves!"

Lu Xiangsheng was shocked immediately, where is Hong Chengchou, the governor of the five provinces, cheating?You agreed to let me come over to help you suppress the bandits, but you ended up suppressing more and more bandits, and there are bandits everywhere in Henan. What's going on?
In fact, Hong Chengchou was not to blame for this incident, he also ran over in a daze according to the order of the Ministry of War.After arriving in Henan, Hong Chengchou, the governor of the five provinces, just surrounded Luoyang City desperately, and didn't know much about the current situation in Henan.

Xuanmo, the only governor of Henan who knew the situation in Henan, died unexpectedly in battle. This made everyone think that the bandits were only in Luoyang, but they didn't expect that the western part of Henan was already a border area.

Lu Xiangsheng listened to Wei Yingzhi, a soldier in Henan Province, talk for a while before he "understood" what was going on.It turns out that Wei Yingzhi didn't know much about it, but he only knew that Song County was a part of the "Shun Bandit", the other Lus and Dengfeng were bandits and miners, and Yuzhou and Xuzhou were bandits.

Lu Xiangsheng stroked his beautiful beard, and replied with a sad face: "I have [-] standard soldiers and [-] raw soldiers under my command, a total of [-] troops. I wonder how many troops can be mobilized under the Henan Bingbei Dao?"

Hearing this, Wei Yingzhi couldn't help but slapped his thigh with a bitter face, what the hell are you here to give away the head?There are only [-] people who dare to come here. I don't know whether I should praise you for being bold, or laugh at your recklessness!
Even though this governor of Yunyang is not his direct superior, now is the time to use troops, and Wei Yingzhi, the Henan military preparation officer, is not easy to offend this person.

He had no choice but to smile bitterly and said: "Originally under my rule there were Henan Wei, Hongnong Wei, Ruzhou Wei, Songxian County Guarding Thousand Households, Yongning Guarding Hundred Households, Lu's Guarding Hundred Households, a total of three guards, There are [-] household offices, [-] household offices, and [-] inspection departments."

"Among them, there were [-] civilian soldiers and [-] archers. In fact, after removing the guards from all over the country and weeding out the old, weak, sick, and disabled, there are only [-] available soldiers. Thirteen people."

"There are only one thousand and fifty-three people, but they still have to guard the Laisan Pass in the north, and prepare for the Yuzhou and Xuzhou bandits in the east! There are also Song County thieves staring at the side, and I can't sleep or eat at night!"

"However, we have no skills to defend, so we had to mobilize some [-] archers to guard the inspection department of Shangdian Town. There are only [-] soldiers in the city, and the rest can only be supported by conscripting people to patrol the city day and night!"

A bad premonition arose in Lu Xiangsheng's heart, and he asked quickly, "I don't know how many thieves are there in Song County?"

"I really don't know!" Wei Yingzhi replied confidently, "It's just that I heard that in Song County, there were originally 'intruders' who surrendered [-] soldiers, and 'shun thieves' who came and sent them all down."

"Later, Xuanmo, governor of Henan Province, led his troops back to the east. He led six or seven thousand troops to pass by Song County, and wanted to pull it out. Then he attacked for two days, but he couldn't overcome it. Xuanmo stopped. He conquered Yuzhou in the east and Dengfeng in the north. , I don’t want to be defeated!”

Headache!Lu Xiangsheng rubbed his temples involuntarily.He never thought that Daming's country would be corrupted to such an extent.

When he was in Daming Mansion, he also trained [-] pacesetters called "Tianxiong Army".As a result, the battle was urgent, so he went to Yunyang alone before leading the army in time.

When he arrived in Yunyang, he realized that although Yunyang City was called Fucheng, it was really just a dilapidated county town.Under Yunyang's rule, there were only five hundred old and weak soldiers, all of whom were useless.However, if you leave the city of Yunyangfu, you will see mountains everywhere, and there are thieves in the mountains.

Relying on his high martial arts skills, Lu Xiangsheng came out of Yunyang City and galloped on horseback. The road was full of poor rocks and valleys, and there was no smoke from cooking for hundreds of miles, and there was no sign of people.

Occasionally, one or two people in ragged clothes and dove-shaped faces appeared above the rocky caves in mid-air, and they were also searching for grass roots and bark to eat. When they saw officers and soldiers from a distance, they immediately hid in fear.

Lu Xiangsheng, who had been in the bustling place for a long time, couldn't help but burst into tears seeing this.After two months in office, Lu Xiangsheng spent every day in the deep mountains and valleys, in a deserted land, eating and living with soldiers and servants, vowing to make some achievements.

With great difficulty, he begged and borrowed food and salaries, so that he was able to recruit [-] new recruits and [-] raw soldiers, barely stabilizing the situation in Yunyang.

That Yunyang is located between the mountains of Jingxiang, so it is understandable that it is so difficult.But he never expected that the majestic land of the Central Plains and thousands of miles of fertile fields would be corrupted to such an extent.

If you want money but no money, if you want salary but no salary, if you want soldiers but no soldiers, even if Lu Xiangsheng has great abilities, how many can he kill with just one blow?

The two looked at each other for a long while, and Lu Xiangsheng suddenly had a flash of inspiration, as if he remembered something, but he seemed to remember nothing.He couldn't help asking Wei Yingzhi, "What did you just say?"

"Surrounded by mountains on three sides, there are thieves on three sides!" Wei Yingzhi said somewhat dejectedly.

"No, those last few sentences!" Lu Xiangsheng asked thoughtfully.

"Governor Xuanmo of Henan led his troops back to the east." Wei Yingzhi didn't understand why, so he recounted it.

Unexpectedly, just as he started, Lu Xiangsheng slapped his thigh and said, "Here! That's exactly what he said. Although Xuan Mo, governor of Henan Province, died in battle, where did the people under his command go?"

Wei Yingzhi, a soldier in Henan Province, couldn't help his eyes light up when he heard the words, and couldn't help but said happily: "Yes, why didn't I think of it! The army has a good plan, and the three generals Zuo Liangyu, Li Bei and Ni Chong under the governor's command have four or five Thousands of horses should stay in Kaifeng Mansion. Either follow Daliang Bingbei, or follow Sui Chen Bingbei, there is no other place to go!"

"Okay!" Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help being enlightened, and couldn't help laughing, "I can send a handwritten letter from here to Daliang Bingbei Dao and Sui Chen Bing Bei Dao. Ni Chong, the commander-in-chief of the Beijing camp, and Li Bei, the deputy commander-in-chief, came to see me!"

(End of this chapter)