Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 118 Six-way March
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Walking out of Zhang Yichen's study, Luo Cheng frowned.

He felt that Zhang Yichen's words were not unreasonable, but he would never do this if he was asked to leave Zhang Xutuo and lead the county soldiers into the mountains alone to suppress the bandits.

Regardless of the fact that he now has 230 township soldiers who have won the first battle, and has recruited another [-] young men.

But relying on these people, going into the mountains to suppress bandits, it is entirely possible that meat buns beat dogs.

Defending the city and advancing and suppressing it are two different things. Defending the city is his home game, and he has a city to rely on, and he has money and people behind him.However, going into the mountains to suppress bandits is an away game, with no favorable location and no one to fight.

Zhang Yichen is a civil servant after all, and his angle of consideration is still somewhat limited.He only thought about his black hat, but he didn't want to think about the risk of doing so.

He went straight to see Zhang Xutuo.

After the meeting, Luo Cheng directly told Zhang Xutuo about the conversation he had just had with Zhang Yichen.

"Hmph, self righteous, clever." Zhang Xutuo commented on Zhang Yichen.

"I've seen through his little cleverness a long time ago, but I just didn't say it. It's you, you can come and tell me this, which surprised me. Last time you and Qin Qiong let Wang Bo go, let me be right. You are very disappointed. In a short period of time, you have matured a lot. Tell me your opinion on this matter?"

"It's good to be able to hide it, but you can't hide it after all. Since something happened, we should not think about how to hide it, but how to deal with it."

"Wang Bo's rebellion is not only a crisis, but also an opportunity. If it is handled well, I think it will be a good thing."

"How to start?" Zhang Xutuo leaned back in the chair, playing with the teacup in his hand.

"Putting down the rebels is of course a great achievement."

"Since Wang Bo and the others dared to openly rebel, I thought the county magistrate could simply mobilize the entire county to launch a big siege. As long as we move fast enough, as long as we win enough battles, then the disadvantages can be turned into advantages."

"Big action?"

"Yes, simply surround the entire Changbai Mountain, and then wipe it out. In recent years, a large number of escapees have entered the mountain. It has become an extrajudicial place under the rule of my Great Sui, how can this be possible?"

"Just come to a big operation to clean up the entire Changbai Mountain, destroy those cottages, capture the bandits, re-register those who caused the escapees, and include the reclaimed land in the government's registration."

"The current situation is becoming more and more turbulent. Changbai Mountain has now become the source of turmoil. If we leave it alone, there will be big troubles here sooner or later. Before the pustule is not big, we should squeeze it out and clean it up. Let him grow up."

Zhang Xutuo sat up straight.

"Your idea is quite big, but if you want to complete the big move you said, the hundreds of people I brought are not enough."

"Then let's have a big winter drill. Anyway, now that the autumn harvest is over, it is also the time of winter slack. It is just right to recruit all the county soldiers from the county and the counties, and to call up a group of township regiments from all the townships. According to me, the county Many officials are dissatisfied with the military training of the Juncheng, why not take this opportunity to show the strength of the Juncheng soldiers."

Qi County is a county with nine counties.

Regardless of whether there are many or few people in each county, five townships are organized.

After Zhang Xutuo took office, he expanded the size of the county army and strengthened recruitment training. Now there are twelve county barracks in Quanqi County, and each of the other 45 townships has a township army regiment.

A county barracks has 500 people, and a township corps has 200 people. This scale is already very large.

Just twelve county barracks can recruit 45 county soldiers, let alone [-] township regiments, which can recruit [-] soldiers.

Basically, now Zhang Xutuo's county barracks and township corps have incorporated the young and strong of the entire Qi county into his local armed system, and all the people are soldiers.

Just [-] county soldiers are enough to encircle and suppress Changbai Mountain.

If some township groups are called again, it will really be a big battle in Changbai Mountain.

"It's not difficult to recruit county soldiers and township braves, but have you thought about how much material, money and food will be needed to dispatch so many troops?"

The county soldiers and township warriors serve in rotation, which can be regarded as free errands, without wages and salaries, and even have to bring their own dry food to be on duty.But if it is leaving the training camp, then even if it is a mission, the extra money and food expenses outside will have to be borne by the county barracks. If it is to suppress bandits, it will also involve rewards for military exploits and compensation for casualties.

Not to mention, it is by no means an easy task to recruit thousands of soldiers from the county and township to suppress the bandits.

"The county soldiers and the township warriors each take half, and bring their own food." Luo Cheng suggested.

Half of the six thousand county soldiers, that is three thousand, and half of the nine thousand township bravery, that is four thousand five thousand.

There are 500 people in total.

However, if a group of farmers wanted to encircle and suppress bandits and bandits across the border in several counties like Changbai Mountain, a small number would not be enough.

Changbai Mountain is not a mountain peak, but a continuous mountain range.

There are nine counties in Qi County, but six counties are connected to Changbai Mountain.

Licheng, Zhangqiu, Zouping, Changshan, Zichuan, and Tingshan, six counties surrounded this continuous mountain range, and only the three counties of Zhu'a, Linyi, and Linji in the northwest of Qijun were not connected.

Before Zhang Xutuo came, the county soldiers in Qi County lacked training and poor equipment. After he came, he vigorously rectified and strengthened training.

But after all, the county soldiers are not the soldiers of the Weifu. This group of people are militiamen, and they only take turns to train for one month a year.Insufficient training, poor equipment, although there are many in number, the actual combat effectiveness is not much.

As for the bravery of the counties and townships, they have just been recruited, basically they are mainly young men, and they generally lack training and equipment.

After Zhang Xutuo defeated Wang Bo last time, he withdrew his army. The biggest reason was that the soldiers were not good enough, food and equipment were not good enough.

After thinking about it for a while, Zhang Xutuo called Jia Wuben.

Jia Wuben was Zhang Xutuo's think tank.

"Luo Butou's plan is not bad, let's just settle it once and for all."

Speaking of which, Jia Wuben took out a map of Qi County drawn on sheepskin, the mountains and rivers on it were very rough and crude, without even a basic scale, very abstract, Luo Cheng felt that this kind of map was useless in actual combat , at most let you understand the direction and position.

"If you want me to say, let's not move. If we want to move, then as Luo Butou said, we should simply call up all the county soldiers and township warriors. It's a big winter show. Changbai Mountain spans six counties, then let’s send a six-way army. For each county, we will arrange a team of soldiers and horses, consisting of 500 people from a county barracks and 1000 people from five township corps.”

"The six-way army is responsible for blocking the six sides and splitting up to attack."

"The county magistrate will personally lead 3000 soldiers from six county barracks, plus 3000 soldiers from [-] township regiments as the main force, and go deep into the mountains to pursue and suppress them."

Zhang Xutuo thought for a while, "The six routes of soldiers and horses are mainly responsible for the blockade and siege, and then the remaining [-] county soldiers and township braves, I think they can be divided into two groups, advancing from east to west, encircling and sweeping."

After finishing speaking, he raised his head and asked Luo Cheng, "Shicheng, would you like to be a pioneer?"

(End of this chapter)