After being divorced, my identity as a poet was exposed

Chapter 446
The opposite of Jiangbeidu is Qichidu.

Only twenty miles away from Qichidu is Qichi County in Runzhou.

Zhang Debao, the county magistrate of Qichi County, has been very unhappy these two days.

As an important county seat for the defense of the Yangtze River, Qichi County has an army of 2000 people.

Since the Jinghua period, the 36 countries in the Western Regions have sent troops to attack Ning. They came across the river. After one guy wiped out Qichi County, they continued to go south, and they were defeated by the soldiers of Ning State at Linshui Pass in Guangling Prefecture.

Then, their remnants withdrew from Ningguo.

In the following nearly a hundred years, this place has never suffered from other disasters of war.

At that time, Prime Minister Shang stationed defense troops in important towns along the Yangtze River, and this practice has been maintained until now.

It's just that there has been no war in the past hundred years, and the so-called two thousand defense troops, in fact, only have one name left.

There are only more than three hundred soldiers now!
But the report to the Ministry of War is still two thousand!

The empty salary of more than [-] people is not something that a county magistrate can afford!

Most of them, he paid tribute to the governor Song Shiming.

Yesterday, I received an urgent military report from the governor, ordering him to organize the 2000-strong army to garrison Qichidu. If he encounters a group of 500-strong female bandits... kill them all!
The news from Jiangbei has come.

Zhang Debao wondered if the governor had misunderstood the term "female bandit".

Is that a female bandit?
If the bandits in Ningguo were as powerful as them, if they gathered together and twisted together, Ningguo would have been destroyed long ago, okay?
Besides, it's not that the governor doesn't know that there are only more than 320 soldiers in Qichi County, and they are all related households!
On the opposite side of the Jiangbei side, there are thousands of serious soldiers in each team, and they are no match for the five hundred female bandits. Now you want me to use these three hundred or so people who don't even touch their knives. The soldiers who passed by went to kill them all...

"Lieutenant Chen, the Commander's order must not be disobeyed!"

In the county office of Qichi County, Zhang Debao, the county magistrate, looked at the county lieutenant Chen sitting at the bottom, stroked his short beard, and said with a serious expression:
"The county just wants to ask, do you have a good plan to deal with it?"

Chen Xianwei, who is over half a century old, is also an old fritter in this officialdom.

He already knew about this matter yesterday, and of course he also had a preliminary understanding of the group of female bandits on the Jiangbei side.

Fight, definitely can't win.

Unless Runzhou sent troops.

However, all the soldiers from Runzhou were transferred to Feng County in Pingjiang Prefecture, and it was obviously impossible to have extra troops to support Qichi County.

At the moment when the magistrate spoke, he cupped his hands quickly and said with a smile, "Your Excellency, feel at ease!"

"For one thing, there are a total of six crossings along our Jiangnan Road... No one knows which crossing the female bandit will cross the river from."

"These two things... if they really come here late from our habitat, they must fight, but as for how to fight... the official thinks that it can be changed in ever-changing ways."

Hearing this, Zhang Debao frowned slightly, "Tell me carefully."

Lieutenant Chen leaned over and said in a low voice: "My lord, actually, the other five counties that govern the corresponding ferry are no different from our situation."

"Even if it's a little bigger, even the entire Jiangnan and Ningguo's prefectures and counties are not much better."

"The treasury of our Ning country has been empty all these years!"

"When the treasury is empty, the armaments are also empty!"

"All the top and bottom are focused on earning money and eating empty wages... It's not just the government soldiers of the states, even the four frontier troops...their appetite is even bigger!"

"That's why the barren people from the northern desert invaded the border, and everyone in the court thought that General Xiahou Zhuo Xiahou withdrew from Jiuyin City because of the former prince's military exploits..."

"It just so happens that this official has a distant relative who is in the northern desert frontier army. He is a close confidant of General Xiahou, and he holds the military account books of the northern frontier army!"

The Chen county lieutenant stood up suddenly, walked to the door, poked his head out to look around, then closed the door and went back to the tea table.

He leaned over again and lowered his voice: "My lord, the northern frontier army has 12 people registered in the Ministry of War! But do you actually know how many are?"

Zhang Debao's eyes widened immediately, he also leaned over, and asked in a low voice: "How much?"

County Captain Chen extended a slap to compare: "No more than [-]!"

Zhang Debao gasped with a "hiss!", and asked in disbelief, "Are you paid 7 people?"

Lieutenant Chen nodded, "Isn't it!"

He sat up straight again, "The other three frontier armies are basically the same!"

"So the defeat of Beimo is inevitable!"

"After Yu Wenfeng, the leader of the barren people, occupied Jiuyin City, he originally planned to continue going south, but there was a rumor that someone sent a letter to Yu Wenfeng."

"Originally, Yu Wenfeng had already rectified the troops in Jiuyin City, and he had already led the army ten miles out of the city, but after he got the letter, he returned to Jiuyin City without hesitation."

"That's why our Ningguo Princess Sulin went to get married! Yuwenfeng's troops are entrenched in Jiuyin City, and they never went south!"

Zhang Debao asked curiously: "Who in Ningguo has such a big face that Yu Wenfeng shrinks back?"

"I heard...it's Xi Wei!"

Zhang Debao was taken aback again, "...Xi Wei? How is this possible?"

He shook his head again and again, "Isn't Xi Wei planning our Ningguo? Yuwenfeng goes south, and Ningguo is in chaos. This should be what he wants to see!"

Lieutenant Chen Xian smiled slightly: "It doesn't matter who it is, the important thing is...My lord, even the northern frontier army can be defeated, not to mention the loss of soldiers and generals, the lost large piece of territory, do you think there is someone in the DPRK looking for it?" General Xiahou settles the score?"

"It doesn't even matter if the country is lost. A group of female bandits are nothing more than robbing houses. Even if we can't prevent them, isn't that reasonable?"

Zhang Debao's eyeballs rolled around, "You mean... feign attack, true defeat?"

"Yes, feint attack, defeat without a fight!"

"We only have about [-] soldiers. These [-] soldiers are all the sons of the gentry and landlords in our Qichi County... They came to serve as soldiers, but they all gave money!"

"It's dead, it's hard to explain."

"If this play is made more realistic, the officials think, just smoke some dice from the poor's house... They will die when they die, fight for the country, and die... Sir, just give them a little honor!"

"There can also be an explanation from the governor. It's just that I can't do my best. The bandits are too cruel!"

Zhang Debao laughed, "A clever plan!"

"Just do it!"

"Now you go to the poor's house to draw one, one for three, two for five... We don't have many weapons and armor in the warehouse, let them bring their own sickles or hatchets... Tell them, after the bandit suppression is over , the county personally awarded them certificates of commendation!"

"Subordinate to obey!"

County Captain Chen got up to leave, Zhang Debao picked up the teacup and hummed a little song.

By the way, I have to tell that concubine that she has a distant nephew in the army, but don't really go up and fight those female bandits!
Suddenly, he closed his mouth again, and frowned again between his brows.

The Prince Regent borrowed Jiangnan, and now Yu Daotai and Song Dadudu made such a big battle to kill the Prince Regent in Jiangnan...

If this can be done, it is of course a good thing that everyone is happy.

If it doesn't work out...

Zhang Debao's heart skipped a beat, no, he has to send his wives, concubines, children and the money he got over the years out of Jiangnan!

In case Yu Daotai loses, the entire Jiangnan Dao officials, I'm afraid few people will be spared.

He stepped out.

I wondered if the regent knew the news that he couldn't hide it at all, would he go back to the capital?

(End of this chapter)