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Chapter 307

Huaihuang Town, Sheriff's Mansion.

When the lanterns first come on, the county guard's mansion is brightly lit.

On the horse-hitting posts outside the gate of the county mansion, there were a bunch of war horses tied up. The Han soldiers of the Xi clan held long spears and pressed the hilts of their swords, patrolling the side of the mansion.

Inside the house, Shi Deyun held her big belly, walked slowly outside the door and asked the servant girl, "Why, Mr. Husband, haven't you finished discussing with your lords yet?"

The servant girl bowed slightly and said, "Yes, ma'am. The lights in the big house are still on."

Shi Deyun nodded, and immediately said: "Immediately order the kitchen to prepare... No, I'll go in person."

The servant girl quickly said: "Ma'am, you are pregnant with Liujia, how can you work hard, the county guard will definitely blame you, let me go."

Shi Deyun looked at her stomach, nodded immediately, and said: "Okay, you must serve and be considerate to your husband."

After speaking, Shi Deyun glanced at the brightly lit house.

In the room where Li Chongjiu was now, a large map made of several sheepskins was laid out on the floor.

Ying Hefu, Er Tuo, Yan Yelie, Wang Mahan, Tanzong, Sun Erniang and other generals, as well as Liu Yi and Ji Chuan, two civil servants sat cross-legged in front of the map, and Li Chongjiu also sat on the main seat with his sleeves folded.

The only person standing there was Wen Yanbo, Sima of Shanggu County.

Wen Yanbo stood in front of the map, scratched the sheepskin with a wooden stick, and said: "This is the map of mountains, rivers and mountains in 31 counties of Yizhou that I copied as an official when I was in the Ministry of Internal History. It was copied by Fang Da and written On the sheepskin, the land of Youzhou can be seen by all of you right now."

Hearing what Wen Yanbo said, all the generals gave an audible voice.

In this era when map surveying and mapping were not popularized, and many people had never been out of the county or county in their lives, it was unimaginable for everyone to see the mountains, rivers and rivers of this place.

Everyone's eyes widened. When Li Chongjiu saw Ying Hefu, they all widened their eyes. Wang Mahan and Tan Zong also stared bull-eyed.

They looked at it in amazement for a long time, then Wang Mahan cupped his hands and said to Li Chongjiu: "I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed, I don't know how to read."

Speaking of this, everyone laughed, and Tan Zong also laughed and said: "Senior brother, this picture of mountains, rivers and rivers knows me, but I don't know him. Forget it, this shit is done by fine people, or listen to the words of senior brother and call him I'll hit someone."

Li Chongjiu's face darkened when he heard this, and said: "I asked you to go to the county school to study in the past two years, and everything you have learned is in vain."
When Wang Mahan and Tanzong saw Li Chongjiu getting angry, they all lowered their heads, as if they had done something wrong.Li Chongjiu had nothing to do with the two of them for a while, but Ying Hofer looked at the map and said, "It's impossible to imagine. We have been running on horses on the grassland for a lifetime. On this map, they are just circled. A place the size of a palm."

Forehead also nodded.

Seeing that the two could understand the map, Li Chongjiu showed appreciation, and thought that these two were outstanding people among the Fanren, and if they were given a chance to learn, they would be equally outstanding.

Wen Yanbo said: "Now we have received a secret report confirming that the three clans of Khitan, Xi clan, Gao Kaidao, and Luo Yi are going to unite and send troops to our west of Liao, with the intention of looting our Zhuo County."

Although all the generals knew the news, they all looked solemn at the moment.

Wen Yanbo pointed the stick to the place where western Liaoning was located, and said: "This is western Liaoning. The northeast is adjacent to the Hunhe king of the Xi clan, the northwest is adjacent to Khitan, and the south is Gao Kaidao and Luo Yi. Once the four tribes are mobilized, only the Khitan The first one will have more than 1 troops dispatched, and the third Xi tribe will also use more than [-] cavalry. Luo Yi, Gao Kaidao will also dispatch [-] horses."

Hearing this, all the generals couldn't help but frown, feeling that the situation was grim, this was close to 20 troops.

Wen Yanbo continued to point to the map with his stick, and said: "Compared to the Khitan, the three tribes of the Xi clan, Gao Kaidao, and Luo Yi's alliance. In our current surrounding situation, the Turks have just won a neutral attitude."

"As for Dou Jiande in the south, we have always maintained a situation where the well water does not violate the river water. Dou Jiande is now leading an army to attack Hejian County. It has been more than 100 days with an army of [-]. In the end. If Hejian County is conquered, Dou Jiande has taken a big step towards the unification of Hebei, but before that, Dou Jiande has absolutely no spare power to send troops to the north."

Listening to Wen Yanbo's analysis, everyone nodded at the same time. For Li Chongjiu, the two strongest opponents around him didn't have time to deal with them.As far as the current situation of the Cangtou Army is concerned, this will undoubtedly relieve the situation of being surrounded by a group of enemies.

"Then what is the strength of our army now, can we carry out this battle?" Li Chongjiu said.

At that moment Li Chongjiu nodded to Wen Yanbo, and Wen Yanbo immediately swiped the wooden pole, pointed to the map, and said: "The battle depends on the manpower and the number of households. This is the place where our Cangtou Army is based. They are Yanmen Three counties out of the five counties in the prefecture, six counties in Shanggu County, seven counties out of the nine counties in Zhuo County, and two counties in Anle County. After checking the household registration at the beginning of this year, there are more than [-] households in these eighteen counties."

"That's all?" Erniang Sun couldn't help asking.
"Yes," Wen Yanbo said, "The three counties of Shanggu, Yanmen, and Anle were all dispersed by the war before, and their population was less than half. There are hidden refugees, but we don’t know the number of them. As for the Goguryeo army, and the new refugees who flowed into Zhuojun this year, we don’t have statistics.”

There are more than 20 households, and Li Chongjiu shook his head. Although he has four counties, Dou Jiande captured Hejian County, and there are nearly [-] households. Even if the war loss is more than half, it can still be equal to himself.

Then Wen Yanbo said again: "This is within the Great Wall, and outside the Great Wall is Huaihuang, the second town of Yuyi. The number of households has reached nearly [-]."

This statistic shocked everyone, even Li Chongjiu was a little surprised. When did Huaihuang and Yuyi Second Township reach this population? Although it grew rapidly, I thought it was only about 98 households.In other words, the average population of Li Chong's [-] counties is no more than [-] households per county, but the average population of the second town exceeds [-] households.

In the Sui Dynasty, there were more than [-] households, and it was Shangxian County.Three years ago, these two towns were still empty.

Wen Yanbo nodded to confirm that it was correct, and said: "In addition to the original people, the population of the two towns is mainly Han merchants. Apart from refugees who have defected, more than half of them are Fan people gathered from all sides of the grassland, Turks, Xi people, Khitan, Shiwei, and Yuren."

"In addition, this does not count as surrendering to our grassland tribes, plus our Shidexi tribe, Liaoxi Mohe, and Dingling tribes. Only this alone has reached the strength of nearly [-] accounts."

Hearing this, everyone's eyes widened. When the Khanate was established a year ago, Li Chongjiu had only [-] tents under his command. Now there are more Liaoxi Mohe and Dingling tribes. The newly attached grassland tribes are now It has become a big tribe of [-] accounts.

Fanren can be said to be all soldiers, and the mobilization force has always been difficult to estimate. If it is [-] accounts, how many troops can Li Chongjiu mobilize?Even he doesn't know.

At this moment, Er Tuo's body shook, and Li Chongjiu looked at the other party and asked, "Er Tuo, what did you think?"

Er Tuo said: "Please forgive our gaffe, we have never thought of this matter, so the Khitan people, Luo Yi, it is even less likely that they will think of it!"
Li Chongjiu nodded. He didn't expect that his act of attracting foreign people would have such an effect.Just as Er Tuo said, he didn't expect it, and the Khitan people didn't even think about it. They only thought that they captured Zhuojun and received only nearly ten thousand Han troops, but they didn't know that there were so many Fan tribes under the command of Li Chongjiu.

Just as Li Chongjiu was discussing, suddenly under the steps, his steps became chaotic, and he ran out of the room alone, and said loudly through the door: "Commander, Li Yuan captured Xijing ten days ago!"

Li Chongjiu stood up immediately, pushed open the door, and saw the soldier kneeling under the steps.Li Chongjiu said in a deep voice: "Let's talk about it in detail!"

"Yes!"

The soldier immediately said: "After Li Yuan led more than [-] troops across the Weihe River, he joined Li Sanniang's [-] army. With the eldest son Li Jiancheng, Sima Liu Wenjing led tens of thousands of garrison Yongfeng warehouses to prepare for Qu Tutong, and if he fought Li Jiancheng, he would not be able to win."

"And Li Yuan himself led the army to station in Changchun Palace. Yan'an, Shangjun, and Diaoyin all asked to surrender to Yuyuan. In less than a month, the soldiers and people in Guanzhong returned like a city, with a force of 20. When troops came to fight in the city, Li Yuan easily broke them. Afterwards, after Li Yuan assembled the Qi army, he sent his troops to attack Chang'an, and within ten days, the city of Chang'an was destroyed!"

Li Chongjiu couldn't help being shocked when he heard that, he won 20 troops. Li Yuan's army across the river, plus Li Sanniang's army, was only 8 to 20 people, and he could get [-] troops in an instant.

On the surface, it seems that Li Chongjiu is what the people want, but in fact, this shows that the Guanlong gentry has completely abandoned the Yang family and completely turned to Li Yuan. Otherwise, Li Yuan would have no influence, and he would win 20 troops a month.This is the general trend of Li Yuan!

Li Chongjiu took a deep breath, and immediately said: "What will happen after Li Yuan breaks Chang'an?"

"Military orders are strictly enforced, and there will be no violations in autumn! Before Li Yuan attacked Chang'an, he clearly stated that he would offend the seven temples, the Daiwang, and the clan, and the Yi tribes who violated it! Therefore, even though the army broke the city, it was able to complete Chang'an. After Li Yuan entered the city, he respected the Daiwang as the emperor, The emperor who will be in Jiangdu will be honored as the Supreme Emperor, and he will make twelve articles of law with the people, and the people will all say that the strict prohibitions of the Sui Dynasty will be lifted."

Li Chongjiu couldn't help sighing when he heard it, if it is said that Li Yuan's general trend is above, then this is a conspiracy.Compared with the nouveau riche Li Zicheng, after he broke Beijing, his military discipline was corrupted and he looted everywhere.Xiang Yu entered Guanzhong and burned Afang Palace.Li Yuan's move is based on Liu Bang's old wisdom, Xijing is the capital, and everyone in the world will see what he has done.In this way, Li Yuanxian's name will be known to the world.

This is the Li family in Longxi, accumulated from generation to generation, Li Yuan has a long-term vision. After seizing Chang'an, he adopted peaceful methods with extremely low damage, and left himself a good reputation.

Therefore, it would be wrong to say that Li Tang was able to conquer the world only by relying on power in history. If people do not plan properly, the general trend will also be reversed.Such as Cao Cao and Yuan Shao in Guandu.

(End of this chapter)