"Please, Mr. Lu, this is Mr. Wang Jiayao, the lord of Guihua City. If you want to see the treasury of Guihua City, you need to get approval from the city lord."

Gu Zi led Lu Xianglin to the Lord's Mansion of Guihua City, and said to Wang Jiayao, who was processing documents: "City Lord Wang, this is the younger brother of Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Xuanda, Lu Xianglin, Mr. Lu."

Wang Jiayao was stunned, stood up and cupped his hands and said, "Hello, Mr. Lu."

Lu Xianglin was polite, and then Gu Zi said: "The county magistrate has given an order to ask the city lord to approve a pass. I want to take Mr. Lu to visit the warehouses of our Guihua City."

"Stash?!"

Wang Jiayao frowned, Guihua City's warehouse is not so beautiful. You must know that Guihua City's warehouse is an important secret of this city, but not everyone who comes can take a second look.

At this time, Wang Jiayao looked at Guzi calmly, and Guzi took out a jade pendant from his arms. This was given to Guzi by Li Chaosheng when he assigned the task. It was regarded as a token, indicating that this matter was approved by Li Chaosheng.

Wang Jiayao looked at the jade pendant that Guzi handed over, his brows relaxed slightly, and then he looked at Guzi to confirm again: "Does the county magistrate know about this?"

Gu Zi replied: "It was approved by the county magistrate."

After hearing this, Wang Jiayao picked up the approval document on the table, wrote an approval document and said: "Take it."

Gu Zi nodded, then took the approval document and headed to the storage place. When he arrived at the storage place, Gu Zi took Lu Xianglin to see Lantian's grain inventory and some ordnance. Lu Xianglin's face became solemn. The grain stored here

As Li Chaosheng said, it was enough to feed everyone in Guihua City for a year. Lu Xianglin carefully looked at the 28 large granaries in Guihua City and finally confirmed that Li Chaosheng was not panicking and was even a little conservative.

These granaries are semi-underground structures, and a large part of them are placed underground, which does not occupy the space of the city. Moreover, the granary buildings are located near the center of the city, so there is no fear of enemies digging in and burning the grain.

If the enemy could dig out the soil outside the city and find the grain depot, they might as well just fight out, enter the city lord's mansion, and kill the officials.

Lu Xianglin looked at the food reserves in Guihua City, and he became confident in the defensive ability of Guihua City. With the strong city behind him and sufficient food, it would be too difficult for the enemy to break in, and the Tatars were not good at attacking cities.

It will be even more difficult to take down this city.

Looking at the grain depot, Lu Xianglin had a deeper understanding of Li Chaosheng. He was definitely a man with far-reaching plans. How could he tell that?

Without looking at anything else, just looking at the granaries in Guihua City, Lu Xianglin was 80% sure that Li Chaosheng's plan for Guihua City was definitely not a day or two. After all, if he wanted to fill up the large granaries in Guihua City, it would not be possible in a short time.

At this moment, Lu Xianglin’s evaluation of Li Chaosheng was that he was a fool with a gray line.

The Tatars who built the Guihua City must have been fooled by this old bastard, otherwise they would not have lost such a strong city, let alone left these twenty-eight warehouses of food.

"Have you seen enough, Mr. Lu?"

Gu Zi asked Lu Xianglin. Lu Xianglin nodded and said, "Enough has been seen. Now let's go see your army."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng looked at Lu Xianglin and said, "Should we look at the regular army or the militia?"

Lu Xianglin was stunned and said: "You have two kinds of soldiers here?"

Gu Zi said: "Yes, the regular army is the Lantian regiment, and the militia is the military force formed voluntarily by the people of Lantian to arm themselves and defend themselves."

After hearing this, Lu Xianglin said: "Let's look at the militia first."

After hearing this, Gu Zi thought for a while and said: "Today happens to be the militia training day. Let's go, I will take you to the third school field."

Guzi said as he took Lu Xianglin to the third school field. On the way, Lu Xianglin saw farmers leaving the city with hoes and said, "Them?"

Gu Zi said: "There are 170,000 Han people in Guihua City. They are currently self-sufficient. There is farmland cultivated by them outside the city. They should be taking care of the farmland."

Lu Xianglin said: "You are self-sufficient. You don't need Lantian to provide you with food?"

Gu Zi said: "No need. This place is thousands of miles away from Lantian. If we transport the grain to Guihua City, it will consume a lot of money. Even if Lantian is rich, we can't afford such consumption, so we will open up wasteland on the fortress and plant wheat.

Corn, as a result, this land is unexpectedly fertile, especially wheat. The wheat grown in this place is particularly good. Now some people transport the wheat in Guihua City back to Guanzhong. One pound of wheat can be exchanged for one pound and two taels of Guanzhong wheat.

Woolen cloth."

Gu Zi introduced, of course Gu Zi said that the place where one pound of wheat can be exchanged for one pound and two taels of Guanzhong wheat is Lantian. The food in other places is not good. Who would think that they can eat more delicious wheat? That is how the people of Lantian live now.

Well, I have some spare money and dare to buy some more delicious food."

Gu Zi said, the two of them have arrived at the third school field. The third school field is an open space. It is usually a square. People can do activities here and children can also play here. It is only three days a week.

Time must be spared for militia training.

"Stand at attention, take a break, today's training event, spear assassination, everyone stands at attention."

Just as I approached the square, I saw a group of soldiers standing upright. In terms of military posture, all the military camps in Lantian, including the militiamen, were very good. Military posture is the basis of Lantian military training. It does not mean that knowing how to stand in military posture can increase the combat effectiveness of the troops.

, but it means that practicing from the military posture can increase the soldiers' obedience and collectiveness, which will be of great benefit to future training.

"prick!"

"kill!"

With a shout, all the soldiers thrust their spears forward. The Lantian militiamen only have one move in the assassination project, which is stabbing. There are no extra moves, and they are useless. Life or death in battle can be decided in an instant, so you are not allowed to do it.

There are too many fancy moves, and usually a simple assassination move is enough to determine the outcome.

Militia soldiers have not yet popularized muskets, so their military training still focuses on cold weapons and spears. At this time, there was a shout on the playground, and the next moment the instructor continued to shout: "Paper, stab again!"

"kill!"

A killing cry shook Lu Xianglin's mind. Such a majestic soldier was comparable to the soldiers of the Tianxiong Army. At this time, in the third school field, although the soldiers were wearing peasant uniforms, they looked horizontally, vertically, or sideways.

They were all in a straight line, and when they were assassinating at the same time, everyone was working hard.

This moment vividly demonstrated the chilling spirit of the military. In addition, the food in Lantian was always very good. The soldiers became stronger when they were well fed, and they all looked extremely ferocious.

Lu Xianglin saw the training of these soldiers. The entire school ground was densely packed. There should be three to four thousand people here. Lu Xianglin said: "Is this the militia you are talking about? Your second battle order in Lantian?"

Gu Zi nodded and said, "Yes."

"They are so majestic and murderous that they can't even enter the main battle force?"

Lu Xianglin asked again, and Gu Zi smiled and said, "They are still far behind."

After hearing this, Lu Xianglin looked at the army in front of him and muttered: "It's far worse. Don't be kidding. Except for the bloody smell on their bodies, these soldiers are almost comparable to the soldiers of the Tianxiong Army. You said the soldiers here are yours."

Second-line troops, how strong are your first-line troops? Are they stronger than the Tianxiong Army?

Lu Xianglin didn't believe it. The Tianxiong Army was the hard work of him and his brother Lu Xiangsheng. For this army, he knew how much effort he and his brother Lu Xiangsheng had spent. It can be said that the combat effectiveness of the Tianxiong Army was weaker than that of the Tatars, just a little bit worse.

Bar.

Lu Xianglin was very conceited in this regard, but looking at the militiamen in front of him, Lu Xianglin was a little unconfident. Is this really their second-line unit?

Lu Xianglin looked at Gu Zi at this time and said: "How many people do you have in Guihua City for such a unit?"

Gu Zi said: "There should be about 20,000 people. I am not responsible for this, and I don't know the specific number. But today these should be the Dongcheng militia group, with a total of 5,000 people. There are also such militia groups in Xicheng, Nancheng,

Three in Beicheng.”

Lu Xianglin's eyes widened after hearing this: "Twenty thousand people!"

Gu Zi said: "That's right."

Lu Xianglin took a breath of air. The total number of the Tianxiong Army was only thirty-five thousand, which was half of the Tianxiong Army.

Lu Xianglin looked at Gu Zi and said, "How is this unit equipped?"

Gu Zi shook his head and said: "No, the militiamen use equipment that has been retired from the regular army. Most of them use cold weapons, and a few use retired old guns. Among them, the more elite ones are about three thousand people, equipped with

They have armor, but the rest of them don’t have armor.”

After hearing this, Lu Xianglin said: "They also have firearms?"

Gu Zi said: "They are equipped with them, but they are all old-fashioned bird guns or three-eyed guns."

"Can you show it to me?"

Lu Xianglin asked, followed by Gu Zi: "This is okay."

Gu Zi brought Lu Xianglin to the militia team, and immediately told Zhang Tengfei. Zhang Tengfei agreed and called the militiamen to show Lu Xianglin the firearms he had.

Zhang Tengfei said: "These are the firearms used by our militia. Don't be ridiculous. They are all eliminated by the main force. They are nothing good."

Lu Xianglin's eyes widened at this time. The quality of this blunderbuss, this three-eyed blunderbuss, is better than that of the Tianxiong Army. Is this still a piece of equipment that has been eliminated?

So what does our Tianxiong army use? Is it tattered?

"Here, this cannon was eliminated by your main force?"

Lu Xianglin looked at the 80% new gun in front of him in disbelief, and Zhang Tengfei said: "Yes."

"You all eliminated such good equipment, what a waste!"

Lu Xianglin stroked the gun and couldn't put it down. The quality of this gun was better than the one he was using now, especially the steel used in the barrel. The quality felt better.

Zhang Tengfei saw that Lu Xianglin had never seen the world and said: "What does this gun mean? You have never seen the equipment of the main force. Hey, why am I telling you this? If you like this gun, take it and give it to you."

Zhang Tengfei said angrily, Lu Xianglin was very moved after hearing this, but as an official of the Ming Dynasty, he still had to have his own little dignity. He couldn't lose face at this time, and it was just one handful. If there were ten, Lu Xianglin wouldn't want it.

Save face.

However, Zhang Tengfei had no intention of bribing Lu Xianglin, the third-level commander, and naturally put the gun back. Lu Xianglin was still reluctant to let go, but his expression remained indifferent.

Lu Xianglin walked out of the No. 3 school field, looked at Gu Zi and said, "Can I see your main force?"

Gu Zi said: "Okay, let's go to the No. 1 campus."

The No. 1 school ground is the exclusive school ground for Li Chaohu Division, and the No. 2 school ground is the exclusive school ground for Shi Dalei Division. Lu Xianglin has already greeted Li Chaohu, so it is troublesome to take this to see Li Chaohu Division's explanation. This is called doing two things for nothing.

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Gu Zi took Lu Xianglin to Nancheng quickly, where Li Chao's Tiger Division was stationed.
To be continued...