Similar to Wang Chongan who walked to his dormitory dejectedly, Yang Wenwen, the magistrate of Yangzhou, spent the past two days in a hurry, living like a year.
I remember a few days ago, this little old man wiped the sweat from his forehead, looked at the falling yellow leaves outside, and complained that this was an eventful autumn. Looking back now, it turned out to be a true prophecy!
"Troublesome days? Bah, I'll make you crow-mouthed again!"
After patting his old face, Yang Wenwen sighed, put his hands behind his back, turned around and walked towards the empty courtroom.
There are still at most two days before the spies report back, and the pirates outside will reach Yangzhou. How to survive this hurdle has become Yang Wenwen's biggest headache at the moment.
Originally, he and Cui Jingzhi expected that the journey from Chuzhou to Yangzhou would be long.
Those thieves and bandits who are usually as scattered as sand can't help but scatter away halfway through.
Unexpectedly, this time the pirates seemed to be possessed by a demon and came straight towards Yangzhou without even turning around!
And intelligence shows that the team, which was already quite large, has been growing in size in the past two days!
If Yang Wenwen can no longer see that someone is deliberately manipulating the emergence of such abnormal signs, then at this age of several decades, he will really be living like a dog!
But he couldn't figure it out: Who on earth would go to such great lengths to besiege Yangzhou, even at the cost of killing countless people?
No matter what his purpose was in besieging Yangzhou, what were the crimes of those innocent people?
"Hey! Shameless thief!"
In the quiet courtroom, Yang Wenwen was full of anger, but his helpless roar was surging in the room!
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In the past two days, the government has been busy mobilizing its only manpower to guard the city wall and appease the people.
As the faint center of the incident, Xiao Han was immersed in the documents all day long.
Unlike Cheng Yaojin and Liu Hongji, generals known for their bravery.
Xiao Han knew that he couldn't lift the horse, and he couldn't do the bloody thing of leading the charge! If he wanted to fight, he could only develop in another direction!
Making strategic plans to win a victory thousands of miles away?
This seemed to look very good, and with the blessing of firearms, Xiao Han felt that he might not be able to squeeze in the famous general's seat.
Now that you've got your mind set on becoming a famous general, you can't be as lazy as before.
This sudden pirate attack, Xiao Han seriously regarded it as a test for the new fire guards, and also a test for himself.
"This, this, this! They are all good places for firearms, and this open space five miles outside the city will definitely be used as a garrison by those people. If there is time, they can do something here. Hum hum, here in Yangzhou
There are many mountains and rivers, so if you want a place that can accommodate ten thousand people, it’s not that much..."
Looking at a map, Xiao Han drew large and small circles on it from time to time.
On weekdays, it seems easy to just watch Lao Cheng and the others directing the battle. With a word of "charge"! Thousands of troops and horses move accordingly!
Unexpectedly, when it was my turn, I realized that there were so many things to prepare before the war! And this was just a small war, nothing like a large battle involving tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people.
Fazibi.
"You can only see this on the map. We have to wait for Gouzi to arrive before we can decide the details! I don't know if these guys Gouzi will get used to on the ship, but don't vomit like a plague chicken..."
Xiao Han threw away his pen and flipped through a book while wandering around. The door to the room was suddenly quietly opened.
Then, a head poked in from outside.
"What are you doing? Being sneaky? Did you steal money?" Xiao Han suddenly raised his head when he heard the voice. When he saw Xiaodong outside the door, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief and cursed with a smile.
"Hehe..." Seeing that Xiao Han was not busy, Xiaodong giggled first, then opened the door and walked in.
"Master Marquis, there is a letter from the workshop saying that the crossbows you asked them to make urgently have been completed, and they also ask you if you want to make more arrows?"
"Well, this arrow is not..."
Hearing this, Xiao Han was about to say that there was no need to make arrows, but then he thought about it and nodded again: "Well, let them make some! Although firearms are powerful, we can't rely too much on them now."
"Okay!" Xiaodong nodded in agreement, but had no intention of walking out.
"What's wrong? Is there anything else?"
Realizing that Xiaodong was still standing there, Xiao Han looked at him strangely and asked.
Xiaodong scratched his head and said with a somewhat unnatural look on his face: "Master Marquis, I would like to ask, do you really want to use those borrowed people to go out to fight?"
"Nonsense, what else? Your Lord, I am just the commander now, you can't expect me to bring you guys to the scene right?" Xiao Han scolded with a smile.
Hearing this, Xiaodong curled his lips and whispered: "I think our family is better than those people, at least we won't cause any trouble!"
"Oh? What do you mean?" Xiao Han was stunned, then looked at him and asked.
Xiaodong squeaked twice, then met Xiao Han's eyes and said: "Nothing, I just feel that those people are just a bunch of rabble! How can they look like an army fighting?"
You ask Uncle Qiu to go over and train them to familiarize them with the battlefield conditions. They are all good, they all have playful smiles on their faces, and there is no formality at all.
Moreover, troops are not allowed to leave the camp privately during wartime. This is an iron law for beheading!
But those people didn't pay attention and took the opportunity to sneak away. They didn't know where to hang out all night and came back the next day! What's even more annoying is that there were people nearby to cover them!
The fool met them once and got angry and scolded them a few times. As a result, someone put a sack over his head at night and gave him a good beating. If Uncle Qiu hadn't heard the noise and went away quickly, he wouldn't have been able to tell.
How he was beaten..."
When Xiaodong talked about this, he became more and more angry! The veins on his neck even popped out.
Although he is at home and bickers and fights with idiots all day long, when it comes to their relationship, their relationship is no worse than that of biological brothers! Even worse!
At this time, seeing the fool suffer a big loss for being so silent, how could he bear this tone?
"The idiot was beaten?" Xiao Han was shocked when he heard this, and his tone turned cold immediately!
He knew that the so-called martial arts people he borrowed were, at best, knights, and at worst, strongmen who used force to break the law.
That's why we placed them all outside the city, so as to avoid any trouble inside the city. But I didn't expect that they would still be uneasy outside the city!
"How did Lao Qiu deal with it?" Xiao Han slowly closed the book in front of him, pressed his fingers on the cover, and asked in a deep voice.
Xiaodong drooped his head and said dullly: "What can we do? It was late at night, and those people dispersed in a hurry. Uncle Qiu was anxious to see the fool's injuries. Naturally, he didn't catch any of them! And the next day,
Those people also said when Uncle Qiu was furious: They were all invited by you, Lord Marquis, and no matter what the problem is, it is not Uncle Qiu's turn to take care of it."
