Yangshan County is a large county before Yangshanguan. The guard is Ma Yiping, a captain of Guoyi from Xindu County.
Ma Yiping was a native of Yangshan and led 5,000 county soldiers and 1,000 county soldiers to garrison Yangshan County.
Thanks to Wang Junlin's existence, there were no large-scale gangs of thieves in the surrounding counties of Fanyang County. In addition, Ma Yiping worked diligently, so Yangshan County had never been captured by thieves.
"General, it's time to patrol the city!" Ma Yiping's soldiers whispered outside the door late at night.
Ma Yiping pushed aside the fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl who was crawling on him like an octopus. This girl was given to him by the largest human trafficker in the city. He chose one of the more than twenty girls sent at that time.
She has a pretty appearance, and her little girl figure is quite enchanting.
Ma Yiping reluctantly got up, went outside, washed briefly, and had breakfast. The soldiers brought Ma Yiping armor, helped Ma Yiping put it on, and walked out of the house.
After leaving the house, Ma Yiping looked up in the direction of Fanyang County and sighed, thinking that King Qin An's army would come sooner or later, but no matter what, he must not surrender, at least he had to fight before doing so.
He reached out and approached the waist knife handed over by his own soldiers, got on his horse, and said, "Let's go! Go patrol the city!"
At the beginning of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar, it was already winter and late at night. The work of standing guard in the city was naturally the work of the county soldiers. Naturally, the five thousand county soldiers in the city would not come to do it.
The county soldiers are very different from the county soldiers in terms of combat power, equipment, and military pay, so military discipline is also notoriously poor.
There was not a single soldier on the city. Most of the county soldiers who were supposed to be at their posts were hiding in the caves where soldiers were hiding and lighting fires to keep warm. Apart from the angry wind lanterns that flickered on and off, nothing else could be seen on the empty city.
Ma Yiping, who was walking on top of the city, frowned. Normally, the discipline of the county soldiers was fine, but in these troubled times, although Fanyang County was busy relieving more than two million victims, they would not attack in a large scale, and were heading to Fanyang in Yangshan County.
The county also sent spies to him, but since it was already known that the Far Eastern Army would have their idea, they still had to be somewhat vigilant.
He just held a meeting during the day to emphasize military discipline, but so far, it seems that the effect is basically ineffective. Not to mention the soldiers, even the officers have not been seen.
When they reached the main tower, it was still empty. Ma Yiping's anger could no longer be suppressed. He turned back to the soldiers beside him and said, "Blow the drum for me."
The soldiers rushed to the side of the tower, picked up the drumsticks, raised their hands, and the sound of "dong-dong" suddenly resounded throughout the city.
With the sound of drums, a nest suddenly exploded at the top of the city. In each cave where soldiers were hiding, county soldiers swarmed out. Some forgot to wear their helmets, and some actually ran out with bare hands, looking at the mess of these county soldiers.
Ma Yiping was so angry that he had no intention of getting angry and shouted: "Look, these are our soldiers. Tell me, if an enemy attacks, can we count on them?"
As he spoke, relatively neat footsteps sounded from below the city, and five thousand county soldiers marched onto the city.
Two captains leading five thousand county soldiers ran up to the city tower, clasped their fists at Ma Yiping and said, "General Ma, the last general has been ordered to arrive!"
Ma Yiping nodded and said sternly: "Well, this was just a drill. You performed well. You were able to rush from the barracks to the city in half the time. I am very satisfied." The word drill and this kind of military training are related.
The method was passed down from the army of Fanyang County. Because it was so appropriate, it was imitated by the armies of several counties in Hebei Province. Ma Yiping also learned and applied it.
When they heard that it was some bullshit military exercise, the two captains of the county soldiers were a little dissatisfied, but they did not dare to say anything. They bowed and retreated.
When the county soldiers heard that it was a drill, they became even more noisy. Several officers were shouting at the soldiers to line up, but it seemed that the effect was not good.
Ma Yiping looked at the county soldiers with a stern look, waved his hand, and thousands of county soldiers shouted, raised their spears in their hands, and all took a step forward.
This shout was much more effective than the shouts of the officers, and the noisy crowd of county soldiers suddenly became quiet.
"Anyone who dares to make noise again will be killed!" Ma Yiping shouted coldly. The soldiers around him took a step forward and repeated Ma Yiping's order loudly. Only then did the noisy county soldiers finally show their fear.
"Do you still look like soldiers?" Ma Yiping shouted: "You are just a bunch of rabble."
"Inspecting the city, guarding the city, where are your posts? Are you guarding the stove, drinking, eating meat, snoring and sleeping in the cave? If the enemy attacks, do you know what will happen? You will be chopped down by the enemy in a daze.
The head will be a confused ghost even after death."
There was a commotion below, and a soldier whispered: "What's the point of patrolling the city? More than ten family members from my hometown were driven to Fanyang County by the local government. Now their lives are unknown. How can I be in the mood to do this?"
A soldier next to him said in a low voice: "Don't worry! As long as you go to Fanyang County, you will be fine. My eldest brother's family received a safety letter through the caravan a few days ago, and now they are in Dongyang County, Donglai County.
To settle the family, King Qin An also gave them ten acres of land. Think about it, when my eldest brother was in his hometown, we only had five or six acres of land."
"Shut up, or General Ma will chop off your head!" an officer shouted in a low voice.
"Come here, drag out those with disheveled clothes and weapons!" Ma Yiping waved his hand, and a group of soldiers rushed out, rushed into the crowd on the opposite side, and dragged around dozens of soldiers.
Pulled it out vertically.
"I should have beheaded you and others, but for the first time offenders, each person will be given twenty military sticks. If you dare to call out, twenty military sticks will be added." Ma Yiping said solemnly, "From today on, whenever I notice someone off duty, I will be punished with twenty military sticks."
Kill without mercy."
Ma Yiping walked away, leaving behind a group of soldiers who took off the pants of more than a dozen county soldiers, pushed them to the ground, and beat them vigorously.
"One, two, three, four, five..." As the stick fell, a soldier began to count one, five and ten, and the screams naturally started to sound.
Less than two miles away from Yangshan County, a squad leader under Zhang Tiangang led five hundred soldiers wearing yellow cloaks and lay motionless on the grass-covered wilderness.
From a distance, it looks like a bunch of raised grass, which is extremely difficult to distinguish. They were ordered to come and seize the city gate and hold on until the arrival of the Iron Spear Battalion led by Lu Han.
At this time, the sudden sound of drums in the city surprised the squad leader. He thought that the whereabouts of his group had been exposed. Just when he was complaining secretly, he heard screams and found that the other party did not look like they had discovered them.