Three, four, the local brave men are gathering

"What if there are hundreds of thousands of thieves?" Li Qingshui was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, and his face was full of annoyance: "Our Baishui finally solved the food and clothing of the people through the new crop taro. As long as time goes by, all the people will be able to live a good life. Why didn't they even live a good life? The 100,000 bandits came again? It's really... so hateful!"

Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly: "Mr. County Master, don't panic. As the saying goes, soldiers come to block the enemy, water comes to flood the earth. Even though the bandits are crowded, we are not allowed to wait for death. "

"What's the trick of the head coach?" Li Qingshui asked anxiously.

"I dare not say a clever plan, but there is still a little solution." Zhu Yuanzhang said seriously: "We have only three thousand township brave men in our county. But if we contact Chengcheng, Baishui, Pucheng, Luochuan, Dali, Huaxian... these surrounding cities and gather all the guards and township brave men in these places, we can gather tens of thousands of troops. Although it may not be possible to defeat the bandits, it is more than enough to defend the city!"

Li Qingshui was stunned when he heard this: "Can you still do this? I'm afraid it's not good..."

During the peasant war in the late Ming Dynasty, the county towns were in ruins wherever the bandits went. Why were there not many county towns or several prefectures united to fight? In fact, the reason was very simple... The officials of the Ming Dynasty could not run around casually. For example, if you are the county magistrate of Baishui, you cannot penetrate Chengcheng. Even if someone in Chengcheng proclaims the king and the emperor, Baishui's county magistrate is not qualified to take care of it, and you cannot transfer troops to fight... That is an act of overreaching power.

As mentioned earlier, if a thief army is anxiously chased by Baishui's officers and soldiers, they just need to run into the territory of Chengcheng. The officers and soldiers can only stand on the border and stare at you, and cannot chase after you anymore, otherwise they will commit a serious crime.

Of course, Li Qingshui understood this rule. He heard Zhu Yuanzhang’s idea of ​​joining the soldiers from several counties together, but he did not dare to agree! He did not have the qualifications to agree.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw his embarrassment and smiled and said, "Mr. Li, I dare to ask you, what are you doing when you are a scholar and an official?"

"Of course, it is to cultivate oneself, manage the family, govern the country, and pacify the world!" Li Qingshui answered quickly.

"Now that the bandits are at the city, it is time to realize the ambition of "pacifying the world". However, the lord is not daring to act rashly due to the rules. Isn't that ridiculous?" Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"Silk..." Li Qingshui took a breath.

Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly: "The county magistrates of several nearby counties are all seventh-rank sesame officials who are uninhabited in the court. They dare not disobey their superiors and only dare to guard their own cities conscientiously. However, you have strong help in the court. Even if you do something extraordinary, as long as you respect your teacher and create a few words of affection, bad things can be said to be good, and good things can be said to be excellent... If you come out to take this lead and form a major coalition of several county towns, you may not be questioned afterwards. If we really repel the thieves, you may be rewarded! Otherwise, all nearby cities will be defeated by the thieves one by one! By then... everything will be too late."

Speaking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang changed his tone: "If the people want to live and work in peace, they should obey the orders of the emperor to allow the thieves to slaughter the villagers, so leave it to the county master for your own consideration."

Li Qingshui was so heavy that his forehead was sweating. He said with difficulty: "I will think about it...I will think about it..." After saying that, he walked out of the yard lightly and said goodbye. As the snowflakes were flying, he could see his heavy back.

As soon as Li Qingshui left, Ma Xiaotian came to Zhu Yuanzhang and whispered: "Brother Zhu, why do you say so much to this Guan'er? We just need to block his news and lead our troops to block the 36th Battalion. There is no need to make such trouble."

"No!" Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said, "The eighth battalion in the 36th battalion has 100,000 people entering Shaanxi. What a big deal? If we go to fight with them and drive them away, we will not be able to hide the eyes and ears of the court. At that time, the people of the court will wonder why an army emerged from here to defeat the 36th battalion? Then they followed this line and checked, and they would definitely find us in the end..."

Zhu Yuanzhang paused and said, "But under the name of the coalition forces of several counties, even if we pull out tens of thousands of people and defeat the 36th Battalion with real swords and guns, we will not arouse suspicion from the court... Even if it arouses suspicion, the Donglin Party will help us wipe our butts to ensure that it is very clean. The Donglin Party's skill in wiping its butts can be called the Ming Dynasty!"

Ma Xiaotian suddenly realized: "So that's how it is?"

"And, I can try this Li Qingshui in this way to see if he is a conservative person or a person who knows how to adapt. If it is the former, he will inevitably become hopeless bureaucrats like other Dongliners in the future, but if it is the latter, he will still be saved."

When Zhu Yuanzhang said this, he suddenly saw the yard door open again, and Li Qingshui ran in again. He ran out in a daze just now, looking very depressed. Now he appears again, but his eyebrows are refreshed and his eyes are firm. He said seriously: "Chief, I have decided to launch all the surrounding county coalition forces in the name of me. If the court pursues the matter, I will take it all my strength! I can be beheaded and demoted for this, but I can't see that the people of these counties are poisoned. If other county magistrates dare not do this, let me do it!"

Oh! Zhu Yuanzhang raised his eyebrows slightly, and Ma Xiaotian couldn't help but look at him differently.

"It's not too late. I will write a letter to the surrounding counties!" Li Qingshui said with a high voice: "In addition, I plan to write a letter to the three-sided governor, Lord Hong Chengchou, hoping that he can give us some help. For the sake of being the Donglin Party, Lord Hong will definitely help us. Even if we can't provide troops, it should be no problem to give us some weapons and armor."

"Okay, come and write a letter to the county master." Zhu Yuanzhang shouted and the guards quickly grind ink and spread paper. With a wave of his pen, Li Qingshui wrote several letters in a slew of his letters. He was a real senior intellectual with excellent writing style and beautiful writing. Several letters were written in full momentum.

After writing, he called the "confident yamen runners" and asked them to quickly distribute them to each county town. Then Li Qingshui said, "The chief coach, I am ashamed. I have been here for several months, but I have not focused on the training of militia. I have always paid attention to agriculture. I am currently cramming... Can I let me visit the militia in my county?"

"What's wrong?" Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "Come with me!"

The group came outside the city under the heavy snow. Zhu Yuanzhang had already sent people to inform him in advance. All the elite soldiers of the Huanglong Mountain old village had hidden them, leaving only three thousand new recruits to inspect Li Qingshui. Although these three thousand were new recruits, they also participated in the wars such as the transition to the west of Shanxi, conquering Puzhou City, and trekking in Zhongtiao Mountain. After more than a year of training, they were already quite in a position at this time. Moreover, their equipment had greatly improved over the past year. Each of them was equipped with a spear with iron spear tips, and some of them had bows.

Pull out a stop and it is more processed than the ** garrison soldiers in the late Ming Dynasty!

Li Qingshui couldn't help but be moved: "The militia in this county is so elite?"

Is this the elite? Then the old team of our Huanglong Mountain Village must not fly into the sky? Ma Xiaotian smiled in his heart. Zhu Yuanzhang said seriously: "I can't say that there is any elite. When Baishui and Zhu Ba attack came two years ago, our militia was scared away. After finally recalling it, it has been more than a year of training. I hope they will not be scared away this time."

"Oh? So that's it!" Li Qingshui's suspicion just now was suppressed by Zhu Yuanzhang. He was still thinking: Since there is such a militia, why did he still hear that this place was once attacked by Baishui? But Zhu Yuanzhang was so capable of observing the face. His expression changed slightly. Zhu Yuanzhang had already guessed the problem and immediately remedyed it.

Li Qingshui couldn't help but say, "If the township brave troops in Chengcheng, Dali, Luochuan, Puxian, Huaxian and other places also had such strength, we might as well fight the bandits!"

When Zhu Yuanzhang and Ma Xiaotian heard this, they couldn't help but look at each other and laughed.

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In the next few days, Li Qingshui issued a notice asking the people to sign up to participate in the village army to defend their country. Not long after, more than 2,000 people signed up in Baishui, and as a result, the Republic of China expanded to 5,000 people in one fell swoop.

When Li Qingshui was in high school, he was the first reply from Chengcheng. Xin Lancheng, the magistrate of Chengcheng* County, was very good at speaking. He said that he could send 5,000 township heroes to fight together with Li Qingshui. The head coach of Chengcheng Militia was led by the third party leader of the Chengcheng Militia. The name of this "Three Party Leader" really made Li Qingshui confused. Who named it like this? But the name was someone's freedom, and Li Qingshui couldn't say much. Then the magistrate of Dali County also replied that he could send 3,000 township heroes, led by Miss Hong, the head coach of the Dali Militia.

Just after a three-member man passed, another red girl came here. Li Qingshui felt a little dizzy.

After fainting, he was a little happy. He gathered 13,000 township warriors in this way, which was really smooth! He didn't expect it to be so easy to gather the township warriors! If he knew that he had gathered 10,000 thieves under Baishui Zhu Ba's command, and the 3,000 thieves under Yulin Xue Hongqi, he still didn't know what he would be scared.

A few days later, a thousand brave troops from Luochuan came to Luochuan, and the leader was a scholar named Li Panlong. By the way, Li Panlong was an old acquaintance of Zhu Yuanzhang's army. He had chased and killed Miao Mei and almost killed Miao Mei. Later, he was scared away by Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang was a little worried about being recognized by Li Panlong and had made the worst plan, but he did not expect that Li Panlong did not recognize Zhu Yuanzhang at all.

A few years ago, I glanced at the army in a hurry, and it was far apart. The memories of so many years had long been blurred. He could no longer recognize Zhu Yuanzhang and others. Instead, he was full of energy to circle around Zhu Yuanzhang, and wanted to discuss some training methods with Zhu Yuanzhang all day long. It seemed that this guy was also a person who likes to fight.
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