"My lord, are you sure you want to do this?"
Jiang He was still a little hesitant, but Zhao Jun's cold eyes gave him a definite answer.
He lowered his head and understood what he should do.
"Then Prince, we can't recruit without limit, we can only recruit in batches. How many people should we recruit in the first batch?"
Jiang He asked, after confirming the plan, he immediately put everything else behind his mind and started planning seriously.
"Two hundred thousand, let's use these conscripts as reserves and distribute them to various border towns.
Then began to recruit the second batch, also 200,000. At this time, there should be time for a little training, and replenishment will be made wherever the front line is in urgent need.
If the reserves are not enough, we will continue to recruit them. We must ensure that there will not be a shortage of troops on the front line. "
Zhao Jun said.
After Jiang He heard this, his heart suddenly trembled. The prince's method of adding fuel to the fire seemed to cause more casualties than he expected.
But this is indeed the best way at the moment.
Then he remembered the prince's words firmly.
That day, accompanied by rain, a bloody order was sent out from Yunzhou City.
The message quickly reached the hands of the three counties of Shendu through Haidongqing.
On the day of receiving the order, the three counties of Shendu immediately issued a summons order to the government!
With the cooperation of the garrisoned soldiers, the government officials came to each drug-infected village one by one and began to arrest people.
After they had captured enough people, they stopped, and took the captured men away regardless of the screams of the poisonous people.
Soon, the first batch of reserves were added to the frontline cities.
Although these Shendu menace troops have poor combat effectiveness, they are defending the city. Even with enough soldiers and food, the Shendu army still cannot quickly break through the city.
They can only continue to attack the city by force, because they don't have much time, so they can only continue to attack the city, hoping to scare the other side into collapse and break the city by using this method regardless of casualties.
But what the Shendu Army didn't expect was that they were about to capture these border cities. The defenders in these cities had been reduced to a dangerous level by their attacks regardless of the cost, and they would collapse in a short time.
But when they were ready to make an all-out effort the next day, they suddenly found that the garrison in the city was once again sufficient.
That was the arrival of the first batch of reserves. Their arrival promptly replenished the defense forces of each city, allowing the border towns that were originally in danger to stabilize again.
The Shendu Army was naturally furious when they found out. All the previous efforts had been wasted. Who wouldn't be furious now?
As there was no other way, no matter how angry he was, he could only continue to attack the city.
The two sides began to continue to add fuel to the war of attrition.
The Shendu regular army was naturally stronger than the Wei Congjun and the newly transferred reserve army, but the Wei Congjun had the advantage of defending the city, and the two sides actually fought evenly.
The casualty ratio was about one to one.
Uninstalling all sieges is extremely rare.
The casualties of the defenders have always been much less than those of the attackers.
But something has changed here in Wai Congjun!
But it can also be seen to what extent their combat effectiveness is inferior.
However, they still achieved their goal of holding back the Shendu Army.
The two sides continued to fight bloody battles around various border towns!
The forces of both sides were being depleted rapidly. After Yunzhou County saw the reserve army being used again, the rear side immediately began to form the second, third, and even fourth reserve arm.
Soldiers were constantly being added to the front line.
However, after fighting each other for a month and the number of soldiers on the other side's city wall still increasing, the Shendu army that came to attack suffered heavy losses.
In just one month, on the two front battlefields, they directly reduced their number by one hundred thousand!
One-third of the original 300,000-strong army was directly lost, but they still failed to capture any of the border towns in the two counties.
When the news came back to the capital, King Shendu was furious, but now that time was running out, he had no choice but to suppress his anger and order the army to recruit soldiers directly from the local area and nearby areas.
Be sure to open the defense lines of the two counties as soon as possible and break through the two counties!
General Shendu, who led the troops, immediately obeyed the order, and the provinces that were still part of the Shendu country also began to arrest young men.
The two sides continued to fight under this fueling tactic, and the number of casualties was increasing.
Nanli County.
"Grandpa, why do those government officials arrest so many people with body poisoning? I heard Brother A Niu say that all the men in the body poisoning village next door have been arrested by the government in the past two months."
Now thirteen years old, the little girl has grown into a lively girl with a ponytail. She looks youthful. This is the popular hairstyle for girls in Nanli County in recent years. Most girls have such a hairstyle. .
He was much older than he had been five years ago. The wrinkles on his face could almost kill a mosquito. Lao Li straightened his head and his slightly stooped body, and glanced at the body that was being strung up with ropes and taken away not far away. The poisonous man's eyes flashed and he replied:
"There was a war on the front line, and the government didn't have enough soldiers, so they came down to recruit troops.
When I went to the county a few days ago, I heard that King Yun had conscripted the poisonous people into the army. Every family with a poisonous person must send men to the front line unconditionally as long as there are men in the family.
There was no need to tie them up. These were probably people who were unwilling to go and wanted to escape but were caught. "
When the little girl heard this, Li Yuer blinked her big eyes curiously and asked, "Since it's a war, why did Prince Yun only recruit poisonous people, but Brother A Niu and the others didn't recruit any of them?"
Old Li Tou suddenly laughed, raised his hand and touched his granddaughter's head and said with a smile: "Girl, fighting is not fun, it will kill people. Have you not seen how many times the government has come to arrest people in the past two months?" ?
That's all because all those caught before died.
Isn't it a good thing that A Niu and the others are not drafted?
Do you still want them to go? "
When Li Yu'er heard this, she stuck out her tongue playfully and said sheepishly, "I'm just curious and didn't want Brother Niu and the others to go."
Lao Litou smiled and then explained: "Because we are from the Song Dynasty, we don't have to go.
In other words, it’s not yet time for us to go. "
Li Yuer suddenly realized that although she was only thirteen years old now, girls always matured early, and she had long discovered the difference between Song people and Shendu people.
If a Song Dynasty person and a poisonous person did something wrong, the yamen's verdict would be different.
Here, people from the Song Dynasty are born with higher status than those with poisonous bodies.
Old Liu Tou slapped the little girl on the head, laughed and cursed:
“You have time to be curious here!
Have you packed everything that needs to be packed?
Today is your last day of rest, and you will go back to school tomorrow. If your husband comes to me again this month and says that you don’t listen carefully in class, then don’t blame grandpa, I will slap you on the palm of my hand! "
As soon as this was mentioned, Li Yu'er exclaimed: "Ah! Today is the last day? I haven't finished the homework left by my husband yet. It's over! Woohoo! How miserable!"
Seeing his granddaughter crying and rushing back to the house to make up for her homework, Lao Li shook his head helplessly: "This girl! Alas..."
Then he raised his hand and looked at the row of poisonous figures being pulled away by the government officials as they gradually moved away, thinking to himself.
"It seems that next year at the latest, Lao Zhangtou's new grandson will also be divided.
These poisonous people are lazy and don't take good care of such good land. It is a waste to cultivate this land for them! "
Shaking his head, Lao Li turned around and slowly returned to the house.
It's a pity that that boy Pingye and his wife died early, otherwise our Li family might be able to get ten more acres of land next year.
well……
When people get old, they always like to recall the past. The early death of his son and daughter-in-law has always been a hurdle that Lao Li can't get over.
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(End of chapter)
