Chen Wang led the troops out of the military camp, clasping his hands and preparing to salute, but Wang Zhaolin had already walked over in a hurry.
"Mr. Chen Qian, the residents in the city were in panic a few days ago and it was difficult to allocate supplies, so there was a shortage of food and grass."
"Now that the city has settled down, there will never be a shortage of supplies in the future."
Wang Zhaolin was trembling when he walked with all the fat on his body. He was already sweating after saying a few words. Even if he kept fanning himself with a fan, he still couldn't relieve the heat.
"It's normal to be busy with affairs. The county magistrate has ignored the past grudges. Now he has sent meat and food. It's too late for me to be grateful."
In the Ming Dynasty, although Chen Wang could not understand that Wang Zhaolin, a magistrate, would lower his attitude to such a low level, he looked sincere and expressed his gratitude.
"Mr. Chen Qian is too polite. If you still have any difficulties, just ask."
Wang Zhaolin kept fanning himself and said with a forced smile.
"If it is necessary to recruit auxiliary soldiers and civilians, more than 2,000 people can be recruited immediately. I have ordered the government officials in the city to deal with it first."
"In that case, thank you so much, Lord County."
Chen Wang didn't know why, but the etiquette was still thorough.
"There are many affairs in the county. Since the food and grass have been delivered, I will go back to the government office to handle official duties."
Wang Zhaolin didn't stay long, maybe because he felt extremely uncomfortable because of the heat, or maybe he really had official business to deal with, so he led the Yamen servants to leave after speaking.
Chen Wang took a few symbolic steps forward and then stopped, as did the young general wearing armor and red robes.
In fact, this was a misunderstanding caused by Chen Wang's unfamiliarity with the officialdom at this time.
Wang Zhaolin, the magistrate of Chunhua County, was originally frightened by the arrival of most of the bandits. Now that he had received orders from Hong Chengchou, he did not dare to say anything.
Hong Chengchou was originally appointed to be the governor of five provinces, but he was only responsible for the military affairs of the five provinces, and he still had no jurisdiction over many things.
However, the governor-general of the three provinces served by Hong Chengchou could directly control the governors of the three provinces, and he was directly in charge.
Therefore, no one in Shaanxi's state or county officials dared to disobey Hong Chengchou's order.
If you offend the emperor and be reprimanded, you can still gain a reputation as an upright and upright person among the scholars.
But if Hong Chengchou is offended, he will definitely be dismissed from office. And according to Hong Chengchou's personality, it will be difficult for him to recover in the future.
After Wang Zhaolin got on the official sedan, the general in armor and red robe watched Wang Zhaolin leave, then turned around and saluted Chen Wang.
"Luo Guizhong, the commander of the Xi'an avant-garde, met Mr. Chen Qian."
Chen Wang guessed correctly, this general was none other than Luo Guizhong, the commander of the Xi'an vanguard.
However, Chen Wang did not expect that Luo Guizhong was so young and looked to be in his early twenties.
Of course, this is extremely normal among the Guard Army. After all, Guard Army positions are hereditary.
In the Battle of Xi'an, many officers were killed in the Guard Army, and their heirs naturally had to fill the vacancies.
Chen Wang was neither humble nor overbearing and returned the favor.
Luo Guizhong was a commanding officer of the fourth rank, two ranks higher than him in terms of official position, but he was still under his control.
Just having a military position in the Weisuo Army, no matter how high the rank is, it is of little use. Not only is he lower than the civilian officials, but he is also shorter than the battalion officers.
The Weisuo army has been unable to fight for a long time, not to mention the Weisuo army in the mainland.
From Wang Zhaolin's actions just now, we can see how low the status of the guards' officers is.
Not even a seventh grade magistrate takes it seriously.
"The rogue bandits from the north are eyeing us, and time is running out, so I won't be too polite."
Facing Luo Guizhong, Chen Wang naturally stopped claiming to be subordinate.
The guard army and the camp army are not in the same system, and the two sides do not belong to each other.
"The military gate passed an order, ordering me to take charge of Chunhua's defense. I need to know how well Chunhua City's defense preparations are now."
Although Luo Guizhong looks young, the guard army has been in peace for a long time and cannot bear the war, but as a general, he still has basic military qualities, he said immediately.
"There are still about 2,000 logs in the rolling wooden city. There was an original quarry in the south of the city. In the past few days, more than 3,000 kilograms of Leishi have been ordered to be transported. Dozens of cauldrons have been found to boil the golden juice. It can be used at any time.”
"But there is almost no ordnance in the city, and the artillery in the city is old. No one in the guard dares to use it. If it can't fire a few shots, it will explode."
Chen Wang's face darkened. Most of the Liao soldiers in the camp were now defeated.
On the way to escape, almost all the armor was lost, but there were still swords and most of the bows and arrows were hung on the saddles. Therefore, most people still had their sabers and bows and arrows.
However, if the arrows were distributed among everyone, there would probably be only about twenty feathered arrows.
There are now fifty-seven armored leaders in the camp, and there are more than sixty servants under his command, totaling just over a hundred.
These more than a hundred people can play a negligible role on a battlefield of tens of thousands of people.
The difference between wearing armor and not wearing armor is two orders of magnitude.
Although many of the iron armors worn by the Jiubian Ming Army were short of clothing and materials, it was still difficult to cause any damage to them with swords, spears and stabs.
Therefore, in the early days of the civil uprising, a small number of Ming troops were able to chase tens of thousands of bandits fleeing east and west, repeatedly defeating the masses with a small number.
But the current situation is reversed.
Chen Wang looked gloomy. Sanshui City fell, Zhang Waijia died, and thousands of Liao soldiers fell into the city.
But the biggest loss of the Ming army was the loss of thousands of pieces of armor and a large number of war horses and other military equipment.
Most of the armor worn by the ordinary soldiers in Liao Town was iron armor. With so many armors and war horses, Li Zicheng and Hui Deng could each arm seven or eight hundred elite cavalry.
Chen Wang asked Luo Guizhong some more questions.
But Luo Guizhong's subsequent answers began to be a little ambiguous and stammered.
Chen Wang didn't talk to Luo Guizhong anymore. Luo Guizhong looked like someone who had never been on the battlefield.
The information I got from his mouth was enough, and I couldn't get anything out by asking anymore.
"Go and gather your soldiers and wait for my arrival on the campus."
Luo Guizhong did send someone to stay overnight to scout out the enemy's situation outside the city, but he was driven back by the rogue cavalry.
After killing and wounding seven or eight cavalrymen, Luo Guizhong did not dare to send any more people out of the city.
In other words, they are completely ignorant of the situation outside the city.
The situation in Chunhua is far worse than Chen Wang imagined.
The guards led by Luo Guizhong were all from the Xi'an vanguard. It was said that there were more than 3,000 people, but in fact there were more than 2,700 people.
Xi'an Qianwei is the guard post in Xi'an Prefecture. It is located in the Guanzhong Plain and is near Xi'an Prefecture.
During the Battle of Xi'an, their troops went out of the city to fight in the field, while the guards in Xi'an Mansion served as auxiliary soldiers, doing the work that the civilians needed to do.
Many of those military households were even more like refugees than refugees. Some of them were not even wearing shirts and were all topless.
They are the regular soldiers in the guard. The uniforms worn by many of them have long been washed and turned white, and there are even soldiers with patches.
The weapons they hold are also various. They have everything.
Chen Wang even saw some Weisuo soldiers holding antique firearms that might have been from the Longqing period.
That is to say, the few thousand households and servants under the commanders still have some fighting strength. Their armor and weapons are quite sophisticated and can barely be seen.
