The guards were unable to fight, and even the guards on the nine sides were reduced to the foil of the camp soldiers.
Chen Wang has known about these things for a long time, whether it is in the memory of the original person or the understanding of future generations, he understands and understands them clearly.
But when Chen Wang went to the school field and saw with his own eyes a group of guards under Luo Guizhong's command, Chen Wang still froze in place.
It is said that among the more than 2,700 guards, more than 700 are on guard in the North City, more than 300 are in the West City, and only about 1,700 are left in the camp.
There was indeed a crowd of soldiers standing on the school ground, but at a glance, only half of them were young and middle-aged people, and they were all standing in the front row.
Standing at the back, Chen Wang even saw people with gray hair, including many children in their teens.
The queue of young men standing in front was relatively neat, but the queue behind them became increasingly chaotic.
They were also wearing a variety of clothes. Almost no one was wearing military uniforms, just the tattered clothes they used to work in the fields. Some of them could not even cover their bodies.
If it weren't for the Ming army flags standing in the school grounds, Chen Wang would never have believed that this was an army.
Chen Wang's face twitched slightly. I'm afraid that the guards who looked like refugees he saw in Xi'an were all carefully selected.
Many of the people on the campus were as good-looking as the refugees he met outside Pizhou City.
There is a shortage of vacancies in the guard army all year round, and there are many deserters.
This time Hong Chengchou summoned Xi'an's vanguard and asked them to send out 3,000 troops.
Of the three thousand people who went north to Chunhua, more than half were patchworked here and there.
It was better for Hong Chengchou to personally send someone to keep an eye on this, otherwise he might send fewer young men and worse weapons.
There were indeed 3,000 people who set out from Xi'an Qianwei, but by the time they arrived at Chunhua after walking more than 100 miles, only 2,700 people were left.
More than 300 people fled one after another before reaching Chunhua.
"I don't care what your previous organization was. People under forty-five years old and over eighteen years old are divided into one group, and the rest are divided into another group."
"Report to me how many servants there are in the military academy."
Chen Wang left the school directly after leaving a word to Luo Guizhong.
After staying in the school grounds for another hour and a half, Chen Wang estimated that his blood pressure would rise to the top.
Although Chunhua is a transportation hub between Xi'an and Qingyang, due to its geographical location, it is only a small county and is under the jurisdiction of Pizhou.
After several turmoils, the city now has a population of only more than 10,000 people including those who moved into the city due to war.
The city wall is only a few miles in circumference, but the city wall is quite high, about four meters, and some areas even reach almost five meters.
To be honest, although Chen Wang had a bad impression of Wang Zhaolin at first, after two days, he realized that the county magistrate was a good person and his abilities were not bad.
When the people around the county heard about the fall of Sanshui, they fled south. As long as they could prove their identity in the county, Wang Zhaolin put them in the city.
The other unidentified persons were also given certain rations and allowed them to continue walking south.
Those who entered the city were also placed together, and everything they had that could be used as weapons was confiscated.
Yamen were also sent to maintain order, and Luo Guizhong was asked to assign some soldiers to serve as guards to prevent riots.
After all, it is already known to everyone that the bandits should break up Sanshui City.
The weather in August is getting hotter and hotter, and time is passing by little by little.
There are more and more rogues riding outside the city, from just a few to dozens, and now to hundreds or even hundreds.
The atmosphere of panic slowly spread towards the entire Chunhua City.
Chen Wang pressed the Yan Ling Dao on his waist and led several personal guards to inspect the city wall again.
There were only about 900 useful people in the guard, and they managed to scrape together long spears and more than 200 pieces of reasonably usable armor.
Luo Guizhong was accompanied by three thousand-household officials, and the total number of servants under their command was more than a hundred.
Chen Wang asked him to lead more than 900 young men as a group to guard the west and north walls.
If the rogues are going south, they must come from the northwest.
Chunhua is surrounded by three mountains, and there are not many places where we can deploy our troops. We can only attack from the west and from the north.
Therefore, Xicheng and Beicheng are the first defense points, and the other two sides only need to allocate a small number of troops.
Other military remnants serve as auxiliary soldiers. The task of these people is to help carry ordnance during wartime and to help with chores in peacetime.
They reorganized the company into an army and sent people to train for five or six days. These guards could be regarded as having a sense of the army.
Of course, there is only one point...
Chen Wang was about to walk down the city wall when he saw a familiar figure.
Tang Shiping, with his helmet on his head and his armor pierced his head, walked forward, clasped his hands into fists, and bowed down in obeisance.
"For the humble job, please see Mr. Qian."
Chen Wang was not surprised by Tang Shiping's arrival. Cao Wenzhao had already informed him before.
There are hundreds of thousands of bandits in the direction of Qingyang Mansion.
Once it goes south, it will be impossible to defend Chunhua no matter what its current military strength.
Although three thousand guards sounds like a lot, everyone knows that no one can count on those guards.
The reason why the bandits have not gone south yet is because they are frightened by Tang Jiuzhou's name.
Also, there was no news of the advance from Gao Yingxiang.
The guards alone were not enough, so Cao Wenzhao asked Tang Shiping to still lead Chen Wang's original Fourth Bureau troops to aid Chunhua.
Otherwise, relying on Chunhua's existing military strength, I'm afraid it will fall after not holding on for a few days.
"This time we escorted a total of 376 collars of riveted cloth face armor, 120 collars of mail armor, 420 pairs of iron shield arms, and 420 high-top helmets..."
Tang Shiping took out an official document with both hands, raised it to his head, and said.
"There are a number of spears, sabers, and arrows. There are records of them in the book."
"The two divisions of leading troops and soldiers, totaling 875 people, will arrive within the period. Please ask Mr. Qian to check the official documents."
Tang Shiping arrived escorting the ordnance distributed by Hong Chengchou, and a total of eight rounds of soldiers arrived with him.
"Two divisions?"
Chen Wang was slightly startled and said doubtfully.
"Why is there an extra division..."
Chen Wang unfolded the official document in his hand and did not continue to ask the questions because he had already got the answer.
The other four rounds were the remnant soldiers under Ai Wannian and others, and they were temporarily left to him to control.
There are more than 800 infantry, plus more than 900 cavalry and more than 900 guards, and there are a total of 2,600 capable people defending the city.
With the addition of more than 3,000 auxiliary soldiers and strong men in the city, the defense of the city can be considered more confident.
The rogue army lacked siege weapons. The cannons they fired were not red cannons. They were not very powerful and could not break through the city walls covered with bricks.
Chen Wang put away the official document and was about to say something, but in the end his words remained unsaid.
Because just above the mountains in the west, three lines of wolf smoke were slowly rising.
