Yu Huai, who was sitting on the seat, was startled and said hurriedly: "Quick, bring it here."
The visitor handed over a secret letter with both hands.
Yu Huai tore open the seal, took out the letter paper, held it in front of his eyes and read it.
The middle-aged man sitting aside looked nervously at the letter in Yu Huai's hand.
"Kehu Village is lost. The army from Yulin Town has entered Linxian. The personal division has returned to Linxian. The division is ordering our 2nd and 3rd War Battalions to immediately march into Dingzhou to occupy the dangerous strategic points of Guguan and block the enemy. The enemy in the east." Yu Huai said to the middle-aged man.
Hearing this, the middle-aged man frowned and said: "Now Shouyang is about to divide the fields. If the army leaves at this time, the situation in Shouyang is likely to repeat. The big households in Shouyang may not be willing to have their fields divided."
Without a large army to guard the city, he was worried that the situation in Shouyang would get out of control.
"Military orders are important. I definitely can't stay in Shouyang, and I will leave for Pingding Prefecture soon. I will leave a fighting group here in Shouyang. You first select a group of innocent prisoners to join the peasant army. , to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible, and with the cooperation of a large group of soldiers, there won't be any big trouble." Yu Huai said.
The middle-aged man sighed and said: "That's all we can do, but you have to leave me a few cannons and gunners to operate them. If we encounter any trouble, having a few cannons can also deter those people." A person with an unstable mind.”
"I will leave at most two cannons for you. Cannons are needed to attack Pingding and Leping. There is a new Guguan guarding Qianhu Station over Guguan. If you want to successfully capture Guguan, you can't do it without cannons." Yu Huai promised to leave two cannons. Door cannon.
The middle-aged man said: "That's enough. Two cannons are enough. You have to leave some more gunpowder and cannon balls for me."
"That's no problem. Before the army sets off, I will arrange for someone to hand over the two cannons to you along with the remaining soldiers," Yu Huai said.
The middle-aged man said gratefully: "I would like to thank Deputy Master Zheng in advance."
"Okay, we are all our own people. There is no need to be so open-minded. Cooperating with you to divide the fields is what the army should do. This time we have captured so many prefectures and counties, and your manpower is tight. Divide the fields equally and gain the trust of the people. Everything will be fine," Yu Huai said.
The middle-aged man nodded.
The common people are the kindest people. Anyone who treats them well will naturally gain their sincere support.
"The army is about to set off. Assistant Division Master Yu must be busy with a lot of things, so I won't disturb him." The middle-aged man stood up from his seat.
Yu Huai also stood up and said, "Okay, you go back first. I will send you the people and cannon before you leave."
The two of them walked in tandem, and Yu Huai sent them out of the back office.
The plan did not change quickly. He originally wanted to assist the personnel sent to Shouyang by the Tiger Character Banner to divide the fields. Now a military order suddenly came. The matter of dividing the fields can only be left to these people themselves. The army cannot stay in Shouyang. To sit in town, you need to go to Pingding Prefecture.
When the order for the army to set off was given, the Tiger Flag team in Shouyang quickly took action, packed their backpacks, and left Shouyang immediately.
In Linxian County, the westernmost city opposite Shouyang, various defensive tools began to be prepared in the city.
"Captain, are we just leaving like this?" The speaker was a peasant soldier holding a spear.
He looked at the village behind him with reluctance in his eyes.
"With tens of thousands of officers and soldiers, if we don't leave, we won't be able to fill the gaps in people's teeth with just the few people we have." A team leader of the peasant soldiers patted the other party's shoulder with his hand.
The village behind them is their home, a place where their ancestors lived until one month later, they had to leave this place where their ancestors lived.
"I don't want to leave. The Tiger Character Banner has just allocated a field to me. When the grain is harvested, I won't have to go hungry. But now that I'm leaving, the army has harmed the seedlings in my field. How can I maintain the summer harvest?" The whole family is starving again." The peasants and soldiers reluctantly looked at the green fields around the village.
The captain of the peasant and soldier team said with a fierce face: "Don't die, don't you know what the virtues of the officers and soldiers are? If you stay here at this time, you will die, so hurry up and leave."
"I have a big gun. I can kill the enemy. Come one and I will kill one. Come and I will kill a pair." The peasant soldier held the spear in his hand tightly with both hands.
Snapped!
The peasant and soldier squad leader slapped him on the back of the head and yelled, "Even if you can kill one, or two, you can still kill all the tens of thousands of enemies."
"Killing one is enough, killing two is enough to earn one." The peasant soldier said unconvinced.
When the peasant and soldier team leader heard this, he rolled his eyes angrily and said angrily: "Stupid, we are only a few dozen peasants and soldiers, and we all died here. What will happen to these folks who came out of the village? Let them follow you. Death?"
The peasants and soldiers did not speak.
The captain of the peasant and soldier team continued: "There must be cavalry in the tens of thousands of officers and soldiers, and there is no shortage of archers. If you are like this, you will be shot to death by the enemy's bows and arrows before you get close to the enemy. You are not even qualified to meet the requirements."
He severely reprimanded the peasants and soldiers in front of him.
These farmers and soldiers only took a few months to form, and they usually only maintained the security of the village. They were far from being a match for the imperial army.
"What are you still doing? If you haven't followed up yet, the villagers are still waiting for us to protect you." The peasant soldier squad leader raised his leg and lightly kicked the peasant soldier in front of him in the butt.
The peasant soldier staggered forward two steps and quickly stabilized his center of gravity.
At this moment, a fast horse galloped from a distance and stopped close to the peasant and soldier team leader.
The peasant soldiers who were about to leave took back the steps they had just taken.
"Captain Chen, the mayor ordered your team to leave half of the peasant soldiers behind, and let the remaining half of the peasant soldiers escort the people to Linxian County." The person said on horseback.
The peasant and soldier team leader looked up at the man on horseback and asked, "What happened?"
"A few hundred officers and soldiers are chasing behind them. Someone needs to hold them back, otherwise they won't be able to leave," said the man on horseback.
The captain of the peasant and soldier team said: "I understand, I will arrange the remaining personnel right now."
"I'm leaving first, and I'm going to notify other farmers' associations. Remember to keep the remaining farmers and soldiers to meet the mayor and drive them!" the man on horseback said, urging the horse to leave.
"It's such a troubled time." The peasant and soldier team leader cursed secretly, and immediately saw the peasant soldier with a spear in his hand approaching, "What are you going to do? Hurry up and follow the villagers to Linxian County."
The peasant soldier stepped forward with a shy face and said: "Captain, let me stay! Didn't that person just say that? We need to keep half of our team."
"It's none of your business to leave half of the people behind. Go quickly. Remember to tell the deputy captain that I'm going to the mayor." The captain of the peasant and soldier team explained.
