Opposite to Jiangbei Duo is Qi Chi Duo.

Just twenty miles away from Qichi Ferry, it is Qichi County, Runzhou.

Zhang Debao, the county magistrate of Qichi County, was very unhappy these two days.

As an important county town for Yangtze River defense, Qichi County has an army of 2,000 people.

Since the Jinghua period, the 36 countries in the Western Regions raised troops to attack Ning. They crossed the river and destroyed Qichi County, they continued to go south and finally were defeated by the soldiers of Ningguo and the whole country.

Then, their remnants withdrew from Ningguo.

In the next nearly a hundred years, this place never suffered any other war disasters.

At that time, Prime Minister Shang sent defense troops to important towns on the Yangtze River, and this practice has remained until now.

But there has been no war in the past century, and the so-called two thousand defense forces are actually only one name left.

There are only more than 300 soldiers now!

But the one reported to the Ministry of War is still two thousand!

The empty salary of more than 1,600 people is not something that a mere county magistrate can afford to eat!

Most of them were tributed to the Grand Governor Song Shiming.

Yesterday, he received an emergency military information from the Grand Commander and ordered him to rectify the two thousand troops stationed and garrisoned and traversed. If he met a team of about five hundred female bandits... he would kill them all!

News from Jiangbei has spread.

Zhang Debao felt that the Grand Governor had some misunderstanding of the term female bandit.

Is that a female bandit?

If the bandits in Ningguo were as powerful as theirs, if they gathered together and tied together, would Ningguo have been destroyed?

Besides, the Grand Governor knew that there were only more than 320 soldiers in Qichi County, and they were all related households!

The serious mansion soldiers on the opposite side of Jiangbei have a number of thousands of people, and they are not the opponent of the 500 female bandits. Now you have to use these 300 soldiers who have not even touched their swords to kill them...

"Prince Chen, the command of the Grand Commander must not be violated!"

Qichi County County Government Office, County Magistrate Zhang Debao looked at the county magistrate Chen who was sitting in the lower head, stroked his short beard and said with a serious expression:

"I want to ask, do you have a good idea to deal with it?"

County Wei Chen, who is over fifty years old, is also an old man in the officialdom.

I knew about this yesterday, and of course he also had a preliminary understanding of the group of female bandits in Jiangbei.

If you fight, you will definitely not win.

Unless it is Runzhou who sends troops.

But all the soldiers from Runzhou were transferred to Feng County in Pingjiang Prefecture, and it was obvious that there was no longer any extra troops to support Qichi County.

At this moment, the county magistrate spoke, and he quickly bowed his hand and smiled: "Sir, I feel at ease!"

"At first, there are six places on the front line of our Jiangnan Road... No one knows which ferry the female bandit would cross the river."

"That's the second...if they really come from our cabin, they will definitely have to fight, but as for how they play... the Xiaguan thinks it can be ever-changing."

When Zhang Debao heard this, he frowned slightly, "Tell me carefully."

County Magistrate Chen leaned over and whispered: "Sir, actually, the other five counties that govern the corresponding ferry entrances are no different from ours."

"Even if it is bigger, even the entire Jiangnan and Ningguo prefectures and counties will not be much better."

"In recent years, the treasury of our Ningguo has been empty!"

"The treasury is empty, and the military is empty!"

"Everyone and the others are concerned about making money and getting empty wages... not only the soldiers of the states, but even the four border troops...they have a bigger appetite!"

"So the people in the Beimo Wilderness invaded the border, and the court thought that General Xiahou Zhuo Xiahou had withdrawn from Jiuyin City for the sake of his former crown prince's military merits..."

"It just so happened that Xiaguan had a distant relative in the Beimo border army. He was a confidant of General Xiahou and was in charge of the military account books of the northern border army!"

The Chen County Magistrate suddenly stood up, walked to the door, poked his head out and looked around for a while, then closed the door and returned to the tea table.

He leaned over again and his voice lowered: "Sir, the northern border army, the number of people registered in the Ministry of War is 120,000! But do you know how many?"

Zhang Debao immediately widened his eyes, leaned over, and asked in a low voice: "How many?"

County Magistrate Chen stretched out a slap and compared: "No more than 50,000!"

Zhang Debao took a breath of cold air with a "hiss!" and asked in disbelief: "Have you eaten a vacant salary of 70,000 people?"

County Magistrate Chen nodded, "Isn't that true!"

He sat up straight again, "The other three border troops are basically the same!"

"So the defeat of Beimo must be defeated!"

"After the leader of the deserted man Yuwen Feng occupied Jiuyin City, he originally wanted to continue to go south, but there was a rumor that someone sent a letter to Yuwen Feng."

"Originally, Yuwen Feng had already rectified his troops in Jiuyin City and had already led his army out of the city for ten miles, but after receiving the letter, he retreated back to Jiuyin City without hesitation."

"That's why Princess Sulin of Ningguo is in the future and will be married! Yuwen Feng's troops are entrenched in Jiuyin City and have never gone south again!"

Zhang Debao asked curiously: "Who in Ningguo has such a big face to make Yuwen Feng shrank back?"

"I heard...it's Xi Wei!"

Zhang Debao was shocked again, "...Xi Wei? How is this possible?"

He shook his head repeatedly, "Isn't Xi Wei's plan the Ningguo? Yuwen Feng went south and Ningguo was in chaos. This should be what he wanted to see!"

County Magistrate Chen smiled slightly: "It doesn't matter who it is. What's important is... sir, even the northern border army can be defeated. Not to mention the loss of troops and generals, can anyone in your court settle the score with General Xiahou?"

"Even the loss of land is not important. A group of female bandits are just robbing their families. Isn't this reasonable even if we can't prevent them?"

Zhang Debao's eyes rolled, "You mean... a feint attack, is it really defeat?"

"Yes, feint attack, lose without fighting!"

"We only have three hundred soldiers. These three hundred soldiers are all children of the gentry and landlords in our Qichi County... They come to join the army and they all gave away silver!".o

"It's hard to explain."

"If this play is to be done more seriously, the officials thought they would just draw some people from the poor's homes... They would die if they died, and they would fight for the country, and they would die... Just give them some honor!"

"The Grand Governor can also have an explanation. If we are not good at it, it is really too cruel to the bandits!"

Zhang Debao laughed, "A clever plan!"

"That's it!"

"Now you go to the poor's home to draw children, one for three for three for five for two... There are not many weapons and armor in our warehouse, and ask them to bring their own sickles or hatches... Tell them that after the bandit suppression is over, the county will personally award them a certificate of commendation!"

"Sir, obey the order!"

County Magistrate Chen stood up and left, Zhang Debao picked up the teacup and hummed a small song.

By the way, I have to tell the concubine that she has a distant nephew in the army, but don’t really go up and fight those female bandits!

Suddenly, he closed his mouth again and frowned again between his eyebrows.

The Regent took advantage of Jiangnan, and now Yu Datai and the Governor of Song have created such a large formation to kill the Regent in Jiangnan...

If this matter can be accomplished, it will certainly be a good thing for everyone to be happy.

If it cannot be...

Zhang Debao's heart suddenly jumped. No, he had to send the money he had obtained over the years to Jiangnan!

If the more than Daotai loses, there are probably few officials in the entire Jiangnan Road who will be spared.

He walked out.

I thought to myself if the Regent knew about this news that he could not hide at all, would he go back to Kyoto?
Chapter completed!