The wind rises at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 123 Dilemma
"Guan Qilin from Qianhu Office of Qianhu Office in Mian County, pay a visit to General Chen."

Guan Qilin didn't hesitate at all, as soon as he came in, he knelt down on the ground like a golden mountain and a jade pillar, respectfully saluting.

His etiquette can be said to be incomplete, and he does not look like a local snake at all.

Although the status of the guard officers is lower than that of the battalion officers, the battalion officers have no command and no right to govern the guard officers, and the two do not belong to the same system.

Generally speaking, as Qianhu Guan Qilin, there is no need to be so respectful at all.

But now it is not a normal situation. Now a large number of rogues have fled from Yuguan into Hanzhong Mansion.

The battle between Lueyang and Jinniu has already spread to Hanzhong Mansion.

Now the entire Hanzhong Mansion is in panic, and Mian County is the first place to bear the brunt. Many wealthy gentry have taken refuge in the direction of Nanzheng in the east.

Chen Wang left his seat, stepped forward to help Guan Qilin, and said in a warm voice.

"Just now, my subordinates and I were observing the terrain in Dingjun Mountain. We are so negligent. Please shut down thousands of households and don't blame them."

The responsibility of guarding the land is not limited to the magistrate of a county, but also the officers of the guards.

In the seventh year, the bandits also broke through Yuguan once. They entered Hanzhong to burn, kill and loot wantonly, but they were blocked from Mian County.

The thousand households in the Qianhu Office of Mian County are not rich. The military fields in the past were either occupied by King Rui who was sealed in Hanzhong or stolen by those gentry.

The inland guards are similar, desertion is serious, and the Qianhusuo under Guan Qilin's hands is no exception, and it is located in the hinterland of Hanzhong, so there is nowhere to go even if you want to hook the army.

And when the Qing soldiers enter the customs, the flames of war will sweep across the entire China.

The reason why he came to Chen Wang was because he wanted to know how Chen Wang planned to arrange it next, whether to suppress or defend.

"This……"

"General Chen has benevolence in his heart and helps the villagers who have suffered from military disasters. Although I am in Mian County, I have heard it from others."

Guan Qilin's tense expression relaxed a little. Although he hadn't been with Chen Wang for long, he felt that this young guerrilla general seemed to be a good talker. At least he always spoke in a pleasant manner, and he didn't reprimand him as if he was a subordinate. .

Fortunately, you can pull a lever and send the tram to another track.

Guan Qilin's face was a little embarrassed, he was sitting on the chair with only half of his buttocks, his hands were on his knees, and he was leaning forward very uncomfortable.

Then lower the conditions and put forward smaller requirements that the other party can accept.

Guan Qilin waved his hands again and again, with a smile on his face.

If he escaped, Guan Qilin, as a thousand householder, would not be able to cut off ten heads, and he would implicate his clan.

Guan Qilin's expression moved slightly. He didn't know why Chen Wang suddenly asked this question, so he could only answer truthfully and nodded.

The thousand-household camp led by Guan Qilin usually has only five or six hundred regular troops, which is less than half of the fixed number of soldiers. Now the entire thousand-household camp, including the elderly, weak, women and children, only has more than two thousand people.

Wherever the rogues went, almost not a single blade of grass grew.

Everything was within Chen Wang's expectations.

"The bandits burned, killed and looted all the way into the country. People along the road suffered from military disasters and their houses were destroyed. There was no place to shelter from the wind and rain, and there was no food supply for the winter. No one cared about the states and counties along the road."

Guan Qilin was also ordered to lead the troops to guard the plank road at that time. Later, Ning and Qiang fell into bandits again, and they followed to Ning and Qiang to suppress them.

This is a dilemma, no matter how you choose, there are huge problems.

The court is now in a storm, even the pensions of the battalion soldiers who died in battle cannot be paid in time, let alone the guards.

As the guardian of the Qianhu Office in Mian County, how could he escape and take refuge?

"Chen's position as a guerrilla was obtained by fighting with a knife and a gun. I also know the situation at the grassroots level of the guard. I have also heard about the war in the middle of the Han Dynasty. Guan Qianhu has no extra soldiers to dispatch and there is no need to go too far. mind."

Chen looked at Guan Qilin's expression without any trace, and said slowly.

"Now all the sergeants in the Qianhu Station have been transferred to the east. There are only a hundred or so regular soldiers, and the rest of the army is only about two hundred people. I heard that the bandits have gone south, and they are all in Mianxian County..."

Guan Qilin didn't want him to leave, and if he wanted him, he would garrison at Dingjun Mountain to keep Mian County intact and prevent bandits from coming.

Chen Wang's eyes were cold, his expression darkened, and his voice was low.

At this time, the Ming Empire was in a time of internal and external turmoil, and its finances were on the verge of collapse, unable to solve many problems in people's livelihood.

If you don't enter Hanzhong, you will have to go back and forth in the next few years, conquering back and forth, exhausted.

Those wealthy households and gentry can escape, but he, a thousand households, cannot escape.

They are like a swarm of locusts, they don't do production, they only know how to destroy, and they destroy every place they pass.

But at that time, it was because they had taken precautions and dispatched troops in advance to guard the main road, so that the loss was minimized.

The problem before Chen Wang was a tram problem.

Chen Wang was pretending to be embarrassing, but Guan Qilin was really embarrassing.

"I don't have anything important to do. I just want to see if General Chen needs help. Although his ability is weak, as long as it is helpful, he will never refuse."

He heard that the bandits fled to Hanzhong and fled all the way south.
It is said that the rogue bandits seem to be in the area of ​​Ningqiang Prefecture, which is not far to the southwest of Mian County.

"If it's convenient to close thousands of households, can you second some sergeants to help deliver the supplies and food."

Chen Wang's expression was gloomy. The biggest damage caused by the bandits was not in the military, but in civil affairs.

You can see the whole picture at a glance, as a thousand households, Guan Qilin can't even dress well for his servants, and the regular army and the rest of the army are probably even more unbearable.

Chen Wang knew Guan Qilin's answer a long time ago. Before he asked this question, he knew that Guan Qilin could not solve it.

But if you advocate removing the roof, they will come to mediate and are willing to open the skylight.

An out-of-control trolley was heading towards them and was about to run over them moments later.

A maniac has tied five innocent people to tram tracks.

He has never been a saint, but he is not a hard-hearted man either.

But in this world today, Wen Zun and Wu Biao, he, a fifth-rank guard with thousands of households, is not even as powerful as the leader Bo and the county magistrate in that county.

Those who were unlucky fell on the rushing journey, and were simply written off in the history books.

Chen Wang also knew why Guan Qilin put such a low profile.

"Guan Qianhu came all the way, you should have seen the refugee camp in the north of the mountain, right?"

"The reason why the rogue bandits fled into Hanzhong, in the final analysis, is because of Chen's ineffectiveness in advancing and suppressing, which caused continuous military disasters and harmed the people..."

The problem, however, is that the lunatic also tied a man on another tram track.

Chen Wang's voice was low and he sighed.

With better luck, there is only one more He Renlong or Zuo Liangyu in this world.

Now there are more than 200 people in Mian County who are cobbled together, and he gritted his teeth and spent a lot of money to find people who are willing to replace them.

Now the entire Mian County can only mobilize more than two hundred soldiers, and even these two hundred soldiers, most of them are just pretending to be numbers.

During the Japanese Rebellion, thousands of guards were defeated when they met dozens of Japanese pirates. It is better to count on the meteorites falling from the sky to kill the enemy than to count on the guards in the interior. This probability is probably higher.

Chen Wang supported Guan Qilin to sit on the side seat, pretending to be distressed.

On the one hand, the distribution of military rations to help the refugees is for future plans, and on the other hand, it is also to minimize disasters as much as possible.

It's just that the servants who followed Guan Qilin were a lot more shabby. They were wearing cotton armor that looked a bit worn out, and the boots on their feet seemed to be old.

"Where where..."

The scourge of bandits is a dead end for the Ming Empire today.

The guards in the interior had long been corrupted and were unfit for a fight. On paper, there were 200 or [-] people who could fight among the more than [-] people, so Guan Qilin was considered a capable general.

Only when he enters Hanzhong can he have more autonomy, can he secretly operate the foundation.

"It's really difficult for General Chen to ask for someone."

Chen Wang had to make a choice. He chose the lesser of two evils, and he pulled the lever that represented life and death.

Guan Qilin felt sorry for him, and lowered his status to such an extent that he could hardly say that he was doing a dog's work.

This disaster should not have happened in Hanzhong, but his plan had to enter Hanzhong Mansion, and he needed an excuse.

Chen Wang looked at Guan Qilin without leaving any traces, he noticed that the clothes on Guan Qilin's body were rather thick and well-dressed.

"At present, our army does not lack the equipment for the military's salary and food. It is just that they have been chasing all the way, recruiting and transporting food, grass and armaments. Many civilians have escaped, and there are not many mules and horses..."

After the two battles, nearly a hundred people in the guard died outside, which also made the situation in the thousand households even more embarrassing.

When asking someone to do something, you can first make a big request that is difficult for the other party to accept.

It's like the room is too dark. If someone says to open a skylight here, everyone must not allow it.

The guerrilla general seemed to have distributed the rations in the army to help the people who had been exiled due to the military disaster, and those people followed them all the way into Hanzhong from Lueyang and other places.

In seven years, the rogues entered Hanzhong, and it was the magistrate of Baocheng who immediately cut off the plank road in the north to prevent the rogues from entering the hinterland.

Chen Wang asked him to send someone to serve as auxiliary soldiers to deliver food and grass, how could he send someone.

At this time, the rogue bandits suddenly went south, and the soldiers of the Hanzhong Mansion were basically concentrated on the eastern front to suppress them, and they had no time to look around.

The military disaster in Hanzhong was entirely caused by him.

In this way, it is easier for the other party to accept psychologically, and it is easier to achieve their goals.

When the battalion soldiers in the side tent asked him to wait before, Guan Qilin thought that Chen Wang deliberately left him aside to show off. He had encountered such a situation more than once.

These refugees came all the way with Chen Wang's army, and he got the news from the very beginning.

"Although Lueyang and Jinniu won the two battles, they could not make up for the impact of the military disaster."

Without him to attract these rogues, the rogues would also invade Hanzhong in the future, and Hanzhong would suffer even greater suffering and destruction.

Although he is a thousand households, he is also a military officer of the fifth rank, and a military chief of the same place.

But whether he became He Renlong or Zuo Liangyu, there was no way to stop the coming catastrophe.

"You and I both know that it is the season of freezing weather, no food, no shelter, it is a dead word."

Chen Wang picked up the teacup on the side, and moved his eyes to Guan Qilin who was sitting on the side.

What he said was obvious enough, he was waiting for Guan Qilin's answer.

　It should be able to resume normal updates tomorrow, I am really sorry for all the book friends who follow the books
　　
　
(End of this chapter)