Dengzhou Prefecture, the government office.
The magistrate of Dengzhou sat high up in the seat of honor. His face was dark and expressionless as he looked at the letter that came from below. With a bang, he threw the letter on the ground and cursed angrily,"What's going on with Weihai Wei? Why was Weihai Wei suddenly occupied by thieves, and no one knew?”
"Now, the bandits have taken over the Chengshan Guards, Jinghai Guards, and Wendeng County!”
"Come and take a look at the report. The bandits who occupied Weihai Guards have been developing steadily in Weihai for more than three months. They have already expanded their army by more than ten thousand. This time, they have mobilized more than thirty thousand civilian workers to attack Chengshan Guards, Jinghai Guards, and Wendeng County.!”
"We've already set up a line of defense at Tangquan Town on the Huanglei River. The Golden Mountain Guards near Ninghai Prefecture tried to send out their soldiers to fight, but they were defeated by the Weihai Guards as soon as they got close to the line of defense!”
"The bandits are too powerful to be stopped now. The Golden Mountain Guards and Ninghai Prefecture are urgently asking for help from the prefecture. Tell me, how should we suppress the bandits with tens of thousands of elite soldiers and tens of thousands of farmers?!”
The judges and commanders of the Dengzhou Prefecture looked at each other and remained silent.
Dengzhou Prefecture was an important military town in Shandong. It had a large jurisdiction and included many guards in Liaodong. With the loss of Liaodong and other places, Dengzhou Prefecture still did not change its nature as an important military town.
Just the Dengzhou Guards that were set up in the Dengzhou Prefecture alone had seven thousand households. Other than that, there was also the navy stationed in Water City. Not including the troops from the various counties and the 1,000 or 100 households, just within Dengzhou Prefecture alone, there were over 10,000 troops.
Apart from that, there were also a large number of inspectors. These were all people who could go to the battlefield at critical moments.
The magistrate of Dengzhou was extremely powerful. He had a strong background and had connections.
No one dared to endure his raging anger.
Seeing the commander of the Dengzhou Guards lowering his head like an ostrich, the magistrate of Dengzhou flew into a rage and directed his anger at the commander of the Dengzhou Guards."How do you do your job as a military officer? You don't even know that the bandits have taken over Weihai Wei?!!”
"If it wasn't for the fact that the bandits caused such a huge commotion and broke through three cities in a day, I'm afraid that I, the magistrate of Dengzhou, would have been deceived!”
The commander of the Dengzhou Guards felt wronged after being scolded. He muttered in a low voice,"Weihai Guards, Chengshan Guards, and Jinghai Guards are not under the jurisdiction of the Dengzhou Prefecture. We, the Dengzhou Guards, have no right to control them. This is all the fault of the Commandant Prefecture!”
As the highest military organization in the region, the Guard Office was under the jurisdiction of the provincial governor. This was the principle.
But that was all in the past!
With the rise of the civil officials, it had become a national policy to use literature to control martial arts.
To the magistrate of Dengzhou, Weihai, Chengshan, and Jinghai were in his territory, so they had to be under his control. That was what he did.
Hearing the commander of the Dengzhou Guards cry out, he laughed in anger,""Do you want me to go to Jinan to find trouble with the Commandant's Mansion? I want them to give me an explanation?”
The commander of the Dengzhou Guards immediately shut his mouth. The Dengzhou Magistrate could ignore it and even ignore the Shandong Military Governor's Mansion, but he, the commander of the guards, could not.
Whether it was the magistrate or the commander-in-chief, they were all his superiors!
"I don't care what you do, but within seven days, gather the troops and suppress the Weihai Guards!”
The magistrate of Dengzhou said angrily. Then, he turned to the officials below and said,"Pass down the order. Have the village soldiers, camp soldiers, and civilians from all the counties gather in Ninghai Prefecture. Including the Dengzhou Guards, gather at least 50,000 troops to suppress the Weihai Guards!”
"I don't care what method you use, do your best to suppress the rebel army!”
The officials in the government office nodded. They had no choice but to nod. They were not afraid that the Dengzhou Prefect would kill them, but they were afraid that the court would hold them accountable.
Once they were held accountable, the magistrate of Dengzhou would not be able to escape. As for the officials, they would not be able to escape.
The person in the throne room was extremely murderous!
He was imprisoned and beheaded just like that. He was so cruel.
An army of 50,000 was neither difficult nor easy.
If they used elite troops, it was basically impossible. However, if they used some guards and commoners, with the strength of the Dengzhou Prefecture, it would be easy.
Which of those squires didn't have their own private soldiers?!
With the power of a few counties, all the squires could be gathered together.
However, it was not easy to mobilize resources!
What year was it now?
Food was extremely scarce. It was more difficult to take food from the squire than to take their lives.
However, there was nothing he could do about it. He had to gather the troops and resources.
Dengzhou suffered from the chaos of war, especially when they heard that the thieves of Weihai Wei were extremely cruel to the rich merchants and easily beheaded them. Everyone was afraid.
It wasn't that they were easy to deceive, but that during the entire late Ming Dynasty, wherever there was unrest, the squires would suffer. Countless families were destroyed.
Who asked them to have so much money and food?
It was very likely that even if they raided the warehouses of a county or a prefecture, they would not have as much money as these squires.
In the eyes of any force, the country squire was a fat sheep!
He would eat until he was full from robbing one house, or from robbing ten houses or a hundred houses!
They all took out the food in their granaries, raised the guards, and the farmers in the fields. They all set off and gathered at the front line, Ninghai Prefecture.
After seven days of hard work, the entire Dengzhou Prefecture, all the rich merchants, and officials worked together to finally gather 50,000 troops and send them to the front lines.
However, their weapons and equipment were a mess. There were all kinds of guns, bows and arrows, and spears that were directly cut from wood.
Not to mention elite soldiers, they didn't even have an establishment!
The entire team needed half a day!
The only ones that were still worth looking at were the soldiers of the Dengzhou Guards.
The gathering of the fifty thousand strong army of Dengzhou Prefecture and Ninghai Prefecture naturally attracted the attention of the scouts under Lin Feng. Looking at the fifty thousand strong army of Dengzhou Prefecture, the scouts looked at each other.
They couldn't believe that these were actually Great Ming's soldiers.
Compared to their number one guard, there was simply no comparison!
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