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Chapter 434, Intelligence

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    "Quick, quick, surround the village!"

    At noon, a group of civilian soldiers with sabers and spears and guns surrounded a village in the eastern part of Jiangbei Province under the yelling of the officers.

    Because it was noon, the village was filled with smoke, and the people who had worked all morning were preparing lunch at home.

    Facing the militia soldiers who suddenly surrounded the village, the men, women and children in the village were also panicked.

    "My lord, I am an old man in this village. I didn't know that your lord came, so I am far away from welcoming you. Please forgive me."

    Surrounded by a group of young and strong men, the village elder came to the entrance of the village.

    "Are you the village elder?"

    The civilian army officer who led the team sat on the horseback, looked down at the trembling village elder, and said in a cold voice.

    The village elder cupped his hands and said, "I am, I don't know what your lord is doing here?"

    The officer ordered in an unquestionable tone: "The army of thieves is powerful, and the governor has ordered the expansion of the army to prepare for war. I am ordered by General Xiaoqi to come to your village to recruit soldiers. You will quickly recruit all the males in this village who are over fifteen years old and under fifty years old."  Gather up and follow me."

    "ah?"

    After hearing what the officer said, the people gathered at the entrance of the village were in an uproar.

    "My lord, in the past, one out of three is drawn, why do you want to recruit all of them today?"

    "My lord, if all the males in the village are confiscated, there will be no one to cultivate the crops in the field."

    Some women not far away heard that the men in their families were going to be conscripted into the army. They were like lightning strikes, and their minds went blank.

    Everyone knows that there are wars everywhere now, and none of the men who were confiscated from the village last time have returned, and their lives and deaths are unknown.

    Now it is necessary to conscript the men in the village. It can be said that no one is willing to go, because no one knows if they will come back alive.

    "I said, why are you talking so much nonsense? This is the order of the governor. Anyone who dares to disobey will be killed without pardon!" the civilian army officer sternly said.

    "kill!"

    That group of vicious militia soldiers also stepped forward, and the cold weapons made the common people take a step back in fright.

    "My lord, you really can't take all the men in the village away. If you take them away, the village will lose its way of life. Please be accommodating, sir. We will be very grateful."

    While the village elder was speaking, he hurriedly motioned to a man behind him.

    The man waved his hand, and soon someone brought out a box, which was already prepared in the village, whether it was a court official or a bandit, they could buy their lives with money.

    ? Although the village tried to bribe the recruiting officer with money, the officer had a mission, and if he failed to complete it, he would not only lose hope of promotion, but also be severely punished.

    "I said you old bastard, you are deaf or something, you fart when I say it?!"

    The officer glanced at the copper coins in the box, grabbed the scarlet horsewhip, and slammed it on the village elder's body with a whistling sound.

    "Arrests!"

    With a wave of the officer's hand, the wolves and tigers of the militia soldiers rushed towards the village with spears and swords in their hands.

    The people in the village suddenly scattered and fled one after another, and the village was in chaos for a while.

    Facing the fleeing civilians, militia soldiers began to arrest them in groups of three or four, and they would be kicked and punched if they resisted.

    The soldiers of the militia have blocked all the exits of the village, and the villagers have become trapped, with nowhere to escape.

    When the militia soldiers arrested these young and strong men, they did not forget to take the sheep by hand and ransacked the valuables in the village.

    Soon, except for those men who were too young or too old, all the men in the village were caught and gathered, and tied up with ropes into a long string.

    "Go, go back!"

    Seeing these young men with bruises and swollen faces and angry faces, the militia officer who recruited was very satisfied, waved and led them back to the barracks.

    ? Although these young men captured are rebellious now, as long as they are captured and starved for a few days, and then cleaned up properly, they will soon become good soldiers.

    ?Seeing that the man in his family was taken away, the village seemed to have collapsed. The woman was crying heartbreakingly, and the child was crying too. The sound of crying made people's noses sour.

    "These militias are really nothing."

    When the militia soldiers left with a long line of captured young men, two young men in coarse clothes appeared in the woods not far from the village.

      These two youths belonged to the Intelligence Investigation Department of the Qinghe Army. They infiltrated the imperial court's control area to spy on intelligence, and happened to encounter the militia's arrest of Qingzhuang.

    "Should we go to the village and ask carefully about the situation of the militia?"

    A young man looked at the village in the distance where cries came from time to time, and asked another young man.

    "We have already inquired about the news in the past few days, so don't make extra troubles."

    "If the militia didn't go far and we were arrested, wouldn't it be self-inflicted?"

    "Then what shall we do next?"

    "Go back and report the situation here to the director."

    The two youths from the Intelligence and Investigation Division quickly retreated into the woods and disappeared, as if they had never appeared here before.

    Soon, Chen Ziang obtained the situation in the prefectures and counties of Jiangbei Province through the Intelligence Investigation Department.

    "It seems that Qin Lie in Jiangbei Province is very anxious."

    Hearing that Qin Lie was arresting young and strong men in Jiangbei Province to expand his army, Chen Ziang couldn't help but smile.

    "How can you allow others to snore on the side of the couch? We occupied Yunxi Mansion, and it is normal for Qin Lie to recruit troops and expand his army."

    Li Lang, the deputy head of the army, didn't feel any surprise about it.

    "I heard that they have expanded by more than 100,000 people, and they are still expanding. It seems that Qin Lie has a big appetite."

    Yuan Jie, deputy head of the army, sneered: "It doesn't matter how many people there are. They are just a mob. Even if he has an army of 300,000, he is still no match for our Qinghe army."

    Li Lang said with a smile: "That's what I said, but if there is a real fight, if the ants kill more elephants, we're afraid the loss will not be small."

    "That's true, we can't passively wait for them to attack."

    Although Chen Ziang looked down on Qin Lie's 20th Corps, he despised the enemy strategically, but he still had to pay attention to the enemy tactically. He also agreed with Li Lang's opinion.

    "General, brothers have been resting for so long, do you want to take them out to practice?" Li Lang asked for instructions with a smile.

    "It's good to send cavalry troops out to practice their skills. The cavalry troops will focus on attacking their conscription teams, burning barracks everywhere and destroying their food and grass."

    The cavalry units came and went like the wind, and both the court militia and the provincial garrison in Jiangbei Province lacked cavalry, so they just happened to be sent to attack.

    After Chen Ziang made some arrangements, Li Lang and Yuan Jie immediately went to discuss the specific details of the implementation of the initiative.

    And after thinking about it for a while, Chen Ziang called his personal guard captain Li Changqing.

    "Where is the Pengshan uprising army now?" Chen Ziang asked.

    Li Changqing replied: "According to your orders, General, they will be placed in the barracks outside the city, and they will be provided with delicious food and drink every day."

    When Chen Ziang and the others entered Yunxi Mansion, the Pengshan Rebel Army was being chased to the sky and had nowhere to go, and was rescued by the Qinghe Army.

    However, Chen Ziang didn't take them into account because they were too small, only a few dozen people remained.

    The Pengshan Rebel Army knew that they couldn't survive, and they wanted to join the Qinghe Army, but Chen Zi'ang never made a statement.

    "Go and call their leader, I want to see him."

    "No!"

    Although I don't know why Chen Ziang suddenly thought of this Pengshan uprising army, but Li Changqing didn't ask much, turned around and went to convey the order.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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