Wanli 1592

841 Too late
On September 25, Xiao Ruxun led his troops to Pingjiang. At this time, the vanguard army had captured Tongcheng. When Xiao Ruxun entered Tongcheng on the 28th, the vanguard army took Chongyang again.

There was hardly any decent resistance encountered.

The obstacles in front of Wuchang Mansion were pulled out little by little, and the road to Wuchang Mansion gradually became open and open.

And on September 28th, Li Hualong held a military meeting in Yangzhou Prefecture.

Through more than ten days of emergency dispatch of troops and emergency shipbuilding, he has mobilized more than 1000 guards and remodeled more than 200 ships that can be used for battle, which can be described as "remarkable results."

Of course, there is no problem in rebuilding warships, and the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty were relatively honest.

But the deployment of guard soldiers is debatable. The military households of the Ming Dynasty were far from being so honest.

So Li Hualong was so irritable that he wanted to kill someone.

"Five days! Five days! According to the list, there should have been at least 1000 soldiers! But now there are only 1000! [-]! There are still so many old and weak! Only five or six hundred can go to the battlefield! This is called How does the governor enter the army to fight?!"

Li Hualong had already set his psychological expectations very low. He thought that within five days, at least [-] to [-] soldiers would come, and there would be five or six thousand soldiers to fight. So maybe he still had the power to fight. Let's wait and see , and perhaps more troops will come.

After all, according to the number of people on the books, there are 600 people in a guard, not to mention other places, the Yangzhou area is also running up to [-] every minute.

As a result, only 1000 people came here, and only 1000 people came after five days.

The rest are all on the road, and when you ask, they are all on the road, and they still want to deal with it. Some simply say that the preparations have not been completed and need to be postponed for a while, and they look like they don't want to fight at all.

Wave after wave of soldiers were sent to deliver orders and inquiries, and the tone of the order became clearer each time, but the news sent back was not very optimistic.

In the past few days, the Zhennan Army Navy launched two attacks again, and once again destroyed the coastal defense position he had set up with great difficulty, and lost 400 troops. War-weary soldiers appeared.

Li Hualong felt that he could not continue to indulge these people no matter what.

"Supervisor, Nanzhi has not experienced war for a long time. This is really unstoppable. There is a shortage of soldiers in various places, and the situation of military households fleeing and hiding is not a day or two. The officials and others have repeatedly written to the court and have not been properly dealt with!"

The magistrate of Yangzhou foresaw Li Hualong's fury, so he quickly picked himself out.

Then a group of bureaucrats in Yangzhou Prefecture also picked themselves out one after another, eliminating hidden dangers in the bud.

How could Li Hualong not know the small thoughts of these people, but he also knew that this was indeed not the fault of these people. If anything, all the previous officials were at fault, and they couldn't all be blamed on this group of people.

But if we don't use some ruthless means right now, I'm afraid we won't be able to summon more soldiers and horses. Xiao Ruxun doesn't know how long it will take to reach Wuchang. Whether Wuchang can hold it is still a problem. As a naval officer, Li Hualong really has no choice.

But destroying the navy is not an easy task. These Jizhen soldiers can't even do the most basic maneuvering of the boat. Li Hualong intends to dispatch the Jizhen soldiers to attack, but these soldiers who vomit when they get on the boat can't be used at all. This is what Li Hualong urgently wants. The reason for recruiting guards.

Even though these people are weak, they can at least know how to use water and steer a boat, which is considered a strength, isn't it?
If he forcibly drives Jizhen soldiers, not to mention the stupidity of attacking the enemy's strengths with our weaknesses, but the grievances of the army are not something he can ignore.

"The governor decided to personally take people to the guards to urge the soldiers and horses. You also have to disperse to urge the soldiers and horses. The governor will give you a warrant. If you encounter delays, do not cooperate with the soldiers and commanders of the guards who are trying to escape from the battle. Officer, you can be executed together!"

Li Hualong sacrificed his magic weapon.

The officials were taken aback.

This is really going to be cruel, but with such a cruel method, I don't know how angry it will be!

Can Li Hualong really handle this ruthlessly?
It looks like he can.

No one doubts that Li Hualong dared not do this. In fact, Li Hualong did the same. After the meeting, he took people out of the city and went directly to the nearest Wei to Yangzhou. Use troops.

He didn't reveal his real identity at the beginning, but pretended that he was a herald officer. The commander of the guards saw that his age was not right, so he didn't believe him. When soldiers are needed to go to the autumn harvest, it will take a few days to delay.

Li Hualong's face turned dark immediately, and without saying a word, he revealed his identity, scaring the guard commander so much that he fell to the ground and couldn't get up.

"My Ming Dynasty has reached the point where it is today. A mere general can destroy half of the rivers and mountains! It's all caused by moths like you! Deceiving the top and the bottom, doing all kinds of evil, I, Li Hualong, will kill you moth for the court today!"

Li Hualong drew out his saber, stabbed the commander of the guard to death with one sword, and then looked at the other thousand households with murderous eyes.

"Do you want to die or live?"

As soon as these words came out, those thousands of households immediately left the commander and envoy, and each went to gather their own troops. However, when they came back, Li Hualong was shocked to find that not only was there a huge difference in the number of people, but there were even two thousand households and Four hundred households fled.

This Li Hualong's one Buddha ascended to heaven and two Buddhas came out of the body, and almost killed these people without drawing his sword.

"Supervisor! It's not that we don't want to call people! It's just that the situation is like this. We are so humble that we can't change anything at all. Please check it out! Please check it out!"

The few officers who stayed behind knelt down and kowtowed.

Li Hualong only felt extremely sad in his heart.

Out of 600 guards, only a thousand or so people appeared in front of him, and they were all old, weak, sick, and only a handful of young and old. More than [-]% of those who escaped and those whose household registration was concealed accounted for more than [-]%. There is no fighting power.

It is indeed difficult to be undefeated against the original Japanese pirates with such an establishment.

He can kill a guard commander and summon these 1000 people, but he can't change the collapse of the entire guard system. He is like this, and others are even more so, and they are even more powerless to change.

Freezing three feet is not a one-day cold, and it is too late to remedy the situation.

A few days later, on October 5000rd, Li Hualong's dispatched troops brought back more than 30 guard soldiers and more than [-] heads.

They really tried their best and killed a lot of people, but in the end they didn't find many people.

It's not that I don't want to come, but I really don't.

(End of this chapter)