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"Didn't it mean that there are six thousand soldiers on the lockdown, why is it so sparse?"

Fang Li walked around the city wall and found that something was wrong. He hurriedly sent someone to recruit deputy general Yan Ti to ask for the reason.

Baili Sixian appointed Fang Li as the chief general of Chiyang Pass, but then transferred four thousand soldiers and finally let his daughter follow Fang Li. Yan Ti could not guess what Baili Si was fighting, so he had to report according to the truth: "Just an hour and a half ago, General Lin Yue was ordered by the general and led 4,000 soldiers to the west to help Jiangguan."

“Um…”

Fang Li couldn't help but feel speechless, and suddenly felt a deep malice. It seemed that Baili Shi was digging a hole for him. As a general, how could he avenge his personal revenge and treat national affairs as a joke?

Baili Susu looked puzzled: "I heard from my father that Jiangguan has 8,000 troops and Chiyang has 6,000 troops. This is the basic configuration. Why did two-thirds of them be drawn away at once? How did my master guard the gate?"

Yan raised his hands and looked like he was not in his own way: "You have to ask Lingzun this matter, and I can't guess what the General made."

Now that things have come to this point, complaining is useless. Fang Li cheered up and said, "It's okay, Chiyang Pass is steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack. One man is difficult to drive tens of thousands of men. Two thousand men can block 20,000 enemy troops. Since the general has drawn troops from Jiangguan, he has his own ideas. We just need to do our best to leave our destiny."

Qu Yi, who had been following him, said: "We will recruit soldiers again after the team is transferred. I love training the most. Although I have never been a general, I have read military books! Give me a thousand people and train you an elite soldier in half a year!"

"Stop making trouble!"

Yan Ti smiled and did not take Qu Yi, who looked rough on the appearance, seriously, "Chiyang is at the junction of the four countries. To the west is the land of Liang State, to the north is Jin State, to the southwest is Guo State, and to the southeast is our Yu State.

There are quite a few people around. There are 100,000 people in Daliang County, Liang State alone, and Jin State has 60,000 or 70,000 residents. Only our Yu State has a sparse population, so it would be nice to have 10,000 people to push eastward to Louzhai. Conscription? If we can recruit, how could we wait until now?"

"This..." Qu Yi smacked his lips, "There are mountains all over the way, and there are robbers around you, right? Let's just recruit robbers!"

“Hmph…”

Yan Ti let out a sarcastic sneer, "The reason why robbers become bandits is simply because they want to eat something that is delicious and drink something spicy. There are so many choices around them, why do they choose the weakest country?"

After the words came to his voice, Yan Ti felt something was wrong and explained: "Hehe... Although my words are not nice, they are facts. We will not compare with Jin State. Guo State has 1.5 million people and 80,000 soldiers; Liang State also has 1.3 million people and 70,000 soldiers. If the robbers choose a monarch, how could they choose our Yu State?"

Fang Li nodded slightly: "General Yan's analysis is that since we cannot recruit soldiers, let's strengthen the city wall? As the barrier of Yu State, the city wall of Chiyang Pass is only three meters long, which is too short. If you want to enhance your defense ability, you must increase it to at least about five meters high."

"General Fang thought we hadn't thought about strengthening the city wall?"

Yan Ti smiled bitterly, feeling that Fang Li was purely talking on paper: "Our Yu country has only a population of more than 600,000, including 100,000 women, 100,000 elderly and weak, and 300,000 underage, only 100,000 elites left. Out of these 100,000 elites were transferred to the army, and the remaining 70,000 people had to plow the fields and farm, build roads and bridges, feed horses and feed sheep, fishing and produce salt. General Fang thought how much labor could be recruited? Just rely on the thousands of soldiers in the pass to go to the mountains to quarry and log wood, and then transport them down. How long will it take to increase Chiyang Pass to five feet?"

Fang Li understood Yan Ti's meaning. In short, Yu State lacks people, and is seriously short of people, and he can't do anything!

"I understand. I will try to solve the problem of quarrying and logging." Fang Li frowned slightly and thought about it.

Yan Shi showed a questioning expression: "General Fang is not kidding, right? When General Du Xi was in charge, he had six thousand elite soldiers in his hand, but he could not increase the city wall of Chiyang Pass. Now there are only two thousand people left. Can General Fang have a way to increase the city wall?"

Fang Li nodded and said confidently: "There is no joke in the army. If Fang Li cannot increase the city wall of Chiyang within a month, the position of the chief general will be given to General Yan to sit."

Yan Ti felt a little embarrassed: "Haha... General Fang is so serious. How can I, Yan Ti, be the chief general? I will report your words to the general and the lord in full, and they will definitely deal with them impartially."

After reporting to Fang Li, Yan Ti went to work hard on his own affairs, leaving Fang Li with Qu Yi, Baili Susu and Zhu Rong on the city wall.

Of course, Fang Li’s intention was not to drink, and his real purpose was to find Zhang Liao.

Zhang Liao's identity is now just a sergeant. If Fang Li asked for his name and looked for Zhang Liao, I am afraid that even Zhang Liao himself would doubt how Fang Li knew his name?

Fang Li patrolled along the city wall. Whenever he saw a soldier with extraordinary appearance and burly figure, he would come forward to talk. On the surface, he seemed to be admonishing, but in fact he was testing whether the other party was Zhang Liao.

"The one in front must be Zhang Wenyuan who is powerful in Xiaoyaojin!"

After asking several soldiers in a row, Fang Li's eyes lit up. He intuitively concluded that the young man standing in front of him was 100% of the famous Cao Wei general Zhang Liao.

I saw that this man was over eight feet tall, about twenty-three or four years old, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, handsome face, tiger-backed and ape-armed arms, extraordinary. He stood like a strange demeanor on the city wall. He was struck by a row of soldiers and strokes, and felt as if he stood out in the crowd.

"What's your name? Where's the man?"

Fang Li stopped in front of this man, carried his hands on his back, pretending to be chatting.

"The villain from Yanmen, Mayi, with his surname Zhang, Liao, and his name is Wenyuan. I was originally from Jin. I was wanted by the government because I violated the law. I had no choice but to go to Yu to join the army." This person reported his name, and it was indeed Zhang Liao that Fang Li was looking for.

Fang Li tentatively said: "You look at your burly figure and extraordinary demeanor, and don't know how good your martial arts are? If you have the ability, you will show your skills in front of me and you will definitely be more useful."

"Since that's the case, the villain will be ugly!"

Zhang Liao was not polite, and pulled out his sword and waved it on the city wall.

I saw him wiggling around, as if he was a dragon, and a sword was waving like a tiger and tigers, and the cold light flashed, making people dazzled and dazzled.

"Good knife technique!"

After Zhang Liao finished his performance, Fang Li took the lead in applauding and applauding. Even the arrogant Qu Yi and Zhu Rong applauded with conscientiousness.

Zhang Liao put his knife back into the sheath and bowed to Fang Li with his fists: "The villain is so ugly, please ask General Fang for more advice!"

Fang Li gave a thumbs up and praised: "Wenyuan's swordsmanship really opened my eyes. How can I be the commander of a sergeant with such abilities? I will now decide to promote you to the military commander and take charge of two hundred people."

Zhang Liao was overjoyed and knelt on one knee to thank him: "Thank you for your kindness in General Fang's support. The villain is willing to go through fire and water for the general, and he will never refuse to die!"

Fang Li summoned the entire army to gather at the school and announced the appointment of Zhang Liao, Qu Yi and Zhurong as three soldiers, each leading 200 people, and the training of the Japanese was not negligent.

Zhang Liao, Qu Yi, and Zhurong were all excited. After Fang Li finished his lecture, they led their soldiers to practice on the school field. For a moment, the sound of killing sounds were everywhere, and they all sweated profusely and were in full swing.

In the evening, Fang Li was about to check the information and master the geographical knowledge and customs near Chiyang, but he saw Zhang Liao pushing the door and walking in: "General Fang, my subordinates have something to say, so I'll report it to the general."
Chapter completed!