The sudden knock on the door made Sun Tu wake up from his dream, and then he found that a petite and soft body was still shrouded in his arms. Only then did he remember that Yaer, the little girl, had actually fallen asleep in her room last night.

Since he told me to go out the night before, Sun Tu didn't return home until yesterday afternoon, which scared Ya'er, thinking that something had happened to her third brother. When he came back, the little girl cried and let Sun Tu feel relieved and comforted her for a while.

But at night, Ya'er said that she would not go back to her house to sleep, and she stayed with Sun Tu. In the end, Sun Tu couldn't persuade her, and she had to go to bed for a day and night before, so she finally fell asleep without realizing it.

In fact, Sun Tu has long understood some of the current customs. The so-called raising a mother is not a literal goddaughter (this statement seems so evil now...), but the meaning of a child bride. Ordinary people have difficulty getting married, and some conditions will keep the lonely and helpless girl at home from childhood, and then be matched with her son when she grows up. Obviously, the Sun family also had this idea before. Now the Sun family is only the male left, so Yaer's identity is self-evident.

But Sun Tu is a time traveler after all, and he is always unable to accept such customs. Moreover, Ya'er is too young, so he always keeps a corresponding distance from him on weekdays. But judging from Ya'er's performance last night, he felt a little distressed, maybe in her eyes he was the only one.

Seeing the little girl frowned because of the continuous knocking on the door, Sun Tu quickly got up gently, tiptoed out. When he came to the outside room, he found that the genius was just dawn, so why did someone come to the door?

With doubts in his heart, Sun Tu opened the yard gate and saw the officer standing in front of his house, which made his brows frown even more: "I wonder what instructions did you have?"

"Are you Sun Tu?" The officer looked at Sun Tu several times, and then said after seeing him nodding: "Then prepare quickly and get to Ximen at the hour of Mao."

"What's this mean?" Sun Tu became more and more confused. The other party glared: "This is the order of the county magistrate and the county magistrate. Today, you are going to attack Hutou Village in Xishangang. You have been recruited!" After that, he turned around and hurried away. He had to inform others.

Sun Tuzhe stood there for a while. He naturally knew very well that the county was going to send troops to attack Hutouzhai, and it was caused by him. But he always thought that this matter had nothing to do with him. After all, he was just a hotel and not a soldier. But now the county government has recruited him, so he would not go there, otherwise it would be a big charge if he was investigated.

"Third brother, why are you coming out?" Ya'er's voice suddenly came from behind her. She woke up from Sun Tu's arms, and she was rubbing her eyes and looked confused.

Then Sun Tu lowered the surprise on his face and smiled and said, "It's nothing. Someone is asking me for work. I'll go out later. You're here to be at home today. I'll come back tonight."

The little girl obviously felt something was wrong, but she didn't dare to object, so she could only nod and said, "Well, third brother, you must come back soon." Sun Tu nodded immediately, but his heart was still heavy. He could clearly feel that someone was punishing him.

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When Sun Tu arrived in front of the west gate, hundreds of young and strong men in the city who were as nervous and confused as him were gathered there. After inquiring each other, everyone realized that it was the government recruiting them to cooperate with the official army to attack the bandits in Xishangang, which made many people feel a little nervous.

Not long afterwards, Huang Si, the head of the county government, brought more than ten subordinates to come over, and called them according to the list. After counting the numbers, he said: "Now there are thieves from Hutou Village outside the city who are brave enough to rob the court's wealth. In order to protect the safety of our Yuncheng County, the county magistrate will suppress the bandits today. You must obey the orders. As long as you can break the thief's nest, everyone will be rewarded."

This statement caused another panic among the people. The Hutou Village outside the city has existed for more than ten years, and the government has always had no choice but to deal with them. Can it be successfully wiped out this time? Thinking of the dangers they may face, the young and strong were naturally very scared.

But before they could object, teams of officials were already running from the long street behind. Dozens of cavalry were even more murderous, and they directly suppressed the ordinary people who had never seen the swords and weapons so that they could not even breathe. They could only take the sticks sent by obediently, and then obeyed the orders, followed the officers in a messy team and headed out of the city.

Sun Tu was in the middle of the team, and when he saw this marching without any momentum, he scratched his head. Can such a miscellaneous army really defeat the bandits of Hutou Village that have been entrenched here for many years? He had heard that Hutou Village not only had strict defenses, but also had no less than 200 bandits.

At this time, a slightly puzzled voice sounded from beside him: "Sanlang, why are you recruited too?"

"Song Ai Si?" Sun Tu turned his head when he heard the sound and fisted at Song Jiang who happened to come: "I received the order to transfer early next morning, so I have to come."

"Your Sun family is now a single family. It is not right that you should have taken risks. It seems that someone has used some tricks in secret." Song Jiang said thoughtfully. When Sun Tu heard this, he remembered the cold eyes of Liu Yuan looking at him yesterday. Only this elderly official had such tricks.

However, he was confident that with his own ability, he seemed indifferent, and just smiled and said, "Since it was the order of the government and to wipe out the local bandits, I naturally have no choice."

This made Song Jiang look at him a few more times, and he couldn't help but say, "Sanlang is indeed a hero, Song Jiang admires it."

"I just don't know what's going on. Shouldn't this thief suppression be the responsibility of the official army? Why would we and the people be recruited to go with me?" Sun Tu took the opportunity to ask his doubts.

"Hey, there are less than 300 township soldiers in our county, and there are less than 500 yamen, so there is no certainty in winning both in terms of momentum and combat power. Therefore, recruiting young and strong men in the city to send troops together is a helpless move." Song Jiang said, but found that Sun Tu was still confused, and explained again: "I guess you don't know yet. In addition to the border army, our Song Dynasty official army can be divided into imperial guards, Xiang army and village soldiers according to the ranks. The imperial guards are the elite troops from the country to protect Tokyo Bianliang. The Xiang army is weaker, but they are only left in the prefectures and cities. Only ordinary township soldiers are scattered in various counties and towns across the country to maintain local stability. But in terms of combat power, the township soldiers are really too weak."

After hearing this, Sun Tu finally understood and made a further judgment based on the knowledge he had mastered - this set of strong and weak army arrangements in the Song Dynasty originated from Emperor Taizu Zhao Kuangyin.

He also learned the lesson of the continuous rebellion and subversion of the regime by military generals and governors from all over the late Tang Dynasty and Five Dynasties. He was worried that there would be military generals rebelling after the founding of the Song Dynasty, so he had to set up such countermeasures. However, the strategy that might have made outstanding contributions to stability at the beginning became a patient who dragged down the self-improvement of the Song Dynasty many years later.

The dispatch of elite troops from all over the world into Beijing will naturally keep the combat effectiveness of local wing troops and rural soldiers at an extremely low dimension. In addition, the Song Dynasty court has always had a tradition of absorbing people from disaster areas to join the army after natural disasters to prevent disaster victims and riots. Youdao is to raise the recruitment flag and have their own food entitlements, and completely regard recruitment as a means of maintaining stability and making people eat. This has caused the combat effectiveness of local officials to continue to decline. Now, more than a hundred years after its founding, the rural soldiers of various wing troops have long been weak, and even those bandits who occupy the mountains and become kings cannot defeat them.

The same is true for Yuncheng County. After being forced by Suo Chao, Liu Yaochen could only do his best to bite the bullet, and even took out the helpless act of recruiting young and strong men in the city to jointly suppress bandits.

Although the number of troops to fight against the enemy was nearly a thousand, it looked so powerful. But in terms of combat power, can these chaotic thousand men really pose any threat to the hundreds of bandits in Hutouzhai? At least in Sun Tu's opinion, it was really a bit difficult...
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