Huaihuang Town, the county magistrate's office.

When the lights first came up, the lights were brightly lit in the county magistrate's mansion.

There were rows of war horses tied up on the horse-tie stake outside the county gate. The soldiers of the Han army of Xi clan held long spears and pressed the hilt of the sword, patrolling the side of the mansion.

Inside the house, Shi Deyun held her big belly and slowly walked out of the door and asked the maid: "Why haven't you discussed it with all the adults yet?"

The maid bowed slightly and said, "Yes, madam. The room in the big house is still on."

Shi Deyun nodded and said immediately: "Immediately order the kitchen to prepare... No, I'll go there myself."

The maid hurriedly said, "Madam, you are pregnant with Liujia, how can you be so hard? The county magistrate will blame you, so I'll go."

Shi Deyun looked at her belly, nodded immediately, and said, "Okay, you must serve your husband carefully."

After saying that, Shi Deyun took a leisurely look at the brightly lit house.

Now in the room where Li Chongjiu is, a large map made of several sheepskins is spread out on the ground.

Ying Hefu, Ertuo, Yan Yelei, Wang Mahan, Tanzong, Sun Erniang and other generals, as well as Liu Yi and Ji Chuan, both civil officials, sat cross-legged in front of the map, and Li Chongjiu sat in the main seat with his sleeves.

The only person standing there was Sima Wen Yanbo, the county of Shanggu County.

Wen Yanbo stood in front of the map, and stroked the sheepskin with a wooden stick, saying, "This is the map of the mountains, rivers and rivers of Yizhou that I copied in the Inner History and Times. It was copied by someone and written on the sheepskin. Now this place in Youzhou is full of your eyes."

After hearing what Wen Yanbo said, all the generals said.

In this era when map surveying and mapping was not yet popular, in this life, many people have never left counties or counties. It is unimaginable for everyone to have a glimpse of the mountains, rivers and river maps of this place.

Since everyone's eyes widened, Li Chongjiu saw Ying Hefu and his eyes widened. Wang Mahan and Tan Zong also stared at the bull's eyes.

They looked at it for a long time, and then Wang Mahan bowed to Li Chongjiu and said, "Shame, I'm not very literate."

Everyone laughed at this, and Tan Zong also laughed: "Senior Brother, I know me in this map of mountains, rivers, but I don't know him. Forget it, this is a meticulous person who does this mess. I'd better listen to my senior brother and ask me to beat me."

When Li Chongjiu heard this, his face darkened and said, "I have asked you to study in the county school in the past two years, and everything I have learned is in vain."

When Wang Mahan and Tan Zong were angry when they saw Li Chongjiu, they all lowered their heads, as if they had done something. Li Chongjiu had no choice but to deal with the two of them at the same time. On the other hand, Ying Hefu looked at the map and said, "This is impossible to imagine. We have been running on horses on the grassland for a lifetime. On this map, we are just circled out a place as big as a slap."

The moutus nodded.

Seeing that these two people could understand the map, Li Chongjiu showed an admiration, and thought to himself that these two people were outstanding people among the others. If they were given the opportunity to learn from them, they would be as outstanding.

Wen Yanbo said, "Now we have received a secret report and have confirmed that the three tribes of the Khitan and Xi tribes, Gao Kaidao and Luo Yi are preparing to unite and send troops to our western Liaoning, with the intention of looting our Zhuo County."

Although everyone knows the news, everyone's faces and expressions are solemn.

Wen Yanbo pointed the wooden stick to the place where Liaoxi was located and said, "This is western Liaoning. The northeast is close to the Xi tribe, the northwest is close to the Khitan, and the south is Gaokaidao and Luoyi. Once the four tribes mobilize, the Khitan alone will have more than 100,000 troops, and the three tribes of the Xi tribe will also use more than 50,000 cavalry. Luoyi, Gaokaidao will also send 10,000 troops."

When the generals heard this, they frowned and felt deeply that the situation was close to 200,000 troops.

Wen Yanbo continued to point to the map with a wooden stick and said, "Compared with the Khitan, the three tribes of Xi tribes, Gao Kaidao and Luo Yi's alliance. The situation around us is now, and the Turks have just won a neutral attitude."

"As for Dou Jiande in the south, he has always maintained a situation where he will not violate the river water. Dou Jiande is now leading a large army to attack Hejian County, and a hundred thousand troops have been surrounded by the city for more than a hundred days. The county magistrate Wang Cong vowed not to surrender to the death and led the military and civilians to resist to the end. If Hejian County is conquered, Dou Jiande has taken a great step towards unifying Hebei, but before this, Dou Jiande has no spare energy to use troops to the north."

After listening to Wen Yanbo's analysis, everyone nodded. For Li Chongjiu, the two strongest opponents around him are not available to deal with them now. For the current situation of the Cangtou Army, this can undoubtedly relieve the situation of being surrounded by enemies.

"Then what is our army's current power? Can we engage in this battle?" Li Chongjiu spoke.

At that moment, Li Chongjiu nodded to Wen Yanbo. Wen Yanbo immediately struck the wooden pole, pointed to the map, and said, "The battle is based on manpower and households. This is the place where our Cangtou Army is based, including three counties among the five counties of Yanmen County, six counties of Shanggu County, seven counties among the nine counties of Zhuo County, and two counties of Anle County. After checking the household registration at the beginning of this year, there were roughly more than 95,000 households among the eighteen counties."

"That's the only one?" Sun Erniang couldn't help asking.

"Yes," said Wen Yanbo, "Shanggu, Yanmen and Anle counties were all dispersed before, with less than half of the population. Although refugees have been returning this year, the growth has not increased much. In addition, the major gentry of Zhuo County all have hidden refugees, and we do not know the number of them. As for the Goguryeo Prefecture Army and the newly influxed refugees this year, we have no statistics on the refugees."

Li Chongjiu shook his head with more than 90,000 households. Although he had four counties, Dou Jiande captured a Hejian County and had nearly 200,000 households. Even if the losses in the war were more than half, they could still be equal to him.

Then Wen Yanbo said again: "This is within the Great Wall, outside the Great Wall, the two towns of Yuyi have reached nearly 20,000 households."

This data shocked everyone, and even Li Chongjiu was a little surprised. When did the two towns of Yuyi reach this population? Although they grew rapidly, they thought they were only about 10,000 households. In other words, the population of Li Chong's ninety-eight counties was only 5,000 households per county, but the average population of the two towns exceeded 10,000 households.

In the Sui Dynasty, more than 10,000 households were the Shangxian County. Three years ago, these two towns were still empty and uninhabited.

Wen Yanbo nodded and said, "In addition to the original people, the population of the two towns is mainly Han merchants. In addition to the refugees who defected to the grassland, more than half of them are foreigners, Turks, Xi tribes, Khitans, Shiwei, and Wu people."

"In addition, this does not include surrendering to our grassland tribe, plus our Shide Xi tribe, the western Liaoning tribe, and the Dingling tribe. We have reached the strength of nearly 50,000 tents alone."

Hearing this, everyone widened their eyes. When the Khanate was established a year ago, Li Chongjiu had only 20,000 tents under his command. Now there are more than the Liaoxi Marine and Dingling tribes. The newly attached grassland tribe has now become a large tribe of 50,000 tents.

The foreigners can be said to be the whole nation, and the mobilization force has always been difficult to estimate. If it is 50,000 yuan, how many troops can Li Chongjiu mobilize? He doesn't even know.

At this time, the body of the forehead shook. Li Chongjiu looked at the other party and asked, "Yeah, what did you think of?"

Etuk said, "Please forgive us for losing our composure. We didn't expect this. So the Khitans, Luo Yi, would be even more unlikely to think of it!"

Li Chongjiu nodded and did not expect that his actions of winning over foreigners would have achieved such results. As Ertuo said, he did not expect, nor did the Khitans even more, they thought that they had only captured nearly 10,000 Han troops to capture Zhuo County, but they did not know that there were so many foreign troops under Li Chongjiu's command.

Just as Li Chongjiu was discussing, suddenly, his steps were chaotic under the steps. He ran out of the room and shouted loudly through the gate: "Report to the Grand Marshal, Li Yuan captured Xijing ten days ago!"

Li Chongjiu stood up immediately and pushed open the door. He saw the soldier kneeling under the steps. Li Chongjiu said in a deep voice: "Speak in detail!"

"yes!"

The soldier said immediately: "After Li Yuan led more than 10,000 troops across the Wei River, he met with Li Sanniang's 70,000 troops. After Qu Tutong heard that, he ordered the general Yao Junsu to stay in Hedong and lead his army to cross the Yellow River to Tongguan. Li Yuan used his crown prince Li Jiancheng and Sima Liu Wenjing to lead tens of thousands of troops to Yongfeng Cang to prepare for Qu Tutong to fight Li Jiancheng and cannot win."

"Li Yuan led his army to camp in Changchun Palace, Yan'an, Shangjun, and Diaoyin all asked to surrender to Yuan. In just over a month, the soldiers and civilians in Guanzhong returned to him, with a force of 200,000. The troops sent to fight in the city, and Li Yuan broke it casually. After Li Yuan met the Qi army and led his troops to attack Chang'an. In just ten days, the city of Chang'an was broken!"

Li Chongjiu was shocked when he heard this. He obtained 200,000 troops. Li Yuan's army crossing the river, plus Li Sanniang's army, only 70,000 to 80,000 troops, and in an instant he could obtain 200,000 troops.

On the surface, it seems that Li Chongjiu's will is what the people of the people, but in fact it shows that the Guanlong gentry had completely abandoned the Yang family and completely surrendered to Li Yuan. Otherwise, Li Yuan would not have any influence, and he would have won 200,000 troops a month. This is Li Yuan's general trend!

Li Chongjiu took a deep breath and said immediately: "How about Li Yuan breaking Chang'an?"

"The military orders are strict and unblame! Before Li Yuan attacked Chang'an, he clearly stated that he violated the Seven Temples, the Dai King, the royal family, and the three tribes who violated the enemy! Therefore, although the army broke the city, it could be able to complete Chang'an. After Li Yuan entered the city, he respected the Dai King as the emperor and respected the emperor in Jiangdu as the Supreme Emperor, and made twelve laws with the people. All the people had to say to eliminate the harsh bans of the Sui Dynasty."

Li Chongjiu couldn't help but sigh when he heard this. If it was Li Yuan's general trend, then this was human plan. Compared with the nouveau riche Li Zicheng who broke the spirit, his military discipline was corrupt and he robbed everywhere. Xiang Yu entered Guanzhong and burned the Afang Palace. Li Yuan's move was Liu Bang's wisdom, and Xijing was Kyoto. Everyone in the world would see what he did. In this way, Li Yuan's reputation would be known to the world.

This is the accumulation of the Li family in Longxi. Li Yuan has a long-term vision. After seizing Chang'an, the measures he took were peaceful, the destruction was extremely low, and he left himself a good reputation.
Chapter completed!