In the blink of an eye, the first month of the second year arrived, Wang Shuo had established himself in Zhangxian County, everything had a rudimentary shape, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, and began to have time to carefully study what the intrusive army on both sides of the Wei River was doing.It turned out that in the first month of this year, King Chuang was established in Xiangyang and became the king, called "New Shun King", and his troops were called "Shun Army".After the Shun army occupied Longxi, it did not send large-scale troops to occupy other areas, but took Longxi as the center and sent small troops to nearby villages and towns to loot grain and transport it to Longxi.From this point of view, the main purpose of the Shun army is still food.Wang Shuo marked the cities occupied by the Shun army one by one on a self-made map.Longxi, Ningyuan, Fuqiang, Tianshui, and Chencang Since Ningyuan was broken by Wang Shuo, the Shun army reoccupied it and increased the strength to 3,000 men.Wang Shuo understood Shunjun's intentions.They occupied the cities along the Wei River, did not set up officials to manage, only set up troops to garrison, and hoarded heavy troops in Longxi, gathering grain and grass, the purpose was to take Longxi as the center, near the largest granary in Longzhong, to collect grain, and then along the Wei River traffic artery, city by city to Hanzhong, and the Hanzhong generation transferred Henan and Hubei to support Li Zicheng's army.What they want is not the city and territory in Longzhong, but the grain in Longzhong.They didn't necessarily know that Wang Shuo was organizing troops in Zhangxian, but they felt that Wang Shuo couldn't become a climate, and they couldn't threaten their grain transportation channels, so they didn't bother to deal with him."
You don't bother to deal with me, now, I'm going to provoke you," Wang Shuo couldn't help but sneer.After entering Zhangxian County for more than two months, the number of troops increased to 5,000, and the little grain in the county government had already been almost eaten, so it had to send people to the surrounding villages to buy grain.In the past few years, the summer has come late, and the crop output has been seriously reduced, and even if they go to buy grain, the surplus grain in the hands of the peasants is also very limited.It is impossible to feed the army if he is always unable to make ends meet like this, and Wang Shuo got the Shun army to grab food.Moreover, it is not possible to have a soldier without a weapon.Zhangxian is a small place with limited resources, and it is unrealistic to expect to manufacture weapons and armed forces by itself, and it has to be snatched from the enemy.The army cannot be trained alone, and it also needs to go through actual combat before it can truly grow.Wang Shuo decided to fight a few small battles first, and while training the team, he could also solve the shortage of food and weapons and armor.He convened a military council in the county office.Wang Shuo's military meeting was completely different from the generals of this era who raised their tents and gathered generals to pass orders.He asked the carpenter to make a large rectangular table in the county office, with chairs around it.He sat down at the head of the table, and the officers sat on both sides according to their ranks, not like the generals of the Ming Dynasty, but like Chairman Chiang holding a meeting.Neither were all officers.For important meetings, the officials of the county order will also come over for a meeting.It looks a little messy, but it's very efficient.He told everyone his plan and reasons for taking the initiative to attack and snatch the food of the Shun army, and then listened to everyone's opinions.If there are different opinions, he will patiently explain, but if he can't explain it, the minority will obey the majority.Up and down, he held a meeting like this, and the officers under him, Da Chu and Zhang Ermeng, also held a meeting on their own territory.In the rooms of some generals, there is just such a large rectangular table, and there is nothing else.Everyone is not literate, what do you want to do so much nonsense, an army without culture will not make progress, and even if you are not careful, it will develop into a rogue army, just like Li Zicheng's Shun army.Later, Wang Shuo had no choice but to use the evening time to prohibit everyone from drinking and gambling, and found Xiucai to teach these guys to read and write, and then gave them political lessons, and explained to them some of his thoughts on the relationship between the country, the army, and the people.Later, those county officials and political participants also held meetings in this way, and over time an atmosphere was formed
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