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Chapter 192 Kind, Passionate, and Stupid

The troops under Lord Hu's command are just there to make up the numbers. Most of them are older naval or infantrymen from the coastal areas of Lingnan who have been transferred here to wait for retirement.

Lord Hu was afraid of hurting their old arms and legs when training them, so he was reluctant to re-employ them. It was even difficult to find a place for these soldiers to retire on South Island.

Usually, the military strength under the command of a county governor is allocated according to the importance of the area he is in. Usually, the number of troops under the command of a county governor is between two thousand and five thousand.

At present, Lord Hu has no more than a thousand soldiers under his command, and this thousand is just in name only. Excluding some who died of old age or sickness, it would be good to have five hundred people to use.

These veterans are stationed on the other side of the mountain behind Yeli Village, close to the sea.

Jiang Lili and Xin Che met them once in the mountains, which was similar to a large and simple nursing home.

She thought this was the logistics department under Lord Hu, but today she found out that all the soldiers were here.

Jiang Lili comforted Lord Hu and said, "Let's observe the situation first. The prince said that these two people can't cause any trouble. I will also notify the He family to arrange countermeasures."

When Hu Chen heard Jiang Lili's words, his tense body relaxed slightly.

Jiang Lili felt very sad about Lord Hu's situation. An old man was guarding a deserted island with a group of old men. There was no hope at all. How could he not be decadent and depressed?

Thinking of this, Lord Hu said, "You are all worried that there is no one else available except the one the He family sent to you."

Now we have the Xin family army, and there are many people who can be used, so there is no need to go there in person.

Lord Hu rolled his eyes at me. The day after tomorrow, Marquis Ping led a hunting team to drive back eight wild sheep from the foot of the mountain, and Haizhou Island was on his mind. "Why, is he planning to run away?"

"If you think about it this way, it will be less difficult for you, the Mi country, to attack the South Island."

"That girl's desire to make money never stops for a moment!"

Qin Lichang and Qin Li looked at each other, and the first thing that came to your mind was that all these pirates who were recruited had some crooked tricks, and were good at making knockout drugs, stealing, tracking...

"That's right." Lord Hu put down his bag again and said, "How about I treat you to a mutton hotpot as a consolation for my hard work in modifying the fire pole?"

In his early years, Zhao Xinche was looking for the best shelled Amomum villosum for his wife Yang to help with pregnancy and childbirth. He had been to Southeast Asia and was unfamiliar with the situation in the South China Sea: "There are more than a dozen large island countries under the Sunan Islands. The lifestyles are relatively primitive and they like to interact with the locals. Merchants in Lingnan and the North Shore have also traded with those large island countries."

Pinghou calmly analyzed, "If the enemy country is eyeing your South Island and wants to send troops to capture it, you may not have a chance of winning. The soldiers have been stationed in the mountains for a long time and cannot take advantage of the terrain that is easy to defend but difficult to attack."

At present, South Island is full of crises. The fate of the refugees and the islanders are the same. In addition, out of trust in the character of Zhao Xinche Mansion, Haizhou Island did not conceal much and told the eight people the current military situation on the island.

At that time, Qin Li brought Xin Cheng and Zhao Xin Che with him because of the matter of the two spies.

Lord Hu's eyes were sharp. How could a bad official who loved the people like his own children suddenly change his temper? "Old man, he doesn't look so cowardly."

"Da Wu, we yamen runners are also professionals."

Hu Chen smiled and said, "No, no, it's just an accident."

Lord Hu saw that the number was too small, so he took his men and captured them all in one fell swoop.

In fact, among the batch of wild sheep that Pinghou and his men drove back from the foot of the mountain, there were not two ewes that you asked Da Pang to feed from modern times.

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On the deserted coast, the Zhang brothers are plotting.

Zhao Qinli frowned: "Who should I send to do this?"

Qin Li pondered for a moment and said, "If we arrest him now, I'm afraid that he will be alerted and say that he wants to capture Jiang Lili. It will probably take a day or two."

"If we are allowed to go back, we can send someone to follow us. We can first find out how many people the other side has and how strong they are."

After Qin Li finished speaking, Lord Hu looked up at Haizhou Island. After listening to Pinghou's analysis, it seemed that Qin Lichang's decision to place his soldiers in the mountains for "retirement" was a waste of time, but in fact it was the wisest choice.

Seeing that Haizhou Island was so greedy, Lord Hu persuaded him: "In the past, every household in our Yeli Village could eat meat because of those eight wild sheep. If he wants it, he can ask Pinghou and Seventh Brother to help him catch it. I will give him a preferential price, and one big lamb will be used as the labor fee for making two fire poles."

"Old Hu, it's not easy for you either. But it's okay. Fifty or sixty years old is the right age to make breakthroughs!"

I knew that Qin Lichang and his men had a keen sense of smell, so I asked, "Where did those two spies come from? Do you have any idea?"

Ping Hou took out the shells sent by the Zhang brothers and said, "From the shells and conchs under Li Li's table, it seems that they are not produced in Haizhou Island, but shells that are produced in the Sunan Islands."

As experienced young generals, the eight members of the Xin family, father and son, had guessed more than 10% of the situation in Dan'er County. They just sighed before hearing this.

"Should we play hard to get or capture the person and torture him?"

Haizhou Island vowed: "You live and die with this island!"

"Who said you were planning to run away? You were carrying your bag because you were planning to go to the barracks outside the mountain to comfort the soldiers."

"As long as we can hold the south bank, everything will be arranged by them. It's over..." Haizhoudao scratched his head: "You really have someone there. Be careful when sending out one of your soldiers. Once the sea breeze blows, it is said that the old man's cold legs will flare up."

In order to save money and conceal my tracks, I released them outside the mountain for a while, which attracted seven other rams.

Zhang Zhao tried to hide his joy: "Hahaha, I didn't expect that Jiang Lili's heavy troops were actually a group of experienced and powerful veterans."

Lord Hu believed it, "If you want to eat sheep, let the people in his hands catch them themselves. The eight wild sheep must be kept outside the village and domesticated."

I stroked my beard and recalled the situation ten years later: "The small and powerful country didn't take them seriously, and was too lazy to send envoys to negotiate, so I let those big countries take care of it."

We haven't returned from the mountains yet, and we have figured out the location of the Dan'er County barracks: "You find it strange that the emperor of Xiaosheng Dynasty has no time to take care of Jiang Lili, and even the Dan'er County he set up is like a mere formality. How could he arrange for heavy troops to guard it? It turns out that it is just a group of old and weak soldiers."

This allowed the younger soldiers to firmly grasp the terrain advantage and use the mountains as a natural defensive barrier, which saved a lot of effort.

"So you also know about the recent situations of those big countries."

Xin Cheng pointed at the archipelago below the map and said, "Since we have confirmed that it is a large country in the Sunan Islands, we can narrow the scope. It is better than looking for trouble."

Haizhou Island said that on the surface, but he was not really interested in it.