That's right, this officer is actually the younger brother of Mrs. Wang Yongwu and his brother-in-law, otherwise he wouldn't be able to enter and leave the City Lord's Mansion freely.

Wang Yong heard something from his brother-in-law's tone, stared at this unsuccessful brother-in-law and asked coldly: "Mu Qing, you tell the truth, how much empty salary have you eaten?" ”

Mu Qing was stunned when he heard this, and said: "Brother-in-law, why are you asking this, don't you know about this, it's just two thousand empty salaries, and most of this money is filial to you." ”

Wang Yong's eyes were cold: "When has this been, you still don't tell the truth?" ”

It was the first time Mu Qing saw Wang Yong's frightening eyes, so he no longer quibbled, and said, "Two, two two thousand." ”

Wang Yong almost fainted when he heard this, two two thousand, that is, four thousand, the city guard army has a total of just over 10,000 establishments, and there are four thousand less at once, so how much is left? Wang Yong asked angrily: "Say, how many soldiers are there in the city guard now?" Anyway, it's this time, and there is nothing to hide, Mu Qing also replied: "There are less than seven thousand city guards in total." Hearing this number, Wang Yong only felt that the world was spinning for a while, and he pointed at Mu Qing for a long time and couldn't say a word.

Mu Qing was in charge of Wang Yong, who sat down and explained: "Originally, there were still about nine thousand, but later the county lieutenant and several other generals didn't know where to find out about our empty salary, so in order to stop their mouths, I took the initiative to give them a part of the quota." "Wang Yongdu is about to explode, such a big thing, this brother-in-law actually said it now, everything is over now.

Taking a deep breath, he looked at Mu Qing dejectedly and asked, "There are so many fewer people in the city guards, how did you hide it during the time that His Royal Highness the Prince has been here?" Pang Ying, they didn't find out? ”

Speaking of this, Mu Qing said a little proudly: "This is easy to do, it turns out that there are not a lot of beggars and ruffians in the city, I arrested them all, let them change into the clothes of the city guards and stay in the camp, anyway, there is food and drink, and those beggars are very happy." Wang Yong waved his hand to shut up this brother-in-law who only had money in his eyes.

It is true that Guangyuan City is high and deep and easy to defend and difficult to attack, but that is only possible under the premise of having enough soldiers to defend the city, but now, the entire city guard army only has less than 7,000 soldiers, and if it is evenly distributed, there are less than 2,000 soldiers on each city wall, and the city wall of Guangyuan City is so long, even if all these people are sent to the city wall, they may not be able to stand full, how can this battle be fought?

Seeing that Wang Yong was silent, Mu Qing opened his mouth and proposed: "Brother-in-law, if Anping County is too far away, why don't we let Kaiyuan County and Yuhong County send people over?" Maybe it's still too late. ”

Wang Yong glared at Mu Qing: "It's a compliment to say that you are an idiot, and you don't want to think about it, since that Yuan Fang came to our Guangyuan County, the first thing is to clear our messengers and scouts, do you think about why?" ”

Mu Qing pondered for a moment and suddenly realized, and said in surprise: "Brother-in-law, are you saying that several other counties have been broken?" ”

Wang Yong really didn't have a common language with this brother-in-law, and said angrily: "He just wants to cut off the connection between those counties and us, and you still want to ask those counties for help?" How can people ask for help if they can't get by? ”

Mu Qing's eyes lit up: "You mean those counties are still in our hands?" ”

Wang Yong said uncertainly: "I don't know, but what if it's still in our hands now?" You also heard it at the front time, the other party came over more than 100,000 horses this time, think about it again, how many troops are coming to us, and where did the rest of the men and horses go? Alas, I'm afraid those counties are already more auspicious, Dugufeng, you are really bitter to me, I knew this, I wouldn't have listened to you when I said anything, but now it's okay, you're dead, what do you let me do with this mess? Hmph, it's really not good, don't blame me for treacherous betrayal and defection to the enemy, I just want to live. Mu Qing was stunned when she heard this, and looked at her brother-in-law in disbelief.

The Taiji Legion still rushed to Guangyuan County without hurrying, and when they passed through a village, they found that several soldiers and villagers at the entrance of the village had an argument, Yuan Fang couldn't help frowning, and rushed over to inquire about it.

In addition to the five cities in Guangyuan County, the territory is full of large and small villages, before the war, the capable families in the villages and towns have moved to nearby cities to escape the war, but there are still many people who stay in the village and live in fear, during this time, under the strict orders of Yuan Fang, the various departments under his command are only scouts who enter the village to search the place, and do not rob their property, plunder their food, and harm their women, these people, after the initial panic, also let go of their hearts, At least they wouldn't be afraid to come out as soon as they saw Yuan Fang.

Seeing Yuan Fang coming over with a large group of female soldiers, the soldiers and the villagers stopped arguing, the soldiers saluted, and the villagers stood aside obediently and didn't even dare to raise their heads.

Yuan Fang looked around at everyone, and finally his eyes fell on the snow in the hands of one of the soldiers, frowned and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

The soldier stood up and saluted and said, "General Hui, just now we found this snow chicken on the road, and we caught it when we chased it here, but these people didn't say that they raised this chicken." ”

Yuan Fang said coldly: "And then? You're going to rob it? ”

The soldier did not avoid Yuan Fang's fierce gaze, and replied loudly: "We did not rob it, but spent money to buy it, but they did not recognize our coins, so they quarreled." ”

Yuan Fang was stunned for a moment, the matter was not what he imagined that the soldiers were bullying and stealing, the anger in his heart disappeared a lot, and he turned his head to look at the cowering villagers with interest and asked, "How many of you are from this village?" Several villagers looked at each other, and one of them, a burly middle-aged man, replied, "We are all villagers here, General." ”

Yuan Fang smiled, Xia Yi and Ye Qingru also smiled, Lin Menghan and Huo Bingyan glanced at the female soldiers around them, the female soldiers surrounded several villagers with a hula, and stared at the three villagers who were surrounded by their knives out of their bodies, in addition, the remaining female soldiers rode their horses to protect Yuan Fang in the middle and guard the surroundings.

Several villagers were taken aback, and the one who spoke just now hurriedly begged for mercy when they saw that the situation was not good: "General spare your life, we don't want this snow chicken, don't want it." The other two villagers nodded in agreement.

Yuan Fang touched his chin and looked up and down at the three villagers in tattered clothes in front of him, and asked with interest: "I said, you guys are not honestly hiding in the village, why did you run out to find trouble?" ”

The villagers led by him had the courage to say: "General, it's not us looking for trouble, this snowcock is indeed raised by us." ”

Yuan Fang smiled and said: "Don't tell the truth, it's okay, anyway, if you have time, I'll play with you." ”

Yuan Fang turned his head to Xia Yi and said, "Bring a few people into the village to find a few villagers to come over." Xia Yi nodded, beckoned and led a few female soldiers into the village.