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The 20,000-strong army temporarily stayed outside the city, and Zhao Hanzhang led Fan Ying, Ming Yu and others into the city.

Xun Xiu took Yuan Li out of the city to collect the land, and only the generals were left in the city.

The magistrate of Meng County came up from behind in a very embarrassed state. Zhao Hanzhang stopped and looked at him, "Zhao Bin, why are you so embarrassed?"

Zhao Bin wanted to cry, so he adjusted his crooked crown and said, "Your Majesty, there are too many people who want to go out. If you don't think of a way, I won't be able to stop them."

Zhao Hanzhang turned around and continued walking to the county government office, saying: "Isn't this the duty of your county magistrate? Let me think of a way, what's the use of you?"

Zhao Bin was stunned and quickly chased after him, "Are you not agreeing to let me go?"

Zhao Hanzhang stopped and looked back at him with a heavy gaze, "I tell you, if you can't appease the people and in turn shake my military morale, I will kill you first!"

Zhao Bin was stunned.

Zhao Hanzhang left him behind and strode into the county government office. When Ming Yu passed him, he patted him on the head with a cattail leaf fan and said: "Idiot, there is no stable military morale in the world at this time. You let them shout at the city gate, do you think that only the people's morale is affected? ? And there is still military morale.”

"If you let them go, who are the soldiers left behind to protect? Or to serve as shields to block arrows? We lost three cities in a row, and our military morale is already unstable. Go and tell them that if the city in Meng County is destroyed, the first to die will be. It's these soldiers; but if they continue to cause trouble, even if Meng County is not destroyed, they will die first."

Ming Yu said: "Our envoy has done a lot of killing chickens to scare monkeys. Ask them who wants to be the first chicken in Meng County."

Zhao Bin: "It makes you always love the people..."

Fan Ying, who was passing by, didn't want to hear it anymore. She thought he was too much of a delay and said, "Your Majesty loves the people. He loves the majority of the people. After Meng County, there are the entire Chen County, the entire Yuzhou, and even the entire Jin Dynasty. Just those people at the gate of the city." Do you dare to compete with them? Magistrate Zhao, where is your chief bookkeeper? Is he in charge of the food and grass in the city now? Ask him to come to me with his account books."

Zhao Bin's attention was diverted, "Which account book?"

"All the account books," Fan Ying said, "I remember there are two granaries in Meng County. Your county government has a granary and a warehouse specifically for storing money. I want to see all the account books."

Zhao Bin: "But Shile's army invaded two days ago, and we suffered huge losses..."

"Then we have to check how much there was before and how much is left now. With so many people staying in the city, we all know how long the food will be enough to last," Fan Ying said, "Don't you think you will count the losses after you retake the county seat?"

Ming Yu smiled at Fan Ying and went to chase Zhao Hanzhang.

Zhao Hanzhang has good ears and heard the subsequent conversation.

She waved to the generals who came up to salute, glanced at the wall, and asked, "Where's the map?"

A young man of fourteen or fifteen years old, wearing a gray soap coat, immediately came forward with a picture in his arms. With the help of two soldiers, he hung the picture up and slowly unfolded it.

Zhao Hanzhang glanced at him curiously and asked, "Why should this picture be put away?"

He looked serious, "To prevent prying eyes."

Zhao Hanzhang smiled when he heard this and asked, "Are you from the school?"

The young man's face flushed, and he bent down excitedly and said, "Yes, little Zhao Jialiang."

When Zhao Hanzhang heard this, he was overjoyed, "You are from the top generation, yes, yes, have you graduated?"

"Yes, I passed the final examination last winter, so I can find a job in the government office. Now I am working and studying at the same time." He said, "This picture will be kept and maintained by me."

Zhao Hanzhang patted his shoulder with approval and said: "Yes, he is very powerful, but there is no limit to learning. You have only studied roughly for four years. There is still a lot to learn in the future."

Zhao Jialiang nodded seriously, "Yes, please remember the girl's teachings."

Zhao Hanzhang then looked at the map and asked the generals, "Tell me, how did you lose the five cities before, and how did you get back two cities?"

Everyone looked at each other, and finally Li Tianhe stepped forward to report.

Shi Le's army appeared too suddenly. Zhao Hanzhang originally had a large army stationed at the border. Zhao Ju's deputy general Gao Yi guarded the northern border of Yuzhou to guard against the Xiongnu and Jiehu who came down from Jizhou.

But Zhao Hanzhang went to Yuncheng to worship heaven. In order to deter Gou Xi and prevent them from taking action against Zhao Hanzhang, Zhao Ju mobilized 80,000 troops from various places to march to the Yanzhou border, just in case.

Shi Le's army suddenly appeared and attacked fiercely. Gaoyi was slow to call for help and did not hold on for a long time. He lost two cities in one day.

After Zhao Ming received the battle report, he immediately dispatched Mi Ce and other generals to rescue, and then the Xiongnu offensive was stopped.

But the war between the two sides was intense. You were fighting for it, and the fighting was fierce.

Because they had lost five cities in a row before, and this time Shi Le's army came again with force, the morale of the army was somewhat affected.

Zhao Hanzhang asked: "Where is Gaoyi?"

Li Tianhe lowered his head and said, "Severely injured, he is recovering in the camp."

No wonder the morale of the army was weakened and all the original lieutenants were seriously injured.

Zhao Hanzhang picked up the pen and asked about the information that the scouts had returned. Marking them one by one on the map, Zhao Hanzhang stared at the map and said, "Have you seen Shi Le?"

"Yes," Li Tianhe said, "The one who seriously injured General Gao was Shi Le."

Zhao Hanzhang couldn't help but mutter, "He can really resist going to Yanzhou?"

But this is fine, it is better to contain people here than to go to Yanzhou and lose control.

Zhao Hanzhang rearranged his defenses and ordered: "We can't just defend, and wait for them to attack the city."

"Your Majesty, we lost Shan County, Cao County and Su County, why don't we take them back?"

Zhao Hanzhang said: "You have to grab, but you can't rush. Our goal is to hold back as many enemy troops as possible, so we focus on defense."

All the generals will respond.

Just after re-arrangement, I heard the neighing of horses outside.

Zhao Hanzhang glanced outside and saw Xun Xiu walking in with a saber and full of evil aura. He clasped his hands in fists and bowed his head in salute, "I will see the governor at the end!"

Zhao Hanzhang nodded slightly and asked, "How was the fight?"

Xun Xiu cursed loudly: "A group of turtle grandsons are trying to trick me. They dug a lot of holes on the road I have to pass and almost made our horses lame..."

To sum it up in one sentence, he didn't lose, but he didn't win either, and he suffered a lot.

But Zhao Hanzhang felt that he had lost. He did not recover the lost ground or hit the opponent. Instead, his military morale was shaken even more.

Zhao Hanzhang motioned to Zhao Jialiang to roll up the map and said: "Let's go to the North City Gate, move the main tent to the city gate tower, and the county government will return it to the county magistrate."

The soldiers were very fast. They rolled and lifted things and immediately moved their positions.

The chief bookkeeper of Meng County who rushed over was confused and wanted to follow, but Fan Ying grabbed him by the collar and said: "You don't have to go, you give the account book to Cao Yushi."

Zhao Hanzhang took the time to look back. After riding on his horse, he couldn't help but ask Fan Ying, "I remember that I appointed the magistrate of every county. This Zhao Bin was not selected through the talent recruitment examination. Who recommended him to me at that time?" Up?"

Fan Ying bent down slightly and said, "It's the fifth master."