The mobilization order of Zhendong Army and the recruitment order of the new army were issued almost at the same time. Zhendong Army attacked on both sides, and fought against Li Keyong in the north, mobilizing a total of 28,000 troops. In the south, troops were sent to fight against Wang Ying's rebellion, and eight thousand troops were also transferred.

The two routes dispatched a total of 36,000 troops, and only 15,000 troops were left in Dengzhou and Liaodong, including 10,000 troops in Zhendong, 2,000 troops in Duli Town, and 3,000 troops in southern Liaoning. To this end, Li Jing ordered the recruitment of troops and horses in the entire Liaonan and Dengzhou, with a rated 10,000 troops. In addition, four Tutuan Villagers from the Tuanjie Camp will be recruited in the four counties of Dengzhou, and the training will begin after the autumn training.

At the same time, Li Jing also went south to expand the business road and agreed with all major merchants in Dengzhou and Liaoning. All major caravans fully supported and supported Li Jing's decision. Eight thousand towns of the East Army Navy opened the road, and all merchants with ships actively signed up at the temporary registration point in Shamen Town.

All the various goods produced by the workshops in Dengzhou and Liaonan during this period were booked. The workshops even started working overtime day and night to rush to make goods. The four major ports in Dengzhou Port, Duli Port, Qingni Port, Shirenzhu Port, and Zhendong Army are now full of fleets, and even fleets from Xuzhou, Haizhou, Mizhou and other news also want to join Li Jing's joint fleet.

Since the Middle Tang Dynasty, maritime trade has been the most profitable deal. However, due to the recent chaos in Zibo, Qi, Ji, Pu, Cao, and the Yellow River broke down and flooded. Then, Wang Ying's rebellion was rebelled on the eastern and western Zhejiang coasts of Jiangnan. The rebels attacked cities and plundered cities everywhere, and many coastal towns fell. Not only did the caravans not dare to go to eastern and western Zhejiang, but they even broke the maritime trade routes to Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Guangzhou, and even Annan Jiaozhou.

Now Li Jing sent troops to quell the rebellion and armed with the army to open up the maritime trade route. They had known that the reputation of the Zhendong Army. At this time, they naturally had to follow the south and cut off the trade route for a long time. The south was out of stock, and they had a lot of goods in their hands, and they were eager to go south and make a fortune to recover the losses during this period.

The entire Dengzhou and southern Liaoning were full of tension and busyness, with workshops rushing goods, military camps carrying equipment, and docking goods on ships...

The dozen recruitment sites set up at the same time in Dengzhou and Liaonan are now even more crowded. Countless people want to summon them into the Zhendong Army. Even if they can't become the Zhendong Army, they have to be a united soldier.

Especially in southern Liaoning, the Zhendong Army sent troops to rob Youzhou last time. Those who went to Youzhou were all given one or two hundred guan, while those who stayed behind were all given dozens of guan. The ones who stayed there were all given twenty acres of land in southern Liaoning. Even in Dengzhou, they could buy ten acres of land. This was a huge wealth, and the Zhendong Army made money after only three days. Although the troops recruited this time were not as good as theirs in the south and north expeditions. However, the generous food and rewards of the Zhendong Army were extremely enviable.

However, this time the recruitment of soldiers was extremely strict, and even the strictness was a bit unbelievable.

Huang County, Dengzhou. Twelve earthen cities have been built here hundreds of miles from the border with Laizhou, and between the twelve cities, a two-meter-high earth wall is built to connect the twelve earthen cities. Therefore, these twelve earthen cities are also called Twelve Liancheng.

Although Tucheng was built in a simple way, their main function was not to defend against the enemy, but to intercept the infinite influx of refugees into Dengzhou.

At present, there are twelve counties in Dengzhou and southern Liaoning, but they already have an entire 1.5 million people and more than 300,000 households. Although a large number of victims have been resettled in those mines and workshops, Li Jing still feels the pressure of a large number of people coming in. The first is the huge food consumption.

Moreover, the population needs of southern Liaoning and Dengzhou have entered a saturation period, and there is no longer a large amount of demand as in the previous period. As a last resort, at the request of Xiao Dingbang, Han Anmin, Zhang Hong and others, Li Jing ordered the construction of the Twelve Liancheng and Changtu City Wall on the border of Dengzhou. Moreover, in the Twelve Liancheng, three thousand soldiers and three thousand young and strong men were stationed in the Twelve Liancheng City.

Since shooting four evil people in the ruined temple that day, Lianhua'er has relied on this young man who was two years younger than her. That night, Lianhua'er was excited to give herself all her body and soul to the young man Wang Yanzhang, making the sky a quilt and the ground a bed. The two of them became husband and wife in front of the clay statue of the ruined temple.

Afterwards, Lianhua'er no longer mentioned going to Qingzhou to find the master's house, but followed the boy. The two of them came forward to the beautiful Dengzhou in the legend. They waded all the way, and almost starved to death several times, and finally arrived at the border of Dengzhou at the foot of Qixia Mountain.

Unexpectedly, when I arrived here, I saw countless refugees gathering here, with tens of thousands of people.

But in the Dengzhou they dreamed of having enough food every day, there was a tall earthen city standing there, with the city gates standing on it, and rows of bows and arrows standing on the city.

"Uncle, what's going on?" Wang Yanzhang pulled Lianhua and squeezed through the crowd carefully, pointed at the Tucheng and said to a middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man looked hungry and looked at him, and said helplessly: "I heard that because there were too many refugees entering Dengzhou, there were 600,000 or 700,000 people. Now Dengzhou does not allow refugees to enter the city at will, and 12 cities have been built on this border."

Lianhua'er held Wang Yanzhang's hand pale face, and tears came from her face: "Wurang, Dengzhou cannot be entered, what should we do?"

Wang Yanzhang also looked dim, but he didn't expect that he would come all the way, and this was the result. However, he pretended to be calm and patted Lianhua and said, "Sister Lian, don't worry, you can't get in here. Let's go around somewhere else and cross the mountain."

The man next to him said, "Someone has used this method long ago, and it is useless. It is said that all counties and townships in Dengzhou have long implemented the Baojia system. Every household reports it. Once they find out, they have to check the ID card, the temporary residence card, and the road guide. If not, they will be sent to the civil defense team in the village and then sent to the security team in the township. If it is found that it is not a Dengzhou native, but a refugee who has crossed the border from other places, they will send you back from Dengzhou again."

"Uncle, don't you often hear on the road that the general of Dengzhou County is very kind and treats the people as much as your son? Why, so many refugees come to join him. But he wants to keep him out. Don't care?" Lianhua asked.

"It's not that I don't care." The strong man said something. He paused again, and looked at Wang Yanzhang and the other two with anticipation. "What food do you have on you, or whether you have any copper coins or soft things, give me some food."

Wang Yanzhang said in embarrassment: "I'm really sorry, we don't have food or money."

The man rubbed his stomach and sighed: "Oh."

"Uncle, keep talking."

The man said powerlessly: "The county magistrate in Dengzhou is actually pretty good. Otherwise, why don't you think you can't enter Dengzhou and still refuse to leave here?" He pointed to the countless refugees outside Tucheng. "Except for not being able to get close to Tucheng, they are still good. The city opens twice a day and will serve porridge. Each person has a bowl of porridge. Everyone has a portion. As long as you line up honestly and don't step in the line, two bowls of porridge will be indispensable on this day. However, although two bowls of porridge can't be hungry to death, they can't hold on."

"Is there no other way to enter Dengzhou?" Wang Yanzhang asked. If he was just a person, he would have left at the age of time. But now he has a wife, Lianhua. Lianhua hasn't eaten for a long time. With her body, she has finally been able to last until now. Where can she go?

"There is a solution, but I'm afraid you are not suitable."

"What's the solution?" Wang Yanzhang surged with hope.

"Although Dengzhou has built a wall of earthen cities to intercept refugees, it is actually not really intercepting everyone. They will still let some people into the city, but the conditions are higher. First, the first one is a young man and woman aged 16 to 40. Second, they must be healthy, not get sick, and not have any contagious diseases. Third, generally not to be single, it is best to be single." The strong man looked at Wang Yanzhang and the other two, "You two are less than sixteen, right?"

Wang Yanzhang blushed and said, "I'm eighteen this year, this is my wife, and I'm sixteen."

"Don't look like it or not. Although you are very strong, you can't deceive me. You kid, don't even say eighteen or sixteen." Although the strong man looked hungry at the ground at any time, his eyes were very bright. Just by looking at it, he could guess Wang Yanzhang's real age.

"I'm really eighteen, uncle, I didn't lie to you." Wang Yanzhang tried hard to explain, but unfortunately he was not used to lying at all. He stuttered and didn't dare to look at people. Without thinking, he could know that he was lying.

"You guys don't have to tell me, just that I believe you are eighteen, what's the use? When you get to the city gate, the attractive people can tell at a glance that you are not old enough." said the big man.

Wang Yanzhang drooped his head with a little dejected look, but soon raised his head and said, "But although I am less than sixteen years old, I have a lot of strength. I can lift a stone lock of 100 kilograms in one hand!"

The middle-aged man was a little surprised. He looked at him up and down a few times, then looked at the cloth bag on his back: "I laughed and said, "You have practiced family martial arts. What are you practicing? Stick or gun or soft?"

Wang Yanzhang was a little surprised, but he still honestly said: "I have practiced family-borne gun since I was a child, and I have used family-borne guns."

Lian Hua'er interrupted at this time, "Goro's gun technique is really good. Last time, in order to save me, he killed four evil people as soon as he took action. At that time, those evil people had no time to react and died at Goro's gun."

The middle-aged man was even more surprised: "Do I look at your gun?"

"My gun is not easily shown to others, and you will see blood when you come out!" Wang Yanzhang said very seriously.

"Hahaha!" The man laughed, but unfortunately he was a little weak. After a while, he stopped, but his face had already changed into an equally serious face. He slowly said, "Okay, I believe this little lady. In this case, I can help you enter Dengzhou, but I have a condition. If you can enter Dengzhou, you have to take me in."

Wang Yanzhang said without hesitation: "Okay, my name is Wang Yanzhang, I don't know what your name is."

The middle-aged man smiled and said, "My surname is Wang, and I'll be the seventh one. I'll be your seventh uncle."

Wang Yanzhang nodded, "Okay, now tell me how to enter Dengzhou!"
Chapter completed!