While Richard was immersed in the shock of successive "upgrades", the escape convoy led by Long Lotte had entered Yizhou City.

From the perspective of urban defense, Yizhou is not much worse than Xizhou, but the population living in it is far inferior to Xizhou.

First of all, Yizhou is not a city similar to that of the provincial administrative capitals in later generations, like Xizhou.

Secondly, because the news of the Ming army's attack on Xizhou came, the landlords, gentry and wealthy families in Yizhou fled one after another, and the group of people evacuated by An Lushan was very serious.

The escape of rich people and ordinary civilians are two different concepts, because rich people cannot escape with their relatives and relatives. The servants and trustees of their followers are all a large group of people, and these people themselves and their respective family members and friends often run away with them.

In this way, the number of people who fled was very terrifying.

However, it is precisely because of the departure of these people that the Long family's control over Yizhou has become very easy. The original local tyrants have left, and the Long family even brought a few people and An Lushan's documents to successfully take over the entire Yizhou.

The same is true for other prefectures and counties that An Lushan awarded.

However, what the Long family received was an empty shell, and even the left-behind government soldiers and yamen runners were identified.

The capable government soldiers were also within the scope of An Lushan's withdrawal.

In the Tang Dynasty in East Asia, the closer the area to the Central Plains, the simpler the system of local garrison troops is. Because there are very few green skins in the areas near the Central Plains, it is less likely that the orcs will reproduce here, so local prefectures and counties do not need to maintain a huge local garrison troops.

Therefore, near the Central Plains and even the Central Plains, except for the Jiedu soldiers and regular troops in various places, the local garrison troops only had military farms.

The separate towns and county towns no longer set up independent county soldiers and patrol battalions like the Western Regions, nor are there any amateur mercenaries.

In this way, the government can greatly save the government's expenses, so the local guard work is handed over to the officials and yamen runners, which is often called bad people. If they encounter bandits and small green skins, they will be handled by the local government soldiers.

Without the messy local garrison troops, it is easier to manage.

Of course, in a more comfortable environment, the combat effectiveness of the government soldiers inevitably declined. In addition, the domestic military industry has been widely embezzled by local wealthy families. The system of government soldiers with strong combat effectiveness at the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty has completely decayed.

If it weren't for the scattered green skins wandering and reproduction, the local government soldiers would even turn into empty shells.

This is also the reason why the Tang Dynasty frequently set up local Jiedushi and used regular troops to guard the border and non-Central Plains.

As a result, after An Lushan, the strongest military governor, rebelled, the entire north was unstoppable, and the so-called palace soldiers with a number of people in the account could actually pull out no more than 100,000 soldiers...

Even with less than 100,000 soldiers in the palace, facing An Lushan's elite troops in a hundred battles, they were about to collapse and surrendered in sight...

During the period when An Lushan conquered the northern region of the Tang Dynasty, none of the major battles that really broke out was fighting the soldiers of the palace, and they were all filming with the regular military field troops temporarily transferred by the Tang Dynasty.

Those soldiers basically act as logistics and supplies teams and flag-shaking and shouting.

After the Tang army on the current line was defeated by An Lushan, the local government soldiers transformed from top to bottom and became An Lushan's subordinate units.

This is also the fundamental reason why An Lushan conquered one-third of the territory of the Tang Dynasty in just a few years of his rebellion.

An Lushan, the mansion soldier who was so rotten, naturally would not care about it. During the evacuation process, except for the few mansion soldiers who could be defeated, most of them were thrown to the Long family.

The local government soldiers that An Lushan despises is still very important to the Long family, which has a weak family. It is precisely because of the local government soldiers and official yamen runners that the Long family led by Long Batian recruited an army in a short time.

In time, after training, you may be able to train another warrior.

Unfortunately, Xizhou City, which was highly anticipated, was defeated too quickly. It took less than two days from Richard's attack to the fall of the city...

When Long Batian received Long Letian and his group in Yizhou, he still had the illusion of being in a dream...

"Father, are the Long family troops really gone?"

Long Batian looked at the loose convoy and asked helplessly.

Long Letian's hair was already so sad that he was much older and his appearance was much older. Although the average life span of people in this era was only about 30 years old, it refers to the mud legs at the bottom.

For those who are in high positions, eating and drinking are good all day long and living past 60 is not a strange thing.

But Long Lotte is in his prime, and is less than 40 years old, and is already covered in white hair...

The battle of Xizhou defeated Long Letian's backbone and destroyed his hope of revitalizing the Long family.

Long Batian frowned after seeing Long Letian nodding silently.

"Father, Richard's army of deceased has been escorting you all the time. He won't want to..."

Long Letian looked up at Long Batian and said, "How many soldiers have been trained in Yizhou City?"

"There are about 50,000 people, but they have not received systematic military training and have not even equipped all weapons..."

Long Batian replied worriedly.

"It doesn't matter, Yizhou's city defense is strong. Richard only brought his undead army here, and the other troops stayed in Xizhou. As long as our soldiers have the courage to defend the city, it is enough. Every day of persistence in Yizhou can fight for the rear for one-day training period!"

Long Letian seemed to have caught the last straw, and I don’t know if he was comforting himself.

The reason why Long Letian chose to hand over in Yizhou is because Yizhou's city defense is not weaker than Xizhou!

In addition, Long Batian also ruled in advance and mobilized the troops that had been trained recently in recent days to concentrate in Yizhou, in an attempt to confront the Ming army.

This is the best result that Long Letian can think of. You can't really give up and surrender...

Now that the Long family has a large prefecture and county town, as long as there is enough time, Long Letian is fully confident to re-train a Long family army!

Of course, Yizhou will soon become the front line. Now without the Long family army, Long Letian dare not stay here to command. If he is captured again, will Richard spare him?

At this time, Long Letian had no Long Family Army to sell!

"We will rest in Yizhou for one night and set off tomorrow. Our Long family now has the entire northwest, so I don't believe that we can't hold back Richard's army!"

I have to say that An Lushan’s promise gave Long Letian the confidence to confront Richard. He believed from beginning to end that he was only time short of him!

Moreover, as the Ming army's front deepens, the supply line becomes longer and longer, and its combat effectiveness will gradually weaken. Long Letian feels that as long as he drags on, the Ming army will definitely be weak one after another.
Chapter completed!