After Hong Yuao's explanation, Zhang Huangyan also had some understanding of the distribution of military strength and the actual situation in Kuidong, and in the next few days, Zhang Huangyan has been observing everywhere in Dachang County. It was found that although the soldiers did not know each other, they did not quarrel with each other. Everyone seemed to be safe, but the battalions held back their strength as if they were comparing something. Under the persuasion of Zhang Huangyan, although he did not agree to do things for the Ming Dynasty, he could only live in Dachang County and accompany Zhang Huangyan to travel all day long. Wang Laosi and others who are willing to go home to farm have been allocated land and settled, and several righteous men who sent Zhang Huangyan before are now Zhang Huangyan's personal soldiers, because they have not yet received Zhu Dashan's arrangement for Zhang Huangyan, so Hong Yuao asked Zhang Huangyan to take a few personal soldiers by himself.

On this day, Zhang Huangyan and Wang Xi were looking around, and Wang Xi said: "This Ping Yuhou is also a talent, if you really want to do it like him, I am afraid that it will be a big opponent of the Qing Dynasty." Zhang Huangyan nodded and said: "Yes, in the past, the grievances and grievances of the various families in Kuidong were entangled and constrained each other, so it was difficult to become bigger. If I had eliminated the constraints between the families earlier, the situation would not have deteriorated to such a point. ”

Wang Xi sighed: "But this so-called military system is incomprehensible, and it does not take the name of a general as a banner. How does this make the soldier know who his master is? ”

It turned out that Zhu Dashan came to Kuidong with the army of the two guards and Wen Anzhi and others that day, although some small forces did not dare to oppose it, but such as Yuan Zongdi, Li Laiheng and other big forces were unwilling to reorganize. These generals used to be at ease on their own turf, who wants you to be in charge? After several discussions, Zhu Dashan also made concessions, that is, after the reorganization, each thousand households, the main generals of the guard house were the main generals of the previous families, and Zhu Dashan only appointed deputy generals. However, each family must abide by the orders of the Dadu Governor's Office established by Zhu Dashan, strictly enforce military law, and must not be as loose as before. After some screening, more than 30,000 elite soldiers were selected from each family in Kuidong and reorganized into five guards. In this way, Kuidong's military strength far exceeded Zhu Dashan's strength, but Zhu Dashan couldn't help it, and Kuidong's side had developed for more than ten years.

In order to distinguish the various guards, Zhu Dashan discussed with Wen Anzhi and others, and only named each guard, and the guards were arranged according to A, B, and C. The three guards that were previously reorganized by Baoning were named Gou Xingwang's Broken Guard, Song Gaoju's Zhenyu Guard, and Cheng Deyi's Pingyu Guard. Of the five guards reorganized by Kuidong, the main defender of the conquest will be He Zhen, the main guard of Jingju will be Yuan Zongdi, the main guard of the capture will be Liu Tichun, the main guard of the extermination will be the party Shousu, and the main guard of the capture will be Hao Yongzhong. The other deputy commanders were appointed by Zhu Dashan, and the commanders below the thousand generals were the Kuidong families, and the deputy positions were appointed by Zhu Dashan, so I will not repeat them here. Li Laiheng was placed by Zhu Dashan in the deputy governor of the Dadu Governor's Mansion, after the reorganization of the army, Zhu Dashan asked Gou Xingwang and Song Gaoju to assign his regiments and battalions to garrison various places, due to the many cottages outside the city in Kuidong, many counties are still under the rule of the Qing court. When the people sent by Zhu Dashan arrived at the camp, they found that they had no station, and after Gou Xingwang and Song Gaoju and others reacted to Zhu Dashan, Zhu Dashan said: "There was no station before, but now our whole army is a new atmosphere, and we will directly attack the county seat as a station." ”

Zhu Dashan is not arrogant and has to go to the county seat to enjoy happiness, but now Kuidong's military strength is obviously greater than his own strength, which can be regarded as a dismount prepared for Kuidong. The generals of Kuidong also wanted to see how powerful Zhu Dashan's army was, and they didn't stop it. Gou Xingwang and Song Gaoju did not disappoint Zhu Dashan, and the generals of Kuidong did not take the initiative to attack the county seat in Kuidong for almost ten years, and the city defense everywhere was a little lax, and the various departments of the Fuming Army had just been reorganized for a month, the military discipline was strict, and the soldiers used their lives, in just ten days, Xingshan, Guizhou, Badong, Wushan, Fengjie, and good news came everywhere at the beginning of the establishment. In the next few days, good news came from Yunyang and Kaixian counties, and even Fang County, Zhushan, and Zhuxi counties in Xunyang Mansion also came with good news. In this way, the generals of Kuidong willingly accepted Zhu Dashan's adaptation, and then mixed the army everywhere to eliminate the previous grievances and estrangements.

Seeing that the reorganization of the Kuidong army was completed, Zhu Dashan transferred the party's guards and He Zhen's guards to Baoning to protect Baoning and strengthen the defense of various passes. Now Yuan Zongdi, Hao Yongzhong, and Liu Tichun are training and helping Gou Xingwang and Song Gao to clear out the mountain bandits and scattered Qing soldiers in various places. Because the generals saw that the two guards brought by Zhu Dashan were strong in combat and omnipotent in attacking the city, they all told the soldiers and horses not to lose face, so there were those words that Zhang Huangyan heard at the dock.

In the past few days, Zhu Dashan heard that there was a strange female general in Daning County, north of Dachang County, so he took Li Laiheng, Yuan Zongdi, Hao Yongzhong, and Liu Tichun to visit, so he was not in Dachang. Zhu Dashan and others rode all the way to Daning County, and the female general was also not in the county seat.

Along the way, Li Laiheng and others also admired a female general, Li Laiheng said: "Pingyuhou don't underestimate this heroine, she was Duan Feihong, the wife of Emperor Gao's general Wang Jincai, when Emperor Gao was defeated and retreated to Huguang, she was separated from the army, and came to this Daning County alone with more than 2,000 women, and built a village to defend herself and open up this daughter village. She herself is even more skilled in bows and horses, and her martial arts are very superb. "The Emperor Gao that Li Laiheng said is Li Zicheng, who was called the emperor and established the Dashun regime, so Li Laiheng and others called him Emperor Gao.

Hao Yongzhong quipped: "Don't be too happy too early, our daughter of Linguo Gong is a teacher of this heroine, so you should be careful in the future." Zhu Dashan said with a big grin: "What are you afraid of, how can you still perform martial arts with your own family." Liu Tichun suddenly laughed and said: "That's not necessarily, this heroine is powerful, but she killed her husband by mistake." Zhu Dashan was startled and said, "What's going on?" ”

At this time, Yuan Zongdi said: "Back then, Feihong first brought 2,000 women to Daning and built a daughter village. Later, Wang Jincai, who resisted the Qing Dynasty in Huguang, was defeated and retreated, so he wanted to come to meet his wife, and as soon as he arrived at the foot of the mountain in his daughter's village, he was discovered by the people in his daughter's village. Duan Feihong heard that the army had come down from the mountain, so he immediately took people down the mountain to check, but because the mountain fog was too big, he couldn't see clearly for a while. Duan Feihong thought that it was the Qing soldiers attacking the mountain, so he took a bow and shot an arrow on the spot. Duan Feihong originally thought that if this arrow was shot, if it was the righteous army's own people, they should shout, and if it was the Qing army, it would be exposed. Who knew that this arrow just hit Wang Jincai impartially, and it was killed with one arrow. Duan Feihong saw that she had killed her husband, and she was sad and wanted to draw her sword and kill herself. Fortunately, it didn't succeed under the persuasion of everyone, and later accepted the daughter of Linguo Gong as an apprentice, so Lao Hao told you to be careful. ”

Zhu Dashan didn't expect that his future wife would have a violent master, the kind who could kill with one hand. immediately said to Li Laiheng: "Father-in-law, I don't know how many daughters you have now." Li Laiheng said angrily: "Just one, why can't you be worthy?" Zhu Dashan shrank his head and said: "No, worthy, worthy" Then he turned to Hao Yongzhong and said: "General Hao, can our agreement be changed." ”

Before Hao Yongzhong could speak, Li Laiheng said angrily: "What, you kid wants to regret the marriage?" See if I don't kill you bastard. Zhu Dashan, who was frightened, hurriedly rode away on horseback. Li Laiheng chased after him, and everyone else laughed. The joke all the way soon arrived in the north of Daning County, under the daughter Zhai Mountain. Zhu Dashan shouted to the mountain from afar: "Don't shoot arrows, don't shoot arrows, we are the army of the Ming Dynasty, and we are from Dachang County." ”

Everyone watched Zhu Dashan's actions like offering treasures, and they staggered with laughter on the horse. And Zhu Dashan's father-in-law, Li Laiheng, blew his beard angrily and shouted: "Can you kid not be ashamed, come to me with my knife, I'm going to cut this bastard today." Of course Li Laiheng would not really cut Zhu Dashan, even if he had this intention, the guards around him would not give him a knife, because these guards were all equipped after reorganization, and these guards all knew that Zhu Dashan was the current commander of the army. is not the personal soldier raised by Li Laiheng himself before, as long as Li Laiheng gives an order, even the sword mountain and the sea of fire will rush forward.

Just when everyone was playing, a girl suddenly appeared behind a rock on the mountain, only to see her clear and bright pupils, curved willow eyebrows, long eyelashes trembling slightly, fair and flawless skin revealing a faint red powder, thin lips like rose petals delicate and dripping, these are a little far away. This girl is really beautiful, but at this time, her face is full of frost, her eyes are on fire, and her willow eyebrows pointed at Zhu Dashan and scolded like thunder: "The bastard thing from there is making a loud noise under the daughter's village." Hurry up and get the old lady away, beware of me shooting you through the cold with one arrow. This roar also suppressed Zhu Dashan, thinking that Duan Feihong, the general of his daughter's village, was here, and hurriedly said: "The female general spares her life, spares her life." I'm my own people, my own people. He ran back as he spoke.

The girl didn't chase after her, but just looked at Zhu Dashan with some disdain. Suddenly, I saw a few more people in the distance, and when I fixed my eyes, it was Li Laiheng and others, the girl suddenly smiled, like a spring breeze, and greeted Li Laiheng and others, and said happily: "Dad, why are you here, and Uncle Yuan, Uncle Liu, Uncle Hao, why are you here together." Zhu Dashan originally thought that he was going to chase after him when he saw this girl chasing him, but he originally came to see Duan Feihong to see if he could persuade them to go down the mountain. The main thing is to continue to keep them here as officials or officials, and the people themselves are not very relieved, maybe one day they will suddenly be recruited by the Qing army and stabbed in themselves, so Zhu Dashan thinks that it is best to go down the mountain to resettle. In addition, Li Laiheng's daughter is now Li Laiheng's residence, and people are at the master's place, so don't you have to come to see your daughter-in-law.

Zhu Dashan heard that this girl was called Li Laiheng's father, Zhu Dashan said in his heart: "Yes, this is his daughter-in-law Li Xiao, this appearance is not bad for himself at all, but this temper and personality don't seem to be ideal." Seeing Li Xiao pulling Li Laiheng to speak, he hurriedly stretched out his head to look at Li Xiao, and said with a smile on his face: "You are not Duan Feihong, it scared me, I thought Duan Feihong was here." ”

Li Xiao saw that this person hadn't left yet, so he really wanted to scold. Hao Yongzhong smiled: "What are you afraid of." It's no fog in the daytime, how can you be shot to death, I think you're afraid of your daughter-in-law. Yuan Zongdi and the others also laughed when they heard this. Li Xiao asked Li Laiheng with a puzzled face: "Dad, who is this person?" How are you with him. Liu Tichun said: "Xiaoxiao niece, we brought your husband here." This is your husband. ”

When Li Xiao heard this, his face immediately flushed with shame, and said: "Where did the wild boy come from, he dares to be my husband, Uncle Liu is here to humiliate me, and when I get to the cottage, I will let the master make me angry." As he spoke, he didn't forget to look at Zhu Dashan with disdain, and the more he hated it when he saw his flattering look. Liu Tichun said: "Let's not talk about this first, let's go visit Duan Feihong first" and then everyone went up the mountain.

Zhu Dashan didn't know how to ride a horse before, but now in order to resist the Qing Dynasty, he has to practice horseback riding, but after all, the time is not long, and the posture of riding a horse is inevitably awkward. used to be big men, and there were few people in the Restoration Army who could ride horses at that time, so everyone didn't talk about the eldest brother, let alone the second brother. But now for Li Xiao, who is skilled in arching horses, how do you look ugly, so Li Xiao asked Li Laiheng in a low voice: "Dad, is this person really..?" ”

Li Laiheng was still angry because Zhu Dashan had some complaints about his daughter before, and said hatefully: "Yes, he is here to ask for a kiss." Li Xiao was shocked: "Dad, look at this person who is so cowardly, he can't even ride a horse, how can such a person be a smiling husband." I don't want to. ”

Although Li Laiheng said that he was a little angry with Zhu Dashan, after all, it involved Dao Kangqing, and he couldn't help Li Xiao to mess around, so he said: "What do you want to do, okay, except for the fact that he is acting a little bit now, the rest is not bad, and he will not treat you badly if one day." ”

Li Xiao hurriedly said: "What do you mean one day, Dad, am I your daughter, you threw me out so easily?" Zhu Dashan said at this time: "Miss Li, it's not easy to marry you at all, and it's not easy for my father-in-law at all." Do you know how much your courtesy weighs? Li Xiao didn't have a good face for Zhu Dashan, and said coldly: "Just the way you look like a wreck, what other heavy gifts do you have?" I think it's just blowing the air. ”

Hao Yongzhong saw the three of them bickering, and felt more and more that his attention was exquisite. laughed and said: "Smile niece, don't worry, the etiquette I set for you is definitely not light, and you will definitely be married in style." Li Laiheng said angrily: "It's you old ghost Hao who has a bad idea." Hao Yongzhong saw that Li Laiheng was about to pour his anger on himself, so he hurriedly pointed to the front and said, "Look, our female general is here." ”

Only then did everyone find out that another group of people came down from the mountain, and it was the female general Duan Feihong, the leader of the daughter village.