Lu Xiangsheng's figure had just walked out of the main hall of the yamen of the military department, and Gao Qiqian immediately instructed the little eunuch beside him: "Go quickly, order the generals, only Lu Xiangsheng is allowed to lead 20,000 troops, and the rest of the people dare to send troops, and they will be punished for rebellion." ”

After giving these orders, Gao Qiqian and Yang Sichang looked at Liu Ximing and the other three with red faces who were embarrassed by Lu Xiangsheng.

"Elder Yang Ge, let's talk about it, the new Amber wants to be with us."

"Hahaha, that's nature", Yang Sichang laughed.

"Xin Anbo, you should also go and rectify the soldiers and horses, since the emperor has given the order, we can't stay in the Beijing Division, I think it is better to move the troops to Shunyi first, and then try to make his strategy."

Liu Ximing, Huang Zonghui and Du Liangji glanced at each other, and all three of them scolded the eunuch in their hearts for misleading the country, and withdrew from the yamen of the military department while agreeing.

"Eunuch thief", walking out of the yamen of the military department, Du Liangji finally couldn't help it, and a foul mouth burst out directly, "I, your grandmother, are really a bastard who has no children and grandchildren." ”

"I'm afraid it's so difficult for Lu Shangshu to make this trip", seeing that there was no one around, Liu Ximing said in a solemn voice.

Huang Zonghui and Du Liangji were both silent, looking at this battle in the hall, if Lu Xiangsheng encountered the enemy, it would be impossible for Gao Qiqian to send troops to rescue him.

"So what do we do?" , Huang Zonghui frowned and asked.

Liu Ximing waved his hand, "Let's go to Zhou Yuji first." ”

There was still a lazy posture in the five military camps, except for the 7,000 soldiers and horses selected by Liu Ximing, the other troops all learned the news that they and others were going to defend the capital, and they looked at the soldiers and horses under Liu Ximing one by one as if they were two fools.

Liu Ximing walked straight into Zhou Yuji's camp and sat down on the main seat unceremoniously, "General Zhou, how is the inventory of soldiers and horses, and when will it be able to be pulled?" ”

Zhou Yuji clenched his fists with both hands, "Yu Qincha, the rectification of seven thousand men and horses has been completed, and they can be pulled out at any time." ”

"Okay", Liu Ximing looked at Jiang Deshen and the others, "Jiang Shen, you little schools should go to my house to collect the rest of the settlement fee, and distribute it to the soldiers as soon as possible, and we may have to leave for Shunyi tomorrow." ”

"Li Biao, where are Cao Bianjiao and Shao Rong's subordinates?"

"It's already near Taiyuan Mansion, and it's inconvenient to get to Zhending."

"Okay, send additional scouts out of the city and quickly explore the movements of Qingdongyu."

Zhou Yuji looked at Liu Ximing dumbfoundedly, "The foreign aid that the uncle is talking about, is it Cao Dudu and Deputy Chief Shao?"

"Hahaha, not bad", Liu Ximing looked high-spirited, "These two people have an old relationship with me, and whether we can make great achievements this time depends on them." ”

After Liu Ximing's confirmation, Zhou Yuji was also excited, Cao Bianjiao's name was unknown to everyone in the official army.

The newly rising deputy chief soldier Shao Rong is also a powerful figure, and in less than three years, he has been mixed from a capital division to a deputy chief soldier, Zhou Yuji was a little strange before, but now he suddenly realized.

Sure enough, there are people in the court who are good officials, thinking of this, Zhou Yuji is even more eye-catching.

April 21 of the twelfth year of Chongzhen.

With Gao Qiqian's order, an army of 50,000 composed of Shanhaiguan guards and Guanning iron cavalry drove out of the capital.

Coupled with the 7,000 men and horses under Liu Ximing, most of the available troops in the entire vicinity of Gyeonggi were under Gao Qiqian's men.

As for Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting and others, the division of King Qin is still on the road at the moment.

And Lu Xiangsheng really only took the Xuanfu general soldier Hu Dawei, the Shanxi general soldier Yang Guozhu and the Datong general soldier Wang Pu, as well as his old army Tianxiong Army, a total of 20,000 horses, to the south to find the main force of Jianyu.

When the news came, Du Liangji, Huang Zonghui and others were secretly sad.

However, Liu Ximing had already hardened his heart at this time, Lu Xiangsheng was indeed a rare general for the Ming Dynasty, but this person was obviously not something he could appease.

Since it can't be used by me, in order to avoid the Ming Dynasty from lingering, it is naturally best for such a character to die.

"Gelding without eggs, I'll grass his grandma."

In Liu Ximing's camp, even Zhou Yuji, who has always been cautious, couldn't help but scold in front of Liu Ximing.

"This bastard, we have tens of thousands of troops, and we are here for nothing, these people don't dare to kill the dog Tartars, but the people on the left and west are really angry with me."

In the camp, Liu Xi ordered a literati to wear plain clothes, and practiced calligraphy on the bookcase one by one.

When Zhou Yuji finished venting, he put down the wolf in his hand, sighed and persuaded Zhou Yuji:

"The world is like this, we can only protect it, General Zhou, you immediately send the order, I don't care what other soldiers do, but if anyone under our command dares to do this, this official will definitely engage in military law."

"Well", Zhou Yuji is now very glad that he agreed to Liu Ximing's request, otherwise he would probably have to do those pickled things now.

It is also strange to say, the army in front of him does not seem to be the Beijing camp that Zhou Yuji is familiar with, and he does things with a clear eye, and Jiang Shen and other backbone officers do not treat non-commissioned officers like ordinary officers who beat and scold them arbitrarily.

Zhou Yuji inspected the camp many times and found that there were many more scholars in the barracks, and taking advantage of the night rest, these people were even divided into many groups to teach the sergeants to read and write.

If he hadn't reported to Liu Ximing and found out that he already knew about it, Zhou Yuji would have thought that he had hit the evil spirit, is this still the Jingying he knows.

It is said that the reason why these sergeants studied hard was because Liu Ximing prescribed a reward for knowing one word and one penny, and 1,500 words was one tael of silver, how could these sergeants not take it seriously.

It's just that where did these silver money come from, Zhou Yuji was puzzled, but he didn't hear that the military department had allocated any money.

Shaking his head and throwing out the strange thoughts in his mind, Zhou Yuji walked out of the big tent.

Whatever, anyway, just stay here comfortably, such as Xin Anbo and officials like Director Huang and Director Du, Zhou Yuji has never met it.

In the big tent, watching Zhou Yuji walk out of the door, Huang Zonghui, who was also lying on a chair and reading idlely, put down the interpretation of the Analects in his hand.

"How long are we going to wait?"

Liu Ximing picked up the brush again and practiced the words stroke by stroke, "Wait until Gao Qiqian feels that it is almost the same." ”

Fortunately, Gao Qiqian also knew how to deceive the imperial court, and seeing Lu Xiangsheng leading his troops all the way south, he also cautiously followed him one or two hundred miles behind.

Ten years later, the army had already marched to Jinju in Jindingfu.

"Second brother, good news", at night, Li Biao's loud voice came in, and when he heard it, he knew that he was in extreme excitement.

"What?"

"Hahaha, congratulations to the second brother, congratulations to the second brother, there is news from the family that the young lady and several aunts have given birth to ......"

Li Biao ran in with a note in his hand, his face full of excitement.

The brush in Liu Ximing's hand fell on the rice paper, and he snatched the letter in Li Biao's hand with an arrow step.

"Hahaha, it's born, it's born, I'm a father."

After reading the above content, Liu Ximing's excited hands trembled slightly, and he cheered.

When the guards outside the door heard this voice, dozens of people rushed in at once, and shouted happily together, "Hahaha, congratulations to the second brother, congratulations to the second brother." ”

According to the letter, in August, Xie Chunxi gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses in August, and Li Xiangjun and Yu Qiaoman each gave birth to a son.

In September, Dong Xiaowan gave birth to another daughter.

Liu Ximing is the father of five children at this time.

What's more important is that there is an eldest son here, how can it not make everyone in the Liu family happy.

Huang Zonghui and Du Liangji took the letter and read it, and also congratulated Liu Ximing from the bottom of their hearts, "Congratulations to the president, the family business is in the future." ”

There was laughter and laughter in the big tent.

Liu Ximing made a fuss for a while before he realized a problem, "Why did the news of ** month come now?" ”

Li Biao picked his head a little distressed, "It should be the reason for the carrier pigeons, according to the family, they have already sent a message, and they haven't waited for a reply, so they sent it again." ”

Liu Ximing is also helpless, this year to transmit news over long distances, if you want to be fast, you can only use carrier pigeons, but the chance of mistakes is a little bigger.

But fortunately, the Liu family is used to using code words to deliver messages, even if they lose the information, it will not get in the way.

"Pass the order, give the brothers more food today, and we will reward the whole army."

Liu Ximing, who was overjoyed, couldn't care that these were not his own army, and directly decided to pay out of his own pocket to celebrate.

At this time, Liu Ximing gained a lot of hearts in the army, and the soldiers of the Beijing camp have never seen officials who are deducted and exploited, and where have they ever seen such a generous chief officer.

In the past few months, thousands of troops have really eaten and drunk spicy food, and there are enough big fish and big pipes every day.

Now, even if Liu Ximing announced the disbandment of the army and returned to his hometown, it is estimated that most of the people are crying and begging to stay.