Gao Yigong was really frightened by Wang Sun Fan, but Wang Sun Fan said calmly: "The queen's personal expedition is the story of the national dynasty, although Fengtian Gao Niangniang is noble, but for the sake of the country for the long term, try not to miss this opportunity." ”

The so-called "national dynasty story" of the "queen's personal expedition" is actually more than a year old, but when Empress Zhang and Princess Kunxing crossed the Qiantang River, many people raised criticisms, and when Empress Changping personally conquered Jianghuai, everyone already felt accustomed to it, and even thought that Empress Changping's personal expedition to Jianghuai and Liu Yongxi's personal expedition to Huguang were the country's Zhongxing weather.

After the victory of Huai'an and Xuzhou, everyone felt that the queen's personal expedition was a national practice, even if the queen's mother could not play any role on the battlefield, it was purely just a mascot, but the queen's personal expedition represented a brilliant victory.

And now Wang Sun Fan specially reminded Gao Yigong that even Empress Zhang and Empress Changping, who were born in the noble state, have led the army to fight in person several times, and Empress Gao was born in the loyalty camp, and her status in terms of identity cannot be compared with Queen Yingtian and Shuntian, and even Queen Xing, who was also born in the loyalty camp, has repeatedly accompanied Liu Yongxi on the expedition, and Queen Gao naturally needs to lead the army to fight in person.

This is also the best way to mobilize the old loyal battalion, although Empress Gao is purely just a mascot, but she doesn't even have to go to the front line to boost the morale of the loyal battalion and the old department of the Great Western Army, and Gao Yigong also understands: "Or Mr. Wang is thoughtful, my sister must have a personal experience if she wants to stand out." ”

Although Liu Yongxi now let Empress Gao sit in charge of the military affairs of the five provinces of Wuchang, the four queens left by Zhang Xianzhong also stayed in Wuchang, and they are not only younger than Empress Gao but also know how to serve Liu Yongxi together, which can be said to be an out-and-out group of goblins, so Liu Yongxi is only ready to crown these four beauties as ordinary concubines, but in the end he still named Empress Chen as the imperial concubine, and the remaining three beauties as concubines.

Now although these four concubines come to Queen Gao's side every day to ask for peace, how can women not want to become queens, not to mention that they are only one step away from the queen's position, so Gao Yigong has always been worried that not only will there be a queen among them, but also four queens will stand together, which will seriously threaten Queen Gao's status.

And behind these noble concubines is the old department of Xiying, although Liu Yongxi and Chengtian Dynasty both feel that the loyal battalion is more trustworthy, so they will let Tian Jianxiu and Yuan Zongdi go south successively, and transfer several troops and horses to undertake the defense of Jianghuai, but after the Qing army entered the customs, the loss of the loyal battalion was too great, but the strength of the Xiying was preserved relatively intact, and the imperial court also attached great importance to the old generals of the Xiying, including Li Dingguo.

In this situation, Empress Gao must seize the opportunity of this Northern Expedition to drive the expedition in person, so Gao Yigong's face immediately showed a smile, and Wang Sun Fan also said very calmly: "Actually, Your Majesty has not meant this, but I think that the queen's personal expedition is the story of the dynasty, and now among the four queens, only Fengtian Gao Niangniang has no such experience, please Sister Ling must seize this opportunity!" ”

In fact, Empress Gao has often followed the army since she followed Li Zicheng, but these experiences of following the army to the Chengtian Dynasty are meaningless and a burden, and Gao Yigong naturally understands this truth: "I'll go back and explain it to my sister immediately!" Don't worry, my sister has always been reasonable, thank you this time, if you don't remind me, my sister and I really didn't expect this! ”

In the past, Wang Sun Fan had a lot of suspicions about these thieves from the loyalty camp, but after serving as the governor of Huguang, his mind changed, he felt that although the loyalty camp had a history of being born as a thief, but since the Fengtian Gao Empress sat in Jingzhou, he had changed his mind and could be used by the imperial court, no matter how the imperial court dispatched them, they were willing to obey the arrangement, and now Huguang did not have many basic troops of the Chengtian Dynasty, and the loyal battalion was naturally the most trustworthy force in the hands of Wang Sun Fan.

However, the old department of the Great Western Army led by Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, and Ai Nengqi is stronger, and after Zhang Xianzhong's death, this old department has been in the hands of the so-called "four generals", although Sun Kewang led the troops to the south, but it still has a great influence on the Great Western Army, and more importantly, although the Great Western Army was reorganized into the economic division of the imperial court, it maintained a strong independence, so Wang Sun Fan felt that the most feasible plan at the moment was to eat the old department of the Great Western Army as much as possible by the loyal battalion, even if it could not eat all the Great Western Battalion, You can also dig up a few more troops and horses from the side of the Onishi camp.

Although Gao Yigong couldn't understand Wang Sunfan's specific ideas, he and the old generals of the Loyal Battalion could understand Wang Sunfan's arrangement, so the Loyal Battalion soon spread the news that Empress Gao was preparing to personally conquer Liangguang, which made the old department of the Great Western Army suddenly become a little panicked.

Liu Wenxiu had a hard time understanding what was going on: "Now almost half of Huguang's camp has been transferred, no matter whether Wang Sunfan wants to go on the Northern Expedition or the Southern Expedition, he must first consider our Western Camp, what does he mean by being so tossed now?" ”

Ai Nengqi said beside him: "Brother Sun Kewang has sent a letter from Guizhou, he said that everything is going well now, and he will be able to take down Yunnan soon, I hope we can cooperate with them well and take down the whole of Yunnan and Guizhou!" ”

Although Liu Yongxi arranged for Sun Kewang to enter Yunnan, but the overwhelming southern expedition ignited Sun Kewang's ambition at once, he had changed Yunnan to Yunnan and Guizhou, just hearing this Li Dingguo said: "Xiying is Xiying, Sun Kewang is Sun Kewang, now we are the economic division of the Chengtian Dynasty, everything has to be dispatched by the imperial court!" ”

Hearing Li Dingguo say this, the old generals of Xiying present all felt that this topic was not easy to accept, and finally Ai Nengneng forcibly took over the topic after the cold scene: "Brother Sun Kewang does not mean that we should fall into the grass again, but we want to do our best for the imperial court, and now Wang Sun Fan and Chuang Ying are on guard against us, so we have to be prepared!" ”

Li Dingguo immediately said: "Wang Sun Fan and Chuang Camp beware of us, what is there to worry about, it was His Majesty Emperor Chengtian who recruited us at the beginning, as long as His Majesty Emperor Chengtian can trust us, we don't have to worry about a way out!" ”

Although they all felt that Li Dingguo was too confident in Liu Yongxi, the old generals of Xiying who were present all inexplicably felt that Li Dingguo's words were very reasonable, no matter how much Wang Sunfan, Gao Yigong, and Li Guo tossed, as long as Liu Yongxi, the Emperor of Chengtian, was still full of confidence in Xiying, then as long as everyone did things well, there was no need to worry about anything.

But some people still think that Li Dingguo is a little too radical: "I know that the imperial court is good to us, but we have to find a way to make meritorious contributions to the imperial court, and we have not made an inch of merit since we surrendered!" ”

The statement of "not an inch of merit" is naturally a bit exaggerated, and the old department of the Daxi camp still pacified a lot of thieves and bandits for the imperial court, but compared with such a huge number of soldiers and horses, everyone felt that they might sit on the mountain at any time, but as soon as the words fell, someone said: "Now there is a chance to serve the imperial court!" As long as the generals are willing to be loyal to the court, the court will definitely reward them for their deeds! ”

The old generals of Xiying who were present all stood up together, and Li Dingguo was even more taken aback: "I didn't expect Fengtian Gao Niangniang to come, and Weichen greeted the holy driver!" ”

It was not only Queen Gao who came, but also the four imperial concubines and concubines behind her, it was the four queen mothers left by Zhang Xianzhong, but the current Queen Gao was radiant and peerless, and even a character like Li Dingguo who had seen a big scene did not dare to look at her.

And Empress Gao's confidence has never been so full: "The success or failure of the country's rise and fall lies in this Northern Expedition, I have asked Your Majesty that Jingxiang will lead the army by me to personally conquer, dare to ask the generals if they are willing to be regained by Jian Jian to recover the Central Plains Zhongxing Daming with me?" ”

Although the Great West Camp was born as a thief, but whether it is the Great Western Army or the Great Shun Army, these so-called "thieves" are often more loyal than those righteous gentlemen, and now I heard that the imperial court and Queen Gao are going to lead them to the Northern Expedition One by one cheered, Li Dingguo was the first to say: "Please rest assured, the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains Zhongxing country has always been our goal, since Niangniang wants to lead the army to conquer in person, then the British King Azig will be handed over to us to deal with." ”

"That's right, not to mention one British King Azig, even ten British King Azig are not our opponents!"

"We not only have to go back to Henan, but also go back to our hometown in Shaanxi!"

"Your Majesty is really like a god with soldiers!"

Now the generals in the Western Camp have understood why Liu Yongxi transferred the Loyal Battalion to nearly half of the troops, in fact, it is to make the British King Azig in the north have the illusion that the Northern Expedition of the Yue Ming Army is still far away, but they did not expect that the Yue Ming Army is ready to start the Northern Expedition.

The generals of the Western Battalion, including Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, and Ai Nengqi, are now full of confidence, and their greatest confidence is the special trust of the Chengtian Imperial Court and Liu Yongxi in the Great Western Army.

Since nearly half of the loyal battalion has been transferred out of Huguang, only the elite of the Daxi Battalion can take on the heavy task of winning the Northern Expedition on the Huguang battlefield, and the enemy in front of him is Azig, the only remaining strongest field corps of the Qing army, but Liu Yongxi feels that the old department of the Great Western Army will definitely be able to defeat the British king Azig.

Since the imperial court and His Majesty the Emperor are so strong against Xiying, and they also sent Empress Gao to lead the army to march in person, the generals of Xiying present are all more confident, and Li Dingguo is even more arrogant: "Please rest assured that Your Majesty and Niangniang, even if we can't wipe out Azig's department, we can fight with Azig to defeat both sides, so that the imperial court's northern expedition to the Central Plains will create the best opportunity!" ”

"Yes, we can at least cripple Azig!"

"Yes, Azig handed it over to us!"

And Gao Niangniang also said with a smile on her face: "That's right, Azig's Jianyu will be handed over to us!" ”