As soon as Liu Ximing said about Jiang Deshen's arrangement, Zhou Yuji was also a little surprised.

In the past few years, he has become more and more satisfied with Jiang Deshen and others, although there are martial arts examinations in these years, but due to the low status of martial artists, who is really talented and learns is willing to take this road.

Although Jiang Deshen and others have only received the military education of Liu Ximing, the second sword, whether it is vision or specific command and combat ability, they are much stronger than the middle-level officers in the Ming official army.

Therefore, Liu Ximing's voice fell, and Zhou Yuji immediately interceded for Jiang Deshen: "Ge Lao, Jiang Shen has outstanding ability, this is the time to go to the Central Plains to use him, and ask Ge Lao to give him a chance, this kid is spoiled by the door, and he must teach the rules well when he turns back." ”

Liu Ximing and Jiang Deshen glanced at each other, and both of them held back a smile in their hearts.

However, Liu Ximing still pretended to explain: "Cui Bei, don't worry, this pavilion is not dissatisfied with him, once you come to the south this time, you can only send 5,000 people, and your other subordinates don't want people to lead them." ”

"Second, the soldiers of the Beijing camp are naturally mainly Gong Wei Your Majesty, you also know what the Beijing camp is like now, if you people leave, who can rest assured that there is such a person who knows the roots like him to stay, and His Majesty will use people in the future."

"Haha, it turns out that the elder pavilion is thinking about this kid, please forgive the stupidity."

As soon as Zhou Yuji heard Liu Ximing say this, he was relieved immediately, so it seems that Jiang Shen may have other opportunities to stay.

On July 15, Liu Xi ordered 5,000 soldiers and horses in the Qijing battalion, with Zhou Yuji as the chief officer, plus his 500 personal soldiers, to prepare for the official south.

However, what Liu Ximing didn't expect was that Zhou Yuji was one of the few good generals in the late Ming Dynasty, because he was transferred, and Zhou Yuji, who was supposed to be sent to Shanxi to guard the town, went to the Central Plains, and he didn't know how things would develop.

For this day, Chongzhen even set up a point general platform in the suburbs of Beijing, led hundreds of civil and military officials to see off Liu Ximing, and sent Kong Deyao, the right commentator of Dali, to supervise the army.

However, no one noticed that in addition to the generals and officials, Liu Ximing also had a few more figures, one of whom had a face like a crown of jade and a slender figure, and everyone in the camp called him Mr. Ming.

It was Mingyue's brother Mingde.

On this day, the Central Plains Daily also published a special issue, saying that Chongzhen worshiped Liu Ximing as the second assistant, the prince and the prince, the scholar of the Jianji Palace and the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and supervised the Central Plains.

For a while, all the eyes of the world turned to Liu Ximing.

Whether the young and weak crown who served as the vice minister of the imperial court can pacify the Central Plains thieves as the emperor wishes, some people wait and see, and some people scoff.

~~~

In the capital of Tatar Qingsheng, Hong Chengchou, who had already shaved off his Han family hair and replaced it with a rat-tail hairstyle, sat in the courtyard rewarded by Huang Taiji and looked up to the sky and sighed.

In front of him, a Central Plains newspaper kept turning with the wind in the wind, bringing a burst of worries to his heart.

Hong Chengchou and Liu Ximing are also familiar with each other, thinking that this new Amber has now embarked on the path of Yang Sichang and himself, his heart is filled with a mixture of joy and sorrow.

Hong Chengchou's life in Taqing was not as easy as outsiders thought.

Huang Taiji does have the style of a Ming lord, in order to avoid Hong Chengchou implicating his family, he deliberately subordinated him to the Yellow Flag Cloth Niulu, and usually only consults, not as an official in the court.

Although he knew this, compared with his previous dignified and feudal officials, it was impossible for Hong Chengchou to say in his heart that there was no loss, but since he was afraid of dying on the thief ship, he could only go all the way to the dark.

~~~

In Kaifeng, Henan, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai, who led the army to defeat the official army under Ding Qirui, had just finished celebrating when they received the news that Liu Ximing was in charge of the Central Plains.

Li Zicheng laughed in front of the generals and tore the Central Plains newspaper sent by Tanma to shreds, what about Xinanbo, and what about the second assistant?

Now that the Central Plains soldiers are dead and wounded, Liu Xi ordered him to fight hard with his hundreds of thousands of troops.

Turning around and looking at Kaifeng City, which had not yet been captured because of the great war, Li Zicheng laughed and gave an order.

"The whole army is attacking the city, let's give this new overseer a big gift."

"Hahaha, kill!"

Hundreds of thousands of rogues happily chanted slogans and poured into Kaifeng City like a tide in the aftermath of explosives packets.

Kaifeng has already gathered the clan vassal kings who fled from all over Henan, and this time it was really served in a pot.

Different from the historical siege of the city, Li Zicheng had a siege weapon such as an explosive bag, and almost no one escaped from Kaifeng City.

On July 25, when Liu Ximing led his army down the canal to Jining, the news of the fall of Kaifeng City came.

As soon as they heard that the Henan clan was almost completely wiped out, Zhou Yuji and the others were all as pale as earth.

"Inspector, for such a catastrophe, Your Majesty won't blame me for waiting, right?"

"Blame what?" , Liu Ximing looked unimpressed, "This cabinet has just taken office, and the charge of Kaifeng City will not fall on my head." ”

Throwing away the information casually, Liu Ximing gave an expression of the order, "The whole army accelerates and goes to Henan as soon as possible." ”

At this time in Henan, Cao Bianjiao, Shao Derong and Zheng Jingcai had continued to retreat to the east because of the great strength of the Liukou.

Ten days after the Battle of Zhuxian Town, Shao Derong received an order from Liu Ximing to go to Guide Mansion for temporary refuge and wait for his arrival.

On July 28, Liu Ximing and his entourage finally arrived in Guide without any problems.

"Fengtian carrier, the emperor edict said, now the scholar of the Jianji Palace, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Liu Ximing holds the sword of Shangfang to supervise the Central Plains ......"

Outside the Guide Mansion, Cao Bianjiao and others and the Guide prefect and others greeted Liu Ximing and his party outside the city.

After reading out a holy decree, Cao Bianjiao and others, who were full of excitement, knelt down and kowtowed.

"The last general will meet the overseer, and the 60,000 soldiers and horses under my command are willing to listen to the superintendent!"

"I would like to be sent by the Overseer!"

Behind Cao Bianjiao and the others, tens of thousands of troops roared in unison, and Zhou Yuji and other soldiers in the Beijing camp were shocked.

Such a tiger, the Central Plains can also fight!

Deng Yushan, the prefect of Guide who came over, and others were shocked in their hearts, didn't they say that the current chief military officers were all domineering, how could they see Inspector Liu like a mouse seeing a cat.

A group of officials glanced at each other, and they became more respectful to Liu Ximing at the moment.

After simply saying hello to the magistrate of Guide Mansion, Liu Ximing laughed directly and helped Cao Bianjiao and the others up.

"It is precisely because of you that I dare to take over the important task of Your Majesty, and I ask you to move forward bravely and follow me to fight for thieves."

did not agree to Deng Yushan and the others' proposal to have a banquet in the city, Liu Ximing directly took Zhou Yuji and others into Cao Bianjiao's camp.

"How is the army of thieves moving now?"

As soon as he entered the camp, Liu Ximing didn't care about anything else, and asked Li Zicheng and the others first.

Cao Bianjiao looked at Shao Derong and motioned for him to come forward and report.

"Supervisor, according to the report of the exploration horse, after Li Thief captured Kaifeng, Dasuo City for three days, and now the 400,000 army has been divided into two routes, of which Li Zicheng led 250,000 soldiers and horses to move south, it seems that there is an intention to attack Nanyang, and Cao thief Luo Rucai led 150,000 soldiers and horses to Guide, thinking that he wanted to besiege our army."

"Hmph, this thief's calculation is quite good."

Liu Ximing snorted coldly.

He was not surprised to divide his troops to attack Guide in the east, thinking that Li Zicheng and others wanted to take advantage of the unstable foothold of the Central Plains Governor and directly nip themselves in the bud.

It's just that the attack on Nanyang was a bit unexpected by him, it seems that the lesson left for him in Dengzhou was not ruthless enough, or did he see that Nanyang was rich, and he really couldn't help but want to take a bite?

Shaking his head to clear these distractions, Liu Ximing looked into the tent.

At this moment, there are already four chief military officers in the tent, including Cao Bianjiao, Shao Derong, Zheng Jingcai, and Zhou Yuji, and there are dozens of generals and guerrillas under his command, which can already be regarded as generals.

It's just that there are many soldiers but there are still a little insufficient, after thinking about it carefully, Liu Ximing suddenly sounded something, and he turned his head to look at Li Biao.

"Li Biao, where are the salt guards under the Salt Envoy Division now, are they near Guide, and they will be transferred together?"

Li Biao took out a small notebook and looked through it carefully, and immediately replied: "Mu Jingnan led most of the salt guards to retreat to Nanyang, and there are about 5,000 people led by Wei Jingguo in eastern Henan and near Shandong. ”

"Okay", Liu Ximing slammed the table in front of him, "In this way, our army has 70,000 people, even if the rogue comes to attack, this time we can fight." ”