Zhu Cihong was stunned for a moment, and immediately nodded and said, "Announce him to come in." ”

For Zhou Cao, Zhu Cihong undoubtedly values this person, after all, this person beheaded Liu Liangzuo alive among countless Huai'an Army soldiers, such a fierce man, Zhu Cihong only thought of people like Zhang Fei and Lu Bu in the Three Kingdoms, although there are probably some coincidences in this, but no matter how you say it, the person who can do such a thing is not far behind, right, it is worth his reuse.

After a while, Zhao Dequan brought Zhou Cao in.

"The last general Zhou Cao, see the emperor, long live my emperor, long live long live!" Zhou Cao still remembered that Zhu Cihong had appointed him as a five-grade guard with a knife, so he clearly called himself the last general in front of Zhu Cihong.

"Zhou Cao, I was only taking care of Yiyi just now, and I didn't notice you for a while, so I made you wait for a long time, you don't have to care." Zhu Cihong said with some embarrassment.

"Your Majesty, the last general will be saved." Zhou Cao got up and touched his head with a smile, indicating that he understood very much.

"Okay." Zhu Cihong straightened his face, he is the emperor, and it is enough to say enough apologies, but if he says more, it will damage his majesty.

Zhu Cihong paused and asked, "Your family has settled down." ”

"It's all settled, and the last general will bring my grandfather and sister to Nanjing City." Speaking of this, Zhou Cao was a little shy, and said not very kindly: "Your Majesty, when you were in Huai'an, you said that you would reward the last general with 10,000 taels of gold, but it doesn't count." ”

"Of course it counts, how can what I say not count, I'll draw you a note later, and let someone take you to the Internal Affairs Office to get it." Zhu Cihong said with a smile, not angry at all that Zhou Cao dared to ask him for silver in front of him, but felt that this was his true temperament, and couldn't help but pay more attention to Zhou Cao.

"That's great." Zhou Cao swallowed his saliva excitedly and said: "With these ten thousand taels of gold, even if so-and-so accidentally hangs up that day, there is nothing to worry about, and grandpa and sister no longer have to worry about food and clothing." ”

"Hahahaha, good Zhou Cao, I'm afraid that I will treat you badly after following me." Zhu Cihong scolded with a smile, because of Zhou Cao's words, he looked at Zhou Cao even more, true temperament, what to say, it is not taboo at all, this is the image of a general.

Zhu Cihong personally opened a note for Zhou Cao, stamped it with the jade seal and threw it to him.

"Take it quickly, get your money, sleep well tonight, I have a task for you from tomorrow, it's very hard, you have to be prepared." Zhu Cihong said.

He planned to throw Zhou Cao and the two hundred original East Palace Imperial Forest Army guards who had just arrived today into the Ying Long Army for training, although they were half a month later than Ji Feng and Zhang Kuishan's two battalions of Ying Longjun, but he was just going to test Zhou Cao to see if under his leadership, the two hundred Yuan East Palace Imperial Forest Army could catch up with the training progress of Ji Feng and Zhang Kuishan's two battalions of Ying Longjun.

Zhou Cao picked up the slip opened by Zhu Cihong, roared back, and immediately dragged a eunuch to the Internal Affairs Office to get the silver.

Zhao Dequan looked at it and scolded secretly, grandma's, a hillbilly, was so valued by the emperor, the ancestral tomb should be smoking. He Zhao Dequan is conscientious, and he doesn't know when he will come out.

Zhao Dequan sighed, hoping that when he could be like Zheng He, the eunuch of the Three Treasures of the Yongle Dynasty, he would be famous in history and admired by all the eunuchs who came after. As for why it is not the more famous Liu Jin and Wei Zhongxian, it is because these two masters died too miserably, and he didn't dare to think about it, so it was better to worship the Three Treasures Eunuchs.

Early the next morning, Zhou Cao entered the palace, and Zhu Cihong immediately asked him and two hundred guards of the Imperial Forest Army of the former East Palace to come to Ji Feng, Zhang Kuishan and other Yinglong Army training stations to watch.

Now, after half a month of training, Ying Long's army has begun to take shape, the army is neat, and the soldiers are full of energy and muscles, which is much stronger than the two hundred untrained Donggong Imperial Forest Army.

"The last general Ji Feng, the last general Zhang Kuishan, see the emperor." Ji Feng and Zhang Kuishan saw that Zhu Cihong was here, and hurriedly came over to pay their respects.

Except for Ji Feng and Zhang Kuishan, the other officers and soldiers of the Yinglong Army were all training, and they did not have the slightest impact because of Zhu Cihong's arrival. In the past half a month of Ying Longjun's training, Zhu Cihong came over almost every day, and saw that every time he arrived, all the soldiers of Ying Longjun would stop to pay homage to him, so he gave an order.

"Excuse me, go ahead and do your thing, and ignore me." Zhu Cihong said.

"The last will obey." Ji Feng and Zhang Kuishan returned to the training ground to continue directing the training, and they also followed the training.

Zhou Cao looked at the neat and well-trained soldiers of the Yinglong Army, his eyes lit up, he was a little envious, and he couldn't help but be eager to try.

Zhu Cihong smiled slightly and said, "Zhou Cao, what do you think of this kind of training?" ”

"Your Majesty, although Zhou Cao is stupid, he also knows that the person who can come up with such a training method must be a great talent, and if he continues to train like this, he will definitely be able to give birth to an invincible army in the future." Zhou Cao replied loudly. Watching these trainings has made his blood boil.

"Okay, I accept your auspicious words, the task I want to give you is to train these two hundred untrained soldiers with you to be the same as them, or even surpass them, and I will assess you in half a month, do you have confidence." Zhu Cihong did not bluntly say that this training method was made by himself, but pointed to the two battalions of Yinglong Army soldiers who were training in the field and said to Zhou Cao.

"Zhou Cao will not disappoint the emperor." Zhou Cao said loudly, full of pride.

Zhu Cihong nodded, turned to look at the two hundred East Palace Imperial Forest Army, and asked loudly: "You were also my pro-army, but my pro-army in the future can only be the Ying Long Army, they have all trained more than you for half a month, do you have the confidence to surpass them and continue to be my pro-army." ”

"Yes." The two hundred East Palace Imperial Forest Army replied loudly.

Although they were half a month behind, if they watched the original robe become Ying Longjun one by one and they were kicked out, this would be unacceptable to them no matter what, so they made up their minds to catch up with each other.

"You have this confidence, I am very pleased, Zhou Cao, these two hundred people will be handed over to you, if you don't understand anything, you can let Ji Feng and Zhang Kuishan cooperate with you, I will see your results in half a month." Zhu Cihong said.

"Zhou Caoding will not be dishonored." Zhou Cao said loudly, his blood boiling, and his fighting spirit soared.

Ji Feng and Zhang Kuishan glanced at each other in the distance, they must have heard Zhou Cao's words, and they were very disdainful, grandma's, sample, you are behind for half a month and want to catch up in half a month, you really succeeded, doesn't it prove that we are incompetent?

Although Ji Feng and Zhang Kuishan did not secretly stumble on Zhou Cao and delay Zhou Cao's training process, they were secretly vigilant in their hearts, and vowed that they could not let the two hundred people led by Zhou Cao really catch up with them, otherwise they would lose face.

As a result, Ying Longjun's training entered the ** due to the addition of Zhou Cao and others, and Zhu Cihong looked forward to the report card they handed in half a month later.

The pattern of the world is about to undergo major changes with the entry of the Qing soldiers, and the time is urgent, the reason why the training of Ying Longjun is so tense is also very helpless, and there is not much time left for him, and Ying Longjun must become an army as soon as possible.

On May 1, the 17th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng's army broke through Yucheng, one of the two walled cities on the periphery of Shanhaiguan, and was attacking Shihe Town, the last walled city on the periphery of Shanhaiguan, day and night, and the decisive battle of Shanhaiguan was about to begin.

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