Xiao Tianjian's words were actually only half said, and the rest he hid in his heart, in fact, there was no need for everyone to argue, he also knew what to do next, Shaanxi He would not lead his troops to fight back, now Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting are in Shaanxi, after their years of operation, Shaanxi still has a considerable number of soldiers who can fight, not to mention that Shaanxi has suffered disasters year after year, coupled with more than ten years of military disasters, it has long been a hundred miles of red land, even if it occupies the territory, what can it do? It is impossible to restore productivity in a short period of time, at least there will be a serious shortage of labor, and at present, Li Zicheng and other Lu Yijun are still entangled with Hong Chengchou in Shaanxi, so that Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting are unable to draw their hands to enter Henan to fight him, and now he will not jump into the troubled waters of Shaanxi.

Originally, if strategically speaking, it was not a very good choice to fight Huaiqing Mansion and Weihui Mansion, but after all, Xingtianjun had a base in southern Jinnan, which wanted to connect Henan, close to Yuanqu County and Mianchi County, this section of the Yellow River, obviously there was not enough room for maneuver, and at present, in the central Henan area in the south of the Yellow River, the people's livelihood is withering, and a large number of people starved to death or fled, or died of war, so that Henan's labor force is not sufficient. At present, Huaiqing Mansion and Weihui Mansion are relatively not too serious to suffer from military disasters, and there are many displaced people gathered in these two places, as long as these two places are laid, he will have more room to move, and he has an idea that he can't say for the time being, with his understanding of history, in the near future, it may be necessary for him to go north once, but as for whether this kind of thing will happen, he can't be sure at the moment, so even if he thinks about the future, it is also necessary for him to gain a foothold in the north of the Yellow River, This is also the reason why he chose to cross the river north to Huaiqing Mansion first.

The plan is certain, the Xingtian army immediately took action, this time crossing the Yellow River north to fight in northern Henan, Xiao Tianjian used the generals of Luo Li's second division, although Huaiqing Mansion and Weihui Mansion still have some strength of officers and soldiers, but through the careful collection of information on these two places, Xiao Tianjian calculated that with the strength of Luo Li's second division, it should not be a problem to take these two places.

So after Xiao Tianjian determined the plan, Luo Li's second division began to assemble in the Mengjin area, and after Xiao Tianjian led his troops to capture Luoyang, the defenders of Mengjin voluntarily mutinied, and the county magistrate and other officials abandoned the city and fled, and took a boat north to Huaiqing Mansion to flee for their lives, so that the Xingtian army did not have any more effort, and easily took Mengjin County, so that the Xingtian army controlled all the territory from the west of Zhengzhou to Tongguan, and also took the famous Mengjindu on the south bank of the Yellow River, in the Mengjindu area, A large number of ships that did not have time to escape were captured, and as soon as Xiao Tianjian took Mengjindu, he immediately sent people to transfer the Xingtian Army Water Battalion stationed at the ancient town ferry to Mengjindu, and Mengjindu was used as the new station of the Xingtian Army Water Camp.

At present, the water camp headed by Yang Kunshan is no longer what it used to be, by recruiting the young and strong people who are good at water among the displaced people who fled from the south to the jurisdiction of the Xingtian Army, and replenishing them to the water camp, plus the fishermen who live by fishing in the Yellow River along both banks of the Yellow River, the water camp is now full, with more than 1,500 troops, and hundreds of boats of various sizes. It was only a card on the water that made them pay the tax that passed, and all merchant ships that paid the tax on the passage were given a small flag, and within a few days they would not be plundered on this stretch of the Yellow River.

Originally, there were still some water thieves on the Yellow River, in order to ensure the absolute status of the Xingtian Army, Yang Kunshan has been constantly fighting other water thieves on the river section under his control in the past two years, so that the Xingtian Army is trustworthy, and the merchants are willing to pay for the road for profit, so the water camp can now collect a lot of boat fare from the Xingtian Army every year, at least the expenses for maintaining their water camp are more than enough.

Now that the Xingtian Army has controlled the south bank of the Yellow River in the Luoyang area, it has given the water camp a place to play, including the ships of the Fu Wang's family that were moored in Mengjindu and did not have time to run away, and handed them over to the water camp, so that they can transfer Luo Li's soldiers and horses to the north of the Yellow River as quickly as possible, and land in the Mengzhou area within the jurisdiction of Huaiqing Mansion.

For this reason, Yang Kunshan did not dare to slack off, and immediately mobilized most of his subordinates, and at the same time recruited a considerable number of fishermen nearby to begin to organize and arrange this matter.

Although this will reveal the plan of the Xingtian Army, but in order to ensure that more soldiers and horses can be transported to the north bank of the Yellow River at a time, so as not to defeat the troops who crossed the river in advance by the officials and troops of Huaiqing Mansion, so this risk is still worth taking, and hearing the news that the Xingtian Army is going to cross the Yellow River north, the surrounding fishermen are all moved, and these fishermen are also fed up with the birds' anger of the officials, and they have long wanted to follow the Xingtian Army. As a result, all kinds of ships quickly began to gather in the area of Mengjindu, and a large number of Xingtian soldiers and generals also began to march towards Mengjindu, and began to board the ships according to the dispatch of the officers.

Due to the strong organization, only the first wave of ferries transported a battalion of soldiers and horses across the Yellow River in a unified manner, this time Xiao Tianjian overestimated the officers and troops of Huaiqing Mansion, and the Xingtian Army's northward movement to cross the river, they were not unaware, and the officials of Huaiqing Mansion had long been frightened by the Xingtian Army, and they never thought of sending troops to the edge of the Yellow River to attack the Xingtian Army in the middle of the crossing, as soon as they heard that the Xingtian Army was going to cross Huaiqing Mansion north, they were so frightened that they shrank their troops and shrank to the city of Huaiqing Mansion.

This time Xiao Tianjian did not cross north with Luo Li, and the battle was all handed over to Luo Li, but he sent Li Xin to Luo Li, serving as Luo Li's military counselor, before Luo Li set off, Xiao Tianjian specially recruited Luo Li into his account, and personally repeatedly explained to Luo Li, although this time the northern expedition to northern Henan was led by him, but he had to listen to Li Xin's advice more, to ensure that he did not suffer a big loss of the official army in northern Henan because of his recklessness, if it was because of his stubbornness and self-use caused by the failure of this army, then after coming back, Xiao Tianjian told him to be careful.

Even if Luo Lidang patted his chest and promised, he promised to listen to Li Xin's opinions more, and promised that he would not come nonsense, and he would definitely fight the battle in northern Henan.

Xiao Tianjian and Li Xin explained in private, Li Xin is quite grateful for Xiao Tianjian's trust, as a person who has recently joined Xiao Tianjian's command, he can be so reused by Xiao Tianjian, even if he said that the person who was a confidant died, it was Xiao Tianjian who died, and he also said to Xiao Tianjian that his home was in Huaiqing Mansion, this time he was in the Xingtian Army, and it was estimated that once the government knew, he would not be able to spare his family, after crossing the river this time, he would go home. recruited all the brothers and uncles and nephews in the family into the Xingtian Army to serve Xiao Tianjian, and Li Xin also told Xiao Tianjian that many of the people in their Li family were like him, capable of writing and martial arts, and would not live up to Xiao Tianjian's trust in him.

Xiao Tianjian immediately welcomed, there are many situations like Li Xin at present, a person who joins the army, often gathers the relatives in the clan to join the army, but there is a disadvantage to this, that is, it is easy for a general to form his own force group in the army through the clan, in history, Li Zicheng was slandered by Niu Jinxing, and suddenly killed Li Xin, in fact, there is also this reason, that is, because Li Xingong is high, the Li family under his command has formed a relatively independent group, and Li Xin is not a poor person, But the family is also a landlord class, and Li Zicheng has always trusted Li Xin very much, so it also caused the tragedy of Li Xin's final killing.

However, this kind of thing is placed in the Xingtian Army, but there will not be any big problems, the Xingtian Army has its own set of methods for organizing the army, all newcomers join the army, they will be trained in each reserve battalion, and then select the elite to be sent to each combat battalion to supplement the combat barracks, through this means, coupled with the deliberate prevention of the allocation of soldiers, even if there are a large number of people of the same clan into the army, in the end they will basically be completely dispersed, assigned to each unit as a soldier or as an officer, the officer is not allowed to expand and incorporate his subordinates without permission, In this way, it is no longer possible to form small armed groups that are maintained by kinship.

Therefore, Xiao Tianjian is happy to let Li Xin recruit their clansmen into the Xingtian Army and serve themselves, people like them who can write and martial arts, he will need a lot in the future, and it is also a direction for him to strengthen the army in the future, the soldiers cannot be all illiterate soldiers, they must strengthen their cultural quality, in order to ensure the development of the army, this is also one of his original intentions to establish the youth battalion.

However, the juvenile battalion no longer exists in the Xingtian Army at the moment, since the last time Xiao Tianjian returned to Yangcheng during the Chinese New Year, the juvenile battalion has been changed by him to the Xingtian Martial Arts Hall, all the teenagers of the original juvenile battalion, collectively known as the students of the Martial Arts Hall, will be assigned to the armies after graduation, as low-level chiefs or deputy generals and other officers, and gradually use these young soldiers to build the backbone of the Xingtian Army and improve the quality of the Xingtian Army.

After the capture of Luoyang this time, Xiao Tianjian ordered the original vacant military camp in Yongning County to be utilized, and re-established a larger-scale Xingtianjun martial arts lecture hall there, widely recruiting young people or children of ordinary people in the Henan area to study in the martial arts hall, and ordered a large number of experienced officers from the army to be transferred to the lecture hall as military instructors, and at the same time, the scribes were also selected to be familiar with military books to teach students about military science, and teach it to culture. In short, it is necessary to build the martial arts hall in accordance with the military academy of later generations, and provide a steady stream of fresh blood for the Xingtian Army in the future, so that the officers of the Xingtian Army will become his strong supporters in the future.

When he ordered the preparation for the construction of the Yongning Martial Arts Hall, he even plagiarized the couplet at the entrance of the Whampoa Military Academy in later generations, and personally wrote "Promote and make a fortune, please go elsewhere; Greedy for life and afraid of death, don't enter this door" 16 big characters, let people carve it on the wooden pillars on both sides of the gate of the martial arts hall, and later these sixteen words became a couplet that must be engraved at the gate of the martial arts hall established by all the Xingtian Army in the future, and the original Yangcheng martial arts hall also quickly carved these sixteen words on both sides of the gate of their martial arts hall.

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