Gao Junshan whispered to Sun Kewang: "It is our duty to protect the interests of merchants, maintain local stability, and prosper the local economy. Did you just want to get your silver taels back? ”

"It's not." Sun Kewang bowed his head and replied.

"Not? I think you are! Get in the car and leave, go back and I'll educate you well! ”

Gao Junshan got into the carriage and said to Bailisha: "We are in power, we must abandon the bandit style, which will damage our image." Mao Cheng, you grasp this matter and let Tang Liangyi of the supervision center pay attention to this matter. ”

Bailisha suggested: "It's not enough for the superintendent to pay attention to this matter, after all, the superintendent is engaged in the ideological field, and we need to let Feng Shuangli's detective team intervene in this matter." ”

Gao Junshan nodded: "Okay, this matter is decided." I still have something to discuss with you. ”

"Anything else?"

Gao Junshan complained: "I also invited you to come out to listen to the play, can't I discuss something with you?" ”

Bailisha said aggrievedly: "You pulled me out, okay?" I didn't say I was going to go out to see the show. ”

Gao Junshan said with a smile: "You still tell me the conditions." ”

Back in Xiangwang's Mansion, Gao Junshan and Bailisha were locked up in the East Study Hall to discuss the transfer of troops in secret.

Gao Junshan said: "Li Zicheng is sitting in Xi'an, he is very likely to attack the capital, I estimate that he will have action next spring, and we must make all the response plans now." I invite you to come today to plan the layout of Beijing with you. ”

"Into Beijing? We? ”

"Yes, we do."

"King Qin, you mean to enter the capital ......" Bailisha didn't dare to finish his words.

Gao Junshan said affirmatively: "Yes, let's go to Beijing and sit in the world." ”

Bailisha was so excited that he hurriedly knelt down in front of Gao Junshan and said, "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

Gao Junshan said: "Hurry up, please get up!" Don't be in a hurry to worship the emperor first, or help me plan quickly. ”

Bailisha said: "Thank you, Emperor! Then he got up and sat back down.

"First of all, we must take Jingzhou and relieve our worries," Gao Junshan said bluntly, "and then transfer heavy troops to capture Henan and Shandong." ”

"Then the soldiers pointed to the capital." Barisha continued.

"yes, that's what it means." Gao Junshan stood up, "Please come and make a detailed battle plan." ”

"When will the troops be sent?" Berisha asked.

Gao Junshan said: "It depends on when Li Zicheng and them move, we must control the timing, and wait until Li Zicheng enters Beijing, and then we will go in." ”

Bailisha asked inexplicably: "Why did you let Li Zicheng go to Beijing?" ”

Gao Junshan said without negotiation: "You don't need to know this, you will understand when the time comes." ”

……

The next day (October 20, the sixteenth year of Chongzhen), Gao Junshan issued a combat order to all troops:

First, Zhou Shichen led Liu Wenxiu's Eighth Brigade and Ma Jin's Ninth Brigade to end their rest in Changsha and immediately marched north to take Jingzhou, with Zhou Wenjiang's naval army fully cooperating;

Second, Tian Wenju led the 2nd Brigade of Bai Wenxuan of the Western Route Army and the 3rd Brigade of Ma Yuanli to immediately return to Xiangyang to wait for orders;

Third, Xu Yixian led the 1st Brigade of Cao Wenzhao of the Central Route Army and Li Dingguo's 8th Brigade to immediately return to Xiangyang to wait for orders;

Fourth, the 1st Brigade of Liu Da of the Northern Route Army, the 5th Brigade of Dai Zicheng, and the 6th Brigade of He San Province attacked Lushan, Jiaxian, Xinzheng, Weishi, Zhuxian Town, and Kaifeng; Cao Bianjiao's 2nd Brigade, Zhang Wu's 3rd Brigade, and Li Busi's 4th Brigade attacked Shangshui, Xihua, Chenzhou, Zhecheng, Juyangwei, Qixian, Chenliu, and Kaifeng. The Second Route Army met in Kaifeng.

After the order was given, Gao Junshan returned to the dormitory and slept comfortably.

A few days later, Gao Junshan received a secret report from Liu Lishun again:

Since Yang Sichang died of illness and became a capital, Ding Qirui took his place, and when Li Zicheng attacked and opened the seal, his command was ineffective, and he was imprisoned by Zhu Youzhen, and then replaced by Sun Chuanting. On the third day of the first month of this month, Li Zicheng attacked Tongguan, and Sun Chuanting died in battle.

Now the imperial court is already panicked, everyone has their own concerns, everyone is in danger, Zhu Youzhen can no longer find a candidate to take over the important task of suppressing bandits, Yang Sichang's "four positive and six corners" and "ten-sided net" strategy has completely failed.

Ni Yuanlu's right attendant of the military department, this person is quite talented in military affairs, and he is not favored by Zhu Youzhen, so he is resentful, Liu Lishun has subdued him, and if necessary, he can do internal response.

After reading the secret letter, Gao Junshan was comfortable and happy, Zhu Youzhen's Ming Court is now in decline, and it will be finished after a long time, and his era of Gao Junshan is coming......

In the first month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644 AD), all the three people of Gaojun Mountain returned to Xiangyang to concentrate.

the First Brigade of Cao Wenzhao and the Eighth Brigade of Li Dingguo of the Middle Route Army led by Xu Yixian of the First Road;

the 2nd Brigade of Bai Wenxuan and the 3rd Brigade of Ma Yuanli of the Western Route Army led by Tian Wenju of the 2nd Road;

The 8th Brigade of Liu Wenxiu and the 9th Brigade of Ma Jin led by Zhou Shichen on the 3rd Road.

The two brigades led by Zhou Shichen, with the cooperation of Zhou Wenjiang's naval army, captured Jingzhou in only three days.

In order to meet the needs of the situation, Gao Junshan formed a mixed brigade in Xiangyang, and this mixed brigade was called the first mixed brigade.

The mixed brigade has already had the rudiments of the army structure in the era of hot weapons, and the mixed brigade consists of a rocket cavalry regiment, a rocket car regiment, a heavy cavalry regiment, a Mongolian cavalry regiment, a field artillery regiment, a heavy artillery regiment, a musket regiment, an infantry regiment, a transport regiment, a communications detachment, an engineer detachment, a guard detachment, a reconnaissance detachment, a sanitary detachment, and a repair shop.

Commander of the Mixed Brigade: Jiang Guorong;

Deputy Brigade Commander of the Mixed Brigade: Ma Jin;

Chief of Staff of the Mixed Brigade: Wang Zhengzhong (gunpowder expert);

Deputy Chief of Staff of the Mixed Brigade: Zhao Jun (gun expert);

Mixed Brigade Supervisor: Jiang Shifang;

Commander of the Rocket Cavalry Regiment: Liu Chenggong;

Commander of the Rocket Car Corps: Shen Siyong;

Commander of the Heavy Cavalry Regiment: Cao Bianjiao;

Commander of the Mongolian Cavalry Regiment: Uliji;

Commander of the Field Artillery Regiment: Marven;

Commander of the Heavy Artillery Regiment: Wu Kexiao;

Commander of the Musket Regiment: Li Hu;

Commander of the Infantry Regiment: Liu Wenxiu;

Head of the transport group: He Yongqing;

The leaders of the communication detachment, the engineer detachment, the guard detachment, the reconnaissance detachment, the sanitation detachment, and the repair station are all Chongwen disciples.

The total strength of the 1st Mixed Brigade is 35,000 men.

Wuchang Glass Factory equipped the first batch of monoculars with the first mixed brigade and above;

Wuchang Iron and Steel Plant equipped the first batch of modern steel helmets with the officers and soldiers of the First Mixed Brigade;

The people of Wuchang rushed to work day and night, and made 35,000 pairs of combat boots for the First Mixed Brigade, and delivered them to the camp of the First Mixed Brigade by special personnel;

The people of Xiangyang did not show weakness, and they made a pair of thick insoles for each of the soldiers of the First Mixed Brigade to express the hearts of the people of Xiangyang.

The 1st Mixed Brigade was stationed on the bank of the Baihe River in the north of the city, and was ordered to go north by boat at any time, and Zhou Wenjiang's sailors had already prepared thousands of ships, waiting for the order to sail.