Fengyang, from Dengzhou to Fengyang, about 1,500 miles, Cao Bianjiao took more than a month to arrive, every day is basically forty or fifty miles of travel, more than a month down, Cao Bianjiao's injuries are healed, with the old with the new, the new army just recruited by his subordinates also has basic combat effectiveness, at least familiar with military regulations and military law.

When Cao Bianjiao led the army to Fengyang, he was greeted by Gao Guangdou, the governor of Fengyang, Gao Guangdou, a native of Shandong, who was just an official, he was seventy years old and six, and his hair had already been white, Cao Bianjiao arrived, for Gao Guangdou, it was a rare luck, as a world-famous general, Cao Bianjiao's reputation is still quite good, and Gao Guangdou is looking forward to reinforcements at this moment, Luzhou has lost several cities, he can't afford to take on such a big responsibility!

"Governor Laogao welcomes you!"

"General Cao, General Cao can come, Gao can't ask for it, now the traitor Zhang Xianzhong united with the fifth battalion of the left of the revolution, with two or three hundred thousand soldiers, captured Shucheng and Lu'an, entered Keluzhou, killed the prefect Zheng Luxiang, and then went down to Wuwei, Lujiang, and trained the navy in Chaohu, intending to attack Nanjing, the chief military officer Huang Degong, Liu Liangzuo's officers and troops were defeated in successive battles, and now they can only stick to Taihu Lake, and the official also knows that Li Zicheng is making more trouble in Henan, and the court has no time to divide troops to come, fortunately, General Cao came to reinforce, which is a fortunate thing for the people of Jiangbei!"

"Governor Gao has a good reputation, I dare not be ashamed!" Cao Bianjiao was also hurriedly humbled at the moment, Gao Guangdou lifted him so high, although it sounded good, but Cao Bianjiao was not stupid, if he fell, it would be even more painful, he would rather be a grandson than an uncle, he only had more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and Zhang Xianzhong was two or three hundred thousand, these people traveled with him all over the place, and they were no longer the first rogues, and their combat effectiveness could not be ignored, even if they were removed from their families, they had at least 40,000 elite soldiers! In terms of troops, he is still slightly inferior.

"Governor Gao, the food and grass salaries of more than 10,000 soldiers under my command have not yet been settled, the emperor ordered the generals to come to the rescue, and there must be Governor Lao Gao for this food and salary!" Cao Bianjiao also rubbed his tongue with him, asking me to fight, yes, not in vain, when they came out, Zeng Ying allocated 20,000 people for three months' food and salary to him, but Cao Bianjiao will not be stupid, this money seems to be a lot, but it is not spent.

Gao Guangdou smiled slightly, obviously a little surprised, but he didn't expect Cao Bianjiao to ask him for food as soon as he opened his mouth, and after a moment of silence, he said: "As long as the general can send troops, I am willing to try my best to allocate the general's food and salary for three months, how about it?" ”

"That being the case, then our army will rest here for a day, and in the coming day, we will go to Dingyuan to station, looking for an opportunity to fight and suppress the thieves!" Since he is here, then no matter what, the battle will definitely be fought, but how to fight, that is his business.

is also looking at his reputation for high-profile fighting, and he is also a lot older, Cao Bianjiao will listen to him out of respect for the elderly, if he is someone else who only knows how to sing high-profile, Cao Bianjiao is too lazy to take care of him, is he just listening to people fiddling? After Zhang Ruolin's incident, Cao Bianjiao also completely understood that nine out of ten literati in the Ming Dynasty could only play tricks to make money, and the remaining one was difficult to have a chance to touch, and officialdom was erosive, which was no longer a novelty.

The quota given to him by the imperial court is 20,000, but Cao Bianjiao also knows that 20,000 people are not worth it at all, and now there are only 10,000 people in a town, and they are wantonly expanding the army under the emperor's nose, not to mention him Cao Bianjiao, but he also knows that it is easy to recruit soldiers and difficult to raise soldiers, which requires huge food and salary, and he is not a civilian official stationed in the place, and he does not have the right to collect grain and grass.

The army is stationed outside the city, Cao Bianjiao, Zu Dale entered Fengyang City with hundreds of personal guards, as early as six or seven years ago, Fengyang was once breached, when King Gao Yingxiang led the army to attack the land of Huaisi, Jiangbei was short of major generals, was caught off guard, and finally broke Fengyang City, dug Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestors of the Ming Emperor's tomb and burned it, the raging fire and smoke lasted for several days. Then the imperial court hurriedly mobilized more than 80,000 elite soldiers from various provinces to carry out the suppression in the Central Plains, only to destroy Gao Yingxiang, Gao Yingxiang was also cut by a thousand knives, and let Chongzhen Zhu apologize for three years of administration by the inspection of Tsing Yi, and issued an edict for his own crimes, which can be described as a great shame.

After entering the Fengyang Governor's Mansion, the three of them sat down, and Gao Guangdou ordered people to serve wine and food, which was regarded as washing the dust for Cao Bianjiao and them, but Cao Bianjiao didn't adapt to such a scene, he has always disliked socializing, whether it was the original him or the owner of this body, it was the case, but he could only deal with the things on the scene, this is the way of officialdom.

"Governor Gao, what is the current situation in Jiangnan, we still need Governor Gao to explain it in detail for us, so that we know ourselves and know that we will not be defeated in a hundred battles, this time we have not brought many soldiers and horses, and there are some recruits who have never been on the battlefield, if you want to break the siege and defeat the thieves, you have to rely on the cooperation of Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo, and fight together, so that you have a chance of winning!"

"That's nature! Originally, Zhang Xianzhong only had seventy or eighty thousand soldiers and horses, but after converging the five battalions of the left of the revolution, the momentum suddenly skyrocketed, and there were many people who were attached to the counter-refugees, and now they have two or three hundred thousand soldiers and horses, and they have fought repeatedly, we have suffered heavy losses, and now Huang Degong's total army is stationed in Huaining, Liu Liangzuo is stationed in Qianshan, and they respond to each other, and they do not have many soldiers and horses, but only 20,000 soldiers and horses. Then half of my Ming Dynasty has fallen, and this official has begged the court for reinforcements many times, but Li Zicheng is fierce in Henan, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and the court has no time to divide the troops, so I can only rely on me to hold on to the enemy! Now Zhang Xianzhong is stationed in Lujiang, and the fifth battalion of Gezuo is stationed in Hefei, echoing each other, with more than half of each soldier and horse, and more than 100,000 ......"

After listening to Gao Guangdou's narration, Cao Bianjiao also knew some details about the war ahead, and now Zhang Xianzhong is bullying them for not having reinforcements, and he has few soldiers and generals here, so it is so rampant, the previous imperial court sent troops to rescue Kaifeng, suffered heavy losses, and there were countless people who lost their armor and abandoned their armor, and there were not many soldiers and horses mobilized, and the soldiers and horses that could be mobilized were vulnerable, which was also the most distressing thing for the Ming court at the moment.

"Good! Ben will know, the fifth battalion of the left is in Hefei, then we will defeat them first, and then break Zhang Xianzhong, these people are also all with their own ghosts, as long as the good life uses strategy, it is not difficult to win, Governor Gao can rest assured, the matter of suppressing thieves will be handed over to this general, as long as Governor Gao can ensure that our military needs are used, within three months, we must clear the thieves in Jiangbei! ”