With the fall of the Great Shun Dynasty and the Hongguang Dynasty, the contradiction of foreign invasion has risen to become the main contradiction in the country, and the peasant army and the Southern Ming must unite in order to resist the powerful Manchu Qing.

Since the remnants of the peasant army wanted to submit to the Southern Ming, it was tantamount to giving up their class claims and submitting to the gentry and landlord class. However, most of the Southern Ming officials lacked foresight and bearing, and still regarded them as enemies, even more terrible than the Manchus, and if anyone had a sympathetic attitude towards the peasant army, they would be isolated by the entire officialdom.

However, with the efforts of some people of insight, the peasant army and the Southern Ming regime were finally promoted, among which the contribution of Emperor Yinxi and Emperor Longwu was indispensable.

Through Wang Kefan's recommendation, Du Yinxi personally rushed to the Jingzhou peasant army garrison, and met Li Zicheng's widow Gao with his son and nephew, and swore an oath with Li Guo, Gao Yigong, Tian Jianxiu and others to jointly resist the Qing Dynasty.

Du Yinxi immediately went to Emperor Wu of Shulong, asked Li Guo and others to be crowned, and attached Wang Kefan's recital.

After the envoy arrived in Fujian, it caused a fierce debate among the ministers of civil and military affairs, with few in favor and many against. At the critical moment, Emperor Longwu overrode public opinion, decided to appease the peasant army, and crowned Li Guo as the candidate of the rejuvenation of the country, and gave the name Li Chixin, Tian Jianxiu and other generals, and the 200,000 soldiers of the department were called "loyal battalions", which were controlled by Yinxi......

The establishment of the Loyalty Battalion was of great significance in the struggle against the Qing Dynasty, which marked a change in the basic policy of the Southern Ming Dynasty, from "uniting the capture of the Pingkou" to uniting the peasant army to jointly resist the Qing Dynasty.

In this process, Tong Yanghe had repeatedly recruited Li Guo, Tian Jianxiu and others, even including Ma Jinzhong in Yuezhou, but Zuihou was bankrupt. Nanming suddenly gained 200,000 elite soldiers, and the situation in Huguang changed, and anyone with a little vision could see that the Ming army was about to launch a counteroffensive!

After the coordination of blocking Yinxi and others, the Ming army formulated a sharp counteroffensive Jihua, with 200,000 troops of the loyal battalion peasant army to attack Jingzhou Mansion from the west road, and then led troops eastward, He Tengjiao led his troops north out of Yuezhou, and the two sides met to seize Wuchang Mansion and then recover Hubei.

This Jihua joined He Tengjiao's troops, theoretically speaking, the threat to the Qing army was greater, the Ming army would use more than 300,000 troops, even if the Qing army from the lower reaches of the Yangtze River to send reinforcements, it was enough to fight.

However, Wang Kefan was faintly worried. In the history books, He Tengjiao is a famous pig teammate in the Nanming camp, and he is the best at dropping the chain at critical moments, not only can he not help, but he will help more and more, and even help the enemy instead......

On the eve of the war, Wang Kefan was ordered to rush to Chengde Mansion to participate in the pre-war military conference presided over by Du Yinxi.

Although Chongyang had few soldiers and horses, it also had its own task in this battle - to cooperate with Ma Jinzhong's troops to attack Puqi, and why Tengjiao's main force cleared the way to the north.

The atmosphere in the military meeting was very optimistic, and Du Yinxi, Li Guo and others all believed that Wuchang Mansion could be successfully recovered, and even considered the next move, such as recovering Xiangyang and other places, which were the old base of the peasant army, and there were more people who supported the loyal battalion.

The representative of the Changsha side was Dao Zhangkuang, the supervisor of the army, and the task given to him by Plug Yinxi was very simple: the troops in Hunan did not have to participate in the brutal battle of the fortified army, but only needed to control the waterway of the Yangtze River to cover the flank of the loyal battalion and prevent the Qing army from reinforcing from the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

Zhang Kuang agreed, the cities of Jingzhou Mansion and Wuchang Mansion are very strong, and the loyal battalion gnaws hard bones, and it is much easier on their side.

After the military discussion was over, everyone went back to the station to prepare, but Li Guo found Wang Kefan and asked him to go to the Jingzhou Loyalty Camp.

"Brother Wang is busy running for the loyalty camp, and my aunt has been talking about you, let's go and see her old man's house together...... Well, she's got a great gift for you! ”

Li Guo's aunt is Gao, he is Li Zicheng's nephew, and his status in the Dashun Army is already very high, so he can serve as the commander of the Western Route Army, and his subordinates are relatively complete, the soldiers are strong and strong, and the strength far exceeds Tian Jianxiu, Yuan Zongdi and Liu Fangliang and others, and it is logical to become the supreme leader of the loyal battalion.

After the establishment of the loyalty camp, Wang Kefan and him had met once, and felt that Li Guo was very steady in speaking and doing things, but at this moment, his smile was a little narrow, and he didn't know what it meant.

"Okay, I haven't seen you these days, I should say hello to her old man." Wang Kefan agreed very happily, the loyal battalion is the strongest combat force in Nanming, and he worked hard to get a relationship, of course, he must maintain it well.

Besides, the Gao family also prepared a generous gift, which made Wang Kefan more full of expectations.

Last time, Yuan Zongdi gave him a Wang Meng, so that he had the feeling of picking up a treasure, this young man is not only strong in martial arts, but also good at imparting experience, with his help, the cavalry and archers of the Gongyi battalion have quickly improved a lot.

What will Gao give to himself?

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All the way to Songzi County, Jingzhou Prefecture, which is the station of the loyal battalion, more than 100 miles away from Jiangling, the capital of Jingzhou Prefecture, which is still controlled by the Qing army and guarded by Zheng Siwei, a rebel general of the Dashun Army.

The barracks were filled with the tense atmosphere before the big battle, and the soldiers were making various preparations, but Yuan Zongdi and the others were not in the camp.

went straight to the old camp and met Gao, who was accompanied by his younger brother Gao Yigong and personally welcomed him to the second gate.

Wang Kefan hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down to salute: "The old lady is so kind that she has killed her little nephew!" ”

The Gao family is an elder and a female streamer, even if they greet each other under the eaves, even if they give enough face, so they welcome the second door, no wonder Wang Kefan is panicked.

"It should, it should!" Gao helped Wang Kefan up, greeted each other politely, and let him enter the old camp and sit down.

"After the old man left Tongcheng, he never saw Brother Wang again." Gao Shi pulled up the family routine: "I'm old, I don't see you young people, I still think strangely in my heart, it's very uncomfortable to be empty, so I let Huzi (Li Guo) find you, didn't delay your business, right?" ”

"Greeting the old lady is the most important thing."

Wang Kefan got up again, knelt down and kowtowed in a proper manner, Gao smiled and accepted it, and then helped him up.

"Brother Wang caught Cheng Jiubo's thief, he is the great benefactor of my Li family, we will all be a family in the future, don't be so polite."

She pulled Wang Kefan to sit down, and said with a smile: "The old body doesn't understand national affairs, but I heard Huzi say that Brother Wang later helped the two of us a lot, hey, this favor is owed more and more, how can I pay it back!" ”

"The little nephew didn't do anything......"

Wang Kefan was just about to be humble, but Gao Yigong interjected: "Hey, Brother Wang, although we Shaanxi people are all honest and temperamental, we are clear about who is good to us and who is bad to us. ”

Li Guo took over the conversation with a smile: "Uncle is right, Brother Wang helped Lao Tian and them leave Hunan, and introduced us thieves to block the military gate to recruit us, which is equivalent to saving the lives of 200,000 brothers, this favor is no less than capturing Cheng Jiubo's evil thief!" ”

Avenging Li Zicheng is a big deal, but after all, it is a thing of the past, and it is not enough for Li Guo and others to value Wang Kefan so much. However, for the peasant army, which was almost in a desperate situation, it was a matter of life and death that the whole army could be successfully reunited, and the generals such as Li Guo and Gao Yigong could be knighted as marquis.

And in this series of events, Wang Kefan crossed the danger like a disaster, and his performance was extremely amazing, and after the discussion, Tian Jianxiu, Yuan Zongdi and others admired his vision and means, and he was able to write and martial arts, which was extremely rare among the Ming generals he saw.

Li Guo listened to their relays, and also felt that this person was by no means a thing in the pool.

Such a person will come up sooner or later, and Li Guosheng had the intention of entrapment, so he invited the Gao family out.

Gao still held Wang Kefan's hand and said with a smile: "Brother Wang, we have long regarded you as a family and want to be closer to you." ”

Wang Kefan's heart jumped, the peasant army likes to accept righteous sons the most, whether it is Li Zicheng or Zhang Xianzhong, including their senior generals, they have all accepted a large number of godsons...... Gao shouldn't be planning to accept himself as a righteous son, right?

That's not going to work! He really wanted to maintain a close relationship with the peasant army, but he still had to mix in the Nanming system, whether the Gao family was born as a thief, or Li Zicheng's queen, worshipping her as his stepmother, it was tantamount to announcing a complete break with the gentry class.

"I am also willing to be close to the old lady, and I have long regarded the old lady as my own parent, and she is the same as the family Yan Jiaci." He moved his parents out, and my parents are still alive, but I can't be someone else's son.

Gao had already prepared, inquired about his family situation in advance, and chatted with Wang Kefan again, first assured Wang Kefan that his father Wang Rui had never surrendered to the Dashun army, and he must still be alive now, and talked about Wang Kefan's mother Liu and wife Fu Shihua......

"That Miss Fu is everyone's best girl, and she is a good match for Brother Wang, the two of you are married in heaven, but I don't know how many people are envious." She suddenly changed her words: "But a man's husband, who is not a third wife and four concubines, General Wang has been fighting for many years, and there should be a woman by his side to take care of him." ”

Wang Kefan's eyebrows gradually rose, what does Gao mean?

"I have two righteous daughters, both of whom are eighteen years old this year, and I don't dare to compare with Miss Fu's talent and appearance, but they are both reasonable and good girls, so I will ask Brother Wang to choose one today and receive it in the room."

Gao smiled and patted the back of Wang Kefan's hand: "If Brother Wang is willing, when he sees the old body in the future, he will have to call his godmother......