628 arranged defense, and the Zheng family came

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In the following half a month, Li Zixiao stayed in Kaifeng, mainly responsible for Henan's defense issues, and he threw civil affairs to Lin Yongnian and Han Lushan to take charge of.

For the defense of Henan, Li Zixiao mainly formulated three key points, of which Kaifeng is the provincial capital, and he will leave 10,000 soldiers as the general reserve force, and is also responsible for defending Kaifeng.

At the same time, after Li Zixiao won the title of earl, he also rewarded his generals, including Qi Wei as General Huwei, Luo Chao as General Pingnan, Han Tong as General Vanguard, Zhao Zilong as General Pingyu and so on.

Therefore, the generals in the White Dragon Army were all rewarded, and even Zhou Dazhu and Liu Chong, who were far away in Jinzhou, were also named generals of extermination and Zhenliao.

At the same time, Li Zixiao also removed Qi Wei's original position as the commander of the Western Expeditionary Army, transferred him back to his side, and reappointed Xu Wei, who was in Ruzhou at this time, as the commander, and Qi Lin as the deputy commander, and recalled Li Yan at the same time.

After all, Qi Wei has been the coach of the Western Army for two years, and it is time to change people, otherwise if the coach of a team that has been away for a long time does not change, Li Zixiao will not be at ease.

And Xu Wei has always been Qi Wei's deputy before, and he also knows very well about the situation of the Western Expeditionary Corps in Ruzhou and Luoyang, so it is most suitable for him to take over.

As for Qi Wei, Li Zixiao has another important use for him, and he will let him lead the army alone.

And the reason why Li Zixiao transferred Li Yan back from Ruzhou was because Niu Jinxing gave him advice last time.

made Li Zixiao realize that there was really a lack of a strategist around him, but fortunately, at a critical moment, he could also give him advice.

And Li Yan is the best choice, if you want to be able to strategize, Li Yan will never lose to Niu Jinxing.

Li Zixiao sent Li Yan to Ruzhou before, mainly to train him and give him experience in the White Dragon Army, so that Li Zixiao can reuse him in the future, and those proud soldiers and fierce generals of the White Dragon Army can be convinced.

Now that more than a year has passed, Li Yan has almost experienced in Ruzhou, and it is time to transfer him back to Li Zixiao's side.

At the same time that Li Zixiao appointed Xu Wei as the commander of the Western Expeditionary Corps, he also brought Li Zixiao's next main task for the Credit Legion.

Li Zixiao ordered Xu Wei to immediately send troops to occupy Xin'an and Shenchi to the west of Luoyang, and then send troops north to occupy Huaiqing Mansion.

With Shenchi as the westernmost boundary limit, to the east to the Luoyang-Ruzhou-Huaiqingfu line, build a defense line, which is a strong defense line to protect the Central Plains, and Li Zicheng will never be allowed to cross over.

If Xu Wei's defense line was established, it would have crossed the three state capitals of Henan, and the battle line was very long.

Therefore, Li Zixiao sent 10,000 soldiers to Xu Wei from Kaifeng to expand the total strength of the Western Army to 40,000.

As for Shaanzhou and Tongguan further west of the rope pond, these two places are also important places in Henan, and Li Zixiao chose to give up.

It is really these two important places, which are too close to Shaanxi, once Li Zicheng decides to return to Shaanxi, these two important places are definitely the places he must get, and it is impossible to give them to Li Zixiao.

In the south of Nanyang, Li Zixiao is also ready to send 10,000 people over to temporarily garrison Nanyang as a barrier to their south.

However, at this time, Li Zicheng's men and horses still stayed in Nanyang and did not leave, and Li Zixiao's 10,000 men and horses did not dare to send them over for the time being.

can only wait for the beginning of spring, maybe Li Zicheng will lead the army to leave, and then he is sending people to Nanyang, Li Zicheng is gone, Li Zixiao will not allow him to come back.

At the end of February of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zixiao set off to return to Jiangbei, and the only ones who followed him back to Jiangbei were the guard battalion led by Quartz and Li Yan who rushed back.

As for the more than 30,000 horses that Li Zixiao brought to Kaifeng, they were either sent to Xu Wei or stayed in Kaifeng, and even the three cavalry of Qi Wei, Luo Chao and Zhao Zilong all stayed in Kaifeng.

Because, compared with the many boundaries of the Jiangbei water system, the Henan region is more suitable for cavalry.

Similarly, in the future, Li Zixiao will slowly shift his focus towards Kaifeng, and Xuzhou is not suitable as his ruling center.

After returning to Xuzhou, Li Zixiao also had a difficult two days of comfortable life.

In this winter, he hid in the warm mansion all day long, leaning on the stove, holding the ugly baby and the girl who had grown up a lot, teasing the two little guys, Lin Wan'er, Guan Mingxi and Lin Yuluo, and the family was happy.

At this time, Lin Yuluo also had a big belly, and she was obviously pregnant, and she had handed over all the Li family business groups to Li Zifeng to take care of, and she could raise the baby with peace of mind.

For Lin Yuluo at this time, nothing is more important than the child in her belly.

"Yuluo, this time I went out, I can find a daughter-in-law for our tiger. It is a daughter adopted by Luo Chao......"

At this time, Li Zixiao told Lin Yuluo about him and Luo Chao, the doll he set in front of Chen Jiabao.

After Lin Yuluo heard this, he actually didn't like it in his heart, because he thought that his son, how could he marry a civilian girl who had no father and no mother in the future.

However, this was what Li Zixiao promised, and she didn't dare to object.

"Master, how do you know that what I have in my belly is a son, in case it is a daughter." Lin Yuluo said expressionlessly.

"Well, if it's not a son, then the agreement between me and Luo Chao will naturally be null and void, do you want to have a daughter, not a son?"

Li Zixiao also saw Lin Yuluo's careful thinking and knew that she was not very happy.

"No, of course I want to have a boy." Lin Yuluo felt clarified.

Needless to say, during this time, Lin Yuluo dreamed of giving birth to a boy, and this year's first-born girl could not guarantee the status of a concubine in the royal family.

But according to Lin Yuluo's thoughts, if he can really give birth to a son, how can he marry a young lady who is a good family in the future.

Luo Chao is only an adopted daughter, and she is not worthy of his son as a wife at all, so she has some guilt in her heart at this time.

Maybe Li Zixiao saw Lin Yuluo's thoughts, and said in a deep voice: "Luo Chao said, in the future, I can let that girl give us Hu'er and sit in a side room."

However, I don't think much that if that girl looks good in the future, she can be good, and it's okay to be a main room, you say! ”

Li Zixiao stared at Lin Yuluo with both eyes at this time, which made Lin Yuluo feel panicked for a while, and hurriedly responded: "Everything is up to the master." ”

"Hmm." Li Zixiao nodded.

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And just when Li Zixiao returned to Xuzhou, in less than a week, it was about to start spring, and at this time, Zheng Zhilong, who was in the south, suddenly sent a messenger.

"The Zheng family sent someone? Do you know who sent it? So what's going on? ”

Li Zixiao frowned slightly at this time, with a solemn look on his face, and asked Li Yan in front of him.

"Zheng Zhilong sent it this time, it was his eldest son Zheng Sen. As for the reason for this visit, the subordinates do not know.

At this time, his subordinates had already temporarily placed Zheng Sen and his party in the hotel, waiting for the lord to summon them. ”

Li Yan was very respectful and replied to Li Zixiao.

"It's Zheng Sen?"

This time, Li Zixiao was slightly surprised, it was really because Zheng Sen was Zheng Chenggong in the future, that is Li Zixiao's cow who has heard countless times in later generations!

Unexpectedly, I was going to see the real person this time, but at this time, Li Zixiao saw too many cattle in the late Ming Dynasty, even Chongzhen and Li Zicheng He saw him, and just one Zheng Chenggong could only surprise him a little.

"When does the lord plan to summon Zheng Sen?"

"Don't worry, just tell them that I was infected with wind and cold before, and I have not completely recovered, and I will summon them in two days." Li Zixiao thought for a while and said.

Li Zixiao was not in a hurry to summon Zheng Sen, mainly because he wanted to send someone to find out why they came to Jiangbei to see him this time.

Li Zixiao was worried about whether the batch of weapons and equipment he secretly sold to the Dutch a few months ago was discovered by the Zheng family.

"Yes, my subordinates know what to do."

After Li Yan heard Li Zixiao's words, he understood his intentions, answered, and prepared to leave.

"Ao, by the way, let Zhang Fugui come here."

Seeing that Li Yan was leaving, Li Zixiao suddenly remembered something and said.

"Yes."

Almost half an hour later, Zhang Fugui rushed to Li's mansion and met Li Zixiao.

"Rich, how are you doing these days?"

After Li Zixiao saw Zhang Fugui, he asked with a smile.

For Li Zixiao, Zhang Fugui is more and more in awe, especially some time ago, Li Zixiao suddenly promoted Leng Feng, the deputy of the Intelligence Bureau, to be the head of the Guanwai Branch, responsible for all intelligence work on Tartar.

This made Zhang Fugui panic, thinking that Li Zixiao had developed a distrust of him, and he worked harder and harder during this time.

In fact, Li Zixiao's promotion of Leng Feng is indeed because Leng Feng has outstanding ability and can already take charge of himself, which is worthy of his promotion.

But it is also undeniable that Li Zixiao has the intention of beating Zhang Fugui with this.

In fact, Zhang Fugui's intelligence bureau has expanded too quickly in the past two years, and at this time, almost the entire Ming Dynasty, including Guannai, has a branch of the intelligence bureau.

All the intelligence personnel of the entire intelligence bureau have exceeded 10,000 people combined.

The expansion rate of the Intelligence Bureau is inseparable from Li Zixiao's attention and heavy investment, of course, Li Zixiao has not forgotten Zhang Fugui's contributions.

But the credit is credit, Li Zixiao already had the idea of splitting up the Intelligence Bureau at this time.

And promoting Leng Feng and letting him be in charge of the intelligence collection of the Tartars outside the Guan, it is clear that Zhang Fugui is not allowed to interfere outside the Guan, which can be regarded as reducing the power in Zhang Fugui's hands.

But in the same way, Li Zixiao also made up for Zhang Fugui on the other hand, not only officially assigned the Intelligence Bureau to the White Dragon Army, but also gave the Intelligence Bureau an official name.

In this way, Zhang Fugui can also think of Qi Wei, Luo Chao and others as generals, and Li Zixiao also named Zhang Fugui as a rich general, which made Zhang Fugui very happy.

He never thought that he would be able to be a general one day, which is also typical of Li Zixiao, slapping a sweet date to eat.

"Thank you Lord for your concern, my subordinates are doing well, hehe." Zhang Fugui smiled at Li Zixiao and responded cautiously.

"Well, I heard Li Yan say just now that Zheng Zhilong sent his eldest son Zheng Sen to Jiangbei.

During this time, what happened on the Zheng family's side, it is estimated that no one knows better than you.

Do you know what Zheng Sen's purpose is for coming this time? Li Zixiao continued, asking.

"There may be some speculation on the part of the subordinates."

"Oh, sit down and talk about it." Li Zixiao's eyes lit up and asked Zhang Fugui to sit down and speak in detail.

"Yes."

Zhang Fugui cautiously sat on the seat, then looked at Li Zixiao, and said, "Sir, during the days when you led the army to the battle, the Zheng family and the red-haired ghost fought again......"

With Zhang Fugui's narration, Li Zixiao soon figured out the general situation of the matter.

It turned out that in late January of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, when Li Zixiao was at that time, he had just led the army from Jiangbei, and the battle of Zhuxian Town had not yet broken out.

And during this time period, it was not only the Ming army and the Chuang army that broke out in a decisive battle in Zhuxian Town.

Also along the southeast coast, the war between the Zheng army and the Dutch on Ryukyu Island, which had been suspended for a while, also started again.

Since the Dutchman Andre secretly purchased the firearms from Jiangbei in October, they stabilized their position in the ensuing war with the Zheng family's army.

The battle continued from October of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen to the beginning of December, and as the weather turned colder, Zheng Zhilong was forced to order to stop the attack.

At that time, the Dutch fleet at sea was already at sea, and it was inevitable that it was devastating by the Zheng family's fleet, and it was basically wiped out.

The Dutch then retreated to their four castles at the northern and southern ends of the Ryukyus, waiting for reinforcements.

However, the Dutch lost at sea, but they defeated Zheng's army in a land war.

Previously, the soldiers of the Zheng family army landed and attacked, but they were defeated by the Dutch, allowing the Dutch to hold their two fortified cities in the Dayuan area, the city of Geranza and the city of Provenza.

At the same time, in Taipei, the Dutch also have two fortified cities, that is, the Dutch have just beaten the Spaniards in Taipei's Tamsui and Chicken Coop.

From the Spaniards, the cities of San Salva and San Domingo were captured.

Among them, the city of San Domingo was later rebuilt by the Dutch, as long as the city of San Salva was mostly damaged by artillery fire, and the Dutch did not repair it.

At this time, the Dutch were mainly distributed on Ryukyu Island in the north, in Tamsui, Jilong (today's Taipei) and in the south Dayuan (today's Tainan).

The Dutch, like the Spaniards before them, built their cities on the excellent ports of the Ryukyus, after all, they invaded here mainly for trade.

Because of the last land defeat, Zheng Zhilong was very unwilling.

Before winter, he sent his fleet around the north to attack the other two Dutch castles, taking advantage of the fact that the Dutch were mainly focused on the cities of Provinja and Geranza in the south.

And, let him make a successful sneak attack, and in one fell swoop knocked down the Dutch city of Saint-Salva, which was poorly garrisoned and badly damaged.

However, when facing another Dutch castle, Saint-Domingo, which was on guard, Zheng Jiajun hit the nail again and failed to lay it.

So, as the weather became colder and colder, Zheng Jiajun gave up the attack, and the two sides entered a truce.

The armistice between the two sides stopped for nearly two months, and in late January of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the two sides broke out again.

This is also the reason why Zhang Fugui will say, 'Zheng Jiajun and the red-haired ghost are fighting again'.

(End of chapter)