Mei Zhihuan and Liu Jun agreed to send troops, and the next person came to report that Li Changgeng had arrived. Li Changgeng, the fourth secretary of the book, was also reactivated this time and served as the governor of Yunyang, and after getting the news, he came to Shenzhuang to see Mei Zhihuan. The two are relatives and old friends from the same township, and now they have become a relationship between the top and bottom.

"Jiye is also there." Li Changgeng was invited in by the housekeeper, and when he saw that Liu Jun was also there, he said with a smile.

"Liu Jun meets the governor." Liu Jun saluted.

"I haven't taken office at the Yamen yet, why do we need to be so polite between us, what are you talking about?"

"I have just agreed with Jiye that the two battalions of Zhengyou of Baosheng Fort and the third battalion of the Nine Headed Bird's War Auxiliary Teaching will be organized into the five battalions under my standard, and the day after tomorrow will officially send troops to Jingzhou by boat to ask for Zhang Xianzhong." Mei Zhihuan did not reserve Li Changgeng and directly trayed out the plan.

Li Changgeng looked at the two of them, saw that they were not joking, and pondered for a while, "Count me in, I'll walk with you." ”

"Okay." Mei Zhihuan responded with a smile and didn't say much.

Liu Jun couldn't help but say, "Do we really keep Yang Gebu in the dark without notifying him?" ”

"No, you don't." Mei Zhihuan and Li Changgeng said together, Liu Jun was speechless, so he had to say, "The student retired and went back to make preparations." ”

"Well, remember to leave in two days, and if you delay the date, don't blame me for not being shameless." Mei Zhihuan nodded to Liu Jun and said.

After leaving Shenzhuang, Liu Jun rode back to Hutou Fort and immediately convened a meeting of the third-level officers of the battalion department. At the meeting, Liu Jun announced the latest changes in the DPRK and China, the change of the thieves and governors, and Mei Zhihuan's plan.

"The whole army immediately entered a state of first-class combat readiness, and all officers and men packed up and distributed ammunition and arrows. The archers were each given sixty arrows, the musketeers were each given two hundred rounds of paper bullets, and the baggage battalion put all the rice and bean coal fried and packed into the car."

Give it a command. The whole Tiger Head Fort was in motion. Fortunately, I had already set off once before, and now I am making the final preparations for the expedition in an orderly manner.

In order to boost morale, after Liu Jun gave the order to prepare for departure, he issued another opening silver to the expeditionary troops. In the event of a war, in order to make the soldiers sell their lives, they had to take a pen of silver to reward the soldiers, which was called the opening of the silver, and they had to send a grain once. It is called the food of travel.

There is no such practice in Hutou Fort, but Liu Jun considered that most of the soldiers were new recruits, and it was inevitable that he would be nervous when he wanted to go on the expedition for the first time, so he gave out silver to dance morale. Each soldier is issued a hundred point coupons equivalent to one tael of silver.

After distributing the money, the next day, the day before departure, Liu Jun brought the three battalions of soldiers and horses to the outside of Macheng County, and joined Mei Zhihuan's other two battalions in front of Baosheng Fort.

In addition to the five battalions, Li Changgeng also organized a battalion of men. Among them were hundreds of members of the Li family, as well as more than 1,000 masters recruited from the local area. Li Changgeng formed his own patrol battalion of more than 2,000 people, which was actually used as a logistics man for Mei Zhihuan's two battalions.

Mei Zhihuan and Li Changgeng inspected the men and horses of the Sixth Battalion on the same day, and then prepared a sumptuous banquet for the soldiers of the Sixth Battalion.

The banquet was prepared by Lu Jinxi, the commander of Macheng County, and the squires, landlords, and wealthy businessmen of Macheng. Each soldier who went out on the expedition received two liters of wine and two catties of meat, which was very hearty with wine and meat, and even sent hundreds of sheep and many chickens, ducks, and fish to accompany the meal.

In addition to wine and meat. They even invited a troupe to perform for the soldiers, which was very lively.

On this lively day, Lu Weizhang also rushed over. He sent Liu Jun several carts of things. When Liu Jun came over, he saw Lu Weizhang directing the family to keep carrying things under the car, and when he looked carefully, he saw that they were all eating.

Jinhua's big ham, Wenzhou's smoked chicken, Jiangxi's Huangyuan rice crackers, air-dried beef outside the mouth, and even a truckload of Qiguang cakes.

Lu Weizhang introduced Liu Jun in the same way, "This is a cow bladder, which contains twenty catties of beef jerky." Don't look at this thing as inconspicuous, but it's a whole cow's beef. They are the specialties of the Mongols in the steppe, where a cow is slaughtered, dried, and then smashed with a hammer until the whole cow is stuffed into the bladder of the cow. This thing is extremely full, and when you are on the march, take a little bit out and boil it with water, and you can take care of the day's fullness.

"Father-in-law, in fact, the army has food and dry food."

Lu Weizhang smiled, "Actually, I also know, it's not that girl, as soon as I heard that you were going to send troops to fight, I was worried, so I immediately searched the shop at home, and he searched everything that could be used as dry food." Hey, I know that I can't control the matter of sending troops to fight, no matter if I only have Xueqi as a daughter, you must take care of yourself, don't do it. ”

He nagged, endlessly, Lu Xueqi in the carriage next to him finally couldn't stand it anymore, pushed open the carriage door and jumped down, and pulled Liu Jun into the carriage.

"You are now a general of the imperial court, and if you want to lead troops to fight, I can't control you." Lu Xueqi held Liu Jun's hand and said, "I went to the temple to ask for a peace charm, and you wear it on your body." ”

"Don't worry, it's just to go and kill a few bandits." Liu Jun said lightly.

"I'll wait for you to come back and marry me."

Originally, the wedding date was approaching, but now that she was going to go on the expedition, Liu Jun felt a little ashamed of her.

"I will marry you when I am victorious."

"Then you'll have to triumph sooner." Lu Xueqi took Liu Jun's hand and put it on her lower abdomen.

Liu Jun was pleasantly surprised, "Really?" ”

Previously, Lu Xueqi said that she would take it, but it was too early to find out anything.

"Well, I've invited the best doctor in town to come and see it, and there it is. So you have to marry me sooner rather than later, or my belly will be bigger." ”

Liu Jun lowered his head and kissed her on the face, "Great, I'm going to be a father." ”

"Don't wait, we'll get married soon, and I'm going to marry you today."

Lu Xueqi is already pregnant, and Liu Jun doesn't know when she will come back from this expedition, in case she is out for three or five months and a half, the marriage will be delayed, and then Lu Xueqi's belly will be bigger, which will not be good for her reputation.

"But it's too much of a rush."

"I just want to give you a name as soon as possible, let you become my wife as soon as possible, are you willing to marry me tomorrow?" Liu Jun hugged Lu Xueqi and asked.

"I do, I do." Lu Xueqi also knew that Liu Jun was going to get married early for her.

"I'm going to discuss the wedding with my father-in-law, and we'll get married today."

"Hmm." Lu Xueqi nodded happily. Liu Jun kissed her on the face again, then turned around and prepared to get out of the car to prepare for the wedding, just one day, to prepare a wedding, this is a very difficult task.

"Junlang."

Lu Xueqi suddenly called out to Liu Jun, "Then you can invite Shen Sanniang and Yuan Yuan to attend the wedding." ”

Liu Jun didn't expect Lu Xueqi to suddenly mention the two of them, and stood there a little embarrassed for a while, explaining a little clumsily, "Actually, I am just ordinary friends with them." ”

"Junlang, it's okay. I'm not one of those jealous women. It's normal for a man to have three wives and four concubines, I just hope that in the future, if there is a woman outside Junlang, you can tell me. ”

Liu Jun was a little embarrassed, and it was always a little reasonable to be caught stealing.

After saying goodbye to Lu Xueqi, Liu Jun directly mentioned to Lu Weizhang that he would hold a wedding today. Lu Weizhang was a little hesitant, he knew that his daughter was pregnant, and he actually wanted to let the two get married as soon as possible, so that the premarital pregnancy could be covered up. But I don't want to suddenly hold a wedding in advance, which is easy to be suspected. But now Liu Jun's expedition is imminent. I don't know when I will come back, and if I delay it for too long, my daughter's stomach won't be able to hide.

"Can it be a few days late?"

"I'll have to go tomorrow." Liu Jun said helplessly.

"This is a little aggrieved Xueqi. After all, getting married is the top priority in a woman's life, and it's a pity to be in a hurry. ”

Liu Jun said, "I will treat Xueqi well, and I will try to make up for it in the future." ”

"I believe in you. Otherwise, I wouldn't have agreed to your affair in the first place. Okay, let's do it today, I'll send someone to prepare it right away. Notify relatives and friends and prepare a banquet. ”

Liu Jun went to see Mei Zhihuan and Li Changgeng and proposed that he would get married before the expedition. Of course, the reason is not that Lu Xueqi has a child, but that the wedding was held in advance to make her feel at ease.

Mei Zhihuan didn't delve into the reason, but he was also very happy about it.

Although the wedding was a bit rushed, with the help of the army and various families, it still went smoothly. The Lu family sent a carriage to pick up people from relatives and friends' houses, and invited the back kitchen teams of several restaurants, plus the help of many soldiers, this wedding that was temporarily decided to be advanced was very lively.

On the same day, Li Chunjiang and Liu Yunsheng, Chen Zhenhui and others acted as Liu Jun's best man group, Liu Jun took thousands of people from the nine-headed bird to the Lu family to greet his relatives, the scene was very spectacular, attracting countless people to watch, and everyone was amazed by this unique welcoming scene.

After Shen Man and Chen Yuanyuan received the wedding invitation sent by Lu Xueqi, they were a little inexplicably surprised. Both of them felt in their hearts that this was a hostile threat from the eldest woman, and this invitation was a war letter.

Regarding the two of them, Liu Jun could only explain to them with a smile, in fact, he was busy with military affairs during this time, and he was a little cold to Shen Man and Chen Yuanyuan. And Shen Man and Chen Yuanyuan also knew each other's existence for a long time, it is said that Shen Man also went to find Chen Yuanyuan a few times, and after Chen Yuanyuan was provoked, he actually gave a counterattack.

However, the two had no intention of quitting, but they couldn't help but have a little resentment towards Liu Jun.

"Sister, let's stop fighting, we're just small if we fight again." Shen Man pondered for a long time with the invitation sent by Lu Xueqi, but decided to go to the banquet. Not only that, but she also took the initiative to find Chen Yuanyuan and proposed that the two reconcile.

"In the future, the backyard of the Liu family will be the final say of the Lu family, and she will be the biggest. No matter how much the two of us fight, it's also a small one. In this case, why don't we get along well, so that in case the Lu family wants to pick us in the future, we will also have a mutual dependence. ”

"That's what my sister said." Chen Yuanyuan remembered the days when she was in the Gong family, the eldest woman couldn't tolerate people, and life was very difficult. And Shen Man also had a similar life as Chen Yuanyuan as a concubine, but now he feels a little sympathetic and sympathetic.

The two women, who were still hostile to each other before, immediately formed an alliance, planning to rely on each other in the future to fight against the eldest woman of the Liu family together.

The night before the expedition, Liu Jun officially married Lu Xueqi, greeted relatives, visited the hall, cave-room, and drank wine together. Bun knotted hair and become husband and wife.

That night, Liu Jun didn't stay in the cave room all the time, they were all old husbands and wives, but they weren't too excited. However, there are both bosses and colleagues and subordinates outside, as well as many squires, and Liu Jun has to take care of them.

Fortunately, although there are many guests, Liu Jun also has many best men, and with them to help block the wine, Liu Jun didn't drink much. In the middle of the night, the banquet was almost over, and Liu Jun called Zhang Shan to talk to Zhu Yuancheng and other brothers who stayed behind.

"The garrison camp and regimental training camp of the two of you are also full, and the next thing is to practice. In addition to training, you have to firmly defend the Tiger Head Fort, which is not only our station, but also our Gun Workshop and Artillery Workshop, these two workshops are now the lifeblood of our nine pairs of birds, we are not as good as the border army, we don't have so many soldiers and we can't get full pay, and we are not better than the guards, we have our own tun fields to cultivate. ”

"We relied on various methods to raise salaries in the early stage, but there are more and more soldiers, and the old method can't maintain the expenses. In the future, it was expected that this firearms workshop would produce firearms for sale in order to raise soldiers and horses. Therefore, no matter what, we must protect the tiger head fort and protect our firearms workshop, and we must not afford to lose anything. ”

Zhang Shan nodded seriously and responded, "Big brother, don't worry, I am in the fort, and the fort is in the firearms workshop." ”

"Well, there is no room for sloppiness, and I usually send more guards outside at night. I will hand over the protection of the firearms workshop to you, and I will hand over the production to Zhao Shun, now we still have a lot of orders, and the materials are still sufficient, you just need to produce as planned. ”

"One more thing." Liu Jun said again, "Previously, we cooperated with King Anton to help him arrest the smuggler of salt, and we have to continue to do this." We have almost figured out the list of illicit salt dealers in Qihuang counties before, and I have asked people to give them a message and ask them to quit Qihuang. As long as they are willing to quit, then we can not blame the past. But if they ignore our warnings, then we'll salute before we fight. ”

"In addition to your garrison battalion and regimental training battalion, in addition to training troops and guarding forts, you have also arranged to attack in turns, and those smugglers who dare to look down on us will take them down. This is also a test for you, but it is both a test and an opportunity, and I hope that you can grow up quickly by eliminating smuggled salt dealers and training troops in actual combat. ”

"If you encounter any uneven trouble, you can find the Liu family, the Mei family, and the Li family, and they will help you."

Zhang Shan and Zhu Yuancheng nodded yes.

"I'll give you all my home."

Before dawn, Liu Jun said goodbye to Lu Xueqi and rode back to the temporary camp of Shenzhuang Baosheng Fort. (To be continued......)