Lu Zhi was so happy to delay the time, and he also listened to the lively conversation on the side, flattering the stone pillar soldiers by the way, and scratched his ears and cheeks in a hurry, and dragged on for another quarter of an hour, Chen Xin seemed to remember that there was still a governor to see, which was enough for Xuan Mo to wait for half an hour to see the two subordinates.

As soon as Xuan Mo showed his talents, he was very polite when he met, he was not angry at all because he was delayed by urgency, and he never mentioned the matter of impeachment of each other, the two sides went down for a while, and Xuan Mo hinted at their own strategy with them, Lu Zhi and Chen Xin looked at him like this, and did not mention the things that disappointed the fun, only talked about the matter of military food security, and they acquiesced to Xuan Mo's strategy. Xuan Mo informed the commanders of the army to arrive in advance, that is, to reach a consensus with the main leaders before the meeting, which is also the basic strategy of the officials, if there is no good communication before the meeting, there will be problems directly at the meeting, especially when Lu Zhi still does not deal with him.

At the evening reception banquet, the generals were like clouds, including their relatives and entourage, and there were tables arranged in the outer room, and this meal ate hundreds of taels of silver, and the generals pushed the cups and changed the glasses, Chen Xin had a very good amount of wine, and his attitude was very affectionate, and he formed friends with a group of generals and officials.

After this reception, the relationship between everyone on the surface was a lot better, Chen Xin made a few new friends, the highest official positions are Wang Pu and Ni Pet, the chief soldiers of the Beijing camp, both of them are a table of talents, although they have only marched for a long time, but they are very neatly cleaned up, and they are very different from other generals with gray faces, their family members are also bright armor, and there is a red feather on the bright helmet, and I don't know what kind of hair it is. (Note 1)

This is worthy of the image of the Beijing battalion, but according to Chen Xin's understanding, the actual combat effectiveness of the Beijing battalion is very poor, and the occupation and empty pay are higher than those of the ordinary battalion soldiers.

Such a situation has long deviated far from the original intention of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di to establish the Beijing camp. After Zhu Di ascended the throne, the Beijing camp reached 72 guards, more than 300,000 people, and the number of garrisons in the entire Beizhili reached 600,000, which was the core of defense in the north.

The establishment of the Beijing battalion was changed again and again, from the three major battalions to the 10 regimental battalions, and the 10 regimental battalions were selected to 12 battalions. It was changed to the east and west official halls, and finally it became three battalions, namely the five armies, the Shenshu, and the three battalions of the Shenji.

No matter how they reformed, the Beijing camp as a whole still did not break away from the general framework of the Wei system, and its institutional decay was inherited in the same line. The problems of occupation and empty pay have never been solved, and the Beijing camp has become the confinement of the powerful people in Beijing. In the early years of Zhengde, Wang Zhongliang selected an army, and it turned out that the number of soldiers was 380,000, only 140,000 were registered, and only 20,000 were usable. Since then, the emperors have made many attempts to revive the camp, but they have all failed.

The situation of Beijing after the Ming Dynasty. There is no deterrent. At the beginning of Chongzhen's accession to the throne, Li Banghua made one last effort to rectify the Beijing camp, and the situation improved slightly. But he offended a lot of people, and the magnates took advantage of the battle to let Li Banghua go out of class, and the Beijing camp was restored to its old state, and even exceeded. The magnates were paid the empty salaries. They also used the soldiers in their occupation and turned them into domestic slaves in their homes. The enormous self-interest in this makes any attempt at change difficult.

The information sent by Zhang Dahui from the Beijing division also mentioned again and again that the Beijing battalion soldiers were not able to fight. Although Chen Xin is not interested in the combat power of Jingying, Ni Pet feels very good about himself, although he is also polite, but there is always a sense of superiority between his demeanor, Chen Xin endured nausea and toasted, and giggled and pulled a relationship. In addition, Wang Pu looked heroic, and his words seemed to be from Jiangmen. Chen Xin vaguely remembered that there was a Datong general soldier named Wang Pu, and later rushed to run during the Songjin War, defeated the Guan Ning Army with the advantage of home in the long-distance running competition, and won the rare championship of the Liaoxi Rally, and finally was beheaded by the emperor before receiving the award, and I don't know if it was the one in front of him.

After eating a sumptuous dinner, Xuan Mo also arranged flower wine, and Chen Xin also followed. The red cards of the brothels are all covered, the brothel is singing and dancing, and the generals are very happy, and they can't see the situation outside the city at all, and the consumption of the brothel is even more. Chen Xin drank and had fun together, and in the end he didn't stay overnight, but he didn't leave until late at night.

None of Chen Xin's twenty personal guards entered the brothel, and when he came out, he took the guards to Fuxue, which was the accommodation that Xuan Mo had arranged for his more than 100 guards, and he insisted on living with his own army.

There are a lot of soldiers and people patrolling the streets, and Xuan Mo's defense is still good. The pacesetter who opened the road was holding the governor's lantern, no one came up to ask, Chen Xin burped on the horse, he was drunk to the end, and he drank enough, and his head was a little dizzy.

The breeze blew in the street, and he was a little more sober, and he looked up to see the dim light of the lanterns of the pacesetters flickering, casting the shadows of the crowd, and the sound of hooves echoing in the long empty street, and behind him came the sound of bamboo, and the sound of some men and women laughing.

Chen Xin shook his head and slowly walked away surrounded by guards, and the small building in the wall of the brothel was still brightly lit......

On June 18 of the sixth year of Chongzhen, the meeting of guerrilla cadres above the level of the East Route Army was successfully held, and the venue was in the main hall of the government office, which was full of people, and the first level of the deputy chief soldier and the general supervisor of the army was in the front row on the left and right, and the general of the tour was in the back row.

Ma Xianglin didn't care whether it was suitable or not, he chose a position close to Chen Xin, and chatted with Chen Lu and the others in a low voice.

After going to the venue, Xuan Mo first talked about his plan, he first asked not to release Kou into Beizhili, which was the first priority, and then he wanted to protect Weihui Mansion, because there was still a King Lu in Weihui Mansion, and it would be a terrible thing once it fell. In addition, he reported the situation on the Shanxi side, and the Liukou were still surrounded, and Xuan Mo emphasized that he should guard the Huifu Mansion and prevent a large group of Liukou from advancing eastward, trapping them near Huaiqing.

However, his deployment is still too focused on specific commands, requiring the main attack on a certain Liukou, but lacking an overall strategy, Chen Xin yesterday had built a combination of his steady defense and assault, and each department guarded the key points, and then concentrated some generals with more cavalry to carry out a surprise attack on the Liukou garrison to attack their root forces, but Xuan Mo did not mention it at the meeting.

Chen Xin estimated that Xuan Mo had a lot of worries, and he didn't dare to let the officers and soldiers of the brigade leave the vicinity of Weihui Mansion, and Huaiqing was broken anyway, he would rather maintain the current situation, as long as he trapped the Liukou in Huaiqing. Wait until the strong armies of Cao Zhao, Li Bei, and Ai Wannian in the north arrive. The rogues will be wiped out in ashes, so that the risk to him is least.

Fortunately, everyone gave face, and did not let Xuan Mo not come to the stage, and in the end the issue of military food was mentioned, and everyone finally couldn't help it. However, there are more than 40,000 officials and soldiers on the East Road, and they need hundreds of stones of grain every day, and Xuan Mo really can't take that much. Let everyone figure out their own way, the military leaders are done, and they still have to go back and grab their own.

Chen Xin stayed in Weihui for two more days, and when he arrived at the grain boat that came from the Daimyo's Mansion along the Wei River, he led his troops to pick it up in Qimen Town. He escorted the cavalry to Fucheng and went ashore, and transported it back to Huixian with his own baggage team.

This is the first time Chen Xin has really tasted the taste of the guest army, he is not short of silver, and there is a strong business network behind him, and now he has such a headache in supply, other military leaders can imagine that if they don't rob it, they will definitely starve themselves to death. Then you can only grab food and starve others to death.

On the way back to Huixian, Chen Xin left some grain for Geng Zhongming, and the rest was transported to the camp outside Huixian, seeing that the war had a protracted trend. Chen Xin could only begin to consolidate the camp and use it as a support point for the front line to ensure the safety of military rations.

After this replenishment, Dengzhou Town has another month and a half of reserves. Chen Xin solved his worries and began to gather his troops. He wasn't going to engage in a pointless chase with the rogues again. That is to attack the enemy's strength with his own shortcomings, and he is ready to do a big vote by himself, which really deters Jiannu.

Chen Xin sent a large number of sentry horses to investigate the movements of the Liukou, especially the station of the large core Liukou. The battlefield in northern Henan is vast, and the number of sentry horses in Dengzhou Town is insufficient, but Chen Xin still has an intelligence source to look forward to, that is, a secret chess piece he laid after the Battle of Huanhe......

In Thanh Hoa Township, Hanoi County, Huaiqing Province, homeless people are camping outside the town, they do not have enough materials and bodies to build illegal buildings, and many of them just live in the open air.

There are also several intact mansions in the town, with two red flags planted in front of the door, one side of which is written with three big characters of Zijin Liang, and the other side is written to break the king for the way of heaven. From time to time, a group of fierce people and horses on horseback arrived at the door, chatting and laughing loudly with each other, and then entered the house together.

This was originally a cautious family house, today is the temporary place of King Zijin Liang for his own use, his camp is not here, but in the north of Qinghua Town, and closer to Taihang Mountain, today he is just here to meet and talk with the leaders of the bandits. As the second largest rogue, King Chuang was the first to rush here to meet, and the two have been partnering recently, and they are the backbone of the 36th Battalion.

There were many horses scattered in the east and west gardens of the house, and they were grazing in them, and the ground was covered with dung, making a mess of a quiet and elegant garden. In the middle of the garden on both sides, is where the landlord Lao Cai originally lived, and the main hall was full of big men.

The first one was a big man with white temples and rough skin, his demeanor was calm, he didn't eat and drink like those leaders, only occasionally took a sip of the wine bowl. Next to him was a rugged middle-aged man, about forty years old.

"Fifth brother, sixth brother, you have to hurry up and think of a way, now that the food is getting less and less, there are more and more dog officers and soldiers with donkey balls." There was a shout with a Shaanxi accent at the door, and the big man raised his head with a smile, and watched the eight kings with yellow faces striding into the hall.

The surrounding rogue leaders greeted Zhang Xianzhong lively, but Zhang Xianzhong did not respond, walked in front of a thief, snatched half of the leg of mutton he had gnawed, and snatched his bowl, and sat down next to the first big man.

The two big men with gray temples are Zijin Liang, and now the big leader of the 36th battalion, when he was under Wang Jiayin, he was ranked five kings, Zhang Xianzhong ranked eighth and called the eight kings, Zhang Xianzhong used to call him the fifth brother. The rough middle-aged man next to him was Gao Yingxiang, who was sent sixth under Wang Jiayin back then, and was just a little worse than Zijin Liang back then, and now he can only be sent second, so there is a market everywhere in this seniority.

The four in front of Zijin Liang and Gao Yingxiang are now hanging or missing, including the Great Heavenly King Wang Jiayin. The fourth to eighth are still alive, and the seventh is Cao Cao and Luo Rucai, which can also be seen that Wang Jiayin was full of talents back then. Zhang Xianzhong didn't have much respect for the sixth and seventh children, so Zijin Liang became one of the few people who could subdue Zhang Xianzhong.

At this time, a thief below said in a way that was neither yin nor yang: "Eh, the eight kings of Xiying, I heard that you were beaten by a group of Shandong soldiers and lost your pants, did you lose your donkey ball?" ”

Zhang Xianzhong looked at him coldly, his eyes were fierce, the two of them looked at each other viciously, Zijin Liang was drinking calmly in the middle, and the others were eating their own, as if it was commonplace.

"We are reluctant to lose it, otherwise we will greet your aunt with a donkey ball."

The man smiled and said, "When I go back tonight, I will cook and eat my aunt first, and next time the eight kings of Xiying will not have to keep your donkey ball." ”

Zhang Xianzhong stood up with a snort, a wine bowl flew over with a snort, the man had already prepared, and with a wave of his hand, several people behind him choked and drew their knives at the same time, Zhang Xianzhong also pulled out his waist knife, and he was about to go up and slash.

"Alright." Zijin Liang waved his hand lightly, Zhang Xianzhong stopped, Zijin Liang stood up and walked to the middle, "Right now, this dog officer and soldier have killed a lot of our brothers, you two Eight Kings don't help anymore, one name fights for a donkey ball." ”

After hearing this, the eight kings over there sat down, waved his hand to let his subordinates put away the waist knife, Zhang Xianzhong threw the knife to the ground with a bang, sat down and drank angrily, and glared at the eight kings fiercely from time to time.

Zijin Liang said to the people around him: "Everyone is here today, let's Lao Tzu is looking for you, not to fight and drink, the emperor has now sent tens of thousands of people to follow them, and everyone knows how powerful the border army is, that Shanxi will not be able to stay sooner or later, Henan will be a big slapp, and we can't cross the Yellow River, where should we go in the future, what regulations do you have." ”