Shi Kefa was the governor of Caoyun and the governor of Jiangbei, and his ministry titles were the right servant of the household department and the right imperial history of the capital. And Liu Jun is the governor of Huguang and the chief soldier of Hubei, and he also has the titles of the right attendant of the military department and the right deputy imperial envoy, and even the rank of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is higher than Shi Kefa. Liu Jun is fully qualified to sit on an equal footing with Shi Kefa.

"The last general, Mu Wenshou, the general of Fengsi, meet Liu Junmen!"

Mu Wenshou is a battle-hardened general, only in his early forties at this time, and he is in the prime of life. His resume is very rich, his hometown Huguang Lichuan people, his family is Shizhou Tusi, and later participated in the pacification of the Sichuan Guixuan Rebellion, guarding Guiyang, and awarding the general. At the beginning of Chongzhen, Denglai Kong Youde Rebellion, and led the troops to participate in the rebellion, and then stationed in Gubeikou, once sent an envoy to North Korea, after returning to China, he was ordered to aid Fengyang, and the officials and troops of all walks of life recaptured the central capital Fengyang, and then promoted to the general army of Fengsi, guarding all parts of Jiangbei.

However, although he is also a general soldier, Mu Wenshou does not have the rank of ministry on his body, only the position of governor, so in front of Liu Jun, who has the title of admiral, he has to pay homage.

"With Lao Mu in the town to greet him, Liu is terrified."

Liu Jun smiled and stepped forward to support Mu Wenshou, if he let Mu Wenshou bow down, he was afraid that the officials and generals in Jiangbei would have opinions about him.

Mu Wenshou was very happy to see Liu Jun so polite, and personally introduced his two lieutenants to Liu Jun.

"Luzhou deputy chief soldier Huang Degong, Xuzhou deputy chief soldier Liu Liangzuo. These two battles are very brave, and they are generals under the command of Mou. ”

Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo stepped forward to pay homage, Liu Jun also smiled and helped them up one by one, he looked at these two people carefully, they were in the prime of life, and they were very tall. Huang Degong has a big red face, a rosacea, and a smell of wine on his body, and he looks like a lover of wine.

"Master Hou, this Huang Degong loves wine, every time before going into battle. The more you have to drink a few sips, after drinking, you are brave and crazy, so you are called Huang Chuangzi in the army. This Liu Liangzuo does not love wine, but loves horses, and his favorite is a big flower horse, and the baby is the same as his own woman, so he is called Huama Liu. It was Zhu Dadian who spoke, and these people were originally his subordinates, especially Liu Liangzuo. It was brought back to Jiangbei by him after the rebellion in Shandong.

Liu Jun always felt a little familiar when he heard these names, and he thought about it for a long time before he remembered it. Zhu Dadian, Shi Kefa, Huang Degong, Liu Liangzuo, aren't these people all influential figures in the Southern Ming Dynasty? Shi Kefa is the secretary of the military department of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and this Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo seem to be the two of the four towns in Jiangbei of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

Shi Kefa was praised as a national hero in later generations, and he was called Yue Fei and Wen Tianxiang, and his impression was really deep, and even Huang Degong and Liu Jun, who were related to Shi Kefa, still remembered some of them.

It's this Mu Wenshou chief military officer. He wasn't impressed.

I never thought that he had met several of these Nanming figures today, and these people all paid homage to him.

Mu Wenshou, Huang Degong, and Liu Liangzuo looked at Liu Jun's soldiers. I couldn't help but sigh, "Good soldier, mighty army." ”

Liu Jun entered Anqing City with them, and Shi Kefa also let the nine-headed bird enter the city. Liu Jun refused. "They will choose an open place outside the city and set up camp, and they will not go into the city to gather the people."

"The army of the true king of the soldiers and horses commanded by the Hou Ye." Shi Kefa was moved and praised.

"It's just the duty of a soldier." Liu Jun has long been accustomed to the exclamation of the Ming officials at the military discipline of the nine-headed bird, "Why is Shi Futai in Anqing?" ”

Scofa also rode a horse. Walking next to Liu Jun, he said, "I came to Anqing, which is also the intention of the second governor of Mei and Li." The two governors planned to suppress the bandits this time, implement the encirclement and suppression from the north and south, and the two governors and ministers would unify the troops on the north road and be responsible for pressing from north to south. And the commander commanded the soldiers of the southern road, from the south to the north, and the thieves were exterminated in one fell swoop! ”

"The two governors believe in trusting the Admiral, and handed over the west of Dabie Mountain to the Admiral's Qihuang garrison, as well as the Qihuang Joint Defense People's Regiment, and we can only control the north and south to attack the north and south."

Mei Zhihuan and Li Changgeng's plan is very clear, and the north and south are flanked.

In terms of troop arrangement, Mei Zhihuan and Li Changgeng commanded 40,000 troops, and Liu Jun's south was also 40,000, of which Liu Jun's nine-headed bird was 20,000, and the other 20,000 were Shi Kefa and Mu Wenshou 10,000 each.

An army of 80,000 is already scary to hear. Of course, in fact, Liu Jun didn't really believe in Jiangbei's 60,000 army. There must be a lot of water in it, and after entering the city, he secretly looked at the officers and soldiers he saw on the road, and found that most of them were still old-fashioned troops, poorly equipped, poorly trained, and generally disciplined, and both old and weak.

He was also very sure that there must be a lot of customary vacancies in these soldiers. If it is the usual vacancy of three or four percent, then 60,000 people may only be about 40,000. Mei Zhihuan and Li Changgeng moved to Jiangbei to reorganize the army after the battle of Sichuan, but the time is so short, it is very difficult to achieve results, in such a short period of time, it is good to be able to sort out the troops and horses in Jiangbei, as for the removal of the old and weak, the replacement of equipment and the like, it must be difficult to do it for a while.

However, Mei and Li still have a team of more than 10,000 pacesetters brought back from Sichuan, so they don't have to worry too much about them.

"Has the bottom of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution been figured out now? How many bandits are there and how are they arranged? ”

As soon as he arrived at the Yamen of the Anqing Prefect's Mansion, Liu Jun couldn't wait to ask.

It was Huang Degong who answered, he himself was the deputy general stationed in Luzhou, and the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution was in his defense area, and no one knew the situation of the bandits better than them.

"The Fifth Battalion of the Revolutionary Left has been entrenched in the Yinghuo Mountains for two years, during which it has been pretending to recruit peace, sending people to delay time, secretly recruiting troops and horses, and cultivating land. Since Zhang Xianzhong's rebellion this year, the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo has also secretly interacted with him, and later gathered to the west to attack Huguang Qihuang. After being repulsed, they began to attack the surrounding areas such as Gwangju in Henan. ”

"At present, there are about 20 battalion leaders in the 5th Battalion of Gezuo, with about 50,000 or 60,000 men and horses."

"Fifty or sixty thousand." Liu Jun chuckled a few times, "I'm afraid that the old and weak women and children are also counted, how many people are in the camp of the elite old thieves, and how many are there in the horses?" ”

"It is estimated that there are about 20,000 old thieves and more than 10,000 horsemen."

"Are the five battalions stationed separately, or are they all in one place?"

"The five battalions of bandits are entrenched in the mountainous areas of Yingshan and Huoshan counties between Luzhou Mansion and Anqing Prefecture, and they are stationed in each mountain in separate battalions, but they are in contact with each other."

I have to say that the fifth battalion of the left was still very low-key before, they were entrenched in the mountains between Luzhou and Anqing, close to the Dabie Mountain, between Huguang, Henan, and Nanzhili provinces, although there were tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, but they did not occupy the city, only guarded in the mountains.

These bandits understand the psychology of the officials very well, and if they do not attack the city and occupy the city, then the officials and troops will not desperately suppress it. Then they sent people to bribe the officials from time to time, throwing out a plan to recruit peace and surrender, and the officials and generals who were lured had no intention of suppressing them.

If it weren't for Zhang Xianzhong's rebellion, the Fifth Battalion of the Revolutionary Left sent troops to invade Huguang, Qihuang, and Guangzhou, Henan, etc., which caused even the emperor to know that the five battalions of bandits were powerful, and he was afraid that these people would continue to mix like this in the Yinghuo Mountains.

"Knowing the other, you can survive a hundred battles, I think that we should first select the night and sneak into the Yinghuo Mountains to find out the truth of the thief, and then we will go straight to the thief's den and make a contribution in one fell swoop." Liu Jun made a suggestion.

In the yamen of the Anqing prefect's mansion, it had been used as a temporary military hall for the army at this time.

Jiangbei Governor Shi Kefa, Fengsi Commander Mou Wenshou, Fengyang Director Lu Jiude, Adjutant General Huang Degong, Liu Liangzuo, Zhudao Members, Prefect and a large number of local officials and generals gathered, and Huguang Governor Liu Jun, Hubei Governor Zhu Dadian, Director Wang Kun, Governor Lu Weining, Supervisor Qu Shiyun and many other officials and generals also discussed in the same hall.

In the hall, there are three governors, chief eunuchs, two governors, two general soldiers, and even more adjutant generals. With so many officials and generals together, there is a big trouble in the first place, who is the main general?

It stands to reason that if it should be commanded by the commander-in-chief of Wenchen and the guest army obeys the home field, then it should be commanded by Shi Kefa, the governor of Jiangbei, the governor of Caoyun, but Liu Jun's official rank is higher than Shi Kefa, and Zhu Dadian is still Shi Kefa's predecessor. What's even worse is that Lu Jiude supervises the soldiers and horses in Jiangbei, and this eunuch is also a knowing soldier, and he has commanded the soldiers and horses of various towns many times to defeat many bandit leaders, and there is a lot of prestige in the army.

Lu Jiude wanted to command the southern soldiers and horses of the bandits this time.

Liu Jun also wanted to command the bandits in the south, not because he was greedy for power, but because he didn't trust others, especially Lu Jiude and Shi Kefa. One is a eunuch and the other is a civil servant.

Zhu Dadian looked at the people who were a little strange, and suddenly said with a smile, "The two armies of Jiangbei and Hubei still need unified command and dispatch, the Marquis of Zhennan is young and promising, has the skill to command the troops, and is His Majesty's new Huguang Governor. ”

As soon as these words came out, it was equivalent to stabbing a hornet's nest. Liu Jun's official is very high, but how can he say that he is also a military minister, how can such a war be led by a military general, isn't it chaotic?

At this time, Wang Kun also spoke.

"The Marquis of Zhennan hangs the seal of General Kou, His Majesty has long had a will, Governor Mei is the commander-in-chief of the world's bandit soldiers and horses, and Li Duchen is the commander of the six southeastern provinces to suppress bandits, and Admiral Liu is the head of the six southeastern provinces to suppress bandits, and the president's generals. Now that Mei and Li are in Fengyang, the bandit soldiers and horses on Anqing's side are naturally led by Liu Junmen. ”

Lu Jiude snorted coldly, "There is a governor here, which is the turn of the general army commander!" ”

"The Marquis of Zhennan is not only the chief soldier, he is also the governor of Hubei and Hunan, and he is also the general of Dangkou!" Lu Weining also followed.

The three eunuchs quarreled over whether Liu Jun was qualified to command the army. After Zhu Dadian provoked the fire, he sat on the side and laughed leisurely, very satisfied.

Shi Kefa sat there a little embarrassed, the three eunuchs were all eunuchs with the power of supervision, and they were usually above the governor, and now that they were fighting, he didn't know how to persuade them.

"It's better to divide the troops into two routes, the Hubei army will attack Yingshan, and the Jiangbei army will attack Huoshan." Shi Kefa made a compromise opinion.

Liu Jun despised in his heart, what kind of compromise is this? It was already divided into two roads, but now the south road is divided into two roads, east and west. For Shi Kefa, Liu Jun was disappointed. (To be continued......)