Among the three guards who boarded the ship was a sixteen-year-old boy, and this person was Yao Qisheng. However, his identity is not a soldier, but an ordinary soldier in the auxiliary barracks, and he is accompanied by Tagawa Emon, who has completely healed the wounds in his lower body. He is now also a full-fledged member of the Three Guards Auxiliary Barracks.

For this young man named Yao Qisheng, Li Xin gave him incomprehensible attention, personally brought him back to Nanjing from Zhejiang, and arranged a position for him in the pro-military camp. Obviously, according to the recruitment standards of the Three Guards, this person did not meet the conditions in terms of size or physical fitness, but even so, he was still given a pro-military battalion post that was the envy of others. However, Yao Qisheng was not satisfied with this, and when he learned that the Three Guards were going to send troops to Korea, he insisted on asking Li Xin to let him join the infantry battalion, and even said that he would not hesitate to do so even if he was not the officer of the Raushzi.

In fact, Yao Qisheng himself knows what kind of characters he is bringing in this team, such as Tagawa Emon, and some high-ranking and important people who have surrendered from the Japanese Invaders. On the surface, this is a pro-military camp, but in fact, it is clearly a disguised detention of these prisoners who do not intend to be executed immediately.

In the end, Li Xin couldn't stand Yao Qisheng's soft grinding and hard bubbles, and promised that he could go to Korea with the army, but he could not join the infantry battalion of the Three Guards Army, and he could only go with the army as an auxiliary soldier of the auxiliary battalion of the Three Guards Army. Yao Qisheng agreed without hesitation.

The eldest husband should kill Hu Lu and make meritorious contributions, like now, fooling around with a group of captives all day long, isn't it a waste of this good time? However, in addition to this, he made a small request, that is, he hoped to be able to bring Tagawa Emon, who was castrated by his own hands.

"Hurry up and follow, why are you stunned?"

Yao Qisheng dissatisfiedly reprimanded the rigid entourage behind him.

Tagawaemon hurriedly bowed slightly respectfully, and habitually coughed in his mouth. This move startled Yao Qisheng, and hurriedly grabbed his collar, "Don't die, I've told you a long time ago, don't make this tune casually." No, I don't want to be torn alive by the officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty and thrown into the river to feed the fish! ”

The Ming army hated the Japanese to the core, and although Tagawa Emon also joined the auxiliary battalion with the light of Yao Qisheng, he could not guarantee that these unruly soldiers would not dispose of him privately because they hated the Japanese invaders.

Tagawa Emon's language talent is very good, in half a year, a Nanjing accent of the official dialect has been spoken very proficiently, if it is not from time to time to bring out a little bit of the language and habits of the Japanese Kou, ordinary people really can't tell his true identity.

Yao Qisheng found that the characters of these would-be robbers were unbelievably strange, although they looked like crazy beasts when they burned, killed and looted. But once defeated, he immediately became docile like a sheep, wagging his tail and begging for mercy with an almost perverted behavior.

In practical terms, this Tagawa Emon's personal prowess is unquestionable, and he may still be used in the fight of the former enemy. This is also one of the reasons why Yao Qisheng asked to take Tagawa Emon with his most companion. How could Li Xin not see his little cleverness, but he didn't break it.

The auxiliary soldiers of the Three Guards also have to undergo strict training in peacetime, and the subjects and contents of the training are no worse than those of the infantry battalion of the Three Guards, but the difference is that the physical condition of the ordinary soldiers of the auxiliary battalion is slightly worse than that of the infantry battalion of the Three Guards.

Once the auxiliary battalion is used as a supplementary force for the infantry battalion, it will also have to use muskets to kill the enemy, and it will be rare to see a situation like Yao Qisheng's imagination that he can kill the enemy with his personal bravery.

In addition to the new army, there were also the old battalions of the Three Guards Army who had participated in the Great War of Western Liaoning.

Li Shin did not despise the Koreans, and he had to deal with this expedition with complete preparations, and could not tolerate the slightest failure.

Cheng Mingjiu, the deputy general of the Third Guards, commanded the infantry battalion this time, and there were nearly 1,000 sailors from Fujian under the command of Wallace, the chief soldier of the fleet, and He Bin, the deputy chief soldier, who were specially used for land warfare. When all the soldiers boarded the ship, the fleet fired a ** cannon in the Yangtze River, then pulled out the sails and headed for the mouth of the Yangtze River.

The dock is crowded with people, and Li Xin is also in it.

"Why is the Marquis of Zhenyu so arrogant that young man named Yao Qisheng, and now he is allowed to go to Liaodong to die?"

It was Li Da who spoke, and he was very puzzled by Li Xin's attitude towards Yao Qisheng. Prior to this, Li Xin had always sheltered this person, but everyone knew that letting an ordinary person who had never received military training follow the army was almost a life-or-death.

Of course, Li Xin couldn't explain to him why he treated Yao Qisheng like this, of course, Yao Qisheng in Li Xin's memory, although he was a generation of governors who served the Manchu Dynasty, he still believed that as long as he was guided, he would be used by the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, this needs to let him show his strengths, if he has been kept in a greenhouse, how can he burst out of his potential ability?

Since Yao Qisheng is so determined to go to North Korea with the army, he simply let him go, whether it is a mule or a horse that will always be pulled out to slip away, he doesn't want to die in the battle of this expedition because of Yao Qisheng's IQ and luck.

"Do you think that the Three Guards have a certain chance of winning this expedition?"

Li Xin did not answer the rhetorical question, and Li Da was difficult to answer for a while. After all, when it comes to the situation in North Korea, where he came from, Dolgon will definitely not sit idly by. Even if the Three Guards were able to defeat the Korean defenders with a surprise attack and capture Seoul. When the news reached the Qing court, Dorgon would inevitably send a large army to intervene.

Because once Korea was captured by the Three Guards, the rear of the Manchu Qing would be completely exposed to the threat of the Ming court. If Dolgon wanted to invade the south after autumn, he had to beware of a sneak attack behind him. The room for maneuver in the Ming court is larger, not a little bit.

Thinking of these, Li Da's heart was mixed. After all, he is also a mortal, and he can't do everything and turn a blind eye. Even if Li Xin believes in him very much and has always treated him with courtesy, when he mentions the old days, he will inevitably feel emotional.

When this question was asked, Li Xin immediately realized that it was inappropriate and stopped asking questions. Instead, he changed the subject, "Mi Yan can send back the latest news today?" ”

Li Da coughed to hide the embarrassment on his face, bowed down and said, "It was just delivered, and I haven't had time to open the package yet!" ”

As he spoke, he took out a thin official document and held it in front of Li Xin.

Li Xin opened the wax seal of the official document, and only glanced at it a few times, and his face changed.

Li Da, who was beside Li Xin, keenly captured the change in his expression, and couldn't help but chuckle in his heart.

"Could it be that there has been a new change in the situation in the Central Plains?"

"Hmm!"

Li Xin nodded, and did not say the content of the official letter, but his tone clearly told him that there was not only a change in the Central Plains, but also a very serious one.

In Li Da's impression, Li Xin has never been so betrayal, and he has never been so serious. Although he was anxious, he couldn't help but ask rashly. At this time, Li Xin took the initiative to hand the official letter to Li Da.

"Look for yourself!"

Before taking over the official document, Li Da still thought that it should be Li Zicheng who defeated Yang Sichang's army, but the moment he took it, he realized that if it was just like this, Li Xin would not have been so ugly. Could it be that Mi Yan led his troops to conflict with Yang Sichang in Henan?

But he soon got the answer he wanted to know from the document in his hand.

It's just that this answer was something Li Da didn't expect anyway, at first glance, he couldn't believe it for a while, so he carefully read it word for word from beginning to end, and then confirmed what made the Marquis of Zhenyu look so ugly.

Shanxi sent locally trained new troops to cross the Yellow River to the south and launched a combined attack on Luoyang in conjunction with Yang Sichang's westward advance. And is it really because of this that the ugly face of the Marquis of Zhenyu?

Li Da has never been to Shanxi, and although he has heard Mi Yan's account of the situation in Shanxi many times, he still knows nothing about it. All he knew was that Tian Fuzhen, who stayed in Shanxi, was originally just a criminal official of Gao Shanwei, and it was Li Xin who pulled him up and won him the position of Taiyuan prefect. After the main force of the Three Guards Army drove out of Datong, Shanxi Province to fight the Mongols in the north, and even marched eastward to fight with the Manchu Tartars in western Liaoning. Tian Fuzhen was officially appointed by the imperial court as the governor of Shanxi, and was in charge of Shanxi's military and political power.

Although Li Xin left Shanxi, he left behind a new army in Shanxi that had not yet been formed, as well as a considerable number of iron factories and gun factories, which were enough for him to train a considerable number of new troops with the training method of the Three Guards.

If you only look at the incident of Shanxi's dispatch of troops, there may not be anything abnormal. But as long as you think about it deeply, Tian Fuzhen led the new army in Shanxi to cross the Yellow River south with a very high-profile attitude, and attacked Li Zicheng with Yang Sichang, besieging Luoyang, which explains one more thing.

Tian Fuzhen is not of the same mind as Li Xin, if he does this, it means that he and the entire new army in Shanxi have all become the eagle dogs of the Ming Dynasty. Even if Li Xin returns to Shanxi, he may not be able to stand with Li Xin again.

Li Da didn't have much affection for these ministers of the Ming Dynasty, and in his eyes, except for some straw bales in the Ming Dynasty, the ministers were good at playing tricks. There is also the extremely pedantic die-hard people. This Tian Fuzhen is obviously not a straw bag, if it weren't for the ability of the Marquis to know and use people, it would not be possible to be so important to him. Then he must be the latter two.

If this Tian Fuzhen is a pedantic minister who is loyal to the Ming Dynasty, Li Da does not believe it, in his opinion, this person must have become a raccoon dog with Yang Sichang, so that at such a critical time, he can appear in the most critical place with the new army of Shanxi.

Although the current Luoyang City is far less important than the previous dynasty, the recovery of Luoyang City, which was occupied by Li Zicheng, is of no means as simple as recovering an ordinary small city for the Ming Dynasty.