"Is it dead or alive? Hong Butang was furious and ordered someone to go to the prison to mention Cheng Mingjiu, who knew that the prisoner in the prison had already been transferred, and Cheng Mingjiu was nowhere to be found! Alas, this time, no one can stop the Three Guards from returning to Taiyuan! ”

Zhao Baisheng sighed so much in his mouth, but what he thought in his heart was that he didn't know how to return to Taiyuan in a dignified manner in this life, and at this time he already regretted it a little, and he did things so decisively, it was obvious that the Three Guards did not take them with them when they left, which was a clear statement that could not be clearer. Correspondingly, when they were besieged in Xinpingbao, the Three Guards resolutely returned to the division to rescue them, which was in stark contrast.

For a moment, a sense of loss and an indescribable feeling echoed in his chest......

"If this is the case all the time, what good is it to go back? Brother Wen Jiu cheered up, as long as you and I promote Hong Butang to form a new army, let alone return to Taiyuan in the future, even if it is under Cheng'en Dan, it is not a dream! ”

However, Lu Huizhong's words made Zhao Baisheng suddenly excited, since there is no way out, then move forward bravely and fight for a future and fame! Zhao Baisheng, who figured out the joints here, no longer sighed, but immediately left all his worries and went to find Mi Yan. Mi Yan was a key figure in the formation of the new army, and the uncertain future of the new army without him was by no means what he wanted to see.

Mi Yan also lived in the same courtyard as them, but Mi Yan's reply disappointed him and Lu Huizhong very much, and he refused the invitation to participate in the formation of the new army, still emphasizing the position he had always adhered to in the past, and would never do such a thing of changing the court and selling himself to the Lord.

Zhao Baisheng laughed at him for being pedantic, "The three guards have retreated, and our field service team has long become their outcast!" ”

Mi Yan replied to him coldly.

"If he does not forsake himself, how can a man forsake him?"

Despite the repeated persuasion of Zhao Baisheng and the field service team, Mi Yan still insisted on his opinion, and Lu Huizhong decided in a fit of anger that he must get the plan out without his participation.

It is true that this plan is very different from the real Three Guards system, but it is the limit of Lu Huizhong's ability!

Zhao Baisheng always felt that there was something wrong with this plan, but he always couldn't understand it. The first characteristic of the Three Guards is that the weapons are very different, the Ming Army's standard weapon, the Yanling knife, has become an auxiliary weapon in the army, and the fire gun and spear have become the main weapons used by the soldiers. The second characteristic is that they do not shout trumpets when they charge, but rush up with war drums and crush the enemy with all their might. Rather, columns of horizontal formations march slowly to the rhythm of drums and whistles, which are called phalanxes within them.

Lu Huizhong's plan was also closely centered on these two points, but he didn't have time to delay any longer, so he submitted it with trepidation. Soon, the field service team was commended by Governor Hong Chengchou, and Lu Huizhong, who was the initiator, was personally received by Hong Chengchou. This meeting was not just about talking about false points, but bluntly told Lu Huizhong that he had approved the plan for the new army, and that from now on, 2,000 outstanding officers and soldiers in the army would be selected and officially entered the stage of formation.

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The Acropolis was captured, the army was lined up, the red phalanx marched forward with a roar, and all the musketeers raised their muzzles and pulled the trigger towards the sky. Dozens of cannons were lit one after another, and the rumbling sound shook the earth. I saw a general dressed in the bright red uniform of the Three Guards sitting on a horse, his face contemplative, but his eyes showed great relief and excitement.

"The cavalry battalion officer of the Three Guards Army, Lu Jiu, see the general." Immediately, the Sen Sen Iron Cavalry behind him shouted in unison: "The general is mighty!" The Three Guards are mighty! ”

"The battalion officer of the grenadier battalion of the Three Guards Army, Zhang Shi, see the general." This was followed by "The Great General is mighty!" The Three Guards are mighty! The sound is endless!

"Cheng Mingjiu, the first battalion officer of the First Battalion of the Three Guards......"

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"Heisenberg, the battalion officer of the First Artillery Battalion of the Three Guards, see His Excellency the General!"

"The Second Artillery Battalion Officer of the Third Guards Army, Kong Youde......"

The essence of the Three Guards is gathered here, and the Zhenwei is the starting point of his career, and now he has gone around in a big circle, and finally returned to the starting point.

"You have been wronged!"

"The general is mighty, even if I die, I will crawl back to Sanwei, and I will never be a lackey surnamed Hong!"

Li Xin said with great emotion: "It is Li Xin who ignores you, and it is also Li Xin's underestimation of the shape within the imperial court, from now on, our three guards will no longer be turtles with shrunken heads, whoever dares to release a dark arrow, we will double the reward, and whoever dares to take the initiative to provoke us, we will let them regret being born from the mother's womb!" ”

"Just wait for the general's words, take us back to Xuanfu, and teach the red governor and the black governor a lesson!"

"That's right, go back to Xuanfu and let out a bird's breath!"

"Fight back to Xuanfu, the Three Guards are mighty!"

"The Great General is mighty!"

Li Xinyi waved his hand and motioned for all the soldiers to shut up.

"Governor Red, Governor Black will have to teach a lesson sooner or later, our Three Guards have a bigger game to play this time, Shanxi merchants have repeatedly been plundered by the Mongolian Tartars outside the border wall, and it has reached a heinous Cheng dù in June, and these merchants have paid taxes and fees in our General Military Palace, since we have collected people's money, we have the obligation to ensure that they enter and exit safely. Otherwise, after a long time, someone should scold us for not being trustworthy, collecting money and not doing things, and letting people poke the backbone in the back, and our Three Guards can't do it! ”

"That's right! The general is right, our Three Guards must not let people poke their backbones in the back! ”

The Mongol Tartars had long heard of the robbery of the goods of the merchants in Shanxi, and it was said that they also robbed hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, but they did not expect to have such a big deal with the Three Guards!

For a time, the army outside the city was excited, and the voices of denouncing the war came and went, and the Three Guards had not tasted a single defeat since they were formed, and they had already shown their courage, whether it was a thief or a Mongolian Tartar, there was nothing to make them afraid. It was because after listening to Li Xin's words, when someone poked the backbone of the Three Guards in the back, he instinctively wanted to maintain the honor of the Three Guards that could not be questioned and violated.

In the hearts of these simple military men, whether it is the court or the government, they have no sense of identity and belonging, but they have special feelings for the group of the Three Guards, and after hearing that someone slandered the Three Guards so much, they were excited.

According to Li Xin's original intention, the army will go out of the side wall after repairing for three days, and it can be seen that the current momentum and military spirit are not only extremely usable, but also full of energy, screaming that even if they want to go out of the city to find the Mongolian Tartars to settle accounts! Li Xin suddenly changed his attention, why not take advantage of the excitement of the crowd to go out of the border wall and sweep the Mongolian tribes.

Naturally, what Li Xin said was not alarmist, and the Shanxi passes obtained by the merchants, especially those who exported to Liaodong, Mongolia, paid a special fee, which included a guarantee of safety.

This article also caused a controversy within Li Xin's camp, thinking that this is self-restraint, is it possible that the goods were robbed by Jiannu and still have to go on an expedition? Does the Three Guards have this strength? But Li Xin still tried his best to add this article despite public opinion. Nowadays, there are indeed many trading companies who complain about this in private, so this time the dispatch of troops is justified.

Since the Apocalypse Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has become more and more conservative in the use of foreign troops, always defending more than attacking, which of course has six thieves as a disaster, the reason for the internal emptiness, but after all, it was still defeated by the Tartars outside the gate. The governors and governors of various places also uphold the principle that no fault is meritorious, and would rather hold on to the current city and land than risk attacking the strategy to become stronger.

In this way, it is equivalent to giving up the Mongolian tribes outside the vast border wall to the Manchu Qing and becoming a lackey driven by the Manchus! As a result, Da Ming lost a force outside the side wall to shield and defend against the Manchu invasion.

It is based on this understanding that Li Xin felt that it was necessary to carry out an active attack and conduct a targeted cleanup of the Mongolian departments outside the border wall. As early as the time of departure from Taiyuan, he had already drawn up a battle plan, from the Daqingshan outside Zhangjiakou to the west to the city of Guihua, and to the north to the vast area south of the Khalkha Mongols, during which the four major Mongol tribes were mainly entrenched, namely the Uzhumuqin Division, the Tumut Division, the Karaqin Division, and the Han Division, which were the main targets of this expedition.

Among them, the Uzhumuqin Department and the Tumut Department suffered heavy losses when they entered the Kouxuan Mansion again, and the Uzhumuqin Department lost thousands of Ding Zhuang and fled, while the Tumut Department simply even captured the leaders of the people and tribes by Li Xin.

Batu, the leader of the Tumut tribe, rebelled several times, and as punishment, Li Xin captured him and did not release him, but handed him over to Yang Hewei to be put into the coolie camp to be punished. It is reported that after Batu was arrested, Mahamu's other son took the opportunity to go to Batu's khan position, but after all, there were too many homeopathic men in the first war of Xuanfu, so he collapsed, and his strength was somewhat inferior to the remnants of the Han Department entrenched here.

As mentioned above, Li Xin's main targets were the Uzhumuqin and Karaqin tribes. The original grazing land of these two Mongol tribes was not within the scope of Li Xin's demarcation. A large part of this grassland belongs to the Golden Family's Han Division, but the Han Division, which was beaten by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, was far away from Qinghai in Hexi, although it was re-canonized here by the Qing court, but its prestige and strength have long plummeted, and the neighboring Tumut Department took the opportunity to encroach on its grassland.

The Uzhumuqin and Karaqin tribes had to go south in order to avoid the snowstorm of last winter, and saw that the border walls of the Ming Dynasty were full of loopholes, so they always wanted to pick up some ready-made cheap, so they were also entrenched here and were unwilling to return north.

Once the Mongol tribes in this vast area beyond the border walls were re-subjugated, and the connection between the Manchus and Western Mongolia was severed in Jiangbei, their authority in Monan and even Mobei would be severely challenged!