Today's Wu Shigong is quite happy, because he finally let go of a heart disease. Because after more than a month of hard work, Zhou Xun's Western Expeditionary Army finally successfully occupied Junzhou.

This expedition to the west can be described as full of twists and turns. Logically speaking, the Runing Army also attached great importance to this western expedition, and sent the No. 3 person in the army, the commander of Zhou Xun, not counting, and also lured with secret agents, and there were 15,000 troops outside.

You must know that the rule of the Runing Army has always been to pay double salaries when they go out on the expedition, plus the cost of buying Wang Guangen and their supply, and the supply of logistical grain and grass, occupying the land in Junzhou can no longer make up for the cost of this western expedition. The reason why the Runing Army will do it so recklessly is that it wants to make a good start in the implementation of its overall strategy.

However, as soon as the Runing Army and the troops of Zhang Renxue, the general soldier of Henan, converged, the two armies collided. Think about it: Zhang Renxue's total army has only 7,000 people, but the Runing army has more than 15,000 people, whose command is this? Where would those military attachés in Zhang Renxue's army feel comfortable?

If it's just like this, anyway, at most, they will go to the army together, fight separately, and take care of themselves. But then the soldiers of Zhang Renxue's army found that the difference in treatment between the two armies was too great.

Just look at the food! One side has two meals a day, and one party has three meals a day; One side is coarse grains to deal with half full, and the other side has meat for every meal. Not to mention the gaps in gear, horses, vehicles, and clothing. It's just a day and a place. As a result, Zhang Renxue's military attachés were psychologically unbalanced.

Another point is that the rank of the chief and deputy commander of the Runing Army is also too low. Zhao Degong is a thousand-household, Zhou Xun is a thousand-general, and in Zhang Renxue's troops, there are at least a dozen military attaches who exceed the rank of these two people.

However, this is also a problem left over from the history of the Runing Army. In the Runing Army, except for Wu Shigong, who was a chief soldier, the ranks of the other military attachés were very low. Because at that time, after Wu Shigong was awarded the chief military officer. Then came the assassination of the Qincha, and although after that, both the imperial court and the Runing army restrained themselves from worsening the situation, but the court would no longer be interested in giving these officers of the Runing army a higher rank.

Therefore, in the Runing Army, the court rank of an officer does not reflect his actual official position at all, and often a general becomes a regiment commander, and may even become an assistant commander. That's why in the Battle of Blood Ridge, Huang Ding's commander can always replace the command.

And Huang Ding's total acquisition is also very tricky, that is, in order to let his officers gain attention from Zheng Zhilong, Wu Shigong deliberately gave the Marine Corps of the Navy Division a higher rank in the imperial court. Otherwise. According to Huang Ding's qualifications, it is impossible to even obtain the general flag.

Moreover, there are also official positions in the Runing Army. For example, in the town of Tao Xin, the town leader Tao Xin is the general manager of Qian, and the deputy commander Liu Guoneng is the garrison. Therefore, the Runing Army has always only looked at the rank of the official in its own army, and will not compare the official ranks of the imperial court at all.

But Zhang Renxue didn't know about this situation at all. Seeing such a disparity in rank, they want to bully others. and also encouraged his soldiers to steal the baggage of the Runing army.

But who is Zhou Xun, the actual commander of the Runing Army? He was used to being domineering in the capital back then. Except for being beaten by Wu Shigong, he has never served anyone in his life. And in these years, Zhou Xun, as the supreme commander of the Runing Army in Nanyang and Ruzhou, even the local prefect and Zhizhou were polite when they saw Zhou Xun, not to mention the county, therefore. Where would Zhang Renxue, a "small" general soldier, be taken into account, so Zhou Xun's response was two words - tough.

But as a result, there was constant friction between the two armies. If it weren't for Zhang Renxue's mind not being confused, he thought that he would face the foreign enemy of the peasant army. forcibly suppressed his own troops, maybe the two armies will merge and fight each other first.

Then there is constant restraint and compromise. Finally, when the two armies restrained their impulses and officially set off, the news of the cabosco at Luo Monkey Mountain came.

As a result, the two armies gave up on the next operation.

Zhang Renxue was unable to move his troops for the time being because of Zuo Liangyu's fiasco and the great strength of the peasant army, and he was willing to send troops only after the other Ming armies converged.

But Zhou Xun was in a hurry to rush to Junzhou. He was afraid that after the peasant army became stronger, Wang Guangen and the others would also rebel, and the operation of the Runing army to occupy Junzhou would take a lot of effort.

However, at this time, Zhou Xun didn't dare to break himself. After all, the dispatch of the Runing Army this time was based on the dispatch of the commander-in-chief Zhang Renxue, if the Runing Army now sent troops alone to occupy Junzhou, then how should it be explained to the imperial court in the future? So Zhou Xun urgently reported to Runing and asked Wu Shigong to decide on his next move.

When Wu Shigong heard of the sudden change, he also attached great importance to it, and immediately gathered the civil and military to discuss. After discussing Zuihou, it was decided to send troops, even if it was to fight alone. Anyway, the combat effectiveness of the Runing army was also there, and the peasant army couldn't gnaw at all, and it was close to Runing, so it could be reinforced quickly, so Zuihou decided to let Zhou Xun send troops.

But just as Zhou Xun wanted to set off after receiving the order, the imperial court's edict to arrest Xiong Wencan and dismiss Zhang Renxue came down again. As a result, the command system of the encirclement and suppression of the peasant army was suddenly paralyzed, and all the officers and troops were unable to shrink, and no one took the initiative to attack anymore. And the combined forces of Zhang and Luo are also more powerful, and the Runing army has really become a lonely army.

What's even more troublesome is that with Zhang Renxue's dismissal, his troops also mutinied and fled, and in order to stabilize the situation in Nanyang, Runing's army stayed in Nanyang Mansion for more than ten days.

Finally, when the Runing army marched to Junzhou, the situation there had changed dramatically. Wang Guangen and the other two battalions of peasant armies were finally persuaded by Lin Yufei to take refuge in the Runing Army, but the other three battalions of peasant armies saw that the Zhang and Luo coalition forces were doing well, and they also wanted to rebel. As a result, Junzhou has become a chaotic battlefield, with those fighting, those waiting, those who are neutral, and those who flee.

After the Runing army arrived in Junzhou, they united Wang Guangen's two battalions of peasant armies to pacify and sweep away the rebellious areas one by one, and it took a lot of effort to occupy them.

Then Zhou Xun was to reward meritorious deeds, stabilize the place, build cities and villages, and check the peasant army that was reorganized and surrendered, and after some efforts, finally made the Runing army occupy the first strategic point.

In order not to attract the attention of the imperial court, in the end, Zhou Xun left Jiang Cheng's independence in Junzhou, plus two regiments (both of which were small regiments of 1,000 people) formed by Wang Guangen's two battalions of peasant armies, and then returned with the main force of the Runing army. (To be continued......)