The house is Wang Chengen's mansion outside the palace, after Guo Yi enters the house, it is a bright eye, it turns out that this garden is built like a garden in the south of the Yangtze River, there are rockeries, ponds, and pavilions, the courtyard is full of courtyards, I don't know how many rooms.

On the way, the two little eunuchs proudly told Guo Yi that the garden of the prince had a background, it was the private residence of Wei Gelding in the previous dynasty, and the current emperor remembered that the prince was loyal to the lord when he ascended the throne, and he specially rewarded the prince after raiding Wei Gelding.

When I saw Wang Chengen, the big eunuch was eating, and his food was light, and there were only four dishes on the table, all of which were vegetarian. There were no servants to serve them.

"Little Guo Yi, I asked to see my father-in-law on the order of my general!" Guo Yi's own soldiers have been in charge for a long time, and he knows this rule, and after entering the house, he knelt down first.

"Get up."

Wang Chengen said without raising his head, and then he was still eating, and he didn't say anything to Guo Yi. It wasn't until the bowl of rice was eaten that he gently put down his chopsticks. Xu was a little full, he got up and walked twice.

"Why did your general send you to our family?" Wang Chengen's voice was not loud, but he could hear it clearly, with the voice of Beizhili Hejian Mansion.

At that moment, Guo Yi told Wang Chengen about the heavy losses of the Jinzhou army in the first battle of Xiaoguantun and the fact that he was cut off from food one by one.

After Wang Chengen heard this, he nodded, but he didn't say anything, only asked Guo Yi which inn he lived in Beijing, and after Guo Yi said it, a little eunuch came to take him out.

In the next three days, Wang Chengen did not send anyone to find Guo Yi, and Guo Yi did not dare to ask, and he did not dare to go out, for fear that if Wang Chengen sent someone to find him, he would not make a mistake.

It wasn't until the fourth day that Wang Chengen finally sent someone to find Guo Yi, but the person who came did not take Guo Yi to see Wang Chengen, but brought a sentence "The Holy Lord knows the way".

The sentence "The saint knows the way" is Guo Yi's biggest gain from this trip to Beijing. But since the Holy Lord knew about the crisis faced by the Jinzhou Army, why didn't he see any movement on Gao Qiqian's side. There is still not a single grain of grain allocated, and the camp still relies on the grain bought from Lin Jiantai.

But no matter what, as long as the Son of Heaven knows his own situation, Shi Dayong believes that Chongzhen will definitely deal with Gao Qiqian impartially, and he will definitely give himself an explanation.

On the 27th, Pei Shaokuan told Shi Dayong a definite news that the imperial court appointed Liu Yulie, a scholar and the right attendant of the military department, as the governor, with full authority to command the Beijing camp, the Jiliao army, the Sichuan army and the Lu army in Shandong, and with him came 8,000 Shenji battalion soldiers and fifteen Hongyi cannons to confront the rebels.

This news lifted Shi Dayong's spirits, and the imperial court finally gave up the unrealistic appeasement and changed the main body to suppress! But Pei Shaokuan's next sentence came to him with a basin of cold water, and he told Shi Dayong that Zhang Guochen, the minister of the Qin Mission, is actually the protégé of this Liu Shilang, how can there be a student in this world, but a teacher who is a teacher? So, this Liu Shilang didn't come to suppress the rebels, but to make peace.

Looking forward to it, but it was the two teachers and students who were wearing the same pair of pants, and Shi Dayong couldn't cry or laugh.

It's going to rain, my mother is going to get married, so let him go

Liu Yulie finally got his wish and became a supervisor, and he first held a three-day banquet in Beijing, and then left Beijing under the escort of the 8,000 Shenji Battalion, and the pennant was unfurled, and the long procession stretched for ten miles, so it was not majestic.

However, majesty is majesty, but Liu Shilang is not fast along the way, not to mention unhappy, it is most appropriate to describe it as a snail crawling.

After setting out from Beijing, the army walked for two whole days before arriving in Tongzhou, and stayed in Tongzhou for three days, saying that it was waiting for the grain and grass to be transported before leaving. Also, this grain and grass is the courage of the army, how can you do it without courage, just wait.

Liu Shilang is not just waiting for nothing, he has to do things. He sent Sun Yinglong, a Liao general who had some friendship with the rebel general Geng Zhongming, to persuade Geng Zhongming to surrender, wanting to divide the strength of the rebel army. As long as there is chaos within the rebels, the matter of appeasement will be more certain.

No matter how powerful the enemy is, as long as there is civil strife, it will no longer be an iron bucket, knowing it with affection, saying it with reason, and no matter how powerful the army is pressing, it is impossible for Kong Youde not to accept the appeasement honestly. It can't be said that Liu Shilang's strategy for internal disintegration is not clever, but he underestimated the resoluteness of the rebel generals who rebelled with Kong Youde.

After Sun Yinglong received the order, he wrote a letter to persuade Geng Zhongming to surrender, Geng Zhongming planned to do it, and randomly found a head and sent it over, saying that he had beheaded Kong Youde and asked Sun Yinglong to come and surrender quickly. Sun Yinglong happily led the sailors from Tianjin to Dengzhou, and as soon as he landed on the shore, he was beheaded by Geng Zhongming, and the dozens of sailors he brought with him also became trophies of the rebels.

With the warships captured from Sun Yinglong, Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming repelled the advance of Huanglong, the commander-in-chief of Phi Dao, from the sea, so that they no longer had to worry about their backs and could go all out to deal with the Ming army outside Laizhou. On land, in addition to continuing to besiege Laizhou, the rebels successively conquered Zhaoyuan, Laiyang, and the soldiers and horses of the "Southern Expedition" Shandong were even more defeated, so that the Lu army shrank in the big city and did not dare to take a step. With these victories, the arrogance of the rebels suddenly became arrogant again, and the fiasco at Shahe and Xiaoguantun years ago has become insignificant. Kong Youde has more and more capital in his hands.

There has been no news from Jinzhou, and I don't know how Shao Wu and Huang An talked with the new governor of Liaodong, Sun Ying, and whether Governor Sun would support Shi Dayong and the Jinzhou army like the boss.

In the days of waiting, Shi Dayong also saw it, and thought about it thoroughly, if Sun Ying didn't support him, then he would take the soldiers and horses to another place, in short, as long as he didn't cast the Tartars, and didn't cast the thieves, he couldn't go anywhere.

However, at the moment, Shi Dayong didn't care about where to live in the future, and he had to start the second step of the transformation of the Sichuan soldiers - let them know whose orders they should obey

Through more than half a month of running-in, the combat effectiveness of the pro-barracks and the left and right battalions of the infantry army has been significantly improved, and the separation between the soldiers has also been weakened a lot.

On the 28th, Shi Dayong decided to assemble the whole army for a military parade on the next day, that is, on the first day of the first month of March, and the order was quickly issued to each battalion.

On the first day of the first month of March, the whole army of Jinzhou was concentrated, and Zhao Xueqi, the counselor, made people set up a high platform for Shi Dayong to review. In general, the military parade is nothing more than a formality for the sergeants of each battalion to go through the motions and let the commander take a look at his spirit, and at the same time, he will also carry out drills of killing and attacking.

Shi Dayong carried out these processes, although the team walking in front of him still looked a little crooked, but the overall appearance was quite good.

With the waving of the flag, the left battalion of the infantry army carried out a drill of firearms, the right battalion carried out a drill of slashing, and the pro-soldier battalion also carried out some subject drills, all of which went relatively smoothly.

After all the projects were over, Zhao Xueqi asked Shi Dayong whether he could solve the battalions according to the routine, but Shi Dayong said that it was not possible. He ordered 200 soldiers of Guo Cheng's troops to go out of the ranks, ordered people to bring his mounts, and then ordered them to shoot them.