It wasn't until he walked out of the camp that Wu Shigong was deeply lazy. Needless to say, this oldest yoga movement made Wu Shigong's muscles and bones relax quite comfortably. Because today is so tiring.

When Mao arrived at the camp, Wu Shigong and the other military attaches first waited outside the Chinese military tent, and they had to wait for Gao Qiqian to read the holy decree to Liu Yulie. The content of that decree was nothing more than to exempt Liu Yulie's governor from sending him.

After reading the holy decree, Liu Yulie also ignored the new Shandong governor Zhu Dadian and the supervisor Gao Qiqian's false intentions, and immediately took his personal entourage out of the camp and returned to the capital.

Then he waited for the reinforcements brought by Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian to enter the camp and settle down. After waiting for Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian to finish lunch with dry food, all the military attaches entered the Chinese military tent and began to formally discuss the military situation. And in this morning, Wu Shigong waited so stupidly for the past.

But after discussing the military situation in the afternoon, Wu Shigong changed from a stupid wait to a stupid stand. It's not that Wu Shigong is standing alone, it should be said that all the military attaches in the Ming army led by Liu Yulie were all in this discussion of the military situation and had no right to speak.

And the military attachés who discussed the military situation with Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian were mainly the military attaches they brought in reinforcements. Especially those military attaches from Liaodong definitely have the right to speak in the Chinese military account and among the military attachés.

Wu Shigong can also understand this situation, the general of the defeated army is not only brave, but he is not even qualified to speak. But looking at the arrogant faces of those Liaodong generals, there is always something wrong in my heart.

"I'm so breathless!" It seems that Liu Zeqing also feels the same way as Wu Shigong. Therefore, after saying this grumbling sentence, he jumped vigorously, and without stepping on the stirrups, he jumped directly on the back of his war horse.

Seeing Liu Zeqing's acrobatic move, the man immediately widened his eyes and stepped on his four hooves excitedly. I don't know what I want to do.

"Don't move!" Wu Shigong slapped the crazy horse on the neck, and when the crazy man calmed down a little, he stepped on the stirrup and stepped on the horse.

At this time, there was a commotion around the camp, and according to Zhu Dadian's order, the soldiers were cleaning up the surroundings of the camp.

After more than three months of sit-down warfare, coupled with the governor-in-chief Liu Yulie's single-minded appeasement, the army was relieved of their fighting spirit, and when they arrived in Zuihou, because Liu Yulie knew that he was going to be dismissed, he inevitably gave up on himself, therefore. The military discipline of this Ming army was quite lax.

Therefore, in the original area around the camp, although it was not as exaggerated as Liu Zeqing said, it was still full of tent areas. Among them, those who are engaged in the skin and meat business and supply the food and drink of the soldiers...... Anyway, it became a gathering area for merchants. And the whole barracks seemed to have become like a gypsy tribe.

Of course. In this case, the soldiers in the large battalion did not have much money. It's not possible to get any military pay. In order to satisfy their own desires, a group of bold underground merchants even colluded with soldiers to start a business of reselling ordnance. And Wu Shigong's Runing Battalion also found a lot of treasures from this underground ordnance black market.

At that time, Liu Yulie had already let the situation outside the camp be laissez-faire. However, today, after Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian took office, they immediately ordered the situation outside the camp to be cleaned up and the appearance of the barracks to be restored.

"It's such a big move. It looks like there's really going to be a war. Liu Zeqing looked at the tent outside the camp and sighed.

"Brother Hezhou still governs the army well, and the military discipline is strict, and the sons of our former battalion are very good now. There is no such chaos around the front camp as there is a big camp here. The day after tomorrow will send troops. Our front battalion and those Liaodong soldiers are the vanguards, so let's go back and arrange it as soon as possible. ”

At that time, it was under Wu Shigong's strong advocacy. No one is allowed to approach the former camp. And Liu Zeqing is also as good as a stream. In addition, the Runing Battalion has always maintained strict training. And there is also a comparison in the army, seeing the training of the Runing battalion like this, the armies of the other front battalions are also more or less trained, so the soldiers in the front battalion army are in good condition.

And Wu Shigong will not take these credits, of course, he must praise the former camp owner Liu Zeqing here. Anyway, what the real situation is, these military attaches in the front battalion are also tacitly understood.

Emperor Chongzhen made up his mind this time to completely exterminate Kong Youde's rebels and no longer appease. Therefore, when Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian set out on the expedition, Sun Yuanhua, the former governor of Denglai, was sentenced to death as the head of the trouble, and he and Zhang Tao were both executed as a sacrificial flag. Yu Dacheng, the former governor of Shandong, Song Guanglan, Wang Zheng and others sent troops to fill the army.

Originally, according to the rules of officialdom in the Ming Dynasty and Sun Yuanhua's performance after Kong Youde's rebellion, he should have been guilty of not dying. But Sun Yuanhua was unfortunately involved in the party struggle between Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru at this juncture.

Although the first assistant Zhou Yanru wanted to exempt Sun Yuanhua from the death penalty and asked Xu Guangqi for help, Sun Yuanhua was still framed by political enemies Yu Yinggui, Li Mengchen, and Lu Zhenfei, and was even severely tortured in prison, which made Sun Yuanhua difficult to argue. In the end, he couldn't escape death. It should be said that Sun Yuanhua was somewhat wronged.

However, as the direct boss of Kong Youde's rebels, such a big rebellion was created. In addition to bringing turmoil to Shandong for more than a year, this rebellion also completely lost the hope of saving the war situation in Liaodong, and also brought a huge financial burden to the Ming court. Therefore, judging from the results, Sun Yuanhua is also innocent.

But from another point of view, Sun Yuanhua's death also made Jihua, which he and Xu Guangqi presided over, comprehensively study Western military systems and equipment, just started and came to an abrupt end. This also makes the hope of the Ming Dynasty using firearms against the Later Jin army less likely.

However, even this prototype of reform, which was all inherited by Kong Youde's rebels, will also show amazing combat effectiveness. And we'll see that later. Therefore, this is indeed a sigh!

Therefore, Sun Yuanhua's talent is to be an excellent jishu official, and he can also be an excellent scientist in modern times, he is not suitable, especially not suitable to be an official in charge of the chaos in the late Ming Dynasty. Repeat this exclamation: Men are really afraid of entering the wrong industry!

The content of today's military discussion is to let Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing's front battalion join forces, plus 5,000 men and horses from Liaodong as the vanguard, to forcibly cross the Shahe River and control the east bank of the Shahe River. Then cover the follow-up main force of the Ming army to cross the river. After that, all the forces of the Ming army were concentrated and the siege of Laizhou City was relieved first.

And specifically in the arrangement of the strikers. The combined forces of Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing will first go to the upper reaches of the Shahe River and block the flow of the Shahe River with sandbags, after which the Liaodong Army will cross the river directly from the bare riverbed. The combined forces of Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing had to ensure that the dams were not damaged by the rebels, and they also had to cover the flanks of the Liaodong Army from being attacked by the rebels.

In a word, the dirty work has to be done by the coalition forces of Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing. The main operations will be undertaken by the Liaodong Army. From this arrangement, it can be seen that Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian despised the combat effectiveness of the original Ming army.

But Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing did not have the degree of selflessness and selflessness to use their main forces to fight the rebels. Therefore, the two of them are still very satisfied with this battle jihua.

When I returned to the front camp, the whole camp was already full of smoke. As soon as the military attachés entered the front camp, they dispersed and returned to their own units to arrange their departure.

Now the number of people in the entire front battalion has exceeded 20,000. The nearly 10,000 extra people were all recruited (captured) from nearby by the troops of the former battalion in the past three months.

And Wu Shigong's Runing battalion also broke through 3,000 people. Among them is Wu Shigong in the name of recruiting domestic slaves. More than 800 new auxiliaries. And now the number of auxiliaries in the Runing battalion has exceeded more than 1,600 people.

It's not that Wu Shigong can't recruit more, because in addition to craftsmen with skills. Wu Shigong's recruitment of domestic slaves also has high physical requirements. Otherwise. Compared with those people's husbands, Wu Shigong's treatment of slaves is quite happy. Don't all the people in the other troops have to crush the camp of the Runing Battalion?

Of course, when Wu Shigong recruited domestic slaves, he recruited them together with the families of those auxiliary soldiers. In the past three months, Wu Shigong has twice sent people to send the families of the recruited craftsmen and auxiliary soldiers back to Runing Mansion. But this also made in the previous period. The large amount of grain that the Runing camp had managed to collect with great difficulty had now dropped to a level that could only last for half a month.

In addition, there are more than 200 cavalry drawn from various battalions, which are now also under the command of Wu Shigong. These cavalry have also been enriched into the cavalry of the Runing battalion. Therefore, now the reconnaissance and strangulation of the former army. It was all borne by the Runing battalion.

As soon as he entered his camp, Wu Shigong saw his group of soldiers gathered around, as if they were admiring something, and they were all amazed.

"Why are you all together? What the hell is going on? Wu Shigong also aroused curiosity, he handed over the reins of the crazy horse to the guards behind him, and also walked into the crowd of onlookers.

"My lord, Commander Liang has received something good this time!" Yu Ji on the side hurriedly squeezed over and said to Wu Shigong with a smile.

Seeing Wu Shigong's arrival, the onlookers automatically separated a passage. Wu Shigong walked to the middle and looked, "Huh! Good fellows, there were four glittering pieces of artillery in the middle of the crowd.

"It's really a good thing!" Wu Shigong was also happy. Until now, Wu Shigong had only purchased three one-pound guns from the underground ordnance black market, and this time Liang Hui's harvest would exceed the previous sum combined.

"It's not too good!" Although Liang Hui's words were very modest, his face couldn't help but be proud, "This artillery is not the same as the artillery of our Runing battalion. Its shells are not in our Runing battalion. And this time, with these artillery, only thirty-four shells were collected. That's a little too little. Liang Hui explained.

Wu Shigong took a closer look, but it was true, this time the four guns were larger than the one-pound artillery, but smaller than the three-pound guns. Visually, the caliber appears to be a two-pound gun. It is not standard for the artillery of the Runing battalion.

"Nothing." Wu Shigong comforted, "It's good to have artillery." Even if it doesn't come in handy this time, after being dragged back to Henan in the future, ask Yang Goudan to make more shells. It's always useful. How much money did this cannon cost? ”

"Just a thousand taels of silver." Liang Hui's expression was even more proud.

"So cheap?" Wu Shigong was also overjoyed.

"I also came with a hundred shields." Liang Hui's ostentatious expression made people can't help but punch him in the face.

"Hey!" Wu Shigong, who was in a very happy mood, couldn't help but joke, "I said that you Liang Hui, if you are not the commander of this artillery team, even if you go to collect the rags, you will definitely be able to make a fortune!" ”

Wu Shigong's joke caused a burst of laughter from the soldiers around him.

This time, the Runing battalion harvested not only these seven artillery pieces from the underground ordnance black market, but also some spears, waist knives and shields. These are also mainly for those auxiliaries.

Firecrackers, gunpowder, and armor were harvested quite little. Mainly because it is impossible for other troops to sell the guys who eat! But some of those bulky artillery pieces poured out of the underground ordnance black market.

After the joke, Wu Shigong immediately shouted: "Sanhe! Come here! ”

Li Sanhe, who was on the side, immediately trotted to Wu Shigong's side.

"Three Rivers. Get your horse team ready. The day after tomorrow the army will set out, and our front battalion is the vanguard. When you're done with dinner, disperse your horse team. In front of us, as far as the banks of the Shahe River, as long as it is suspicious, whether it is a man, a woman, or a child, it is better to kill the wrong person than to let it go. And if someone wants to cross the river to the east bank of the Sand River, he will be killed. ”

"No!"

Although the spies of the rebels did not dare to cross the Sand River because of the strangulation of the Runing battalion horse team. However, there were still some rebel spies, dressed in civilian clothes, mixed among the refugees, and infiltrated the west bank of the Shahe River to find out the intelligence of the Ming army. And Wu Shigong's order is aimed at this one situation.

The other officers immediately returned to the camp. Arrange your troops and prepare to leave the day after tomorrow. Remember! This time it's really going to be a war! ”

"No!" "No! "No! ”……

In the night, a large group of cavalry gathered behind the gate of the front camp, and dozens of soldiers pushed open the heavy wooden door, making a "creaking, creaking" sound.

Although it is already the end of the month, there is no bright moon in the sky. But the stars in the sky are still faintly swaying. The mountains in the distance seemed to be shrouded in a layer of soot, which seemed to be particularly hazy.

Wu Shigong stood on the city wall above the camp gate, watching the cavalry drive the horses walking briskly, coming out of the open camp gate one after another. When all the horsemen had left the camp gates, they gathered together and cheered each other into a deafening shout.

Then, they scattered and divided into spy squads under the leadership of their respective squad leaders. Then it became a fan, and the team sped straight into the distance.

Wu Shigong looked at the backs of those cavalrymen, and couldn't help but feel a wave of sentimentality in his heart. Those cavalry disappeared into the twilight one by one, and I don't know how many good men will never come back!

The Battle of Sand River officially began. (To be continued......)