For Wu Shigong's expedition, the happiest thing is not Zu Dashou, who is waiting for the Ming army to come to help in Dalinghe City (of course, he doesn't know that there is such a Ming army reinforcement as Wu Shigong), but the retinue left by Master Ling who is now waiting in Runing Mansion City and looking forward to Wu Shigong's expedition.

When they finally waited for the news that Wu Shigong had gone on the expedition as promised, a few of them were still worried about accompanying Wu Shigong's Runing Battalion and the army, and the rest of them flew to Kaifeng City to report the good news to the governor of Henan.

Of course, Wu Shigong didn't care about the actions of these people, he led the army, and after two days of marching, he came to the fortress of Qianhusuo. Then, Wu Shigong rested here for a day, and Zuihou replenished all the supplies at once.

Although most of Wu Shigong's workshops were relocated to Runing Mansion, there were still some workshops left here in the Qianhusuo Fortress.

This time, Wu Shigong's Runing battalion went to Liaodong, and the biggest problem was that the roads were unfamiliar. This principle is also very simple, just imagine that a local person in Henan in modern times, who does not go far away, airdropped him to Jinzhou, so that he could not ask for directions, without road signs, walked to Shanhaiguan, then he would be dizzy nine times out of ten.

Besides, Wu Shigong also summed it up, and when he rescued Dalinghe City, it happened to be when the spring flowers were blooming. At this time, the snow in winter also happened to melt, so the roads in Liaodong must be quite muddy. This kind of road is certainly not conducive to the rapid movement of large vehicles.

Therefore, Wu Shigong wanted to replenish a batch of carts and wheels in the cart making workshop here in the fortress of Qianhusuo. Fortunately, because there is also stock in this workshop, and November of the fourth year of Chongzhen is the moon again, Wu Shigong has another month of preparation time, so the cart manufacturing workshop also took out the cart and wheels that Wu Shigong requested.

Also, in case the cart fell into the mud, Wu Shigong was ready to throw off the cart and escape. Therefore, in order to be able to bring the dry food needed for the escape, Wu Shigong also made a bag of dry food for each soldier in the garment workshop of the fortress of Qianhusuo.

The style of this dry food bag is impressive to anyone who has watched the TV series depicting the Long March. This bag of dry food will contain enough food for each soldier for ten days.

Wu Shigong brought a total of 300 carts with him on this expedition. As for the horses that pulled the carts, Wu Shigong also prepared two horses for each cart. The reason for bringing so many horses with them was that in case a large cart got stuck in the mud, the soldiers could throw off the cart and run away on horseback. And with so many horses prepared, almost all of Wu Shigong's pack horses were swept away.

There is another reason why Wu Shigong prepared so many carts and horses. In the last two battles of Wu Shigong, although there was some element of luck, Wu Shigong still gained a lot every time he fought, and it can be said that he made two war profits.

But this expedition to Liaodong was a little different. Wu Shigong judged that this Liaodong was sparsely populated, and the battle with the Tartars also captured some Tartar heads at most, and it was impossible to seize any gold, silver, grain and grass. Even if there were, the Runing battalion, which had few people, would not be able to grab its own friendly troops.

Therefore, when Wu Shigong goes all the way north, he will find opportunities to fish more in various places. When the Runing battalion walked to Tongzhou, he handed over the materials he had fished to Zhang Chunyu, so that he could sell them on the spot in the future, or return to Henan for Runing's operation, anyway, to make up for some expenses for the Runing battalion's expedition.

Therefore, don't look at Wu Shigong who brought so many carts, many carts are actually empty, and Wu Shigong himself only carried ten days of grain storage, so he was ready to go to the Jining Caoliang official warehouse to replenish it first.

It should be said that Wu Shigong's preparations for this expedition were all in mind. As for Wu Shigong's Runing battalion, which will encounter such a big accident on the way to the march, it can only be said that Jihua can't catch up with the changes!

The army is preparing supplies for Zuihou, and Wu Shigong also has to receive the local people who see him off. Gong Haoran brought dozens of local talents to see off Wu Shigong.

Wu Shigong and Gong Haoran actually don't see each other many times, and their habits, hobbies and ages are also very different. But every time the two meet, they can always talk happily. For this, Wu Shigong himself also felt a little strange.

But this time to see off, Gong Haoran was a little sad. Wu Shigong thought that Gong Haoran thought that his expedition to Liaodong would be more auspicious than lucky, so Gong Haoran would show such feelings.

But after talking, I realized that Gong Haoran was not worried about Wu Shigong's expedition at all. He believed that Wu Shigong's expedition would also be an immediate success.

Gong Haoran's sadness is because he is old and is about to return to his hometown to retire. And when Wu Shigong returns from the expedition, it is estimated that Gong Haoran will no longer be a teacher here, and he will have returned to his hometown a long time ago. According to the transportation and communication conditions of the Ming Dynasty, Gong Haoran basically would not meet and talk with Wu Shigong again. So this time, Gong Haoran really said goodbye to Wu Shigong!

After reluctantly bidding farewell to Gong Haoran, Wu Shigong received another group of visitors. It was the local gentry who sent a batch of gifts, Yao Yuanwai's group of people.

Don't say that Wu Shigong is here in the fortress of Qianhusuo, except for not dealing with Yu Zilian, the magistrate, Wu Shigong's mass foundation is still quite solid.

There was also a tidbit that happened at the time of this meeting. Yao Yuanwai asked Wu Shigong to arrange some of their sons and nephews to serve in the Runing camp. Of course, Yao Yuanwai also said a lot of righteousness and awe-inspiring, saying something: send their sons and nephews to go on the expedition with Wu Shigong to protect their families and defend the country, and they are not afraid of death or injury.

In the past, after Wu Shigong asked Yao Yuanwai and them to send their sons and nephews to serve in Wu Shigong's army, Yao Yuanwai and they basically sent the collateral males of their clan, and they were not very optimistic about Wu Shigong's prospects at that time.

But after such a long time passed, they found that those men in the side of the camp had a bright future, and of course they couldn't sit still. Therefore, this time they took this opportunity to ask Wu Shigong to accept their direct nephews.

Of course, Wu Shigong also understood Yao Yuanwai's thoughts, looking at Yao Yuanwai's sinister expressions, Wu Shigong almost couldn't help but kick them a few times.

Because everyone is also very familiar, Wu Shigong no longer pretends to be pretentious. He first laughed and scolded Yao Yuanwai for a few words, and then said to Yao Yuanwai and them: "You can rest assured that your sons and nephews will be handed over to the official to take to Liaodong, and the official himself is not at ease." What are you going to do? They can't fight, so are they going to die? ”

"Your thoughts are well understood. So be it! Let them go to Runing Mansion City to find Mr. Deng, and let Mr. Deng arrange it, so that they can all do things for their own officials. Rest assured! As long as they work hard, the official guarantees that they all have a haode future. ”

In Hee Hee Haha, Wu Shigong ends his meeting with Yao Yuanwai. What is surprising is that whether it is a literati like Gong Haoran or a gentry like Yao Yuanwai, they are all very confident in Wu Shigong's expedition.

And this time, Wu Shigong himself was ready to run away because he felt that the prospect was not good. And these outsiders have that kind of absolute confidence in Runingying, I don't know if they are a little blind? Or is it a bystander?

Then Wu Shigong's Runing battalion set off again, and they stayed outside the city of Guide for half a day. Wu Shigong is about to go into the city to visit Old Lady Hou and Commander Zhao Mingzhao.

Visiting Zhao Ming was also courteous, so this visit didn't take much time for Wu Shigong. And Wu Shigong's visit to Mrs. Hou has some purpose.

Wu Shigong knew through Guo Zeng'an that no matter whether he won or lost this expedition, the first assistant Zhou Yanru would transfer him out of Henan. Therefore, Wu Shigong wanted to find a way to turn around through Hou Sui's relationship, and it was best to keep himself in Henan after this expedition.

Wu Shigong did not use his Wu family and his father-in-law Xue family's shili this time, because Wu Shigong also knew that they were not capable of solving their own matter. Don't look at it in the eyes of the common people, the status of the noble children is very high. But those who had power in the Ming Dynasty were civil officials like Hou Sui.

Unexpectedly, Wu Shigong's visit went very smoothly, and Mrs. Hou didn't wait for Wu Shigong to make a request, so he said to Wu Shigong secretly: "This time Wu Shoubei took away all the good sons and daughters of Henan, Wu Shoubei must remember to guard against arrogance and rashness, and try his best to bring these good sons back!" ”

Wu Shigong suddenly heard the difference between Old Lady Hou's words and the past. In the past, Mrs. Hou had to bring a few high-sounding words when he said anything, such as: kill more barbarians, to repay the emperor's favor or something. But this time, he directly confessed to Wu Shigong to preserve his strength. Of course, Wu Shigong immediately understood this meaning.

What Wu Shigong didn't know was that Old Lady Hou also knew a lot about the situation in the Ming Dynasty through his letters with Hou Sui and his old relationships in the officialdom.

Old lady Hou, who used to be a high-ranking official, is of course very discerning. He believes that in this situation, it is no longer so important to develop shili among civil servants. Gathering some powerful generals is quite important for the development of Hou Sui's career. So of course Old Lady Hou didn't want Wu Shigong to lose any strength.

Seeing that his visit had achieved its goal, Wu Shigong kowtowed and said goodbye. Although Wu Shigong still thinks that it is very unlikely that Hou Sui will persuade Shoufu Zhou Yanru, it is better to have hope than no hope.

After leaving the city of Guide, Wu Shigong made the army officially start the marching formation and accelerated the march towards Jining.

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