Liu Ziguang's official title is the general of the expedition to the west, and he has returned a good general seal to all walks of life in the western army, but he is not happy at all, because he still has the head of the pipe, the emperor continued to retain Yuan Chonghuan on the grounds that Liu Ziguang was not familiar with border affairs, and Yuan Chonghuan also added the title to Yuan Supervisor, and now he is the governor of the military department, the governor of the left capital, the governor of the military affairs of the three sides of Shaanxi, the supervision of food and salary, and the rectification of Hexi and other places.

Yuan Chonghuan has long been the commander of the military horses of a province, and now he is in charge of the military department, and the power is in the hands of Liu Ziguang, although he is fast, but after all, he has worked under the hands of others, and the qualifications are placed there, and it is not okay to disobey it, and the tradition of the Ming Dynasty to control the military with literature has always been until Liu Ziguang here, so this errand has to be done with his nose pinched.

The holy decree demanded that Liu Ziguang immediately take a light car, and the red-shirted army under his department immediately rushed out of the defensive area to Tongguan in the starry night, and the weapons, armor, horses, and grain and grass must be prepared by themselves, and they must arrive within a month, otherwise the military law will be engaged.

The vacancy left by the Red Shirt Army's thousands of miles from the north was taken over by the Hebei official army led by Xu Zengshou, at this time the imperial court had already dispatched a part of the Zhejiang army and a part of the Fujian army to the north to enrich the Hebei army trained by Xu Zengshou, in short, it was not a problem to deal with the remnants of the Qing army outside the pass, and the enemy's hand was not a problem, the imperial court played very cleverly, and the base that Liu Ziguang had finally established was dismantled at once, as soon as the army as the core force left, as soon as those fields, mines, factories, and local bureaucracy at all levels, and even the puppet court of Gongrong, the imperial court was not the meat in people's mouths.

Fortunately, the Red Shirt Army is gone, the Beiyang Naval Division is still there, and the Boat Division Base and Dagukou Fort have been set up in Tianjin, and the Naval Division has been expanded to 20,000 people, and as soon as the Red Shirt Army leaves, they will take over the defense of various places, as for the Manchu puppet army, Jing ** is also looking at Li Yan's eyes, and everyone who eats does not take Xu Zengshou in their eyes, so it is not so easy for the imperial court to play stealing beams and changing pillars.

The Red Shirt Army is very dragged, they do not have the establishment of the imperial army at all, and the huge establishment of 30,000 people still belongs to the nature of Liu Ziguang's pro-military camp, although the imperial court has a view, but has not dared to directly intervene, in Liu Ziguang's view, this adjustment may not have the intention of consuming this army by the hands of the Western Xia people, but the foreign captives currently have the obligation to go into battle to kill the enemy, and now is not the time for hypocrisy for these things, so he still obeyed the order, said goodbye to his wife and children, and embarked on the long journey of the Western Expedition, and also took a long telegram to Li Yan, asking him to arrange the affairs of the north, and urge the Red Shirt Army to arrive at Tongguan on time。

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Zhu Youxiao's eyes were slightly red and said: "Aiqing cherishes the imperial sister and nephew, I will help you take care of the good news I am waiting for you!" As soon as Yan Bi stretched out his hand, the eunuch handed over a sword, the black leather scabbard was gilded with a thick layer of gold on the outside, and the sword stall was embossed with a divine beast with eyes inlaid with gems, and the whole was rough and bold, obviously with an exotic style.

"This is the sword that the Yongle Emperor once used, and now I lend it to Aiqing, hoping that the spirits of the ancestors and ancestors in the sky can bless Aiqing with victory, bless the Ming Dynasty for ten thousand years, and Yonggu Aiqing will receive the sword!" Zhu Youxiao said and solemnly handed the sword to Liu Ziguang.

Liu Ziguang took the sword with both hands, and immediately felt that this sword was extraordinary, and the weight alone was lower than five ordinary swords, and it was really a divine weapon, so he immediately knelt down and said, "Your Majesty." ”

The general of Zhengxi boarded the ship with three hundred personal soldiers, and went to the shore, the crowds of people waved goodbye, and among the thousands of people, there was a thin figure holding the young child, looking at the warship with teary eyes, and holding the small arm of the young child in his arms and waving gently: "Daddy, the war is gone, you have to be good." ”

Liu Qianqian, who was still ignorant, suddenly cried, and a pair of small hands fluttered and stretched out into the distance, as if she wanted her father to hug her again, which made the eldest princess cry.

Liu Ziguang, who was far away on the Jiangxin warship, suddenly shook his tiger body, and there seemed to be a cry of his wife and children in his ears, but he didn't look back, just held the hilt of his sword, and said to the accompanying students of the advanced class of the martial arts hall: "This time to Shaanxi, some of you may have to stay there forever, are you afraid?" ”

"Qingshan buries loyal bones everywhere, why bother with the horse leather shroud, and we are still handsome, we are not afraid!" The reply was Xia Wanchun and Liang Shiyi, who were dressed in sassy red shirts, the pair of student leaders of the Restoration Society and the Iron Blood Society, and now they are intermediate officers of the Red Shirt Army Reserve who have received three months of military training.

Liu Ziguang's route is to take Xuzhou across Henan, arrive at Tongguan before the line, when passing through Xuzhou, he specially went to the Liguo Iron Works, did some work deployment, the army did not move the grain and grass first, the Red Shirts fought the war, the most important thing is not the grain and grass, but the munitions, the Liguo Iron Works has become the largest supplier of the Ming Dynasty military, as large as artillery chariots, as small as armor and arrows, all the equipment of the 6th division are produced by them, this time there is something in the west, weapons and ammunition are indispensable, and the production and transportation plan must be arranged in advance, Liu Ziguang can rest assured that his soldiers have no firearms, which is equivalent to the tiger has no teeth, and it is not enough to rely on claws。

After arranging the logistics matters, the group went on the road again, rushed to Tongguan through wind and rain, all the way to see the war-torn Central Plains, Henan is seriously troubled by bandits, ten rooms and nine empty, only in recent years to settle down a little, passing by the states and counties are all barren and unbearable, a group of ruins to be revived, Xia Wanchun and others from the prosperous place of fireworks in the south of the Yangtze River all look at this different kind of rivers and mountains, all of them are full of emotion, this is the harm caused by years of war, in order to stop the war, only to take up arms to resist is the only way out

There are still sporadic bandits in the land of Henan, and the road is not easy to walk, but all of them are equipped with vigorous three hippos, as well as fast guns and bazookas, not to mention small bandits, even an army of several thousand people must be afraid of it, so the progress of the line is quite fast, and they rushed to the Tongguan camp in more than ten days.

Tongguan is located at the junction of Henan, Shaanxi, Shanxi and Shanxi provinces, here there is the Qinling barrier in the south, the Yellow River in the north, the east has the year, the original is condescending, there is the forbidden ditch, the original Wanggou, Manluochuan and other natural defense lines across the east and west, the potential is to become the "close the door and choke Kyushu, the birds can not pass", it is the east gate of Shaanxi, the northwest, North China, the throat of the Central Plains, and it is also a key to control the pass, the successive dynasties have attached great importance to the status of Tongguan, the city wall is higher and higher, according to the mountain undulating arrow tower, the dark fort rises and falls, the urn city, the jack gate, the fort, Tibetan caves can be seen everywhere, and it is really a majestic pass.

The 100,000 horses of the Western Army were stationed in Tongguan City, and some of them lived in the city of Centaurs, and there was a company camp ten miles east of the city, when Liu Ziguang and his party walked to Tongguan forty miles away, suddenly it rained heavily from the sky, and they had never brought a tent and there was no place to shelter from the rain nearby, so they had to put on a waterproof cloak made of Nanyang rubber and continue to move forward, striving to rush to the camp before dark to rest.

With the heavy rain, but Liu Ziguang's keen eyes still appeared the lights of the camp, he shouted to encourage everyone to hurry up, the dark night and the heavy rain but could not go fast, and when they stepped on the muddy water and walked two miles away from the camp, the scout who walked in front suddenly brought two sentries.

The two sentries were soaked and covered with mud, and even their faces were black, Liu Ziguang said: "The quality of the Western Army is good, and the latent posts have been placed two miles away." Which general soldier are you under the command of? ”

Under the rain, Liu Ziguang's banner had already been rolled up, but judging by his posture and tone, he was a senior general, so the sentry replied: "Lord Hui, we are not from the Western Army, we are the pacesetters of the Red Shirt Army to which the General of the Western Army belongs." When he replied, his tone unconsciously revealed a sense of pride.

Liu Ziguang was stunned for a moment, and then smiled, he didn't expect his troops to come faster, he really deserved to be a good son of the Red Shirt Army, he praised: "Yes, like a Red Shirt Army, you can be incorporated into the Western Army to perform tasks so quickly, but lurking on a rainy night, why don't you even deserve a waterproof cloak, is it not equipped?" ”

The sentry replied: "Lord Hui, we are not on the mission of the Western Army, we are the lurking sentry of the Red Shirt Forward Battalion, and the army has just arrived and has not yet entered the camp." ”

Liu Ziguang wondered, lightly clamped the horse's belly and continued to move forward, walking not far away, and sure enough, he saw a phalanx standing in the open space in front of the Western Army camp, and there were about a thousand men standing in the rain.

Something was wrong, Liu Ziguang immediately asked the two sentries to find their battalion officer, and after talking, the two members would arrive with more than a dozen horses, and when they saw Liu Ziguang's face, they immediately knelt down in the muddy water: "The last general, Zhou Peigong, Wang Fuchen, see the marshal." ”

"Hurry up and talk, why is this thing making a fuss and it rains in the middle of the night and you stand outside?" Liu Ziguang asked.

This Red Shirt Forward Battalion is actually not a real Red Shirt, but a fake Red Shirt adapted from the elite of Jing**, Liu Ziguang deliberately arranged it so that the main force of the Red Shirt Army stayed in Beijing anyway Jing** In fact, it can be regarded as their own strength, and it is too late to be happy to upgrade them to the Red Shirt Army, Zhou Pei Gong and Wang Fuchen are unwilling to fight against Hong Chengchou, and they are indeed 10,000 people who come to Shaanxi to fight the Xixia people, and they are indeed 10,000 willing to fight as a Red Shirt Army for the first time, and they are naturally in a mood and want to do something to ask for credit, so they are quick to whip up the starry night, and the forward battalion of 3,000 people is actually faster than Liu Ziguang's light car Jane Cong, and when they reach the outside of the camp, it is already dusk, and the other party's existing brigade of men and horses comes, and hurriedly close the camp gate, stretch the bow and arrows, make a defensive posture, and wait for the documents to be handed over, and only then did a staff member come out and ask a few words, and then let them stand outside and wait for the Governor to come and order some troops, but this wait is several hours and daysIt rained again, and the soldiers did not give any order, but no one dared to move, so they could only stand in the rain and wait.

"Why don't you take shelter from the rain?" Liu Ziguang asked.

"If the military order is not issued, we don't dare to act rashly, if it is loose and collapsed, it will not be a loss of the name of the commander." Zhou Pei is fair.

Liu Ziguang understood, this is Zhou Peigong, Wang Fuchen, is competing with the Western Army, you are deliberately slacking off to let us into the camp, isn't it, we are standing in the rain until you open the camp gate, yes, a bit of a redshirt army!

"Okay, Benshuai will stand with you and wait to see when they come over to order troops." Liu Ziguang said as he took off his rubber cloak, put on a half-worn red robe, walked to the front of the team, and stood with the soldiers.