Outside the city of Jinan.

Liu Zeqing's 100,000 army held the silver one by one and kept having fun.

Li Banghua, the secretary of the military department, also personally led a cadre of the military department to set up several tables of wine and food outside the city and drank with these generals.

The military attachés did not expect that the bigwigs of the military department, who had always been noses facing the sky, would treat them like this, and they did not refuse one by one, eating and drinking, which can be described as elated.

And at this time, the 1st Guards Army and the 2nd Guards Army had already surrounded them.

After one person muttered a few words in Li Banghua's ear, Li Banghua also found an excuse to retreat into the city.

As soon as the city gate was closed, Li Banghua directly ordered the cannon to be fired, and suddenly the entire Jinan City was filled with murderous sounds.

The 1st Guards and 2nd Guards swept in from the left and right flanks like huge waves.

Liu Zeqing's officers and men were immediately at a loss and looked at each other.

Some officers and soldiers couldn't help but look at the commander-in-chief, who knew that the commander-in-chief was already drunk and unconscious at this time.

……

Here, Emperor Zhu Youzhen of the Ming Dynasty walked out from behind the screen, and looked at Liu Zeqing, who had been cut down on the ground, with a cold face.

Rao was mentally prepared, and he was also a little sick to his stomach, especially the pungent smell of blood.

But sometimes if you want to rise in this troubled world of cannibalism, you have to walk through such a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

"Follow me to the city!"

After Zhu Youzhen gave Li Ruolian an order, he hurriedly stepped out of the political envoy's yamen.

As soon as he arrived at the city, Zhu Youzhen saw that Liu Zeqing's 100,000 troops outside the city had been surrounded by his own First Guards Army and Second Guards Army.

"What's going on now?" Zhu Youzhen asked Li Banghua.

Li Banghua hurriedly replied: "Back to Your Majesty, our First Guards Army and Second Guards Army have surrounded this 100,000 army, and Liu Zeqing's general Li Huajing's intention to break through has been repelled by our army, and Li Huajing has also been killed!" ”

Zhu You nodded after listening, and took Liu Zeqing's head from the hands of Li Ruolian, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and raised it again:

"Soldiers! I am the Son of Heaven Zhu Youzhen! You don't have to panic, I know that you were deceived and coerced by the traitor Liu Zeqing, and now the traitor Liu Zeqing tried to kill the king, and I have personally killed you. But if you dare to continue to rebel, I will definitely kill you, including your wife and children! ”

As he spoke, Zhu Youzhen threw Liu Zeqing's head down.

Suddenly, these officers and soldiers of Liu Zeqing took a few steps back in fright when they saw the head of the commander.

At this time, Zhu Youzhen had already raised the yellow umbrella cover around him, the firearms of the Second Guards Army had also gone to the city, the archers were also in place, and the muzzles of the guns began to be pushed out.

And the infantry of the First Guards Army and the Third Guards Army on both sides have already raised their spears, and Liu Fangliang and Zhou Yuji kept shouting and killing with their soldiers at the same time! Kill!

Liu Zeqing's 100,000 officers and soldiers had already been frightened, and how could they dare to resist.

I don't know who shouted first: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

Suddenly, the entire 100,000 officers and soldiers of Liu Zeqing put down their swords and guns one after another, knelt on the ground and shouted, "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

Zhu Youzhen was very satisfied with this in his heart, looked into the distance with deep eyes, and only after a long time did he order Li Banghua, the secretary of the military department, to immediately reorganize Liu Zeqing's department.

At this point, Liu Zeqing's threat was completely eradicated.

From Shandong to Huaiyang, there is no longer any military threat.

However, Gao Jie in Xuzhou and Liu Liangzuo in Fengyang, Zhu Youzhen had to be on guard.

Once they arrived in Jiangnan, these two people also suffered from elbows and armpits.

Especially Liu Liangzuo!

Gao Jie was originally Li Zicheng's general, but he had to surrender to the Ming Dynasty because he made Li Zicheng wear a green hat.

Therefore, it is impossible for Gao Jie to surrender to the army, and of course it is impossible to surrender to Jiannu, who has always had zero tolerance for generals who were born as thieves.

The reason why Jiannu won the favor of these big bureaucrats and big landlords was that their political purpose was to exterminate the thieves.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen decided to win over Gao Jie and eradicate Liu Liangzuo.

What's more, because most of Gao Jie's troops are thieves, they are quite combative, while Liu Liangzuo has no combat power except for harming the people.

Moreover, Liu Liangzuo is also a descendant of Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang, and if this kind of officers and soldiers who are attached to the feudal officials are not eliminated, he is afraid that he will not be able to control Ma Shiying.

Of course, there is no doubt that Zuo Liangyu of Huguang will also be eliminated, this person has a background in the Donglin Party, and his own emperor has arrived in Jiangnan, if he does not eradicate this person, he will not be able to control or even eradicate the Donglin Party.

But Zuo Liangyu is the largest force among the warlords in the south, so Zhu Youzhen is not good at attacking Zuo Liangyu's subordinates now.

However, on the side of the couch, others will not be allowed to sleep soundly, and people like Zuo Liangyu will always be a cancer if they stay in Daming.

Ten days later, Liu Zeqing's 100,000 officers and soldiers were reorganized, and apart from 50,000 who were laid off and ordered to be stationed in the field, Zhu Youzhen only recruited more than 50,000 people into the Guards.

At present, Li Zicheng and Jiannu are fighting in the Gyeonggi area, plus Liu Fangliang's department has been attached to the Ming Dynasty, and the southern part of Beizhili, Shandong, and Henan are still in the hands of the Ming Dynasty.

Although Zhu Youzhen said that he wanted to rely on the Yangtze River moat in the south of the Yangtze River, he did not intend to give up the Central Plains that was still in the hands of the Ming Dynasty.

Although most of this area is plains, there is no danger to defend, and they are all places of four wars, but it can also be regarded as the strategic depth of Zhu Youzhen's defense against Jiannu in the future.

After the work of reorganizing Liu Zeqing was completed, Zhu Youzhen once again convened a court meeting.

This time, he determined the basic policy of the Central Plains north of the Yangtze River, and ordered Zhu Zhaoming, who is now stationed in Baoding, to lead the military department with the title of governor of Beizhili, to govern all the soldiers and horses under his command, and to dominate the military and political power, and Ni Yuanlu, the secretary of the household department, was the governor of Beizhili to assist Zhu Zhaoming in handling civil affairs matters.

Zhou Yuji was appointed by Zhu Youzhen as the governor of Shandong, and the title of secretary of the military department and the imperial history of the left capital, commanding the military and political power in Shandong, and Sun Shilun, the right attendant of the military department, was the governor of Shandong to assist Zhou Yuji.

Henan is between Huguang Zuo Liangyu Department and Fengyang Liu Liangzuo Department, Zhu Youzhen is not good at interfering, so he can only remotely order Fengyang Governor Ma Shiying to lead Henan Governor.

Now that it was wartime, Zhu Youzhen decided to abandon the previous administrative system of suppressing military force with civil and military affairs, not to mention that this kind of strategic front needs to let the chief general dominate the military and political power in order to coordinate forces to resist the enemy army.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen directly asked military generals like Zhou Yuji and Zhu Zhaoming to be the governor of the military and political affairs of a province, and the civilian officials who have never been able to fight wars and govern civil affairs are assistants.

In addition, let Zhu Zhaoming be the governor of Beizhili, first, Zhu Zhaoming is now his sister-in-law, and has a deep blood feud with the thieves, and has experience in resisting Jiannu in the border town, plus she is Zhou Yuji's wife, so it is impossible for Zhu Zhaoming not to defend Beizhili, unless she wants her husband Zhou Yuji in Shandong to face Jiannu alone.

It is impossible for Zhou Yuji to sit idly by and watch the war in Beizhili, and he will definitely lend a helping hand when it is time to help.

In this way, the entire Beizhili and Shandong will be able to form a defensive whole with concerted efforts.

Zhu Youzhen, the emperor, was more down-to-earth in Jiangnan to integrate soldiers and horses and accumulate the strength of the Northern Expedition.