The officers explained Wu Shigong's ideas and arrangements to every soldier overnight. All the soldiers were also warned not to reveal this secret to outsiders.

Near noon the next day, Wu Shigong and his soldiers finally arrived at the city of Guide. Seeing Wu Shigong coming as promised, Zhao Ming was also very happy. In the evening of the same day, the main officials of the Guide Mansion and the military attachés of the Guide Guard, under the leadership of the Lord of the Mansion and Zhao Ming, also hosted a banquet to entertain Wu Shigong.

At the banquet, the high-sounding words that Lord Fuzun and Zhao Ming said to Wu Shigong can be imagined by everyone anyway. And Wu Shigong also responded positively to these adults, and he also kept patting his chest to show his determination. Anyway, it's air-to-air, and Wu Shigong definitely didn't take his words to heart.

When I arrived at Zuihou, it was still a regular program - the red cards of each Qinglou came in and then ....... I don't know how to get it, the top lady of Guide Mansion, Manling, was arranged to accompany Wu Shigong to drink.

And this time, Miss Manling's attitude was slightly better than the absolute cold attitude towards Wu Shigong the first time. She even took the initiative to toast Wu Shigong and wished Wu Shigong in advance: "Return victorious." ”

Wu Shigong also politely thanked Miss Manling for her good words. However, Wu Shigong was really not in the mood to have fun now, so he didn't stay for long, so he excused himself from fatigue and left the banquet to go back to his camp to rest.

Wu Shigong's hurried departure made Manling's heart feel very angry. Of course, Manling would not be concerned with Wu Shigong, a little Qianhu who wants to have no appearance and no status. But Wu Shigong saw Manling twice, but he didn't even show a pig brother in front of Manling's eyes, how embarrassed was Manling?

What's even more excessive is that Wu Shigong left in a hurry twice, as if he didn't take Manling to heart at all. How can this make the arrogant manling endure it? If it weren't for the fact that there were still so many scribes and high-rollers chasing after Manling, Manling would almost have doubts about his beauty.

Manling didn't know that Wu Shigong really didn't take her to heart, but Wu Shigong didn't have a heart for Manling's beauty. However, now Wu Shigong is about to go on the expedition, to be honest, Wu Shigong has a lot of pressure in his heart, and he has weakened his mind of messing with flowers and grass.

Of course, if Manling takes the initiative to give him a hug today, in order to relax the mental pressure, Wu Shigong doesn't mind spending the night with Manling to vent. But Wu Shigong knew very well in his heart that with Manling's attitude towards himself, that kind of thing would never happen, so Wu Shigong didn't need to pretend to be a color to Manling and do that useless work.

After Wu Shigong returned to his barracks, he went to bed early. It was a deep sleep. In the past few days, Wu Shigong has been rushing back and forth between Guide Mansion City and Qianhusuo Fortress, and he is indeed a little tired.

The soldiers of the other Qinwang drawn from the thousands of households have also rushed to the city of Guide in the past few days to gather. After the roll call, these soldiers, under the leadership of Yu Ji, were incorporated into King Qin's army and placed under the command of Wu Shigong.

Wu Shigong observed the soldiers, there was no shortage of them, but all the soldiers seemed to have come out of a modern concentration camp. Except for the military attaches who led the team and the dozens of personal soldiers around them, the other soldiers were all skinny and skinny. They were in stark contrast to Wu Shigong's own soldiers, whose faces were ruddy, and their bodies were full of fat and muscle.

However, Wu Shigong couldn't say anything about the physical condition of those soldiers. Because in the Ming Dynasty, the poor people, because they were in a state of semi-starvation for a long time, had no nutritional supplements at all, so they basically looked like this. As an ordinary military household at the bottom of society, of course, this is also the case.

However, the physical fitness of these soldiers is almost enough, but on such a cold day, almost half of them have no cotton clothes on their bodies. Not to mention what tent quilts were brought out.

This made Wu Shigong very worried. This time he went to King Qin in the capital, and Wu Shigong led these soldiers to the north, and now it was almost winter. If he camped in the wilderness, Wu Shigong was afraid that those soldiers would freeze to death and frostbite. When the time came, the Tartars did not kill a few of their own soldiers, but God caused a large number of casualties among his own soldiers.

Anyway, it's difficult to find Zhao Ming now. Wu Shigong asked Zhao Ming for a large number of tents and clothes. But Zhao Ming spread his hands to Wu Shigong, but no.

Zhao Ming spit out bitter water to Wu Shigong: Last time, the Holy Spirit Society rebelled, and the weapons in the arsenal of Gui Dewei were basically sent. In the aftermath, only a small portion of those weapons were recovered.

And this time Wu Shigong went to King Qin, in order to issue weapons to those soldiers, all the weapons in the arsenal of Dewei were basically emptied. Even Zhao Ming used his own pocket to buy all the gunpowder purchased after the Holy Spirit Society rebelled, and this time all the gunpowder was given to Wu Shigong. And now Zhao Ming is really powerless to add those tents and quilts.

However, Zhao Ming was still willing to help, so he asked for help from the Guide Mansion. King Qin's major affairs have also been paid more or less attention by officials from all over the Guide Mansion. So when I arrived in Zuihou, I finally solved some tents and quilts for Wu Shigong. Faced with this situation, Wu Shigong could only think helplessly: The boat will be straight when it reaches the bridge.

On October 15, under the auspices of the Emperor of Guide, the army of King Weiqin of Guide officially held a grand ceremony. Wu Shigong was surprised to find at the ceremony that except for the moment when he drank three glasses of Zhuangxing wine, those soldiers who went out to fight were completely reduced to supporting roles in the Zhuangxing ceremony.

And in this grand ceremony, it has completely become a stage for literati. They are busy with poetry and ancient rituals. It just didn't solve any practical problems for Wu Shigong. finally survived to the auspicious time, Wu Shigong fled and left the city of Guide with these soldiers.

And on this expedition, in addition to the settling-in allowance of one tael of silver to each soldier, the gentry in the Guide Mansion also collected eight hundred taels of silver and some pigs and sheep to reward Wu Shigong and them. In addition, before leaving the city of Guide Mansion, as a courtesy, Wu Shigong also went to Hou Sui's mansion to say goodbye.

That Hou Sui has already been reinstated by Emperor Chongzhen, and now he is also an official in the capital. Therefore, the person who received Wu Shigong in the Hou Mansion was Hou Sui's father, Mrs. Hou. The old lady Hou is also a jinshi, and she once served as a high-ranking official in Jiuqing. Therefore, Wu Shigong used the etiquette of the younger generation to give a salute to Mrs. Hou.

Of course, Old Lady Hou knew from his son Hou Sui that Hou Sui wanted to entrap Wu Shigong in the past. Therefore, he was also polite to Wu Shigong, and encouraged Wu Shigong a few words. Even when Wu Shigong said goodbye, Mrs. Hou took out five hundred taels of silver as a reward for Wu Shigong.

In addition, the Fuzun of Guide also prepared some carts for King Qin's army, as well as four days' rations. When Wu Shigong's army arrived in Jining, Wu Shigong's supplies would be supplied by the Caoyun warehouses on both sides of the canal and the local government.

Of course, Wu Shigong's own materials and food were relatively sufficient. Because Wu Shigong also had more mules, horses and carts, Wu Shigong carried a large number of carts, and the carts were also full of supplies. But because of the guarantee of the supply of grain and grass, Wu Shigong did not carry much grain and grass from his thousands of households.

And when he left the city of Guide and began to march, Wu Shigong found that the situation was simply too bad. Wu Shigong's own soldiers in the Qianhu Institute were trained in marching and queues, so they did not go badly during the march.

But the 900 soldiers of the other thousand households, that march, did not even go as well as the modern elementary school students to go on a spring outing. Wu Shigong also knew that although these soldiers had the name of a military household, they basically had no military training. However, the poor performance of the march also greatly surprised Wu Shigong.

You know, because the soldiers walked so loosely, the marching line was very long, and the officers could hardly detect whether any soldiers were left behind.

So although it was not dark yet, Wu Shigong ordered to set up camp about ten miles away from Guide City. Wu Shigong had to hurry up and arrange the 900 soldiers as soon as possible.