"I am willing to die for the handsome......

Countless officers and soldiers roared again, and they looked at their commander with a determined look in their eyes.

It is true that the Military Marshal's Mansion has not done what Li Xingzhi said, providing for the old and relying on the little, but it has been working hard in this direction.

The military salaries, which far exceed those of the officers and soldiers, and the lecture hall that is being built are proof of this.

In front of the monument of the martyrs, the German king Zhu Youshu looked helplessly at the tsunami-like Jingbei officers and soldiers in front of him.

Such a careerist harboring evil intentions, in this Shandong border, not far from Gyeonggi, controlled tens of thousands of military horses, once there is a change, then the Beijing division will not be under the feet of the Jingbei army, to put it mildly, no one should enter Gyeonggi, the canal water transportation will be cut off, and the Jingshi side will run out of grain in less than three months.

At this time, in addition to resenting his ancestor Chengzu Emperor's ancestral system, and raising his own clans as pigs, he had no soldiers to use, and now it is impossible for those subordinates who want to buy Li Yi with money and grain.

Yan Shenggong Kong Yinzhi is also slandering in the abdomen, this son of a bitch raised Li thief, sleeping with his daughter did not say, said that he would not take a stitch from himself, and as a result, he moved the Confucian Mansion to the ground, and now he took out his father and presided over the sacrifice for him, what is this called.

In the distance, the family of Confucius and King De also watched the sacrificial ceremony of the Jingbei Army from the foot of the mountain.

"One body fights three thousand miles, and one sword can block a million soldiers!"

Kong Maocai's eyes looked at the tall figure under the Loyal Martyrs' Monument in confusion, and he kept muttering to himself.

"Sister, it's been a few days since this Penglaibo returned to Dengzhou, why didn't he come to see you? No, I'm going to reason with him. ”

"Don't be temperamental, our father is his prisoner, what's the use of you going, alas...... A good man has ambitions in all directions, as long as he doesn't forget me! ”

Looking at the delicate figure of his sister Kong Maozhen, Kong Maocai's heart tightened for no reason, you go to find him, the ghost knows what will happen.

In fact, as King Zhu Youshu thought, after seeing the tall martyr's monument, Li Xingzhi consulted Song Guangkun, how was this martyr's monument built?

The monument was made of bamboo woven into a frame, and then filled with stones and cement and other materials to pour, and it took less than two days to waste, although it is not as strong as the blue striped stone, but it is certainly stronger than the rammed earth.

Since cement can be used to build a ten-zhang high monument to the martyrs, it is naturally not a problem to build the fortress presented by Sun Chengzong.

Jinan is the main road between the north and the south, and Li Xingzhi, as the governor of Shandong in the Ming Dynasty, naturally has the responsibility of protecting the territory and the people.

Although the current basic positions of the Jingbei Army are in Laizhou and Dengzhou, Li Xingzhi has absolute responsibility for Shandong, so the matter of controlling Jinan has also been put on Li Xingzhi's agenda.

How to control it? That is naturally to garrison, but in Shandong, Dezhou, Linqing break, Jinan will have no danger to defend, this time the East Kou plundered Shandong, is to bypass these two, straight to Jinan City.

In order to stabilize Jinan, it is not just a Jinan city, so Li Xingzhi decided to consolidate Jinan at the same time, at the same time build a fortress sent by Sun Chengzong at the Luokou Wharf in Jinan, so that it can form a corner with Jinan City, and the defense of the canal and Shandong will be greatly improved.

After the sacrificial ceremony, Li Xingzhi informed Song Guangkun, the acting prefect of Dengzhou, and Qian Tianxi, the prefect of Laizhou, to immediately prepare enough cement, and at the same time, Liu Li, the governor of Feishu Shandong, straightened out his idea of stationing in Jinan.

The establishment of an inherent defense system around Jinan made Lydon a thorough rear.

The purpose of this was that the Jingbei Army could take advantage of the water transportation of the Grand Canal and quickly dispatch enough military horses to Huaiyang and Gyeonggi.

The Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau, the Leiden Lecture Hall, the requisition and transfer of the naval fleet, the reorganization and training of several new military towns, the calculation of Liu Zeqing, and the construction of the Luokou Fort were not achieved overnight, but the entire Military Marshal's Mansion was like a tight clockwork, relying on the money and food of the Confucian Mansion and the Dewang Mansion and the Jinan gentry.

At the same time, Zhang Xianzhong, the deputy general of the "Ming Court" Xiangyang Valley City in Hubei, was also convening a meeting of the generals.

Since Chongzhen eleven years by the imperial court appeased, Zhang Xianzhong was awarded the title of deputy general by the governor of the five provinces Xiong Wencan, relying on the official body, Zhang Xianzhong actively contacted the old department, gathered the remnants of the army, to the beginning of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong has collected the old department of 40,000 people.

However, with the increase in soldiers, the food pressure brought by it is also increasing day by day, the peasant army is not engaged in production, and the imperial court is unwilling to allocate the corresponding grain and grass in order to prevent Zhang Xianzhong from causing trouble, and even Zhang's military horses are complaining, and people are confused.

Wangjiahe, Taiping Town, Zhang Xianzhong's deputy general.

Zhang Xianzhong's son, Zhang Kewang, said with a depressed face: "Father, since we voted for the Ming Dynasty, officials of all sizes in Xiangyang have often come to ask for bribes, even the dog thing in Gucheng County Lingyuan Ruan Zhixi has also come to fight the autumn breeze from time to time, when did you say we were so angry?" ”

Zhang Kewang, whose real name is Sun Kewang, is Zhang Xianzhong's adopted son, brave and good at fighting, and is familiar with internal affairs, Zhang Xianzhong even relied on it, not only letting him command the strongest middle battalion, but also managing the money, food and materials of the tens of thousands of peasant troops.

Liu Jinzhong, the battalion officer of the middle battalion, said angrily: "Eight kings, we don't have much grain and grass left, and the last general counted some grain yesterday, and it will last a month at most. In my opinion, it's better to go against his mother, and then cut down the corrupt officials in Xiangyang to the roots. ”

"Dingguo, what do you think?"

Zhang Xianzhong was noncommittal, and his eyes glanced at Zhang Dingguo, who was sitting under Zhang Kewang.

Zhang Dingguo is also Zhang Xianzhong's righteous son, his real name is Li Dingguo, he is twenty years old, but he is excellent in martial arts, extremely brave in battle, and knows the general strategy, so Zhang Xianzhong is in charge of the front camp.

"Father, last year, the Eastern Prisoners entered the country, the imperial court suffered heavy losses, and the vitality of the officers and soldiers was greatly damaged, this is a good opportunity for us to recover, and if we have an incident, then Cao Cao and Ma Shouying and others in Yunyang will definitely respond in groups, and in Xiangyang, the main force of the official army is the military horses of Zuo Liangyu's department, even if we are defeated, we should be able to evacuate calmly after sending troops."

Zhang Dingguo's eyes were resolute, he also agreed with Zhang Xianzhong's plan to get up, since the Ming Dynasty, the peasant army has suffered a lot, and now it is a good opportunity to repay grievances and revenge, not to mention that he was quite dissatisfied with the defeat to Zuo Liangyu the year before last, and after more than a year, he also wanted to weigh Zuo Liangyu's catties again.

"Father, what the second brother said is that the government is unreasonable, and the court is unkind, let's go against him."

Zhang Xianzhong's other two sons, Zhang Wenxiu and Zhang Nengqi, all got up and agreed.

Zhang Xianzhong stood up and said coldly: "Okay, what Wu'er said is reasonable, hopefully, you will send someone to contact Luo Rucai, and you will go to the army and horses on the hour, and when the time comes, we will raise the banner of righteousness again." ”

Zhang Kewang said: "What my father-in-law said is that we can go to Luo Rucai and let them do it first, after all, the terrain is more complicated there, as long as Zuo Liangyu's military horse moves, we will have no scruples." ”