In early October, autumn is sluggish, and winter is approaching.

Huozhou is on the eve of intense preparations for the Great Migration.

Zhizhou Yamen.

In addition to Li Xin, Long Xiaoshi, Long Xiaoju, Long Xiaohu and others, Long Thirteen also had two more maids by his side.

It's not appropriate to say it's a maid.

One of them was originally the wife of "Xue Rengui" Jiao Deming, of course, he snatched it from a big family, he was born with a beautiful appearance and a skin that was better than snow, and was killed by his men after being caught by Zuo Liangyu in history.

Xiao's daughter, who was renamed Xiao Ruyu by Long Thirteen, is twenty-four years old this year.

The other was originally a concubine of a county magistrate, a "thin horse" from Suzhou, Jiangnan who sang Kunqu Opera, born petite and exquisite, with a light body and a tactful voice, and was one of the eighteen concubines who did not touch Zhang Mengcun.

Suo's daughter, renamed Suo Ruoyun by Long Thirteen, is eighteen years old.

Compared with Long Xiaoshi, who was informal, Li Xin, who was twenty years old and had already married a wife, was much more mellow, and after some persuasion, Long Thirteen included these two people in the room to serve.

Of course, although these two people are the wives and concubines of big families, they are both Tianzu, which is the only reason why Long Thirteen is willing to accept them.

Long Thirteen has always lived alone, and now the family is big, if he is still alone, even he can't look at himself, at this time, Li Xin, who is a talent and has worked hard in the shopping mall, is his best housekeeper.

This year, Long Xiaoshi, Long Xiaoju, and Long Xiaohu, who were only sixteen years old, also married wives and started families.

Although he has not yet found a stable place, in Li Xin's opinion, with the current strength of the big boss, even if he carries a large number of old battalions south, it is already difficult to be defeated by a single blow.

Because, at this time, Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming in Dengzhou were still resisting stubbornly, and because the imperial court transferred some soldiers and horses to the Shanxi battlefield, his fierce general Li Jiucheng also went out of the city many times to fight fiercely with the official army, and he could still fight a lot, and the official army could not easily win.

In the Yuan'er Division, Hudun Rabbit Khan, who fled here, is planning to go west to Qinghai, and he is bound to pass through Ningxia, which is naturally indispensable to attack and plunder, and the border troops of Gansu Town, Ningxia Town, and Lintao Town of the Ming Dynasty must not be lazy.

What's more, in Shaanxi, although all the thieves from Yan'an Mansion have driven to Shanxi, the thieves from Pingliang Mansion and Qingyang Mansion are still surging, which makes He Huchen and Zheng Jiadong, who are encircling and suppressing there, exhausted.

In the north of the capital, in the Karaqin-Wengniute area, Huang Taiji is hurrying to win over and coerce the Karaqin, Wengniute, Ao Han, Naiman, Bahrain and other departments to digest the fruits of Huduntu Khan's departure.

At this time, the power of the Xiaoice River period was also affecting the grasslands, greatly reducing the Dingkou, cattle and sheep of the Mongolian tribes, but Huang Taiji obtained a large number of iron pots, cloth, grain and other scarce materials through entering the customs and looting and buying and selling the eight major Jin merchants, and won over the Taiji of various departments.

At this time, a stone of grain, ten pieces of cloth, ten jars of good wine, a few good iron pots, a few Han farmers can completely pull the various departments together, according to the grassland tradition, Huang Taiji on the one hand to use materials, Ding Kou to show grace, but also through the sacrifice to the sky, oath to consolidate.

It was at this time that he received the honorific title of "Bogda Khan" from the Mongol tribes.

At this time, in addition to the Horqin tribes that had long been taken into his arms, in order to further win over the Karaqin and Wengniute tribes, he needed more materials and Dingkou, all of which, in addition to the trade with the eight Jin merchants, entering the customs again and plundering was the fastest means.

The next large-scale raid by the Manchus was clearly looting again.

The news that Huang Taiji was in the Weng Niute Conference naturally reached Beijing at this time, so the Ming army could not put too many troops into the Shanxi and Hebei battlefields.

In Hebei, Gao Yingxiang's Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, Gao Jie and other troops due to the lack of Zhang Mengcun, Wang Ziyong and other mediocre talents, but broke out of the world, although they were defeated by Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army, but because Lu Xiangsheng's army was too small, they fought and retreated, and were moving towards the Yellow River.

After Long Thirteen defeated the Ming army again and completely annihilated the most ferocious Zuo Liangyu in the army, He Yilong and Ma Shouying were stunned

This time, they were no longer reserved, took Lin Yangcheng, and personally went to Huozhou to meet Long Thirteen, and gave him the title of "Right Leader".

This is because Gao Yingxiang, who is now in Hebei, is obviously the "big leader on the left road" (so people advocate sitting in the north and facing south, at this time, the east is the left, and the west is the right), and Zijin Liang, who is struggling to survive in the Zelu area, is the "big leader of the middle road".

Don't underestimate this very crude looking "big boss" title, after Wang Ziyong's death, Gao Yingxiang took his place, and it was Li Zicheng who married Gao Yingxiang's daughter, thus pocketing Gao Yingxiang's subordinates to lay his foundation for the future.

This is also an important reason why Li Zicheng, who had just come out of Shangluo Mountain and had only more than 1,000 horses, was able to easily collect many rebels in Henan and dominate the world.

Of course, Li Zi's own ability is no less than Gao Yingxiang, and after being assisted by Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance, and Li Yan, he has a complete set of whole, and the blessing of the military body is also one of the main reasons.

"Big Boss"

Today, the major leaders under Long Thirteen are gathered together, and they are making the last discussion before the migration, and tomorrow morning, the team will be mobilized.

The one who is reporting is Li Zhong (Li You, Li Xin's brother), who has now taken over the position of the head of the reconnaissance cavalry previously held by Li Zhanchun.

Compared with Li Zhanchun, who is not very literate, Li Zhong, who was born in martial arts and has been in business, is obviously stronger.

And since the brothers Li Zhong and Li Xin joined the Xiaoqiang Brigade, anyone with a discerning eye can see that although they do not have the title of leader, in fact, these two brothers have surpassed all the leaders.

Li Zhong was about to speak, but Long Thirteen suddenly waved his hand.

"Ladies and gentlemen, our department can have today, thanks to the sincere unity of all the brothers, among them, not only the credit of the old brothers, but also the credit of the new brothers, such as Li Xin and Li Zhong brothers, therefore, I have decided that from now on, Li Zhong brothers are the eight masters of the Xiaoqiang Brigade, and Li Xin brothers are the nine masters."

"What do you think?"

Although this matter had been expected by everyone for a long time, everyone still felt some pressure after finally saying it.

Compared with Li Xin and Li Zhong brothers, everyone else except Long Xiaoshi is actually illiterate rough men, without the existence of Long Thirteen, their military ability would have taken at least ten years to finally sharpen, but with Long Thirteen, they were only revealed in advance.

According to the current situation of the small strong brigade, it is estimated that more talents will join in the future, how can these people not be under pressure?

However, the prestige of the current Long Thirteen is huge, and as soon as he speaks, there is no room for others to object, and everyone has to say in unison, "It's all up to the big boss!"

So, in this meeting hall, nine people once again swore as brothers, although Long Thirteen didn't want to engage in this set, but this set is the most effective in the hearts of people in this matter, in addition to tradition, at this time the popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin has made great contributions.

"Okay", at this time, Long 13 looked at Li Zhong, "You go on."

"Yes, the big master", after the bow, Li Zhong's voice was obviously much calmer, although he was deeply trusted by Long Thirteen before, but he was not the master after all, this is not enough to speak after all, but now it is good, although it is only the eight masters and nine masters at the end, but in Li Zhong's opinion, because the brothers are doing things by the side of the big masters, they actually play a greater role than several other masters, especially a few young masters.

"Since the battle of Dongguanbao, the Ming army in Fenzhou has been silent when talking about our small and strong brigade, and so far, I have not received any news of any increase in military strength in this place."

"In Fenxi County, it is not worrying that Hu Dawei is still stationed there with the remnants."

"To the south, Hong Chengchou, who had just strengthened an official army in Henan, experienced another defeat, and the general Zhuang Zigu was also captured by our army.

"Therefore, it is the best policy to see our army go to Henan, and it is possible to follow them south after they have all the food and straw and the armament is strengthened again."

Long Thirteen nodded, in fact, he was not as relaxed as the rest of the people.

According to the course of history, early next year

Kong Youde and others will leave Shandong from Dengzhou Water Gate, and then cross the sea to Liaodong, and at the same time will take away 12,000 Ming troops who are proficient in firearms and sailors.

In addition to Zu Kuan, who has arrived on the battlefield in Shanxi, there are also Jin Guoqi, Zu Dabi, Chen Hongfan, Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo, Deng Xi, Mou Wenshou and others.

Therefore, he must enter Henan before the end of the year, and then wait for the opportunity to enter Nanyang Mansion!

"Ahem"

Seeing that Long Thirteen had entered contemplative mode again, Li Xin quickly interrupted Li Zhong's report with a light cough, and then reported himself.

"Great boss, up to now, there are more than 100,000 people who are willing to follow us and others to the south, including about 20,000 pairs of young men and women, and 20,000 carts have been collected and made, each cart can carry materials, which is 300,000 stones."

"The pikemen led by the big boss also have a thousand carts, loaded with military supplies, and when there is a war, they can be put on top with a thousand quasi-young and strong men."

"Of the 300,000 stones, about 200,000 stones of grain and grass, about 100,000 stones of other materials, and the rest of the dingkou, with a household as a unit, each household has a wheelbarrow, loaded with the remaining grain, grass and other things."

"Gunpowder, lead, and lead bullet are prepared according to the three-month supply, and since there are also gunpowder workshops near the nitrate pond in Jiezhou, our army can first take the place after going south, and then replenish it again."

"Each person prepared dry food for ten days, and if there was no war, he would bury the pot in the field and cook food, and if there was war, he would use dry food."

"This time, in addition to fried corn, there were also fried flour, rice noodles, air-dried meat, air-dried fish, air-dried wild vegetables, etc., and most of the air-dried meat was taken from horses killed in previous battles."

"The women's workshop has made 3,000 sets of cloth armor, and seeing that winter is coming, they can be worn over fat jackets, and thousands of sets of cotton armor have been seized, plus their own production, which can fully meet the needs of our army."

"All the horses have their hooves rebuilt, and when they reach the banks of the Yellow River, they can nail the hooves with nail sets."

"By the way, in the last battle, our army captured some Ming troops, as well as a lot of cavalry, as well as the Henan cavalry Qianzong Zhuang Zigu, our department has merged the cavalry into various departments, and some of them will be eliminated and let them enter the old camp, so as to strengthen the training of the old battalion."

"At present, more than 10,000 troops are still maintained."