After the incorporation of Guo Junzhen, the number of the reserve army barely recovered to about 1,000, although the number of people was not as good as at the beginning, but the overall combat effectiveness was greatly improved.

Not to mention Guo Junzhen's nearly 200 well-trained troops, after all, according to the relationship between Li Yan and Guo Junzhen, it is not uncommon for them to defect before the battle.

Most of the rest of the soldiers of the reserve army have already gone into battle to kill the enemy, and they have seen blood on their hands, so they will naturally not be as helpless as they were at the beginning in the battle formation, and secondly, the equipment of the reserve army has been greatly improved, and the captured armor and weapons can finally barely arm all the reserve soldiers, and even pull out dozens of archers, which is already a very remarkable improvement.

Li Yan was a perfectionist, and after he became a little richer, he made a unified plan for the clothing of the reserve army.

In fact, according to the reality of the current army, it is wishful thinking to want to achieve a uniform dress, after all, most of them are captured from the Ming army, from a distance, the elite of the camp is no different from the Ming army, Li Yan is the first person to make a difference in the camp.

The Ming Dynasty is dominated by fire virtue, so the color of the Ming army's clothing is mostly red, while the Chuang army is relatively related to the love of blue and stone blue.

Therefore, Li Yan explicitly ordered that the reserve army should wrap their heads in blue cloth to distinguish the difference between Mingchuang, of course, there is only such a thing that can be standardized at this stage, and armor is not required.

It is not that there are no soldiers with blue cloth wrapped in blue cloth in the camp, but this kind of large-scale blue cloth wrapping is the first army to do so, which directly leads to the fact that the Ming army likes to call the reserve army a blue-headed soldier or a blue-headed thief.

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At ten o'clock in the night, Li Yan was burying his head in dealing with official documents, the army would not stay in Baofeng for too long, the next step was to move to all parts of Henan, about to be pulled, there were many things like cow hair, although He Jiao was killed, Li Yan was "seriously ill and recovered", but he couldn't stand the complicated affairs, and he still couldn't sleep at night.

In the middle of his mind, the curtain of the military tent was opened, and Wang Jinbao walked in with a snowstorm.

"Is there anything wrong with this late hour?" Li Yan used a brush to review the paper, and did not look up, Wang Jinbao must have something to report when he came late at night.

"Back to watch the army, someone outside the tent asks to see" Wang Jinbao hesitated for a moment, but still hugged his fists and said.

"Oh?" Li Yan was stunned when he heard this, raised his head in surprise and looked at Wang Jinbao, and asked, "It's so late, who is coming to me?" ”

Although he had just recovered from a serious illness, Li Zicheng was still worried that his illness would recur, and he ordered him not to bother him if he had nothing to do, and it would definitely not be a military affair if he came to see him late at night.

"Guanjun, it's Gu Fuguang" Wang Jinbao said in annoyance: "Or will someone beat him out?" This person resents the Guanjun in his heart, and if he is allowed to come in, his subordinates are worried that it will be unfavorable to the officers and soldiers. ”

"Gu Fuguang is here?" Li Yan was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then laughed, Gu Fuguang definitely didn't come to assassinate him at this time, otherwise he wouldn't have come to ask for a meeting according to his character, most of them were ambushed halfway to give himself a look.

"Let him come in, I just want to ask him how he feels in the back camp" Li Yan waved his hand and motioned for Wang Jinbao to bring people in.

Although Wang Jinbao was embarrassed, he didn't dare to be disobedient, so he could only turn around and go out of the account and lure Gu Fuguang in.

Compared with before, Gu Fuguang has lost a lot of weight, but compared to the hatred in his eyes and the downfall of his body before, Gu Fuguang is now a lot more energetic, and his eyes are more calm and indifferent than hatred.

Looking at Gu Fuguang, who was dressed in plain linen clothes, Li Yan became curious, and asked: "Mr. Gu, don't come unharmed, I heard from Manager Liu that you have done a good job in the back camp, and you are all a regimental guard." ”

Gu Fuguang did a good job in the back camp, this person did not show favoritism, did not bend the law, although he was not much loyal to Li Zicheng, but he still did a good job, and it was also because of his performance, he was even appointed as the regiment guard, presiding over the affairs of the regiment, and it is commendable that the regiment he led performed quite well in the rear camp, and even organized some small business, which made a lot of money.

Gu Fuguang was not happy because of Li Yan's praise, his face was still unshocked, and he just asked slowly: "Envoy Guanjun, I came today to ask about something." ”

"What?" Li Yan looked at Gu Fuguang playfully.

"When will the army attack Nanyang?" Gu Fuguang said lightly.

That day, Li Yan scolded him and threw him to the back camp, and after a few days of depression in the back camp, he figured out some of the tricks.

What Li Yan said is indeed right, he didn't kill himself, let alone his family, the two armies are fighting for their own masters, Li Yan is understandable to use stratagems, his family really died at the hands of the Ma family, public and private, and reasonable, it really has nothing to do with Li Yan.

And when he thought of his three generations of grandparents and grandchildren who were loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but ended up like this, he also felt heartache, and the whole person fell into confusion.

Later, he simply did some physical work in the rear camp all day to numb himself, and slowly he found that the rear camp was really different from what he thought, although the people in the rear camp had a lot of complaints about Li Yan's severe punishment, but they were also willing to abide by these decrees, under the coercion of the decrees, the rear camp was in order, which was absolutely impossible in the Ming army.

Especially every time the army breaks a place, a lot of looted grain will be taken out to help the people, but at this time, the people are happy and thankful, which also makes Gu Fuguang quite moved, he can read and count, and he was soon promoted to be a person in charge of grain distribution.

Every time he handed over bags of millet to the hands of the people, looking at their excited expressions, and looking at the tears of gratitude they left because they could satisfy their stomachs, Gu Fuguang's three views were shaken again and again, and finally collapsed under the unrelenting impact.

Once upon a time, he thought that it was impossible for Li Zicheng to overthrow the Ming Dynasty, the reason is very simple, after so many years of uprising, so many people, how many peasant army leaders are not dominant? But he died immediately, but not overnight.

Li Zicheng is not as strong as Gao Yingxiang at the beginning, and he can't compare to Zhang Xianzhong now, Gao Yingxiang has been dead for several years, although Zhang Xianzhong is now alive in Sichuan, but it only takes time to be cut off and eliminated.

However, now his point of view has changed, Li Zicheng is far more terrible than Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng already has a set of his own plan to win people's hearts, and compared to Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng is as humble as a valley, and the talented and handsome people are willing to drive him, and the people of Henan see him like a Buddha.

Such a talent is the real henchman of the Ming Court, and Li Zicheng is assisted by strategists like Li Yan and Gu Junen, many of the schemes now seem to be nothing more than that, but when they are investigated, they are all digging the foundation of the Ming Court's rule.

Therefore, Gu Fuguang came to a bold conclusion that Li Zicheng is the henchman of the future imperial court! Now the power is not big, and it can still be strangled in infancy, but the attention of the imperial court has been attracted by Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, and Li Zicheng is still regarded as Erer, once Li Zicheng becomes bigger, this Zhu Ming's country will not be able to take it!

Thinking through the joints, the flame of revenge in Gu Fuguang's heart burned again, that's right, he still has a chance to take revenge! As long as he surrenders and assists Li Zicheng to destroy the Ming Dynasty, aren't the brutes surnamed Ma the fish and shrimp who can cut off their heads at any time? So, Gu Fuguang was heartbroken, and came directly to visit Li Yan and surrendered Li Zicheng, he may not be able to be reused, but if he surrenders Li Yan, he is confident that he will definitely be reused.

From the moment Gu Fuguang came in, Li Yan knew what Gu Fuguang was here for, although he was quite excited in his heart, his face was still very indifferent.

Several questions asked by Gu Fuguang were related to how to operate in Henan and when to fight Nanyang.

Li Yan didn't hide it, and told Gu Fuguang that the focus of the strategy at this stage is still in the Luoyang area, and the Nanyang Chuang Army will not fight for the time being, but since it wants to take root in Henan and Huguang, sooner or later Nanyang will have to be taken, and Gu Fuguang can be a little calmer.

Having said that, Gu Fuguang also knew the next plan of the Chuang army, and the rest of the things were simple, Gu Fuguang gave up his own conditions: "If Gu surrenders, there is one thing to ask for"

"Mr. Gu, but it's okay to say" Li Yan suppressed the surprise in his heart and hurriedly spoke.

"In the future, if you break Nanyang, the Ma family will be handed over to me!" Gu Fuguang gritted his teeth and said.

"This matter is not difficult, even if the Ma family takes the initiative to surrender, I will also hand him over to you!" Li Yan immediately agreed.

"Good! In this way, Gu is willing to surrender to the army! When Gu Fuguang heard this, he immediately lifted his robe and knelt on the ground to bow down.

"Mr. Gu doesn't have to be like this, you don't have to be like this" Li Yan hurriedly got up to help Gu Fuguang up, and said in a loud voice: "Breaking into the camp pays attention to equality, and the ritual of kneeling is not happy. ”

Gu Fuguang nodded, and then asked, "I don't know what Gu can do for the Guanjun?" ”

Li Yan had already thought about Gu Fuguang's position, and immediately said: "Mr. Gu, the reserve army has only recently become an army, and all kinds of talents and materials are in short supply, but the way of the army must be observed, I want to use Mr. as the commander of the army between the army, what does Mr. think?" ”

"I am willing to do the work of dogs and horses!" Gu Fuguang didn't say anything, this was his old job, and he immediately gave up his order.

But Li Yan hurriedly stopped him and said: "Now the situation of the army, Mr. also knows that there is not much I can give to Mr. This time I entrusted Mr. with the major affairs of the army, it is indispensable for Mr. to take care of it." ”

When Gu Fuguang heard this, he also heard that Li Yan was going to form an inter-army unit, but now the resources are definitely not enough, and it is impossible to provide him with too many resources and talents.