Chengyun Hall.

"See the prison country!"

Wang Yingxiong led Wang Xiang, Luo Yuxin, Hou Tianci and more than a dozen generals to pay homage to Zhu Ainao who was sitting on the throne.

The highest rank of these dozen people is general military officer, and the lowest rank is guerrilla. They are all the army generals that Wang Yingxiong gathered in Zunyi.

Wang Yingxiong and others not only learned about the strength of the imperial guards on the road, but after entering Chengdu City, they saw cement roads, magic lamps and other strange objects. At this time, they all knelt down in the temple with awe.

"Plain body."

"Thank you, Supervisor!"

After Wang Yingxiong and others stood up, Zhu Yuyao said: "You were formerly officials and generals of the Nanjing puppet emperor, and you once confronted the troops under my command. You should be punished as a matter of course.

But since you don't know about it and have never caused any trouble before, I will give you a chance.

Except for Wang Yingxiong, who was granted the title of Hanlin Bachelor, and Hou Tianci, who was granted the title of Yongning Counselor, the other generals were sent to training camps to study, and they would serve again after passing the exam.

Of course, in order to better lead the new army, Hou Tianci must also enter the general camp for further training."

This was the result that Wang Yingxiong and others knew about when they were in Zunyi. Now it was just said by Zhu Yuya herself. No matter what they thought in their hearts, no one dared to raise objections in the Chengyun Hall. They immediately accepted the order to express gratitude.

Immediately, except Wang Yingxiong and Hou Tianci who were left behind, Wang Xiang and others were taken out.

Zhu Ayao first chatted with Hou Tianci a few words about Hou Liangzhu and Yongning Guards, and then said: "Commander Hou, after studying in the training camp, should lead a battalion of soldiers and horses back to Yongning, use it as a model, and then recruit and train another battalion.

Soldiers and horses.

The court will not be short of money and food, but Commander Hou needs to train these two battalions of soldiers and horses.

After the spring begins, one battalion will be left to guard Yongning, and you will take the other battalion to Guizhou to be dispatched by the new governor Zhan Tianyan."

Hou Tianci now knew that many of the new army's lieutenant generals only commanded one battalion of troops.

Although he is a general, he can now lead two battalions, and there will be battles to fight in the spring next year. Of course he is happy.

Immediately he knelt down and bowed to the commander, loudly shouting: "The last general takes orders!"

Zhu Ailao smiled and nodded.

After Hou Tianci left, Zhu Aelao looked at Wang Yingxiong and asked: "Mr. Chunshi served as the governor of four provinces under the puppet emperor of Nanjing, but here in this palace he can only serve as a Hanlin bachelor. Do you feel that it is humiliating?"

"Isn't that a big surrender?" Wang Yingxiong replied in his heart.

But he responded with a smile on his face: "How can the appointment of the Nanjing Puppet Emperor be taken seriously? Besides, I was guilty, and the supervisor did not care about it, but he still awarded me the position of Hanlin Bachelor. I have a deep sense of it."

Zhu Aao naturally knew that what Wang Yingxiong said was not true, but she had no intention of exposing it, so she said: "It's good if Mr. Chunshi thinks so. From then on, the matter of drafting the imperial edict will be left to Mr. Chunshi."

Wang Yingxiong bowed and said: "I will do this with my heart."

After Wang Yingxiong left, Zhu Aao recruited Liu Wenxiu.

After the ceremony was completed, Zhu Aolao said directly: "Are you good at water fighting?"

After hearing this, Liu Wenxiu replied: "I can only say that I am ignorant about water warfare."

Zhu Yulao thought Liu Wenxiu was modest, so she asked again: "How does he compare to Zeng Ying?"

"I'm not as good as myself."

Hearing this answer, Zhu Yuyao was silent for a moment.

According to her and Hao Guangming's thinking, Liu Wenxiu played an important role in killing Zeng Ying in the water battle in history, and his water fighting skills should be good. Unexpectedly, Liu Wenxiu actually considered himself inferior to Zeng Ying.

She also wanted Liu Wenxiu to be the commander-in-chief of the navy going to Nanzhili.

"Ask him directly if he can do it. If it doesn't work, just bring Zeng Ying back." Hao Guangming on the other side stood up and called.

So Zhu Ainao said: "I want you to command the navy that will go to South Zhili next year. Are you qualified for the job?"

Liu Wenxiu looked surprised when he heard this, and then said solemnly: "This navy commander is closely related to the safety of the country, so I think General Zeng should be the commander in chief.

Zeng Zongbing's ability in water warfare is the best among the generals I have ever seen.

Only with his dispatch, and the support of the generals who conducted naval battles on the second and third battlefields, can the navy reach South Zhili safely."

The commander of the navy was very important, and Zhu Aelao did not want to rely on him. Seeing that Liu Wenxiu had said so, she said: "Okay, I understand.

But I’m afraid General Zeng won’t be able to come back until the New Year, so you’ll be able to select those who are good at water from all armies to form the Imperial Guard Navy.”

Liu Wenxiu knew that he could no longer shirk this matter, so he said: "I accept my order."

···

While Zhu Yurao was worried about the selection of naval generals, there were people as far away as Kuizhou who were worried about the new army of the Chengdu court.

Taiping County.

As the ultimate place for transportation between Sichuan and Shaanxi on Lizhi Road, this place was originally just a large town and belonged to Dongxiang County. It was not upgraded to a county until the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty.

It connects Xixiang County of Hanzhong Prefecture and Ziyang County of Xing'an Prefecture to the north, and Dongxiang and Dazhou of Kuizhou Prefecture to the south. It is known as the "Key to Qinchuan".

Previously, this place had been repeatedly fought over by the Thirteen Huang families and the Ming Dynasty's army, so that the trade routes were cut off.

Later, Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan, and the power of the bandit army increased greatly. They once occupied Taiping County and forced the army to flee into the mountains.

Unfortunately, within a few months, Zhang Xianzhong's Great Western Army was finished, and the front troops withdrew from Kuizhou Prefecture.

The Ming army took advantage of the situation and came back to recapture Taiping County.

When Li Dingguo led his army into Kuizhou, although Taiping County was in the hands of the government troops, it was blocked by the Huanghuang bandits operating in other Dongxiang areas, so they were unable to send troops to garrison immediately.

Even in early November, Ma Gan summoned officers and soldiers from various places to come to Dazhou for reorganization, but the officers and soldiers from Taiping County failed to arrive.

As a result, while Li Dingguo was reorganizing the officers and soldiers from all over Kuizhou and preparing to lead his troops to exterminate the Huanghuang bandits, a subordinate army went south from Lizhi Road. With the assistance of the Huanghuang bandits in Taiping County, they captured Taiping County.

At that time, this Shun Army did not know the existence of Li Dingguo and other new Ming armies, and Li Dingguo also did not know the existence of this Shun Army.

It was not until the Yaohuang bandits were encircled and suppressed by the Ming Dynasty's new army that they continued to retreat and retreated into the high mountains to the north. The new army pursued them into Taiping County, and then they met this group of loyal troops.

It is now mid-December, and the two sides have engaged in small-scale battles around Lai Chi Road for more than ten times. The result is that the Shun army is outnumbered and defeated.

This made Yuan Zongdi, the general who led this unit of troops, very depressed.

Seeing that in recent days, the troops led by Liu Tichun, Liu Rukui, Niu Wancai and Li Laiheng were retreating steadily and retreated to the vicinity of Taiping County, Yuan Zongdi summoned them all to the county to discuss matters.

"It's not that we haven't fought against the Eight Kings' troops before, and they are no match for you at all. Now that we've just changed our bodies, we've been beaten back steadily. Can you tell me why?"

Yuan Zongdi sat in the seat of Yayuan County Master and asked with a frown on his face.

Among the four people below, although Liu Tichun is not as old as Liu Rukui and Niu Wancai, he has the highest general rank. He is General Guo Yi and Feng Guangshan Bo.

Hearing this, he said angrily: "Why? They all have good armor, weapons, and powerful guns. It doesn't matter what they want. Fighting depends on fighting hard."

If the officers and soldiers were cowardly in the past, they could have defeated them even if they risked their lives.

But these people are said to be elites reorganized under the Eight Kings, and they are still willing to fight tooth and nail. It would be strange if they can still defeat us."

How could Yuan Zongdi not know this?

Therefore, he frowned even more after hearing this.

Niu Wancai said at this time: "Since these officers and soldiers are the soldiers of the former eight kings, and the leader is Zhang Dingguo, why don't we persuade him to rebel against the government again?"

If it had been a few months ago, someone here would have corrected Niu Wancai's statement.

Now that Dashun has captured the Ming Dynasty, they are the government.

But now no one has this idea - in just half a year since the defeat, they were beaten by the Qing army and lost most of Hebei, Shanxi and Henan.

Now that the world is about to be taken over by the Qing Dynasty, what kind of dignity do they have in thinking that they are the government?

Anyone who is a little more sober knows that King Chuang's fortune is probably going to be gone.

After listening to Niu Wancai's words, Yuan Zongdi touched his iron whip and wanted to hit him. He snorted coldly: "Um, Niu Wancai, your brain was blown by the cannon, right? Zhang Dingguo changed his name to Li Dingguo.

We have fought so many times before, and it’s not like he doesn’t know who they are. Do you see how soft he is?

Besides, who doesn’t know what’s going on with our Dashun now? He only rebelled against the government and took refuge with us after his head was lifted by a donkey.”

Niu Wancai was also from Li Zicheng's old camp and was not too intimidated by Yuan Zongdi. Hearing this, he spread his hands and said, "Then what do you think we should do? King Chuang has issued a death order, asking us to open the road from Kuizhou to Huguang!"

"

Thinking of Li Zicheng's military order, several people sitting in the lobby of the county government suddenly fell silent, and the atmosphere became even more gloomy.

Although King Chuang did not explain it, several people here had been fighting for several years and knew why King Chuang issued such a military order.

Nowadays, the Qing army is attacking Shaanxi in two routes: north and south. It is not known what the situation is like on the north route, but the Qing army camp outside Tongguan on the south route has been increasing its troops.

In this way, there will definitely be a big battle between them and the Qing army before and after the New Year.

If he loses this battle, King Chuang will definitely abandon Shaanxi and move south.

The Lychee Road in Kuizhou was an important passage for them to go south.

If they cannot occupy and open up the Lychee Road, it means that they will only have Wuguan as their only option in the future.
Chapter completed!