Ninety percent of the generals above the Huai Army's cavalry brigade commander were surrendered, such as Cao Yuan, Bai Yongfu, Feng Han, Zhan Shixun, Li Qifeng, Hu Shangyou, etc., and only one of them was Zhao Zhongyi, who was the Huai Army who was the secret and turned to the Ming Dynasty and took the initiative to join him.

Below the brigade commander, about 20% of the officers from the old Hegong brothers account for, and the remaining 80% are still mainly surrendered to the army.

The composition of this officer system is very dangerous. In sharp contrast, about 60% of the officers from the Huaiyang Group of the infantry army account for about 60%.

In other words, the cavalry of the Huai Army is basically controlled by the surrendered generals. If these surrendered generals cause trouble, the Huai Army will lose the cavalry that they finally built.

Lu Si was also helpless about this, because cavalry is not a military branch that can be formed by rapid success, but what he needs is long-term training, and a qualified cavalry officer needs more time to develop, and what he lacks is time.

Compared with the battle that is about to arrive, the complexity and loyalty of the team components must naturally be put aside first.

If all the descendants are cleaned or left idle, it is no different from the great cleaning of the Iron and Charity Father.

Lu Si weighed it very clearly which one was more important.

Some things, even though they know that there are hidden dangers, have no choice, which is probably the common problem faced by the anti-Qing forces these days.

At present, the total number of cavalry in the Huai Army is nearly 5,000, including more than 3,100 war horses and 2,000 mules. Regardless of the infantry, the combat effectiveness of this cavalry is not as good as that of Huang Degong's troops in the Jianghuai region, but it is definitely much stronger than Liu Liangzuo, Dong Xueli and others.

The reason why Dong Xueli was willing to go north was that the special envoy Zuo Maotai, who set out from Beijing and rushed to Xuzhou through Henan, brought Li Zicheng's will to issue the "Dong Lu Lu" to go north, which was inseparable from the strong strength of the Huai Army and the tough attitude of Lu Si himself.

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Zuo Maotai was a Jinshi in the seventh year of Chongzhen. He served as a doctor in the Ministry of Personnel in the Ming Dynasty. After the Shun Army captured Beijing, Shun was appointed as the Left Minister of the Military Government and also the Miyun Defense Envoy.

When Li Zicheng left the capital, he recruited troops and the Minister of the Government Yu Shangyou's plan to cross the Yellow River, Lu Bizhou, who had crossed the Yellow River, went north to Henan to establish a defense line. He also ordered the Huai Army, who was under Lu Wenzong's troops, to work together to go north, so that Manzhou could be delayed from going south and to attract elite troops to Henan to gain time for the Shun Army to enter Henan.

After all, Li Zicheng could not give up easily in the important land of Central Plains, Henan.

Back then, he fought several times with the Ming army in Henan for Kaifeng and Luoyang.

The soldier government chose Zuo Maotai to go south to pass the imperial edict.

There are still some areas in Henan that have not been occupied by the Shun Army, but most of the officials and gentry in the area have been surrendered to Shun. The news of the defeat of Shanhaiguan when Zuo went south has not yet reached Henan officials and gentry, so they all go along the way to treat Zuo as an angel.

As a result, the left front foot left, and the surrendered officials and gentry immediately made trouble. At present, the local governments in Dashun in Shandong and northern Henan can be said to have been completely disintegrated, including Dong Xueli's residence Huaiqing.

Zuo Maotai only came to pass the imperial edict "Dong, Lu, Lu" to Henan, and had no right to command decisions. Therefore, he was considered a special envoy but not an imperial envoy, so Lu Si accompanied him to meet him.

Lu Si's Huaiyin Marquis was not as good as the Marquis of Li Zicheng's title to Liu Zongmin, Yuan Zongdi and others, and the Marquis of Huaiyin Marquis doubled after destroying Liu Zeqing. He claimed to have an army of 100,000 (actually less than 80,000). Lu Bizhou and Dong Xueli were not as good as him. Therefore, even if Zuo Maotai was an imperial envoy, he would definitely have to go to the post to see Lu Si who held a large army.

Seeing that the Marquis of Huaiyin was so young, Zuo Maotai was stunned for a moment. Just when he was about to salute, the other party asked him if he knew Zuo Maodi.

Zuo Maotai was stunned and replied that Zuo Maodi was his cousin, who went on a tour of Yangtze River defense as the right censor in Nandu. After hesitation, he explained that although he and his cousin were in a state of obedience and the other was in a state of mind, they had no arbitrariness.

This is to believe that Huaiyin Hou suspected that Zuo Maotai was unfaithful to Dashun.

"The Left Minister does not need to explain. My Dashun Army and Political Officials accounted for the majority of the former Ming officials. Your Majesty never doubted it. How could this Majesty be too careless? However, your cousin is good. If you can use it for my Dashun, it would be a blessing for Your Majesty."

After Lu Si said that, he signaled Lu that the two of them would sit down. After that, he did not mention Zuo Maodi's incident. He only asked Zuo Maotai and Li Zicheng about leaving the west of the capital. Then he asked Lu Bizhou about the matter northward.

Lu Bizhou said that he was ordered to go north, but how to go north still needs to discuss with Dingnan Hou.

"Then let's meet. Your Majesty ordered our three families to go north, and no one would not go."

Lu Si asked Lu Bizhou to enter the city and inform Dong Xueli, and the three parties held a detailed military discussion on the northbound matters outside the city.

Lu Bizhou had a great view of the overall situation. After entering the city, he did a lot of work and finally persuaded Dong Xueli to leave the city and attend the tripartite talks.

As a result, during this tripartite talks, Lu Siyi opposed the "humility" and "conservativeness" shown by Xiao Yuanzhuang. He had an extremely tough attitude and did not delay Dong Xueli at all. He only said that in two days, three people would send troops north and that the people of Manzhou should not be allowed to occupy Henan in empty space.

"Will the Marquis Dingnan behave like Liu Zeqing to resist the order and refuse to obey it?"

The threat in Lu Si's episode is unconcealed.

Dong Xueli was speechless. Although he was afraid of the people of Manzhou, he had Li Zicheng's order and the Huai Army's eyeing him. The situation was not forbidden to go north.

In the end, Dong Xueli agreed to go north.

According to Lu Si's deployment, Lu Bizhou's troops and Dong Xueyi's troops set out from Xuzhou to enter Runing Prefecture, Henan, and went north to Kaifeng, taking over Luoyang and other places, suppressing rebel officials and gentry on the spot, surrendering and accepting rebels, and establishing a defense line for Guanluo.

Dong Xueli said that his troops were only more than 10,000, and it was difficult to station so many places at the same time. Lu Si said that the Huai Army could send out a group of troops to assist Dong, and Lu set up defenses in Henan.

This army was the fifth town just formed by the Huai Army, with the commander of the town Zhang Guozhu, and more than 12,000 officers and soldiers in the town.

In order not to give Dong Xueli any chance to procrastinate, Lu Si not only gave Dong and Lu troops about 6,000 stones of grain to provide Dong and Lu troops, but also gave each one a thousand mules (donkeys, pack horses).

The Huai Army was led by Lu Si from Xuzhou and Haizhou into Shandong, and marched from the canal to Dongchang Prefecture, occupying Jinan, Qingzhou, Dezhou, Jining and other places.

In addition to the first town of Xuzhou and the second town of Haizhou, there were also iron armored guards, flag plaques, cavalry, and a total of nearly 40,000 infantry and cavalry.

When Dong Xueli heard that the main force of the Huai Army was entering Shandong, he couldn't help but complain, thinking that Lu Si was suspected of avoiding the enemy. Because the Manzhou people really wanted to go south, the first thing they had to do was Henan, not Shandong.

Lu Bizhou saw what Dong Xueli was thinking and said, "I thought that if the people of Manzhou went south, they would probably walk along the canal. The chances of Huaiyin Hou leading the main force to enter Shandong and Manzhou were greater than that of us."

Upon hearing this, Dong Xueli didn't say anything more.

Lu Si glanced at Dong and said nothing.

Dong Xueli took the initiative to surrender to the Qing Dynasty in history, but if he did not surrender to the Qing Dynasty at that time, he would be attacked by the two lines of the Northern and Southern Ming Dynasty. Now the southern line is invincible, so is there a layer of variables to surrender to the Qing Dynasty?

After the main forces of the three parties went north, the defense envoy Wu Su temporarily replaced the prefectures of Xuzhou. In the previous period, Wu Su surrendered many prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of Xuzhou Prefecture and appointed many local officials. This would be a good time to mobilize them to build a local regime.

Lu Si gave Wu Su the task of harvesting summer grain, collecting and resettling refugees from Shandong and Henan, and doing a good job in the relief of the people and suppressing bandits.

In order to allow Wu Su to stabilize the situation in Xuzhou quickly and effectively, Lu Si ordered the Sixth Brigade of the Second Town to enter Xuzhou from Muyang and Su Jinzhong's troops to enter Pizhou. In addition to ensuring the food route, these two troops were to assist Wu Su to suppress a few scattered soldiers and local gangs in Xuzhou.

At the same time, Lu Si ordered people to send a letter to Baoying's nephew Guangyuan, who was recovering from his wounds, and asked him to go north to Xuzhou to take charge. The third town formed by Tongtai and the fourth town formed by Yangzhou each transferred a brigade to Xuzhou.

This is the general plan.

On the ninth day of the fifth month, Lu Si led the cavalry to enter Shandong first, namely, to go north to investigate the movements, but in fact, to search for the whereabouts of Fufan and Lufan.

However, he encountered heavy rain as soon as he entered Shandong. However, he lost his horse and did not know the good or bad luck. The Fu Fan, who thought it would take a lot of energy to search, was discovered in Yutai. This was a great success in going north.

Lu Bizhou and Dong Xueli led their troops into Henan the day after Lu Si set out, and the fifth town was led into Henan by Zhang Guozhu.

Lu Si did not set a clear task for Zhang Guozhu, as long as he acted according to the opportunity, he secretly ordered him to lure him into killing him if there were any abnormal movements in the board of directors.

Zhang Guozhu naturally understood it.

The fifth town was formed by the third brigade of the original first town, which was Xie Jinsheng brigade, who was born in cotton-burning, and Liu Ze's Qing army was formed. Among them, the large surrendered army was Zhang Guozhu's 4,000 soldiers, Ma Sanbao's more than 2,000 soldiers, and the rest were Lingsan small brigade.

Don’t look at Xie Jinsheng who was born with cotton, but his ruthlessness was not less than that of Zhang Guozhu. In addition, except for Zhang Guozhu’s headquarters, the other surrendered soldiers had their own factions. Therefore, Lu Si did not doubt that there were repeated recurrences in the fifth town. Even if Zhang Guozhu could take away his troops and surrender to the Qing Dynasty, the rest of the soldiers might not be able to follow him.

Lu Si didn't need to explain to Xie Jinsheng, and he just said to him carefully when he left.

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Not long after Qi Bao notified him one by one, cavalry generals above the brigade commander came one after another.

"uncle!"

The first one to come was Li Yanzong, the nephew of Lu Si, who was only sixteen years old. Although he was not a troupe commander, he was the nephew of the governor and directly directed the 100-man team built by the governor, so Qi Bao was the first to find him.

"Go and move some stools."

Lu Si asked his nephew to find a stool and handed over the 100-man team to his nephew not only fulfilled his nephew's wish to be a cavalryman, but also because Lu Si hoped that this nephew could grow up sooner.

Cao Yuan, Bai Yongfu, Feng Han, Zhan Shixun, Li Qifeng, Hu Shangyou and others entered the house one after another. Although Li Qifeng and Hu Shangyou were awarded the position of brigade commander by Lu Si, the two were in awkward situation because they did not have direct troops. However, no matter where Lu Si went, they were taken by him, and they liked to chat with them for a while even if they had nothing to do.
Chapter completed!