This battle was extremely critical for Zhou Shixian.

The situation in the world is changing, and he doesn't have much time left. Almost everything needs to be done against time.

Both he and Chongzhen need a victory very much - for now, just one victory is enough to put many planned things into practice.

However, failure is even more unacceptable than not having a victory, so he really needs to calculate the gains and losses very carefully.

The mansion soldiers he assembled had not been completely formed yet, so he should push the day of his dispatch later.

However, Liu Konghe's incident provided him with a rare opportunity. Once he missed it, he allowed Liu Zeqing to calmly suppress the rebellion, and the opportunity would never come back.

Moreover, Liu Zeqing is very willing to spend money in the officialdom. When he was in Shandong, he had a passionate fight with the chief minister Zhou Yanru. Now he has arrived in Huai'an and is very close to the Donglin Party members. He has many ears and ears in Nanjing. After a long time, it is hard to guarantee that he will not hear any rumors.

After thinking about it, the next morning, I changed my plan to enter the palace to meet the saint and called Hongye over first.

"Hongye, it seems that you haven't entered the palace to see your aunt one day," Zhou Shixian said with concern, "Don't you miss her?"

"Ah, are you so kind?" Hongye looked at him with a smile, "Do you miss the Zhu sister? What words do you want me to bring to her?"

"That's right, I want to ask Miss Hongye to bring a message for me."

Zhou Shixian smiled slightly, pulled her to her side, and whispered a few words to her.

Hongye seemed to have realized something and nodded vigorously.

"Also, stop bringing things to the palace," Zhou Shixian was not relieved and specifically reminded, "If you bring food, remember to hand it over to Shangshenjian first!"

"I know!" Hongye smiled and took off, preparing his own things.

"Eighteen, prepare horses!" Zhou Shixian ordered, "Go to the school camp!"

When I arrived at the camp camp, I went straight into the camp gate, but got off at the door of the hall, went into the side hall to sit down, and the flag officer in the camp went to the successor.

He found that the atmosphere of the entire camp had changed, from the lively school martial arts test and formation training to the preparation of war and military supplies, and the appearance of tense combat preparations before going to war.

To be honest, he was very satisfied. Yesterday he only spoke to several of his confidants. They could immediately understand his intentions and make arrangements overnight so that the camp would be in this situation today.

Ruichang's cavalry was stationed in the school camp, so he was the first to arrive. Wei Donglai's musketeers were stationed in the Zhoushan camp. It took a while to come. Xu Yong happened to be in Zhoushan today, so he arrived with Wei Donglai.

"Official Xu Duanshi, let me talk about you first."

Seeing that the prince-consort looked serious today, Xu Yong did not dare to joke at all and said things in a regular manner.

"I have a total of 31 military judges, and I am 32. According to the current rules of the government soldiers, Qianzong will lead a hundred people and a military judge. If the soldier abandons Qianzong and flees, he will kill his soldiers. Qianzong should first look back and kill Qianzong."

"Of course." Zhou Shixian nodded, "General Ruizhan, listen to you."

Rui Chang also became nervous and reported the situation of his three thousand battalions of cavalry.

The cavalry originally planned to pick three battalions of 1,500 people, but now there are 1,200 people, including two in Meng camp and one in Han camp. Each battalion has about four hundred cavalry, complete armor and equipment, and all are equipped with spears, bows and arrows as standard weapons.

"I just don't have any horse preparations," Ruichang explained, "but if I beat Gao Jie, it would be enough for a single horse."

"Beat Gao Jie?" The prince-in-law glared at him, "You Ruichang tell me, how did you know you were going to beat Gao Jie?"

Rui Chang was a little panicked and looked at Wei Donglai and Xu Yong with help, but Wei Donglai and Xu Yong both looked at other places.

"I'm guessing by reporting to the prince-consort." Rui Chang muttered, "The prince-consort said yesterday that he was not going to fight Manchu soldiers or fight thieves, so I guess..."

"Well, the world is very big, how did you guess Gao Jie?"

Although Zhou Shixian was stern when he spoke, he was a little curious and wanted to hear how this old man guessed.

Seeing that the prince-consort was serious, Rui Chang was panicked and confessed Wei Donglai and Xu Yong.

"It was Wei Donglai and Xu Yong who discussed talking. I heard it aside," Rui Chang snorted, "They said that Gao Jie was a remnant of the thief, robbing things in Si County and killing people. This time, the prince-in-law probably wanted to deal with him."

Wei Donglai and Xu Yong lowered their heads to be scolded, but Zhou Shixian was stunned for a moment.

Gao Jie was not good at engaging in the camp and had almost no aid in the court. Because he had been a trespasser, he was often discriminated against. Now even Wei Donglai and Xu Yong are not immune to the common people. If this continues, he will be forced to death sooner or later.

However, it is also a fact that Gao Jie's poor military discipline is not good. If this does not change, there will never be a way out.

Zhou Shixian just shook his head and said, "Don't guess", and did not ask this question again, but asked about the preparations for the Zhoushan Camp.

"I picked up a thousand people, all of whom were picked out from the Shenji Camp in Beijing, including the two musket battalions, plus half an artillery battalion."

"Is there only half an artillery battalion?"

Zhou Shixian was more concerned about this. Last time he was watching cannons in Quanzhoushan, the latest styles of Flang machine cannons left a deep impression on him.

"Yes, there are many musketeers in Nanjing Jing Camp, but not many gunners can operate. When I picked people, I raised my hand, but I still only picked about 180."

"How many cannons can you bring?"

"It depends on what kind of cannons we bring," Wei Donglai paid attention to the expression of the prince-consort. "Whether to bring the No. 2 cannon or the No. 4 field cannon."

"We want to run, we only bring the No. 4 cannon."

"Eight people and one gun group, plus the gun chariot driver, can bring a total of sixteen guns."

"Where is the auxiliary soldiers?"

"All six hundred people were led by Guan Qisheng, including three hundred archers."

"What is the morale of the two camps?"

After hearing what the prince-consort asked, the three of them looked at me and I looked at you, and finally Xu Yong answered.

"When the prince-consin said, everyone said, how can you make meritorious service without fighting?"

Zhou Shixian stopped talking, sat upright, stroked his knees with his hands, and looked ahead silently.

The three generals and officials dared not speak out, stood beside them and waited quietly.

"From tomorrow, I will give you three more days." The prince-consort finally spoke, "On the fourth day, in the name of drills, they all took the team, crossed the river from Taoye in the west of the city, stationed in Pukou Daying that day, and the next morning, the entire army of Pukou Daying would set off."

The three of them looked at each other excitedly, and set out from Pukou, which one should they fight?

"Whose soldiers set up an ambush on Huai'an Road to intercept the imperial lord? Whose soldiers looted the first-rank governor's headquarters and brutally killed the Huaifulu Zhenfei? Whose soldiers took us as if nothing had happened and chased the imperial lord for two hundred miles?"

The three of them suddenly realized that the prince consort was going to Huai'an to take revenge.
Chapter completed!