Just after Lu Xiangsheng and the generals agreed on a strategy to suppress the bandits and sent several routes to Zhuxi and Zhushan to explore the enemy situation, good news came one after another.

First, the court's pond report was delivered, and the above content made Lu Xiangsheng feel relieved: Gao Yingxiang was defeated and captured by Sun Chuanting in Heishuiyu, south of Xi'an, and then escorted to the capital to death.

Zu Kuan and other generals were more disappointed and unfair. Gao Yingxiang's elite lost all the troops in the battle of Shouzhou, and the remaining defeated generals were vulnerable, but now they were picked up by Sun's ones. The Qin army will definitely be rewarded this time. Those grandsons also earned money while lying down, but they were still fighting with the thieves in the mountains. Grandma! Comparing people with people, it will be so angering!

Immediately afterwards, the Ministry of War quickly sent another good news: 20,000 troops in the Beijing camp were on their way, and asked the minister to plan and arrange the next strategy for the bandit suppression after tens of thousands of troops were united. The court was planning a list of all the soldiers participating in the battle to eliminate the trespasses, and soon the reward list will be issued to the entire army. Please ask the minister to declare the generals to calm the morale of the army.

Lu Xiangsheng smiled and said loudly: "Break the enemy and capture it, Shaanxi Governor will make contributions! I congratulate my emperor! Congratulate the court! Congratulate the Ming Dynasty! The fall of such giant thieves shows that all the thieves will not escape the same fate!"

Zu Kuan, Li Chongjin and others remained silent, and Huang Degong, Yang Maogong, Qin Yiming and others all had an uplifting look on their faces.

Lu Xiangsheng glanced at everyone's expressions and saw through everyone's thoughts.

He continued with a smile: "I have received the order from the Ministry of War. The court obeys our emperor's edict and is drafting a reward book to include the battle of Shouzhou in the battle to eliminate the rebels. His merits are the same as that of the Qin army!"

Zu Kuan was happy when he heard this, and grinned and said, "The General Commander is serious? Do I just say that, we will fight to the death, and the emperor and the court cannot see it? Hahaha! This time the men are more energetic!"

Li Chongjin said happily: "General, no matter how the imperial court rewards merits, as long as we are not forgotten, we will be successful! Our Liaodong Army is willing to serve as the emperor to die!"

Zu Kuan next to him glanced at him without saying a word.

Huang Degong smiled and said, "The commander-in-chief, the thief is the thief in front of us. The rest of the biggest thief is the thief in front of us. The rest is not worth worrying! If we suppress the thief again, then who can compete with the entire Ming Dynasty? Although Zhou Yuji made great contributions to the Qin army, the Qin army will have no more great contributions after the Shaanxi pacification! I, Lao Huang, have the opportunity to show my face this time, and I must make Lao Zhou envious!"

Huang Degong's words immediately mobilized the thoughts of everyone in the tent.

Now the biggest bandits in the Ming Dynasty have been eliminated, and the rest are the culprits of the burning of the imperial tomb in the eighth year of Chongzhen - Zhang Xianzhong, Lao Huihui and others.

Especially Zhang Xianzhong, who has been listed as an unforgivable thief by the emperor, would be no less than the great achievements of extermination of Gao Yingxiang.

In the battle of Shouzhou, Huang Degong hedged from the 500 battalion brought by the Yongwei Camp and fought against the bandits' horse team. In the end, only more than a hundred cavalry remained, and nearly a thousand infantry casualties were killed or injured. Seeing the heavy casualties of the soldiers he brought out, Huang Degong was depressed for a long time. In the subsequent battle of suppressing bandits in several Henan prefectures, Huang Degong and Wu Qun carefully selected and completed the organization of the surrendered bandits and the 5,000 local young lieutenant generals who wanted to join the army. As for the horse team, it was not possible to supplement it for the time being.

Seeing that the originally dull atmosphere became warm in an instant, the generals' enthusiasm suddenly increased greatly, and they felt extremely relaxed.

He waved his hand to stop the mutual discussion of the generals, and then said, "There is another happy event to inform the generals: The emperor considered that our troops had been in war for many years and the soldiers were exhausted, so he specially sent 20,000 troops to help! Now that the people in the Beijing camp have arrived at Ruyang Prefecture, they will arrive in Yunyang soon! The Ministry of War requires our officers and generals to investigate the relationship between the bandits and formulate strategies. After the army joins forces, we will strive to win the generals and capture the bandits in one fell swoop!"

When the generals heard that the court sent a large army to aid, they were both happy and worried.

Zu Kuan bowed and said, "General, we have been transferred from Liaodong to the mainland for more than a year, and we have fought countless thieves, and the men have suffered a lot. However, the court has never shortened our food and salary and pensions, and the men have no complaints. It is natural for the soldiers to take their wages. The emperor has worked hard and we are grateful. But we can still fight, no matter how he offers thieves and breaks through the thieves, and the local bandits! As long as the general commander gives us the order, our Liaodong army will take the lead and slap the current thieves!"

Huang Degong and others also expressed their opinions, saying that they did not have to wait for the Beijing troops to arrive. Now the troops are enough to wipe out the thieves. Please ask the commander to order the attack immediately.

How could Lu Xiangsheng not understand everyone's thoughts? Huang Degong's words just now had already moved everyone, because he was afraid that the Jing camp would come to grab the merits, so he bewitched himself immediately ordered an attack so that he could destroy Zhang Xianzhong before the Jing camp arrived.

He saw very clearly the purpose of the emperor sending the Jingying camp to Huguang. The new soldiers in the Jingying camp must go through the training of the battle formation before they can become strong soldiers. The emperor was not at ease with the Liaodong generals, so he was ready to use the new army to fight or replace the Guanning army in the future.

Thinking of this, Lu Xiangsheng laughed and scolded: "You are young and you are trying to make a small mistake in front of me! The thief Xian has been designated as an unforgivable thief, so the primary responsibility of this battle is to find out the virtual and real and distribution of its troops, and then formulate a thorough strategy, so that it must be completely wiped out! The horse has not yet been sent back to the situation, and the situation of the enemy and us is unclear. In addition, the terrain in Yunnan is complicated. According to the cunning thief Xian, what if he escapes early in Shouzhou? What's more, according to the words of the thief Xian, there are still other thieves around him; according to the intention of the thief, this time, the thief in Huguang will be captured in one net, and the mission will be escaped! How could you think about the overall situation when you are greedy for me?"

Lu Xiangsheng's words immediately woke up. All the generals were all people who had experienced a lot of battle formations and knew that they had taken it for granted just now.

Zhushan is nearly two hundred miles away from Yun County where the army is located, and Zhuxi is even two hundred miles away; Fang County and Baokang are even further away. Several routes of horses have to travel through mountains and rivers before they can reach their destination, and then they have to conceal the terrain and the thieves to investigate, record the terrain and treachery and return to report, and then formulate strategies and tactics based on the information they are searching. All of these are indispensable and important measures for combat. How can you fight without knowing the enemy's situation? This is a useless scholar who is purely a paper talk.

Seeing everyone's expressions awkward expressions, Lu Xiangsheng smiled and comforted, "You are eager to make contributions, how can I not know? Don't worry, the court has also taken the merits of Shouzhou into rewards, how can I ignore this battle in Yunyang? You must not have any less merits! But the generals must remember! Once the war begins, the generals must obey the orders of the generals and cooperate with friendly forces to make the thieves escape! Otherwise, the official will never be lenient!"

Speaking of the last sentence, Lu Xiangsheng's tone suddenly became stern.

After all the generals held their fists and obeyed the order, they returned to the camp to declare to the soldiers that the court rewarded the merits.

Since Zhang Xianzhong obtained Pan Duao and Xu Yixian's surrender, his ambitions have increased sharply. The two's surrender meant a lot to him, which is a symbol.

Those who are as powerful as Gao Yingxiang have 20,000 elite cavalry and tens of thousands of infantry at their peak. In addition to other bandits who came to surrender, the maximum number of soldiers and horses under their command was hundreds of thousands, and they have become the leader of the world's rebels.

But even with such a powerful force, no scholar has ever come to join us.

This means that scholars are not optimistic about the prospects of the thieves.

Although Pan Duao and Xu Yixian are not elites among scholars, in the eyes of grassroots figures like Zhang Xianzhong, those who have read the books of sages are top figures, regardless of their vision or knowledge.

From another perspective, the two of them’s resignation indirectly shows that scholars are no longer optimistic about the Ming Dynasty.

Since the two brought their families to the camping camp in Huangmao Pass, Zhang Xianzhong showed the greatest respect to them.

He equipped the two of them with twenty personal soldiers, all of whom were specially selected with long-standing elite soldiers, each with an old soldier in the army as the chief of the personal soldiers.

According to Zhang Xianzhong's instructions, the twenty people were divided into teams, guarding the two of them for twelve hours a day, and standing outside the door to watch the night while sleeping.

Zhang Xianzhong specially found several servants and maids from Zhushan to send them to their homes for their family to call them.

Zhang Xianzhong knew the man's preferences and gave two beautiful maids to each of them. This kind of considerate arrangement made Pan Duao and Xu Yixian extremely grateful.

The two were not from luxury families. Although they had some extra money in the family, they did not mean that they could spend as much as they please. The older Pan Duao had only one wife and two sons in his family, and his father was nearly 70 years old. His daily income was based on his original thirty acres of land and the output of the 50 acres of land under his name. In addition, he usually wrote letters to others. In total, the income of only twenty or thirty taels of silver a year was slightly stronger than that of ordinary people.

Xu Yixian and Pan Duao's family are similar, and they are both ordinary families that are less than the best than the best.

Haven't the two envied those rich people who had beautiful wives and maids in their families? Unfortunately, at most they just polished their eyes, then drank some wine, and scolded a few words like the corrupt world.

The beautiful things that were originally conceivable but undesirable suddenly appeared in front of you, and they were real and could be enjoyed with all your heart, and everything was like a dream.

While Pan Duao and Xu Yixian were very grateful to Zhang Xianzhong, they also showed all their abilities to help him do things.

Although Zhang Xianzhong has been in the official army for several years and is quite familiar with the affairs of the camp, he knows nothing about military strategies. He relies on experience and on-the-spot sense of smell. His soldiers also trained according to the little he learned from the official army, which is not a very sophisticated method.

Pan and Xu took out the handwritten Sun Tzu's Art of War to explain carefully to Zhang Xianzhong, and taught him the method of practicing the platoon camp that he saw in the book.

Zhang Xianzhong called Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo from Zhuxi to listen to the teachings of Pan and Xu, and then trained some of the soldiers of the old camp according to their methods.

After nearly a month of exercise, thousands of soldiers in the old camp have already performed well, and are no longer the messy appearance of fighting before; they have become well-established and well-established, with a relatively neat formation, which is much more concise than before.
Chapter completed!