The army gathered to Weixian and gathered in a short time. Two days ago, a large number of artillery and sufficient supplies had arrived. When Bai Hu saw hundreds of artillery big and small artillery shells, he was obviously surprised. He had no words for a long time. How thick is the family in Zhou Xian?

These artillery can basically reach one-third of the number of artillery garrisons in Liaodong. However, there are tens of thousands of troops in Liaodong. Now, with the new recruits, there are only more than 20,000 infantrymen in Laizhou. Not to mention those brand new cotton armor, exquisite sword bows, and tens of thousands of feather arrows. This scene is completely beyond his imagination.

Bai Xu was silent for a long time, turned to Li Kai and said, "Before the Commander left, what do you want you to bring to me?"

Li Kaidao: "The military gate said that the first battle must be won. The rest of the matter is left to General Bai. At present, the entire army is 16,000 soldiers, and the army is allowed to be dispatched by General Bai."

Bai Xu nodded. Although he didn't completely believe what Li Kai said, he was also full of admiration for Zhou Xian's courage to hand over this army to him. "What suggestions does General Li Shen have for this battle?"

Li Kai replied: "General Bai, Zheng Longfang, the general under Liu Zhe, who was stationed in the northern part of Qingzhou, was a general under Liu Zhe. This man was a crude and violent person. After he seized Zibo, he hanged nearly 100 officials in the city and robbed the rich local households. Therefore, he obtained sufficient money and grain and recruited soldiers. He announced to the public that he had an army of 50,000, but in fact, only tens of thousands of people were truly capable of fighting. Moreover, his atrocities had already aroused public anger in Qingzhou, but he dared not speak out at the moment. I thought that in addition to sending troops as soon as possible, he would go directly to Qingzhou when Zheng Longfang shrank into a few Qingzhou cities. He should also send detailed works to Qingzhou to encourage the local people to resist Zheng Zhe."

Bai Hu looked at Li Kai strangely and asked, "General Li Shen, have you not sent a detailed work before? How did you know this information?"

Li Kaidao: "Reported to General Bai, the detailed work that his subordinates said was not just those who spy on intelligence, but was more like scouts. In the past, when the military gate went on an expedition, they sent a small group of cavalry to the enemy's territory every time. On the one hand, they were to grasp the enemy's situation at any time, and on the other hand, they were also to find opportunities and do all means to disrupt the enemy. Although the military gate transferred the cavalry battalion, the remaining cavalry barracks were enough to do this. Of course, General Bai's strategy of leading troops may be different from that of the military gate. If General Bai had another strategy, his subordinates could act according to the order."

Bai Hu was very comfortable with Li Kai's lowered posture like this. "General Li Shen, is this method useful?"

Li Kai nodded gently.

Bai Xu said: "Since it works, then it's still the same! In addition, please ask General Li Shen to summon all the generals to come. Let's discuss this war again."

Zhou Xian asked Bai Hu to take over a hundred cavalry, including the guerrilla general Wu Zhiying. After leaving Weixian, he asked the cavalry guard Sun Xuan to take three thousand cavalry to Gaomi first, and then took three hundred cavalry, including Wu Zhiying to Jiaozhou. Along the way, through contact and conversation with Wu Zhiying. At least now, Zhou Xian felt that Bai Hu's evaluation of him was not too much.

After entering Jiaozhou, Tan Zhencai led his troops out of the city to greet him for 20 miles. Zhou Xian talked with him for two hours behind closed doors, and finally Tan Zhencai walked out of the room with a lonely expression and handed over the command of Renzi Camp to Zhou Xian.

Zhou Xian then announced several appointments, except for some others, all the other clan members and confidants who talked about Zhencai. However, some of the people who were inexperienced and could not be used were directly transferred from the Renzi camp by Zhou Xian and asked him to take up his post in Laizhou. At that time, whether to replenish the baggage camp or the new recruits, it depends on the situation.

Tan Shimai saw Zhou Xian walk out of the gate and hurriedly greet him, "Military Gate, my father?"

Zhou Xian looked at him and said slowly: "I will not use your father's previous things. He handed over the military power and lived in Jiaozhou for a long time. This matter has been settled."

Seeing Tan Shimai's face look ugly, Zhou Xian patted his shoulder and continued, "He is him, you are you, everything in Renziying is the same. Your father has high expectations for you, so do I. You are the pioneer and make contributions to this expedition. The leader of Renziying will be controlled by you. This is the agreement between me and your father. I hope you will not disappoint me."

At this time, Chen Feng walked over from the outside and bowed, "Second Young Master, everything is ready."

Zhou Xian nodded, took the cloak from Chen Feng and hung it on him, and said to Tan Shimai: "Go and see your father! The whole army will set off in an hour."

Since the incident of Tan Zhencai's case appeared, Wanji restricted the military salary quota of Renziying. Later, although Tan Zhencai was defeated, he only made up the salary of the original soldiers. The new soldiers recruited later were all supplemented to the Yongziying, resulting in the current number of more than 5,000 people in Renziying, which is less than half of the number of soldiers in Yongziying. But the difference is that Renziying is mostly old soldiers withdrawn from Jinzhou, and its foundation is not weaker than Yongziying.

However, the long-term favor of one and the other made them feel a little resentful, but most of them attributed this resentment to the 10,000 yuan ounce of military salary. At this moment, when Zhou Xian arrived, he became more convinced that this matter had nothing to do with Zhou Xian, otherwise he would not have come to command the Renzi Camp in person. Zhou Xian immediately made up for their military salary, and his morale was high, and the resentment in his previous heart disappeared instantly.

The army reached Gaomi and stationed in a remote place far away from the city. Zhou Xian led a small number of cavalrymen into the city. The county magistrate Zhang Qi, the guerrilla general Ding Keze, and the guard Sun Xuan had been waiting for a long time.

Sun Xuan handed a war report to Zhou Xian and said, "This is the latest war report sent back by General Li Shen. General Bai led a large army to defeat Changle, Shouguang and other places, and encountered almost no resistance. Only in Yidu, nearly 10,000 rebels defended. Our army used new artillery to open the city gate, and the bandit army was defeated and thousands of people were beheaded. At present, the army has arrived in Linqu."

Zhou Xian looked shocked, "So quickly?"

Sun Xuan replied: "Zheng Longfang despised our army and concentrated its main forces in Zibo and Linqu. Other places only had symbolic deployments of some troops. However, Linqu's city was strong and it was extremely difficult to attack. After the rebels were defeated once, they hid in the city like a turtle. General Bai did not attack the siege at present, but only ordered the plunder of the surrounding dangerous places and ordered artillery to bomb the city every day. Military gates, did they order General Bai to urge General Bai to break the city as soon as possible?"
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