This afternoon, the battalions in the capital are very lively, in addition to raising money to build a military hospital, the four battalions under the command of Dongchang are also busy filling vacancies, the palace battalion must be eunuchs with pure blood, so the pedestrians are selected in the grass fence field in the imperial city, and the goal of the other three battalions is big, Emperor Chongzhen personally responded, and the Beijing camp and the pro-guard battalions are free to choose.

But the vision of the selection of the three battalions is not random at all, because there are too many enthusiastic registrations, after all, they are also in the army, but the treatment of the Dongchang guards is much higher than that of other guard battalions.

However, the quota of the fourth battalion of the East Factory is limited to three hundred, and there is no one more, and the selection requirements are just one word: strong and burly, with great strength!

The fourth battalion is replenishing troops, and the other departments and battalions are not idle, some of them have to return to their original stations these days, and some of them have to go south, and they have to mobilize from top to bottom, and they have to pack up and sort out their baggage.

And the busiest are the military department, the household department and the governor of the five armies, and the army is very tedious to travel.

And Emperor Chongzhen, who should have been the busiest, was in the palace at this time discussing with Zhou Yuji, Huang Degong, and Tang Tong, the three new earls, in the Taiye Pond Lake.

Wu Sangui, who should have been the most leisurely, was sweating profusely at this time, hot and anxious.

Something is wrong today, first he was refused to enter the palace to face the saint, and then he asked to see the little eunuch and was refused, and the Dongchang Yamen said that he had left Beijing, and he didn't know where he went.

This kid actually went south first?

Unlike everyone else, the little eunuch liked to walk with the army, and he did the same when he went to Guanwai.

But Wu Sangui felt a little strange, the little eunuch left in too much hurry and without warning.

But he couldn't figure out what was wrong.

Gao Jie and Er Liu were finally able to go out of the city freely, and it was already afternoon when they woke up in the city, and the three of them cleaned up and went out of the city from Guangqumen, and went straight to the military camp on the bank of the Tonghui River a few miles away.

Seeing the three bigwigs come back, their subordinate officers and soldiers also breathed a sigh of relief, a few days ago I heard that Li Chengdong was in turmoil, and then I didn't see a general soldier of each family show up, and Jinyiwei and Dongchang's fans came to the barracks every day to wander around, so that the army panicked and didn't know what happened, and some people were even thinking about whether to slip away quickly.

Now that he was back, the soldiers of the various departments finally breathed a sigh of relief, and came around to congratulate and said sourly: "The adults are happy to forget the little ones in Beijing."

Jolly? The three of them are psychologically miserable, they almost can't come back and live happily, and they are about to brave the scorching heat and run south to suppress bandits, hey, it's all tears!

I can't say anything about the bitterness, the three of them can only play haha, but the subordinates are not relenting: "The adults are promoted and rich, but they don't bring some wine out of the city even if they are happy in the city."

"Wine? Do you know how expensive liquor is in the city right now? Liu Liangzuo's eyes widened: "It's so expensive that money can't buy it!" ”

Ah, the generals looked at Gao Jie and Liu Zeqing with dumbfounded eyes and some disbelief, and the two of them also nodded again and again.

It's true that I'm not lying, I haven't eaten any food these years, and I still use it to make wine?

"Don't think about the wine, don't think about it for the time being, but Lao Tzu won't lose you little cubs" Gao Jie waved his hand: "The day before yesterday, the emperor rewarded you with all the silver!" "Isn't it just two thousand taels of silver, Uncle Gao doesn't care.

The soldiers cheered and told each other one after another.

Gao Jie and the three of them finally calmed down, and came to the military tent under the shade of the trees on the bank to look at the calm river and were distracted.

"On a cool day march, you can't walk more than fifty and ride a hundred, and you will suffer thousands of miles to the south" Liu Zeqing snorted and sneered, glanced at Gao Jie and Liu Liangzuo sideways, and said: "The army has not moved, the grain and grass go first, this is the foundation of the march and the war, and the grain and grass will directly affect the footsteps in the back, otherwise you will have to come back twenty miles to eat after running fifty miles in one breath."

"What are you talking about?" Gao Jie raised his eyebrows puzzled.

Liu Zeqing snorted: "Do you really not understand or do you not understand?" Yesterday, the little eunuch kept saying that he would go south soon, but you can see that there is a little movement of grain and grass? And now the court has grain and grass in its hands? ”

Hey, Gao Jie and Liu Liangzuo glanced at each other: "Yes." It stands to reason that grain and grass should be advanced for at least five days...... The imperial court is now tight enough, how to send troops without food and grass, isn't this nonsense...... Looks like we'll be comfortable for a few days...... However, the imperial court has enough grain and grass on hand, but Zhou, Huang and Li should not be short of food in their hands, after all, all the Tartars have been plundered by them this time."

"Grass! This is where Lao Tzu is unhappy, why do we have to resist what we have to fight so hard, they don't have to" Liu Zeqing roared angrily.

Liu Liangzuo rolled his eyes: "Lao Liu, you are endless, right, how much are they divided, how much are we divided, and why don't you have any points in your heart to pay for money, you said it so well yesterday, why are you on fire again."

"Hmph, I just don't feel comfortable in my heart, no, we have to go and ask for food." Liu Zeqing was resentful in his heart.

"I said Lao Liu, why are you not sober" Gao Jie pouted: "We all responded to the imperial court to pay for it, and the grain and grass are self-sufficient, aren't you going to ask for grain and grass now to provoke trouble, and you don't think we have enough handles?" ”

Hehehe, Liu Zeqing sneered: "We received the transfer of troops from Puzhou to almost break our legs and the rations have been eaten, yes, we should be self-sufficient in grain and grass, the problem is that the grain and grass we have at hand are thousands of miles away, can you eat, can you use it, if you don't ask for rations, you will starve to death in this, let's even if we borrow the head office."

This...... Gao Jie was stunned.

Liu Zeqing is telling the truth, a month ago when Chang Yu was fighting in Shandong and Dolgon, they were resting and enjoying themselves in Puzhou, but they were ordered by Chang Yu to draw a cake, and the three of them sniffed and came to each lead three thousand cavalry to the north, and the rest then marched east from Puzhou, and walked to the territory of Huaiqing Mansion (now Qinyang, Henan) at most in the hot weather at the speed of foot soldiers and carrying countless baggage.

When the servants led their troops to Gyeonggi, the grain and grass had been cut off, and these were still pitifully charity when Wu Weiying withdrew his troops back to Beijing a few days ago, and now they are about to see the bottom.

"So, I really want it" Liu Liangzuo smashed his mouth: "I just don't know if the court will give it or not."

"Hmph, whoever doesn't give food when employing people is still working on an empty stomach, and he doesn't care which dynasty or generation he is" Liu Zeqing snorted.

Gao Jie nodded slightly: "Soldiers without food will naturally not go south on an empty stomach, and we are not immortals who can be full by drinking the wind, and besides, we just borrow it, and we will pay him back when we get to the ground."

"Still?" Liu Zeqing smiled: "Brother Gao, you are really simple!" ”

"What's the matter, don't you have to pay it back?" Gao Jie was stunned.

"It's natural to borrow and repay, but we didn't say that we would pay it back immediately, as for when it will be repaid......" Liu Zeqing looked proud: "I still want to take it out when I enter the pocket, dreaming."

"If you don't pay it back, I'm afraid...... The court is not happy," Liu Liangzuo was a little weak-hearted.

"What can you do if you can't be happy" Liu Zeqing rolled his eyes: "Just now you also said that the war in the south is raging, and the imperial court is employing people, is it possible that we will all be killed because we don't pay back the grain and grass?" Is it possible?"

"So, let's not say no, just drag it out......" Liu Liangzuo also figured out the trick and laughed very obscenely, Gao Jie also echoed the laughter but shouted for help, I'm a mother, two guys who don't know whether to live or die, the little eunuch is worried that he can't find a reason to calculate you, this is good, you two are sent to the door with your face.

So the three of them who had just left the city and returned to the camp for a long time hurriedly returned to the city to find Chang Yu to ask for food, and on the way Liu Zeqing was even more excited to show his teeth and claws: "What's the matter, if it weren't for the little eunuch Yin us, we would still be happy in Puzhou at this time, I should have found an excuse not to come at that time, but I was greedy for his plan, and I lost my wife and soldiers. ”

Unexpectedly, the three of them went back to the city and went straight to the Dongchang Yamen, but they were told that Chang Yu had left Beijing early in the morning, and he didn't know where he went.

Forehead...... The three of them were immediately confused.

The little eunuch actually went south first, didn't he think he was going to yin, and he avoided it early.

Outside the Yamen of Dongchang, the three of them, you look at me, I look at you, the reason why they came to find the little eunuch was because he was in charge of supervising the army, and now he was not there, so he had to go to the Ministry of War to find Shi Kefa, but when the three of them arrived at the Yamen of the Ministry of War, they learned that Shi Kefa left Beijing after noon.

Forehead...... This special drunkenness woke up most of the day and everyone was gone?

In the end, the three decided to enter the palace to face the saint.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't see it, and passed the word out, it's not that you don't borrow it, the imperial court is really short of food to borrow, and it is difficult to maintain the basic rations of the battalions in the city at the moment, but you can go to Li Yan, Zhou Yuji, Huang Degong and they will borrow, they have!

The court even said that there was no food!

But Liu Zeqing and the others believed that it was true, the imperial court was already poor, and they heard that the grain and grass for the Battle of Guanwai and the Battle of Baoding were purchased by private grain merchants.

But there is no excuse, do we want to go hungry to fight, just ask someone else to borrow it, and the three of them were indignant, and they happened to meet Zhou Yuji, Huang Degong and Tang Tong, who had just come out of the palace.

On the occasion of greetings, Liu Liangzuo said that Emperor Chongzhen asked them to borrow grain by themselves, thinking that they would be ridiculed or rejected by the three of them, but Huang Degong, who has never dealt with him, was particularly enthusiastic: "No matter how big things are, colleagues should help each other, come and come, find a place to drink, let's talk about this."

Hey, the sun is coming out in the west? Liu Zeqing and Gao Jie glanced at each other, and always felt that it was too unrealistic like a dream, you must know that Huang Degong ran out of food when he went north to Qinwang a few months ago, and asked them to borrow it, but the two of them didn't give a grain of food...... It's a little wrong, is it because he is happy to be knighted?

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