This Li Guo and Gao Yigong were originally Li Zicheng's generals in the Dashun Army. After Li Zicheng was defeated by Jianyu, these two led the remnants into Huguang to surrender to Ming, and were given the name "Loyal Battalion" by Longwu.

However, although this loyal battalion is nominally the Ming army, it was appeased by He Tengjiao, and then it was directly commanded by him, and has been stationed in Huguang, which is basically He Tengjiao's private army, and is not subject to the imperial court at all.

Therefore, this time, Gao Yigong and others wanted to do something to the auxiliary king, but they had no way to complain, and finally took the line of Jinyiwei and was brought by Gu Yanwu to meet Zhu Linmiao.

Gao Song hurriedly took half a step forward and saluted respectfully, "The last general has seen the auxiliary king Chitose!" ”

Zhu Linmiao nodded, "What are you from?" ”

"Your Highness, three days ago, several thieves sneaked into Huguang and asked Uncle Mo to introduce him to Ge Tengjiao! The uncle immediately captured the man. Unexpectedly, General Li was also captured by thieves that day, for the same thing. ”

Gao Song said solemnly: "Uncle and General Li are worried that the thieves will have another means to see He Tengjiao, and the two may make peace to harm the country, so they urgently sent the last general to warn the imperial court!" ”

Dolgon sent people to Huguang to collude with He Tengjiao? This should be one of his several secret envoys. Zhu Linmiao said secretly in her heart, but this Gao Song, as He Tengjiao's subordinate, does not respect him He Dutang but calls him by his name, it seems that there must be a discord between the two sides.

Moreover, Gao Song said that Jianyu entrusted Gao Yigong and Li Guo recommended, which shows that Jianyu's secret envoy did not see He Tengjiao. The thieves can see the people of the loyal camp, but why don't they go to He Tengjiao themselves?

He immediately remembered that although He Tengjiao had feudal ambitions in history, he never abandoned the national righteousness of the country, and during the Yongli Dynasty, he led the army to fight a decisive battle with the Jierharang Department in Xiangtan, and died on the battlefield, which was considered a martyrdom of the whole festival.

From this point of view, it should be He Tengjiao himself who didn't want to make peace with Jianyu, so he refused to meet his secret envoy. So what Gao Song just said is probably to give He Tengjiao "eye medicine".

Thinking of this, Zhu Linmiao asked Gao Song again: "If it's just a warning, let Xie Hong pass it on from generation to generation." General Gao ordered you to come all the way to Nanjing, there should be other things, right? ”

Gao Song seemed to be a little surprised, and hurriedly said, "Your Highness Mingjian." The last general's uncle and General Li heard that Jianyu had redeployed Duoduo's army to the south, and they were worried about Sheji, hoping to lead the army to the east along the river and enter the south to help the imperial court! ”

Well? Zhu Linmiao was very surprised, the loyalty camp was clearly a show of loyalty to the imperial court, but why did it suddenly have such a twist?

So he deliberately said: "The Loyalty Camp is directly under He Dutang, I don't know what he thinks about this matter?" ”

Gao Song immediately said: "Your Highness's words are wrong! The loyal battalion is the army of the Ming Dynasty, as long as the military department has an order, what does he have to do? ! ”

Zhu Linmi's eyelids jumped, and she didn't answer, knowing that the other party must have something to do.

Sure enough, Gao Song said indignantly: "Then He Tengjiao's name is Mingchen, and he really has ambitions. Since the loyal battalion returned to the imperial court, it has always been called as a private soldier, but he has never cared about the life and death of the soldiers. In the face of a strong enemy, he ordered the loyal battalion to go and fill it with his life, and if he defeated the thief, he sent his own descendants to receive the merit!

"That's not all, Jiao's henchman Fu Shangrui entered the slander and taught him to be loyal to the camp with a small salary. Every time the soldiers are bloody, but after returning to the camp, they live in difficulty, and the meager salary is difficult to provide for the livelihood of the family, and sometimes there are miserable situations of selling children and girls to survive......"

Zhu Linmiao nodded secretly when he heard this, it seems that He Tengjiao has never regarded the loyalty battalion as his own person, but cannon fodder that can be consumed, and often withholds his food and salary, so it is strange that the loyalty battalion has no disagreement with him.

However, this Gao Song did not say that the reason why the loyal camp endured He Tengjiao for many days, but at this time "turned back", is because the Ming Dynasty has seized the entire territory of the south of the Yangtze River and moved the capital to Nanjing, and its appeal and strength have been greatly enhanced. If they can hug the thigh of the imperial court, they will not have to continue to suffer from the pickled anger of He Tengjiao's hands, and Gao Yigong and others are determined to serve the imperial court.

Gao Song continued: "At that time, the loyal battalion was guarding Jingzhou, besieged by thieves, and asked Wuchang for help more than ten times in a row, but Jiao never sent a single soldier, and the loyal battalion was almost wiped out!" There was also an order to ambush thieves with the Jiao army in Yuezhou, the enemy was still far away, and the Jiaobu was afraid of the enemy's strength, so he withdrew without authorization, causing the loyal battalion to be attacked by the enemy and suffered heavy losses...... Subsequently, Jiao urgently ordered the loyal battalion Yangzhou to chase the enemy, but ......"

He complained indignantly for a long time, and finally returned to the topic, asking the imperial court to allow the loyal camp to move down the Yangtze River to the south of Zhili.

Zhu Linmiao secretly thought, there is a contradiction! I am most afraid of Huguang being ironclad, and the loyal battalion is dissatisfied with He Tengjiao, which is exactly where to gnaw Huguang!

For He Tengjiao, he must first be able to suppress him and cut off his thoughts, so that he can bow his head. Fortunately, although Huguang is known as 100,000 heavy soldiers, Zhu Linmiao knows that judging from the historical record, He Tengjiao's troops are weak in combat and have been beaten by 10,000 Qing troops all over the ground.

Now that there is a loyal battalion as an internal response, there is no need to even mobilize the main force of the Dragon Guard Army and the Broken Battalion, only a few troops and horses around Huguang are enough.

He made a rough plan and said to Gao Song: "I know that the loyal battalion is loyal to the imperial court, but for the time being, I don't need you to come to Nanzhili to help in the war. ”

"Your Highness......"

Zhu Linmiao raised his hand to signal Gao Song not to be anxious, and continued: "The loyalty battalion has a greater role in staying in Jingzhou. I have my own arrangements for Huguang, and you only need to obey the orders at that time, and when the imperial decree reaches Huguang again, I will reward the loyal battalion for meritorious deeds.

"As for the issue of food and salary, you can rest assured that in the future, the imperial court will ship money and grain directly into Jingzhou every month, and the amount will be the same as that of the garrisons in other places."

Gao Song was overjoyed when he heard this, and when he heard what the auxiliary king meant, he was planning to attack He Tengjiao! After taking Huguang, how could the imperial court not treat the loyal camp favorably? In addition, there is also the allocation of food and salary, of course, this is done with the imperial court!

He immediately knelt down, "Your Highness! In the end, I will go back and pass on the edict of His Highness! The loyal battalion will swear allegiance to the court to the death, and dare not disobey! ”

Zhu Linmiao nodded with satisfaction, helped him up to encourage him, and asked, "By the way, how many people are there in the Loyalty Camp at the moment?" ”

"Back to Your Highness, there are more than 12,000 strong soldiers, and there are still 3,000 or 4,000 old and weak soldiers."

"Okay, then I will allocate another 5,000 sets of fine armor and firearms to the Loyal Battalion. Practice it well and use it well. ”

Jurong still has a lot of things left after seizing Luckedhun, that is, there is a surplus of a set of people in the loyal camp. However, Zhu Linmiao knew that this sweetness could not be given too much at one time.

Gao Song almost didn't cry, and sure enough, the thighs of the imperial court were easy to hug, and he would give them these "subjugation" weapons! This is something that he couldn't even think of when he was under He Tengjiao!

He immediately knelt on the ground again, kowtowed, and said, "Loyal to the camp Thank Your Highness for your great kindness, and you will die in retribution!" ”

After Gao Song left, Zhu Linmiao immediately returned to the study, carefully deployed in front of the map, and wrote several military orders for people to send to Sichuan, Guangxi, Jiangxi and other places.

When he finally took a breath, Shi Lin reminded with some hesitation: "My lord, do you still want to see that Liang Xiuxing?" "I want to talk about "The Rise of the Ming Dynasty 1646" with more like-minded people, and pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~