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"General, I just received the news that two days ago, the Tartars attacked Hejian Mansion, looted the entire Hejian Mansion, and finally kidnapped more than 100,000 people and went all the way north."

In February, Li Zixiao left Jinan City and did not return to Yongcheng County, but stayed in Zhaoyang Lake, Wei Hong's naval camp.

It happened that the battle of the White Dragon Army's Northern Expedition was over, and Li Zixiao stayed in Zhaoyang Lake to test the newly established naval army under his command.

On the one hand, Li Zixiao is always paying attention to the war in the north, and Tatar will not leave the gate so soon.

"It seems that I saved Jinan City, but I hurt the people of Hejian Mansion!" After Li Zixiao received this information sent back by Han Tong, he sighed and said.

Originally, according to the normal development in history, the Tartars would capture the city of Jinan, scrape the Jinan Mansion three feet to the ground, and then go away, all the way north, leaving the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

However, in this life, Li Zixiao, a little butterfly, flapped its wings, which directly made Tartar fail to capture Jinan City, and instead changed his goal and defeated Hejian Mansion.

This also made Li Zixiao very helpless, after all, his strength was still too weak at this time to reverse all this.

"Stone, did we send someone to pick up the two hundred brothers we left in Shunde?" Li Zixiao put down the information in his hand and asked Quartz on the side.

"General, Zhou Dazhu sent someone to report in the morning, they have successfully picked up the more than 500 wounded soldiers we left in Shunde before, and it is estimated that they will come back in two or three days."

"That's good, those wounded soldiers have recovered, but they have experienced the baptism of war veterans!"

Wang Zirui attaches the most importance to the wounded soldiers, most of the 500 wounded soldiers are lightly injured, and when they return to the team after recovering from their injuries, they will be veterans who have seen blood, veterans are rare!

"General, the two commanders, Lu Yuan and Hong Sheng, have already gathered all the sailors under them, now let the general go over to test."

At this time, Wei Hong broke in and reported to Li Zixiao.

"Ready? Let's go and see what you've done in the last few months. ”

Li Zixiao said, and walked out of the house, this is a fishing village established next to Zhaoyang Lake, and it is also the base camp of the White Dragon Army at this time.

After Wei Hong subdued a water bandit that had previously been entrenched in Zhaoyang Lake, he rectified this water bandit and trained it to become a sailor of the White Dragon Army.

These water bandits were originally fishermen around Dushan Lake and Zhaoyang Lake, and they were forced to become bandits because they couldn't make ends meet.

If, Lu Yuan and Hong Sheng, the water bandits, were originally those water bandits who were extremely vicious and killed people without blinking, Li Zixiao would not let Wei Hong recruit them.

Those ferocious water bandits are lawless, and it is absolutely impossible for them to stand the strict military discipline of the White Dragon Army, if they accept these people, something big will happen sooner or later.

And when Li Zixiao led the White Dragon Army to the north to conquer Tatars and fought bloodily in the land of Hebei, Wei Hong also took Lu Yuan and Hong Sheng, two deputy generals of the sailor battalion, to cross the two major lakes of Dushan Lake and Zhaoyang Lake.

It took them three months to sweep away the other five or six bandits that were entrenched in the two major lakes.

Among these bandits, there are actually only two really vicious bandits, and the rest are forced to kill village officials under the pressure of life, just to beg for a bite to eat and live.

In three months, Wei Hong led Lu Yuan and Hong Sheng, both of whom were familiar with the topography and waterways of the two major lakes.

Soon the two real water bandits were wiped out, and the other three homeless water bandits were co-opted, so that the number of soldiers in the water camp soon swelled to more than 3,000 people.

However, after Li Zixiao arrived, among the 3,000 people, more than 2,000 people were laid off and let them return to the fishing village to continue to catch their fish.

And guarantee that they will no longer be exploited harshly before, and the fish they catch will be purchased by the White Dragon Army at the market price, so that these fishermen can survive.

And the 1,000 people left by Li Zixiao are all the strongest and the best in water, and of course those who can read are preferred.

It's a pity that few of these fishermen can read and write, which also makes Li Zixiao have no choice but to think of a way in the future.

Li Zixiao has always hoped to establish a naval army, is there such a good opportunity, which is why he directly gave up returning to Yongcheng County.

handed over all the post-war pension and other matters to Qian Guangyuan to be responsible, and he had to stay in the two lakes for the main reason.

Led by Lu Yuan and Hong Sheng, these White Dragon Army sailors were formerly fishermen who had been fishing around the two major lakes for generations.

These fishermen are very good at water, they can control boats, and with a little training, they can become a good sailor, and these people will be good sailors.

After Li Zixiao walked out, he found that there were already thousands of people standing in the open area in front of this fishing village, and they all looked at Li Zixiao one by one, wanting to meet their new leader.

Because these people surrendered to Li Zixiao, Li Zixiao naturally couldn't treat them badly, and transferred a batch of grain from Yongcheng County, plus the fatty fish they bought from the surrounding fishermen.

Every day, the food is full, and there is fish, meat and fish soup to drink, so that these men in their twenties and thirties are getting stronger day by day.

After Li Zixiao inspected the circle, he was quite satisfied with the appearance of these sailors under his command, and from their faces, Li Zixiao saw vitality.

It's just that when Li Zixiao saw the hundreds of boats parked on the lake, his face was not very good-looking.

The ships were all fishing grounds, and there were many cargo and passenger ships, but unfortunately there were no warships.

But the tonnage is not large, from dozens of tons to more than 100 tons, so that Li Zixiao, who has seen tens of thousands of tons of ships in later generations, smiled bitterly.

"It seems that I want to pull up a water army, and I still have a long way to go!" Li Zixiao sighed.

After all, it is not enough for the navy to have soldiers, and the most important thing is to have a warship with good performance and not too small tonnage!

But people are easy to find, but this warship is not easy to build, and the warship is not a passenger ship, nor is it a cargo ship, and it is much more difficult to build.

Moreover, at this time in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, there were still not many craftsmen who could build excellent warships, which would take the next time, and Li Zixiao would have to work hard to solve this problem.

In line with the style of employing people without suspicion and suspecting people without suspicion, Li Zixiao returned to Yongcheng County with Wei Hong and others at the end of February.

And hand over the sailor battalion to Lu Yuan and Hong Sheng, the two deputy battalion generals, and let them continue to train in the two major lakes, he will find a way to build a batch of warships as soon as possible and use them for training.

At the end of February, when Li Zixiao, who returned to Yongcheng County, was busy with a series of affairs such as reorganizing the White Dragon Army, compensating the fallen soldiers, and rewarding the meritorious soldiers of the Northern Expedition, news came from the north again.

After the Tartars captured the river and spent five full days searching the river, they took hundreds of thousands of people, tens of millions of taels of silver, and tens of thousands of livestock all the way north.

Along the way, passing through the county capitals of the Ming Dynasty, no one dared to stop the Tartars, including the Guanning Iron Cavalry, more than 300,000 Ming troops retreated around the capital, but they ensured that the Tartars would not suddenly attack the capital.

At the beginning of March, the Tartars bypassed the capital of the Ming Dynasty, without the slightest intention of attacking the capital, and then withdrew from the pass.

This also made Chongzhen, as well as the civil and military officials of the Ming and Manchu Dynasty, completely relieved.

Next, Chongzhen ordered the revocation of the position of Gao Qi Hidden Supervisor, and the Guanning Iron Cavalry followed behind the Tartars and returned to the Liaoyuan defense line to prevent the Tartars from taking the opportunity to attack the pass.

And Gao Qiqian had just returned to the capital, and he didn't even see Chongzhen's face, so he was directly taken to the prison by Jinyiwei, and Lu Xiangsheng also returned to the capital at that time.

Subsequently, Lu Xiangsheng entered the palace face saint, reported the battle of Jiazhuang in detail, and brought back thousands of Tartar heads that Lu Xiangsheng brought back from Li Zixiao.

When Chongzhen looked at the cart of tartar heads pickled in lime, although he felt disgusted, it still made him inexplicably excited.

In addition, Lu Xiangsheng spoke well for Li Zixiao on the side, and even told Chongzhen that Li Zixiao also grabbed Kong Youde in his hand, which made Chongzhen's emotions out of control.

"Lord Wang, do you want to chase it?" A Tartar guard also saw Zhao Zilong and their cavalry leaving quickly, and went over to inquire about Dolgon.

"Nonsense, of course I chased it, catch up with these three Ming dogs, and give them to this king to pieces."

Duoduo turned around at this time, looked at Zhao Zilong who was growing out, and roared angrily, his eyes red.

"Yes, lord."

The Tartar guard had asked Dorgon for instructions, but now that Dorgon had given the order, he had no choice but to obey.

As Dolgon's personal guard, he naturally knows the relationship between the two brothers, and Dorgon's words are Dorgon's words.

"Guler, forget it, don't chase it." But at this time, Dorgon stopped him.

"The other party has planned from beginning to end, and has not left us a chance, in the vast night, it is not easy to catch up with them, I am afraid that the other party is still digging a trap in front and waiting for us.

There is no need to waste this energy and time, we should immediately go north, catch up with Yue Tuo and them, and then go to capture Hejian Mansion, and what we lost in Jinan, then we will regain it in another place.

As for your revenge, wait for the opportunity and time to avenge it, remember what I warned you!

Don't let anger blind you, and keep a clear head at all times, which is a must-have quality for a general. ”

"Yes, then listen to my brother." Duoduo replied reluctantly, but knew that Dorgon was right.

This time, Dolgon was actually very satisfied as long as he could exchange for Duo Duo, and as for whether he could catch Li Zixiao, he didn't have too much luxury.

From these two encounters with Li Zixiao, Dorgon knew that it was a cunning enemy, and he would not be so easy to show his flaws.

It wasn't until after dawn that Li Zixiao, who had not left Jinan City, received a message from Luo Chao, and everything went well.

After hearing the news, Li Zixiao breathed a long sigh of relief, which meant that this plan to exchange prisoners with the Tartars and design the King of Pit De was finally a complete success.

Through this plan, Li Zixiao got more than 3 million taels of silver at one time, and of course, he had to hand over a large sum to Lu Xiangsheng later, and even he had to set aside some of it for Chongzhen.

As for why, of course, it is to show his loyalty to Chongzhen.

But even so, in the end, Li Zixiao still has the majority left, and then Li Zixiao will compensate the fallen soldiers, recruit soldiers, expand his power, and nothing can do without silver!

If he hadn't thought that in the next period of time, his spending would be like running water, and the remaining 200,000 savings in his hand at this time would not be enough at all.

Otherwise, he would not have thought of taking such a big risk, not only using the Tartar prince to make a small sum on the Tartar, but also from the king of De.

It really fulfills the old saying: 'Hold the bold to death, starve the faint to death'.

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On the other hand, just when Li Zixiao continued to stay in Jinan City, Chongzhen of the imperial court also received a top-secret note sent back by Lu Xiangsheng before.

Moreover, these three pieces did not pass through Yang Sichang's hands, that is to say, until now, Yang Sichang did not know that Lu Xiangsheng was not dead.

After all, after Lu Xiangsheng separated from Li Zixiao, he plunged into Jinan City.

At that time, the city of Jinan had been surrounded by Tartars, and of course it was impossible for the imperial court to know the news that Lu Xiang had ascended to Jinan.

"It's a dog's heart."

In the Heart Cultivation Palace, after Chongzhen watched Lu Xiangsheng's recital, he stood up angrily, slapped the table, and roared angrily, frightening some of the little eunuchs outside the hall with pale faces, and the two trembled.

"Ahem, cough ......" because of anger, Chongzhen coughed violently.

"Your Majesty, stop your anger, don't be angry."

Wang Chengen, the chief eunuch in the back, hurriedly patted Chongzhen's back, and then motioned to the little eunuch behind him to bring a cup of new tea to let Chongzhen moisten his throat.

"Gao Qiqian dog minion, I gave him power, he dared to do such nonsense. And that Yang Sichang dared to deceive me, he was really angry.

The ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, don't there be any loyal people who really serve me and die for my Ming dynasty! ”

Chongzhen roared angrily.

"Your Majesty, at least the slave knows that Lord Lu will not betray Your Majesty, Lord Lu is really this kind of loyal minister who serves the country and is loyal to His Majesty.

This time, Lord Lu almost died in battle, and even this was the first time that the slave saw Lord Lu submit his resignation, which shows that Lord Lu really suffered a huge grievance this time! ”

Wang Chengen knows far more about the officials in the court who are full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, and are loyal to the monarch and serve the country than Chongzhen, but he also thinks that Lu Xiangsheng is a rare loyal minister.

As long as he raised the eunuch, Wang Chengen knew better what kind of goods it was, and he didn't know how much silver he was greedy for, but unfortunately Wang Chengen couldn't find any evidence.

In addition, Wang Chengen is very aware of his duty, which is to serve Chongzhen loyally, and he will not easily involve the affairs of the court, which is a taboo as a eunuch.

Therefore, Wang Chengen has always turned a blind eye to the high-level sitting school, but this time Chongzhen was really angry after watching Lu Xiangsheng's recital.

"Come on, go and call Yang Sichang to me."

Chongzhen, who was angry, no longer called Yang Aiqing, but called Yang Sichang's name.

"Your Majesty, it's not appropriate to summon Lord Yang at this time! After all, at this time, the command of Guanning Iron Cavalry is still in the hands of Gao Qiqian, and the Tartars have not retreated yet, so everything must be cautious! ”

After Chongzhen listened to Wang Chengen's words, he suddenly shouted from inside: "Forget it, you don't have to go." ”