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"Master, we're back."

In the Tamna Island military camp, in Li Zixiao's handsome tent, Li Zixiao was sitting at the desk at this time, looking at the information sent by Zhang Fugui.

Quartz stood in the back, motionless, like a door god.

Shuiichiro Yoshino and Yokokawa Fujino have already returned to Tamna Island, and after unloading their weapons in front of Li Zixiao's tent, they were able to enter Li Zixiao's tent and kneel down to greet Li Zixiao.

"Well, you're back, and that's the result?"

Li Zixiao heard Shuiichiro Yoshino and Yokokawa Fujino kneeling down and shouting in unison, and also put down the letter in his hand, looked up at the two of them, and asked in a deep voice.

In fact, before the two of them came back, Li Zixiao had already been reported, and the two succeeded, and Li Zixiao asked knowingly at this time.

"Enlighten the master, the slave, fortunately not dishonored." Shuiichiro Yoshino was the first to answer.

"Enlighten the master, the slave has also succeeded." Then, Fujino Yokokawa bowed his head and answered.

"Good, good, good, good, quartz!" Then, Li Zixiao smiled and waved to the quartz behind him.

"Yes, General."

After seeing Li Zixiao's signal, Quartz turned around and took out a small wooden box from behind him, and then placed it in front of Shuichiro Yoshino and Yokokawa Fujino.

Quartz then opened the small wooden box, and saw that it contained a silver ingot, and the eyes of the two of them suddenly sparked, but then they all converged.

"Here are three thousand taels of silver, and the two of you can divide it equally, which can be regarded as a reward for the success of your operation." Li Zixiao picked up the letter again and said while looking at it.

"Slaves dare not ask for rewards, but it is the duty of slaves to do things for their masters." Shuiichiro Yoshino kowtowed again and shouted.

However, Fujino Yokokawa next to him didn't speak, his eyes stared directly at the silver in front of him, he was not as 'generous' as Yoshino, in his heart he actually wanted to have this silver under his hands.

Li Zixiao used the corner of his eye to see all the performances of the two of them, and then he still didn't look up, and said coldly: "I told you a long time ago."

In the future, if you follow me and do things for me, I will not treat you badly, and this silver is the reward for the success of your operation.

Let you take it, and you will take it, and besides, many of your wounded brothers are among you, and they need money to heal them. ”

"Then ......, thank you for the master's reward, Yoshino will always be loyal to his master."

After listening to Li Zixiao's words, Yoshino Shuichiro accepted Li Zixiao's words and promised to accept the money.

"The slave is also grateful for the master's reward, and will always be loyal to the master, and will never dare to have the slightest dissent."

Seeing that Shuichiro Yoshino agreed to accept the reward, Fujino Yokokawa was also relieved and hurriedly said.

"Yes."

Li Zixiao sighed lightly.

Li Zixiao knows very well that for Japanese slaves like Shuiichiro Yoshino and Yokokawa Fujino, even if you subdue him, you have to give him some sweetness.

In this way, these people will continue to be willing to work for Li Zixiao.

After all, these people used to be pirates and lived a life of licking blood from the knife edge, not just for the silver, in order to live a good life.

Now, Li Zixiao will also not treat them badly, and Li Zixiao will not be stingy with the money that should be given.

Even if you have a pet dog and amuse the owner, you have to appreciate the meat and bones to taste, and the same is true for raising Yoshino and Fujino's vicious dogs for the past two days.

"Master, if you're all right, the minions will go out."

"Wait, there's one more thing I'm going to say." Li Zixiao put away the letter, looked at Yoshino and Fujino, and spoke.

"What's the matter? Please command the master. ”

"Don't be nervous, this time is not a big deal, your men are still too few, there are a lot of casualties this time, I allow you to return to your Japan and recruit a group of ronin samurai.

The number of people is limited to three hundred, and if you want to choose the kind of martial arts, I don't want to waste it, and in three days, there will be a convoy of merchant ships going to Japan, and the two of you can take it. ”

Li Zixiao smiled and said.

This is the first time Li Zixiao has used it, and the two Japanese slave teams, Yoshino and Fujino, have found that they are still relatively easy to use, but unfortunately their number is still too small at this time.

There is no way to undertake heavier combat missions, so Li Zixiao plans to appropriately expand the two of them.

Like this dirty work, the White Dragon Army is really not suitable to do, in case something goes wrong, and a soldier of the White Dragon Army falls into the hands of the Koreans, it will be more troublesome.

"Yes, master, the slave understands." Yoshino and Fujino Yokokawa responded in unison.

In the eyes of the two of them, they both saw joy, of course, they also hoped that their subordinates could try as much as possible, and this shows that Li Zixiao has more trust in them.

After Yoshino and Fujino left the tent, Li Zixiao burned the letter in his hand with fire.

Then, Li Zixiao said to the quartz next to him: "Shi, send someone to inform Deputy Commander Hong Sheng and tell him that tomorrow let him lead the Third Fleet and escort me back to Haizhou (Haizhou here refers to Lianyungang)." ”

"General, you want to go back?" Quartz was also a little stunned.

"Well, Li Zicheng still attacked Kaifeng, the situation in Henan is a little bad, and what is even more troublesome is that at this time, Chongzhen was confused, transferred Lu Xiangsheng back to Beijing, and suspended him for investigation.

In this way, in the face of the menacing Li Zicheng Liukou army, I am afraid that Kaifeng will not be able to keep it, I have to go back and arrange it, Luoyang doesn't matter if it is lost to Li Zicheng, but Kaifeng He doesn't want to get involved. ”

In the end, Li Zixiao's eyes narrowed slightly, his expression was cold, and he said in a dissatisfied tone.

Indeed, Li Zixiao just saw the letter, which was the latest important information sent by Zhang Fugui.

One is that Li Zicheng captured Luoyang, and after resting in Luoyang City for more than a month, he became strong again, and began to move again, ready to plot Kaifeng.

Moreover, with the money, food, and armor seized from Luoyang City, Li Zicheng came to Luoyang to bring tens of thousands of young men and women around Luoyang and armed them.

In addition, after he won the first battle of Luoyang, he still had 60,000 or 70,000 elite veterans in his hands, and at this time, Li Zicheng's troops were conservatively estimated to have reached about 120,000, known as the '300,000 King Army'.

At the beginning of February of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, he began to leave Luoyang and attack eastward, and now he has laid down the Yan Division, which is attacking Gongxian County, preparing to capture Bishui, that is, the Tiger Pass.

Another important piece of information is that Lu Xiangsheng was ordered by Chongzhen, dismissed from office, and then escorted to the capital.

This was entirely because Chongzhen listened to the slanderous rumors of some villains in the court, believing that Lu Xiangsheng's ineffective combat and command mistakes caused the fall of Luoyang.

There is even gossip widely circulating, saying that Lu Xiangsheng has been secretly bought by Li Zicheng, so Luoyang will lose the first battle.

Chongzhen was originally a stubborn and self-serving, very suspicious person, Chongzhen was able to kill Yuan Chonghuan back then, and now he can also kill Lu Xiangsheng.

Lu Xiangsheng was transferred from Kaifeng, which was a big failure, in Li Zixiao's view, Kaifeng was in need of a high-prestige and capable official like Lu Xiangsheng at this time.

In this way, as Li Zicheng attacked Kaifeng, Kaifeng suddenly became dangerous.

Although, Li Zixiao remembered that after Li Zicheng conquered Luoyang, he also attacked Kaifeng with books, but in the end they all failed, and finally flooded Kaifeng City, causing hundreds of people to die tragically.

But in this life, the situation has changed, and the power in Li Zicheng's hands has become stronger, although Li Zixiao also arranged for Qi Wei's 'Western Expedition' Legion to respond to Kaifeng in Ruzhou.

But Li Zixiao is still worried that Kaifeng will not be able to bear it this time, Kaifeng is what Li Zixiao likes, and he will not lose it to Li Zicheng again.

What's more, this time is not a chance for the White Dragon Army to control Kaifeng City.

Even, in Li Zixiao's memory at the beginning, he didn't want to see Li Zicheng's army of rogues cross the Bishui Pass and enter Kaifeng.

What Li Zixiao wants is not only a Kaifeng city, but also a land that has been ruined, destroyed, and ruined by the rogues.

What he wants to take over smoothly is a rich, complete, and well-populated Kaifeng Prefecture.

At this time, Kaifeng Mansion is enough to catch up with the entire Jiangbei Three Prefectures obtained by Li Zixiao at this time.

It is important to attack the Tartars, but it is even more important to expand your own power.

And on the Liaodong side, I don't know when the fight will start, Li Zixiao knows that he needs to go back at this time.

More importantly, Li Zixiao also received a letter from Li's mother, in which Li Zixiao was scolded for being a dog.

Li's mother blamed Li Zixiao for not going home to see the New Year, but Lin Wan'er and Guan Mingxi's two daughters, all of whom were pregnant at this time, and they were going to give birth in a few months.

At that time, it is estimated that the Songjin War will start, and Li Zixiao will really have no time to come back at that time.

At this time, Li Zixiao knew that he had to go back to visit his mother and concubine.

Subsequently, Li Zixiao summoned the generals of the White Dragon Army on Tamluo Island, explained it, and handed over the affairs of the island to Luo Chao and Zhou Dazhu to be responsible.

The next day, Li Zixiao returned to Jiangbei on the Third Fleet commanded by Hong Sheng and landed in Haizhou Port, which at this time has become the second largest seaport in Li Zixiao's hands except Yangzhou Port.

After Li Zixiao landed in Haizhou, he just returned to Xuzhou overnight to visit Li's mother, Lin Wan'er and other family members.

At this time, Lin Wan'er and Guan Mingxi's two daughters were already more than six months pregnant, and they had big bellies, and they were very excited to know that Li Zixiao was back.

After Li Zixiao returned to his mansion in Xuzhou, he met Li's mother, met Lin Wan'er's three daughters, and the whole family had a warm reunion dinner together.

This time, Li Zixiao still quietly returned to Xuzhou without alarming too many people.

After all, externally, they still keep claiming that Li Zixiao is seriously ill and has been cultivating in the house.

He didn't stay in Xuzhou for a few days, but the day after he arrived in Xuzhou, he secretly summoned Qian Guangyuan, Qiu Guangming, Wei Hong and several other confidants to meet him and learn about the recent situation in Jiangbei.

Immediately, Li Zixiao asked Quartz to lead the escort team to protect Li Zixiao and rush to Ruzhou.

This time, they did not take the Yellow River waterway, but took Yongcheng, entered the territory of Kaifeng, and went to Ruzhou, and by the way, Li Zixiao also saw the prosperity of Yongcheng at this time.

Yongcheng County is the place where Li Zixiao started, and it is also the earliest county to implement the policies promulgated by Li Zixiao from the beginning, and the changes here are really very big at this time.

At this time, Yongcheng County alone has a population of more than 400,000 people, and it is even about to catch up with a Xuzhou Mansion.

In fact, in the past two years, there have been too many displaced people who have fled from other places to Yongcheng to settle down, but fortunately, with the policy of taking in the displaced people and forming new villages and towns in the three prefectures of Jiangbei, it has also been vigorously implemented at this time.

This can be regarded as a great relief, and the problem of too many displaced people in Yongcheng County can be regarded as sharing the pressure for Yongcheng County.

Every family was given land, and the people could rent the seeds, cattle, and farming tools provided by the imperial court in advance, and return them after the grain was harvested.

It is precisely because every household has its own land and runs into the field every day that its own land mobilizes the enthusiasm of the people.

Yongcheng County, at this time, is in the westernmost part of Li Zixiao's territory, and it is itself under the jurisdiction of Kaifeng Prefecture, which is exactly in the westernmost part of Li Zixiao's Jiangbei strength.

On the one hand, it can be used as the western gateway of Li Zixiao's Jiangbei territory, and it is also a springboard for Li Zixiao to capture Kaifeng at that time, and whether the location is important.

At this time, Yongcheng County was covered in silver, and the people were waiting at home, waiting for the arrival of the opening.

As for Henan Mansion in the west, or Fengyang Mansion in the south, the lives of the people are another picture of the people's dire situation.

When Li Zixiao passed through Yongcheng this time, he was very low-key, otherwise if he let the people here know that he was back, he wouldn't want to go out in a short time.

Three days later, Li Zixiao came to Ruzhou, but found that Qi Wei's 'Western Expedition' army had already fought against Li Zicheng's men and horses in the north of Ruzhou.

"It seems that Qi Wei has already sent troops, so I don't know where Li Zicheng's main force is at this time? At this time, Qi Wei must not collide with Li Zicheng's main force!

Kaifeng wants to be protected, but Qi Wei and they can't be fine! Quartz, speed up, before dark, must rush to Ruzhou City. ”

Li Zixiao shouted at Quartz.

Thundered!

Half a day later, Li Zixiao came to Ruzhou City with Quartz and other guards, and Ruzhou City at this time was no longer what it was before.

Not only was the city wall renovated, a cannon was erected on the top of the city, and two large bastions were built on the east and north sides of the city.

In addition, the west and south sides of Ruzhou City are facing Rushui, making the defense of Ruzhou City impregnable.

"Well, Qi Wei built the fortifications of Ruzhou City very well!" Li Zixiao stood under the city of Ruzhou and said with a smile.

"Who's coming?" At the head of the city, the soldiers of the 'Western Expedition' army shouted.

"Damn, did you meet a recruit, you don't even know Lao Tzu, do you want Lao Tzu to play the general's flag?" Quartz roared irritably.

At this time, the commander on duty of a 'Western Expedition' regiment at the head of the city also looked down at the city, and his face suddenly changed, and he ran over in thanks, and slapped the back of the head of the soldier who was still shouting.

"Captain Wu, why are you beating me!" That soldier, indeed a recruit, said very aggrieved at this time.

"You kid, I'm going to hit you lightly, I really want to kick you at this time!"

The captain raised his foot, frightened the recruit, retracted his foot, and said, "Forget it, I don't blame you, you don't know the captain of the stone guard, let alone the general."

Now go down at once and give the order, and open the gates, and say that the great general is coming. ”

(End of chapter)