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At half past eight, Liu Sheng appeared in the hall of the Zhou family mansion refreshed and began to deal with various military and political affairs.

As for the matchmaker, she probably won't come to "work" this morning, and Liu Sheng will take care of her job as well.

Liu Sheng has been back for four or five days.

The Fifth Regiment of the Standing Army who came back with him this time had a three-day holiday, and the Guards were also divided into two parts for rotational leave, and each person could have a two-day holiday.

Because the Guards and the Fifth Regiment of the Standing Army accompanied him to Xiangyang for more than a month and experienced many battles, it was really time to relax and rest for two or three days.

Many officers and soldiers of the standing army were divided into fields in Queshan, and some of the fields were even on the plain at the foot of Tianmu Mountain—these were fields that the rebel army had confiscated from the evil gentry and bullies during several military trainings in the past.

These fields were first used as public fields in the Kuei tribe, and later Liu Sheng used some of them as military merit fields and fields that military dependents deserved according to their work points.

Given the leave, these soldiers with family members can go home to visit their relatives, and they can also personally hand over the military pay they receive to their relatives.

Some soldiers who were promoted to the standing army from the Minyong Camp in Queshan, Suiping, Ruyang and other places were still single and young, and they were required to make the military camp their home.

You can leave the camp and go to the city to play during the day, but when it is time to return to the camp, you must return to the camp and rest in the camp.

After receiving military pay, these people cannot give to their relatives, so they will inevitably go to the city to eat, drink, shop and even visit brothels, which can prosper the local economy to a small extent.

Liu Sheng hasn't figured out how to manage places like brothels and brothels, and he doesn't have the time or thought to manage them yet. He plans to wait until later.

In this way, it is natural that soldiers cannot be prohibited from entering such entertainment venues during holidays.

However, the rebel army strictly prohibits soldiers from entering such places during non-holiday periods.

To be precise, during non-holidays, rebel soldiers can only enter county towns, markets and other public places unless required for missions.

Otherwise, you can only stay in the camp.

No one is allowed to go out without permission!

As for the distribution of military pay, there is still an overview of the Military Pay Department of the Military Affairs Hall. In fact, the logistics officers of each battalion are responsible for the distribution, and military and political officers and military police at all levels supervise it.

This method of distributing military pay is actually not much different from that of the Ming Dynasty. There are many places where military pay can be embezzled and deducted.

But now the rebels are thriving, and military pay has only been paid on a monthly basis since last winter.

There should be no embezzlement of military funds or deduction of military pay in the short term.

Even if there is, it's easy to spot.

But in the long run, it will definitely become a corruption-stricken area, and it needs to be replaced with a better system.

The subordinate organizations of the Military Affairs Hall also need to be expanded and innovated.

As the territory becomes larger and the army becomes larger, it is necessary to establish an internal security (special agent) agency.

In short, there are a lot of things that Liu Sheng needs to deal with when he comes back this time.

Under such circumstances, he was really generous if he could fall in love with the red lady for four or five days.

Liu Sheng knew very well that the most urgent of all matters was military affairs.

On the day he returned to Queshan, he ordered the personnel accompanying him from the Military Affairs Hall to send all the documents related to military affairs to the "Generalissimo's Palace" in the past few days...

The headquarters of the Grand Marshal is the Zhou family's residence.

The main courtyard of the main house is more than 100 square meters, consisting of a main hall, a living room, and a study room. The original layout was elegant and complex - a private residence in the Ming Dynasty, just like that.

After Liu Sheng married the red lady here, he renovated the place.

Some furniture, ornamental vases, indoor bonsai, etc. were all cleared out.

Now it is a large transparent room and a study room - because the windows have been enlarged, the lighting has become very good.

Usually, some relevant clerks work in the large open room outside, while the matchmaker works in the study.

Liu Sheng came and was also handling military and political affairs in the study.

Liu Sheng moved a pile of various military documents on the desk to his eyes and found that the top one was a good news!

When I opened it, I saw that Yang Heqing had captured Xixian yesterday!

Xixian County is only one hundred, seventeen or eighty miles away from Queshan. It doesn't take even a day to send messages with fast horses.

Therefore, this good news should have been sent this morning.

It was probably because there had been similar good news several times before, and the people below knew that Liu Sheng had been in love with the red lady in the past few days, sleeping early and getting up late, so they didn't bother him.

This was not a good habit, and Liu Sheng was going to turn around and criticize and educate the military clerk in charge of this matter.

Liu Sheng opened the good news and took a closer look.

It was found that the capture process of Xixian reported by Yang Heqing was very similar to his previous capture of Luoshan.

There were people in the county who acted as internal agents, and some rural soldiers in the county rebelled against the enemy and opened the city gates, allowing the Yi tribe rebels to enter the city smoothly.

In the Battle of Ruxi County, the rebels only fired two rounds of artillery. Not long after the soldiers started climbing the city wall, the city gate opened.

Therefore, only a few dozen people were killed or injured in the entire process.

Previously, Yang Heqing led the Southern Route Army to capture Zhenyang County on the 14th of the first lunar month and stayed in Zhenyang for half a month.

The first is to capture surrounding military important places, such as Yuecheng Town, Minggang, Changtaiguan, King Chu City, etc.

The second is to eliminate the local bandits and village forts who are unwilling to submit to the Wei tribe.

The third is to compile and train people's bravery.

The Southern Route Army consists of the third regiment of the standing army and four civilian brave battalions, with a total of 5,400 people.

As for the three thousand civilians - the Yibu rebels did not have the habit of using civilians as cannon fodder, so the civilians were only responsible for transporting baggage.

Yang Heqing felt that 5,400 men were more than enough to attack Zhenyang, but it was not enough for his idea of ​​attacking Xinyang Prefecture and other places in the spring.

So, after asking Liu Sheng for instructions through the Queshan Telecommunications Group, he organized and trained five civilian warrior battalions in Zhenyang in one go!

There are three sources of soldiers for the Minyong Battalion.

One is the young refugees from outside Zhenyang County, the other is the local bandits who have surrendered, and the third is recruited from the village braves who have surrendered to the villages.

The composition of these five civilian warrior camps is relatively complex, and is far less simple than the composition of the previous civilian warrior camps trained by single refugees.

But with the current size of Weibu and the strength of the rebel army, the more complicated ingredients can be digested, so there is nothing to worry about.

Half a month later.

On the second day of February, when the dragon raised its head, Yang Heqing attacked Xinyang Prefecture.

Although he had read some military books and learned some combat cases some time ago, he still subconsciously imitated Liu Sheng in siege warfare.

In the past half month, he had taken great pains to send hundreds of spies to lurk in the city.

On the day of siege, let nine civilian brave battalions besiege the three walls of Xinyang.

When the siege battle was intensifying, the internal forces launched an attack, and at the cost of hundreds of casualties, they opened the west gate that the third regiment was watching.

Yang Heqing, who was ready, personally led the third regiment to attack the city and captured Xinyang Prefecture City.

After that, Yang Heqing did not delay in the city and sent troops southward on the same day.

By using a small number of elites disguised as officers and soldiers, and using captured Ming army officers and officials in Xinyang Prefecture as cover, they successively captured Xingzhe Pass (Pingjing Pass), Wuyang Pass, and Jiuli Pass (Huangxian Pass) in a few days.

After that, we followed the remaining veins of the Dabie Mountains eastward and took Dasheng Pass, Dacheng Pass, and Doumuling Pass all the way.

Subsequently, the rebel army encountered setbacks at Tumen Pass, Chongguan, and Beisha Pass.