The weather in November has already entered winter, the cold wind blows the trees rattling, Ning Yu wrapped in a thick windbreaker, walked down from the boat, and a group of members of the Fu Han Army were waiting on the dock, everyone's expressions were a little awe-inspiring.

It was really because Ning Yu's move to Wuchang this time was too strong, and in less than ten days, he completely wiped out Fu Erdan and captured him alive, which was rare in the past, and it was so famous that it had spread all over the southern provinces.

In the ten days when Ning Yu returned to Wuchang, Cheng Ming was responsible for everything, and Cheng Zhien and Dong Ce assisted from the side, after defeating Yongjina's 50,000 army, the Fu Han army also used the captured Qing army's shotguns to expand the troops, and a part of the original garrison division was drawn to supplement the losses of the main division, and about 10,000 troops were recruited separately.

With regard to the current military system, after returning to Jiujiang, Ning Yu also made certain adjustments, canceled the original establishment of independent divisions, and mixed the original 1st and 2nd independent divisions with the 2nd garrison division, and then supplemented the 10,000 recruited to reorganize three garrison divisions, namely the 2nd Garrison Division, the 5th Garrison Division, and the 6th Garrison Division.

Before the formation of these three divisions, Ning Yu talked to the original green battalion generals, like Qian Ying, who was very cooperative with Ning Yu's actions, stayed and became the commander of the sixth garrison division, as for the other green battalion generals, they were all sent to Wuchang to participate in the officer training camp, so that the original green battalion foundation was basically completely washed.

In fact, Ning Yu was a little anxious at this step, in the original plan, the purge of the green battalion was to be put behind, but after Ning Yu came back from Wuchang, he sensitively found a problem, that is, the combat effectiveness of the troops has declined to a certain extent, and a large part of the reason for this is that the training of the green battalion is not enough, which is a very big threat to the later plan.

The reason why there is such a decision has a lot to do with the current situation faced by Ning Yu, the threat from the east has been gradually lifted, but Kangxi's 100,000 army is still in the three passes of Yiyang, if Ning Yu defeats Anqing, I am afraid that Kangxi will not be able to sit still, and then the two sides will inevitably start a life-and-death struggle around Jiangning.

This battle of life and death can be described as a real decisive battle, both sides have no way to retreat, even Kangxi, because if he does not come to stop Ning Yu, the current empty Jiangnan is decisive plan to stop the pace of the Han army, if Jiangnan is really lost, Kangxi's southern half of the country can completely declare goodbye, which is unbearable for Kangxi and even the entire Qing court.

At present, the main source of finance and taxation of the Qing court is Tian Fu, and at present, the grain of the entire imperial court is about 4 million stones, and the two provinces of Jiangnan and Zhejiang account for more than half, plus Jiangxi, Shandong, Huguang and Henan provinces, the total amount of Tian Fu is about 26 million taels, in addition to the salt tax of 2.7 million taels, and the customs duty is 2 million taels, as for Ding Yin, it is not very high.

According to the internal estimates of the Fu Han army, if the Fu Han army can successfully take Jiangnan, without the Qing court in Huguang and Jiangnan, its financial resources will be reduced by at least seventy percent, which is a very large astronomical amount. Especially at present, under the premise that the Qing court has not completed a series of financial reforms such as apportionment into mu, this loss is extremely terrifying, you must know that in the current treasury of Kangxi, the treasury is less than one million taels.

In terms of expenditure, since the arrival of the Han army last year, the treasury silver of the Qing court has flowed out like flowing water, especially since this year, with Kangxi's personal expedition to Huguang, the army has exceeded 300,000, although most of them are green battalion soldiers, but it is still difficult for the Qing court's fragile finances to afford, in this case, the Qing court is difficult to bear for a long time.

On the contrary, the Fu Han army has now sorted out Huguang, plus Jiangxi, which has just received it, it is expected that by next year's fiscal and tax revenue will reach at least four million taels to six million taels of silver, which is part of the Tian Fu, and the other part is the industry and commerce that Ningyu is vigorously developing, and it can also deport no less than two million taels of taxes.

In this way, the Fu Han army should be able to break 6 million taels to 8 million taels in terms of taxes, and at that time, with such financial taxes, at least ten main divisions and 15 garrison divisions can be expanded, with such a huge force, the problem of occupying the southern provinces is not big, and when the south is further digested, the Fu Han army can consider the Northern Expedition.

Ning Yu knew in his heart that if he wanted to achieve this, the current key decisive battle was indispensable, the Fu Han army could not afford to delay, and the Qing court could not afford to drag it out, both sides were trying their best to find each other's dead ends, and in a sense, they had already succeeded, at least Fu Erdan had the opportunity to come to Wuchang, and Ning Yu also took Jiujiang, eliminated the threat from the east, and prepared to enter Anqing and Jiangning.

This collision will directly determine the current overall situation, and will also determine whether the Fu Han army can occupy the initiative in the general trend of the world, this is not only the focus of the Qing army and the Fu Han army, but also the White Lotus Sect and Zhu Yigui will not let go of this opportunity, their current living space can only be obtained from the Qing army. If the Qing court was defeated or won a crushing victory, then the oppression of these two forces would also end.

In the days that followed, Ning Yu had been reorganizing his troops in Jiujiang and promoted a large number of middle and low-level officers in the previous wars, and the total strength of the Fu Han Army now going south reached 45,000 for the first time, of which the establishment of the two main divisions was still 10,000, and the remaining three garrison divisions also reached 8,000 people. As for the other 1,000 people, it was the grenadier battalion that Ning Yu selected and expanded from the whole army.

In the previous battles experienced by Ning Yu, the grenadier battalion often played a decisive role, and the power was quite good, so Ning Yu has always wanted to expand the grenadier battalion, but because the members of the grenadier battalion need good arm strength and burly and strong figures, there are not so many suitable potential soldiers to join, and the expansion has stopped.

However, after the new expansion of the army, through a series of screenings, Ning Yu still expanded the grenadier battalion to 1,000 people, which can be regarded as sharpening the original sharp knife more powerful.

In addition to expanding the army, Ning Yu launched the entire Jiujiang and Huguang regions to prepare cotton clothes for the winter, after all, with the gradual decrease in temperature, the impact on the soldiers is still very large, Ning Yu does not plan to fight with the Qing army like this.

But for the Qing court, this winter seemed incomparably long.