Hearing the news of the final adaptation, Ujijing and Qian Ying showed a little excitement on their faces, among them, Ujijing was fine, he knew that his adaptation to the main division this time was basically a certainty, so it was not too strange. Qian Ying was more surprised, in a sense, the Sixth Garrison Division is the least qualified, and it is lucky to be adapted.

Only Xu Mingyuan sighed slightly on his face, he had to wait until the next batch after all, but if he missed this Jiangnan battle, I am afraid that there will be a lot less combat exploits at that time, and the gap with other divisions will be farther and farther.

Ning Yu said loudly: "First announce a personnel appointment, the commander of the Fourth Division will continue to be the commander of the original Second Garrison Division, Yu Zhijing, the chief of staff will be Yue Lingfeng, and Li Shihu will be the deputy commander of the Fourth Division. The commander of the Fifth Division will continue to be served by Qian Ying, and the rest will remain unchanged for the time being. ”

"In addition, for the current first batch of four divisions, all weapons and uniforms will be replaced, and all the personnel and materials needed at that time will be directly transferred from Wuchang to make up for the difference between the divisions."

In other words, it has always been Ning Yu's dream to be able to unify and standardize the firearms of the whole army, not like now, some people are holding flintlock pistols in their hands, some people are holding bird guns captured by the Qing army, and even some people are holding cold weapons such as swords and spears.

Cheng Ming sighed and said, "What about the replaced shotgun?" Those are still quite delicate, and it would be a pity if we just gave up. The rest of the people also nodded, they also suffered step by step, and they all felt a little empathy.

Ning Yu laughed, "General Cheng, now that I have made a proper amount with the Hanyang gun manufacturer, now the weapons in the army can be recycled and transformed, and all of them will be transformed, and some that are really unusable will be issued to the garrison regiment." As for you, all you will get in the future will be the latest flintlock pistols. ”

When everyone heard Ning Yu say this, they instantly smiled, but no one cared about the rags they had used.

In fact, the reorganization plan that Ning Yu said was even bigger than everyone imagined, in addition to the guns they said, more than 100 artillery pieces alone would need to be replenished, after all, the army of the Eastern Governor's Mansion that had been reorganized by the time would be composed of four artillery regiments and one reinforced artillery regiment, with a total of more than 200 artillery pieces.

In the next half month, the wharf in the south of Anqing was almost completely submerged by the transported materials, more than 30,000 flintlock muskets were transported, and more than 100 artillery pieces also came to Anqing on large ships, and then they were received and distributed to various divisions, but everyone was tired and happy.

Of course, at the same time, the first batch of additional recruits basically arrived in Anqing, after all, the total number of Anqing Fuhan troops is only more than 30,000 people. Many of them were about to retire due to disability and illness, so more than 20,000 people arrived intermittently by boat from the direction of Wuchang.

At the same time, there was also a very special group of people who also arrived in Anqing, rows of officers of the Fu Han Army wearing red military uniforms with handcuffs on their waists, wearing black cowhide boots, slowly walked down from the boat, but when they came down, the impact on the others was very large, because the marks on the shoulders of these people were almost all at the battalion and company level.

Dong Ce stood on the dock with several people, looking at these officers, a faint smile appeared on his face, and the file bag in his hand gently patted his thigh.

The officers lined up in a neat line, walked in front of Dong Ce, and gave him a military salute, one of them walked out and said with a smile: "Instructor, the two of us haven't seen each other for a long time." ”

Dong Ce said with a smile: "Although I don't know your name, but I remember you, you were a soldier I recruited when I was in Changsha, it seems that it is fate now, you can enter the first phase of the officer training camp, which shows that the credit on this battlefield is not small!" ”

The man was only in his early twenties, and he looked older than Dong Ce, but he didn't dare to hold up in front of the other party, and said with a smile: "Instructor, my name is Deng Ziyi, and I have made some contributions in Changsha and Jiujiang one after another, so I was promoted to the special training camp for officers!" ”

The so-called special training regiment for officers is actually a special measure specially launched by the martial arts hall, that is, in addition to recruiting students from the young eagle battalion and the civilian population, a group of company-level officers and soldiers who have made meritorious contributions have also been specially selected to carry out a three-month short-term special training regiment for officers, which is divided into two classes, one is a special training class at the level of company commander, and the other is a special training class at the level of captain, and the post of company commander will be awarded after graduation.

In Ning Yu's vision, this kind of special training class for officers will be long-term, that is, soldiers who have made meritorious contributions in the army will be regularly selected from within the army for intensive training. In addition, the training regiment for middle-level officers at the regimental and battalion level will also be launched one after another, and as for the training regiment at the higher level of the military division, it is still only on paper.

Deng Ziyi caught up with such a good opportunity, he killed four Qing soldiers on the battlefield in succession, and then was promoted to captain, and later his team killed 48 enemies in the battle of Jiujiang, so Deng Ziyi successfully became the company commander, and was recommended by his superiors to enter the officer training camp.

"Changsha people, okay, our fellow villagers in Huguang, we are not afraid of death when we fight!"

Dong Ce clenched his fist and hit Deng Ziyi on the chest, and then said to the officers below: "The Metropolitan Governor arranged for me to pick you up, for nothing else, each of you has proven yourself on the battlefield, you have shed blood and sweat." Here, I salute you! ”

The people behind him saluted together, but this scene made the eyes of these officers a little red, and they returned the salute very solemnly.

"Recovering my Han family is the true character of my soldiers."

After Dong Ce checked the list of everyone, he took these soldiers to the military camps of the divisions outside the city, after all, in Ningyu's plan, Anqing, as the base camp of the Eastern Expedition, will also become another strategic fulcrum after Wuchang, so he has begun to build a permanent military camp, and the divisions are currently temporarily in the permanent military camp outside the city.

In addition, there were some military camps in Anqing City, but they only accommodated the Governor's Janissary Brigade stationed there, so most of the officers were sent by Dong Ce to the nearby divisions, where many recruits were waiting to be trained in preparation for the eastward march to the south of the Yangtze River in May.

Most of the officers had gradually left, but there were still a dozen or so officers who had nowhere to go, and they looked at Dong Ce with longing on their faces, wondering where they would be divided, and Deng Zi also had some expectations.

Dong Ce looked at the sun that was gradually setting in the west, but he smiled and pointed to Anqing City, "You people, you will go to the Praetorian Guard Brigade in the future, so naturally you will enter Anqing City." ”

Everyone immediately smiled when they heard this, this officer, naturally the more elite the troops, the faster they rise, and this Praetorian Brigade is naturally a great place to go, besides, Anqing City is much more prosperous after all, compared to those divisions in the field, their situation can be regarded as much stronger.

Dong Ce smiled, "You guys, don't be too happy, for the Metropolitan Governor, the troops around him are the best to do!" You have to go to the most dangerous and difficult places to go to the battlefield! When we fight Kangxi, good guys, how fierce those elite troops were! There are 1,000 people in the grenadier battalion, and less than 100 people are coming down! ”

When everyone heard this, they smiled slightly, but Deng Ziyi smiled and said: "The Metropolitan Governor said that since he is a soldier of the Fu Han Army, then he naturally has to keep a blame, he doesn't expect us to build much credit, but at least we have to guard a soldier's duty, if this Janissary Brigade is not like this, I don't want to go." ”

"Hahahaha..... You're a good seedling, but you're not going to the Praetorian Guard! The smile on Dong Ce's face became brighter and brighter.

"So where am I going?"

Deng Zi also didn't understand, and the others were also a little curious, and they had to go to other places.

Dong Ce said in a deep voice: "Originally, I shouldn't have confided in advance, but for the sake of your kid being recruited by me, I will briefly reveal that it is the Staff Office of the Governor's Mansion and the head of the Investigation Section, this job is not easy!" ”

When everyone heard this, they suddenly realized, but they just looked at Deng Ziyi with a little sympathy in their eyes.

The reason is very simple, although the staff office is a second-line department, it does not mean that it does not go to the front line, except for those staff officers who do drawing operations, most of them need to go to the front line, especially the reconnaissance section, they are even higher than the front-line troops, and they need to cooperate with the military intelligence office to transmit complete military intelligence information to the staff office and all divisions and regiments.

"It's hard to find this kind of person who works with his head and has to be bold and careful. I also searched for a long time before I found out that you are a seedling, and now your level is half a level higher. ”

The Staff Office of the Governor's Mansion belongs to the deputy division level, and the Investigation Section is at the deputy regiment level, Deng Ziyi was originally a battalion-level officer, but now he has been promoted by half a level, and when he goes to the front-line troops, he will at least be a deputy regiment commander.

All the officers have been sent away, but Deng Ziyi is still by Dong Ce's side, Dong Ce is now the head of the Metropolitan Governor's Staff Office, and he can be regarded as Deng Ziyi's top boss.

"General Dong, will I have a chance to lead troops to fight the dog in the future?"

"Why not? If you follow me, the danger will not be worse than that of the front-line army! ”

"I just.... I can't bear to ..... those brothers back then."

"The most difficult battles have already been fought, and I'm afraid I won't see them?"

As the sun set, the shadows of the two gradually lengthened, and finally they were swallowed up in the night, only a little star, as if shining on the road under their feet.

The Fu Han army is sharpening its knives, and the others are not idle, especially for the other two rebel forces, now the power of the Qing court has been greatly attenuated, and it is naturally an excellent opportunity to expand its own power, although it is different from what everyone expected, the Fu Han army did not lose both, but fought a big beautiful victory, but in this way, the oppressive force of the Qing court is getting bigger and bigger.

The two messengers sent by the White Lotus Sect to the Fu Han Army before, after asking for the Holy Maiden failed, licked their faces and asked for weapons and artillery, but this time it made Ning Zhongyuan a little helpless, after all, the other party was currently anti-Qing, and it was not good to force the other party too hard, so he allocated five hundred shotguns to the captured Qing army, and ten sub-mother cannons, plus some gunpowder, and sent them away.

Although less is less, but for the White Lotus Sect that is still shrinking in Ruzhou Mansion, it is also a big comfort, they through this transaction, but also determined that the Fu Han army will not attack them, so they rest assured that they poured out, under the leadership of Liu Ruhan, the 100,000 army launched an attack on Xuzhou.

The so-called 100,000 army sounds like that, much more than the current number of Fu Han troops, but in fact, these 100,000 people are some old, weak, sick and disabled, not to mention shotguns, not even a spear in their hands, in Ning Zhongyi's words, to deal with this so-called 100,000 army, one of his second divisions is enough to clean up.

But the question is, where is there still a Qing army to guard Xuzhou today? Most of the Qing army was consumed in the previous battles against the Fu Han army, and only a small part of the Qing army remained, plus the local regimental training, naturally it would not be Liu Ruhan's opponent.

On the seventh day of the fourth month, Xuzhou was broken by the White Lotus Sect Army, the prefect Sun Ze committed suicide and martyrdom, all the property of the city was looted, and a large number of women and children were sent back to Ruzhou.

Liu Ruhan, who won this victory, further increased his prestige among the White Lotus Sect, but he also considered that the name of the White Lotus Sect was not good, so he changed it to a nondescript rebel army. The so-called righteous ones are their bulls, ghosts, snakes, and god-like doctrines.

After taking Xuzhou, Liu Ruhan set his sights on Yuncheng again, not that he didn't want to take Dengfeng, Xingyang and Luoyang and other big cities, but he also understood what kind of goods the so-called righteous army was now, if he really ran into the Qing army with hard stubble, let alone 350,000, even if it was 10,000 or 20,000, it would be enough to defeat himself.

When the Great Righteous Army was expanding wantonly, Zhu Yigui was not idle, but he did not choose to attack the Qing army, but took advantage of the weakness of the Qing army and the inability to attack, eradicated the internal rebellion, killed Du Junying and Du Hui, and then collected his subordinates, which was considered to have completely stabilized his own internal and began to focus on landing in Fujian.

The governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Manbao starry night, rushed to Xiamen to supervise the war, but at this time the strength of the Qing army was also greatly weakened, not to mention the death of Lan Tingzhen, the commander of the South Australian Army, and Shi Shibiu, the commander of the Fujian Navy, was also on the march, and suddenly encountered a rainstorm, and Shi Shibiao was exposed all night, plus he was indeed old, so he couldn't afford to be sick, but he was crying and lamenting.

In addition to the fact that there is a shortage of generals, the quality of the current Qing army has also been greatly reduced. In the previous war with the Han army, the Qing army lost most of the elite forces, and now the emergency expansion of the army recruited are all farmers who have just put down their hoes, in this case, the Qing army let alone put down the rebellion, and even holding Zhejiang and Fujian has become very difficult.

It was also at this time that Yongzheng realized what a terrible mess he had inherited.