When the rebels reached a compromise with the Han military government, the Liaodong Righteous Army immediately carried out on-the-spot reorganization on the Shanhaiguan line. In fact, when the news of Zhao'an was announced, the ragged soldiers immediately let out a deafening cheer, which immediately gave the generals of the righteous army who were still half-minded a blow to the head, and when they saw the relieved expressions of their subordinates, everyone lost the confidence to continue to fight for "independence".

This kind of thing is not too strange to happen, whether it is the Cao family brothers or Ma Da Pole, the two armies actually have no determination to fight here, and the scene of the two sides meeting each other at Shanhaiguan is just a kind of political blackmail in the final analysis, but the generals of the rebel army are obviously inexperienced in this process, and they have no idea how much psychological pressure their soldiers will bear when they are fighting. Afterwards, in order to show trust and proximity to the people, Lin Feng visited the grassroots officers and soldiers of the righteous army, but the results of the inquiry were very interesting, these soldiers had no impression of the muskets and cannons of the Han army, and they did not think that these weapons were terrible, the Han army left them with the deepest impression of those beautiful military uniforms, and tens of thousands of elite soldiers dressed in beautiful formations gave people a very shocking feeling, so after recruiting An, this question became the most answered matter by Lin Dashuai, The soldiers made no secret of their envy for the uniform, and made their collective request almost immediately as soon as they entered the reorganization process.

Of course, it is a very impractical thing to issue military uniforms immediately, in fact, the cost of this military uniform is far higher than these Liaodong people imagined, and the General Staff has also set up various strict systems for this expenditure, regardless of whether these soldiers are well-trained or not, the least one is that they must have a number, establishment, rank, and must go through the procedures of swearing allegiance to Marshal Lin, so when these soldiers really understand the rules of the game, they immediately made a discordant voice.

This little unpleasantness occurred during the dismissal process. In terms of the number of soldiers who surrendered to Chengcheng, there were more than 5,000 cavalry in the army of Ma Da Pole, and the team of the Cao brothers was even more, in addition to more than 4,000 cavalry, there were nearly 6,000 indiscriminate infantry, with a total of nearly 16,000 or 7,000 men and horses, and the establishment given by Lin Dashuai was only about 8,000 to 10,000 troops, and the first step in the reorganization was to remove the chaff and eliminate those unqualified soldiers. Therefore, as soon as these receiving officers entered the camp of the rebel army, they immediately issued a notice to volunteer in the army and dismiss the old and young, hoping that these soldiers would leave the army on their own.

At first, these Liaodong soldiers didn't take them seriously at all, in fact, in this era, the military is a profession with the lowest threshold, almost as long as it is a man, it is possible to be strong, and whether the strength is strong or not is basically evaluated from the number of people, so no one would think that the Han army would really take them seriously, and many of them are very worried in their hearts, because among them, especially the Cao family brothers' troops, many people have no intention of becoming soldiers at all, but after understanding the various preferential treatment for soldiers on the side of the Han armyThis mentality immediately underwent a major reversal. There is no difference between this kind of thing in ancient and modern times, on the one hand, it is to go home and farm, on the other hand, it is to send a house and a field and serve an iron rice bowl. As a result, except for a few men who loved life, most of them expressed their love and support for Lin Dashuai to the officers, as well as their determination to shed their blood to defend Lin Dashuai.

This situation is obviously impossible to stump those who choose military sticks, to be honest, this kind of thing is simply commonplace for them, there are many young people who ask to join the army in the territory of the Han army, and there are many fierce incidents of self-injury and physical determination, and those displaced people are thousands of people who kneel outside the barracks and are willing to ask to enlist, this kind of thing in front of them is really pediatric in their eyes, in the minds of these military sticks, the Han army soldiers are a great sense of honor and responsibility and superiority, naturally not casually anyone is qualified to enlist, so at this time, these officers immediately implemented the iron-fisted policy, and the first to be dismissed were those old, weak, sick and disabled infantrymen, and as soon as this policy was introduced, there was a backlash immediately, and these soldiers who were about to be dismissed actually took the lawsuit to Lin Feng, which made the marshal very embarrassed.

Originally, Lin Feng didn't care much about this matter, at this time he was dividing the real estate of Liaodong for the rebels, so when he received the complaint, he was indeed a little surprised, because many of the soldiers who came over were considered to be old, like so many uncles and uncles who strongly demanded that Jing Zhong serve the country, he had really not encountered it before.

When the Cao brothers were found, the matter came to light. In fact, it is not surprising to say, in terms of the quality of the soldiers, the Cao brothers' troops and Ma Ying's iron cavalry are two different things, Ma Ying's troops are required to have the ability to rob the house, naturally there is nothing to eat, but the Cao brothers are different, they were like this at the beginning of the army, in addition to the old man and children in his team, there are even a lot of people who drag their families, in short, when the rebellion is a heart, they want to die a bunch, and everyone is a villager Naturally, no one says strange things because of the burden, Therefore, it is natural to form such a strange army model - the husband of the family is a cavalryman, the father-in-law is an infantryman, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are the old battalion baggage soldiers, and the son is the reserve.

After understanding the situation, Lin Feng couldn't help but sigh with emotion, and now he finally has an objective understanding of the contemporary "peasant rebel army", and it is really not strange that the book says that Li Zicheng has any special forces of "child soldiers" and "monkey teams", like if these children have been learning war in war since they were a few years old, then it is certainly reasonable to become first-class fighters when they grow up.

After discussing with Chen Menglei and Tang Bin, who came from Beijing, this matter was confirmed to be resolved from the property, that is: to give houses and fields, to order the old and young women and children to go home, and to keep only the young and strong to join the army - this matter is not as easy to implement as imagined, because after such a long time for the whole family to fight, a large part of these "soldiers" are unwilling to separate, but at this time, of course, these vulnerable groups can't twist their arms and thighs, and with the cooperation and support of the Cao brothers, these people finally reluctantly left the barracks.

After the peaceful liberation of Liaodong, after the inventory of the administrative officials, all kinds of production and living materials that were destroyed during the war were made into a long list, after listening to the report, Lin Feng was surprised to find that in this chaotic era, the local Han landlords in Liaodong did not suffer much impact, and what made Lin Feng even more jaw-dropping was that these Han landlord class actually merged with the peasant rebel army, in addition to not doing any group training, many people also secretly supported the rebel army's food or directly joined the army- This can be regarded as a violation of social laws, the peasant rebel army actually wears a pair of pants with the rich landowner, so what are they doing?!

According to Chen Menglei's investigation report, Lin Feng found that the oppression of the Han people by the Manchu regime in Liaodong even exceeded that of Guannei, in fact, this place was regarded as a reservation of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the requirements for public security and administrative order were extremely strict, and on the contrary, the so-called "non-my race, its heart must be different", at this time the Eight Banners were extremely lacking in their own regime, in this vast land, other ethnic groups could not do anything sensitive, otherwise it would be large-scale revenge and massacre, and the economy was extremely mean and cruel, After Ao Bai came to power, the Qing Taizu Nurhachi's policy of ethnic discrimination was fully restored, in which in addition to the land encirclement incident in the Guannei, the unprecedented cruel serfdom system was basically implemented outside the Guan, in addition to targeting the peasants, the taxes on the landlords also expanded the exploitation efforts, and various policies to control personal freedom or official labor were endless, not long ago, in order to support the war with the Russian Heilongjiang, a large number of peasants were casually found some excuses to be sent to Ningguta and the armored people as slaves.

To a certain extent, the so-called "extermination of the three feudatories and rebellions" was only a reason, and the various factors necessary for a national uprising had already been brewing, and under the chain effect of the Han army's extermination of the Manchu regime in Guannai, the uprising naturally occurred.

After the administration of the Han military government moved in, the spoils of the rebels were immediately legalized by the Han army, and the officials of the Han regime absorbed the local gentry to form a coalition government to exercise dictatorship over other Manchu, Mongolian and other ethnic minorities other than the Han people. Under the leadership of government officials, the majority of people happily divided the property of a few people and enjoyed a happy life after the violent revolution, and to Lin Feng's surprise, the biggest beneficiary of this spoils distribution activity was actually himself - as we all know, Lin Feng is about to become Wu Sangui's son-in-law, so naturally no one dares to touch the land of the Wu family, so after careful and careful counting, more than 1.2 million acres of land became a dowry without the knowledge of the Great Zhou Emperor in the south of the Yangtze River.

After the vigorous land reform, Lin Dashuai's prestige in the eastern Liaodong region reached a fixed point, under the planning of the propaganda agency, the personality cult was gradually realized in accordance with the procedure, and countless poor peasants witnessed a classic political performance here, after learning that the Han Dynasty had restored the country, they first shouted long live the excitement and pride, and after dividing up the land, they began to worship Lin Dashuai's immortal tablet at home, and then when Lin Dashuai announced that he would take out 600,000 acres of land from the Wu family's property to reward the officers and soldiers of Zhao'an, All parts of Liaodong began to "spontaneously" build shrines for the marshal.

After everything was created, under the resolute request of Ma Ying and the Cao family brothers, in view of the fact that the Liaodong authorities of the Qing court had temporarily lost their defensive capabilities in the two-front battle at this moment, Lin Feng decided to strike while the iron was hot to recover the lost territory of the former Ming Dynasty in one fell swoop.

In the spring of 1685 AD, under the guidance of the Han army and the local residents, Lin Feng led the Guards, the third army of the Han army and two brigades of cavalry and more than 10,000 Zhao'an volunteers, nearly 30,000 troops marched eastward, the states and counties collapsed when they heard the wind, and the guards abandoned their posts and fled, and at this moment Jinzhou, the hub of Guanzhong, has lost all its periphery, like a broken reef in the stormy waves, and was surrounded by the vast countryside for half a year, there is no grain and grass inside and no reinforcements outside, after learning that the Han army is advancing eastward, The main force of the Qing army in the city prepared well before the arrival of the Han cavalry sentinel, and organized the civilians of the Eight Banners colonized in the city to break through and retreat towards Fengtian.

At this point, all the territories lost by the former Ming Dynasty after the Battle of Songshan were recovered.

After a lapse of several decades, the Han regime re-emerged from the Great Wall, and the Han government set up the Liaojin Governor's Office, the first Liaojin Governor was concurrently served by Lin Dashuai, and a member of the Political Secretary was served by Tang Bin, temporarily leading all the prefectures and counties, and raising the agriculture and mulberry economy; Changed Wang Dahai's "Jianwei" general, awarded the "Pingliao Zhonglang General", led the Third Army with two cavalry brigades, sat in Jinzhou, and watched Liaozhong.

The situation gradually stabilized, after the Han army recovered Jinzhou, the army was exhausted, and the food and straw supplies and troops were seriously insufficient, which was not enough to maintain an expedition, and at this time Liaodong was initially decided, and the rout of soldiers and thieves everywhere was chaotic, in order to maintain law and order in the occupied area and protect the property of the peasants, Wang Dahai had to divide a large number of troops to suppress the bandits, and Tang Bin was busy sorting out the administrative affairs of the new area, at this moment the spring ploughing was about to end, he gave new instructions to his officials, in addition to building a new batch of water conservancy projects, but also to introduce those displaced people to work for the local landlord class in Liaodong for short-term work and servants.

After the reorganization of the righteous army from Zhao'an, the number was compressed to more than 13,000 people, most of which were the short supply of cavalry troops of the Han army, at this time, with the return of the marshal to the south, this group of soldiers was placed in Luanzhou, Luanhe area to set up defense, fill the vacancy of the third army to defend millions, at the same time by the general staff of Zhou Peigong sent officers to group training, during which from Wang Dahai's third army, the guards and the cavalry brigade have transferred some officers and soldiers, formed a battalion of cavalry, a battalion of infantry teaching team, with the Han army recruits as the model, Undertake a four-month preliminary training.

According to the negotiations, all the officers above the sentry level of the Zhao'an Righteous Army, including Ma Ying and the Cao family brothers, must be trained in the martial arts of Mazhuang in Beijing before they can be appointed - in fact, the decision of Ma Ying and the Cao brothers was a bit hasty, and Lin Feng himself seemed to be too optimistic, after the initial announcement of this decision, many officers on the side of the rebel army expressed doubts and worries, frankly speaking, in their minds, whether it is Kangxi or Lin Feng, there is almost no difference in nature, Many officers, especially those who have been horse thieves for many years, are more hostile to any official behavior, and according to the revolutionary theory of "Water Margin", recruiting an is equivalent to sending them to death, even if they win the battle there and make contributions, they will inevitably have a glass of poisonous wine at the end, so when the reorganization began, many leaders challenged Ma Ying's leadership, and at the same time intentionally or unintentionally instigated his subordinates to stay away from Ma Ying's lineage.

In this dark infighting, Ma Ying behaved very iron-blooded, and later a series of activities such as secret beheading, burying alive and lighting sky lanterns fully proved his ability, in the end, he followed his father to be a bandit since he was a teenager, and after decades of life of iron and fire, of course, there was no stranger to this kind of mountain dispute, and when he carried out this kind of cruel internal purge, Lin Dashuai was visiting the grassroots among the rebels with a smile, shushing the cold and asking for warmth and amiability, as if he didn't know anything about it.

In order to calm the wounds of this internal strife, Lin Feng suddenly convened a meeting of generals before the Eastern Expedition, announcing that he would award Ma Ying the rank of Major General in advance, and be awarded the title of "General Jianwei Zhonglang", at the same level as Wang Dahai, commanding all other Toucheng Righteous Army, and at the same time fulfilling his promise in advance, the leaders of the Toucheng Righteous Army at all levels were rewarded accordingly according to their strength and official rank - in addition to gold and silver, it also included houses, land, and the captured female slaves of the Eight Banners, and finally reluctantly suppressed the internal problems, and things developed to the end, After seeing the political methods of the Han military government against the peasants, this mixed army finally realized that Liaodong had changed masters.

When Lin Feng led the guards and more than 400 large and small trained officers back to Beijing, it was already summer, the time of this trip far exceeded the scheduled period, and the results obtained greatly exceeded the expectations of the various subordinates, in fact, when the marshal had not returned to Beijing, the Han military government had already carried out a vigorous victory propaganda in the territory, among which the marshal was famous and the god Wu Tartar panicked and fled north to seal the wolf in short, although those folk artists said that Mr. Storyteller was somewhat fictional and exaggerated, But the recovery of the homeland did make "the spirit of the Han people all over the world be inspired", after this incident Lin Dashuai's reputation among the people has reached its peak, business and travel praise and praise, Shilin cheered, the Han army scenery was unmatched for a while, Henan Yang Qilong sent an envoy to congratulate regardless of taboos, and even Zheng Jing in Fujian was far away in Fujian through the Heaven and Earth Association Qingmu Hall to submit a letter of praise.

However, at this time, the marshal did not have time to come out to accept these congratulations, because in the days when he was not in Beijing, all kinds of matters that needed to be adjudicated had been piled up on the table, and in addition to various administrative affairs, the most important thing was the return of the Mongolian Chahar little prince who asked to enter Beijing and the envoy group of the Great Zhou.

In fact, when Lin Feng appointed Colonel Rick, an officer of the Guards, as the envoy, Lord Li Guangdi, who had always paid the most attention to respect and humility, even smashed the table in front of his lord, which can be said to be infuriating, and afterwards he also contacted Zhou Peigong, Chen Menglei, Tang Bin and other important civil and military ministers to write to the lord, asking to send a respected old gentleman to the envoy, so as not to laugh and make an international joke. However, these efforts obviously failed to change the determination of the lord, and in the end, it was still the blonde and blue-eyed foreigner who followed Wang Shirong on his mission.

In the past few months, Colonel Rick can be said to have lived a comfortable time, although the officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty disdained the Han military regime far in the north, and set it as a state and county level, but in fact, both the emperor Wu Sangui and various ministers attached great importance to this diplomatic activity in their hearts, so when Rick led the family greeting group to land from Huangpu Port in Guangzhou, Shang Zhixin immediately sent an army of 3,000 people to accompany the protection, and escorted them out of Guangdong, and after entering the territory of the Great Zhou, The elite Imperial Forest Army sent by Wu Sangui has been waiting for a long time, protecting layer by layer and escorting it to Changsha.

Poor Colonel Rick has enjoyed the treatment of state guests for the first time since he was born, so he must be a little nervous, and the most terrible manifestation is that this person has a bit of a perverted tendency in terms of women, and as soon as he meets a woman along the way, he will immediately "go crazy", regardless of the etiquette of the upper and lower levels, and are collectively referred to as "ladies", with a respectful attitude that exceeds the face of the officials of the Great Zhou, please say hello.

And what made every magistrate in charge of the reception unbearable was that every time he had a banquet with this foreigner, Colonel Rick would not forget to greet the wives of these officials, and asked them very affectionately why they didn't bring their wives to meet him.

However, the issue of Rick's identity did not cause protests from the government and opposition of the Great Zhou, because according to various intelligence materials, Colonel Rick turned out to be Lin Feng's closest "servant" to Marshal Lin, and his identity was similar to that of "Kunlun Nu", and the reason why Marshal Lin sent him to welcome his relatives shows that Lin Feng attaches great importance to this diplomatic activity - as we all know, according to Chinese political tradition, if a matter is sent to a prime minister or a scholar, it may not be a big deal, but if a eunuch is sent to do it, it means that the matter is absolutely importantUnder the hint of this traditional concept, the officials of the Ministry of Rites of the Great Zhou did not raise any protests or objections at all, as Li Guangdi imagined, but politely welcomed Colonel Rick into Beijing.

There is no suspense in the next thing, Mr. Rick has no interest in an old man, and His Majesty Wu Sangui feels that he has lost his identity to a foreigner, so this family matter was quickly decided, and Lin Dashuai in Beijing was notified in advance by fast horse and fast boat, and when Lin Feng received this departure date and dowry list, he calculated the time, and suddenly found that he was about to get married.