The restructuring of the KPA has not yet officially begun, and with the armistice between the KPA and the Ming Ting, the KPA stationed in the border area is on leave in batches, including officers

When the time came to the end of February, Fang Nan, Minister of War Hu Zhuang, Navy Commander Zhou Yi, First Group Army Wang Shengrong, Second Group Army Yan Han, Third Group Army He Yan and others gathered together, saying that it was a meeting, but in fact it was just everyone telling their own stories and talking about the things they encountered when leading troops to fight, and there were tea, melon seeds, peanuts, and so on on the table.

After the story came down, everyone talked and laughed while eating and drinking, and the whole conference room was lively and lively, and the relationship was no different from before.

When they were young, they were all teenagers in Qingshanzhai, playing and playing every day, and when they grew up a little, they were Fang Nan's students, learning knowledge with Fang Nan, and when they grew up, they participated in the formation of the People's Army and became officers, and their soldiers ranged from dozens to hundreds to thousands.

Now they are still young, and the eldest Hu Zhuang and Wang Shengrong are only twenty-five years old, but now they have become generals who command tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of horses.

All this is changing very quickly, but the friendship has not changed, and when we get together, we are still discussing your daughter and my boy to get married.

Fang Nan enjoyed this scene very much, everyone was not estranged because of the change in status, it was still the same as when he was young, you can punch me with a smile, and I can also kick you back.

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The People's Army and the Ming Court temporarily ceased war, and the shame that the People's Army brought to the Ming Court, Zhu Yijun and his ministers could not forget, at this time the Ming Court was "united in heart", actively expanding the army, making every effort to prepare for war, and preparing to recover Guangdong and exterminate the People's Army.

Song Yingchang and Mei Yousong successively led hundreds of thousands of troops to attack the People's Army, but they were defeated by the People's Army, and the strength of the People's Army impressed the Ming Court.

Li Chengliang, the word Ruqi, the number of Yincheng, was born in 1526, a native of Tieling, Liaodong, and his ancestors avoided North Korea because of the chaos at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and returned during the Ming Dynasty.

Li Chengliang is a rare general's talent, in the whole Ming Dynasty generals are greedy and cowardly, and the situation of the side preparation is lax, he guarded Liaodong for 30 years, and led the Liaodong Iron Cavalry to play a great victory in 10 years, and the prosperity of the border commander's martial arts has been unprecedented in 200 years.

Only in the early days of Wanli, he destroyed Wang Gao and Zi Ataibu, the Jurchen leaders of Jianzhou, and defeated the chieftains of the Han Dynasty and the Taining chiefs several times; Planned to kill the leaders of the Hercynian Yehe tribe, Qing Jiatong and Yang Jiyan.

Li Chengliang's name is no less than that of another general of the same era, Qi Jiguang.

However, with the continuous development of Li Chengliang in the officialdom, he was extremely noble and arrogant, extravagant, and the interests of the merchants and people of the whole Liao were all taken into his name, and even falsely reported his military exploits, if it lasted for a few more years, Li Chengliang would be impeached by the officials and removed from his position, but now Li Chengliang is still a few generals in the Ming court, so Zhu Yijun handed over the task of exterminating the People's Army to Li Chengliang.

Although Li Chengliang is a little arrogant now, after receiving the emperor's order, Li Chengliang, who is already 60 years old, is full of caution, and he knows what happened in Guangdong, Song Yingchang and Mei Yousong have led hundreds of thousands of troops to encircle and suppress the People's Army, and they have all been defeated, perhaps Song Yingchang and Mei Yousong are mediocre talents in Li Chengliang's eyes, but the strength of the People's Army makes Li Chengliang cautious.

Cautious is cautious, Li Chengliang is still very confident that he will lead the army to defeat the people's army, and the power given by the imperial court is where Li Chengliang's confidence lies, and Li Chengliang already knows that the imperial court has expanded its army in order to exterminate the people's army, at least 500,000, and up to 1 million.

As the commander-in-chief, Li Chengliang naturally wanted to sit on the front line in Jiangxi, and now Li Chengliang was on the way to Jiangxi, while marching towards Jiangxi, Li Chengliang learned about the situation of several battles between the Ming court and the People's Army.

According to the Ming generals who fought with the People's Army, the strength of the People's Army lies in all kinds of sharp firearms, and there are very many new recruits in the People's Army, but it is by relying on all kinds of sharp firearms to defeat the Ming Army, which has a larger number of people.

Li Chengliang is best at cavalry, and he also knows a little about firearms, Guangdong is not suitable for large-scale cavalry combat, this time Li Chengliang did not mobilize cavalry when he went south, and firearms became the focus of Li Chengliang's attention.

The Heaven-Shaking Thunder Mingting can be built here, and Li Chengliang issued an order to let all localities build more Heaven-Shaking Thunder equipment new troops.

The longer range and more powerful firearms used by the People's Army could not be built by the Ming Court, mainly because there was no reference, and Li Chengliang issued another order, ordering people to find a way to get a few firecrackers back from the People's Army.

In Li Chengliang's view, even if the People's Army strictly guards the firearms, with the number of firearms equipped by the People's Army, how can they find a way to get back a few firearms, and get the People's Army's firearms, the Ming Court will be able to find a way to imitate them.

As for the artillery, the artillery of the People's Army is about the same as the artillery of the Ming Army, and even inferior to the Ming Army in numbers, which does not need to be paid much attention to.

Li Chengliang clearly understood that as long as the Ming army was also equipped with a large number of earth-shattering thunderbolts and the kind of firearms used by the People's Army, it would not be a problem to rely on numerical superiority to exterminate the People's Army.

However, the training of the new army is also a very important issue, and the new army, which has just been expanded, does not have much combat effectiveness, and it is cannon fodder when sent to the battlefield.

Firearms, training the new army, Li Chengliang grasped two key points, it takes time to build firearms, and it also takes time to train the new army.

Li Chengliang suddenly had some worries in his heart, worried that the People's Army would suddenly launch an attack before the Ming army was ready, which would not be a good thing for the Ming army.

"This is something to be guarded against." Li Chengliang touched his beard and thought.

In order to exterminate the People's Army, the Ming Dynasty is currently frantically expanding its army in various places under its rule, and officials in various places are resolutely carrying out the above task of recruiting young and strong people, but how to carry out the task still needs to be done by local officials.

Obviously, this is a good opportunity to make a fortune, and for most officials, being an official is to make a fortune, so they will not care about other things, as long as the task of recruiting young people is completed.

On the task of recruiting young people to expand the army, the Ming court allocated a large amount of silver, but this silver was deducted layer by layer when it was sent to various places, and in many places, not a penny of silver could reach the hands of young people who joined the army.

In order to complete the task, many local officials do not give the young and strong people a settling fee, and directly arrest the strong men, and at this time there is a very good opportunity to make a fortune.

There is a young man in your family who meets the age and needs to join the army, and if you give money, you can not join the army, and if you don't give money, you can be arrested directly.

The peasant households will certainly not be able to come up with the money, but many middle- and lower-level families in the city can come up with the money, and these families are the focus of the officials, and they do not want to be arrested, so they hurry to pay the money.

The people at the bottom were arrested, the middle- and lower-level families were ruined and avoided disasters, the big families were watching the play, the officials made a fortune one by one, and all living beings were in a variety of ways.