Nearly half a year has passed since the truce between the Ming court and the People's Army, and Li Chengliang, who is sitting in Jiangxi, feels that he can't understand his opponent.

In the past six months, the Ming court has done three main things in order to exterminate the people's army, expanding the army, training troops, and building weapons.

Half a year has passed, the Ming court has expanded the army by hundreds of thousands, although the number of troops is large, but it is still within the tolerance of the Ming court, after all, in the previous war between the Ming court and the people's army, the Ming court has killed and injured hundreds of thousands of people, and now the army is expanding by hundreds of thousands, just to fill the previous vacancy.

In the case of expanding the army by several hundred thousand, the current strength in the hands of the Ming court is less than 1 million, and there is still a large amount of spare power to expand the army, which can be expanded to 1.5 million at most, and then it can send 500,000 to 1 million troops to encircle and suppress the people's army, leaving hundreds of thousands of horses to guard various places, especially the northern border passes, and the threat of the Tatar cavalry is even greater than that of the people's army.

The expansion of the Ming court is still proceeding rapidly, but with the efforts of the people's army agents, the recruitment of soldiers in the Ming court is becoming more and more difficult.

In order to complete the task of recruiting soldiers, more and more areas choose to catch strong men, and even in catching strong men, some officials also earn a lot of silver.

Li Chengliang understands all these things, but Li Chengliang won't say anything, he is arrogant, but he is not arrogant enough to go against so many officials, no matter how the army expansion is completed, as long as he is given a large army.

The Ming court made every effort to prepare for war, and Li Chengliang also sent a large number of spies to the KPA-ruled area to collect intelligence.

Going to the area ruled by the People's Army to collect intelligence is a dangerous task for the Ming army spies, it is not good to have more people coming, it is easy to be discovered by the People's Army, and it is not good if there are fewer people who come.

The intelligence brought back to Li Chengliang by a few Ming army spies who came back alive made Li Chengliang very puzzled, the Ming court was preparing for war with all its might, and the People's Army was the same as usual, and it didn't seem to care about the Ming court's actions at all, Li Chengliang didn't believe that the People's Army didn't know what the Ming court was doing.

In the face of the Ming court, which was desperately expanding its army and actively preparing for war, the People's Army did not look like it was in a hurry or slow, and it didn't even have a large-scale expansion of the army, but did the People's Army look down on him Li Chengliang?

Li Chengliang believed that if he was the commander of the People's Army, he would not have signed an armistice agreement with the Ming court half a year ago, and the strength of the People's Army at that time was greater than that of the surrounding Ming army, and it was completely possible to occupy Huguang, Jiangxi, Guangxi, and Fujian, and then continue to the north and destroy the Ming court.

However, the People's Army did not do this, but signed an armistice agreement with the Ming court and stayed in Guangdong honestly.

Song Yingchang left a message saying that the People's Army did not continue to fight with the Ming Court because of the common people, Li Chengliang felt that this was a joke, even if the People's Army really treated the people well, it would not be too late to treat the people well when the Ming Court was destroyed.

Fortunately, the People's Army did this, giving him Li Chengliang a chance, as long as he led a million-strong army to destroy the People's Army, his own merits were unprecedented in the Ming Court, maybe he could also try to occupy a piece of land like the People's Army and establish himself as a king, and even destroy the Ming Court himself as the emperor.

Unconsciously, Li Chengliang had some ambitions, which were influenced by the People's Army and then mastered the ambitions of hundreds of thousands of troops.

However, Li Chengliang really wanted to wipe out the Ming court, and there were still many problems, such as the people's army on the opposite side, whose strength seemed to be stagnant, and the Ming court was also worried that he would rebel after controlling the whole army, so he arranged for two deputy commanders to take charge of the army and hold him hostage.

Li Chengliang is now the commander of hundreds of thousands of Ming troops, but Li Chengliang cannot directly command all the Ming troops, and he still needs to order the two deputy marshals to mobilize all the troops, and the soldiers and horses in the hands of the two deputy marshals together exceed the Ming army under Li Chengliang's personal control.

More importantly, Li Chengliang knew that the Ming army under his direct control also had a large number of officers loyal to the Ming Court, and it was not so easy to create the Ming Court.

However, ambition has been born, and Li Chengliang has begun to make some preparations, and will inevitably arrange for his henchmen to serve as the commander of the elite Ming army, and transfer the generals and officers who are unwilling to obey his orders, so that his control over the army will continue to increase.

Ambition is ambition, and Li Chengliang's most important task at present is to exterminate the People's Army, and if even the People's Army cannot be exterminated, those things will be in vain.

Vaguely, Li Chengliang still had a bad idea in his mind: The People's Army, which is quiet on the surface, is rapidly developing its military strength behind the scenes, and the People's Army has the strength to resist and even defeat the million-strong Ming army.

It's just that this idea is very incredible in Li Chengliang's opinion, and after thinking about it once, he will directly leave it behind, no matter how strong the People's Army is, as long as his own side is stronger, it will be fine.

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In a Ming army stationed in Wu'an County, the capital of Tingzhou, Fujian, Shi Chang Zeng Xiong has successfully "subdued" his own ten people.

It's barely subdued, mainly because Zeng Xiong used his words to unite the people.

Half of the people were captured and strong, and the other half were also from poor families and joined the army in order to eat.

When resting, Zeng Xiong and his subordinates sat together, everyone talked about their own things, Zeng Xiong was the first to say, he said that his family is a tenant, to rent the landlord's land for a living, the family often does not have enough to eat, in the disaster year, a younger brother is still starving to death, life is miserable, in order to survive to join the army, hoping to be able to fight for a future on the battlefield.

Zeng Xiong's words are true and false, the previous background is true, but the words behind are false, Zeng Xiong's home is in Longchuan County, Huizhou City, Guangdong, he was originally a soldier of the People's Army, and then he was valued by the Military Intelligence Department as an agent, and now he has accepted the task to join the Ming Court and has become a chief.

Listening to Zeng Xiong's words, Zeng Xiong's men were silent one by one, Zeng Xiong's experience made them think of themselves, everyone was born in a peasant family, and their experiences were similar, they were all low-level people who didn't even have land, and they were forced or semi-forced to join the Ming army.

can be valued by the military intelligence department, Zeng Xiong's personal strength is more important, with force, coupled with the same identity background, Zeng Xiong was soon recognized by his subordinates.

But this was not enough, Zeng Xiong continued to work hard, he often led the topic to the landlords, the government and even the Ming court, and sighed at the Ming court and the government.

"Brothers, we are the people of the Ming Dynasty, and the landlord bullies us, why does the government also bully us?"

But no one could answer Zeng's question.

Slowly, Zeng Xiong led the topic to the People's Army, and through the so-called grapevine, he painted the scene of the People's Army and the People's Army to his subordinates, and Zeng Xiong could feel the yearning of his subordinates for the area ruled by the People's Army.