The frenzied recruitment of soldiers in the previous years of the Ming court mainly brought about two bad effects, one was that the number of recruits was too large, and the number of people of appropriate age who could be recruited by the People's Army was reduced, and the other was that the remaining people were afraid to join the army.

The KPA recruits troops directly in various parts of the newly occupied areas, and it is possible that not too many people will be recruited, and only with the passage of time will the people in the newly occupied areas support the KPA and the number of people willing to join the KPA will increase.

In this case, Xia Nan made a choice, which could select some of the Ming prisoners to join the People's Army.

Among the prisoners of the Ming army were northerners, and there were also a large number of people from Guangxi, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Huguang provinces, most of whom were low-level ordinary people before, or joined the army to beg for food or were captured as strong men, so that they became soldiers of the Ming army.

After the capture of the Ming army, the People's Army has been carrying out ideological education on these prisoners, and the most heinous people among the Ming prisoners have already been executed, but there are still a large number of Ming prisoners left, and the People's Army cannot let them go at will, which will have a huge impact on the areas ruled by the People's Army, so the People's Army is ready to mobilize prisoners to mine, build roads, and build water conservancy facilities, and the treatment is better than that of coolies.

Ming army prisoners whose hometowns are in Guangxi, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Huguang provinces can be released and returned home, but the time has not yet come, and now they can choose to join the People's Army directly, and even Ming army prisoners from other places who have performed well can also join the People's Army.

By mixing "veterans," recruited recruits, and Ming army prisoners, and continuing ideological education, the possibility of problems will be greatly reduced.

With the support of the common people in all parts of the newly occupied areas for the People's Army, the expansion plan for the second and third years can also be successfully completed, and the expansion plan will be only 200,000 people a year on average, and the People's Army will be able to have an army of one million by then.

In the three-year expansion plan, the navy was singled out, and the people's navy never showed much role in the war between the people's army and the Ming court, mainly land warfare, and the navy's warships could not sail on land.

At present, the navy is not important, so that the KPA will put more energy on the army, but Fang Nan knows the importance of the navy in the future, and has always invested in the development of the navy, and the main task of the navy at present is coastal defense and training.

However, it may be that in a few years' time, the People's Army will play a role in the new war against the Ming court.

In the armistice negotiations, the People's Army demanded that the Ming Court cede the Huguang and Yangtze River North region, as long as the People's Army has a foothold in the north of the Yangtze River, the difficulty of the People's Army to destroy the Ming Court is greatly reduced, the Yangtze River is a natural danger, the Ming Court is stationed on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and the People's Army wants to rush to the north bank of the Yangtze River I don't know how many people will be killed or wounded.

It is very difficult for the People's Army to demand that the Ming Court cede the area north of Huguang and the Yangtze River through armistice negotiations, and in the end I am afraid that it will have to cross the river to attack, if the People's Navy has sufficient strength, then the casualties of the People's Army in crossing the river and attacking will be reduced a lot.

The navy has been trained for several years, and there are more than 10 Fu ships and Dafu ships that can accommodate nearly 100 people and more than 100 people, which are less than one-tenth of the strength of the Ming army's naval divisions.

The Fu boat is the main vessel used by the Ming Army Navy and the People's Navy, also known as the Fujian ship and the white ship, which has appeared in the Song Dynasty as early as possible, and is a single keel pointed bottom ship.

"Xuanhe Feng Envoy Goryeo Tujing" describes that "the upper side is as flat as balance, and the lower side is like a knife, and it can break through the waves." "It's a lucky boat.

General Qi's "New Book of Ji Xiao" describes the advantages and disadvantages of the Fuchuan as "tall as a city, with a draft of one zhang or two feet", "the wind of the Fuchuan City is pressed down, like a car rolling a praying mantis, and fighting the power of the boat but not the manpower is to win every time", "only the benefit of the ocean, otherwise it will be more glued than shallow", "non-human can be driven, and the wind will be the whole battle" and "no wind can not be used". If the thief boat goes along the shallow, the lucky boat is useless, so there is a sea boat.

General Qi once set up a fleet along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang to fight against the Japanese invaders, and this fleet mainly used Fu boats, which were equipped with large and small firearms such as Dafa tribute, bowl guns, bird's beak guns, and spray cans.

The Fu boat can be divided into six, the No. 1 big Fu ship, and the No. 2 Fu boat, which is powerful and convenient for plowing; The No. 3 sentry boat, also known as the grass skimming boat, the No. 4 winter boat, also known as the Haicang boat, the sentinel ship and the winter ship are smaller than the Fu boat, which is convenient for attacking and pursuing, and the Haicang ship has a draft of seven or eight feet, and the wind is small and can be moved; No. 5 Bird Boat, No. 6 Clipper Boat, Bird Boat and Clipper Boat are also known as Wave Boats, Wave Boats are smaller, with a draft of three or four feet, accommodating 30 to 50 people, which is convenient for sentry.

When the People's Army raised the flag, the Ming Army Naval Division stationed in Guangdong mainly used these six kinds of ships, and there were also shipyards in Guangdong that could build these six kinds of ships, and the People's Army continued to build them after taking over the shipyards, mainly for the use of the People's Navy.

Generally speaking, the current strength of the People's Navy is far inferior to that of the Ming Army's naval divisions, and it can almost be judged that if the Ming Army defended the north bank of the Yangtze River, it would definitely send a naval division into the Yangtze River to assist in the defense.

Fortunately, the length of the Yangtze River is not something that the Ming army's naval divisions can fully defend, and the People's Army can cross the river at all, but the Ming army's naval divisions are still a big problem, and it is not expected that the People's Navy can defeat the Ming army's naval divisions, at least they must be able to block them.

In the next three years, Fang Nan wants to more than double the number of warships of the People's Navy, the scale of the navy cannot be expanded before, mainly because of the number of sailors, if the nascent navy can not even control the warships, no matter how much it expands the scale, it is useless, after several years of training, the current people's navy has some basis for expanding its scale, and will contribute to the future war.

However, Fang Nan did not count on the People's Navy, many agents of the Military Intelligence Department have been active in the Ming Dynasty, and the main task of some agents is to contact the officers and generals of the Ming Army through various means, so that the Ming troops of various departments will defect to the People's Army.

In the past, the People's Army would not have thought of contacting the officers and generals of the Ming Army, and at that time, the People's Army only had one place in Guangdong, and it would not have been possible to see that the People's Army had the tendency to swallow the world, and the officers and generals of the Ming Army would not have had the idea of defecting to the "weak" People's Army.

Now it is different, the People's Army has five provinces, the Ming Court has no one to stop the People's Army, and the Ming Army outside the People's Army's ruling area has been frightened by the People's Army.

Of course, there are many people in the Ming army who are loyal to the Ming court and the emperor, as long as some people can be allowed to defect to the people's army, it will be a success, and the Ming army's sailors will be one of the key targets of the agents.