After accepting the surrender of the 7,000 Ming cavalry, a large-scale reorganization began, but this reorganization was not directly adapted according to the establishment of the cavalry of the Tang Army, because the tactics of the Tang cavalry and the Ming cavalry were completely different, and different tactics brought about differences in training.

The difference in training and tactics brings about a difference in the organization!

These 7,000 Ming cavalry are typical traditional Eastern cavalry cavalry, and forcibly reorganizing them in the way of the Tang cavalry may be counterproductive.

Therefore, after careful consideration, the Tang Army did not reorganize the 7,000 cavalry according to the establishment of the Tang cavalry, but retained their basic tactical establishment.

Then seven cavalry regiments were reorganized, each of which was on the scale of a thousand cavalry!

Then among the seven cavalry regiments, there were three cavalry regiments in relatively good condition, and the cavalry in these three cavalry regiments were all selected, and then these three cavalry regiments were directly incorporated into the third cavalry detachment, so that the number of cavalry in the third cavalry detachment led by Lu Yuzhi expanded to 5,000 cavalry.

The remaining four cavalry regiments were divided into two parts, organized into the Fifth Cavalry Detachment and the Sixth Cavalry Detachment.

In principle, the commanders of the above seven cavalry regiments were all former generals of the Ming army, but the adjutant and chief of staff were all officers of the Tang army.

In addition, a very important point is that with the refinement of the reorganization, the grassroots officers at the two levels of platoon commanders and captains in these cavalry regiments are officers transferred from the Tang Army.

Li Xuan spent such a big price, and he also agreed to let these Ming soldiers continue to lead the troops, but it is definitely not defenseless, the middle and senior Ming army generals can stay in office, and they can continue to serve as the head of the regiment, but after the reorganization of these cavalry regiments, their grassroots officers must be sent by the Tang Army.

Most of the original grassroots officers of the Ming army were sent to the martial arts academy to study, and after they finished their studies, they were sent to serve, and they were definitely not these cavalry regiments.

Although many senior cavalry generals of the Ming army after surrendering complained about this, they had to bow their heads under the eaves, not to mention that they had already surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, so now they can only be people with their tails between their legs, pretending not to see the Tang Dynasty dividing and co-opting their subordinates.

The reorganized seven cavalry regiments are very different from the original cavalry of the Tang Dynasty, but this does not affect their return to the battlefield!

In order to prevent any accidents from happening, these Ming cavalry after surrendering, in addition to the three cavalry regiments that were incorporated into the Third Cavalry Detachment, rushed to Youzhou to fight with the main force of the Third Army, and the Fifth Cavalry Detachment was sent to Henan to cooperate with the Fourth Army.

The Fourth Army had very few cavalry, and although the Fourth Cavalry Detachment had the name of a detachment, it was actually only 600 cavalry, and the addition of the Fifth Cavalry Detachment could greatly alleviate the weakness of the Fourth Army in cavalry.

As for the Fifth Cavalry Detachment, it was first under the direct jurisdiction of the Privy Council and was now operating with the Guards.

During this time, the cavalry generals of the Tang Army were also constantly trying to win over and divide, trying to completely annex this cavalry unit and turn them into a part of the cavalry of the Tang Army.

With the addition of these 7,000 Ming cavalry, although the Tang Army has the weakness of less cavalry in cavalry, it can be regarded as an increase a lot.

In the northern provinces, the original cavalry of the Tang Army plus the 7,000 cavalry of the Ming Army, the total number of cavalry has exceeded 10,000, and the Tang Army has also captured a lot of Tatar war horses, in order to use these war horses, now the Tang Army is training cavalry recruits like crazy in the rear, and even those new cavalry whose riding skills are not very superb and their tactical ability is relatively average have been drawn out.

Using this batch of captured war horses, the Datang Army is expected to be able to add more than 5,000 horsemen!

In this way, in fact, the cavalry strength of the Tang Army in the northern provinces is not bad, at least at present, except for those nomadic tribes on the grassland, other forces are no longer as cavalry as the Tang Army.

The field ability of the Tang army was already strong, and now that a large number of cavalry have joined, the field ability is even stronger, and the Emperor Shao Wu in Youzhou City and the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty are not stupid, and they naturally know that if they go out of the city, it will definitely be a dead end.

As for defending the city?

For Emperor Shao Wu and many others, it is also a dead end, because no one will think that they can hold Youzhou!

But!

For some people, staying in Youzhou has a way to live!

For example, the officials!

Now the attitude of the civil officials and military generals in Youzhou City is very subtle, on the one hand, they continue to compete for power and profit in the court, especially for the control of the only more than 20,000 Ming troops in the city.

But on the other hand, no one has seriously arranged the city defenses, and until now, no one has even seriously recruited and trained the young and strong, and many spare weapons in the warehouse are still in the warehouse.

And in the imperial city, after Emperor Shao Wu spent the first few days of excitement on the throne as the emperor, the whole person was already unknown to the ministers, at first he was panicked, then angry, and then helpless, these two days, Emperor Shao Wu summoned the ministers every day, but it was useless to summon the ministers.

There are even people who resign at such a critical moment!

The concubines in the palace are also panicked, they have begun to find out in the past few days that many eunuchs and palace maids have begun to secretly escape from the imperial city, and they did not forget to steal a few treasures when they fled, and more importantly, no one cares about this kind of thing.

Now everyone knows that the building will fall, everyone is for themselves, who has the time to take care of others!

According to the news, the main force of the thief army has arrived outside Youzhou City, with more than 20,000 troops, and the thief general who led the army is still the fierce general Hao Bonian, in this case, it is impossible to avoid chaos in Youzhou City.

This evening, on the head of Youzhou City, a group of Ming soldiers guarding the city gate suddenly shouted, and they all began to wear armor in a panic, take swords and spears, and looked out along their line of sight, only to see hundreds of meters outside the city, a Tang cavalry wearing dark blue military uniforms roared over!

The number of this cavalry is not much, only more than a hundred horses, in the Tang Dynasty, this is the establishment of the cavalry team, these cavalry should also be the regular cavalry of the Tang Army, equipped with muskets, standard new army, the formation is quite dense!

However, the cavalry did not rush directly towards the wall, but stopped about three hundred meters away, and then one of the cavalrymen broke away from the line and rode over, and it was evident that he was still armed with bows and arrows!

Holding bows and arrows, this is a rare thing for the regular cavalry of the Tang Dynasty, because the Tang cavalry is not equipped with bows and arrows, and the ones who are equipped with bows and arrows are the Ming cavalry of 7,000 surrenders.

This cavalryman rode his horse and galloped, and when he was dozens of meters away from the city wall, he began to bend his bow and shoot arrows!

However, the soldiers of the Ming army at the head of the city did not shoot at this Tang cavalry, because they had already seen that it was impossible for this cavalry to attack the city, but to deliver a letter!

Sure enough, when the arrow shot at the head of the city was picked up, it was possible to see a letter tied to it, and the ordinary soldiers guarding the city naturally couldn't read it, and they couldn't read it if they wanted to, they couldn't read it.

They soon delivered the letter to a thousand households in the city.

After these thousands of households took it, they opened it and took a look, and sure enough, as expected, this was a letter of persuasion, and the person who signed it was the Marquis of the Tang Dynasty, the lieutenant general of the army, and the commander of the Third Army, Hao Bonian.

The content of the persuasion does not need to be elaborated, it is nothing more than a threat and inducement to let the defenders in the city surrender, so that you are good, I am hello, everyone, as long as you surrender, he Hao Bonian guarantees that he will definitely give the main generals who defend the city a good treatment, and ordinary soldiers can also save their lives, and those who have merit, he can even personally ask for merit from the Ancient Sage Monarch for this person.

If you don't surrender, then don't blame him Hao Bonian for being polite, when the time comes, tens of thousands of cannons will be fired, tens of thousands of troops will be exhausted, and there will be no chickens and dogs left in the city when the city is broken!

This letter did not stay long in the hands of this thousand households, and was soon handed over to the top, and then passed upwards, and reached the hands of the important ministers of the court when night came.

The ministers in the court, looking at this threatening and luring letter of persuasion, are also arguing!

Why is there no dispute? Naturally, it is because some people want to surrender the city, and the reason is also very open, for the sake of the people of the city, if they do not surrender, the thief army outside the city will come in, and when the whole city is slaughtered, everyone present will be sinners.

And some people naturally disagree, if they want to resist until the last moment, at the end of each dynasty, there will always be foolish and loyal people, the difference is just a matter of how much.

However, more people have an ambiguous attitude, and this surrender is not impossible, but how to surrender, and what will happen to the hundred officials after surrendering? What's in it for them? What to do with the royal family?

These are all what they care about, and now Hao Bonian just said that they should surrender, but how to surrender is debatable!

However, they quarreled and disputed, but they remained unanimous on one of the issues, that is, the matter of this persuasion should not be known to the emperor!

Those who want to surrender, those who want to get favorable conditions to surrender, needless to say, are definitely unwilling to let Emperor Shao Wu know.

And those courtiers who want to resist to the end also know that it is better not to let the emperor know about this joint, otherwise I am afraid that they will do something irrational in despair, which will have an even worse impact on the overall situation.

At this time, Emperor Shao Wu, who was in the deep palace, didn't know that his courtiers, those who taught him the Four Books and the Five Classics, how to be a king, were now arguing over a letter of persuasion!

This night, countless people in Youzhou City stayed awake all night!

Because with a letter of persuasion, in the night, one big drama after another was staged!

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