The imperial court delayed and delayed the dispatch of troops, which was completely unexpected by Zheng Fei, and also gave Zheng Fei and the Liangshan Tiandao Army a rare opportunity for development.

In terms of military affairs, at the end of the fifth year of Zhenghe, the Tiandao Army swept most of the Jingxi Jingxi Road as originally planned, and the entire Jingxi Jingxi Road almost all fell into the hands of the Tiandao Army except for Nanjing Yingtianfu, where the road pacification envoy was located, as well as Shanzhou, Gongzhou and Guangji Army!

And because the speed of the Heavenly Dao Army sweeping the East and West Roads was too fast, the prefectures and counties had no time to transfer the wealth such as treasury silver, which was cheaper for the Heavenly Dao Army, which not only seized a large number of official and corrupt officials' wealth, but also swept away the property of the local tyrants and bullies recognized in various places, and really made a lot of money.

At the same time, many of the righteous deeds and new policies implemented by the Heavenly Dao Army after the capture of prefectures and counties are also quite popular, and the enthusiasm of the people to join the army is high, and the number of people who hope to join the Heavenly Dao Army has also rushed from 20,000 or 30,000 at the beginning to 300,000 or 400,000 in the heyday!

Faced with such a good opportunity to expand the Heavenly Dao Army, how could Zheng Fei miss it, he immediately ordered all departments of the Heavenly Dao Army to carefully select 100,000 people from these three or four hundred thousand people according to the standard of healthy adult men, and let them officially join the Heavenly Dao Army, and the remaining 200,000 or so people cannot, of course, not be wasted, all of them will be incorporated into the reserve force, that is, they will become militias everywhere.

Subsequently, Zheng Fei ordered the surrender of officers and soldiers, and all the captives of more than 10,000 people chose to surrender, and the Heavenly Dao Army selected 7,000 qualified people from it to join the Heavenly Dao Army, and the remaining 4,000 or 5,000 people were incorporated into the militia column. At the same time, a large number of civilian and military generals in the official army were also successfully recruited, among which there were naturally honest county officials like Shi Wenbin who had no bad deeds, and there were also figures like Lei Heng and Zhu Tong who should have been part of Liangshanbo, and also included some generals who had not appeared or excelled in the Water Margin, but their skills were really not small.

As a result, the total strength of the Heavenly Dao Army has also increased from 3,000 at the beginning to 120,000, and the first problem for Zheng Fei and the Heavenly Dao Army at present is how to distribute these 120,000 people, and how to divide the troops into various states to resist the army that the imperial court will send at any time. After the discussion between Zheng Fei and the generals, the army expansion plan was officially released.

In accordance with the original three-three army establishment plan of the Tiandao Army, which consisted of ten soldiers and one squad, three squads and one platoon, three platoons and one company, three companies and one battalion, three battalions and one regiment, three regiments and one brigade, three brigades and one division, and three divisions and one army, a total of 120,000 people were established in five armies and 15 divisions.

Lu Zhishen served as the commander of the First Army of the Heavenly Dao Army, with a total of more than 23,000 people. Among them, Wu Song was the commander of the first division and was stationed in Gaotang Prefecture, Shi Jin was the commander of the second division and stationed in Qizhou. The task of the First Army was to defend against the imperial army from the Hebei East Road, the Daimyo's Mansion and the Jingdong East Road.

Deng Yuanjue served as the commander of the Second Army of the Tiandao Army, with a total of more than 25,000 people, Lin Chong was the commander of the First Division stationed in Puzhou, Wang Yin was the commander of the Second Division and stationed in all the states and counties of Jeju except Jeju City (because Jeju City was still in the hands of Zhang Shuye), and Li Tianyan was stationed in Xuzhou as the commander of the Third Division. The task of the Second Army was to defend against imperial troops from the Daimyofu, Yingtianfu, and Huainan East Road.

Chao Gai served as the commander of the Third Army of the Tiandao Army, with a total of more than 23,000 people, Su Ding was the commander of the first division, Yang Zhi was the commander of the second division, Gongsun Sheng was the commander of the third division, and the third army was all stationed in Yanzhou, the task was to fully defend against the enemy from the east and east roads of Jingdong, and to be ready to reinforce Lu Zhishen's first army at any time to assist in the defense of Qizhou and Bozhou; Reinforcement of Deng Yuanjue's Second Army to assist in the preparation of Jeju and Xuzhou.

Hu Yanzhuo, who had returned safely with his family, was appointed as the commander of the Fourth Army of the Tiandao Army, Shi Yong, who was very brave and outstanding in Jeju City, was promoted to the commander of the First Division, Hu Yanzhuo's old subordinate Han Tao was appointed as the commander of the Second Division, and Wang Shi, who also performed very well in the battle, was appointed as the commander of the Third Division, with a total of more than 20,000 people.

Wang Jin was appointed as the commander of the Fifth Army of the Tiandao Army, Suo Chao was the commander of the First Division, Zhang Qing was the commander of the Second Division, and Zhuge Ying was the commander of the Third Division. The total number of troops is more than 20,000.

The Fourth and Fifth Armies are all stationed in Yunzhou, which is in the center of Zhuzhou, and are ready to reinforce the First Army upwards, the Second Army downwards, and the Third Army to the east! It can be said that whether it is Jeju in the northernmost, Xuzhou in the south, Yanzhou in the easternmost place, or Bozhou and Puzhou in the west, they can all be reinforced by the Fourth and Fifth Armies in just one or two hours.

The independent battalion of the Tiandao Army was expanded to an independent division, with Pang Wanchun as the division commander and the independent division as the cavalry army, with one pure cavalry brigade and two rapid reaction infantry brigades, with a total of 8,000 people. Stationed in Yunzhou, he was under the command of Zheng Fei at any time.

The water battalion of Nguyen Thi Thi Thiung was expanded into a naval brigade to control the water in front of Liang Son for 800 miles.

Everyone got their own place, and then Zheng Fei ordered all the craftsmen who could make iron and weapons in all states and counties to concentrate in the Tiandao Army Weapons Workshop, expand the scale of the weapons workshop, and work overtime day and night to make all kinds of weapons, and strive to meet the equipment needs of the whole army as soon as possible.

In this way, although the total strength of the Heavenly Dao Army has reached a staggering level, Zheng Fei was not carried away by the victory, he knew very well that most of these hundreds of thousands of recruits were recruits who had never touched weapons and had been on the battlefield. Son, the top priority is to train them immediately and increase their combat effectiveness! Zheng Fei ordered all the 3,000 soldiers of the original Liangshan Tiandao Army to be filled into the army to serve as officers at all levels, especially a large number of squad leaders, platoon commanders and company commanders, so that these veterans could cooperate with the generals of various departments to start from the most basic queue formation, and follow the old routine of training soldiers on Liangshan to seize the time to train these recruits into new "veterans"! Strive to be able to use it on the battlefield as soon as possible.

Zheng Fei also immediately expanded the scale of the "Han Academy," and the headquarters was still located in Liangshanbo, and he summoned the grassroots officers of the whole army to take turns to study in the "Han Academy." In addition to Wu Yong, Gongsun Sheng, and others, Zheng Fei also often appeared to give lectures, and the scope of study was also varied, and he was entertaining and entertaining, striving to improve the officers' personal qualities and combat qualities, and using them to influence more and more soldiers.