After Wang Chengen left, Wang Zezhi was not idle.

He ordered the Foundry Department to step up the creation of tools for making briquettes, because the opportunity that Wang Zezhi had been waiting for was about to come.

After issuing this order, Wang Zezhi began to think about reorganizing the troops.

The 3,000 southern soldiers transferred by Wang Zezhi have been assigned to each battalion to supplement the personnel.

Xuandewei, Yulin, Zhenyuwei, Jiulonggou, Yunchuan, and Killing Tiger's Mouth, there are 6,000 defenders in the six places.

There were 1,000 defenders in Datong Province, and more than 2,000 veterans stationed in the guerrilla battalion.

The Datong Mansion and the guerrilla battalion each had a 1,000-strong anti-bandit brigade.

The Tartar soldiers in his hands have also been trained, and in Li Hua's words, even if they are allowed to die for Wang Zezhi, these people will not hesitate in the slightest.

Wang Zezhi has no doubt about this.

Some of these Tartar soldiers were captured by Lin Dan Khan, some were captured by bandits, and some were captured from the scattered small tribes captured by Zag.

Today, there are more than 23,000 Tartar soldiers.

In addition, he is constantly recruiting displaced people from all over the world to join the army.

Coupled with the soldiers and horses of the fire battalion, artillery battalion, steel armor heavy cavalry and other battalions, the number of sergeants in Wang Zezhi's hands is about to exceed 50,000, and it can be said that he is a person with heavy troops.

There are more people, and he spends more money on the soldiers every month, and the monthly military salary plus food, drink, and miscellaneous things has exceeded 100,000 taels.

If it weren't for the heroes of Datong Mansion, he really couldn't afford to support so many people.

There is another problem when there are too many people, that is, he is feared by the imperial court, and if Chongzhen suspects him, he will be in trouble.

But Wang Zezhi is not afraid, there is no strength without soldiers, and if there is no strength, he will be controlled by others, especially in this dynasty that eats people and does not spit out bones.

He would rather take these tens of thousands of people to die in battle than live that life of being controlled by others.

Compared with the combat mode of cavalry, the southern soldiers are better at matching large army formations, and the function of independent combat is relatively weak.

They prefer to fight in a dignified manner, quite in the style of the Qi family's army.

Therefore, Wang Zezhi planned to classify the southern soldiers as infantry and use them to garrison the cities.

The artillery in his hand has been assigned with the artillery.

Now in every city he garrisoned, there were two red-coated cannons and four furlong cannons.

Several battles with Lin Dan Khan made Wang Zezhi realize the importance of cavalry.

The soldiers are fast, and they must have a war horse to run fast.

The war horses sent by the Cowherd one after another, the war horses captured from Lin Dan Khan, and the high-grade war horses selected and purchased by the Naturalized City Horse Market, Wang Zezhi already had more than 34,000 war horses in his hands.

The light cavalry stationed in Xuandewei, Yulin, Zhenyuwei, Jiulonggou, Yunchuan, and Killing Hukou have been equipped with war horses, one person and two horses.

The steel armor heavy rider has one person and three riders, and it has also been equipped in place.

The Tartar battalion had a thousand light horsemen, and they themselves had war horses.

The firecrackers of the firecracker camp should also be equipped with war horses, and only with horses can they run fast, but the firecrackers do not need two horses, one person and one horse.

He was to add a force of 3,000 light horsemen to roam and support the various places.

The remaining horses were assigned to heralds and sentinels.

The best candidate for these 3,000 light cavalry is none other than the Tartar soldiers, after the southern soldiers arrived here, some of them were not accustomed to the water and soil, many people would have diarrhea, and fighting on horseback was not their forte, water and land warfare were.

For the management of the new cavalry, Wang Zezhi thinks that Zag is the first choice, which means that the leader of the additional Tartar battalion is Zag.

However, Zag can only be a deputy, because he has to wait for Dragwood to come back and make a place for him.

As for the generals of each squad, platoon, and company in the battalion, they were appointed by the Tartar soldiers with high military merit levels in the original Tartar battalion. 000 Literature

First, after several battles with Lin Dan Khan, these Tartars are no longer so afraid of Lin Dan Khan.

Second, they all have military merits, and promoting these people can be regarded as an incentive for the Tartar captives.

After the transfer, there will be a shortage of people in the Tartar battalion, and after careful consideration, Wang Zezhi classified these people as the battalion commander's personal guards for the additional Tartar battalion, that is, the cavalry specially used to protect the battalion commander of the Tartar battalion.

Light riding has been added, and heavy riding has to be increased.

He was going to add another thousand steel armor to the heavy ride.

Originally, Wang Zezhi didn't think of using steel armor heavy cavalry, but in the battle of Xi'an Fort, he suffered a loss in the Tartar heavy armor soldiers, so he came up with the idea of building steel armor heavy cavalry.

Now that he has won the two wars, it shows that his thinking is right.

The two operations also found some problems with weapons, the first of which was the role of the halberd on the battlefield.

A halberd is not as good as a spear, and the other is not as good as a sword.

After many inquiries, he learned that the halberd was used on the chariot.

In this era, he didn't want to spend a lot of money to build a chariot and use a halberd as a weapon.

So, he canceled the halberd shield soldiers.

Then combine the spear and shield soldiers and the sword and shield soldiers into one, with the front row as the gun and shield and the back row as the knife soldiers, collectively known as the infantry shield soldiers.

In addition to the halberd shield soldiers, he also canceled the archers.

The reason is simple, all cavalry are good archers, and it would be redundant to set up a separate bow battalion.

Eventually, he mixed his arms once again.

The defenders of each city will consist of artillerymen, light cavalry, and foot shieldmen.

Among them, 700 light cavalry, 200 infantry shields, 12 artillery men, and the rest were sentinels.

The next step is to optimize the combination.

He adjusted the establishment of his troops into firearms battalions, heavy cavalry battalions, light cavalry battalions, and infantry and shield battalions, of which cavalry was the top priority.

The firearms battalion is dominated by Lumi guns and redcoat cannons, although he has dozens of redcoat cannons so far.

But Wang Zezhi felt that this was not enough.

The number of red-coated cannons in his hand could not meet his needs at all, and the artillery battalion in his hand had to have at least a thousand red-coated cannons before it could be called an artillery battalion.

The Steel-Armored Heavy Rider remains the same.

The light cavalry of the battalions defending the city returned the surplus cavalry back to Wang Zezhi, and he sent the southern soldiers as infantry and shield soldiers to replenish the men and horses.

The light cavalry that came back was made up of steel armor heavy horses, and as soon as the steel armor arrived, it could be formed immediately.

In the end, there were many more people, and Wang Zezhi temporarily organized them as reserve personnel, temporarily guarding the guerrilla camp with the men and horses of the old battalion.

When he had planned it, he immediately ordered the herald to give the order.

The soldiers of the battalions received orders and functioned in an orderly manner.

All of a sudden, the road from the city of Guihua to the guerrilla camp was dusty, and sergeants and cavalry were constantly coming and going.

Because the movement was too big, it attracted the peeps of all forces, and of course, there would be Jinyi guards secretly observing and counting the number of people.

However, for Wang Zezhi, even if Chongzhen knew, he would not sit still and wait for death.

Now that he has the capital to resist, and he dares to conclude that after Chongzhen knows the true number of soldiers and horses, he will not do anything to himself.

If Chongzhen wants to turn his face with him, then he must be prepared to lose Datong.

He believed that with the soldiers and horses in his hands, he could not overthrow the Ming Dynasty, and he could also kill him upside down.

Wang Zeyi issued orders while waiting for replies from heralds from various places.