In the first year of Zhongxing, on the fifth day of the first lunar month, Zhu Cihong ordered the reorganization of the Yinglong Army, temporarily abolished the artillery establishment, expanded the number of each army to 20,000, and at the same time newly established the Fifth Army and the Sixth Army.

Originally, the establishment of the Yinglong Army should have been 17,000 people, of which 15,000 were infantry and 2,000 were artillery, but the Firearms Bureau was unable to create artillery capable of field warfare.

According to Zhu Cihong's estimate, Li Zicheng will be able to hold out until the end of this month at most, and he will inevitably be defeated in Shaanxi, when the Manchus will occupy all the areas north of the Yellow River, and there will be no worries at all, and at the latest in May this year, the Manchus will definitely attack Jiangnan on a large scale, or even earlier, they will go south in March.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty is different from Zuo Liangyu's rabble, a few months ago, Zuo Liangyu rebelled, although it claimed to have an army of 1.5 million, but in addition to the bluff and the 300,000 strong men who were forcibly conscripted, the real soldiers were 630,000, and these 630,000 were only 300,000 capable of fighting at most, and the rest was just a rabble that had not been formed long ago and lacked training, and it was because of this that Zhu Cihong was able to defeat Zuo Liangyu so quickly.

Zuo Liangyu and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, that is a heaven and a place, at this moment, the soldiers stationed in various places on the entire Manchu Liquidation already have an army of 700,000 people under their command, among these 700,000 people, there are not only the fierce and unafraid of death Manchu Eight Banners, but also the Mongolian iron cavalry with relatively strong combat power, even if it is the remaining Han Banner Army, it has been honed behind the Manchu Dynasty's horse butt all the year round, and its combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated, which is not comparable to the ordinary Ming army.

To say that the Manchurian Eight Banners, created by Nurhachi that year, there were only 40,000 people at first, but after fifty or sixty years of development, now there is a scale of 100,000 people, in addition to 20,000 with some old and young perennial guards in the pass, there are about 80,000 elites in the pass, although from the many major battles after entering the customs, the Manchu Eight Banners died about 20,000 people, but the Manchus have a population of nearly 800,000 outside the pass, and every year the Manchu Qing Dynasty can make up for about 20,000 recruits who are over the age of fifteen, that is to say, after supplementing this year, The Eight Banners can still have 80,000 elites to fight in the pass, of course, if Dolgon also draws the fourteen-year-old man, it will not be difficult for the Eight Banners to organize 100,000 troops to fight in the pass.

As for the Mongols, the Mongols have long been subjugated to the Manchus, and if the entire Mongolian steppe is fully deployed, it can draw about 200,000 Mongolian iron horsemen.

If these 200,000 Mongolian iron cavalry plus a maximum of 100,000 Manchu Eight Banners, the Manchu Qing can use a maximum of 300,000 Manchu and Mongolian cavalry, and the rest is nearly 400,000 Han Eight Banners, which is the origin of the Manchu 700,000 army.

"Your Majesty, there is information from the north that Dolgon recently issued an order to re-establish the land in all occupied areas, and at the same time issued a conscription order to recruit 400,000 Han people to fill the Han Eight Banners, and promised that in the future, if any soldiers of the Han Eight Banners are killed in battle, each person can give their families a pension of 30 acres of fertile land." As soon as Peng Cheng received the news, he immediately rushed to the Qianqing Palace to report to Zhu Cihong.

Because Zhu Cihong was ready to let Zhang Kuishan come out to lead one of the newly formed armies of the Ying Long Army, the matter of Jinyiwei was slowly handed over to Peng Cheng, the deputy commander of Jinyiwei.

Peng Cheng has passed the test of Zhu Cihong for half a year and is basically qualified, so Zhu Cihong can rest assured that he will hand over the Jinyi Guard to him.

"Dolgon is a good recruit to buy people's hearts!" Zhu Cihong gritted his teeth, his face was a little ugly.

Several provinces in the north have been in war for many years, and many people have fled to the south of the Yangtze River, there are a lot of terra nullius, thirty acres of fertile land is almost one hundred and fifty taels of silver, which is several times higher than the pension of the Ming Dynasty, although Zhu Cihong has always known that the Manchu Qing Dynasty is very good at buying people's hearts before getting the country, but so driving the Han people to attack the Han people themselves, in addition to being clever, it is also really hateful, and Zhu Cihong is unbearable at all.

Zhu Cihong's heart was pulled up, very uncomfortable, but also extremely helpless, due to natural disasters and perennial wars, the Ming Dynasty in the north of the people's hearts have already been lost in the Chongzhen period, in addition to Li Zicheng's occupation of Beijing after what he did, but also let the people almost have a sense of being deceived, so that the people from the disappointment of the Ming to the despair of the Dashun, and a series of measures to buy people's hearts after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and now the people in the north have been biased towards the Manchu Qing.

How sad it is that the people of their own nation no longer believe in their own people, but let the Manchu aliens outside the Guanxi get their hearts, in addition to showing the wisdom of the Manchu Qing, it also shows the incompetence of the Ming and Li Zicheng.

However, after all, the alien race is a foreign race, and it will not really think about the Han people, once they feel that there is no threat in the world, their vicious fangs will be immediately exposed, after all, the scene in history, Li Zicheng died, the capital of Nanming was broken, and then it was Yangzhou for ten days, Jiading three massacres, hair without head, arresting people and enslavement, horse racing, etc., how many Han people were forced to die because of this, and the number of people in this even exceeded the death of decades of war.

Zhu Cihong's face was blue, his fists were clenched, and his green muscles were bursting up.

The Manchus are bound to perish!

"The emperor has an order to reorganize the Dragon Army and recruit 60,000 new soldiers!" The city of Nanjing posted the imperial list everywhere, and the streets and alleys of Yacha beat gongs and drums.

Thanks to the prestige of Ying Longjun's army, the recruitment was extremely fast, and a sufficient number of recruits were recruited in less than ten days.

Because all armies need some backbones and training leaders, and only the First Army and the Second Army and Niu Yongsheng's 4,000 artillery battalion are veterans of the Yinglong Army, and these veterans of the Yinglong Army are not only familiar with training, but also familiar with tactics, so the backbone and the head of the instructor can only be drawn from the First Army and the Second Army and Niu Yongsheng's 4,000 artillery battalion.

However, the First Army was confronting the Qing soldiers on the Shandong front, and the artillery battalion had been trained to fight artillery, and for some considerations, the artillery battalion was not transferred except for the Sixth Army, so it was very unfortunate that only Zhou Cao's Second Army met the conditions, and soon most of the veterans were transferred out, and almost Zhou Cao's heart was not killed.

The commander of the Fifth Army is naturally Zhang Kuishan, and the Sixth Army is cheap Niu Yongsheng because Zhu Cihong can't find a suitable candidate for the time being, but Niu Yongsheng's qualifications are too shallow, and the official rank is only from the third grade.

Of the six army commanders, only Huang Degong of the Third Army has the title of Jing Nanbo, and has been promoted to the rank of second-rank military attaché, although Zhang Kuishan of the Fifth Army was transferred from Jinyiwei, but he is the old man who has followed Zhu Cihong for the longest time, and he is the most trusted by Zhu Cihong, and the commander of Jinyiwei has a high authority, although he is transferred, he cannot be demoted, so Zhang Kuishan is also promoted to a second-rank military attaché. The rest of the first army Ji Feng, the second army Zhou Cao, and the fourth army Yan Yingyuan are all three products, only Niu Yongsheng of the sixth army is from the third grade, but Niu Yongsheng is already very satisfied, he was originally just an ordinary civilian, and now it has only been half a year, and he has become the head of the first army without much credit, and I don't know how many people have been provoked.

60,000 recruits will be trained in a unified manner, and will be assigned to the armies after the basic training is completed.

After the reorganization of the Ying Long Army, training began in full swing, striving to form an initial combat strength before March, and if it could train until May, it would basically be a small success.

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