"Li Zicheng?"

Yang Xin looked at the young man in front of him with interest.

At this moment, he is still on the Yuhua platform.

The battle here has ended, and after Zhang Mingzhen's guards surrendered, the few remaining generals who were still stubbornly resisting were quickly overwhelmed by the defective soldiers, and at this time they had already begun to clean up the battlefield, as for their exact number, it is not yet known.

But it shouldn't be less than sixty thousand.

Previously, the real Datong army under Zhang Mingzhen was a total of 70,000, and the remaining 30,000 were regimental exercises put together by the gentry in this area, which did not really participate in the attack......

They are equivalent to auxiliaries.

Transportation, manufacturing engineering equipment, digging trenches and other types of work.

What was really used to attack Nanjing was the 70,000 Datong Army, with 8,000 casualties and nearly 50,000 defectors, plus almost 10,000 auxiliaries, and the Datong Army still had more than 10,000 people who fled, but there were no brigade-level rear-level soldiers who fled. At present, the Datong Army has been expanded to a total of 12 armies, and there are seven armies outside Nanjing, and the generals above the brigade level are all children of the big clans, and the battalion level belongs to the clan close branches, and only below the sentry level is the real mercenary nature.

It's the same as team training.

The same is true of these regimental trainings of the Changsheng Army.

It's just that because of their small scale, they are at the team level, and they must have a clan background above the whistle.

The army formed by the gentry cannot be truly mercenary, it must be controlled by the clan system, and they cannot be cohesive with faith, they must adopt clan cohesion, and even each army is geographically divided, so that the officers of the big clans bring a group of pro-soldiers who are similar to the family and are mainly composed of clans, usually the most elite cavalry, and then control the local recruitment of troops who really fight.

The senior generals of the big families, the middle-level generals of the small families, and the local tenant serfs were used as cannon fodder, and when they started a war, they ordered the people to go down and down, and the good land rented by the disobedient family was gone.

When he was really in danger, the general hurried away under the protection of his own soldiers......

It is no different from the Ming army in the past.

If this system were not for Yang Xin, who played a big killing weapon, it would still be very effective in the feudal era, after all, this system in the clan and township is far more than simple recruitment and unity.

It's not that the gentry don't work hard, it's that the enemy is too strong.

After the large-scale defection on the front line began, and spread rapidly, those sober-minded generals knew that they could not return to heaven, and immediately abandoned their troops and fled, only those who were still trying to redeem the defeat fell into it, and died in the beating of the defective soldiers.

In the end, this battle added 50,000 Morris-trained regular troops to Yang Xin, 10,000 auxiliaries who could also fight but lacked formal training, and his current presence in Nanjing, where he already had 120,000 soldiers to fight. And there are more than 10,000 Dangkou troops in Wuxi, and there are 50,000 loyal and brave troops in Zhaoyi City, which means that he already has 180,000 troops in his hands, and if he wants, he can quickly expand to 200,000, as long as these 180,000 troops cross the Yangtze River and take over those in Fengyang.

An army of 200,000!

Although the integration is not yet complete, the foundation has been laid.

It's all the Morris system.

Musket rotation, spear formation, and even cavalry are better than the Morris system, and there are more artillery, at this time the proportion of artillery in the European army is not even as high as that of the Datong army, and in addition to Sweden, it is estimated that there is no special field artillery at the regimental artillery level such as three-pound guns.

Such an army of 200,000 is a sweep of the world even in Europe.

The total number of people in the battle of Lüzen was only tens of thousands!

Rebellion is enough.

So to rebel or not to rebel?

Anyway, this question is very tangled.

Entangled with whether to be a thief or not, Yang Dudu, looking at the number one thief in history in front of him, Xiao Li was still very young at this time, and he looked like he was about twenty, not handsome, at least there was still a big gap compared to Yang Dudu.

"Your nephew is Li Jin, right? I remember him mentioning it to me earlier. ”

Yang Xin said.

"Back to Grandpa, exactly."

Li Zicheng said cautiously.

He didn't know that the person in front of him was fighting between the thieves and the loyal ministers.

"I like young people like you, Li Jin is also a fierce general, last time on the battlefield one person killed several enemy soldiers, since you are his uncle, and you captured Qian Rebel alive, then stay with me as a personal soldier first, and see your performance later."

Yang Xin said.

Li Zicheng hurriedly thanked him excitedly.

He knew very well that being a soldier meant a real future.

"As for you, integrate all these people you bring into the army, and I will give you a brigade commander, and some more people will make a brigade led by you."

Yang Xin said to Luo Rucai.

The latter thanked him equally excitedly.

He was originally a sentry commander, but he was directly promoted from the battalion commander to the brigade commander, you must know that his group of people is only a battalion supplement at the moment, but he has already entered the ranks of senior generals.

Yang Xin immediately asked them to take their subordinates into the city, as for Qian Qianyi and the others, there was no need to pay attention to that, they were ready to dig guano, and they couldn't go to Diaoyu Island to dig, there were enough people there, so the next newcomers had to go to the Dongsha Islands to dig. Moreover, there is fresh water on the Dongsha Islands, although this fresh water is said to be not suitable for drinking, but that Guan Yang Xin's, as long as he can't drink it to death, or if he can't drink it all at once, it just so happens that his clipper can pass over.

At most, build a few more water cellars to stock up on some rainwater.

The dug on this island can be supplied to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and after this round of expansion, there will definitely be a large number of people ready to go, and it is estimated that it will be almost enough, and then it will have to be prepared to send it to the Xisha Islands.

And the Paracel Islands also have fresh water......

What the? The fresh water in the Paracel Islands is also not suitable for drinking?

As long as you don't drink it for a year or two, it's okay not to die, and it's not that the Japanese army has never drunk it to the coolies on the island.

But Zhang Mingzhen didn't have to go.

Digging guano is the work of the Confucians, and their value is worthy of being accompanied by guano, but for Zhang Mingzhen, he can fight like this......

Of course, it can't be delayed.

For them, Yang Xin has a better arrangement.

Yang Dudu is like a black-hearted businessman, he always likes to squeeze the value out of the cleanest, even if it is an enemy, and killing them is of course impossible to create value, so he decided to exile these people, but not to Guano Island or Taiwan, but directly to the South Seas.

The colonization of the South Seas must begin.

Although it is still too far to grab other places, there is one place that fits well, and that is the Mekong Delta.

It's hard to say who it belongs to for the time being.

Theoretically belonging to Cambodia.

However, the Phnom Penh dynasty only centered on Dong Sari Lake, and was not very interested in the Saigon area.

The Champa in the north has become a vassal of the Nguyen family, but the Nguyen family cannot cross them to Saigon after all.

Modern Saigon was actually established by the Chinese.

It is Chen Shangchuan and others who fled there after the failure of the anti-Qing Dynasty at the end of the Ming Dynasty, including the Mo family of Hexian, are all in a similar situation, and the Han people who are unwilling to be slaves in our Qing Dynasty, the Mo family has stood on the south bank of the Mekong River like princes for a hundred years, and our Qing Dynasty envoys went back and said that they seemed to return to the previous dynasty. When Tran Shang Chuan and others established a new home in the Mekong Delta, and received support by clinging to the Nguyen family, the city of Saigon began to rise in earnest, but it can only be said to be a frontier of the Phnom Penh Dynasty, but there are a small number of Vietnamese who have fled there.

So it's perfect for colonization.

Just build a fortress there, and then you can immigrate there to grow rice.

Three crops a year!

Although the yield is not as good as that of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the yield gap is not worth mentioning under the power of three crops a year.

The surplus grain from there was then shipped back home.

However, at the beginning of the establishment, there must be enough force, although there is no strong regime, but those local residents will not welcome it, and even the Phnom Penh Dynasty will not allow a piece of land that originally belonged to itself to be snatched away by others, even if this land belongs to a remote border area, it is also its own, and it is impossible to give it to others casually, so Yang Xin needs a group of cannon fodder for colonial development.

Zhang Mingzhen: These are undoubtedly very suitable.

In the future, the captured generals of the Datong Army, those who could fight in the big families, were all arrested and sent to Saigon under his command.

Colony grabbing in exchange for pardon.

As long as you grab the place and stay there for a certain number of years, then you can get a pardon, including Shen Tingyang, these people can be thrown over, and their families can stay in the country as hostages, so that there is no need to worry that they will escape. In short, either they go to fight for the Ming colonial development, or the whole family is connected, and they can also be allowed to own property in the colony, don't they all like land? Go ahead, how much of the wasteland is theirs there, Yang Dudu will never worry about it, even if they can open a million acres, they can do whatever they want.

That's it.

Governor Yang will make these people clear.

As for those defective soldiers, they should first go back to their original barracks outside the city, and then they will be reorganized, and at this time, his establishment is similar to that of the Datong Army, so the reorganization of these people is very simple. The officers are still in his own way, and he appoints them above the sentry commander, and the temporary soldiers below the sentry commander are elected by him, and the discipline officer is assigned to the sentry level, and then there is the indispensable grievance meeting, which is definitely necessary.

Basically, after this time, this army was reborn.

Then take them to sweep through Jiangsu and Zhejiang, as for not using them before this, for the Taiping Mansion around Nanjing, there is no need for this army at all, after this battle, the west of Taihu Lake, the north of the mountainous area of southern Anhui is basically received.

The armies of Nanking were sufficient.

"Huaiyuanhou, why did Yaxing come out?" ””

Yang Xin shouted.

Chang Yinxu was walking blankly on the still messy battlefield, and from time to time there were defective soldiers beside him who raised their heads to look at this strange old man suspiciously.

"Ying Guogong, it's like a dream!"

He said.

He didn't look up, though.

"Nightmare or good dream?"

Yang Xin said.

"Then it depends on what Ying Guogong does in the future, Ying Guogong, do you think about how to go in the future?"

Chang Yinxu raised his head and said.

(Two chapters, the third chapter is a bit messy and rewritten.) )

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