After this major adjustment, as a result, the Xingtian Army has now formed a pattern of several towns, and the Shanxi area has been unified into the first town of the National Defense Force on the basis of Yan Chongxi's department and Wang Chengping's department, and it will be responsible for the defense of the Shanxi area now and in the future.

On the basis of Liu Bao and Diao Zheng's subordinates, they were all classified as the second town of the National Defense Force, responsible for the defense of Henan, Beizhi, Shandong and other places.

In the future, the headquarters of Luo Rucai and Li Xuanzhu will be divided into the third town of the National Defense Army, which will be responsible for the defense of Huguang, Sichuan, and other places.

The rest are the soldiers and horses under Shi Ran's command who have just been formed, and will be divided into the fourth town of the National Defense Army in the future, responsible for the defense of Nanzhili, Zhejiang and other places.

As for Liu Yaoben and Luo Li, as well as the tens of thousands of horses under the command of Tietou, in fact, they are Xiao Tianjian's personal troops for the time being, and they belong to the guards in the national defense army.

Among the soldiers and horses in these towns, the guards directly held by Xiao Tianjian are the strongest, and over the years, they have fought the most battles and the best equipment quality, followed by Yan Chongxi's first town with the strongest combat power, followed by Luo Rucai, the third town under Li Xuanzhu and Liu Bao, Diao Zheng's second town, the combat effectiveness of the two towns, the weakest combat effectiveness is probably the fourth town under Shi Ran, Shi Ran's fourth town, most of the soldiers are newly recruited, or the generals who have been reorganized from the official armyThe backbone composition is drawn from various departments, and it cannot be compared with the rest of the towns in terms of equipment or training at the moment, but after all, the fourth town is newly established, and after time, it can still quickly improve its combat effectiveness, so this situation will change in the future.

However, Xiao Tianjian is not worried that these commanders will have two hearts in the future, he has been ready to control them over the years, when the army was built, all logistics are under the control of the Ministry of War, and the food and equipment of the soldiers and horses in each town must be transferred from the General Logistics Department under the Ministry of War.

And taking advantage of this opportunity to rectify the soldiers and horses, Xiao Tianjian ordered the original guards to be transferred and reorganized, listed this part of the guards, and established a military police unit, so as to distinguish their responsibilities from the guards, the main work of these military guards is to do the work of the law enforcement team, not subject to the management of any local generals, directly subordinate to the military department, while responsible for protecting military generals at all levels, there is also the duty of supervising local military generals, and there is also the duty of enforcing military law in war.

The usual task of the gendarmerie is not to take a direct part in combat, but its main function is to maintain military discipline, restrain the conduct of other soldiers, and deal with all kinds of crimes in the army, especially incidents of violations of military discipline by military personnel. Guarding the national capital, defending important military offices and various military and local yamen, and escorting military supplies are, to put it bluntly, the police in the army have a very transcendent status, but in order to ensure that the military commanders in various localities are not interfered with in the command of the war, the military police are only allowed to supervise and report, but are not allowed to interfere in the affairs of the generals' wartime command.

For Xiao Tianjian's formation of the gendarmerie force this time, in fact, the generals and civilian officials at all levels can understand why this is very clear with a little brain, the gendarmerie is the supervising army, but it is different from the supervising army, they only supervise military discipline, but do not interfere with the command, as long as the generals honestly do things for the country, then there is no, but as long as they have different intentions, then the gendarmerie is a bomb buried around them, and they can be taken down at any time.

If Xiao Tianjian suddenly launched a gendarmerie system, the generals would probably feel very uncomfortable, and they would definitely feel that Xiao Tianjian did not trust them and sent people to monitor them, but since the Xingtian Army became an army, Xiao Tianjian has implemented the method of unified deployment of guards in the army, but it has long been clearly forbidden for all military generals to support their families privately, so now the guards are replaced by gendarmes, which is just a change of name, but it has not caused too much disgust among the generals, so the gendarmerie unit has been quietly established. It has become a special branch of the military that is independent of each branch of the military.

As for the guards around Xiao Tianjian, under the discussion of everyone, they were separately listed from the gendarmerie, and the three hundred most capable and loyal generals were selected by the iron head, and they stayed by Xiao Tianjian's side, renamed Yu Linwei, one is fully responsible for Xiao Tianjian's personal safety, and the other is Xiao Tianjian's herald, although the military rank of these people is not high, but their status is very transcendent, these people who can be selected and incorporated into Yu Linwei are all proud of this, this is a position that can glorify the ancestors!

After the overall strength of several towns was summed up, Xiao Tianjian himself was a little surprised, the Xingtian Army under his command had developed to this time, and the total strength of the Xingtian Army had reached nearly 150,000 people, and these 150,000 horses were basically regular troops, which were paid by the military, not counting the establishment of the local reserve battalion that was a bit of a militia nature, if it was the establishment of a local reserve battalion, the number of people and horses available to the Xingtian Army was an astronomical number, and there was no problem with adding at least one or two hundred thousand.

If this number is placed in later generations, it may not be nothing, but in this era, so many people and horses are already very large.

In fact, in history, the strength of the righteous army like Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong was often hundreds of thousands or millions, but the moisture in that number was very large, and in their army, the real combatable soldiers actually only accounted for a very small proportion, tens of thousands of people and hundreds of thousands of people, and those who could copy the guys to fight in battle were probably only a few thousand people, and most of the rest were hungry people who made up the numbers and ran errands with mixed rice, and their combat effectiveness was quite poor.

The number of officers and soldiers in the Ming court on paper is also quite large, reaching one million at the most, but after removing the number of empty salaries of the officials, and then removing the old, weak and remnant soldiers and some auxiliary soldiers, in fact, the strength of the official army is very small.

However, the 150,000 people of the Xingtian Army are basically real combatants, and their ages are roughly concentrated between fifteen or sixteen and forty years old, and it can be said that all of them have received relatively strict military training, so if the same 10,000 against 10,000, the combat effectiveness of the Xingtian Army is much higher than that of the opponent, which is also the key to their repeated victories. But in this era, the Xingtian Army is already a super behemoth.

Xiao Tianjian recalled that he was thrown by this thief in this world where birds don't lay eggs, almost starved to death, miserable and overwhelmed, and even when he was almost eaten by someone, and then looked at these soldiers and horses in his hands now, he couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion, maybe it was God's care, he just used less than seven years to use what he learned in later generations to lay this foundation, and now he can actually build the country and ascend the throne in name to complete his great cause of dominating the world. I'm afraid that this kind of thing cannot be very calm for anyone.

Some people say that as long as it is a real man, there may be a dream of an emperor buried in his heart, he asks himself if he is not a saint, and he is not exempt from vulgarity, but it was just a dream before, and now he wants to turn this dream into reality, and when he thinks of this, he can't help but feel a little complacent.

But when he looked back, he felt that the pressure on his shoulders was too great, and he gave up too many things for the career he had achieved now, and he found his love in this world, but for this career, he had to stay away from his love most of the time, and led his generals to fight in blood and fire, what was he for?

Why did this suddenly make Xiao Tianjian fall back to reality from the flutter, is he really just to be able to ascend to the throne of the emperor who is looked up to by thousands of people like today? In fact, the most fundamental purpose of his rebellion is to pull the Chinese nation out of the abyss into which it is about to slip, so that the Chinese nation will no longer have to be bullied and become the target of slaughter by those small countries like later generations, and change the history that makes all Chinese feel painful when they think about it.

But has he succeeded now? Think about the barbarians in the north, aren't they still just right to claim the king and hegemony in the Liaodong area, and they are still coveting the Central Plains in the south at any time? Although he has laid down such a large territory at present, but the Ming Dynasty has not been completely destroyed, and there are still large areas of land still under the control of the Ming Dynasty, even if the control of these territories in the north is very weak, but in the end it is still nominally under his control, there are still tens of thousands of Chinese people, still living in dire straits.

At this time, the warships of those emerging countries in the West have been all over the world in the enclosure, all over the world are seizing their colonies, and even now their warships have sailed to the coast of China and hit the land of China. Day by day, month by month, and even year after year, this rare precious time is consumed.

As soon as he thought of this, Xiao Tianjian had a strong sense of urgency, as if a boulder was instantly pressing on his heart, making him breathless, eager to complete the great cause of unifying the land of China at once, and then cast his eyes on the sea.

Does all this have to wait until he completes the great cause of unification? Xiao Tianjian suddenly couldn't sit still, because there was a voice in his heart that told him, no, he couldn't wait any longer, although he didn't have enough energy and time to do this now, it didn't mean that he didn't do anything at the moment, at least, now he had to start doing something, and here in Nanjing City, more than two hundred years ago, there was a person, but earlier than people from any country in the world, did a very valuable thing, Outside the city of Nanjing, there are still footprints he left here.

Seeing that all kinds of things basically began to enter the orbit, Xiao Tianjian couldn't help but start to be lazy again, one morning at the end of November, Xiao Tianjian in the name of rest, ordered not to see any of his ministers, but attracted the iron head, after muttering for a while, the iron head shook his head like a rattle, and refused to agree to anything, and finally Xiao Tianjian was helpless, staring and scolding the iron head, so the iron head had to nod helplessly and agreed, Xiao Tianjian changed into a very ordinary casual clothes, Accompanied by Tietou and dozens of Yu Lin Guards who also changed into various civilian clothes, he sneaked out of the Shuai Mansion where he temporarily lived and headed out of the city.