After dinner, nearly 30 soldiers from Kushuiwan Station were reassembled in the training ground, and Ma Youshui was ready to give them a lecture in person.

What Ma Youshui didn't expect was that he had just appeared at the training ground, and these soldiers knelt down in the night together, as if they had discussed, "Knock on your lord!" ”

"You guys get up first," Ma Youshui chuckled, "How about it, Lord Ben didn't lie to you, right?" Follow Lord Ben, from tonight onwards, you will have enough white flour steamed buns, and you can often eat fish and meat, and your salary can also feed your family. ”

"My lord, will this be the case in the future?" A soldier asked with a full hiccup.

"Naturally," Ma Youshui shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Look at my soldiers, do they have cut the queue - they obviously know that they don't need to cut the queue, they can eat white flour steamed buns, do they still need to cut the queue?" ”

"My lord, we believe you, from now on, we will do it with you!" A thirty-looking veteran knelt down in front of Ma Youshui again, "My lord, I don't care who you are, I will follow you in the future, I hope that the adult will accept us as personal soldiers, and we will only look forward to the adult!" ”

Ma Youshui smiled, "This brother got up and spoke," he raised his head and faced all the soldiers of Kushuiwan Station, "You have all thought about it, are you willing to follow me?" ”

In fact, this question was completely redundant, and he had already gotten the answer from the time his own soldiers told him that all the soldiers of Kushuiyi had taken the white-flour steamed buns.

Ma Youshui hoped that these soldiers would answer themselves face to face and loudly.

"We are willing to follow the adults! I beg you to accept us as your own soldiers! The soldiers knelt down in front of Ma Youshui again, their foreheads knocked to the ground, and they were waiting for Ma Youshui's final verdict.

"Brothers, I can guarantee that you will have enough to eat and feed your family," Ma Youshui said in a deep voice: "You can promise me that from now on, you will not be afraid of sweating on the training ground; On the battlefield against the enemy, are you not afraid of bloodshed? ”

"We can!"

"Okay, whether you can become my personal soldiers or not, from this moment on, you are already my subordinates, tomorrow morning, you will be my subordinates and start the first training!"

In the middle of the day, the sky was not yet large, and the soldiers of Kushuiwan Station got up early in the morning, and spontaneously left the hot quilt nest one by one and came to the training ground, but what surprised them was that there were not only hundreds of soldiers running and exercising in the training ground, but even Ma Youshui himself was there, and the entire training ground was too small and seemed quite crowded.

Bai Er found an acquaintance in the crowd, it was a former companion, and this time he went to the Guanting ferry with Bo Ping, "Huh? Brother, why are you here? Why do you wake up so early? ”

"So early?" The soldier didn't stop, but rolled his eyes at him, "Is this too early?" We've been running for half an hour, brother, come and run, this is your first time, right? If you're going to be late next time, you're going to have your head cut off! He also made a decapitation gesture with his hand around his neck.

Bai Er shrunk his neck in fright, "Is it really so strict?" Who is this adult? Is it Bo Qianhu? ”

"Bo Qianhu?" The soldier almost breathed, "Brother, it's not good for you to figure out the form?" This is the soldier of Xining Wei, Bo Qianhu has been killed by us because of the deduction of food and salary, we have now joined the Xining army, not only can we eat enough, every day is either fish or meat, this is something that I never dared to think of before, that is, the daily training, it is too hard, we have to get up at the end of the day. ”

Bai Er's eyeballs almost burst out, "Huh? Bo Qianhu is dead? You have joined the Xining Army, can you really eat enough every day? ”

"Of course you can eat enough, or you don't have the strength to train, I tell you, you have to train well in the future, if you run slowly, you will be driven out of the army," the soldier saw that Bai Er was already out of breath, so he threw him off and left, "You have to train a lot, such a slow speed, how can you go to the battlefield in the future?" ”

Bai Er's brain is short-circuited again, in Zhuang Langwei, the soldiers often flee secretly because they can't eat enough, although Wei Li says that he turns a blind eye, but if he is discovered, or the deserter is caught, the punishment is still very heavy, why did Xiningwei let the slow soldiers forcibly retire? How did you see so many strange things in the past two days?

He ran a few steps, trying to catch up with his former companion, but he didn't want to stumble under his feet, and fell to the ground, muttering to himself: "It's only been a few days, why is he running so fast?" You've never run away from me before......"

After breakfast, Ma Youshui and his subordinate soldiers stayed at Kushuiwan Station for a day to help train the original thirty soldiers, while Liu Yunshui became the pioneer and went directly out of Kushuiwanyi, and under the leadership of the surrendered soldiers, they went straight to Wild Fox Castle.

It is almost a copy of Kushuiwan Station, the wild fox castle with more than ten defenders, after being called open by familiar soldiers, Liu Yunshui also controlled the entire castle and welcomed Li Zicheng into the castle.

The defenders in the Wild Fox Castle were escorted by the soldiers to Kushuiwan Station for intensive training, while Ma Youshui only left two soldiers with small flags to garrison, and he followed the pace of the army along the Zhuanglang River from the afternoon.

Their target this time is Zhuang Langwei.

For the Zhuanglang Acropolis, Li Zicheng compared the "Xining model", first let some soldiers infiltrate, and at midnight, took advantage of the local numerical advantage of the soldiers to seize the city gate and receive the army into the city.

Li Zicheng's subordinates, in addition to more than 400 soldiers of Ma Youshui and Liu Yunshui, also had 200 soldiers of Yuan Zhuang Langwei, and after the 600 army quietly entered the city, they first went straight to the barracks, disarmed the soldiers in the fort, and controlled them, and then according to the confessions of the soldiers, they separately arrested the eunuchs and the officers in the guard.

In the Zhuang Lang Acropolis, there were only 300 soldiers, who were attacked by superior forces, and the familiar Zhuang Lang troops shouted to attack their hearts, but they did not resist at all, and surrendered directly.

Zhuang Langwei was solved without blood, Li Zicheng did not have many surprises, Wang Anping had already told him about Zhuang Langwei's current situation, the original locality, except for the two hundred soldiers who went to the Guanting ferry of the Yellow River, and the soldiers who had been scattered in various forts, Zhuang Langwei was almost useless.

Li Zicheng did not insult Zhuang Langwei's defense but was lax, from Xining Wei to Nian Bosuo, and then to Zhuang Langwei today, he has basically seen the garrison of Shaanxi Xingdusi.

It's just that every time he experiences such a big victory, he will be deeply strengthened in his beliefs, this is still the frontier of the Ming Dynasty, Zhuang Langwei who is always facing the invasion of the Mongols, if it is in the two capitals and thirteen divisions without combat missions, the army of the Daimyo Guard, I am afraid that even the people will not be able to suppress it.

I don't know how many of the government soldiers left by Hongwu back then, how many of them are registered now, and how many of them can receive military salaries and maintain basic combat effectiveness.

Facing the dazed and frightened Zhuang Langbing prisoners of war, Li Zicheng no longer had the enthusiasm to speak, what else could these soldiers do besides wasting food? Let them rely on the border walls to defend the nomads of the north?

"Sheep into the mouth of the tiger", Li Zicheng only felt this, he shook his head slowly, Daming has reached this situation, although it is still a behemoth in the eyes of others, but it is rotten in the bones, no wonder only hundreds of thousands of Jurchen Tartars can invade the entire Liaodong, and Lin Dan Khan of the Mongolian Chahar Department, who was beaten by the Tartars and fled, has to bite off a piece of meat from Daming from time to time.

Li Zicheng gritted his teeth with anger every time he saw the people living in dire straits, but the court of the Ming Dynasty ignored its own people, as if it was the excess property on his body, like this time the Tartars entered the plug and took away hundreds of thousands of people in the Ming Dynasty, and the court turned a deaf ear to them, not only did no one think about saving these Han people, but when they were responsible for the war, they never thought that the corpses were everywhere near the capital division, and there were these people who were slaves and maidservants and once raised them.

The Polar Bear Emperor of later generations said well, "Although the land is large, not an inch is superfluous", is the population of the Ming Dynasty redundant?

The court that does not care about its own people will eventually be abandoned by its own people!

Looking at these frightened and somewhat numb prisoners of war, Li Zicheng really had nothing to say, when facing the enemy, they didn't even have the courage to take up arms, such soldiers, whose sorrow?

In addition to shaking his head and sighing, Li Zicheng was a little inspired, didn't the Tartars in Liaodong eat away at the land and population of the Ming Dynasty a little bit? When it accumulates to a certain extent, it will explode, and eventually swallow the huge Daming.

Even the Tartars can transform the weak Han people into their combat effectiveness, is it possible that they who have mastered part of the civilization of later generations are not as good as the Tartars?

Xining and Liaodong are somewhat similar, and they are also the frontiers of the Ming Dynasty, except for the occasional harassment of the Mongols, which is to face the seemingly huge ancient empire.

In the Nurhachi era, the Jurchen Tartars had already integrated the various tribes within them, and they had already entered a period of expansion, and the biggest temptation for them was the rich Ming in the south.

Xining started much later than Liaodong, and now is the most difficult time to start, potential enemies look around, but Xining also has its own advantages, at least now it is still under the protection of the wings of the Ming Dynasty, if you can take the entire Shaanxi Xingdu Division before the imperial court finds out, then the pattern of Xining is similar to that of Liaodong's Tartars.

Li Zicheng doesn't believe in "blossoming in the middle lane", which will find strong enemies on all sides, just like Go, "golden horns and silver edges and grass belly", only in an inconspicuous corner, make a fortune in a muffled voice, and accumulate strength, it is possible to stand out.

Xining's biggest advantage is that it is dominated by the Han people, and if the strategy is appropriate, it is entirely possible to complete internal integration in a bloodless way, and expand its own power step by step.

Li Zicheng was finally freed from reverie, he had no time, let alone energy to complain, anger and grievances, in addition to wasting time, it could not bring any benefits, and the angry youth did not have any market, only by being down-to-earth, it was possible to step by step towards the world in his heart.

He wants to compete with the Jurchen Tartars for time.

When disposing of Zhuang Langwei's soldiers, he divided all the nearly 700 soldiers into two parts, and took the 200 Zhuang Lang soldiers who had returned to Shun earlier as the team to form six general flags, which were assigned to Ma Youshui, and the rest of the soldiers were also divided into six general flags, which were under Liu Yunshui's subordinates, Ma Youshui and Liu Yunshui, the two hundred household officials, and the subordinate soldiers later reached ten general banners, more than 500 soldiers.

However, Zhuang Langwei's troops have no combat effectiveness for the time being, and must undergo strict training, Li Zicheng was worried that Ma Youshui would expand his army too much at one time, so he personally accompanied the training for three days, killed two soldiers with improper attitudes in public, and singled out dozens of soldiers who were really inappropriate, ready to join the fishing team.

He left Ma Youshuibu to guard the Nian Bo Institute and Zhuang Langwei, and only then did he take Liu Yun's water department and leave Zhuang Lang.

But Li Zicheng was still in a contradiction, whether the next military action was to go directly to Ganzhou and wipe out the entire Shaanxi Xingdu Division in one fell swoop, or to follow Zhuang Langwei all the way to the north and break through each one.