Why didn't Huang Taiji come to sneak attack? As Shi Kefa guessed, he was a little afraid to come. When he had just arrived at the Chahar Department, he heard that the little emperor had mobilized more than 200,000 troops to garrison Zunhua to the large and small cities on the front line of the capital, especially Zunhua, and actually sent 100,000 troops to garrison it in one go, and he didn't want to come at that time.

After all his 200,000 troops were assembled, the spies of Shuntianfu unexpectedly found that Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of the five provinces, was leading an army of 150,000 to Zunhua, and it was less than two days away from Zunhua. He directly extinguished the thought of going to the sneak attack, what kind of joke, Zunhua alone gathered 250,000 Ming troops, he went to find death!

Since you can't sneak attack, you have to consider defense, look at the posture of the little emperor, at least four or five hundred thousand troops will be gathered in the spring of next year to start a great battle with him in Liaodong, he is only less than 200,000 horses in the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, and there is definitely no chance of winning the battle. Now the only hope is the Mongolian tribes, if they are allowed to assemble with all their might, it will definitely be more than 150,000, 250,000 is possible, but at that time, the Mongolian army will be more than his Manchu and Han Eight Banners army combined, in case people have bad intentions, it will not be dangerous.

This kind of thing is the patent of his Houjin, and he naturally won't let the Mongolian tribes learn to bully him Houjin, he thought about it and came up with a series of tricks:

First of all, he gathered the leaders of the Mongolian tribes together, and solemnly promised that in the future, Manchu and Mongolia would be united, and he would set aside a large piece of land in Liaodong, divide it among the Mongolian tribes, and give slaves to cultivate for them, so that the Mongolian tribes would no longer have to worry about food problems in the future.

Then, he informed the Jurchen tribes to send all the young Belgeges to the Mongolian steppe, and to have a great marriage with the Mongolian tribes to improve the relationship between the two sides.

In the end, he also issued a blank check, as long as this war can defeat the main force of the Ming army, he took advantage of the situation to wave his army south, destroy the Ming Dynasty, and then all the northern provinces will be sealed to the Mongolian departments!

The leaders of the Mongolian tribes are not stupid, who will work with you without any practical benefits.

Huang Taiji was prepared, he immediately took out the map of Liaodong, first divided the area occupied by the Ming army, and then directly divided it in the middle, the southern half was allocated to the Mongolian departments, and the Jurchen tribes were only close to the small half of Jianzhou. At this time, the leaders of the Mongolian tribes are all moved, how do they know, as long as the war starts, the Ming army will first recover the southeast of Liaodong, if they can't win the Ming army, they won't be able to get a fart!

The next marriage Emperor Taiji was even more yin, and under his instructions, the capital of the Jurchen Eight Banners, Bel Gege, divided the Mongolian tribes, and the Eight Banners were probably divided into Mongolian tribes that could gather about 30,000 people. Then Huang Taiji directly divided their men and horses together, and they all acted together with their own children and in-laws, you are not afraid of being pitted, right? Their sons and daughters' in-laws may not pit them, but Huang Taiji plans to pit them with their sons and daughters' in-laws!

In this way, Huang Taiji left all the tribes in Mongolia to marry slowly, while he himself returned to Shengjing to prepare for the Ming army's sharp weapons.

As soon as he heard that all the Mongolian ministries had gone back to do a happy event, he knew that Huang Taiji was no longer planning to come to a sneak attack, so his long-prepared army reorganization operation began.

His army reorganization action this time was mainly aimed at the various shortcomings of the Ming army at that time in Chongzhen:

For example, the commanders of the generals disobeyed the superintendents or governors appointed by the imperial court at zero time, and when they started a battle, they either cowered or led the army to flee, and they lost inexplicably in every battle, and they were extremely sloppy;

For another example, the soldiers of the Ming army were weak-willed and had no enterprising spirit, and there would be a big rout if the war was not incidental, and there were millions of troops chasing them everywhere by more than 100,000 Qing troops;

Another example, the command is chaotic, and he likes to split up and attack, but every time he is broken by the Qing army one by one, he does not form a joint force at all, and half of his combat effectiveness is not brought into play.

These drawbacks are related to the military system of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty since the beginning of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, the implementation of the military tun, temporary combination during the war, after the war to return to the field, the generals are also temporarily appointed by the imperial court, sometimes orthodox generals, sometimes civilian officials to lead the team, and even eunuchs to lead the troops!

This kind of military system can save a lot of military spending, but it has reduced the combat effectiveness of the Ming army by several grades, how can such a semi-professional army fulfill Zhu Cijiong's dream of dominating the world, so he decided to rectify the army and change the military system.

Now the whole Ming Dynasty is in a fanatical atmosphere, the whole country is shouting, if anyone dares to jump out at this time to hinder the emperor to clean up Jiannu and recover Liaodong, he will definitely be drowned by the spitting stars of the people of the whole country, so Zhu Cijiong boldly began to reform the military system under the pretext of marching into Liaodong.

His first decree was to announce the establishment of regular corps, each corps of 100,000 horses, with one commander-in-chief, two generals, two adjutant generals, four staff generals, and eight guerrilla generals.

In the past, when there was any war, all localities commanded the envoys to temporarily gather troops and horses, and then the military department temporarily appointed the chief general, the chief soldier, and the deputy general to command the troops.

Zhu Cijiong simply turned all the generals into fixed positions, and after the legion was built, unless it was wiped out by the enemy, this system would always be there, and it would be practiced in the designated place in peacetime, and once there was a war, it could be transferred to the front line immediately.

The second decree divides the legion into three classes, the commander of the first-class legion will be the admiral, the first-class general, and the monthly salary of the legionnaires is three taels, which is three times that of the original army; The commander of the second-class legion will be the commander of the same knowledge, and from the first-class general, the monthly salary of the legionnaires is two taels, which is twice that of the original army; The commander of the third-class legion will be the commander, the second-class general, and the monthly salary of the legionnaires is one tael, which is the same as the original army's salary.

The ranks of the clan are divided according to the battle record, and if you win a battle, you will be promoted, and if you lose a battle, you will be relegated.

This is mainly to motivate all armies to fight bravely to win, and the more victories and battles, the higher the salaries of the soldiers, and the higher the rank of the commanders, so that they will go all out to win from top to bottom, and will not be lazy and lazy, and have no fighting spirit.

The third will, the sun and moon dragon flag as the handsome flag of all legions, the sun and moon dragon flag, pure black as the base, solemn, in the middle is a golden five-clawed golden dragon, exactly the same as on his dragon robe, the left and right upper corners are the sun and moon patterns, the different levels of the legions, the sun and moon patterns are not the same.

The sun and the moon shine together, the sun is fiery red, and the moon is silvery-white;

The sun is a fiery sun, and the moon is empty only in the middle of the silver edge;

The second class regiment has a waxing moon, the sun is a fiery red circle, the middle is empty, and the moon is silvery-white.

The Sun and Moon Dragon Banner, the totem of the Ming army, this is a subject that later historians have been studying, and they do not understand why a flag can make the Ming army so fanatical. Wherever the Dragon Banner went, the Ming army was immediately as brave and fearless as if they had eaten a mad chemical potion, and they were not afraid of death, and even later, the enemies of the Ming Dynasty would howl miserably when they saw the Dragon Banner:

"Oh my God, the Sun and Moon Dragon Banner is the regular legion of the Ming Empire, run."

"Oh Dripping Kidney, the Sun Moon Dragon Banner is the main force of the Ming Dynasty, don't shoot, don't shoot, we surrender."

"Oh, the one who bought the cake, the sun and the moon dragon flag, the sun and the moon shine together, it is the first-class legion of the Ming Empire, we are finished!"

...... These are all afterwords, so I won't mention them for the time being.

Zhu Cijiong's fourth purpose is to divide the legions, and he did not show favoritism in the classification of the legions, but fairly divided them according to the achievements of previous wars:

The Tianxiong Army, fearless in the face of the main force of the thieves, marched forward bravely, defeated the Wang Jiayin army, the most powerful of the thieves, in a battle, annihilated more than 30,000 enemies and captured more than 40,000 prisoners; In World War II, the main force of the thieves and the bandits was defeated, more than 50,000 enemies were annihilated, and more than 100,000 prisoners were captured.

The First Legion of the Praetorian Guard, in the first sneak attack on Jingshi by Jiannu, defeated the Jiannu siege army and guarded the safety of the capital; In the great victory of Liaodong to repel the main force of Jiannu, and participated in the siege of Gaizhou, outstanding achievements, set the Ming first-class legion, awarded the sun and moon dragon flag, the sun and the moon with the light, the main general Qin Liangyu, continue to serve as the commander, is a military general.

The Qin army, which performed well in the battle of Shaanxi to suppress thieves, and also performed well in the great victory in Liaodong, was designated as the second-class army of the Ming Dynasty, awarded the sun and moon dragon flag, the sun and the moon were missing, and the main general Sun Chuanting was promoted to the rank of admiral Tongzhi, from the rank of first-class military general.

The Guanning Army, which performed equally well in the great victory in Liaodong, was designated as the second-class army of the Ming Dynasty, awarded the Sun and Moon Dragon Banner, the sun and the moon were missing, and the main general Cao Wenzhao was promoted to the rank of Admiral Tongzhi, from the rank of first-class military general.

The Liaodong Army, which performed equally well in the great victory in Liaodong, was designated as the second-class army of the Ming Dynasty, awarded the Sun and Moon Dragon Banner, the sun and the moon were missing, and the main general was full of Gui, and he was promoted to the rank of Admiral Tongzhi, from the rank of first-class military general.

The second legion of the Praetorian Guard, there is no record of participating in the war, and it is designated as the third-class legion of the Ming Dynasty, awarded the sun and moon dragon flag, the moon is full and the sun is missing, and the main general Shi Kefa is promoted to the rank of admiral, and he is the rank of second-class military general.

The Dongjiang Army, lacking a record of participating in the war, was designated as the third-class army of the Ming Dynasty, awarded the Sun and Moon Dragon Banner, the moon and the sun were missing, and the main general Mao Wenlong was promoted to the rank of Admiral and Commander, and was the rank of second-class military general.

The other armies will not be graded for the time being, and the corps will be formed after the Liaodong War.

These legions, except for the second legion of the Praetorian Guard, will participate in the Liaodong Reconquest in the coming year, so they will become the first batch of reorganized legions, the Qin army, the Guanning army, the Liaodong army, and the Dongjiang army are all far away in Liaodong, Zhu Cijiong can not completely rectify it now, so he can only pass the will to Sun Chengzong first, so that he can make preliminary preparations, and he can quickly rectify and enter the battle in the spring of the next year.

At present, the main rectification is the Tianxiong Army, the First Army Corps of the Praetorian Guard, and the Second Army Corps of the Praetorian Guard, first of all, the appointment of the generals of each army, the First Army of the Praetorian Guard and the Second Army of the Praetorian Guard are easy to do, the original team has not moved, as long as they are ranked according to their positions and military merits.

The changes in the Tianxiong Army are relatively large, the general soldier Cao Wenzhao has been promoted to the chief general of the Guanning Army by him, Zhu Cijiong finally selected Xu Hongye and Zhang Liwei as the new commander-in-chief, and the other generals are promoted in turn according to their military merits. Of course, this is only the first step, and we will slowly establish and improve military regulations and discipline, strengthen drills, and test them in actual combat.

After the generals of each legion were confirmed, it was a grand flag-awarding ceremony, Zhu Cijiong chose an auspicious day of the zodiac, recruited Lu Xiangsheng, Shi Kefa and all the generals of the defenders of the cities along the Zunhua to the capital, and then arranged the victory square, and gathered 50,000 elites of the first legion of the Praetorian Guard, and personally handed over the sun, moon and dragon flags to Qin Liangyu, Lu Xiangsheng and Shi Kefa under the witness of hundreds of thousands of people in the capital.

This is a historic moment, since then the sun and moon dragon flag was born, accompanied by the Ming heroes swept the world.

The sun and moon dragon flag, strengthen my morale, the Ming hero, the world is invincible!