Beginning in the afternoon, the soldiers recruited at various recruitment points inside and outside the city were all closed, and the number of young and strong people who came to sign up doubled, but in two days, all the soldiers who were missing were replenished.

The three major corps reached full strength, with ten regiments and fifty thousand households, with a total strength of more than 50,000!

The two regiments of Wang Shaoyu's reserve battalion were all stationed in the city, and Luoyang City was handed over to them sooner or later, and the military camps and training grounds in the city were basically left to them.

The independent battalions of Li Xin's department are all stationed outside the city, except for Li Mou's first regiment, this expansion has increased three regiments at one time, among which the second regiment of Fang Deng's department and the third regiment of Liu Jianyi's department are mainly based on the original miscellaneous soldiers and surrendered troops, and the establishment has been disrupted, but the things of the previous training are still there, at least in the hearts of the soldiers, the military discipline and military regulations have been deeply rooted, and the new young and strong, driven by the veterans, it is not difficult to drill and train, only the fourth regiment of the Ma Youyi Department, almost all of them are newly recruited young and strong, and it may be difficult to form combat effectiveness in a short period of time.

The fourth battalion of Li Ji's department has increased by two regiments this time, but the first regiment of Zhao Lie's department and the second regiment of Liu Zongmin's department are basically unchanged, and they are the elite of the elite of the Henan Heavenly Mandate Army.

The third regiment of the Niu Kejing Department and the fourth regiment of the Luo Tai Department are also a combination of the old and the new, some of them are soldiers in the city, and some are the subordinates of Luo Tai and Yidougu in the past, and some young men and women were recruited from inside and outside the city, and the composition of the personnel is extremely complicated.

It is no wonder that Li Ji was anxious, Li Zicheng only gave each battalion and regiment 10 days of training time, and after 10 days, all regiments must enter a state of combat readiness and may go to the battlefield at any time.

Li Xin has been accustomed to "training by battle", starting from Qixian, the Heavenly Mandate Army began to recruit troops, and the recruited soldiers did not have time for training, but after several battles, they now have a certain combat effectiveness and have become the main force of the independent battalion.

On the one hand, the independent regiment was allowed to maintain its original combat effectiveness, and on the other hand, Li Zicheng recognized the results of Li Xin's "training by battle," and the combat effectiveness of the first regiment had already withstood the test of battle.

Li Zicheng only gave the three major corps ten days of training time, but after ten days, to what extent the soldiers had been trained and whether they could be pulled out to fight the Ming army, he did not know the bottom of his heart.

Time waits for no one, and the Mandate of Heaven Army has no time to train.

Luoyang City is broken, the news reaches Kaifeng and Jingshi, the imperial court will not sit idly by, Zhu Youzhen will definitely not tolerate the Mandate of Heaven army to occupy Luoyang, stab in the heart of the imperial court, and the nearby Ming army will definitely come to recover Luoyang.

The battle may break out at any time, the scale will not be small, the next battle, it is likely to be a hard-to-head battle between the Mandate of Heaven Army and the Ming Army, if the imperial court wins, the Mandate of Heaven Army is very likely to be driven back to Sichuan and Gansu, on the contrary, if the Mandate of Heaven Army can achieve an absolute victory, it is possible to gain a foothold in Henan, and it may threaten the Beijing Division at any time.

The next battle, for the imperial court, is an extremely critical battle, can only be won but not defeated, but for the Mandate of Heaven Army, it is not decisive, the Mandate of Heaven Army is defeated, it is a big deal to retreat to Lanzhou.

Li Zicheng's original purpose when he came to Henan was to attract the main force of the Ming army to Henan and reduce the pressure on the borders of Sichuan and Gansu, at least this strategic goal was achieved.

However, now that the Mandate of Heaven Army has occupied the entire Luoyang Mansion, Ruzhou, and half of Nanyang Mansion, it can be regarded as initially stabilizing his territory, appointing his own officials in various places, and settling the people, he is really unwilling to retreat like this.

Therefore, Li Zicheng must seize the time to train the soldiers, even if you don't count the city defense soldiers in various places, the regular army of the Henan Heavenly Mandate Army has exceeded 50,000, and it may not be that there is no strength in a war, and if conditions permit, the army can be expanded in the future.

After the Luoyang Conference, the Mandate of Heaven Army has completed a round of large-scale expansion, but the source of soldiers is extremely complicated, the original military laws and regulations are different, whether it can be combined into an army in the shortest possible time, so that each regiment has combat capability, is extremely important to the Mandate of Heaven Army, and it is also the key to whether the Mandate of Heaven Army can gain a firm foothold in Henan.

In the next battle, if the Mandate of Heaven army suffers defeats one after another, the morale of the battalions will be low, and the veterans may be able to hold on, but it is difficult to say the recruits recruited by Henan, once the army is unstable, the soldiers are likely to break and flee.

On the contrary, if the Mandate of Heaven army can repel the reinforcements of the imperial court, the soldiers of each battalion, especially the recruits, will accumulate confidence in the battle, and an army with ideals and confidence can grow into an invincible and strong army!

Li Zicheng did not fully agree with Li Ji's "training by war", but Henan is the land of the Central Plains, the heart of the imperial court, and the imperial court will not give the Heavenly Mandate Army too much time for training, and the strategic idea of "training by war" was actually forced out by the imperial court.

During this period of time, he completely handed over the matter of resettlement of the people to Zhang Dingyan, the governor of Henan Province, and Feng Yijun, the prefect of Luoyang.

Li Zicheng shuttled between the training grounds of various battalions and regiments, inside and outside the city, leaving him and his own soldiers, fortunately, the Heavenly Mandate Army had enough food, and the soldiers were still working hard in training.

The Han Qing Bureau did not show signs of the Kaifeng Ming army entering the west, but Li Zicheng knew that on the eve of the storm, the sky was the most peaceful!

On the evening of this day, Li Zicheng returned to the Provisional Governor's Mansion, and after dinner, he felt that he was not sleepy, so he walked out of the courtyard of the Houya, came to the recreation area in front, walked in the flower garden, and smelled the unknown dark fragrance in the garden.

Passing through the flower bed, it is an irregular pond, Li Zicheng stepped on the carved bridge on the pond, in the dark, almost nothing can be seen, only the breeze blows, the mist in the pond is steaming, bringing a faint smell of mud.

Li Zicheng opened the buttons of his coat, leaned on the railing, looked up at the sky, the stars flickered, like drifting duckweed in the sea, he didn't feel his heart move.

When the Mandate of Heaven came to Henan, it had increased from more than 10,000 soldiers to three corps and more than 50,000 soldiers, which was five times the original number, and it occupied a certain amount of territory.

The new soldiers could not be equipped with rifles and mountain artillery, but most of them were poor people who did not have enough to eat, and they were more hostile to the imperial court, and as long as they were properly trained, their combat effectiveness would not be weaker than that of the Ming army.

With these soldiers, they can continue to move around Henan, but the territory of Luoyang must not be easily abandoned, and even rely on this to continue to expand step by step to the periphery.

The first and second regiments of the fourth battalion were the main forces that penetrated into Henan this time, but these two regiments relied heavily on firearms, and after entering Henan, they did not receive supplies for a year, and the ammunition consumption of rifles was serious, and they had to wait until the supplies were in place before their combat effectiveness could be brought into full play.

Also, such a main force, there are too few, originally just wandering in Henan, now not only to conquer the city, but even possible to fight with the main force of the Ming army, as well as to consolidate the occupied land, like this kind of combat effectiveness of the troops, it is particularly important, at the critical moment, you can directly destroy the Ming army's combat determination.

Li Zicheng moved his footsteps, returned to the small hall, and immediately sent a message to Hanzhong: The second battalion of Li Guobu, which was stationed in Hanzhong, immediately moved eastward to take over the Song Wenbu in Xing'an and Shangzhou, while the seventh battalion of the Song Wenbu went south along Danshui and cooperated with the Mashi Lebu city defense army stationed in Nanyang to take the entire Nanyang Mansion as soon as possible.

He also sent a message to Guguan: closely monitor Xi'an in the east, if the Ming army in Xi'an threatens Shangluoshan, then Ma Youshui's sixth battalion will continue to garrison Guguan, and the cavalry of Liu Yunshui's department will go east to Longshan, threatening Guanzhong at all times, forcing the Ming army to retreat, if the Ming army in Xi'an goes east to Tongguan and expeditions to Henan, it will be ignored!

After these two pieces of information came out, Li Zicheng was still not at ease, and sent a message to the Mandate of Heaven Governor's Mansion in Lanzhou, stationed in the fifth battalion of Zhou Binbu in Lanzhou, ready to go south at any time to assist the Mandate of Heaven army in the direction of Guguan and Hanzhong!

Li Zicheng personally inspected the results of the drills and training of the regiments, and the situation of the independent battalion and the regiments of the fourth battalion was obviously better than that of the reserve battalion......

It must be strictly compared, the soldiers of the independent battalion seem to have more spirit, and Li Xin's ability to command troops can be seen from this!

After Li Zicheng thought it through, he extended the training time for the reserve battalion of Wang Shaoyu's department by half a month, and the reserve battalion did not need to go out of the city to fight for the time being, and the training lasted a little longer, so that the soldiers' foundation would be more solid.

But Wang Shaoyu believes that such a government decision is tantamount to giving him a resounding slap in the face, and he is also a recruit, why can't the training of the reserve battalion be effective?

Wang Shaoyu lost face in front of the whole army, so he vented his anger # on the soldiers, in addition to strictly following the training methods of the Mandate of Heaven Army, he also practiced for half an hour every day, and what was lost on the training ground must be recovered on the training ground!

Li Zicheng did not blame Wang Shaoyu, the soldiers in the reserve battalion are actually mainly newly recruited young and strong, and they have not received training at all before, unlike the recruits of the independent battalion and the fourth battalion, although they are regrouped from time to time, but the main body is the former soldiers, and the recruits who are supplemented are actually less than thirty percent.

Combining the old with the new, using the old to lead the new, and the Mandate of Heaven Army has already explored a set of its own training methods, Li Ji and Li Xin came into contact earlier, and the recruits of the fourth battalion and the independent battalion have only just been reborn and have initially seen the form.

The ten-day training period is too short, and the soldiers have to continue the training, and before the battle comes, their only task is drilling.

In order to motivate the soldiers, each regiment carried out a variety of forms, such as confrontation, competition, etc., and Li Zicheng also made the firefighters fully prepared, in addition to the white flour steamed buns, at least one meal a day to see meat.