Since the approaching summer, after everything is on track, Xiao Xuan is not as busy as usual, and he used to share the joy of family with Tian Xiuying or Zhou Yufeng and other people around him every day. During the day, I occasionally go to the barracks and even the artisan camp to patrol various places. It was just a nightmare that suddenly broke in, so Xiao Xuan left the woman next to him after waking up, and sat alone in the dark study in the middle of the night. Tian Xiuying, who found that something was wrong, didn't take it too seriously, because this kind of thing was not something before, since the new emperor's personality changed greatly after entering the palace the year before last, there have been examples of getting up at night to go to other women to have fun, but it is not impossible to go to the barracks or study to temporarily deal with important government affairs.

Of course, there are always people secretly arranging people to protect Xiao Xuan's house and even around him, but being alone in the dark room still makes Xiao Xuan feel a little uncomfortable and uneasy, and he still seems to need to think carefully about the past problems in a calm heart.

"Hold the lamp! It's too dark, and it's not good for the mood," the oil lamp in the study gradually lit up, and it was the guard on duty behind the wall who turned on the machine and turned on the lamp according to Xiao Xuan's instructions.

There are not many books in his study, after all, he rarely has time to read, especially in this era, most of the reading materials are not very attractive to Xiao Xuan. However, in addition to some government documents, maps, and official forms, Qi Jiguang's "Actual Record of Military Training" and "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness" are standing things. As a traverser, he seems to be similar to other cross-air protagonists in the late Ming Dynasty, or all the protagonists of cross-ing: modern military training has some perception of firearms and the use of weapons, which is his own unique advantage.

However, when he read Qi Jiguang's military books more seriously for the first time, it made Xiao Xuan feel a little uneasy more and more. Yes, there are many unique features of the modern military that the ancient military has not yet understood, such as the officer system, the internal affairs regulations, the separation of officers and soldiers and the relatively strict management, the definition of excellent soldiers, and the emphasis on the uniformity of the age structure of soldiers. However, does this mean that an ordinary person with ordinary qualifications will be able to train a truly invincible strong soldier in ancient times in a very short period of time according to his perception from relatively decent military training? All those who have had experience and contact with the modern army go back to ancient times, must be geniuses in military training, and will they be able to crush the ancients in the Qi Jiguang era and later?

In essence, the "Actual Record of Military Training" is not very bad from the point of view of strict military discipline management. Anyone who has experience with leading troops will understand this. The only difference is that there is a difference in the perception of the proportion of officers, and the importance of the age of the soldiers. However, will this little advantage necessarily make up for the gap between himself, a person who does not have much management experience, and the prominent people of ancient times?

Xiao Xuan had no doubts about this, especially after Qing Yuan Nanyuan used more than 10,000 main forces to resist the attack of 20,000 enemy troops in Houjin, including more than 10,000 armor, in the plain field battle. Thinking back to the late Ming Dynasty, he still had a general understanding of history, and it seemed that no Ming army could do it. Neither did the Sichuan army in the Battle of the Hunhe River. The reason, of course, lies in some ideas and understandings on the use of firearms, which the ancients could not compare with themselves who had a perfect modern education and had some hobbies for related things.

But what if other people also learned their own way? Especially in terms of the selection ratio of the backbone of officers and the consistency of age, the two most obvious advantages of the modern army? This may be difficult to do for an army with a social structure like Jin Jiannu, not to mention the limited number of troops, and it also involves a major adjustment of power relations. But in the populous Han region, I'm afraid it's hard to say...

Xiao Xuan made a rough estimate of the power in his hands: compared with the battle of Qingyuan Nanyuan last year, the comprehensive combat effectiveness of the more than 10,000 troops around his core may be about doubled. However, the firepower and even organization of other teams are obviously not simply comparable, even if each battalion has more than a dozen general-level guns of the reinforced artillery battalion, compared with the main force in the battle of Qingyuan Nanyuan, the firepower is still only one-fifth, not to mention the gap in personnel. If you reach the level of the general main force of the Ming army, multiply it by one-third according to the standard of the main force of Jianzhou, and calculate one-ninth of the actual combat effectiveness of a single body, roughly converting one's current or at most summer's strength, at most similar to the main force of 40,000 or 50,000 armor in Jianzhou, including 20,000 or 30,000 armor. This is only the ability to face head-on, and in terms of cavalry archery and mobile combat capabilities, it is obvious that these forces cannot really compete with the main force of Jianzhou. In the battle of Songjin in history, although the 170,000 Ming army was still unable to defeat the opponent outside the Guan, whose main combat strength was concentrated on the main force of 450,000 Jianzhou, it was outside the Guan, where the logistics of food were very difficult...

After thinking about it like this, Xiao Xuan felt a little frightened: perhaps due to the influence of the mythical performance of the protagonists in the late Ming Dynasty, he still overestimated himself. If it is really a rebellion both inside and outside the world, I am afraid that the only way out for me is to defend the capital and use the time of at least one year or more to consolidate the combat effectiveness and firepower of those new battalions. At least according to my own experience, whether it is training troops or practicing martial arts, the progress within the two-year training period will be the fastest, and beyond this time, it will be twice the work and half the result, or it will encounter the bottleneck of "100 feet ahead".

Thinking of this, Xiao Xuan already had a rough idea of what he was going to do next: preparing to defend the city was obviously a top priority. Obviously, a big city like the capital will not have more than a year's worth of grain. Some temporarily besieged cities in history, such as Taiyuan in Jingkang or the Battle of Kaifeng in history, were in a very bad situation in less than a year. There is no doubt that it is necessary to clean up the "hidden population" of the entire capital before the "world rebellion", and if you can't think of a big chaos, and even be comfortable in the future training of defending the city, it is obviously impossible not to take a big deal against the big families in the capital...

Thinking of this, Xiao Xuan's mentality at this time gradually became decisive. Now, Xiao Xuan is not afraid of a full-scale showdown at this time. Only by completely reversing the old forces in the late Ming world that are bound to be incompatible with their own goals will the road of near-modernization be more successful.

When it was just dawn, Xiao Xuan immediately summoned Wang Chengen and others who were on duty in the secret prison: "Are the confessions and materials ready?"

"The gains in the past few months have been not small, and some people who were very stubborn in the past have finally compromised. the rebellion case in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the rebellion case in the first year of Chongzhen, and the rebellion case in the first year of Chongzhen; Even the Red Pill case back then had some eyebrows... ”

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