Although Yao Qisheng was not obvious in the Chongzhen era of the Ming Dynasty, he was a capable person in the early stage of the Qing Dynasty, but the final result was not good, not as good as Chen Yanjing who could be an official and capable.

Yu Jackie Chan is also a powerful person, there are capable people in Shanxi, at least Yu Jackie Chan is not as upright or fickle as Jiang Pin, two-faced, two-faced, shaking his head and tail, surrendering this family, which one to surrender, changeable, people like Wu Sangui are this kind of template.

While raising money and food, several people gathered soldiers and horses, and at the same time chanted poems and paintings, and sat together to show off their literati spirit, which was very devoted.

As the soldiers and horses gathered day by day, several people were in a good mood, but over there, Merlinyu's mood was not very good, the military intelligence department sent spies to Shanxi Prefecture and the Mongolian steppe to report the enemy's increase day by day, and their side just completed the retreat of a brigade to recuperate, the first division of the guards that had just been transferred, although they were elite soldiers and horses, were also veterans, but after all, they were soldiers and horses from the south, and they were not very suitable for the cold and dry climate of the north.

They would even get lost in those ravines.

These people still have to adapt to the climate of these places, their barracks are not ready, many people are familiar with it, and at the same time practice riding and walking, because many times they have to be familiar with how to get to another place quickly, and they have to practice climbing mountains and fighting in the mountains, which are familiar to them with the elite soldiers of the corps.

Compared with the Second Guards Division, which fought more, their First Division was a little rusty, and they had not fought for several years, although many people were veterans of a hundred battles before, but after recuperating in the military academy for a period of time, they gradually learned some etiquette, learned more, and considered more, and they were somewhat out of touch with the cruelty of the battlefield.

This is also the reason why Zhang Qiang wants to release them into battle as soon as possible.

At this time, the 1st Guards Division of a brigade had just changed guards with the 10th Field Brigade under Mei Linyu, who had succeeded Xuanyuan Longfei as the commander of the corps, and was guarding the ancient capital of Xijing, while a newly entered garrison brigade from Yunnan Prefecture had just taken over the garrison brigade of the militia brigade here to garrison Xijing, and the garrison brigade was moved to Tongguan County to guard Tongguan.

A garrison brigade formed by an elite militia brigade in the vicinity moved to the Rainforest Township Ferry to guard the ferry.

These are the elite soldiers and horses of the Xuanyuan Longfei Corps who fought the battle of attacking Shaanxi and Gansu Prefecture, and most of the veterans are recruited from Shaanxi Prefecture, and some of them used to be the remnants of the Dashun Army, and many veterans of Li Zicheng's subordinates of the Dashun Army are from Shaanxi, although they have not returned for more than ten years, they are still very appealing in the countryside.

Those militias were all called up by them, and the latest to join were the Han soldiers who were willing to resist the Qing Dynasty brought back by Xiao Fei's corps and Xuanyuan Longfei's corps in the past year because of several attacks on Shaanxi-Gansu Prefecture.

They are more familiar with the country roads, the people's feelings, and the people they know more than the soldiers and horses of the 1st Guards Division, which are pure southerners, so their combat effectiveness is much stronger than that of the 1st Guards Division that has just arrived here, and the 1st Guards Division is now okay to defend the city or fight in the field, but if you want to fight the enemy in the movement, you will suffer a big loss, because Shaanxi and Gansu Prefecture are not peaceful, and many people are Wu Sangui's eyes and ears or bandits, and they can drag the full 1st Guards Division to death in the movement, because the 1st Guards Division is too formal.

Slightly better than them is the 13th Field Brigade of Gaojie transferred in more than half a year ago, after the Feng Wuyu Corps was transferred back to Guangxi Prefecture, his main brigade was dismantled and transferred to the Ma Sanli Corps, after Ma Sanli was transferred to Baodao Prefecture to replace Baghyalu, Ma Han took over as the commander of the Ma Sanli Corps, which is actually equivalent to a garrison corps, because he has no field brigade under his command, only the militia brigade, the elite brigade, and the cavalry brigade have also been transferred to half.

Some of these garrison brigades were transferred to the Mahan Corps, some were transferred to the Xuanyuan Longfei and Xiao Fei Corps, Gao Jie and they were later transferred to the Mahan Corps, when the battle to recover Shaanxi-Gansu Prefecture had just ended, they were transferred to Shaanxi-Ganzhou, and together with the militia elite brigade, they cooperated to exterminate bandits and bullies, as well as Wu Sangui and their remnants of soldiers and horses, and pursued the Qing army of Shang Kexi, which is also half-familiar here, and it is still a little stronger than the 1st Guards Division that has just been transferred.

They were moved to Gansu Prefecture, and cooperated with the cavalry brigade to search for the Hui soldiers and horses here, which first belonged to the Xuanyuan Longfei Corps, and later assigned to Xiao Fei's Corps, which was under the jurisdiction of Baghyalu at this time, and Baghyalu succeeded Xiao Fei as the commander of the corps.

Now it is Baghyalu and Merlinyu who cooperated, Merlinyu used to be a soldier of Zhang Qiang's personal guard, and Baghyalu took over from Hu Kui as Zhang Qiang's personal guard captain at that time, and the two of them knew each other, but it was a bit long, and they hadn't seen each other for more than ten years.

After learning of the enemy's movements, Bagyaru and Merlinyu held several meetings, and sent troops to the two combat brigades and cavalry brigades that remained here to garrison the towns in the rear of the first line of defense, and stationed militia elite brigades and garrison brigades at the ferries and various passes, and at the same time sent battalion-sized field battalions to help them defend and fight.

The militia brigade was then reconvened to take charge of local security and the transport of supplies.

Li Dingguo was a pragmatic person, and after consulting Wei Wuji, who was the governor of Southeast Asia, he discussed it with Xiao Fei of the General Staff Headquarters and Xuanyuan Longfei of the Garrison Headquarters, and transferred 30,000 horses from the Marine Corps and Navy Corps, as well as the gunners and sailors of the Naval Division, who had lost a large number of unemployed people, to form a Marine Corps unit of the Marine Division, and transferred them to Shandong Prefecture.

Wei Wuji is still the secretary of the Ministry of National Defense, and Li Dingguo is the deputy prime minister and the chamberlain of the Ministry of National Defense, which is equivalent to the deputy secretary of the Ministry of Defense, performing Wei Wuji's duties in the imperial court.

In Zhang Qiang's continuous operation of eliminating old ships and replacing them with new ones, since two years ago, a large number of marines and naval corps soldiers have been retired, or they can only train new sailors in the new barracks.

Think about it, 6,000 naval warships, 4,000 are sharply eliminated, how many sailors and artillerymen are unemployed, although many people have reached middle age, but they have not yet reached the age of retirement, they have been very hard in recent years, some have become fishermen, some have become sailors and hired gunners recruited by merchant ships, even those naval soldiers who must fight on each ship, although the number is small, but there are nearly 30,000 people, and 4,000 ships are eliminated at once, nearly 20,000 people are unemployed, although they are diverted, but there are still many people who do not have jobs.

The Marine Corps is a marine unit that lands and guards the coastline, and because of the elimination of these warships, tens of thousands of people are unemployed, and many people are transferred to the coast guard to be used as infantry on the shore, and the infantry has not fought in recent years, and many of them are equivalent to being abandoned, so they are not even as good as the militia.

Now they are re-recruited, assembled in the rear of Shandong Prefecture, and trained in the camp of the garrison brigade, they can provide help to the garrison brigade, can block the enemy's breakthrough and attack, can also help catch the enemy's spies and spies, and maintain local law and order.

After their training is completed, they can transfer some troops to Henan Prefecture to replenish the troops, because many troops in Henan Prefecture, even the garrison brigade, have been transferred to the border land of Shanxi Prefecture on the other side of the Yellow River that they have conquered.

Some field brigades in the rear were transferred to the second-line positions along the Yellow River in Shaanxi-Gansu Prefecture, and where they were stationed was actually equivalent to transferring almost all of the original Xiao Fei Corps and Xuanyuan Longfei Corps to Shaanxi-Gansu Prefecture, and the terrain in Shaanxi-Gansu Prefecture was dangerous and complicated, and a large number of troops were needed to garrison and clear out the enemy, so Henan Prefecture was somewhat empty.

Therefore, Li Dingguo needed more troops, and after the garrison brigade implemented the policy of adjusting defense, several garrison brigades were transferred to Henan Prefecture, Sishan Prefecture and other places.

Li Dingguo thinks about things very comprehensively, after all, he has been up and down in the Huan Sea for so many years, and he knows how to deal with all aspects of relations better than these henchmen and officials under Zhang Qiang, and at the same time deal with the relationship with the previous Zhu Yujian, as well as the relationship between other Ming scholars and officials of the Huaxia Kingdom.

Zhou Congee and Wei Wuji are a little younger than him, and Zhang Huangyan is a little radical or radical than him, after all, Zhang Huangyan is much younger, and Jin Sheng does not have so much experience, he belongs to the thinking of local officials, and he has more strategic vision in terms of overall planning.

Although he also had some of the old Ming people's stubborn thoughts of loyalty and patriotism, this did not affect his allegiance to Zhang Qiang and the Kingdom of China.

After Zhang Qiang saw it, he was very satisfied with his arrangement, and asked him and Xiao Fei to carry it out with confidence.

Zhang Qiang's current mind is still on how to restore the combat effectiveness of the Huaxia Navy Division as soon as possible.

In internal affairs, with the help of Mi Chun and Tang Dianfeng, Zhou Congee is now lacking in innovation, but there is more than enough to defend the city, and he can resolutely implement the policies implemented by Zhang Qiang, while Li Dingguo is both military and internal, mainly in military and handling relations, he coordinates and helps Mi Chun and Tang Dianfeng, Zhou Congee, Zhang Qiang is very relieved, which proves that he sees people well, and he can rest assured that he can be the shopkeeper and hand over the country to the cabinet for management.

For the war in Shaanxi-Gansu Prefecture, he gave full authority to Li Dingguo for deployment.

He believed that Baghyalu, the captain of the personal guard who had been with him for a long time, could defeat the enemy, Hu Kui, the first captain of the personal guard, could firmly hold Shandong Prefecture, and Merlin Yu, a general who had grown up, could cooperate well with several people to defend Henan Prefecture and keep the enemy out.

The units under the jurisdiction of the two corps are still called brigades, but in fact, each brigade has reached the size of a division, and the number of people is about 13,000 to 15,000.

Not only is it equipped with a large number of combat troops, but also at least one logistics brigade, about 3,500 people provide them with supplies, and at the same time there is an elite militia brigade to replenish the source of troops and cooperate with the operation, the garrison brigade is stationed in the city, and the ordinary militia brigade maintains the law and order of the surrounding countryside, and at the same time transports the material supplies of the garrison brigade and the ordinary brigade.

So his main focus is still on the coast, the sailor, and the rebel general Du Ge and others.

(End of chapter)