The reason why Chen Yue did not insert his subordinates into the Beijing camp was because he did not have enough manpower, after all, there were only 300 guards and Gu Junen and other staff officers under his command now, and then he did not take the 50,000 Beijing camp in his eyes.

The Beijing camp is composed of hereditary military households of the Nanjing Guard, which has been established for more than 200 years, and these military households have declined and cannot be raised, and Chen Yue is not willing to spend his energy on these military households at all.

And these 50,000 people are just cannon fodder in Chen Yue's plan, what he really wants to borrow is his two battalions of 3,000 elites, as well as Yu Feng, Jin Shenghuan, Lu Tai and other departments.

When he arrived in Hangzhou, Chen Yue gave Lu Tai an order, ordering him to meet with the 3,000 soldiers led by Li Yi and Jin Xin, and lead the water camp of Dinghai to Nanjing by water.

However, most of Lu Tai's subordinates are also guards and sailors, except for the fact that he belongs to the elite of 2,000, and his combat effectiveness is not very good. However, fortunately, there are many ships in the Lu Tai Department, and to attack Zhang Xianzhong's troops to go up the river, it is just right to use his sailors.

As for Yu Feng and Jin Shenghuan, they were originally part of the Pingnan Army, and although they experienced the defeat of the Northern Expedition, their combat effectiveness still exceeded that of the ordinary Ming army.

Uneasy interference does not mean that Chen Yue ignores the 50,000 Beijing battalion soldiers, after all, it is 50,000 troops, and it can be of great use if it is used well.

The way to control these 50,000 people is very simple, just reward and punishment!

Chen Yue specially allocated more than 100 people to be led by Shan Minglei, the envoy of the town, to enter the Beijing camp, and merged the original town and pacification system in the Beijing camp together under the leadership of Shan Minglei to do rewards and punishments.

There are many types of rewards, and those who obey orders and obey commands and complete the tasks deployed by the Duke of Qi will be rewarded, ranging from meat and copper coins to those rewarded. Chen Yue stipulated that those who were beheaded at the first level on the battlefield would be rewarded with 20 acres of fertile land, and those who defeated the enemy and won the victory would be rewarded collectively according to the units to which they belonged.

"Huguang Jiangxi was looted by the rogues, the people were almost empty, there were too many fertile fields vacant, Qi Guogong has asked the emperor for an order, will reward these uncultivated fields to meritorious soldiers, as long as you can make military achievements, do not be afraid of not getting the reward you deserve.

What the? If you don't want to leave Nanjing and go to Huguang to farm, it doesn't matter, if you don't want to farm, you can sell the fertile land you get, or rent it to others to plant. Huguang is ripe and full of the world, there is the granary of the Ming Dynasty, and there is a lot of grain in the fields, I don't know how many landless homeless people want to go there. ”

Shan Minglei led the subordinates of the Zhenfu Division to preach among the soldiers that they had set up a generous reward for their military exploits, and assured that with the presence of the Duke of Qi, no one dared to swallow their merits.

Except for a few officers, most of the soldiers in the Beijing camp were actually tenants who had lost their land. After more than 200 years of land annexation, the military households have long since lost the land that should have belonged to them and have become tenants of the officers, and the existence of the military household system has restricted them to the guard posts and cannot leave.

Fortunately, living in Nanjing, a rich place of gold dust in the Six Dynasties, he worked as a tenant without arable land, or worked as a servant in the family of the general, and at the worst he could also make a living as a coolie at the wharf.

However, being able to own their own land is the wish of the vast majority of military households. Daming is an agrarian society, and the land is the root of all people. Therefore, the reward policy formulated by Chen Yue absolutely hit the hearts of all the soldiers in Beijing and stimulated their longing for meritorious service.

Only rewards are not enough, there must also be corresponding punishments, and radishes and sticks are the royal way to control the army.

The rewards are generous enough, and the penalties are heavy. If you don't fight in battle, you will be cut if you don't listen to orders, and you will be cut if you run away from the enemy.

For those who surrendered to the enemy, the punishment was heavier, the men in the family were beheaded and killed, and the women were sold into slavery! The soldiers of the Beijing camp were all people from the vicinity of Nanjing, and their families were under the control of the imperial court, and with this punitive measure, even if they died in battle, I am afraid that not many people would be willing to surrender.

At the same time, Chen Yue also stipulated a punishment system for joint sitting, such as one person who violates military discipline will be punished together with other soldiers in the army, and the soldiers under him who violate military discipline will also be punished by the chief flag officer of the small flag officer. Wait a minute.

After a few days of purging, the appearance of the soldiers in the Beijing camp has taken on a new look, although it is not yet satisfactory to Chen Yue, but it is no longer the appearance of a lazy and lazy man a few days ago, at least there is the appearance of an army!

On the eighth day of the third month of the nineteenth year of Chongzhen, Jin Xin, Li Yi, Lu Tai and others arrived in Nanjing from the Yangtze River with the main army of Dongfan Dinghai.

Five four-masted Galen warships, more than 30 three-masted sea ships, more than 50 two-masted dhows, and more than 200 flat-bottomed sand ships carried 3,000 Dongfan troops and 20,000 seas to the outside of Nanjing.

Looking at the tall sea ships on the river, the masts like forests, and the sails like clouds, thinking that it was the invincible and invincible Duke of Qi who was about to lead the troops to the battle, and the people of Nanjing immediately recovered from the fear of the western thieves.

With the Duke of Qi and the invincible army under the Duke of Qi, what a thief can be!

When the army went on a campaign, of course, it needed money and food, and the household department took out the last 200,000 taels of silver as the salary for the troops. As for military rations, there are still nearly one million quintals of grain in Changping near Nanjing, and these are all tax grains that were escorted to Nanjing from all over the south of the Yangtze River in the autumn, and there is no shortage of military rations.

To have an opportunity to loot openly, Chen Yue naturally did not want to let it go, and continued to write to the military department, asking for armor, weapons, gunpowder, and various military equipment. Wang Yin, the new secretary of the Ministry of War, was his own person, so he was naturally very cooperative, and with a stroke of the pen, all the arsenals under the Nanjing Military Department were opened, and he was allowed to be searched and inspected by the army that went out.

Chen Yue was extremely distrustful of the firearms cast by the imperial court, but armor, shields, spears, arrows, gunpowder, siege equipment, etc., these did not refuse. There are hundreds of seagoing vessels around, and they can carry as much material as they want.

After the arsenal of the military department was looted, Chen Yuecai officially ordered the expedition, and under the leadership of Shi Kefa, a scholar of Wuyingdian University, the first assistant of the cabinet, he left Nanjing by boat and sailed up the Yangtze River.

"The elite of the Beijing camp went out with the army, and the arsenal of the military department was looted, and I don't know if the Duke of Qi can defeat the Western Thief and return me to peace and tranquility?" The official who saw him off sighed.

"If Qi Guogong can't win, then no one can win, what nonsense!" The other officials next to him didn't like to listen to it and reprimanded.

On a warship, Lu Zhenfei, who was dressed in a linen robe, looked at the city of Nanjing, which was gradually moving away, and looked at the Nanjing officials on the dock who had not yet left, and his heart was full of emotion.

Once upon a time, he also wore a red official robe and ranked in the cabinet, but now he has no official position and has become a sinner who served before the army. Life is so unpredictable, it's really emotional!