(Recommended reading: When Li Guangrong, the general soldier of Guangning, led the army to Yaque Pass, it was already mid to late April, and Li Hongyu held a banquet at Yaque Pass to entertain him, so that the strength of Yaque Pass reached 40,000.

Due to the limited area of Yaque Pass, the troops of Guan Bingzhong and Li Guangrong could only camp outside the pass after coming, and the camp tent was quite magnificent as far as the eye could see.

In order to show his determination to attack Hetuala, Li Hongyu stepped up the reorganization of the Ming army at Yaque Pass, which was divided into three parts: the left army, the middle army, and the right army.

Among them, the strength of the Chinese army is the strongest, with 15,000 people, the commander is Li Rubai, and the deputy commander is Li Guangrong, the general soldier of Guangning, both of whom are generals in Liaodong.

The strength of the left army was second, with 12,000 men, the commander of the army was the chief military officer of Liaoyang, Bingzhong, and the deputy commander was the staff general He Shixian, both of whom were generals of the nine border towns in the northwest.

The strength of the right army was the weakest, with 10,000 men, and the commander was Zhang Yu, the general of Liaoyang, and the deputy commander was Liu Minzhong, the garrison of Guangning, of which Zhang Yu was from Jingying, and Liu Minzhong was from Nanzhili.

As for the more than 2,000 cavalry under Chai Shixiu and Man Gui, they became Li Hongyu's personal guards and were directly under Li Hongyu's command.

Don't look at Li Hongyu's fanfare of the left, middle and right armies, in fact, it is only the Ming Army of the Southwest Route Army that Li Rubai previously commanded that has combat effectiveness.

After all, the four-way Ming army divided by Yang Hao was the strongest force in Liaodong at that time, and the troops of Guan Bingzhong and Li Guangrong were only used for vigilance and logistics transportation, which could not be compared.

It is worth mentioning that the troops of Guan Bingzhong and Li Guangrong are the guards of the former Liaodong Metropolitan Division, and the elite soldiers transferred from all over the country have long been assigned to the Ming army that will attack the four routes.

Therefore, Li Hongyu's soldiers and horses gathered at Yaque Pass were actually composed of the local army in Liaodong, and only Chai Shixiu's 2,000 Shaanxi-Gansu cavalry and Zhang Yu's 5,000 Beijing battalion were foreign troops.

Although only half of Li Hongyu's troops were the main force of the Ming army, because of its Liaodong Guard's troops as the main body, the relationship between the generals was relatively harmonious, and after the defeat of the Salhu War, the generals had a sense of crisis, so they became united, which was incomparable to the Yang Hao period.

Li Hongyu has never reorganized the troops, but due to the importance of the reorganization matter, as the commander of Liaodong, it is impossible for him to hand over this matter to Li Rubai and others to deal with, and it will inevitably be affected by the selfishness of Li Rubai and others.

Therefore, Li Hongyu had no choice but to chase ducks to the shelves and go into battle shirtless, and at the same time, this was also to maintain his majesty as a commander, and to seize the military power of the army in his hands while he was reorganized.

As the saying goes, if you haven't eaten pork, you've always seen a pig run, so Li Hongyu adopted the common practice of the army throughout the ages to conduct a queue drill for the army in Yaque Pass, which is the best way to train soldiers in obedience, and at the same time conduct a drill of killing skills.

Queue drill was an important way to train soldiers in the ancient army, and the Ming army already had a complete set of training methods, and Li Hongyu only needed to urge all units to conscientiously implement it.

Of course, Li Hongyu is not stupid enough to let the Ming soldiers kick the right step or something, and the methods of training soldiers in different eras must be very different.

In order to motivate the enthusiasm of the soldiers, Li Hongyu deliberately set up military merits to be rewarded in imitation of later generations, and as long as they won these military merits in training, they would receive corresponding rich rewards.

This was a huge temptation for the soldiers of the Ming army, usually they would only make military achievements on the battlefield, but Li Hongyu set it up in training, which was completely beyond their expectations, so the momentum of training was quickly raised.

Regarding Li Hongyu's establishment of military merits in training, whether it was Li Rubai or Guan Bingzhong, the generals of the Ming army basically held an attitude of opposition.

Although they knew that Li Hongyu did this to improve morale, they also believed that soldiers should make meritorious contributions on the battlefield and kill the enemy, which was also a tradition that the Ming army had always upheld.

In the face of the opposition of the generals, Li Hongyu did not choose to give in, but hung the Wanli Emperor's Shang Fang Minglong sword on the gate like Yang Hao, but anyone who disobeyed the military order was immediately beheaded.

Generally speaking, after a major defeat, the first thing the officials who obtained Shang Fangjian to go to clean up the mess arrived was to kill Liwei, and Yang Hao killed several defeated generals when he came to Liaodong last year.

But Li Hongyu did not do this after coming to Liaodong, and chose to focus on appeasement, showing a gentle character, which made the generals in Liaodong breathe a sigh of relief.

However, just when the generals of Liaodong thought that Li Hongyu had a strong scholarly spirit and his personality was a little weak, Li Hongyu showed a tough side in the matter of training, and tried his best to set up military merits in training, and did not hesitate to hang out the Wanli Emperor's Shang Fang Ming Dragon Sword, which made those generals realize that Li Hongyu was not a weak scholar as they imagined.

In fact, Li Rubai has long realized that this new champion of the Ming Dynasty is not simple, he heard that Li Hongyu was in Liaoyang City to Yang Hao's grace and power, which not only pointed out that Yang Hao should bear the responsibility for the failure of the Salhu War, but also can fairly analyze the objective reasons for the failure of the Salhu War.

Therefore, although Li Rubai did not approve of Li Hongyu's approach, he did not show it, and uncharacteristically chose neutrality in this matter.

In fact, Li Rubai is still grateful to Li Hongyu in his heart, if it weren't for Li Hongyu's trust in him and still entrusting him with important tasks, making him the commander of the Chinese army of Yaque Guan Ming, then he is still panicked.

According to historical records, Li Rubai was unable to sleep and eat because of the fact that he withdrew his troops without fighting with the Houjin army during the Salhu War, and finally committed suicide, so that the imperial court sent his younger brother Li Ruzhen to Liaodong as a commander, hoping to stabilize the war situation in Liaodong with the prestige of the Li family.

With Li Hongyu's affirmation of Li Rubai's withdrawal, Li Rubai finally breathed a sigh of relief and could sleep peacefully.

Those generals in Liaodong naturally knew this truth, because of the defeat in the Battle of Sarhu, Li Hongyu only had to find an excuse to take their lives.

Judging from the current situation, Li Hongyu has become a barrier for the generals of Liaodong, especially the generals who have experienced the defeat of the Battle of Sarhu, as long as he can withstand the pressure of the outside world, then the generals of Liaodong are safe.

And the reality is exactly like this, Li Hongyu has already begun to deploy troops to arrange the next operation at Yaque Pass, which means that he is not ready to hold the Liaodong generals accountable for the defeat of Salhu, otherwise he would have taken a few generals to establish his authority.

In his heart, Li Hongyu's move won the favor of the generals in Liaodong, at least it means that he has responsibility, unlike other officials who shirk their responsibilities.

Therefore, although the generals of Yaque Pass did not approve of Li Hongyu's setting up military merit awards in training, because Li Hongyu had already made up his mind, everyone also faithfully carried it out.

To put it mildly, Li Hongyu is young and vigorous, in case he is "angry" by the Liaodong generals, then the next Liaodong commander will definitely not be as gentle as Li Hongyu, and maybe someone will be unlucky.

Although the generals were dissatisfied with the establishment of military merit awards in training, Li Hongyu's move was welcomed by the soldiers, who never expected that they would be able to receive meritorious service awards as long as they practiced well in these years, and this kind of good thing was simply pie in the sky.

With the promulgation of the regulations on the training of neutral meritorious service, the morale of the Ming army was boosted, and the soldiers enthusiastically threw themselves into the exercise.

In order to make the soldiers better trained, Li Hongyu, of course, not only set up military merit awards, but also personally took charge of logistics and supply, so that the soldiers could eat delicious meals.

When Guan Bingzhong came to Yaque Pass, he took away seventy percent of the military supplies in Liaoyang City, and Li Hongyu had already calculated that the supplies from the imperial court would be transported to Liaoyang in early May at the latest.

Generally speaking, the commander-in-chief of the army will not get involved in logistics affairs, and this kind of cumbersome matter is handled by special generals, but Li Hongyu personally takes charge of it, which not only shows that he attaches great importance to logistics, but also is full of helplessness.

Li Hongyu was very sure that although the imperial treasury was empty, it must have allocated military expenses in full, and the officials of the imperial court were worried that they would not be able to support the war for a long time, rather than that they could not afford the military expenses of Liaodong now.

However, there is an obvious shortage of military supplies in Liaodong, so the only explanation is that someone has reached out to make money from it, so Li Hongyu wants to personally take charge of logistics affairs, and he wants to see which blind guy dares to attack military supplies.

At the beginning of May, after the affairs of Yaque Pass were on the right track, Li Hongyu led Li Zhizhong's Liaodong Iron Cavalry and Chai Shixiu's Shaanxi and Gansu cavalry to Shenyang to meet Wang Keshou, the governor of Jiliao, who was sitting in Shenyang.

In the four-way battle against the Houjin army commanded by Yang Hao, Shenyang was the front-line command center of the Ming army, and Liaoyang became the logistics base.

In order to appease the soldiers and civilians along the way, Li Hongyu deliberately brought his guard of honor with him and trumpeted the victory at Yaque Pass, which effectively dispelled the panic of the local soldiers and civilians.

Soon after crossing the Hunhe River, Li Hongyu saw the majestic Shenyang City from a distance, which can be described as the largest and strongest city defense in Liaodong, and the military town of the Ming army in Liaodong.

Wang Keshou, the governor of Jiliao, already knew that Li Hongyu was coming, so he had led the officials in the city out of the city to greet him, although Wang Keshou was the governor of Jiliao's military affairs, but because Li Hongyu, who had the sword of Shang Fangming Long, was the commander of the Ming army in Liaodong appointed by the Wanli Emperor, he naturally wanted to come to greet him.

The governor of the Ming Dynasty, like the governor, was a temporary position, the purpose of which was to coordinate local affairs, and it was an official position of the emperor's chagrin, which would be revoked once he returned to Beijing to report on his duties.

It is worth mentioning that Wang Keshou, like Xiong Tingbi, who was appointed by Emperor Wanli as the governor of Liaodong, is also a member of the Huguang clan, and Li Hongyu is a fellow villager, which means that the two get along much more harmoniously than officials from other provinces.

Besides, Wang Keshou is already in his sixties, and his health is not very good, so he will not compete for power with Li Hongyu, the governor.

Liaodong Jingluo, Jiliao Governor and Liaodong Governor can be said to be the three giants in the territory of Liaodong, and they are not subordinate to each other, they are all sent by the emperor to the local emperor.

Therefore, if the governor does not give face to the governor, then the strategy is helpless, and during the Apocalypse, Xiong Tingbi of the Liaodong Jinglu was at odds with Wang Huazhen, the governor of Liaodong, which made the decree unable to be promoted.

Although Wang Huazhen has the Donglin Party behind him, it is also a fact that he cannot forcibly suppress the governor, not only in the Ming Dynasty, but also in the Qing Dynasty, there are often things in which the governor fights for power, and in the end only the emperor came forward to calm down.

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