As far as Sun Chengzong, minister of supervision and training of the new army, is concerned, the problems of troop resources, barracks, money, food, and ordnance are not the real problems at present, but the real fatal problem is the serious shortage of officers and colonels in the reserve battalion of the new army. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

It was far from enough for him to arrange all the generals he had at hand, so he had no choice but to ask for an order to all the towns on the nine sides, and on the basis of recommending middle and lower-level military attachés to study in the lecture hall, they would each recommend a senior military attache above the rank of deputy general to Zhuozhou for military training, and the soldiers trained by the Zhuozhou battalion could also be dispatched as a supplementary source of troops for the towns in the nine sides in the future.

Although such an arrangement may weaken the defense force of the Nine Sides, for the Nine Sides Army that has been fighting for many years, there are still many high-ranking generals who have the ability and want to serve in the Guannai.

After this order was stamped with the emperor's jade seal, it reached the towns on the nine sides at an expedited speed of six hundred miles.

A few days later, the training generals recommended by Xuanfu, Jizhen, Shanhai Town, and Datong Town, which were relatively close, rushed to Tongzhou and reported to the Yamen of the Governor of Zhili.

Hou Shilu, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, sent his own deputy general Ma Dengyun, Liu Ce, the chief soldier of Jizhen Town, sent Sun Zushou, who had not served as the deputy chief soldier for a long time, and Zhao Shujiao, the chief soldier of Shanhai Town, also sent a deputy general soldier named Song Wei. Zu Dashou, the new commander-in-chief of Datong Town, sent Heiyunlong, the general of Datong Town.

The fact that the commanders-in-chief of the towns were happy to send their deputies or highly decorated generals to Gyeonggi was a good thing for them and for the people to be dispatched.

Hou Shilu sent Ma Dengyun, probably out of the heart of promoting the younger generations, because Ma Dengyun is the nephew of Ma Gui, the chief military officer who came to aid the DPRK in the late Wanli period, and Hou Shilu himself was born in Ma Gui's own army.

As for Liu Ce, the chief soldier of Jizhen, who sent Sun Zushou, the newly appointed deputy chief soldier, to listen to it, he completely wanted to be out of sight and out of mind.

Liu Ce in history is a mediocre generation, promoted from the Baoding general army to the border town as the chief military officer, but he still has no sense of border defense and enterprising spirit, believes in the rule of inaction, more things are better than less things, for Sun Zushou such a shrewd and capable, always want to do the new deputy general soldier, very unaccustomed.

In the winter and October of the second year of Chongzhen, when the Houjin army invaded Gyeonggi, Sun Zushou scattered all his family wealth, recruited more than 1,000 soldiers, went north to King Qin, and met the Houjin army outside the Desheng Gate of Jingshi, and died in a fierce battle.

Now after taking up the post of deputy chief soldier of Jizhen, he has repeatedly gone out to investigate outside Longjing Pass, actively responded to the will of the imperial court, recruited people along the Great Wall Pass, and cooperated with Wang Shiqin, the chief soldier of the Santun Battalion, and others to build fortresses outside Longshan Pass, Xifeng Pass and Hongshan Pass.

Less than half a year after Sun Zushou arrived, the entire Jizhen border pass soldiers have become only aware of General Sun and not General Liu. In this regard, Liu Ce, the chief soldier of the brand, was naturally very dissatisfied, and just took this opportunity to drive him away.

And Zhao Shujiao sent Song Wei, the deputy chief soldier, out of a public heart, and Song Wei himself knew that he was clumsy in command of battle, and good at training and governing the army, so as soon as Zhao Shujiao, the chief soldier, asked for advice, he immediately agreed.

As for Zu Dashou's recommendation of the general Heiyunlong, it was out of the need to integrate Datong Town.

Zu Dashou took his more than 500 subordinate soldiers, after arriving in Datong Town, the first thing to do was to quickly control the army belonging to Datong Town, unify the military orders, and continue to use those who cooperate, and adjust the posts if they do not cooperate, and those who are not convinced, such as Heiyunlong, will be sent to him far away.

Ma Dengyun, Sun Zushou, Song Wei, and Hei Yunlong, all in their forties, after the four of them reported to the Yamen of the Governor of Zhili, Sun Chengzong, who was the Minister of Supervision and Training of the New Army, met with them, and each of them had a copy of the New Army's infantry training regulations, and then arranged them in the newly built Dongshe Guest Hall in the Jiangwu Hall outside Tongzhou City.

In the following ten days, Wang Fu, a veteran of the deputy general army of Dongjiang Town, Zhu Mei, a veteran of the deputy general of Liaodong Town, Wang Tingchen, deputy general of Shanxi Town, Li Changling, deputy chief of Yansui Town, Wang Xingshan, deputy chief of Gansu Town, Wang Shiguo, deputy general of Ningxia Town, Ai Wannian, deputy general of Guyuan Town, and Zhang Hongye, deputy general of Lintao Town, also arrived in Tongzhou one after another.

After Sun Chengzong finished the meeting, he was all arranged in the East Guest Hall of the Lecture Hall, so that the twelve generals would take the lead in familiarizing themselves with some alternative training methods of the current emperor.

After reading the first new army drill code ordered by the emperor, these people did not oppose or question it. It's not that they don't dare, but they, as generals in border towns, have participated in countless bloody battles on the battlefield, and know that the so-called bells and whistles that the court officials value are not of much use after they go to the battlefield, and what is really useful is physical strength and discipline.

In addition, after the three-month reserve training is over, after being organized and trained into the first town of the new army, it will be divided into horses, infantry, artillery, and engineering training, and this will be a matter for the future. Therefore, the task assigned to them is actually very simple, which is to complete physical fitness and discipline training, and this is also what these deputy commanders have been responsible for in various towns.

The only surprise is what the emperor said about the method of queue training. But if you think about it carefully, in the eyes of these border town generals, it is not completely beyond the scope of their cognition, in their opinion, it is just some extremely simple methods of marching and moving in line after the Qi Shuai's army formation training method is deleted and simplified.

After the twelve people arrived, they stayed in Tongzhou for another day, and then Sun Chengzong sent someone to send an order, saying that the emperor was going to summon them.

None of the twelve had ever seen the emperor, so they were all very nervous, lest they make a mistake and not only laugh at their generosity, but also ruin their future.

However, Sun Chengzong was unimpressed by everyone's panic, simply told them the etiquette to be conducted, and then led the twelve people to the Forbidden City in Beijing to meet the emperor.

On the morning of 20 May, Emperor Chongzhen met with the generals of the border towns who had been urgently ordered to come to Gyeonggi to train the new army at the military aircraft of Wuyingdian.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at the border town generals who knelt on the ground in front of him, and then looked at the list handed over by the Military Aircraft Department, and couldn't tell whether he was happy or sad in his heart.

Most of them have left their names in the history of the late Ming Dynasty, and fortunately, Emperor Chongzhen, who now has a soul of later generations, has a deep impression of most of the names in this list.

Most of these people ended up miserable, either dying in battles with the Houjin army, such as Sun Zushou, Wang Fu and others, or dying in later battles to exterminate thieves, such as Zhang Hongye, Wang Xingshan, Ai Wannian and others. Among them, Heiyunlong and Ma Dengyun were captured in the battle with the Houjin army when Huang Taiji led the Eight Banners Army to invade the surrounding areas of Gyeonggi, and disappeared from the sky.

Now that he saw these people kneeling in front of him, Emperor Chongzhen's heart was of course full of mixed feelings and emotions.