In November, after arriving in Xiangyang, the governor Yang Sichang set up camp in the city, spread the word to all places, and combined the strength of the officials and armies of the seven provinces to suppress the peasant army with the strategy of "four positive and six corners, ten sides of the net".

At the end of December, Yang Sichang broke Zhang Xianzhong and beheaded more than 300 levels to defeat the Jingshi......

Time came to the first month of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the Central Plains was turbulent, although Yang Sichang initially won the victory, but Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and others quickly changed their tactics, did not confront the official army head-on at all, and burned and plundered all the way to the north and south.

Yang Sichang was in a hurry, and personally led the armies of various provinces to chase and fight, wanting to eliminate the Zhang thief in one fell swoop, but the current rogues were no longer a plate of loose sand in the early years of Chongzhen.

They don't know where to get the weapons and equipment, the old battalions of each department actually reached the horse seven step three, which is better than the staff and army under the command of most of the general soldiers, and the officers and soldiers can't catch up with the rogue who is bent on absconding, but if they don't chase it, they can't do it, they can only be led by the nose.

When Zhang Xianzhong couldn't escape all the way, he knew the movements of Yang Sichang's department well, and sent a large army of displaced people into the mountains to ambush from time to time.

The officers and soldiers were afraid of being beaten, and they were afraid of being broken by the rogues, so they didn't dare to pursue too fiercely, and the general soldiers disobeyed Yang Sichangyang and didn't do their best to pursue at all, but just followed behind the rogues' butts with the intention of preserving their own strength.

When the Central Plains official army was exhausted, the Qing army sent God to assist, the battle of Hetuara has been more than a year, and tens of thousands of Azig troops suddenly besieged Ningyuan, and the defender Jin Guofeng was the governor of the five armies, and led his family to die.

The beginning of the year was not a good sign, the land of China was in continuous flames, whether it was Liaodong resisting the Eastern captives or suppressing bandits in the Central Plains, the Ming army almost lost more than victory.

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Approaching the end of the year, after the Shandong military sacrifice flag became an army, the soldiers and civilians of the six prefectures cheered and were happily buying New Year's goods to prepare for the Spring Festival, in addition to the prosperous Jiangnan, the north is also the most peaceful in Shandong.

However, the Shandong army is also tight and relaxed, Wang Zheng and the town defenders in various places dare not relax, and now the rogue is making such a big fuss, maybe one day he will suddenly come to Shandong, and what happened in Qiu County cannot be repeated.

In addition to carrying out the vigorous expansion of recruitment and the dispatch of generals in various localities, the Military Council Department immediately began to build branch offices in Licheng and various prefectures and cities in accordance with Wang Zheng's wishes, and a large number of the original officials were promoted on the spot according to their performance, and many officials with outstanding performance were sent to various military council departments and branch offices in various places.

The Inspection Department was renamed the Security Division, which integrated the investigation of salt administration and the protection of the locality.

The original large base of salt ding and nursing homes have been chaotic, for example, there are often no nursing homes in a certain farm, but it is the leader of the salt ding who leads the salt ding to guard.

Now they are under the unified planning of the Security Division, and the members of the Security Department will be re-enrolled in the census.

In addition to the quiet place, the red-clothed salt-ding also had to set up a card to investigate those salt merchants who were not cooperating with the Shandong army, while the blue-clothed salt-ding were mostly placed in one place, and the saltworks, salt pans, and minerals that were being built or had been built in various places were guarded by them.

But in general, whether red or blue, the various actions and distributions of the salt diners are carried out by the Prime Minister of the Anti-Salt Branch of the Security Department.

Each farm recruited local farmers to take care of the farm, and the elected head of the farm was responsible for all matters in the farm, and after the new establishment and measures were introduced, everything began to be in order.

On the third day of the first lunar month, the general army of Shandong Province contended to be in various places, with the purpose of recruiting talented people to enrich the various departments of the Military Discussion Department, and the specific matters were handled by Gu Junen, director of the General Staff Office of the Military Discussion Department, and Li Yan, the left military division.

In addition to these 12 battalions, there are also two battalions of the Shandong Navy Army, one battalion of cavalry, and one battalion of firearms, but they have not been reported to the military department.

The main and deputy commanders of the navy are still Jiang Da and Liu Si, the two of them take a water battalion to dock in Laizhou Bay and Shamen Island, and the cavalry battalion is led by Quan Zhuo with 3,000 horsemen, and they practice in the horse farm outside Licheng on weekdays.

In addition to the 3,000 bird-gunners, there are also hundreds of small copper and iron cannons, Hudun cannons and more than 20 newly-built Fran machine guns.

There is a lot of good news after the formation of the army, and the most exciting point for ordinary people is that their children will be able to study and write in local private schools for free, which is something that was unimaginable before.

Wang Zheng ordered the construction of private schools in each prefecture and city, and recruited some down-and-out literati as lecturers to teach children to read and write, and slowly spread to the whole of Shandong.

The two offices of the Military Council Department are responsible for the selection and assignment of lecturers, and after the verification is correct, the director of the Office will report to the right military council Guan Qingtian, and then Guan Qingtian will give it to Wang Zheng for ruling.

This private school is not to learn the Four Books and Five Classics, but Wang Zheng wants to train a group of generals with both civil and military skills for the Shandong Army.

After strict approval, the instructors selected by the Military Council Department to teach only children to read and write in private schools in various localities can be promoted to a higher level of school.

The school is generally located in the capital or state city of each prefecture, and after entering the school from a private school, they will have a little contact with current politics and world affairs, and they will also have a little knowledge of various knowledge.

After two layers of selection, the best of the Liufucheng Academy will be recommended to Licheng, where the center of the Shandong Army is located, where there is a Licheng Military Academy that gathers talented people from all over Shandong.

In addition to gaining a deeper understanding of the current politics and situation, the Shandong Military will regularly send grass-roots officers with rich experience in battle to the military academy.

The officers who have been selected to teach at the Licheng Military Academy are all veterans with rich experience in battle, and they will not hesitate to impart battlefield experience to help these young people avoid detours.

The first principal of the Licheng Military Academy was Wang Zheng, the chief soldier of Shandong, and the senior generals of the Shandong Army and the senior scribes of the Military Discussion Department would come from time to time to impart knowledge.

According to Wang Zheng's meaning, the Licheng Military Academy is divided into five periods, and the examination method and content are stricter than the first period, but it is never a rigid written form, and the final examination of the fifth phase of the Licheng Military Academy covers all aspects.

There are the acting of the sand table battle array, as well as the proficiency of steel knives, tiger guns, axe guns, and bird guns......

As long as the graduates of the first three classes are not too incompetent, they can basically be assigned to the regular barracks in various places to serve as deputy chiefs or chiefs such as junior officers.

If a person graduated from the fifth phase of the most severe Licheng Military Academy, generally speaking, this person already has a relatively good battlefield combat and strategic command, and at the same time is proficient in all kinds of weapons commonly used by the Shandong army.

For the high-level talents who graduated from the fifth phase of the Licheng Military Academy, Wang Zheng will directly send them to the battalions of the soldiers according to the evaluations of the examiners, various lecturers, and his own opinions.

This will be where they really begin.