In the blink of an eye, more than a month has passed since the war.

This battle left a painful lesson for Nie Shicheng, and he deeply felt the great constraints on combat effectiveness brought by the lack of smooth military orders, the division of subordinates, and the problem of unfamiliarity, and at the same time, he also felt the strength of the Japanese army's combat effectiveness.

Nearly 40,000 Japanese troops, the level of combat effectiveness is almost the same as a withdrawal, the same strong, in contrast, the Qing army, is uneven, the god-like blue wolf battalion is super strong, although far superior to the Japanese army, but the number is too small, not suitable for attacking fortifications and positional warfare; It is as strong as the Lutai training army, and its strength is slightly better than that of the elite of the Japanese army, and the inscription battalion can be on a par with the Japanese army, while other troops such as the Sheng army, the Yi army, and the Zhenbian army are not small behind the Japanese army, and the gap in combat power is so big that when commanding, it is naturally controlled everywhere and difficult to use freely.

As for the country, now there is no kind of elite soldiers, since the start of the Sino-Japanese war, the elite of Daqing, except for the Chu army left by Zuo Gong in the Ganshan area, have all been sent to North Korea, but even so it is only about 50,000 people, and the domestic Huai army is afraid that only 10,000 troops have been left to watch the family, and although its combat power is not bad, it is far from being comparable with the elite of the Japanese army. According to the information revealed to him by Lord Zhongtang, the elite strength of the Japanese army exceeded 120,000, which was far from being comparable to that of the Qing Dynasty.

Under such a grim situation, Nie Shicheng learned from the pain and made up his mind to reorganize the army, break all the formations, and rearrange all the new troops brought back by Zhang Yi.

According to Zhang Yi's suggestion, Nie Shicheng sent a telegram to the imperial court and Li Hongzhang of Beiyang, asking for the reorganization of the new army in Korea, so as to better lower than the Japanese army.

After some controversy in the imperial court, after soliciting the opinions of important ministers, Emperor Guangxu issued an edict and agreed that Nie Shicheng would be fully responsible for the reorganization, but once the war was over, all the ministries in the court would be rebuilt and returned to their original establishment.

After careful preparation, Nie Shicheng divided the more than 20,000 Qing troops under his command into five battalions.

The first battalion was composed of more than 5,000 people from the Lutai training army and the inscription battalion, and Tang Keqiang was directly appointed as the deputy commander of the battalion.

The second battalion, composed of 6,000 people from the Zhenbian Army, the Yi Army and the Sheng Army, appointed Ma Yukun as the commander of the battalion;

The third battalion was composed of 5,000 men and horses of the two new armies of Zhongyi, which was directly handed over to Zhang Yi and appointed Zhang Yi as the commander of the general army;

The fourth battalion consisted of 5,000 people from the two new armies, and Li Gang was appointed as the deputy commander-in-chief of the battalion;

The fifth battalion was mainly composed of Fengsheng Asuo's department, supplemented by several battalions left by Zuo Guigui and some other Qing battalions with more than 6,000 troops, and Wei Rugui was appointed as the commander of the general army;

In addition, Nie Shicheng separately set up five battalions of cavalry and five battalions of artillery, with Tan Feng as the artillery commander and Bagen as the cavalry commander, responsible for its training and command.

Nie Shicheng sent another telegram to Li Hongzhang, and pulled out 60 military students who were about to graduate from the Tianjin Military Academy, and all of them were incorporated into the new army, and entered the five battalions or cavalry and artillery battalions to serve as senators, baggage officers, and artillery instructors.

As for Xu Huaijin and Zhang Yihu, they both stayed in their respective positions and did not move, Xu Huaijin continued to stay by Nie Shicheng's side as a temporary senator and counselor of military affairs, Nie Shicheng admired his knowledge and tactical literacy, and when Zhang Yi was away, he was Nie Shicheng's first think tank; Zhang Yihu went all out to train the Blue Wolf Battalion, and now the Blue Wolf Battalion, including dozens of disciples of Wang Wu, selected more than 100 people to rush into the team at once, and the strength has obviously recovered, but it still takes time to improve the combat power.

Zhang Yi was still the chief teacher of the General Staff of the Qing Army, and Zhang Yi personally selected the elite of the Blue Wolf and the military students of the Tianjin Academy to be responsible for tactical training, and he also tried his best to instill fresh military theories in these people and organize military exercises.

Although a month is not a long time, due to the addition of fresh blood and the growth of the new army, the combat effectiveness of the Qing army in the DPRK is still superior.

Not only the individual combat ability of the Qing soldiers has been improved, but even the coordinated combat ability of the various departments has also been improved to varying degrees, the rapid maturity of the blue wolf elite, and the outstanding ability has made them the backbone of the Qing army in various departments, the most representative is the little Xiucai Wu Peifu who came from behind, this little guy is simply a natural military genius, under the leadership of Zhang Yi, the progress has been rapid, and now in Zhang Yi's eyes, it has become a pillar figure second only to Xu Huaijin, Tan Feng, Zhang Yihu, Bagen and Mo Ru.

At the same time, Zhang Yi also unearthed military talents such as Duan Qirui from the Tianjin military students, and it was Nie Shicheng and Zhang Yi who gathered a large number of cadres while facing the interference of the huge old army.

For a month and a half, during which the Qing army and the Japanese army also had some small local battles, there were mutual victories and defeats, and it did not have any impact.

However, the Qing army has undergone earth-shaking changes in this month, and in a month and a half, Nie Shicheng took out thunderous means to take down some of the corpses and idle commanders and dignitaries, and sent them back to China, as for how the imperial court arranged, it was a matter for the imperial court, according to Nie Shicheng's words, for the victory of the Qing Dynasty, such rat feces must not be allowed to spoil this good pot of soup!

As for the four new armies brought back by Zhang Yi, the current combat effectiveness can be described as extremely powerful, and this is the good seedlings carefully selected by Zhang Yi in Baoding and Tianjin, and they have been trained hand in hand; although their individual combat capability has not reached the level of Lutai training because of the short period of time, due to tacit cooperation, there are no bad problems of various domestic departments, so that the overall combat strength is not inferior to that of Lutai training in the slightest. As for the second and fifth battalions, although they have also made progress, they can only be attached to the tail.

Although the number of today's Qing army is not as good as before the original recruitment, but the combat power is a lot beyond the previous one, the Qing army that was beaten with chicken blood, are secretly holding their breath, must be in the future war, find back the field, although the ability is different, but after all, it is an elite division, each unit has its own glorious war history and pride.

Just as the army was formed, the crisis also came.