Regarding the Northern Expedition, Chen Wen has been preparing for many years, and now he has a stable rear. Just like Zhu Yuanzhang back then, Chen Wen has accumulated savings for many years, and now he is strong and strong, and his strength is the best in the land of China.

After completing the adjustment of the central bureaucracy, the first joint meeting of these newly promoted cabinet elders and scholars was about the Northern Expedition, and Chen Wen had been waiting for a long time, waiting for the day when the Manchus would be completely wiped out for too long.

"It's late August, the weather is starting to get cooler, and there is no need to worry about plague, mosquitoes, etc., so it's a good time to start the Northern Expedition. There is a way that the three armies have not moved the grain and grass first, how are the grain and grass and military preparations? What about follow-up reserves? ”

Sun Yu is the secretary of the branch of the degree, in charge of the money and grain, seeing Chen Wen asked, he replied: "Back to His Royal Highness, the army has hoarded a series of reserves such as grain, grass, and silver money for March in March, and the follow-up expenditure, the warehouses in Nanjing are still enough to spend half a year, and the provincial warehouses can also be planned and transferred, and they can be used sufficiently." ”

The summer tax is collected, plus the grain stockpile, it is indeed enough for the army to spend, even if the war drags on to the fourteenth year of Yongli, this year's autumn tax can allow the army to continue to fight until the summer tax collection is completed next year.

Of course, according to Chen Wen's plan and estimate, it is impossible to delay the war for too long, the core population of the Manchu Qing is too small, and the inventory cannot be compared with the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ming armies sitting in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Huguang, and this war will be completed within half a year after the Northern Expedition is launched.

"The weapons, armor and the military supplies that our military industry department is responsible for producing have all been equipped with troops, and the spare armaments for the Northern Expedition have also been transferred, and the follow-up production is still continuing, and it will never delay the follow-up use in the plan, nor will it delay the progress of expanding production."

Xu Yi, the chief of the Military Industry Department, said that the general director of the Quartermaster Department also expressed his agreement with the degree branch and the Military Industry Department, and said that all the transferred military supplies have been completed and stored to ensure the military use.

"Good."

Compared with the overstretched situation when I had to prepare for a year and a half to fight a war, the generosity of the current ministry is indeed much easier for the ministries and departments. However, the difficulty of collecting is gone, and the huge degree of large military use has made the difficulty of inventory and transshipment skyrocket. The difficulties faced in different periods are different, but fortunately, these officials have been tested for a long time, and the military reserves and transshipment work of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ming armies for many years have never dragged too late, at least they have never been held back because of poor reserves and inability to keep up with transshipment.

In terms of munitions preparations, the joint meeting gave the bottom line, and the participants also had sufficient confidence. Next, Chen Wen named the Military Intelligence Department.

"According to our investigation, the captive division is now mainly divided into three divisions, the first of which is the five new armies named Janissake, Gongwei Army, Wuwei Middle Army, Wuwei Left Army and Wuwei Right Army, the first four are stationed in the capital, and the Wuwei Right Army is stationed in Tianjin Weizhi Station to assist in the defense of Dagukou, which is the main enemy of our army."

The new army is full, and even the people here know that even Qian Qianyi, who has just joined the department, and Zhang Huangyan, who is in charge of the Criminal Investigation Department, is not very clear about military affairs. The new army has been trained for three years, and there was only one Praetorian Guard in the first two years, but relying on this Praetorian Guard, the Qing court easily pacified Wu Sangui Anyway, Wu Sangui's head had already been sent to the capital by the monk Ge Hun Taiji of the Jungger Department, and now it is hanging on the gate of Chaoyang Gate, it has been a year, and it has long been dried to the point that there is no moisture at all.

The combat effectiveness of the Praetorian Guard is not bad, and the Gustav phalanx used by it is said to be an advanced tactic in Europe, and it is like chopping melons and vegetables to fight the Spanish phalanx that once caused the losses of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies to be far greater than those of previous battles. Not only in Europe, but Wu Sangui also used his head to prove the strength of this tactic.

The other four new armies have only been trained for more than a year, and their combat effectiveness is certainly inferior to that of the Praetorian Guards, but it is still difficult to say what their specific combat strength will be, because after all, there is no credible record to compare with them, and it is difficult for both the Military Intelligence Department, which is responsible for collecting intelligence, and the General Staff Division, which is responsible for analyzing intelligence, are also difficult to make conclusions.

"Secondly, in the land of Huaibei, the Eight Banners Army composed of the Han Army, the Mongolian and Goryeo Eight Banners, together with the green battalions of Huaibei and Shandong, formed the first line of defense. The combat effectiveness of these units is average, and their morale is relatively low, so they should not be the enemy of our army. It was only the Tartars who organized the people to dig trenches in Huaibei, but they did not have the slightest intention of sticking to it. ”

"Again, the Imperial Court used to set the Admiral Line of the Southern Wangfu as the Admiral of Henan, and unified the rest of the Southern Domain and the Henan Green Camp to guard the local area and guard against our army's troops in Huguang."

Compared with the new army as the main force, the Manchu Qing army in Huaibei and Henan was smaller, and the combat effectiveness of each department was weaker, especially those green battalion soldiers who were still able to fight were all placed at the forefront, obviously intending to use these traitor troops to consume the sharp spirit of the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang.

The Qing court's defense in Henan was only based on the city, after all, Henan was located in a plain area, and it was difficult for the Qing army to defend against danger. On the Huaibei side, although it is also a plain area, according to the route of Zhu Yuanzhang's Northern Expedition, the Qing army obviously took it as the center of gravity of defense, but they invested their resources on the new army, and did not have enough money and food to build a fortress defense group that was enough to delay the sharp spirit of the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang.

"In addition, there are still 2,000 garrisons in Shaanxi and Eight Banners, no less than 50,000 green battalions in Shanxi and Zhili provinces, no less than 30,000 troops in North Korea and Liaodong, and the Mongol Tartars in southern China should also give them a certain degree of support."

After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, it swallowed most of the world with a devastating momentum, which is also one of the backgrounds in which Nanming's several anti-Qing upsurges failed to play a decisive role. Without him, the gap in strength is too large, and the control of the Qing court is stronger, and it is really difficult to turn the tables with those loose feudal towns in the Southern Ming Dynasty.

Over the years, Chen Wen has gone through hard battles and finally recovered half of the south of the Yangtze River, but the Manchu Qing still occupies the northern land, and it is backed by North Korea and the Mongol tribes in southern China, and its strength is still not to be underestimated, and this is the most important reason why Chen Wen must wait until the stabilization of the south is completed before carrying out the Northern Expedition.

"According to the plan, our army will send an army of about 15 to 200,000 to the north, and General Gu will personally serve as the commander of Huainan Road. At that time, the affairs of the center and the old occupied areas will be freed from the kings. ”

"We will live up to the trust of His Highness the Prison State."

At the end of the meeting, the preparations continued, Chen Wen's position as the supervisor of the country was confirmed, and the army participating in the Northern Expedition also had to assemble at the departure base in advance and wait for the order to attack.

Chen Wen handed over the affairs of these provinces to the cabinet, and a large number of officials would arrive in the new areas to be recovered, but during the Northern Expedition, the military was in charge, and Chen Wen could not wait for the new parents and officials in various places to completely control the local situation. During the war, everything is about efficiency.

At the end of the meeting, Chen Wen set off for the south, and the two participating troops of the Niushou Mountain Battalion had completed their training, and they were just short of an inspection and an army formation ceremony.

A few days later, it was nearly September, and the two participating troops in the Niushou Mountain camp assembled on the colonel's field, Chen Wen stood on the platform, just nodded, the unit composed of veterans retreated, and Ding Junjie's unit composed of "intellectual youth" began the exercise.

The content of the drill is not very fancy, with the team as a unit, stepping forward, backward and changing formations at the same distance, like arms and fingers, it looks unremarkable, but it is undeniable that it is indeed more neat than many battalion heads, and it is even unimaginable that it is neat and tidy.

The troops changed their formations, taking the team as the unit, the sentinel as the unit, the bureau as the unit, and even the unit as a whole, and the neatness of the queue even reached the point of impeccable. Chen Wen believed that even if King Yue and Qi Shuai were resurrected, they would not be able to train such an army, because their tactics would not be able to use the neat queue at this level.

"Let's get started."

Chen Wen gave the order, and the troops of the bureau drawn by the recruit troops marched in neat steps from west to east, and there was no need for even the whole team, and the troops walked in unison, as if they were carved out of a mold.

A moment later, the artillery positions on the west opened fire on the colonel's field, and shells whistled and landed only a dozen paces in front of the phalanx.

This was a previous exercise, and there was even a tragedy in which a cannonball fell in the crowd, but the training did not stop because of this, but continued in a more demanding way.

Ding Junjie's team was in the first row in the middle of the whole world, feeling the shells flying overhead and falling heavily not far away. Ding Junjie, like everyone else, has his heart in his throat. However, the military Fa Bble on weekdays, as well as the repeated preaching of the prison officers, even if they were afraid in their hearts, they still continued to move forward without even the slightest waver.

"Stand!"

At the end of the shelling, the tin horn sounded on the colonel's field, and Ding Junjie's bureau was already at the far right end of the whole army. Hearing the order, everyone in the entire bureau stopped as if reflexively, and when they heard the next order, they were also like robots, turned around, stood up, and stared at the point platform in the distance.

"Drill over."

There was no order to disband, and the whole army did not relax, standing straight like poplar trees on the school grounds. Chen Wen commented on their performance on stage, and even said some inspiring words, but it was too far away, and Ding Junjie and they couldn't hear it clearly. However, with the beginning of the flag-awarding ceremony on the stand, this time it also entered the final stage.

On the platform, the two generals in armor took over a big flag from Chen Wen's hand, and Ding Junjie couldn't see the side of the veteran army in the distance, but on their side, as the general came holding the flag high, they quickly saw it clearly, and for the soldiers of this army who did not have a completely illiterate army, they could recognize what was written on it and everything that this flag represented.

The general who walked in was none other than the coach of this army, Chengguo Gongma Xin. The commander of the Ming Army of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, who was born as a general, won Chen Wenxin's respect, and previously commanded troops like the Four Ming Division, including the Nantang Battalion, and now holds high the banner with the dragon on his face, which represents the importance of this army.

"Young Guardsman!"

Ding Junjie looked up, the flag fluttered in the sky, and the dragon stretched out his front paws, just like the big flag embroidered with winged tigers that his father looked up at on Dalan Mountain, it was bound to be full of glory and dreams.

"Dad, the child will be like you, fighting for the Han family under this banner!"

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After the ceremony of forming the army, Chen Wen returned to Nanjing, but the soldiers of the Young Guards Division and the Old Guards Division, who had just announced the formation of the army, were also making their final rest, waiting for the arrival of tomorrow and the order to leave for Nanjing early tomorrow morning.

is about to leave this camp where they have been training and living for a year, and everyone is also a little reluctant, but thinking of the upcoming Northern Expedition, this sadness is quickly blown away.

"This Northern Expedition should be a task to completely eliminate the Tartars, and the reward is absolutely indispensable."

Li Youzhi made a start, and everyone also responded. Since the formation of the army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming, the rewards are graded according to the strength of the opponent and the specific battle situation, the highest level, and the most generous reward is the victory of Liyang, a prince of Heshuo of the Tartars was captured, a large number of Eight Banners Army was killed and captured, and the number of beheadings is also the largest in history, which is not worse than the victory of Yushan. This Northern Expedition must be to smash the wolf's den and sweep away the sea, which is even more indispensable.

"This battle is estimated to be against the new army of the Tartars, and it is estimated that it will be a hard bone, and you still have to participate in the war in the fullest state, and you must not be slack or despised in the slightest."

Huang Chengming's temporary captain has been removed, and he is officially the direct commander of this group of boys under him, and after more than a year of getting along, he has a deep relationship with these young people who are full of hope for the future. Looking at them, it was like looking at himself back then, remembering that he also came out to join the army with the intention of following Chen Wen to completely drive the Tartars out of China. Now that I have the illusion of being in a different world, I don't want these young people to lose their lives because of the underestimation of the enemy, after all, war is never a joke.

However, loyalty is against the ear, for these young people, it is the left ear in, the right ear out, the mind has long been on the merit, plus the exchange of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies has always been quite good-looking, and the sacrifice is always a few, except for Niu Zhong and some taciturn, others have already thought of how to use these rewards after the end of the Northern Expedition.

"This time the land division is absolutely indispensable, but according to convention, it is probably mostly land in the north."

"The north is not as good as our south, the output is limited, but there are cooperatives, there are plantations, and we don't need to do this, as long as the formalities are completed, the rent and dividends are collected every year, and there is no need to even go."

"Exactly."

Speaking of this, several soldiers who had military merit fields and pension fields at home talked about the income from their co-housing and plantations, which caused others to marvel one after another.

The welfare policy of the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang is very generous, which is completely different from the military households that were equal to untouchables in the Ming Dynasty. Everyone was still looking forward to the future, Ding Junjie looked at Niu Zhong, who still didn't speak, and then asked him: "Brother Niu, when the Northern Expedition is over, your wish should also be fulfilled, what are you going to do?" ”

Since the last time they opened their hearts, the two have been friends who talk about everything, and when they saw Ding Junjie asking, Niu Zhong replied: "What else, go home and farm, my father has a lot of pension fields." What about you? ”

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