Two days later, the launching ceremony of the training camp began as scheduled, and Chen Wen, as the founder and commander of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming Army, presided over the training ceremony of the new unit created for the Northern Expedition. As for www.biquge.info military ceremony, it will not be carried out until the training is completed and those unqualified officers and non-commissioned officers are eliminated, and Chen Wen will also be given a new name.

It's just that in the training camp, "intellectual youths" like Ding Junjie and others only account for half of the trainees, and the other half are complete veterans, and even the officers are all old subordinates who have followed Chen Wen for many years. From the day of the launching ceremony, the two sides have been distinctly distinguished, occupying the east and west areas of the training camp for training separately.

The new units are undergoing secret training, while the old units have also begun to change their outfits and train in rotation. The troops of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies are mainly divided into two types, the first is the field troops - those combat units with divisions as units and the mounted infantry battalions directly under the Qi Wangfu; The other is the local garrison, which is found in all prefectures and counties in the occupied area, with a minimum of more than 1,000 people, such as Wuzhou and Guilin in Guangxi, Chenzhou in Hunan, Xiangyang in Hubei and Huai'an in Huainan all have a large number of 4 or 6,000 soldiers, and some even need to change the name to be a field army barracks!

The local garrison is actually no different from the old army in terms of tactics, and it is enough to control the locality, so this reorganization is not a priority, and the status quo will be maintained for the time being.

In comparison, there are as many as ten units at the division level, and based on the calculation of 11,000 soldiers per division, that is also the scale of 110,000 soldiers. This round of rotational training needs to be carried out on the basis of not affecting local defense, and the rotation training will be carried out in batches; changing clothes is one of them, and more importantly, training new tactics and adjusting them to a completely new establishment to achieve the perfect combination of tactics and establishment.

Since the reconquest of Jiangxi, the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ming armies have not fundamentally adjusted their establishment for more than two years, and there have been very few revisions in their tactics, at least no fundamental adjustments have been made, and they are only fine-tuned.

First defeated the Eight Banners Army at Siming Lake, and then broke through the southeast meridian standard, and the tens of thousands of Eight Banners Army led by Yue Le did not dare to cross the Qiantang River. At that time, the Ming army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang was already drawing their swords and looking around, and there was no rival in the world!

In the next few years, Yue Le and Zierharang successively conferred the head, and the myth of the invincibility of the Eight Banners Army was completely broken; The army went south, and the two feudal clans of Pingnan and Jingnan, who dominated one side, were executed by Ling Chi; and then to last year's decisive battle with the Qin Domain, the killer weapon of the Southwest Ming Army, War Elephant and Luo Luo, could not take any advantage in front of the phalanx.

Without a threat to an enemy, the impetus for change decreases, and armies become more reliant on more skilled tactics. However, over the years, while the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ming armies have been constantly fine-tuning, the military industry department's weapons research and development and manufacturing have not stopped, and with the accumulation of these years, a new batch of weapons and equipment has been born, and Chen Wen has a material basis for making his own adjustments according to the tactics of the Eight Banners New Army.

In the first battle of Weinan, the New Army of the Eight Banners broke Wu Sangui's improved version of the Spanish phalanx, and the world was shaken.

The withdrawal of the Forces nouvelles was a reluctant move, but it was also inevitable. The occupation area of the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang had already occupied the south of the Huai River to the north, and it was only 16,700 miles away from the canal to the north, and it was only 16,700 miles away from the capital, which was still much closer than the 2,100 miles from Xi'an to Beijing, let alone the way of going around Shanxi.

The situation in Shaanxi, with the collapse of Wu Sangui's main force, Wu Sangui himself fled westward with thousands of remnants of the defeated army, and even Yang Shen's department in Yan'an also turned west to Ningxia after getting the news, and there was a great tendency to retreat to Gansu.

The defense of Shaanxi, the Manchu Qing handed over it to the Eight Banners Army of the Tunqi Department and the Green Battalion soldiers drawn from Shanxi, of which the Tunqi Department only stayed here for a few more months to stabilize the people's hearts, and the Xuanda Governor Lu Chongjun was transferred to the governor of the Sichuan and Shaanxi trilateral regions, and was granted full power by the Qing court to start running Shaanxi again.

Getting Wu Sangui's head and achieving full merit is not that Jidu doesn't want to, it's just that the situation is forced and there is no way to do it. The new army hurried back to the capital, but it was divided into two routes, all the way to the east back to Tongguan, down the Yellow River, and then north; The other group was led by Ao Bai to cross the Yellow River, take Shanxi, and return to the capital by the nearest way.

The main force led by Jidu and Liu Cheng and Fu Shou was to re-walk the old road when they came, and the officials and generals along the way were more attentive, and the new army received more attention, but it did not delay the next trip, what was the speed of the new army when it went to Shaanxi, and when it went back, due to the capacity of the Yellow River, it was faster, and even almost to the point that when they arrived in the capital, Ao Bai was still on the way.

It stands to reason that Ao Bai should have returned to the capital earlier than them when he crossed Shanxi, but the Qing court had a decree that he should take the new army and the Eight Banners Army through the northern part of Shanxi, show off his might outside the Great Wall, and deter the various tribes of the Mongols in southern Mo to return to the capital by way of Zhangjiakou.

Before the rebellion of Wu Sangui, the Han governors and Mongolian tribes in the Manchu-controlled areas were looking forward to it, waiting for a result to facilitate betting, and now the rebellion has largely subsided, and the Han governors are good to say, there are post stations, and the main force of the new army led by Jidu and Liu Cheng passed in front of them, and the Mongolian departments also need to let them see the spears, firearms and heads of the new army with their own eyes to stabilize people's hearts.

The main force of the new army returned to the capital, and Shunzhi personally went out of the city ten miles to greet him, in recognition of the new army's devastating quelling of the rebellion of the Guanning army group.

Since the rise of Chen Wen, the Manchu Qing have been defeated again and again, and now it is easy to have a victory over the great feudal town of the Southern Ming Dynasty, even if it is only a rebel like Wu Sangui, it is extremely needed.

The rewards of the new army are preferential, as the commander of Prince Zheng Jidu is already the Prince of Heshuo, Shunzhi rewards Jidu a series of "hereditary replacement" Prince Zheng title, the next generation does not demote the title, the year is added to 10,000 taels of silver, 10,000 Hu of rice, and then given a hereditary repudiation of the palace as a reward.

The commander of the army, Ji Du, Zhenguo Gong Tunqi, was originally Baylor, chased Hengyang's defeat and won the title, and later was crowned as the Zhenguo Gong, this time as a deputy commander, the commander of the division in northern Shaanxi to contain Wu Sangui's general Yang Shen meritorious, restore the title of Dorobelle; Ao Bai, the minister of the guard, as the deputy marshal of the army, divided his troops to intercept the defenders' way to flee to the west in the first battle of Tongguan, and in the first battle of Weinan, he was the deputy marshal of the left wing, breaking through Wu Sangui's right-wing army, which was the first merit, and the title was promoted to the first-class super martial arts, and the title of the first warrior of Manchuria was given; As for Prince Xian, the right wing in charge collapsed, and after the war, he whipped the meritorious soldiers for no reason, and had a grudge against the commander's resolution, and the merits and demerits were offset to see the after-effects.

Jidu, Tunqi and Aobai are all rewarded, and if the guilt committed by Fu Shou is in the time of Nurhachi or Huang Taiji, there is no reason to offset the merits and demerits. They are all people from the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and Jidu and Fushou are both the lords of the banners, so they are very different. And Liu Cheng, as the deputy commander of the army, the minister of the new army and the wartime staff officer, can also be called a great merit from training to combat, but the identity of the Han army flag is there, and it is still a little jaw-dropping in terms of merit and reward.

"The Han army was inlaid with the yellow flag Melle Zhangjing, and the prime minister's new army was organized and trained by Liu Cheng, the minister of the Yamen Association and the left attendant of the military department, Mu Yi came to vote, made meritorious suggestions, organized and trained the new army, went out to quell the rebellion, and made great contributions to the imperial court to obtain this strong army and quell the rebellion. The ancestral system of the national dynasty, the eight banners were headed by Manchuria, Liu Chengqi carried the flag of Manchuria inlaid with the yellow flag Melle Zhangjing, gave Liu Jia's family, awarded the minister of the guard department, and led the prime minister of the new army to train the Yamen Association. ”

The Shunzhi Dynasty set up a guard office, and the guards were all from the three banners. In the guard office, the minister of the guard is the leader, and there are two people from each of the three flags, such as Aobai, Sony, and Suppilon; Supplemented by the Minister of the Interior of the First Rank, there are also two people from each of the three flags; And Liu Chengde's scattered minister is the deputy of the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of the Interior, there is no quota, and the official title of Zheng Erpin, but he has entered the core of the imperial power.

A slave who carried the flag of the Han army came up, but climbed on the head of many guards of the Three Banners of Manchuria, and dissatisfaction was indispensable, but Shunzhi trusted Liu Cheng, and it was indispensable to buy horse bones, and the intention of showing goodwill to other Han military flags and Han people, the guards were dissatisfied and could only let them endure it.

"Slave thank the lord Longen, long live my emperor, long live, long live."

Get up again, there is no Han military flag Liu Cheng in this world, but there is one more Liu Jiacheng with a Manchurian yellow flag. In this regard, Liu Cheng can be said to be ecstatic, because with this identity, he has the possibility of independently leading a new army to fight, otherwise it is either praise painting or leading the green battalion or the ordinary Han army Eight Banners, and all these efforts will not be able to have enough returns.

After the award ceremony was held and the celebration banquet began, Liu Cheng, the Manchurian Yellow Flag Meler Zhangjing, did not get any support from the Manchurian Eight Banners, and it could even be said that he was already a cold reception. However, without the Eight Banners of Manchuria by his side, Liu Cheng also happened to whisper with Zhu Zhixi on the side, and only drank and had fun after deciding on the big things.

After the celebration banquet, the magnates of the Eight Banners and the relevant officials involved in the training of the new army did not go home to rest, but were left in the palace by Shunzhi. After drinking the sobering tea, they were already notified before the opening of the celebration banquet, and they quickly recovered their old spirits, and the content of this meeting was actually very clear to the magnates and officials present.

"The victory of the new army is a gratifying event. However, it was only Wu Sangui's ungrateful slave who was defeated, and the army of the Zhejiang bandit Chen Wen was still on the south bank of the Huai River, and even from time to time there would be cavalry crossing the Huai River to watch the mountains and rivers in Huaibei. ”

The things that Shunzhi said were all known to the magnates, and the army of the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang did not cross the Huai River, but there was never a shortage of fine work and horse exploration. From the time he took Huainan to the present, Chen Wen made it clear that he was rectifying the south, so that he could have a stable rear during the Northern Expedition. Nanming infighting is still frequent, this is no way, but for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it is also a blessing in misfortune, otherwise they would have been finished a long time ago, how can there be a chance to train the new army and hold the last straw?

"According to intelligence, although the Zhejiang bandits have not expanded too many divisions in the past two years, the local garrison has not been expanded at all. Liu Aiqing said that the normal order of the expansion of the Zhejiang bandits is that the new recruits enter the training camp and come out to supplement the local garrison, and the outstanding ones of the local garrison are added to the combat barracks. There are no less than 300,000 troops under Chen Wen's command, and it is easy to expand the army, but the new army only has more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, which is absolutely not enough! ”

The expansion of the new army is precisely the core of the agenda. The defeat of Wu Sangui was just a relief and avoided the possibility that they would be besieged by various local powerful factions in the north before Chen Wen's Northern Expedition. However, Chen Wen's threat is getting closer and closer, and they can't afford to delay even a day, and they must make a plan for the expansion of the new army as soon as possible, otherwise there will be no future to speak of.

"What the emperor said is very true, the slaves think that the new army has strong combat effectiveness, and the Zhejiang bandits will not be able to compete with it, and what is lacking now is nothing more than quantity, and it should be expanded as soon as possible."

Jidu is the general minister of the new army, and this new army has given him the hereditary ****, which is his invisible strength, and it is also the capital to call for wind and rain in the DPRK in the future, the expansion of the new army, even if his rights are bound to be limited to the first new army, the invisible influence will still penetrate into the other new armies.

The banner owner with the blue flag is like this, and many other magnates agree with it, and even the few old-fashioned clans are silent. This is something that can't be helped, in the first battle of Weinan, the old tactics of the Eight Banners Army were completely exploded by Wu Sangui's Spanish phalanx, and the whole process was dragged, and even Fu Shou, the banner lord and prince, was also affected, so they naturally didn't dare to say anything more.

The magnates expressed their attitudes, and Shunzhi was very satisfied with this, and then looked at Liu Cheng, who echoed his words, but did not break away from the expansion. It's just that at this point, the expansion is a foregone conclusion, and Zhu Zhixi stood up and raised the matter to a new level.

"Your Majesty, the minister thought that the reason why the new army was able to defeat Wu Shun was mainly because the soldiers of the Eight Banners Army were better at fighting than the Han people, but the old tactics were no longer enough to be used by the Eight Banners Force.

In the late Ming Dynasty, learning Western studies was fashionable among scholars. In order to gain an advantage in the battlefield of Liaodong, the Ming court purchased a large number of Western weapons, the most representative of which was the Hongyi cannon, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty also captured and made this weapon in the wars of the Ming Dynasty.

Now is not the era when the Manchu Qing Dynasty has imprisoned their minds for 200 years, and when the news of the New Army's complete victory came, Zhu Zhixi and other Restoration Party members were advocating that the gentry should open their eyes to the world, and many of the elites of the Eight Banners who were interested in the New Army also responded from the sidelines. During this period, Zhu Zhixi raised his eyes to see the world to the height of taking middle school as the body and Western learning as the use, and with the new army on his side, it was already like a thunderous roar of the times.

"Zhu Shangshu is reasonable, and I think it is true. The new army is a clear proof that Taixi's tactics are better than China's, and to establish a new army using Western methods, Taixi's machinery is also indispensable. In the past two years, the Ministry of Industry has purchased a lot of yamen, plus the previous dynasty has added a lot of them, but the management and use of craftsmen are still stuck in the old methods, which really slows down the production of weapons and equipment. ”

"I've thought about it these days, and I have a lot to know about the system of some of the workshops of Tessie's weapons manufacturing. I decided to establish the Tianjin Machinery Manufacturing Bureau in the Tianjin Acropolis to produce water and wind machinery, especially the weapons and armor needed by the new army, and also change the machinery manufacturing to meet the needs of the new army. ”

At present, the Ministry of Industry Yamen has a large number of craftsmen and machinery, not to mention the staggering losses, and the production speed is also like that of a turtle, and the new army has not carried out a large-scale expansion in the past two years; in addition to the traditional resistance of the Eight Banners, the speed of upgrading weapons and equipment is also a major factor restricting its development.

In fact, the magnates and officials here are all clear-eyed people, and this Tianjin Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, which sounds like a teacher of Fa Taixi, is just a copy of the military industry workshop of the Ming Army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Zhejiang. In fact, it is only to ask the old system of the Ministry of Industry and the Yamen to extricate itself from that kind of decay, so as to ensure that military production can keep up with the speed of the expansion of the new army.

However, in this brand-new yamen, the general office minister appointed by Shunzhi was not the group of people from the Restoration Party, Zhu Zhixi could not leave the capital, Zhang Daocheng and Hao Zongfu took the post of co-organizer and conference minister, but the general office minister was Ning Wanme, who was born in Liaodong, and the political meaning could be smelled by anyone with a discerning eye.

"Your Majesty, the expansion of the new army and the construction of the General Manufacturing Bureau are all good things that are beneficial to the Jiangshan Sheji, but the household yamen really can't draw out the money, and ask the emperor to send the treasury silver of the Internal Affairs Office."

The household department was as poor as ever, only half of the north was left, and the Manchus did not dare to expropriate and extort violently, lest they would be affected by a single attack, if it were not for the fact that the family was thick enough, plus the seizure of Korea, the finances would have gone bankrupt long ago. But a new army alone will cost a lot of money to support, and once it is expanded, plus the General Manufacturing Bureau, the family may not be able to bear it, let alone the household yamen who cannot make ends meet.

However, for the poor and poor, Shunzhi obviously had expected it, and after listening to the Manshang book of the household department, he said unhurriedly to the magnates and officials present: "In terms of money, don't worry, I have a good plan, and there will be enough money to arrive in Beijing in the near future, which will be enough to cover the new army." ”