Time passed in a hurry, and it was more than half a month before Huang Degong left the capital, and the atmosphere in the entire Ming Dynasty became heavy. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Ordinary people may not be able to see anything, but those with a little insight can feel that in recent times, there have been more strangers coming and going from various places, and those armies responsible for land reform and suppressing bandits have also begun to increase their efforts, as if they intend to quickly complete the tasks assigned by the imperial court.

Whether it is the intelligence personnel of the National Security Division I (Internal Service Department) sent by Li Hongfei, or the acquiescence to the acceleration of land reform and the suppression of bandits in various localities, this is all preparing for the upcoming national military reform.

Li Hongfei is unwilling to continue to wait, Huang Degong can't believe it, and he can't believe it all, so the best way is to use the powerful intelligence system of the original Dongchang to conduct comprehensive monitoring of King Lu and those who are close to him.

The domestic intelligence has not yet been investigated clearly, but Situ Yan has made a breakthrough in the overseas intelligence investigation........

On this day, Li Hongfei and everyone had a cabinet meeting, leaving Li Dingguo alone.

"How are the preparations for the military reform? When will the whole army be officially announced? Li Hongfei got straight to the point.

"In fact, the military reform plan has long been perfected and can be officially implemented at any time, but ....... You know, it's not time yet! Li Dingguo said.

He understands that Li Hongfei is anxious, but this internal and external troubles have not even been resolved, so how can any military reform be implemented now?

"It's okay, it can be implemented, transfer Qi Zhifeng's Second Army to the northwest, no matter what Batur Huntaiji has planned, 100,000 soldiers and 20,000 defenders will be more than enough to hold the northwest region."

"From the Beijing division to the northeast, let the newly formed Third Army be fully responsible, Yan Yingyuan led an army to guard Shenyang Zhongwei (Shengjing), Zhang Chao led an army to garrison Shanhaiguan and support at any time, and Zhang Huangyan stayed in Beijing."

"In this way, the entire Daming border is arranged, and the First Group Army, as the main force, can go out to the front line of Kaifeng and Luoyang, and cooperate with the military reform of the Ministry of Defense at any time."

Li Hongfei used the command ruler to move back and forth on the map, and at the same time quickly laid it out.

Needless to say, the northwest side naturally has a whole group army in the past, not to mention Li Hongfei's pursuit of stability, just asking Qi Zhifeng to defend, even if he uses this to break into the desert, as long as there is no problem in logistics, Batur Huntaiji will not be able to stop Qi Zhifeng at all.

If both the northeast and northwest can hold on to their positions and there are surplus troops, then even if there is resistance to military reform, they will be able to suppress their opponents with great strength.

Due to the complete dispersal of the Zheng army in Fujian, the newly formed Third Army, except for a small part of the troops from the Zheng army that participated in the Northern Expedition, most of the rest were elites selected from various units.

It is indeed not easy to select 100,000 soldiers from the remaining four group armies plus one Praetorian Guard (the fourth and fifth armies have not moved, and after the military reform begins, they can only become defenders or be disbanded directly).

As for Zheng Chenggong, Li Hongfei didn't really intend to set him up.

Not long after Zheng Chenggong served in the Ministry of National Defense, he was transferred to the Nanyang Naval Division, and although Li Hongfei broke up his Zheng family's army, he gave him a huge naval fleet of 60,000 people.

In Li Hongfei's view, Zheng Chenggong's glory should still be at sea, their Zheng family originally started as pirates, Zheng Zhilong is now thriving in the South Seas, as a son, he naturally has to drive a warship to escort his own son.

The original Third Army was dismantled, and in order to avoid a decline in combat effectiveness, Li Hongfei had to make certain adjustments in terms of generals, and famous generals of the new army such as Yan Yingyuan and Zhang Chao were also transferred to this new army.

This can also be regarded as a pilot of military reform, which is what Li Hongfei mentioned at the beginning: senior generals at or above the military level cannot stay in the same army all the time.

"Shenyang Weicai sent an army? This amount of troops, not to mention attacking Zhu Yousong's Later Ming regime, is enough to hold the attack of the Manchu Eight Banners, are you sure you really want to arrange it like this? Li Dingguo is not calm.

According to last year's intelligence analysis, even if the Manchu Qing split into two parts, the Azig one, which can occupy Duoyan Sanwei, has nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses.

Although the Ming army was strong in combat and was blocked by the Great Wall, if it wanted to completely prevent the Manchu forces, the total number of soldiers and defenders in the northeast region must not be less than 100,000.

As a result, Li Hongfei was good, and directly removed the size of the two armies, plus the garrison of the guard, the army stationed in the Liaodong region is estimated to not exceed 40,000, and it will be reduced by 60,000 all of a sudden, no wonder Li Dingguo is not calm.

In his opinion, it is better to temporarily lose the northwest region, but also to concentrate forces and destroy Zhu Yousong first.

"Don't worry, let's take a look at this information first." Li Hongfei handed the information of the Second National Security Department to Li Dingguo.

Li Dingguo read this information quickly, he didn't care much at first, even if Situ Yan's intelligence was accurate, could he still let the 30,000 Ming army defeat more than 100,000 Manchu cavalry?

However, the further down he looked, the deeper his gaze became, and the speed of reading became slower and slower, and even a few times he saw the key points, so he simply stopped and compared them with the map on the wall.

Li Hongfei didn't urge, poured a cup of tea by himself, and tasted it slowly.

After a cup of tea, Li Dingguo finally finished reading all the contents, and then said to Li Hongfei: "Prime Minister, if the information of the Second National Security Department is true, let alone 30,000 troops, even if only one division is sent, you can wipe out Zhu Yousong with a wave!" ”

At this time, Li Dingguo's confidence also returned.

It was said that it would be difficult to resist the Manchus without an army of 100,000, but now it is said that only 10,000 people can destroy the Later Ming regime, why do you have such confidence?

Because the intelligence personnel sent by Situ Yan came with news that the total population of the entire Duoyan Sanwei to the Daxinganling area, including the primitive tribes in various regions, was less than 50,000, and the so-called Later Ming regime established by Zhu Yousong had a total strength of only 3,000.

To deal with such a force, if 100,000 troops are still sent over, it will be simply a killing of chickens with a knife, and a serious waste of military resources..........

The current situation in the Northeast does not need to be deliberately inquired by intelligence officers at all, and the news of the reuniting of Azig and Shunzhi has spread throughout the Northeast region.

At the beginning of spring this year, Azig and Duoduo led most of the Manchurian youth to enter the Outer Khing'an Mountains region through the Hulunbuir grassland.

Driven by common interests, the Manchu Eight Banners "reunited" again and officially launched a fierce competition with Tsarist Russia over the Siberian region.

Azig left from the northeast and took with him all the young and strong, the remaining old and weak, sick and disabled, and they were his own people, and it was impossible to abandon them like this.

So after some consideration, Azig left the remaining 3,000 Han and Eight Banners in Duoyan Sanwei, and let Zhu Yousong, the king of Fu, be in charge of this large area in the northeast.

Those who can go so far with the Manchus are all Han people who can't get along in the Ming Dynasty, that is, the so-called "hardcore traitors", Azig is not worried about these people rebelling back to the Ming Dynasty, plus these people are purely burdensome to fight, but they are more shrewd than the Manchus in governing the place.

Let it stay in the rear, firstly, to take care of the remaining clansmen, and secondly, to serve as a buffer with the Ming Dynasty, so as not to fight with Tsarist Russia on the front line, and the Ming army stabbed the knife from the rear.

For this reason, before leaving, Azig also deliberately explained that now it is necessary to focus on low-key dormancy, and must not easily provoke the Ming army, it is really not good, even Duoyan Sanwei can give up.

However........ If only Zhu Yousong could listen to Azig.

Although Zhu Yousong is a puppet, he can't stand the flattery around him, especially after coming from the territory of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yousong understands that Zhu Youzhen's good days are over, and the Ming Dynasty is now "taking care of itself", how can he have the heart to manage the Northeast?

Your Nurhachi's thirteen deputy soldiers can raise troops, why can't I, Zhu Yousong, have three thousand elite soldiers?

So with the support of the forces in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yousong began to flutter, not to mention that there was Batur Huntaiji in the northwest who was willing to "unite" with him and conspire to "restore the great cause of vision", which was tantamount to giving Zhu Yousong a reassurance.

Azig is very strong, but he can't control Duoyan Sanwei now, as long as he can take advantage of this stall and gain a firm foothold in the Northeast, then what is there to be afraid of?

Zhu Yousong acted in such a high-profile manner that he almost did not send an envoy to Beijing to read out the "holy decree," and it was difficult for the intelligence personnel sent by Situ Yan to think about it.

"To deal with just one Zhu Yousong, I didn't think of sending a large army, I directly sent a team of special forces, and in less than ten days, I could bring his head back to Beijing!" Li Hongfei said coldly.

Not to mention 30,000 soldiers, after knowing the current situation in the northeast, Li Hongfei didn't even bother to send 10,000 soldiers, after all, the situation in the northwest is unstable, and a civil war may break out in the country at any time, and the limited logistics system should still be used on the blade.

"What I'm worried about now is whether this so-called Tsarist Russia can resist the invasion of the Manchu 200,000 iron cavalry, in case our side has not started, Tsarist Russia will not be able to withstand it, and then we will face not only Zhu Yousong, a group of traitors and thieves, but 200,000 Manchu iron cavalry!" Li Dingguo worried.

I have to say that today's Ming Dynasty's foreign intelligence capabilities are not half a star, and the domestic understanding of the "polar bear" around him is even worse than the understanding of Portugal, Spain and the Dutch.

It is no wonder that the Ming Dynasty is most concerned about the north, perhaps Mongolia, after all, the descendants of Genghis Khan, no matter what the decline is now, the Ming Dynasty must also be vigilant enough.

In the eyes of most people in the Ming Dynasty, how could there be more powerful tribes in the north, which was farther away than Mongolia?

Not only the Ming Dynasty, but even the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which later unified China, had a contemptuous attitude when facing Tsarist Russia at first, and did not pay attention to it until they fought back and forth several times.

Although the Treaty of Nebuchu was an equal treaty, it also reflected the true strength of the Qing Dynasty and Tsarist Russia.

The central hub of the Qing Dynasty was in the north, and the strength of the army was naturally the strongest in the north, and the troops of the Siberian region were evenly matched with the army of the northern region of the Qing Dynasty.

"Don't worry, Lao Maozi is very capable of fighting, it is not easy for the Manchus to swallow Siberia, it is better to wait for them to lose both, and then we will get the benefits of fishermen from it." Li Hongfei was very sure.

Although the strength of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is far from that of the Qing Dynasty forty years later, the strength of Tsarist Russia in Siberia has not reached its peak.

In order to let the Manchus have no worries, Li Hongfei gave up the plan to send a large army into the northeast, and only sent a special force to clear the "discordant" voices between the two sides for Azig.

"Old Maozi?" Li Dingguo was puzzled.

"Uh......... You should know that the farther north you go, the colder the weather becomes, and the people who can survive in the extreme cold will grow thick fluff like animals, so I call this kind of person Lao Maozi. Li Hongfei began to talk nonsense again.

"I see! Isn't it no different from a wild man with so much hair? ”

“！ @~#%..........”

After figuring out the affairs of the northeast, Li Hongfei was finally able to put his mind at ease and implement the reform of the military system.

At this time, the national security department also passed on the book through the flying pigeon, bringing good news: At present, some of the generals who participated in the "treason" have been verified, and there are not many high-ranking military officials involved in this incident, and most of these people have lost their military power, and it can even be said that they are not in the active military sequence.

The sentence that he was not in the active military sequence made Li Hongfei breathe a sigh of relief, which at least proved that his position as president of the Nanjing Military Academy was not in vain, and those middle- and lower-level officers basically did not participate in this matter.

And these troublemakers really want to be counted, they are still warlords formed by the large-scale expansion of the army in various places during the peasant army that surrounded and suppressed Li Zicheng.

When Zhu Youzhen was in power in the south, he had already weakened it, and the military power of many generals had already been nominally banned, and now their family can have 10,000 private soldiers in their hands, which can be regarded as relatively wealthy generals.

After all, after the imperial court stopped allocating military spending, there were really few people who could still use their own financial resources to save private soldiers, and the Mu Wangfu that Li Hongfei was worried about before did not participate in it.

Don't look at Mu Bin's strength is not very good, but his appeal is unparalleled, it can be said that in the southwest region, Mu Wangfu's words are more effective than the imperial court, and even Myanmar and Vietnam and other client countries are completely under the dispatch of Mu Wangfu, as long as Mu Bin says a word, he can borrow fifty or sixty thousand servant troops casually, as if it was fun.

Mu Wangfu has been able to sit in a corner for nearly three hundred years, relying on this kind of tactfulness in judging the situation and sizing up the situation, Mu Wangfu has never been timid in foreign wars, but in the internal power struggle, they can always stay out of the matter.

The army of Mu Wangfu may be the first real national defense force in Chinese history.