Envy is envy, but everyone present is a person with a high mind, but it is not so shallow.

Each department is fully responsible for its own affairs, which department is in power, and can be arbitrary in many things, and there is no need to ask for instructions on everything.

With great power in their hands and a spring breeze in their hearts, and their treatment is extremely generous, these people are all complacent and very proud, so how can they take Fang Yizhi seriously.

Besides, everyone is also writing about the Qingjiang camp, preparing to write their own articles and books in the future, and they really write tofu blocks in the newspaper, and they really don't look down on it.

"Your Highness, what are you looking at?"

Hou Fangyu was thinking about a few bottles of good wine sent by his hometown, thinking about going back early to enjoy it, at this time it was almost noon, the crown prince took everyone from morning to now, several hours down, he was already hungry, and everyone's faces were not much better, this time, naturally he was a little anxious.

"Your Highness should be worried about the affairs of Sizhou." Guo Shuhua, who had been silently listening behind everyone, stepped forward at this time and replied loudly.

The people present were all the chief officers of various divisions or people with heavy responsibilities, and it was not the turn of Guo Shuhua, a small military officer who had served for a short time, to come forward to answer, but this person did have a long talent in the military, and although he had served for a short time, he could always find the most priority issues in the extremely dense battle reports on the front recently, and then deal with them clearly, and his opinions were accurate and precise, so now Zhu Cihong has taken him with him on patrol.

I believe that it will not be long before this young military officer can be further promoted.

Here in Zhu Cihong, there is no such thing as qualifications at all.

These officials who are now serving as Sizheng, except for Chen Mingxia, who was originally in the middle of the matter and served as a noble, all the rest of them have no ambition, and even sink into the subordinates, and they are not ambitious.

Even if it is in the re-establishment of the society, it does not mean anything, it can only be said that it is on the periphery of the center of power, and it is impossible to touch the edge of power at all.

These scholars, who originally pointed out the country, thought that they were extremely important figures, but only when they were really put in the middle of it, gave them things to do, and tasted the true taste of power, at this time, they knew how shallow they were before.

So here in the camp, everyone has a high ambition and a positive atmosphere, the key to this is that they were not originally in the system, but at this time, they touched the edge and saw the key to the trick, so they naturally would never let go.

"Sizhou," military is Chen Mingxia's shortest side, but he is talented and learns quickly. At this time, after listening to Guo Shuhua's words, he quickly found the key to the problem: "Your Highness is not worried about Liu Liangzuo, right?" ”

"Yes!"

Guo Shuhua's appearance made many self-proclaimed beautiful men jealous, at this time, Kan Kan's handsome and beautiful face was full of confident light, looking at everyone, Kan Kan said: "I went to Sizhou once a few days ago, to be honest, it is really not good to take precautions. The soldiers were arrogant, the military discipline was corrupt, the armor and stomach weapons were also poor, and the firearms were scarce. ”

Someone asked: "How much is the actual amount of 30,000 soldiers?" ”

"I heard that Liu Zhen is about to reach 100,000 people at most, but most of them are coerced people. Later, His Royal Highness ordered the reorganization, so there were still 30,000 soldiers left. However, in my opinion, it should be around 50,000. ”

"Remove the master's auxiliaries, and the maximum number of soldiers is about 10,000."

"Almost." Guo Shuhua nodded and said: "Get rid of his Chinese army's own soldiers, there are more than ten battalions of soldiers who can fight, and they are deployed along the city defense, to be honest, the defense is very poor." ”

The original defense of Sizhou was even worse, and it was almost collapsed by an avalanche of the Qing army's forward, and then the Qing army drove straight into the Yangzhou front line and threatened Nanjing.

The Qing army advanced too fast, that is, it directly crossed the hearts of the military and people in Nanjing, which was originally a threat that felt far away, but Hula arrived in front of him, and the morale of the officials in the city, including the ordinary soldiers and civilians, was all crossed at once, and no one dared to think of resistance.

Moreover, there is no talk of the natural danger of the Yangtze River at all, the Qing army originally had its own sailors, and Azig captured a large number of river boats in the upper reaches, which were more than enough to cross the river, even when the Qing army crossed the river in Yangzhou, there was no shortage of boats.

The Zheng family in Fujian was originally involved in the defense of the river, and Zheng Cai and others were deployed on the front line of Zhenjiang, but the army had no will to fight, and there was no will to die, and a Yangtze River could not stop the ambitious enemy at all.

At present, Sizhou still cannot be expected to play much of a role in the Huai River, and none of Liu Liangzuo's troops can be mentioned in terms of strength, will to fight, morale, and military discipline.

Everyone was originally worried, and after listening to Guo Shuhua's words, they naturally became worried about the direction of Sizhou.

And Sizhou to the whole Huaibei is a short board in the camp strategy, although Huang Degong is a personal bravery, his subordinates also have some elites, and the overall strategy is similar to Liu Liangzuo, but the main general's will to fight is slightly stronger.

Compared with Gao Jie and Liu Zeqing, the strength of these two towns is much weaker.

Now that Huang Degong has been transferred to the Taiping Mansion to garrison and guard the upstream, it is already very difficult, Zhu Cihong can't take care of the old evil that Huang Degong refuses to cling to, and still asks the military department and the household department to give priority to Huang Degong's manpower and stomach, so as to enrich and impose the strength of the Huang Ministry.

It is expected that after half a year, Huang Degong's troops will be able to share considerable pressure, and many well-equipped garrison battalions will be established in the upper reaches of the line, and Jiujiang, Luzhou, Wuhu, and other places will all set up towns and associations, and with sufficient financial and material resources, the defense of the river will be enriched to an unprecedented extent.

Of course, this will take time.

"Does the Chief of Staff have any specific plans?"

Thinking of the rapidly changing enemy situation now, Chen Mingxia's mood also became heavy. Everything is going well here in Qingjiang, if there is another year, no, as long as half a year, he feels that things will have a change in deciding surname!

The basic training of the new army has taken shape, the three cavalry battalions have all sorted, the mobilization of the artillery battalion is also planned, and the infantry battalion is training day and night.

In a month at most, the new army can announce the end of its training.

By November, this was the new army that had been training for almost half a year!

This is a completely different training method from the previous cognition of Chen Mingxia and others, a completely different food standard, a completely different salary level, and a completely different sense of honor.

What a terrible army!

Under the supervision of batons and whips and tireless military judges, and under the command of experienced generals such as Wei Yue, the new army underwent a radical change almost every few days.

The training of the Pingyu army of more than 40,000 soldiers has been completed, and as long as another year passes, it will not be difficult for the assembled reserve troops to train another 100,000 troops. Although Chen Mingxia does not understand military affairs, the strength of an army can still be seen.

The 40,000 Pingyu army in front of me may not be able to fight even if all the current military towns of the Ming Dynasty are pulled over.

Time, all it takes is time!

Because of this, Chen Mingxia was extremely dissatisfied with Sun Chuanting and Zhang Huangyan.

The crown prince may have his considerations, but as a courtier, he should suggest the safest and safest path for the prince to follow, rather than taking a risk.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince does not need to take risks, and now the political prestige of the Crown Prince is incomparable, and in the hearts of many people, it has long been higher than Emperor Chongzhen.

After all, the emperor was rescued by the crown prince from Beijing, if there is no emperor or prince in Nanjing now, it is not difficult to imagine what the current situation of the Ming Dynasty is.

In the present situation, as long as the crown prince wins a beautiful defensive battle and slightly dampens the ambitions of the eastern and southern captives, the prestige between the government and the opposition will rise to a higher level, reaching the point of fanaticism and unshakability.

At that time, even if someone wants to be unfavorable to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and some people want to stir up peace in the throne, even if the worst happens, the Emperor will have serious dissatisfaction with the Crown Prince...... But that was too late.

At that time, the status of the prince was the same as that of Li Shimin after the change of Xuanwumen, even if Gaozu was reluctant, the only way to do it was to take the Zen position!

Taking the initiative to attract the main force of the Qing army to the south now is unnecessary and very unwise in Chen Mingxia's opinion.

"The plan of the General Staff Division was drawn up by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince personally with the whole department, and it must not be leaked before it is issued and implemented."

Guo Shuhua had a very sincere smile on his face, and aside from the firm and unshakable meaning in his words, the smile looked very beautiful and good-looking.

Chen Mingxia couldn't help but snort coldly after eating such a hard nail, but it was too much to deal with a small military officer with his status.

At the moment, he could only turn his head and continue to look at the continuous flow of convoys heading north.

These convoys are also the work of the Tessie people, and after the official road was repaired, the walking heavy vehicles became a reality.

In China, there has been no excellent large carriage that can carry a lot of load, or a manned carriage, for many reasons, one is that there is sufficient manpower and insufficient animal power.

The second is that the north lacks the tradition of large-scale commercial circulation, while the south has a dense water network and developed shipping. As for the most important transportation of materials, it is completed by water transportation.

As a result, the progress of horse-drawn carriage transportation, which had always been important in the West, was very slow in China, and by the end of the Ming Dynasty, it had been left far behind by the Europeans.

However, fortunately, there is no insurmountable gap in technology, with the cooperation of the Military Industry Department and the Miscellaneous Bureau, coupled with the efforts of the Taixi missionaries, in a very short period of time, the infantry army and the artillery battalion have been equipped with a large number of advanced horse-drawn carriages, as for the large carts of the Quartermaster Division, the load is more than five times that of the past, and these convoys in front of them are a large number of personnel, pulling horses, loading heavy and excellent vehicles, and constantly sending all kinds of materials to the front.

"Food, gunpowder, artillery and cannons, all kinds of armor weapons, even herbs, canned food, cloth, soldiers' backpacks, sundries bags, medicine bags, and even coffins......"

Chen Mingxia's expression was gloomy, as the head of the Military and Political Department, he actually knew some insiders very well, and recently, a large amount of materials had been sent to the front.

He couldn't help but look at Zhu Cihong who was nearby, and he really didn't understand in his heart, what kind of medicine was sold in the crown prince's gourd?

(To be continued)