At the beginning, in order to capture the capital city of Kuizhou as soon as possible, Yang Ming temporarily recruited more than 100,000 displaced people to form a temporary army. In addition, a total of 40,000 or 50,000 officers and troops from Tan Wen and other departments were also recruited, and it can be said that the military strength in Yang Ming's hands has swelled to nearly 200,000 troops.

However, Yang Ming, who has always pursued a streamlined army, is unwilling to let the territory of only two prefectures and thirteen counties support an army of 200,000, so the 200,000 army must be eliminated before the Han army is expanded.

Yang Ming had already asked Shang Daoxing and others to estimate that the fields and population of Kuizhou and Suiding could supply up to 100,000 professional troops with the same treatment as the Ming officials, and this was estimated on the premise that the fields of the two prefectures were not annexed by the gentry and landlords in large numbers. The key is that Yang Ming's treatment of the soldiers of the Han army is much more generous than that of the official army, so the cost of raising the army will only be more than the same number of officers and soldiers, not less than them, so Yang Ming can only decide to reduce the 200,000 army to about 30,000.

After the retrenchment, the 30,000 people naturally had to be incorporated into the Han army, and they were disorganized and mixed with the original men and horses of the Han army. The maximum establishment is still the battalion, but it has been expanded from four battalions to six battalions, and the original military police brigade directly under it has been upgraded to a military police battalion, in addition, a new five battalions have been added, and in view of Tan Wen's outstanding contributions in the Kuizhou offensive and defensive battles and the Chongqing offensive and defensive battles, he was appointed as the general of the new five battalions, and the new five battalions are Lei Long.

Like the new fifth battalion, the original four battalions of the Han army also added a servant each. In fact, it is equivalent to the political commissar of later generations, and Yang Ming has also stated that the rank of the officers of each battalion is the same as that of the generals of each battalion, and they are all positive and three-grade, but they are mainly responsible for ideological education and political propaganda work, and there is no subordinate relationship between the two, but they have the final decision.

Due to the expansion of the Han Army, the establishment of each battalion reached as many as 5,000 people, so Yang Ming added a division-level establishment under the standard-level establishment, of which the standard-level establishment belonged to 1,000 people, and the division-level establishment belonged to 200 people, and the team-level establishment was expanded to 100 people.

In addition to adding a servant to the establishment of the same battalion level, Yang Ming also added a post similar to the position of political commissar in the establishment above the team level, of which the standard level is the governor, the department level is the capital affairs, and the team level is the governor. At first, the officers at all levels of the Han family army didn't understand why their sons did this, after all, everyone knew that the plan could be attributed to everyone, but it must be attributed to one general, but now that there are two leaders in one command system, wouldn't it be chaotic on the battlefield when the time comes.

But when most of the officers selected by Yang Ming were veterans of Hanjia Village who graduated from the Han Family's martial arts hall, everyone came back to their senses and knew that Gongzi was strengthening his control over the Han Army. Although Tan Wen, the general of the new Fifth Battalion, and other newly-sent officers knew that Yang Ming was deliberately restraining them, they did not complain, at least not on the surface, but even more admired Yang Ming's clever actions in their hearts.

The Han army was suddenly expanded from 5,000 to 30,000, which meant that a large number of soldiers needed to be promoted to serve as grassroots and middle-level commanders. But like the previous time, Yang Ming still had to systematically train these soldiers who urgently needed to be promoted to officers or middle and high-level officers, and the training base was still the Han family martial arts hall, but the time was extended, and more students needed to be trained.

Although many veterans and outstanding officers went to the lecture hall, this did not have an impact on the new round of recruit training of the Han army. Before the graduation of the second batch of students, Yang Ming had already begun to recruit the third batch of students, most of whom were graduates of Xilin Academy and staff officers who originally served in the staff of the Dongxiang County Military Government, as well as outstanding talents selected from the guard regiment.

The first thing the third batch of students did after entering the school was to receive military training by the veterans of the Han Army who stayed in Zhangjiachang, so as soon as these students entered the Han Army, they quickly began to train the recruits of the Han Army, and the effect was very good.

"After the training of recruits is over, the first battalion will immediately take over the areas of Wuning County, Wanxian County, and Yunyang County to prevent the officers and troops in the direction of Chongqing Prefecture, but it is not for you to blindly defend, you can play freely, wait for the opportunity to destroy the enemy or try to capture some small towns or villages, in order to encroach on the territory of the officers and troops and surround their important cities, but do not attack these cities, so as not to cause a large-scale counterattack by the officers and troops;

The second battalion will take over the areas of Taiping County, Ziyang County, and Qianxi County to guard against the Ma Ke headquarters in the north, but try not to clash with him, so as not to arouse Li Zicheng's vigilance, we are not yet the time to make enemies on many sides, and in a certain respect, we are still in the same camp as Li Zicheng, after all, we are facing the same enemy.

The 3rd Battalion was stationed in the vicinity of Xinning County, Dongxiang County, and Tongjiang County to guard against officers and troops in the direction of Boryeong Province and Shunqing Province.

The 4th Battalion was stationed in the vicinity of Daning, Dachang and Fengjie counties and trained the navy for future capture of important towns in Sichuan and Hubei.

The new fifth battalion was responsible for exterminating the bandits in the two prefectures and must be exterminated within two months, while the gendarmerie battalion was stationed in the two prefectures and Dongxiang County as a general reserve.

In addition, the first battalion and the new fifth battalion are temporarily led by the corresponding servants, and Lan Guanwei and Tan Wen have other arrangements", Yang Ming just finished announcing the army arrangement plan, and saw Lan Guanwei a little unhappy "ah": "No, son, what do you arrange for us, I don't think the two of us need to study, I am familiar with your sixteen-character battle when I was in the Qinba Mountains, and General Tan is also both civil and military, and he knows no less than you." ”

"It's because you have basic military literacy that I asked you to help me train the students of the Martial Arts Hall, do you have any opinions?" Yang Ming said and waved his hand again: "Forget it, if you have any opinions, you have to keep it, there are so many students in the martial arts hall, I have a lot of things, and I can't be busy for a while, so it's decided, you and Tan Wen are both responsible for the training of the students of the martial arts hall together with Lu Lang of the martial arts hall as the secretary of the industry, and I will take the time to check!" ”

"Whatever you say is what it is, we naturally don't dare to disobey your orders, but we don't know how long we have to rest, why don't we take a few more important places before the imperial court sends troops to suppress it, so as not to fall into passivity," Lan Guanwei said.

"Now we have only occupied the entire territory of Kuizhou Prefecture, and we will suffer a big loss if we have not yet stabilized the foundation, and even if we occupy more cities, we will just be thieves who are wandering around and fighting, and we will fall into Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and others, if we win, it is okay, if we are defeated, we will not even have a place to retreat, if we want to achieve long-term warfare, we must have a base that can continuously improve our soldiers and food for ourselves, you know?"