When Wang Fu was depressed in his headquarters, Wang Jue was also depressed in his headquarters. After all, everyone in this world will have such and such problems that cannot be solved, and Wang Jue is obviously such a person, not an immortal.

In Panjin, he arranged the new army to deploy defenses in Panjin Dawa and other places, and at this time ushered in his reinforcements - this was originally a good thing, but in fact, the arrival of reinforcements did not make Wang Jue feel half a point of joy.

The first unit to arrive was a reserve unit assembled near Gyeonggi, which, like other old-style armies, was obviously weak in combat, and Wang Jue could only train these soldiers on the position, and dismantle the troops of one division and replenish them to the various units of the new army.

Moreover, he had to seize the time to take advantage of the fragmentary rest of the rotation and the night to train these newly replenished soldiers, so that they could keep up with the more avant-garde combat thinking and cultural level of the new army.

After all, these original reserve soldiers, not many of them are students like the new army, some of them are farmers, and some are workers or businessmen, anyway, the composition is very complicated, but fortunately, the 3-year education of the Ming Empire has been popularized for a long time, at least these recruits can still know a few big characters, and it is easier to tutor.

Just when Wang Jue was in a hurry to fill the 20,000 supplementary soldiers who rushed over into the new army, making this army close to the scale of 80,000, another unexpected reinforcement force rushed to Wang Jue's new army station.

A division of Jinyi Guards is armed, only light weapons, equipped with a small number of cars and war horses, this unit wears the military uniform of the new army, but the cuffs are uniformly decorated with black, which looks a little different from the new army in Wang Jue's hands. These soldiers were also untrained in combat, but they possessed good physical fitness: the selection of the Jinyi Guards was strictly conditional, although the most important criterion was loyalty.

"The 1st Praetorian Guard Division reports to you, Commander." Leading the team was the deputy commander of Jinyiwei, an officer named Wu Yan. He was not Li Keshou's confidant, so when the Praetorian Guard was established, the deputy commander was elected and kicked out of the Jinyi Guard system to the thankless army system.

Even though Zhu Mu repeatedly claimed that the Praetorian Guard would be subordinate to the army system and would not be maverick and pull another banner, the organization of the Praetorian Guard was still resisted by Ge Tianzhang and other ministers of the Ministry of War, as well as various high-ranking generals. So Zhu Mu could only kick this nondescript product to his friend Wang Jue, after all, the new army system is beyond the intervention of the army.

"You are more short of weapons than the reserve troops, and you even only carry limited ammunition...... Wang Jue looked at the commander of the Praetorian Guard named Wu Yan, and said regretfully: "If I arrange you to be on the battlefield, then can you tell me what you want to use to defend against those enemies?" ”

"Sir! In fact, we have only been training for a few days before we have been ordered to advance to you, and our ammunition will arrive with the rest of the troops, during which time I have been ordered to be trained by you, as well as the Forces nouvelles. Wu Yan knew that the person in front of him was his last chance, if the new army did not accept these Praetorian Guard soldiers, then Zhu Mu's whim might really end in bankruptcy.

Wang Juegang wanted to refuse Wu Yan's request, but suddenly realized something, his new army may have a significant improvement in combat effectiveness compared with the old army, but it lacks a very key thing - faith. This thing the Praetorian Guard can give the new army, or the spirit of the Praetorian Guard's loyalty to the emperor and the empire, will become a part of the new army's victory over strong enemies.

Thinking of this, Wang Jue retracted his desire to reject Wu Yan, he looked at the man in front of him who was wearing a new-style Praetorian Guard uniform, but wearing the epaulettes of the deputy commander of the Jinyi Guard, and cracked his mouth and laughed: "Since His Majesty the Emperor trusts you so much, then I will also leave the bloodiest and tragic battle to you...... Remember what you said to me today, and hope that you will still be able to fulfill your oath on the brutal battlefield. ”

Now Wang Jue's troops have more than 100,000 troops, including the 29th Army in the direction of Jinzhou, the 40th Army in the Yingkou direction, as well as the New Army and the Praetorian Guard, with a total strength of about 130,000. And the Japanese army opposite them also had the Jin army, which numbered about 400,000 after collecting the scattered troops.

Therefore, Wang Jue did not refuse any details that could improve the combat effectiveness of his troops, while letting the new army build a solid defensive position, and on the other hand, letting the other Ming troops who rushed over from behind seize the time to train and familiarize themselves with the battlefield.

Although Wang Jue's current strength is not as large as that of the Japanese army, there are nearly one million troops mobilized by the Ming Empire behind him; Compared with the reserves, the Japanese army and the Jin army are obviously not comparable to the Ming Empire, and the reserves of their two forces combined are only less than 300,000.

Originally, in the plan of the attack, the Japanese army and the Jin army did not think about fighting a protracted war with the Ming Empire. They knew that if they really fought a war of attrition with the Ming Empire on the Liaodong Plain, it would be a disaster for their two forces. The original offensive plan was a quick and decisive sneak attack, relying on the Jin cavalry and Japanese troops to capture Jinzhou as quickly as possible, blocking the large and sluggish infantry army of the Ming Empire in the narrow plain near Jinzhou.

Unfortunately, this gamble did not achieve the desired result in the end, the Jin army did not capture Jinzhou, and the Japanese fleet did not take advantage...... In the end, it can be said that Japan and Jin were already in a difficult position to ride a tiger, and they wanted to end the war, but they lost the initiative in the war in Jinzhou and Dawa.

After learning the news of this defeat, the emperor of the Jin State, Ye He Haolian, even rushed to Mukden in person, where he organized troops to build a strong defensive line, hoping to use the old methods many years ago to delay time and change the situation of the war within the Ming Empire.

This is a tried and tested method for everyone to deal with the Ming Empire. As long as it drags on, then there will always be internal contradictions of one kind or another in this huge empire, which will destroy the victory.

However, this time it seems to be different, because Wang Jue is absorbing the reserve forces mobilized from various regions, training these troops into a force that can be assimilated by the new army. And behind him is a new emperor who has just ascended the throne, Zhu Mu.