Cao Yue knew that his adoption of such radical measures might lead to a rebellion, and these generals even rebelled, but he was prepared.

In addition to the Nanjing New Army, Xuzhou also stationed Gao Jie's men and horses, and Gao Jie's men and horses were completely under the threat of the Nanjing New Army.

The other horses were actually not far from Xuzhou and Nanjing, and the new army in Nanjing was more than 100,000 horses, well-equipped, and super combative, and Cao Yue was confident that several warlords would join forces to rebel and put down the rebellion.

However, he did not have any carelessness, after the imperial court issued the appointment of several warlords, he immediately ordered Cao Jie, who retreated to Xuzhou, and tens of thousands of horses who returned to Nanjing, to enter the highest state of combat readiness.

And several warlords north of the Yangtze River knew that things were in trouble when King Qin's army retreated to Xuzhou, and Cao Yue wanted to deal with them in this way. They didn't dare to be careless, and they have been on strict guard, but they don't dare to take the initiative to cause trouble.

Subsequently, Emperor Chongzhen committed suicide and martyrdom, and the news that Zhu Cijiong, the king of Ding, had ascended the throne with the support of Cao Yue and Sun Chuanting, and their appointment came immediately. In front of them is a dilemma, obey the orders of the imperial court to take up a post in Nanjing, then the military power will definitely be lifted, but if they disobey the order, the new army in Nanjing, which has strong combat effectiveness, may launch an attack on them.

They knew very well what the combat effectiveness of the army trained by Cao Yue was, not to mention the great victories in the defense of Datong several times, the success of rescuing Empress Zhou and Dingwang Zhu Cijiong from Beijing this time, and also severely inflicting heavy losses on the pursuing rogues is a good proof.

Although these generals have not had contact with Cao Yue, Cao Yue has recreated slaves and rogues several times, and no one dares to despise this young horse master, and even some people treat him as a military god.

But the vital interests of the relationship. They don't give up what they have so easily, so it's very difficult for them to choose!

But Cao Yue won't give them much time to think about it.

When the new emperor ascends the throne, the senior officials of the DPRK and the central government must be in place within the specified time, otherwise it will be disrespectful to the decree, and if such a situation occurs, then he will not hesitate to order the new army in Nanjing to start moving.

In the historical records, after the establishment of the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, the general soldiers of several towns north of the Yangtze River and Zuo Liangyu, the warlord who guarded Hubei, happened to have more attention. Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo eventually surrendered to the Manchus, and only Huang Degong was still loyal, but he often did not listen to the orders of the imperial court.

In addition to Huang Degong, who can strive for use, Cao Yue believes that only one kill can solve the trouble.

Huang Degong, Gao Jie, Liu Zeqing, and Liu Liangzuo are known as the four towns of Jiangbei in history, although the place where they are stationed now is not the same as the four towns of Jiangbei recorded in the original history, but it is only that the garrison is different, they are still four Ming army generals with heavy troops north of the Yangtze River, and Zuo Liangyu is almost a warlord who holds a place.

Because there are more than 100,000 well-equipped Nanjing New Army in their hands. Cao Yue was not very worried about the unrest in the four towns of Jiangbei and Hubei. Coupled with the original history, these places were already a mess, Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing finally surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty and became the vanguard of the Jiannu massacre of the Ming army. Countless Ming soldiers and civilians died under their butcher's knives. Moreover, these generals rebelled when Jiannu invaded the south, and now Jiannu is fighting fiercely with the Liukou, and now move them, and take action after they make a rebellion. It will cause a lot less trouble.

As soon as Cao Yue was established as a new monarch, the places that the imperial court could rule urgently needed to be stable, so he hastily decided to collect the command of the general army of each town. Sun Chuanting did not agree, he thought that Cao Yue was in a hurry and would cause chaos. But he failed to convince Cao Yue, and the few other ministers of the DPRK who knew about Cao Yue's plan, such as Shi Kefa and Gao Hongtu, could not convince Cao Yue.

Cao Yue did not retreat to the front line of Nanjing after King Qin's army stopped advancing, and he had already left a backup hand to solve this disaster, how could he let go of the opportunity and miss the opportunity? It can be said that he insisted on going his own way and began to seize the power of these warlords to command the army.

Cao Yue told Sun Chuanting and Shi Kefa, Gao Hongtu and others, who strongly opposed him to do so, that they didn't need too much support, as long as they didn't oppose and interfere arbitrarily, he would definitely exchange the imperial court's control over the world's army at a very small price. In the end, Sun Chuanting, Shi Kefa, Gao Hongtu and others didn't say anything anymore, and they also wanted to see what means Cao Yue used to do this.

Sun Chuanting and others also knew that Cao Yue did not look down on the combat effectiveness of these armies, and the purpose of ordering the new army in Nanjing to go north to Qinwang was to take the opportunity to garrison these general troops.

Even Sun Chuanting looked at Cao Yue a little differently, this young man he was very optimistic about, his strategy was even more clever than he thought, and he had a higher opinion of Cao Yue.

After Cao Yue returned to Nanjing with the fleet of sailors, he did not take all the troops and station, and the thousands of soldiers of the most elite special guard battalion under his command were all missing, and only a few of the most cronies knew that these horses were dispatched to cooperate with the later action of confiscating the four towns of Jiangbei and the military power of the Zuoliangyu Department in Hubei.

After receiving several successive appointments and orders urging them to take up posts in Nanjing, the first to make the decision was to garrison Fengyang and Sizhou Huang Degong. Although he guessed that this trip might be risky and that it was possible that the military power would be relieved, the indelible loyalty to the monarch in his bones and his worship of Cao Yue's military exploits still made him obey the call of the imperial court and leave the garrison with hundreds of personal soldiers and go to Nanjing.

He hopes that his decisiveness and past performance can be appreciated by Cao Yue and he can continue to lead the army.

After knowing that Huang Degong left Fengyang, where he was stationed, and went to Nanjing, Liu Liangzuo, who was stationed in Linhuai, did not dare to disobey the orders of the imperial court, and also took hundreds of personal soldiers to Nanjing to take up his post.

Gao Jie was also watching to see how the general soldiers of the other three towns acted before deciding, and saw that Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo both obeyed the orders of the imperial court and handed over their military power to Nanjing to take up their posts, but they were also forced to obey the orders of the imperial court and leave the garrison with hundreds of personal soldiers and go to Nanjing to take up their posts.

After they left their garrisons, they handed over their troops to the newly appointed commanders of the imperial court, who were their former subordinate commanders. They still have some remaining hope that these cronies will be able to take control of the army and wait for them to return to take charge one day.

However, Liu Zeqing took a different decision from the other three, very resolutely refused to carry out the orders of the imperial court, and prepared to move his army away from his original station in Qingju and return to the Jeju area. (To be continued.) )