Since the two said something more rebellious that day, Cao Yue and Sun Chuanting have not discussed this issue more.

Cao Yue was busy training troops and supervising the manufacture of more firearms, and Sun Chuanting also surrendered his identity to manage military affairs for Cao Yue. With Sun Chuanting, Cao Yue also saved a lot of heart, he handed over all the complicated affairs in the army to Old Man Sun, let him toss, and take care of the general direction himself.

Cao Yue knew that what he had to do now was to train the more than 100,000 recruits as soon as possible and create more and better weapons. Whether or not this new army can be trained well and whether more firearms can be manufactured may affect the course of history.

Now Cao Yue has been very firmly convinced that he, a traveler, has begun to influence the direction of history.

Today's Nanjing New Army has about 110,000 soldiers, but now it has not stopped recruiting troops, and the recruitment operation continues, of course, the follow-up recruitment is still under the banner of being ordered by the imperial court.

The Yanziji camp can no longer accommodate so many soldiers, and now a military camp has been built on the other side of the Yangtze River, and the first army of about 70,000 troops has been placed on the north bank of the Yangtze River. Of course, there is a deep meaning in doing so now, because being stationed across the river can be less noticeable, and at least the officials in Nanjing do not know exactly how many troops the new army in Nanjing has. In addition, if there is an action, the Nanjing New Army can set out from Jiangbei, saving the time to cross the river.

In addition to these, the garrison in Jiangbei can play a role in defending Nanjing, and if a foreign enemy comes from the north to attack Nanjing, then the new army in Jiangbei can quickly enter the battle.

Cao Yue's recruitment plan still includes the water division.

The Nanjing Zhen Army originally had a naval division and a lot of warships, but the combat effectiveness of the naval division was negligible, and the reasons for this did not need to be talked about, all because of the corruption of military discipline. Take advantage of this time to recruit new troops. Cao Yue, of course, wanted to reorganize the water division, and he knew the role of the water division in the war.

Cao Yue selected those sergeants who knew the water and enriched them into the water division. In the end, the Nanjing Naval Division also had a scale of more than 20,000 people, and Cao Yue was ready to continue to expand.

There are a lot of sergeants who know how to water, and the source of the sailor sergeant doesn't need to be too worried, but the selection of the sailor general is a headache for Cao Yue. Because the cronies who followed Cao Yue to Datong were all northerners and were not familiar with the combat methods of the sailors. In the end, Cao Yue had to concurrently serve as the commander of the water division, and let Cao Neng, the cronies who followed him to Datong, be responsible for the daily training of the water division.

Cao Yue knew that the Daming Sailor was the strongest Zheng Zhilong in Fujian, and he intended to poach people from Zheng Zhilong. But this can't happen right away, and even if you can poach someone, you can't get it right away, unless loyalty is okay. Zheng Zhilong's subordinates. Cao Yue took a fancy to his son Zheng Sen, that is, the famous Zheng Chenggong in history, and Shi Lang, who later surrendered to the Manchu Dynasty.

These two people are both famous naval commanders in history, and now Zheng Sen is still young, and Shi Lang has not yet surrendered, Cao Yue is ready to recruit them to his command, but it will take time-

The situation also deteriorated as Cao Yue expected, even worse than he expected.

May of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen. After defeating Fan Jingwen, Li Zicheng's peasant army finally captured Xi'an. Fan Jingwen was captured by the peasant army after the defeat, and was eventually brutally killed by Li Zicheng because he was unwilling to surrender. Most of the nearly 30,000 Ming officers and soldiers guarding Xi'an were annihilated. After the fall of Xi'an, Li Zicheng led troops to break through Pingliang, Qingyang, and Gongchang, and soon most of Shaanxi was captured by Li Zicheng, and the Ming official army was either defeated or surrendered.

When Sun Chuanting was the governor of the tripartite. There are more than 300,000 men and horses under his command, and after the defeat of the Yuyuan army, the loss of men and horses is actually not much, if all the men and horses under the command of the governor of the three sides are willing to obey the dispatch, there are at least 200,000. These 200,000 horses. Some of them still have combat effectiveness, at least compared with Li Zicheng's peasant army, the combat effectiveness is not inferior.

However, Zuo Liangyu, Liu Zeqing, Kong Zhenhui, Zhu Dadian and other generals, in order to preserve their strength, disobeyed Sun Chuanting's orders, and after the commander was replaced by Hong Chengchou, they were also treated the same. Now it has been replaced by Fan Jingwen, whose reputation and ability are not as good as Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, and they are even more unwilling to obey orders. In the end, there were only tens of thousands of people fighting against the Liukou, and Fan Jingwen could not be compared with Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting in terms of strategy, and it was the most natural thing to be defeated.

It's a pity that most of the 30,000 Datong troops trained by Cao Yue were killed in the battle against the Liukou.

After the fall of Xi'an, the Datong army finally left only more than 10,000 people, and the remnants of more than 10,000 people, under the leadership of Zhao Liang, the chief soldier of Datong, and Zhao Tai, the deputy chief soldier, retreated to the direction of Datong and prepared to return to Datong. The combat effectiveness of the Datong army was still quite strong, even after they ran out of ammunition, Li Zicheng was unable to annihilate this remnant in the end. Li Zicheng's peasant army paid a great price in the battles of Tongguan and Xi'an, and they were unable to continue the pursuit of the remnants of the Datong army. Moreover, after Li Zicheng captured Xi'an, he had to do other important things.

In June of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng captured Xi'an and became the king in this thousand-year-old ancient capital, with the country name Dashun, changed Xi'an to Xijing, and the year name Yongchang, preparing to seize the world.

At the end of July, Li Zicheng swore in Xi'an to march eastward, and the general Liu Zongmin led 120,000 elite soldiers out of Tongguan and marched along the direction of Pingyang Mansion and Lu'an Mansion. Prepare for the assault on Beijing. He then ordered his nephew Li Guo, who was guarding Henan, to lead 100,000 elite soldiers from Henan to the north, and the troops were directed to Beijing. Li Zicheng personally led 400,000 troops and horses north out of Yan'an, which had been renamed Tianbaofu, and prepared to attack Datong first, and then attack Beijing from the direction of Datong.

In this way, Li Zicheng's peasant army pointed to Beijing in the posture of a three-way northern expedition.

About half of the tens of thousands of horses in Li Yan in the Central Plains of the peasant army broke away from the peasant army under the leadership of Li Qing, Li Yan's younger brother. After the Red Lady returned, with the support of Li Qing, the Red Lady used her influence to successfully control this army of more than 40,000 people. In front of the soldiers of the whole army, the red lady denounced Li Zicheng's despicable and shameless, and vowed to avenge Li Yan.

It's just that after the Red Lady mastered the army, she was afraid of being wiped out by Li Zicheng's army, so she immediately left Henan and moved to Nanjing, in order to get Cao Yue's support.

After Li Zicheng led the army to capture Xi'an, Zhang Xianzhong's department, another Liukou, also called the king after capturing Chengdu, the country name Daxi, changed Chengdu to Xijing, and took the next year as the first year of Dashun.

After Zhang Xianzhong became king in Chengdu, he continued to attack everywhere and prepared to expand his influence outside Sichuan.

The Ming Dynasty is almost time to fall apart! (To be continued.) )