A dozen brocade guards, escorting a man in a yellow robe, slowly advanced in the rain in frustration, and the pursuers behind had already thrown away.

The first person wore a yellow robe, and it was naturally Emperor Zhu Cihuan.

Just now, on the way from Wuzhou to Nanning, when he passed through Xunzhou, he was suddenly attacked by the army of Chen Bangfu, the Duke of Qingguo, and all the ministers who fled with their families and Zhu Cihuan were in trouble, and all the belongings, palace maids and even the concubines selected by Zhu Cihuan in Guangdong were hijacked.

If it weren't for Zhu Cihuan's natural sensitivity to danger and the cover of heavy rain, he would have rushed over on horseback, otherwise he would have suffered.

Zhu Cihuan regretted it, he regretted it like his brother Zhu Cihong, regretted that he shouldn't have regarded Yang Chao as a thorn in his side, what about Yang Chao's dictatorship, what about Cao Cao, Emperor Han Xian was at least glorious and rich in Cao Cao's hands.

But he, Zhu Cihuan, escaped again and again, and escaped again and again as a lost dog.

In all fairness, Zhu Cihuan didn't feel how authoritarian Yang Chao was, when he was in Nanjing, his brother Zhu Cihong didn't seem to be held hostage by Yang Chao, and even in many cases, his brother was very polite to Yang Chao, but Yang Chao never resisted, although he didn't go to the court to hide, but he never used the force in his hand to threaten the emperor and threaten the court.

Zhu Cihuan couldn't help but fantasize that if he hadn't gone to Fujian, but ascended the throne in Nanjing, would Yang Chao treat him like his brother and let him be a complete emperor.

If Yang Chao is here, he will be happy as an emperor, at least he doesn't have to run around.

But none of the ministers under Zhu Cihuan said good things to Yang Chao. It turned out that it was not him, the emperor, who was afraid of Yang Chao. It's the ministers!

When Zhu Cihuan wanted to understand this truth. He saw the reinforcements, and the military department in Nanning, Shangshu Qu Shiyun, sent Jiao Lian, the chief soldier of Nanning, to greet Zhu Cihuan.

When Zhu Cihuan fled to Guangxi for the first time, it was with the support of Qu Shiyun that he settled down, and later after Wang Deren was anyway, a group of Cantonese people who had made great contributions welcomed him back to Guangdong.

It's actually because of infighting. Qu Shiyun will not have a good result when he arrives in Guangdong, and sure enough, after Zhu Cihuan returned to Zhaoqing, a party was quickly formed here, and with the help of Wang Deren's troops, Ding Kuichu and others, the Guangdong faction officials and others continued to impeach Qu Shiyun, because when they were in Guangxi, they did not receive Qu Shiyun's anger, and now they naturally have revenge and resentment and complain about feng shui in turn.

But that's already in the past, and the group of people who are vying for power will probably never have a chance to fight again, and now only Qu Shiyun's party remains.

Nanking.

Yang Chao is much calmer than Zhu Cihuan.

He has a heavy army in his hands, so he naturally has more room to toss and turn.

It's just that the troops in hand don't seem to be enough.

Then call in reservists.

As early as last year, Yang Chao sent training officers to various counties. Nanzhili, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Shandong, more than 300 prefectures and counties. Each county has set up a training officer to be responsible for recruiting and training troops, and in peacetime to suppress bandits and reassure the people, these soldiers have completed all kinds of training and can fight immediately when they are added to the troops.

Each county in 300 prefectures and counties has a general corps of 400 soldiers, and the total number of troops transferred from 300 is 100,000.

"Recruit 100,000 people to join the army, and at the same time train 200,000 people again, there are so many refugees in Shandong and Henan who need to be resettled, it is easy to recruit 200,000 from them."

Yang Chao immediately took action, this time the Qing army attacked from all sides, so that Yang Chao still felt that the strength was insufficient, compared to the Qing army, Yang Chao had 500,000 troops and did not have an advantage, the Qing army trained 300,000 Eight Banner Xinding, plus the unification of the Eight Banners forces, Dolgon could also draw out 100,000 veterans of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, Han and Mongolia, a total of 400,000 Eight Banner soldiers. There were no less than 100,000 Huguang green battalions in Hong Chengchou's hands, and this time more than 100,000 troops from Guangdong were surrendered, and the elite of the Han army in the hands of King Sanshun and Wu Sangui and others also had nearly 100,000 people.

The total strength of the Qing army was no less than 800,000.

Since the Qing army played violent soldiers with Yang Chao, then Yang Chao, who had the advantage of manpower and material resources, did not need to be less than them, and he also formed an army of 800,000 himself.

It's just that it is easy to recruit soldiers, but it is difficult to select generals, and the art of war says that the selection of soldiers is the first choice of generals, and Yang Chao does not have rich qualified generals in his hands.

Wang Pu and Zhao Kang are suspected of being generals among the short men who can do the general soldiers, and after several years of training, the barely qualified ones are Li Wuliu and many men, and the strategic vision of others is still a lot worse.

However, Zhao Kang's strategy of attacking the Daimyo's Mansion this time was not bad, and after inquiring, he learned that it was mainly his deputy general Li Yuanyin who was giving advice.

The most important thing is that Li Yuanyin is still a scholar, although the theoretical knowledge is not as powerful as the literati, but it is also the essence of war summed up by hundreds of thousands of years of old-timers, and it may not be useful to the literati, but if a general has rich practical combat experience and can combine the theory of the art of war, it is easy to cultivate a strategic vision.

A general only has rich combat experience, that is just a brave general, both rich combat experience, can combine the theory of the art of war, that is a handsome talent with strategic vision, Yang Chao is arrogant and artificial, he can barely enter this door, but those soldiers under his command who can barely read and write are really not optimistic.

"Experience is important in tactics, and theory is inseparable in strategy!"

Yang Chao couldn't help sighing, this is indeed the case, many men and Li Wuliu, who are more serious in reading and reading, and have been willing to work hard to study, are more advanced than others, Lu Mo has the strongest reading ability, but the experience of the battle formation is not as good as others, but the commander of the army is much more secure than Wang Pu, at least this time, if Lu Mo is replaced to attack Kaifeng, he will definitely not be easily attacked by Wu Sangui.

However, it is not realistic to raise the strategic awareness of his subordinates in a short period of time.

"Li Yuanyin!"

This Li Yuanyin is good, when he was in Wuhu, he led the cavalry to block Haoge. In the end, Hauge was captured alive. He was also promoted to lieutenant general.

But let Yang Chao promote him to be the chief soldier. Yang Chao was a little uneasy, after all, this was the rest of Gao Jie's army, and most of Gao Jie's generals were sent to the Mekong River to open up the wasteland after a few years of hard work as prisoners, Yang Chao did not dare to guarantee that this person had no resentment in his heart.

"It's better to let him stay with Zhao Kang and continue to give advice. It's better for the two to pair up! ”

Yang Chao thought to himself.

"Partner! One article and one martial arts! ”

Suddenly, Yang Chao couldn't help but feel a little funny, feeling that this was the configuration of the chief official and political commissar of the later generations.

After laughing secretly, Yang Chao suddenly froze, yes. Why can't this method be used for reference?

There are still some scholars in the military who are rich in theoretical knowledge, and wouldn't it be possible to combine these people and form a staff group to give advice to the commanders.

Thinking of this, Yang Chao immediately took action and asked Huang Yuan to organize an exam, which was different from the last time to train military officers, the last assessment focused more on military skills, and this time it relied on strategy, so there were three questions: the first was the analysis of the reasons for Wang Pu's failure to attack and open the seal twice, and asked the candidates to write out the deployment in their position as the commander; the second is to analyze how to attack our army from Wu Sangui's point of view; The third is how to deploy while standing in Yang Chao's position.

Then paste the name. Disperse the files and distribute them to the various armies. Let the officers above the general level analyze the advantages and disadvantages.

In the end, a hundred recognized as the best were selected and added to the various general soldiers, and a person without a rank joined the army, specifically responsible for planning military aircraft, similar to the staff headquarters of later generations.

In addition, there are some outstanding characters like Li Yuanyin, Yang Chao plans to focus on training, Li Yuanyin is one, as if he can prove his loyalty, Yang Chao doesn't mind promoting him to be the chief soldier, and there is also a character called Wu Risheng, this person is more special, because he is a literati.

Wu Risheng was originally a staff member under Shi Kefa's account, when Yangzhou was besieged, he broke through and escaped, fled to Guazhou with dozens of warships and sailors, and later he was arranged by Yang Chao to lead the sailors under the account of Lu Mo, Shang Kexi built a warship in Jiangxi and then attacked Huizhou, and defeated the sailors under the account of Lu Mo.

Later, this Wu Risheng stood out precisely because he defeated Shang Kexi, his sailors came from Guazhou, not elite, but the water is good, Shang Kexi attacked Huizhou, Wu Risheng's navy was almost wiped out, and then these sailors and warships were expanded into his own army by Shang Kexi.

Although the battle was lost, but Wu Risheng planted some nails for Shang Kexi, it turned out that most of the sailors who surrendered were arranged by him, and later Lu Mo counterattacked Shang Kexi, these sailors who drove the ship immediately jumped into the water and scuttled the ship, resulting in Shang Kexi's defeat.

Wu Risheng was also promoted to deputy general as a result. Obviously, he is different from the officers in Yang Chao's army, Yang Chao's officers are all fought step by step, and he first has theory, and then through practice, he has the same goal, and he is obviously also a qualified officer.

What Yang Chao didn't know was that this Wu Risheng organized the Taihu Uprising in his original history, and he also used the same method to defeat the Qing army, gathering thousands of boats on Taihu Lake, which gave the Qing army a headache.

From Wu Risheng, Yang Chao couldn't help but think that literati are also very capable of fighting, such as Zhu Dadian in Jinhua.

But Zhu Dadian's character is not good, he is too corrupt, Yang Chao doesn't dare to use him, in case he embezzles military salaries, it will be a bad thing.

However, Zhu Dadian is not the only literati who can fight, and Yang Chao immediately thought of two people in his mind.

"Hey, how did you forget these two people!"

Thinking of these two people, Yang Chao himself couldn't help but be a little excited, a national hero, one is Yan Yingyuan, this is undisputed, "Eighty days with allegiance, the figure of the Seventeenth Dynasty of Taizu." 100,000 people died with one heart and left three hundred miles of rivers and mountains in the Ming Dynasty", no one knew the history of Jiangyin, and immediately sent someone to inquire, sure enough, Yan Yingyuan was still in Jiangyin, still doing the history in obscurity, and the county order was another history Chen Mingyu.

Ma Jingshu transferred Yan Yingyuan to Wang Pu's ministry to join the army, hoping that he could stand out like in history.

The other person is Zhang Huangyan, it took a lot of trouble to find this person, because this person first went to Fujian with Zhu Cihuan, and then went to Guangdong, and disappeared for a while, and after more than a month, he came out on his own, it turned out that he had escaped the Qing soldiers, took the sea detour to find Zheng Chenggong, and took the initiative to vote for Xie Fei.

Yang Chao simply instructed Xie Fei to keep this person, but because this person is a person, has a meritorious reputation, and has been a civilian official in the military department and the military department, it is not good to install a military position for him, so he used the excuse of consulting the military strategy to keep him in the army, while Zhang Huangyan is bent on recovering Guangdong, welcoming Zhu Cihuan back, happy to stay in the army, and dragged Zheng Chenggong to send a letter to Zhu Cihuan, expressing his willingness to stay in Xie Fei's army as a supervisor.

Although a lot of talents were selected for a while, there was still a shortage of generals, especially the main generals who could recruit and fight.

"It's time to summon Song Kun back. It would be a waste to keep him in Saigon. ”

Yang Chao looked to the south.

Three thousand miles south along China's coastline, there is a wide delta called the Mekong Delta, and along a river called the Antong River, a group of Chinese craftsmen found the best place to build a port, and after a year of construction, it was already a sizable port, capable of docking thirty large ships.

Yang Chao named the port Saigon. Coincidentally, this place is really close to the location of Saigon in later generations, and the Antong River was slowly called Saigon River because of the name of Saigon, and this river was really renamed Saigon River in later generations. (To be continued......)