When Liu Zhaoji led the 1st Division, the 2nd Division and the Artillery Brigade to Guilin, Bolo had already led the brigade to evacuate, and Bolo retreated very completely, without stopping all along the way, and ran to Hengyang, Hunan in one go.

The Qing soldiers desperately fled, but Liu Zhaoji couldn't catch up, so he had to be stationed outside Guilin.

Liu Zhaoji led the army to stop in Guilin with a mission, and only Guangxi, Yunnan, and Guizhou provinces were left in the Nanming Territories with the management of the provisional government in place, and Guangxi still gathered nearly 200,000 Ming troops, including the former garrison of Guangxi, and some of them fled from Hunan and other places.

The two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou are now facing an all-out attack by the Qing troops, and they will certainly not be able to take care of it now, but the problem in Guangxi must be resolved as soon as possible.

And Guangxi now has more Ming troops than any other province, and it is very troublesome to solve the Guangxi problem, and Liu Zhaoji led his troops to stop in Guilin to wait for Lu Zhenfei and Huang Degong.

These two people led a group of people to Guangdong, and because of Zheng Zhilong's return to the center of Fujian, there was very little resistance to the reorganization of the army and the reorganization of government agencies at all levels, and the two did not delay much time in Fujian.

The Battle of Guangzhou gave the Provisional Government an excellent reputation in the whole province of Guangdong, and when Lu Zhenfei and Huang Degong arrived in Guangzhou, they heard the praise of the Guangzhou military and civilians for the National Defense Force.

The entire Ming army in Guangdong was compressed and reorganized into a single division, and this did not meet much resistance in Guangzhou, and the relationship between quality and quantity outside the city of Guangzhou has been seen by the military and people of Guangdong as a real one, and everyone understands this truth.

When the Qing troops attacked Guangdong, it was like locusts crossing the border, which made it very convenient for Huang Degong to reorganize his troops, and the large amount of unowned land made the removal of troops easier than in Zhejiang and Fujian.

After the Guangdong problem was resolved, Lu Zhenfei and Huang Degong began to rush to Guangxi on horseback.

The news that the Ming army in Guangdong was largely dismissed had reached Guangxi, which made the Ming army generals in Guilin begin to sit still, Zhao Yinxuan and Hu Yiqing had already made a noise to lead their troops to leave Guilin, but Liu Zhaoji had clearly told Guilin that all the Ming troops in Guilin were not allowed to leave, and they had to wait for Huang Degong to bring people to come for reorganization.

Qu Shiqian and Zhang Tongchang were already entangled by these generals, and the two had no choice but to go to the garrison of the National Defense Army outside the city to discuss with Liu Zhaoji.

Qu Shiyun and Zhang Tongchang also had a headache for the concentration of a large number of troops in Guangxi, most of these Ming troops had extremely poor combat effectiveness, and the Qing soldiers were generally defeated at the first touch, but the military salary and grain were not missing at all.

It must be extremely difficult to feed so many troops with the strength of Guangxi Province, and some time ago, Qu Shiyun and Zhang Tongchang were worried about the Qing army's attack, and now they are worried that the army cannot be supplied with food and grass and cause these Ming troops to mutiny.

Fortunately, the national defense forces stationed outside Guilin did not ask Guilin to provide military salaries, grain and grass, and Qu Shiqian and Zhang Tongchang made up for it, and managed to cope with it, but they couldn't hold out for a few days.

When Qu Shiyun and Zhang Tongchang met Liu Zhaoji outside the city, Liu Zhaoji was organizing a confrontation drill between the 1st and 2nd Divisions.

It is said that it is a confrontation exercise, but in fact, it is to unfold the troops and put on a combat posture, and the purpose is naturally to deter the Ming army in Guilin City, so that they do not dare to have different intentions.

Lou Ting led the cavalry division to the east of Guilin and stationed there, so that Guilin had actually formed an encirclement posture.

Qu Shiyun and Zhang Tongchang stayed in Liu Zhaoji's military camp for most of the day, and Lu Zhenfei and Huang Degong had already arrived in the afternoon.

This time, Huang Degong brought with him the latest directive of the provisional government calling for the expansion of the first and second divisions.

At this time, the expansion of the army was the result of careful discussion between Luo Jian, Shi Kefa and a group of people from the provisional government.

The output of the Phoenix Mountain Iron and Steel Plant is three times that of the Wuhu and Guazhou steel mills, and the arsenal in Nanjing is also about to be completed, which gives Luo Jian the confidence to expand the army.

Liu Zhaoji led a division to accompany Lu Zhenfei and Huang Degong into the city of Guilin, and the chaos in Guilin surprised everyone.

Nearly 100,000 Ming troops were stationed in the city, which had turned Guilin into a huge garbage dump, except for the soldiers in Ming army uniforms wandering around the city, not a single shop was opened, and there was hardly a single common man, and the city of Guilin had almost become a dead city.

Huang Degong briefly discussed with Lu Zhenfei and Liu Zhaoji, and directly ordered the Ming army in the city to drive outside Guilin.

Faced with the black hole in the muzzle of the soldiers of the first division, the Ming army in Guilin did not have the intention of resisting, and soon under the supervision of the first division, all of them drove to the east gate of Guilin, and at this time, the second division and the artillery brigade also moved to the east of the city in the name of drills.

The Ming army out of the city set up a simple camp outside the city, fortunately the weather is hot now, in addition to mosquito bites, the night can also survive, but the grain and grass in Guilin City have been exhausted, so that everyone is very worried.

Lu Zhenfei and Huang Degong knew that the provisional government had arranged for Fujian sailors to transfer a large amount of grain and grass from Zhejiang and Fujian, and that they would soon arrive from Guangdong, but they were not too worried.

Early the next morning, Huang Degong informed the generals of the Ming army at the rank of deputy general to gather in the open space outside the camp of the first division, and when everyone arrived, even Huang Degong and Liu Zhaoji shook their heads, and this notice actually brought seven or eight hundred people, that is, there were more than 800 generals above the rank of deputy general in the 890,000 Ming army.

Moreover, among these seven or eight hundred people, there are all kinds of official positions, and there are countless generals, guerrillas, and general soldiers, but there are not many people who really control the army; among the eighty or ninety thousand Ming troops, Zhao Yinxuan, the chief soldier of Xing'an, has the most people, estimated to have about 40,000 people, followed by Hu Yiqing, the chief soldier of Guilin, who also has more than 20,000 people, and the others are all local garrison troops led by the guerrillas of the generals from all over the country.

Looking at the chaotic scene, Huang Degong frowned, fortunately, his voice was loud enough, and he held a special iron horn and roared for a while, and finally quieted the scene.

When Huang Degong stood on the temporary platform and said the request for streamlining and reorganization, the audience suddenly exploded, and Zhao Yinxuan and Hu Yiqing made the most trouble.

When Liu Zhaoji saw it, his heart hit up, and he reached out and took a rifle from the guard standing next to him, and shot it into the sky.

This shot quieted the scene again, and the generals of the Ming army in the audience began to look at each other, and they didn't dare to make any more trouble, only Zhao Yinxuan and Hu Yiqing stood at the front and were still unconvinced.

"It's all the army of the Ming Dynasty, why do you want to lay us off?" Zhao Yinxuan stared at Huang Degong and asked.

"Is your team useful? There are 40,000 people in your Zhao Yinxuan department, how many days have you been guarding Xing'an? Without waiting for Huang Degong to speak, Liu Zhaoji looked at Zhao Yinxuan coldly and asked in a deep voice.

"I heard that before the reinforcements of the National Defense Forces came, you Zhao Yinxuan and Hu Yiqing were ready to abandon the city and flee, do you say that our National Defense Forces can want a team like yours?" Huang Degong also stared at Zhao Yinxuan and said.

"That's because the Qing Dynasty is strong, and our retreat to Guilin is also to preserve our strength." Zhao Yinxuan was stared at by Liu Zhaoji and Huang Degong and broke out in a cold sweat, but he was still quibbling on his lips.

"What a clear captive! How many Wehrmacht cavalry divisions are there? Why are they not afraid of the Qing army? And how did they run away from the Tartars? Qu Shiyun, who was standing on the stage, couldn't stand it anymore, and also walked to the front and questioned Zhao Yinxuan.

Lu Zhenfei stood behind and didn't speak, he didn't think about doing the ideological work of these generals, he was thinking about how to place so many generals.

Most of these people were in the positions that the Hongguang Dynasty bought with money, and they did not have the slightest talent to lead troops, so the Wehrmacht would definitely not be able to use them, but it was not appropriate to leave them alone.

Lu Zhenfei called Liu Zhaoji and Huang Degong, who were arguing with Zhao Yinxuan and Hu Yiqing, to the back, and asked people to call Qu Shiyun and Zhang Tongchang, both of whom were his acquaintances.

"General Huang and General Liu, I don't think there is any reason to talk about them, just follow the rules of the National Defense Army, generals and soldiers are the same, if they can pass the assessment of the National Defense Army, they can directly enter the National Defense Army, and if they can't pass the assessment, they will be given a sum of money to settle down and let them go home."

Lu Zhenfei told everyone his own way.

This method was approved by everyone, but where the money came from had to be reported to the provisional government for approval.

There are nearly 200,000 troops in Guangxi, and each soldier has at least twenty taels of silver, which is not a small amount, and Lu Zhenfei shook his head after calculating the accounts.

After listening to Lu Zhenfei's calculations, Huang Degong and the others also felt that they had a big head, and in the long run, the more than 2 million taels of silver were not much, but now letting the provisional government come up with so much silver at one time may have a great impact on the provisional government's economic development plan.

More than 90,000 Ming troops were confined to the barracks outside Guilin and could not leave, and Liu Zhaoji, Li Chengdong, Lou Ting, and others began to take the officers drawn from the three divisions to begin the assessment.

Knowing that he could join the Wehrmacht after passing the assessment, this made the Ming army from generals to soldiers full of expectations.

The first item of the assessment was a ten-mile run, which did not surprise Liu Zhaoji, Li Chengdong and others, except for a few generals at the lowest level of these Ming troops, none of the generals who were assembled that day could run down, and only more than 20,000 soldiers could run down completely.

After all the other assessments were completed, there were only more than 9,000 of the more than 20,000 people left, which made Liu Zhaoji and Li Chengdong very disappointed, and it seemed that the hope that the entire army would be expanded in Guangxi would be frustrated.

More than 9,000 people who passed the examination were gathered separately and then assigned to the first and second divisions after completing a period of intensive training.

The 80,000 Ming troops who did not pass the assessment became more and more unstable, and just when everyone was a little anxious, the grain and grass escorted from Guangzhou finally arrived, along with the latest instructions of the provisional government.

Luo Jian and Shi Kefa also knew that there were still a large number of Ming troops gathered in Guangxi, and if these nearly 200,000 people were not handled well, they would directly become a factor of social instability.

With the completion of the Nanjing Iron and Steel Plant, Song Yingxing and others have begun to study steam locomotives, with relatively mature technology and experience in steam engines, it doesn't take long to think about it.

Luo Jian's proposal to first build a railway between Nanjing and Hangzhou was unanimously approved.

Building a railway is a big project that requires a large number of people, and Luo Jian thought of a large number of Ming troops in Guangxi.

After being reorganized into the Construction Corps and the Engineering Corps, these people were still in the army, but they no longer received the government's military salary, but changed to a wage system.

Waiting for the provisional government's method to be notified, it was widely welcomed by the Ming army, but many generals were no longer willing to stay in the army, Lu Zhenfei discussed with Huang Degong, but these generals were useless, so they simply went to stay for themselves.

As a result, Zhao Yinxuan and Hu Yiqing left with more than 100 personal soldiers, but it is unknown where they ended up.