Qincha guarded Yunyang, hung the seal of General Kou, the chief military officer, the governor of the left army, the governor of the left army, the prince Shaobao, and the marquis of Zhennan Liu Jun.

This is Liu Jun's current official title, a long list, which is indeed enviable, and even Liu Jun was a little in a trance when he looked at his own Dangkou General Seal sent from the palace.

In the blink of an eye, he actually became the chief military officer, and he also hung a seal and sealed the marquis. Although this is inseparable from the current situation, since last year, the imperial court is too eager for a victory to appease the hearts of the army and the people in the world, and Liu Jun and their victory this time is indeed beautiful, without any water, 60,000 or 70,000 prisoners before and after, more than 10,000 killed, several famous bandit leaders were beheaded, and Zhang Xianzhong was captured alive.

In particular, this achievement was particularly commendable when Yang Sichang, who was pinned on high hopes by the emperor, failed to command one after another, and was defeated again and again, and Zuo Liangyu, who was awarded the seal of the general of the Ping Thief, was defeated twice in a row, and when He Renlong, Li Guoqi and other official and military generals mutinied and returned one after another.

In any case, Liu Jun was pulled out to be a model, or used as a horse in the gold market, in short, he did become the chief soldier and was made a marquis.

When the imperial decree was delivered, the captives of Fengjie had basically been sent to Qihuang by Liu Jun, and the heads were also handed over to the Jinyi guards, the imperial historians and the eunuchs.

The Nine-Headed Bird Battalion continued to be stationed in Fengjie and continued to practice every day. Liu Jun's Nine-Headed Bird Battalion now has more than three battalions, and the Nine-Headed Bird is now expanded again, adding a cavalry battalion and a chariot battalion in addition to the original two-step and one-baggage battalion, and now it is a five-battalion establishment, and the newly expanded men and horses are basically recruited from bandits and local areas.

In fact, not only Liu Junxin expanded the two battalions of men, but the rest of the governors and commanders were also expanding the number of men, and those who were strong and skilled in riding and archery among the bandits were basically recruited.

Liu Jun did not go to build an artillery battalion alone, but built a car battalion. The establishment of the chariot battalion is similar to that of the baggage battalion, but the chariot battalion has stronger firepower, more artillery fire, and has many chariots and mules and horses, and the chariot battalion has a stronger mobility and firepower strike ability.

The emperor added the word regimental training to Liu Jun's chief military officer, and also asked Liu Jun to train 50,000 elite soldiers. However, although the 50,000 yuan belonged to Liu Jun's training, it was not under Liu Jun's command.

According to the order of the imperial court, Yunyang Town trained 50,000 soldiers and horses, including 10,000 governors and 10,000 total soldiers. Then the following were divided into 3,000 lieutenant generals, staff generals, and guerrillas, and 1,000 garrisons each.

Yunyang is a special town, its jurisdiction spans the four provinces of Sichuan, Hubei, Shaanxi and Henan, so its jurisdiction actually overlaps with the other four provinces, and now with a new town, the situation is even more complicated. Liu Jun's jurisdiction overlapped with the other four general soldiers, and the 50,000 soldiers and horses newly trained now belonged to Yunyang Town, and they must also train themselves. It was impossible to put the soldiers and horses under the command of the commanders of the other four provinces under his command.

The imperial court gave Yunyang Town a general soldier, two deputy general soldiers, four guards generals, and two guerrillas. In addition, there were six garrisons, plus the governor's 10,000 fubiao, which was exactly 50,000 soldiers and horses. In addition, Liu Jun also has a general who assists in guarding the town standard and five town standard guerrillas, and the governor also has a general and five town standard guerrillas. These generals and guerrillas were all officers who commanded the Fubiao and the Zhenbiao.

The 50,000 officers and horses of Yunyang Town were all promoted from among the officers and men who had made meritorious contributions to the suppression of bandits, and were recommended by Mei Zhihuan, Liu Jun, and Li Changgeng.

Mei Zhihuan, who was promoted to auxiliary minister and supervisor, will sit in Xiangyang. According to his will, he will transfer 30,000 horses from the soldiers and horses of the eight provinces under his command in Xiangyang as the standard battalion of the superintendent. Li Changgeng, the newly promoted governor of the five southeastern provinces, will sit in Fengyang, and there he will train 20,000 governors from the five provinces under his command.

Yuan Jixian, the governor of Huguang, and Li Shuchu, the governor of Henan, will also be transferred to refine 10,000 Fu bids according to their will.

No matter why the imperial court has such a training plan, in short, one of the benefits brought to Liu Jun and others is that the more than 10,000 soldiers and horses they originally set out from Huguang to Sichuan can now be expanded to 120,000 horses.

Although Liu Jun's town standard is only 10,000, but the following two deputy generals, four staff generals, two guerrilla and six garrisons, but they are all his people, except for a new governor Zhu Dadian and his 10,000 fubiao Liu Jun are not ready to interfere, Liu Jun is actually equivalent to three battalions of 10,000 people, expanded to 40,000 people.

It can be seen that the emperor has long been disappointed in those local armies in the Central Plains, and this time he plans to use Mei Zhihuan, Liu Jun and others to reorganize the armies of the Central Plains provinces. Now it is time to refine the troops and horses, and the next step is estimated to be to abolish the rest of the establishments and clean up the empty salaries and so on.

Liu Jun doesn't care about these, he now has his own territory, although this territory is shared with other general soldiers, but he also has his own territory. He is now busy promoting his officers and placing them in new positions.

"Chongqing Deputy Commander Qin Yimin!"

"Wang Qian, deputy chief soldier of the Huangzhou Division!"

Liu Jun pondered for a long time, first selected the two candidates for the deputy general army, and used Qin Yimin as the deputy general of Chongqing, which was also considered for a long time, after all, Qin Liangyu was the general soldier of Sichuan, and they also made great contributions this time, and if Liu Jun wanted to sit firmly in the position of the general army of Yunyang, he had to have a good relationship with them. Besides, the white pole soldiers are indeed very strong, since it is impossible for Liu Jun to train 40,000 people by himself at once, it is also good to choose a white pole soldier to come in.

After the two sub-guarded deputy generals, there were four sub-garrison generals and two guerrilla generals, Liu Jun will Yunyang Town under the proposed four roads, Jingxi Road, Xiajiang Road, Hanzhong Road, Xiangyang Road, the four staff officers will be stationed in Jingzhou, Qizhou, Hanzhong and Xiangyang respectively, the other two guerrilla generals will patrol Nanyang and Kuizhou, and the six garrisons will be stationed in Shangzhou, Jinzhou, Suizhou, Yidu, Baidi City, and Hanyang.

Liu Jun's five town-standard battalions, plus two deputy general battalions, four general reinforcement battalions, two guerrilla guerrilla battalions, one thirteen battalions, and the deputy general battalion that eliminated Qin Yimin, Liu Jun also directly controlled thirteen battalions, plus six garrison battalions.

How to build these battalions smoothly and really control them is a big problem. Liu Jun now only has five battalions, even if you add the garrison battalion in Macheng, it is only six battalions.

The main problem facing Liu Jun is that one is the soldiers, and the other is the salary. Where to fill these tens of thousands of soldiers, and where to get the food and wages for these tens of thousands of soldiers and horses?

"Today, I want to hang the seal of General Kou, serve as the chief military officer to guard the Yunyang place, stick to the city, train the soldiers and horses, and kill the camera in case of a rogue Kou, and his deputy general and staff will be guarded according to the place, and the officers and soldiers under the command will listen to moderation!"

This is the edict of appointment of Chief Military Officer Liu Jun.

Liu Jun and Mei Zhihuan are now busy transferring troops and horses, and the imperial court's will to them is very clear, Cao Cao and other bandits who have slipped through the net will be handed over to Sun Chuanting, the governor of the five northwestern provinces, to suppress them, unless these bandits come to the Central Plains again, otherwise Mei Zhihuan, Li Changgeng and Liu Jun, the soldiers and horses who have won a big battle, the next task is to encircle and suppress the fifth battalion of the left of the revolution, and exterminate the last group of bandits who still maintain a very large scale.

The emperor gave Liu Jun some time to prepare, but also gave a deadline for extermination, and before the New Year, the bandit revolution must be suppressed in the fifth battalion.

For this reason, the emperor also made a bloody investment this time, not only agreed to Liu Jun's recommended list, but also issued the military salaries and rewards requested by Mei Zhihuan and Liu Jun in advance.

It was 500,000 taels of silver, and it is said that this money was taken from the inner treasury by Emperor Chongzhen.

500,000 taels of silver were directly escorted to Fengjie, Sichuan, of which 50,000 taels were directly rewarded to Mei Zhihuan, and Li Changgeng, Yuan Jixian, Li Shuchu, Qin Liangyu, and Liu Jun were each rewarded with 10,000 taels. The remaining 400,000 taels are the salaries and rewards of each army.

Mei Zhihuan first ordered a bereavement pension for the war dead and wounded, with each of the war dead receiving a pension of 40 taels of silver, the same 40 taels for the seriously injured and disabled, and the rest of the injuries ranging from 5 to 20 taels. In this battle into Sichuan, the Chu army killed more than 3,000 people, and only the pensions for the dead and disabled spent more than 150,000 taels of silver.

Then there is the reward for military achievements, the reward is calculated according to the head and prisoners obtained by each battalion, a total of more than 10,000 captives and tens of thousands, among which the beheadings and prisoners, most of them are from the nine-headed bird battalion, and finally the remaining Liu Jun's nine-headed bird battalion got 150,000, the rest of the battalions got 50,000 rewards, and the remaining 50,000 taels were distributed to each battalion as military pay.

500,000 taels of silver were issued at once, but they were all issued to the Chu soldiers and the white pole soldiers, and the rest of the soldiers and horses of Henan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Hubei, and Jingying, basically Mei Zhihuan ignored them. These people are all soldiers and horses led by Yang Sichang, and when Yang Sichang went south from Beijing, he also brought 500,000 salaries.

In the end, Mei Zhihuan directly recruited Hu Dawei and Fierce Tiger as the two deputy commanders of the Beijing camp and the 10,000 soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp under them into his own superintendent battalion.

And the decree was received, and the money was divided, and every army and horse began to return to each house.

Mei Zhihuan went to Xiangyang, Li Changgeng went to Fengyang, Li Shuchu returned to Luoyang, Yuan Jixian returned to Wuchang, Liu Jun returned to Yunyang, and Qin Liangyu returned to Chongqing.

Next, Liu Jun had to train 50,000 soldiers in Yunyang according to the will of the imperial court.

When he got on the river boat returning to the east, Liu Jun looked at his official title, still full of excitement.

Qincha guards Yunyang, hangs the seal of General Kou, the chief military officer, the governor of the left army, the governor of the palace, the prince Shaobao, and the marquis of Zhennan. Although the Marquis of Zhennan is a hereditary title, it is very precious, but Liu Jun doesn't care too much, the Ming Dynasty is going to die, and the title will only become less and less valuable.

What Liu Jun really cares about is the official position of chief military officer, which is the foundation of the troubled times. (To be continued......)