Wu Sangui was worried day and night in Shaanxi, seeing that 3,000 men and horses in his hands were transferred to Liaodong today, and another 500 were sent to training tomorrow, and he was always remembered. In just a few months since Wang Shi recovered Beijing, the original 50,000 horses are now only less than 30,000, and the pawns that should be thrown out have been thrown away.

This taste of cutting meat with a blunt knife made Wu Sangui extremely painful, not without thinking about fighting a fish to break the net, and rushing out of the Great Wall to become a savage king in the Mongolian steppe. However, the eldest son, Wu Yingxiong, was sent as a hostage, and the old father was also under surveillance in Beijing. The son can be reborn if he is gone, but the father is the only one!

Finally, at the beginning of September of the nineteenth year of Chongzhen, Wu Sangui received a document from the Ministry of War, ordering him to screen out 20,000 elites and go to Jinzhou to participate in the war, and at the same time to assist in guarding the Daling River until the construction of the three cities of Jinzhou, Dalinghe and Youtun was completed.

This kind of thing of meat buns falling from the sky makes Wu Sangui, who is as cunning as a wolf, extremely cautious. Who doesn't know that once Wu Sangui returns to Liaodong, it will be a high sky and a wide sea, just with Xiao Donglou, an outsider, how can he fight with him? The crown prince is not a naïve and unscrupulous person, what is the intention of this transfer?

"The military gate, most of the time, Liaodong really can't be defeated." Wu Sangui's subordinate Guo Yunlong stepped forward and said: "Now that the sons and daughters have been in the guest land for a long time, if they don't go back, I'm afraid the army's morale will be scattered." ”

Wu Sangui squinted his eyes, looked at the dimming sky outside the tent, and said faintly: "I know that this is a fleeting opportunity, but I am always a little uneasy, as if I am in the abyss at night and I don't see it, but I feel cold in my heart." ”

"Junmen, let's turn around halfway!" Guo Yunlong gritted his teeth and waved his arm to make a cutting gesture.

Wu Sangui was almost laughed at angrily: "Ignorance! How were Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde back then? After most of Shandong was in chaos, it was not possible to escape to the east by sea? Our army went out of the customs all the way, and there were elite Ming troops stationed along the way. Can the situation be compared with Li Jiucheng and Kong? ”

Guo Yunlong has long been accustomed to using his "ignorance" to set off the "wisdom" of his boss, and immediately followed Wu Sangui's tone and said: "Military gate, then you can only act after leaving the customs." ”

Wu Sangui wanted to stretch out his head and slash his head, and shrinking his head was also a knife. Instead of being trapped to death with the notoriety of repeated villains, it is better to make a loyal appearance and gamble on him. Even if you don't win the bet after the worst game, maybe someone will overturn the case for yourself in the future!

"Reply to the military department. Our department will be launched on the second day of the first month of September, and we ask the Metropolitan Governor's Office to prepare grain and grass along the way. Wu Sangui finally made a decision.

That night, the news spread throughout the Liao military camp, and the camp was immediately full of joy.

The only thing that worried the soldiers was that they were reluctant to do so. With the presence of a disciplinary, the commander cannot insult the soldiers at will and treat them as slaves. If they leave the customs, will these instructors still stay in the army?

"The instructor is a permanent position in the army, and no matter where he goes, he will share weal and woe with everyone in the army!" The instructors sent to the Liao army were also very excited. After being idle for so long, it was finally my turn to play a role. Any discerning person knows that the trainer is the forward battalion of the crown prince and Wu Sangui competing for the heart of the army, as long as the heart of the army is on the side of the instructor, Wu Sangui may not have this ability even if he wants to rebel.

Guo Yunlong stood in the shadows, seeing with his own eyes how the instructor appeased those restless soldiers, and his heart was very worried. He really wanted to report the matter to his benefactor, but he was worried that these instructors would really incite the soldiers to rebel against the Wu family. That's not beautiful after all. And even if Wu Sangui wants to do it, he will get outside the gate. Excuses such as unsuitability and epidemic diseases can eradicate these annoying flies.

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"Erchen is not worried about Wu Sangui's rebellion at all." Zhu Cihong said: "Wu Sangui sold Haoge, and Dongyu will definitely not be able to go back." On the Mongolian side, he has no roots, and he can't even support himself when he goes. "Grazing sheep seems simple, but it's not something that a layman can do well.

"If he dares to mess around in the Guannai, the 3rd Guards Division and the 1st Guards Division along the way. can solve him. And as soon as the grain and grass are cut off, the morale of the army will be scattered. Zhu Cihong said: "Not to mention that there are also instructors." ”

Emperor Chongzhen listened to the crown prince's report, and his heart finally calmed down. But he couldn't understand why he sent a eunuch to Tang Tong's side, and Tang Tong immediately reversed. And the crown prince sent a bunch of "eunuchs" to supervise the army, and even imprisoned to the level of 100 people. On the contrary, they firmly controlled the morale of the army...... Didn't everyone hate eunuchs to the bone?

Zhu Cihong actually explained this, but "ideological education" and "humanistic care" were really beyond the scope of the emperor's understanding. Not only Chongzhen, but most of the civil and military generals of the Ming Dynasty have very simple ideas for management and control, which is nothing more than "might" as the main thing, supplemented by "blessing". After that, his subordinates were afraid, and he was blessed to invite people to buy people's hearts. After this line of thinking is put into practice, the effect is that the "might" is abhorrent, and the blessing is more like charity, which makes people unable to give birth to gratitude.

The worst result is that the soldiers are not willing to really work hard at all, they go into battle and go through the motions when they get their salaries, and they refuse to go out if they can't get it, not to mention honor and dignity, and even the professional ethics of mercenaries are not served.

This situation lasted until Zhu Cihong was in charge of the troops, and he was not worried about the generals, and even intended to promote it. Because now the heart of the Ming army is not too domineering, but too little dignity. Soldiers have no dignity, just like bandits, it's okay to rob homes and houses, but it's delusional to fight and kill the enemy. Therefore, cultivating the sense of honor and dignity of non-commissioned officers is also one of the responsibilities of the instructor.

"What about when you get to Liaodong?" Chongzhen asked again.

"Xiao Donglou will definitely be able to solve him." Zhu Cihong said.

It makes sense for the military department to transfer Wu Sangui 20,000 horses, because Zhilu said that even if he brought all the men and horses, it would only be about 25,000. These Liao soldiers do have combat effectiveness compared to the strong men who are surrounded by them, but the real hardcore elite is only 3,000 people. These 3,000 people are what Wu Xiang said to Chongzhen: his "righteous son", Wu Sangui's "brother" - he and Wu Sangui are wearing cloth clothes, but these 3,000 people are wearing ayaluo; He and Wu Sangui ate bran vegetables, but these 3,000 people were big fish and meat.

As long as these 3,000 iron troops are subdued, the rest of the horses will either collapse at the touch of a button, or they will move to the upper wind.

How many soldiers does Xiao Donglou have in his hands now?

In August of the 19th year of Chongzhen, the Second Guards Division with its headquarters in Ningyuan was officially expanded into the Second Guards Army, with three integrated divisions under its jurisdiction. Each division has a quota of more than 13,000 troops, so the main combat strength of the whole army has reached the scale of 40,000 people, plus the personal guards of the divisions directly under the army and senior officers, the three newly assigned divisions belong to the 5,000-pound heavy artillery bureau and one army direct general artillery bureau, and the total strength of the Second Guards Army is close to 50,000.

Under the policy of giving priority to army building, the distribution rate of flintlock muskets in the troops of the various fronts was close to 50 percent, and the penetration rate of firearms in the first division of the main force was close to 60 percent. Coupled with the artillery units of the battalion, division, and army, how much incense did Wu Sangui have to burn to escape this catastrophe?

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"What does Wu Junmen think of the strength of our army?" Xiao Donglou sat on the big reading platform, surrounded by Wu Sangui, who was once the king and is now uncertain.

On the school field, a group of elite soldiers who changed into new military uniforms marched along with the banner, shouting to kill the sky.

Prior to this, Wu Sangui had already watched the live-fire drill and saw with his own eyes that the dummy, which was the target, was covered with bullet holes. I also saw the artillery firing live targets, and the mounds the size of the small military fort collapsed one by one with the order. Xiao Donglou even asked him to set the firing order, so as to prove that these gunners were "pointing and shooting".

It is not a dream for anyone to have such a strong army in hand, to run rampant in the world. However, what frightened and puzzled Wu Sangui was that Xiao Donglou was loyal to the crown prince and Daming to an incomprehensible extent. Until Yang Kun, a strategist beside him, broke through the mystery: This army is terrifying, but what is really terrifying is the crown prince who can create such a strong army in a short period of time.

This sentence is also Yang Kun's own declaration of throwing himself into the "upwind". After saying this, Yang Kun explained Wu Sangui's plan to Xiao Donglou and Pan, and thus obtained the title of a major staff officer to participate in the military affairs of Ningyuan.

In the tenth and a half months of the nineteenth year of Chongzhen, Liaodong was already cold and windy, and Wu Sangui's heart was like the world dripping with ice outside. In just ten days after arriving in Ningyuan, he went from being a VIP to a defeated general who betrayed his relatives and was placed under house arrest. Originally, he thought that Liaodong was going to fight, and everyone had to borrow the strength of his Wu family, but after Xiao Donglou showed him the power of the Second Guards Army, he completely wiped out his last glimmer of hope.

Liaodong did not need the Wu family's army.

What Liaodong needed was more than 25,000 young and strong men to reclaim vast land, build fortresses, and transfer supplies. This seems like hard labor to ordinary people, but it is a relief for the Guan Liao soldiers who are struggling to travel.

They finally avoided the fate of starvation, servitude, and death. Now, the officers and soldiers who behaved well among them were allotted land and drank soup. Those who are slow and timid to react also have their own work, those who can farm become tenant farmers, and those who can't farm can sell their physical strength.

Those who are really willing to rely on military merits, and feel that they can't do anything but fight and kill people, and don't want to do anything, can also receive training and join the Second Guards Army to continue to eat food as soldiers. Moreover, the military salary and treatment here are far higher than those given by the Wu family, and there is no need to change the surname "Wu" to give people the family and their righteous sons.

The entire army of 25,000 men melted clean like ice met the scorching sun.

Wu Sangui was not relieved by this, and the officers of the Supervision Department of the Fifth Army and the policemen from Shuntianfu came to "greet" in turn, wanting to squeeze out the wealth that Liaoxi Jiangmen had swallowed up for decades from his mouth.

This is also the reason why Wu Sangui is still alive at present. (To be continued......)

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