As more and more regimental training was wiped out by the Haw Par Army, the regimental training envoys appointed by the imperial court were raided by the Haw Par Army.

The remaining group training north of the Yangtze River finally realized that he had been fooled by the imperial court and chose a path of no return.

In order to save their lives, the remaining landlords and gentry had to give up their last illusions about the imperial court. Take the initiative to surrender to the Haw Par Army and hand over the large amount of land in their hands.

Because, only by doing so can the lives of yourself and your family be saved. If you are lucky, you can still keep a lot of family property and have a chance to make a comeback.

As a result, the battle that was expected to take a month to completely occupy Henan and Hubei provinces took only 20 days, and the main force of the Third Army, more than 26,000 soldiers, advanced the battle line to the north bank of the Yangtze River, and began to confront the new army of more than 100,000 people across the river.

At the same time, the Fourth Army and the Fifth Army were not idle, and advanced the front to the banks of the Yangtze River from Zhejiang and Gansu respectively.

It was at this time that all the provinces north of the Yangtze River fell into the hands of the Haw Par Army.

The Haw Par Army also officially mastered half of the Ming Dynasty, and had the capital to compete and break with the court.

Although the Haw Par Army on the other side of the Yangtze River has not yet launched an attack, standing on the tower of Nanjing City, with the help of monoculars, the civil and military officials of the imperial court in Nanjing City can already clearly see the Haw Par Army on the other side of the Yangtze River.

At this moment, although these civil and military officials were full of confusion about the future of the imperial court, they did not show too exaggerated panic.

After all, Emperor Chongzhen was still in Nanjing, and even Emperor Chongzhen was confident in holding the Yangtze River defense line. Persistence is in the city of Nanjing. What's more, they are civil and military officials.

Besides. Chongzhen's determination to stick to the end in Nanjing City reached the ears of more than 100,000 soldiers of the New Army, and the morale of the New Army was also a great encouragement.

Although Emperor Chongzhen was guarding Nanjing City, since the attack of the Tiger and Leopard Army, Chongzhen's heart has not been calm.

Because, every day after the Haw Par Army launched an offensive. There is a steady stream of information that was sent into the palace by the Jinyi Guard and delivered to himself.

When Chongzhen learned that the regimental training he had high hopes for, in addition to causing a lot of casualties to the Tiger and Leopard Army at the beginning. Other times, it's even more rabble than a rabble......

In more than half a month, more than 50,000 regimental training were wiped out by the Haw Par Army.

What made Chongzhen even more annoyed was that these provinces that had just been occupied by the Tiger and Leopard Army, as long as they had a little to do with the imperial court, or supported the imperial court, were all devastating by the tiger and leopard army.

As for the rest of the ordinary people. Faced with the attraction of the Haw Par Army's policy of dividing the land, it is no surprise that all of them fell to the Haw Par Army. Betrayal of the imperial court.

Faced with this unexpected result, Chongzhen was both shocked and helpless......

The shock was because the combat effectiveness shown by the Haw Par Army was so strong that in less than a few days, tens of thousands of regiments were wiped out by the Haw Par Army.

As for the helplessness, it was because of a bureau that he had carefully arranged for the Haw Par Army, which not only did not work, but dragged the Haw Par Army in these provinces. On the contrary, he also helped the Haw Par Army, giving the Haw Par Army a reason to clean up these landlords and gentry who supported the imperial court, and the influence of the fat imperial court in these provinces disappeared completely.

In a more direct sentence, that is, to lose his wife and soldiers......

Not only did it lose tens of thousands of regimental exercises in these provinces, but it also extinguished the hope of the imperial court that wanted to drag the tiger and leopard army south through regimental training. It also lost all the landlords and gentry in these provinces who were loyal to the imperial court, and made the imperial court lose the possibility of recovering these provinces in the future......

A day later, at the court meeting, the news came that the provinces north of the Yangtze River, which originally belonged to the imperial court, had now been completely occupied by the tiger and leopard army, came to the court. Although dozens of ministers had known about the news for a long time, the news still caused a great sensation.

In particular, Zhou Shuyuan, the initiator of the regimental exercise, saw that the idea he put forward not only did not hinder the pace of the Haw Par Army's offensive, but also became an accomplice of the Haw Par Army's complete occupation of these provinces.

Zhou Shuyuan's face disappeared completely because of the spirit of joining the cabinet and gaining Chongzhen's trust. Not only that, but once again there was a worried expression on his face.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Zhou Shuyuan to feel a pair of murderous eyes, looking at himself with integrity, eager to kill himself directly and swallow him alive.

There is no doubt that this pair of eyes came from Emperor Chongzhen.

Just when the worried expression on Zhou Shuyuan's face became thicker and thicker as these two eyes came.

Chongzhen's dissatisfied roar finally sounded in the court hall and reached his ears......

"Zhou Aiqing, this is what you call a team exercise...... Now I want to know what the hell is the effect of these group exercises......"

"So many landlords and gentry who support the imperial court, because of the regimental training you proposed, their families were ruined, and the influence of the imperial court in these provinces disappeared completely......

"Today, you must give an explanation to me, to the imperial court, and to the landlords and gentry who were killed by the Tiger and Par Army......"

When Chongzhen said these words, the eyes of dozens of ministers, no doubt, also converged on him at the same time.

There is sympathy, there is ridicule, and there are jokes that are not related to themselves.

Faced with this situation, Zhou Shuyuan hurriedly knelt on the ground.

As a minister, Zhou Shuyuan knew very well that in this court, once he lost the trust of Emperor Chongzhen, he would lose his power and become a lost dog that anyone in the court could kick......

Therefore, no matter what, he must not lose the trust of Emperor Chongzhen and lose the status and wealth that he has won so hard.

Under the simultaneous gaze of dozens of pairs of eyes, Zhou Shuyuan, who was kneeling in the court, hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the minister didn't expect that things would develop like this...... They took the initiative to attack and disband these regimental exercises at the risk of losing the hearts and minds of the people, aren't they worried about the officials forcing the people to rebel......

After finishing a sentence, Zhou Shuyuan fixed his eyes on Chongzhen.

Because, Chongzhen's next sentence will directly determine his future and way out.

However, what Zhou Shuyuan didn't expect was that before Chongzhen could speak, the first assistant of the cabinet actually took the lead and said to Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, the old minister believes what Lord Zhou said...... Lao Chen also agreed with the group training, and Lao Chen didn't expect that things would develop like this...... So, please calm your anger......"

The words of the cabinet chief assistant still carry a lot of weight in Chongzhen's heart.

Just when Zhou Shuyuan cast a grateful glance at the cabinet chief, Chongzhen had already spoken: "Okay, I won't pursue this matter...... However, Zhou Aiqing, you must find a way to solve the problem of team training......" (to be continued......)