Having 150,000 fresh troops undoubtedly increased the confidence of Zhu Youzhen and his entourage officials to go south.

At least in the next retreat to the south, they will no longer face the warlords alone.

Although these 150,000 fresh troops can only be regarded as a temporary army so far, and they are not a very strong army, they can still play a deterrent role for the miscellaneous armies of various warlords.

Not only can it have a deterrent effect on all warlords, at least after hearing that Liu Fangliang's troops had surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, they did not dare to take the enemy lightly, but stopped at Luoyan Town, which was twenty miles away from Bazhou City.

Tian Jianxiu's army only has 50,000 troops, and now he naturally does not dare to rebel against Zhu Youzhen, who can force Liu Fangliang's 100,000 troops to surrender.

As a general who only focuses on immediate interests and has no political vision.

Tian Jianxiu is now entrenched in Luoyan Town on the grounds that the army is short of food and grass, and he is unwilling to attack Baoding, the purpose of which is to wait for Zhu Youzhen to leave by himself, and then he can enter Baoding again and treat Li Zicheng.

Zhu Youzhen guessed Tian Jianxiu's thoughts, so he stayed in Baoding City for another five days.

It is precisely because of these five days that the screening of 100,000 intruders was completed.

As mentioned above, it took three days to screen 100,000 troops and leave 70,000.

In the remaining two days, Zhu Youzhen carried out the reorganization of 150,000 fresh troops.

For these 150,000 new forces, it is impossible for Zhu Youzhen to let them exist as they are.

He must have all the previously chaotic officers at all levels disrupted and reclassified, so that he can not only achieve orderly command in wartime, but also prevent the army from becoming the private soldiers of each commander.

Therefore, for the 70,000 troops left, Zhu Youzhen did not form a separate army for Liu Fangliang to lead alone, but first established the three armies of the guards.

Then the 150,000-strong army was reorganized into the 1st Guards Army, the 2nd Guards Army, and the 3rd Guards Army.

With Ning Wubo Zhou Yuji commanding the First Guards Army, Imperial Horse Supervisor He Xin leading the Second Guards Army, and Liu Fangliang has been appointed as the governor of the Guards, commanding the Third Guards Army.

He Xin's department is the Chinese army, responsible for guarding the safety of Zhu Youzhen, his palace concubines and hundreds of officials.

Zhou Yujibu was responsible for the postponement and monitoring the pursuers behind him; And Liu Fangliang is a pioneer and guides the way forward.

The reason why Zhou Yuji's department was postponed was naturally because most of Zhou Yuji's department were veterans of the First Guards Army, and they were strong and loyal and reliable.

Although most of Liu Fangliang's three guards are the elite of the previous army and have rich experience in actual combat, Zhu Youzhen still can't guarantee that Liu Fangliang will suddenly turn back.

After all, now Liu Fangliang's troops have just joined him, and now he is not too far from the control of the army, so it is better to be careful.

The difference in the number of the three armed forces is not large, but it is not completely equal, and the ratio of their fighters is naturally different according to different strategic tasks.

But overall, the personnel gap is around 10,000.

But these 150,000 guards can be regarded as Zhu Youzhen's pro-army of the Son of Heaven, so in order to show his favor, Zhu Youzhen's ringing silver of the guards was increased from the lowest one tael to the lowest three taels.

Prior to this, even the most elite border army main battle soldier in Daming was only thirty years and six taels a Chinese New Year's Eve, that is, three taels a month.

And now, even the auxiliary soldiers have a monthly salary of three taels, and the main battle infantry has been raised to four taels, and the cavalry has been raised to five taels, which is not ungenerous.

What's more, it is still paid in real amounts, because it is fighting with the Son of Heaven, the military department naturally does not dare to deduct it.

However, in this way, Zhu Youzhen's own financial pressure was greater, and he had to bear the military expenditure of more than 600,000 taels of silver every month.

Fortunately, when he was in the capital, he got more than four million taels of silver by confiscating the first assistant Wei Zaode and others, plus the treasury silver of Tongzhou Taicang and the silver taels left by Li Jiantai, a total of more than five million taels, even if a lot of money was spent on the road and now the road expenses have been paid, there are still four million taels left, and it can still support six or seven months.

But what should we do in six or seven months, and not only the army will spend money, but also a large group of officials and craftsmen himself, even if it is a logistical supply, and therefore the biggest difficulty facing Zhu Youzhen now is the economic problem.

However, he can't deduct the military salary, in this era, the officers and soldiers have no belief in doctrine, as long as you give him real money, so that he can eat enough, he can work for you, Zhu Youzhen now has no time to brainwash 150,000 officers and soldiers, let them work together for their own Zhu family royal family, can only use money to maintain loyalty.

After the reorganization work was completed, Zhu Youzhen officially left Baoding City and prepared to go south to Cangzhou.

Prior to this, he left 10,000 stones, grains and grass and 8,000 officers and soldiers to Zhu Zhaoming, Ni Yuanlu, Wang Chengen, etc., who were in charge of defending the city, and these 8,000 officers and soldiers were the establishment of the First Guards Army, and Zhu Zhaoming was still the wife of Zhou Yuji, the chief general of the First Guards Army, so it was naturally easier to command.

Zhu Zhaoming's own women's army did not stay in Baoding City, but was still organized in the He Xin Department of the Second Guards Army, responsible for protecting Zhu Youzhen's royal daughters.

As soon as Zhu Youzhen's army left Baoding City, the army Tian Jianxiu immediately entered Bazhou and approached Baoding.

There is no need to elaborate on how Zhu Zhaoming defended Baoding City.

Now it is only mentioned that Zhu Youzhen has already received two pieces of news after arriving in Cangzhou.

One is that Liu Zongmin, a general under Li Zicheng, began to torture and search the gentry officials who stayed in Beijing in order to raise military funds, forcing them to pay money as military salaries, and for a time he even forcibly forced these gentry officials to hand over and search a total of more than 70 million taels of silver, and countless gold, jade, and jewelry.

For this news, Zhu Youzhen was angry and excited, angry that this group of officials who stayed in Beijing was so rich, you must know that the annual income of the Ming Dynasty is only two million taels, it is conceivable that most of the wealth of the entire Ming Kingdom has flowed into whose pockets.

What made Zhu Youzhen excited was that Li Zicheng finally offended the entire gentry group with this behavior, and thus drove himself to a dead end.

However, this is also something Li Zicheng can't do, the slogan he put forward at the beginning was that King Chuang came and did not pay food, in order to compete for the world, he gave up taking benefits from the mouths of the Li people, and if he wanted to sit in the world, he naturally had to get benefits from the gentry.

And the gentry have always been stingy, so if they want to seize the benefits in their mouths, they naturally have to be more violent than dealing with the people, so Li Zicheng's general Liu Zongmin adopted the method of torture, but in this way, he inevitably pushed himself to the opposite side of the gentry group.

In this way, most of the officials and gentry who already wanted to take refuge in Li Zicheng and establish a new dynasty began to miss the good times of their king, after all, although they were also thirsty for killing, they would not catch them all and leave no one behind.

For these gentry who are willing to return to the arms of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao will not refuse, he will take the silver from them in a slightly gentler way, but if the gentry choose to cooperate with Jiannu, Zhu Youzhen feels that it is necessary for him to take thunderous measures, and he has zero tolerance for this kind of traitorous behavior.