The Generalissimo's Mansion on the left side of the Qianqing Gate is located, and although there are many houses, it is very narrow.

The monarchs and ministers sat almost nose-to-nose, eye-to-eye in the warm pavilion lit red by the charcoal fire.

Therefore, what Ma Shiying said just now was almost heard very clearly by the officials present.

Li Banghua, the commander of the Third Army of the Guards Army, a scholar of Wuyingdian, laughed at this time: "One hundred and eight thousand, in this way, my imperial court also has a million divisions, why be afraid of him Zuo Liangyu!" ”

Li Ge Lao said the same thing, but what Wei Chen was going to say next was;

Although our dynasty has a total strength of 1.8 million troops, most of them are guards scattered all over the country, and these guards can maintain law and order, and fighting is not much better than fighting in groups with unarmed ordinary people.

There are only seven armies of the Guards Army that really have combat capability, and the other five armies have not yet had time to be formed, and in addition to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Guards armies, the actual strength of the other four armies is also less than the specification of 150,000 per army, and the reason is naturally that the officials eat empty quotas.

Therefore, on the whole, there are only more than 800,000 soldiers in the Ming Dynasty, and there are only more than 200,000 elite soldiers! ”

"Zuo Liangyu is known as a million heroes, but at least 400,000 are coerced exiles, the real veterans of a hundred battles should be about five or six hundred thousand, these veterans are actually most of the soldiers, and they are not to be afraid, what really needs to be vigilant is that Zuo Liangyu under the command of Jin Shenghuan, Luo Dai, and Daoxing take these few people, Zuo Liangyu and Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong have fought several times and now become a prince, these three people are the most helpful, these three people have thousands of fine horses, and they must be treated carefully."

Zhu Youzhen also admitted that what Ma Shiying said was not wrong at all, and the most important thing under Zuo Liangyu was these three people, especially Jin Shenghuan!

In the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty in the original history, Jin Shenghuan was a famous general, and Li Chengdong launched the Jiading Three Massacres, he also launched the Ganzhou Massacre, and then rebelled against the Qing Dynasty, almost recovering the entire territory of Ganzhou, it is enough to see that this person's military ability is indeed not weak.

Next, Ma Shiying continued to talk about several other groups of enemies:

"The Qing State established by the Tatars now has hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers, Wu Sangui and Jiang Xuan, Tang Tong, who surrendered to the Qing State, are the former commanders of the border army of my Ming Dynasty, and their combat power is above Zuo Liangyu's department, not to mention the invincible Jiannu Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, which is invincible in the world, it can be said that this is the most powerful enemy that my Ming Dynasty faced; Although the thief Li Zicheng's troops were defeated and retreated from Shanhaiguan to Beijing and then to Shaanxi, the main force under his command still had hundreds of thousands of old thieves, and the main forces of Liu Zongmin, Li Guo and other troops were still there. And there is also the intention of marching from Huguang to Jiangnan. In addition, there is also Zhang Xianzhong's troops in Sichuan, whose troops are not less than 500,000, and the four righteous descendants under his command are hopeful, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, and Ai Nengqi are not simple people, plus they occupy the country of abundance, there is a lot of food, and it will not be a problem to raise millions of soldiers in a few years. ”

"Your Majesty, Wechen has finished speaking, and now this is the basic situation of the several enemies that my Da Ming is facing," said Ma Shiying, the secretary of the military department.

Zhu Youzhen stood up and walked to the front of the map next to Ma Shiying: "No, you said that you missed two, one is the Zheng group on the coast of Fujian, and the other is some dishonest or opportunistic people near Jinggi in Nanjing, at least one clear news is that Ying Tianwei has 3,000 cavalry of Sun Weicheng, Marquis of Huaining, as for whether there are other traitors and thieves who are trying to take advantage of the opportunity to make trouble, I don't know, do you know about it?" ”

"Wechen is ashamed that he doesn't know anything about this!"

Ma Shiying was shocked by Zhu Youzhen's words, he didn't expect that there was really an army near Nanjing that tried to misbehave, although it was 3,000 cavalry, but because it was cavalry, it should not be underestimated, no one knew if he would raid Nanjing City and threaten the safety of the entire Nanjing court!

Li Banghua, Zhou Yuji and others also stood up, and Liu Fangliang even shouted that he wanted to clean up this group of troops for Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen.

Zhu Youzhen did not agree to Liu Fangliang's request, as long as Zuo Liangyu has not raised troops, there will be no movement of the 3,000 cavalry, and now Zhu Youzhen is not sure whether there will be more than these 3,000 cavalry to support Zuo Liangyu and the Donglin Party.

"Let's talk about the situation first, how to deal with it and then talk about it, Aiqing must be more clear now, my Ming can be described as a crisis, the situation of internal and external troubles is worse than Chongzhen's seventeenth year, and these Tartars, rogues, and warlords are staring at the Jiangnan we are based on, and they all want to come up and take a bite, of course, this can't be helped, Jiangnan is the richest place in the world, how can Jiangnan be based on the world, so at the moment, the most important thing is to keep Jiangnan, we can't lose this land, we must keep it!"

As soon as Zhu Youzhen said this, the officials present all nodded, and they all understood that the current imperial court was almost an enemy of all forces, and even an enemy of its own internal plotters.

Zhu Youzhen also found out now that perhaps Nanming's demise in the original history was not because she was really incompetent, but that she was facing a bad situation with no allies and only enemies, which was different from the Southern Song Dynasty, which only needed to face one enemy in the Jin Kingdom.

"I know that you must be thinking about whether Da Ming will really die because of this, whether the remaining half of the country can be saved, I will give you a clear answer now, Da Ming will not die! Jiangnan can also hold it! Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng These thieves can not be considered for the time being, they have no direct threat to us now, and the only ones who really threaten us next are Jiannu, Zuo Liangyu and those people with ill intentions in the court! ”

"You are all in charge of the Generalissimo's Mansion and the training of the Guards, and you have all led soldiers to fight, you should know better than anyone what is the difference between the army of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Guards and Jiannu, Zuo Liangyu, and thieves, if you want to say that I have no elite soldiers in the Ming Dynasty, it is okay to say this a few months ago, but it may not be a few months later! The so-called elite soldiers do not have to fight a lot to be called elite soldiers, and those who are not afraid of death, strict military discipline and obedience to command can be regarded as elite soldiers! ”

As soon as Zhu Youzhen said this, Zhou Yuji stood up: "Weichen has fought with the Tartars, led the border army, and also fought with the thieves, and now he is also the chief officer of the Guards, Weichen is not flattering His Majesty, today I will tell the truth, the officers and soldiers of the Guards are indeed a reborn army, the most obvious thing is that many officers and soldiers have drunk ink, and they all know what they are fighting for. It is to defend the homeland and restore the northern capital! Such an army has not had weak brigades since ancient times, such as the Yue family army and the Qi family army! ”

"Don't really say it, these talents are really tenacious with us earth harriers when they raise people to be soldiers, and they don't cry out in pain when they are beaten to the point that their noses are blue and their faces are swollen, and those earth harriers are much more disciplined than before, they used to be afraid that they didn't give money and didn't train, but now they are not afraid that if you don't give money, they are afraid that you won't let him train and be ridiculed!"

Liu Fangliang said: "Your Majesty, our 123rd Army has the best muskets and artillery and the best officers and soldiers, and indeed you don't have to be afraid of them Zuo Liangyu and the dog Tartar, as long as you give the order, Weichen will kill the Yangtze River now and capture Zuo Liangyu alive!" ”