First of all, what the Li and Luo coalition forces did was to organize their troops and organize the 200,000 elite troops into various 10,000 teams. Then began to send officers, straighten out the chain of command, and initially formed an army.

After that, Niu Jinxing and Li Yan joined forces, they wrote a large number of songs and slogans, and sent people to sing them everywhere. And the most famous of them is the sentence "King Chuang is coming, and he doesn't pay for food". As a result, the displaced people who defected to the camp flocked to the camp, and this peasant army was once again expanded.

Later, an old friend of Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance, defected to Li Zicheng again. Song Xiance is famous for fortune-telling, and he calculated a prophecy for Li Zicheng of "Eighteen Sons Master Artifact", that is, he calculated that Li Zicheng had the destiny to be the emperor. In ancient times, when superstition was very serious, this kind of prophecy shrouded Li Zicheng with a layer of mystery and nobility. So there were even more people who fled to the camp.

What's more, under the repeated persuasion of Niu Jinxing and Li Yan, Li Zicheng finally wanted to take advantage of the strength of the army, end his career as a rogue, and start to establish a base area. Therefore, the reshaping of military discipline, the organization of cultivation and production, and the establishment of government offices at all levels all marked the establishment of a new political power in the camp.

In particular, it should be noted that this is the unique practice of Li Zicheng's camp in the Li and Luo coalition armies, and Luo Rucai still holds the nature of a rogue, and he simply lives one day at all, and he doesn't want to get rid of this happy day across the seas at all, and the difference between these two leaders has laid the groundwork for the intensification of the contradictions between them.

And it is too early to say all this, and the first thing for the Li and Luo coalition forces now is to find a suitable place to establish their own base area.

And what were the other two peasant armies doing at this time?

Let's talk about Zhang Xianzhong after occupying Xiangyang. After Zhang Xianzhong recruited troops and horses in Xiangyang, he immediately crossed the Yangtze River to capture Fancheng, and then, waved his army to the southwest, gradually moving away from the Runing army. And the first target they encountered was Yingshan. However, this also made the Runing army in Junzhou and Nanyang temporarily breathe a sigh of relief. Because for the time being, there is no need to think about this peasant army.

At this time, the deployment of the Runing Army was as follows:

When Wu Shigong set out to conquer Liaodong, the Runing Army at that time had a total of 74,000 men and horses (not yet full) in six towns and three independent associations, and Wu Shigong brought 17,000 of them to Liaodong, and only 57,000 men and horses remained in the headquarters.

However, the Runing Army had a three-year expansion of the army, and they planned to expand these troops to 150,000 within three years. Therefore, as soon as Wu Shigong set out on the expedition, 22,000 recruits recruited in the first year of the expansion of the army were immediately called to the army. So now there are 79,000 soldiers and horses in the headquarters. Of course, the newly recruited soldiers did not have a full year of training. Therefore, the combat effectiveness is somewhat worse than that of veterans.

And now it is February and March of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen. The Runing Army had more than 7,000 independent associations of Jiang Cheng in Junzhou, as well as Wang Guangen's two 1,000-man independent regiments adapted from the peasant army. Of course, these two thousand-man independent regiments were not included in the total strength of the Runing Army, but were only used as auxiliaries of the Runing Army.

In Guide and Kaifeng. There are more than 7,000 independent associations with calligraphy and ink, and more than 2,000 people in Yao Liang's associations. And Yao Liang's troops. Two battalions have already gone to Liaodong again. So the total strength here is more than 8,500 horses. But at this time. Xue Yongli didn't know that these two people had recruited more than 6,000 auxiliaries without authorization.

In Nanyang, there is Zhang Biao's Tuanlian Town and the original Li Lu, and now the Nanyang Independent Association led by Zhao Degong. Zhang Biao's Tuanlian Town had 12,000 men, while the Nanyang Independent Association had 5,000 men. Although these two units are not fully formed, they are among the various units of the Runing Army. The full compilation rate is relatively high. Because Nanyang's position is quite important, it is the main road between Henan and Huguang.

Therefore, Zhang Biao's regimental training town was stationed in Yexian and other two counties close to the Runing Army, while the Nanyang Association was guarded in the city of Nanyang Prefecture. As long as the city is kept. Even if the peasant army is going back and forth in Nanyang Mansion unimpeded, the Runing Army will also use Fucheng as a base at the right opportunity to cut off the passage of Nanyang Mansion. Therefore, the strategic position of Nanyang Fucheng is quite important.

In addition, Nanyang is also guarded by more than 4,000 commercial houses of Jimin reclamation commercial banks. Although some of the merchant guards were recruited into the Runing Army, and some of them went to Huguang with Chang Meng to open up a new Tuntian Zhuangzi, there were still some left in Nanyang, so these merchant guards were also a powerful supplement to the Runing Army's operations.

In Runing, it is the most powerful five towns of the Runing Army and the headquarters of the Guards. But the five major towns and the Guards troops, because they transferred some troops to Liaodong, so their total strength was a pitiful 43,000 horses. Among them, the guards under the command of He Fei (with the Teaching Association and the Rotation Training Association), because the Teaching Association was drawn to the battle, so the current strength is only more than 7,000.

Xue Yong's Jiao hit the town in the early 10,000s; Qian Qi's bear hammered the town of nine thousand; Yang Rusong's Tiger Roar Town Eight Thousand; the town of Pegasus in Zug three thousand; 10,000 in Huguang Town, Taoxin.

It is worth noting that although Tao Xin's troops were numerous, most of them were adapted from Liu Guoneng's peasant army at that time, so their equipment and combat effectiveness were poor, and they could only be used as the second-line troops of the Runing Army. Therefore, this unit does not even have an official number.

Besides, it's just a few pieces of troops. For example, the artillery of the artillery association left a multi-regiment artillery in the headquarters. There are more than 1,300 men and horses in two battalions of the Marine Division and Marine Warfare Association at the Xinyang base, and more than 2,700 men and horses in one regiment at the Huanggang base.

In addition, it should be pointed out that in Runing, Guide, and Nanyang, there are more than 40,000 people of the Runing Army to protect villages, mines, and roads, more than 3,000 paramilitary troops of Xue Qiang's Internal Affairs Department, and more than 4,000 Changmeng Reclamation Firms in the vast Beishan area of Hu, all of which are the forces that can be used by the Runing Army.

Therefore, when Xue Yongli and Zhou Xun escorted the captives back to Nanyang, they first let Nanyang's troops return to the establishment, and then let the local officials settle these prisoners, mainly to supplement them to Tuntian Zhuangzi and mines. After handing over Nanyang's troops to Zhang Biao's unified command, Xue Yongli and Zhou Xun returned to Runing with the rest of their troops.

So when Xue Yongli and Zhou toured to Runing, it was already the end of March. Only at this time did they learn that Shumo and Yao Liang had recruited troops privately and incorporated them into their own troops without authorization.

At this time, Xue Yongli couldn't care about punishing them. Since the wood has been completed, Xue Yongli simply upgraded the two troops to a Guide town, with Shumo as the town commander and Yao Liang as the deputy commander. And asked Yao Liang not to stay in Kaifeng City anymore, and to return to Germany as soon as possible. (To be continued......)