It's October.

The city of Nanjing has entered autumn.

The wind began to pick up, too.

The situation in the north has also become more delicate.

Just after Zhu Youzhen finished his tax reform and currency reform.

The little emperor of Jiannu, Fulin, had left Shengjing and was preparing to move the capital to Beijing.

And Zhang Xianzhong has also proclaimed himself emperor in the CD and established the Daxi regime.

Li Zicheng, who had already decided on the Central Plains and forced Zhu Youzhen, the Ming Emperor, to move south, had become a lost dog at this time.

The entire Shanxi defense line controlled by Li Zicheng has been basically broken by Jiannu.

Even Taiyuan has recently fallen.

If Zhu Youjian is not bad.

Next, Fulin established the capital in Beijing, and then divided his troops from Shanxi to Shaanxi, and from Shanxi to Henan to pursue Li Zicheng's forces.

And the Ming Dynasty will also face the attack of two armies of Jiannu in the future.

The direction of attack of a large army of Jiannu may have come from Hubei.

The direction of attack of the other Jiannu army should be from Henan.

Even, according to the original history, there will be a route to Beizhili directly down to Shandong, and then join up with the Qing troops in the direction of Henan to attack the core area of the Ming Dynasty - Jiangnan.

The seventeenth year of Chongzhen, that is, in 1644 AD, was not over in a few months.

To use a common phrase in the sports world of later generations, there is not much time left for Zhu Youzhen, the emperor of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty.

Although because Zhu Youzhen is now a traverser, the historical event of Chongzhen hanging the coal mountain has not happened again.

But so far.

The overall historical trend has not changed significantly.

Li Zicheng was still defeated by the Qing army composed of the Manchu military aristocracy and the Han big bureaucracy and traitors.

Zhang Xianzhong also successfully seized Sichuan and became emperor.

And next.

Once it entered the April and May of the eighteenth year of Chongzhen.

The Ming Dynasty is bound to have a decisive battle with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and this decisive battle will determine whether history will really be rewritten.

Will the Southern Ming Dynasty, which used to be like a fireworks, still be able to keep half of the rivers and mountains like the previous Southern Song Dynasty.

It can even be better than the Southern Song Dynasty, and finally restore the great unification!

Zhu Youzhen had mixed feelings at this time.

As an emperor with the status of a time-traveler.

Zhu Youzhen is different from the first emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty in the original history, Emperor Hongguang.

Zhu Youzhen arrived in Nanjing two months ahead of schedule, thus avoiding the internal chaos caused by the historical struggle for succession.

As a result, Nan clearly missed the opportunity to consolidate forward positions and recruit troops.

Moreover, as soon as Zhu Youzhen arrived in Nanjing as emperor, he quickly got rid of the control of the Donglin Party, and solved the financial crisis through various means and won the hearts of the people.

In addition, Zhu Youzhen is different from the Hongguang Emperor in the original history.

He controls military power, and he is not a puppet like Hongguang.

The current four towns in Jiangbei, namely Zhou Yuji, Gao Jie (Liu Fangliang), Huang Degong, and Zuo Liangyuzhong, are directly controlled by him.

Therefore, he could deploy defenses in Henan, the south of Beizhili, Shandong and other places without hindrance.

However, it is a pity that Huguang's Jingxiang is in Zuo Liangyu's hands.

Jingzhou and Xiangyang are also important strategic places for the south to resist the invasion of the northern army.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen also had to make a plan that Huguang would be broken through by the Qing soldiers, and he would compete with the Qing soldiers in northern Jiangxi.

Zhu Youzhen, who now insists on running every morning to exercise his physique, sweats like rain under the palace walls while thinking about how to carry out the next military reform.

Tax and monetary reforms are underway and are already bearing fruit.

And the creation of a new army is naturally urgent now, especially at the moment when the great war is approaching.

Zhu Youzhen knew that it was impossible for the current army of the Ming Dynasty to resist the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry.

After all, the current Eight Banners Iron Cavalry is the most effective army in the world at this time, and their military and civilian integration, with the way of fighting and supporting the war and the complete Eight Banners system, the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry at this time is unmatched.

In addition, the internal corruption before the Ming Dynasty caused the casting technology and use technology of artillery and firearms to flow into the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

As a result, the Ming army's last bit of firearms superiority over the Manchu Qing Dynasty was also lost.

And the strong city could not stop the Manchu Tartars who had artillery.

There is no doubt that with the current military system of the Ming Dynasty, it is impossible to defeat the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry of the Tartars.

And this is not only that the combat effectiveness is inferior to others, the key is that the army system of the Ming Dynasty is too loose, there are warlords' families, and there are unorganized and undisciplined guards who are no different from ordinary farmers.

At that time, once faced with the Qing troops moving south, Zhu Youzhen felt that it would be difficult for him to coordinate the entire Ming military force to fight against the Qing army.

Only by building a new army, a new force, can we resist the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry.

This new army must be more advanced and superior than the current Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, both in terms of system and tactics.

At that time, Qi Jiguang was able to expel the Japanese invaders, and it was also from the newly recruited troops to build the Qi family army with strong tactical cooperation, which kept the southeast of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youzhen also felt that he needed to recruit troops again, so he asked Li Mingrui, the governor of Huaiyang, to recruit troops in the Xuhuai area.

Although the conscription system has never been a good and harmless system.

Some people say that the decline of the Tang Dynasty is related to the change of the government military system to the recruitment system, which makes the feudal towns separated.

However, Zhu Youzhen is the emperor, and the emperor himself recruits the Son of Heaven's army, so naturally he doesn't have to worry about this.

What's more, Zhu Youzhen had no intention of letting the newly recruited army commanders divide the localities.

He still insists on separating the military from the government.

Of course, as for how to change it, Zhu Youzhen still has to think about it again.

However, recruiting a strong enough army of its own is the most urgent thing at the moment.

Zhu Youzhen had just finished running, and before he had time to bathe, he instructed Shi Kefa, the eunuch of the master of ceremonies:

"Deliver the decree, immediately summon Jingnan Hou Huang Degong, Ning Wubo Zhou Yuji, Xingping Bo Gaojie, Jianning Bo Liu Fangliang, Dongxiang Bo He Xin, Ningnan Bo Zuo Liangyu, Huaiyang Governor Li Mingrui, Huguang Governor He Tengjiao, Supervisor Lu Daqi and cabinet ministers to gather in Huai'an on the 15th of this month to discuss the matter of military training!"

Zhu Youzhen said that after speaking, he issued an order three days later, and the royal driver went out to patrol Huaiyang.

The sudden order to inspect Huaiyang was not a whim of Zhu Youzhen.

Instead, he considered that the most important decisive battlefield for the Ming Dynasty to resist the Qing soldiers in the future was likely to be the Huaiyang area.

After all, the boundaries of Beizhili and Shandong, as well as Henan, are all plains.

The Huaiyang boundary has two major water systems in the Huaihe River Basin and the Yangtze River Basin as barriers, and the river network is staggered, and the water and land are vertical and horizontal, which is undoubtedly the best battlefield to resist the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry.

What's more, the people here are fierce and warlike, and Zhu Youzhen, as the Son of Heaven, personally came here, so there is also a reason to appease the people.

Although Shi Kefa's supervisor Huaiyang also had such an idea, he only cared about the interests of the Huaiyang gentry, and did not know how to coordinate the forces of all aspects, and cultivate the spirit of hatred and hatred of all strata, which made Yangzhou's defense fall short.

Now that Zhu Youzhen wants to personally inspect Huaiyang, naturally he can't let such a thing happen, and he wants to turn Huaiyang into a cemetery for Qing soldiers to go south.