After chatting with Guan Ruozhi for three whole days, the ideal of life is just a small episode in Zhu Jian's life, after sending Guan Ruozhi away, he began to get busy again, now is the most critical beginning for the empire to enter the recuperation, as long as he is given two or three years of time, the Ming Dynasty will regain its vitality, and it is also the beginning of the imperial army's conquest of the Horqin grassland, and the purpose of taking the Horqin grassland is to compress the living space and material supply of the Guanwai tribes, and weaken their war reserve strength.

Liaodong, Ningyuan Jiancheng.

In the spacious barracks, Cao Wenzhao was accompanying Hong Chengchou, the governor and governor of Liaodong, and a large group of civilian military generals from the nine sides to watch the training of soldiers.

Although Cao Wenzhao's Guangping Army and Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army moved to the Nine Frontiers to garrison, the heavy task of defending the city was still borne by the old Army of the Nine Sides, and the two armies only assisted in the defense, mainly training the new army.

The Guangping Army and the Tianxiong Army have expanded their division-level troops to more than 10,000 people, and counting the logistical auxiliaries, they are actually 12,000 people; the logistical auxiliaries of the two armies are not pure logistical transport troops, but they also have to undergo strict military training like war soldiers, have a certain combat effectiveness, and once they encounter an enemy attack, they can also fight and protect the military materials transported, without having to invest too many combat troops to protect the logistics and transport contingent.

Cao Wenzhao's Guangping army was originally an establishment of 3,000 soldiers, and there were battle losses in many battles, and they were replenished anywhere, and the strength of the army not only did not decrease, but on the contrary, it increased to 5,000, and now it has expanded to 12,000 people, and the original officers and experienced veterans with good performance have been promoted, scattered to various departments to lead the troops, with the old leading the new, the new and the old combined, and the combat effectiveness has declined, so Cao Wenzhao leads the officers and men under his command to train every day.

Early this morning, Liaodong Governor Hong Chengchou led a large group of people to watch the training, he personally went out of the camp to greet him, asked the soldiers to bring tables and chairs, placed them on the side of the barracks, served tea, and at the same time slaughtered chickens and sheep, ready to entertain.

Cao Wenzhao came from the nine sides, fought bravely, and had a strategy, with military merits all the way to promote and promote, but also won the wisdom and favor of the Son of Heaven, poached from the many generals on the nine sides, led the Guangping army alone, won many battles in the battle of the people's army such as Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, and was promoted to the chief officer, and now the Guangping army has expanded to 12,000 people, a water of excellent muskets and artillery, what the hell is the rank of the major general division commander, according to the rank of the old army should be the level of a general, so that a group of senior generals in Liaodong are envious, They are all Cao Wenzhao's former superiors, but now they are several levels higher, this person is really angry than people.

Cao Wenzhao is naturally respectful and polite to these former old superiors, even if they are from other troops, their attitude is the same, not to mention that they are all senior officers, and besides, what the army talks about is the love of comrades-in-arms, and the relationship is to do a good job.

"Take a good look at how people train."

Hong Chengchou tightened the fur coat on his body, he was old, this body was not as good as a young man, and there were many reasons why he brought a group of senior civilian and military generals to watch the training of the Guangping Army.

The Son of Heaven only allowed the Phoenix Legion, the Shenji Battalion, the Guangping Army, the Tianxiong Army, and the Royal Guards Independent Battalion to expand into 10,000 divisional troops, and none of the old army units were expanded, and the excellent muskets and artillery were given priority to equip the new army, and the military salary and other treatment were also better than those of the old army.

Although the goose feather snow has stopped, but a thick layer of snow has accumulated on the ground, up to the knees, the cold wind is biting, freezing people shivering, all the officers and men of the old army on the nine sides are huddled in the barracks, sitting around the brazier to bake the fire to keep warm, while all the officers and men of the Guangping army are training in full swing on the snow, loud slogans, neat movements and steps, and all the soldiers have a different spiritual outlook on their faces than the old army.

The Guangping Army has recruited more than 7,000 recruits, and is now undergoing basic military training, running first, and then conducting queue training after running.

Hong Chengchou sighed and shook his head, at the beginning, like the senior generals under his command, he scoffed at the new army's training tactics that had just been sent, thinking that it was a good-looking and useless trick, but he was slapped by Lu Hongniang's Phoenix Legion, Li Xin's Shenji Battalion and Cao Bianjiao's wolf battalion with one victory after another, especially Cao Bianjiao's wolf battalion went deep into the hinterland of the Jin Army many times, and was besieged by thousands of Jin Army iron cavalry, but not only did he kill a bloody way and retreat safely, but also killed and injured a large number of Jin troops, he couldn't see anything anymore, I really don't deserve to be the governor of Liaodong.

Although Hong Chengchou is old and tends to be conservative in terms of ideology and tactics, he is not pedantic and conservative, and he picks up the new army training manual that he threw aside again to look at it carefully, and also writes a letter to Cao Bianjiao, who is guarding Phi Island, asking for advice on some details, which can be regarded as condescending.

Cao Bianjiao didn't hide anything, he told all the benefits of training the army and the art of war and his perception in actual combat, after reading it, Hong Chengchou felt all the emotion, he suddenly realized that he was really old, and now he should be the world of young people.

Hong Chengchou told his feelings and thoughts to the generals of the group of commanders, and then no one took it seriously, he had to study by himself and work hard, because in the correspondence with the Son of Heaven, the Son of Heaven had already told him that science and technology are advancing, the times are also changing, swords and other cold weapons will be eliminated, guns and other hot weapons will dominate the battlefield, and the old tactics and tactics will also be eliminated, and the generals and soldiers who do not learn to adapt to the new tactics and new tactics will also be eliminated, and if they don't want to be eliminated, they can only continue to learn and progress. Keep up with the times.

Now, the generals under his command finally complained, and Hong Chengchou had no choice but to take them to see how the Guangping Army was trained in peacetime. Look at General Xiao Cao's wolf camp, people are in the field, the disparity in strength is huge, and they are still calmly fighting their way out of the encirclement when they are surrounded on all sides, killing and injuring a large number of Jin troops, and their own losses are negligible, if it were you, you would have been wiped out a hundred times.

Among the many generals who were present to observe, only Zu Dashou, Man Gui and a few other chief military officers showed thoughtful expressions, and the others still did not take it seriously, which made Hong Chengchou very disappointed.

Observing the training of the Guangping Army is one of them, and the real highlight is the payment of military salaries, today is the end of the month, the day of payment, let these generals who eat empty salaries and deduct soldiers' salaries and silver see how people pay them.

The Guangping army trained for two hours before it ended, although all the soldiers were tired, but their faces were filled with happy smiles, and it was a good day to get paid, and they could send it home after getting the military salary, although it was not much, but it could also relieve the pressure by saving, plus the income from farming, even if they couldn't eat white rice, at least they no longer worried about being hungry.

A group of heavily armed soldiers poured in, lined up behind Cao Wenzhao, and then a group of logistics auxiliaries carried into several large locked wooden boxes and placed them next to an empty table.

"Master Cao, what are you doing here?" Hong Chengchou had a stunned expression on his face, of course he knew what he was doing, but he was just cooperating with the acting.