This is a reminder to Ling Jingyang, don't take risks, Gao Jie is careless, took his own soldiers to the city to drink, was killed by Xu Dingguo, Gao Jie was accidentally killed, resulting in the complete failure of the Southern Ming Northern Expedition to regain lost territory, he decided to wait a few days, wait for Gao Jie's troops to run out of food, and then let the envoy go to Gao Jie's military camp, persuade Gao Jie to change from the Hongguang court to the Chongzhen court, increase the military strength of the Chongzhen camp, and force the Qing army to fight on both sides,

Ling Jingyang and his subordinates rested in Licheng for two days, and finally waited for the Central Legion, which had more than 6,000 people, most of whom were strong and brave, and less than 600 veterans with more than one year of military experience, and their combat effectiveness was not comparable to that of the Iron Fist Legion.

After the commander Leng Rutie led the troops to Licheng, he asked the troops to camp outside the city, and he came to the city to report to Ling Jingyang.

The soldiers of the Central Army were very energetic, Ling Jingyang waited on the city wall for Leng Rutie to arrive, Leng Ruiron came to the city wall, and reported to Ling Jingyang on the morale and state of the Central Legion.

"The last general is as cold as iron, and he led the Central Army to receive orders from the Governor."

Listening to the spiritual outlook of the Central Legion of the Manchurian Body, he asked how many soldiers and horses there were in the Leng Rutie Central Legion?

Leng Rutie replied very proudly Ling Jingyang, there are more than 6,000 people in the Central Army, more than 100 war horses, three tiger squat cannons, two general cannons, one Hongyi cannon, more than 400 guns of various kinds, and a pair of swords, spears, bows and arrows.

"Well, why is there only such a flare gun?"

The firearms unit of the Central Army is really shabby, and Leng Rutie is also embarrassed to look at Ling Jingyang, as the commander of the legion, he is not responsible for logistics.

The legion's food, grass, weapons, etc. were all supplied by Wang Mu and other local officials, and Ling Jingyang suddenly remembered that Leng Rutie, as the leader of the Central Legion, wanted to know about the overall situation of the Central Legion.

Leng Rutie introduced to him that there were two commanders under him, and then they were the same as the Ming army, for the generals, guerrillas, garrisons, thousand generals, generals, etc.

The Central Army Corps has one commander, the whole army is organized in a two-two system, two commanders, four generals, eight guerrillas, 16 garrisons, 6,600 infantry troops, more than 50 cavalrymen, including 2,500 sword and shield men, more than 3,000 pikemen, 460 musketeers and artillerymen, and hundreds of drummers, grooms, and other miscellaneous soldiers.

Each general led 900 troops, commanded 500 people directly under the command, directly governed two generals, commanded 100 troops directly under Tongzhi, and was in charge of one general.

The generals above the garrison level of the various armies are middle-level generals, but Ling Jingyang has no idea about the appointment of these generals, even if the two commanders of the Central Army know the same, he does not know any of such senior generals, and now it seems that his control over the army is somewhat lax.

Although standing high on the city wall and looking far away, he felt a chill in his heart, as the governor of the five armies of the Ming Dynasty, he was a little floating these days, or he was high up, throwing the army construction to the generals of various troops, which was easy to cause mountains to stand on the top of the mountains and the appearance of small-scale warlords.

"Let the generals above the garrison come to the city for a meeting tonight."

Leng Rutie didn't understand what Ling Jingyang meant for a while, but Jiang Xuan and Li Rufeng saw that Ling Dudu wanted to hold the military power in his hands.

That night, Ling Jingyang summoned the generals above the garrison of the whole army, Jiang Xuan and the deputy general were also invited to attend the meeting, the cavalry corps only had two senior generals, Li Rufeng and Wang Hong, and there were only more than 600 soldiers and horses, Ling Jingyang would not mix sand into it.

He waited in the conference hall early, staring at every general who came in, these generals had the Great Shun Army, the Ming Army, and the rebel armies from all over the country, and it was not easy for Leng Rutie to integrate them together.

Ling Jingyang sat in the center, Leng Rutie and Li Rufeng were separated on both sides, showing Ling Jingyang's authority. After the generals of the Central Army came to Qi, Ling Jingyang asked Li Rufeng to introduce Gao Jie's troops and horses.

The generals who are doing are no strangers to Gao Jie, in this troubled world, Gao Jie is also the dragon and phoenix among the people, Li Rufeng and everyone introduced Gao Jie's troops and garrisons.

After speaking, Ling Jingyang and the generals said: "Everyone, have you ever eaten in the same pot with Gao Jie?" ”

As soon as the words fell, a guerrilla of the Central Army stood up and said to Ling Jingyang: "The last general, Zhu Fei, used to be in the Dashun Army, and he was in the same battalion army as Gao Jie. ”

"Oh, tell me, Gao Jie's character."

Zhu Fei was very polite and talked to Ling Jingyang about Gao Jie's past

, in fact, it was the affair of hooking up and adulterous, but Zhu Fei said it at the military meeting, and everyone listened to it with relish, and Ling Jingyang waited for him to finish speaking, and he appreciated it very much.

"Zhu Fei, your eloquence is good, tomorrow you will come to the Iron Fist Legion as the deputy general manager."

After finishing speaking, Ling Jingyang looked nearby, and wanted to appoint Lao Mantou as the commander of the Central Army, but unfortunately Lao Mantou was not here, so he would temporarily vacate the position of the general, and wait for Lao Mantou and Wang Tiedao to come back, and let the two go to the Central Army to serve as the commander and general.

Ling Jingyang's personnel transfer made the generals of the Central Army realize once again that he was the founder of the Central Army, and a jujube and a stick allowed Ling Jingyang to subdue the generals of the Central Army in an instant.

Ling Jingyang also used the subtext to draw a line with the generals, and in the future, the appointment of generals above the general level of the Central Army requires his consent, and the generals appointed by himself before can be transferred as he wants.

It also made Leng Rutie also a little cold, because most of the generals of the Central Army were appointed by him, and he also reported verbally to Ling Jingyang, and today Ling Jingyang did this, nominally promoting Zhu Fei, but in fact, he did it for him, telling him that Ling Jingyang was directly under the Central Army.

He hurriedly said to Zhu Fei: "Zhu Fei, don't thank you Governor yet. ”

Ling Jingyang waved his hand and said to Leng Rutie: "Rutie, this time to attack Gaojie, your troops and horses are the main force, and if you win this battle, Pontus will reward you with a hundred acres of fertile land and promote you to a higher position." ”

These words made Leng Rutie recover from Ling Jingyang's distrust of him, and promised Ling Jingyang to complete the task.

"It's so decided, tomorrow our army will open to Yuxia Pass, try not to fight with Gao Jie's scouts on the way, and when we arrive at Yuxia Pass, don't make an attack posture, it's best to subdue Gao Jie."

Leng Rutie is full of confidence to defeat Gao Jie on the battlefield, and he will go further, but when he heard Ling Jingyang say this, he was a little unhappy, and Ling Jingyang said: "Dudu, Gao Jie is cruel by nature and repetitive, even if he recovers it, I am afraid that he will rebel again in the future, it is better to completely annihilate it and integrate his army and people." ”

Jiang Xuan listened to Leng Rutie's words, and he couldn't listen to it, so he squinted his eyes and coughed dryly.