The words are divided into two ends, Chongzhen's holy decree can not be sent to Wuchang until the end of November, but Shen Shuren and his party returned to Wuchang as early as late November.

Therefore, before the will arrived, Shen Shuren had more than ten days to deal with the government affairs and armament affairs that he had accumulated for so long.

Let's briefly celebrate the previous victory, reward the troops as soon as possible, adjust the state, change the rotation of defenses, and prepare for the next sortie.

After all, the troops are not iron-clad, and they have just finished a bloody battle with Li Zicheng, and after several months of fighting, there are nearly 20,000 casualties, infections, and diseases.

This is already the elite enough of the Shen Shuren's troops, and the logistical support and medical conditions are good enough to suppress the losses to this extent. If any other Ming army was to fight, the losses would at least double, or even multiple.

Of the more than 90,000 troops, the casualties have accumulated to 20,000, and this loss rate is already close to a quarter.

Therefore, the army that participated in the Henan Campaign, now the most important thing is to rest, seeing that the cold winter is coming, in the two months of the wax moon and the first month, this army must not be easily used, otherwise the soldiers will also be separated from morality, and the hearts of the troops who are enveloped by Shen Shuren and Shi will gradually complain.

Fortunately, before the Henan Campaign, the Shenshu people had a Huguang army of 140,000 people, 90,000 people pulled up, and 50,000 people guarded the place.

One of the most powerful ones is in the hands of Zhang Huangyan, a total of about 20,000 people, who intercepted Sun Kewang and others in the area of Yiling Jingzhou, and later took the initiative to pursue Xiao Li.

In addition to Zhang Huangyan, the other more than 30,000 people left behind by Shen Shuren belonged to the defense area of Fang Yizhi, Shi Yan and others. as well as Jiang Shoude and Jin Shenghuan in Changsha and Hengzhou.

As for Zheng Chenggong's anti-tax armed forces and local self-protection township militia in Jiujiang, it is not counted in the 50,000-strong establishment of Shen Shuren. This is also considering that Jiujiang is already relatively close to the rear, and there is no need to arrange too elite troops. And Zheng Chenggong, as the eldest son of the Zheng family, he will definitely be able to get the family's subsidy as an official, so there is no way to let Zheng Chenggong help share the cost a little bit by himself, in this troubled era.

The 50,000 troops left in the rear by Shen Shuren, after all, ran Zhang Xianzhong away from Hunan in July, even if it was added to more than a month of suppressing bandits and cleaning up the remnants, at most they would be busy until the end of August. So from September to the end of November, these 50,000 people were in a state of leisure and recuperation.

After three months of vacation, these troops are now in good condition and their morale is high, if Shen Shuren really has to send troops in Layue, then pull these 50,000 people out first, and transfer the nearly 80,000 people who have retired from the front line to defensive leave.

In addition, the central part of Yuan Shi, which was subdued by Shen Shuren on the battlefield in Henan, and the remnants of Li Jiyu's remnants that were incorporated and reformed after being killed, there are still about 20,000 peasant troops who abandoned the darkness and turned to the light.

After a period of ideological transformation, with Liu Guoneng's appearance and expression, grace and power, and the leadership of Yuan Shizhong, although these 20,000 people also made a little effort and suffered a little in the Henan Campaign, they can definitely immediately plunge into a new round of battle against Zhang Xianzhong.

First of all, these people are natives of Henan, and they have had enough of the suffering of the thieves who came from Shaanxi, after the battle of Kaifeng, the Henan soldiers who can cast the people of the sinking tree, have a certain hatred for the Shaanxi thief army, and then led by Yuan Shizhong, it is estimated that he will use his life to accept a name when he fights Zhang Xianzhong.

They really need to fight hard and prove their hearts. It has been used as a death camp a few times, but as long as the guarantee is sufficient, the military salary is sufficient, the food is excellent, and the supervision of the war is strict, it can definitely play a good effect.

In this way, Shen Shuren's plan is very clear: only use these 70,000 people of five plus two, at least in the first three months, only use these 70,000 people, and enter Sichuan to deal with Zhang Xianzhong.

If the problem has not been solved after three months, then after the second dragon raises its head in February next year and the spring plowing and farming is over, the main force of the previous Henan campaign will almost be rested, and then the new force will be drawn from the 80,000 people as appropriate to continue to invest.

As for the armament of the troops, of course, it also needs to be rotated for ten days and half a month. After all, people need to rest, but muskets don't need to rest, as long as the quality of maintenance keeps up, it is completely possible for two groups of soldiers to rotate with the same batch of guns to fight.

This will involve 10,000 or 20,000 people changing firearms and getting used to it, and half a month is definitely not a long time.

Since July and August, the ironmaking workshop and military workshop in the rear of Wuchang Mansion have obviously been busy with production and research and development for four months, and during this time, there must be a lot of new firearms, supply materials, and new ammunition and ordnance have been created, and maybe there will be some scientific and technological progress, and the people of Shen Shu also need to take time to review them one by one and adjust their deployment.

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Therefore, the day after returning to Wuchang Mansion, the people of Shen Shu did not miss the gentle township of Chen Yuanyuan, Li Xiangjun, and Dong Xiaowan, so they dragged their tired and sour legs to Daye County.

Of course, the road to Daye County was originally from Jiangxia County along the Yangtze River for sixty miles, so it was a road to Hefei with King Lu and King Fu through Jiujiang Anqing.

Shen Shuren sent the people of Luwangfu for sixty miles, and had lunch together that day, before they parted ways in Daye and landed for inspection.

Fang Yizhi, the prefect of Wuchang and Shen Shuren, a friend of the same year, of course, also accompanied him.

Fang Yizhi is also a rare science and engineering talent in this era, and Song Yingxing is partial to theory and engineering, and for more than a year, it can be regarded as a complementary cooperation. Therefore, every time Shen Shuren comes to inspect the progress of metallurgical and military technology and engineering breakthroughs, he is willing to learn together.

All the way on the ship, Shen Shuren saw the needles and asked about the armaments, industry and civil affairs in the past few months, and Fang Yizhi also answered all questions.

Considering the matter of weapons and armaments, after the ship arrives in Daye, you can watch and talk at the same time. Therefore, during this time on the ship, the people of Shenshu gave priority to understanding preparations such as military rations.

"In the days when I am in Henan, how are the preparations for the autumn grain tax and so on? On the Hunan side, after Zhang Xianzhong's troops broke away, did the recaptured grain that was slaughtered and innocent people snatched up, have you counted it?

Can it support the needs of 70,000 people to immediately enter Sichuan next month? Will it be necessary to increase the distribution of grain to make the people suffer? I remember that potatoes can be planted before winter, harvested before the summer harvest next year, and then planted with corn at that time. Autumn plowing and winter planting can not be delayed.

This time Kaifeng was lifted, Zhang Mingzhen estimated that he would rescue more than 100,000 strong people in Henan one after another, and they would all have to be resettled, if they had time, let them arrange to plant potatoes as soon as possible, and don't be idle in winter, so that they can support themselves as soon as possible, and there is not much food anywhere in these years. ”

Fang Yizhi's head grew when he heard this: "Don't find errands for these people from Henan and Shaanxi to arrange Tuntian, isn't it good to stay in Henan to settle down." One side of the water and soil and one side of the people, let the southerners take care of it, but it can't be managed.

A while ago, you were besieged in Chen County, and something happened here, and thousands of soldiers from Changsha Prefecture who were sent to reclaim the official fields made a fuss again, resisting taxes and rents, and refusing to obey the government's management to build supporting water conservancy.

Especially when I heard that Zhang Xianzhong seemed to be up again in Sichuan, some of them tried to kill the officials of the tunken superintendent, and went to Zhang Xianzhong. I mobilized the Wuchang soldiers stationed in Yueyang to suppress it. At that time, there was an emergency on the front line, and I didn't mean not to report it. ”

When Shen Shuren heard this, he couldn't help but be alert: "What the hell is going on?" Is the rent we set too high? The surrendered soldiers let them farm a land, and how can they be so unruly? Have you been a thief for a long time, and you refuse to farm? ”

Fang Yizhi sighed: "How can it be so simple, some things are done in depth to know that the difference between the north and the south in the management of reclamation is too great." A few years ago, when I read Sun Chuanting's notes lamenting the reclamation of Tunken in Shaanxi, I didn't believe it, but now that I have experienced it, I really believe it. ”

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ps: Changed the map to deal with Zhang Xianzhong, a bit stuck, and it takes time to figure out the strategic deployment.

Today is a few hundred words less than usual.

I think I'm really tired of writing this kind of plot, others don't have to think about strategies when they write books, why do I always have to think about so many strategies and strategies, it's always like I personally review and fight a battle,

The kind of book that directly copies ready-made strategies and does not change the general trend of history is really easy to write, and I want to do that, but unfortunately I can't.