"Saint, Yang Zhan finally drove the thief Zhang to northern Sichuan, seeing that the thief was about to be defeated, but he didn't expect such a thing to happen, this Yuan Tao and Wu Dading are really damned." Xu Yingwei said solemnly, "It's just that the minister is more worried that the two thieves of Yuan Wu and Zhang are in collusion, and the situation in Sichuan will be very tricky."

Chongzhen also regretted it in his heart, and he should have intervened as soon as he knew.

Originally, the situation in Sichuan was really good, although Yang Zhan's troops were small, but he was stunned that Zhang Xianzhong's army of more than 100,000 was difficult to parry, after the defeat of Pengshankou, Zhang Xianzhong was even considering giving up Chengdu and moving to northern Sichuan, and Zhang Xianzhong's territory was quickly reduced to several provinces in northern Sichuan.

But at this juncture, Yang Zhan died.

And it's two years earlier than in history.

This really caught Chongzhen off guard, and he was not prepared at all.

But now that Yang Zhan is dead, his subordinates will fall into the hands of the two warlords Yuan Tao and Wu Dading, these two guys dare to kill Yang Zhan at this time, and naturally they will not take the Ming court in their eyes.

Therefore, it is wishful thinking to add officials to the two and expect them to continue to suppress Zhang Xianzhong.

If the imperial court is in a hurry, Wu Dading and Yuan Tao, the two anti-backbones, may really join forces with Zhang Xianzhong in turn, in short, in their eyes, there is only a territory army, and the word loyalty does not exist at all.

After a pause, Xu Yingwei continued: "In addition, there is a letter from the loyal marquis."

"Letters from the Marquis?" Chongzhen reacted suddenly, "Qin Liangyu wants to conquer Sichuan?"

"Yes." Xu Yingwei nodded and said, "The Marquis of Loyalty said that as long as he gives him 40,000 native soldiers from western Hunan and Hubei plus sufficient food and salary, he can sweep Sichuan for the Holy Lord and exterminate Zhang Xianzhong's thieves."

Speaking of this, Xu Yingwei took out the letter and handed it to Chongzhen.

After reading the letter, Chongzhen couldn't help but hesitate, is it okay?

Qin Liangyu's loyalty is beyond doubt, for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, Shi Yan Xuanfu Division almost shed the last drop of blood, all the Tusi of the Ming Dynasty are all reversed, and Qin Liangyu will definitely not rebel.

However, Qin Liangyu's ability to command the combat of the troops must be put under question.

Because Qin Liangyu's resume of leading troops to fight alone several times is not pretty.

Although this has a lot to do with the constraints of the civilian government, it is also a fact that it was defeated.

But apart from Qin Liangyu, there seems to be no more suitable candidate.

The ability of the people such as Plug Yinxi, Jin Xuan, or Yang Weizhi is definitely fine, but urgently transferring them to Huguang may not be able to convince the 100,000 native soldiers in western Hunan and Hubei, and Qin Liangyu does not have this concern.

Of course, it is okay for Chongzhen to go in person, but Xuzhou is obviously more important.

And Chongzhen could still guess Qin Liangyu's implicit thoughts, that is, to pave the way for Li Xiangjun.

Not surprisingly, if Qin Liangyu really made a contribution to this expedition, she would definitely attribute the main credit to Li Xiangjun, so as to truly complete the inheritance between their master and apprentice.

Thinking of this, Chongzhen finally made up his mind, then give it a try.

Anyway, with Qin Liangyu's ability and the combat effectiveness of the native soldiers in western Hunan and Hubei, it is impossible to be defeated.

At that moment, Chongzhen turned around and instructed Wang Chengen, "Wang Daban, you write a reply letter to Zhongzhen Hou in my name, saying that there are 40,000 local soldiers less, and since you want to fight, 100,000 local soldiers will be dispatched."

"Let Wang Fuzhi lead 150,000 new troops to cooperate with the loyal Marquis Fachuan."

"The food and wages required for the Chuan River shall be allocated from the official warehouse of the Ministry of Internal Affairs according to the standard."

"Then let Li Jiao, the imperial history of water control, recruit the people and the Huguang caravan to transport grain and military supplies to the big ***.

After a pause, he said, "Send another urgent delivery to Yang Weizhi, the governor of Yunnan, and ask him to lead an army of 50,000 troops from Dongchuan Mansion and Sichuan Xingdu Division to the north, and respond to Qin Liangyu from the flank."

This is Chongzhen's logic, and if there were not enough troops before, it would be fine.

Since there is no shortage of troops now, I will directly crush you with the number of troops.

Isn't your Zhang Xianzhong a soldier who claims to be 200,000? I will send 300,000 real troops to conquer you, and as for Wu Dading and Yuan Tao, the two thieves, they are just incidental.

"Old slave commands." Wang Chengen turned around and wanted to leave.

"Wait a minute." Chongzhen stopped Wang Chengen again and then ordered, "Let Hu Guozhu gather the cavalry battalion, and then send someone to Lime Mountain to summon King Ding back."

"Old slave commands."

Wang Chengen turned around and left.

Xu Yingwei said solemnly: "The Holy One is going to Xuzhou?"

"I'm sure I'll have to go." Chongzhen also had a serious face, "Jiannu has always been my number one enemy of the Ming Dynasty, and every battle with Jiannu is very important, and you can't take it lightly."

"Minister, be taught." Xu Yingwei gave Chongzhen a deep look.

Then he got up and said, "Holy Lord, the minister has returned to the camp and is ready to go."

"Go ahead, tell Yan Yingyuan again, and I won't give you a strong trip."

"Please cherish the Holy Majesty, and the minister will retire." Xu Yingwei shook again and turned to leave.

After sending Xu Yingwei away, Chongzhen greeted Fang Yizhi again and left by himself.

When Chongzhen came to the camp of the cavalry battalion outside the Jinchuan Gate, Hu Guozhu had already gathered 10,000 cavalry.

Yes, the strength of the cavalry battalion has been expanded from 3,000 to 10,000, and the war horses are the batch that was traded from the pseudo-Shun, and Chongzhen selected 7,000 horses from them and gave them all to the cavalry battalion.

The 7,000 cavalry were selected from the 270,000 new troops.

The soldiers of the new army are simple, have no sense of fear for Jiannu, and dare to fight.

As for equestrianism, it can be trained through hard training.

It doesn't matter if you can't train the level of the Mongol cavalry, because this is a dragoon.

The so-called dragoons are infantry on horseback, who ride on horseback when marching, and dismount to fight on foot when they are fighting, and of course they can also fight on horseback.

In recent months, Hu Guozhu has been training these 7,000 cavalry outside the Jinchuan Gate, in addition to going to Guozijian to point Mao.

Seeing Chongzhen coming, Hu Guozhu drew his horse chopping knife and raised it, then opened his throat and shouted: "All the cavalry battalions have it, salute the saint!"

Accompanied by Hu Guozhu's long howl,

The 3,000 old battalions and 7,000 new troops drew their sabers and held them upright in front of their chests.

As far as the eye could see, I saw 10,000 cavalry lined up neatly, without a trace of noise, only the occasional snort of the war horses, and a large piece of cold and shining horse chopping knives, which looked quite like that.

Soon, Chongzhen came to the cavalry formation with eight hundred Yiding.

"Hu Guozhu, how is the cavalry battalion training?" Chongzhen asked.

"Back to the saint, there is no problem with marching, charging, and turning."

After a pause, Hu Guozhu continued: "But the equestrian stabbing is almost meaningless, and the riding archery has not yet started to practice, these recruits are really too stupid, and they are really slow to learn."

"Hey, you can't hold them to the standard of the Mongols."

Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "The Mongols are a people who live on horseback, and they are just a group of peasants, you can't expect them to learn riding and archery and equestrian stabbing in a short period of time, not to mention, the main combat mode of cavalry in the future will no longer be cavalry archery and equestrian stabbing, I want to equip the cavalry of the Ming Dynasty with flintlock pistols."

"Flintlock pistol?" Hu Guozhu's two eyes immediately lit up.

"Holy Lord, in fact, flintlock pistols can also be used on horseback."

"Of course I know that flintlock pistols can also be used on horseback." Chongzhen said.

"This time you go to Xuzhou, you have to find out how to use a flintlock pistol on horseback."

"Are you going to Xuzhou?" Hu Guozhu was even more excited when he heard this, this guy is only in his early twenties this year, and he is even more of a bloody age, and what he yearns for most is to charge on the battlefield.

Looking at Hu Guozhu, who was eager to try, Chongzhen was also a little moved.

Otherwise, simply appoint Hu Guozhu as the commander of the cavalry battalion?

After getting along with each other for more than two years, Chongzhen also knows Hu Guozhu well enough.

In addition to Mongolian blood, this kid no longer has a trace of grassland ethnic flavor on his body.

Moreover, Hu Guozhu highly admired Yangming Xinxue, and Chongzhen heard him discussing Xinxue with scholars more than once, and he was also indignant when he talked about those Taoist gentlemen.

Chongzhen believes that this is definitely not a disguise.

No matter how advanced the disguise is, it will never be so well disguised.

Immediately afterwards, Chongzhen thought of Datang's all-encompassing.

There is a Tang generation, there are too many famous generals of different races, Li Guangbi, Gao Xianzhi, Ge Shuhan, Fugu Huaien, Shi Siming and of course An Lushan, most of the famous generals of different races are loyal to the Tang Dynasty, and more importantly, these generals will hardly mention their bloodline, but only admit that they are Tang Dynasty military ministers.

So, Chongzhen also wanted to see Hu Guozhu's inner identity.

Chongzhen first talked a lot about Mongolia with Hu Guozhu.

In the end, Chongzhen said to Hu Guozhu without warning: "If the Ming Dynasty conquers the desert in the future, all the Mongols living in the steppe must be driven away."

"Drive them all away?" Hu Guozhu asked without thinking, "Wouldn't it be too wasteful?" Shengshang, otherwise, let them learn Han culture and assimilate them, so that after a few decades, they will all be Ming people, so that when the Ming Dynasty wants to form cavalry again, it will have the best cavalry source."

Chongzhen smiled, as can be seen from the temptation just now,

Hu Guozhu no longer thinks of himself as a Mongol in his heart.

Otherwise, his first reaction just now would not have been too wasteful.

Chongzhen smiled again and quipped, "You are a descendant of the Golden Family."

"What a golden family." Hu Guozhu said disdainfully, "It's just a bunch of barbarians."

Hu Guozhu's contempt for the barbarians between his words was almost undisguised, I really don't know what kind of reaction Hu Xinshui would have when he heard these words? With bitter hatred? Or is it regret that you didn't start at the beginning?

But this is understandable, Hu Guozhu has never lived in the grassland after all.

Chongzhen smiled again and asked, "You haven't thought about restoring the glory of the Golden Family?"

Hu Guozhu said abruptly: "Nomads only have a barbaric culture, how can there be any glory?"

At that moment, Chongzhen was no longer tempted, and said with a serious face: "Hu Guozhu, I will hand over the 10,000 cavalry to you to command, and from now on you will be the commander of the cavalry battalion."