Li Dingguo finally chose to surrender.

Because after several months of repeated battles, Li Dingguo had learned the advanced weapons and equipment of the Ming army and the tactics and tactics, if it were not for the terrain advantage and continuous rainy days, the Great Western Army would have been destroyed by the Ming army for a long time.

Li Dingguo can not care about the reputation and reputation, but he can't bear to let hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Western Army die in vain.

The general trend of the world is already obvious, and it is meaningless for the Great Western Army to resist any longer.

"Alright, let's surrender." Li Dingguo muttered, "I hope Chongzhen can keep his word." ”

"Don't worry, what the Holy One says always counts." After a pause, Xu Yingwei said again, "Believe me, you won't regret it, one day in the future you will find that today's choice is right." ”

"I hope so." Once Li Dingguo made a decision, he didn't think much about it.

When even the pro-soldier general Feng Shuangli came over, and then said to him: "General Feng, in the current situation, it is meaningless to fight any longer, except for the death of the Daxi soldiers in vain, and Chongzhen has also made a promise, after the surrender of our army, the strong ones will be selected as the Sichuan town soldiers, and the old and weak will be organized for the people on the spot." ”

Xu Yingwei then said: "In a word, there is no indiscriminate killing of the soldiers of the Great Western Army. ”

Feng Shuangli pressed the hilt of the knife with his hand, looked at Xu Yingwei and asked, "Who is the honorable driver?" ”

Xu Yingwei stepped forward and said: "If you don't change your surname, you don't change your name, and Xu Yingwei is also." ”

"You are Xu Yingwei, the commander of the 1st Division of the Ming Army?" Feng Shuangli said awe-inspiringly, "I've heard of you, you fought a beautiful victory in the Hunhe River. ”

"It's nothing." Xu Yingwei said, "It's just a sharp firearm." ”

Li Dingguo asked impatiently, "General Feng, what do you say?" ”

Feng Shuangli said: "You are the main general, and the last general, as a deputy general, will naturally listen to you." ”

"Okay." Li Dingguo said with relief, "Then let the soldiers go out of the camp to accept the reorganization." ”

"Yes." Feng Shuangli received the military order, and immediately ordered the Great Western Army in Xinjin City to leave the city to accept the reorganization, and at the same time sent a messenger to Longquan Town, ordering the Great Western Army in Longquan Town to disarm and surrender.

Li Dingguo himself rode alone and followed Xu Yingwei to Chengdu to meet Chongzhen.

If this is shelved in March of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, when he just crossed into this world, Li Dingguo came to vote, and Chongzhen could learn from Cao Cao to meet him, and now it is better to forget it.

Now, Xu Yingwei, Yan Yingyuan, Zhu Cijiong and others have fully grown up.

Although the performance of Huaxia, Lu Xiangtong, Wang Fuzhi, Mao Jukui and others is not as amazing as Xu Yingwei and Yan Yingyuan, there are still middle-class postures, and after long-term battle formations, they will be tempered sooner or later, just like the Huaixi generals in the founding period of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Lan Yu and a few other people are amazing, and the rest are also middle-to-top, but after a long time of battle formation, they have become generals.

And now it is even more powerful than the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and there is also the Southern Prison.

Every year, 8,000 military officers and students graduate from the Nanjing Guozijian.

Therefore, it is really nothing that the current Ming Dynasty has or does not have Li Dingguo.

On the contrary, for Li Dingguo, this choice is of great significance.

Because Li Dingguo, like Han Xin, is a pure military general with full military talent and negative political talent, this kind of person can show his ambitions only when he is a hero like Liu Bang, and it is a disaster to be an unqualified monarch, and it is not easy to play one or two points in his ability, so don't think about it.

Chongzhen feels that he is a male lord like Liu Bang, this is not blowing.

So when Li Dingguo bowed down the steps, Chongzhen did not go to help him and let him bow down.

"Li Dingguo, you have made the wisest choice in your life, and decades later, you will feel extremely happy for today's choice." Chongzhen looked down at Li Dingguo, who was kneeling on the ground, and said proudly, "Because only in the Ming Dynasty, under my command, can you show your ambitions, otherwise you are destined to do nothing." ”

Li Dingguo argued: "On the sage, the surname of the sinner is Zhang. ”

Chongzhen said suddenly: "I know that your original surname is Li, but you were adopted by Zhang Xianzhong, so you have his surname Zhang, but from today onwards, you will change back to the original Li surname, don't have the surname Zhang." ”

After a pause, he said: "Zhang Xianzhong has gone crazy, he has completely become a murderous demon king, and now he is leading his personal guards to kill people everywhere in northern Sichuan, and even the old and young women and children refuse to let go." ”

Li Dingguo was silent, because he knew that what Chongzhen said was true.

In fact, Zhang Xianzhong began to kill innocents indiscriminately when he was still in Chengdu.

To be more precise, after the rebellion of the prefectures in central Sichuan, Zhang Xianzhong lost patience with the military and civilians in central Sichuan, and killed people at every turn, and even slaughtered entire villages or cities.

It's just that as a righteous son, Li Dingguo still wants to fight for it.

At that moment, Li Dingguo said: "In the Holy Realm, it is unknown whether the sinners can convince their father-in-law. ”

"You can't convince him, you'll just take your own life." Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "So you don't have to do anything else, you can leave for Hanyang, the students of the fifth phase of Nanjing Guozijian are currently studying in Nanyang, you hurry up and go to the class, and you won't fall behind too much homework." ”

Regardless of whether it is the South Prison or the North Prison, the first year of enrollment for new students is mainly a marching practice class.

So after Li Dingguo entered the school, he was able to keep up with his homework, after all, he had a good foundation.

Li Dingguo originally wanted to fight for it again, but his mouth snorted twice, but in the end he didn't say anything, returned to the barracks to pack his luggage, and left for Hanyang.

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There is a reason why Chongzhen is in such a hurry to send Li Dingguo away.

Because the day after Li Dingguo left, Yan Yingyuan's 2nd Division entered Shu from Yinping Road, and Zhang Xianzhong, who was still in Maozhou, was caught off guard and was hit squarely.

As a result, there was no suspense, and the remnants of the Great Western Army entrenched in northern Sichuan were annihilated by the 2nd Division.

The fly in the ointment was that he didn't catch Zhang Xianzhong, this grass coward was shot into a sieve by the Ming army's rifle, and his other three righteous sons Kewang, Ai Nengqi and Liu Wenxiu were caught.

Chongzhen didn't favor one over the other, and sent them to Hanyang together.

Then, Chongzhen also fulfilled his promise and selected 50,000 elites from the 100,000 Western Army, plus 100,000 native soldiers from eastern Sichuan led by Li Xiangjun, to form Sichuan Zhentai.

It is still 25 acres of land for each town soldier.

These 25 acres of land do not need to be paid for grain, nor can they be bought or sold.

Moreover, the field can only be passed on to the eldest son, and cannot be divided.

After settling down in Sichuan Zhentai, Chongzhen went north to Guanzhong again.

At this time, Xin Sizhong's 50,000 cavalry had returned to Guanzhong.

Chongzhen combined Xin Sizhong's 50,000 cavalry and Li Yan's 30,000 cavalry into Hetao Town, and the number was the 7th Cavalry, the 8th Cavalry, the 9th Cavalry and the 10th Cavalry Division.

The number of Horqin Town is the 1st Cavalry Division, the 2nd Cavalry Division and the 3rd Cavalry Division.

Chahar Town is numbered as the 4th Cavalry Division, the 5th Cavalry Division, and the 6th Cavalry Division.

It should be said that Chongzhen treats Xin Sizhong and Li Yan very well.

Chongzhen not only did not relieve the two of them from military power, but also did not even dismantle their subordinates, but only combined the two subordinates into a town, and then nominated Li Yan as the governor and Xin Sizhong as the admiral.

It is said to be a nomination, but it is impossible for the cabinet to reject Chongzhen's nomination.

Therefore, this is in fact a direct appointment, and it is impossible for the positions of the two to be changed.

At this time, the army establishment of the Ming Dynasty has basically been finalized, and there will not be much change in a short period of time, namely Beizhi Zhentai, Nanzhi Zhentai, Huguang Zhentai, Yunnan Zhentai and Sichuan Zhentai, and then add three cavalry towns, a total of five infantry divisions and ten cavalry divisions.

Of course, all ten cavalry divisions were dragoons.

Dragoons, that is, infantry marching on horseback.

In the future, the situation will basically be that the cavalry will be responsible for the northern battlefield, especially the grassland battlefield, and the infantry will be responsible for the southern battlefield, including the overseas battlefield, and the main thing will be to cooperate with the navy.

At the beginning, Chongzhen also considered forming a Marine Corps.

But after thinking about it carefully, I dispelled this idea.

The reason is very simple, the Zheng family's power in the navy is really a bit big, although Chongzhen is confident that he can suppress the Zheng family brothers and sons, but as the old saying goes, if people have no foresight, they must have near-term worries, and no one knows which will come first, tomorrow or the accident? What if tomorrow he suddenly dies?

He Chongzhen can suppress the Zheng family brothers, and it is difficult to say that the crown prince Zhu Cihong is not good.

Therefore, if you set up a marine corps for the navy, maybe the Zheng family will directly open the country overseas, which is not beautiful, the Zheng family should honestly open up the sea frontier for the Ming Dynasty, don't think about anything else.

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Sun Kewang, Ai Nengqi, and Liu Wenxiu also went to Hanyang Mansion and met Li Dingguo.

Because Li Dingguo arrived a few days earlier than Sun Kewang and them, he gave an instruction and took Sun Kewang and the three of them to visit the Hanyang Iron Smelting Workshop.

In the last month or so, they have been interning at the Hanyang Iron Smelting Workshop.

Well, if it's an internship, it's actually a free part-time job in an iron-smelting workshop.

Looking at the small blast furnaces in the workshop, as well as the steam engines, and then seeing the steam engines continuously feeding the ore into the blast furnace through the conveyor belt, the Sun Kewang brothers couldn't help but be amazed.

After Li Dingguo finished introducing the iron-smelting workshop, he suddenly asked: "The eldest brother has the third brother and the fourth brother, it is said that after the end of the first school year, they will be divided into subjects, what subjects do you plan to choose?" ”

"Choosing a subject? What subjects to choose? Sun Kewang looked confused.

Li Dingguo explained: "It is the army department, the navy department and the medical department, and you can choose one of the three departments. ”

"Army, Navy, and Medicine?" Ainengqi asked with a blank expression, "What's the difference?" ”

Li Dingguo said: "As the name suggests, after graduating from the army department, you will enter the army, but in the end, it is not good to say whether it will be divided into five infantry divisions or ten cavalry divisions, and it will be assigned to the navy after graduating from the naval department. ”

Sun Kewang said: "Second brother, what subjects are you going to choose?" ”

"Navy Section." Li Dingguo said without thinking.

"Then I'll also choose the Navy Department." Sun Kewang said.

"And us." Ai Nengqi and Liu Wenxiu said.

"Let's follow the eldest brother and the second brother."