The recruitment of troops in the prisoner camp was also over, and a total of two thousand seven hundred men were recruited, which was taken as a whole number.

Two thousand seven hundred new recruits were relocated to the camp north of the city.

With the settlement of the northern auxiliary battalion, there are now four battalions in the four sides of Chunhua City.

The north camp is the auxiliary, the west camp is Gao Jie, the east camp is Liu Chenggong, and the south camp is the prisoner camp and the garrison of the Liao cavalry.

On the Beiying school grounds, 2,700 newly recruited auxiliaries were all standing in line.

Chen Wang sat on the platform, condescendingly looking down at the recruits on the school ground, and his thoughts were rolling.

The two major battles of Hutou Town and Chunhua City have served as the general manager of hundreds, generals, and thousands of presidents along the way.

It took a lot of time to approve the military merits, but the paperwork for the reward came quickly.

The officials who approved the military merits almost left with Zuo Liangyu.

Zuo Liangyu stayed in Chunhua for a total of four days.

When he came, he brought more than 200 horsemen, and when he left, he took a total of 2,000 people, not counting the relatives he brought.

Chen Wang gave all the remaining elite horses after Gao Jie finished picking them to Zuo Liangyu, and the rest of the horse army asked Zuo Liangyu to send people to choose at will.

After Chen Wang finished saying the last sentence that day, Zuo Liangyu fell into a long silence.

Chen Wang didn't have the ability to read minds, and he didn't know what Zuo Liangyu was thinking in his heart, but Zuo Liangyu was really touched.

It's just that Chen Wang doesn't know how much it can affect Zuo Liangyu with just a few words, and how much it can make Zuo Liangyu change.

However, all this is not something that Chen Wang needs to worry about, because no matter what kind of impact it causes, it will be a matter for later.

Just four days later, on August 19, the envoy arrived in Chunhua City.

Naturally, it was not an angel who came, but a messenger sent by Hong Chengchou.

The messenger brought two sealed letters and instruments of appointment.

Hong Chengchou, as the governor of the trilateral and the governor of military affairs, was appointed by Chongzhen to give him the power to promote the general.

To be promoted to a guerrilla or general, Hong Chengchou still has this power.

The first letter was naturally given to Chen Wang, and the title of acting general was directly removed, and he was directly promoted from President Qian to guerrilla.

As for the military position, that is, the official position with a grade, it still needs to wait for a while, which is outside Hong Chengchou's authority.

The victory of Chunhua broke through 100,000 people in the first battle, eliminated one of the three routes of the Liukou army, and relieved the last worries of the Guanzhong battlefield.

This merit is enough to award the battalion general.

Chen Wang knew from the beginning that most of them were just guerrillas, and it was basically impossible for them to participate in the generals.

Cao Bianjiao has made so many meritorious achievements, and now he is only a general, so he will probably not be awarded a general.

Moreover, there were promotions in the Ming army, but there were very few cases.

Before most generals became commanders-in-chief, most of them served as guerrillas, generals, and deputy generals, and finally as commanders-in-chief.

Relying on the continuous accumulation of military merits, he was promoted in turn.

Chen Wang was already very satisfied with the guerrilla's identity, and the number of soldiers in the new battalion was planned to be 2,000.

This number of soldiers is already quite large, and the number of soldiers that can be led by the average guerrilla is only about 1,000.

Because in addition to the original quota of Liao cavalry, the rest of the troops are issued according to the standard of foot soldiers.

Hong Chengchou's meaning is very clear, that is, he hopes that Chen Wang will recruit after him, and he will recruit infantry.

The number of 2,000 soldiers, which means that Chen Wang can still recruit more than 1,000 people now.

The right to recruit troops has also been given to Hong Chengchou, who is allowed to openly recruit troops in the prefectures and counties of Xi'an Prefecture.

Since he has the right to recruit soldiers, Chen Wang will no longer recruit troops from the prisoner camp.

Now many places are ruined, and a large number of displaced people gather around the capital city of Xi'an Prefecture in order to escape the war, and these people are the best source of soldiers.

It is an unspoken rule to recruit and surrender troops to supplement the troops, as auxiliaries, and this is true for everyone.

However, the recruitment of troops without an order is undoubtedly intolerable.

At the beginning, he recruited troops under the city of Pizhou, and it was only after Hong Chengchou authorized Cao Wenzhao that Cao Wenzhao dared to let Chen Wang openly recruit troops.

Chen Wang glanced at the fairly straight recruits standing on the school grounds.

Another letter was to Gao Jie, discussing his merits anyway, and conferred him as a camp.

The so-called "sitting in the battalion" is also a battalion general, which is different from the battalion generals of the general army, deputy generals, staff generals, guerrillas, etc.

Although he also led the troops alone, he was directly under the jurisdiction of the governor, and the soldiers in the battalion were called "pacesetters".

The pacesetter battalion under the command of Hong Chengchou now has a total of 2,600 people.

The battalion generals who lead the pacesetter battalion are called "sitting camps", and of course they are also called "Chinese army".

The name of the pacesetter battalion under each governor has basically changed, and the establishment of its battalion is basically different.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the military system of the town and garrison was extremely complex and, in a sense, quite chaotic.

Gao Jie became a battalion general, and Chen Wang was not surprised.

There is a merit anyway, another big victory, and the surrender of the troops, and the reward of a battalion general, making a move of a thousand gold and bones.

I'm afraid that not many people will choose to surrender in the future.

But Chen Wang never thought that Hong Chengchou would directly arrange Gao Jie in the pacesetter camp.

However, after thinking about it carefully, Chen Wang felt that the decision made by Hong Chengchou was indeed out of deep thought.

Most of the soldiers under Gao Jie's command are from rogue backgrounds, and it is best to control them when they are around.

Gao Jie himself because of his fornication with the Xing family, coupled with Chunhua anyway, is incompatible with Liukou, and can only go one way to the dark.

Moreover, if it is grouped into a direct report, it can be cut off from standing in line with others and easy to control.

The pacesetters under Hong Chengchou originally numbered nearly 4,000 people, but they suffered a large number of casualties in several major battles later.

After that, the number of troops continued to decrease, until now there are only 2,600 men left.

Now that the war is imminent, Hong Chengchou has put Gao Jie in the pacesetter sequence, and his purpose is obvious.

It won't be long before the dispatch order will come down and order Gao Jie to lead his troops south.

Chen Wang's eyes swept solemnly at the group of recruits on the school ground.

Today is August 21, and seven days have passed since the end of recruitment.

Most of the recruits were hungry soldiers, so Chen Wang did not immediately order training.

There are seven days in total, and the seven days are spent in the general to recuperate the body, and of course, to recite the military law.

For the first three days, he ordered people to boil rice porridge so that he could eat as much as he could.

After that, he spent money to buy a batch of meat and added it to the rice porridge.

On the fifth day, all the rice porridge was replaced with dry rice, and a little more meat and vegetables were added.

These recruits who were recruited into the battalion were already much better, and the color on their faces had subsided a little.

However, if you want to fully recover, I am afraid it will take at least half a month or so.

These hungry soldiers just eat less at ordinary times, not because they don't eat at all, and their bodies are on the thin side.

Haosheng will definitely be able to raise it back for half a month, and now Chen Wang is not short of money.

Xi'an is not far to the south, as long as there is silver, all kinds of meat, eggs and milk can be bought.

For seven days, there was no disturbance in the camp, and all the recruits stayed in the camp honestly, reciting military laws every day.

The instructors who taught military discipline were the more than 300 soldiers who had been recruited in Pizhou.

Now there are only ten days until September, and September is the time for Gao Yingxiang to move eastward.

A big war is about to break out in the South.

In history, Gao Yingxiang joined the other two roads, combined 400,000 troops, and fought with more than 10,000 Ming troops led by Hong Chengchou in Sanyuan.

Although there was a huge disparity in troops, the battle situation did not form a crushing momentum, and victory was delayed.

In October, Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong and other people were ineffective in fighting the Ming army.

So the soldiers and horses were assembled and went east out of Tongguan again, and they were divided into thirteen battalions and marched eastward.

Now, because of their own interference, and the butterfly effect, there is a chain reaction.

Most of the soldiers and horses on the two roads of Pingliang Mansion and Qingyang Mansion were routed, and now only the 250,000 troops led by Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong remained.

It stands to reason that Hong should be able to win more easily.

However, the situation on the battlefield changed in an instant, and the difference was a thousand miles.

The war is dangerous, and no one can determine whether to win or lose until the war is over.

Chen Wang had calculated the situation, and the probability that Hong Chengchou would summon him to go south to help was very low.

Because on paper, Chen Wang now has only more than 900 Liao cavalry under his command, plus more than 900 battalion soldiers, a total of 1,800 people.

The guards must not be considered combat-effective, and after the battle of Chunhua, the guards will definitely be transferred back to Xi'an.

The reason why Hong Chengchou mobilized the guards was really because there were no soldiers to send under his command and no one was available.

It can only be that Zhang is suspicious of setting up an ambush, so he is suspicious and sends the guards out, so that they can guard the city under a false banner, so that the rogues do not dare to move easily.

If you want to transfer, it should also be to transfer Zuo Liangyu to the south, and Zuo Liangyu's subordinates are now elite soldiers with outstanding combat power.

The 1,800 people under his command were too few, and Chen Wang felt that most of them would be transferred to Qingyang Mansion to garrison Ningzhou.

Because the current Qingyang Mansion is not peaceful, the threat from the north has not been completely lifted.

Zhenning is the southernmost gateway city of Qingyang Province, while Ningzhou is the second gateway to the south of Qingyang Province.

Now that the army led by Li Zicheng was defeated, a small number of elite horsemen followed Li Zicheng into the Guanzhong Plain, and the other part was captured in Chunhua.

More were intercepted by Zuo Liangyu in Sanshui and sent to Pizhou.

Sanshui and Chunhua were both under the jurisdiction of Pizhou, and the resettlement of displaced people was the business of local officials in Pizhou, and their generals only needed to lead troops to fight.

After receiving the news of the defeat, Li Guo, Li Zicheng's nephew, led his elite cavalry and horse army to flee all the way north without looking back.

Li Guo's subordinates are all cavalry, so naturally they don't have much siege ability.

Ningzhou has been besieged several times before, but Ningzhou is a state city after all, the city is built and the pond is solid, and there are many young and strong people in the city.

After all, Qingyang Mansion is close to the border, and the guards still have the strength to fight, relying on the city wall and the young guards in the city, barely keeping the city.

Moreover, Li Zicheng and Hui Dengxiang were on guard against each other, so they did not attack the city with all their might, and Ningzhou City was retained and did not fall.

However, the residents outside the city of Ningzhou and the residents of the surrounding towns and villages have basically suffered, and they have all been swept into the tide.

After the fall of the two cities of Zhenning and Sanshui, they are now dilapidated, the people are withered, and the city defense is almost destroyed, which is not suitable for defense.

In addition to Li Guo, who fled north, there is also a large stream of rogues led by Hui Dengxiang in the north.

Li Zicheng and Hui Deng divided their troops before, Li Zicheng went south, and Hui Deng went north.

Previously, Hong Chengchou had already ordered Yansui Town to divide his troops to defend Qingyang in the south, and at the same time intercept the route of Liukou to the north.

And Hui Dengxiang naturally knew each other, so he did not attack the capital city of Qingyang Mansion, but made a detour to Heshui City in the northeast and advanced in the direction of Huachi.

It seems that he wants to take advantage of the southern part of Yansui Town to march in the direction of Yan'an Mansion.

This strategy seems to be bold, and it actually wants to enter Yan'an Mansion by borrowing from the defense area of the Ming army's important town.

But in real terms, this strategy is actually feasible.

Because now more than 3,000 soldiers led by Yu Chongxiao, the chief soldier of Yansui Town, are guarding the capital of Qingyang Mansion at this time.

Yansui Town is located in northern Shaanxi, which has been in drought for many years, dilapidated, and there are many people who have fled and left the chaos, and there are many vacancies in the battalion.

Among the 36 battalions of the 13 families today, most of them are the fugitive battalions from Guyuan and Yansui towns as the backbone core.

Zhang Xianzhong is the battalion soldier of Yansui Town, and Li Zicheng and Wang Jiayin are also from the border army.

The current Yansui Town is extremely empty, and most of the troops are defending on the border.

The more than 3,000 soldiers led by Yu Chongxiao are actually one-third of the combat strength of Yansui Town.

In addition, in order to rescue Pingliang Mansion, Hong Chengchou also dispatched a part of the soldiers from Yansui Town to support.

No one knows what Hui Dengxiang thinks, but he did grasp the weakest link of the Ming army.

Yu Chongxiao had already left Qingyang Mansion, evacuated and returned to Yansui Town, and made a detour to intercept Hui Dengxiang's northbound route.

I am afraid that in seven or eight days, the order to move the camp will come over.

There is not much time left for Chen Wang to train his troops in Chunhua safely, but after arriving in Ningzhou, there should be about a month of stable time.

The wind hunted and hunted, blowing the flags standing on the platform, and also puffing up the robes worn by the armored soldiers around them.

Chen Wang retracted his thoughts and raised his eyes to look at the school grounds.

What catches your eye is a numb, lifeless face.

They have lost their homes, they have lost their families, they have lost everything they had before.

Natural disasters and man-made disasters followed, and they struggled hard.

But they were mercilessly drowned by the torrent of the times, they had no strength to resist, and they didn't even have the idea of resisting in their hearts.

Their clothes were ragged, their bodies were thin and thin, and their lives were hard and miserable.

They have no way, no ability to change all this, they just simply live, and they have done their best.

There was no murder in their eyes, and they were just a group of farmers who worked in the fields all day long.

Feed on the sky and survive on the earth.

It is like the lowliest grass on earth, to be trodden down.

Their fate is not in their own hands.

Their eyes are full of fear, and many of them have long lost hope for the future.

Their whole life, their everything, their suffering, no one knows.

In troubled times......

Man is like an ant, and his life is like a mustard......