After dealing with Niu Jinxing's matter, Li Yan didn't bother to ask about the situation on Xin'an's side, this letter was bound to cause an uproar, but he believed that Li Zicheng would definitely make a choice.

really said that if he wanted to eat Li Zicheng and be anti-guest-oriented, then he would be far from being able to do it, but the current situation is that Li Zicheng is about to run out of food in Xin'an, and he originally planned to fight Luoyang to solve the food problem, but Li Yan took the lead, in this situation, Li Yan believes that Li Zicheng will make a choice between him and Niu Jinxing.

Even if you don't kill the bull Venus, you should be deposed from the decision-making center!

Of course, how Li Zicheng will decide that is a matter for later, and at this stage his focus should still be placed on two directions: First, with the re-expansion of the reserve army, the previous military system is no longer applicable to the reserve army, and he must carry out military reform again.

Second, Luoyang Xinxia, although now he still restricts his soldiers from looting, after all, the city has not yet stabilized, but when the overall situation is settled, what he promised must be done, how to maintain the people's hearts and restore production is also the second big problem.

The second question is that he is a little eyebrows, Zhao Jing did a good job in Yongning, after Luoyang conquered, it was Zhao Jing who sent the first batch of food, in addition, Yongning's popular heart has also been restored with Zhao Jing's conscientious efforts, Li Yan is very satisfied with this, and praised Zhao Jing for his "talent in governing the world" several times.

Now let's see if I want to pull Zhao Jing up and let him come to Luoyang to do things and be in charge of Luoyang's civil affairs, of course, I can't move it now, after all, he is nominally Li Zicheng's subordinate, and it's not good to be too arrogant, this matter can only be slowly figured out.

And another thing is imminent, and that is military reform.

The number of troops swelled from 3,000 to 7,000, and the original system of the reserve army could not cope with such rapid expansion at all; in fact, when the army was expanded to 3,000, various problems had already appeared in the original military system, and Li Yan did not break the original establishment, but simply expanded the number, which led to the expansion of the number of people at each outpost and the ineffective command.

In response to this situation, Li Yan and Gao Yigong discussed and decided to take advantage of Luoyang's new victory and prestige to comprehensively reorganize the surrendered Ming army and the original reserve army and rebuild the military structure.

In view of this situation, Li Yan and Gao Yigong decided to adopt the "battalion system" of the Ming army to carry out reform.

Of course, in fact, Li Zicheng's old battalion was also born out of the "battalion system" of the Ming army.

According to the new regulations of the reserve army, the reserve army will be divided into three parts, and battalions will be set up under the unit of "army." This can be regarded as a clear "army" unit in a practical sense, and there is no "army" unit in the army, but the battalion is the largest unit.

7,000 people than the Ming military camp system, 3,000 people for a battalion, respectively, the left battalion and the right battalion, each battalion set up a "battalion general" one, deputy general, three thousand people of the battalion divided into three posts, each post set up a total of one post, one deputy post, the post is divided into five teams, set up a team of deputy, a team of 100 people down to four general flags (Ming system), and then set up ten small flags (Ming system) under the general flag.

It can be said that according to the current division method, the entire reserve army is completely different from Li Zicheng's old battalion, but it is quite similar to the Ming army, which can be regarded as the first step in the regularization of the reserve army.

Li Yan didn't want friction between the surrendered Ming army and the reserve army, which would affect the integration of the two sides, so he simply let the Ming army be self-contained, so as to give full play to its maximum combat effectiveness.

The left battalion will be appointed by Li Yan Zhang Hong, the reason is also very simple, Zhang Hong is Li Zicheng's personal soldier, senior, and brave in battle, Li Laiheng is too young, Hao Yongzhong is brave but it is doubtful whether he can take charge alone, Huang Jun can compete with Zhang Hong, but he was injured last time and couldn't even get out of bed, so he can only do it.

The left battalion general Zhang Hong, and the three subordinate posts have also been expanded, from the initial establishment of 200 people to the current establishment of 1,000 people, respectively served by Li Laiheng, Huang Jun, Hao Yongzhong, although Guo Junzhen is very capable, but has always been inseparable from Li Yanruo, so Li Yan is not sure in his heart, so he still only gave a team officer.

As for Liu Wenbing, Li Yan originally wanted to mention him as a team officer and decompose Guo Junzhen's forces, but Liu Wenbing refused to obey and wanted to be Guo Junzhen's deputy, Li Yan had no choice but to nod and agree, and Jia Yuan was also arranged by Li Yan to be a team officer.

As for the right battalion general, Li Yan was promoted to Ren Jirong, although Ren Jirong hesitated when he rebelled, but this person has military experience, is from a military household, a standard hereditary general, his younger brother Ren Guangrong held a military position in Huguang, and his military struggle experience is not necessarily lower than that of Gao Yigong, such a person Li Yan will naturally reuse.

There is no suspense for the several sentry commanders under the right battalion, namely Xie Yinglong, Tian Hu, and Meng Changgeng, Meng Changgeng is considered to have soared into the sky, Li Yan has a good impression of this brave and courteous young officer, and Meng Changgeng has indeed broken the city, so Li Yan also took advantage of the situation to pull him out as the head of the sentry.

You must know that Meng Changgeng had no experience in war before, but now he has been directly promoted to the leader of a thousand people, and Meng Changgeng, who was moved, swore to be loyal to Li Yan to death.

As for Tian Hu's thoughts, it was a matter between him and Meng Changgeng, and it didn't have much to do with him, Li Yan was also willing to watch the two of them fight, only fighting could be stable, all of them were harmonious, and it would be difficult for him to be a leader.

Wang Xueli was taken out by Li Yan alone to be a "cavalry direct battalion general", which means that Wang Xueli has also become one of the three major battalion generals, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is riding a rocket, although there are still about two hundred cavalry under his hands, and his strength has not changed, but his status has changed dramatically.

Li Yan wants to build the cavalry into a completely different type of troops, which involves the core of Li Yan's military reform, that is, the adjustment of cavalry tactics, Wang Xueli's cavalry tactics exposed many problems in the war with Wang Shaoyu.

First of all, Wang Xueli has no cavalry tactics at all, that is, he rushes indiscriminately, relying on speed and power to break the morale of the enemy's foot soldiers, but fortunately, this time Wang Shaoyu underestimated the enemy and leaked a bare ass, so he was stabbed with chrysanthemums, but the battlefield is not so lucky.

Without complete cavalry tactics as support, Wang Xueli would be defeated on the battlefield sooner or later.

Li Yan attaches great importance to the reform of the cavalry this time, first of all, he wants to increase the number of cavalry, hoping to increase from the current two hundred to six hundred, but unfortunately both horses and numbers are a problem, but now there is no shortage of silver, and it can be solved slowly.

Second, it is the adjustment of tactics, Li Yan is determined to change the cavalry tactics that he has adhered to for a long time in breaking into the camp, but to rely on the modern cavalry tactics, that is, the line cavalry tactics.

Li Zicheng's cavalry tactics were born from the Ming army, and Wang Xueli also played this set, which actually combined the lack of armor of the army and the tactical pursuit of light cavalry.

Li Zicheng is about to fight, will divide the cavalry into three, in turn to charge, if there is a backlash that is, cut off, if the charge can not defeat the enemy, then will retreat to lure the enemy, and wait for the enemy to pursue and then defeat with infantry, this set of tactics can not be said to be unscientific, in fact, it is a variant of Mongolian cavalry shooting, and the border army of the Ming Dynasty is also used to such a way of playing.

There are only four popular cavalry tactics in the world now, one of which is the traditional hussar tactics, that is, the cavalry does not line up, charges at will, breaks through when there is a gap, and intersperses it when there is a gap, which is a typical way of playing sports warfare, fighting is a freedom, giving full play to the flexibility of the cavalry to the greatest extent, but if it encounters a tight formation, the well-trained enemy army will overturn.

The second is the cavalry archery tactics that the Mongols like to play, nailing the infantry phalanx in place through archers and cavalry archery, consuming the physical strength and endurance of the infantry if they do not listen, forcing the enemy's heavy cavalry to expel them, and then tempting the enemy's heavy cavalry to pursue, chasing all the way to consume the physical strength of the heavy cavalry, and at the same time causing a certain amount of injury (bows and arrows can hardly shoot armored cavalry, but can shoot wounds)

When the heavy cavalry is difficult to support, their own heavy cavalry will attack, destroy the opponent's heavy cavalry in one fell swoop, and then without the protection of the cavalry, the infantry is the fish and meat on the board, plus the consumption of the archers, it is easy to be crushed by the heavy cavalry, the Mongols are proficient in this method, and this is how the Eastern European knights were tortured in Eastern Europe.

The Ming border army had dealt with the Mongols for a long time and gradually became familiar with this method, and Li Zicheng's tactics were born out of it (but unfortunately there was a lack of heavy cavalry, so it could only be replaced by infantry, and the effect was much smaller.) ）

Third, there is now a rudimentary line cavalry tactics in Europe, which will divide the cavalry into a number of horizontal rows to charge, the first row acts as a meat shield, someone is shot or arrows fall to the ground, and the back rows are made up in turn, each cavalry is armed with a spear, and always rushes to the infantry with a cavalry wall.

The reason for this tactical brutality is that the deterrent is too strong, the cavalry in the front row almost sees death as home, and once trapped, it may die with the enemy, but the advantage is that through this brutal way, the enemy's infantry phalanx can be torn apart in an instant, and then the cavalry behind will follow up to form a razor effect, directly shaving off the enemy infantry, and even forming a battlefield situation of rolling bead curtains, instantly collapsing all enemy troops.

Of course, this tactic is almost perverted for the discipline of cavalry, but it is not very demanding for horsemanship, and Li Yan plans to engage in this tactic.

Fourth, it is now the "dragoon" tactics of the Manchurian cavalry on the battlefield of Liaodong, that is, the cavalry infantry, and the Manchurian army often combines the cavalry tactics with the dragoons' fighting style, and there will even be eight flags of horses to shoot at the Ming army, and the Ming army pursues and then goes on the horse to consume.

Ironically, the Manchu Qing Dynasty in a sense of cavalry tactics, even ahead of the West, naturally formed a crushing advantage over the Ming army and the Mongol army, which were still stuck in the traditional cavalry and archery tactics.

The line cavalry is the focus of Li Yan's next cavalry reform, he wants to build a modern cavalry out, and completely abandon the old-fashioned cavalry tactics of the army......