After taking Henan in its entirety, the Chinese army temporarily ceased operations and consolidated various localities. However, despite this, other regions of Dashun still took the initiative to send envoys to contact the Dahua court in Nanjing.

Hong Chengchou, the governor of Shanxi, Li Zunzu, the general soldier of Liaodong, and others all sent envoys at this time, expressing their willingness to belong to the Dahua court.

It's not that they haven't moved the mind of self-reliance, but judging from the current strength in their hands, let alone Dahua, even if it is Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi, they can't compare, they don't have the capital at all, and they can only choose to return to Dahua.

If you want soldiers without soldiers, if you want money but no money, how can you compete with various forces?

Nowadays, people are knives and I am fish and meat, and they don't have much choice.

Yan Quan naturally accepted their surrender, sent soldiers in, and smoothly took over the defense of various important places, officially bringing this large and vast area under his command.

During this period, the Ming army in Shu tried to go north, wanting to bite off a piece of meat from the fallen Dashun, but was defeated by the Shun army and the Chinese army that arrived later, not only failed to take advantage, but lost the army and retreated.

And after basically accepting all the territory of Dashun, the Chinese army also stopped temporarily.

The territory of the new occupation is too large to be digested for a while, and the officials are not yet in place, and the army must remain in the newly occupied area to prevent any accidents in the implementation of the policy.

In fact, according to such a hurricane and sweeping the world, Dahua's troops should be insufficient.

After all, the total strength of the Hua Dynasty was only 300,000, and it was simply not enough to disperse in this vast area, and it was already overstretched.

Fortunately, after several major battles, the number of Shun troops who surrendered and were captured was extremely large.

Yan Ling simply ordered to screen out people with innocent family backgrounds and good attitudes from these Shun troops, reorganize them after disrupting them, recruit some young men from the local area, and after a little training and admonition, they formed a guard army.

These guards, the number of about more than 100,000, weapons are mainly swords, bows and arrows in the inventory, the combat effectiveness is not very strong, but to assist in the garrison, it is enough, so that more elite troops can free up their hands to participate in the war.

Of course, the important cities were still garrisoned by the official Chinese army.

However, this is only a stopgap measure, and the conscription continues.

The training of new recruits has hardly been interrupted, and in the near future, a new group of soldiers will complete their training and enlist in the army, and new recruitment notices have been posted, and the response from the people has been quite enthusiastic, and many people have enthusiastically joined the army.

Mainly in the army of Dahua as a soldier, its treatment and status are excellent, salary, food and other aspects are formulated by the military department, strict control, military law department supervision and implementation, all kinds of measures are very perfect, far more than the army of other forces, and after a series of updates and iterations of weapons, medical care, the casualty rate has also dropped greatly, and has the role of education and propaganda, the Chinese army is powerful all over the world at the same time, but also set off a wave of military upsurge.

As a result, even if the imperial court has formulated some mandatory requirements for soldiers' culture, physical fitness, etc., every time a conscription is made, the conscription office is still full, and many people are even willing to study and train for this purpose, and there is no shortage of soldiers.

It's just that because the Chinese Dynasty has relatively high requirements for soldiers in all aspects, it often takes a lot of time for each batch of recruits to be trained.

However, the soldiers are more expensive than too many, Yan Ling would rather have fewer of his own army than the army that is hundreds of thousands at every turn and will actually collapse in a battle. It is precisely this strategy that has forged the prestige of the Chinese army to win all battles.

In any case, the Hua Dynasty was temporarily suspended.

The war in the world has calmed down, but this is only temporary, and everyone is actively preparing.

Especially the two in the southwest, under the current situation of the great enemy, they also seem to have reached a certain tacit understanding, the troops stationed on the border of the two began to be greatly reduced, and the main forces were sent to the front line, ready to guard against the attack of the Chinese army.

They knew that the tiger in the east could let out a deafening howl at any moment.

And what they can do is to prepare measures before the tiger descends the mountain, in the hope that they can resist them.

In March of the fourth year of Dahua, the tiger's roar shook the world.

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The steam locomotive roared loudly and moved forward quickly amid the billowing smoke. Inside the locomotive, the soldiers were sitting precariously with muskets in their hands, waiting to rush to the battlefield, and in the carriages behind them, a large number of ordnance and supplies were stacked, ready for battle.

On the official road, a mighty army marched, soldiers carrying guns and weapons on their backs, marching forward in orderly steps, horses behind them pulling heavy cannons, reflecting the light in the sunlight.

The garrisons in many areas were withdrawn, the defense was taken over by the guards, and those main forces, after converging, formed a torrent and mighty and mighty.

The number of troops mobilized by the Chinese army this time is two corps, namely Yan Chengfang's corps, and the corps under Qu Yuanju, who has repeatedly made war exploits and has become the commander of the corps, with a total strength of 220,000 troops, with Yan Chengfang as the commander.

This was Dahua's largest use of troops, and the intention of marching to the southwest with an army of this size was self-evident.

This is no longer a simple battle to destroy and fight against a certain force.

Rather, it is to unify the world once and for all.

They prepared to launch an attack on Huguang's Daxi first.

Zhang Xianzhong prepared a large army on the border of Huguang, strengthened the city, and also sent several of his righteous sons to lead troops to garrison in various places, fully prepared, and had long been waiting for their arrival.

However, when the Chinese army really arrived and began to attack the city, he realized that such preparations were simply not enough.

Not long after the war began, Zhang Xianzhong got the news that the two legions of the Chinese army, one north and one east, broke his defense line and broke into the territory of Daxi.

The defense line he had carefully built was already in tatters before it could barely hold out for three days, the border cities were lost one after another, the generals were either killed in battle or retreated, and the army suffered heavy losses.

At this time, the main forces of these two legions had turned and at the same time rushed towards Wuchang, the capital of his Daxi.

The time for the decisive battle has come.

Zhang Xianzhong was a little frustrated, but he quickly realized it.

He immediately issued an order to gather the remaining Daxi soldiers and distribute them in various city routes, while he himself sat in Wuchang, preparing for the final decisive battle with the Chinese army here.

(End of chapter)