Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 264

The part of the left army that Zhu Yu said has completed the selection refers to the five battalions of Chang Deng, Xu Ensheng, Zhang Yingxiang, Wu Xueli, and Hao Xiaozhong who were either captured or voluntarily surrendered during the Jiangxia water battle and Jiangxia's capture.

Selection is still based on three aspects: age, physical fitness, and willingness to join the army.

According to the report of the Hong Niangzi who was in charge of the selection work, the five battalions finally selected [-] elite soldiers and more than [-] soldiers who dared to fight.

Among the remaining tens of thousands of people, except for a small number of people who decided on their own will, took the severance pay to return to their hometowns, or accepted government resettlement, and another [-] people will be organized into the industrial army.

Considering that the long-distance march consumes more food and grass, and it is easy to affect the mentality of the soldiers, Zhang Kuang finally led [-] left army elite soldiers to Jizhou Town, located between Jinshui Town and Jiayu County, for reorganization and training, and was also responsible for riverside defense.

More than [-] people were selected from the elite of the original left army, and they were replaced with Hong Niangzi's guards.

The replacement battalion of Imperial Guards was handed over to Zhang Kuang as a standard battalion. It was not only the person who supervised the training of the [-] left army elite soldiers, but also the source of some generals for the new border guards in the future.

As for the original Zuojun, all the generals above the general level stayed in Jiangxia to study in the general training camp established by Hong Niangzi, and then they will be appointed according to the learning situation.

The more than [-] soldiers who dared to fight were led by Du Yinxi to Jiayu County for reorganization and training, and was also responsible for the defense of Jiayu County.

Du Yinxi had already brought two battalions of tendering soldiers, so naturally there was no need for Hong Niangzi to send someone to replace him.

According to the plan, these brave soldiers trained by Du Yinxi will be organized into the Huguang garrison.

As for the more than [-] workers and troops, they will be led by He Tengjiao, who has completed his inspection tour of Wuchang prefectures and counties.

In the afternoon of that day, Zhang Kuang and Du Yinxi left Jiangxia City with the soldiers and horses selected from the selection process.

Zeng Ying led the four generals Yang Zhan, Liu Wenxiu, Li Zhanchun, Yu Dahai and their troops to Hankou Town.

Just at this time, Jin Shenghuan's troops also retreated to Hankou Town.

Knowing that Auntie Zhu ordered his troops to retreat to Jiangxia City for reorganization, and seeing Zeng Ying's elite soldiers from the four towns, Jin Shenghuan took the order without hesitation.

However, Jin Shenghuan himself was left in the army by Zeng Ying, and Lu Guangzu, the commander-in-chief of his troops who had not yet been selected, was also brought in by Zeng Ying.

The orders were naturally given by Aunt Zhu.

In name, they were asked to temporarily serve as Zeng Ying's military counselor, but in fact they were taking necessary precautions.

It's not that she doesn't trust these two people so much, it's just that she doesn't want to give them a chance to make mistakes.

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It was also in this afternoon that countless civilian ships flying the banners of "Dashun", "Li", and "Liu" came from Hanshui to Hanyang Prefecture to govern Hanchuan.

If someone looked down from the sky, they would find that there were as many as two to three thousand civilian ships in this huge team, and each ship was packed with soldiers, while there were only dozens of warships.

And there is only one warship of four hundred materials, and the rest are small warships of one or two hundred materials.

The [-]-seat warship not only flew a tall "Dashun" flag, but also erected a Tenglong flag that was too bright and slightly embroidered.

At the same time, a banner with the word "Li" is flying.

On the roof of the second floor of the ship, a one-eyed man in a majestic sun hat stood leaning on the railing, accompanied by a tall, fat, and thin civil servant.

These three are Li Zicheng, Niu Jinxing, and Song Xiance.

Seeing that the fleet in front had successfully berthed at the Hanchuan Wharf, and there was no trace of the Ming army on the shore, Niu Jinxing immediately bowed to Li Zicheng and said with a smile, "Congratulations, Your Majesty, for taking Hanchuan!"

Song Xiance also said: "Congratulations, Your Majesty, now that Hanchuan is here, Hanyang Mansion is in our pocket."

Li Zicheng only showed a slight smile on his face, and he was not overly happy. Instead, he frowned slightly after smiling, and said, "That Douli (Jin Shenghuan) can be regarded as a veteran general who has fought for more than ten years. It is said that there are [-] soldiers and horses under his command." , I didn’t expect to abandon Hanchuan directly.”

Niu Jinxing said with a smile: "Your Majesty led an army of tens of thousands to come in person, and broke Qianjiang first, and his reputation was greatly boosted. Jin Shenghuan dared to resist, so he naturally retreated."

Song Xiance said: "Actually, if he can stick to Hanchuan, whether it is for us to attack and destroy it, or to ambush reinforcements around him, the situation will be better than it is now.

Now he has probably retreated to Hankou and Jiangxia. If he listens to Princess Jian Guo's orders, it will be equivalent to adding [-] soldiers to Princess Jian Guo. "

Hearing this, although Niu Jinxing still kept smiling, there was a hint of displeasure in his eyes.

I thought to myself, why does Li Yan come and Song Xiance always likes to hinder him from flattering?
He just wanted to flatter Li Zicheng and make Li Zicheng happy, so that everyone would be better off. Why didn't anyone understand his painstaking efforts?
It's too difficult for him as Da Shunzai.

But Li Zicheng had a cold light in his one eye, and said: "Send an order to let the sentry ship in front continue to go downstream to investigate the movements of the Ming army in Hankou and Hanyang.

In addition, Liu Fangliang was ordered to lead his troops to go to the riverside by land north of the Han River to see if he could find an opportunity to capture Hankou Town by land.

Then lead Liu Zongmin to lead his troops to take the land route south of the Hanshui River, and went to the riverside to find an opportunity to attack Hanyang Town.

Tell them, if there is no chance, don't act rashly, just wait for me to lead the navy to arrive. "

Next to him, Song Xiance immediately drafted two military orders, handed them over to Li Zicheng for review and seal, and then sent them off the ship.

At this time, Song Xiance said again: "Your Majesty, I learned from Qianjiang's captive general that after Jiang Xia was captured by the Princess Jian Guo, she actually ordered Zuo Liangyu's ministries to reorganize.

She was obviously eager to gain control of Zuo Liangyu's troops, but doing so would definitely make the chiefs and generals under Zuo Liangyu's command feel alienated.

It is heard that Zuo Liangyu gathered 30 to [-] troops in Jiangxia, and now Jin Shenghuan has also retreated.

As for the team of Princess Jian Guo, according to the information we got in Jiangling, there are no more than 10 people at most.

Therefore, I thought that this time, maybe we could send people to sneak into the other side of the river to see if they could contact Zuo Liangyu's generals, so as to make a difference.

If our army fought against Princess Jianguo's army, Zuo Liangyu's generals would fight back, and they would definitely win a big victory! "

After listening to Song Xiance's words, Li Zicheng finally had more smiles on his face.

He said: "Let's just say, the demon girl just took advantage of her forehead to fight against the Qing army, so she deceived the crowd with her demonic words, and deceived Li Yan, Hong Niangzi and the others, so she occupied Sichuan and gained a momentary power.

But after all, she is just a teenage girl. She is very young in life, marching and fighting. How can she be an opponent?
Thinking that Zuo Liangyu claims to have 80 troops under his command, Zuo Liangyu himself may not be able to control all of them, but she wants to control those army leaders as soon as she comes, doesn't she let us see the flaws? "

When Niu Jinxing heard this, he immediately laughed and said, "Your Majesty is wise, that demon girl deserved her death, so His Majesty deserves Wuchang Mansion. Oh, by the way, there are also many guns in her army."

Li Zicheng has already developed a great immunity to Niu Jinxing's flattery, and he did not get carried away by being photographed, but said: "There are many guns in the demon army, we really need to pay attention.

If you want to fight against it this time, you must pay attention to controlling the battlefield in Hanshui.This way we are upstream and can use the fireboat to break the navy first. "

Song Xiance said: "I will tell the people below to collect more boats for use as arson boats."

"Well, there is a military division in this matter."

"This is a matter for the minister."

After the monarchs and ministers finished talking about attacking Wuchang, Li Zicheng couldn't help but look to the north.

He was wondering whether the Qing army had already started attacking Xiangyang, whether Bai Wang and others could hold it, and how long they could hold it...
　Sorry for the late update.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)