Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 42 Expansion system, training new recruits
Wang Yan brought nearly [-] people back to the camp, and the food and grass supplies that were considered abundant became stretched all of a sudden. It was not so easy to keep the people in the camp well fed every day.

Wang Yan made a promise to everyone, so naturally he couldn't break his promise and get rich, otherwise the prestige he had just established in the new stroke would collapse immediately.

At this time, including the old soldiers in the camp, there were already 1 people in the camp. People ate horses and chewed horses, and the daily consumption was an astonishing figure. Feng spends money to buy a sum of food and grass.

When Wang Yan was writing this letter, someone from outside the camp reported that a large amount of food and grass had been delivered from Chizhou City, so he immediately went out of the camp to check, and sure enough, he saw hundreds of bright carts coming towards the camp.

It turned out that Huang Degong was a little bit sorry when he learned that Tian Xiong handed over nearly [-] civilians who were kidnapped by the left army to Wang Yan. He didn't want to punish Tian Xiong, so he sent people to send food and grass to relieve Wang Yan's urgent need.

As the saying goes, if you have food in your hand, don't panic in your heart.

The grain and grass sent by Huang Degong was enough to feed the army for a month. Wang Yan had no logistical pressure, so he began to train the new soldiers, and waited for the imperial court's transfer order by the way.

The envoy to Tongling also changed from urging food to recruiting Qian Yifeng to meet him. Two days later, Qian Yifeng rushed to the outside of Chizhou City with the supplies left behind.

The armaments were not in order, so Wang Yan took the new recruits to conduct simple queue training all day long, making sure that all the troops were prohibited by order and the appearance of the army was pruned.

The new recruits ate their fill for a few days, and their strength gradually recovered, their faces gradually turned rosy, and Wang Yan also continued to increase the intensity of training.

The Chizhou garrison could see the recruits of the Zhongyi Battalion running around the city every morning, shouting chant, which immediately aroused a lot of discussion.

At first Tian Xiong and the others didn't take it seriously, "A group of refugees, a group of mobs, it's really ridiculous that Wang Yan wants to train a strong army.

But with the passage of time, Tian Xiong and the others could no longer laugh, not to mention how powerful the recruits were, but they were already extraordinary just by their looks.

One day, Huang Degong went to the city to inspect the defense of Chizhou City. He saw Wang Yanzheng leading the new soldiers to practice outside the city from a distance.

"Wang Shiheng is really a general!" Seeing a group of refugees, in just a few days, they were trained by Wang Yan to the point of being banned, and their military appearance was pruned. Talent, but unwilling to belong to this Marquis, what a pity, what a pity!"

All the generals behind him heard about it, some of them thought it was true, while others looked jealous and unhappy.

Time flies to April [-]th, seven days have passed since the first battle in Chizhou.

These days, the Zuo Army and the Ming Army often engage in battles, but most of them are water battles. The Battle of Chizhou dealt a heavy blow to the Zuo Army. Returning to Anqing, Ming regained control of the Yangtze River waterway.

The Yangtze River was reopened, and the connection between Chizhou and Nanjing made material transportation smoother and the time was greatly shortened.

On April [-]th, the imperial edict and reward arrived in Chizhou with the navy, and Wang Yan went to Chizhou to receive the reward.

Huang Degong's recommendation was accepted one by one by the imperial court. Because of his meritorious service, Wang Yan was named a third-rank general, commander of the Zhongyi Battalion, and general Zhaoyong, who guarded the three prefectures of Zhaoqing, Gaozhou, and Leizhou.

Wang Wei and Li Taizhen were promoted to guards, Liu Shun and Qian Yifeng were promoted to Qianhu, and everyone else was also rewarded one by one.

The imperial treasury was empty, but in order to cope with the two-front war, taxes had to be raised again. In order to make the front-line soldiers use their lives, the newly collected tax money also came with the imperial edict, 30 taels of silver, and the Loyalty Camp received [-].

At this time, Huang Degong also distributed the spoils of the first battle in Chizhou according to his promise, and Wang Yan offered to ask for [-] shirts, [-] bird rods, [-] swords, ten Flangji trots, and many others. Gunpowder, equip the troops of the Zhongyi Camp.

Wang Yan returned to the camp with supplies and silver. First of all, according to the agreement before departure, he distributed the silver rewards for the battle of Chizhou to the old soldiers according to their military achievements.

For 3 taels of silver, Wang Yan spent 5000 taels of silver before warming it up.

Looking at the old soldier with the white money, the new soldier is naturally envious.Wang Yan also took the opportunity to publicize the rules of rewards and punishments in his army, which immediately drew cheers from the new soldiers.

With the arrival of the equipment, Wang Yan then began to reorganize the Zhongyi Battalion. The cavalry remained unchanged and was still in charge of Li Taizhen. The changes in the infantry were huge. Six hundred veterans served as his personal guards.

Three thousand recruits and four hundred veterans formed three thousand-man teams, plus an artillery team of 400 men.

The three thousand-man teams, all with three long guns and seventy percent birds, were handed over to Wang Wei, Liu Shun, and Qian Yifeng respectively, and the 400-man artillery team was led by Wang Yan himself.

The expansion of the Loyalty Battalion made Wang Yandun feel that there was a shortage of talents. The imperial court was busy preparing for the Qing soldiers to go south, so they did not make appointments, and many important positions could only be temporarily vacated.

After the reorganization of the Loyalty Battalion was completed, Wang Yan began a new round of training.

The gunpowder obtained from Huang Degong was very sufficient, so that Wang Yan had no worries, so he practiced the bird commander and artillery team without hesitation, so that outside the city of Chizhou, the gunpowder was full of voices and gunpowder.

At this time, the benefits of queue training will appear.

The soldiers in the battalion were used to the previous orders and prohibitions, and they practiced the three-stage attack uniformly and uniformly, so they got twice the result with half the effort.

Wang Yan felt that the new Loyalty Battalion could quickly form combat power and become an elite division with only one real battle.

In this way, a few more days passed, and it was April 21.

Wang Yan was training his men and horses, but Huang Degong's envoy came to summon him suddenly. Wang Yan thought that the Chizhou Ming army would finally counterattack Anqing and cross the river to attack Zuo Menggeng, but an urgent report came from Yangzhou.

The Qing army in Henan went south from Shangqiu on the fifth day of April, and arrived at Sizhou on the [-]th.

The Ming army and the Zuo army fought fiercely on the western front, and the Qing army took advantage of the trend to invade the south. Shi Kefa, the governor of Jiangbei, suddenly panicked and had no way to deal with it.

He issued three transfer orders to Ying Tingji's troops stationed in Gaoyou in one day. In the afternoon, it was ordered that "Xuyi is in a hurry, and Pisu Road can supervise all the troops to Tianchang to respond".

With a distance of thousands of miles and three adjustments a day, Shi Kefa is already in chaos.

Before the reinforcements arrived at Xuyi, Shi Kefa learned that the Xuyi defenders had surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, which immediately caused chaos in the army, and the army almost lost control.

On April [-]th, Duoduo's army marched to Yangzhou and set up camp [-] miles away. The next day, when the troops approached the city, Shi Kefa had to spread the word to various places, asking for reinforcements to Yangzhou.

　It's actually snowing here in Guangdong!

　　The author and Jiyou set off from Qingxi, braved the snow all the way, and rode for two hours before arriving at Zhangmutou. become icy cold.

　　The author rode for less than [-] kilometers, and had to ride back in despair. Halfway through, the friend even had a flat tire. Thinking about the rhetoric in the circle of friends, it was really embarrassing.

　　There should be a little more today. In addition, I would like to thank Xiaocha Harcan and Yinghuo Shouxin for their recommendation and support.

　　


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