Ming Empire

Chapter 165 Urgently
A total of 5000 soldiers were recruited in the first batch, organized into ten battalions, plus the three battalions left over from the original reorganization, the Nanjing Town Army has 5000 battalions, with a total size of about [-].

The Musket Battalion brought by Cao Yue from Datong has been dismantled in half, leaving only about 2000 people in the first battalion, and the other [-] people have been filled into other battalions as the backbone.The next training will also be led by these backbones.

Cao Yue hopes that through such integration, an army with certain combat effectiveness can be trained as soon as possible.

Although it is said that Jiannu suffered a disastrous defeat under the city of Datong, most of the losses were from the Han army, the Korean army, and the Mongols, and the Jurchen forces were basically not lost. The ability to invade south on a large scale.

There was no major loss in the strength of the bandits. In this battle, although Cao Yue defeated Li Yan's men, and several Ming armies later prevented Li Yan and Liu Zongmin from going north, they did not eliminate many bandits.It can be said that the power of the bandits is very large.

Although the Datong Army achieved a great victory in the just-concluded battle, it also paid a heavy price. More than 1 soldiers were killed or lost combat effectiveness due to injuries. Most of the other troops were taken to Shaanxi and Henan by Sun Chuanting. To suppress chaos.

In the north, especially in the Datong area, there will be no elite frontier guards. If Jiannu comes to attack again, no one can predict what will happen to the battle.Beijing's defense is also empty.The troops that Sun Chuanting brought to Shaanxi and Henan were considered to be capable of fighting. The rest of the Ming army, except for Hong Chengchou in Liaodong and Zu Dashou's command of some capable people, the rest were mobs.

According to Cao Yue's knowledge, there are tens of thousands of rogues now. It can be said that the situation in the world is not optimistic.

In order to eliminate the bandits and defeat Jiannu, it is necessary to train an elite team as soon as possible.

Cao Yue knows that this is a lofty goal, and now it can only be regarded as a dream. Now he can only hope that the situation can be temporarily balanced, and that the Ming army can block the attacks of Jiannu and rogue bandits, so that the situation will not be too extreme. deterioration.

Cao Yue knew that if Sun Chuanting was unfavorable in the war in Henan, the power of the rogues would probably grow stronger, and the history of the fall of Beijing was very likely to repeat itself.Jiannu will definitely not let go of the opportunity for the fisherman to gain profits. They will take advantage of the growing power of the rogues to send troops to deal a severe blow to Daming. He must train the army well as soon as possible so that when the situation is critical It can save emergencies and not give rogues and slaves a chance.

In other words, the most urgent thing for Cao Yue to do now is to train an army that can cope with the situation.

With an army capable of fighting, he can control the current situation, and maybe he can rule the world.At least, you can also leave a way out for yourself and your family, so that you will be like a bereaved dog when you get it, and you can only run away in the end, without the ability to resist.

Due to many urgent reasons, Cao Yue strictly ordered the soldiers under his command to train with the strictest posture and form an army as soon as possible.

A battalion soldier he brought over from Datong was the most elite of the Datong army, and his military quality was far beyond that of ordinary Ming officials.They were enriched into other battalions and trained with these people as the backbone. Cao Yue believed that results would be achieved soon.

The special guard battalion now only has 280 members, and they have sacrificed a lot in several battles. Now they are going to continue to recruit in this recruitment, and they can expand the special guard battalion to about 1000 people.

In Cao Yue's report, he planned to recruit 10 troops. This plan was approved by Emperor Chongzhen. Of course, Cao Yue would continue to recruit soldiers. The conscription order he issued was valid for a long time.In order to select better soldiers, he expanded the recruiting targets to the Zhejiang area.At that time, the Qi family army was mainly composed of Zhejiang people. Cao Yue sent his confidant Cao Neng to recruit soldiers in Zhejiang.He told Cao Neng to only select young and middle-aged men who are outstanding in all aspects. He doesn't need many, just fine.

Wang Ning, the supervising army sent by Emperor Chongzhen, is Wang Chengen's cousin. Through Wang Chengen's relationship and his own bribery, Cao Yue has made this eunuch sent by Emperor Chongzhen to monitor him become his effective ally.With Wang Ning's help, Cao Yue obtained some things that were difficult to obtain. Of course, the most important thing was to allow Emperor Chongzhen to delegate more power and give him more autonomy.

When Cao Yue was in Datong, he bought a lot of firearm-making machines from the Portuguese and hired many Western craftsmen. Cao Yue temporarily put these people and machines in Nanjing and did not transport them to Datong.

Now that he has come to Nanjing, these machines and skilled workers can also start to fulfill their mission.

There are many firearms manufacturing workshops in Nanjing. After Cao Yue came to Nanjing, he took over all the firearms workshops through Wang Ning, and built a new firearms workshop covering a large area.Although it is said that these machines were bought with their own money, and the craftsmen were also hired with their own money, and now a new firearms factory is being built in the name of the government, Cao Yue doesn't care at all. He knows that since he came to Nanjing, the imperial court treated him It's already hard to control.

In the end, everything will be his, including his newly trained army.

Cao Yue has completely let go of his mind after becoming a great official in the borderlands. He knows that if he wants to solve the current crisis, everything must be overthrown and restarted. With the current group of ministers in the court, if he wants to create a prosperous and powerful Ming Dynasty, it must be Idiots talk about dreams.

It's just that Cao Yue has no idea how to make the situation develop as he wants, but he knows that he can take advantage of the competition between various forces and finally reap the benefits of the fisherman.

This is also his unwillingness to tell others the purpose of letting go of the peasant volunteer army led by Li Yan. Of course, he also wants to win over Li Yan's men.

While training soldiers and horses now, they are also paying close attention to the situation in the world, especially the movement of Sun Chuanting's subordinates.

Before Sun Chuanting was released from prison, Wang Qiaonian, who was promoted to the governor of the three sides, presided over the suppression of the peasant army.During the three years when Sun Chuanting was imprisoned, Xiong Wencan and Yang Sichang suffered consecutive defeats in the war against bandits, and Li Zicheng opened up the situation in Henan, with hundreds of thousands of troops.Just when Sun Chuanting and Cao Yue led the army to fight Jiannu in Datong, the peasant army and Wang Qiaonian's men also fought a battle. On the way of Sun Chuanting's fire speed army rushing to the rescue, Wang Qiaonian was defeated, and he was also defeated after the defeat. Li Zicheng was executed.

After Sun Chuanting led the army in Da Zaitong, he entered Shaanxi and took over the task of exterminating the bandits in an all-round way.After arriving in Shaanxi, he beheaded the escaped general He Renlong, and then promoted his deputy commander-in-chief Gao Jie to replace He Renlong, preparing for a full-scale war with Li Zicheng.

Gao Jie was originally Li Zicheng's subordinate, and later had an affair with Li Zicheng's wife. After the incident, he abducted Li Zicheng's wife to surrender to the army and became a loyal eagle dog of the army.He and Li Zicheng are life and death enemies, but Sun Chuanting has his own way of employing people.

But Sun Chuanting still has a lot of worries, and Cao Yue is well aware of this, he does not believe that Sun Chuanting can win this battle.

(End of this chapter)