The matter of the return of the population to the north has been carried out in an orderly manner, and it is going extremely smoothly.

Next, Zhu Ci hesitated to reform the Ming army again.

Don't look at the military system of the Ming army is already very ahead of the world, but during the Northern Expedition, Zhu Ciji still found a lot of shortcomings and needed to be improved. In addition, the Northern Expedition not only recovered the lost territory, but also brought back nearly 200,000 surrendered troops.

Before the Northern Expedition, the Ming Dynasty had 16 regular armies, 22 garrison troops, a total of 760,000 troops, after the Northern Expedition, counting the nearly 200,000 surrendered troops brought back, the army under the command of the Ming Dynasty has been nearly one million.

The reform of the new military system Zhu Cicheng also discussed with Li Yan, and Zhu Cicheng copied part of the modern military system.

After the foreshadowing of the previous military system reform, although the military system reform has changed even more, it has not caused much confusion.

The new military system replaces the old military system of army commanders, staff generals, thousand generals, hundred generals, flag commanders, and even commanders, and changes them to the current army commanders, division commanders, regiment commanders, battalion commanders, company commanders, platoon commanders, and captains. The first team is twenty people, and the fourth team is a row, leading eighty people. Three platoons were a company, leading two hundred and forty men. The four companies were a battalion with nine hundred and sixty men. The three battalions were a regiment with 2,880 men. The third regiment was a division, with 8,640 men. The two divisions were one army, and each corps had 17,280 ordinary soldiers. At the same time and above the battalion, each battalion is equipped with four field artillery, and each corps has a total of 76 field artillery, that is, each corps is still a full 20,000 people, counting the artillery attached to it.

Of course, field artillery belonged only to the regular army, and the garrison did not have it.

After the reconstruction, the regular army of the Ming Dynasty increased to twenty and the garrison army of thirty-eight. The regular army all had a commander, and most of the garrisons had no commanders, and there were almost no artillery attached to them.

After the reform of the military system, Zhu Ciji raised the rank of the commander of the regular army, and also made some adjustments.

The rank of the commander of the garrison army is still the third grade. The new regular army commander has a different grade, starting from the second grade, and then depending on the military merit and promotion, the highest is the commander of the first rank, and the one with the higher grade can command the subordinate armies, such as a big war, if there are two armies to participate, one is the commander of the second rank, and the other is the commander of the second grade, then the commander of the two armies is the commander of the second rank under normal circumstances.

The number of the Ying Long Army was cancelled, but the six Ying Long Army were still in the first column, occupying the number of the First Army to the Sixth Army.

Each of the original six commanders of the Yinglong Army has made great achievements, among which Niu Yongsheng of the Sixth Army was named the commander of the second rank. Ji Feng of the First Army, Zhou Cao of the Second Army, and Zhang Kuishan of the Fifth Army, the three of them were named the commanders of the Congyi Army. Huang Degong of the Third Army was the oldest in his qualifications, plus he had a knighthood, and Yan Yingyuan of the Fourth Army had more great achievements in recovering Taiwan, conquering the South Seas, and crossing the sea to recover Liaodong and Manchuria.

In addition, Qin Liangyu, the governor of Sichuan and Guizhou, fought for the Ming Dynasty for decades, and at the age of 60, he also participated in the extermination of Zhang Xianzhong and other wars.

The Red Lady ran Henan, participated in the extermination of Li Zicheng and the Northern Expedition, and was named the commander of the second rank.

Also named the commander of the second rank of the army are Chang Shunhou of the Seventh Army, Jiang Wei of the Eighth Army, Shang Kexi of the Eighteenth Army, and the rest are all commanders of the second rank.

Of the 20 regular armies, Zhu Ci planned to build them into an all-firearms army, equipped with new-style firing rifles and 90-millimeter field artillery.

The Firearms Bureau was fully operational, and with the original stockpile, five months later, all regular armies were equipped with new firing rifles and 90-millimeter field artillery.

In the Mongolian steppe, the camp of the Seventh Army, Chang Shunhou looked at the large number of new firing rifles and 90-millimeter caliber field cannons that had been transported, and his face was full of excitement.

Touching the body of this 90-millimeter caliber field cannon, Chang Shun suddenly burst out laughing.

"Hahahaha, from now on, the Seventh Army under Lao Tzu will also hold the same weapons as Ying Longjun, I believe that one day, Lao Tzu will trample Ying Longjun under his feet!"

In other words, a general without ambition is not a good general, Chang Shunhou wants to take the Seventh Army to surpass the first army of the original Yinglong Army, the most elite of the Ming Dynasty, to the Sixth Army, but unfortunately Chang Shunhou is not very lucky, and Ji Feng, the commander of the First Army who guarded the Mongolian steppe with him, walked over with a black face.

"Chang Jun is so domineering!" Ji Feng looked at Chang Shunhou with an unkind expression.

It was so atmospheric that he just changed the same weapon, and even said that he was going to trample his first army under his feet.

found that the words he shouted out in excitement just now were heard by Ji Feng, Chang Shunhou was suddenly embarrassed, but the words he said were like the that was pulled out, and he couldn't get it back.

"That's right, Lao Tzu just doesn't accept your Ying Long Army, what's the matter!" Chang Shun said.

Although Zhu Cicheng canceled the number of the Ying Long Army in order to balance the various armies, it is a fact that the First Army to the Sixth Army are all from the Ying Long Army, and many people are still used to calling them Ying Long Army on the surface.

"Hey, if you have ambition, if you have the ability, my two armies will compare and see if your Seventh Army can really trample my First Army under your feet." Ji Feng sneered and said, full of confidence, if you want to say that they should be in the Dragon Army, they were composed of one person out of more than a dozen people back then, and each of them was the elite of the elite, so they would not be afraid of the Seventh Army being a monk halfway.

Of course, Chang Shunhou also knows this, and he knows very well that if he really compares it at this time, his Seventh Army will definitely lose, but the words are released, and he can't lose his momentum, and he won't die anyway.

"It's better than it, I'm afraid of a bird!" Chang Shunhou said angrily.

Immediately, in the next few days, the Mongolian steppe, the Ming army camp was in full swing, the first army and the seventh army conducted an all-round competition, there is no doubt that the first army completely crushed the seventh army, the seventh army is not an opponent at all, so angry that the commander of the seventh army often scolded later, in the next longer period of time, personally drill the soldiers of the seventh army, let out the words, vow that one day the first army must be trampled under the feet.

Although the First Army won, seeing that the Seventh Army was so desperate, Ji Feng did not lag behind, and he also personally led the First Army to practice hard, and the measurement was based on the Seventh Army plus three percent, and the Seventh Army was compared to the slightest temper, all showing the strength of the Ying Long Army back then.

Inside a room in the city of Nanjing.

Wu Sangui is borrowing wine to drown his sorrows, for a long time, the emperor has not summoned him, this time the reform of the army, not to mention the twenty regular armies, even if the thirty-eight garrison troops do not have his place, let alone rebuild the Guanning army, he knows that the emperor may not be reusing him.

Thinking of his future, Wu Sangui became more and more decadent.

Yes, although Zhu Cicheng did not kill Wu Sangui, but Wu Sangui opened the Shanhai Pass and put the Manchurians into the pass, although he did defeat Li Zicheng's million-strong army, but there was also a suspicion of traitors.

Originally, before the Northern Expedition, Zhu Ciji planned to use Wu Sangui to help train the troops of several armies, but with the conquest of Mongolia and the recovery of Liaodong Manchuria, the Ming Dynasty obtained a large number of war horses, and twenty regular armies were allocated enough war horses to form iron horses, and the Mongols had many skilled equestrians, whether it was the captured Horqin people, or the Chahar Department whose leaders were left in Nanjing, there were a large number of people who were willing to teach the equestrian skills of various armies, so there was nothing to do with Wu Sangui at all, and Zhu Ciji also made up his mind not to pay attention to Wu Sangui.

"Unwilling" Wu Sangui's eyes were red, and he shouted up to the sky, but unfortunately no one responded to him.