The flintlock pistols and cannons eliminated by the Ying Long Army were not stored in the warehouse, but were distributed to other regular armies, such as the Seventh Army and the Eighth Army.

In addition to the Red Lady Army in Henan and Qin Liangyu's Army in Sichuan, the Ming Dynasty is now divided into 30 armies, including 18 local garrison armies and 12 regular armies, including six Yinglong armies, with a total of 600,000 troops.

The local garrison army should garrison the place, and it will not be used easily, and the Ming Dynasty relied on the 240,000 regular troops such as the Yinglong Army to want the Northern Expedition, which is not impossible, but the strength needs to be further strengthened.

Zhu Ci planned to replace the Seventh to Twelfth armies with the flintlock pistols that Ying Long's army had eliminated.

After all, Ying Longjun is not just as simple as eliminating old equipment, but also the huge amount of paper shell bullets behind it, Shenwu shells, etc., these are all made of black powder, new guns and new cannons can't be used, but they can't really be stored in the warehouse and wasted.

If the Seventh Army to the Twelfth Army were all reequipped with flintlock pistols eliminated by the Ying Long Army, the twelve regular armies of the Ming Dynasty would all be upgraded to an all-firearms army, although there were only 240,000, but Zhu Ciji believed that in the future Northern Expedition, it would be able to destroy the autumn wind like falling leaves.

Today's Ming army has been trained in accordance with the basic training method of the Dragon Army for several years, the military appearance is neat, the pace is the same, the seventh army and other armies do not need much time to train the flintlock pistol battle array, but the gunner of the field artillery needs to be skilled for a long time, after all, the cannon is not only able to fight, but also to be able to measure, aim, etc., more complicated.

Chang Shun's Seventh Army and Jiang Wei's Eighth Army were the first to be equipped with equipment that had been eliminated by the First and Fourth Armies of the Ying Long Army.

Chang Shun later performed heroically in the Battle of Xuzhou, and Jiang Wei also led tens of thousands of Ming troops to resist 200,000 Qing troops in Shandong for several days, both of whom were heroic generals.

In the Seventh Army, Chang Shunhou looked at the flintlock pistols and other guns sent by the military department with high spirits.

"Grandma is a bear, finally the army under Lao Tzu's command should have such goods!" Chang Shun's chest is hot and excited.

"Commander, what's there to be happy about, we are raised by our stepmother, and it is our turn to replace the equipment eliminated by the 'Central Army'!" A general said dissatisfied, because of dissatisfaction, he actually created the word "Central Army", of course, the meaning of this general is similar to the meaning of the Central Army in the later generations of "****", they are all descendants of the head.

Chang Shunhou immediately waited for the general to glance at him, and reprimanded: "What nonsense! Firearms are extremely expensive, and Ying Longjun's previous wars were at least tens of millions of taels of silver, and you also know that Ying Longjun is a descendant established by the emperor, so what is it for? The emperor can use the firearms eliminated by the Ying Long Army to equip us, we should all be thankful, Lao Tzu has been jealous of the Ying Long Army's firearms for a long time, and there is nothing not to be satisfied with! ”

Chang Shunhou said that an army of all firearms is similar to burning money.

Arming the Seventh to Twelfth Armies with the equipment eliminated by the Ying Long Army, there were a lot of whispers on the side of the Household Department, and Liu Zongzhou, the old man who was stubbornly in charge of the Household Department, almost couldn't help but cry in his heart.

Although the treasury of the Ming Dynasty still has hundreds of millions of taels of silver, it is still a little difficult to raise an army of 240,000 firearms, and it is conceivable that during the Northern Expedition, the cost of a big battle of the 240,000 firearms army must be at least tens of millions of taels of silver, which is as low as the Ming Dynasty fought on two fronts inside and outside the customs for half a year during the Chongzhen period.

After the general reprimanded Chang Shunhou, he didn't dare to say anything more.

Immediately, the Seventh Army began to change its outfit and intensify its training.

On the Sichuan side of Henan, since Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong have been wiped out, the army of the Red Lady and the army of Qin Liangyu will also need to be reformed.

Due to the extermination of Li Zicheng was extremely smooth, the Red Lady's army was not damaged, and there were 80,000 troops under his command, after Zhu Cicheng and Li Yan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, discussed the 80,000 troops under the command of the Red Lady into four armies, including two regular armies, two local garrison armies, the Red Lady concurrently served as the commander of the two regular armies, and the commander of the two local garrison armies was another candidate.

Qin Liangyu originally had more than 100,000 troops under his command, but the battle to exterminate Zhang Xianzhong was fought too hard, and there were only more than 20,000 people left under Qin Liangyu's command, although after a certain recovery in the later period, it was less than 50,000 people.

Sichuan is vast, and if all these 50,000 people are garrisons, they may be just enough to defend Sichuan, but this is too unfair to Qin Liangyu and other Sichuan troops, and the treatment and subordination of the regular army and the local garrison army in the military department are different.

Out of certain considerations, Zhu Ci ordered Qin Liangyu to recruit enough 80,000 men and horses, and divided her command into two regular armies and two garrisons, one of which was directly subordinate to Qin Liangyu, the governor of Sichuan and Guizhou, and the other regular army was handed over to Ma Yue'e as the commander.

"Your Majesty, in this case, has the number of the garrison been moved back?" Li Yan proposed.

"It's time to move it." Zhu Ci staggered and nodded.

The regular army increased by four, and the garrison army also increased by four, so that the Ming Dynasty had sixteen regular armies and twenty-two garrison armies, totaling 760,000 troops.

The four newly built regular armies, Zhu Ciji did not plan to equip them with all firearms, each army only gave the Firearms Bureau the twenty old-style Shenwu field cannons in stock, in addition, Zhu Ciji was not without other considerations, after the recovery of the north in the future, these four regular armies may evolve into iron cavalry or other special arms.

This reform can be regarded as another military reform of the Ming Dynasty.

As time passed little by little, the other four armies of the Yinglong Army were also equipped with new equipment, and the old equipment that was eliminated was also equipped with several other armies, and the sixteen regular armies of the Ming Dynasty, except for the four under the command of the Red Lady and Qin Liangyu, were all equipped with firearms.

The Northern Expedition was approaching, and the large armies from all over the country were frequently mobilized, and countless grains, grasses, and materials began to be transported to Jiangbei from afar.

The three armies did not move, and the grain and grass went first.

"Your Majesty, a million stone grains and grass have been transported to Jiangbei!" Liu Zongzhou, the head of the household, reported to Zhu Ci.

Zhu Ci staggered and nodded, in the early years of the promotion of new grain, Daming ushered in an unprecedented bumper harvest, and the price of grain in various places has dropped several times, from the original one or two silver per stone to less than three hundred yuan per stone now.

The people received tangible benefits, as long as they worked, they had food and clothing, and the court did not need to spend more gold and silver to purchase food.

All over the way to the city of Nanjing.

The 7th Army to the 12th Army, which were equipped with the firearms eliminated by the Ying Long Army, all moved in the direction of Nanjing.

Ten of the twelve all-firearms regular armies gathered in the city of Nanjing, and the atmosphere of the great war was so strong that the people of the whole world could smell it, including the Manchus in the Manchu occupied areas in the north.

Dolgon's mind is heavy, the intention of the Ming Dynasty to go on the Northern Expedition is already known to passers-by, although he has the certainty of defeating the Ming army, but this battle is related to the fate of the Qing Dynasty, and he cannot help but treat it with the most cautious attitude.

In response to the large-scale Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty, the Manchu Qing Dynasty also mobilized troops and materials on a large scale.

In Shandong, Dolgon sent 500,000 Han Banner Army heavy troops to build a defensive line there, he did not intend to put the decisive battle in Shandong, 20 plans to put it in Beijing City, the land of clouds, dangerous and difficult to attack, it is an excellent place to defend a decisive battle, the reason why heavy troops are also deployed in Shandong is nothing more than to consume the strength of the Ming army of the Northern Expedition step by step.

"Before the decisive battle, Wu Sangui must not stay!" Dolgon suddenly spat out such a sentence with murderous intent.

There is no doubt that Wu Sangui does not have Dorgon's trust, Dolgon is known as a great talent, not a mediocre talent, whether it is Wu Sangui's performance in the Battle of Henan or Wu Sangui's every move these days, he has already seen that Wu Sangui may have a good relationship with the big light and dark.

Dolgon believed that Wu Sangui was not the only one who had contact with the Ming Dynasty, but Wu Sangui was the most threatening and had to be eliminated!

Dolgon's murderous intentions are firm, Wu Sangui may be in great trouble!

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