In the more than two months after the Third Route Army of the Great Chinese Army conquered the city of Beijing, the situation in the north began to stabilize rapidly.

After the Battle of Beijing, after the situation in the Gyeonggi area gradually began to stabilize, in order to reduce the pressure on logistics, under Xiao Tianjian's order, the Left Route Army of the original First Town began to withdraw from Gyeonggi, returned from Juyong Pass to Xuanda, and then gradually withdrew to Shanxi.

Soon after the end of the Battle of Beijing, the Middle Route Army of Diao Zheng's Division in the Second Town began to return to the Funan area to be responsible for clearing out the remnants of the official army and bandits in the Funan area, and the other entered the territory of Shandong from Cangzhou, on the one hand, it went to Laizhou Mansion and Dengzhou Mansion to take over the defense, and took over the surrender of more than 10,000 Ming troops under Liu Zeqing, reorganized it, and at the same time moved south along the eastern part of Shandong to gradually eliminate the remnants of the official army and local bandits in the eastern part of Shandong.

As for the soldiers and horses of the Fourth Town under the jurisdiction of the Right Route Army, they immediately went south along the canal, returned to the area of Nanzhili, returned to the command of Shi Ran, and prepared for the next step of going south to the southern provinces.

After the Gyeonggi area arrived in August, only the Second Guards Division under Liu Yaoben and the 3,000 expanded Yulinwei were left, acting as Xiao Tianjian's direct soldiers and horses, waiting for the next move.

In addition, after Xiao Tianjian took the city of Beijing, he deliberated again and again, and decided in August to integrate the large and medium armies in this area with Xuanda, Shuntianfu, Yongping Mansion, and Ningyuan outside Shanhaiguan, and set up a special northern theater of operations, which temporarily became a town of its own, but it was distinguished from other town armies by the name of the theater.

That is to say, the Northern Theater may be a temporary establishment, and it may be revoked in the future, for no other reason, that is, to unify the command of the large and medium army along the Great Wall of the North in this area as much as possible, on the one hand, it is responsible for guarding the Gyeonggi area of Beijing, preventing the Jiannu army from going south and entering the Kou, and on the other hand, it is also guarding against the attack of the Mongols, and at the same time accumulating strength to prepare for the future recovery of Liaodong and the recovery of the Mongolian steppe.

As for the general command of the Northern Theater, Xiao Tianjian handed it over to Luo Li, but he adjusted Li Lingfeng from the First Town Army to the Northern Theater and acted as Luo Li's deputy.

In terms of the composition of the troops in the Northern Theater, in addition to the two divisions of the former First Town Army under Li Lingfeng stationed in Xuanda, there are also the first supernumerary guards division under Luo Li stationed in the Ningyuan area, and at the same time, the third guard division under Xiao Tianjian's order before entering Beijing and the old Shanhaiguan officer army under Wu Xiang are all included in the Northern Theater and unified under the dispatch of Luo Li and Li Lingfeng.

The Third Guards Division, after Xiao Tianjian's order, Li Xin immediately dispatched capable men to begin to set up, and in just two months, the recruitment and formation work was completed, with the old habit of the Fifth Five-Year Establishment of the Great Chinese Army, the new Third Guards Division had five full-fledged combat battalions (infantry battalions), and at the same time, in accordance with Xiao Tianjian's will, it was also incorporated into a reinforced cavalry battalion of 2,000 people, plus a divisional heavy artillery battalion, a full-fledged baggage battalion, and an engineer battalion. As a result, the strength of the newly formed 3rd Guards Division reached a scale of about 10,000 people.

And the source of these new recruits, is mainly the local people in Shuntianfu and Yongping Mansion and other places, but there are not many surrendered three battalions of officers and soldiers, for no other reason, at this time the Ming officers and soldiers can be said to be rotten, although there are some strong men among the soldiers, but these people have already become veteran ruffians, with too many old habits in the Ming army, and then want to change them, it is not easy, once these soldiers and ruffians are incorporated into the army, not only is it not conducive to improving combat effectiveness, On the contrary, it can have a big side effect.

Therefore, under Xiao Tianjian's will, most of these Ming soldiers were disbanded and disrupted on the spot, so that they went to various places to farm for a living, and each person was dismissed when they were dismissed, and they were also given twenty taels of severance pay and a certain amount of food.

As for the commander of the new Third Division, at the suggestion of the generals, Xiao Tianjian promoted Li Dingguo, who was originally the deputy commander under Liu Yaoben, to serve as the commander of the Third Guards Division, and the rest of the officers were also old subordinates of the Dazhong Army who were promoted from among the armies.

Although the time for the formation of the newly formed Third Guards Division was very short, with these cadres as the backbone, the Third Division was soon put into intense exercises, and in just two months, it basically ended the subjects of recruit training for the large and medium army, and initially possessed a certain combat effectiveness.

As for the more than 20,000 old units of the Ming Army under the command of Wu Xiang, under the order of Xiao Tianjian, they were reorganized into the Shanhaiguan Garrison Division of the Dazhong Army, which was included in the sequence of the Northern Theater of Operations, and continued to stay in Zhenshanhaiguan for the time being, but the Northern Theater was required to carry out a large-scale reorganization and retraining of the Shanhaiguan Garrison Division, so as to enhance the combat effectiveness of the Shanhaiguan Garrison Division and make it a truly useful soldier and horse within half a year.

However, Xiao Tianjian sent Yan Shuting to Shanhaiguan to act as Wu Xiang's deputy, and in addition, 200 officers were transferred from various departments, as well as 500 students who had just graduated from the Lecture Martial Arts Hall were also sent to Shanhaiguan and incorporated into this army of soldiers and horses, so that they could reconstitute the skeleton of the grassroots officers and high-level officers of this garrison division.

It turned out that the more than 20,000 officers and soldiers under the command of Wu Xiang were reorganized on the spot and a group of officers and soldiers who did not meet the requirements of the Dazhong Army were dismissed, but for this group of officers and soldiers, after all, they all participated in the Shanhaiguan War, so they were considered meritorious personnel, so Xiao Tianjian did not adopt the method of on-the-spot dismissal like treating ordinary troops, but gave them a generous severance pay with the treatment of retiring from the Dazhong Army, and each of them was paid half a year's military salary to make them return to their hometowns.

Although these officers and soldiers are a little dissatisfied, but there is nothing to be done, not to mention that the Great China and North Korea have been very lenient to them, and the settlement allowance issued is also quite sufficient, so it is worth taking off the military uniform, and then leaving Shanhaiguan, while dismissing unqualified generals, they also recruited a group of new recruits among the northern refugees in Shanhaiguan, and enriched the garrison division, ensuring that the garrison division's 20,000 troops did not decline.

In this way, the entire garrison division has undergone earth-shaking changes, basically reorganizing it from the roots, and also preventing these old officers and troops from forming small groups.

Wu Xiang was retained as the commander of the capital, and also saw the strength of the Dazhong Army, so he was very cooperative with this reorganization, and also in accordance with the order of the Dazhong Dynasty, disbanded the family team under his command, and incorporated it into the battalions under his command, and some of the good performance was directly sent to Nanjing Jiangwutang for a one-year training, and it will be arranged separately in the future, which can be regarded as a very good way out for his family members, for which Wu Xiang is very grateful.

And Wu Xiang secretly played Xiao Tianjian, and proposed in the recital that he said that after completing the reorganization of the Shanhaiguan garrison, he was willing to resign from the post of commander of the capital and return to Beijing to retire with his family, and no longer do military affairs.

Wu Xiang is actually a very smart person, he found the biggest difference between the Dazhong Army and the Ming Army through contact with Yan Chongxi, Wang Chengping, Luo Li, and Liu Yaoben during this time, that is, the military system of the Dazhong Army, which fundamentally limited these Dazhong generals and soldiers, and it was impossible to let the generals support their own troops and form large and small warlord groups like the Ming Army.

And he also knew very well that even if he controlled the old department of more than 20,000 Ming troops, Xiao Tianjian would never allow him to support his troops and self-respect in the future, and he would definitely find a way to split these soldiers and horses under his command, completely eliminating the possibility of him supporting troops and self-respect.

So after understanding this, Wu Xiang immediately made a choice, after all, he is not young, even if he mixes in the Dazhong Army, it is impossible to mix up a bigger name, rather than waiting for Xiao Tianjian to move him in the future, it is better to take advantage of Xiao Tianjian's good impression of him now, take the initiative to retreat bravely, directly hand over the military power, and go home to be a rich man, not to mention that Xiao Tianjian Nian helped the Dazhong Army to win a great victory in Shanhaiguan, and he will definitely not treat him badly, so he secretly presented this note to Xiao Tianjian.

And Xiao Tianjian was also very pleased after receiving this note sent by Wu Xiang, the reason why he temporarily reused Wu Xiang was mainly due to the fact that there were more than 20,000 last Guan Ning elites under his command, if Wu Xiang was taken out directly, it might cause some unnecessary trouble, so he would temporarily retain Wu Xiang.

But with Wu Xiang's identity, controlling such a large force, and the backbone of it is basically his old department, it will indeed be a trouble for the Dazhong Army in the future, so he will pull out Yan Shuting and send him to Shanhaiguan as Wu Xiang's deputy.

So Xiao Tianjian was so interested in Wu Xiang, and naturally reciprocated the favor, secretly drafted a holy decree, sent it to Wu Xiang, greatly appreciated Wu Xiang's practice, and once again affirmed Wu Xiang's merits, and announced that the original Wu Xiang's mansion in Beijing City was reserved for Wu Xiang, and another 5,000 taels of silver were taken out to renovate it, and then Wu Xiang was rewarded with 20,000 taels of silver, and Wu Xiang was originally purchased outside the capital of 3,000 acres of land, which was used by the Wu family in the future.

In addition, Wu Xiang's eldest son Wu Sanfeng was sent to Wuchang Lecture Hall for a one-year training, and after one year of graduation, Wu Sanfeng was sent to the third town Li Xuanzhu Army to serve as a military position, which was considered to solve a worry about Wu Xiang.

Wu Xiang was overjoyed after receiving the order, although 20,000 taels of silver is not much for him, but this is a very rare reward in the Great Chinese Army, in addition, Xiao Tianjian also authorized him to keep 3,000 acres of land outside the capital, it is not easy, at least in the future, there will be no problem for their Wu family to eat, relying on these 3,000 acres of land alone, he can also be a rich man in the future, not to mention that Xiao Tianjian also used his eldest son Wu Sanfeng, which shows that Xiao Tianjian is very sincere to give their Wu family descendants a good way out, So Wu Xiang immediately kowtowed to thank him, carefully collected the holy decree given to him by Xiao Tianjian, and went all out to cooperate with the Yanshu Pavilion who rushed to Shanhaiguan, and began to carry out a large-scale reorganization of the soldiers and horses in the Shanhaiguan area.

In addition to the newly formed Third Guards Division and the reorganized Shanhaiguan Reinforced Garrison Division, Xiao Tianjian also issued an order to set up three reserve divisions in all parts of the north, with 20 reserve battalions under its jurisdiction, each reserve division is composed of 1,000 regular and full-time generals, and the rest are composed of young and strong local people, who are busy with agriculture and concentrated training in agricultural slack, forming a second-line reserve force, and laying the foundation for the future war against Jiannu in Liaodong.

Although Xiao Tianjian has now obtained a lot of silver through the purge in the capital, Xiao Tianjian did not dare to squander the silver, the reason why he temporarily formed a reserve division is because he did not dare to spend too much money, after all, the cost of raising troops in the Dazhong army is much higher than the cost of Jiannu and the old Ming Dynasty, and the north has gone through years of war, the population has also been greatly reduced, and now although he pacified the north, but the first priority is to restore agricultural production in the north first, If Hula recruits tens of thousands of new soldiers all at once, it will seriously affect the recovery of agricultural production in the north.

If the agriculture in the north cannot be recovered as soon as possible, then it will be necessary to rely on the south to continuously transfer grain to the north to feed a large number of soldiers and horses in the north, the cost of this is too high, so Xiao Tianjian considered it again and again, considering that this time Jiannu suffered a big loss, in a short period of time, it was no longer able to go south to enter the Kou, so it was flexible and set up three reserve divisions, so that the impact on agricultural recovery can be reduced as much as possible, and at the same time, a large number of soldiers and horses can be used in the future for the Liaodong battlefield can be reserved in advance. And the cost of raising troops is also much less.

However, in such a short period of time, the large Chinese army added so many soldiers and horses in the north, so the equipment became a problem, although they seized a lot of official and military armor, including swords, guns, rattan cards and armor and other things are good to say, but the firearms that the large Chinese army is proud of, but it is very lacking.

When the three major battalions of the Shenji Battalion in the capital surrendered, they captured more than 3,000 bird guns and Lumi guns from them, but in addition to the more than 200 Lumi guns, which can still be called sharp weapons, the remaining bird guns, because of the lack of effective maintenance, coupled with the shoddy construction when they were built, are mostly useless, and the caliber is very different from the self-generated firearms that the Dazhong Army is now generally equipped with, that is, large-caliber flintlock guns, the power is small and not to mention, the accuracy is also poor, and the quality is worrying, and the explosion rate is very high. Therefore, except for the five or six hundred well-made ones that were selected and temporarily left for the training of the pre-masters, the rest were all eliminated and returned to the furnace.

Therefore, the equipment problems of the newly formed Third Division, the Shanhaiguan Garrison Division, and these reserve divisions stumped Li Xin, who was temporarily in charge of military affairs, and even more difficult the logistics department, which was in charge of logistics supply.

Although the Dazhong Army has developed rapidly in recent years, and has gradually formed a military supply system based on Yangcheng County, the main ordnance bases of the Dazhong Army are concentrated in Yangcheng and Pingyangfu in northern Shanxi, Ruzhou in Henan, Daye in Huguang, and Nanjing in Nanzhili.

Suddenly, so many soldiers and horses had to be rearmed, and only the logistics department was transferred from the south to the north, and it was obvious that the pressure on the newly established Dazhong and North Korea was very great.

Just when Li Xin and the logistics department had a headache about this, an order from Xiao Tianjian temporarily solved their problem, and Xiao Tianjian directly ordered the Left Route Army to withdraw to Shanxi, as well as the troops returning to the Fourth Town in Nanzhili, to leave the firearms and artillery they used in their hands, as well as a part of the armor, in Beijing before leaving Beijing, and ordered them to return to their original stations empty-handed.

Then Xiao Tianjian ordered to use these firearms left behind by them to directly equip the newly organized and integrated troops, so that the newly formed and integrated troops in the north could be armed immediately.

This method can be said to be a pretty good method, after this period of war, the situation in the north has basically been settled, and the large and medium army has completely played a majestic role, although this is tantamount to disarming the retreating troops and horses, but on the way back to their original station, no one dares to trouble them, so they withdraw their firearms, and it will not affect anything.

Moreover, after each of them returned to their original station, they could immediately rearm themselves on the spot, which greatly reduced the pressure on the transportation of the logistics department, saved a lot of manpower and material resources, and they retreated in their youth, they could also speed up, and they could effortlessly arm the newly formed army in the north, which can be said to be counted in one fell swoop, so that Li Xin and others praised them again and again Emperor Xiao's brain is really good, so that Xiao Tianjian feels more face-saving for this.

And the northern theater has basically taken shape so far, with Luo Li and Li Lingfeng, as well as Li Dingguo and Yan Shuting, these fierce generals are sitting in the north, Xiao Tianjian has no worries about the north, I believe that under their control, in the shortest one year, after the recovery of agriculture in the north, they can form a combat group with tens of thousands of elite soldiers inside and outside the northern pass, and prepare in advance for the future battle of Liaodong, so Xiao Tianjian once again set his sights on the west when he arrived in September.

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