The idle days are relative, and the inside and outside of Huai'an City are very calm on the surface, but the dark tide is turbulent in private.

For the people around Chongzhen and Ji, the next few days will decide the fate of all of them. Whether Nanjing welcomes Chongzhen to continue to be the emperor, or whether it will set up another son of heaven, no one can say. After all, King Fu had already been escorted to Nanjing by the army.

If the Nanjing ministers are willing to give up and support the Fu King, then it is enough, otherwise a war will be inevitable.

Whether it was Chongzhen or the Pingnan Army who escorted him all the way south, they absolutely refused to give up the throne to others, otherwise the hard work of the trip would not be in vain.

As for Lu Zhenfei and other Huai'an officials who adhere to orthodoxy, since they have taken Chongzhen to Huai'an, they have no choice.

Therefore, when Chen Yue's subordinate Pingnan Army was resting, the officials in Huai'an City were extremely busy.

Chongzhen was busy meeting with officials from various prefectures and counties in Jiangbei and comforting them, hoping that Jiangbei could support him.

Lu Zhenfei was busy communicating with the local gentry in Huai'an, and recruited regiments from all over the country to train troops to Huai'an.

Although Huai'an has more than 20,000 regiments of soldiers, they were all recruited by Lu Zhenfei since he took office to resist the southern attack of thieves.

However, the training of these regiments is different from that of the regular Ming army, and they essentially belong to the local militia. Because most of the army was recruited by the local gentry, the source of the soldiers was tenant farmers attached to the gentry.

In the Ming Dynasty, imperial power could only reach the county level, and the actual rulers of the vast countryside were these squires, and the vast majority of the land was in their names, and the peasants who farmed the land were also their tenants.

When Lu Zhenfei first took office, the local army was loose, and the two prefectures of Huaiyang had no fighting force at all, and the combat effectiveness of the Cao soldiers under the jurisdiction of the governor of Caoyun was scum, which was no different from other Ming army households.

In order to quickly recruit an army, Lu Zhenfei had to compromise with the squires, and the government and the squires cooperated to recruit regiments for training. The government paid for some of the food and salaries for training, and most of the money and food needed for training and fighting were provided by the squires.

At that time, the exiled army came all the way, burned Fengyang Mansion, burned and looted, and the squires in the Lianghuai area were frightened, and they did not need Lu Zhenfei's persuasion, so they spontaneously organized regimental training.

At the same time, in order to train the troops, Lu Zhenfei seconded many officers and generals to train the troops, such as Jin Shenghuan, who served as the commander of the first battalion and stationed on the side of the Yellow River in Suqian, which was originally subordinate to the command of Zuo Liangyu, the general of the Ping Thief, and was seconded by Lu Zhenfei from Zuo Liangyu.

It was this regimental training force, which had been formed for less than a year, that resisted the army sent by Li Zicheng to occupy Lianghuai, repelled the attacking Dashun army Dong Xueli, and captured the Huaizhen Jiedu envoy and Suqian defense envoy sent by Dashun.

Therefore, although this unit is a new army, its combat effectiveness is really not weak.

However, there is also a fatal flaw in the regimental training, that is, all the soldiers are composed of local farmers in Huai'an, and they will fight to the death in order to protect their hometown. However, if they are recruited to fight in other places, such as Nanjing, it will be difficult to say how effective they are.

Moreover, the influence of the squires in the regimental training is very great, and the vast majority of the officers in the army are the sons of the squires.

Therefore, it is not so much that the regimental training is subordinate to the Huai'an government, but that they are the private army of the local squire. It's not so easy to control them.

In another time and space, apart from defeating the attacking Dashun army, this regiment did nothing to train its troops. After Lu Zhenfei was framed by Ma Shiying and returned to his hometown, with the rise of the warlords of the four towns, this regiment trained soldiers to become farmers and became farmers again.

Fortunately, Lu Zhenfei is the founder of the regimental training, and his prestige in Huai'an Mansion is very high, and the gentry still listen to his words.

After Lu Zhenfei discussed with Wang Yin and others, he told Chongzhen that all the food and salary for regimental training in the future would be provided by the government, and on this condition, the regimental training troops from all over the country would be transferred to Huai'an.

Huai'an was originally a transshipment place for grain, the north fell, and the grain piled up in Huai'an amounted to hundreds of thousands of quintals, it turned out that Lu Zhenfei was just a local governor and had no power to use grain, but now it is different, these grains can be used to raise the army.

All the food and salary are provided by the government, which is no better for the squires, in the final analysis, the regimental training is still the army of the imperial court, and the emperor stays in Huai'an, and there are few people who dare to disobey the government's orders.

In the past few days, a continuous regiment of troops has arrived in Huai'an, and more than 10,000 troops have gathered outside Huai'an.

Nominally, Chen Yue is now the governor of Jiangbei, and all the troops are under his command, but at the moment he is not familiar with this army, and the generals of the regiment training only recognize Lu Zhenfei, and the hasty transfer of command may cause chaos. Therefore, Chen Yue did not try to meddle in the command of the regiment's training.

As for the generals of the regimental training, the Pingnan Army was originally a guest army, so it was naturally difficult for them to have a good impression. Some of the generals of these regiments were officers recruited by Lu Zhenfei from all over the country, and some were children of the gentry, and after coming to Huai'an, they only went to meet Lu Zhenfei and Xu Yong, the prefect of Huai'an, and other officials, and did not pay much attention to Chen Yue.

Of course, there are also discerning people, such as an officer named Jin Shenghuan, who took the initiative to come to meet Chen Yue.

Jin Shenghuan, originally Zuo Liangyu was a guerrilla general, in the battle with the Shun army, Jin Shenghuan's army was defeated by the Shun army Yuan Zong's first department, he fled to Wuchang in a hurry, originally Zuo Liangyu wanted to kill him, just Lu Zhenfei came to the letter asking Zuo Liangyu to send some officers to help train the army, Zuo Liangyu then sent Jin Shenghuan to Huai'an.

In front of Chen Yue, Jin Shenghuan told his past experience in detail.

With a burly figure, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and full of explosive power, Jin Shenghuan himself is definitely a natural soldier. During the chat, I learned that Jin Shenghuan was indeed a hereditary Qianhu who practiced martial arts since he was a child. He will also lead the troops to fight, some time ago Lu Zhenfei defeated the Shun army, and Jin Shenghuan made a great contribution.

Chen Yue's history of the late Ming Dynasty is not very good, and his limited historical knowledge comes from his classmates in the police academy, that crazy Ming fan, vaguely remembers that this Jin Shenghuan surrendered to the Manchu Qing when the Qing soldiers went south, and later for some reason he rebelled against the Qing Dynasty and returned to the banner of the Ming Dynasty.

has the ability and eyes, and even knows that he has a great future, and he just came to Huai'an and stammered himself, this Jin Shenghuan has a future!

"Master Hou, you have been defeated repeatedly, and you have rescued Your Majesty from hundreds of thousands of thieves, you are really my hero of the Ming Dynasty, and the last general is not talented, I am willing to belong to the general's subordinates, serve the general, and never give up!"

When it was over, Jin Shenghuan knelt on the ground and expressed his loyalty to Chen Yue.

"Hahaha, Brother Jin is serious, they are all working for the emperor. However, we will all be our own brothers in the future, so we are not allowed to be so polite again! Chen Yue pulled up Jin Shenghuan and said with a smile.

The next day, Chongzhen issued an order, promoted Jin Shenghuan to deputy general, and led the army to be included in the Pingnan Army.