While waiting for Ebendui's reply, Zhu Youzhen summoned Zu Dabi, Sang Ang, and dozens of middle and low-ranking military attaches and soldiers who had fought the most bravely before.

In this hastily cleaned up camp, many damaged cowhide tents were put aside, and a large area was vacated in the camp, which became a place for Chongzhen to summon these soldiers.

Zhu Youzhen picked up a jar of rice wine that he ordered to transport from Malanzhuang, and personally poured it full of wine for these dozens of soldiers, before returning to the top and saying to them: "The army is simple, so today I will temporarily salute you with a glass of water and wine, and after the triumph next day, I will treat you well." ”

Although it was just an ordinary bowl of rice wine, these soldiers were very excited to be able to drink the wine poured by the emperor himself, especially Sang Ang and more than a dozen selected Mongolian knights, who also said a lot of oath to Chongzhen to express their loyalty before drinking.

Zhu Youzhen drank the wine in the bowl with the soldiers, and then said to Zu Dabi and Sang Ang: "This morning, I like your actions of killing the enemy bravely on the battlefield.

It just so happens that I am going to select troops to set up the Second Guards Division, and the team led by the two of you is willing to join my Guards Division. ”

The emperor's invitation, Sang Ang agreed without hesitation, although after he surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, Zu Dashou treated them extremely favorably, and the treatment was second only to his own family. But Sang Ang always believed that he was subject to the Ming Emperor, and his subordinates should be regarded as members of the Ming Dynasty, not the personal subordinates of a border general.

And Zu Dabi hesitated for a moment and looked towards his brother Zu Dashou, after all, a small half of the army he led was a member of the ancestral family.

Zu Dashou, who was standing next to the emperor, saw Zu Dabi's actions, and hurriedly went out to thank the emperor on behalf of his younger brother: "It is really the glory of a foolish brother to be able to win the favor of His Majesty. The minister thanked His Majesty for his kindness, and our brothers will not dare to live up to His Majesty's high hopes. ”

With Zu Dashou taking the lead, Zu Dabi finally reacted, and then saluted to the emperor and swore allegiance. Zu Dale and other Liaodong generals who were standing on the side couldn't help but feel a little lost when they saw this scene.

Since the emperor was directly watching the battlefield on the other side of the river, the Liaodong Ming army that crossed the river worked much harder than before from top to bottom, as if they were guarding their own territory in Liaodong.

However, there are still some upper limits to this kind of hard work, for example, when Zu Dale and other generals face Wu Nag personally leading the army to charge, they still can't help but slow down by half a beat, and would rather let the ordinary Ming army on the front line consume some of the opponent's physical strength, and then bring their own family members forward.

This practice is already accustomed to generals who were born in western Liaoning. After all, with the current number of Liao refugees, it is easy to recruit some ordinary soldiers to eat food, but it will not be effective to cultivate a family member who is skilled in archery and horses and loyal to himself.

Therefore, as long as you are not in a desperate situation, the tactics of using ordinary soldiers to consume the sharpness and physical strength of the Tartars, and then they take their families to assault a wave, have become the regular field tactics of the Ming army in Liaodong. From a darker point of view, if the situation is not good, they also have plenty of physical strength to flee back with their families first, so that the Tartars will be tripped up by those ordinary soldiers of the Ming army.

However, today, because the emperor was behind him, he did not dare to abandon the army and run away, but the practice of using ordinary soldiers to consume the enemy's physical strength first, these generals did not give up.

Also because of the knowledge that the emperor was on the other side of the river, today's Ming soldiers did not collapse as in the past, even if the Tartars broke through one or two defensive lines, the rest of the city still stubbornly held their positions, which also made the tactics adopted by the Liaodong generals work for the first time.

A small number of Tartar cavalry who broke through the Ming army's defense line encountered the surprise attack of the Ming army generals with their families after losing their speed, and they were either beaten back at that time, or they were lost in the Ming army's position, and there was never a chance to expand the results and completely tear apart the Ming army's defense line.

Of course, the performance of these Ming generals on the battlefield is definitely not as good as Zu Dabi and Sang Ang, who are like firefighters and always stand on the front line from left to right.

However, according to the practice in the Japanese army in the past, even if Zu Dabi and Sang Ang had merit, most of the rewards from the imperial court fell on their boss Zu Dashou, and the two of them just got some money and were promoted to one or two official positions.

Like today, the emperor directly promoted these meritorious soldiers beyond Zu Dashou, and directly included the battalion leaders led by Zu Dabi and Sang Ang into the establishment of the guard division, which was really a little unexpected by everyone.

According to the past military practice, no matter what reward Zu Dabi and Sang Ang receive, as long as they are not qualified to set up another army, then they will always be in the palm of the main general Zu Dashou. Therefore, it is more important to make meritorious contributions on the battlefield than to build a good relationship with the main general on weekdays, after all, the county officials are not as good as the current management.

However, now Chongzhen's promotion reward for the two finally woke up these Ming generals and made them realize that the Ming Dynasty is still the emperor after all. When the emperor rewarded meritorious deeds by his combat performance, they also tried to be consistent with others in the emperor's eyes, which was undoubtedly giving up the opportunity to be appreciated by the emperor.

Wu Huai was born in a mere family of Mangui, but because he was in the eyes of the emperor, he has now become a general in the new army. Zuo Liangyu was a partial general who was squeezed out by the Liaoxi generals, but because he happened to be transferred to the new army, he is now beginning to become famous.

Now Zu Dabi and Sang Ang have directly entered the establishment of the Guards Division, and no one knows what status the two of them will reach in the future, but the First Guards Division is adapted from the imperial camp and is responsible for the emperor's safety on the battlefield.

The emperor formed a new army to replace the Beijing camp, and the formation of the Guards Division was obviously to replace the original guard army, according to the play, this was the former Imperial Forest Army. Compared with the border army, the imperial forest army around the emperor was naturally treated better.

Those who can serve as the generals of the Imperial Forest Army will inevitably become the emperor's trusted cronies, and their status is often higher than that of the border town marshal. After all, in addition to their duties to protect the emperor, they may also go on expeditions in the name of the emperor.

Although the guards who are regarded as the guards of the Imperial Forest Army have not been on the battlefield for nearly a hundred years, at the beginning of the country, there were not a few Hou and Boxungui who were born in the pro-army around the two emperors Taizu and Chengzu.

After Chongzhen ascended the throne, he not only wantonly reorganized the military system and built a new army to replace the Beijing camp, which was unbearable to fight, but also made great efforts to improve the treatment and guarantee of the new army and the border army.

The General Staff and the General Logistics Department established by the emperor not only disconnected the army from direct contact with the localities, but more importantly, greatly improved the status of military ministers.

In the past, even if the military minister became the governor of the five armies, he had to be restrained by an ordinary official of the military department. This is not only the national policy of the dynasty to defend the military with civility, but also because it is generally difficult for military generals who are not from noble backgrounds to be promoted.

The emperor could not trust the former, but the latter was mostly unable to succeed, so he could only choose to let the more stable civil officials manage the military ministers, but this made the position of the military ministers constantly weakened, and they could hardly make their voices heard in the court.

But now, everyone has a clear goal, as long as they can enter the General Staff, they can gain the trust of the emperor, and they no longer have to be elbowed by the officials of the military department, and the status of the military ministers has been significantly improved.

Whether it is to improve his status or hope to have a chance to be a marquis in the future, the closer he is to the emperor, the more opportunities he has.

What's more, although the salary of the Liaodong Army is higher than that of the troops in the Guannai, most of the places developed in Liaodong are occupied by the Houjin, and although the current Liaodong Corridor can barely feed most of the Liaodong refugees, all kinds of materials are also in short supply and need to be transported from the Guannai one by one.

Therefore, with a higher salary than other armies, the treatment of the Liaodong Ming Army was not much better than that of other armies, and most of the extra military salaries of the Liaodong Army were earned by merchants, and ordinary soldiers basically did not enjoy any benefits.

Although the Sihai Commercial Bank was established and the prices in western Liaoning were stabilized, the bitter cold outside the customs was still not as prosperous as Gyeonggi.

After the treatment of the new army was raised, there were more than one or two border towns who wanted to be transferred to Gyeonggi. Now seeing that Zu Dabi and Sang Ang won this jackpot, some people naturally feel a little jealous.

However, Chongzhen obviously did not understand the mood of these Liaodong Ming army generals, and after verbally commending and promoting these dozens of soldiers, he transferred the first regiment of Wu Huai's First Guards Division, and formed the Second Guards Division with the cavalry troops led by Zu Dabi and Sang Ang, which was also a pure cavalry unit of more than 5,000 people.

The most disappointing thing in the emperor's reward event was the birthday of the chief soldier of Jinzhou. Because he was detained by the emperor's side, he didn't get any military merits, and he also lost more than a battalion of elites at once, which can be described as a huge loss.

Some people feel lost, and naturally others are excited. With the news that the emperor had promoted dozens of meritorious soldiers, the soldiers of the Ming army, who had been demoralized because of the hard battle with the Tartar cavalry, suddenly felt excited.

In particular, the emperor rewarded not only those generals in the army this time, half of them were ordinary soldiers and low-ranking officers, and the fact that they could be rewarded for their meritorious service by seeing their companions around them finally aroused the idea of these ordinary soldiers wanting to win a fortune.

Although the troops led by Zu Dabi and Sang Ang withdrew from the front line, the morale of the Ming troops on the defense line not only did not fall, but rose a lot. Many soldiers are looking forward to being the next person to be personally rewarded by the emperor.