Zhang Han pondered: "Recently, because of the minting of silver coins and copper coins, our financial tension has been alleviated, the next step is to increase the pace of army expansion, before the autumn, the army will be expanded to ten regiments, plus the original five regiments, fifteen regiments composed of eight infantry regiments and an artillery regiment, two cavalry regiments and even three cavalry regiments, so that our strength is not only enough to completely defeat the Tumut Division, but also enough to go north to attack the Mobei Third Division and the westward attack set Division, and to defend and Huairou to the Karaqin Division, after all, within a few years, We don't have any plans to go east yet. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

This is Zhang Han and the military division's plan for the great expansion of the army, and the officers present exchanged glances with each other, and everyone felt extremely excited. The expansion of the army means that the power in their hands increases, and all resources will undoubtedly be tilted in favor of the military in the coming months, which is a major benefit for the officers.

Bigger troops, more subordinates, bigger exploits, more spoils!

Zhang Han stood up, took the long pole in Sun Yao's hand, and pointed to one of the most conspicuous targets in the sand table, a city that looks incomparably magnificent on the grassland, there are various models in the city, and the most conspicuous is a golden and splendid building complex, which is the naturalized city built by Altan Khan, and that building is where the Khan Palace built by the Mongols is located!

"Before autumn," Zhang Han looked at the generals under his command, and said word by word: "I want to defeat the Tumut Department and enter Guihua City!" ”

Enter the City of Naturalization!

Zhang Han finally said this goal, and he also felt relaxed.

Last year, he and his subordinates of the military department had this idea, according to everyone's idea at the time, it may take several years to defeat the Tumut Department that controls more than 100,000 strings, although no one feels that He Yusheng will fail, but he really didn't expect that from the end of the previous year to enter the grassland to build a fort, to less than two years before the autumn of this year, the goal has changed from defeating the Tumut Department to entering the Naturalization City.

"Enter the City of Naturalization!"

"Everywhere in the Metropolitan Protectorate and the North Garden?"

"Hey, then let's talk about territory with Yusheng alone, and it's not much worse than the Ming Imperial Court!"

The eyes of the officers were scorching, these people brought out by Zhang Han single-handedly, from the head of the dart division who escorted the convoy, to now becoming the commander of hundreds of people step by step, and finally to the commander of the army of thousands or even 10,000 people, at this moment, who is not willing to be able to achieve this goal for Zhang Han, ride a horse and whip, enter the core city of the Mongols, and include all the vast land within a radius of thousands of miles?

Zhang Han calmed down and said quietly: "Before this, we confused Xi Lingse, now we can gradually increase troops to the western flank, the new training of troops and horses, unified mobilization by the General Staff Division, and gradually increase troops to the northwest." ”

Sun Yao got up and said: "Now Wang Yikui leads the first regiment in Guihua Fort, Li Zhiye's third regiment is in Xiaoheihe Fort, Li Laibin's second regiment is in Daheihe Fort, Duo'er's first regiment of cavalry is in the area of Shangyi Fort, Yang Sisun's fifth regiment is stationed in Xinghe Fort, before there are further military orders, the departments maintain the existing defense line still, and then increase the eastern wing of Daqing Mountain, choke the mouth of Daqing River and Erqing River, there is still a long distance, only a few simple outpost military platforms can be built, and the garrison should be dominated by cavalry, It is planned to send Zhou Yao's second iron cavalry regiment and Zhu Dayong's second cavalry regiment, and more than 7,000 people will be stationed after the two cavalry regiments are fully established. ”

Judging from the sand table or map, the northern area of Yusheng has expanded nearly twice the distance, Jining Fort has become a very central military fort, Xinghe Fort and then Shangyi Fort have expanded the territory of Fangguang for more than 100 li, to the east side of Daqing Mountain and the bank of the Erlong River, and it has expanded nearly 200 miles to the north of Xiaoheihe Fort, and the northernmost northbound in the northwest is Guihua Fort, where it has advanced to Guihua City to a distance of less than 100 miles, which is equivalent to being blocked under the nose of the Mongols, and the Mongolian nobles such as Xi Lingse are now a mass of scattered sand, There was not even a tentative attack when the army and the people built the fort, and as a result, after a few months, dozens of military platforms of several military forts were built, and now the Mongols have to be careful when they come out of the naturalization city for grazing activities, because relying on the naturalization fort, and Yusheng's cavalry can expand the activity area to the north for thirty miles, which means that the herdsmen may encounter the cavalry not far away, and the safety is not guaranteed at all, they can only give up a large area of pasture, and the herdsmen in the north divide the use, which is undoubtedly worse.

Zhang Han finally said: "This year, the main expansion is the soldiers, but the most important regiments to be added are eight regiments to ten regiments. This year, there is no plan to use money on a large scale except for reclamation, that is, to expand the army, so you should work hard. ”

Everyone stood up violently and gave a military salute.

After the officers left, Sun Jingting said to Zhang Han: "Does Wen Lan know the current situation of Omu Buhong?" ”

Zhang Han looked at Sun Jingting's face with anger, and said immediately: "I ordered the Military Intelligence Department to strictly guard him and give him some hardships, so that it is easy to grasp." ”

"No wonder." Sun Jingting said: "It's not a good thing to humiliate. ”

Sun Jingting rushed back from the northern mining area for only three days, stayed at home with his wife and children for two days, which was a short vacation, and then participated in various meetings and activities of the military department, which can be regarded as non-stop.

His complexion was originally very fair, his posture was straight, he was a very handsome young man, but now he was running back and forth, his face was scorched, and his face was full of weather, because he was too busy, and he was old, and his beard had grown, and now he was full of beards, and he was the same as five or six years ago.

"I know about it." Zhang Han said: "I'll go and see it in a while." ”

Sun Jingting still said seriously: "The humiliation should not be too much, just like a child, blindly beating and scolding, he only knows fear, but has no emotion, or tell him to take a look more, fear of power and then Huaide, it is the right way." ”

"Okay," Li Shenming said, "We said we would go to the barracks together to see the new army, are we still going?" ”

"That's right," Sun Jingting said when he heard this: "The soldiers of the new army are still recruiting mainly locals in Datong Prefecture, and recently, there have been annoyances in the local government, saying that the villages are about to lose their young figures, and the new army calculates that there are about 20 regiments of soldiers, which is nearly 80,000 young and strong, and the area of Datong Mansion is afraid that it will really be recruited." ”

What Sun Jingting said can be regarded as a kind of shackle in development, Zhang Han only firmly controlled Tiancheng and Zhenyu Liangwei, plus a Lingqiu County and Guangling, and some places in Ulzhou, the officials in these places were either bribed, or shocked by He Yusheng's strength, either to serve Zhang Han, or also to adopt the attitude of ignoring and Ren and Yusheng to develop their forces at will.

And Yang Hewei and Datong Fucheng and other places, and Yusheng's influence is not doubted, and local officials will not be embarrassed, but after all, there are governors, general soldiers, and Xuanda Governor, and they are always tied up, and Yusheng's employment is mostly concentrated in two counties, one state and two guards, and the young and strong people in these places may add up to two or three hundred thousand, and now almost all of them are used by He Yusheng, and if they are recruited again, I am afraid that the fields with Li Zhuang as the core will be uncultivated, not to mention that the local gentry and some military guard families also still have some acres. The complaints that Sun Jingting heard should have been made by these people.

Li Shenming sneered when he heard this: "Those gang of birds are not good goods, even if we don't recruit people, as long as we use people to give more money than them, it is inevitable that these people will not be able to recruit tenants, how can we not complain." Fortunately, the company has been buying materials from them, and our strength is holding it down, otherwise there would have been an accident. ”

Zhang Han didn't make a sound, he grabbed his hat and said with a smile: "Let's go to the barracks." ”

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"Hooray, hooray, hooray!"

The army has long been unable to help shouting long live, Li Zhuang's long live cry has become an open secret in the Tianchengwei area, according to the tradition of the Ming border army, when the generals are summoned or the army goes out, they can shout three times: tiger, tiger, tiger. Such a voice is used to boost the morale of the army, but as long as Zhang Han appears in the army now, especially in front of the officers and soldiers of the new army, it will always trigger a tsunami-like cry of long live.

After several years of operation, coupled with the great achievements of going north, and the importance of the army, the current result was finally achieved.

Wang Changfu, Wang Yiji, and others were all standing under the review platform and waiting, and in front of them was an infantry regiment that had just passed the recruit training course, three brigades, each brigade had 600 spearmen, 100 jumping soldiers, and two companies of 300 musketeers.

After Zhang Han stepped onto the stage, Li Shenming and Sun Jingting followed, and there was a burst of cheers below.

After Zhang Han stood up, he motioned for Wang Changfu and the others to start.

Wang Changfu personally waved the order flag, and the drummers under the review stage immediately beat the big drum.

Under the sunset, countless military flags are displayed, the campus of Nuo University is full of people, many people around the evening have nothing to do, go home and put the farm tools after the whole family comes out to see the lively, the countryside is originally a very boring and lonely place, especially in the countryside of this era, there are no things such as sound and light, the acrobatic troupe and the shadow puppet team are all performing in turn from village to village, sometimes they do not come to the door once for ten days and a half months, the people go home and are also surrounded by four walls, except for the bed and the cabinet There is no stool, and they are reluctant to light the lamp after dark, I can't eat enough, let alone entertain, and the temperament of adults is generally not very good. How can it be like this, adults carry children on their shoulders, old people get together to talk and laugh, most of the clothes on people are newly made in the past two years, very like, there are a lot of printing and dyeing workshops in the surrounding towns, because people have some money in hand, no longer satisfied with only gray clothes with only natural colors, especially women, now wear red and willow green, all kinds of bright colors, men like to dye their robes to earth yellow or turquoise, the school field in front of them is full of people wearing various colors, Under the evening sun, it shines brightly and exudes a strange brilliance.

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The monthly pass is still very weak, I can only appeal again with a thick face, and I implore friends who have tickets in hand to support it, and I must have a good code word in the next one, and return to you.