Yisun Yuanhua shuddered when he heard this, it seems that Chongzhen's life cannot be saved, and Xia Nan will definitely try his best to let him die in the hands of Li Zicheng. Sun Yuanhua believes that even if Li Zicheng does not attack Chongzhen, Xia Nan will press Chongzhen's head with one hand and grab Li Zicheng's knife with the other hand to cut it down, causing the fact that Liukou killed the king, and then received the political assets of the Ming Dynasty under the banner of revenge for Chongzhen.

I have to say that his judgment is very close to Xia Nan's real thoughts.

Although Chongzhen, Yang Sichang, Junchen and others secretly tried to negotiate peace with the Tartars and went south to poison the summer who made great contributions, Sun Yuanhua is a traditional scholar after all, and the concept of Jun Weichen is deeply rooted in the bone marrow, and some burdens in his heart are not easy to let go, and he can't help but sigh in his heart for what may happen to Chongzhen, but he is helpless - this is the general trend, and the idea of tens of thousands of people in the Qiong Navy is not something he can stop alone.

After Xia Nan reported on the situation on the mainland, he began to listen to the reports of his subordinates.

The military aspect is clearly the most important. As one of the giants of the military, Huang Hansheng was the first to come out.

"General Qiyu: The first regiment was carefully selected, and selected a lot of capable candidates from the old tunding, and now it has expanded to more than 10,000 people, and there are more than 20,000 people in the new tunding. These are just the elites after our repeated screening, if the situation is urgent, one or two hundred thousand Ding Zhuang can be pulled out of the 100,000 immigrants, which may be slightly lacking in age and physique, but it is also a good source of soldiers. ”

"That is, the actual strength of the first regiment doubled, and the reserve reached twenty thousand, and even, if needed, the upper limit could reach forty thousand?" Xia Nan nodded and said with satisfaction, "Sure enough, manpower is the most valuable resource, without these populations, no matter how powerful our guns are, it is useless, we can only nest in Guangdong as an overlord, and we dare not fight with the rogues and Tatars head-on." ”

The rogues relied on crowd tactics, and before the large-scale immigration, even if ten cannon fodder were exchanged for a soldier of the Qiong Navy, it would be unbearable pain for the Qiong Navy. Although the Tartars are not prosperous, it is only relative to the entire Ming Dynasty, if you want to work hard, the eight banners will get together and pull out 100,000 banners It is no problem, not to mention that there are Mongols, surrendered Ming troops and even Koreans as accomplices, which can easily reach the scale of two or three hundred thousand people, if you do not absorb the population to expand the army, the scale of tens of millions of people, even if the weapons have a generational advantage, it is not enough to consume a few major wars - in order to deal with a partial division of Abatai, Xia Nan pulled out all the family funds. Now there are tens of thousands of active forces plus reserves, plus the troops of Shandong and Taiwan, and finally have enough strength to wrestle with Huang Taiji head-on and have a decisive battle.

As the oldest general, Huang Hansheng has long been firmly tied to his fate with the Qiong Navy, and the Qiong Navy can develop by leaps and bounds, and he is also honored, and he said: "What the general said is true. I think that when the troops were not enough, 1,000 people had to fight hard against the 20,000 troops in Guangdong, and they had to cross the sea to fight against the soldiers and civilians of the entire city of Guangzhou. Later, whether it was fighting Gao Yingxiang at the foot of Qiuyu Mountain, or fighting rebels and Tartars in Shandong, all of them fought more and less, and there was no room for manoeuvre. Now that the soldiers are strong and strong, looking at the world, no one in our Qiong Navy is afraid. ”

Xia Nan was in a good mood and encouraged: "The army can have such a scale, you have contributed a lot, you have worked hard." ”

Huang Hansheng gave a military salute: "This is what subordinates should do." ”

Wei Lianheng and Su Bush were not there, and the sequence of Murong Longcheng's speeches was naturally at the front, and after Huang Hansheng retreated, he came out and said: "General, the Marine Corps has proven itself in southern Liaoning, and with the cooperation of warships, it can play a great role in the coast. However, the size of about 1,000 people was too small, and he asked the general for permission to expand. ”

This time, the Marine Corps showed its edge, and with the cooperation of the navy, with a very small number of troops, it played the role of pulling out the stronghold in southern Liaoning, and played a strategic role in containing the Qing army from entering the army, and the effect was even better than Xia Nan's expectations. Regarding Murong Longcheng's request, Xia Nan felt that it was also logical. He pondered for a moment, then nodded, "Now that there are enough manpower, the troops that can fight should be strengthened. However, there is no need to increase the number of troops indefinitely, after all, special forces are not ordinary privates, they need to rely on numbers to win, and they should be kept to an appropriate level, and they should be flexible in wartime. In this way, the Guards Battalion, the Special Operations Corps, and the Marine Corps will all be expanded to 2,000 people, and you will choose them yourself, and I will guarantee the weapons and salaries. ”

Yang Youji and Huang Mengjia are very happy, who doesn't want the troops under their command to be strengthened? They both came out of the ranks, and together with Murong Longcheng, they said, "General Xie." ”

Xia Nan said with a smile: "Work hard, in the future, I look forward to the special combat team and the marine team playing an important role." ”

After the military people reported the progress or put forward the requirements, Sun Yuanhua cleaned up his mood, paced out of the ranks, arched his hand, and said: "General, Qiong Haijun now has a solid family background, and everyone is very happy. However, I may have to pour cold water on it: in the past, when the Qiong Navy only had a few battalions, there were only a few thousand people, and there was no problem with the supply of firearms, but by the time of Gao Yingxiang, the number of troops had already reached tens of thousands, and it was a little stretched to meet the needs of the new soldiers. Now it is a scale of tens of thousands of people, and with the existing craftsmen alone, it is impossible to keep up with the speed of expanding the army. Not to mention firearms, you can't build the short blades on the guns......"

Xia Nan frowned, the contradiction between the production capacity of the arsenal and the speed of the army's expansion is an unavoidable problem, this is reality after all, not a computer game, the mouse can be made with a little weapon. Although the production areas of iron and coal mines were controlled, and there was no problem with the supply of raw materials, the number of skilled craftsmen was limited, and the production of weapons could not only be made for speed and not quality - just imagine, if the Qionghai-style rifles, mountain artillery, and field artillery, which have always been known for their excellent quality, become as easy to blow up as the court bird guns and Hongyi cannons, and the bayonets are easy to break, and the soldiers no longer trust the weapons in their hands, the combat effectiveness of the Qionghai Navy will definitely be reduced, and it will not be far from the officers and soldiers.