Recruitment in the prison camps has also ended, with a total of 2,700 people recruited, rounded to a round number.
Two thousand seven hundred newly recruited soldiers were moved to the camp in the north of the city.
With the settlement of the northern auxiliary barracks, there are now four battalions in the four directions of Chunhua City.
The north camp was for the auxiliary troops, the west camp was for Gao Jie, the east camp was for Liu Chenggong, and the south camp was for the prisoner camp and the station of the Liao cavalry.
On the Beiying campus, 2,700 newly recruited auxiliary soldiers stood in formation.
Chen Wang sat on the general platform, looking down at the recruits on the school field, his thoughts rolling in his heart.
During the two battles of Qiutou Town and Chunhua City, he successively served as President Bai, General Secretary, and President Qian.
It took a lot of time to approve the military merit, but the reward documents came very quickly.
The officials who approved the military merits almost left together with Zuo Liangyu.
Zuo Liangyu stayed in Chunhua for a total of four days.
When he came, he brought more than two hundred riders with him. When he left, not counting the personal followers he brought, he took away a total of two thousand people.
Chen Wang gave all the remaining elite cavalry after Gao Jie finished selecting them to Zuo Liangyu, and asked Zuo Liangyu to send people to pick out the remaining horse troops.
When Chen Wang finished his last words that day, Zuo Liangyu fell into a long silence.
Chen Wang didn't have the ability to read minds. He didn't know what Zuo Liangyu was thinking, but Zuo Liangyu was indeed touched.
But Chen Wang didn't know how much he could influence Zuo Liangyu with just a few words, and how much he could change Zuo Liangyu's outlook.
But all this is not what Chen Wang needs to worry about, because no matter what kind of impact it has, that will happen later.
Just four days later, on August 19, the envoy arrived in Chunhua City.
The one who came was naturally not an angel, but a messenger sent by Hong Chengchou.
The messenger brought two letters of seal and the instrument of appointment.
Hong Chengchou was the governor of the three sides and the governor of military affairs. When he was appointed, Chongzhen gave him the power to be promoted to military general.
Hong Chengchou still has the right to be promoted to a guerrilla or a general.
The first letter was naturally addressed to Chen Wang, who had his title of Acting Camp General removed and was directly promoted from Chief Qian to Guerrilla.
As for military positions, that is, high-level official positions, you still have to wait for a while, and this is beyond Hong Chengchou's authority.
The Chunhua Victory defeated 100,000 people, eliminated one of the three rogue armies, and relieved the final worries on the Guanzhong battlefield.
This achievement is enough to actually teach the battalion general.
Chen Wang knew from the beginning that most of them were just guerrillas, and it was basically impossible to join the generals.
Cao Bianjiao has made so many meritorious deeds, but now he is only a general, so he will probably not be awarded the rank of general.
Moreover, there were promotions among the Ming army, but they were rare.
Before most generals become commander-in-chief, they serve as guerrillas, staff generals, deputy generals, and finally commander-in-chief.
Rely on the continuous accumulation of military merit to be promoted one by one.
Chen Wang was already very satisfied with his status as a guerrilla, and the number of troops in the new battalion was set at 2,000.
This number of soldiers is already quite large, and the average number of soldiers that guerrillas can lead is only about a thousand.
Because except for the original quota of Liao cavalry, the rest of the troops were distributed according to the standard of infantry.
Hong Chengchou's intention was very clear, that is, he hoped that Chen Wang would recruit infantrymen in the future.
The number of troops is two thousand, which means that Chen Wang can now recruit more than a thousand people.
Hong Chengchou has also given the right to recruit troops, allowing open recruitment among the states and counties in Xi'an Prefecture.
Since he has the right to recruit troops, Chen Wang will no longer recruit troops from the prisoner camps.
Many places are now in ruins, and a large number of refugees have gathered around the city of Xi'an Prefecture to escape the war. These people are the best source of troops.
Recruiting soldiers to replenish their strength and serve as auxiliary soldiers is an unspoken rule, and it is the same for everyone.
However, recruiting troops privately without orders is definitely intolerable.
When recruiting troops under Pizhou City, it was only after Hong Chengchou authorized Cao Wenzhao that Cao Wenzhao dared to let Chen Wang recruit troops openly.
Chen Wang glanced at the recruits who were standing upright on the school field.
Another seal letter was given to Gao Jie, commenting on his merits and deeds, and conferring him the title of "Zuying".
The so-called "sitting camp" is also a camp general, which is different from generals such as generals, deputy generals, participating generals, and guerrillas.
Although he also leads the troops alone, he is directly under the jurisdiction of the governor, and the soldiers in the camp are called "pace soldiers."
The pacesetter battalion under Hong Chengchou's command now has a total of 2,600 people.
The general who leads the pacesetter battalion is called "sitting camp", and of course is also called "Chinese Army".
The names of the pacesetter battalions under each governor have basically changed, and the establishment of the battalions is also basically different.
The garrison military system at the end of the Ming Dynasty was extremely complex and, in a sense, quite chaotic.
Chen Wang was not surprised when Gao Jie became the camp general.
He achieved great success anyway, won a great victory, and led his troops back to surrender. He did not reward a battalion general, but made a move that would cost him a fortune.
I'm afraid not many people behind will choose to surrender.
But Chen Wang never thought that Hong Chengchou would directly incorporate Gao Jie into the pacesetter camp.
However, after careful consideration, Chen Wang felt that Hong Chengchou's decision was indeed based on careful consideration.
Most of the soldiers under Gao Jie's command are from rogue bandits, and it is best to keep them around with restraint.
Because Gao Jie himself had an affair with the Xing family, plus Chunhua anyway, he was incompatible with the bandits, so he could only go to the dark side.
Moreover, grouping them under direct subordinates can prevent them from siding with others, making it easier to control.
The pacesetters under Hong Chengchou's command originally numbered nearly 4,000, but they suffered heavy casualties in several subsequent battles.
After that, the troops were constantly divided and mobilized, so the number of troops continued to decrease, until now there are only 2,600 people under his command.
Now that the war is imminent, Hong Chengchou has classified Gao Jie as a pacesetter, and his purpose is obvious.
It won't be long before the transfer order should come out, ordering Gao Jie to lead his troops south.
Chen Wang glanced solemnly at the recruits on the school field.
Today is August 21st, seven days have passed since the recruitment ended.
Most of the recruited soldiers were hungry soldiers, so Chen Wang did not immediately order training.
There were seven days in total, and the seven days were spent on recuperating the body, and of course reciting military regulations.
In the first three days, people were ordered to cook rice porridge so that they could eat as much as possible.
Then he spent money to buy a batch of meat and added it to the rice porridge.
On the fifth day, all the rice porridge was replaced with dry rice, and a little more meat and vegetables were added.
The health of these new soldiers recruited into the camp is already much better, and the color on their faces has faded a little.
However, it will probably take at least half a month to fully recover.
These hungry soldiers just eat less, not because they haven't eaten and are thin.
Haosheng will definitely be able to support him for half a month, and now Chen Wang is not short of money.
Xi'an is not far to the south. As long as you have money, you can buy all kinds of meat, eggs, and milk.
For seven days, there was no commotion in the camp. All the recruits stayed in the camp honestly and recited military regulations every day.
Those who served as instructors to teach military discipline were the more than 300 soldiers originally recruited in Pizhou.
There are only ten days left until September, and September is the time when Gao Yingxiang will move eastward.
A great war was about to break out in the South.
In history, Gao Yingxiang joined the other two groups, combined 400,000 troops, and fought in Sanyuan with more than 10,000 Ming troops led by Hong Chengchou.
Although there was a huge disparity in military strength, the battle situation did not form a crushing trend, and victory was delayed.
In October, Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong and others failed to fight the Ming army.
So they gathered their troops and horses and left Tongguan eastward again, dividing the 13th battalion into marching eastward.
Now, because of my interference and the butterfly effect, a chain reaction has occurred.
Most of the rogue bandits in Pingliang Prefecture and Qingyang Prefecture were defeated, and now only the 250,000 troops led by Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong remained.
Logically speaking, Hong Chengchou should be able to win more easily.
However, the situation on the battlefield changes rapidly, and a slight difference can lead to a huge difference.
Military battles are dangerous, and no one can determine the winner or lose until the war is over.
Chen Wang calculated the situation and found that the probability of Hong Chengchou calling him to go south for reinforcements was very low.
Because on paper, Chen Wang now has only more than 900 Liao cavalry under his command, plus more than 900 battalion soldiers, a total of 1,800 people.
The guards must not be considered as combat effectiveness. After the battle in Chunhua, the guards must be transferred back to Xi'an.
The reason why Hong Chengchou mobilized the guards was because he had no troops to send and no one to use.
Zhang Xin could only set up an ambush, so he spread the suspicion and sent out all the guards to guard the city under a false flag so that the rogues would not dare to move without permission.
The important thing is to mobilize Zuo Liangyu to go south. Zuo Liangyu's men are now all elite soldiers with outstanding combat effectiveness.
The 1,800 men under his command were too few. Chen Wang felt that he would probably be transferred to Qingyang Mansion to guard Ningzhou.
Because Qingyang Mansion is not peaceful now, and the threat from the north has not been completely eliminated.
Zhenning is the southernmost gateway city of Qingyang Mansion, while Ningzhou is the second southern gateway city of Qingyang Mansion.
Now that the army led by Li Zicheng was defeated, a few elite cavalry followed Li Zicheng into the Guanzhong Plain, and the other part was captured in Chunhua.
Most of the prisoners were intercepted by Zuo Liangyu in Sanshui and sent to Pizhou.
Sanshui and Chunhua are both under the jurisdiction of Pizhou. The resettlement of refugees is the matter of local officials in Pizhou. Their generals only need to lead troops to fight.
After receiving the news of the defeat, Li Zicheng's nephew Li Guo led his elite cavalry and cavalry troops to escape northward without looking back.
Li Guo's men were all cavalry, so naturally they didn't have much siege capability.
Ningzhou has been besieged several times before, but Ningzhou is a state city after all, with solid city buildings and many young people in the city.
After all, Qingyang Mansion is close to the border, and the guards are still capable of fighting. Relying on the city walls and the young and strong guards in the city, they can barely save the city.
Moreover, Li Zicheng and Hui Deng were on guard against each other, so they did not attack the city with all their strength, and Ningzhou City was preserved without falling.
However, the residents outside Ningzhou City and the surrounding towns and villages basically suffered and were swept into the tide.
After the fall of the two cities of Zhenning and Sanshui, they are now in dilapidated condition, the people have withered, and the city defenses have been almost destroyed, making them unfit for defense.
In addition to Li Guo who fled north, there were also large groups of bandits led by Prime Minister Hui Deng in the north.
Li Zicheng and Hui Deng had previously divided their forces. Li Zicheng went south while Hui Deng went north.
Previously, Hong Chengchou had ordered Yansui Town to divide its troops to go south to defend Qingyang, and at the same time intercept the northward route of the rogue bandits.
Naturally, Prime Minister Hui Deng was wise and did not attack Qingyang Mansion's city. Instead, he took a detour to Heshui City in the northeast and advanced towards Huachi.
It seems that they want to take advantage of the southern part of Yansui Town and march towards Yan'an Prefecture.
This strategy seemed audacious. It actually wanted to enter Yan'an Prefecture through the defense area of a major Ming army town.
But when truly combined with reality, this strategy is actually feasible.
Because now more than 3,000 soldiers led by Yu Chongxiao, the commander-in-chief of Yansui Town, are guarding the city of Qingyang Prefecture.
Yansui Town is located in northern Shaanxi. Northern Shaanxi has suffered from severe drought for many years and is in dilapidated state. There are many people fleeing from the chaos and there are many vacancies in the camp.
Among the current thirteen families and thirty-six battalions, most of them are composed of deserted battalions from Guyuan and Yansui towns as the core.
Zhang Xianzhong was a camp soldier in Yansui Town, and Li Zicheng and Wang Jiayin were also from the border army.
Yansui Town is now extremely empty, and most of the troops are on border defense.
The more than 3,000 soldiers led by Yu Chongxiao were actually one-third of Yansui Town's combat strength.
In addition, in order to rescue Pingliang Mansion, Hong Chengchou also dispatched some troops from Yansui Town to support.
No one knows what Prime Minister Hui Deng was thinking, but he did seize the weakest link of the Ming army.
Yu Chongxiao had already left Qingyang Mansion, evacuated and returned to Yansui Town, taking a detour to block Hui Dengxiang's northward route.
I'm afraid that on the seventh or eighth day, the order to move the camp will come.
There is not much time left for Chen Wang to train safely in Chunhua now, but after arriving in Ningzhou, he should have about a month of stable time.
The new wind blew the flags standing on the general platform, and also blew up the robes worn by the surrounding armored soldiers.
Chen Wang withdrew his thoughts and raised his eyes to look at the school grounds.
What came into view were insensitive and lifeless faces.
They lost their homes, they lost their families, they lost everything they had before.
Natural disasters and man-made disasters came one after another, and they struggled hard.
However, they were mercilessly submerged by the torrent of the times. They had no strength to resist, and they did not even have the thought of resisting in their hearts.
Their clothes are in rags, their bodies are thin and thin, and their lives are miserable.
They have no way or ability to change all this. They have tried their best to simply survive.
There was no murderous intent in their eyes. They were just a group of farmers who dug in the fields all day long.
We rely on the sky to eat and the earth to survive.
Just like the humblest piece of grass on earth, it is allowed to be trampled upon by others.
Their fate is not in their own hands.
Their eyes were filled with fear, and many of them had already lost hope for the future.
Their lives, everything about them, their sufferings are all unknown.
In troubled times...
People are like ants, life is like grass...
