By the second day, the atmosphere in the entire camp was almost completely different from the previous day.
Chen Wang could clearly feel that the recruits in the camp seemed to be getting closer to each other.
Even the energy and spirit are not what they were yesterday, and there is a feeling of renewal.
There is nothing clever about military training, it just depends on practicing more and diligently.
There is no such thing in this world where recruits who only need to practice their formation, walk forward, and arrange their military formations for less than a few weeks can kill everyone after they go into battle for the first time.
If you are facing bandits and rogue bandits with extremely low organization, this may be possible.
But once they face a regular army or a strong army, those recruits who have been training for several weeks will only be treated as massacre.
Although the military training methods of later generations have been summarized and summarized, as well as various analyzes and improvements, they have become much more scientific.
But no matter how scientific it is, it is impossible to go against the rules and train a strong army in a short period of time.
Therefore, in the following seven days, Chen Wang only let these recruits practice the most basic formations and military formations, and did not teach other things.
In the next seven days, they were just like the wandering militiamen recruited in Pizhou.
All captains and lieutenants are elected by ordinary soldiers, and of course it is Chen Wang who ultimately announces the appointment.
As for the deputy flag general and flag general, they were selected from the recruits originally recruited by Pizhou.
The captain of the Pizhou Army will serve as the flag commander, and the team deputy will serve as the deputy flag commander.
Officers with the rank of 100 and above are not available for the time being.
Chen Wang is ready to hold this army firmly in his hands.
From the chief executive at the bureau level to the chief executive and general chief Qian at the department level, Chen Wang is ready to appoint his cronies.
When Hu Zhiyi brought people back from Liaodong, he appointed him directly.
Anyway, the new military camp does not have much establishment, and the general manager and general manager have no names, so there is nothing unreasonable in direct appointment.
Chen Wang planned to let Hu Zhiyi and Hu Zhili serve as commanders of the new military camp, while the last battalion would be temporarily under direct control.
As for the two Qianzongs in the ranger camp, one of them, Chen Wang, will naturally be given to Chen Gong, who will be in charge of the Liao cavalry.
Another General Qian appointed Tang Shiping to lead the troops.
Zhao Huailiang, as his deputy, is in charge of logistics.
Nowadays, although Chen Wang has few talents under his command, he can at least build a simple team, which can be regarded as an improvement.
On the eighth day, a military order was delivered from the south.
This military order could be said to have completely disrupted Chen Wang's original plan.
Chen Wang originally thought that he would have a period of time to train his troops steadily and garrison in Ningzhou.
The reason was a tiger Li Guo who led the Duanhou cavalry to escape from Sanshui after receiving the news of Chunhua's defeat.
More than half a month has passed since the Battle of Chunhua.
Li Zicheng led Jingqi to flee south, but the pursuers of Xi'an Prefecture did not intercept him.
Li Zicheng led his troops through Sanyuan, Fuping and Pucheng in Xi'an Prefecture, broke through several towns and villages, and once again expanded the team to more than 20,000 people, fighting all the way to Yan'an Prefecture.
Li Guo, on the other hand, led more than 3,000 cavalrymen who originally had left behind to evacuate from Sanshui, and rushed directly to Ningzhou, and then headed southwest from Ningzhou to Pingliang Mansion. ….
The situation in Pingliang Mansion, which had already settled down, was once again thrown into chaos.
The troops of Pingliang Prefecture went out to fight, but after being defeated once by Li Guo, they did not dare to leave the city to fight again.
Many villagers who were originally sent back to their hometowns were kidnapped by thieves. Now Li Guo has gathered almost ten thousand people under his command and is looting Pingliang.
Therefore, Hong Chengchou ordered him to lead troops to pursue Li Guo and expel Li Guo from Pingliang Mansion.
At the same time, Gao Jie and Liu Chenggong were ordered to wait for Zuo Liangyu in Chunhua City and accompany Zuo Liangyu to lead the troops south.
At the same time, Chen Wang also received news about Li Zicheng and Li Guo within two days.
The Chuangtianwang and other tribes who had been defeated at the foot of Pizhou City have now joined forces with Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, and Ma Huihui.
The current situation is very different from the historical situation.
But even the bandits from Pingliang Mansion and Qingyang Mansion have been defeated.
Gao Yingxiang still chose to march eastward. After plundering Fufeng, Wugong and other places, and joining forces with Chuangtianwang and other troops, the main force of the rogue bandits reached a terrifying 300,000 men.
Three hundred thousand troops covered the sun with banners, and the troops stretched for hundreds of miles. The reconnaissance cavalry Tangma sent by Hong Chengchou could not get a full view of the situation.
Three hundred thousand is only a rough estimate, and the exact number is not known at all.
What made Chen Wang feel that the situation was not good, the Ming army led by Hong Chengchou suffered a defeat in Xingping and retreated towards Xianyang.
The transfer order given to Gao Jie was to order him and Zuo Liangyu to garrison Sanyuan City and guard against the enemy.
The situation seemed to be very unfavorable for the Ming army. Hong Chengchou's move was obviously to give up Xianyang.
Otherwise, Hong Chengchou should order Gao Jie and Zuo Liangyu to lead troops and go directly to support Xianyang.
The course of history has changed, but the results should not change much.
Hong Chengchou now had few troops under his command and could only maintain the defense with difficulty.
Although there were many rogue bandits, their offensive capabilities were extremely weak. The Ming army basically could not lose if they only fought defensively.
But the Ming army had no way to deal with the rogue bandits for the time being.
The army led by Gao Yingxiang was not a ragtag group of stragglers led by Gao Yingen and Li Zicheng.
More than half of the elites of the 36th Battalion are now under Gao Yingxiang's command, and their field combat capabilities are far better than those of the other two groups.
Chen Wang held the military order in his hand and was speechless.
Although all plans were disrupted, Chen Wang saw an excellent opportunity...
Li Guo was currently stirring up trouble in Pingliang Mansion, so Hong Chengchou felt free to send him to lead the pursuit.
It was obviously because of his performance in the Chunhua victory that he won Hong Chengchou's trust.
At the same time, he now has more than 900 elite Liao cavalry and more than 900 elite infantry in his hands, totaling 1,800 people.
Although those battalion soldiers were remnants, they were still soldiers who had fought with Ai Wannian, Liu Chenggong and others for a long time.
Chen Wang now has an idea in his mind, an idea that cannot be told to other people.
He wanted to learn what Li Chengliang did in Liaodong - "raise the bandits to respect themselves".
Now Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Ma Huihui and other elites of the 36th Battalion are concentrated in the Fufeng area, heading towards Xi'an Prefecture, and are in an offensive posture. ….
However, the real purpose of Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong and others was to leave Shaanxi again and escape into Henan through Tongguan.
Although the drought in Shaanxi was alleviated a lot in the eighth year of Chongzhen, there was still a shortage of food. They brought a large number of people along the way, but food became increasingly scarce.
They had no choice but to flee into Shaanxi. After all, Hong Chengchou and other generals came to surround them.
At that time, they suffered successive defeats and suffered heavy losses, and had to withdraw to Shaanxi.
But now that they have replenished their troops in Shaanxi, they naturally want to enter Henan again.
The famine in Shaanxi lasted for so long that it was unheard of.
According to the "Hannan Xujun Chronicle" records:
"In the first year of Chongzhen, the whole sky in Shaanxi was as red as blood."
"There was great famine in the fifth year, great floods in the sixth year, locusts and great famine in autumn in the seventh year, drought in Xixiang in September of the eighth year, floods in Lueyang, and all the houses were destroyed."
"Nine years of drought brought locusts, ten years of autumn crops were gone, eleven years of summer locusts covered the sky...Thirteen years of severe drought...Fourteen years of drought."
Shaanxi was the most severely affected place during the late Ming Dynasty, and it was not a place to stay for a long time.
Shaanxi does not have enough food to feed such a large population, so it must once again break into Henan and advance towards Huguang and Nanzhili.
Now in Pingliang Mansion, there are people who are related to it.
In the neighboring Gongchang Mansion, there are no more traces of rogue bandits.
All the rogue bandits were concentrated in the Fufeng area of Fengxiang Mansion, preparing to attack Xi'an.
Li Guo led his troops to flee to Pingliang Mansion as a last resort. He was left behind by Li Zicheng to prevent Zuo Liangyu from sending troops to attack Sanshui.
But he did not expect that Li Zicheng suffered a huge defeat in Chunhua, and a large number of troops fled north.
In the capital city of Qingyang Prefecture, Yu Chongxiao led three thousand soldiers from Yansui Town.
If Li Guo dared to confront Yu Chongxiao, he could only lead his troops to flee towards Pingliang Mansion.
Now Li Guo could not stand alone, he was just struggling as hard as he could.
Chen Wang's idea of "nurturing the bandits to respect themselves" is just a thought, and it is not exactly the same as Li Chengliang's.
It would be best if we could chase Li Guo into Hanzhong.
It is now September, and the Guanzhong War is about to break out.
As long as it lasts until October, Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong will retreat eastward toward Henan.
As long as there is a slight delay, Li Guo will miss the only chance to catch up with the main force.
If Li Guo wants to survive at that time, the only way out is to escape to Hanzhong Mansion.
At this time, the bandit rebellion in Hanzhong Mansion was not over, and the garrison was empty.
Chen Wang remembered clearly that in the ninth year of Chongzhen, Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong and other troops fled into Hanzhong again.
If you are chasing Li Guo all the way into Hanzhong, it is best to get stuck at a very important time point.
Then you will have enough reasons and excuses to stay in Hanzhong.
Hanzhong Mansion is now also part of Shaanxi, but it has not been affected much by the drought.
While droughts continued to break out in various parts of Shaanxi, Hanzhong Prefecture encountered floods during the Chongzhen period, and they were infrequent.
Throughout the late Ming Dynasty, widespread famines occurred across the north and south.
The north was the hardest hit, and then spread from the north to the south.
However, the damage suffered in places such as Sichuan, Huguang, Guangdong and Guangxi, Jiangnan, and Hanzhong is not high.
Chen Wang knew exactly how Zuo Liangyu achieved substantial separatism in history.
"Li Zicheng..."
A slight smile appeared on Chen Wang's face.
He thought it was bad luck to encounter Li Zicheng one after another.
But now that he thinks about it, Li Zicheng was his lucky star.
In the first battle at Qiutou Town, he encountered Li Zicheng and was promoted to the commander-in-chief.
The second battle in Chunhua was against Li Zicheng again, but he immediately became a guerrilla.
Li Zicheng's escape in Chunhua gave him another excellent opportunity.
"When we meet again in the future, I will definitely thank you properly...".
Luo Xiaoming
