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For Zhu Cixiang, the most important thing at the moment is to improve his own strength.
Only by holding an elite soldier who is absolutely obedient to the imperial court and the emperor can we control the general trend of the world.
Although the Shence Army is trained as an elite army, its number is too small.
The eight thousand people who controlled Nanjing were still somewhat stretched, and it was basically impossible to play a decisive role in the future showdown with the Manchus.
Therefore, military expansion is imperative.
The number of people the Beijing camp could accommodate was 100,000, but Zhu Cixiang could not expand the Shence Army to this size at once.
This is not because they are worried about not being able to pay military salaries.
After confiscating those noble officials who had committed corruption and rebellion, Zhu Cihong accumulated tens of millions of taels of silver in his money, and he did not have to worry about military pay for two or three years.
Zhu Cixiang was worried about the uncertainty caused by the sudden increase in the number of Shence troops.
After all, what he wants to train is an elite division.
If too many people are recruited at once and the qualifications of the personnel are uneven, the training effect will be difficult to guarantee.
Zhu Cixiang certainly needed enough manpower to defend Huang Ming, but not at the expense of the quality of the army.
Therefore, he planned to expand the Shence Army to 50,000 people first, and then recruit a group of new soldiers after several months of training to reach the scale of the Beijing camp at its peak.
With the initial experience of recruiting new recruits, it was much easier this time.
Zhu Cixiang decided to leave the matter of military expansion to Lu Zhenfei and Zhao Xin.
As for the outstanding performers from the fourth battalion of the original Shence Army, they can serve as officers to train the newly recruited soldiers.
Of course, the elimination principle will not change.
If these recruits want to become official members of the Shence Army, they must kill a death row prisoner.
Obviously there were not enough death row prisoners, so Zhu Cixi decided to let the soldiers of the fourth battalion of the Yuan Shence Army go to suppress the bandits.
Firstly, these systematically trained soldiers can be tested in actual combat, and secondly, enough bandits can be captured and brought back to train the new soldiers' courage.
In addition, Zhu Cixiang decided to organize the soldiers eliminated from this training into auxiliary soldiers and form a separate battalion.
This idea was definitely ahead of its time.
Whether it is the official army of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng's Shun Army, Zhang Xianzhong's Western Army, or the Manchu Eight Banners Army, almost all of them are combat troops.
The so-called auxiliary soldiers are just masters and strong men captured temporarily.
The advantage of this is obvious, that is, you don't have to bear the rations of these auxiliary soldiers.
The young men captured temporarily will die as soon as they die.
They are also consumables anyway.
At worst, they will just capture another batch.
But the disadvantages are equally obvious.
These strong men were coerced into the camp, and they would blow up the camp if they encountered the slightest disturbance.
If they encountered a night attack, they would even cause the camp to roar.
The auxiliary army battalion Zhu Cixi wanted to establish was more similar to a modern engineering battalion.
It was responsible for building camps and fortifications before the war, and was responsible for providing effective material support to the soldiers during the war.
Of course, the auxiliary barracks of the Shence Army are also responsible for paying the troops.
Zhu Cixiang plans to set the pay at half of the military pay for the soldiers, that is, one tael of silver.
It is not impossible for auxiliary soldiers to be promoted to combat soldiers.
As long as they perform well, they can be promoted based on their merits.
Or when the war barracks suffers heavy losses and there is a serious shortage, some auxiliary troops will be added to the war barracks.
This model can ensure that the blood of the combat barracks can be replenished at any time, and because the auxiliary soldiers have trained, lived, and fought with the combat soldiers for a long time, there is no adaptability problem, and they are the best recruitment of soldiers.
Of course, the only problem is that this will add a lot of expense.
However, Zhu Cixiang believes that it is worth it.
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In the final analysis, war is about supplies, and having a professional auxiliary army can effectively improve the combat effectiveness of the soldiers.
If the original historical development is followed, Zhu Cixiang still has about ten months left, but I don’t know if his arrival in this time and space will trigger a series of butterfly effects and change the world structure.
Shanxi, Datong, General Military Mansion.
Jiang Quan, the former commander-in-chief of Datong in the Ming Dynasty, summoned a group of staff to discuss countermeasures.
Ever since he killed Zhang Tianlin, the Shunjun general appointed by Li Zicheng on the tenth day of May, he had been thinking about his next move.
It should be said that the situation in the world is really changing every day.
At the beginning of the year, Li Zicheng captured Taiyuan in a devastating manner, and Jiang Quan led his troops to surrender without hesitation.
At that time, anyone with a discerning eye could see that the Ming Dynasty was about to end, and Li Zicheng was sure of winning the world.
As a surrendered minister of the Ming Dynasty, Jiang Quan could not achieve the merit of following the dragon like the Eighteen Riders of Shangluo, but at least he could keep his official title and the wealth of his descendants.
Therefore, Jiang Yu Jiangshun did not feel any pressure.
In March, Li Zicheng won the capital without any suspense, further proving Jiang Yu's ruthless vision.
But who would have expected that Wu Sangui then led Qing troops into the pass, and Li Zicheng was completely defeated.
In the blink of an eye, the Qing troops occupied Jifu.
After Li Zicheng's defeat at Shanhaiguan, he immediately abandoned Jifu and led his troops to retreat to Shanxi.
He sent Ma Chongxi to garrison Guguan, Zhang Tianlin to garrison Datong, Liu Zhong to garrison Changzhi, Chen Yongfu to garrison Taiyuan, Tang Tong to garrison Baode, and Yuan Zongdi to garrison Fenyang.
In the eyes of outsiders, Li Zicheng wanted to defend Shanxi.
But Jiang Yu didn't think so.
If Li Zicheng really wanted to hold Shanxi, why was he so anxious to lead his troops across the Yellow River back to Guanzhong?
If Li Zicheng really wanted to hold Shanxi, why didn't he mobilize elites from Xi'an to reinforce him?
If Li Zicheng really wanted to hold Shanxi, why didn't he send Liu Zongmin to take charge of Taiyuan and mediate the situation?
Because Li Zicheng didn’t want to hold on to Shanxi at all From the beginning, Li Zicheng had no ambition to dominate the world.
He just wanted to be a mountain king who ruled in Guanzhong.
This can explain why he did not appease the former Ming officials and Jin gentry in time after taking the capital, but instead imposed large amounts of money.
This can explain why he could not properly solve the resettlement problem of Wu Sangui, which led to Wu Sangui's surrender to the Qing Dynasty.
This can explain why he did not mobilize heavy troops from Guanzhong to guard Shanxi and regarded it as a must-defend place.
Such a person is not worthy of allegiance at all
A good bird chooses a tree to rest on.
Since Li Zicheng had no ambition to sit facing south, Jiang Quan would not hang himself on his tree.
So he led his troops without hesitation, killed Zhang Tianlin and took control of Datong.
It's just that Jiang Gu has not yet decided whether to surrender to the Qing Dynasty or submit to the Nanming court.
In the past few days, he has been sending people to inquire in various places, and learned that the Qing army captured most of Henan, and the Southern Ming court recovered Shandong.
From this point of view, most of the world is still in the hands of the Ming court.
Jiang Yu gradually tilted towards Ming Ting.
With his strength, as long as he leads his troops to surrender, the Nanming court will definitely not pursue him for the crime of surrendering to thieves.
At this moment, soldiers suddenly came to report the military situation.
Jiang Yan waved his hand to let the soldier in.
As soon as the soldier entered the meeting hall, he knelt down and reported: "Mr.
Jiang, the Qing court has sent an envoy to ask for an audience
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