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For Zhu Cixuan, the most important thing at the moment is to improve his own strength.

Only by holding an elite army that absolutely obeys the court and the emperor can we control the general trend of the world.

Although the Shence Army was trained according to the elite army, the number was too small. It was still a bit difficult to control Nanjing by 8,000 people, and it was basically impossible to play a decisive role in the future duel with the Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, expanding the army is imperative.

The number of people that the Beijing camp can accommodate is 100,000, but Zhu Cilang cannot expand the Shence Army to this scale at once.

This is not because of the concern that the military pay cannot be paid. After confiscating the corrupt and rebellious nobles and civil officials, Zhu Cilang accumulated tens of millions of taels of silver in the treasury, and he would not have to worry about military pay for two or three years.

What Zhu Cilang is worried about is the uncertainty caused by the surge in the number of Shence troops.

After all, he is going to train an elite teacher. If the number of people recruited at once and the qualifications of the personnel are uneven, the training results will be difficult to guarantee.

Of course, Zhu Cilang needed enough manpower to defend Huang Ming, but it was not at the expense of the quality of the army.

Therefore, he planned to expand the Shence Army to 50,000 first, and after training for a few months, he recruited a group of new recruits to reach the peak of the Beijing camp.

With the initial experience of recruiting new recruits, this time it is much easier to do.

Zhu Cixuan decided to hand over the full power of the military expansion to Lu Zhenfei and Zhao Xin.

As for those who perform well in the fourth battalion of the Genshin Ce Army, they can serve as officers to train the newly recruited soldiers this time.

Of course, the principle of elimination will not change. If these recruits want to become formal members of the Shence Army, they must kill a death row prisoner.

The death row prisoners were obviously not enough, so Zhu Cixuan decided to let the soldiers of the fourth battalion of the Genshin Ce Army go to suppress the bandits. First, these soldiers who have been systematically trained can undergo actual combat tests, and second, they can also capture enough bandits to come back to train the new recruits.

In addition, Zhu Cixuan decided to organize the soldiers eliminated in this training camp as auxiliary soldiers and form a battalion alone.

This idea is definitely beyond the times.

Whether it was the official army of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng's Shun army, Zhang Xianzhong's Western army, or the Eight Banners army of the Qing Dynasty, they were almost all war soldiers. The so-called auxiliary soldiers were just temporary masters and strong men.

The advantage of doing this is very obvious, that is, you don’t have to bear the food rations of these auxiliary soldiers. The temporarily arrested men will die if they die. Anyway, they are consumables. At worst, they can just catch another batch.

But the disadvantages are also obvious.

These strong men were carried into the camp. They would explode the camp if they were slightest storm. If they encountered a night attack, they would even trigger the camp roar.

The auxiliary barracks that Zhu Cixuan wanted to form were more similar to modern engineer barracks. They were responsible for building camps and fortifications before the war, and for providing effective material support to the war soldiers during the war.

Of course, the auxiliary barracks of the Shence Army also led the military pay, and Zhu Cilang was preparing to rated the pay at half of the military pay of the war soldiers, that is, one tael of silver.

Auxiliary soldiers are not promoted to combat soldiers. As long as they perform well, they can be promoted.

Or if the war barracks suffer heavy losses and there are serious vacancies, some auxiliary soldiers will be added to the war barracks.

This model can ensure that the blood in the war barracks is replenished at any time, and the auxiliary soldiers have no adaptability problems because they have been training, living, and fighting with the war soldiers for a long time. They are the best soldiers to supplement them.

Of course, the only problem is that this will increase a considerable amount of expenses. However, Zhu Cixuan thinks it is worth it. In the final analysis, war is about supplies. Having a professional team of auxiliary soldiers can effectively improve the combat effectiveness of soldiers.

If Zhu Ciying had developed according to the original history, he would have about ten months left. I just don’t know if his arrival would trigger a series of butterfly effects in this time and space, causing the world’s pattern to change?

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Shanxi, Datong, General Office.

Jiang Guan, the former general of Datong of the Ming court, convened a group of staff to discuss countermeasures.

Since he killed Zhang Tianlin, the general of the Shun Army appointed by Li Zicheng on the tenth day of May, he has been considering what to do next.

If we say that the situation in the world is changing every day.

At the beginning of the year, Li Zicheng won Taiyuan with a devastating trend, and Jiang Guan 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 to win the world.

As a surrendered minister of the Ming court, Jiang Yan could not have obtained the merit of following the dragon like the Eighteen Cavalry of Shangluo, but at least he could protect his official title and his descendants' wealth.

Therefore, Jiang Zi Shun Shun without any pressure.

By March, Li Zicheng took the capital without any suspense, which further proved Jiang Yan's ruthless vision.

But who knew that Wu Sangui then led the Qing army into the pass, and Li Zicheng was defeated in a flash. In the blink of an eye, the Qing army occupied the Jifu.

After Li Zicheng's defeat in Shanhaiguan, he immediately gave up Jifu and led his troops to retreat to Shanxi.

He sent Ma Chongxi to guard Guguan, Zhang Tianlin to guard Datong, Liu Zhong to guard Changzhi, Chen Yongfu to guard Taiyuan, Tang Tong to guard Baode, and Yuan Zongdi to guard Fenyang.

To outsiders, Li Zicheng wanted to defend Shanxi.

But Jiang Qin doesn't think so.

If Li Zicheng really wanted to defend Shanxi, why was he so anxious to lead his troops across the Yellow River and back to Guanzhong?

If Li Zicheng really wants to defend Shanxi, why not mobilize elite troops from Xi'an to reinforce?

If Li Zicheng really wants to defend Shanxi, why not send Liu Zongmin to Taiyuan to serve in the middle of the dispatch?

Because Li Zicheng didn't want to defend Shanxi at all!

From the beginning, Li Zicheng had no ambition to conquer the world. He just wanted to be a mountain king who ruled Guanzhong!

This can explain why he did not appease the former Ming officials and gentry in time after taking the capital, but instead tortured the salary. This can explain why he could not properly resolve the resettlement problem of Wu Sangui, which led to Wu Sangui surrendering to the Qing Dynasty. This can explain why he did not mobilize heavy troops from Guanzhong to defend Shanxi and regard it as a must-be defended place!

Such a person is not worthy of allegiance!

Good birds choose trees to rest. Since Li Zicheng has no ambition to sit in the south, Jiang Guan will not hang himself on his tree. So he led his troops without hesitation and killed Zhang Tianlin and controlled Datong.

However, Jiang Yan had not yet decided whether to surrender to the Qing Dynasty or submit to the Southern Ming court.

Over the past few days, he has been sending people to inquire from many sources, and learned that the Qing army had 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 Yan gradually became a little tilted towards the Ming court. With his strength, as long as he led his troops to surrender, the Southern Ming court would definitely not pursue his crime of surrendering to the thief.

At this moment, a personal soldier suddenly came to report on the military situation.

Jiang Yan waved his hand and signaled the personal soldier to come in.

As soon as the personal soldier entered the convention hall, he fell to his knees and reported: "General Jiang, the Qing court sent an envoy to ask for his visit!"

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Chapter completed!