With money, the future military expenditure will be settled. Wang Xuejun officially recruited soldiers and expanded his army with great fanfare.

Continue to recruit northern men, there is no shortage of troops.

Because Dorgon's policy of shaving the head, enclosing land and slapping slaves aroused strong resistance from the Han people all over the world.

In Hebei, in Shanxi, Henan, and Zhili, those unwilling to be slaves, those passionate men with backbone, either raised the flag of rebellion and tried their best to go south and headed towards Shandong, the only home of the Han people.

The goal of expanding the seven 10,000 teams was achieved in a blink of an eye.

Now, Wang Xuejun has an army of 150,000 in his hands.

In order to facilitate command, Wang Xuejun organized a team of 15,000 people into seven divisions, plus a guard division of the capital, a guard division of the capital, and a general reserve team.

Each division has two teams of ten thousand people.

Two divisions are formed into one army.

In fact, the organizational title of the Military Advisor Brigade is not an imported product, but an invention of the authentic Chinese ancestors.

As far away in the Shang Dynasty, there were already sayings that the emperor had six armies, the princes had three armies, the royal army was conquered, and the powerful brigade defeated the enemy.

First Army, Military Commander, Li Jinjiang. Military Advisor Li Zheng

The Second Army Commander Sun Chuan. Military Advisor Guo Jinlong

The Third Army Commander Yan Yingyuan and the Military Advisor Zhang Tianfu.

Above, each army has two divisions, four teams of ten thousand people, and forty thousand horses.

The Fourth Army commander Zhang Xingguo is a mobile army, with a division under his command, plus the military advisor Sun Tianlin.

Wang Xuejun’s African Legion is not included in any military advisor, and that is Wang Xuejun’s exclusive.

He strictly stipulated that chief officials at all levels were absolutely not allowed to raise personal soldiers, but his personal soldiers and African corps had the largest number.

Double standards, absolutely double standards.

Then, the First Army and the Second Army were stationed in the north and were assigned to the Governor Li Yan, Luyu.

The Third Army taught the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Governor Xu Jie to allocate them.

The Fourth Army shall be directly controlled by the commander who will go to the expedition according to the combat situation at any time.

All the logistics of the entire army were transferred to Zhang Ziyan, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, to take control.

This caused serious dissatisfaction among the old officials of the court.

Your Wang Xuejun and your brother-in-law are in charge of the entire army. You are also in charge of the cabinet and the Ministry of Personnel.

Your wife controls the country's money and food. Your little wife controls the lifeblood of the entire army again. What does the emperor do?

Decoration?

But at this time, Wang Xuejun's power was at its peak, who dared to object?

Perhaps even if the emperor comes out to object, Wang Xuejun’s family of three will say to the emperor: “Emperor, are you going to rebel?”

Jiang Yueguang was very angry, but he could only shake his lips and tongue in the Shilin.

As a result, he was dismissed from power and could not cause any big troubles, and Wang Xuejun was too lazy to care about her.

What can a literati with no power to tie a chicken in front of a knife?

The scholar rebelled for ten years but failed. After ten years, the hot dogs were cold.

On March 18, the 20th year of Chongzhen in the New Ming Dynasty, after the last solemn commemoration of Emperor Lie Chongzhen, Wang Xuejun officially married Zhang Ziyan under the auspices of the little emperor.

The wedding is not ostentatious and looks dull.

This time, the princess and Zhang Ziyan were sleeping together in the bridal chamber, and the princess truly became Wang Xuejun's woman.

On the first day of May, Wang Xuejun led the mobile Fourth Army to the north to join Li Yan's army, leaving the First Army to guard against the Qing Dynasty's attack in the north, and launched a battle against Henan again.

This time, no matter what you say, Henan has to be taken down. Otherwise, Henan will become a wasteland.

Although Henan is now in April, there are no people in the fields. Even larger towns are dilapidated and sparsely populated.

Henan Governor Luo Luohuan didn't know how to manage the local area at all.

Henan Governor Yi Daohui only cared about the unstoppable robbery.

The Qing soldiers killed wantonly and the Green Camp robbed a lot, which had already ruined the entire Henan.

Most of the people who could escape from Henan had escaped, and those who could not escape were also hid in the yellow areas or in the deep grass swarm in Heze.

Henan is really white and clean now.

But the Qing Dynasty would never give up the hub of the Central Plains and the center of the rivers and mountains.

First of all, he must ensure that Henan will connect with Jiangnan and the north, and transport the food and resources from the south to the north continuously through Henan. Otherwise, Beijing will be completely unable to extricate the blame.

Then he used Henan to cut off the connection between Huguang and Shanxi and blocked Li Zicheng's remaining troops in the northern part of Huguang.

Another thing is to beware of Shandong's continued expansion.

The current situation in Shandong is that the east is backed by the sea and there is no room for development; the south is bounded by the Yangtze River, and there are many strong soldiers blocking the road to expanding to the south.

The use of Shaoguan and Nanjing restricted the development of Shandong to the west.

To the north is Hebei and Zhili areas of the heavy army group, which blocked the possibility of Shandong's development to the north.

Such siege under all sides is equivalent to completely limiting the Xinmin court to Shandong and Jiangbei.

If heavy troops defend Henan and restrict Shandong's power to Shandong, even if Xinming struggles, it will not be able to make any big waves after all, only one and a half provinces will be in trouble.

As long as the Qing Dynasty pacified the four directions and freed up its hands, it could take the stance of Mount Tai to suppress the top and destroy the deadly and immediately destroy the new Ming court.

But now, Henan has over 100 and has a sparse population. Henan's defense has to rely on the assistance of Hebei and Shanxi.

Now, in Yifeng and the veteran General Wang Wenzheng and his third division confronted Yifeng's 20,000 brave soldiers who were guarding Feng Baichuan, were Luo Luohuan's 30,000 Qing soldiers and 50,000 Green Camp in Henan.

Ajige's 100,000 troops are already in Kaizhou, not far from the battlefield, and can go south to join the Henan battlefield at any time.

The main force of the Jiergalang Qing army in Shanxi was stationed in Changzhi and could advance eastward to rescue Kaifeng at any time.

Li Yan pointed to the map and said, "Now, when we attack Kaifeng, we will be besieged by the main forces of Shanxi, Hebei and Luoluohuan, so I suggest that we first occupy Guide, which was abandoned by Henan, and then lead the army to Runing."

Seeing Wang Xuejun pondering, Li Yan continued: "In the Dabie Mountains, led by Zhang Jinyan, the former Minister of War of the Ming Dynasty, the forty-eight villages of Dabie Mountains are at the junction of the three provinces. We can meet with them, strengthen our backs, and then advance to Nanyang. Then go north and gather behind Yifeng Luoluohuan to capture his nest Kaifeng, making it difficult for him to take care of the head and tail, and both sides are attacked."

Li Yan's strategic concept is quite good, but Wang Xuejun does not agree much.

The reason is that Wang Xuejun had a feeling of not being able to support the anti-Qing forces led by officials from the former Ming and Southern Ming dynasties.

Because in history, almost without exception, they led the rebel army to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

Wang Xuejun felt so serious that he was not in support of his back.
Chapter completed!