Because after several months of repeated battles, Li Dingguo had experienced the Ming army's advanced weapons, equipment, and tactics. If it hadn't been for the advantage of the terrain and the continuous rainy weather, the Daxi Army would have been defeated by the Ming army for a long time.
Li Dingguo may not care about his reputation, but he cannot bear the thought of hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Western Army dying in vain.
The general trend of the world is already obvious, and it is meaningless for the Daxi Army to continue to resist.
"Okay, let's surrender." Li Dingguo said with a sigh, "I hope Chongzhen can keep his word."
"Don't worry, Your Majesty always means what he says." After a pause, Xu Yingwei added, "Believe me, you won't regret it. One day you will find that today's choice was the right one."
"I hope so." Once Li Dingguo made his decision, he no longer thought about it.
Immediately, the general and deputy general Feng Shuangli came over and said to him: "General Feng, the current situation is that it is meaningless to continue fighting. There is no benefit except the lives of the Daxi soldiers, and Chongzhen also
We have already made a promise that after our army surrenders, the best and strongest will be selected as soldiers in Sichuan, and the old and weak will be incorporated into households on the spot as civilians."
Xu Yingwei then said: "In a word, there will be no indiscriminate killing of the soldiers of the Daxi Army."
Feng Shuangli put his hand on the handle of the knife, looked at Xu Yingwei and asked, "Who is your honor?"
Xu Yingwei took a step forward and said: "I don't change my surname when I sit down, and I don't change my name when I go out. This is my grandma, Xu Yingwei."
"Are you Xu Yingwei, the commander of the 1st Division of the Ming Army?" Feng Shuangli said solemnly, "I have heard of you. You fought a beautiful victory in Hunhe."
"It's nothing." Xu Yingwei said, "It's just that the firearm is sharp."
Li Dingguo asked impatiently: "General Feng, what do you say?"
Feng Shuangli said: "You are the commander-in-chief, and as the deputy-general, I will naturally listen to you."
"Okay." Li Dingguo said with relief, "Then let the soldiers come out of the camp to accept reorganization."
"Yes." Feng Shuangli received the military order and immediately ordered the Daxi Army in Xinjin City to leave the city for reorganization. At the same time, he sent a messenger to Longquan Town to order the Daxi Army in Longquan Town to surrender.
Li Dingguo himself rode alone and followed Xu Yingwei to Chengdu to meet Chongzhen.
If in March of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen's reign, Li Dingguo had just come to this world, and Chongzhen could have followed Cao Cao's example and welcomed him, then it would be better to forget it now.
Now, Xu Yingwei, Yan Yingyuan and Zhu Cijiong have fully grown up.
Although the performances of Hua Xia, Lu Xiangtong, Wang Fuzhi, Mao Jukui and others are not as impressive as Xu Yingwei and Yan Yingyuan, they are still above average, and after long-term battle training, they will be tempered sooner or later, just like those during the founding of the Ming Dynasty.
Among the Huaixi military generals, the most amazing ones were Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Lan Yu and a few others. The rest were only middle-class, but after a long period of battle training, they all became
The talent of a general.
And what's even more powerful now than in the early Ming Dynasty is that there is Nanjian.
Nanjing Imperial College graduates 8,000 military officers every year.
Therefore, it really doesn’t matter whether the current Ming Dynasty has or does not have Li Dingguo.
On the contrary, for Li Dingguo, this choice is of great significance.
Because Li Dingguo, like Han Xin, is a pure general with perfect military talent and negative political talent. Only when such a person is paired with a hero like Liu Bang can he show his ambitions. If paired with an unqualified monarch, it will be a disaster.
It's not easy to score two points, but don't even think about making a grand achievement.
Chongzhen felt that he was a heroic figure like Liu Bang, which was not an exaggeration.
Therefore, when Li Dingguo prostrated himself at the foot of the steps, Chongzhen did not help him and allowed him to prostrate himself.
"Li Dingguo, you have made the wisest choice in your life. Decades from now, you will feel extremely lucky for your choice today." Chongzhen looked down at Li Dingguo who was kneeling on the ground and said proudly, "Because only in the Ming Dynasty,
Under my command, you can express your great ambitions, otherwise you will be doomed to mediocrity."
Li Dingguo argued: "Your Majesty, the sinner's surname is Zhang."
Chongzhen said: "I know that your original surname is Li, but you were adopted by Zhang Xianzhong, so you took his surname Zhang. However, from today on, you should change your surname back to Li instead of Zhang."
After a pause, he continued: "Zhang Xianzhong has gone crazy and has completely turned into a murderous demon. He is now leading his bodyguards to kill people everywhere in northern Sichuan, even refusing to let go of old, young, women and children."
Li Dingguo remained silent because he knew what Chongzhen said was true.
In fact, Zhang Xianzhong started killing innocent people indiscriminately while he was still in Chengdu.
To be more precise, after the various prefectures in central Sichuan revolted one after another, Zhang Xianzhong lost patience with the soldiers and civilians in central Sichuan and frequently killed people, even massacring entire villages or entire cities.
But as an adopted son, Li Dingguo still wanted to fight for it.
At that moment, Li Dingguo said: "Your Majesty, the guilty people may be able to convince the adoptive father."
"If you can't convince him, you will only end up risking your own life." Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "So there is no need to do anything more. You can leave for Hanyang now. The students of the fifth batch of Nanjing Imperial College are currently studying in Nanyang. You should go quickly.
If you just join the class, you won’t miss too much homework.”
Regardless of whether it is the South Prison or the North Prison, the first year of freshmen's enrollment is mainly about marching practice classes.
Therefore, after Li Dingguo entered school, he was able to keep up with his homework. After all, he had a good foundation.
Li Dingguo originally wanted to fight for it again, but after mumbling twice, he finally said nothing. He returned to the military camp, packed his luggage, and left for Hanyang.
There is a reason why Chongzhen was so eager to get rid of Li Dingguo.
Because just the day after Li Dingguo left, Yan Yingyuan's 2nd Division entered Shu from Yinping Road. Zhang Xianzhong, who was still in Maozhou, was caught off guard and was knocked upside down.
There was no suspense in the result. The remnants of the Daxi Army entrenched in northern Sichuan were annihilated by the 2nd Division.
The only fly in the ointment was that Zhang Xianzhong was not caught. This grass bandit was shot to pieces by the rifles of the Ming army. His other three adopted descendants, Sun Kewang, Ai Nengqi and Liu Wenxiu, were captured.
Chongzhen did not favor one or the other and sent them all to Hanyang.
Then, Chongzhen also fulfilled his promise and selected 50,000 elites from the hundreds of thousands of Western troops, plus 100,000 native soldiers from eastern Sichuan led by Li Xiangjun, to form the Sichuan Zhentai.
Each town soldier is still entitled to 25 acres of land.
There is no need to pay for these 25 acres of bounty land, and it cannot be bought or sold.
Moreover, the bounty field can only be passed on to the eldest son and cannot be divided.
After settling in Sichuan, Chongzhen went north to Guanzhong again.
By this time, Xin Sizhong's 50,000 cavalry had returned to Guanzhong.
Chongzhen combined Xin Sizhong's 50,000 cavalry and Li Yan's 30,000 cavalry to form Hetao Town, with the designations being the 7th Cavalry, 8th Cavalry, 9th Cavalry and 10th Cavalry Division.
Horqin's station numbers are Cavalry 1 Division, Cavalry 2 Division and Cavalry 3 Division.
The Chahar town station numbers are Cavalry 4th Division, Cavalry 5th Division and Cavalry 6th Division.
It should be said that Chongzhen was particularly kind to Xin Sizhong and Li Yan.
Not only did Chongzhen not remove the two men from military power, he did not even dismantle their tribes. He just combined the two tribes into a Zhentai and nominated Li Yan as the governor and Xin Sizhong as the admiral.
It is said to be a nomination, but it is impossible for the cabinet to reject Chongzhen's nomination.
So this is actually a direct appointment, and it is impossible for the two people to change their positions.
By this time, the Ming Dynasty's army organization has basically been finalized, at least there will not be any major changes in the short term. They are Beizhi Zhentai, Nanzhi Zhentai, Huguang Zhentai, Yunnan Zhentai and Sichuan Zhentai.
, and then add three cavalry to hold the platform, for a total of five infantry divisions and ten cavalry divisions.
Of course, all ten cavalry divisions are dragoons.
Dragoons are infantrymen who march on horseback.
The basic situation in the future is that the cavalry will be responsible for the northern battlefields, especially the grassland battlefields, and the infantry will be responsible for the southern battlefields, including overseas battlefields, mainly to cooperate with the navy.
At first, Chongzhen also considered forming a Marine Corps.
But then I thought about it carefully and gave up the idea.
The reason is very simple. The power of the Zheng family in the navy is indeed quite large. Although Chongzhen is confident that he can control the Zheng brothers and his son, as the old saying goes, if you don't have long-term concerns, you will have immediate worries. No one knows
Which comes first, tomorrow or the accident? What if he dies suddenly tomorrow?
Whether Chongzhen could control the Zheng brothers, it was hard to say whether Prince Zhu Cihong could be suppressed.
Therefore, if we form a Marine Corps for the navy, the Zheng family may directly establish a country overseas. This is not good. The Zheng family should just open up the sea territory for the Ming Dynasty and don't think about anything else.
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Sun Kewang, Ai Nengqi, and Liu Wenxiu also arrived at Hanyang Mansion and met Li Dingguo.
Because Li Dingguo arrived several days earlier than Sun Kewang and the others, he received the instruction and took Sun Kewang and the three of them to visit the Hanyang iron smelting workshop.
For more than a month now, they have been doing internships at the Hanyang Iron Smelting Workshop.
Well, it's called an internship, but it's actually working for free in an iron smelting workshop.
Looking at the numerous small blast furnaces and steam engines in the workshop, and then seeing the steam engines continuously feeding mineral materials into the blast furnace through conveyor belts, the three Sun Kewang brothers couldn't help but marvel.
After Li Dingguo introduced the iron smelting workshop, he suddenly asked: "The eldest brother also has a third brother and a fourth brother. It is said that after the first school year, subjects will be divided into different subjects. What subjects do you plan to choose?"
"Choose a subject? Which subject should you choose?" Sun Kewang and the other three looked confused.
Li Dingguo explained: "It is the Army Department, the Navy Department and the Medical Department. You can choose one of the three departments."
"Army Department, Navy Department, and Medical Department?" Ainengqi asked with a confused look, "What's the difference?"
Li Dingguo said: "As the name suggests, after graduating from the Army Department, you will enter the Army, but you can't say whether you will be assigned to five infantry divisions or ten cavalry divisions in the end. After graduating from the Naval Department, you will be assigned to the Navy. In the future, you will be assigned to the Navy."
Those who go overseas to open up sea territories for the Ming Dynasty are just like what the Sanbao eunuchs did back then. After graduating from medicine, they become military doctors."
Sun Kewang said: "Second brother, what subject do you plan to choose?"
"Naval Department." Li Dingguo said without thinking.
"Then I will also choose the Naval Science Department." Sun Kewang said.
"And us." Ai Nengqi and Liu Wenxiu said.
"Let's just hang out with the eldest brother and the second brother."
