Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 78 Preparations for Training
It is now October.

Nanjing City has entered autumn.

The wind also started to pick up.

The situation in the north has also become more delicate.

Just after Zhu Youjian had just completed tax reform and currency reform.

Fulin, the young emperor who built slaves, had left Shengjing and planned to move his capital to Beijing.

And Zhang Xianzhong has also proclaimed himself emperor in Chengdu and established the Daxi regime.

Li Zicheng, who had already been appointed to the Central Plains and forced Zhu Youjian, the great Ming emperor, to move south, had become a bereaved dog at this time.

The entire Shanxi defense line controlled by Li Zicheng has been basically broken by Jiannu.

Even Taiyuan has recently fallen.

If Zhu Youjian's expectations are not bad.

Next, Fulin established the capital in Beijing, and then divided his troops from Shanxi to Shaanxi, and from Shanxi to Henan to pursue Li Zicheng's forces.

As a result, Daming will face the attack of two slave-building armies in the future.

The attacking direction of a large slave-building army may have come from Hubei.

The attack direction of the other slave-building army should be from Henan.

Even, according to the original history, there will be a route from North Zhili directly to Shandong, and then join the Qing soldiers from Henan to attack the core area of ​​Ming Dynasty-Jiangnan.

The 17th year of Chongzhen, that is, 1644 AD, is coming to an end in a few months.

To use a common saying in the sports world of later generations, there is not much time left for Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian of the Ming Dynasty.

Although Zhu Youjian is now a time traveler, the historical event of Chongzhen hanging Meishan did not happen again.

But so far.

The overall historical trend has not changed much.

Li Zicheng was still defeated by the attack of the Qing soldiers jointly formed by the military aristocrats of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the big bureaucrats and traitors of the Han nationality.

Zhang Xianzhong also succeeded in severing Sichuan and proclaiming himself emperor.

And next.

Once in April and May of the 18th year of Chongzhen.

The Ming Dynasty is bound to have a decisive battle with the Manchu Qing, and this decisive battle will determine whether history will really be rewritten.

Will the Nanming, which was like a flash of fireworks in the past, still be able to keep half of the country like the previous Southern Song Dynasty?

It can even be better than the Southern Song Dynasty, and finally restore the great unification!
Zhu Youjian had mixed feelings at this time.

As an emperor with the identity of a time traveler.

Zhu Youjian is different from Hongguang, the first emperor of Nanming in the original history.

Zhu Youjian arrived in Nanjing two months earlier, and thus avoided the internal chaos caused by the struggle for the throne in history.

It made Nan Mingming miss the opportunity to consolidate the forward position and recruit troops.

Moreover, as soon as Zhu Youjian arrived in Nanjing as the emperor, he quickly got rid of the control of the Donglin Party, and solved the financial crisis by various means, and won the hearts of the people.

In addition, Zhu Youjian is different from the original Hongguang Emperor in history.

He controls and has military power, he is not a puppet like Hongguang.

Two of the four towns in Jiangbei, Zhou Yuji, Gao Jie (Liu Fangliang), Huang Degong, and Zuo Liangyu, are directly controlled by him.

Therefore, he can deploy defenses in Henan, southern Beizhili, Shandong and other places without hindrance.

Unfortunately, Jing Xiang of Huguang is in the hands of Zuo Liangyu.

And this Jingzhou and Xiangyang are important strategic places for the south to resist the invasion of the northern army.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian had to make plans for Huguang to be broken through by the Qing soldiers, and his Daming would compete with the Qing soldiers for northern Jiangxi.

Now Zhu Youjian, who insists on running every morning to exercise his physique, is sweating under the palace wall while thinking about how to carry out the next military reform.

Tax reforms and currency reforms are underway and are already showing results.

Now the establishment of a new army is naturally imminent, especially when the war is approaching.

Zhu Youjian knew that it was impossible for Daming's current army to withstand the Eight Banners cavalry.

After all, the current Eight Banners Iron Cavalry is the most combat-capable army in the world at this time. Their military and civilian integration, the method of fighting to support war and the complete Eight Banners system make the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry at this time unmatched.

In addition, the internal corruption before the Ming Dynasty made the casting technology and use technology of artillery and firearms flow into the Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, the last weapon advantage of the Ming army over the Manchu Qing was also gone.

And the strong city can't stop the Manchu Tartars who have artillery.

Undoubtedly, with the current military system of Ming Dynasty, it is impossible to defeat the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry of the Tartars.

And it's not just that the fighting power is not as good as others, the key is that Ming's army system is too scattered, there are warlords' servants and there are unorganized and undisciplined guard soldiers who are no different from ordinary farmers.

At that time, once faced with the Qing army going south, Zhu Youjian felt that it would be difficult for him to coordinate the entire Ming military force to fight against the Qing army.

Only by building a new army, a new force, can we resist the Eight Banners cavalry.

This new army must be more advanced and have advantages than the current Eight Banners Cavalry, both in terms of system and tactics.

Back then, Qi Jiguang was able to drive out the Japanese pirates because he recruited new soldiers and built the Qi family army with strong tactical coordination, which saved the southeast of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youjian also felt that it was necessary to recruit troops again, so he asked Li Mingrui, governor of Huaiyang, to recruit troops in the Xuhuai area.

Although the recruitment system has always been not all benefits but no harm.

Some people say that the change from prosperity to decline of the Tang Dynasty was related to the change of the government military system to the recruitment system, which made the feudal towns separate.

However, Zhu Youjian was the emperor, and the emperor himself recruited the emperor's army, so naturally he didn't have to worry about this.

What's more, Zhu Youjian didn't intend to let the newly recruited army generals separate the area.

He still wants to insist on the separation of military and government affairs.

Of course, as for how to change it, Zhu Youjian has to think it over again.

However, recruiting a strong enough army of their own is the most urgent thing at present.

Zhu Youjian had just finished his run, and before he had time to take a bath, he gave instructions to the eunuch Shi Kefa, the supervisor of ceremonies:

"Pass the decree, immediately summon Jingnan Marquis Huang Degong, Ningwu Bo Zhou Yuji, Xingping Bo Gaojie, Jianning Bo Liu Fangliang, Dongxiang Bo Hexin, Ningnan Bo Zuo Liangyu, Huaiyang Governor Li Mingrui, Huguang Governor He Tengjiao, and Supervisor Lu Daqi And the cabinet ministers gathered in Huai'an on the [-]th of this month to discuss the matter of military training!"

After Zhu Youjian finished speaking, he issued another decree, and three days later, the imperial driver went out to patrol Huaiyang.

The sudden order to inspect Huaiyang was not Zhu Youjian's whim.

Instead, he considered that the most important decisive battle of the Ming Dynasty against the Qing soldiers in the future would likely be the Huaiyang area.

After all, the boundaries of Beizhili, Shandong, and Henan are all plains.

The boundary of Huaiyang is protected by the two major water systems of the Huaihe River Basin and the Yangtze River Basin. The river network is crisscrossed, and the water and land are crisscrossed. It is undoubtedly the best battlefield to resist the Eight Banners cavalry.

What's more, the folk customs here are tough and have always been warlike. Zhu Youjian, as the emperor, came here in person, so there is a reason to appease the hearts of the people.

Although Huaiyang, the supervisor of Shi Kefa, had such an idea back then, he only cared about the interests of the gentry in Huaiyang, and he didn't know how to coordinate the forces of all aspects and cultivate the spirit of the same enemy from all walks of life, which made Yangzhou's defense fall short.

Now that Zhu Youjian wanted to inspect Huaiyang himself, he naturally couldn't let such a thing happen. He wanted to turn Huaiyang into a cemetery for the Qing soldiers to go south.

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