The palace was basically repaired, and the female officials also finished the training and took up their posts soon. However, Zhu Youjian had no intention of moving into the palace to live. Now he devoted all his thoughts to the upcoming battle to combat the rebellion.

It has been more than three months since the end of the Nanjing Battle in February. For so long, Zhu Youjian and his civil servants and generals were not idle, and were preparing for the battle to combat the rebellion after Xia Seong.

After careful consideration, Zhu You checked the next strategy and prepared to completely quell the Jiangnan Rebellion in the second half of the year and "recover" Jiangxi, Huguang and other provinces.

"We can't continue to fight slowly like this. We must quell the rebellions of various provinces as soon as possible, first make the local area stable, and then start to implement the equal-field reform." Zhu Youjian told the ministers. Pacify various provinces as soon as possible, and then implement the equal-field reform.

There were too many things that Zhu Youjian didn't want the civil war to continue, which took time and energy.

"If you suppress the rebellion as soon as possible, there will be too many troops needed. Nanjing's existing army may not be enough, and more troops must be dispatched from other places." said Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiangnan.

According to information, Jiangxi rebels have recruited many troops in the past few months. In addition, the rebels in Huguang have reached more than 200,000 again. In addition, the rebels resisted the city and occupied a advantage in territory.

Although the newly compiled and trained 100,000 Imperial Guards, if they fought steadily and advanced slowly, their strength would be almost the same. If they thought about completely pacifying the two provinces of Jiangxi, Huguang in half a year, their strength would be seriously insufficient. Moreover, the new Imperial Guards had just been trained for several months.

Although time seems to have been trained, it has never experienced any battles, so it is hard to say what it will be like.

"What Mr. Hong said is that if the rebels defended the city to the death, such as Jiujiang, Wuchang, Nanchang and other cities, they are extremely strong. It is almost impossible to take it down without several months. It takes half a year to pacify the two provinces, and the time is too hasty."

Yuan Keli also said that war is not just a simple decision by slapping one's head. Who can guarantee that the war will proceed according to the realization plan? With Nanjing's current military strength, it may be possible to defeat the main force of the rebels in half a year. It is probably impossible to completely pacify the two provinces.

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"If there is no army, it is to be dispatched from other places. The Red Troops in Henan have been completely pacified, and Sun Chuanting has trained some new troops. It should be no problem to send 30,000 to 40,000 troops. Then he ordered Cao Bianjiao to lead his troops from southeast Shandong, Yu Lin

The Qing and other places gathered the canal soldiers of Zhao's sect, and it would be fine to raise 20,000 yuan. Then Lu Xiangsheng was ordered to mobilize 50,000 troops from Liaodong to move south, so that he could raise 100,000 troops, plus the 100,000 new army of the Imperial Guards in Nanjing, 200,000 yuan.

What's the difficulty of pacifying Huguang, Jiangxi?" Zhu Youjian said his long-thought-out plan.

"Your Majesty, no!" Yuan Keli was shocked and said quickly, "Last winter, Jiannu launched an attack on Liaodong, but fortunately he was repelled by Lu Xiangsheng. If he drew troops from Liaodong in large quantities, what if Jiannu attacked again? I'm afraid he will be there.

Liaodong was not protected at that time." Last year, the situation in Nanjing was so dangerous and did not even dispatch troops from Nanjing. Now it has stabilized. The rebels can be pacified sooner or later. Why risk losing Liaodong?

Zhu Youjian smiled slightly and looked at Hong Chengchou: "What do you think of Grand Sima?"

Hong Chengchou said slowly: "According to the information coming from Liaodong, there should be no serious obstacles to transfer Liao troops."

The location is different, and the situation is different. The Liaodong war report was sent to Nanjing last year, but Zhu Youjian had no external rumor. As the Minister of War, Hong Chengchou had read the war report.

Last winter, Huang Taiji gathered Mongolian and Manchu troops and tried to harass Kaiyuan Tieling, and encountered bloody blood. The Tieling defenders were only 5,000, and Huang Taiji 70,000 Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers, but they were unable to break through the city for a long time.

Lu Xiangsheng mobilized 30,000 imperial guards from Chenyang to reinforce Tieling. Seeing that there was no hope of siege, Huang Taiji left more than a thousand corpses and led his troops to retreat into the grassland in a hurry.

According to the information sent by Lu Xiangsheng, although Huang Taiji captured Korqin and other Mongolians, his strength seemed to have recovered, but his internal problems were very serious.

The first thing is that the Mongolians were not one-on-one with them, and they relied entirely on violent suppression, which made the Mongolians obey their orders.

In the past, when Jiannu was strong, he occupied the entire Liaodong and sent troops to plunder the Ming Dynasty from time to time. Although the Mongols were unwilling to be vassals, they would be honest and obedient.

However, now is not as good as before. Jiannu lost Liaodong and even lost his old nest in Jianzhou, and fled to the grassland like a lost dog. How could the Mongolians be willing to obey?

Although Huang Taiji used various methods, such as killing the heads of the Korqin tribe, and distributing the horses, cattle and sheep of the heads of the tribes to ordinary herdsmen, they received support from some ordinary herdsmen, but they were far from enough. These Mongolians have long been not the case. The Mongolian cavalry who were galloping around the world gave them benefits and took them to the battlefield to fight hard battles, but they all shrank and refused to work hard. When they encountered setbacks, they ran faster than the other.

The reason why Huang Taiji could not defeat Tieling, which had only thousands of people stationed, was because these Mongolian cavalry refused to fight for the city, and Huang Taiji refused to lose the few Jianzhou Jurchen Eight Banners, and finally had to retreat helplessly.

This is just one of the reasons, and another important reason is that the internal calls for opposing Huang Taiji are getting higher and higher.

After successive defeats, he lost Liaodong and Jianzhou's old nest, lost hundreds of thousands of people and lost more than half of the Eight Banners' troops. Huang Taiji's prestige was no longer as good as before. There had been long discussions within Jiannu, believing that it was Huang Taiji who insisted on detouring the Mongolian invading the Ming Dynasty, so The Ming army was given the opportunity to attack Jianzhou, otherwise they would never lose Liaodong. Many Jurchen nobles were very dissatisfied with Huang Taiji and believed that he had ruined the lives of countless Jianzhou people.

However, after Huang Taiji conquered the Korqin tribe, he held tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry and made these Jurchen nobles dare not move. Otherwise, they might have been demoted. However, the trend of civil strife in Jiannu has already appeared, and maybe they will be at once. break out.

According to the proposal in Lu Xiang's memorial, it may not be necessary to spend a large army to conquer. Just send some detailed tasks to alienate the relationship between the Mongols and Jiannu, or to alienate the senior management of Jiannu, which may cause Jiannu to be in civil unrest. At present, the Ming Dynasty recovered Liaodong and its strength was in place. As the sun was at its peak, coupled with the urgent need for various goods from the Ming Dynasty, almost Mongolian tribes on the grassland would choose to follow Jiannu again. Even North Korea had already drawn a clear line with Jiannu and swore to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty father again.

It can be said that Jiannu is now in troubles with external troubles and is in a storm, which is the current situation of Jiannu.

Therefore, there is no need to defend Liaodong now. There are more than 70,000 regular imperial guards in Liaodong, and 50,000 can be drawn. The remaining 20,000 people, plus the people of Liaodong can at least recruit them. There should be no problem in defending Liaodong for 70,000 to 80,000 strong men.

"The Liaodong soldiers, Shandong soldiers, Zhao's canal soldiers, and Sun Chuanting's subordinates should be fine. In addition, the new army of the imperial guards in Nanjing will have enough troops to attack Huguang, Jiangxi." Hong Chengchou Finally, most of Cao Bianjiao's Shandong soldiers were imperial guards. Zhao led the canal soldiers were dispatched from the capital guards. While guarding the canal, his more important task was to set up a tax branch along the canal. As well as tax protection, these armies have both combat effectiveness.

However, Yuan Keli's face turned paler. The 200,000 troops, coupled with the civilians who cooperated with the army, had to mobilize at least 500,000 people to participate in the war, which was definitely a great challenge to logistics.

"Your Majesty, such a large-scale battle requires too much money and food. With the existing money and food in Nanjing, it is probably far from enough." Yuan Keli said in a heavy tone.

"The reason why I decided to send troops after the summer harvest was to consider the issue of money and food. This year, the weather in Jiangnan was still good, and the summer grain harvest was not bad. I will issue an order. The entire land tax in Nanzhili only collected grain, and the original grain will be deducted for the time being.

It is used as a military service. The taxes and grains of the four prefectures of Jiangdong, Yingtian Prefecture, and Yangzhou Fengyang Prefecture are enough for two or three million stones, which is enough for the army to use for half a year." Zhu Youjian said.

"What should I do if the grain is detained in Beijing and Jiubian?" Yuan Keli shook his head and said.

Four million stones of grain each year are mainly used to supply the troops in Beijing and the Jiubian. If this batch of grain is gone, I am afraid that life will be difficult in the north. If there is another chaos, it will be even more troublesome.

"After capturing Jiangxi and Huguang, we can mobilize the grain from Huguang, Jiangxi and transport it to the north as grain. At the same time, in the name of the court, we purchase grain from the people from the people, or call on grain merchants from all over the world to transport grain to the north, which may make up for the shortage of grain."

Zhu Youjian explained.

"That's all. After I go down, I will make a good idea to ensure that the army needs no shortage of materials." Yuan Keli said last.

The military and money matters were determined like this, and then we began to discuss how to fight this battle and what strategy to adopt. In this regard, Zhu Youjian was not good at military strategy. He had always had only a slight understanding of military strategy. In his previous life,

, but I still don't realize this, and I like to point fingers and command remotely when I encounter wars, so I suffered a lot of defeats. The reason why Hong Chengchou suffered the defeat of Songshan ruined the last elite of the Ming Dynasty, and the reason why Sun Chuanting defeated Li Zicheng ruined the Qin army and made the peasant army

No matter how uncontrollable it is, it is inseparable from Zhu Youjian's remote control command. Therefore, Zhu Youjian often reflects on the mistakes he did in his previous life, and also sees the evaluation of future generations of his own evaluations when he is wandering. This life begins consciously

Make up for his own personality defects. Therefore, he has been able to listen to other people's opinions when fighting.

Hong Chengchou and Yuan Keli are both proficient in military strategies and can surpass Zhu Youjian in wars. Therefore, the main reason is that these two people discuss military strategies, Zhu Youjian only listens on the side most of the time.

According to the results of Hong Chengchou and Yuan Keli's discussion, the troops should be divided into three groups in this battle. Cao Bianjiao's Shandong soldiers and Zhao led the canal soldiers to Nanyang Prefecture and Sun Chuanting to join forces, with a total of 50,000 troops leaving Nanyang and heading south along the Han River to attack Wuchang.

, responsible for guiding Huguang.

The 50,000 Liao soldiers went straight to Nanjing and joined forces with the 100,000 troops in Nanjing. As the main force of this battle, they advanced along the Yangtze River water route and attacked Jiangxi through Jiujiang.

The third route was led by Fujian General Li Yanzhi, who invaded Jiangxi from Fujian and seized the retreat of Jiangxi's traitors.

"Three armies join forces, the rebels will definitely lose sight of one thing, especially the rebel army in Huguang. When their hometown is attacked, they will not have the energy to help the rebels defend Jiangxi. Without the support of the rebels in Huguang, how can Jiangxi Fu Ni stop me?

The army attacks? It is estimated that it will take less than half a year to capture Nanchang City." Hong Chengchou said with a sigh.

"Okay, this time I will lead the army to attack Jiangxi in person!" Zhu Youjian slapped his thigh and shouted excitedly.

Hong Chengchou and Yuan Keli looked at each other, and finally Yuan Keli advised: "Your Majesty is the master of Wancheng. There is no need to personally lead the army. You only need to send an important minister to supervise the army. For the sake of the minister, you can supervise the army by Master Hong.

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"I am willing to serve you. Your Majesty is at ease in Nanjing. I will definitely be able to plow the courtyard and wipe out the rebels in one fell swoop!" Hong Chengchou also hurriedly promised.

Whether it is Yuan Keli or Hong Chengchou, they do not want Zhu Youjian to lead the army in person. They are worried that there will be dangers on the one hand, and they are even more worried that Zhu Youjian will command randomly and be defeated. The rebels have a lot of troops, their strength is not bad, and they are strong.

The city can be guarded, but once Zhu Youjian commands randomly, chaos may occur.

Zhu Youjian glanced at the two of them and knew what they were worried about, but he didn't care.

"What danger will I have when I am in a large army of 200,000? I know that war is not enough. Hong Aiqing is the assistant to me. Yuan Aiqing is the military officer, responsible for the supply of food and food, Hong Aiqing is the supervisor, responsible for actual military affairs.

, I am only responsible for boosting morale." Zhu Youjian said with a smile.

Yuan Keli and Hong Chengchou looked at each other and nodded slightly. Indeed, if the emperor personally led the troops to fight in person, the morale in the army would inevitably rise. The soldiers would definitely fight to fight the enemy bravely because they knew that the emperor could see their merits. Therefore,

The imperial guards' personal expedition have improved their morale very clearly. However, there is a prerequisite: Zhu Youjian must keep his word and really not interfere in military affairs randomly.

"Your Majesty, Jiangdong and Jiangnan have been decided, local affairs are complicated, and many things need to be decided by Your Majesty. In my opinion, it is better for Your Majesty to stay in Nanjing to guard the rear of the army." Hong Chengchou made his final efforts and persuaded.

"Don't persuade me, my intention is decided!" Zhu Youjian waved his hand. The reason why he was in charge of the army was not to be worried about Hong Chengchou's ability, but to get as close to the army as possible and the generals of the army as possible.

More than 200,000 troops are all elite troops of the Imperial Guards. It is conceivable how important it is.

Zhu Youjian must ensure that this army is absolutely in his own hands and is absolutely loyal to him.

The emperor personally fought, even if he did not command the battle, he could often meet generals at all levels, and then gain the morale of the army to fully control the army. Now Zhu Youjian has already fully realized that the army is the foundation of everything. As long as there is troops and food, it is nothing.

No need to be afraid.

The emperor personally can observe the generals at close range, so as to know which talents can stand alone and which are available. Even if Jiangxi and Huguang are pacified, there will be countless battles to fight in the future. Zhu Youjian must do what kind of generals to use as generals.
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