After staying in the capital for a few days, after the first seventh period of Mei and Li, Liu Jun left the capital... The emperor was concerned about the situation in southern Liaoning and hurriedly urged Liu Jun to go back to take charge of the overall situation. Even at the strong request of the cabinet, Liu Jun had to go back to Hubei first to transfer more troops into Liaoning.

Whether it was Zhou Yanru or Wu Yan, the two first assistants who had not been able to deal with after taking office were surprisingly consistent on this issue. They all hoped that Liu Jun could launch a larger offensive in southern Liaoning to hurt the Tartars to restrain and attract more Qing troops.

But Liu Jun did not want to go deep into Liaodong immediately, nor did he want to confront the Tartars head-on. Although Liu Jun had the advantages of naval artillery firearms, he could still understand his advantages and shortcomings. The Nine-Headed Bird's firearms were powerful, but after all, the artillery of this era was still extremely heavy and the transportation was inconvenient. And it was naturally no problem to deal with the small Qing army, but if it was attacked by the large Qing army or encountered it during a marching in the field, Liu Jun did not have any confidence to win tens of thousands of fierce cavalry under such circumstances.

Finally, at Liu Jun's strong request, Chongzhen agreed to a new battle plan proposed by Liu Jun. That is, after Liu Jun swept away the coast of Liaodong, he first sent troops to Korea, forced North Korea to return to the Ming Dynasty, stopped providing food and grass troops to the Qing army, and when necessary, he had to cooperate with the Ming army to attack the Qing army.

After forcing North Korea to re-submit to the Ming Dynasty, Liu Jun would launch a large attack when the summer grain harvest was bumper, grab grain and burn it, and dealt a heavy blow to the Tartars.

The cabinet agreed to this plan, but asked Liu Jun to increase troops to southern Liaoning and transfer the troops from the other two towns in Huguang to Liaodong.

As a reward for Liu Jun, Chongzhen appointed Liu Jun as the General of the Enemy, Duke of Jin and Chu, and the title of Pillar State. Once this reward was released, many impeachment attacks on Liu Jun were immediately dissipated.

The Ming Dynasty was founded for more than 200 years, and only ten dukes were granted a total of ten dukes. Until now, there are only five families in Wei, Ding, Qian, Cheng, and Ying, and Liu Jun was promoted to Duke. This shows that the emperor was extremely honored and favored by him. In particular, he also gave him a title of Shangzhu. Although Shangzhu is only a honorary rank.

But the state of Zhu is even more rare than the state of Duke, because the Ming Dynasty had ten states of Dukes for more than 200 years, but only the state of Xia Yan and the state of Zhu, even Zhang Juzheng was given the state of Shangzhu after his death. The founding marshal Xu Da was only in the position of the Left Privy, and Chang Yuchun also gave the state of Shangzhu after his death.

Even Yan Song, who was in power in the world, dared not accept the title of Shangzhu Kingdom.

Many people lamented the identity of Emperor Yi'er of Liu Jun, which gave him this honor. Many people also understood that it was because Liu Jun could fight and make money. But there were also many people who were jealous and secretly cursed Liu Jun for climbing high, and he would definitely fall badly in the future. At the age of 21, he was granted the title of Duke and the State of the Pulver. What should I do in the future?

When the court pacified Liaodong, it would be the day when Liu Jun died. Wu Changshi, an official of the Ministry of Personnel, sat in the study of the chief minister Zhou Yanru, and said with resentment.

"Don't mess with Zhu Ciye for the time being. The emperor's favor for him is too strong. At this time, it will make the emperor unhappy. Let him be proud for a while." Zhou Yanru waved. He had heard Wu Changshi's words and was very jealous of the power of coin printing and coin printing that Liu Jun had in his hand, and wanted to take the right to mint coin printing and even issuing bonds to the court.

But now when you look at it, Liu Jun is just red and purple, so you should not act rashly.

"Wu Yan is becoming more and more arrogant. He does not take me as the prime minister seriously at all. He openly forms a clique and does not get him down, and I, the prime minister, cannot be firm. In this case, I need to get the full support of Fushe. You can find a way to talk to Zhang Pu, so that he can mobilize Fushe's connections and influence in Shilin, and get Wu Yan to me. If this matter is done, I recommend you as the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel."

"This matter is not easy. Zhang Pu is now very close to the fourth young master, and the fourth young master is close to Li Chunjiang. In addition, he is also very close to Wu, Zheng, Sanjun, Liu Zongzhou and others."

"You think of a way, in short, you have to let Zhang Pu, the leader of the Fushe, take the lead in supporting us." Zhou Yanrudao, "If he insists on getting together with Wu Yan and the others, then find a way to get rid of him and change someone to the leader to restore his sleeves." At this point, he had a bit of coldness in his eyes. He finally took the position of the prime minister again, and he was not driven down again. Whoever threatened his position would be his mortal enemy.

Mei Zhipao was stopped by it once before. Mei Zhihuan finally didn't live long, and she died after only being the chief assistant for less than a year. But the second assistant Li Changgeng also died, which finally made him turn around again and was able to regain the position of chief assistant. I thought that after Mei and Li died, the Donglin Party members would fully support him, but who knew that Wu Qing became the second assistant, openly attracted many Donglin Party members and began to sing against him.

Moreover, Wu Xuan, the Donglin Party, is obviously more supported by the Donglin Party members than his non-Donglin Party. Many people have already voted on Wu Xuan's side, and his position as the chief minister is in danger.

"You go and contact Fushe and try to get them to stand on our side. I'll win over Liu Jun. Now he speaks very heavily in the court, especially the support of many local governors. A group of people has formed. If we can get the support of Liu Jun, we will gain the upper hand against Wu Jun at that time." Zhou Yanru and Taoist. He has now regarded Wu Jun and his gang as mortal enemies, and he wishes to get rid of it immediately. At this time, he wants to use the power of Liu Jun, the favorite minister of the emperor of the Par Kingdom, to use the power of Liu Jun, who had just been granted the title of Duke and the favored minister of the emperor of the Par Kingdom.

Before Liu Jun left Beijing, he went to Liu Qiao's house for a meal. Now he saw that Liu Qiao's position as the commander of the Jinyiwei was still very stable. After Mei Li's death, Liu Jun needed Liu Qiao's support more and more.

"Your Majesty has agreed to resign as the general of Hubei, and all your recommended subordinates have agreed." Liu Qiao held the wine glass and asked in confusion, "Why did you resign as the general of Hubei? So that's not that good?"

Before leaving Beijing, Liu Jun proposed to the emperor to resign as general of Hubei and recommend his subordinate Zhang Shan as general. He also recommended another subordinate, Wang Qian and Fu Shan, also to serve as general.

The three towns in Huguang plus the Beiyang Navy each have a general officer. In addition, under the three towns, each town has two divisions, each division has three assistants. Each division has 15,000 people, each assistant 5,000 people, each sixth division has a deputy general, each assistant squadron. The Beiyang Navy has three squadrons, and the Navy has a general, with three deputy generals under it.

"It's all for the convenience of commanding and fighting." Liu Jun replied.

After this period of exploration, Liu Jun also discovered that the original organization was not suitable for the current combat needs. The practice of temporarily setting up combat brigades also had many shortcomings. Therefore, Liu Jun planned to re-adjust the new army and make some changes.

Now this petition has been approved by the emperor.

Liu Jun now commands the three towns in Hubei and the Beiyang Navy, with a total of 100,000 troops.

Each of the three towns is 30,000. The second division and sixth association are organized. There are also level 4 of the standard battalion company below.

This new group has not only changed its name, but its biggest change is that it is at the level of cooperation to form a synthetic army. The maximum number of individual group is only to the standard. The above number is the standard, and the cooperation towns are all synthetic units.

One town has a town command and three divisions plus a heavy artillery bell.

One division is under one division command, three associations and one heavy artillery battalion.

Each association consists of a cooperation command, two infantry standards, a cavalry battalion, an artillery battalion, a baggage battalion, another engineering company and a reconnaissance company.

There are five thousand people in one association, with nearly two thousand people, while the camp is more than six hundred people, with about two hundred people in a row and more than thirty people in a team.

It turned out that the battalion of three or four thousand people had greatly reduced, but several levels were added above the battalion. Especially at the first level of the association, the synthesis of various troops was started, and infantry, cavalry and cannon assist in the operation. It was also equipped with baggage battalions, engineering companies, medical companies, communications, and reconnaissance companies, so that every battle, there was no need to temporarily organize troops and horses. The first level of the association could independently undertake combat tasks and fight independently at any time.

Command centers at all levels include the General Staff Operations Department and the Logistics Equipment Department, as well as Communications Company, Military Guard Company, Guard Company, Medical Team, Military Band, etc.

The town is composed of six divisions and eighteen associations, which are eighteen independent combat groups, which can be pulled out to fight at any time. There is no need to be reorganized and organized, and they are all equipped with corresponding auxiliary troops.

Such synthetic arms are also the tactical changes that have emerged with the development of weapons.

The original vehicle battalion was cancelled, but the engineering battalion was added. This was to cooperate with the musket soldiers and artillery soldiers to dig trenches and build fences and earthen walls for them. In order to make the artillery more mobile, it was even responsible for the task of opening roads and building bridges.

Originally, each van of the logistics battalion was also cancelled. Like the troops of each standard battalion, the logistics battalion was equipped with lighter infantry dredgers. It turned out that all the old artillery in the army, such as tiger squats, squats, flanks, general artillery, etc., were eliminated.

Each association is equipped with a field artillery battalion, and each division is equipped with a heavy artillery battalion, and each town also has a heavy artillery standard. Below the association, each standard is equipped with a 170-pound twelve-pound infantry grenade, which is used as battalion-level fire support. Each battalion is equipped with a 110-pound eight-pound infantry grenade. Each company is equipped with a 55-pound four-pound infantry grenade. It is used as the third-level fire support of the battalion company.

Each field artillery battalion is equipped with twenty cannons, including four four-pound short cannons, two eight-pound short cannons, one twelve-pound short cannons. There are also four four-pound, two eight-pound, one twelve-pound cannons, plus three six-inch twenty-four-pound howitzers, and three eight-inch six-four-pound mortars.

The artillery battalions of these cooperative artillery battalions are lighter in weight, but they are not small inch, especially after being equipped with two types of cannons with a large caliber of six-inch and eight-inch mortars, they also have strong siege capabilities.

However, the division's heavy artillery battalion had four pounds, eight pounds and twelve pounds in total, seven yards in total, twenty-four and thirty-two pounds in total, and two yards in eight pounds in eight pounds in sixty-four pounds in ten 108 pounds and one yard of 12 pounds in 158 pounds in 12 pounds, making each association have extremely strong offensive ability.

The artillery fire configurations of each unit of Jiutou are quite luxurious, which will be the most ferocious place of Jiutou. Moreover, after the unified standards of artillery were standardized, Liu Jun also changed the equipment of infantry. It turned out that half of the infantry was equipped with muskets, but now there are three infantry companies in an infantry battalion, each company has four teams, only one cold weapon team is retained, with a long spear card, and the rest are all composed of flintlock gun teams.

All gunners are equipped with flintlock muskets, sleeve bayonets, waist knives, and officers are equipped with hand guns.

The Nine-Headed Bird has now embarked on a completely different path from other Ming and Qing dynasties, with a large number of firearms and becoming a firearmed force.

This is already a truly new force. It relies on the power of firearms, which requires lower physical fitness and shorter training time. However, it also requires higher logistics supply, higher psychological quality of soldiers and discipline.

A strong Qing army soldier may have been practicing martial arts since he was a child. After more than ten years of training, he became a qualified soldier. However, Liu Jun's musketeer was able to go into battle in just two months. With the help of artillery fire and cavalry support, they lined up into a gun array, which could still kill those armed soldiers who had been trained for more than ten years.

However, such an army was difficult for the imperial court and the Qing army to learn. He had extremely high requirements for equipment and high requirements for supply. Not to mention these muskets, just those artillery soldiers, each field artillery regiment, needed dozens of tractors and ammunition trucks, and hundreds of horses and mules.

Moreover, it is not enough to have cannons alone. You must have excellent gunners and strong shell production capacity.

After all, such an army needs more money to support and more professional soldiers.

Except for Liu Jun, few people in the world could support such a 100,000 army. Even the emperor could not afford it. The three towns in Hubei and the navy were basically not spent a penny. On the surface, it was supported by Huguang, but local raising troops was just a joke.

Unless the military output is stable in a few years, the local commercial taxes are stable, and the tariffs are stable, then the money can be paid out. Now, Jiutou Bird raises the army and relies on salt farm income, level charges, bonus fundraising, commercial taxes, and guns, cannons and armor sold in the ordnance workshops. In addition, there are also the income from Liu Jun’s Sihai Bank, Jiangnan Money House and East India Company, the gains of combat, etc., which can be supported by various channels to raise the army.

The new airs have been raised, but when they can become elites, this is not something that will be ready for a while. Let's go out and fight. Since the court has made a strong request, Liu Jun just took all these troops to Liaodong to practice well.

When a hundred thousand people really become elites, they will surely sweep the world, change the world, and be the world.

When leaving Beijing, all officials sent him off, especially the officials of the Ministry of War, who kept following Liu Jun's butt and asked, "When will the more than a thousand artillery that the lord promised to the court arrive?"

"As long as the Ministry of Works prepares the materials that I promised to give me, you can transport this artillery to Hubei at any time."

Fu Zonglong immediately pulled Li Banghua, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and asked how the materials were prepared.

"There are all the materials and labor warehouses that the Duke of Chu wants, and you can collect them at any time!"

"Okay, please help the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Works to help me transport the things to Tianjin Port. I will send a ship to transport them."

Fu Zonglong turned to Liu Jun again, "Then the cannon for us?"

"If I can't believe me, I can send someone to go south to Hubei now, and I can transport the cannons away directly. What I promised to you will definitely be a lot of shots."

"This is what Mr. Chu said. With a word of justice, I immediately sent someone to escort the cannons."
Chapter completed!