The capture of Hangzhou Prefecture and Quzhou Prefecture represented the rapid expansion of the land actually controlled by the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, because the main force of the Qing army was swept away, it also meant that there was still a large area of ​​land waiting for the Ming army to take over.

Under such circumstances, the existing strength of the Ming army was seriously insufficient.

Fortunately, in this battle, more than [-] Green Camp soldiers chose to revolt and surrender, which greatly alleviated the problem of insufficient military strength of the Ming army.

Although these people are a little worse, at least they can be trained faster than recruiting new recruits directly.

In addition, not only the [-] people surrendered to the Green Camp, but with the compensation from the Dutch and the money seized from the Hangzhou and Quzhou Prefectures, Zhu Heyu, who had sufficient funds in his hands, also immediately started a plan to detonate troops.

With 1200 million taels of silver and 3 infantry, Zhu Heyi threw almost all the gains from this war to the system.

Fortunately, all the officials in Hangzhou Prefecture were very fat, otherwise Emperor Zhu Da, who had poured all his money into the bank, would not have been able to come up with so much money.

Of the 1 infantrymen recruited this time, 7 will serve as officers and backbones to supplement the [-] surrendered Green Battalion.

These 8 people will be reorganized into 6 divisions, designated as the First Division to the Sixth Division of the Ming Garrison. They will be affiliated with the Ming Royal Army, but will not be crowned with the Ming Royal title.

As for whether and when they can obtain the honorary title of Royal, it depends on the performance of this unit on the battlefield.

In addition, in addition to the different titles, the treatment and equipment of this unit will be slightly different for the time being.

The military pay for ordinary soldiers in the garrison was one yuan and eighty cents per month, which was lower than that of the front-line troops of the Ming Army, but it was higher than the one or two and five yuan they received when they worked in the Green Camp of the Qing Army, and there was no case of the Ming Army withholding military pay.

In addition to the fixed military pay, other supplies distributed by the Ming army, such as canned food, were no different from those of other troops, and the Manqing would not and could not distribute these items to the Green Camp.

In terms of weapons and equipment, except for the body-barrel artillery, the garrison's other weapons and equipment will not be different from those of the front-line troops.

Of course, this is just a plan.

After all, there were 8 more people at once, and Zhu Heyi did not have enough weapons to change everyone's clothes at once.

At present, it can only provide 9000 Mini rifles, 1000 Type 90 rifles and 15000 Beggar's Edition Mini rifles kindly donated by Fanxi Dadi.

In addition to the 1 people who will be added to the garrison division as officers, more than 2 of the remaining 1 people will be organized into the third division of the Ming Royal Guards.

As a result, there is another unit that is almost entirely composed of system warriors.

The [-]st, [-]nd and [-]rd Divisions of the Ming Dynasty Royal Army, and the [-]st, [-]nd and [-]rd Divisions of the Ming Dynasty Royal Guards. (The independent artillery brigade was abolished and merged into each division)

Considering the expensive recruitment costs of system soldiers, and the future Ming Dynasty will need at least millions of troops, if they are still composed of all system soldiers, the money required will be an astronomical figure, which Zhu Heyi cannot afford in any case of.

Therefore, such an organized unit composed of system soldiers should rarely appear again in the future.

More often than not, it will be like the six garrison divisions, with system soldiers as the backbone of officers and ordinary soldiers as the foundation.

This is the case for the remaining 8000 soldiers recruited this time. They will form six new infantry divisions with ordinary recruits, three divisions each of the Army and the Guards, totaling 8 people.

Like the garrison divisions, the weapons and equipment of these six new divisions have not yet been fully supplemented. Currently, they can only provide 90 Mini rifles, [-] Type [-] rifles, and some mortars.

Finally, because the Tatars generously provided a large number of war horses to the Ming army in recent battles.

Therefore, the First Division of the Ming Royal Army and the First Division of the Ming Royal Guards were also reorganized from infantry divisions into cavalry divisions, and the original independent cavalry brigades were directly merged into these two cavalry divisions.

At this point, the Ming army's army and imperial guards rapidly expanded to 18 divisions, with a total strength of nearly 22.

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When the Ming army was still rapidly expanding and reorganizing, the news that Bo Ji was defeated and the Qing army of more than [-] people was annihilated finally reached the Forbidden City under rapid fire.

And when Nanxi learned that his army of more than [-] men was gone, and his personally appointed general who fled for his life choked to death on feces and urine.

Brother Nanxi was so angry that he couldn't even breathe. He rolled his eyes and fainted.

This frightened the civil and military forces of the entire dynasty to death. When the Ming army was in a state of overwhelming power, if Nuanxi disappeared at this time, the world would be in chaos!

Moreover, if the news that the emperor was frightened to death by the Ming army spread, the Qing Dynasty would fall apart in an instant!

Of course, the most important point is that if the Qing Dynasty is over, what will happen to these senior officials of the Qing Dynasty?

Although these high-ranking officials of the Qing Dynasty believed that with their talents, their ability to govern the country, and their old practices, they might still be retained by the Ming Dynasty, but that was only a possibility.

But what if, what if the Ming Dynasty doesn't want them?

Therefore, in order to ensure that one's own glory and wealth can still continue, the Qing Dynasty cannot collapse, and the Qing Dynasty cannot give up its work.

In a blink of an eye, the imperial doctors who rushed up used eighteen moves to finally wake up. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they saw this.

After Nuanxi regained consciousness, he was sent down immediately. Without the emperor, the meeting would naturally not be able to continue.

In the high-pitched voice of the eunuch Liang Jiugong, the court meeting ended hastily.

However, this is actually a good thing for the civil and military people of the Manchu Dynasty.

After all, if Nuanxi had not been stunned, they would still have to kneel on the cold floor and endure Nuanxi's indiscriminate bombardment at this time.

Since Nanqi could not manage the affairs of the court for the time being, all the affairs of the court fell to the cabinet for the time being.

The first problem they need to face is that the coalition forces in the five provinces are completely annihilated. What should they do with the empty provinces behind them after the deployment of troops?

After discussing for a long time, these cabinet ministers finally came to a helpless fact.

That is, it is too late to mobilize troops and cannot defeat them. They can only sit back and watch the Ming army occupy large areas of land.

And it's not just the five eastern provinces. Judging from the current strength of the Ming army, the entire south of the Yangtze River no longer has enough troops to deal with the Ming army.

Now south of the Yangtze River, there are still the governor-general jurisdiction of Guangdong and Guangxi, the governor-general of Yunnan-Guizhou, the governor-general of Huguang and the governor-general of Sichuan.

The four governor-general districts seem to have a large territory, but their total military strength is only 12, which is far weaker than Liangjiang, Fujian and Zhejiang.

The Liangjiang Governor-General and the Governor-General of Fujian and Zhejiang, which had been defeated by the Ming army, could not defeat the Ming army in one place. So how could they possibly defeat the 12 troops who had to defend such a large jurisdiction?

I am afraid that the entire south of the Yangtze River cannot be saved!

After long discussions, the cabinet finally came up with a plan to gradually abandon the south of the Yangtze River and concentrate heavy troops north of the Yangtze River to rely on natural dangers to block the Ming army from moving north.

At the same time, the Ministry of Industry began to make all-out efforts to forge guns and cannons, organize and train a new army with all firearms, and set up a large number of coastal defense forts in coastal areas and the north bank of the Yangtze River to prevent the Ming army from landing.

After the cabinet sorted out the results of their deliberations, they handed them over to Doolittle to show to Nian Xi.

Poor Brother Nanxi was still eating lotus seed soup bite by bite under the concubine's service. However, when he saw the results of the cabinet ministers' discussion, his face turned pale for a while, and then he rolled his eyes again and fainted.

Another burst of excitement...

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No pigeons, just stuck

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