Because Zhu Cixuan stayed in Luoyang for an unexpected time for a long time, Bai Guangen did not detour Shanxi and fled back to Tongguan, but went back to Luoyang to report to Sun Chuanting. He also brought news from Chen Yongfu that the Henan general fled to Kaifeng on the day of his defeat. Not to mention that he was fine, even the servants who accompanied him did not lose a few of them.

Bai Guangen felt so painful when he said this. He was full of trains, and the soldiers were still concerned about other things when they ran away. They threw them all to Li Zicheng. Among all the generals, although Gao Jie was injured, he had at least fought head-on. Niu Chenghu had a good reputation, and his prince was supplemented by his subordinates. However, Bai Guangen, who led a group of soldiers who had lost their weapons, looked like a beggar Huazi who fled to fleeing to eat.

Zhu Cilang did not discriminate against him and ordered Bai Guangen and Gao Jie to take the remaining soldiers back to Xi'an first. The soldiers of this era are not iron troops armed with ideological weapons in later generations. Once they are defeated once, they will immediately become frightened birds. If they don't fight a few times to replenish their morale, they will definitely be defeated at once. Some of them do not even need to "touch" and run away directly. Letting these soldiers stay by their side is like shoveling gunpowder - for fear that the movement will be too small.

Without these defeated soldiers, Zhu Cilang ordered Li Zhensheng and Zhang Shiqi to organize gatherings in the name of official positions to recruit poor students in Luoyang. These people did not have the time to take the exam, but they were the best at using them as a bookkeeper. The prince himself devoted himself to the army, expanded his organization, and built the Eastern Palace Guard Battalion into a large camp with 5,000 combat soldiers. He also built an independent engineer battalion with auxiliary soldiers and civilians as the main body.

The engineering battalion needs to be familiar with the people who set up camps and fortifications, so this important task naturally fell on Chen De. He was originally a guerrilla in charge, and there was no problem in taking charge of the first battalion. Moreover, he followed his father to train in the military affairs since he was a child, and he was far more experienced in these marching trivial matters than the Caodian officers of the Eastern Palace Department.

The most important thing is that all the officers of the Eastern Palace Department want to be successful, who is willing to be a foreman in the Engineering Battalion? Although Niu Chenghu is also from a sideline department, they are all veterans who fight in battle, so the engineering battalion can only be handed over to the young Chen De.

Chen De was very sad about this. He hoped to go to the headquarters of the Zuojunqian Headquarters to serve as a military post. It was a great regret for the general to put up a powerful army that was rare in the world, such as the guard camp in the East Palace, which was not in command. Especially Chen De thought the prince favored him. Unexpectedly, the gap was so large. This blow made him not even want to speak during the military discussion.

Until the prince asked a question by name.

"Defend Tongguan to the death?" Chen De disagreed with Xiao Donglou's suggestions. It was also because of despair that he didn't even want to protect his decent politeness. "The defeated soldiers are not counted. There are a total of 5,000 combat soldiers in my camp. Can I afford to defend Tongguan? Even if twenty or one is replaced, Li Zicheng can kill us!" Chen De said politely.

Xiao Donglou was so angry that his face flushed and said angrily: "No need to guard the entire camp! Just the two thousand troops from the Thousand Headquarters of my Zuojun are enough! If I let Li Zicheng pass the test, I will take your surname in the future!"

"Ha," Chen De laughed and said, "Who will guard the county town? Do you want to guard the pass alone?" Tongguan's relevant cities are divided into counties. Relying on each other and supporting each other, you must not defend alone.

"Tongguan is still 250 miles away from Xi'an. Even if you guard Tongguan, who will guard Shangzhou? Should you let Your Highness guard Shangluo personally?" Chen De was quite aggressive.

Xiao Donglou was stunned for a moment.

At the beginning of the country, Shangzhou was in prefectures, and the lifting and falling between counties repeatedly was a not-so-broad area in southern Shaanxi, and it belonged to Xi'an Prefecture. However, this area was a key military camp and was an important town to protect Chang'an during the Western Han Dynasty. There were three roads from Nanyang to Shangluo Road. The distance from Luoyang to Xi'an is closer than the distance from Luoyang to Tongguan.

Cao Ning glared at Xiao Donglou and thought to himself: I deserve to be choked by a young man, right? I have long told you that Tongguan cannot be defended. You want to fight if you want to fight! Let's fight! Let's see how you step down now.

After all, Tianxiong Army shared the same hatred of the enemy. He looked at Chen De and sneered: "What's so strange about knowing that Li thief sent troops from Nanyang to Shangluo Road? He survived in the deep mountains. The key is that as a general, he didn't even have the courage to fight a battle. He is worthy of being the leader of the engineer battalion."

This time it was Chen De's turn to swollen face and pig's liver.

Zhu Cilang coughed dryly in time and said back to the point: "If you want to refuse to defend at all points, Shangzhou, Lantian and Lintong will all be divided into troops. Our army is insufficient."

"Your Highness, if the Qin soldiers are training more, they will have the power to fight." Sun Chuanting is the governor of Shaanxi. Since he is discussing the issue of fighting the thieves in Shaanxi, he must not fail to participate. There is also someone who is not an officer like him. Wu Yan was leisurely watching the people below argue endlessly.

Wu Xuan knew that the prince's true intention was to retreat from Shaanxi to Shanxi, then from Shanxi to Beijing, and finally from Beijing to Shandong. He didn't know why the prince used this stupid method, but he didn't want a good idea to go directly to Shandong. However, from the words that the prince occasionally revealed, we can know that the prince seemed to be waiting for time. Although he didn't know how to see through the truth, it seemed that something important would happen in March next year.

"Governor Qin, Li thieves are now powerful, and in my opinion, Shaanxi cannot be defended." Zhu Cixuan didn't even speak the official style. The people in the hall were all their own people, so there was no need to cover up. He said: "The reason is very simple, there is no military ration, and no people's hearts. This is a dead place that cannot be held."

If Sun Chuanting could not see these two points, he would not be qualified to be the prince's eyes.

The establishment of the Governor was customized after five years of Chenghua, and was in charge of the clear government and military affairs of one or several provinces, and had great power. If the Governor only focused on military affairs, it would naturally be given priority to everything, and it would be difficult to balance people's livelihood, and it would be natural to lose people's hearts.

Sun Chuanting's practical ability was not weak, but later generations did not have a high evaluation of him, mainly because he violated the rights and interests of the powerful families when he was in charge of Shaanxi and left a bad reputation in the Shilin. He was so embarrassed that he was so gentle that he had sent a lot of impeachment memorials to the Da Nei every day, which also lost the hearts of the people. At that time, he decided to send troops. In addition to the too much pressure on the court, it was also a factor that could not stay in Shaanxi.

"I have only three purposes to go to Shaanxi." Zhu Cixuan said in a stern voice: "Population! Ding Zhuang! Soldier!"

These three are summarized as one word - seeking people.

However, these are three types of people.

Population does not equal ty and strong does not equal soldiers.

It can be said that population is the foundation, Ding Zhuang is the labor force, and soldiers are the combat power. These three types of people determine the energy level of future development. Shandong was ranked first in the "Silver Border" by Wu Yan because of the lack of dangerous and abundant population. In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the Qing Dynasty had to plunder a large number of people from the south of the capital every time they entered the pass. In the fifteenth year, Dorgon led his troops into the pass and directly plundered 600,000 people. Without dangerous geographical advantages, they could also make up for it by strong troops, but without population, they lost the foundation for development.

A large number of troops entered Shandong, and Ding Zhuang needed to do all kinds of construction and building buildings, reclamation and road construction. If this group of people were missing, Zhu Cilang might not be able to even survive the first year.

As for soldiers, let alone. In the chaotic era of late Ming Dynasty, it is impossible to keep the land of a province firmly, less than 100,000 soldiers. Even if the Eastern Palace makes up for the gap in quantity with quality, it cannot be less than 80,000. Because this is not a world of absolute numerical competition. If two soldiers who pass the physical test scores and one soldier with excellent physical test scores fight, the crowded side will inevitably win, even if the soldier with excellent performance scores is twice the opponent's indicators.

The key question is, are there so many people in Shaanxi?

Zhu Cilang believes there is still some.

Although Shaanxi is the birthplace of bandits, the areas that were truly destroyed by bandits are nearby provinces such as Henan and Huguang. Even because of the local qualities, bandits did not kill and kill each other when they wandered in Shaanxi, and there was no record of slaughtering the people. Although Shaanxi has been suffering from disasters for many years, it has not been ravaged like Henan, making its population and resources far better than Henan. Hebei, Hebei was severely plundered by the Qing Dynasty, and recruiting thousands of soldiers can still support it. It is impossible to really expand the army on a large scale.

"The Qin Governor is well aware of the people in Shaanxi," Zhu Cilang said: "This time, the heavy responsibility of collecting the population, Ding Zhuang and soldiers will still fall on the Qin Governor's shoulders."

Sun Chuanting frowned into the character Sichuan, but responded to the word "See the order".
Chapter completed!