At the end of August, Li Xingzhou sent Zhao Guanghua, the commander of the guards' personal cavalry, to lead the left wing of the Lingjie Army to the north.

According to the military system, each army has two wings, with left and right wings, with 25,000 people per wing.

However, the Lingjie Army is the main cavalry army, with a total force of only about 10,000 people per wing, with a main combat power of 5,000. The remaining 5,000 are auxiliary soldiers, responsible for logistics supply, raising horses and feeding horses, and harassing the enemy when necessary and covering the main force.

Li Xingzhou sent Zhao Guanghua to the north. In addition to bringing letters to Yang Hongzhao, he also asked them to escort two thousand new Type 4 rifles, two thousand old guns and two hundred ammunition vehicles.

After arriving, the left wing of the Lingjie Army was also dispatched by Yang Hongzhao.

The Lingjie Army was an elite of the imperial guards. They were sent to western Liaoning and under the command of Yang Hongzhao to strengthen the defense west of the Taihang Mountains.

On the other hand, let the new army, the right wing of the Lingjie Army, and the Shenwu Army reorganize the army to prepare for war and strengthen training.

The Shenwu Army is an infantryman, with 50,000 main troops on the left and right sides.

As the new army continued to advance the replacement of equipment, there were tens of thousands of guns eliminated, which could be equipped with the Shenwu Army.

Li Xingzhou asked Shen Lin to be responsible for selecting the best in the army and to teach the Shenwu Army to use muskets.

In the Shenwu Army, the 20th battalion and 10,000 musketeers were trained, using the fire guns eliminated by the new army, training the artillery of the five battalions, and using the old cannons eliminated by the new army.

These newly trained musketeers and artillery soldiers, a total of 25 battalions, 12,500 people, were all organized in the left wing of the Shenwu Army.

After everyone's discussion, Li Xingzhou insisted that the Shenwu Army was commanded by Fan Jili, the former commander of the Fourth Division of the New Army Army.

In addition to the 10,000 people led by Zhao Guanghua to the left wing, the commander of the Lingjie Army was Yelu Dashi, and the remaining 10,000 people, including 5,000 elite cavalry and 5,000 auxiliary soldiers.

After Li Xingzhou discussed with the emperor, he personally began to purify the imperial guards and deal with the empty salary and withholding military salary. The senior officials of the imperial guards almost cleaned up half of them.

It was much easier to clean up military officers in Jingguo than to clean up civil servants. Later, Li Xingzhou sent backbones trained in the new army to the Shenwu Army to supplement the high-level vacancies. In this way, the new imperial guards were completely under his control.

In the following time, the grand strategy was established and the coastal reform was implemented smoothly, and Li Xingzhou began to make every effort to rectify the imperial guards.

In addition to the transformation of the left wing of the Shenwu Army, the rank of senior generals will be improved so that they will not be slaughtered by civil servants at will.

This move complements the newly renovated "Zhangwu" year name. All officials in the court understand his intentions. In addition, with the prestige of Li Xingzhou now, only the old man from the Ministry of Rites said a few words, but no one else had any objection.

At this point, the highest rank of military generals and officials was mentioned as the same as that of civil servants. They were the Privy Councilors of the Third Office and the Senior Officials of the Third Office also raised half of the rank, and proposed that the military officers would be full-time military affairs in the future, and the Privy Councilors would be the military officers.

However, even so, the status of a warrior has only been improved to a certain extent. Not to mention anything else, there is only one first-rank military general, the cavalry general, and the Taishi, Taifu, Taibao, Shaoshi, Shaofu, and Shaobao are all first-rank.

But all the actions made him more morale and the imperial guards highly combat effectiveness.

Then the Wude Department was rectified. Li Xingzhou trained the four battalions of the Wude Department into Suifa Gun Team, and one battalion was trained as an artillery battalion, pushing old cannons to the top of the city to defend the capital.

Many reforms are gradually underway and continue until the end of the year, which is a story later.

At the end of September, He Qian and Pu Chaling gave birth to two children for him.

He Qian's daughter Li Sirui and Pu Chaling's son Li Sining, all of a sudden, there were four little guys at home.

This has also become a major event in Jingguo.

Moreover, in early September, Yelu Yali became pregnant, which made Yelu Dashi very happy. He took this opportunity to marry a beautiful widow in the capital, a member of the Tang family. In Li Xingzhou's opinion, he might just be making an excuse.

However, I took this opportunity to gain some foundation in the capital. Although Yelu Dashi had the title of King Liao, his actual official position was only the commander of the right wing of the guards, the commander of the right wing of the Jie Army of the Guards, which was far inferior to Tang Zhou as the envoy of the Three Divisions.

As time goes by, by the eastern season, news from the north continues to come.

In October, the left wing of the Lingjie Army led by Zhao Guanghua had arrived at Zhongxing Prefecture and handed over to Yang Hongzhao.

It was also October that the Mongolian troops in the south bypassed the last fortress of Wusha Castle and entered Shangjing. A hundred thousand Mongolian troops surrounded Shangjing. All the surrounding cities fell and were wiped out by the Mongols.

By late October, the Mongolian army had been besieging Shangjing for more than two months. Although all the surrounding cities were captured, the Mongolian army even swept eastward for more than a thousand miles to reach the banks of the Songwa River, and also fought with the Jin army Wanyan Zongbi's troops in the east, and the two sides fought in the forest and spring land on the Songwa River.

Both sides suffered injuries, and the Mongolian army did not dare to advance rashly because there were no reinforcements later.

But from the west to Wusha Castle, east to the banks of the Songwa River, and across the vast Jin Dynasty, which spans 1,600 miles east to east, the Jin people could no longer resist the Mongols.

By early November, Temujin left his beloved general Mu Huali to continue besieging Jin Kingdom to Shangjing, and he led his army back to the grassland.

After all the reports were submitted to the desk, Li Xingzhou looked at the map for a long time, and then based on the description, he roughly came to a conclusion that the Mongolians had headed east to Changchun and Harbin in later generations, and the vanguard troops even arrived at the Songhua River to fight with Wanyan Zongbi's people.

And Mu Huali, who is also one of the most famous people Temujin trusts.

The situation in the east began to become clear, and Temujin's withdrawal showed that he had adopted a laissez-faire attitude towards Sukkai, or letting it go, and he was not very determined to conquer Sukkai.

Later, the war between Mongolia and Jin Kingdom was fought for more than 20 years. Before the Mongolians acquired a large number of craftsmen and techniques from the Central Plains, the means of siege were very limited.

The main reason for fighting with the Jin people for more than 20 years is that it is difficult to attack the city by fighting tough battles. Most of the time, they rely on guerrillas and unexpectedly use troops to seize the city, so it is difficult for them to capture the Jin Kingdom quickly like Jing Kingdom.

This is great news.

If the Mongols can't defeat them quickly, he will have time!

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The first year of Zhangwu was a rare year after Li Xingzhou gained power. Jingguo did not use troops outside or internally.

The Emperor's grandson devoted all his energy to domestic reforms. In the first half of the year, he implemented tax reforms in the southern coastal prefectures and counties, and in the second half of the year, he focused on the reform of the imperial guards.

The two major reforms were built on the prestige accumulated over the years of wars.

Two major events: the previous curb of land annexation lays a solid and good foundation for the development of the south.

The second time, the appearance of the imperial guards was completely changed and a new army of twenty-five battalions, totaling 12,500 people was created.

The morale of the imperial guards was greatly shocked, and Li Xingzhou's prestige was even higher in the army.

By the end of the winter moon, the last major event of the first year of Zhangwu was also placed in front of Li Xingzhou.

The prototype ship of the new firepower ship of the Wangfu has been completed. The plan led by Zhao Si and Qiuer, as well as the plan ship led by Tieniu, Guan Zhong and Zhurong have been completed. The water was launched at the Wangfu Shipyard and actual testing can be started.

Li Xingzhou attached great importance to this matter and even pushed forward all major and small matters in the court, calling more than 50 new army generals to take a look at the two prototype ships in person to test them, compare their performance, and allow the military to quickly choose suitable solutions and put them into production.
Chapter completed!