Zhu Xieyuan did not make a decision. He had just arrived in the camp today. His first priority was to get familiar with the main generals, know where their respective abilities were, and touch their temperaments.

After a few people were promoted, Zhu Xieyuan felt that he knew almost everything he knew.

Wang Wei, the general of Ji Town, was promoted from a small soldier to a general with his military achievements. He was always on the enemy's bones all the way. He must have his true ability and was able to fight tough battles.

Compared to Wang Wei, his younger brother Wang Bao, the general of Jizhou, seems less trustworthy.

It is said that Wang Bao was bullying the weak and afraid of the strong, and was very fond of merit, was greedy for money and lust. He also often scolded soldiers and embezzled military pay.

Such people are afraid they are not much more powerful in combat...

The other few people, Xiao Ruxun of Ningxia, are experienced veterans. Yulin Youshiwei, Hou Shilu and other generals are also brave and good at fighting. If they use it well, they can be one for ten.

Zhu Xieyuan doesn't look at his resume, he only focuses on the battles and levels of killing that everyone has experienced.

For example, the leader of the general, Yulin general Jiang Rangjiang, and Zhu Xieyuan did not find him to participate in any big battle.

The biggest time was to resist the Mongolian army's border, where he was killed by 200 people. For the rest of the time, he was only blessed by his ancestors and had a prosperous career.

Among these forces gathered, there are many truly elite troops, and there are also many good generals who dare to fight, but in the same way, there are more wastes who can only eat.

What he had to do before leaving the customs was to select those who were capable and those who were incapable, and not let those who were nothing drag down the entire army. That was enough.

Of course, he also had to take out a typical general who had prestige but nothing was correct on the spot, so as to improve his prestige in the three armies.

Zhu Xieyuan understood that if he wanted to truly command the three armies, his military orders would be effective when he issued them during the war. It was obviously not enough to rely solely on the emperor's support...

The day after arriving at the camp in the suburbs of Beijing, Zhu Xieyuan began to inspect the armed forces and equipment of each camp, and held a drill in the camp in the name of test artillery.

When the soldiers heard that Zhu Xieyuan was born as a literati, they were all a little curious.

Zhu Xieyuan's literati was born in a literary class, but the late Ming Dynasty literati were different from the Song Dynasty. Except for those civil officials who only knew how to fight in the capital, many civil and military talents were born in a literary class.

Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng were born as a literati. Sun Chuanting formed the Tianxiong Army in Yulin and ruled the generals and families including Jiang Rang to obey. Can they not have the real ability?

Lu Xiangsheng was transferred from the Hanlin Academy to Nanzhili under the imperial edict of Zhu Youxiao, and soon reorganized the local rebels and the garrison troops, establishing a new army called Tianxiong Army.

Of course, the Tianxiong Army has no record of combat, and its members are also the government troops with low combat power in the local garrison and the rebellious army that rebelled last time. No one is optimistic about them.

But things are often that a truly capable person will always shine his own light in history no matter how the surrounding situation changes.

Sun Chuanting is the best example. Zhu Youxiao did not give him the opportunity to develop slowly in history.

When he first arrived in Yulin, he had nothing except appointment from Zhu Youxiao. In less than two years, he also trained a Qin army with strong combat power.

As soon as the Qin army arrived in Suzhou, it quickly calmed down the local mutiny and began to be valued.

The same is true for Zhu Xieyuan. Although he was a civil servant, he had been in Sichuan for a long time and had been dealing with military generals such as Hou Liangzhu for many years. His face naturally exuded a tough temperament that only he had when he entered and left the military camp for many years.

Even if some people are named as the commander, they are still so proud of being a monkey and being chewed behind their backs. Zhu Xieyuan just puts on armor and patrolls the camp, which gives people the feeling of a Confucian general.

The feeling he gave people was different from that of Jiang Rang's generals, and this temperament could not be pretended.

Zhu Xieyuan also observed around while walking.

He wrote down the spirit, military equipment, and every command of the general in the camp, and how the soldiers reacted one by one in his mind.

These details are all factors that judge the combat effectiveness of an army.

This judgment affected whether Zhu Xieyuan's strategic deployment for each general was appropriate, and then he slapped the overall situation.

Sometimes, a mistake in strategic deployment may affect the overall situation.

It was like the Battle of Sarhu. Marindo, the commander of the Northern Army, persisted for half a day. The advancing Fuyu Zaisai led the cavalry to arrive, and it was possible to defeat the Jurchen cavalry on the Northern Road.

Or maybe neither Malin nor Zaisai could defeat the Jurchen cavalry, but the cooperation between the two sides persisted for a longer time, giving Li Rubai and Liu Yan's army plenty of time to come to support.

Then, the ending of the Battle of Sarhu will be rewritten.

Perhaps, Yang Hao switched the positions of Ma Lin, Li Rubai and Liu Jing, and the other two had better abilities than Ma Lin, and the situation would be different.

It is precisely because of the importance of this war that Zhu Xieyuan did not miss every detail and understood the seven generals and thirty-six generals and their subordinate troops when they were promoted.

There is not much time, and no detail can be missed.

This time, the elite border troops who lived in the bitter and cold frontier areas all year round, or the Beijing troops who participated in the Southwest War last year.

Zhu Xieyuan looked around and found that in general, the soldiers of each battalion were passionate and full of energy. Surprisingly, he did not find the fear of war in the military camp.

No matter what, in his opinion, the court's annual military expenditure of several million taels was indeed a reward.

The training facilities in the camp include straw men and wooden men wearing Mongolian and Jurchen armor, as well as fake targets used to practice shooting for bird gunners, and crossbows, guns, and swords and guns that are placed upside down can be seen everywhere.

He just arrived yesterday and had not had time to order practice.

During the inspection today, I found that many generals were spontaneously maintaining the training progress. Even the Yulin general Jiang Rang, who had a bad impression of him, was personally supervising the army to train.

In the camp, there were constant shouts of killing, and the army's enthusiasm for fighting was so high that Zhu Xieyuan had never seen in Sichuan.

Before coming, Zhu Xieyuan never expected this to be the case.

To be honest, he was quite pessimistic when he received the imperial edict in Sichuan. It was not that he was pessimistic, but that he felt that the military's combat effectiveness and enthusiasm would not be very high.

If such an army is pulled out, it will only be defeated once again.

But after he came, he gradually realized that this battle could really be fought!

It seems that the emperor's personal rectification in the Jiubian and Kisuke has been quite effective so far, and at least the soldiers of the border and Beijing Army have been replaced.

Just as I was thinking, I heard a rumbling sound in the distance.

The sound came from the test gun field. Zhu Xieyuan walked in and found that the soldiers here were practicing firing a new type of artillery.

When the official in charge of the test gun yard saw it, he hurriedly came to introduce:

"The Supervisor, these are the newly sent Zhenlu cannons from the Military Arts Department."

"Last year, the imperial court captured a lot of red-haired warships in Penghu. The Zhenlu cannon was made of imitation of artillery dismantled from their warships."

"Although the red-haired man is ugly, their artillery is indeed powerful! The range of an ordinary artillery is more than ten miles. Only the red-air artillery can catch up in our army now!"

Zhu Xieyuan was shocked and walked to the side of the Zhenlu cannon, stroked the warm cannon body, and said in disbelief: "Any one cannon has a range of more than ten miles?"

"What other treasures are there on the Hongmao Fan's ship?"

The official in charge smiled and said, "The supervisor has been in the southwest for a long time and I don't know much about these things. The officers and soldiers of the Fujian Navy in Penghu suffered a lot of casualties, but it was not in vain. There are so many treasures of the red-haired man!"

"The soldiers all said that with these, we will go out to fight in the field and no longer be afraid of Jiannu!"
Chapter completed!