Ming Dynasty entry: I am Chongzhen, the greatest emperor of all time!

Chapter 65 Preparing for the decisive battle
Similar combat power entries that had been drawn before did not attract Zhu Youjian's attention.

It's nothing more than increasing the endurance and combat power of thousands of people.

Not particularly useful.

After all, once this thousand-man army is split up or wiped out, the entry will become invalid.

But Zhu Youjian can find a bug, and every unit that has added attributes, such as the Yongwei Camp.

Before each battle, one person is left in the camp. In this way, even if the Yongwei Camp is wiped out, it can be reorganized and its combat effectiveness can be restored with just a short training.

However, the role of an army of a thousand people on a large battlefield is ultimately limited.

Only entries with large-scale increases are what Zhu Youjian needs at this stage.

First, he turned his attention to the loyalty term that he cared about most.

[Loyalty (Purple): Designate any unit under 50,000 soldiers to receive +60% Loyalty to the Emperor, +35% Morale, and +35% Organization.]

[Obtained: Military Law Department x1. ]

Zhu Youjian was very satisfied with this entry. For an entry with large-scale purple blessing, if it could have more than 50%, it would be considered a top-notch entry.

This entry can actually increase loyalty by 60%. Although it is exclusive to the emperor, it makes no difference.

The military court given to them can be placed in the new army to further improve the combat effectiveness of the new fifth army camp.

With this entry, the Guanning Army is under control.

Keep looking down.

Qi Xu Ru Lin (Purple): Organization of designated troops under 50,000 men +45%, Formation Proficiency +45%, Obedience +30%

[Obtain: 1 Thousand Households Unit of the Fifth Military Camp]

[Arrow Rain (Purple): Targeted troops under 50,000 men receive +45% bow and arrow proficiency and +40% stamina.]

[Obtain: Longbow Thousand Households x1]

[Remaining Courage (Purple): Targeted unit's morale +50%, rout threshold -20%. When casualty rate reaches 25%, the unit enters the Remaining Courage state, with morale +150% and casualty rate +15%.]

[Obtain: Death Battalion x1]

There are a total of four large-scale blessing entries. Although there is no large-scale combat power entry that Zhu Youjian wants, they are all good.

Especially with [Qi Xu Rulin] and [Yu Yong], if they are added to the new fifth army camp, there will be no need to worry about the new army collapsing at the first touch.

You can safely let the new army fight against the hundreds of thousands of enemies.

For the remaining ten purple entries, Zhu Youjian planned to select two thousand households from each of the New Army and Guanning Army, and individually bless them to serve as the blade of the two armies.

Besides.

All entries above green also gave Zhu Youjian three thousand Three Thousand Battalion Iron Cavalry, two thousand Guards Tiger Guards, two Five Army Battalion Thousand Households, one thousand Shenji Battalion, one thousand longbowmen, and one thousand death warriors.

A full ten thousand elite soldiers.

Plus 15,000 border troops given by more than 40 green entries and a dozen blue entries.

The total number of troops in the capital has reached 120,000.

If we only look at the army provided by the system, exchanging 14 million taels of silver for 25,000 elite soldiers is obviously a huge loss.

But these entries can also increase the Guanning Army by 30,000 and the new army by 50,000.

Overall, it's still profitable.

After doing all this, Zhu Youjian closed the door of his private vault with satisfaction.

It was midnight, and there were still two hours until dawn.

After sleeping for a whole day, Zhu Youjian didn't plan to take a nap.

If nothing goes wrong, Huang Degong will arrive tonight.

Although the Chuang army failed in their night attack last night, the losses were not great. After a day or two of rest, they can continue the siege.

After several days of testing, Li Zicheng probably had a rough idea of ​​the situation in the capital.

When we fight again, it will be a real fight with real swords and guns.

Zhu Youjian was not prepared to wait for Li Zicheng to come on his own.

There is Huang Degong, a great general of the late Ming Dynasty, who will replace Wu Xiang, plus 50,000 elite troops, 70,000 border troops and five military camps, as well as the killer black armor cavalry.

He wanted to battle Li Zicheng and have a decisive battle to decide the outcome.

It’s simple, there’s not much silver left in the capital.

Although he has now confiscated a total of more than 20 million taels of silver, it is still a far cry from the more than 70 million taels recorded by Li Zicheng in history.

But in fact, according to Li Ruolian's report, there were only dozens of noble families who still had silver deposits in the capital, with a maximum of two million taels, and the remaining silver deposits of all officials were about the same.

If they wanted to confiscate property again, they could only turn their hands to the thousands of middle and low-level merchants in the capital, and they estimated that they would get 8 million taels of silver.

Even if the current deposits and the proceeds from the previous property raids are added together, there are only about 35 million taels, less than half of Li Zicheng's.

Whether the records were wrong or Li Ruolian was incompetent, Zhu Youjian had no good solution.

Now only by defeating Li Zicheng can we free up our hands to deal with the merchants from Shanxi and the wealthy businessmen from Jiangnan.

While thinking about this, he returned to the Qianqing Palace.

As soon as he sat on the dragon throne, he turned around and ordered, "Wang Banban, summon the Chief Minister Ni Yuanlu, the Military Supervisor Fan Jingwen, the Minister of War Wang Jiayan, the Minister of Works Zhang Fengxiang, the Directors of the Ministry of War Cheng De and Jin Xuan, the Left Integrity Censor Song Ye, the Right Integrity Censor Li Ruolian, the Duke of Yingguo, Zhang Shize, the Earl of Xiangcheng, Li Guozhen, and the Historian of Comfort Zhang Huangyan to the palace to discuss matters."

"I obey your order." Wang Chengen turned around and left without hesitation.

But after taking two steps, he turned back and pushed the tray that had been placed on the table in front of Zhu Youjian.

There were two things on the tray, a folding book and a bowl of porridge.

"Your Majesty, the Empress returned to the palace at midnight last night and personally prepared this bowl of porridge for Your Majesty. She asked this servant to pass on a message, hoping Your Majesty would take care of your health. This memorial was handed to you by the Crown Prince, regarding the number of casualties among the soldiers defending the city and how the wounded should be handled."

After saying this, Wang Chengen seemed to be worried that Zhu Youjian would misunderstand her, so she knelt down and explained, "I am willing to die, but I just want Your Majesty to know that everyone in the Ming Dynasty, from Your Majesty down, is worried about defending the city. Please have mercy on your body."

Zhu Youjian looked at the two things in front of him, pondered for a moment, and then nodded, "I understand, go ahead."

Wang Chengen kowtowed repeatedly and left in a hurry.

He knew in his heart that Wang Chengen could not have accepted benefits from Queen Zhou and the Crown Prince and was speaking well of them.

After all, the person he could trust most in the court was this friend.

What he said was most likely because he was frightened by his actions in recent times and was afraid that he would become the lonely man described in history books.

They only care about power and rights, and even family affection can be sacrificed.

I'm afraid that in the whole world, only Wang Chengen, who accompanied Chongzhen throughout his life, would say such words.

For some reason, Zhu Youjian felt warm in his heart.

After drinking the porridge in the bowl, Zhu Youjian opened the memorial and began to read.

About half an hour passed.

The new court team headed by Ni Yuanlu finally arrived.

After the ceremony, before everyone was seated, Zhu Youjian spoke.

"I am ready to fight a decisive battle with Chuangni."

The words were spoken in a calm tone, but they exploded in the ears of the ministers.

Ni Yuanlu was the first to object, and immediately raised his head to persuade, "Your Majesty..."

But his words stopped the moment he saw Zhu Youjian. The drum of the evening watch at yin hour shattered the spring chill. The thirty-six palace lanterns in the Qianqing Palace illuminated the golden lacquer on the coiled dragon pillars, making them dazzling. In a trance, Ni Yuanlu seemed to see the portrait of Taizu in the Taimiao come to life...

(End of this chapter)