After calculation, Li's army currently has 4,652 officers and soldiers, 4,782 family members, 350 horses, 3 elephants, more than 1,200 guns, tiger squat cannons, and 126 officials accompanying them. There are also a small number of chieftain soldiers called soldiers, with a number of about 800.

Because the officers and soldiers of Li's army were unable to receive food supplements for many years, most of them were malnourished and lacked weapons, and it was difficult to quickly restore their former combat effectiveness in the short term and devote themselves to the Qing war. Therefore, after discussing with Li's army, they moved the officers and soldiers of Li's army to Kunming in batches, rested for half a year and replenished them before calling them.

Zhenjiang has quickly sent the reorganization plan for Li Dingguo's Ministry. According to this plan, the generals of Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan, together with the Wu army in Yunnan, were reorganized into three towns, one Class A town, one Class B town, and one Class C town, which were under unified command of the Third War Zone.

After the reorganization, all the elderly, weak, sick and disabled people were all laid off on the spot, and severance payments were given, and they were placed in various parts of Yunnan. The governments in various places were re-entered, distributed to land, and mutual assistance was organized to enable them to support themselves. Li's army was also placed in Kunming with the army's family.

The three town soldiers were commander Wu Sansheng, general Zhang Dayuan, former Sun Kewang as the general of the former army, and later surrendered to the commander of Zhou Guoding, who surrendered to the Taiping Army in Liuzhou.

After learning about the differences in the organization of the three towns of Taiping Army A, B and C, Li Dingguo had no objection to this reorganization plan, but was very happy. Because his subordinates were reorganized into Class A town, this means that Zhou Shi recognized the combat effectiveness of his soldiers, and he really trusted him very much. Otherwise, he would not have reorganized his subordinates into the ninth A town of the Taiping Army.

After Sun Kewang surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, fell in the southwest, and was wandered outside the border. He repeatedly rescued the lord but was regarded as a rebel minister. After his loyalty was exchanged for continuous betrayal, Li Dingguo really saw through it. In the past, he was devoted to protecting Zhu Ming, expelling Manzhou, and restoring China. Now, he only wanted his elder brothers who had followed him for more than ten years to return to their hometown Shaanxi in this life. As for whom the emperor was, he no longer valued it.

Li Dingguo no longer had the intention of fighting for power and profit with Sun Kewang in the early years, and he even felt a little regretful that he should not have been attracted by Zhu Youlang, betraying his righteous brother Sun Kewang, which led to the complete ruin of the foundation of the Daxi Army.

Li Dingguo didn't care about how Zhu Youlang died at all. He was really heartbroken about this cowardly and incompetent emperor. He only hoped that Zhou Shixiang could promise that Li Dingguo could confront the Qing Dynasty again on the battlefield and avenge the millions of compatriots who died.

Under this mentality, Li Dingguo naturally could not have any dissatisfaction or objections to the reorganization of the troops and the arrangements of generals at all levels. Even if he saw that this arrangement was somewhat guarded against him, he would ignore it. However, Bai Wenxuan frowned and felt a little unhappy.

The reason why Bai Wenxuan was unhappy was because Zhang Dayuan was once a hawk under Hong Chengchou's command. When he was in charge of Yunnan, he often let the Ming army outside the border suffer, so Zhang Dayuan and his subordinates had blood feuds. But now this person has turned into a general of the Taiping Army, which inevitably made him feel a grudge. It is believed that if Zhang Dayuan had not eliminated Lin Tianqing, Yunnan would not have changed his flag so quickly. Even if it were later, there would be no more corpses outside the city of Kapok Prefecture, and he and the King of Jin might not have survived.

Thinking of this, Bai Wenxuan's hatred for Zhang Dayuan became a little weaker, but he still couldn't let go of his hatred for Zhou Guoding. In his opinion, this man was just a despicable villain, but somehow he had such luck and became the general of the Taiping Army.

Zhou Guoding felt a sudden slap in his heart when he knew that he had been appointed as the temporary town in Yunnan. He was worried that Bai Wenxuan would cause trouble for him, because he had betrayed Sun Kewang and surrendered to Li Dingguo with Bai Wenxuan. However, after the Qing army entered Yunnan, he immediately turned against the Qing Dynasty and participated in the siege of Bai Wenxuan, which caused Bai Wenxuan to flee south in a panic. Even the golden seal of King Gongchang was seized by the Qing army.

This battle was also the most embarrassing and most tragic battle that Bai Wenxuan had fought in his life. His wife and two sons were killed by the Qing army in this battle.

With this deep hatred, Bai Wenxuan gritted his teeth at the traitor Zhou Guoding, and Zhou Guoding also affirmed that Bai Wenxuan hated him to the core, so he didn't want to be the general of Yunnan, nor did he want to meet Bai Wenxuan. Although the other party was a prince, he was also a brigade school in the Taiping Army. As long as he avoided him, would Bai Wenxuan dare to come to his military camp to find him?

Zhou Guoding made up his mind not to go and asked the war zone to re-appoint a candidate, but the war zone governor Shao Jiugong ignored him and told him that unless he died now, the town would have to do it properly.

There was no way, Zhou Guoding could not really wipe his neck, so he had to go to Yunnan to take office under the eyes of his colleague Lu Sanxiang, who was also from the Former Army, and others, who were "Take more care" and said, "You should take care of yourself."

Halfway through the way, Zhou Guoding was suddenly energetic because he thought that although Bai Wenxuan was a prince, the phoenix in trouble was not as good as a chicken. If he really dared to cause trouble for himself as a general, he would never dare to offend the Taiping Army. What he thought before was that he was completely scared by himself. Bai Wenxuan had just been rescued from the border, so he dared to attack him, a meritorious general of the Taiping Army who entered the southwest? He really dared to do this, that was a rebellion, and he could lead his troops to kill him directly.

After his open-minded thoughts, Zhou Guoding really had all kinds of courage. This courage was the Taiping Army standing behind him, and his identity. He didn't believe that Bai Wenxuan would dare to touch him, the general of the Taiping Army.

At the same time, Zhou Guoding was also speculating that the war zone governor asked him, who was not in opposition to Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan, to become a general in Yunnan. Does it mean to monitor Li Bai's old subordinates?

As soon as this idea came out, Zhou Guoding became more and more correct, because another town general Zhang Dayuan was not from the Daxi Army, and he could not go with Li and Bai, and even had hatred with Li and Bai. Therefore, Zhang Dayuan, like himself, could only walk on the road of holding the Taiping Army's thighs tightly, and would never turn to Li and Bai.

The three towns in Yunnan are now the town of Wusansheng is reorganized by Li and Bai's old subordinates, and the other two have completely surrendered to the Taiping Army. So what Li and Bai want to do in Yunnan is probably impossible.

At least, this is how Zhou Guoding thinks

After Zhou Guoding left, Shao Jiugong shook his head. In addition to his headaches, he now had to reorganize the Wu army in Yunnan and Li Ding's ministry, and he also had to be the governor of the Third War Zone under the control of the King of Jin.

It is really hard to be the governor of the Third War Zone.

Zhou Shixiang treated Li Dingguo well, hoping that Li Dingguo would once again show his power in the war against Qing Dynasty in the future. Therefore, he did not completely weaken Li Dingguo and summoned him to Nandu to be a idle prince. Instead, he clearly explained to the Third War Zone that, in addition to accepting the orders and deployments of the Grand Commander's Office and the appointment and removal of generals, the actual combat command was under the responsibility of Li Dingguo.

With this order, Shao Jiugong naturally did not dare to violate the order, so he asked Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan to Guiyang to prepare for the battle to leave Sichuan and Shaanxi in half a year. At that time, Li Dingguo would command the third war zone with the honor of the prince to enter the northwest.

Although Shao Jiugong was born in the Qing Dynasty, he was very respectful and willing to accept the command of Li Dingguo. However, he had to consider some things in advance. The general respected Li Dingguo and was not wary of him at all. However, the Third War Zone was one of the five major war zones of the Taiping Army, and the New Fifth Army under his jurisdiction was also one of the five main forces of the Taiping Army. The remaining Class B towns and Class C towns had as many as 12. In addition to the three towns reorganized in Yunnan, there are 3 Class A towns under the entire Third War Zone, 4 Class B towns and 8 Class C towns, with a total force of more than 150,000 people.

Such a huge force is beyond the reach of any of the other four war zones. Although their real combat power may not be at the forefront, there are real soldiers here. And the third war zone is also the largest war zone, responsible for the five provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan (southeastern Sichuan), and undertakes the important task of conquering Shaanxi and Gansu.

Even if Zhou Shixiang really feels at ease to hand over such a large war zone to Li Dingguo, Shao Jiugong and the Taiping Army generals in the Fifth War Zone did not dare to do so.

A person does not hurt the tiger's will, and a tiger will harm the hearts of others.

From the worst perspective, Shao Jiugong considered that Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan brought back only four or five thousand soldiers from the border, so they had no ambition and no strength to support this ambition. But if they really wanted to take over the third war zone, facing the territory of the five provinces and more than 100,000 troops, the former fake Huang Yue and King Li Jin who went on the battle on behalf of the emperor was really indifferent and completely gave up his power? He was willing, was Bai Wenxuan willing, and were the Ming generals who came back from the border willing?

If the third war zone changes, it will be a heavy blow to the entire anti-Qing cause. Shao Jiugong did not want to see such a thing happen, nor did he want to see his general fighting with Li Dingguo one day, so he became this "villain".

Appointing Zhang Dayuan and Zhou Guo as the newly formed three towns in Yunnan was a means of defense for Shao Jiugong. At the same time, the Governor's Office in the Fifth War Zone, located in Guiyang, also stepped up the reorganization of the former Wu Sangui Army and the Daxi Army of the Qing Dynasty. Some Wu generals who were recognized as unreliable by Shao Jiu were calmly transferred from the army, either "recommended" to the court, or exchanged with other war zones to avoid the internal cracks within the third war zone due to the return of Li Dingguo.

Before leaving Kapok, Li Dingguo sent people to Mongma, Mengyang and other places to take a large amount of medicinal materials, and try his best to treat the infected soldiers and gather the scattered soldiers scattered in the dense forests of Myanmar. In order not to let a soldier wander, Li Dingguo specially asked Le Tongwu to set up two shelter stations in Daluo and Kapok to prepare enough food and medicinal materials to ensure that every soldier found could step into the land of his hometown alive.

The news of the return of King Li Dingguo of Jin quickly spread from Yunnan to all directions. King Feng Shuangli of Jianchang and Prince Ai Chengye of Yan'an sent people to Yunnan as soon as possible to express their joy for King Jin's return.
Chapter completed!