Chongzhen immediately ordered the dry food carried by the army to be distributed to the people.

He also sent someone to notify the navy, and asked the navy to send ships to pick up the people and take them to Nanjing for resettlement by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The Ming Dynasty was on the eve of great industrial development, and manpower was the most precious resource. Therefore, Chongzhen would not give up any common people easily. A common person is a labor force!

After settling the people, Chongzhen continued to lead the army toward the west.

At nearly noon, we finally reached fifteen miles east of Wuchang City, and then we could not go any further because the rebel soldiers from Wuchang had already set up a formation in the wilderness ahead.

Upon seeing this, Chongzhen immediately climbed into the sidecar and opened his telescope.

Through the field of vision through the telescope, I could see that the vast desert in front of me was full of rioters.

Chongzhen was as stable as an old dog in his heart, and the three thousand cavalry and eight hundred Yiding were also calm in their hearts. However, Xu Wuniu and other new army officers could not help but take a breath of air.

So many rebels? Maybe hundreds of thousands?

Can we defeat hundreds of thousands of rebel soldiers?

These rebels are not the same thing as bandits.

Not to mention anything else, there are a lot of cavalry among the rebels!

While Chongzhen was observing the formation of the rebels, he asked Zuo Menggeng: "Mr. Chu, how many troops and horses are there in Wuchang?"

Zuo Mengeng didn't dare to hide anything, because he knew he couldn't hide it even if he wanted to, so he answered honestly: "There are ten total soldiers in Wuchang Town, and the total number of soldiers is more than 200,000."

"But the actual number of soldiers is less than 100,000."

"The remaining 100,000 people are basically serving as soldiers."

Speaking of this meal, Zuo Mengeng said again: "Previously, I and General Jin brought 30,000 soldiers and horses from two towns to Xuzhou, of which half were combat soldiers and half soldiers, so at this time the rebel soldiers in Wuchang Town should be eight

About ten thousand people.”

"Eighty thousand soldiers." Chongzhen smiled and said, "How many can really fight?"

Zuo Mengeng looked back at Jin Shenghuan and said, "There are only 20,000 to 30,000 people left who can really fight."

"Only twenty or thirty thousand?" Chongzhen laughed and said, "If it weren't for the Duke of Chu, I would have been intimidated by these insurgents."

Speaking of this meal, Chongzhen asked Hu Guozhu again: "Hu Guozhu, how did you feel when you fought against the rebel cavalry in Huangzhou?"

"It's not bad." Hu Guozhu said, "At least that team of scout cavalry is not bad."

"I don't believe that all the cavalry in the rebel army have this kind of combat effectiveness." Chongzhen said, "How about you take another group of Yiding to explore their background and see how good they are?"

The rebels seized 8,000 horses and trained 8,000 cavalry, which looked quite intimidating.

However, Chongzhen never believed that these cavalry could become elite cavalry in a short period of time. It took Jin Xuan and three thousand servants to train for more than half a year before they could barely form an army, and most of the three thousand servants were good equestrians.

"Yes!" Hu Guozhu bowed his hands and immediately led a group of Yiding people to accelerate forward.

"Hu Guozhu!" Chongzhen suddenly shouted again, "Don't hurt my horse!"

Hu Guozhu immediately shouted to Wu Ba Tan and other Yi Ding: "Did you hear everyone? Try not to hurt the horse!"

"Yes!" Nearly a hundred barbarians agreed in a loud voice, and then they divided into more than a dozen groups and meandered forward, with seven or eight riders in each group. They looked as if they were preparing to detour from the two wings of the rebel formation.

The most feared thing about an infantry formation, especially a large formation composed of thousands of people, is that the cavalry will outflank it from both sides, because once the infantry formation is set up, it is almost impossible to turn.
Chapter completed!