It is certain that Nanming definitely does not have millions of troops, and there is a big difference here. However, the strength of the Southern Ming army is definitely not in the minority, at least more than the number of Manchu Qing troops, which is certain.
After Li Zicheng invaded Beijing, the Chongzhen Emperor hanged himself, and the Ming Dynasty was declared extinct. But in fact, Li Zicheng did not completely occupy daming's territory, especially south of the Yangtze River, so in the same year, The Fu King Zhu Yousong oversaw the state of Nanjing, and later became emperor, and the short-lived Southern Ming began.
In the south, the main military power of the Ming army still existed. Liu Zeqing's troops, Gao Jie's troops, Huang Degong's troops, and Liu Liangzuo's four military forces, that is, the four towns in Jiangbei, each town had "30,000 soldiers and 9,000 horses and mules", but each town was also expanding its army, so the actual strength was far more than 30,000. In particular, Gao Jie, who claimed to have 400,000 soldiers and horses, but there was a lot of moisture in it.
Zuo Liangyu, who occupies the land of Jingxiang, claims to command a million troops, which is not small, but there are tens of thousands of large, and the general saying is that it has reached 800,000, but the logistics of non-combatants must also be counted.
There were also Ming dynasty troops stationed in nanzhili and north of the Huai River, as well as water troops led by Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Hongkui, who were active on the southeast coast.
In addition, there were still many troops in the peasant army who submitted to the Southern Ming, and this number was not in the minority. This is not counting some local stragglers, which add up to more.
So overall, Nanming's army definitely exceeded one million. However, there are also many problems in this, such as Zheng Zhilong's troops, who are only the main military forces of the Longwu regime, and the main military forces of the Lu regime are the Fang Guo'an Department, wang Zhiren Department, and Zhang Mingzhen Department.
That is to say, each regime has its own supporters, and the connection between them is not deep, although we have all counted them, but strictly speaking they are not the same thing.
However, from the quantitative point of view alone, it is definitely not comparable to the Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing, but the result is lost. It can be seen that the number of troops does not determine the victory of the war, and there are many factors in this.