Lord of the House

Returning to Jing'er Lake from Caozhuang, the fifth battalion of the Left Army, the sky became clear. In the narrow valley road, Lin Fu led more than 60 cavalry to let go of their speed, and the sound of horses' hooves echoed in the valley road.

This is the northern foot of Mount Tai, and the peak of Cui Wei’s peak exposed in Chenxi in the east is Yufu Mountain at the northern foot of Mount Tai, and the water from the streams such as Chengjinxiang River and Yuyang River in Jing’er Lake is in the west of Yufu Mountain. The water is surging, but there is no freezing; to the west of Jinger Lake is Crouching Tiger Mountain. Yufu Mountain and Wohu Mountain are the two most precipitous peaks at the northern foot of Qinshan Mountain, as if Beitianmen pillar stands guarding the northern foot of Mount Tai. The Jingerhu Valley Road is an important passage into the northern foot of Mount Tai within a radius of ten miles. The most important one is from the Jinger Lake Valley Road to the southwest. There is a valley road that can detour to Tai'an House at the southern foot of Mount Tai. Going down from Jinger Lake is the Yufu River, which joins the Yellow River from Gudianzikou, which is more than 60 miles away.

Going up the narrow road between the lake cliffs, the road is very dangerous. Lin Mengde and others are not good at horseback riding. It is not fun to fall into the bone-piercing lake in this extremely cold weather. Lin Bing told everyone to dismount.

The guards took away the horses of Lin Fu, Cao Zi'ang, Lin Mengde, Wu Qi, Zhou Pu and others, and Lin Fu and the others walked along the lake.

"The main force of the eastern captives is heading south, can Jinan City be defended?" Lin Mengde asked.

Lin Bie frowned, looking at the cold blue lake with white mist, he shook his head and said, "It's not so optimistic."

When Lin Fu and the others set off from Jiangning, they planned to pass through Pingyuan Prefecture and enter the Yannan area, so that people would go to Dezhou, Pingyuan Prefecture, to prepare food and stock up military supplies. Unexpectedly, the situation in Gyeonggi and Yannan's three prefectures would deteriorate so quickly. Lin Fu was forced to change the original plan. The fifth battalion of the Zuo Army stopped in the southwest of Jinan prefecture and no longer moved forward. Of course, the people who hoarded materials must be withdrawn together.

In addition to the people sent by the Lin family, forty or fifty members of the Xihe Association entered Dezhou in advance, and this time they also withdrew.

When they were withdrawn from Dezhou, the waterway from Linqing to Dezhou was already frozen tightly, so the more than ten waterboats of the Xihe Society had to be abandoned. The Xihe Society has made such a great contribution to the logistics of the fifth battalion of the Zuo Army of Jiangdong Qin, and it is impossible for the Xihe Society to end up losing more than ten ships.

The three prefectures in the south of Yan were devastated by the Donglu iron cavalry, and a large number of refugees entered Dezhou, where the army was stationed. In addition, the road was blocked by river ice, so that the price of goods in Dezhou soared in half a month, and the polished rice rose to 20 per pound. The remaining money is three or four times more expensive than usual, and the medicinal materials have skyrocketed tenfold.

When Lin Mengde withdrew from Dezhou, apart from more than 200 horses outside the mouth and some medicinal materials in short supply, all other hoarded materials were sold in Dezhou. In addition to making up for the loss of more than a dozen boats of the Xihe Society, they also There is a surplus of nearly 10,000 taels of silver—war money is really easy to earn.

The reason why Lin Mengde cared about the gains and losses of Jinan City was nothing else. When he set out from Jiangning, in addition to the money allocated by King Qin, he also brought out 30,000 taels of silver from Jiangning, and now he has nearly 50,000 taels of silver in his hand. If Jinan City can be defended, he now plans to bring money to Jinan City to hoard supplies under the banner of Jiangdong Qin Wang Shizuo Army.

When the Donglu cavalry enters Shandong on a large scale, it is possible that the price of Jinan City will soar several times or even dozens of times...

Seeing that Lin Fu was not optimistic about the situation in Jinan, Lin Meng gave up the idea. The money can only be earned if it can be transported away, otherwise everything will be empty. Besides, the flag of Jiangdong Qin Wang Shi may not be easy to use in Jinan City. He saw Lin Fu frowning and didn't ask any further questions. Now that the Governor of Dongmin, Yue Lengqiu, had arrived in Jinan, he had to wait until he met Yue Lengqiu before making any plans.

Lin Mengde is not very good at the military, but he knows that Jinan is the capital of Shandong. In addition to the Shandong prefecture, King Lu's vassal is also stationed in Jinan. If the eastern captives attack Jinan, the main force must come over, and Jinger Lake is far away. Jinan City is less than forty miles southwest of the city, so it is naturally difficult to be alone.

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Going around the narrow road on the west bank of Jing'er Lake, there is a stockade standing on the halfway of Wohu Mountain, and Lin Fu will anchor the main here.

The original owner of this Zuoguan'er Village was Zuo, whose ancestor was a foreigner who served in the transfer department. The locals pass through the Jingerhu Valley Road, and they set up cards to collect lijin. If foreign customers who do not know the depth of this pass and their wealth is exposed, they will directly intercept the road and rob.

When Lin Fu first arrived in Jinan, he sent the outpost disguised caravan to cross the Jinger Lake Valley Road. He was extorted to take half of the goods out as road tax. There was a dispute. The outpost injured four people and detained four people. Bie then sent troops to take Zuoguan'erzhai as a bandit's den. Thirty or forty people were killed, more than 200 villagers were forcibly disbanded, dozens of people from the Zuo family were **** and sent to Jinan to be convicted, and Lin Fu directly occupied the village as the main site.

The Zuo family still has some power in Jinan Prefecture, but Lin Fu led the Jiangdong Qin Wang Shi Zuo army and settled down along the Yufu River in the southwest mountain area of ​​Jinan Prefecture. Even if Jinan Prefecture did not want to really cure the Zuo family's crimes, it did not dare to kill the Zuo family's people. Let it go, and even dare not to stand up for the Zuo family and turn around to hold Jiang Dongqin Wang Shizuo Jun's sins.

Speaking of which, the fifth battalion of the left army of the Jiangdong Qinwang Division led by Lin Fu was already outstanding among the Qinwang divisions who had passed through the border. The other Qin Wang divisions crossed the border, holding chicken feathers as arrows, openly extorting places, and what's more, rape/promiscuous plundering, not much better than Donglu cavalry crossing the border.

Lin Bie has serious military discipline, and he can do nothing against the commoners and the country gentry along the way. Although he has taken four or five bad gangsters and bandit villages to open swords for training, but in addition to ordnance, he has also gained other income from attacking the poor gangsters and bandit villages. Most of the seized materials are used to help the poor people nearby.

Lin Mengde walked into Zuoguan'er Village, stood at the gate of the village, looked inside, and said with a smile: "When I came over, I heard Zhao Qingshan say that this place is just an ordinary mountain village, I didn't expect that it's only ten days, you will be almost here. It has been completely transformed into a military village, and the road to Jing’er Lake is dangerous, and the Donglu iron cavalry is afraid that it will not be able to attack..."

"At the moment, there is a great advantage in terrain, but if the weather is colder, Jing'er Lake will freeze; or send people to go back to the upper reaches to intercept the water to slow down the water, and this kind of weather can also make Jing'er Lake freeze solid. , then there is not much advantage in the terrain," Lin Fu said, "You have to think about everything before you can be invincible, and you can't expect the enemy to think of it."

Lin Mengde touched the short beard on his chin and said, "This is really not taken into account..." The probe looked at the wall of the village. Although it was made of stone, it was very thin. Once Zuoguan'er Village lost its terrain advantage, With only a thin wall, it is difficult to hold on for a long time.

The five battalions of the left army were all new soldiers. Although they had some appearances after a month and a half of running-in, they were far from being able to fight against the Donglu cavalry in the field. The officers and soldiers fought against the Donglu, and it was still during the Jingbei Hou period that there was a stalemate for a while, and there were victories and defeats.

Lin Meng was sucking in clean water and snot. This ghost weather was really unbearable, and his nose was red from the cold. He continued to walk in with Lin Fu, and saw soldiers practicing in the thin morning mist behind the stockade.

"This stockade is still too small to accommodate too many people. To practice, most people have to walk up the mountain for a while. There is a slightly larger valley, where the third battalion is stationed. In addition, Ning Zechen led the first The five battalions are stationed on the southern **** of Yufu Mountain, and here are the first and second battalions..." Lin Fu and Lin Mengde introduced the stationing situation of the Zuo Army.

Sun Jingxuan's second son, Sun Wenbing, led forty or fifty Xihe congregation to carry some medicinal materials into the stockade. After they abandoned the boat and landed, they planned to take the road back to Jiangning from Jinan.

Lin Fu formally set up a labor battalion, which was specially responsible for the construction of the marching project and the logistics management of the transportation. When Lin Meng got back, Lin Fu let him be directly responsible for this.

As a result, even if the Xihe congregation left, the logistical supply of the Fifth Battalion of the Left Army would not have much impact.

After all, they were going to face the Donglu Iron Cavalry directly, and casualties were inevitable.

Lin Fu asked the guards to lead Sun Wenbing and the Xihe congregation to the barracks to rest. He held Lin Mengde and Wu Qi to introduce them to the recent situation of the Fifth Battalion of the Left Army.

Lin Mengde left the main force and went directly to Dezhou after passing Suyu, and Wu Qi went deep into the Gyeonggi area to listen for information; and after leaving Suyu and entering Shandong, Lin Fu carried out a major restructuring of the fifth battalion of the Zuo Army. They still do not know the latest situation of the Fifth Battalion of the Left Army.

In addition to recruiting people along the way to add to the fifth battalion of the left army, and taking out soldiers with relatively weak craftsmanship and relatively weak fighting qualities to form a labor battalion, Lin Fu's changes to the fifth battalion of the left army also very large.

The military organization of the world is relatively simple. Usually, the fifteen **** formation is a small team, led by the flag leader, the four small teams are a capital team, the capital **** leader is led, the ten capital teams are a battalion, and the battalion commander leads them. From battalions to dozens of battalions or 20 or 30 battalions are organized into a town. The town has a main general to lead, and a deputy general to assist. Usually, one deputy general in a town is not enough, so the title of "the number of generals in a certain town" appears, and each general restricts several battalions of troops and horses.

From the perspective of Lin Fu's later generations, the current military establishment mainly restricted the dictatorship of generals, but it also reduced the efficiency of the command system.

The fifth battalion of the Left Army recruited soldiers temporarily, and they were all new soldiers. Lin Fu directly carried out the reform of the military system, and no one cared about him, and there was no internal resistance at all.

For the sake of convenience, Lin Fu did not change the formation of the sentinel team and the capital team, but only used five soldiers as a combat team under the team. The daily training, camping, and marching were all based on the combat team.

It was difficult for the fifteenth soldier squad to maintain a complete formation when facing the onslaught of the Donglu cavalry. In order to prevent the formation from collapsing soon after the enemy cavalry broke up, the squad was subdivided into three battle groups, which was particularly important. important. Taking the combat team as the basic combat unit, the combat toughness and sustainability will be improved, and how much it can actually be improved remains to be tested in actual combat.

In addition, Lin Fu set up a sentry team with 180 pawns in the Sandu team on top of the capital team of 60 pawns, and set up a new sentry chief as the commander.

For a lieutenant who usually leads several battalions, it would be very cumbersome to directly manage dozens of capital teams, and even in three to five months, it would be impossible to get familiar with the temperament and temperament of the commanders. Taking the battalion as the basic defense and mobilization unit is not flexible enough. In addition, if there are not enough middle and low-level military attachés, the stability of the army at the grassroots level will also be poor.

Lin Fu directly added a set of sentinels equivalent to the company of later generations, and used the three sentinels (the Jiudu team) as a battalion. The sentinel team of cooks, grooms, ambulancemen and messengers, and each battalion has a special sentinel to select thirty elite equestrians to be responsible for scouting and reconnaissance~www.wuxiaspot.com~ In this way, each battalion is still Maintain the establishment of six hundred pawns.

In addition, Lin Fu also set up the post of Chief Sentinel to lead the scouts of the five battalions of the Left Army and deliver messages. The Chief Sentinel was naturally served by the returning Wu Qi.

Lin Fu not only subdivided the organization level, but also subdivided the arms of the generals as much as possible. It seems that the management has become more complicated. In fact, after everything is regulated, the commander can be freed from the tedious daily affairs. in war. The division of arms can also make training or training of special arms more targeted. After all, marching and fighting involves many specialized skills, and it is easy for ordinary people to become specialists, but it is extremely difficult to become generalists, and the efficiency will be greatly reduced.

Lin Fu's large-scale changes to the fifth battalion of the Zuo Army were directly borrowed from later generations' experience in company formation and the three-thirds system. Zhou Pu, Wu Qi, Ao Canghai and others were very unfamiliar with these. Since Lin Fu's new formation method of the five soldiers has achieved great success in the training of small elite forces such as Jiyun Wuwei and Yudao Wuzu, they can also easily accept Lin Fu's attack on the fifth battalion of the Zuo Army at this time. changes.

Lin Mengde brought back more than 200 horses from Dezhou this time, and Lin Fu will give priority to the scouts of each battalion. They were about to face the Eastern cavalry. The fifth battalion of the left army was mainly infantry. Originally, the speed and mobility were poor. If the scouts were weaker, they would be very passive.

Dozens of more horses were used to strengthen the cavalry of the first battalion.

In one day, Lin Fu took Lin Mengde and Wu Qi to get acquainted with the garrison of the fifth battalion of the Left Army, the military attachés and training after the adjustment. Yue Lengqiu, the governor of East Fujian.

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