Lord of the House

Upon receiving Lin Fu's order, Zhao Qingshan led the 4th Battalion of the Left Army to advance along the Yufu River for about twenty miles, to join Lin Fu at Sanyu Village.

Sanyuzhuang, named after the three hundred-year-old elm trees at the head of the village, is thirteen or fourteen miles away from the city gate of Xikuo, Jinan. Three days ago, Zhuangzi ransacked a group of officers and soldiers who were evacuated from Pingyuan.

At dusk, Lin Tie rushed to Sanyuzhuang surrounded by horses. The villagers watched them come, and they all regarded them as robbers and wolves. Some of them fled to Zhuangzi with their families and their mouths in the cold evening, and they hid in their houses behind closed doors. The child dare not probe.

Lin Shou ordered the cavalry soldiers to prohibit entering Zhuangzi to disturb the villagers, and they all dismounted and camped outside Zhuangzi with him.

The soil by the river was frozen solid, and it was necessary to use iron drills and sledgehammers to dig holes and bury wooden stakes to set up tents. It took a long time to set up three tents. When Zhao Qingshan led the 4th Battalion of the Left Army to arrive, he first took the tent cloth and built a curtain wall along the periphery of the woods to block the biting cold wind blowing from the north. A simple camp.

Lin Fu bought soldiers and armor semi-publicly here, which not only made Lin Mengde secretly contact the military attachés who had been recruited by the Shandong Admiral's House, but also sent several teams to guard the road crossing into Jinan from the north, and directly to the soldiers who were fleeing to Jinan. Scavengers buy armour.

For the Yannan Town Army who had smashed the courage of the Donglu cavalry, they rushed to Jinan City and saw a large number of troops gathered here, and they felt much safer. After the formation was scattered, they had already become remnants of defeated soldiers, and they were not afraid. To be held accountable for the loss of the armor, the most important thing at the moment is to exchange the armor for some money, and spend a few days in a restaurant and prostitute in the city. The responsibility of the country, the family and the people?

These stragglers come bravely, and they don't care how much money a good knife or a good armor can exchange for. They fled in a hurry, and all they lacked was silver. Even if he robbed his house, and he had traveled in the countryside, how much money could he have robbed?

Armor is a burden to keep on your body. Is it possible that if you have a good knife and a good armor, you still dare to turn around and fight with the Donglu cavalry? Silver is a very good thing. You can eat wine and play with girls. When the Donglu withdraws and returns to the Yannan Barracks, do you still worry about the replacement of soldiers and armor?

Often a piece of high-quality armor can be bought for only seven or eight taels of silver; a fine-steel sword can give you a silver spear, which is already very generous; a bow and a crossbow can be exchanged for a bag of copper coins. , the horses outside the mouth can only be sold as ordinary ploughing horses; the iron cluster edged arrows are even cheaper to two or three copper coins a feather, even if the iron arrowheads are broken off and sold as iron blocks, not only this price...

Lin Fu successively transferred the five battalions of Jiangdong Qinwang's left army to the vicinity of Sanyuzhuang. In six or seven days, he collected more than 1,400 pieces of various armors from Sanyuzhuang and the road entrance to Jinan in the north. There are more than 1,100 infantry bows, more than 400 military crossbows, more than 2,000 quivers, more than 50,000 arrows of various types, and dozens of stainless steel mo knives, halberd knives, halberd knives, axes and hammers. There are hundreds of pieces, nearly 2,000 spears, more than 300 military horses, more than 600 camels, and seven three-bow crossbows mounted on unicycles...

Lin Bie didn't know whether to be happy or sad for such a result.

To my delight, he has spent about 40,000 taels of silver for these armaments in the past few days, but even if these fine ordnances are placed in Jiangning, which is well-armed, they will still be worth 20,000 to 300,000 taels of silver.

The Fifth Battalion of the Left Army is a recruiting force of the people. Under normal circumstances, Lin Fu has racked his brains, exhausted all means, and spent a lot of money, but he could not find a way to obtain so many excellent weapons.

Sadly, the government spends hundreds of thousands of taels of food and money every year on the officers and soldiers of the three towns and towns in Yannan. Every piece of armor and every spear is condensed with so much people's fat and people's ointment. But they gave these officers and soldiers a few taels of money to buy wine and prostitutes.

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Yue Lengqiu and Lu Jingyan had differences of opinion on whether to leave or stay, and the conflict intensified to the point of blatantly staring at the table. Yue Lengqiu was hurrying to get the military attache to follow him. After all, he was a dignified second-rank governor, and Lu Jingyan was not even an admiral. Under Yue Lengqiu's hard work, many generals became unsteady.

Song Bo knew that if the riots continued, most of the Eastern Minqin King Division would split their troops into two groups. The Donglu outpost cavalry had already crossed the Yellow River and entered the territory of Jinan Prefecture. It was becoming more and more obvious that the main force of the Donglu cavalry would head south to Shandong; There is no excuse to go.

The Shandong prefecture also assembled tens of thousands of troops in key places such as Dezhou, Linqing, and Jinan, and wanted to strengthen the city. The number of soldiers and horsemen of Zhuluqin Wang stranded in Shandong also exceeded 50,000, but the imperial court's edict was delayed. Master Zhu Luqin had neither the obligation to defend the locality, nor the authority to mobilize King Master Zhu Luqin in Shandong.

As a civilian in the governor's office, Song Bo could only move westward with Yue Lengqiu, and he did not have the right to stay with Lu Jingyan. Besides, Lu Jingyan could not rest assured that the children of the Song family would stay.

Today is the twelfth lunar month.

Song Bo took a skinny horse and two entourages to Sanyu Village on leave.

The cold wind was bleak, and the rivers in Jinan Prefecture were frozen solid. The Yellow River and Xiaoqing River, which were once relied on by nature, have also become channels that are conducive to the passage of cavalry.

Although Jinan City has assembled nearly 40,000 soldiers and horses, and can rely on the city to defend, Song Bo is not optimistic about the fate of Jinan City. It seems that Lin Fu has pulled the men and horses out of the mountains that can be guarded against danger in the past few days, which makes it difficult to understand what he is thinking.

Song Bo led his entourage to the gate of the barracks, and begged to see Lin Fu. He thought, "He shouldn't be hiding today, right?"

People kept pulling mules and carts into the camp, and Lin Bie bought armour from Yannan officers and soldiers who had fled to Jinan in Sanyuzhuang semi-openly. Take care of him.

Which general in Jinan City will pay for his soldiers to improve their equipment? Those who have surplus money in their hands are mostly greedy by nature. How can there be surplus money in the hands of generals who cherish their soldiers and do not deduct food and wages? On the other hand, there are a lot of Zhai Hao in the local area who also secretly acquired soldiers and armors to strengthen Zhai Ding's combat power.

Only the officers and soldiers of Yannan who escaped were Adou who could not be helped, and the Shandong Commander could not even reprimand him!

After a while, Lin Fu sent a personal guard to lead Song Bo and his entourage into the camp.

This is where the 1st Battalion, the 2nd Battalion, and the Workers' Camp of the Left Army were stationed. From a distance, Song Bo saw a number of craftsmen in front of the Workers' Camp, cutting dozens of spears on the field, stuck them with wooden boards, and mounted them on a wheelbarrow.

This chariot has a strange shape. The spears that are fixed on the wheelbarrow are neatly arranged in two rows, one row is pointing obliquely forward, the other row is pointing straight ahead, and there are two dovetail shields at the rear of the vehicle that are fixed side by side on the frame. superior.

Dozens of these shield spear vehicles have been rebuilt on the other side of the field, and there are still many soldiers who are using this type of shield spear vehicles to practice vehicle formation on the school grounds. Song Bo watched for a while while walking, and then he came to understand: this kind of shield and spear car, especially dozens or hundreds of cars linked into a car array, can effectively prevent the use of bows and arrows and straight-backed knives in the wild. The impact of the Donglu cavalry, the main combat weapon.

In the flat plain terrain north of Jinan, two soldiers pushed a dagger cart, and dozens of vehicles were connected, which could even suppress the formation of the cavalry.

When the two vehicles are combined, they become two-wheeled vehicles. They ride on the horse and drag them away on the flat plain north of Jinan. There is still a little space at the rear of the vehicle to put food and grass or sit.

Are the Jiangdong soldiers preparing for the battle against the Donglu cavalry in the wild? Song Bo was secretly surprised, it was hard to imagine that Lin Fu would have the courage to fight against the Donglu cavalry in the field with such a temporary recruited army.

However, seeing the large-scale construction of such shield and spear vehicles here, Song Bo thought that Lin Fu had acquired a lot of armor in the past few days.

Eighteen or nine short spears and two large shields were inserted into a cart. Even if a hundred carts were built, in addition to the wheelbarrow, nearly two thousand spears and two hundred large shields would be used. Ordnance, really can not be so luxurious.

Generally, when defending the city, dozens of vehicles will be built. When the city gate is broken, it can be used to plug the gate to prevent the enemy from attacking.

Song Bo thought to himself: Lin Funa's large-scale transformation of a unicycle into a shield spear should not be used to guard the city gate.

The guards sent by Lin Fu to bring Song Bo in didn't mind Song Bo looking around in the camp, watching him stop and go, without urging him, obviously he was instructed by Lin Fu.

In the open space near the river in the camp, more than 100 soldiers were practicing shooting with crossbows and crossbows. Many target stacks were erected on the other side of the Yufu River, which was less than 100 paces wide, and were filled with arrows without feathers.

Compared with the step bow, the crossbow arrow is easy to operate and has much stronger shooting stability. Although the rate of fire is slow, it is powerful and penetrating, and it is more suitable for new soldiers to master and use after short-term training.

Walking diagonally across nearly half of the camp, he walked to Lin Bing's main tent. Before he opened the curtain, Song Bo couldn't help but look back at how well-trained the various arms in the camp were. He was secretly shocked: This is really all recruitment. A new graduate less than two months old?

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Of course, not all of the 3,000 soldiers of the Fifth Battalion of the Left Army were recruits who had only been recruited for two months.

Hekou Minyong and Xisha Island Minyong received basic military training for half a month or a month before they were recruited into the army. The most important thing is that Lin Fu and the Zuo army generals have a high prestige among these people.

For generals and military attachés to cultivate such a high prestige among their soldiers, it is not something that can be achieved in a short period of time with grace or strict military discipline. During training, the cooperation and enthusiasm of soldiers and soldiers have a great impact on the training results; in combating the enemy, this is more directly related to the internal cohesion of an army.

After the Battle of Hekou, Lin Fu left twenty or thirty military guards who were injured in the first battle of Hekou in Hekou to be responsible for compiling and training people's bravery, and more than ten veterans of Lin's hometown who were recruited into the army along with Zhao Qingshan~www .wuxiaspot.com~ They are the backbone of Hekou recruiting.

Lin Fu kept nearly 50 injured Wuwei on Xisha Island, some of them were incorporated into the village camp, and more than 20 were in charge of the training of Min Yong, and this time they were also incorporated into the army together.

In addition, Lin Fu also transferred more than 100 elite troops from Changsha Island to break up into the fifth battalion of the Left Army.

There are Hekou Min Yong and Xisha Island Min Yong as the main force, 1,670 elite veterans fill in as the backbone, and there is another month and a half of marching training to run in; training and improvement of combat experience, there is no condition, not enough It is difficult to make up for the time, but Lin Fu did everything possible to improve the equipment of the fifth battalion of the left army, and it almost reached the level of the main force of the town army.

Although the 5th Battalion of the Left Army still has a long way to go from being a strong soldier in the world, it is by no means a soft-boiled soldier who can be bullied at will.

Lin Bie was looking at the topographic map of Heji in the tent with Cao Zi'ang and Wu Qi. When he saw Song Bo being brought in by his guards, he put down the charcoal pen in his hand and said with a smile, "I'm still planning to find time to say goodbye to Brother Song. I didn't expect Brother Song to come here first. What's the matter, Yue Shuai has also made the decision to move?"

"Yue Shuai hasn't made the final decision yet, but it's almost too soon," Song Bo knew that Lin Fu was also aware of the discord between the generals of Dongmin, but there was no need to go into details, he just asked, "Master Lin is going to move where to go?"

"Let's go north and go to Yannan!" Lin Bie opened his fingers and pressed on the map, pressing on the Yannan area where the main force of the Eastern captives was gathering.

"..." Song Bo stared blankly at Lin Fu, who would have thought that Lin Fu would make such a decision? Neither staying in Jinan, nor avoiding the war to go to Jinzhong, he even went directly to the three prefectures of Yannan.

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