After offering sacrifices to the flag, Cheng Yuqian led the main force of King Qin's division to proceed by water first. Li Zhuo, Wang Xueshan and other officials from Jiangning's offices and departments, as well as Jiangning Xungui, who paid a farewell visit to Mr. Wang, all took the boat south to return to Jiangning City. Luxury Flying Tigers
There was no excuse to stay on the north bank; the Gu family officials stayed behind to give Lin Fu and three thousand people a farewell party alone.
"This trip is only difficult. Preservation is the most important thing. The performance is no better than that of the central army and the right army is slightly weaker. There is an excuse. Even if one is corrupted, the law does not blame everyone. There is no need to worry too much about punishment..." Gu Wuchen also knew how Lin Fu was doing at this time.
By trick, more than a thousand civilians were brave enough to run five hundred miles in three days, and met with him privately to discuss the plan. The so-called arrival on time, and King Qin driving away the captives were all nonsense. No one in Jiangning had the extravagant expectation that the 10,000 miscellaneous soldiers marching north to King Qin could accomplish any great feats.
Great achievement, Gu Wuchen didn't want Lin Fu to go north to Qinwang and lose a strong helping hand. At this time, he still had no one under his command who could take Lin Fu's place.
"I will act according to the opportunity and will not bring shame on you," Lin Fu said.
"Well," Gu Wuchen nodded, took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Lin Fu, "When you go to Yanjing and have a chance to meet Si Yuan's grandfather, you can give this letter to him for me. Zhang Xiang and Si Yuan
Grandpa will also give you more support, and you should do your best if he gives any instructions..."
"Of course." Lin Fu said.
Gu Wuchen patted Lin Fu's shoulder and said: "Everything should be done well..." He called others to come over, "I'm going back to the city first. There are still a lot of things in the city. You all stay and give Lin Fu a farewell for me. Many things have to be done.
Explain clearly without any ambiguity."
Gu Wuchen, escorted by Yang Pu and Zhu Jiqi, first took a boat back to Jiangning City. Zhao Qinmin, Gu Siyuan, Zhang Yubo, Liu Xilin, Sun Jingxuan and everyone in the Lin family stayed at the ferry. Jiangning had recruited more than 2,000 people to provide logistics and supplies.
The arrangements needed to be carefully discussed. The three thousand newly recruited soldiers had to go by land, and the appointment was very tight. The matter was extremely complicated.
Lin Fu ordered Zhao Hu to immediately lead his soldiers to Shiliupu, liberate the hundreds of soldiers who were still stranded there, and take the post road to Xisha Island. They looked after each other along the waterway with Ge Cunxin, the Great Loach Master, and gathered the stragglers along the way to garrison Xisha Island.
Accept the command of Fu Qinghe to prepare for the East China Sea invaders.
Three days ago, there were more than 2,000 people who followed the forest from Xisha Island, including more than a hundred elites who arrived in time from Changshan Island, from Chongzhou south to Shiliupu in Jiangning north, a total of more than 450 miles, with a total of
Divided into nine stations, Lin Mengde and the Great Loach Master Ge Cunxin moved in advance, holding the banner of recruiting the king's soldiers. Along the way, they ordered local lijia to hire civilians and prepare sufficient supplies. Lin Fu delayed one day to lead more than 2,000 soldiers.
People walk in formation.
Using the force of fifty miles as a stop, we will remove the stragglers and those who are weak or weak-willed, leaving them to be gathered and reorganized later. The rest of the brave people will rest on the spot, and then reorganize their formation after replenishing their physical strength. This is the method.
Jiuzhan Road traveled nearly 500 miles in three days. In the end, more than 1,100 people rushed to Shiliupu, Gutang County to gather. The minyong who arrived at Shiliupu each had ten taels of Anjia silver. Lin Fu
Just select a thousand people to come to the ferry to meet together.
Three thousand civilian warriors gathered in the open space outside the ferry. The cold wind blew, and the civilian warriors sitting on the ground in the open field trembled and shrank.
Lin Fu adjusted his armor and walked to the high platform in front of the array with a knife. He looked at these civilian warriors who were squeezing and jostling each other occupying a field of more than 200 steps square. Although the warriors of the Xisha Islands were tired, they were determined and not afraid of the cold.
Ku, worthy of being the backbone of this trip to the north; there are more than 600 brave people in Hekou, most of them are villagers in Shanglinli, and they are the most well-prepared. They put on military uniforms, wear cold clothes under them, and are equipped with swords, spears, spears and shields.
What is worrisome are the more than 1,400 newly recruited civilian warriors from the refugees on the north coast. In just three to five days, it was impossible for the vast majority of the illiterate farmers to get out of the refugee ranks into a somewhat orderly queue, let alone to become independent.
The army is gone.
"Most of the people in the audience were farmers in the fields or apprentices in shops, workers in workshops, and fishermen in rivers. There may be a small number of people who have done things like stealing, blocking roads, robbing, and doing other things.
They have been bandits or bandits. They didn't have enough to eat in their hometowns and didn't want to starve to death. Or they had to escape because of the war in their hometowns. Many of them had only touched hoes, nails, kitchen knives, and guillotines for cutting fodder before.
," Lin Fu stared at the people in the audience with sharp eyes and said loudly, "Everything that happened before is in the past. No one will pursue it, and no one will care. From this moment on, you are all Jiangdong Qin Wang's Zuo Army Fifth.
As a member of the battalion. You must pick up the sword, pick up the spear, pick up the lance, pick up the shield, and bring the bow and arrow to face the enemy who may be a hundred times more ferocious than you. All I have to do is
Words like "I have farmed, I have only forged iron, I have only caught fish, I have never killed any living being, and I have never seen blood" are no longer excuses for me. From today on, you are Jiangdong Qin Wang Shizuo.
As a soldier in the fifth battalion of the army, it is your duty to eat soldiers' rations and pay, and to defend the territory and kill the enemy. Just as you were born to work in the fields, from now on, it is your duty to obey orders, defend the territory and kill the enemy. Go north.
King Qin, I won’t say much about your achievements. You’ll have scars on your head as big as a bowl, and you’ll die, but your wives and parents will be supported and supported from now on, and you will no longer be homeless or thieves living on the streets who will starve to death in the countryside...
"
King Qin's division in Jiangdong formed an independent army with 3,000 civilian battalions, organized into five battalions of the Zuo Army.
As the night grew darker, dozens of campfires were burning brightly, and more than two hundred temporarily mobilized soldiers were divided into five camps to set up tents.
Lin Fu ordered the flags of the camps to be put up. He wanted to disperse the three thousand people here and divide them into five camps.
In addition to the first battalion, which was composed of Jian Yong from Xisha Island, Lin Fu personally served as the battalion commander, Ao Canghai was the deputy commander, and more than ten guard soldiers including Chen Hualian, Li Chai, Yao Xing, and Ma Pohou formed the capital of sixty soldiers.
Outside the commander, the newly recruited civilian brave generals on the north bank of Chaotiandang, the civilian brave generals from Hekou and Xisha Island were completely broken up and mixed into the remaining four battalions.
Lin Fu even incorporated more than a hundred elites transferred from Changshan Island into these five battalions, so that they could accumulate military merit and become the backbone of the people's bravery to grow into the backbone of the left army's five battalions, instead of directly
On the one hand, it is to prevent the secrets of Changshan Island from being revealed to outsiders prematurely. On the other hand, it is also to allow the Fifth Battalion of the Left Army to grow into a more cohesive elite force.
Of course, Lin Fu led his army north to King Qin, and along the way incorporated bandits, giant bandits, and mountain bandits into King Qin's army to enhance combat effectiveness. These were all prerogatives that he could decide with authority within the scope of his responsibilities.
As long as we can control an elite combat force of 3,000 people, charges of banditry and so on are all just clouds.
Except for the first battalion, which directly established a relatively complete command system, the other four battalions were all mixed and only temporarily designated the acting commander and acting flag leader. The complete command system would be established after it was honed and perfected on the way north.
At the moment, it seems that at least the road from Jiangning to the northern border of Shandong is relatively safe. Lin Fu and Fu Qinghe analyzed that there are very few generals in the King Qin division in Hebei and various places who dare to fight against the Donglu cavalry in the field, and most of them will be divided into cities.
Stationed, that is to say, after they enter Hebei, they are likely to engage in battle with the Donglu cavalry of the outlying bandits.
Lin Fu's goal was to use a month to march to the Hebei border so that the Fifth Battalion of the Left Army and the small group of captive cavalry would have the courage and ability to fight.
During the farewell ceremony, Lin Fu not only received the Guanfang (temporary recruitment of troops, Guanfang, without formal official seal) commanded by the Fifth Battalion of the Zuo Army of King Qin's Division in Jiangdong, but also received a large stack of blank personal confession and letter charms.
Lin Fu immediately decided that he, Zhou Pu, Cao Zi'ang, Ning Zechen, and Zhao Qingshan would be the commanders of the fifth battalion of the Left Army. He filled in these five blanks and submitted them to the Jiangning Military Department for reporting. Nearly fifty others were included.
The commander of the soldiers carried nearly two hundred blank flags with him at all times to identify qualified candidates during the march and training.
Cao Zi'ang, Ning Zechen, and Zhao Qingshan all have well-established backgrounds. Zhou Pu led one battalion as a servant of Lin Fu's retinue. This was also Lin Fu's privilege as the military commander of the capital and commander of the fifth battalion of the left army.
In addition to Lin Fu being a civil official, Cao Ziang, Ning Zechen, Zhao Qingshan and Zhou Pu were awarded the title of Yuqi Lieutenant.
People in Jiangning had previously believed that Lin Fu leading three thousand people to bravely march north to serve the king was no different than risking death, so the establishment of the fifth battalion of the Zuo Army was relatively loose. Lin Fu used his retinue and domestic servants as battalion commanders, and used refugees to lead Cao Ziang, while Ning Ze
I was the commander of the battalion, but they turned a blind eye. After all, they expected others to die, and they couldn't afford not to give him any sweetness before leaving.
Of course, it is impossible for Jiangning to be particularly generous to the 3,000 soldiers of the 5th Battalion of the Left Army who hastily marched into the army. The battalion command has one battalion of 600 soldiers, which is already an intermediate military position in the town army system, and Yuqiwei is only a nine-level military officer.
The rank of military attache is assigned to other rank-and-file commanders. Flag leaders are not awarded the rank of military attache. In the town army system, the rank of military attache is usually held by junior military attachés below the rank of eight-rank Yunqiwei.
Although the retinue has a humble status, it does not affect the ability to hold low-level military positions in the army. This is also a manifestation of the serious privatization of the Zhenfu Army in the contemporary era. Many generals use retinues to hold low-level military positions or win over some military attachés as retinues.
They gave preferential treatment in salary and gave other military attaches impossible privileges to control the elite of the army. This precisely made other military attachés and soldiers the targets of exclusion and oppression, resulting in the overall decline of the army's combat effectiveness.
It was not until late at night that the soldiers of the five battalions were roughly arranged and stabilized, and everyone returned to the camp to eat, eat and rest. Lin Fu, Ao Canghai, Zhou Pu, Ning Zechen, Zhao Qingshan, Cao Ziang and others were not allowed to rest, and they would be divided tomorrow
Before the equipment goes on the road, there is still a lot of preparation work to be done.
Tonight's alert was entrusted to Liu Xilin and the Dongcheng Wei Ma Infantry to be carried out. Zhao Qinmin, Lin Jingzhong, Gu Siyuan, Lin Xuhong, Sun Jingxuan and others were all waiting here, not only helping with military preparations and logistics, but also witnessing Lin Fu's formation process.
At least at the moment, it seemed that the civilian braves Lin Fu brought from Xisha Island and the civilian braves recruited from the river mouth were usable. It was also feasible to break up the civilian braves recruited by the refugees on the north bank, mix them, and pack them up to go north.
Apart from Lin Fu, probably no one else can take on such a heavy and arduous task. However, Zhao Qinmin and Gu Siyuan also saw that if the Fifth Battalion of the Zuo Army returned from the north and became an elite division, Lin Fu would probably be the only one.