Returning to Jing'er Lake from Caozhuang, the headquarters of the Fifth Battalion of the Left Army, the sky became clearer. In the narrow valley, Lin Fu led more than 60 horsemen to slow down a little, and the sound of horse hooves echoed in the valley.
This is the northern foot of Mount Tai. To the east, the tip of Cuiwei Peak is exposed in the morning mist. It is Yufu Mountain at the northern foot of Mount Tai. Jing'er Lake receives water from Jinxiang River, Yuyang River and other streams. In this section to the west of Yufu Mountain
The water is turbulent and not frozen; to the west of Jing'er Lake is Wohu Mountain. Yufu Mountain and Wohu Mountain are the two most steep peaks at the northern foot of Qinshan Mountain, just like the North Gate Pillar guarding the northern foot of Mount Tai. Jing'er Lake Valley Road
It is an important passage into the northern foot of Mount Tai within a radius of ten miles. The most important one is from the Jing'er Lake Valley Road to the southwest, which can detour back to Tai'an Prefecture at the southern foot of Mount Tai. Going down from Jing'er Lake is the Yufu River.
It flows into the Yellow River at Gudianzikou, more than sixty miles away.
Further up, the narrow road was sandwiched between the lake cliffs. The road was very dangerous. Lin Mengde and others were not good at riding horses. It was not fun to fall into the biting lake water in this extremely cold weather. Lin Fu asked everyone to dismount.
The guards led away the horses of Lin Fu, Cao Zi'ang, Lin Mengde, Wu Qi, Zhou Pu and others, and Lin Fu and others walked along the lake.
"With the main force of Donglu going south, can Jinan City be defended?" Lin Mengde asked.
Lin Fu frowned, looking at the white mist rising from the cold blue lake, he shook his head and said, "Not so optimistic."
When Lin Fu and others set out from Jiangning, they planned to pass through Pingyuan Prefecture and enter the Yannan area, and send people to Dezhou, Pingyuan Prefecture, to prepare food and stockpile military supplies. Unexpectedly, the situation in Gyeonggi and Yannan Prefecture would deteriorate so quickly. Lin Fu
Forced to change the original plan, the Fifth Battalion of the Zuo Army stopped in the southwest of Jinan Prefecture and stopped moving forward. Of course, Lin Mengde and other men who entered Texas to hoard supplies on behalf of Jiangdong Qinwang Division's Zuo Army had to withdraw together.
In addition to the people sent by the Lin family, there were forty or fifty members of the Xihe Society who entered Dezhou earlier, and they also withdrew this time.
When withdrawing from Dezhou, the waterway from Linqing to Dezhou was already heavily ice-blocked. Naturally, the more than a dozen waterships of the Xihehui had to be abandoned. Lin Fu subsidized the Xihehui from military funds.
The fifth battalion of Jiangdong Qin Wang Division's Zuo Army made such a great contribution to the northbound logistics. We can't let the Xihe Society collapse and end up losing more than ten ships to go in.
The three prefectures of Yannan were destroyed by the Donglu cavalry, and a large number of refugees poured into Dezhou where a large army was stationed. In addition, the waterway was blocked by river ice, causing the price of goods in Dezhou to soar in half a month, and the price of milled rice rose to 20 pounds per pound.
The remaining money is three or four times more expensive than usual, and the medicinal materials have soared ten times more.
When Lin Mengde withdrew from Dezhou, except for more than 200 foreign horses and some scarce medicinal materials, all the other materials he had stockpiled were sold in Dezhou. In addition to making up for the losses of more than ten watercrafts of the Xihehui, he actually also
There was a surplus of nearly ten thousand taels of silver - war money was indeed easy to make.
The reason why Lin Mengde cares about the gains and losses of Jinan City is not for other reasons. When he set out from Jiangning, in addition to King Qin's allocation, he also brought an additional 30,000 taels of silver from Jiangning. Now he still has nearly 50,000 taels of silver in his hand.
.If Jinan City can be defended, he now plans to take the money and fly the banner of Jiangdong Qinwang Division’s Left Army to enter Jinan City to stock up on supplies.
When the Donglu cavalry enters Shandong on a large scale, prices in Jinan City may soar several times or even dozens of times...
Lin Mengde saw that Lin Fu was not optimistic about the situation in Jinan, so he gave up the idea. Only when the money can be transported away can it be considered profitable, otherwise everything will be in vain. Besides, the flag of King Qin of Jiangdong may not be effective in Jinan City. He saw that
Lin Fu frowned and didn't ask any questions. Now that the Governor of Eastern Fujian, Yue Lengqiu, had arrived in Jinan, he had to wait until he met Yue Lengqiu before making any plans for the next step.
Lin Mengde was not very good at military affairs, but he knew that Jinan was the capital of Shandong. In addition to the Shandong County Secretary, King Lu's royal vassal was also stationed in Jinan. If the Donglu attacked Jinan, they would have to attack Jinan with the main force. Jing'er Lake is far away
Jinan City is less than 40 miles southwest of the city, so it is naturally difficult to survive alone.
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Going around the narrow road on the west bank of Jing'er Lake, there is a village standing on the hillside of Wohu Mountain, where Lin Fu set up his main camp.
The original owner of Zuoguan'er Village was named Zuo. His ancestor was a Yuanwailang who once served in the household department. He was half a local tycoon and half a strong thief. The locals passed through the Jing'er Lake Valley Road. They set up cards to draw gold. If you don't know,
When customers from out of town passed through this place, and their wealth was revealed, they would directly cut across the street and rob.
When Lin Fu first arrived in Jinan Prefecture, he sent an outpost to pretend to be a caravan passing through the Jing'er Lake Valley Road. He was blackmailed into taking half of the goods as road tax. There was a dispute. The outpost injured four people and detained four others. Lin Fu
Fu then directly sent troops to destroy Zuoguan'er village as a bandit den. He killed thirty or forty people, forcibly dismissed more than two hundred villagers, kidnapped dozens of Zuo family members and sent them to Jinan Prefecture for prosecution. Lin Fu directly occupied the village.
Be the main camp.
The Zuo family still has some influence in Jinan Prefecture, but Lin Fu led the Zuo army of King Jiangdong Qin's Division and stationed themselves along the Yufu River in the southwest mountains of Jinan Prefecture. Even if Jinan Prefecture did not want to really punish the Zuo family's crimes, it did not dare to punish the Zuo family's people.
He was released, and he didn't even dare to stand up for the Zuo family and hold Jiang Dongqin Wang Shi Zuo Jun accountable for his crimes.
Speaking of which, the fifth battalion of Jiangdong King Qin Division’s Left Army led by Lin Fu was already outstanding in military discipline among the Qin King Divisions passing through the border. Other Qin Wang Divisions crossing the border used chicken feathers as command arrows to openly blackmail the place, and some even
What's more, raping and plundering is not much better than the Donglu cavalry crossing the border.
Lin Fu strictly enforced military discipline and did not offend civilians or gentry along the way. Although he took four or five evil tyrants and bandit villages with a lot of bad records to train his troops, apart from ordnance, he did not gain anything from attacking the tyrants and bandit villages.
Most of the materials seized are used to relieve poor people nearby.
Lin Mengde walked into Zuoguan'er Village, stood at the entrance of the village, looked inside, and said with a smile: "When I came here, I heard Zhao Qingshan say that this is just an ordinary mountain fortress. I didn't expect that in just ten days, you will almost transform this place."
It has been completely transformed into a military stronghold. The road to Jing'er Lake is dangerous, and the Donglu cavalry may not be able to attack it..."
"Right now, we have a great advantage in terrain, but if the weather gets colder, Jing'er Lake will freeze over; or we can send people to detour upstream to intercept the water and slow down the water flow. Such weather can also make Jing'er Lake freeze solid.
, then there won’t be much advantage on the terrain,” Lin Fu said, “In order to be invincible, you have to think about everything first, and you can’t expect the enemy to think of it unexpectedly.”
Lin Mengde touched his short beard and said: "I really didn't take this into consideration..." He looked at the village wall. 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 Zuo Army are all new soldiers. Although they have gained some appearance after a month and a half of running in, they are far from being able to fight with the Donglu cavalry in the field. The officers and soldiers fighting against the Donglu cavalry had a stalemate for a while during the Jingbei Marquis period.
There are victories and defeats for each other. In the past ten years, the officers and soldiers have occasionally had small victories, while the defeats have been major defeats.
Lin Mengde snorted with clear water. The weather was really unbearable. His nose was red from the cold. He followed Lin Fu and continued walking inside. He saw the figures of soldiers practicing in the thin morning mist behind the stockade.
"This village is still too small to accommodate too many people. To practice, most of the people walked a little further up the mountain. There is a slightly larger valley where the third battalion is stationed. In addition, Ning Zechen led the third battalion.
The fifth battalion is stationed on the southeast slope of Yufu Mountain, and here are the first and second battalions..." Lin Fu and Lin Mengde introduced the situation of the Zuo Army's garrison.
Sun Jingxuan's second son, Sun Wenbing, led forty or fifty Xihe congregation members to carry some medicinal materials into the village. After they abandoned the ship and landed, they planned to take a road back to Jiangning from Jinan Prefecture.
Lin Fu formally established a labor camp, which was specifically responsible for the construction of marching projects and logistics management of baggage. When Lin Mengde came back, Lin Fu put him in direct charge of this area.
In this way, even if the Xihe congregation all leaves, the logistics and supplies of the Fifth Battalion of the Left Army will not have much impact.
After all, they will face the Donglu cavalry directly, and casualties are inevitable. Xihehui has no obligation to follow the army and serve the king.
Lin Fu asked the guards to lead Sun Wenbing and the Xihe congregation to the barracks to rest. He held Lin Mengde while Wu Qi introduced them to the recent situation of the Fifth Battalion of the Left Army.
After Lin Mengde passed through Suyu, he left the main force and rushed directly to Dezhou. Wu Qi went deep into the Gyeonggi area to collect intelligence; and after leaving Suyu and entering Shandong, Lin Fu carried out a major reorganization of the Fifth Battalion of the Zuo Army.
They still don't know the latest situation of the Fifth Battalion of the Left Army.
In addition to recruiting people along the way to join the Fifth Battalion of the Zuo Army, and drawing out soldiers with relatively weak craftsmanship skills and relatively weak combat qualities from the Fifth Battalion of the Zuo Army to form a supply camp, Lin Fu also changed the organization of the Fifth Battalion of the Zuo Army.
Very big.
The organization of the army at that time was relatively simple. Usually, fifteen soldiers formed a small team, led by the flag leader. Four small teams formed a capital team, led by the captain of the capital soldiers. Ten capital teams formed a battalion, led by the battalion commander.
A town consists of ten battalions or twenty or thirty battalions. The town is led by a chief general and assisted by deputy generals. Usually, one deputy general in a town is not enough, so the title "which general in a certain town" appears, and each general is divided into
Restrict several battalions of soldiers and horses.
From the perspective of Lin Fu's later generations, the current military establishment mainly restricted the power of generals, but it also resulted in a reduction in the efficiency of the command system.
The fifth battalion of the Zuo Army was a temporary recruitment, and they were all new soldiers. Lin Fu directly carried out military reform without anyone caring about him, and there was no internal resistance at all.
For the sake of convenience, Lin Fu did not change the organization of the sentry team and the capital team. He only divided five soldiers into a combat group under the small team. Daily drills, camping, and marching all used the combat team as the basic unit.
It is difficult for a squad of fifteen soldiers to maintain a complete formation when facing the attack of Donglu cavalry. In order to prevent the formation from quickly collapsing after being dispersed by the enemy cavalry, it is particularly important to subdivide the squad into three combat groups.
Important. With the combat team as the basic combat unit, combat resilience and sustainability will be improved. How much the actual improvement can be has yet to be tested in actual combat.
In addition, Lin Fu set up a sentry team with 180 soldiers from the three capital teams on top of the capital team of 60 soldiers, with a new sentry captain as the commander.
For a deputy general who usually commands several battalions, it would be very cumbersome to directly manage dozens of troops. It would even be impossible to get familiar with the temperament and temperament of his commanders in three to five months. With the battalion as the basis
Basic defense and unit mobilization are not flexible enough. In addition, without enough middle and low-level military attachés, the stability of the military base will be poor.
Lin Fu directly added a sentry unit equivalent to the company of later generations, and used the third sentry team (Jiudu team) as one battalion. The extra soldiers and horses of the first capital team were directly dispersed, and soldiers with poor combat qualities were organized into specialized
The sentinels are equipped with cooks, grooms, ambulance soldiers and messengers. Each battalion also has a sentinel officer who selects thirty elites who are good at riding to be responsible for scouting and reconnaissance.
In this way, each battalion still maintains a strength of 600 soldiers.
In addition, Lin Fu also set up the post of chief sentry officer to take charge of the five battalions of left army scouts and deliver messages. Naturally, the returning chief sentry officer was Wu Qi.
Lin Fu not only subdivided the organizational levels, but also subdivided the military units in the general as much as possible. It seemed that the management had become more complicated. In fact, after everything was regulated, the commanding military attache could be freed from the tedious daily affairs and be more focused.
For war, the subdivision of arms can also make training or training of special arms more targeted. After all, marching and fighting involve many specialized skills. It is easy for ordinary people to become specialists, but it is extremely difficult to become generalists, and the efficiency will be great.
discount.
Lin Fu made such large-scale changes to the Fifth Battalion of the Left Army. Many of them were directly based on the company formation and three-three system experience of later generations. Zhou Pu, Wu Qi, Ao Canghai and others were very unfamiliar with these. Because of Lin Fu's
The new formation method of five soldiers has been very successful in the training of small groups of elite combat forces such as Jiyun Military Guards and Prison Island Military Soldiers, so they can easily accept Lin Fu's changes to the fifth battalion of the Left Army at this time.
Lin Mengde brought back more than 200 foreign horses from Texas this time, and Lin Fu would give them to the scouts of each battalion first. They were about to face the Donglu cavalry. The fifth battalion of the left army was mainly infantry, and they were originally moving at the same speed as
The mobility is poor. If the scout strength is weak, it will be very passive.
The dozens of extra horses were used to strengthen the cavalry of the first battalion.
In one day, Lin Fu took Lin Mengde and Wu Qi to familiarize themselves with the garrison of the Fifth Battalion of the Left Army, the adjusted military attachés and the training situation. On November 27, they entered Jinan City to meet with one of the core figures of the Chu Party.
Yue Lengqiu, the governor of Eastern Fujian.
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