The discussions in the Admiral's Mansion cannot be considered pleasant, as everyone has their own calculations in mind.
Yue Lengqiu made up his mind to move westward as soon as possible to avoid the main force of Donglu cavalry, but he only had the name of governor, and his generals formed a group to resist him, making it impossible for him to control King Qin's division of Dongmin Qin as he commanded.
Yue Lengqiu tried to get Lin Fu to lead the fifth battalion of Jiangdong Qin's left army to move westward with him, in order to weaken the internal resistance to him within Dongmin Qin's division; Lin Fu just used Jiangdong's commander Cheng Yuqian as an excuse to push back.
Excuse me, I don’t know whether to stay or leave. Although they share the same origin with the Chu Party, they should support each other, but Lin Fu cannot be controlled by Yue Lengqiu in his actions.
As the leader of the group of generals in the King Qin Division of Eastern Fujian, Lu Jingyan was promoted to his current high position by virtue of his military exploits. His bravery has not diminished, and his determination is still there. He wants to fight against the invading Donglu cavalry in the Shandong Province to establish meritorious service, but he also
Unable to get rid of Yue Lengqiu's restraint.
Lin Fu wanted to make friends with Lu Jingyan. He thought that if they wanted to stay together in Jinan Mansion, they would have to support each other. During the luncheon held at the Admiral's Mansion, he also deliberately tried to please him. However, in the eyes of outsiders, Lin Fu was Chu.
As a member of the party and a backbone of the Chu party in charging traps, how could Lu Jingyan, as an old subordinate of Li Zhuo, have a good view of Lin Fu?
Lin Fu was also depressed. In front of Yue Lengqiu, he couldn't do many things too obviously.
The deputy general of the Qinwang Division in Liangzhejiang Province had an ambiguous attitude. He made a fuss and refused to welcome him. He obviously felt that the offer of 10,000 taels of condolence silver was not enough to make him lead thousands of elite soldiers from Liangzhejiang Province to stay and work for Shandong. In
In Lin Fu's opinion, such a general cannot be trusted at critical moments.
After coming out of the Shandong Admiral's Office, Lin Fu had something on his mind. Seeing that it was still early, he was not in a hurry to leave the city and return to the Jing'er Lake camp, so he took seven or eight guards and wandered around the city.
Jinan City is not big, only 600 steps square, and it occupies one-third of the area of Daming Lake where various springs gather. Lin Fu walked along the stone street on the south bank of Daming Lake. The lake water was frozen, and the willow leaves were all frozen.
Withered and clean, only sparse branches hang down, and the scenery is depressing.
Lin Fu walked to a Taoist temple in Xicheng and met someone sent by Lin Mengde to look for him.
Lin Fu rushed to the market in the east of the city. Lin Mengde came out of the market and took him to a cart with mules and horses on the street. He opened a corner of the oilcloth and said, "Look..."
What caught his eyes were two pairs of scale armors, which were of good quality. Lin Fu said happily: "Can such a good thing be bought in the city?" He lifted up the paintcloth covering the car. In addition to the two pairs of scale armors, there were also
There were more than a dozen pairs of high-quality armor, Dao Dao, Mo Dao with thirty or forty handles, and more than a dozen Zhang Zhang crossbows. I asked Lin Mengde, "Did you buy them all here?"
"The key is the price. How much money do you think these two pairs of scale armor cost?" Lin Mengde hurriedly covered the oil cloth, as if he was afraid that his wealth would be exposed.
"How much silver?" Lin Fu asked.
"This number..." Lin Mengde took the guesswork and raised three fingers.
"Three hundred taels of silver?" Lin Fu asked.
Three hundred taels of silver can be converted into 360,000 copper coins. In Jiangning, you can buy 60,000 to 70,000 jins of good rice. A family of four can eat as much as they want for more than 20 years. But to buy two pairs of scale armor of such good quality,
Lin Fu didn't think it was expensive at all.
Although the price of such scale armor is slightly cheaper in Jiangning, at such a critical moment, a pair of scale armor with excellent protection and even lighter weight than the armor can be worn by a warrior with extraordinary courage and fearlessness.
It is not afraid of the slashing and stabbing of ordinary swords and guns, but also the short-range shooting of arrows. Coupled with the sharp modao or the large sword with high destructive power, the combat effectiveness of the fifteen-soldier team with good combat coordination can be immediately improved to a higher level.
Lin Fu used the new formation method to train elite soldiers, using the armor-clad Mo Dao Shou as the core of the five soldiers. However, good armor was hard to find. Even Jiyun Wuwei, who had only two hundred people, only had six or seventy sets of high-quality armor.
, wanting to put on scale armor for every Mo Dao hand is just an extravagant wish.
Lin Mengde laughed like a profiteer, sneakily approached Lin Fu's ear, and whispered: "These two sets of armor cost thirty taels of silver..."
"..." Lin Fu stared at Lin Mengde in disbelief for a while and asked, "You didn't lie to me?"
"Can I lie to you?" Lin Mengde asked, "Not only these two sets of scale armor, but also the armor set costs ten taels of silver, and the twenty Mo knives cost only thirty taels of silver in total..."
"That's true; but there are only seven or eight people around you, and you can't use force to buy or sell..." Lin Fu smiled, but the smile only lasted for a few breaths on his face, and in the blink of an eye, the smile solidified on his face.
:Except for selling it privately to military attachés and soldiers, how could Lin Mengde possibly buy such fine armor on the market at such a cheap price?
"Have you thought of it?" Lin Mengde saw Lin Fu's expression change and knew that he had thought through the details.
"Yeah!" Lin Fu nodded heavily and said, "There's nothing difficult to guess. It's just that I was a little overjoyed when I first saw such a good thing..."
"The other party didn't say their identity. Judging from their military uniforms, they should be the suppressing troops who withdrawn from the three mansions of Yannan..." Lin Mengde said.
The Donglu troops pointed directly at Yannan. After the defenders of the three Yannan prefectures were defeated, a large number of defeated generals withdrew into Shandong. Dezhou could not give them a sense of security, so they retreated to Jinan Prefecture on a large scale. The Shandong Admiral's Office had
He stepped forward to gather these remaining defeated generals, increasing the size of Jinan's garrison to more than 20,000 people.
Lin Fu didn't think that these defeated soldiers who had gathered together would have much fighting power in a short time, but he also didn't expect that they would be so corrupted that the military attachés and soldiers would openly take their armor to the market for sale.
The armor and scale armor are only worn by military attachés above the rank of captain, and the sword and sword are only worn by a few elite combatants in the army.
Lin Mengde saw that Lin Fu frowned and remained silent for a long time, and asked in a low voice: "The other party said that there is still a batch of good goods, a relatively large quantity, and a lot of horses that can be resold outside the city. Should we take over?"
"Take it, why don't you take it?" Lin Fu said fiercely, "If these soldiers are left in their hands, how can we expect them to use them to kill the enemy?" He signed the troop deployment order with his car and handed it to his bodyguards.
, said, "You go to Caozhuang and ask Zhao Qingshan to transfer the fourth battalion to the southwest of Jinan City to be on standby, and to transfer 20,000 taels of silver as a reserve to accompany the army; to have Zhou Pu and Ning Zechen lead the second and fifth battalions to Caozhuang and be on standby."
, asked Cao Zi'ang to set up the first battalion at Jing'er Lake, and prepare the second battalion to pull out, and asked Wu Qi to send scouts to the northeast of Jinan Prefecture along the Yellow River to the east for reconnaissance..."
"To prevent the opponent from taking advantage of others, all we need is Zhao Qingshan to lead the fourth battalion to stand by..." Lin Mengde said in confusion, not understanding that Lin Fu suddenly mobilized all five battalions of the Zuo Army.
"How can you live in Jinan Mansion like this for a long time?" Lin Fu asked heartbrokenly.
Lin Fu hated those generals and officials who were fed by the state and defeated without a fight. He felt sad that millions of people were trampled by the Donglu cavalry, but he was not an idealist. He had his bottom line in life, but he did not
You can talk about morality in vain, but if you want to survive, you must first be pragmatic.
When the main force of the Donglu came, everyone in Jinan had their own thoughts, and the soldiers below were corrupt. He would not bury the lives of thousands of soldiers who followed him here in vain because of the unbearable feeling in his heart.
Lin Mengde didn't say much else, and said: "In this case, I will contact them and try to complete the deal at night, so as to avoid long nights and dreams..."
Lin Fu nodded and said: "As long as it is a good soldier, a good weapon, a good armor and a good horse, the price may be more relaxed. Money is dead in your pocket. Let the wind go. We will set up a market on the bank of the Yufu River in the southwest of the city.
Armor, scale armor, foot bows, strong crossbows, and horses, we can collect as many as we want, even if all fifty thousand taels of silver are spent..." Let Lin Mengde take seven or eight people to follow those who fled to Jinan Prefecture.
The remaining defeated generals came into contact. Although buying a large amount of soldiers and armor from them was suspected of undermining Jinan, if the soldiers and armor were left in their hands, they could not be expected to contribute to the defense of Jinan! Thinking of this, Lin Fu felt guilty
The anxiety was reduced a lot.
When the Fifth Battalion of the Zuo Army came out from Jiangning, most of the three thousand soldiers were new soldiers. There were only more than 400 pieces of armor of various types gathered here and there. The weapons were all simple straight-spine knives, spears and spears. Ordinary mules and horses were easier to handle and better.
The horses are the two hundred foreign horses that Lin Mengde brought from Texas this time.
Along the way, in addition to training and training his troops in the strongholds of bad bandits he encountered along the way, the most important thing Lin Fu had to do was to do everything possible to improve the armament of his soldiers.
Jiangning was the southern capital of the empire. Jiangning's Ministry of Industry and other government offices had the second largest armor manufacturing workshop in the country, as well as a specialized large-scale arsenal. High-quality armor was quite easy to obtain. Where could a large number of high-quality armor be collected locally?
Lin Fu did not expect that he would encounter an opportunity to comprehensively improve his military equipment in Jinan, but the thought of such an opportunity was chilling.
After Lin Mengde left, Lin Fu also asked his cavalry to escort the two carts of supplies that Lin Mengde had collected earlier out of the city.
When going out of the west gate, I met Song Bo, the secretary in front of Yue Lengqiu's tent. Song Bo greeted him eagerly: "Master Lin has not left the city yet, can you allow me to be a little boy in the city at night?"
"I'm afraid it's inconvenient. The city gate is going to be closed. I'll invite Brother Song to have a drink with me in the future." Lin Fu said that they were guest troops and it would not be so convenient to enter and exit Jinan City at night. Besides, he had to rush out of the city.
By setting up a black market on the banks of the Yufu River to purchase high-quality armor from the defeated generals who had retreated to Jinan Prefecture, how could they possibly have the thought to deal with Song Bo?
Song Bo saw Lin Fu walking in a hurry, with more than a hundred riders escorting two carts out of the city gate. He frowned slightly and ordered his followers: "It's a little weird. Take two of you to follow them and don't conflict with them."
..." Lin Fu rose to fame in Jiangdong, but most of it was gained by trampling on the She family. Not only did the She family not know how to do it, they also tried their best to conceal the news of the bloody battle in Jiyang from Eastern Fujian. Lin Fu was still a nobody in the eyes of the Eastern Fujian people.
.But for the Song family, even if Song Jia didn't mention it repeatedly in private letters, Lin Fu, who killed Du Rong and brought She Feixiong to a halt in Jiyang City, was enough to attract the attention of the Song family.
Since they could meet him in Jinan Mansion, Song Bo naturally refused to let go of the opportunity of direct contact.