After receiving Lin Fu's order, Zhao Qingshan led the fourth battalion of the left army to advance about twenty miles along the Yufu River and met Lin Fu at Sanyu Village.
Sanyu Village, named after the three hundred-year-old elm trees at the head of the village, is 13 or 14 miles away from the Xikou City Gate of Jinan. Zhuangzi was plundered by a group of officers and soldiers who had withdrawn from Pingyuan Prefecture three days ago.
At dusk, Lin Fu rushed to Sanyu Village surrounded by riders. The villagers looked at them and regarded them as bandits and wolves. Some of them fled to the village with their families in the cold dusk. They closed the doors and hid in their houses.
I dare not poke my head inside.
Lin Fu ordered his cavalry not to enter Zhuangzi and disturb the villagers, so they all dismounted and camped outside Zhuangzi with him.
The soil by the river was frozen solid. We had 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 Fourth Battalion of the Left Army to arrive,
Come, first take the tent cloth and build a curtain wall along the periphery of the forest to block the biting cold wind blowing from the north. Then make a fire and boil hot water to soak the ice and soil, and then set up a simple camp before midnight.
Lin Fu purchased soldiers and armor semi-openly here. Not only did Lin Mengde secretly contact the soldiers and military attachés who had been recruited to the Shandong Admiral's Mansion, but he also sent several teams of troops to guard the entrance to Jinan from the north, and directly headed towards the people who were fleeing to Jinan.
Stragglers acquire soldiers and armor.
For those Yannan Zhenjun who had defeated the Donglu cavalry, they felt much safer when they rushed to Jinan City and saw a large number of troops gathered here. After the establishment was scattered, they were already reduced to defeated soldiers, so they were not afraid.
In order to investigate the responsibility for the loss of the soldier's armor, the most important thing at the moment is to exchange the soldier's armor for some money, and spend a few days in the city's restaurants and prostitutes, and even if he dies, he can get back some of the originals. Who still remembers the guardians?
The country, the responsibility to protect the home and the people?
These stragglers came here without caring about how much money a good sword or a good piece of armor could exchange for. They fled in a hurry, and all they needed was money. Even if they robbed homes and homes, they had only traveled to rural areas, so how much money could they have robbed?
money?
Soldiers and armor are a burden on the body. Is it possible that with a good sword and a good piece of armor, one would dare to turn around and fight with the Donglu cavalry? Silver is an excellent thing. It can be used to eat wine and play with girls. When the Donglu retreats
Go out and return to the Yannan military camp. Are you still worried about not having any replacement soldiers?
Often a piece of high-quality armor can be purchased for only seven or eight taels of silver; a fine steel sword can be exchanged for a grain of silver, which is already very generous; a walking bow and a crossbow can be exchanged for a bag of copper coins.
, foreign horses can only be sold as ordinary farm horses; iron clustered arrows are even cheaper than two or three copper coins a feather, even if the iron arrowheads are sold as iron blocks, the price is more than this...
Lin Fu successively transferred all five battalions of Jiangdong Qin Wang's left army to the vicinity of Sanyu Village. In six or seven days, he collected more than 1,400 pieces of armor of various types from Sanyu Village and the entrance to Jinan from 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, dozens of fine steel swords, daggers, halberds, and axes and hammers.
There are hundreds of items, including nearly 2,000 spears and spears, more than 300 military horses, more than 600 camels and horses, and seven three-bow crossbows mounted on wheelbarrow chariots...
Lin Fu didn't know whether to feel happy or sad about such a result.
Fortunately, he spent about 40,000 taels of silver on these ordnances in the past few days, but even if this batch of sophisticated ordnance were placed in Jiangning, which was more well-armed, it would still be worth 200,000 to 300,000 taels of silver.
The Fifth Battalion of the Zuo Army was a recruitment of soldiers by the people. Under normal circumstances, Lin Fu would rack his brains and use every means. No matter how much he spent, he could not find a way to obtain so many high-quality weapons.
Sadly, the imperial court spends hundreds of thousands of taels of food and salary on the officers and soldiers of the towns in the three prefectures of Yannan every year. Every piece of armor, every spear and spear has so much people's fat and oil condensed on it. At the end of the day,
But he gave it to these officers and soldiers in exchange for a few taels of silver to buy wine and prostitutes.
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Yue Lengqiu and Lu Jingyan had different opinions on whether to leave or stay, and the conflict intensified to the point where they openly stared and slapped the table. Yue Lengqiu was seizing the time to win over the military attachés to follow him. After all, he was a dignified second-rank governor, and Lu Jingyan
Not even the admiral. Under Yue Lengqiu's hard work, many generals became wavering.
Song Bo knew that if the trouble continued, King Qin's troops from the East would probably split into two groups. The Donglu outpost cavalry had already crossed the Yellow River and entered the territory of Jinan Prefecture. The increasingly obvious trend showed that the main force of the Donglu cavalry would go south to Shandong; Yue Lengqiu would not
There is no excuse to leave.
The Shandong County Sheriff also assembled tens of thousands of troops in important places such as Dezhou, Linqing, and Jinan, hoping to strengthen the city. The number of soldiers and horses of King Qin's division staying in Shandong exceeded 50,000, but the imperial edict was delayed.
Lai. Zhu Luqinwang's divisions have no obligation to assist in guarding the local area, and Shandong local authorities have no authority to mobilize Zhuluqin Wang's divisions.
As a civil servant in the Governor's Office, Song Bo could only move westward with Yue Lengqiu, and had no right to choose to stay with Lu Jingyan. Besides, Lu Jingyan could not trust the children of the Song family to stay.
After today, it will be the twelfth lunar month.
Song Bo took a thin horse and two attendants, and took leave to come to Sanyu Village.
The cold wind was blowing, and the rivers in Jinan Prefecture were frozen tightly. The naturally dangerous Yellow River and Xiaoqing River, which were once relied upon, became easy passages for cavalry.
Although Jinan City has gathered nearly 40,000 soldiers and horses and can defend the city, Song Bo is not optimistic about the fate of Jinan City. He sat on his horse and looked at the continuous tents of the fifth battalion of Jiangdong Qin Wang's left army.
It seems that Lin Fu has pulled men and horses out of the mountains where they can defend themselves in the past few days, making it unclear what he is thinking.
Song Bo led his entourage and horses to the gate of the military camp and sent a greeting card asking to see Lin Fu. He thought to himself: He shouldn't hide away anymore today, right?
People kept pulling mules, horses and carts into the camp. Lin Fu semi-openly purchased armor from the Yannan officers and soldiers who fled to Jinan in Sanyu Village. It was almost a semi-open secret in Jinan City, but no one came forward.
Leave him alone.
Which general in charge of the army in Jinan City would spend his own money to improve the equipment of his soldiers? Most of the generals who have extra money in their hands are greedy by nature. They cherish their soldiers and do not deduct their food and wages. How can the generals have extra money in their hands? There are many local tycoons.
He also secretly purchased soldiers and armor to strengthen the fighting power of the villagers.
Only the officers and soldiers of Yannan who escaped could not help Adou, and the Shandong County Secretary 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 and 2nd Battalions of the Left Army and the Work Camp are stationed. Song Bo saw from a distance that many craftsmen in front of the Work Camp were cutting dozens of spears into short lengths, blocking them with wooden boards, and mounting them on wheelbarrows.
This kind of chariot has a weird shape. The spears fixed to the wheelbarrow are neatly arranged in two rows, one row points diagonally forward, and the other row points straight ahead. There are two swallow-tailed shields fixed side by side on the frame at the rear end of the vehicle.
superior.
Dozens of these spear-carts have been modified over there, and many soldiers are using this kind of spear-carts to practice vehicle formations in the school field. Song Bo looked at it for a while while walking, and then he figured it out: This
This kind of shield and spear chariots, especially dozens or more than a hundred chariots connected into a formation, can effectively prevent the impact of the Donglu cavalry who use bows and arrows and straight-ridge knives as their main combat weapons in the wild.
On the flat plain terrain north of Jinan, two soldiers push a shield and spear cart, and dozens of carts are connected, which can even suppress the cavalry formation.
Once the two vehicles are combined, they become a two-wheeled vehicle. You can mount the horse and drag it on the flat plains north of Jinan. There is still a little space at the back of the vehicle for placing food and grass or for seating people.
Are the Jiangdong soldiers preparing for a battle with the Donglu cavalry in the wild? Song Bo was secretly surprised. It was hard to imagine that Lin Fu, a temporarily recruited army, had the courage to fight against the Donglu cavalry in the wild.
However, seeing the large-scale construction of this kind of shield and spear vehicles here, Song Bo thought that Lin Fu had purchased a lot of armor in the past few days.
A cart is almost filled with eighteen or nineteen short spears and two large shields. Even if one hundred carts are built, in addition to the wheelbarrow, nearly two thousand spears and two hundred large shields will be used. There are not enough in hand.
Ordnance is really not such a luxury.
Usually when defending a city, dozens of them will be built. When the city gate is broken down, it can be used to block the gate to prevent enemy attacks.
Song Bo thought to himself: Lin Fu took the wheelbarrow and transformed it into a spear cart on a large scale. It should not be used to guard the city gate.
The personal guards sent by Lin Fu to bring Song Bo in didn't mind that Song Bo was looking around in the camp, watching him walking around and not urging him. They obviously had Lin Fu's instructions.
In the open space near the river in the camp, more than a hundred soldiers were practicing shooting with their crossbows. On the other side of the Yufu River, which was less than a hundred steps wide, there were many target stacks erected, filled with featherless arrows.
Compared with the walking bow, the crossbow is easy to operate and has much greater shooting stability. Although the shooting speed is slow, it is powerful and penetrating. It is also more suitable for new soldiers to master and use it after a short period of training.
Walking diagonally across nearly half of the camp, he walked to Lin Fu's main tent. Before opening the curtain, Song Bo couldn't help but look back at the neatly trained soldiers in the camp, and was secretly shocked: This is really all recruitment.
New graduates less than two months old?
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Of course, the 3,000 soldiers of the Fifth Battalion of the Left Army were not all new recruits who had only been recruited for two months.
In addition to the basic military training for Hekou Minyong and Xisha Island Minyong for half a month and one month before being recruited into the army, the most important thing is that Lin Fu and the generals of the Zuo Army have extremely high prestige in the minds of these Minyong.
For generals and military attachés to cultivate such a high prestige among their soldiers, it cannot be achieved through a short period of time or strict military discipline. During training, whether the soldiers are cooperative or not, and whether they are active or not, has a great impact on the training results.
; Fighting against the enemy is more directly related to the internal cohesion of an army.
After the Battle of Hekou, Lin Fu left the 20 or 30 military guards injured in the Battle of Hekou at Hekou to take charge of training civilian bravery, as well as more than a dozen veterans of Lin's hometown brave soldiers who had enlisted with Zhao Qingshan.
They are all the backbone members of Hekou Recruitment.
Lin Fu successively left nearly fifty injured military guards on Xisha Island, some of whom were incorporated into rural camps, and more than twenty who were responsible for the training of civilian warriors were also incorporated into the army this time.
In addition, Lin Fu also mobilized more than a hundred elite combat forces from Changsha Island and organized them into the fifth battalion of the Left Army.
There are Hekou Minyong and Xisha Island Minyong as the main force, with 1,670 elite veterans filling in as the backbone, and there is also a month and a half of marching training to run in; training and improvement of combat experience, there are no conditions and not enough
It was difficult to make up for the time, but Lin Fu tried every means to improve the equipment of the Fifth Battalion of the Left Army, almost reaching the level of the main force of the town army.
Although the Fifth Battalion of the Zuo Army is still a long way from being a strong force in the world, it is by no means prone to collapse at the first touch and can be bullied by weak soldiers at will.
Lin Fu was in the camp with Cao Ziang and Wu Qi looking at the topographic map of Heji. When he saw the guards bringing Song Bo in, he put down the charcoal in his hand and said with a smile: "I still plan to find time to say goodbye to Brother Song.
Unexpectedly, Brother Song came here first. What's wrong, Commander Yue also made the decision to move?"
"Commander Yue hasn't made the final decision yet, but it will be soon." Song Bo knew that Lin Fu was also aware of the feud between the generals of Eastern Fujian, but there was no need to go into too much detail. He just asked, "Master Lin, is he going to move his army?"
Where to go?”
"Let's go north to Yannan!" Lin Fu spread his fingers and pressed on the map, right in the Yannan area where the main force of the Donglu was gathering.
"..." Song Bo looked at Lin Fu blankly. Who would have thought that Lin Fu would make such a decision? He would not stay in Jinan to assist the defense, nor would he avoid the war and go to Jinzhong, but he would go directly to the three mansions of Yannan.