(The cold is getting worse, I look pitiful and ask for a red ticket)
Ning Zechen and Sun Shangwang had left beforehand. Cao Ziang asked Lin Fu: "Li Zhuo sent Gao Zongting here, and he probably didn't just come to inquire about Pinglu Ce's plans. Although he didn't make it clear, the meaning is still obvious."
"Do you also think that with the arrangements for Jinhai Road, Li Zhuo puts his hope in us?" Lin Fu asked.
"..." Cao Zi'ang nodded, "The water divisions of the three towns of Dengzhou, Ninghai, and Jiangning may be successful in water battles, but they are disadvantageous in landing infantry battles. Li Zhuo can't help but see it. With the idea of pinging the prisoners in three routes, and with
Jizhen is the main force, and Jinhai and Dengzhou are the partial divisions. However, these two partial divisions have to attack across the sea. They need the boat division to cross and land on foot to fight. The cooperation between the boat division and the infantry cavalry is not so easy to train.
.Based on the current situation of the imperial court and based on Dengzhou Shuiying, if you send a number of capable ministers and generals, you can barely get a side force in one or two years. It is difficult for Jinhai to create an elite side force out of thin air..."
"In the eyes of outsiders, Li Zhuo pinned his hopes on the remnants of Jinzhong's troops in Jinhai. At worst, he will just send a boat division to cross the sea." Lin Fu said.
"That's only in the eyes of outsiders." Cao Ziang was unambiguous.
Lin Fu sighed lightly. It was a difficult problem for large ships to land near the coast. The draft of a five-thousand-stone sea-going ship was nearly eight feet deep in half a load. There was no harbor or natural deep-water cliffs with deep draft and suitable height for berthing.
If it was a simple task to quickly build a landing trestle at the entrance of a small river branch using nail boards, special pontoons, iron cables, and giant anchors, Lin Fu would not have the need to set up a special engineering camp for this purpose.
Xisha Island is an island made of accumulated sand, and the surrounding shores are also silt terrain. In order to transport a large amount of relief materials to Xisha Island, we tried every means and suffered a lot. Building a river port on the sand island was not a day's work.
, and finally built a small floating pier with strong wave resistance on the north bank of Guanyin Beach at no cost. The technology inside was made with money and the brains of master craftsmen.
It is obvious to all that the three main naval forces of the Dai Viet Dynasty had poor landing combat capabilities. If Li Zhuo wanted to use his boat division to cross the sea to attack the enemy's rear, he must strengthen the navy's cross-sea landing combat capabilities.
The remaining members of the Jinzhong remnant army in Jinhai were 2,400 soldiers from the fourth battalion, led by Ma Yigong, Yang Yihang, Wu Tian and others. Both Zhou Tong and Wei Zhonglong, who were lively and active, resigned from their military posts on the grounds of injury.
Willing to serve the Dai Viet Dynasty again.
After Wei Zhonglong resigned from the military post, he left Jinhai with more than a dozen of his confidants and disappeared without a trace. In Zhou Tong's words, Wei Zhonglong himself was an orphan who was expelled from his tribe and grew up wandering. He gained merit in the army and became the deputy captain of Zhenwei.
, no worries, the battle at Gaoyang also made him lose confidence in the imperial court, and he might have crawled into the Taihang Mountains to occupy the mountain and become the king. It was a pity that such a brave general left, but there was nothing he could do. Zhou Tong did not leave Jinhai.
, took off his armor, put on his coat and robe, and wore the unique local leather hat of Hejian Prefecture. He wandered around the banks of the Wushui River all day long, looking for people to buy drinks, chat and spank with nothing to do, as if he was a rich man who suddenly got rich.
With his military merit, he did not ask for promotion, but he also exchanged thousands of taels of silver, which was enough for him to squander.
The imperial court agreed that the four battalions of Jinzhong soldiers should be returned to the Tianjin-Haidu Water Transport Department for control, but they would be demoted to the rank of servicemen and auxiliary soldiers, and the generals' pay would be much lower than that of the town army. I am afraid that they will not be able to get approval from the Ministry of War for the time being.
Soldiers, armor, mules, horses, war equipment and other supplements.
Based on the concept and layout of Pinglu Ce, even without considering the resistance from Hao Zongcheng and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Jinhai Road Division was formed with Jinzhong soldiers as the core. The number of troops should reach 10,000, and the boats, ships, armor and battle equipment should be completed. There would be no six or seven.
One hundred thousand taels of silver invested, and without a year of training, it would not be able to form combat power. Taking into account the two years of funding to support the army, the Ministry of Revenue must allocate an additional one million taels of silver for the Jinhai Road Division.
In order to alleviate the crisis of grain shortage in the capital, and for such a fatal matter, the Ministry of Household Affairs only squeezed out 500,000 taels of silver for special operations. How could it be possible to allocate millions of taels of silver for the Jianjin Sea Road Division?
Ning Zechen and Sun Shangwang didn't care about the hidden information behind Ping Luce, but Cao Ziang was very clear about it, especially during Gao Zongting's trip. Although he didn't make his words clear, the meaning was still there.
"If Gao Zongting made his words clear, how would you respond to him?" Cao Ziang asked.
Lin Fu heard Cao Ziang's words and noticed the identity gap between the two. Maybe it was inevitable, but he couldn't say he felt comfortable in his heart. He said: "Gao Zongting and I have also expressed our attitudes. Li Zhuoruo went to Jizhen to train troops, and I supplied food by sea.
It can save a lot of money for military training. As for the rest..." At this point, Lin Fu sighed softly, "Let's go back to Jiangdong first. The East China Sea bandits are quite a headache. If the Yuan clan's energy is not exhausted, in two or three years
Later, Li Zhuo was still in office as the governor of Jizhen and formed a counterattack from the inside, so we came over to join the war!"
"..." Cao Ziang remained silent, looking at the clear water outside the seawall.
"Are you worried about what will happen after the 'Five Years of Peace' is lucky enough to succeed?" Lin Fu asked.
"Yeah." Cao Ziang felt that Lin Fu was very transparent about people and things, so he answered truthfully.
If the Eastern captives don't become a danger, the imperial court will naturally weaken the powerful vassal. This powerful vassal does not only refer to the She family of the Jin family, but Jiangdong Zuoying may also be a thorn in the court's eyes. Cao Zi'ang has been bitten by a snake.
For those who have lingering fears, it is not an unexpected thing to worry about this at this time.
Lin Fu smiled and said: "Please go to sea and expand the territory - what do you think?" He felt that Yuanshi's energy was exhausted, and he was just gasping for breath at this time, but if he really wanted to make Yuanshi recover, he could only
On the way out to sea, most of the families of Jiangdong Left Army generals are on Xisha Island, so it will be easy to make arrangements then.
Cao Ziang's eyes lit up and he said: "If we can return to Chongzhou by sea this time, can we 'suppress' Changshan Island by the way?"
"You can absolutely request a secret letter from the Ministry of War, saying that Donghaihu, the bandit from Changshan Island, has confessed that he has committed a serious crime and please surrender to the court, and ask the Ministry of War to allow him to surrender secretly, and secretly support our division on Changshan Island, so as to restrain the Donghai bandit from Changguo.
" Lin Fu said.
"This strategy is very good. If Li Zhuo can successfully take charge of the Ministry of War, this strategy should be feasible." Cao Zi'ang said.
With this secret letter, Lin Fu can officially accept everyone on Changshan Island as his generals and secretly deploy troops to Changshan Island without worrying that the arrangement on Changshan Island will arouse the vigilance of the She family and the Donghai bandits.
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Cao Ziang relieved many doubts in his heart and said: "I still have things to do, so I won't stop you from watching the sea here..."
Lin Fu smiled slightly, as if he was bored, but with Cao Ziang, Lin Mengde and others around, it was indeed much easier. Zhao Qingshan, Ning Zechen, Ao Canghai and others were responsible for training the soldiers, Cao Ziang, Lin Mengde, Sun Shangwang
While the others were responsible for camp affairs and canal coordination affairs, Lin Fu was much more leisurely, and actually wanted to rush back to Jiangning.
Guards were scattered on the left and right. Lin Fu was sitting on the pond stone with no manners, thinking about something. He heard some movement behind him and saw that it was the little princess Yuan Yan who was about to climb up the seawall, but his guards blocked the way.
"Master Lin, Master Lin, where am I Yuan Yan?" Yuan Yan shouted timidly under the seawall embankment. She was still young. Although she knew the difference between men and women, she felt closer to Lin Fu when she saw her. Besides, there were only two people around her.
This convenient stone step can climb up the seawall, but she can't be allowed to climb the embankment wearing a skirt.
Of course the guards recognized the little princess, but when Yuan Yan came out to play, in addition to the maids, she also brought the guards from Prince Lu's Palace with her. Naturally, the guards could not let the guards from Prince Lu's Palace with knives get close to Lin Fu.
"So it's Princess Yan..." Lin Fu looked at Yuan Yan under the embankment. The sun shone on her flawless little face, like a young cabbage in the spring field. He waved his hand and asked the guards to lead the way.
Give it to Kailai. He is a small county boy who has been sent to the doctor from the fifth rank. However, he blocks the way of the princess of Prince Lu's palace with his bodyguard. Let the official of the Metropolitan Procuratorate know that he is destined to make another domineering accusation.
Yuan Yan was polite and asked the guards to stay at the bottom of the embankment. She and her maid held up their skirts and climbed onto the seawall with their hearts pounding. Seeing Lin Fu standing up to salute, she said in a panic: "Master Lin, don't be too polite, Yuan Yan
I don’t dare to come up…”
Lin Fu smiled slightly and sat there, waiting for the little girl to leave first if she felt bored.
"Master Lin, will you go to Beijing with us?" Yuan Yan asked.
"I have an errand due to my humble position, and I cannot enter the capital unless I follow the order." Lin Fu replied.
"Really?" Yuan Yan let out a sigh of disappointment, and occasionally summoned up the courage to ask, "Yuan Yan takes the liberty of asking Master Lin again..."
"Oh, Princess Yan, please speak." Lin Fu said.
"Master Lin is on the building in Yangxin City. Are you afraid?" Yuan Yan's bright eyes stared at Lin Fu nervously, fearing that she might offend him with this stupid question.
"Princess Yan asked me if I'm afraid of death?" Lin Fu smiled. In his heart, he still regarded Yuan Yan as a careless little girl. He joked, "I'm afraid too, but seeing the soldiers bullying me like this
Princess Yan, I am so angry that I am not afraid anymore when I am angry!"
"Master Lin, can you please stop dealing with Yuan Yan?" Yuan Yan's face turned red. Lin Fu's answer made her very happy, but she still knew that Lin Fu was deceiving her as a child, so she asked; she even felt that asking
This is too much.
"You're not joking," Lin Fu was startled for a moment. Unexpectedly, the little princess came over to ask him this question very seriously. The little girl always didn't understand. Thinking of Yuan Yan's identity and the death of her parents, maybe
He would give the queen pity and stay in the palace to grow up. In terms of kinship, the current emperor and Yuan Jianhai are cousins and Yuan Yan's cousin. Lin Fu thought for a moment and said, "Standing at the gate of Yangxin City
I am not the only one who lives in Louzi. The generals and soldiers clothe the people and eat the food of the people. They have the responsibility to protect the land and eliminate violence for the people. Besides, people live in groups, including relatives, neighbors and even fellow countrymen.
, we all have parents, brothers and sisters, and our parents, brothers and sisters have been massacred and plundered by foreign soldiers, how can we not be angry? We have responsibility and anger, and even if we are afraid, we can still stand on the top of the city..."
"Ah!" Yuan Yan still felt that this was not the answer she had expected. To her, it was a bit too deep. However, Lin Fu answered so sternly that she did not continue to ask. She bowed and bowed hurriedly.
When I arrived at the seawall, it was as if I came here just to ask this question.
Lin Fu looked at Yuan Yan's leaving figure and smiled. The little girl's thoughts were really difficult to figure out.