At the beginning of June, Zhang Yubo raised more than 6,000 people from good families who had lost their land from Xusi households and handed them over to Lin Fu. Their families moved to Qingjiangpu Beitan for resettlement.
In addition to the 60,000 taels of Anjia silver given directly to the recruit Jianyong, Lin Fu also allocated another 60,000 taels of silver for the construction of dams and farmland in Beitan.
Liu Tingzhou only wanted to resettle his family near Huai'an. After these six thousand brave soldiers were trained into elite soldiers, Lin Fu could not take them back to Chongzhou.
After obtaining six thousand Jianyong, Lin Fu directly organized these people into the personal guard camp.
Taking Zhao Hu as the brigade commander, he transferred brave general Zhang Jiheng from Fengli Camp, promoted Yao Mazi, Ma Pohou, Chen Enze and others as battalion commanders, dispersed the two hundred elite soldiers from the original guard camp brought to Huai'an, and transferred them from Chongzhou
The war training school transferred more than a hundred candidate military attachés, including flag leaders, commanding generals, and sentry generals. Almost in one day, the military attache system of the tenth battalion of personal guards was completed.
Lin Fu was not in a hurry to transfer the tenth battalion of personal guards to cross the Huaihe River to assist in the defense of Shukou, and directly transferred the tenth battalion of personal guards to assist Zhang Yubo. Liang Wenzhan placed the family members of the guard camp at the north beach of Qingjiangpu.
In other places, homeless people were recruited as soldiers, either by coercing strong men into joining the army and giving them more generous money.
These are far from enough, and this is also the key factor that has historically failed to recruit refugees into the army.
The young men of Xisha Island dare to do anything and are willing to die for Lin Fu, because they know that their children will have no worries at home and will not suffer the pain of being displaced.
If they show cowardice on the battlefield, not only will they themselves be unable to hold their heads high, but their family members will also be unable to hold their heads high; it is even more impossible to become a deserter.
If you want to make the soldiers fight bravely, there is no other way. Just make them feel at ease and have no time to fight, and there is no need for others to care.
This is precisely the most important consideration for logistics and internal affairs capabilities. It cannot be done without a deep foundation.
Lin Fu was not in a hurry to train the ten battalions of personal guards, nor was he in a hurry to send them across the Huaihe River to help guard Shukou. Instead, he first used them to resettle their families, so that they could solve their worries with their own hands or with their own eyes.
, finally made them into warriors who dared to fight and obeyed orders and prohibitions.
After the Yanyan River dredging project was completed, the supervisor Ge Siyu did not return to Jiangning. Instead, he was secretly transferred to Huai'an by Lin Fu to take charge of embankment construction on the north beach of Qingjiangpu.
The terrain on the north bank of Qingjiangpu is quite complex. The difficulty in building a dike lies in choosing a dike site.
If the embankment is built too far from the water, a lot of wasteland resources will be wasted and there will not be enough grain fields; if it is too close to the water, when the water level rises in summer and autumn, the water may be too deep and it will become a dangerous embankment.
There was no reinforced concrete in the world to build a strong embankment. Under the current conditions, 20,000 to 30,000 people had to build a dike that was ten or even dozens of miles long in a short period of time. The only option was to dredge the embankment.
Of course, the mud embankment cannot be strong, so the location of the embankment must not be careless. Otherwise, if the water continues to rise and the embankment collapses, thousands of lives will be lost.
Generally speaking, just identifying the embankment site takes several months.
Even if Lin Fu had the knowledge of a thousand years later, there would be no good strategy that would be effective in a short period of time if he were asked to select the embankment site.
However, the wisdom of the times does not allow future generations to take a peek.
From the second day of June to the sixth day of June, there were heavy rains in Huai'an for several consecutive days, and the water level in Puli of Qingjiang River rose sharply.
Ge Si borrowed a big boat from Shuiying in the afternoon on the sixth day of the lunar month, and took advantage of the heavy rain to sail on the water, pouring thousands of bags of wheat bran into the river and scattering them.
On the seventh day of the lunar month, the heavy rain continued, so Ge Siyu continued to send large boats on the water to dump wheat bran into the river.
On the eighth day of the lunar month, the weather was fine, and Ge Siyu scuttled several sand and gravel ships at the opening where the Huaihe River entered Qingjiangpu, reducing the amount of water flowing from the Huaihe River into Qingjiangpu. The water level in Qingjiangpu continued to drop since the eighth day.
The wheat bran that had been dumped in Qingjiangpu formed a zigzag dividing line on the deserted beach. Ge Siyu pointed to this dividing line and said to Zhang Yubo, Liang Wenzhan and others: "Just build along this line.
The levee and the wasteland behind the levee are reclaimed and planted..."
Lin Fu was deeply moved. If the imperial court used Ge Siyu to build the Yellow River embankment, how could there be chaos among the 300,000 people who built the Yellow River embankment?
After Ge Siyu became a craftsman, he was able to join Sinovac and be admitted as a clerk in the Ministry of Works. This was a great honor given by the Jiangning Ministry of Works to the veteran worker Ge Futian. Under the current system, let alone the Minister of the Ministry of Works, Lien Langzhong, Member
With an official position like Wailang, Ge Siyu should not have any hope in this life.
Qin Chengzu controlled the troops at Shukou Camp and faced Chen Hansan in the north; Lin Fu would not stay in Huai'an City.
Lin Fu set up his simple camp at the embankment construction site of Qingjiangpu North Beach and personally directed the embankment construction work, as if he was no longer the military commander of the Huaidong region.
In addition to the tenth battalion of personal guards, Sun Jingtang also led the fourth battalion of more than 2,000 auxiliary troops from the labor camp to assist in building embankments, setting up simple tents, and settling in Dingkou for military dependents.
In fact, Zhang Yubo and Liang Wenzhan only mobilized more than a hundred people from Huai'an City. In the end, these more than a hundred people were sent to Lin Fu to purchase grain from Huai'an counties to supply the embankment. All the matters of embankment construction and family resettlement were left to Sun.
Jingtang, Ge Siyu and other people from Chongzhou took over.
Since the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, it has been sunny for ten consecutive days in Huai'an. Although it makes Huai'an very hot, it does not delay the embankment construction and training.
The guard battalion spent half a day participating in embankment construction and half a day training.
Although the battle training and embankment building work were extremely difficult, for these former landless tenants and later refugees, they could see their families settled down, with clothes to cover their bodies, food to cover their bellies, and sheds to protect them from wind and rain.
After the embankment was built, there were fields for farming, and they were not subject to the pain of displacement. Seeing the generals, military attachés, and officials working tirelessly and sweating profusely as they rushed to construction sites and simple schools, what complaints could these new recruits have?
On the 16th, Yue Lengqiu sent another envoy from Xuzhou to Huai'an. Liu Tingzhou and his envoy braved the scorching heat to go to Qingjiangpu North Beach to see Lin Fu.
Seeing the scene of embankment construction and training at Beitan, Liu Tingzhou felt regretful.
Only half a month had passed, and Liu Tingzhou knew that he had been tricked by Lin Fu, but the deal was already done. Would he still be able to forcibly disband the six thousand refugees?
In fact, on the eighth day of June, six thousand brave refugees who had only been training in the city for seven or eight days marched out of the city in order. Liu Tingzhou knew that he had been tricked by Lin Fu.
In his opinion, Lin Fu may not be said to be unparalleled in strategy, but his ability to run an army can be said to be unparalleled in the world.
Liu Tingzhou has never seen anyone able to pull 6,000 newly recruited refugees out of the city neatly and bravely in groups within seven or eight days. I'm afraid it would be no problem for them to be used in field battles with ordinary refugee armies, and it would be enough to defend the city.
More than enough.
In the past, it was said that Lin Fu recruited 3,000 people to bravely march north to capture the king and that he won the four victories in Yannan due to luck. Now that I have seen it with my own eyes, I know that Lin Fu's ability to manage the army is unparalleled in the world.
It takes three or two months to build a strong army. Others cannot do it, but Lin Fu can do it easily.
Liu Tingzhou didn't see the trick.
It is far from enough for one person to pull 6,000 mostly illiterate men out of the city neatly in seven or eight days.
However, it was not Lin Fu alone who successfully operated these 6,000 newly recruited civilian warriors as an army within seven or eight days, but a complete command system composed of more than 300 qualified military attachés and veterans.
The soldiers from the personal guard camp who guard Lin Fu's daily travels are originally selected from the elite.
If the leader of the fifteen soldiers and the commander of the capital of the sixty soldiers cannot let his new soldiers walk out of a neat queue with weapons and armor in seven or eight days, even if these new soldiers are all
They are illiterate people, so they can go home and have their children.
The command system of today's battles is mainly based on flags, drums, and lights, supplemented by messengers.
Lin Fu did not attach much importance to the queues, but he strengthened the command function at the sentinel level in the army and strengthened the communication and command of the messengers from the battalion to the sentry to make up for the shortcomings of flags, drums, and lights.
If you want an army to move, usually as long as the flag head is needed, grassroots military attachés at the rank of commander or above can understand the rather complicated flags and drums, and the light communication command system can ensure that the team is not in chaos and can be pulled into the battlefield.
If ordinary soldiers can understand the flag and drum communication system, this army may not be able to do it even after three to five years of training.
In the previous battle training literacy class, and later the battle training school, and the junior class, the first thing students had to learn was flags and drums, light communication and command, and the real simple literacy, battle formation fighting and simple tactics learning all came after this.
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This is because Lin Fu chose some contents from the sergeant system of later generations to adapt to the current times and changed it.
Even if the war reduces in the later period and there is no need to maintain such a large number of troops, ordinary soldiers can be disarmed and return to their fields, but qualified non-commissioned officers must be reserved and further strengthened.
When the war is tense, you can use these non-commissioned officers as the basis to expand the army, recruit more soldiers, and train them, so that you can build a strong army in a short time.
Before King Qin, the three thousand soldiers and horses organized by Lin Fu in Jiangning to go north were just the embryonic form of this military management concept. With the elites of Jiyun Military Guard and Changshan Island as the backbone of grassroots military attachés, and then through preliminary
The main purpose is to train civilian bravery in rotation, mixed with recruiting bravery, and in a short time, an elite field force will be obtained.
At this time, Lin Fu had already established a firm foothold in Chongzhou, so he naturally became proficient in this move.
If there is no ready-made military attache command system to be directly implanted, it would be impossible to select qualified flag-bearers, commanders, sentry generals, and battalion commanders from the six thousand civilians in three to five months.
It even takes countless cruel and bloody battles to hone it before it can finally grow into a majestic and powerful army.
The ten battalions of guards were all selected from the brave and strong people in the Xu Si area, with a large proportion of martial arts practitioners. After training for a period of time, they were sent out to suppress bandits and defeat weak enemies. After that, they adapted to the bloody battlefield.
He is comparable to a capable soldier in the refugee army.
Lin Fu was wearing green armor that had been heated by the sun. The inner lining was soaked with sweat over and over again. His whole body was smelly of sweat. He was standing on the embankment scooping up cold water to drink. He saw Liu Tingzhou coming in a carriage with a canopy to protect the sun. He passed by.
In the school grounds, watching the soldiers training, he couldn't help but frown slightly and said to Zhao Hu next to him: "What is he doing out of the city at this time?"
Zhang Yubo, who had always shared the joys and sorrows with the people, couldn't bear this terrible weather and went back to the city to escape the summer heat.
Of course, Zhao Hu could not guess that Yue Lengqiu had sent a breakout messenger from Xuzhou to Huai'an again.
When Liu Tingzhou's cavalry came closer, Lin Fu saw Tao Chun's face sitting next to Liu Tingzhou and realized what was going on. Tao Chun didn't come to change into clean clothes this time. He dressed up as an old farmer after breaking out of the encirclement. Lin Fu didn't blame Lin either.
Fu didn't notice it at first, thinking that Tao Chun was really loyal to Yue Lengqiu when he sneaked back to Xuzhou after breaking out from Xuzhou for rescue last time.
The carriage stopped in front of Lin Fu. Before Liu Tingzhou could say anything, Tao Chun got off the carriage and knelt down, shouting loudly: "Master Lin, please take Xuzhou's hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians into consideration and send troops! There are hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians, both men and women.
There are women, old and young, as well as newborn babies. They are all hanging on by a thread, hoping that Wang Shi will come to the north for help! If Mr. Lin doesn’t agree to send troops, Tao Chun will die on his knees here!"