During the study meeting, the two sides were always arguing. Li Laiheng wanted the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo to obey his orders and assist the Huguang Army in dealing with the two major enemies of Ding Qirui and Zuo Liangyu.
However, He Yilong and Ma Shouying only wanted to obtain the territory and food supply for the garrison as soon as possible, and they had no sincerity in pushing and pushing Li Laiheng's request for unified command.
By the end of the meeting, the two sides had not reached any agreement at all. Li Laiheng knew that it was impossible to subdue Ge Zuo's fifth commander, but he believed that Lin Chengcheng had become a breakthrough for him, and he had no intention of subduing Ge Zuo.
All the 20,000 soldiers and horses of the fifth battalion were eaten, but they made a plan to eat one part and then send the other part to Henan.
"The flag-waving character is careless. It would be bad if the news leaks out." After Li Laiheng sent everyone away, he said to Fang Yiren, "Leshan, it's up to you to contact Lin Yangyang and allocate him a sum of grain, grass and beans first. Lin
He is the weakest among the 5th Battalion of Gezuo. There is no benefit in following He Yilong. As long as he sees the benefits of following the Huguang army, he is a native of Huguang and will most likely be able to win."
It is not yet late spring, it is the early spring of Chongzhen's 15th year, and the early spring breeze is still cold. However, Fang Yiren is used to making pretentious gestures, so he still shakes the folding fan and asks: "May I ask the palace master?
What standards should be followed to provide supplementary food and fodder equipment for Lin?"
"Hmm..." Li Laiheng pondered for a while and then replied, "Just two-thirds of the army ration, and don't skimp on clothes, armor, meat and eggs."
After He Yilong and Ma Shouying returned to the camp, they sent envoys to contact Zhang Xianzhong, preparing to use the strength of the Western Camp to put pressure on Li Laiheng. If the Chu army did not replenish them with enough food and supplies, don't blame Ge, go back to the two camps and fight on your own
grain.
After He Jin and Liu Xiyao returned to the camp, they first discussed it with Lin Chengcheng. In fact, both of them knew that Lin Chengcheng had established a close and special relationship with Li Laiheng in private. He Jin directly told Lin Chengcheng these words.
After everything was told, the two of them wanted to see how Li Laiheng would treat the Lin Training Department and the Chuang Army's sincerity before making any plans.
Lin Chengcheng was nicknamed "The King of Fighting for the World". This nickname was inherited from his predecessor, the King of Fighting for the World. The previous generation of King of Fighting for the World died at the hands of the officers and soldiers, and his troops also suffered heavy losses. Therefore, Lin Chengcheng's troops
It was not called "Zhengying" according to the general practice of the rebel army, but just used his name and was called "Linying".
Lin Ying was the weakest among the five Gezuo battalions, with only over a thousand men. It was not even as strong as He Yilong's more powerful management team. Although the soldiers in Lin Ying looked good, when Fang Yiren went to the camp to review, all the soldiers in Lin Ying were
Standing solemnly, the military appearance is very good.
However, each of them only wore cloth, carried a bamboo hat, a bamboo tube on his back, and wore straw sandals. Only less than a quarter of them had armor, and most of the remaining people only had one weapon, not even a bow and arrow.
Although such an army is in good spirits, its specific combat effectiveness does make Fang Yiren feel quite worried.
"Lin Zhangpan, I wonder how many armors and equipment your camp has in total?"
Lin Chengcheng felt a little unhappy when he saw that Fang Yiren seemed to underestimate Lin Ying's strength, so he slightly exaggerated the number of Lin Ying's armored battles and told Fang Yiren: "This battalion is the strongest among the five camps of Gezuo.
Weak. After the five battalions of Ge Zuo attacked the city and took out the stronghold, they all divided the captured items according to their military merits. Therefore, the clothes, armor and equipment of Lin camp were not stronger than those of other camps. Currently, there are 500 spears, 200 pairs of brand knives, and 200 pairs of bows and arrows.
One hundred pairs of gun licenses, fifty waist knives, and one hundred guns and cannons of various colors."
Fang Yiren laughed dumbly and said: "Lin Ying has suffered a lot of grievances from He Yilong and Ma Shouying! Master, the master of my house has arranged a batch of grain, fodder and equipment for you. Today, let's start with the rice and wheat according to the head.
?Each person can receive two measures of grain. There is no need to hide and tuck in as many troops as there are in the Lin camp. Just take out as many people as possible. Our army will never treat your army badly. "
Hearing that they could receive food, the entire Lin camp suddenly became excited. Although they followed Ge Zuo in the Jiangbei area and captured many cities, the first was that Ge Zuo's fifth battalion fought jointly with Zhang Xianzhong and captured
The bulk of the troops went to the Western Camp, and the small head to Hema, leaving not much left for the Lin Camp; secondly, the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo was after all a mobile operation. Unlike Li Laiheng, who already had a solid base and could produce and store a large amount of supplies, their war effort
When things go well, it's okay to rely on a large number of seizures, but once the war goes wrong, you'll be hungry.
"Xia Yi." Fang Yiren held a list in his hand and read out one by one, "Each person comes to receive three kilograms of meat and eggs. This is a month's supply. You can eat it at your leisure. My master, in addition to this
In addition to a thousand sets of summer clothes, I will also replenish all the armor and equipment for you, but the premise is that the Lin camp must first adapt it according to the existing establishment of the Chuang army."
He added to Lin Chengcheng: "If Lin Zhangpan feels it is inconvenient, you can get the food first and put the ordnance matters later. There is no harm in that."
Lin Chengcheng was greatly shocked by Chuang Jun's "wealth and wealth". He had already made up his mind to defect to Li Laiheng, so he no longer hesitated and immediately replied: "No inconvenience, no inconvenience! Marshal Shaohu commanded Chuang Jun."
After laying down such a large territory, his military system and camp system are naturally first-rate. How can there be any inconvenience? Please also ask Mr. Fang to tell Commander Shao Hu as soon as possible that there will be no problem with the adaptation, and there will be no inconvenience at all in Linying Camp.
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Lin Chengcheng was so shocked, and the other soldiers in Lin camp were so happy that they couldn't find their way out. Their life in the fifth Gezuo battalion was not very good, not to mention that even the strongest Gezuo five battalion
In fact, the soldiers under his command never had two bushels of grain and three kilograms of meat and eggs to eat every month.
What's more, Chuangjun actually gave out summer clothes!
The meat is all pickled dried meat. Although the proportion of eggs in the three kilograms of meat and eggs is a bit higher, it is still quite a luxury for the soldiers of Linying. After the heads are sorted out, these grains, meat and eggs will
The food should be left to the cook arranged by Lin Yongchang to cook. Fang Yiren deliberately asked everyone to pick it up themselves. This was also to strengthen the soldiers in Lin camp's impression of the "rich and wealthy" army.
According to what Fang Yiren revealed to Lin Chenggong, in addition to rice, wheat, meat, eggs and clothes, as long as the Lin camp is reorganized according to the Chuang army's establishment, a batch of mules and horses, armor, spears, brand knives, bows and arrows will be added.
and cannons.
According to what Fang Yiren revealed to Lin Yongcheng, if Lin Ying could do a good job of "lurking" within the Gezuo Fifth Battalion, he could receive double the rations and living allowance this month.
The queues to receive food and meat and eggs were getting longer and longer, and the Linying soldiers had more and more things in their hands. People finally had a more intuitive and perceptual understanding of the strength of the Chuang army.
Li Laiheng had 20,000 soldiers and horses, and the fifth battalion of Ge Zuo also had 20,000 soldiers and horses, but these 20,000 and the other 20,000 were obviously completely different.
Fang Yiren looked at Lin Chengcheng and the soldiers in Lin camp beaming with joy, and felt that Li Laiheng had lowered his attitude too low. If he had known that Lin Chengcheng's moral integrity was so low, he should have persuaded Li Laiheng to follow the same old rules as before.
According to the plan, all officers at all levels in the Lin camp will be directly recruited to study in the camp school, and their positions will be rearranged after graduation.
But how could they have imagined that Lin Chenggong had been active in the Jiangbei area for a long time. They also heard that they and Zhang Xianzhong had conquered the two big cities of Luzhou and Wuwei Prefecture, and threatened to leave Wuhu and go straight to Nanjing. Who knew that in terms of materials, Li Laiheng was so different?
So much.
"By the way, Lin Zhangpan, the Lin camp is not in a good situation among the Gezuo Fifth Battalion, so what about the overall interactions between the Gezuo Fifth Battalion and the Xiying?"
Fang Yiren suddenly asked about Zhang Xianzhong, which suddenly opened up Lin's conversation. After they joined forces with Xiying in the Yinghuo area last year, they often fought together. The Eight Kings and Ge Liyan also separately attacked Luzhou and Wuweizhou.
, and then captured Lujiang County.
The coalition forces captured 300 large ships, built a number of small ships, and trained their navy in Chaohu Lake. Because both Lin Chengcheng and Liu Xiyao were natives of Huguang, they were considered southerners. It is said that people from the north are good at horses and people from the south are good at boats.
, the navy affairs were supervised by the two of them.
Lin Chengcheng talked about supervising the naval training in more detail, which also made Fang Yiren look at him with admiration. Fang Yiren was from Tongcheng. He was more familiar with the situation of the rivers in the south than the old brothers of the Breakthrough Army who were born in northern Shaanxi, but he was not as good as Lin.
Develop a deep understanding of the navy revealed in just a few sentences.
"The Eighth King is a good fighter and very loyal. But he is very protective of his shortcomings. All the things he captures are given priority to the Western Camp. Only He Yilong and Ma Shouying of the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo are big enough to let them go.
Zhang Xianzhong relaxed his hand a little. The rest of the people, even with such a high status in the world as King Zuo Jin, Zhang Xianzhong didn't give him any face!"
Fang Yiren nodded, and he covered half of his face with a folding fan. He thought to himself, it seems that not only is there a rift within the 5th Gezuo Battalion, but the rift between the 5th Gezuo Battalion and the Xiying Camp is also worse than the internal rift between them.