Four hundred and fifty-ninth chapter standing team
However, even though Yuan Yonghan took the initiative to retreat, the Southern Navy had no intention of stopping, and instead continued to advance eastward and northward. The main forward force did not even bother to enter the city abandoned by Yuan Yonghan, but went around and continued to move northward and westward.
The large occupied areas were handed over to the rear garrison divisions to take over.
In this battle, in addition to the 100,000 main regular troops, the Southern Navy also deployed three garrison divisions. The garrison divisions of these three divisions were used to garrison the occupying forces and suppress the local area.
After all, it is impossible for the Southern Navy to leave a large number of main troops to guard those occupied cities.
The garrison division marched behind the main division, while the local officials prepared in advance by the Nanhai Prefecture Prefectural Government quickly followed the garrison division and entered the occupied areas.
It is worth noting that among the local officials stationed this time, quite a few are children of the old aristocracy. It turns out that the civil servants in Nanhai Prefecture
They happily carried their family's expectations and followed the army to various places in the occupied areas and became local officials.
Not only the civil service system, but also the military today has a group of former professional officers and children of the old aristocracy. These people are either former surrendered officers who were re-study in the military academy and then assigned to serve in the army again.
Or you can apply directly to a military academy and then be assigned to serve in the army.
Officers who are able to serve in the army, whether they are surrendered officers or children of old aristocrats who apply for military academies, must undergo rigorous ideological courses and be judged qualified before they can serve.
These people may be trying to blend in and avoid other people's suspicions, or they may be really brainwashed. When they call Daheng Unified, they often work harder than Lin Ziran's original direct line officers.
When these people changed their mentality, their generally high military quality was greatly reflected, and when they led the troops in battle, they were quite vigorous.
Lin Haishu is such a child of the old aristocracy!
He is a descendant of the Luo Anlin family. The Luo Anlin family is a noble family that has lasted for hundreds of years. His bloodline can be traced back to thousands of years ago. He was awarded the title of Marquis of Luo An more than 600 years ago.
That’s right, it’s Luo An from Luo An County!
Their family has been ruling Luoan County for nearly three hundred years, until more than three hundred years ago, like other nobles, they lost their fiefdom and were left with only an empty noble title.
At present, Daheng's nobles basically have no actual fiefdoms, only political privileges, titles and annuities are left.
However, the centipede insect did not die, and most of the nobles lost their fiefdoms, but they still retained their power and were still an important part of the upper echelons of the Daheng Empire.
Fifty years ago, in Daheng's military, almost all of its senior generals were from noble families.
Generals with civilian origins actually only emerged fifty years ago, and now they have become the main body of senior generals in Daheng's vassal towns.
Just like many noble families who are unwilling to sink, the Luo Anlin family has been looking for opportunities to rise again.
During the civil strife in Nanhai State before, they did not dare to rashly take sides and place bets!
As aristocrats with a history of hundreds or even thousands of years, they are very cautious and will not take sides easily, because during the civil war in a feudal town, once they side with the wrong side and become the loser, the winner will not care whether they are aristocrats or not.
, it was chopped off with just one stroke of the knife.
But after seeing the rise of Lin Ziran, many people saw the hope of the South Navy to unify Daheng, and many people finally started to place bets.
The old nobles are even more eager to restore their past glory. Well, they are not extravagantly expecting to obtain actual fiefdoms. There was no market for actual fiefdoms in Daheng hundreds of years ago. Even nobles like them did not dare to do so.
If you publicly talk about obtaining the actual fiefdom, you will be beaten up by those vassal towns if you really say it.
Even though he was a powerful Duke at that time, he never considered himself to be the representative of the interests of the nobility. He represented the interests of the business community and ordinary people. Otherwise, it would be impossible for Duke Meng to obtain huge profits.
Prestige.
What these old nobles want is to become part of the upper class of this huge empire again, just like the Daheng Empire fifty years ago.
Lin Ziran did not treat these people specially. In his opinion, the so-called old aristocracy was just a false name they kept for their own entertainment, and it was no different from ordinary wealthy families.
They just think they are special!
The real aristocratic class in contemporary Daheng is actually no longer them, but the military aristocrats represented by the early vassals such as Cheng Lingfeng, Shao Bing, and Jian Minggang.
During the process of the Nanhai Prefecture's unification, the South China Sea Navy actually eliminated these people.
Lin Haishu also knew the current situation. In fact, he didn't think too much about it. The reason why he joined the army was just to make achievements.
Who told him to be the second son of the Lin family?
The eldest son inherits the family business, and the second son goes out to work hard. This has been a tradition in Daheng for thousands of years, and it is still the case today.
If we make statistics, we will find that among the 300,000 officers and soldiers of the Southern Navy, most of them are second sons, regardless of whether they are soldiers or officers.
Today's Lin Haishu is actually like the other second sons in the army, working hard for his own glory and wealth.
It's just that the high-quality education he received since childhood gave him an advantage in this kind of competition.
He received a complete education and graduated from Luohai No. 3 Preparatory College last year!
When he applied for Luo'an Military Academy this year, his admission scores were among the best. After several months of intense study, Lin Haishu's students were arranged to graduate early and serve in the army due to the Eastern Expedition.
When he took the graduation exam, his grades were among the best again, and he came in second in the riding department.
There are more than 100 riders in Luo'an Military Academy in this period. It is not easy to be ranked second. What's more, it is worth noting that his competitors are not weak.
In the early years, when Suiying School was still a school, the admission criteria was only for middle schools.
However, during the period when Luoan County was under control, the admissions standards had already changed to preparatory courses, and the quality of the students was relatively high. The higher the quality of the students, the more competitive they would be.
After graduating early, Lin Haishu was assigned to the 9th Cavalry Division as a deputy platoon leader of the cavalry company. Graduating second in the cavalry department also gave him a higher starting point than most people. He entered as a sergeant.
Active duty.
After many actual battles, Lin Haishu was transferred to serve as the platoon leader of the third cavalry platoon under the cavalry company.
Yesterday, he had just launched a surprise attack against an enemy force with his troops, and the results were good. If this continues, he estimates that he will be promoted soon.
It is extremely difficult to be promoted in peacetime, but in wartime, as long as you perform meritorious service, promotion is a matter of minutes.
He saw with his own eyes that a classmate of the same period, who was only a corporal before the war, was promoted twice for meritorious service and was now a staff sergeant.
This military lord is one level higher than Lin Haishu.
Lin Haishu also hopes that he will make more contributions, and then be promoted to sergeant as soon as possible, and then strive to cross the threshold and become a junior officer, and strive to become a general in his lifetime, so that he can live up to this responsibility.