Eight thousand soldiers began to register, and most of them were willing to stay and continue to serve in the army. The soldiers knew very well that if they wanted to return home safely, they had to serve the court first. Although General Li promised to let them go back after the war,
But who knows when the war will end? Even if the war ends, how will they return to their hometown?
Facing all kinds of unknowns, it is better to continue to join the army and serve the court.
While the soldiers were registering, in a large tent nearby, more than twenty middle- and lower-level navy generals were also sworn in as king under the auspices of Li Bing.
These are all middle and low-level generals, basically generals and lieutenants. They have never received attention from Yao He. They are more willing to serve the king of Jin.
Li Bing promoted each of them to one rank. Mei Hongqing was promoted to the second rank of Zhonglang General and Yingyang Lang General. He served as the left deputy general of the naval commander Zhang Kecheng. Cao Guang, who had led them into Haizhou before, was the right deputy general.
In the afternoon of that day, 40,000 new and old Jin troops boarded warships, and 300 large warships slowly set sail and continued to sail towards Dengzhou...
At the same moment when the Quanzhou Navy transformed into the Imperial Navy, two hundred 5,000-stone cargo ships loaded with 40,000 Jin troops arrived on the sea outside Quanzhou Port.
This was a fatal mistake made by Yao Shun. He believed that the warships in Guangzhou had not been repaired yet, so it was impossible to launch a military operation against Quanzhou.
But he forgot that if their navy was not in Quanzhou, there would be no need for the Jin army in Guangzhou to come over in warships, nor in merchant ships. The Liu family's two hundred large merchant ships were already waiting in Guangzhou.
The warship was anchored on the sea dozens of miles away. A small boat came first and slowly approached the shore. There was a close subordinate of Zhou Fei waiting on the shore. Zhou Fei had received a message from a businessman in advance.
, specially sent a subordinate to wait at the military port.
The soldier saw the oncoming boat and rushed to meet it.
Both of them showed the same token, and the soldier on the ship clasped his fists and said: "The fleet has anchored in the outer sea and will land at two o'clock tonight. Please tell General Zhou."
The boat sailed away, and the soldiers hurried back to the camp to report to Zhou Fei.
Zhou Fei immediately found four brigade commanders. These four brigade commanders were all Jin army scouts who came to Quanzhou with Zhou Fei. They were all the best among the elite. With Zhou Fei's recommendation, all four of them were promoted to brigade commanders.
One person can control a hundred soldiers. Four brigade commanders and four hundred soldiers are all people Zhou Fei can use.
Although he has two thousand soldiers, most of them are locals and are more loyal to the Yao family, so Zhou Fei thought of this method. He selected four hundred people from the two thousand people and gave them to four of his subordinates to lead them.
These four hundred people were made into loyal subordinates.
One of his subordinates said: "General? We have an emergency order. Why don't we have an emergency order to open the city gate at night?"
Zhou Fei shook his head. "How many people can only enter according to the pass? And the city can see the harbor. If they find out that ships are entering the harbor, it will be a big trouble. The best way is to replace the soldiers to defend the city."
"But what reason did the general use?" another subordinate asked.
Zhou Fei smiled and said: "I have long ago applied to Yao Shun to defend Quanzhou City? He also agreed? I will go and talk to him later. If it doesn't work, we will attack Dongcheng at night in advance."
Zhou Fei immediately went to the city and found Yao Shun. It was a coincidence that Yao Shun was discussing with Cai Yong in the official room about transporting money and grain from various states.
Zhou Fei stepped forward and knelt down on one knee and said: "For your humble position, please see Jing Lue Envoy, and for your humble position, please see Cai Sima!"
Cai Yong smiled and nodded to Zhou Fei. He highly recommended Zhou Fei to Yao Shun. Zhou Fei performed well. Cai Yong's face also glowed.
Yao Shun stopped writing and asked with a smile: "What's the matter with General Zhou?"
"I'd like to inform you, can you please let me guard the city tonight?"
"Why?" Yao Shun asked puzzledly.
"Reporting to the Commander-in-Chief? I am training my men to defend the city, especially at night. But the effect is not ideal? No one can understand it. I think it is best to train on the spot. Tonight is the training time. I beg you.
The manager gave him humble duties and conducted on-the-spot training."
Yao Shun thought for a while and said: "This is not a big problem, but if you train at the top of the city at night, who will be on duty at the harbor?"
"Not all soldiers from the humble position participate in the training. The training is divided into three batches. There will be patrols at the harbor tonight. Moreover, the humble soldier is training in Dongcheng and can also monitor the situation at the harbor."
Next to him, Cai Yong smiled and persuaded Yao Shun: "My lord, it is rare for a general to be so dedicated to training the army, so let him help him!"
Now that Cai Yong had expressed his love, Yao Shun no longer objected. He nodded and asked, "How many days will General Zhou prepare to train?"
"The humble job requires three days. Tonight, the seventh day of the lunar month, and the ninth day of the lunar month, these three days are night training time."
Yao Shun wrote a warrant and handed it to Zhou Fei, "Tonight's duty was arranged yesterday. You can discuss it with General Ma yourself! I agreed. In addition, I will make arrangements for the seventh and ninth days of the lunar month.
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"Thank you so much, Commander! Thank you so much, Sima!"
Zhou Fei took the order, bowed and left.
Cai Yong watched him go away and whispered to Yao Shun: "This man is a rare general. My lord must win over him."
Yao Shun nodded and smiled: "I know, next year my eldest brother's eldest daughter will be sixteen years old. I plan to marry her to General Zhou. After we become a family, I will promote him again."
Zhou Fei immediately came to the military camp and found Ma Mo, the Zhonglang general. Ma Mo was a native of Jianzhou. He had followed Yao Guangping for many years and had deep experience in the Quanzhou army. He was quite arrogant and looked down on the newly promoted Zhonglang general Zhou Fei. Zhou Fei
Although he has outstanding martial arts skills and is good at training the army, his qualifications are too low, he comes from outside, and he is also Li Wujun's subordinate. In Ma Mo's view, he is just a lost dog.
"What do you mean?" Ma Mo asked, looking at Yao Shun's order on the table.
"My men will patrol the east city tonight, and the envoy has agreed."
Ma Mo said coldly: "Who will be responsible for defending the city has already been arranged. It is useless to agree with the envoy. Besides, you are responsible for patrolling the dock. What are you doing to defend the city?"
"I want to train soldiers to defend the city tonight, and I beg the general to do it."
Ma Mo burst out laughing, "It's really interesting. Without the enemy attacking the city, what can you do to train just to defend the city? My lord's compliment that you are good at training soldiers seems to be exaggerated."
Whenever Zhou Fei thought about how difficult this person was, he pondered and said, "If General Ma is willing to agree, then I will be responsible for all the night duty duties of General Ma's subordinates for the past three months!"
No one wants to be on duty at night. They usually can't sleep if they stay up late. Ma Mo doesn't want to be on duty at night. He is just deliberately making things difficult for Zhou Fei. Unexpectedly, he actually offered a three-month condition. Is he stupid or impulsive?
Ma Mo's eyes narrowed, he stared at Zhou Fei for a long time, and asked coldly: "Are you serious about what you said?"
Zhou Fei gritted his teeth and said: "If you are a man, just spit and nail. Now that I have said it, I will never go back on it!"
"Okay! A gentleman's words can't be followed by a horse."
The two high-fived each other, and Ma Mo immediately took out the command arrow and the duty silver medal and handed them to him, "This is the patrol card for East City tonight. Once I correct it, you can hand it over yourself. Tonight's password is Far Mountains Near Waters!"
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The night was dark, and the time was gradually reaching the first watch. Zhou Fei led 400 soldiers to the East City. It was about to be the time to change the duty. A general on duty ran down. When he saw Zhou Fei, he couldn't help but be startled, "
General Zhou, this is..."
Zhou Fei handed him the command arrow and silver medal, "The Commander-in-Chief ordered me to be on duty in the east city tonight, and I came here to take over. The command is far away from the mountains and close to the water!"
The command arrow, silver medal and password were all correct. General Lang nodded, "I'll take over now!"
He turned around and shouted: "Gather back to camp!"
Not long after, groups of soldiers came down from the top of the city. General Lang raised his fists and saluted Zhou Fei, "I'll leave it to the general for the rest of the night!"
He led five hundred soldiers to leave Dongcheng and returned to the military camp.
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Zhou Fei took over the East City. There were soldiers on duty at the other three gates of Quanzhou City, but Zhou Fei was in charge of the entire East City, including the city gates, city towers and walls. He quickly assigned them, and a hundred soldiers were guarding the city gates below.
, another hundred soldiers are responsible for guarding the city tower, and then there are a hundred soldiers patrolling the walls on both sides.
Zhou Fei personally patrolled near the city tower. At this time, he stood in front of the city tower and looked at the sea in the distance.
As the time gradually reached two o'clock, countless black spots appeared on the sea in the distance, and two hundred merchant ships loaded with soldiers sailed towards the harbor.
Under the moonlight, the ships on the sea could be seen very clearly. A soldier on patrol suddenly discovered a black spot on the sea, pointed at it and shouted: "There are ships on the sea!"
His brigade commander sternly shouted to stop, "That's our navy coming back, don't make a fuss!"
Zhou Fei also saw the fleet on the sea. He slowly clenched his fists. His army was outside the city, some distance from the dock. He did not arrange anyone to be on duty tonight. Everyone should be sleeping.
Zhou Fei was still a little worried about his generals taking matters into their own hands and leading people on patrols.
At this moment, the voice of Yang Qing, his clerk, came from below the city, "Please open the city gate, there is an urgent military situation!"
Zhou Fei probed his head and asked, "Yang Qing, what's going on?"
Yang Qing was stunned, "General Zhou, why are you defending the city?"
"I was posted temporarily, what happened?"
Yang Qing said quickly: "The steward of the dock just came to report that there were many merchant ships on the sea, and they were not following the rules and they were heading towards the military dock."