Chapter 1083: Soldiers Coming to Quanzhou (I)
Eight thousand soldiers began to register, 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 to their hometown safely, they had to serve the imperial court first, although General Li promised to let them return to their hometown after the war, but who knows when the war will end? Even if the war is over, how will they return to their hometowns?
In the face of all kinds of unknowns, it is better to continue to serve in the army and serve the imperial court.
At the same time as the soldiers registered, in a big tent next to them, more than 20 middle- and lower-level naval army generals also swore an oath to become king under the auspices of Li Bing.
These are all middle- and low-level generals, basically Lang generals and school captains, who have never been paid attention to by Yao He, and they are more willing to serve the King of Jin.
Li Bing promoted each of them to the first rank, Mei Hongqing was promoted to the second rank of the Zhonglang general, Yingyang Lang general, he served as the left deputy general of the naval army commander Zhang Kecheng, and Cao Guang, who had led them into Haizhou before, was the right deputy general.
In the afternoon of the same day, 40,000 new and old Jin troops boarded the warship, and 300 large warships slowly set sail and continued to sail in the direction of Dengzhou.......
At the same time that the Quanzhou naval army was transformed into the imperial imperial naval army, two hundred cargo ships of 5,000 stone arrived on the sea outside the port of Quanzhou with 40,000 Jin troops.
This was a fatal mistake made by Yao Shun, who believed that the warships in Guangzhou had not yet been repaired, so it was impossible to launch a military operation against Quanzhou.
But he forgot that if their naval army was not in Quanzhou, there would be no need for the Jin army in Guangzhou to come by warship, and the same would be true for taking merchant ships, and the two hundred large merchant ships of the Liu family were already waiting in Guangzhou.
The warship was moored on the sea dozens of miles away, a small boat sailed first, slowly approaching the shore, there was a henchman of Zhou Fei waiting on the shore, Zhou Fei had received the news from a businessman in advance, and specially sent a subordinate to wait in the military port.
The soldier saw the oncoming boat and hurriedly met it.
Both of them showed the same token, and the soldiers on the ship hugged their fists and said: "The fleet has anchored in the open sea, and it 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 elite of the elite, and they were all recommended by Zhou Fei, all four of them were promoted to brigade commanders, each of whom controlled a hundred soldiers, and the four brigade commanders plus four hundred soldiers were all people that Zhou Fei could use.
Although he has two thousand soldiers under his command? But most of the soldiers are locals? is more loyal to the Yao family, so Zhou Fei thought of this way? Pick out four hundred from two thousand? Leave it to four of your subordinates to lead and make these four hundred loyal subordinates.
One of his subordinates said, "General? We have an emergency pass, so it's better to have an emergency pass at night and open the city gates! ”
Zhou Fei shook his head? "How many people can only enter the pass? Moreover, the harbor can be seen at the head of the city, and if they find ships entering the harbor, it will be a big trouble, and the best way is to replace the soldiers to defend the city. ”
"But what reason does the general have?" Another subordinate said.
Zhou Fei smiled: "I have already applied to Yao Shun to guard Quanzhou City?" And he agreed? I'll talk to him later, but if it doesn't work, we'll attack Dongcheng at night in advance. ”
Zhou Fei immediately went into the city to find Yao Shun, and it was also 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: "See the envoy of the scriptures, see Cai Sima!" ”
Cai Yong smiled and nodded to Zhou Fei? Zhou Fei is what he highly recommends to Yao Shun, and Zhou Fei performed well? Cai Yong's face also had a glow.
Yao Shun stopped his pen and asked with a smile, "What's the matter with General Zhou?" ”
"Qi Qi Jing envoy, can you let the lowly guard the city tonight?"
"Why?" Yao Shun asked puzzled.
"Enlightenment? Guarding the city under the training subordinates, especially at night? But the effect is not ideal? Can't everyone understand? Considering the lowly position, it is best to train in the field, and tonight is the training time, so I sincerely ask the envoy to let the lowly position train in the field. ”
Yao Shun thought for a while and said, "It's not a big problem, but you train at the head of the city at night, so who will be on duty at the harbor?" ”
"The lowly duty is not all soldiers participate in the training, the lowly post is trained in three batches, there is a patrol guard on duty in the harbor tonight, and the lowly post is trained in Dongcheng, and the situation in the harbor can also be monitored."
Next to him, Cai Yong smiled and persuaded Yao Shundao: "Lord, it's rare to have a general who is so attentive to training the army, so let's fulfill him!" ”
Since Cai Yong interceded, Yao Shun no longer objected, he nodded and asked, "How many days is General Zhou going to train?" ”
"It takes three days to be humble, tonight, the seventh and ninth days of the new year, these three days are all night training time."
Yao Shun wrote a warrant and handed it to Zhou Fei, "Tonight's duty was arranged yesterday, you can go and discuss it with General Ma yourself!" I agreed, and in addition, I will arrange the seventh and ninth days of the junior high school. ”
"Thank you! Thank you, Sima! ”
Zhou Fei took the warrant, bowed and left.
Cai Yong looked at him and walked away, and whispered to Yao Shun: "This person is a rare general, and the lord should take care of 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 then came to the barracks and found the Zhonglang general Ma Mo, Ma Mo is a native of Jianzhou, followed Yao Guangping for many years, and has deep qualifications in the Quanzhou army, he is relatively arrogant, and he looks down on the new Zhonglang general Zhou Fei at all, although Zhou Fei is outstanding in martial arts, and he also has a set of training troops, but his qualifications are too shallow, and he is from outside, and at the same time he is also Li Wujun's subordinate, in Ma Mo's opinion, it is just a lost dog.
"What do you mean by that?" Ma Mo looked at Yao Shun's warrant on the table and asked.
"My men will patrol Dongcheng tonight, and the envoy has agreed."
Ma Mo said coldly: "Who is responsible for guarding the city has already been arranged, and it is useless to get the consent of the envoy, besides, you are in charge of patrolling the dock, what are you doing guarding the city?" ”
"I'm going to train soldiers to defend the city tonight, and I beg the general to do it."
Ma Mohaha laughed, "It's really interesting, without the enemy army attacking the city, what can you train just to defend the city?" The lord praises you for being good at training soldiers, but I think it is also an exaggeration. ”
Every time Zhou Fei thought that this person was so difficult, he muttered and said, "If General Ma is willing to agree, then I will bear the night duty of General Ma's subordinates for these three months!" ”
No one wants to be on duty at night, they generally can't sleep if they stay up late, and Ma Mo doesn't want to be on duty all night, he is just deliberately making things difficult for Zhou Fei, but he didn't expect him to offer a three-month condition, is it stupid or impulsive?
Ma Mo's eyes narrowed, he stared at Zhou Fei for a long time, and asked coldly, "Are you serious?" ”
Zhou Fei gritted his teeth and said: "If it is a man, he will spit on a nail, since I said it, I will never regret it!" ”
"Good! A gentleman's word, the horse is difficult to chase. ”
The two of them clapped their hands heavily, and Ma Mo immediately took out the arrow and the silver medal on duty and handed it to him, "This is the patrol card of Dongcheng tonight, as soon as it is corrected, you will hand it over by yourself, tonight's password is far away from the mountains and near the water!" ”
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The night was dark, and the time gradually came to a watch, Zhou Fei led four hundred soldiers to Dongcheng, and it was about to be the time to change duty, and a general on duty ran down, he saw Zhou Fei, and couldn't help but be stunned, "General Zhou, this is ......."
Zhou Fei handed him the arrow and the silver medal, "The envoy ordered me to be on duty in Dongcheng tonight, and I am here to take over, the password is far away from the mountains and near the water!" ”
The arrow, silver medal and password are all right, Lang Jiang nodded, "I'll hand over the shift!" ”
He turned around and shouted, "Assemble and return to the camp!" ”
Not long after, a group of soldiers came down from the city, and General Lang saluted Zhou Fei with a fist, "Please ask the general in the middle of the night!" ”
He left Dongcheng with 500 soldiers and returned to the barracks.
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Zhou Fei took over the east city, and there were three city gates in Quanzhou City with soldiers on duty, but the entire east city was in charge of Zhou Fei, including the city gate, the city tower and the city wall, he quickly assigned, one hundred soldiers guarded the city gate below, another hundred soldiers were responsible for guarding the city tower, and then there were one hundred soldiers patrolling the city wall on both sides.
Zhou Fei personally patrolled near the city tower, and at this time he stood in front of the city tower and looked at the sea in the distance.
As the time gradually came to 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.
In the moonlight, the ships on the sea were seen very clearly, and a soldier on patrol suddenly spotted a black spot on the sea, pointed at it and shouted: "There is a boat on the sea!" ”
His brigade commander shouted, "That's our navy 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 didn't arrange anyone to be on duty tonight, everyone should be sleeping.
Zhou Fei was still a little worried that his generals would take matters into their own hands and take people on patrol.
At this moment, Yang Qing's voice came from the city, "Please open the city gate, there is an emergency military situation!" ”
Zhou Fei probed and asked, "Yang Qing, what's going on?" ”
Yang Qing was stunned, "General Zhou, why are you guarding the city?" ”
"I'm on a temporary assignment, what's going on?"
Yang Qing hurriedly said: "Just now, the dock steward came to report that there were many merchant ships on the sea, and they sailed towards the military dock without paying attention to the rules. ”