Chapter 361 is ready to go

Five days later, on the evening of May 22, it rained.

After a month of fine weather, it was raining in early summer when night fell.

Carried by the warm and humid air flow from the Pacific Ocean, continuous rain pours down from the sky, slamming into the roofs and stone roads with a characteristic force, filling the air with thick mist.

Looking at this posture, this rain has no intention of stopping in a short time.

In the headquarters, the air also became sticky because of the rain, Lin Xiao crossed his arms, looked at the heavy rain outside the window, and listened to the guards under the eaves cursing and cursing this ghost weather, and the corners of his mouth showed an imperceptible bitter smile.

On the desk, a lamp was like a bean, Ling'er sat quietly on the side, flashing a pair of beautiful eyes like black jewels, and looked at Lin Xiao's cold side face stupidly.

After taking care of the eldest brother every day after dinner, the eldest brother either went next door to chat with Master Qu, Master Chen and others, or found Li Hanzhi, He Shouxin, Situ Zheng and other officers to mutter around the map, and she would quietly stay in her room and find some odd jobs to do.

It wasn't until the dead of night, before going to bed, that she would come over to talk to him, and ask her what he wanted to eat the next day and what he wanted her to do.

In the end, she always helped him make the bed despite her eldest brother's objections before she went back to her room to rest......

She had never seen this man so quiet, looking at Lin Xiao standing by the window, she suddenly found that she was uncontrollably fascinated by this sturdy and upright silhouette, her nose was like a jade pillar under her eyebrows, and the corners of her mouth suddenly rose, overflowing with a shallow smile, which made her heart throb for no reason.

The little girl was flustered, but Lin Xiao didn't have the heart to pay attention to the ripples in the heart of this seemingly smart and clever literary young woman who was a little sentimental inside.

At this moment, what he is worried about is whether this rain will affect the departure of the fleet......

In addition to helping Li Hanzhi transport a large amount of cement, the "Longsheng" also brought the remaining 700 sailors along the way, and the food, ammunition and materials that were enough to support the Taiwan Strait campaign were also ready.

It is worth mentioning that the "Longsheng" also brought more than 30,000 sets of new military uniforms this time.

This style of self-made new military uniforms, imitating the military uniforms of the Eighth Route Army in later generations, although it is a little simple, but it is certainly in line with the development trend of military uniforms in the era of hot weapons.

In the future, on the battlefield where artillery fire is in the sky and bullets are flying, the kind of cotton armor that weighs more than 20 pounds and is very bulky but cannot prevent bullets at all must be eliminated.

Just yesterday, the new military uniforms, together with shoes, hats, belts, and quilts, have been distributed to all units in Guangdong, and in addition to Xia Bomin's Fourth Regiment, Wang Xing's unit, which has also been reorganized, will also be replaced with this new military uniform.

Naturally, Lin Xiao's direct subordinate units have also received new uniforms, especially the battalions and companies that accompanied him on his expedition, including the sailors of Chen Qice's fleet, who will complete a comprehensive change of equipment before boarding the ship.

In fact, this batch of military uniforms is the last batch of summer uniforms produced by Nangong Qiang's clothing factory, and other troops have long been transported by the baggage team, and it is estimated that they have already completed the standardized change.

In this set of military uniforms, the most commendable is the quilt, each military quilt weighs only four pounds, but it is enough to help the soldiers in the south to survive the cold night, when marching, it is very convenient to pick up the backpack and leave.

In Lin Xiao's eyes, the uniform style and color of the new military uniform have greatly strengthened the military appearance and discipline of the troops, and are extremely beneficial to the regularization of the troops.

Especially Wang Xing, who Lin Xiao was not very at ease, most of his old subordinates were originally ragged and dressed like bandits, but now, the unified standard military uniform on their bodies can make them always remind themselves that they are soldiers, and there are invisible constraints on their words and deeds.

In the future, all units of Lin Xiao's captive army, except for the special combat team and the troops directly under the headquarters, will no longer issue American-style combat camouflage uniforms, for the simple reason that with the repeated expansion of the troops, these high-quality modern combat uniforms have long been insufficient.

Of course, in the future, even Lin Xiao himself usually wears self-made military uniforms, and only when he goes out to participate in the war, he and his special combat team members will continue to wear combat camouflage.

The special treatment of the special combat team is not because of how many amazing advantages this camouflage uniform and Kevlar helmet can reflect in this era, but the real reason is that military boots, this kind of special combat boots, are necessary for special combat personnel.

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At present, the two damaged Franc cannon ships have been repaired, and the sailors sent by Chen Qice have been taking over for several days, just waiting for an order to pick up the battalion of Franc mercenaries and leave Macao.

With the addition of "Longsheng" and "Qinzhou", the main force of the Eastern Expedition Fleet is these six big ships.

Although Chen Qice's sailors have more than 300 warships, in fact, most of them are small sea ships of more than 100 tons, and the smallest offshore clippers are even only a few dozen tons.

Therefore, Lin Xiao decided to leave the main force of Chen Qice's naval division in Guangdong, still based on Shangchuan Island, mainly engaged in transporting grain from Qinzhou to Guangzhou, after all, if he could successfully contact Zheng Chenggong, his warships would not only have enough numbers, but also have much better performance than Chen Qice.

It looks like everything is ready and ready to go.

Just this afternoon, Lin Xiao convened a meeting of all relevant personnel and decided to pull anchor and leave the port early tomorrow morning, and the large and small ships set sail for the east after forming outside the port.

Due to the influence of two events, he could no longer stay here, and he had to go to Fujian as soon as possible to meet with Zheng Chenggong.

The first thing came from Xia Bomin, to be precise, Xia Bomin's attack speed was too fast, much beyond Lin Xiao's expectations.

According to the original plan, this time in the east, Xia Bomin's troops were divided into two routes.

Among them, the Left Route Army took the third battalion as the main force, with three independent battalions, starting from Pingyuan County in Meizhou, along the Wuyi Mountains all the way to the north, sweeping through Tingzhou Mansion, and then continued northward, passing through Shaowu Mansion, and after meeting with the independent battalion of Liu Xulei's second regiment guarding Shanguan, it went straight to Jianning Mansion and fought until Pucheng and Xianxia Pass was sealed.

The Right Route Army, commanded by Xia Bomin himself, with one battalion as the main force, with two independent battalions, and each company and platoon directly under the regimental headquarters, set off from Haiyang in Chaozhou Prefecture and directly entered Zhangzhou through Raoping County, seeking a decisive battle with the main force of the Qing army in southern Fujian.

Then, the army either continued to sweep north to Yanping Mansion, or entered Quanzhou Mansion to seek a rendezvous with Zheng Chenggong's main force, and after conquering the Tiger and Leopard Pass, it went all the way to the east, passing through Xinghua Mansion to attack Fuzhou, and striving to completely annihilate the main force of the Qing army.

It's just that due to the addition of Wang Xing's 5,000 main cavalry, Xia Bomin's Eastern Expedition offensive became unexpectedly smooth.

Originally, in the battle plan formulated by Lin Xiao for Xia Bomin, this expedition would take one and a half months at the earliest.

Because, regardless of whether it is the Left Route Army or the Right Route Army, although the strength of each route is only more than 2,000 people, on the surface, the daily consumption of food and materials is not very large, but even if we do not count the big and small battles, the mileage of the straight line march alone is more than 500 kilometers, and the actual march mileage is nearly 800 kilometers, and the battle line is really a bit long.

You must know that Fujian is a province with many mountains and few flat lands, and in this era when there are no roads, the pressure is unusually great for the logistics troops who need to go all the way over the mountains and mountains and try to keep up with the main force.

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