Chapter 157: The Great Expansion of the Army (Ask for Subscription!) )
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Although the land of Jeju, Dongping, and Dongchang is good, they are not occupied by Li Yan now, because the current Li Yan can't hold it at all, you know, although Zhao Ji has all kinds of masterpieces, but the huge family foundation he laid in his previous predecessors is still there, the Northern Song Dynasty still has at least more than 100,000 or 200,000 forbidden troops, and the most important thing is that the Northern Song Dynasty still has a Western army that can fight well, if Li Yan divides the territory, so that the Northern Song Dynasty makes up its mind to exterminate Li Yan, Li Yan will most likely be the same as Fang La, who gathered more than 100,000 people to divide 52 counties in six states a few years later. It won't last long before it will be exterminated.
To put it bluntly, the current Northern Song Dynasty has not yet reached the time of the fall of the country, and the occupation of the state capital at this time has no benefit except to attract firepower.
Therefore, this kind of stupid thing, whoever wants to do it, Li Yan doesn't do it anyway.
Not only that, Li Yan was even ready to shift his focus to Jeju Island, once the Northern Song Dynasty came to suppress Li Yan's momentum so great that Li Yan felt that it was difficult to resist, Li Yan would lead a group of Liangshan heroes to temporarily retreat to Jeju Island.
All in all, it is not soft to rob Li Yan of his designation, otherwise he will not be able to develop, but at this stage, Li Yan is not ready to wrestle with the Northern Song Dynasty, because the gap between the two sides is too big.
Based on this basic idea, after transporting all the seizures of the land of Sanfu back to Shuibo Liangshan, Li Yan immediately distributed the grain.
With the enthusiasm of grain distribution, Li Yan began to recruit soldiers and requisition peasant households who had cleared the wasteland.
What Li Yan didn't expect was that the former was quite smooth, and it didn't take much effort to recruit 10,000 good soldiers and seedlings in the three places (3,000 in Jeju Prefecture, 5,000 in Dongping Prefecture, and 2,000 in Dongchang Prefecture) with excellent conditions in all aspects, but the conquest of peasant households was not so smooth, and the three prefectures were added together, and only more than 12,000 households were recruited.
Later, after Wen Huanzhang reminded him, Li Yan understood what was wrong, most of the people living in these three prefectures were urbanized population, and it was naturally not smooth to recruit peasant households among them.
If it weren't for the fact that Li Yan distributed the grain first, and offered super preferential conditions such as rent-free later, coupled with the good reputation and credit of Li Yan and Shuibo Liangshan in the past, many poor families who really couldn't get on were moved, and Li Yan couldn't even recruit 12,000 households.
In the Song Dynasty, each household averaged about five people, so 12,000 households were about 60,000 people.
Although these people are not enough to feed the 600,000 people of Jeju Island, they are barely enough for the Han people to gain a foothold on Jeju Island at this stage.
After sending these people back to Supo Yangsan, the navy immediately transported them to Jeju Island in batches.
It's a long process, so I won't go into details.
At the same time, Li Yan ordered: expand the armament war.
Due to the superior conditions this time, Li Yan directly expanded the 10 battalions of the horse army, the 12 battalions of the infantry army, the 10 battalion of the naval army, the 10 battalion of the reserve, the two battalions of the artillery army, and the first battalion of the personal guard army, with a total of 22,500 men and horses.
The commanders of the 10th Battalion of the Horse Army were: Lin Chong, Bian Xiang, Shan Shiqi, Shi Bao, Xu Ning, Yang Zhi, Qiu Yue, Zhou Ang, Hu Chun, and Zhang Qing.
Lin Chong and Bian Xiang turned out to be the commanders of the Ma Army, and there is naturally nothing to say about serving as the commander of the Ma Army this time, the only thing that can be said is that on the basis of the command, Li Yan promoted them to the commander, Lin Chong was the commander of the First Army of the Ma Army, and Bian Xiang was the commander of the Second Army of the Ma Army.
Shan Shiqi was picked up by Li Yan in the battle of Guo Yong in Dongping Mansion, and then Li Yan was angry, and he was restored, who let Shan Shiqi be Li Yan's old brother when he started, but don't think about it, not only the commander does not have his share, but even the deputy commander does not have his share, and the deputy commander Li Yan respectively let Yang Zhi, who performed very well in the battle of Dongchang Mansion, and Shi Bao, who has been guarding Jeju Island for Shuibo Liangshan Town, serve as the deputy commander.
As for why Qiu Yue, Zhou Ang, and Hu Chun were also promoted as conductors, it was because the three of them were so easy to use!
Let's not talk about opening the door of Jeju City.
Except for the third battalion of the Ma Army, there were no major battles in Dongping Mansion, and there was no such thing as a big fight.
Just talk about the battle in Dongchangfu.
In that battle, Li Yandu was ready to withdraw from Dongchang Mansion, and later Lin Chong took Bian Xiang, Xu Ning, Yang Zhi, Qiu Yue, Zhou Ang, Hu Chun, Shan Shiqi and a group of horse troops to kill in the rain of arrows, and defeated the Dongchang defenders.
And it was in that battle that Qiu Yue, Zhou Ang, and Hu Chun always rushed to the front, they even crossed Lin Chong, and finally Dongchang Taishou was hacked to death by Hu Chun, and after the war, Zhou Ang was hit by three arrows, and Qiu Yue and Hu Chun were each hit by one arrow.
In addition to fighting bravely and taking the lead, Qiu Yue, Zhou Ang, and Hu Chun are also extremely obedient, it can be said that Li Yan let them go to the east, they will never go to the west, Li Yan let them beat dogs, they will never scold chickens, and Dong Ping's unruly guy is a world of difference.
In this case, if Li Yan didn't promote the three of them, I am afraid that there would never be a general who would really work for Li Yan.
Therefore, Li Yan took the risk of promoting all three of them to the leading generals.
As for Zhang Qing, whether he wants to or not, he opened the door of Dongchang Mansion for Li Yan, and like Qiu Yue, Zhou Ang, and Hu Chun, he accepted the name of the vote, and there was no way back, so he could only run to the black with Li Yan.
In addition, Dong Ping's defection, Li Yan had to give confidence to the generals, so Li Yan also promoted Zhang Qing to command - this is also one of the reasons why Li Yan promoted Qiu Yue and other generals.
The specific arrangements are as follows:
The First Army of the Ma Army: Commander Lin Chong, deputy leader Yang Zhi, under the jurisdiction of Xu Ning Battalion, Qiu Yue Battalion, and Zhang Qing Battalion.
The Second Army of the Ma Army: Commander Bian Xiang, deputy leader Shi Bao, under the jurisdiction of Zhou Ang Battalion, Hu Chun Battalion, and Shan Shiqi Battalion.
The commanders of the 12th Infantry Battalion were: Guang Hui, Deng Fei, Lu Zhishen, Zhu Jing, Ou Peng, Yang Lin, Zhu Sheng, Ma Lin, Cheng Ziming, Peng Xi, and Han Tao (who had surrendered under the persuasion of Peng Xi and his family, and had paid the certificate of surrender).
Among them, Guanghui led two battalions alone, mainly responsible for garrisoning, and it was easy not to fight.
The First Army of the Infantry Army: Commander Deng Fei, Deputy Commander Zhu Jing, under the jurisdiction of the Camp of Zhu Qi, the Camp of Ma Lin, and the Camp of Peng Xi.
The Second Army of the Infantry Army: Commander Lu Zhishen, Deputy Commander Ou Peng, Yang Lin Battalion, Cheng Ziming Battalion, and Han Tao Battalion.
The navy is simple, Ruan Xiaoer, Ruan Xiaowu, Zhang Shun, Tong Wei, and Tong Meng (who finally survived) each carry two battalions of sailors, four large ships with a load of 50,000 stones, 30 large ships with a load of 10,000 stones, and a number of small boats.
Needless to say, the reserve of the tenth battalion was still led by Du Qian and Song Wantong.
The artillery corps of the two battalions was led by Ling Zhen.
The pro-guard army, commander Chen Liqing, deputy commanders Ruan Xiaoqi, Ma Ling, Wang Dingliu.
The Mabu Water Cannon pro-army is built with the old soldiers of the former Liangshan Army as the skeleton, and all the troops take turns to receive basic training in the reserve and receive the education of the teaching office.
Seeing that the Great Song Dynasty had not moved, Li Yan sent Zhang San, Li Si, and Sun Gao to Bianliang, Tokyo to find out, when will they come to encircle and suppress themselves again?
As a result, Zhang San, Li Si, and Sun Gao sent back a message to Li Yan that made Li Yan cry and laugh and rejoice......
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