All newly built field battalions, regardless of the family they belong to, are entitled to all benefits and rights according to uniform standards.

For example, if the Nouvelles soldiers only have their places of origin still in their original places, the family docks should provide food subsidies for the nouvelles soldiers and their families according to the standards.

However, the jurisdiction of the soldiers of the New Army is completely within the military of the New Army, and has nothing to do with the original family, and from the moment they join the New Army, they no longer have any obligations to the original family's dock master.

As a fully off-duty soldier, this actually deprived the original dock fort owner of some of his rights, but now most of the battalion commanders are still dock fort masters, so Bao, Ding, and Zhang did not express much objection to this.

Another expansion of the new army was the cavalry infantry of the Jingyuan battalion, because real war horses were hard to come by, but poor-quality pack horses were easier for the Xu family to replenish.

As the relationship between Juzhou and Rizhao became closer and closer, the Jingyuan camp was able to expand to 500 people.

The final result is that the current new army has a total of 9 battalions (including two cavalry battalions) with a total of 4,200 people, in addition to the Wubao owners in the two counties of Juzhou and Rizhao can also provide 30,000 militia.

If the limit is mobilized, the Xu family can get a total army of 8 to 100,000 people!

In the final stage of the Haoqiang Alliance meeting, Xu Muhe, who proclaimed himself the envoy of the Qingzhou Festival, proudly referred to this armed force as the Qingzhou Army.

At this point, the Xu family became the largest independent Han force in Jiangbei after the Great Zhou Dynasty moved south, and also became the first Han armed force with 100,000 troops.

Of course, it's scary to have a lot of moisture.

First, at least for the time being, the Qingzhou Army can only be regarded as a framework, and it has no ability to mobilize at all.

This is not a problem of food or logistics (although both are equally serious), but the loyalty of the newly joined Dock Fort owners to the alliance is very suspicious, and there is a big question mark over whether they really stand in the same trench as the Xu family.

The so-called 12,000 soldiers and 48,000 auxiliary soldiers of the new franchise family were actually Xu Muhe's own words, and then forced the families to agree.

When the time comes, whether or not we can really gather so many strong men is a matter of wonder now.

Secondly, in addition to the new army, the combat effectiveness of the militia is not worth expecting.

Maybe it's okay to use it to suppress bandits, but it should be the limit of ability to fight against the landed pirates, and if you directly fight with the Tartars, it is purely to deliver food.

Xu Muhe has no experience in how to train the troops, and the only thing he can do about how to improve the combat effectiveness of the army is not to meddle in the management of the new army, and then learn his son's method, and after increasing the number of soldiers, he will find a target and let the soldiers see blood first.

Just when Xu Shiyang and Wen Zhong were discussing the management of the displaced people, Xu Muhe couldn't wait to launch an attack on Linzi, Shouguang, Le'an, Boxing, Gaoyuan, a total of 5 counties under the jurisdiction of Qingzhou Mansion and did not send people to participate in the conference.

This kind of war is in the interests of the new families.

In fact, there are often conflicts between the powerful and powerful in Jiangbei because of the struggle for water and land, and it is normal for those who leave blood feuds.

In addition, it is not the ferocious Tartars to deal with, but the bitter haha with the same combat effectiveness as themselves, and the militia of the Qingzhou army still has at least one strength advantage.

They are naturally willing to participate in such a victorious war.

Of course, all the shortcomings of Wubao Haoqiang are all the shortcomings of the newly formed Qingzhou Army without exception, including the contradictions between families.

Therefore, in the early days of the war, several counties in the north took the lead in attacking without waiting for specific orders from Xu Muhe.

And then.......

Then they were blocked out of the walls of the dock fort by the lord of the dock fort in the north of Qingzhou.......

Completely different from the previous battles commanded by Xu Shiyang, the Qingzhou Army's initial cry on the battlefield simply made all the mistakes that could be made on the battlefield!

The first of the Qingzhou Army to launch an attack was the attack on Weixian by some powerful people in Anqiu and Changle counties.

In fact, Weixian County belonged to the Laizhou Prefecture and was not in Xu Muhe's attack list at the beginning.

It's just that Weixian and Qingzhou are relatively close, and from the map, it belongs to the salient part of Laizhou that goes deep into Qingzhou, and is naturally surrounded by Anqiu and Changle, so the Wubao lord of these two counties completely ignored Xu Muhe's military orders and forcibly expanded the unification war in Qingzhou.

The problem is that the powerful in the alliance easily extended the war, but they did not win easily.

Except for a few unprepared dock forts that were conquered at the beginning, the Qingzhou Army did not make any progress in Weixian.

Because it was not yet the autumn harvest, the Qingzhou army composed of the two counties only dispatched a total of 1,200 people, and after capturing a few dock forts, they stayed in place for a few days to loot property and population, which gave Weixian Haoqiang the opportunity to increase vigilance.

When the Qingzhou army launched an offensive again, the local militia of Weixian County, who were fighting to defend their homeland, resisted desperately at Wubao, and after paying the price of dozens of casualties, the Qingzhou army with different thoughts suspended the offensive.

They all began to expect their allies to be at the forefront of the resistance and then go up to pick up the cheap ...... themselves.

Naturally, nothing good will come of this kind of behavior.

The reinforcements that the Qingzhou Army was expecting did not feel on time, but the Weixian Army that held on to it was supported by the lords of other Wubao in other places.

A few days outside the walls of Dunzuwu Fort, the Qingzhou army, which had eaten up most of the food it carried, began to retreat.

By this time, although the Qingzhou Army's operations in Weixian had not made much progress, it had not suffered any losses.

However, the new members of these alliances simply overestimate their ability to control their forces.

Retreating in front of the enemy is something that can be done if you want to?

In the process of retreating, the Qingzhou Army did not arrange a strong rearguard force - or rather, the Qingzhou Military Dock Fort Owners with their own ghosts did not arrange a rearguard at all.

As a result, when the Haoqiang army of Weixian had the courage to launch a counterattack, the Qingzhou army from Anqiu and Changle directly collapsed .......

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Juzhou, Xu Muhe camp.

Since the beginning of the Qingzhou Alliance Conference, Xu Muhe has moved the base camp of the Xu family from the first tun to the county seat of Juzhou.

The real main force of the Qingzhou Army: including 4,200 New Army, 5,000 Xujia militia, and 5,000 Rizhao militia, nearly 15,000 people are assembled here.

In the restored former Juzhou County Ya, the field battalion commanders, the owners of the dock fort or the management of the dock fort from Juzhou and Rizhao gathered here to listen to the battle report.

"The offense didn't go well."

A clerk held the report sent by the herald and read aloud to the real core of the Qingzhou Army:

"Weixian direction captured 3 dock forts, but because reinforcements have not arrived, our army has collapsed, I don't know how many casualties there are, but it is estimated that it will not be less than 500!"

"They should be thankful that there are no cavalry in Weixian Wubao." Xu Muhe commented coldly: "As long as there are 200 horsemen, none of those fools can escape!" ”

The scrivener raised his head and glanced at the head of the house, and found that he had no intention of continuing to comment, so he continued:

"The offensive in the direction of Linzi and Shouguang also made no progress, and everyone in our army froze."

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