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The more than 6,000 officers and soldiers of the Naval Division in the second town were relatively complicated, and Zhu Youlang transferred more than 1,000 veterans from the original Fubo Town and the remaining more than 1,000 remnants of the original Zheng Zhilong's subordinates under Li Chengdong as the basic plate.
After Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and was taken hostage to Beijing, the Qing Belle Bolo used his prestige and the card of "Pingguo Gong" to recruit ten general military officers and their subordinates, including Shi Fu, Shi Lang, Liang Li, Huang Ting, Hong Xishan, and Cheng Sheng, who were originally under Zheng Zhilong's control, and their subordinates, totaling 113,000 people.
Among them, Shi Fu, Shi Lang and other five general troops were transferred to the army of Li Chengdong, the governor of the south of the Qing River, and followed Li Chengdong from Zhejiang and Fu into Guangdong, and participated in the military action of extinguishing the Shaowu regime in Guangdong, the uprising of the righteous people from all walks of life and the pursuit of Yongli, and made a lot of "meritorious contributions" for the Qing court.
However, Li Chengdong looked down on the Fujian generals, and there was an insurmountable geographical gap between the generals of his subordinates and the Fujian generals.
Shi Fu, Shi Lang, Hong Xishan and others lived a life under the fence, swallowing their anger, having a sense of not meeting talents and not rewarding their merits, and often regretted in private for the original Qingqing.
After the battle of Wuzhou and Qingyuan, the Fujian soldiers suffered serious losses, especially in the original battle of Beijiang, Zhu Youlang did not hesitate to use himself as a bait, so that Yu Long, the general soldier of Fubo Town, successfully broke the Qing army's water division, and more than 5,000 water tree power crystals in the Fujian system, leaving only more than 1,000 remnants of the defeated soldiers, and the commander Shi Lang committed suicide in defeat.
In the first year of March of the first year of Yongli A.D. 1647), under the full instigation of the Ming Dynasty, Li Yuanyin and Yuan Pengnian took the lead in returning to the Ming Dynasty anyway, and then successfully persuaded Li Chengdong to turn his back on the Qing Dynasty and switch to the Yongli Emperor.
Li Chengdong has always been at odds with those Fujian generals, so he took the opportunity to give the remnants of more than 1,000 Fujian sailors to the imperial court, which can not only show his loyalty, but also get rid of those eyesores.
These more than 1,000 remnants are all the backbones of the descendants under the command of the original One Piece King Zheng Zhilong, and their combat power is good, especially good at sailing, Li Chengdong, who was born as a landlubber, doesn't care about them, and Zhu Youlang can be regarded as a treasure.
So as soon as Li Chengdong's performance was delivered to him, he immediately allowed it to be played, and he laughed at this remnant in a grand manner.
In addition to the leader Shi Fu and his cronies will be raised by Gao Jue's grace, the rest of the backbone such as Liang Li, Huang Ting, etc. were all promoted and reused.
In addition to the 3,000 or so veterans as the basic plate, the imperial court recruited more than 3,000 boat people in the coastal zone.
The overall quality of these sailors is very strong, when they were originally boat people, they relied on dry food, took the boat as their home, and almost never went ashore for the rest of their lives, and ate and lived on the boat, because of this living custom, so that they can be completely accustomed to the turbulence on the water, even if they encounter strong winds and waves, they can be at ease, do not faint or vomit. As long as you train properly, you will be a good sailor in the future.
At the beginning of recruitment, the imperial court not only offered a generous salary equivalent to that of the sergeants of the camp, but also gave these families many preferential policies.
Households are untouchables in the Ming Dynasty, belonging to the untouchables, and their descendants will never be able to be examined, and their social status is extremely low, far inferior to ordinary good people.
In view of this, the imperial court stipulated that as long as the Daming Sailor was recruited, the whole family would be hooked out of the lowly status and changed to a good one, and the descendants could join the army in the scientific examination without discrimination.
Such a two-pronged approach, the effect is very significant, those coastal households and boat people are all enthusiastic to join the army, the number of applicants is far more than the number of people to be recruited, subject to the reason of food and recruitment, the imperial court only selected more than 3,000 people, all of them are young and strong in their twenties and thirties, each of them is strong and strong, and the water nature is outstanding, when each of them got twenty taels of silver, three stone rice after the settlement fee, one by one wept bitterly, grateful, and thanked the emperor for his grace.
Half of the veterans and half of the recruits were mixed together, the original Fubo Town Water Commander Zheng Department of the Water Division crossed the team, you have me, I have you, after mixing so much sand in the newly built Water Division, Zhu Youlang still thought that the control was not enough, and he ordered Gao Lixun to be the palm seal officer of the Second Town Water Division, and Huang Ting and Liang Li of the Zheng Department only assisted as deputies.
In this way, not only was the strength of the mountain seriously weakened, but the imperial court's control over the newly built sailors was also incomparably strong, and after a period of strict rectification and drills by Gao Lixun, the whole army did not say that the whole army was united, at least it was forbidden to carry out the order, and the morale was very high under the stimulation of generous salaries.
At this point, Zhu Youlang could finally breathe a sigh of relief, and in order to test the effectiveness of Gao Lixun's management of the army over the past few months, he decided to hold a military parade on the river this afternoon.
He summoned the generals and said, "I would like to hold a general drill this afternoon to see if the whole army is familiar with their respective combat duties. The generals should return to the camp immediately, and before the time come, they must be equipped and lead their troops to obey the order. ”
The generals responded in unison and returned to the camp one after another. After breakfast, the barracks was boiling, crowded with people, and the officers and men were gearing up, ready to show their skills. Several old and dilapidated ships were towed up the Xijiang River to serve as "enemy sailors"
At the end of the day, Gao Lixun, the chief military officer, was draped all over his body, and led all the fighters out of the village by boat, rushing towards the "enemy army".
Huang Ting, the left pioneer, led the net shuttle fleet to kill first. The net shuttle boat is a kind of super-type boat that can only take two to four people, shaped like a shuttle, bamboo mast and wooden sails, with a draft of seven or eight inches, equipped with two or three shotguns, hundreds of boats are attached to the bees and ants, and the shotguns are fired in a volley, and the power is incomparable.
Liang Li, the right vanguard, led the flotilla of the mother and son to follow closely behind. The length of the mother and son is 3 zhang 5 [2 zhang in the front, 1 zhang 5 in the rear], only the two sides of the gangway, the inner space, hiding a small boat, with a cover plate, 4 oars to row, tied with a rope with the mother ship. When the mother ship was loaded with firewood, mouton, oil, and gunpowder, the mother ship quickly approached the enemy ship, connected it with the enemy ship with nails, and ignited the mother ship, and the descendants returned on the sub-ship.
Hundreds of warships were like enraged hornets, outflanking the "enemy fleet" from both flanks with lightning speed.
The shuttle ship was fast, and first approached the 'enemy ship', and Huang Tingling's flag was waved, and hundreds of shotguns opened fire almost simultaneously. In an instant, the smoke was blazing, the iron sand was raining, and the gunfire was deafening. Under the cover of Huang Ting, Liang Li commanded the sub-mother ship fleet to quickly stick to the "enemy ship", and the officers and men were extremely skillful in connecting the mother ship with the enemy ship with nails, igniting the gunpowder line, and the flames rose into the sky, and the sub-ship quickly withdrew.