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Shou Xian stood at the head of Huazhou City, and the outside of the city was full of devastation, and the wounds of war were everywhere.

Geng Jimao's second offensive was swift and fierce, and he went to the ruins of the Maoming camp in an orderly manner, and with the ammunition and food he hoarded, if he hit it well, the area outside the core defense circle of the Leizhou Peninsula would probably be lost.

The Tartar army was forced to withdraw after only half of the blow was struck, Geng Jimao was afraid that he wanted to vomit blood.

Where the guards stood in order, the women's wall of Huazhou was blown down, and the defenders temporarily piled up fortifications with earthen bamboo baskets. Through the craters on the city wall, Shou Xiang seems to be able to see the hardships of defending the city that day. The fortress outside the city was bad, and Geng Jimao's army was actually close to the city wall in the end.

Jin Shiying, the general soldier of Huazhou, carried Geng Jimao's two waves of attacks and became famous all over the world. The price Jin Shiying paid is obvious, this will shed his human form. The two wars were smashed by tens of thousands of shells, and this kind of experience is not something that everyone can have.

"Shiying, take the troops back to Qiongzhou and have a good rest. Didn't you always say that you wanted to learn Western formations before, and the Jonesy Infantry School and the Federal Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy jointly organized a senior general class, and you went to class. The things of the ghosts may not all be suitable for China, you have a lot of practical experience, so you can have a good discussion with them. If you have something to gain from the combination of the two, that's the best. ”

Jin Shiying: "Of course I am willing to go to the military academy, but what about the front line"

Gao Lei Governor Zhang Xiaoqi comforted, "You and your subordinates are working too hard, there are other soldiers and horses in Haibei, not only you, don't worry about going back and resting." ”

"The subordinate obeys."

"Oh, also, Inspector Zeng presented to Anlong Mansion and worshiped you as Uncle Gao Liang. You should call yourself Benjue now. ”

Jin Shiying smiled, being ranked as a fifth-class lord used to be the highest honor for a soldier in the Ming Dynasty, but in the last days of the Southern Ming Dynasty, the earls walked all over the ground, there were as many dukes as dogs, and there were more than 30 dukes in the four mansions of Haibei.

Jin Shiying didn't care too much, although this belonged to him.

"Your Majesty has thanked the Inspector."

"Go back and thank you, how many soldiers do you have?"

"More than 2,400 people."

"All to Jonesy, where the weather is moderate and suitable for rest. I have other arrangements for them. ”

"Yes, sir."

"Zhang Zhongcheng, how is the situation on the front line in Guangdong?"

"The Tartar army first Qiyu and Gao Jinku retreated to Luoding, Guo Hu retreated to Xinning, and Lian Decheng defended Xinhui. On our side, Zhang Yue and others reoccupied the Moyang River, Lu Zhan restored the entire territory of Dianbai, Li Mingzhong occupied Yangchun, Wang Xingke Enping, and the news that had just arrived was also recovered by Xinxing, I don't know which rebel army it was. ”

"You draw some troops from each of the Ming troops in the defense area to reinforce them. Remember, focus on getting people and materials, and don't fight with others for territory. ”

"Yes, I'll do it right away."

Jin Shiying asked curiously, "Zhongcheng, how many soldiers can you draw after fighting so hard in the past few months?"

Zhang Xiaoqi: "Two thousand can be drawn, Gao Lei beat too badly, he has to get a little back." ”

Yu Cuiqing, the governor of Huazhou, was promoted to Zhang Xiaoqi's deputy with his military exploits, and the Guangdong political secretary participated in politics and guarded the two mansions of Gaolei.

Shou Xu said to the civil affairs official: "Yu participates in politics, now is a rare respite in Haibei, you still have to work hard and urge all armies to settle fields to consolidate the foundation." ”

"Please rest assured that this is an official matter."

"Guangdong is handed over to you, good luck to you."

Observe the order and say goodbye to the civil officials.

Jin Shiying and Chu handed over the city defense of Huazhou after Zhou Lie, and all the artillery and ammunition in stock were left. The Chu army moved from Suixi to Fanghua Prefecture, and Suixi County was included in the direct jurisdiction of Leizhou Prefecture.

Shou Xiang and Jin Shiying boarded the ship and left, an 11-zhang large wide ship full of 400 veterans who survived the catastrophe. They were put to the test of blood and fire.

"Shiying, I also took out the veterans of He Huchen and Zhang Shijie, and you all drove to Qiongxi for rectification."

"Is the army reorganized?"

"Yes, there is a big problem with your training methods, and I have long wanted to rectify it. In the past, because of the war, I couldn't stop, and I couldn't move for a long time. Now it's rare to have a chance to breathe, you and He Huchen cooperate to train a strong army. ”

"How much has changed?"

Shou Xiang smiled, "Big move, from the establishment to the queue, completely overturned and restarted." It's very difficult, and I hope you can overcome it. ”

Jin Shiying: "After the two wars in Huazhou, I was simply reincarnated as a human being, and there was nothing I couldn't do." ”

"It's good to have this awareness."

1,500 horseless cavalry and 5,000 infantry were transferred from various departments of the front line to build the Qiongxi Battalion, which was mixed with the Hainan Local Army.

These arrogant soldiers will cause a lot of chaos when they are put in order, but Shou Xian is determined to cure these troops.

The fleet returned to Qiongzhou, and Jin Shiying continued to sail along the coastline of Qiongzhou to Qiongxi, and disembarked in an orderly manner.

First report to Zeng Ying on the frontline military situation.

After the loss of Guilin, the Tatar Guangxi Admiral Line Guoan on the Qinzhou front, and the Dutong Ma Xiong on the Yulin front burned the camp and supplies and urgently retreated. Their withdrawal was no more calm than in Guangdong, and they were simply fleeing in the end.

Another unit of the Tutong Quanjie broke up on the road, and many troops surrendered to Li Dingguo.

Line Guoan led these defeated troops to retreat to Wuzhou first, and then Wuzhou couldn't stay, and Shang Kexi let them protect the seal and go to Guangdong.

More than 10,000 defeated troops in Guangxi withdrew into Zhaoqing, and Shang Kexi used Geng Jimao of the Jing Domain to block the counteroffensive troops in western Guangdong in the Xinhui area, and he himself led the army to Zhaoqing in person, commanded the defeated army of Ping Fan and Guangxi in a unified manner, and met Li Dingguo head-on.

Li Yuanyin, Deng Yao, the Dian army, and the Lingshan garrison of Qinzhou pursued Nanning and Hengzhou, plundering people and materials.

The relationship between the Zhongzhen Battalion and the Xiying was not very good, and they did not catch up with Guangxi, so Gao Yigong and Li Laiheng took advantage of this rare opportunity to go to Tuntian in the Lianjiang Plain and the two counties in the north.

Xie Yuanbian, the governor of Qinlian, drew out the Chu army and the Jiangxi army to pursue Ma Xiong, which would make money and materials in Xunzhou Mansion.

The order given to Xie Yuanbian was that if there were any officers and soldiers who were willing to surrender to Dingguo, they would all be released. In addition, Qin Lian also had to send some troops to Wuzhou to reinforce Dingguo.

"That's pretty much it, sir."

"So, your plan is to let Haibei Province Tuntian and raise yourself by yourself. And you took out seven or eight thousand officers and soldiers and put them in Jonesy for training. ”

"There are more than 1,500 Guizhou soldiers of Yang Qianqing in Qiong, and they can't move to suppress Li Yuan. Xu Wen has Zhang Shijie's 2,500 soldiers, and I didn't think about where to invest. ”

Zeng Ying thought for a while, "Let him lead the troops to Luoding, meet Ye Biao, Shi Shangyi, and Luo Chengji, and lay down Luoding, it is best to go to Deqing Prefecture and establish contact with Li Dingguo on the Pearl River." ”

"Okay, I'll arrange it when I go back, since I go to Luoding, it's better to draw some people from Dong Fangce in Qinzhou, he is familiar with the terrain."

"You can just look at the arrangements for these things, I care more about your military training."

Shou Xiang smiled, "Only when there is money can there be strong soldiers." In the past, the Ming Dynasty raised the army to call Huazi, and we used all the production of millions of people in Qiongzhou to raise nearly 10,000 army and sailors, I calculated it, military pay and equipment, and the annual military expenditure needs 1 million. Of course, it can't be reached now, and it should be no problem in 3 years. ”

"You just do it, if there is anyone who is not convinced, let him come to me."

"Great, thank you, sir."

"Speaking of the sailor, where is the sailor in your arrangement?"

There is a part of the Hainan Navy Division escorting south with the immigrant fleet, and there are many losses in the battle, and now there are more than 3,000 people left in Zhang Pengfei's department, 1,500 people in Rong Dashuai's department, and 2,000 people in Deng Yao and Yang Yandi's department. ”

"Zhang Pengfei and Rong Dashuai drew 2,000 people, reequipped with Galiot galleys, and stayed on the island. I plan to draw out the others, transfer another 1,500 people from Deng Yao, and then see if Haibei can draw more Lu Division. ”

"4000 sailors, you can fight a big battle, you plan to send them to Chaozhou"

"The old gentleman sees everything."

"Stop flattering me, it's obvious. Hao Shangjiu, the deputy general of Chaozhou, sent a letter, he wanted to respond to Li Dingguo for the second time anyway, Chaozhou is the second subordinate mansion of Guangdong, how could you let go of this opportunity. ”

"Zheng Damu is unwilling to support Chaozhou, let's go. Although all the departments in Haibei and Hainan are trying their best to settle the fields, the total number of soldiers who can fight and cannot fight adds up to more than 30,000 people who need to be responsible for us, and the sailors have to find some food by themselves. Otherwise, how can you afford it? ”

"Yes, fortunately, Haibei's soldiers are not expensive to raise."

Not expensive is relative, the same cost is huge, looking cheap is a lot of land to the soldiers.

Haibei soldiers are given one liter of grain every day, and their families are given one bucket of food every month, and their children who are less than one year old are given half a cent a month, and three-year-olds are like ordinary family members.

Horses are divided into three grades, and the first-class war horses are three liters of daily material; second-class war horses, two liters of daily materials; Third-class horses, one liter of daily material. War horses were treated twice to three times as much as soldiers.

This amount of military rations is definitely not enough, and the family members only have more than 6 kilograms of food a month, and people will starve to death by relying on this alone. The family members have some harvest from their own farming, and fishing can also supplement a little, and the rest of the difference can only be relied on.

Zeng Ying: "What should I do when I can't grab it?"

"Haibei didn't need so many soldiers originally, so when the time comes, some old and weak will be eliminated and put into production."

"Well, that's all there is to it."

The orderly reorganization plan of the army was divided into two steps, with the exception of the naval division.

The first step was to organize the Ming army in Haibei into a defense army, and the training troops in Qiongxi were a training army.

The second step is to train the new army.

The plan has just begun, and there is still a long way to go.

Coming out of the governor's yamen, he went to the governor's yamen to convene a meeting.

Zhou Luqing, the governor of Guangdong, Hai Shuzu, the political envoy of Guangdong, Zeng Zhi, the envoy of Guangdong, and Lin Qi, the chief executive of Qiongxi, also hung up the false title of Tongzhi of Qiongzhou Mansion.

First of all, I mainly talked about the economy of Hainan Island, the two iron ore mining of Tiandu and Shilu, as well as the breeding of horses.

Haishuzu said, "We have found silver and silver-gold deposits in the Pangxi'an area of Lianjiang, and the taste is very high, and the reserves are unknown. ”

The Pang Xi'an silver mine is the silver mine with the highest taste in China, and Shou Xu said: "Let Yu Cuiqing go to mine, this silver is not needed in Hainan, and the two war zones in Haibei are used to raise the defense army." ”

"Zhentai, the supervision work of the two theaters cannot be relaxed, and the various departments of the defense army have gone out this time, and I don't know what will become of them when they come back."

Zeng Ying's younger brother Daying said, "Xiaguan understands." ”

The meeting was dismissed and Departed, and Orderly rode in the same carriage with Lynch.

"How did you talk to Shen Shangda?"

"After talking, we will exchange glass, pepper, spices, precious wood, etc. with him for silk and dried ginger."

"Where is the location?"

"Langbaiao, Guangzhou smuggling distribution center."

"Good."

"This Shen Shangda is very interesting, he said that the adults spared his life back then."

"Ten years ago, you try to get along with this person, we need someone in Guangzhou."

"Understood."

"After I'm gone, you'll have three main tasks."

Lynch pulled out a pen and paper, "Yes, Your Excellency." ”

"First, continue to immigrate, this is fundamental, and we cannot relax.

2. Seize the Dongshui Battalion and my Guards Battalion, this is the template for the future New Army.

3. Help Coutinho recruit sailors from various armies and build a fleet of notification ships and frigates as soon as possible, relying on your shipyard. ”

"Your Excellency, I will work together with Andre, Coutinho and Cai Yuanding."

"I'll be away for a long time, and you'll decide on major matters."

The chairman of the Jonesey Council is not Lynch, the chief executive.

Coutinho's military rank was rear admiral, and the chairman, naturally, was him.

"Your Excellency, can I take the liberty of asking, do you have any major events when you return home?"

Shou Xiang looked out the window, "Filipino, Spaniard." ”