The 12 battalions of the Denglai Navy originally had a full number of troops, and the number on the roster of the 6th battalion in Laizhou was more than 4,000 people, but Wang Zheng found that the actual number was only more than 1,000 during his stay in Ye County.

This situation is so bad that it is the same as the water camp when he first took charge of Dengzhou, but Wang Zheng is not just in Penglai now, and he has long lost those scruples, and directly ordered the original Laizhou water camp commander to be withdrawn.

The 12 battalions of the Denglai Navy are still 12 battalions in the roster, but there is only one Denglai Navy division within the Dengzhou battalion.

If there were a full quota of seven or eight thousand sailors, Wang Zheng could not afford to support this complete set of weapons and equipment and military salaries and materials, so he had to cut them down again, so that the initial batch of Denglai sailors would only have a full quota of four thousand.

The recruitment of soldiers is not a problem, but the selection of the commander of the naval army has become a big problem, and the generals who are now Wang Zheng's trust are either sent to garrison in various places, or they are already naturalized soldiers.

People have to be employed everywhere, and Wang Zheng can't find someone who can both fully trust him and have the ability for a while.

On this day, Wang Zheng was in the study, and suddenly felt a little depressed in the room, so he walked to the back house to relax.

The newly renovated Marshal's Mansion is divided into two floors, and the outside is mostly the courtyard where servants and guards live, and most of the remaining places are the private places of Wang Zheng and his family.

The inner house occupies two-thirds of the marshal's mansion, rockeries, ponds, gardens, etc., and it is a serious Ming Dynasty commander-in-chief's mansion.

Now Wang Zheng is walking by the pond, the golden fish in the water are swimming back and forth as always, suddenly swimming a black fish, Wang Zheng's eyes follow the black fish aimlessly shaking, the inspiration moved, and suddenly thought of something.

Black fish, black fish, how did you forget Jiang Da's stubble!

"Hey, Zhentai has only been sitting down for a few moments, what's the urgency?"

Soon, Xiaocui and a few maids saw Wang Zheng get up from the pond and hurriedly returned to the outer house, and immediately asked a question, but they didn't care so much, and continued to giggle and feed the fish.

Back in the main hall, Wang Zheng personally grinded, and immediately wrote a document and called the horsemen from the Marshal's Mansion to send it to Wuwenhe to call Jiang Da over.

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The current Wuwen River and Jinshui River have long been surrounded by a new atmosphere, and they are no longer as lifeless as when Wang Zheng first went, and the surrounding abandoned villages have been reinhabited one after another in recent years.

Since the fight of Jiangda in the Wuwen River, the official army under the instruction of Wang Zheng has never come to attack, the people slowly found that these water thieves under the leadership of the "black fish" have changed their faces, no longer do bad things, but help the people repair the nearby villages, and meet some ruffians can also help manage it.

About three years have passed now, and Jiang Da is no longer as impulsive as before, and has become much more stable.

In fact, at first, there were more people who came to Lianghe Water Village to defect, and the number of people in Lianghe Water Village soon reached more than 1,000 people.

However, in less than a year, due to Wang Zheng's iron-fisted methods, various decrees were promulgated one after another, and the Dengzhou Mansion tended to be peaceful, and the number of farmers who came back to open up the wasteland and farm the land increased day by day, but almost no one entered the village as water thieves.

After all, in a place like this, where you can eat well and have land to plant, who wants to be a thief if you have nothing to do.

On this day, in the Lianghe Water Village, a circle of water thieves gathered together and shouted continuously, most of these people went into battle shirtless and shirtless, and when they looked inside, it turned out that Heiyu Jiangda and Liu Si were wrestling their wrists.

Liu Si was originally ordered by Wang Zheng to assist Jiang Da in managing the two rivers and water villages, and now he also has a well-known nickname on the road.

"Fourth master, work hard!"

Liu Si's old face was flushed, and he was finally broken by Jiang Da, he laughed, but he didn't pay attention to it at all, and said:

"The strength of the black fish is big, and my Liu Sishui is not as good as the black fish, and this hand strength is not good!"

Jiang Da also smiled, picked up a bowl of wine and drank it all over his body, and said:

"What did the fourth master say, you are a good hand at spear and drill, you learned from Wang Zhentai, these I can't compare!"

At the mention of Wang Zheng, Liu Si suddenly looked in the direction of Penglai, and a touch of admiration rose on his face, but he said regretfully:

"Alas! If it weren't for Zhentai sending me Liu Si to help you bring the water village, it should be the famous Dengzhou battalion soldiers now! ”

Jiang Da patted him on the shoulder and said:

"Fourth master, don't worry, what should come will always come, Zhentai will not forget our brothers!"

As soon as the words landed, the fork came from afar, and shouted happily from a long distance:

"Two village owners, Penglai is here!"

After all these years, what is it that water thieves do not steal or rob?

On Wang Zheng's order, the Ninghai guards at first secretly sent regular soldiers to send silver and materials in disguise, but now they have not concealed it, and they have come to Lianghe Shuizhai every three months to send them, because no one can threaten Wang Zheng in Dengzhou Mansion.

This fork was the leader of the River Dragon King at first, but was later saved by Jiang Da, and he has been doing it for so many years, and now he has become the No. 1 right-hand man.

Hearing what he said, Jiang Da laughed and said excitedly:

"What did I say, didn't the town send someone here."

"Go, gather the brethren to meet you!" Liu Si hurriedly got up, also surprised and delighted.

The person who came entered the village by boat, recognized Jiang Da and Liu Si among the water thieves at a glance, jumped down and didn't say anything else, and directly hammered his left chest with his solemn right hand fist, but this confused Liu Si and Jiang Da.

Later, I learned that this was originally a unified military salute set by the Dengzhou battalion, and whether it was a soldier, an auxiliary soldier or a regular soldier stationed in various places, this should replace the original kneeling salute when they meet each other.

After being amazed, Jiang Da and Liu Si immediately learned it in a good way.

"Jiang Da, Liu Si, from now on, you will be the left and right commanders of the Denglai Water Army, congratulations, two generals!"

"What, water... Commander of the Naval Army!? ”

Liu Si and Jiang Da's eyes widened, and they hurriedly took the paperwork and looked at it, but the two of them didn't know a few big characters except for their own names, and they didn't understand a word after reading it for a long time, so they were anxious, and hurriedly called someone in the village who knew some words to read it.

I didn't expect this news to either not come, but it was so shocking!

Jiang Da and Liu Si will serve as the commanders of the newly formed Denglai Navy with the rank of guerrilla generals.

"What about us!"

Seeing that the two commanders flew directly on the branches to become phoenixes, there were many water thieves who couldn't stand it and shouted questions, and the fork laughed and shouted:

"What's the matter, Zhentai can still treat you badly!"

"I won't treat you badly!" The horse soldier who came to report the news also shouted: "All the people in the Lianghe Water Village will be reorganized into the Denglai Water Army from now on, and they will enter the military register as the main soldiers of the Dengzhou Battalion." ”

Speaking of this, the horse soldier smiled and said:

"From now on, everyone is a brother of the Dengzhou camp!"

"Xie Wang Zhentai!"

"The brothers of the Dengzhou battalion have made up their minds! From now on, Wang Zhentai will point to the east, and I will never go to the west! ”

The water thieves were waiting for this day, and under the order of Wang Zheng, the chief military officer of Denglai, these "water thieves" turned into full-fledged soldiers of the Denglai Naval Army.

Jiang Da and Liu Si listened to the man finish reading, pinching this document, they actually felt heavy, to be honest, they didn't wait for this day for a long time, in fact, it was not a short time.

It's finally time to get out.