"Anchor!"

In the port of Xiamen, with the rapid sound of gongs, the flag-bearers on the warships immediately raised their flags. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The soldiers snatched the anchor out of the sea, hoisted the sails, and sailed out of the harbor in an orderly manner towards the north. They will arrive in Zhoushan first, meet with the main force of the East China Sea Division there, and then go to Chongming together.

In order to unify the water division, Zhou Shixiang has just issued an order for the transfer of water divisions, and the Yangtze River water division and the East China Sea division are collectively known as the Daming water division.

Zheng Mingjun and Zheng Zhangxu, the former East China Sea Divisions, were part of the First Fleet and the Second Fleet; The original Liu Guoxuan's naval division was the Third Fleet; The original Yang Yingbu Naval Division was the Fourth Fleet, with Xiao Gongchen as the commander and Yang Ying as the deputy; The former Yangtze River Naval Division was the Fifth Fleet, and the commander of the fleet was Guo Faguang, the former commander-in-chief of the Zhejiang Army. In addition, Chen Yonghua was appointed as the commander of the Sixth Fleet and stayed in Jinxia. The Expeditionary Force Naval Division and the Guangdong Naval Division, which were originally under the command of Guangdong, were not established for the time being, and were still under the command of the Governor of Guangdong, Yamen.

After the integration, the Daming Naval Division has a total of nearly 1,000 large and small warships, more than 3,000 large and small artillery, and more than 30,000 sailors. Among them, there are 142 large war ships and 26 fire dragon ships.

According to the plan formulated by the military department, except for the 130 warships of the Sixth Fleet left on the Jinxia side under the command of Gan Hui to deal with the possible invasion of red-haired ghosts, the rest of the warships all went north to participate in the Liaodong War. The fleets will meet at Chongming at the mouth of the Yangtze River, from where Zhou Shixiang will also board ships. In addition to the money, grain, and goods equipped in Jinxia, Zhoushan, Chongming and other places along the way, ships will also be stopped to load materials one after another.

Six days earlier, the "land sealing order" had reached the lowest level, telling soldiers and people in various ways, and all coastal ports were also full of lists of recruiting troops to the north, all of which used "land sealing" to attract ordinary fishermen to join the army.

Being a "lord" in Liaodong has become an attractive policy that exists one level higher than that of the township chief, the county magistrate, and even the prefect, and many fishermen along the coast have taken the risk of signing up to join the army and go north, with the result that fishing boats in some places have stopped going to sea.

The morale of the sailors was high, and the enthusiasm of the land divisions was also aroused. Considering that the naval division had to sail at sea for two months before it could reach Liaodong, Zhou Shixiang ordered that the troops that had previously had been transported by sea should be given priority to the troops going north, so that the troops participating in the war could adapt to life at sea as soon as possible, and at the same time, there were enough veterans in the army to teach those recruits who had not been on a sea ship how to survive at sea.

At the same time, Zhou Shi built the Liaodong Field Army on the basis of the three towns.

The main force of the newly formed Liaodong Field Army is the sixth town of Suna; The sixteenth town, which was adapted from the elite of the original Zheng Xian's subordinate land division, was Gan Hui; The 17th Town, which was formed by the former Zhejiang Green Battalion and the battalion guards with naval combat experience from the 7th and 9th Towns of the Taiping Army, will be the deputy general of the 7th Town, Han Chaozong of the First Brigade and Brigade School.

How to transport more than 30,000 land divisions and artillery baggage to Liaodong in the north at one time was originally a big problem for the military department, but when Zhou Shixiang told the generals of the sailor division about this plan, these generals easily told His Royal Highness the King of Qi that Hugh said that more than 30,000 soldiers are 100,000 soldiers, and they can easily transport people at one time.

Obviously, whether it was the staff officers of the military department or Zhou Shixiang, they had forgotten the excellent organization and transportation capabilities of the Zheng army when it marched north last year. It can be said that the surrender of the Zheng army's naval division not only made the strategic decision of the Zhou Shi relative to the Manchu Qing to exterminate the clan feasible, but also brought various experiences to the Taiping army that had not been seen before. These experiences are very valuable, for example, Zhou Shixiang once did a sea jump landing operation in Guangdong, but Zheng Jun has carried out it many times, which can be said to be very experienced. This saves a lot of time and a lot of trouble.

Suna's sixth town boarded the ship directly at Jinxia Port, but Gan Hui's sixteenth town and Han Chaozong's seventeenth town were organized to conduct a long-distance training trip from Jinxia to Songjiang. The main reason for this arrangement is that these two towns are newly reorganized, and the command system and the relationship between the upper and lower levels are all being run-in, and they will be of great use after coming to Liaodong in the future, so on the premise that there is no time to conduct a military exercise, organizing long-distance training is undoubtedly a very good way to exercise.

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After the order to go north was issued, the port of Jinxia was bustling. The grain trucks that crowded on the wharf a few days ago were gone, replaced by groups of soldiers dressed in red red uniforms on deck, and countless civilians seeing off their loved ones.

Liu Guoxuan's department was the first to receive the order to leave, he nodded to his subordinates, and then turned around and returned to the cabin. This person has always been taciturn, and this time he went to the sea to the north, but he was also ordered, but he didn't have any unusual feelings, let alone anything to say. Staying on the deck and looking down at the crowd of others for a long time made him feel angry.

Xiao Gongchen didn't see Liu Guoxuan on the shore, so he couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head, and arched his hand to Huang Zhao, who came to see him off on behalf of Zheng Zheng, the king of Fujian: "It's not too early, I'm going to set off too, and there is Brother Lao Huang there is the prince." ”

Although Huang Zhao still has depression and injustice in his chest, the sailor is going to Liaodong to fight the Tartars this time, even if he is dissatisfied with the king of Qi, he will never talk about this matter and say something that discourages the sailor. What's more, he is now coming to see off the sailor on behalf of Zheng Zheng, and most of the sailor is the original general of the Zheng family, so it is impossible for him to say something that makes people have bad guesses about Zhou Shixiang, which will affect Zheng Xian, who has gone to the southern capital with Zhou Shixiang.

"Take care, have a nice trip!"

Huang Zhao sighed, ordered his retinue to bring his mount, and left Jinxia to chase Zheng Xi. After arriving in the southern capital, he will work in Dali Temple.

Zhou Quanbin, who was appointed as the left-behind envoy of Jinxia, also came to the dock with a group of left-behind subordinates, and as soon as he arrived, he saw Huang Zhao riding away, and he didn't even say hello.

Zhou Quanbin's subordinates were a little angry, but Zhou Quanbin didn't care, before the big guy returned to the court, he and Huang Zhao were not all the way, so why did they have to get together. Xiao Gongchen, who was about to get on the boat, had a good relationship with Zhou Quanbin, and they came over to say hello. After some politeness, Xiao Gongchen asked Zhou Quanbin about the country with some unease. Zhou Quanbin said that Mrs. took Zhi Gongzi and others to Anping to fight the front station yesterday, and later the coffin of the lord of the domain will be escorted by Cong Gongzi to Anping for burial.

Xiao Gongchen relieved himself and said goodbye to Zhou Quanbin. Zhou Quanbin told him to take care of his younger brother Zhou Quanyun, Xiao Gongchen responded with a smile, saying that he would take care of it.

Soon, Xiao Gongchen's large and small warships also left the port in turn, after all, there was a big war in the north, and there was a great risk, so it was inevitable that there would be crying voices in the group of sending others, but these voices disappeared quickly, after all, the relatives went to fight, but they were in this sad face, tears and sighs.

In the crowd, there was a figure that was special, but it was a young monk, who looked about sixteen or seventeen years old.

The monk had been at the dock since the morning, and had waited until the last ship had left the harbor, when he withdrew his gaze from the sea, and then squeezed out of the crowd without saying a word.

The monk's gaze seemed to be a little cold.