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On 30 June, Ma Jinzhong, who had gone to pacify eastern Guangdong, rushed back to Guangzhou. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Their attack this time was also smooth, except for the remnants of the Qing army entrenched in Changning County after resisting and causing a battle, the rest of the Qing army and the local armed forces supporting the Qing Dynasty mostly surrendered. In just one month's time, the main prefectures and counties in eastern Guangdong changed their banners again and returned to the Ming Dynasty, and in addition, the northern and western parts of Guangdong had been pacified, and the war in the whole of Guangdong was basically completely over. As for Guangxi, the area occupied by the Qing army was not very wide, and now that Li Chengdong's troops have all been wiped out, the newly attached traitor army that they temporarily supported will naturally not be able to become a climate. Moreover, the former governor of Liangguang, Qu Shiyun, the governor of Guangxi, Cao Ye, and other ministers were all in Guangxi, and many of the original Liangguang Ming troops also withdrew there, so it should not be a problem to deal with the little remnants of the traitor army.

In this way, if the Qing army does not move south in a big way in the short term, then the matter of Liangguang will be enough to declare peace. The recovery of Guangdong was almost a milestone victory for the Southern Ming Dynasty. Since the defeat of Salhu in the Wanli period, the Ming Dynasty has never had a decent victory in the face of Jiannu, and it is even more difficult to recover the lost territory. And now, the army of the Ming Dynasty has completely annihilated the main force of the Qing army in Guangdong in less than a month, so that a province has been recovered, although there is the Qing army itself is not strong, the factor of weak troops in it, but after the news came out, there are still the majority of loyal ministers and righteous people who are interested in the Ming Dynasty to be excited and encouraged.

However, the preliminary measures taken by Pang Yue to prepare for the establishment of the offshore sailor were not very smooth. By the beginning of July. The two groups of people who were sent out to find out the whereabouts of the drawings of the fortune ship and to find the shipbuilders had nothing to gain. According to the messengers sent back by Ma Yuancheng and Xing Biao, so far, Ma Yuancheng and Xing Biao are almost empty-handed. Although they went through great difficulty to find a small number of craftsmen who had participated in the construction of seagoing ships, these craftsmen did not master the core manufacturing techniques and did not help much in the overall shipbuilding project.

In the face of Pang Yue's inquiry, the messenger who came back to his life revealed some of the reasons.

In less than two years after its establishment, the pirate group "Eighteen Zhi" headed by Zheng Zhilong was a maritime tyrant in the southeast region, and in less than two years after its establishment, it eliminated the Fujian and Zhejiang sailors under the command of Yu Zhihao, the former commander of the Fujian naval division, as well as the comprador armed maritime merchant Zhangzhou Gang Xu Xinsu. In the face of this great trouble, the imperial court recruited him on the condition of high-ranking officials and Houlu when he repeatedly attacked and suppressed them without success. I have to say. This method is far more effective than using force. Under the temptation of interests, no matter how iron the friendship is, it will rust. As a result, Eighteen Zhi was soon divided into two factions. One faction, led by Zheng Zhilong, agreed to accept the Ming court's recruitment, while the other faction, led by Liu Xiang, refused to be attached to the imperial court. The former sworn brothers broke up and began to fight each other. But. The struggle ended with Zheng Zhilong's victory. Zheng Zhilong, who had the support of the imperial court, swept away Liu Xiang and other opponents within the Eighteen Zhi in a very short period of time by virtue of his superior strength, and obtained the legal cloak given by the imperial court, and his strength did not decrease but increased, becoming a unique maritime overlord in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty.

After his career, Zheng Zhilong not only monopolized maritime trade, but also monopolized shipbuilding technology. Zheng Zhilong, who was originally a pirate, knew the importance of shipbuilding technology and did not want the rest of the people to threaten his position, so he gathered most of the shipbuilding technicians and craftsmen in Fujian and Guangdong and controlled them into his own hands. So much so that later when some maritime merchants needed to buy sea vessels, they also needed to buy them from Zheng Zhilong. Later, Zheng Zhilong descended to the Qing Dynasty. The Zheng group fell apart, and these craftsmen and technicians were either taken captive by the Qing army or fled incognito, and there were very few left. This also brought great difficulties to Ma Yuancheng and Xing Biao's search, and once, they even inquired about the location of a former shipbuilding family, but they went to see it with great interest and realized that the young and powerful technicians and craftsmen that this family originally owned had already been recruited by Zheng Zhilong, and most of the remaining craftsmen had fled to escape the war.

Xing Biao and Ma Yuancheng had the intention to continue searching, but I was afraid that there would be no new progress in this matter in a short period of time, so they first sent a messenger back to Guangzhou to report to Pang Yue, while they continued to stay in the local area to pay attention to the relevant news.

Although Pang Yue had already expected it in advance, he still felt a little disappointed after confirming the situation. It seems that I still took it for granted at the beginning, thinking that as long as I sent someone to look carefully, there would always be results, but things were far more difficult than I thought. However, this kind of thing is almost impossible to force. So, Pang Yue had no choice but to ask the messenger who came back to tell Ma Yuancheng and Xing Biao to tell them not to be impatient and to look patiently.

Seeing that the establishment of the maritime sailors seemed to be far away, Pang Yue first focused on the formation and training of the inland sailors. During this period, in addition to the original battalions resting and training in Guangzhou, the newly recruited officers and men of the naval division were also conducting intense exercises.

By the beginning of July, the newly established Huguang Town Sailor had already recruited a full number of 3,000 people, and this was done under the premise of careful selection. The newly established inland water division was named the Fubo Battalion by Pang Yue, and the battalion officer was transferred from He Guoyuan, the deputy battalion of the original trapped camp and guerrilla general, and its original post was replaced by Yang Chengyao, a staff officer of the original trapped camp. He Guoyuan is a native of Nanzhili, and he also has a certain understanding of water warfare, although he is not proficient, but at least at present, he is the most suitable to take over as the battalion officer of the Fubo battalion among all the guerrilla generals in Huguang Town. If it really doesn't work, wait until you find a suitable candidate in the future, and then replace it.

Like the previous recruitment principles, Pang Yue not only looked at the physical fitness of the new recruits, but also attached great importance to the quality and plasticity of the recruits. Because of this principle, some veterans who had worked in the Ming Army's water division before, and later joined the Righteous Army, were defeated, which made them very puzzled, obviously their water nature is first-class, and they belong to the tide makers in the big rivers, how can they not be as good as those elm wood who are not as good as themselves in water and can't kick a fart with three feet? Not only did those veterans not understand themselves, but even Chen Zizhuang, Chen Bangyan, Zhang Jiayu and others didn't quite understand why Pang Yue would turn away those elite veterans he kindly sent. But they knew that since Pang Yue could lead his army to win many victories, he must have his own reason, so he didn't say much.

As for the officers who were proficient in water warfare introduced by Chen Bangyan, Chen Zizhuang and others, such as Liu Tianyong, Lu Wang and others who participated in the attack on the Qing army's naval division outside Guangzhou that day, Pang Yue accepted them all. First, after a period of observation, he found that there was nothing obvious wrong with these officers. Second, the difficulty of transforming individual people is naturally less than the difficulty of transforming a group of people, even if these officers have their own shortcomings, they will not have much impact on the military style of the entire Huguang Town, and they will eventually be absorbed into this environment.

In fact, Chen Zizhuang and the others sent those officers to the newly established Huguang Town Water Division, and they also had their own ideas or selfish intentions, and among those officers, several of them were their sons and nephews. Chen Zizhuang's second son Chen Shangtu, nephew Chen Shangming, Chen Bangyan's second son Chen Xinyin, third son Chen and Yin, and Zhang Jiayu's nephews Tian Ying and Li Yuejun are among them. In particular, Chen Bangyan was particularly active, when he arrived in Guangzhou with Yang Tinglin, he learned that his previously captured third son, fourth son and concubine He were rescued, he was really happy, and later heard that Pang Yue was going to recruit officers and soldiers of the water division, so he immediately let the second son and the third son enlist in the army together, if it were not for the fourth son Chen and Yin are still young, maybe they will also be sent into the army by Chen Bangyan. The reason why Chen Bangyan and others sent all their sons and nephews into Pang Yue's army was because they were full of confidence in Pang Yue's future, and hoped that their sons and nephews could also follow and make some military exploits and glorify their ancestors. When these sons and nephews have a career, their own family can have a certain say in the Ming army and even in the court.

Lingnan Sanzhong's thoughts, Pang Yue naturally guessed it, but he definitely wouldn't break it. Chen Bangyan and others were already influential figures in history and powerful factions in Liangguang, and this time they avoided the doom they would have experienced, and their influence will definitely be further enhanced in the future. At present, Zhu Zhijian, the governor of Guangdong, Cao Ye, the governor of Guangxi, and other feudal officials have the crime of losing their land again, and it is unknown that Chen Bangyan and others will replace them in the future. It would also be a good thing if Huguang Town could take this opportunity to get ties with these local powerhouses and get their support.

In addition to the officers sent by Chen Bangyan and others, Pang Yue also drew some middle- and lower-level officers who were familiar with water nature and had a certain understanding of water warfare from the original battalions in Huguang Town to supplement the newly formed Fubo Battalion, and initially built the officer system of the Fubo battalion. Pang Yue also knew that although these middle- and lower-level officers in the original battalions in Huguang Town had a certain understanding of water warfare, they were probably still inferior to those experienced officers of the Guangdong naval division, so he did not let them all hold important positions, but let them serve as deputy commanders or supervisors, and other positions that did not require very high command of water warfare. On the one hand, it is to give them a chance to learn, and on the other hand, it is also to prevent the Fubo camp from becoming a complete "Cantonese gang".

When the Fubo battalion was officially formed, it immediately threw itself into intense training. To the surprise of the recruits and Cantonese officers, the first training program had nothing to do with water warfare, but queue training, and it was quite boring at the beginning, standing for more than an hour, and they were not allowed to move at all. Although these newcomers didn't know much about this method, they waited until Pang Yue pulled out the trapping camp and did a few demonstrations. Then they didn't hesitate and did it honestly. For a time, the banks of the Pearl River and the river outside Guangzhou were full of hot training scenes. (To be continued.) )