As for the garrison regiment in the county town and the militia group with as many as 4,000 people in the township, not to mention their leaders, they had already been leveled by Zhao Yun. As for the militia groups in various townships and towns, because Zhao Yun has good relations with the landlords and old wealth in various towns, it is estimated that there are not many local militia groups who dare to oppose the water. But if the war is unfavorable, these old slippery heads are estimated to fall into the ground, and perhaps as long as the wind direction is wrong, they are the fastest to fall.

And the military force on Zhao Yunming's face is the escort team of factories, farms and shipyards, and the garrison company of the airport. These people were also ordered by Qi Supervisor to participate in the sand, but fortunately, with the help of the monks, Deputy County Magistrate Xu fell to Zhao Yun, otherwise Zhao Yun's fate would be the same as that of Old Man Deng, and he was arrested immediately before he could do anything.

In addition to the soldiers and horses in the camp, excluding the garrison regiment guarding the county seat, Zhao Yun currently has less than three hundred usable people drawn from various escort teams, plus less than five hundred usable soldiers brought by Shao Laoer.

The farmers on the farms were previously semi-militarized, with two farms adjacent to the county seat and the other on the shores of Dongjiu Lake, which leads to Taihu Lake. There are also 20,000 young people in Coucou, but they are all croppers who are used to hoes, and it is estimated that they are unreliable with guns.

At present, the biggest reliance on defense is the arrow tower. However, Zhao Yun also gathered 2,000 people in the camp in Langxi Shimur and Yixing Mountain, because of geographical restrictions, this number is already a relatively large number of people in Jiangnan.

It's no problem for these people to take themselves out when they arrive, but Zhao Yun is unwilling to be swallowed up by people where he has worked hard for more than a year. There were still 400,000 elite soldiers in the parchment scroll he carried, and it was not a problem to capture Nanjing. But as soon as the war started, Zhao Yun couldn't help how it ended.

And Zhao Yun didn't want to be the number one public enemy of all kinds of warlords, so he still kept a low profile at all times.

Even if he wants to capture Nanjing City, Zhao Yun still has to be gorgeously low-key, otherwise he will become a public enemy.

Without diamonds, don't do porcelain work, Zhao Yun prepared two gorgeous means of transportation for this operation, a sailboat and an oar-hanging boat. These two things were ordinary water vehicles in later generations, but in the early 1920s, although they were not comparable to Lamborghini, they were also equivalent to Mercedes-Benz and BMW's high-end imports. As for the reason, it is also very simple, that is, there is no production in the mainland, and everything from machine qì to oil has to be imported.

Yixing and several surrounding counties are the land of fish and rice, but at the same time, these areas are typical Jiangnan water towns, with inconvenient highways and waterways. The unique geographical conditions of the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River and the continuous construction of water conservancy Jing, Bang, rivers and ponds in the past dynasties are dotted with Taihu Lake, the Yangtze River and the sea.

The waterway has become a characteristic of the south of the Yangtze River, and ordinary transportation is inseparable from ships.

After Zhao Yun established a cement shipyard, he has been exchanging wooden ships for cement ships, and has collected a large number of various wooden ships.

And these wooden boats are not garbage goods, Zhao Yun collected them and pulled them into the dock for repair and maintenance.

Due to the measurement problems of this era, these small boats are not calculated according to the current tonnage, but according to local customs, the length and width of the ship are calculated.

Most of the wooden boats collected by Zhao Yun are about 6 meters long, and this category accounts for 70%. There are also many that are more than 10 meters long, accounting for 15%. There are fewer other big ships.

The need for transportation was met by a fleet of cement carriers towed by ships, but in this era, the roads were not clean and the water was not safe, so Zhao Yun had enough excuses to renovate the ships.

Zhao Yun had previously found carpenter masters from Suzhou, Wuxi, and Changzhou to begin to refit 20 small wooden boats of about 6 meters. It is said that it is a modification, but in fact it takes longer than building a new ship, dismantling the ship, reinforcing the keel, building compartments, replacing it with some better wood, and adding steel plates to some important parts.

A diesel paddle machine is attached to the stern of the boat, which becomes a paddle boat. The speed can be comparable to that of a ship, and it is compact and flexible. With a baffle on the bow frame, the Machenk became a small escort ship.

The canopy is lined with steel shields and shooting holes, and the improved cabin can accommodate a table of people playing mahjong inside.

The 25 horsepower diesel engine made in Germany is used, and the exhaust pipe of the diesel engine is driven with a "da-da-da".

Two of the 10-meter-long ones were also refitted, equipped with twin Browning machine guns on the boats, and installed two paddle machines, but they still retained their original sails, and they could also use the wind power for long-distance driving in Taihu Lake and other lakes, after all, it was too expensive to burn diesel. This thing, Huaxia has to import all the products that are not available at this time.

This kind of ship also has a name, a sailboat. It is claimed that they are the escort of the convoy during long-distance transportation.

Twenty oar-huddle boats, acting in unison. All the locomotives and boats lined up, going hand in hand, driving mightily on the turbulent water surface of Taihu Lake, the bow of the ship is like a sharp ploughshare, and suddenly in the calm river like an arrow to row a tumbling white wave, the waves rush to both sides, the momentum is spectacular. Once the ship is at full power, the ship can be left far behind.

In the inland water canal, full horsepower, it can be described as a rampage, majestic.

That is to say, with their escort, the cement transport fleet towed by the steamer transported arms, machinery, and agricultural products to Wuxi, Suzhou, Huzhou, and Shanghai in exchange for coal, stone, and iron ingots, and with sufficient raw materials, Zhao Yun's rapid development was implemented.

As for sailors, fishermen around Lake Taihu are the best candidates.

With the successful modification experience of these ships, Zhao Yun was ruthless, and a large number of wooden ships were converted into paddle machine ships.

Of course, there is a difference in refitting, a wooden boat with a "V" bottom can drive fast in navigation, but a wooden boat with a flat bottom is easy to pass in a shallow draft. The number of flat-bottomed boats is larger, but the wooden boats with the "V" shaped bottom are rare in the south of the Yangtze River.

Of course, the premise of the exchange is that the Zhejiang Overseer's Government also ordered a batch of 10-meter ships for anti-smuggling and tax collection in Hangzhou Bay.

In addition to Zhejiang's bigwigs, people from Hubei and Hunan also ordered more than 30 ships, half of 6 meters and 10 meters. Neighboring Suzhou also ordered seven 6-meter guerrilla boats to be used as inland rivers.

Everyone says that the Jiangnan waterway is vertical and horizontal, but what it looks like is incomprehensible to others except those who have experienced it firsthand.

Relying on the waterway, Zhao Yun has a way not to pass through Wuxi, not to enter the Yangtze River, after crossing the Taihu Lake, into the dense Suzhou waterway, all the way to Shanghai by boat. Similarly, if he went west, Zhao Yun could also avoid the Jiangyin fortress on the Yangtze River.

From the north of Yixing into Changdang Lake, into the Jintan waterway, in a small river in the seven turns and eight bends, through the first north to the direction of Zhenjiang, and then to the west. As long as you enter the waterway of Jurong, you can go straight to the Qinhuai River in Nanjing.

The small wooden boat of 6 meters is perfectly suitable for such a waterway operation. The 10-meter wooden boat is estimated to be difficult in several waterways, but it can be carried by a few more people. It's a pity that there is no rubber boat otherwise, it is more convenient.

Zhao Yun planned to take the waterway to transport goods and began to gather in Nanjing, as long as the oars were put away and put into the cabin, they looked like ordinary ships.

In the past few days, there have been more boats in the Qinhuai River suddenly, neither the New Year's Festival nor any important day, these fishermen with the accent of Suzhou and Wuxi gathered in the Qinhuai River, which attracted the attention of some people, and they searched for serious goods on the boat, including rice and taro, chestnuts and other mountain goods. It was said that a large trading house in Nanjing City asked them to transport it.

When I asked who it was, they all said they didn't know, but they knew that the deposit had been paid, and someone came to receive the goods when they were delivered. But after waiting for a few days, no one came, so the more they gathered, they were all waiting.

Since it's normal, not too many people pay attention. The investigators focused on the city and began to look for the consignee.

"Second brother, the brothers are ready." A fisherman on the water ran barefoot into a small boat. Although it is already April, the weather is still very cold, but regardless of the heat and winter, most of these fishermen are barefoot.

"Where's the thing?" A man with a hat lowered his head and asked in a calm voice.

"They were all under the boat, and they were dragged by the boat. I've just checked them all and it's all fine. The fisherman whispered while looking around.

"Okay, tell the brothers, people die and birds rise to the sky, and they will not die for thousands of years. As long as you do a good job of this ticket, you will follow the young master in the future, and you will be able to eat and drink spicy food every day. Shao Lao Er wore a hat, squatted beside the boat, and fished for something in the river with his hands.

"Yes, second brother! Before the brothers came with you, they never thought that they could eat meat every day, and they could eat ten eggs in one go, and they were willing to fight with them for a better life in the future. ”

"Fight what to fight! There are a lot of big things in the future! Remember, in case you are caught, you can confess the young master when you have to. ”

"How can this be? The young master is so good to us! ”

"This is the young master's original words, if you are arrested, as long as you don't do anything to be sorry for the young master, even if you draw a guarantee and write a guarantee, it's fine. Afterwards, the young master is not to blame in the past, as long as the person is okay, the young master can find a way to get the person out. But tell sù this group of little red guys, don't recruit as soon as you enter, that's too fake, but it will suffer more. Shao Lao Er is very worried about these guys who come out with him, it is easy to bring them out to earn wealth, but it is really difficult to bring them back one by one.

"Really! The young master is so good to us! I'll go and sue them right away. The fisherman held up the penny and happily jumped over to several small boats around him.