Zhu Xi will happen to meet Zhao Yun and them outside the city. Zhao Yun's troops are now playing the banner of the Zhenjiang garrison, and Zhu Xi knows the combat effectiveness of the Zhenjiang garrison and the role of their garrison in Zhenjiang, and thinks that they are a strong force guarding Nanjing.

It's just that the Zhenjiang army and Suchang Town are not under the same management of the town army, so I don't know what they are doing in their own territory? Could it be that the Qi Overseer Army sent a new force to him, thinking that this is also possible, so he did not suspect him, turned his horse's head, and did not enter the city first, but came to receive it in person. As soon as he approached, before he could speak, he was swarmed out by Zhao Yun's Hun cavalry, and dragged off the horse like a colt with a rope lasso.

However, this Zhu Xi is different from the several officials Zhao Yun met before, whether it is an official or a person, it is remarkable.

So Zhao Yun asked Zhu Xi to temporarily serve as the commander-in-chief of Jiangning until Old Man Deng came to take over, but within two days, Old Man Deng wrote to say that he was also very high in southern Anhui, and several areas around Xuancheng were taken by him, and he also needed to take care of it in southern Anhui, so he didn't come to be the Jiangning town army.

Old man Deng didn't want to come to participate in Zhao Yun's post-war feast, and Zhu Xi, who had just been picked up by Zhao Yun, was naturally corrected.

And Zhou Luo, the Yixing garrison who had been following Zhao Yun's side, served as the town army of Su Changzhen.

With these two guys who were originally directly related to each other coming out to support the field, Zhao Yun found that they were much better at doing things than himself.

Chinese people have had an "acquaintance effect" since ancient times, and it is much easier to communicate with each other than those who don't know each other at all. As soon as these two direct veterans arrived, the first thing they did was to publicize Zhao Yun's glorious deeds in the past.

With the help of these two, the counties under the jurisdiction of Jiangning and Suchang have been attached, after all, everyone can see the form clearly, this Zhao Yun can even attack a big city like Nanjing, not to mention these dilapidated small county towns of his own.

As for whether what Zhu Xi and Zhou Luo said is true or false, Jiangnan is so big, just run around and inquire if you don't know if it's true or false.

After some lobbying, less than three days after the conquest of Nanjing, all the boundaries of southern Jiangsu were surnamed Zhao, and Zhao Yun and the Qi Governor Army were equivalent to dividing the river and ruling it. However, this governance still needs the nod of some people, such as Lu Dujun in Zhejiang.

No, in Suzhou, another important town in the south of the Yangtze River, Zhao Yun symbolically stationed a team of 500 people.

At this time, Lu Dujun, who couldn't take care of Zhao Yun, immediately understood it, and also withdrew a large number of troops from Jiaxing, and at the same time asked Zhao Yun for a "military marching fee".

"Army marching expenses?" Zhao Yun looked at Adjutant Sun in front of him, suspicious. Zhao Yun didn't stay long in that place of right and wrong after capturing Nanjing, and after leaving Xu Fatzi to deal with government affairs, he returned to his old nest, Yixing.

Yixing is very close to Zhejiang, and just a few days later, Lu Dujun's envoy came to pay a visit.

Adjutant Sun, who was the special envoy of Zhejiang, first conveyed Lu Dujun's congratulations, and then reported the important purpose of Lu Dujun's dispatch to Zhao Yun.

"Lu Dujun originally wanted to take advantage of Brother Zhao's westward expedition to Nanjing, take Suzhou and other places in one fell swoop, and then swallow the land of southern Jiangsu, but there is something wrong in the south, and Jiangxi in the west is also abnormal, so Lu Dujun plans not to tear his face with Brother Zhao for the time being!" Adjutant Sun took a sip, and Ming Qian Tea said slowly.

"Something is wrong in the South? Could it be Guangzhou? When Zhao Yun heard the word south, his first thought was Sun Cannon, could it be that this big guy raised the flag again.

"That's right, it's Guangzhou!" As if he saw what Zhao Yun was thinking, Adjutant Sun didn't sell it, and told the recent situation in one go, "Since Yuan Shikai became emperor, the navy began to separate from the Beiyang government, and after Zhang Xun's restoration, the navy was divided into two branches, north and south.

The north route barely kept the navy's brand with these two cruisers, while the south route used the seven navy ships "Haiqi", "Feiying", "Tong'an", "Yongfeng", "Yuzhang", "Wufeng", and "Fu'an" led by General Cheng Biguangcheng, plus the three ships "Haichen", "Chuyu", and "Yongxiang" that were originally in Guangzhou, and the "Zhaohe" originally in Xiamen, to form a flotilla that accounted for more than half of the total tonnage of the national navy. However, it concentrates most of the new warships in China, and its strength far exceeds that of the North Road.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, since the assassination of Cheng Biguang in February 1918. The South Route Fleet lost a strong leader, and some people within the fleet began to feel distraught. In addition to the financial difficulties of the Guangzhou government, the untimely payment of salaries, and some other reasons, the Fujian officers and men on board the ship have gradually deviated from morality, and have recently made frequent troubles.

Speaking of which, Brother Zhao, you are still the fuse of this incident. Last year, the news that Guangzhou had gathered wealth to buy the Nassau-class battleship "Zhongshan" reached the ears of those Fujian officers and men, who believed that Guangzhou had the money to buy new ships but could not afford to pay military salaries, and that they were discriminating against these Fujian men. As a result, some cases of Fujian officers and soldiers making trouble occurred one after another, and after Sun Dacang learned about it, he thought that he must cut off this sign in time, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable. In March of this year, when the friction between the two systems in the north was becoming more and more sparkling, the famous "Zhongshan" ship-seizing incident occurred in Guangzhou. The Guangzhou military government smuggled soldiers loyal to Sun Dacang into small boats, and after a round of gunfights, captured the "Zhongshan" ship. During this period, more than 20 Fujian soldiers were killed, and then they captured various ships one after another. Disarm all Fujian officers and soldiers and repatriate them to Fujian.

But now Fujian is still busy fighting for power, and their position as a superintendent is very unstable, and they are faintly courting their direct families, so Lu Overseer did not dare to release these naval officers and soldiers back to Fujian with confidence, and all of them were recruited to Zhejiang. But Zhejiang's warships are only those small torpedo boats, where can they put these masters. Therefore, there was the matter of Lu Dujun asking Brother Zhao for military expenses in order to raise funds for the purchase of warships. Adjutant Sun talked eloquently and explained the truth of the matter.

"Buying a warship?" Zhao Yun's eyes lit up, and after a little thought, he asked, "How many of these people are there?" ”

"There are probably more than 3,000 or less than 4,000 recruited by Lu Dujun, and more than 70% of these people have spent time abroad, and some have even sailed to the United Kingdom, which can be described as the elite of the Chinese navy." Adjutant Sun seemed to have done his homework before he came, and he answered all questions about Zhao Yun.

"Such a!" Zhao Yun was very surprised, he didn't expect these people to be so powerful, there were still these treasures in the Huaxia Navy, and he had the idea of digging the foot of the wall in his heart.

"Of course, some of them are still naval officers in the Qing Dynasty, but now the Huaxia Navy is declining day by day, and they are just rusting along with the warships." Adjutant Sun was still complacent when he talked about the front, as if he was also a member of the navy, but when he talked about the back, it was already a pity.

"I have a new batch of goods here, and there are just a few warships that are still passable, or these will be used to pay for the march!" Zhao Yun tempted, these people left in the hands of Lu Dujun is just a pearl secret investment, only with the money Lu Dujun made from selling opium, they can afford to equip such a huge fleet, then they have to wait until the Year of the Monkey.

"This relationship is good, you don't know, now Zhejiang is short of money! It's almost impossible to open the pot. Adjutant Sun continued to break the news to Zhao Yun.

At first, Zhao Yun thought that Lu Dujun was blackmailing himself and beating himself, but he didn't expect that Zhejiang was already short of money, and it was so lacking, "You Zhejiang is also rich, lack of money?" Not really, right? ”

Adjutant Sun had received Zhao Yun's favor before, and he knew everything about Zhao Yun, "Brother Zhao doesn't know, Lord Lu Dujun didn't attack you this time, it's because he attacked others, and he can't take care of you for the time being."

The withdrawal of Lu Dujun's troops this time was not to withdraw to the interior of Zhejiang, but to the front line. This front line did not go south to Fujian to quell the civil strife in Fujian, but to prepare to go west to Jiangxi and meet Sun Chuanfang, who was entrenched there. After all, the internal instability in Zhejiang and Fujian is caused by this one, and as long as this one is driven away, then the border between Zhejiang and Fujian will be able to gain peace for a period of time. ”

Adjutant Sun hit the nail on the head and pointed out one of the most unstable factors in the Jiangnan territory, Sun Chuanfang. At present, it seems that in addition to Zhao Yun, a lot of bloody storms in the Jiangnan realm were caused by this one.

As for Zhao Yun and Sun Chuanfang, which of the two unstable factors is important, Lu Dujun is very clear in his heart. Keeping Zhao Yun in southern Jiangsu at least kept Lu Dujun at peace in the north of Zhejiang, and asked him to take out his hand to "talk" with Sun Chuanfang.

In order to stabilize this Lu Dujun and win over these naval elites, Zhao Yun threw out a Nassau-class battleship, and also took out the "mosquito boat" that he had worked so hard to treasure.

In fact, compared with the Nassau-class battleships, Zhao Yun attaches more importance to the "mosquito ship". This "mosquito ship" is not a "mosquito fleet" in the Dunkirk retreat of World War II, but a kind of warship.

The "mosquito ship" is a kind of shallow water gunboat with a small hull, a huge cannon, and can penetrate iron armor, and is a kind of offshore defensive gunboat. Because of the extremely small hull of the ship, it is called.

In the early years of Guangxu, the ministers of the Westernization faction believed that the mosquito ships of the foreigners were "light and dexterous, very unusual", and "used to defend Haikou, maneuvering freely, and enough to penetrate the enemy's ironclad warships, and were the first sharp weapon for coastal defense". Therefore, Fujian, Zhili, Shandong, and Guangdong provinces have successively ordered from foreign countries. Therefore, it can be regarded as a relatively common kind of warship in the Chinese Navy.

In 1867, the British designer George Rendall created this new type of warship, adding large-caliber guns on the small hull that were only equipped with capital ships at that time, so it was called the Randall gunboat.

The actual purpose of such ships was not to go out to sea to fight, but to serve as a movable battery at sea, that is, a mobile water battery.