Shi Qingxuan's words continued: "In many previous battles, it has been fully demonstrated that our army's firepower superiority in medium and long distances is enough to inflict great damage on the enemy, but there is also a problem, that is, after being close to the enemy, especially after being close to the enemy's cavalry, the troops lack effective means of resistance!" ”

Shi Qingxuan's words were referring to the baggage regiment, after the baggage regiment was rushed in by Dong Yanghong's cavalry, it almost collapsed at the touch of a button, and there was no ability to resist at all. Chasing the reckless wasteland, you have to be quick.

"In view of this situation, our supervision and training department believes that the training intensity of the troops is not enough, and it is inevitable to increase the training intensity in the later stage to ensure that the formation of the troops is not chaotic under any circumstances.

This is talking about the Second Infantry Regiment, which changed its formation twice in order to intercept and pursue Dong Yanghong's cavalry, but it took too long, and at the same time, due to insufficient training, there was a certain amount of confusion in changing the formation, and it was not possible to complete the change of formation in a short period of time and put into battle.

Shi Qingxuan said a lot, and he spoke for more than a quarter of an hour before stopping, and among his many words, there was actually only one focus, that is, the training of the existing troops was not enough, and the training of the soldiers was insufficient, resulting in many delays in carrying out the officers' orders, and even a certain amount of confusion.

And there is no second way to change this situation except to continue to increase the intensity of training!

As Shi Qingxuan's words fell, Lin Zhe spoke again: "Our main work in the follow-up is mainly in three aspects, one is to continue to increase training, the second is to replenish the soldiers to restore their combat effectiveness, and the third is to train another cavalry company, an artillery company, and an infantry regiment as appropriate!" ”

Hearing Lin Zhe say this, although many of the officers present already knew this, they still couldn't help but show excitement now, expanding the army, what does this mean?

It represents more positions, it represents promotion, who is not happy!

"The cavalry company is tentatively set at two hundred horses, and the formation work is temporarily under the responsibility of the battalion headquarters supervision and training office!" Lin Zhe considered that Wang Luyun had not recovered from his serious injuries, and he did not have a cavalry officer under his command, so he first planned to let the Supervision and Training Office be responsible for the formation of the cavalry company.

"The newly formed artillery company is tentatively designated as the third artillery company, and it will first be trained with the captured mountain splitting guns, and then reequipped after the purchased artillery is in place!"

"The formed infantry regiment is tentatively designated as the third infantry regiment, and some of the backbones are first transferred from the first and second regiments, and the soldiers are re-recruited!"

When Lin Zhe said this, he then set his eyes on Xu Yanqing: "This time we have to replenish the losses, as well as expand the troops, there are many soldiers missing, Captain Xu, you go back to Shaoxing and be responsible for recruiting troops!" ”

"At present, there is a lot of shortage of soldiers in various departments, you go back to Yuyao as soon as possible, this time the recruitment does not need to be limited to our Yuyao County, the entire Shaoxing Mansion has to go, expand the recruitment area, and the soldiers must be strictly controlled, I don't want the rebuilt baggage regiment to collapse at the same touch as the previous baggage regiment!"

Lin Zhe set his sights on Xu Yanqing, the deputy commander of the first regiment, whether the Yongying Battalion in Yuyao County wanted to supplement the existing army or expand the army, it had to recruit soldiers.

At present, the sources of soldiers in the Yongying camp in Yuyao County are concentrated in Yuyao and several surrounding counties, and this time to recruit soldiers, it is natural that they need to go back to Shaoxing to recruit.

"The last time we went back to recruit soldiers, we also left a few people behind, and now we have recruited a few hundred people over there, you can choose a little when you go back, and then send a part of the best to supplement the gap in the existing troops! Then you continue to stay in Shaoxing, recruit a full regiment of soldiers, and then come back! ”

Lin Zhe told Xu Yanqing, and after Xu Yanqing heard Lin Zhe's words, he showed an excited face with a bandage on his forehead: "Don't worry, my lord, I, Xu Yanqing, will definitely handle the recruitment matter properly!" ”

And the eyes of the others looking at Xu Yanqing also revealed envy, Lin Zhe asked Xu Yanqing to go back to Shaoxing to recruit troops, and also asked him to recruit soldiers from a regiment before returning north, although it has not been said yet, but referring to Lin Anfei's original return to Yuyao to recruit troops, then you will know that Xu Yanqing will not be able to run away as a regiment commander in the future.

This expansion is actually just talk, and it is not so easy to expand, at least until Lin Zhe solves the problems of military spending, guns and ammunition, this expansion is just empty talk.

After the meeting broke up, Lin Zheer left Han Xiangfang of the Ordnance Bureau: "I have sent a letter to the Shanghai side, and the Shanghai side will try its best to supply guns and ammunition, but this matter is very important, you personally go to Shanghai, be sure to ensure the supply of ordnance, in addition, you go to see how the batch of six-pounder guns is, you can bring them back if you can use them, and then see if there is a chance to buy twelve-pounder guns!" ”

It was not so easy to buy a twelve-pound gun, and when Lin Zhe exchanged correspondence with Pan Lixuan in Shanghai, he asked him to buy a twelve-pound or even larger caliber gun on his behalf, and Pan Lixuan wrote back that it was very difficult, and only a small number of six-pound old guns were found.

Pan Lixuan was just a businessman, and he couldn't understand the performance of these six-pounder guns, so he asked Lin Zhe to send someone over to check them and buy them if they were available.

After the affairs were arranged, Lin Zhe finally had the leisure to deal with these officials and gentry in Huzhou City, well, to put it bluntly, he was thinking about how to ask them for money.

This replenishment of troops and expansion of the army all cost money!

Three days after entering Huzhou City, Lin Zhe, who had not moved, invited the official gentry in the city, saying that it was a strict problem of banditry, and discussed the matter of preventing bandits, of course, this is all nonsense, these officials and gentry in the city are all people who understand, and when they saw Lin Zhe say this, they immediately knew that they were asking for money.

Yes, throughout the ages, it is not once or twice that these rich gentry have been apportioned military funds, if it was in normal times, they would dare not give it, but now looking at Lin Zhe's fierce appearance, and then hearing what Yuyao County Yongying did in Changxing, they can only endure it first, as for finding someone to impeach him afterwards, it will be later, now, give money first to stabilize Lin Zhe.

So, after some intimidation, Lin Zhe smiled and accepted the military funds donated by the officials and gentry of Huzhou City of more than 18,000 taels of silver, which is not much, but it is barely a little income.

Then Lin Zhe sent troops to set up checkpoints in various parts of Huzhou Prefecture, and even sent troops to Deqing and Wukang counties, which were close to Hangzhou Prefecture, to set up checkpoints privately.

For Lin Zhe's move, the officials and gentry were naturally extremely angry, and the excerpts and snow flakes of impeachment of Lin Zhe flew to the yamen of the governor of Zhejiang, and even some people with the way to get the case to the yamen of the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and even sent it to Beijing.

However, Huang Zonghan, the governor of Zhejiang, suppressed all these excerpts of impeachment of Lin Zhe and harmed the localities, and he didn't even look at it.

Why?

Because Huang Zonghan knows very well that Lin Zhe's county Yong battalion can fight, but it is too expensive, and the military expenses of tens of thousands of taels of silver per month will definitely not be able to be taken out by his Zhejiang Governor Yamen, which is two thousand taels of silver per month plus one thousand taels of silver from Huzhou Mansion, three thousand per month has basically given Huang Zonghan a headache.

You must know that although there are not many Qing troops that can fight in Zhejiang, it does not mean that the total number of Qing troops is less, and there are many Qing troops in Zhejiang in various parts of Zhejiang, especially in northern Zhejiang, western Zhejiang, and southern Anhui, and these are all costly.

In addition, the Qing army in Jiangsu was gathered, and the cost was very large, and the imperial court had repeatedly asked Zhejiang to supply the military supplies of the Qing army in Jiangnan and Jiangbei in Jiangsu, which led Huang Zonghan to no longer be able to take out more silver to support local regimental training.

If you want Lin Zhe's Yuyao County Yongying to continue to fight the Taiping Army, there are only two things Huang Zonghan can do, the first is to report to the imperial court for Lin Zhe, well, this is actually to repay himself, Lin Zhe's Yuyao County Yongying is one of the local regimental exercises in Zhejiang, that is to say, it can be regarded as a man under his command, and this Lin Zhe's victory means that he Huang Zonghan has won the battle.

The second thing is to turn a blind eye to Lin Zhe's move to make money in the local area, as long as Lin Zhe doesn't go too far, then he basically doesn't care, let Lin Zhe toss, he can extort money to count Lin Zhe's ability, if Lin Zhe can continue to win the battle, then Huang Zonghan will continue to repay Lin Zhe.

Of course, if Lin Zhe accidentally stirred up public resentment or something, or directly came to a big rout, Huang Zonghan would not mind using Lin Zhe's head to calm the people's resentment and the anger of the court.

Huang Zonghan did this, Lin Zhe was naturally more and more comfortable in Huzhou, and it was naturally impossible to do that kind of thing again and again, but the checkpoints for collecting taxes were more and more, and in the end, he almost went directly to Hangzhou to set up checkpoints.

While setting up checkpoints to collect tolls from business travelers, Lin Zhe also plans to collect centimen from all walks of life in Huzhou.

Of course, Lin Zhe is not stupid enough to collect centigold in the name of taxation, and the 'tax' involves the name of the imperial court.

Lin Zhe is engaged in 'persuasion', as the name suggests, it is to persuade you to voluntarily donate money to Yongying in Yuyao County.

Lin Zhe's regulations and regulations for the Donation Bureau reported to Huang Zonghan explained as follows: Due to the extreme shortage of military spending, he had no choice but to persuade businesses from all walks of life to donate money to supplement the military.

Huang Zonghan saw that he was asking businesses from all walks of life to donate on their own, and Huang Zonghan himself could not give too much military support to the Yuyao County Yongying, since the Yuyao County Yongying found a way to raise funds by himself, then he naturally approved it.

However, Huang Zonghan naturally didn't know that the persuasion in Lin Zhe's mouth was mainly voluntary, but in fact, how did Lin Zhe plan to 'persuade'.

He is going to let the soldiers go to the streets every day, one shop after another with loaded guns, and the Qiu Ba who killed the Taiping army who don't know how many people will take guns and ask you to donate money, do you dare not donate?

If you don't donate, the soldiers of the Yongying in Yuyao County will not say that they will kill you directly, that is too barbaric, and it does not meet the slogan of the civilized division of the Yongying in Yuyao County, they will send two soldiers to stand guard for free, with live guns and shiny bayonets, and it will be hellish if a guest dares to come to the door.

If you are willing to be donated, you have to write a note on a certain day to voluntarily donate how many taels of silver to Yu Ying to help the military, you see, there are documents as evidence, you are a voluntary donation, don't tell me in the future that I am here to collect taxes, let alone to strengthen guns.

After I finished, I will give you a so-called 'Invalids Book' How many taels of military funds will be donated by the above-mentioned so-and-so shop on a certain day, with this document, the Yongying of Yuyao County will not come to embarrass you for business in the next year.

Private checkpoints collect tolls and solicit donations from all walks of life, which is actually an early model of the late Qing Dynasty's gold system.

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