The rebel army of the Three Thousand Little Knife Society gathered under the city of Songjiang Mansion, and when Lin Zhe heard the news, he had to admire, Liu Lichuan, the leader of the Little Knife Society, was really able to toss.

After a fiasco in Shanghai, he was able to gather 3,000 remnants of the army, even if he collected the remnants of the army to wander around the nearby area, he even dared to fight Songjiang Mansion.

Could it be that he really thinks that he is a Xiaoqiang who can't be killed, if he doesn't hide well, he even dares to swagger and attack Songjiang Mansion!

"Now that Songjiang Mansion is in danger, our army must immediately send troops to rescue, otherwise it will not only be difficult to explain to Xu Futai, but also Songjiang Mansion will be occupied by the thief army, which will also cut off our connection with Zhejiang!" Lin Zhe didn't hesitate too much about this, and soon made the decision to send troops.

Fundamentally, he and Xu Naizhao had a verbal agreement that Lin Zhe led Yu Shengjun to assist in the defense of Shanghai, but this assistance defense does not mean that it is only a Shanghai county town, in fact, there is no accurate definition of the scope of this assistance.

In a narrow sense, that is to assist in the defense of the Shanghai area, that is, the area around the county seat of Shanghai, but at that time, Xu Naizhao also said that the still wandering knife thief army was also handed over to Yu Shengjun to clear it, from this sentence, it can also be judged that Yu Shengjun's assistance scope is expanded to the entire Songjiang Prefecture and even the entire Susongtai Bingdao area.

In short, how big the area that Yu Shengjun assists in defending depends on Lin Zhe to make different judgments according to the different situations.

Now, Xiaodao will attack Songjiang Mansion City, and Cheng Dù must have threatened Yu Shengjun's military strategy, so it has become a matter of course for Lin Zhe to send troops to Songjiang Mansion City.

"In this way, this time Xiangzhi will take the first regiment on a trip, and then bring the cavalry company and artillery company to cooperate in the battle!" Lin Zhe saw that it was Shi Langyi, and solemnly explained:

"This time I went to Songjiang, although the thief army is only three thousand, but your first regiment also has a large number of recruits, and the combat effectiveness has decreased compared to the past, in case of war, you must not be careless to underestimate the enemy, no matter how weak the enemy is, but always remember that the lion fights the rabbit, and do not give the enemy any chance!"

Lin Zhe knows very well that with Yu Shengjun's successive victories, now within Yu Shengjun, Lao Tzu's arrogance and self-confidence of being the first in the world and fighting invincible opponents all over the world have been generally formed.

However, if this kind of self-confidence is not done well, it will evolve into a light enemy.

Shi Langyi said with excitement on his face: "Don't worry, I, Shi Langyi, will lead the army to fight this time, and I will strictly abide by the military regulations, and I will do my best to fight no matter how big or small, and I will never miss the strategy of the marshal!" ”

Lin Zhe nodded: "Well, it's good to know, the first group is all my Yuyao children, most of them are you and I fellow villagers, I hope you don't live up to the expectations of your hometown fathers!" ”

When Shi Langyi heard this, he remembered the battle of Si'an two months ago, when hundreds of Yao's soldiers died on the battlefield, and Xu Yanqing, who returned to Yuyao to recruit soldiers, later told him that when the news came back to Yuyao, it was a county full of white flags, and the cry shook the sky.

Although he couldn't see it in person, he knew that this kind of scene would not be pleasant just by imagining.

Seeing Shi Langyi go out with a heavy face, Lin Zhe nodded slightly, this Shi Langyi is more affectionate than he imagined, so it's okay, with him fighting with the first regiment, he doesn't have to worry about the casualties of the first regiment.

Lin Zhe has always paid great attention to reducing the casualties of Yu Shengjun, because for him, every soldier of Yu Shengjun is an expensive property, and it takes at least six months of training to train and arm a qualified soldier, during which the settling-in allowance, salary, additional food allowance, and ammunition consumption for training all add up, and each soldier will cost him at least about fifty taels of silver.

This means that if he dies, he will have to lose fifty taels of silver, not to mention the payment of a pension!

If it's just a monetary loss, it's okay, and the more important thing is that it takes time for these soldiers to train, even if it's fast, it will take several months, if the casualties are too large in a short period of time, and the director Yu Shengjun is injured and bones, it will be a big trouble.

In this way, he asked Shi Langyi to pay attention to the proportion of casualties in the zhì troops, and not to fill in the casualties of dozens or hundreds of soldiers in order to win a battle, it is not worth it!

In addition, the First Infantry Corps is somewhat special, this is a pure Yuyao children and composed of troops.

Due to the vast size of China, and the large number of local dialects, often the dialects of the two neighboring counties are different, and this situation is even stricter in the southern provinces, in order to avoid poor communication between soldiers, Yu Shengjun often tried to concentrate soldiers from the same area in the same army as much as possible.

In addition, Yu Shengjun's recruits were often fixed in several counties of Shaoxing, although this time he gradually expanded the area and went to some prefectures and counties in the south to try to recruit.

But at present, on the whole, Yu Shengjun's soldiers are mainly from Shaoxing Mansion, a small number of them come from Jinhua Mansion and Ningbo, and among the above-mentioned prefectures and counties, Yuyao soldiers are naturally the most, and the officer group is basically all Yuyao people, and the soldiers are at least a quarter.

The first of these regiments was all Yuyao soldiers.

Leading such a force with a distinct local color, and this army is deeper, the soldiers in it can be related to the middle and senior officers of Yu Shengjun, fellow villagers and other relatives and friends, if there are too many casualties, regardless of Shi Langyi or Lin Zhe or other senior generals of Yu Shengjun, I am afraid that they will have to be scolded by the hometown fathers and elders pointing at the backbone!

Shi Langyi took the newly replenished more than 200 new soldiers, the first regiment and nearly 100 cavalry sent by the first cavalry company, the third artillery company and a baggage company, and formed a temporary 'Yu Shengjun West Suppression Mixed Regiment' and rushed to Songjiang Mansion.

The mixed regiment had more than 500 infantry, 100 cavalry, 150 artillery, and 100 baggage, with a total strength of 850 men, nearly 300 superior and inferior horses, and six six-pounder guns. The commander of the first regiment is also the commander.

This scale has exceeded the scale when Yu Shengjun was first built, and it was only the scale of Yuyao County's Yongying.

After sending the mixed group of the expedition to the west, Lin Zhe continued to pay attention to the complicated affairs of the trade area.

Lin Zhe didn't have much worry about the battle of the mixed regiment in the west, if the troops with more than 800 people, artillery, cavalry and Mini infantry guns could not defeat the 3,000 knife and thief army, then Yu Shengjun did not need to be mixed.

Moreover, Shi Langyi is also a senior officer whose ability to be regarded as a relatively prominent Yu Shengjun at present, and his appearance in previous battles is quite good, otherwise Lin Zhe would not let him lead the army this time.

He believed that it wouldn't take long for Shi Langyi to bring him good news.

The time has entered the tenth lunar month of Shanghai is getting cooler and cooler, most of the pedestrians walking on the street in the early morning have put on their coats, one by one hurriedly running for life, of course, there are many people on the street who are thinly dressed, huddled in the corner, with yellow muscles and thin faces.

Since the Taiping army occupied Jiangning and Zhenjiang at the beginning of this year and changed Jiangning to Tianjing, the Taiping army has waged extremely frequent tug-of-war with the Qing army in southern Jiangsu and southern Jiangsu.

Although the scale of the war between the Taiping army and the Qing army in southern Jiangsu and southern Anhui in the summer and autumn was not large, the Qing army established a large camp in the south of the Yangtze River in an attempt to besiege Tianjing, mainly to garrison troops outside Zhenjiang to prevent the Taiping army from continuing to advance eastward while trying to counterattack Zhenjiang.

On the whole, there were no battles of more than tens of thousands of people on both sides, and it was relatively calm on the whole, but this did not mean that the fighting between the Taiping army and the Qing army had stopped.

On the contrary, although no large-scale battles broke out, small and medium-sized battles occurred extremely frequently, and they were repeatedly fought over and over towns and small areas.

The frequent wars have greatly threatened the property and life safety of the people in southern Jiangsu and southern Anhui, and a large number of people have died in the wars.

In order to escape the war, a large number of people fled with their families and families, and a considerable number of these fleeers chose to come to Shanghai as a treaty port.

Historically, the large-scale population increase in the Shanghai concession area was during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period, when the original population of less than 20,000 people quickly skyrocketed to more than 1 million.

The vast majority of these people who came to Shanghai were ordinary people who had fled, thus providing Shanghai with an abundance of cheap labor.

At the same time, a large number of wealthy merchants and gentry fled to Shanghai with a large amount of family wealth, thus bringing sufficient funds to the Shanghai area.

Abundant cheap labor, abundant capital, and the unique geographical advantages of the treaty port, coupled with the political and military security guarantees of the concession area, laid the foundation for Shanghai's rise as the largest city in the Far East.

At present, these yellow-skinned war refugees will be the workers of Shanghai's great industrial development in the future.

Even if Lin Zhe is not a latecomer, he also knows the importance of population for the business zone at this stage, the current business zone has a range of more than 2,000 acres, which is not small in terms of population density, but the existing personnel are still far from enough to meet the needs of the rapid development of the business zone.

Therefore, for these war refugees who fled to Shanghai, Lin Zhe was not as worried as Wu Jianzhang, for fear that the influx of a large number of war refugees would cause a great burden to the county seat of Shanghai.

On the contrary, Lin Zhe regarded these war refugees as an extremely important resource, and now the trade zone has expanded, and these newly expanded areas are barren except for a few areas near the county seat of Shanghai and the British Concession.

Since the signing of the Shanghai Business Zone charter on the second day, the entire business zone has set off a construction boom!

These war refugees have provided sufficient labor for the current construction boom, and the development of the entire business district has been put on a fast track.

At the same time, the opportunity to get jobs after arriving in the trade zone allowed these war refugees to survive, which also attracted more war refugees to Shanghai, especially the trade zone.

This is a mutually reinforcing situation, the trade zone needs a lot of labor, and these war refugees need a chance to live!

Lin Zhe believes that the trade zone has the natural political advantages of the treaty port, the geographical advantage of the Yangtze River estuary, coupled with these cheap labor and the capital of wealthy businessmen gathered in Shanghai, the blowout development of the trade zone is just around the corner.

Once the trade zone is developed, not to mention the height of the historical Far East Paris, but the scale is several times larger than now, then he will be able to get great benefits from it, and how much tax will he be able to collect in a year?

With sufficient financial support, what will Yu Shengjun expand to?

In this regard, Lin Zhe's heart is full of expectations!

However, if you want to rely on the development of the business zone and collect a large amount of taxes, it is still a little far away, in a short period of time Lin Zhe has to find other ways to make money and raise the army, the first one is naturally Jianghai Beiguan, this matter is needless to say, Lin Zhe has already let people restore the office of Jianghai Beiguan, and hire foreigners to rectify Jianghai Beiguan, I believe that the effect should not be bad.

On the other hand, Lin Zhe is eyeing the land in the business zone!

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