Returning to Jing'er Lake from Caozhuang, the fifth battalion of the left army, the sky was clear, and in the narrow river valley road, Lin Jian led more than 60 horsemen to let go of the speed a little, and the sound of horses' hooves echoed in the river valley road.

Here is the north foot of Mount Tai, the east side in the morning in the morning to expose Cui Wei peak tip is the north foot of Mount Tai Yufu Mountain, Jing'er Lake Chengjin Township River, Yuyang River and other streams of the water, in the west of Yufu Mountain, this section of the water potential surges, there is no freezing; To the west of Jing'er Lake is Wohu Mountain. Yufu Mountain and Wohu Mountain are the two most precipitous peaks at the northern foot of Qinshan Mountain, as if the North Tianmen Pillar guards the northern foot of Mount Tai. Jing'er Lake Valley Road is an important passage into the north foot of Mount Tai within a radius of ten miles, and the most important thing is that there is a valley road from Jing'er Lake Valley Road to the southwest to return to Tai'an Mansion at the southern foot of Mount Tai. From Jing'er Lake down is the Yufu River, which flows into the Yellow River from the Gudianzikou more than 60 miles away.

Further up the narrow road sandwiched between the lake cliffs, the road is very dangerous, Lin Mengde and others are not good at riding, this extremely cold weather falling into the biting lake is not a fun thing, Lin Tie let everyone get off the horse and walk.

The guards took away the horses of Lin Tie, Cao Ziang, Lin Mengde, Wu Qi, Zhou Pu and others, and Lin Tie and they walked along the lake.

"The main force of the eastern captives is going south, can Jinan City be defended?" Lin Mengde asked.

Lin Jian frowned, looked at the cold blue lake water bubbling with white mist, shook his head and said, "It's not so optimistic. ”

When Lin Jian and them set out from Jiangning, they planned to pass through Pingyuan Mansion and enter the Yannan area, so that people would go to Pingyuan Mansion Dezhou to stock up on grain and accumulate military resources. I didn't expect the situation in Gyeonggi and Yannan to deteriorate so quickly, Lin Jian was forced to change the original plan, the fifth battalion of the left army stopped in the southwest of Jinan Prefecture and no longer advanced, Lin Mengde and other people who represented the left army of Jiangdong Qinwang Division entered Dezhou to accumulate materials, of course, they had to withdraw together.

In addition to the people sent by the Lin family, there were forty or fifty members of the Xihe Congregation who had entered Texas in advance, and they also withdrew this time.

When withdrawing from Dezhou, the Cao Road from Linqing to Dezhou had been frozen tightly, and more than ten Cao boats of the Xihe Society would naturally be abandoned. The Xihe Society made such a great contribution to the northward logistics of the Fifth Battalion of the Left Army of the Jiangdong Qinwang Division, and it was impossible to let the Xihe Society fall and finally pay more than ten ships to enter it.

The three prefectures of Yannan were devastated by the Dongyu Iron Cavalry, and a large number of refugees flocked to Dezhou, where a large army was stationed, and the Cao Road was blocked by river ice, so that the prices in Dezhou soared in half a month, and the price of polished rice rose to more than 20 yuan per catty, which was three or four times more expensive than usual, and the medicinal materials soared more than ten times.

When Lin Mengde withdrew from Texas, except for more than 200 horses and some medicinal materials in short supply, the other hoarded materials were sold in Texas, in addition to making up for the loss of more than 10 boats in the Xihe Society, there was a surplus of nearly 10,000 taels of silver - the war money was really good.

The reason why Lin Mengde cares about the gains and losses of Jinan City is nothing else. When he set out from Jiangning, in addition to King Qin's appropriation, he also brought an additional 30,000 taels of silver out of Jiangning, and now he still has nearly 50,000 taels of silver in his hand. If Jinan City can be defended, he plans to take the silver and raise the banner of Jiangdong Qinwang's left army into Jinan City to accumulate supplies.

When the Dongyu cavalry enters Shandong on a large scale, it is possible that the price of goods in Jinan City will soar several times or even dozens of times......

Lin Meng saw that Lin Tie was not optimistic about the situation in Jinan, so he dispelled this idea, the silver can only be considered earned, otherwise everything is empty, and the banner of Jiangdong Qinwang may not be easy to use in Jinan City. He saw Lin Lian frowning, and he didn't ask much, now that Yue Lengqiu, the governor of Eastern Fujian, has arrived in Jinan, what should he do next, he must wait until he meets Yue Lengqiu before making plans.

Lin Mengde is not very good at military affairs, but he knows that Jinan is the capital of Shandong, in addition to the Shandong County Division, King Lu's royal domain is also in Jinan, if the East Captives attack Jinan, it must be the main force to cover it, Jing'er Lake is less than forty miles southwest of Jinan City, it is naturally difficult to be alone.

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Bypassing the narrow road on the west side of Jing'er Lake, there is a stockade standing halfway up the Crouching Tiger Mountain, and Lin Tie will base his main camp here.

The original owner of this Zuoguan'er village is surnamed Zuo, and his ancestor is a foreigner who has served as a member of the household department, and he is a figure who is half a village tyrant and half a robber. The locals pass through the Jing'er Lake Valley Road, and they set up cards to draw money, and if the foreign customers who don't know the depth pass through this place and their wealth is exposed, they will directly intercept the road and rob it.

When Lin Tie first arrived in Jinan Mansion, he first sent an outpost to camouflage a caravan to cross the Jing'er Lake Valley Road, and was blackmailed to take half of the goods out as a road tax, and there was a dispute, and the outpost injured four people and detained four people. killed and injured thirty or forty people, forcibly disbanded more than 200 villagers, tied up dozens of members of the Zuo family and sent them to Jinan Mansion for punishment, and Lin Jian directly occupied the village as the main camp.

The Zuo family still has some power in Jinan Mansion, but Lin Jian led the Jiangdong Qinwang Division's left army to be stationed along the Yufu River in the southwest mountains of Jinan Prefecture, even if Jinan Mansion didn't want to really cure the Zuo family's crimes, it didn't dare to release the Zuo family's people, let alone come forward for the Zuo family and in turn to hold Jiangdong Qinwang Division's Zuo Army accountable.

Speaking of which, the fifth battalion of the left army of the Jiangdong Qinwang Division led by Lin Lian, among the Qinwang Divisions that crossed the border, the military discipline was already outstanding. The other Qinwang divisions crossed the border, holding chicken feathers as arrows, openly blackmailing places, and even worse, raping/lewdness, which was not much better than the crossing of the Eastern Cavalry.

Lin Jian strictly disciplined the military, and he could do nothing against civilians and squires along the road; Although four or five bad tycoons and bandit villages were used for military training, in addition to ordnance, most of the other seized materials obtained from the attack on bad tycoons and bandit villages were used to relieve the poor people in the vicinity.

Lin Mengde walked into Zuoguan'er Village, stood at the gate of the village and looked at the inside, and said with a smile: "When I came over, I heard Zhao Qingshan say that this side is just an ordinary mountain village, but I didn't expect that in only ten days, you have almost completely transformed this place into a military village, and the road to Jing'er Lake is dangerous, and the Dongyu Iron Cavalry is afraid that it will not be able to attack......"

"At the moment, there is a great advantage in the terrain, but if the weather is colder, Jing'er Lake will freeze; Or send someone to detour upstream to intercept the flow and slow down the water, and this kind of weather can also make Jing'er Lake freeze, then there is not much advantage in the terrain," Lin Jian said, "Everything must be considered before you can be invincible, and you can't expect the enemy to be undefeated." ”

Lin Mengde touched the short beard of his chin, and said: "This really doesn't take into account ......" The probe looked at the wall, although it is a stone base, but it is very thin, once Zuoguan'er Village loses the advantage of the terrain, it is difficult to hold on for a long time only by virtue of the thin wall.

The five battalions of the left army are all new soldiers, although after a month and a half of running-in, they have some appearance, but they are far from being able to fight with the Dongyu cavalry in the field. In the past 10 years, officers and men have occasionally won small victories, and defeats have been major defeats.

Lin Mengde snorted with clear water, this ghost weather was really unbearable, his nose was frozen red, he continued to walk in with Lin Lian, and saw the figure of soldiers practicing in the thin morning fog behind the stockade.

"This village is still too small, it can't accommodate too many people, it has to be practiced, most of the people go up the mountain for a while, there is a slightly larger valley, the third battalion is stationed there, in addition, Ning Zechen led the fifth battalion to be stationed on the southeast slope of Yufu Mountain, and the first battalion and the second battalion are ...... here" Lin Tie and Lin Mengde introduced the stationing of the left army.

Sun Jingxuan's second son, Sun Wenbing, led forty or fifty Xihe congregants to camel some medicinal herbs into the stockade behind, and after they abandoned the boat and landed on the shore, they planned to borrow the road from Jinan Mansion to Jiangning.

Lin Jian formally established the Workers' Baggage Battalion, which was responsible for the construction of marching projects and the management of baggage logistics. Lin Meng came back, and Lin Jian let him be directly responsible for this part.

In this way, even if the Xihe congregation leaves, the logistics supply of the fifth battalion of the left army will not have much impact.

After all, it is necessary to directly face the Dongyu Iron Cavalry, and casualties are inevitable, and the Xihe Society has no obligation to accompany the army to the king.

Lin Jian asked the guards to lead Sun Wenbing and the Xihe congregation to rest in the barracks, and he pulled Lin Mengde and Wu Qi to introduce them to the recent situation of the Fifth Battalion of the Left Army.

Lin Mengde broke away from the army and rushed directly to Texas after passing through Suyu, and Wu Qi went deep into the Gyeonggi area to listen to intelligence; After leaving Suyu and entering Shandong, Lin Jian carried out a major restructuring of the five battalions of the Left Army, and they did not know the latest situation of the five battalions of the Left Army.

In addition to recruiting people to supplement the five battalions of the Left Army along the way, and extracting the soldiers with relatively weak craftsmanship and combat quality in the five battalions of the Left Army to form a labor battalion, Lin Jian also made great changes to the establishment of the five battalions of the left army.

The establishment of the army in the world was relatively simple, usually with a formation of fifteen soldiers as a small team, led by a flag leader, four squads as a capital team, led by a capital commander, ten capital teams as a battalion, led by battalion commanders, and several battalions to a dozen battalions or twenty or thirty battalions as a town. The town has a chief general to command, and a deputy general to assist, usually a town has a deputy general is not enough, and there is also the title of "a town's first general", each will be constrained by several battalions of soldiers and horses.

From the perspective of later generations, the military establishment of the current era mainly limited the monopoly of military generals, but it also caused the efficiency of the command system to be reduced.

The five battalions of the Left Army were temporarily recruited, and they were all new soldiers, and Lin Jian directly carried out military reform, and no one cared about him, and there was not the slightest resistance from within.

For the sake of convenience, Lin Jian did not change the organization of the sentinel and the capital team, but only took the five pawns as a combat group under the squad, and the daily drills, camping, and marching were all based on the combat group.

It was difficult for the squad of fifteen pawns to maintain a complete formation in the face of the onslaught of the Eastern cavalry, so it was particularly important to subdivide the squad into three battle groups in order to prevent the formation from collapsing quickly after the enemy cavalry was dispersed. With combat groups as the basic combat units, combat resilience and sustained capability will be enhanced, and how much they can actually be improved remains to be tested in actual combat.

In addition, Lin Jian was on top of the 60 soldiers, and a sentry team was set up with 180 soldiers of the Sandu team, and the new sentry commander was the commander.

For an adjutant general who usually commands several battalions, it will be very cumbersome to directly manage dozens of capital teams, and it is impossible to even familiarize himself with the temper and temperament of his commanders in three or five months. Using battalions as basic defense and mobilization units is not flexible enough. In addition, if there are not enough middle and low-level military attachés, the stability of the military at the grassroots level will be poor.

Lin Jian directly increased the sentry team equivalent to the later company, and took the three sentry teams (Jiudu team) as a battalion, and the surplus soldiers and horses of the first capital team were directly dispersed, and the soldiers with poor combat quality were organized into special sentry cooks, grooms, ambulances and heralds, and each battalion set up a special sentry officer to select 30 elites who were good at riding to be responsible for scouting and reconnaissance.

In this way, each battalion still maintained an establishment of 600 soldiers.

In addition, Lin Jian also set up the post of chief sentinel, and the general commander of the five battalions of the left army scouted and delivered the letter, and the chief sentinel was naturally served by the returning Wu Qi.

Lin Jian not only subdivided the establishment level, but also subdivided the military branches as much as possible, which seemed to make the management more complicated, but in fact, after everything was regulated, it could free the command and military attache from the tedious daily affairs and focus more on the war. The subdivision of the arms can also make the training or training of special arms more targeted, after all, marching and fighting involves many specialized skills, and it is easy for ordinary people to become specialists, but it is extremely difficult to become generalists, and the efficiency will be greatly reduced.

Lin Lian's large-scale changes to the five battalions of the Left Army were directly borrowed from the experience of the company formation and the three-three system in later generations, and Zhou Pu, Wu Qi, Ao Canghai and others were very unfamiliar with these. Since Lin Bin's new formation method of five pawns had achieved great success in the training of small elite combat forces such as Jiyun Wuwei and Prison Island Warriors, they could also easily accept Lin Bin's changes to the five battalions of the left army at this time.

Lin Mengde brought back more than 200 horses from Texas this time, and Lin Jian gave priority to the scouts of each battalion. The five battalions of the left army are mainly foot soldiers, and their speed and mobility are poor, and if the scout force is weak, it will be very passive.

Dozens of extra horses were used to reinforce the cavalry of the first battalion.

In one day, Lin Jian took Lin Mengde and Wu Qi to familiarize themselves with the garrison of the fifth battalion of the Left Army, the military attachés and the training situation after the adjustment, and on November 27, they entered Jinan City to meet Yue Lengqiu, the governor of Eastern Fujian, one of the core figures of the Chu Party.

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