The bright candles shine high, illuminating the simple official hall in light and dark, and the light and shadow float.

Zhang Gou personally landed on Jishan Island and took the time to draw a more detailed topographic map; is also the same, Zhang Gou understands more and more why Lin Jian said that geoscience is the way to enter the famous general.

If you don't understand the complex topography of the Jishan Islands and the tidal changes of the Jishan Islands, no matter how many soldiers and horses you lead and how many elite warships rush to attack the Jishan Islands, it is more likely that you will be defeated and return.

As long as there is a full understanding of the Jishan Islands, as long as the periphery does not trap the rebels in Zhejiang and Fujian, as long as the supplies and energy are continuously sent to the island, it is not difficult to rely on three or five hundred elite soldiers to defend the Jishan Island.

In Chen Yan's opinion, it would be straightforward to directly send three or five hundred soldiers from the infantry battalion of the water army to defend the Jishan Islands, but Zhang Gou knew that in addition to not wanting to disperse his forces, Lin Lian's plans for the Jishan Islands were more far-reaching.

Zuo Guangying relied on Huaidong's support to defend the Jishan Islands, and was willing to accept the influence of Huaidong, Huaidong could subtly influence the Yongjia people's perception of Huaidong through Zuo Guangying and others, and in the future to recover southern Zhejiang, Huaidong would compete with Dong Yuan for control of southern Zhejiang, and the role of Zuo Guangying and others would be pivotal.

The gaze must not be limited to the immediate gaze.

There are more than 400 people in Zuo Guangying's department, most of whom are veterans who were born as fishermen and fought bravely, but there is still a big difference between them and well-trained veterans and well-equipped and well-trained veterans.

Zhang Gou has a deep understanding of this.

At that time, the pole master's department was a veteran who dared to fight, and he could be called the vanguard of the righteous army, and the armor was good, but the gap between him and the Huaidong army was very large. Going deeper, Huaidong's system of rewarding fields for military merits has won the hearts of the people.

The materials for the construction of fortifications on Jishan Island, including iron, lime, wood, etc., were all allocated to the forest binding; 400 sets of excellent armor, bows, crossbows, arrows and oil, including bed crossbows, scorpion crossbows and other materials that are in short supply in Huaidong, are also given priority to supply Jishan Island; Six bronze armor-covered warships were quickly shipped, and 1,200 stone of rice grain, vegetables, meat and fruits, and wound medicine were fully allocated to Jishan Island every quarter.

The copper-clad warships were all newly built, and the previous Jinghai battalions had not been able to have the luxury of covering copper-clad warships with copper, anyway, Zhang Gou had not seen it when he left Daheng Island before. This time, six copper-clad warships were allocated to Zuo Guangying free of charge at one time, although they were all small and medium-sized warships, Zhang Gou took Zuo Guangying to lead the warships, and the eyes and expressions of the generals of the Jinghai camp were sour.

Teaching the men brought by Zuo Guangying to operate the warship, the training officers of the Jinghai Battalion were also the first to teach them how to use the irrigation sea at the bottom of the ship, and they were undoubtedly more worried that the ship would be captured by the Zhejiang-Fujian rebels in their hands.

In addition to material support, Lin Jian paid more attention to letting the generals of Daheng Island communicate with Zuo Guangying and others.

In addition to enabling generals and officials at all levels to receive regular military training, the more important thing is to enable officers and officers at all levels to have full opportunities for exchanges and living together.

Collective life and the cultivation of the collective spirit of the officer corps cannot be replaced by other means, and this is also an inevitable means to eliminate mountaineering and factionalism in the military.

If you want Zuo Guangying to be used by Huaidong, it is more important for Zuo Guangying to have a sense of identity and trust in the Huaidong group than the connection between material and official positions; The group of officers formed on this basis will have a more cohesive and stronger combat effectiveness.

This essence of military thinking, which will only appear in later generations, is extremely difficult for the people of the world to imitate and learn.

In contrast, there was also friendship in the army at that time, but it was only limited to a small area, which was precisely the breeding ground for mountaineering and factionalism. The scope is large, and generals are prone to mutual suspicion because of the lack of opportunities for communication; They often resentment and mutual hostility because of the imbalance of interests.

As a result, small groups become more and more cohesive and xenophobic, and an army is often fragmented.

Hao Zongcheng supported the Northern Army of Ji and sat back and watched the collapse of the Jinzhong Army, which is the most vivid example; If the generals of the Jibei Army and the Jinzhong Army are generally acquainted and have friendship, even if Hao Zongcheng, who holds the military power, wants to sit back and watch the Jinzhong Army collapse, he must also consider the pressure exerted on him by the generals of the Jibei Army.

Although Zuo Guangying was born as a fisherman and is not very literate, he can be promoted from thousands of people, so he naturally has something extraordinary.

In the previous joint battle, he realized that compared with the combat strength of the Huaidong Army, the Yongjia Army was better than the rabble.

After staying on Daheng Island for a few days, Zuo Guangying realized that the Huaidong Army was beyond the reach of the Yongjia Army in terms of regularization and construction, and immediately put forward the hope that Huaidong would send a few officers to Jishan Island to assist him in building fortifications to defend the island and training his generals.

Lin Jian was naturally willing to facilitate this matter, and immediately transferred three military commanders from the original southern attack fleet to form a military group, and also welcomed Zuo Guangying and Yongjia to send generals to Daheng Island to participate in the training of the Battle Training Academy.

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On the fourth day of November, Liu Wenzhong rushed back to Daheng Island from Hangzhou, and Chen Mingzhe, who was then the envoy of the Northern Zhejiang System to inspect the imperial history, also rushed to Daheng Island with Liu Wenzhong to see Lin Bin.

Dong Yuan is also trying his best to win over the Yongjia people, and it is obvious that the stronger the Yongjia people are in southern Zhejiang, the more they can reduce the pressure on northern Zhejiang.

Dong Yuan was also generous in his material support for the Yongjia army, and allocated a one-time full salary of 5,000 soldiers for the whole year, which was 20% more than the number of troops reported by Liu Wenzhong - the extra was to give some additions to the Yongjia generals, thinking that they would be entrapded.

The allocated materials were all withdrawn from Pingjiang Prefecture, and the most critical issue was how to safely transport them to Yueqing City by sea - Chen Mingzhe was in charge of his affairs and was responsible for coordinating with Huaidong, so he came to Daheng Island with Liu Wenzhong to see Lin Bin.

Liu Wenzhong is still satisfied with his trip to Hangzhou. Dong Yuan gave 40,000 stone rice grain and 30,000 taels of silver in full at one time, and also sent Chen Mingzhen to supervise the matter with full authority, strictly prohibiting his subordinates from delaying and neglecting at all.

But when he came to Daheng Island and saw Huaidong's support for Jishan Island, Liu Wenzhong was inevitably a little disappointed.

The Yongjia army lacked food and wages, and even more so soldiers; In addition to the sufficient amount of guns and spears, the armor and bows and crossbows allocated by Dong Yuan to the Yongjia army were small, only 400 sets.

To train elite soldiers, the role of armor is indispensable.

In the confrontation between two armies with the same will to fight, the quality of the soldiers, and the intensity of training, one side is fully armored and the other side lacks the necessary armor, and there will be an extremely unusual gap in casualties.

Perhaps not every general can understand and grasp more profound military thoughts, but putting on armor for his subordinates as much as possible is the most profound and direct understanding of every general in the world.

Dong Yuan allocated 400 sets of armor to Yongjiajun at one time, and it can no longer be said that Dong Yuan is stingy; I think that at the beginning, Lin Jian led the Jiangdong Left Army to the north to King Qin, relying on Gu Wuchen to coordinate in the middle, and the armor and bows and crossbows he received were not so many.

Spears consume less iron, and they can be made with wool iron, and they can be built without a pound of rough iron. Armor is a different story.

Not to mention the scale armor, a pair of armor will use up nearly thirty catties of fine iron - the better the iron, the stronger the protection.

The repeatedly forged pieces of fine iron armor can even effectively defend against the accumulation of powerful crossbows and longbows at a close distance of thirty or fifty paces; For ordinary iron armor, the effective protection distance is about twice as long.

The spear is sharp and the shield is strong, and they are the two extremes pursued by the development of military technology in the world at that time.

An effective protection distance of thirty or fifty paces means that you can shoot one more round of arrows or one less round of arrows!

The Ministry of Industry of Jiangning has the largest iron-making workshop in the Dayue Dynasty, which can smelt more than 200,000 catties of refined iron in a year, and the output of refined iron in the southeastern counties is likely to be less than one million catties.

In addition to the refined iron, the manpower used to make the iron armor is also extremely terrifying.

Nowadays, the Jiangning Workshop is making all its efforts to make armor, and it makes more than 8,000 sets of armor a year, and most of them are leather armor with poor protection.

With so much output, the Changhuai Army, the Huinan Army, the Jiangning Garrison Army, the Northern Zhejiang Army and the Ningwangfu Guard Army are all fighting; The Jiangning Ministry of Industry naturally gave priority to meeting the needs of the Ningwangfu Guard Camp and the Jiangning Garrison, and the Northern Zhejiang Army led by Dong Yuan was also ranked behind the Changhuai Army and the Huinan Army.

The Northern Zhejiang Envoy also has its own ordnance workshop, but it can also make ordinary iron guns and iron spears. Without a source of fine iron, without a large number of skilled craftsmen, let alone high-quality armor, it is very difficult to make fine steel knives and steel guns.

Compared with armor, the production cycle of bows and crossbows is longer, especially the elastic bow tire material is difficult to find, and the Jiangning Workshop provides up to 4,000 crossbows per year for bows and crossbows with more than six bucket strength.

Dong Yuan allocated 400 sets of armor and 400 strong bows to the Yongjia Army at one time, which was already quite generous, and even had to bear the complaints of the generals in the Northern Zhejiang Army.

For example, the Xuzhou Army of Chen Han's three subordinates and Sun Zhuang's Huaidong Army, the Infantry Army, and the Northern Army of Sun Zhuang's subordinates were able to get paid on time, while the armor and ordnance were not replenished.

Liu Wenzhong was not dissatisfied, understood the current situation, and was even grateful to Dong Yuan for his generosity.

But seeing that Huaidong gave Zuo Guangying's department, he gave four hundred and twenty sets of armor at one time according to the head, and the worst was a double-layer leather armor. In addition, including twelve large bed crossbows and scorpion crossbows, a total of 200 sets of high-quality bows and crossbows and 1,000 bundles of arrows were paid - in comparison, Liu Wenzhong's heart was a little unbalanced.

Six copper-clad warships made Liu Wenzhong so greedy that he almost flowed into the water, and the thin copper plates covered by only six warships were enough to build hundreds of sets of copper armor.

Seeing that the Huaidong Military Division was so generous, Liu Wenzhong also complained that Zuo Guangrong had mingled with the Huaidong Army in just a few days.

are all people who lead the troops, who can make their subordinates become elite with full armor in the blink of an eye, not to mention mingling, let them shout "grandpa".

Chen Mingzhe secretly sighed: Dong Yuan spent a lot of effort to envelop the people of Yongjia, but in front of Huaidong's wealth, it was greatly discounted in an instant!

Liu Wenzhong and Zuo Guangying went back, compared with this, probably most of the generals of the Yongjia Army would be eager to be under the rule of the Huaidong Military Division, right?