In the early hours of the next morning.

Bao Dayou stayed behind to guard the pass, and Song Che and Jiang Yuntian led a small team to escort Wang Biao back to Yancheng.

"Brother Song, what kind of official should I ask for this time?" Jiang Yuntian was full of longing.

Song Che asked: "Brother Jiang has always been a sword in the world, free and easy, why is he pursuing his career so much now?" ”

It's not easy to be an official, the older the official, the more sophisticated the person, with Jiang Daxia's straightforward personality, he is actually not suitable for being an official.

Jiang Yuntian thought for a long time before he said: "It's not that I am very eager to be an official, I just feel that I have put in the effort, and I should always have something in return, otherwise what is the difference between that and cattle and horses?" ”

Yes, people always have to do something, businessmen want profits, scholars want fame, and soldiers want generals.

From the moment man is born and has thoughts, he is destined to have desires, and it is preferable to face his desires directly than to deliberately suppress them. After all, not everyone can be transcendent. Or that no one can be transcendent.

Song Che said with a smile: "When you make great achievements and become a peerless general, I will fulfill my promise that day and send you the most beautiful woman in the world as a wife." ”

"I believe you have this ability, but there are so many women in the world, how do you know who is the most beautiful?"

"What you like is the most beautiful."

"That's a good thing to hear."

……

In one day, three levels were broken in a row.

The good news has already spread all over Yancheng.

The people went out of the city to greet each other, cheering for the long-lost victory, and wearing flowers for the triumphant heroes.

Jiang Yuntian and the soldiers opened their hearts to welcome love, while Song Che hid in the team, he was much shorter on a donkey than a horse, but even so, he was also a "standout" in this army.

Similarly, there was a young woman standing in the middle of the crowd, her appearance was astonishing, she smiled, and every move took others as a foil.

Ning Yehong only stared at Song Che, intending to confess with her eyes, but Song Che failed to look at her from beginning to end, and she never turned her head.

The long-awaited encounter ended in loss, and she sighed secretly and turned around and disappeared into the sea of people. At this moment, Song Che turned her head and wanted to make up for her indifference, but there were too many people in the crowd, even if she was beautiful, she couldn't find it.

Back to the barracks.

The civilian and military generals who had doubts about Song Che were completely convinced, and from then on, no matter the generals and soldiers in the army, they were willing to call him a "white-faced military teacher".

Jiang Yuntian bravely crowned the three armies, Bao Dayousheng captured Wang Biao, and the Yangzhou army killed the enemy's soldiers, all recorded outstanding military exploits, and waited for the complete victory of the anti-Japanese army, and then reported to the imperial court to award official medals.

Song Che shirked all the credit, for a businessman, adding an official to a knight is just a false name, and the benefits are real.

The reason why he came to fight against the Japanese was to protect his family and defend the country, and to expand business was second.

Salt is such a lucrative business, and he naturally wants a piece of the pie.

On the day of the victory of Longkou Port, under Song Che's strategy, Yancheng sent 8,000 horse infantry to replace the Yangzhou army and blockade all parts of Longkou Mountain.

Whenever the southeast wind blows, it will be smoked at the foot of the mountain, the purpose is to smoke away all the animals on the mountain, the Japanese invaders fled in the mountains, lack of food and clothing, and the weather is cold and frozen, at most within half a month will raise their hands to surrender, even if they do not surrender, they will lose their combat effectiveness, and then enter the mountain to sweep, and they can easily be annihilated.

The two Japanese leaders who fled up the mountain, Wang Li is Wang Biao's biological father, and also the brother of the big pirate Wang Zhi, the bearded man is called Zheng Tong, who was with Wang Li in Xiliang Congrong in the past, and then returned to the field to run a shipping business with Wang Zhi.

According to Wang Biao's confession, there are now three pirates, one is called Xu Tao, who scourges Hebei and Jingdong; one is called Zeng Qi, who plagued Fujian and Guangdong; the other is Wang Zhi, entrenched in Huainan and Liangzhejiang;

Among the three major pirates, Wang Zhi's power is undoubtedly the largest, the pirates raised are enough to compete with any of the sailors of the Great Liang, his people are insidious and cunning, his whereabouts are changeable, not only good at disguising his identity, but also secretly colluding with merchants and ronins to rob and smuggle, black and white are all eaten, and in the heyday almost monopolized the entire Jiangnan shipping;

For this reason, Daliang sent troops to fight against pirates many times, thus promulgating a ban on the sea, although it curbed the development of piracy in a short time, but also greatly reduced the living space of the people on the seaside;

Wang Zhi took advantage of the chaos to revolt, wantonly co-opted the sea people and ronins, and colluded with the Dongying Japanese soldiers, transformed from pirates, turned into warlords with fleets and formations, burned and looted in the coastal areas, and captured ports, thus triggering the current "Japanese Rebellion".

Wang Zhi's whereabouts are extremely secretive, the fleet he raises is distributed on various sandbanks overseas, and there is no accurate positioning in the contemporary era, and the planning of the coastal islands is incomplete.

If you want to take the initiative to find out this pirate leader, which is not impressive in the current situation, then the only way to let him show himself is the only way.

Wang Li and Wang Biao are Wang Zhi's relatives, if they can be used as hostages to make some articles, they may be able to lure the snake out of the hole.

But in any case, the only way to completely exterminate the Japanese is to build a more powerful sailor than them.

Now that the war in the northwest of Daliang has ended, and the war situation in the north has also stabilized, it is really not difficult to shift the strategic focus to the coast and exterminate a gang of Japanese robbers with the strength of a great power.

And if you want to build a strong naval division, the quality of sailors, weapons and equipment, and strategic guidelines are indispensable.

About military training -

Song Che's strategy was that the whole military camp, regardless of the officers and generals, would practice together, ten kilometers in the morning and evening, and Jiang Yuntian and other coaches would be responsible for teaching fists, kicks and fighting skills;

It also carried out various competitions in the army, such as high jump, long jump, sprint, long-distance running, and keju. If there is a reward, there is motivation, and whoever wins the championship will be rewarded with a fat pig, and so on.

All in all, in the era of cold weapons, as long as the soldiers are not afraid of hardship, tiredness, or death, and improve their physical fitness and fighting spirit, it is difficult to defeat the battle;

About the equipment -

In addition to the mass production of muskets, as well as the artillery that Song Che was developing, warships were also indispensable;

Nowadays, there are many Japanese robbers along the coast, and even if several major shipyards work around the clock, it is difficult to meet the needs of the war;

Song Che adopted the strategy of "military-civilian cooperation", with the government paying for the private shipbuilding. He also used his authority as the president of the chamber of commerce to connect the military with the big commercial houses in the south of the Yangtze River that were engaged in shipping and freight business.

In this way, he, as the president, fulfilled his promise to bring his members to prosperity, filled the loopholes in the military industry, and more noblely, strengthened the determination of the military and the people to fight against foreign enemies.

About the strategy –

In the first step, when the Longkou Mountain Bandits subsided, Longkou Port was rebuilt, and the Chuzhou Navy Division waved its troops south to aid Taizhou and Tongzhou;

In the second step, the two Zhejiang naval divisions went north along the coast, echoed with the Huainan naval division in the north and south, and pulled through and cleared the entire defense line along the south coast of the Yangtze River;

The third step is to diverge outward from the coastline, expel the sandbars and the entrenched pirates on the archipelago, and build an inland island chain.

War strategy is only one of them, and people's livelihood strategy is even more important.

Only by lifting the sea ban, opening up customs, and returning the jobs of the sea people to them can the fundamental contradictions be resolved.

However, this matter has been related to the national policy, and it lies in the Emperor of Heaven, Song Che and a businessman, even if Gao Chen responds, but the officialdom is impermanent, the party is changeable, and some things seem to be clear, but in fact they are dark and deep, and it is difficult to make a final decision.