Lord of the House: Chapter 5 Armor

The deliberations in the Admiralty's Mansion cannot be considered pleasant, and everyone has their own calculations in their hearts.

Yue Lengqiu made up his mind to move westward as soon as possible to avoid the main force of the Eastern cavalry.

Yue Lengqiu tried to pull Lin Fu to lead the fifth battalion of the left army of Jiangdong Qin Wang's division to move westward with him, in order to weaken the internal support of Dongmin Qin Wang's division against him; Lin Fu just took out Jiangdong army commander Cheng Yuqian as an excuse to push Don't say stay or leave. Although the Chu party is of the same origin, mutual assistance should be expected, but it is impossible for Lin Fu to be constrained by Yue Lengqiu in his actions.

As the leader of the group of generals and officers of the Eastern Minqin King Division, Lu Jingyan was promoted to the current high position by virtue of his military exploits. His martial courage was unabated and his determination was still there. Unable to get rid of Yue Lengqiu's restraint.

Lin Fu wanted to befriend Lu Jingyan, thinking that if they wanted to stay in Jinan Mansion together, they would have to support each other. During the luncheon held at the Admiral's Mansion, he deliberately tried to please each other. However, in the eyes of outsiders, Lin Fu is a member of the Chu Party, and he is a stalwart who charged the trap for the Chu Party. As an old subordinate of Li Zhuo, how could Lu Jingyan have a good face towards Lin Fu?

Lin Fu was also depressed. In front of Yue Lengqiu, he couldn't do many things too clearly.

The lieutenant of the two Zhejiang Qin Wang divisions had an ambiguous attitude. He made a haha ​​and wanted to refuse to greet him, obviously because he thought that the offer of 10,000 taels of condolence silver was far from enough for him to lead thousands of elite soldiers from the two Zhejiang provinces to stay and work for Shandong. In Lin Fu's view, such a general cannot be trusted at a critical moment.

After coming out of the Shandong Admiral's Mansion, Lin Fu was overwhelmed with matters. Seeing that it was still early, he was not in a hurry to leave the city and return to the Jing'er Lake camp, so he took seven or eight guards to hang out in the city.

The city of Jinan is not big, only 600 feet square. It also occupies one-third of the area of ​​Daming Lake, which gathers all the springs. Lin Fu walked along the stone street on the south bank of Daming Lake. The lake was frozen, the leaves of the willow trees were all withered and clean, only the sparse branches hung down, and the scenery was depressing.

Lin Fu walked to a Taoist temple in Xicheng and met someone sent by Lin Mengde to find him.

Lin Fu rushed to the market in the east of the city, and Lin Mengde came out of the market, dragged him to the side of the street, beside a mule and horse cart, lifted a corner of the varnished cloth, and said, "Look..."

What caught my eye were two pairs of scales, which were in good condition. Lin Fuxi said, "Can you buy such a good thing in the city?" Lifting the varnish covering the car, in addition to the two scales, there were also More than a dozen pairs of high-quality armor, thirty or forty knives and mo knives, and more than a dozen crossbows, asked Lin Mengde, "You bought them all here?"

"The key is the price. How much money do you think these two scales cost?" Lin Meng hurriedly covered the linoleum, for fear that the wealth would be exposed.

"How much silver?" Lin Fu asked.

"This number..." Lin Mengde bought the pass and raised three fingers.

"Three hundred taels of silver?" Lin Fu asked.

300 taels of silver is 360,000 yuan of copper. In Jiangning, you can buy 60,000 to 70,000 catties of rice. For a family of four, you can eat it with an open stomach. You can eat it for more than 20 years. Lin Bie didn't think it was expensive at all.

Although in Jiangning, the price of such scales can be slightly cheaper, but at such a critical moment, a pair of scales with excellent protective power and a weight even lighter than group armor can be worn by a strong and brave soldier, fearless. The slashing and stabbing of ordinary knives and spears, as well as the fearless short-distance arrows and arrows, coupled with the sharp Mo Dao or Dao Dao with great lethality, can immediately raise the combat power of the fifteen soldiers with good combat coordination to a level.

Lin Fu used the new formation method to train elite soldiers, and he used the armored swordsman as the core of the five soldiers, but good armor was hard to find, even the number of Jiyun Wuwei was only two hundred, and the high-quality armor was only sixty or seventy. , I want to put scales on every Mo knife hand, but it's just an extravagant hope.

Lin Mengde laughed like a profiteer, sneaked up to Lin Bing's ear, and said softly, "These two armors cost thirty taels of silver..."

"..." Lin Bie stared at Lin Mengde for a while in disbelief, and asked, "You didn't lie to me?"

"Can I lie to you?" Lin Mengde asked rhetorically, "Not only these two sets of scale armors, but also a set of armor like this doesn't cost 10 taels of silver, and 20 swords, a total of only 30 taels of silver..."

"Yes; but there are seven or eight people around you, and you can't use force to buy or sell..." Lin Bie said with a smile, but the smile lasted on his face for a few breaths, and the smile solidified on his face in a blink of an eye. : In addition to the private sale of military officers and soldiers, how could Lin Mengde buy such excellent armor in the market at such a cheap price?

"Have you thought about it?" Lin Meng saw Lin Fu's face changed, knowing that he thought through the joints.

"Well!" Lin Bie nodded heavily and said, "It's not hard to guess, but I was overjoyed when I first saw such a good thing..."

"The other party didn't say their identities. Judging from their uniforms, it should be the town army that was withdrawn from the three houses in Yannan..." Lin Mengde said.

The Donglu soldiers pointed directly at Yannan. After the defeat of the defenders of Yannan's three prefectures, a large number of remnants would retreat into Shandong. Dezhou could not give them a sense of security, so they retreated to Jinan prefecture on a large scale. Shandong Admiral's Mansion has come forward to gather these remnants of defeated soldiers, increasing the size of Jinan Mansion's defenders to more than 20,000.

Lin Fu didn't think that the remnants of the defeated soldiers would have much combat power in a short period of time, but he didn't expect it to be so rotten to the point that the military officers and soldiers actually took the armor of their lives to the market to sell and buy.

Group armor and scale armor were only given to military officers above the military commander's level, and only a few elite combatants in the army were issued with Mo Dao and Dao Dao.

Lin Mengde saw Lin Fu frowning for a long time without speaking, and asked in a low voice, "The other party said that there is still a batch of good goods, the quantity is relatively large, and there are still many horses, which can be changed hands outside the city, do we want to take over?"

"Take it, why didn't you pick it up?" Lin Fu said viciously, "With these armour in their hands, can you expect them to be used to kill the enemy!" He issued the order to deploy troops by car and handed it over to the guards around him. , said, "You go to Caozhuang, and have Zhao Qingshan transfer the fourth battalion to the southwest of Jinan City on standby, and transfer 20,000 taels of silver as a reserve to accompany the army; make Zhou Pu and Ning Zechen lead the second and fifth battalions to Caozhuang on standby. Let Cao Ziang make preparations for the first and second battalions at Jinger Lake, and have Wu Qi send scouts to the northeast of Jinan Prefecture to scout eastward along the Yellow River..."

"To prevent the other party from being blackmailed, as long as Zhao Qingshan leads the fourth battalion to stand by..." Lin Meng said inexplicably, not understanding that Lin Fu suddenly mobilized the fifth battalion of the Zuo Army.

"How can you live in such a Jinan mansion for a long time?" Lin Fu asked in a heartache.

Lin Fu hates those generals and officials who eat the country's wages and fail without fighting. He is saddened by the millions of people trampled by the Donglu iron cavalry, but he is not an idealist. He has his bottom line in life, but he is not People will talk about morality, but if people want to live, they must first be pragmatic.

When the main force of the eastern captives will come, everyone in Jinan will have their own thoughts, and the soldiers below will be rotten. He will not bury the lives of thousands of soldiers who follow him here in vain.

Lin Mengde didn't say much else, and said, "Since this is the case, I will go and contact them, and try to make this transaction at night, so as not to have more dreams at night..."

Lin Bie nodded and said, "As long as you have good soldiers and weapons, good armor and good horses, you might as well relax the price. Silver is a dead thing in your pocket. Let the wind out. We will set up a city on the Yufu River in the southwest of the city. Armor, scale armor, step bow, strong crossbow, horses outside the mouth, how many are there, how much we charge, even if we spend 50,000 taels of silver..." Let Lin Mengde take seven or eight people to go with those who fled to Jinan Prefecture. Remnants and defeated generals contact. Although buying a large number of armors from them is suspected of digging the walls of Jinan, but the armors remain in their hands, it is impossible to expect them to contribute to defending Jinan! Thinking of this, Lin Fu's unease in his conscience lessened a lot.

When the Fifth Battalion of the Left Army set out from Jiangning, most of the 3,000 soldiers were new soldiers, and there were only more than 400 sets of various armors. The horses are the 200 horses that Lin Mengde brought from Texas this time.

Along the way~www.mtlnovel.com~ In addition to training and training with the inferior bandit villages encountered along the way, the most urgent thing for Lin Fu is to do everything possible to improve the military equipment of his soldiers.

Jiangning is the southern capital of the empire. The Jiangning Ministry of Industry and other yamen have the second-largest military armor manufacturing workshop in the country, as well as a special large-scale arsenal. High-quality armor is quite easy to do. Where can a large number of high-quality armor be collected locally? Lin Fu did not expect that he would encounter an opportunity to comprehensively improve his armament in Jinan, but it was chilling to think about such an opportunity.

After Lin Mengde left, Lin Fu also sent the cavalry out of the city with the two large carts of supplies that Lin Mengde had collected earlier.

When leaving the west gate, he met Song Bo, the secretary in front of Yue Lengqiu's tent, and Song Bo greeted eagerly, "Lord Lin hasn't left the city yet, can you allow me to be a little boy in the city at night?"

"I'm afraid it's inconvenient. The city gate is going to be closed. I'll have the opportunity to invite Brother Song for a drink in the future." Lin Fu said, they are guest troops, and it's impossible to enter and exit Jinan City at night. Besides, he has to rush out of the city. Set up a black market on the banks of the Yufu River to buy high-quality armor from the remnants of the defeated generals who had retreated to Jinan Prefecture. How could he have the heart to deal with Song Bo?

Song Bo saw that Lin Fu was in a hurry, and more than 100 horses and two carts went out of the city gate, frowning slightly, and instructed his entourage: "It's a bit weird, you take the two of you to have a look, don't conflict with them ..." Lin Bie gained fame in Jiangdong, but most of it came from trampling on the She family. Not only did the She family not know how to, but they also tried their best to conceal the news of the **** battle between Jiyang in Dongmin. In the eyes of Dongmin people, Lin Bie was still an unknown junior. . But for the Song family, even without the repeated mention of Song Jia's private messages, a Lin Biao who killed Du Rong and caused She Feixiong to smash the halberd and under Yangcheng was enough to arouse the Song family's attention.

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