Lord of the House: Chapter 73 Qingzhou Army

Gu Wuchen also meant that he wanted to transfer Liu Xilin from Xuzhou to Qingzhou to assist Gu Siyuan.

Liu Xilin had the talent to manage the army. After being transferred to Xuzhou, with the support of Zhang Yubo and Huaidong, he soon had more than a thousand cronies and elites, which made Zhang Yubo's situation in Xuzhou difficult to support a little better.

However, under the suppression of Chen Hansan, it was very difficult for Zhang Yubo and Liu Xilin to expand in Xuzhou in a short period of time, and Chen Hansan really wanted to do something. Zhang Yubo and Liu Xilin had only so few people in their hands, and they lived in separate cities, so it was difficult to be effective. Contain Chen Hansan.

"Xilin can go to Qingzhou to help you..." Lin Bie nodded, approving this arrangement.

Huaidong is now mainly relying on the red jacket army to guard against any changes in Chen Hansan on the northern front. Liu Xilin stayed in Xuzhou, but in fact the situation is very dangerous, it is better to go to Qingzhou. Lin Fudao even hoped that Zhang Yubo could be transferred out of Xuzhou together, but in this matter, Zhang Yubo's temper was very stubborn, making it impossible to persuade him.

In addition to Liu Xilin's own ability to manage the army and more than a thousand elites in his department, the Liu family is a rare general family in the Dongyang family. Liu Xilin joined the Qingzhou Army and can help Gu Siyuan to recruit some military attaches. This is what the Qingzhou Army urgently needs. of.

Due to the massive influx of refugees, Qingzhou has plenty of dingkou. In addition to Gu Siyuan's department, Liu Xilin's department, Jiaolai River Transport Army, and Yangxin County soldiers, some strong men will be recruited from local areas to support the Qingzhou Army to 30,000.

When the Qingzhou army wanted to share the two Huai salt and silver, it had to go north to Yangxin to establish a defense line, and together with Liang Chengchong, who guarded the Plain House, and Tao Chun, who guarded Qinghe and Anyang, jointly defended against Donglu Fengrui, who was already in the direction of Yannan.

In the ninth year of Chongguan, Lin Fu led the Jiangdong left army to the north to King Qin, and the most brilliant battle took place in Yangxin. During the Yangxin War, Zhang Jin trusted Yangxin to be the magistrate, and after Zhang Jinxin left Yangxin, Cheng Weiyuan was appointed magistrate. Although the Liang family gained control of Linzi in the later period, they still failed to infiltrate Yangxin.

Lu Jingyan's personal guard battalion commanded Chu Zheng and others, who stayed in Yangxin after the war to assist Cheng Weiyuan in taking charge of the local military armament in Yangxin.

Although the number of soldiers in Yangxin County is small, less than a thousand people, they are all elite veterans who have experienced the cruel test of war.

After the Yangxin War, the city's defense situation was fundamentally improved, and some armour was also reserved, which was very rare in this world.

In fact, it was difficult for Lin Fu to persuade Cheng Weiyuan, Chu Zheng and others to give up Yangxin and retreat south, leaving Yangxin City to the Liang family for defense.

Lin Fu is also beyond the reach of Yangxin, and can only support Gu Siyuan to integrate Yangxin's forces. In fact, it also provides a good foundation for Gu Siyuan to take over Linzi and establish a relatively stable line of defense in Yangxin.

The stability of the defense line, or whether the city is strong or not, is closely related to the direction of the Donghu people's use of troops.

Take Jinhai as an analogy: as long as the Donghu people don’t have more than 40,000 troops in attacking Jinhai, Jinhai is an indestructible city. However, when the Donghu people assembled tens of thousands of troops and horses on the periphery of Jinhai, some fatal weaknesses in Jinhai's city defense would be exposed.

The same is true for Yangxin. As long as the Donghu people's troops are not in Yangxin's direction, Gu Siyuan's defense against the 20,000-30,000 Donghu people's partial division will not be a problem.

Lin Fu supported the Qingzhou army to fight for more salt and silver in Huaidong, supported the transfer of Liuxilin to the north, and supported the Qingzhou army to integrate the Yangxin forces. Gu Siyuan and Zhao Qinmin were very satisfied with this. These were also the main reasons for Gu Siyuan to come to Huaidong in person. How much to pay for these.

"Qingzhou wants to form an army, but the lack of armor and bows is still a fatal weakness..." Gu Siyuan held the case table with his hand, and told the most difficult thing for the Qingzhou army at present.

The Qingzhou Transport Army was established in the hands of Tang Haoxin. It was mainly responsible for maintaining the Jiaolai River transportation. Less than 20% of the army was equipped with weapons, and the entire army added up to less than 100 armors.

The workshops under the jurisdiction of the Jiangning Ministry of Industry are very large, but the armors they build each year are far from enough to meet the needs of the expansion of the Ningwangfu Guard Camp, Jiangning Guard Army, Changhuai Army, Huinan Army, and Zhejiang North Army.

No matter how important the Hehuai line of defense is, is the southern line undertaken by Dong Yuan, Deng Yu and others not important?

Gu Wuchen could get very limited armour, so Gu Siyuan could only ask Huaidong for help.

"How much can Huaidong squeeze out?" Lin Fu asked Lin Mengde, kicking the burden to Lin Mengde casually.

"You have to ask Jingxuan to find out." Lin Mengde kicked the burden to Sun Jingxuan, who was not there.

In the past few things, I supported the Qingzhou Army. After all, it did not directly occupy Huaidong's resources. Lin Fu was also generous to others. Huaidong's armour resources are not abundant. Although he can squeeze a part out of Qingzhou, it will not be free. Lin Fu personally talked to Gu Siyuan about this kind of thing. deal with.

At this moment, a guard handed a note outside, Lin Fu opened it and said to Gu Siyuan, "I still have something to leave, let Uncle Meng De stay with you. If there is any unfinished friendship, just let Meng De Uncle De will make up my mind for me..." Without saying anything to Lin Mengde, he left first.

Lin Mengde thought to himself, counting the time, most likely it was Liu Miaozhen, the girl in the red jacket.

The news of Liu Miaozhen's trip was even less leaked than Gu Siyuan, and he would not even arrange for Liu Miaozhen to enter Chongcheng to avoid leaking rumors.

This is the place where Lin Fu handles official business and meets with officials and generals. When Lin Fu left, Lin Mengde sent someone to invite Sun Jingxuan to go to the city together and move to the garden where Gu Siyuan and others were temporarily staying in Chongzhou to talk about business.

Gu Siyuan's schedule was very tight, and Sun Jingxuan also expected that he would talk about weapons, armor, and other matters tonight, and he didn't sleep in the house.

During the war in eastern Zhejiang, the Huaidong army either annihilated or captured, and wiped out about 14,000 soldiers from Zhejiang, Fujian and Mingzhou. Of the more than 14,000 people, the elites from Zhejiang and Fujian accounted for less than half of them, and less than 4,000 sets of armor were seized, which was still insufficient for the eastern Zhejiang camping army.

Changshan Battalion, Fengli Battalion, and Chongcheng Infantry Battalion were all expanded on a large scale in a short period of time, which made the Huaidong Army's armored level drop sharply in a short period of time, and the Huaidong Army's combat power level also dropped a lot. , it takes a long time to make up for the shortage.

"Spears and spears are a little more generous. Three thousand pieces can be distributed, and more than one thousand swords and shields can be squeezed out," Sun Jingxuan said. "If you lack, you will lack bows and armor. You must know Ao Canghai and Zhou in the Huaidong Army. Pu and Ning Zechen are not easy to mess with. They all sent people to squat at the entrance of my house. It doesn't work if the adults come forward to coordinate. There is a little stock in the prison, and all the armies keep sending people to ask for it. Now, all the inventory in the prison warehouse is given to Qingzhou, and there are only 200 sets of armor and 300 bows..."

Even if only the military attachés above the commander of the capital were equipped with armor, the Qingzhou Army with 30,000 people would need seven or eight hundred sets of armor. The future battles will be dominated by defending the city, especially with strong bows and crossbows.

Although the cost of a step bow is not particularly high, the preparation of the bow material is complicated, and the production cycle of the entire bow is long, so the output is also strictly limited.

"What about the iron material, can Huaidong produce some fine iron?" Zhao Qinmin asked.

There are also iron works and craftsmen in Qingzhou. As long as there are fine iron materials, weapons and simple iron armor can be made.

"This can be evened out," Sun Jingxuan said, "but it is not easy to smelt refined iron in Huaidong, and the price of grain fluctuates wildly. All the workshops in Huaidong pay the wages, refined iron, and knives and spears in real quantities of rice grains. , armor, and bows, Huaidong can squeeze some out of Qingzhou every month, but I hope Qingzhou can use rice grains to account for it..."

Chaos has appeared, the price of silver and copper has fallen, grain, iron, salt, cloth, mules and horses have become materials that various forces compete with each other, and the exchange of materials is often based on grain and iron.

After knowing that Gu Siyuan would come to Chongzhou, the people of Huaidong discussed these matters.

"Of course." Zhao Qinmin said.

Gu Siyuan wanted to be self-reliant with the Qingzhou Army, and did not want to become a vassal of Huaidong, and naturally he had no intention of taking it in vain. This was something Zhao Qinmin had negotiated on the way to greet Gu Siyuan.

Eastern Shandong has not suffered from the scourge of war in recent years. Although floods and droughts have continued, the situation is much better than in Henan and other places. In the past, the Jinhai Grain Route had to draw grain from Shandong, resulting in a shortage of food in Qingzhou. As soon as the Jinhai Grain Route stopped, the food supply in Qingzhou was relieved.

Of course, rice grain has become the most important material at present. If Gu Siyuan really wants to be independent from Qingzhou, he cannot just allow the rice grain from Qingzhou to flow out.

One stone of rice can be exchanged for three catties of refined iron or twelve catties of rough iron. This is due to the fact that Huaidong and Qingzhou are in the same spirit and are related to Uncle Lang. For other forces, one stone of rice can only be exchanged for two catties of refined iron or Ten pounds of rough iron.

In fact, including Qingzhou, the rice grain surplus in eastern Shandong is also limited, but the primary task of Huaidong's political affairs is to continuously increase the rice grain reserve, so that it can get better from Qingzhou. Of course, the transaction with Qingzhou, Huaidong will not lose money, but the transaction with the Red Jacket Army is a complete loss-making business.

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The red-jacketed girl came to Chongzhou even more, and was even afraid of bumping into Gu Siyuan and Zhao Qinmin. Lin Fu specially instructed Sun Zhuang to **** Liu Miaozhen down the Beiguan Henan, avoiding the Hanhaidi Avenue, so he delayed some trips on the way.

From Chongzhou, the Beiyuan Yashe, where Su Mei originally lived at the northern foot of Zilang Mountain, was cleared out~www.mtlnovel.com~ arranged for Liu Miaozhen to come over and stay there; Sun Wenwan also led a female battalion to be in charge of the escort.

When Lin Fu and Gu Siyuan were talking in Dongya, they received a letter * that Liu Miaozhen had already lived in Beiyuan. Liu Miaozhen also didn't want to stay in Chongzhou for a long time, the schedule was very tight, and she hoped to meet Lin Fu that night.

Qin Chengzu stayed in Huaiyang as a pledge, Lin Bie was in a hurry in Chongzhou, and he was too busy. He also hoped to meet Liu Miaozhen. Qin Chengzu returned as soon as possible. After receiving the paper *, he rushed to Beiyuan Yashe with Song Jia.

Lin Fu and Song Jia sat opposite each other in the carriage, the curtain was lifted, and a little rain foam floated in, hitting the face, slightly cool.

"I heard that the girl in the red jacket is a stunning beauty, but few people have seen her appearance over the years," Song Jia sat against the carriage with a lazy expression, showing a charming gesture that other women couldn't match, taking Liu Miaozhen's With a smile on her lips, she said, "At the beginning, Liu An'er intended to recruit Qin Zitan for the marriage of the woman in red jacket, but I don't know what happened, but it didn't work out in the end..."

Qin Zitan is still planning for She Feihu in Dongyang County. When it comes to planning, he is a counselor of the same level as Gao Zongting, and his back is to be the enemy of Huaidong. It's not clear why Qin Zitan is so loyal to She Feihu. If Qin and Liu got married, Liu An'er was not in a hurry to attack Xuzhou, but led the main force to seek a breakthrough from Dongyang Mansion and threatened Jiangning south. Maybe the whole battle situation would have changed differently. .

Compared with Liu Miaozhen's appearance, what impressed Lin Bie even more was that Liu Miaozhen's delicate body had more martial arts than Zhou Pu, Ao Canghai, Sun Zhuang and others. If he hadn't been insisting on training his muscles and bones and practicing swordsmanship diligently, Liu Miaozhen might have been slaughtered in the first battle outside Suining City. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter