Nanping is the important town of Yanping Prefecture, this city located in the middle reaches of the Minjiang River can be said to be the most economical and military city in the hinterland of Fujian, from an economic point of view, Nanping relies on the middle and lower reaches of the Minjiang River to connect Fuzhou, and the north relies on the upper reaches of the Minjiang River to connect the three branches of the Minjiang River, including Shaowu Mansion, Jianning Mansion and Tingzhou, which can be said to be the transit point of the entire northwest and northern regions of Fujian and Fuzhou, and its economic importance is self-evident.

In addition, because it is located in the middle of the Minjiang River, aside from the economic point of view, it is also a battleground for soldiers, after controlling Nanping, the northern army can go down the river and threaten the important city of Fuzhou. In view of its important surname, the military strategists of all dynasties will be stationed here with heavy troops, and the Qing army is no exception, in this small riverside city, the first battalion of the 38th standard, the first battalion of the 40th standard two infantry battalions, there are still a considerable number of green battalions and other old armies in the city, on the strength of its troops, only Fuzhou can compare. The two battalions of the new army of Nanping, together with the first battalion of Shao Wu's new army and other old armies, together formed the northern defense line of Fujian. Even after the Wuchang incident, Sun Daoren was worried that Fuzhou's defensive strength was insufficient, and when other new troops were transferred into Fuzhou, he also transferred the 38th Battalion of the 38th Standard from Funing Mansion, but the three infantry battalions of the New Army in Nanping and Shao Wu were not moved at all.

After the recovery of Fuzhou, Chen Jingyun sent a telegram to Nanping and Shao Wu to persuade him to surrender and Sun Daoren's handwritten letter, a few days later, the first battalion of the 38th standard was declared to belong to the leadership of the military and political axe, and controlled most of the officials in Nanping, after sending a report to Chen Jingyun, Chen Jingyun immediately appointed Zhuang Xianhe as the commander of the Nanping garrison, commanding the original troops to hold Nanping while waiting for reinforcements from the national army, and the forty standards stationed in the barracks outside the city learned that Zhuang Xianhe was anyway, although he once rushed to quell the rebellion, but was repelled by Zhuang Xianhe's department, Then the two sides were at a stalemate.

When Li Jimin's Second Brigade was being reorganized, the personnel replenishment and firearms were ranked behind the First Brigade, and when Ma Cheng's First Brigade was organized and began emergency training, his Second Brigade began to replenish new recruits one after another, and after the Second Brigade was mobilized, several small county towns were encountered on the road in succession that they would not surrender, and Li Jimin had to pull out these nails before he could continue to go north along the river.

It was not until November 5 that it reached the vicinity of Nanping, and by this time not only had the First Brigade captured Fuding, but even the Third Brigade, which had left behind the Second Brigade, had already reached the outskirts of Quanzhou.

Although the speed of the march was extremely slow, Li Jiming did not panic along the way, but was extremely cautious along the way.

On the afternoon of November 5th, the forward reported that it was with a small group of Qing troops to meet the enemy, Li Jimin immediately realized that the battle was coming, and immediately ordered his third regiment to step up the march, and then only two hours later, Li Jimin received a report from the front, saying that the enemy had surrendered!

Li Jimin was not surprised to hear the news of the surrender, the enemy army was the first battalion of the 40th standard, not to mention that there were only more than 600 people in the department, and Lin Zhaomin, the co-commander of the 40th standard, had become the deputy commander of the Fujian National Army, so it was not surprising that they would surrender, as for why they did not surrender before, then they had to ask themselves.

For the middle and low-level officers who surrendered, Li Jimin, in accordance with Chen Jingyun's instructions before, retained those who were willing to serve the Nationalist Army according to their original ranks, and those who were unwilling were sent to Fuzhou.

The choice of surrendered soldiers is basically the same, that is, to join the national army, whether to be a soldier in these years is there or not, they are all the same, not to mention who will raise the family if they are not soldiers! You must know that in this year, the new army also had eight yuan of monthly ringing, and in peacetime there were five or six yuan after deducting the cost of food and lodging, and in wartime, the income of the whole army was at least twice that of the ordinary working class.

In the process of reorganization, Li Jimin, based on Ma Cheng's experience in Lianjiang, formed four infantry companies of the surrendered Qing soldiers, and then replaced the four infantry companies of the second brigade to form a new infantry battalion, and after sending a report to Chen Jingyun, Chen Jingyun instructed that the newly formed infantry battalion and the first battalion of the 38th standard be formed into the ninth regiment, with Zhuang Xianhe as the regiment commander and under the command of Li Jimin, and promoted Li Jimin to colonel and Li Lianyang to lieutenant colonel!

Subsequently, Li Jimin telegraphed to the General Staff, requesting to give strategic instructions for the next step!

After receiving Li Jimin's telegram, Chen Jingyun pondered for half an hour on the map of Fujian, and then held a headquarters meeting!

"According to the current situation, we have taken the initiative in the northern region, and the next step is to continue to Shaowu in the north or Jianning in the east, it is in our hands!" Since Feng Qin became the chief of staff, his whole person has become more and more energetic, and the epaulettes of the rank of colonel on his shoulders are also very bright.

Now Lin Wenying and others in the Ministry of Military Affairs are in a panic, so they have redesigned the military uniform, epaulettes, and military ranks, and the military ranks have been mentioned above, and the epaulettes are as follows: the officers' epaulettes are based on yellow, and the generals are one to three five-pointed stars; The school officer added a white bar in the middle, one to three five-pointed stars in order; The lieutenant has two white bars in the middle, one to three five-pointed stars in order; The warrant officer is a white bar, not worthy of a five-pointed star; The epaulettes of non-commissioned officers and soldiers are based on red, and the soldiers are one to three stars in turn, and the non-commissioned officers add a yellow bar, which are one to three stars in order (the history is the epaulette of the Beiyang 1912 military rank);

The style of the military uniform has not changed, that is, the color of the military uniform has been changed to brown-green, the main purpose is to distinguish the Qing army, and it can also be effectively concealed in field battles and street battles.

The Ministry of Military Affairs is still continuing to design, saying that it is going to change the style of the military uniform to a military uniform with a revolutionary surname, and Chen Jingyun has no objection to this, so they can make trouble.

At this moment, Feng Qin was wearing a brown-green officer's uniform, with the rank of colonel pinned to his shoulder, and he was holding a baton in his hand and pointing at the large military map on the wall.

"According to external telegram news, Jiangxi has been recovered, so we will not face the Qing army from Jiangxi in the short term, but Shao Wufu still has a battalion of the original forty standards, Xu Chongzhi has lost contact before the uprising, although we have sent telegrams to Shao Wufu several times, but there is no response, the current situation is unknown. Jianning Mansion in the east of Nanping has 1,500 people from the patrol battalion Xu Jingqing, and there is no reliable news at present! ”

Immediately, the officers and staff officers below began to speak word by word, some said that they would immediately march into Shaowu Mansion, some said that they would march into Jianning, and some said that the troops were divided into two routes, and Chen Jingyun did not disturb them, and directly listened to their opinions quietly.

After a while, Chen Jingyun waved his hand and made everyone stop: "Your opinions are all pertinent, now that the important town of Nanping has gone south, the second brigade will definitely continue to march in the next step, as for the direction, it will be set in Jianning Mansion!" Shao Wufu also sent troops to check the situation! Nanping itself also had to leave a considerable number of troops to garrison. ”

After saying that, he didn't give everyone a chance to speak, and said directly: "Chief of Staff Feng, you take a note, order Li Jimin to lead the ninth regiment and the third regiment to march to Jianning after resting for three days, and the fourth regiment will be stationed in Nanping to clear the remnants of the Qing army around it, well, send some people to Shaowu Mansion to find out the situation." ”

"Order Ma Cheng to transfer back the troops to garrison Lianjiang, Fu'an and other places, clear out the bandits in the north of Funing Mansion and Fuzhou Prefecture, and at the same time ask him to send a battalion to Wenzhou to see the situation, and take it down if he has the opportunity; Then transfer the battalion stationed in Lianjiang back to Fuzhou! Chen Jingyun said as he spoke, and a whole map of Fujian had already appeared in his mind.

"Chen Kui!" Chen Jingyun glanced at Chen Kui: "I will organize this battalion into the Seventh Regiment, so that your Seventh Regiment will have three infantry battalions, which can be regarded as a preliminary army!" Pull the troops to Changle to consolidate the outer defense of Fuzhou, train well first, and wait for the purchased ordnance to come back, and then equip you with mountain artillery and machine guns. ”

Although Chen Kui still had a straight face after hearing this, he couldn't hide his joy: "Yes!" Chen Kui will never disappoint the high expectations of the governor! ”

At this time, Feng Qin on the side asked softly: "Governor, if the seventh regiment is transferred to Changle, will Fuzhou's defense be weaker!" ”

Originally, there were two guards regiment and the seventh regiment in Fuzhou to guard the security of Fuzhou, but Chen Weihua's eighth regiment only set up a shelf, and although there were seven or eight hundred recruits, because there were no guns, they could only be used as decorations.

Chen Jingyun smiled and said: "It's okay, there are more than 2,000 people in the guard regiment in the city, and Changle is not far away, and the seventh kung fu regiment will rush over in half a day!" ”

Hearing Chen Jingyun say this, Feng Qin stopped talking!

In addition to military considerations, Chen Jingyun considered more military power and political issues, first of all, on the Nanping side, Chen Jingyun put the ninth regiment and the third regiment together and assigned them to Li Jimin to go to Jianning, the main purpose was to let Li Jimin and his descendants of the fourth regiment strip away, as for not sending troops north to Shaowu Mansion, it was because Xu Chongzhi was there, although there was no news of Shao Wufu and Xu Chongzhi now, but Chen Jingyun planned to put Shao Wu first and wait and see what happened. Otherwise, after rashly sending the troops over, it is likely to be swallowed up by Xu Chongzhi, after all, Xu Chongzhi's reputation within the alliance is much stronger than Chen Jingyun, and his military rank in the original tenth town is higher than Chen Jingyun, which is the so-called necessity.

And letting Ma Cheng clear the bandits in the territory is naturally for the sake of the reputation of the military and political axe, and sending a small force to Wenzhou to test the situation, purely to see if there is a cheap one to pick up, if there is a chance, Chen Jingyun does not mind getting Wenzhou in his hands. The Seventh Regiment was placed in Changle mainly to consolidate the security of Fuzhou's periphery.

When Li Jimin received Chen Jingyun's order, others were not stupid and vaguely guessed Chen Jingyun's intentions, but he had already expected this situation, and now he had a brigade of thousands of people, and he knew very well that he couldn't bury a good future for the hundreds of descendants in his hands, so he simply left the fourth regiment behind, and took the ninth regiment and the third regiment to Jianning after resting for two days.