After dealing with Sun Daoren's file, Chen Jingyun didn't stay long, and directly led the guards away, as for the many other former Qing officials who were caught, Chen Jingyun didn't bother to see them, and directly ordered all high-ranking officials to be detained, and those who were willing to surrender to the revolution among the middle and lower-level officials should cut off their braids and stay in their original positions.

He himself took the guards to personally go to several recruitment points to check, and now Chen Jingyun is most concerned about the force in his hands!

So far, Chen Jingyun has not controlled many forces, only the first regiment upgraded from the original second battalion, plus the Qing soldiers who surrendered to Chengcheng, about 1,200 people, and then there is also the guard battalion composed mainly of the original pro-soldier team and the student corps, the number is not much, only about 400 people, and more than half of them are Qing soldiers who temporarily surrendered to Cheng.

As for the more than 700 people in the Second Regiment, more than 300 people in the Military Police Regiment, more than 50 people in the Horse Battalion, and more than 400 people in the Artillery Regiment, they were respectively controlled by Lin Wenying, Xiao Qibin, Yu Shaoying, Peng Shousong, and Huang Anyuan. In order to gain the dominance of the future, the more troops under his hands, the better, as for the quality, everyone is at the same level, and no one can say who is not.

Now the Second Regiment has been sent out of the city by Chen Jingyun, and the Military Police Regiment is also busy in various parts of Fuzhou City, searching for rebellious soldiers and scattered Qing soldiers, and the artillery regiment is still stationed on the mountain. This gave Chen Jingyun an excellent opportunity to expand in a short period of time.

After Feng Qin fought all night, he was also a smart man, and he knew that his future was closely related to Chen Jingyun, so as soon as he received Chen Jingyun's order, he immediately organized manpower to open conscription points in various places in Fuzhou City. Although the night was chaotic, Feng Qin had already issued a notice to calm the people in accordance with Chen Jingyun's order, and some bold people had already taken to the streets one after another, and from time to time there were New Army soldiers wearing military uniforms and carrying spears passing by on the streets.

Looking at the notice again, the literate people have already read it out to others, and most of the content is prosaic, basically let people tell people that the city of Fuzhou has changed its owner, the Manchu court is greatly damaged, the revolutionary party is greatly good, and the people do not have to worry, live and work in peace and contentment! Although these clichés have worried the people, the place where this notice of peace and security is signed is even more discussable: Commander-in-Chief of the Fujian National Army, Chen Jingyun.

A very small number of them have heard Chen Jingyun's name, and know that he is an officer of the New Army, and he is also the young master of the Chen family in the south of the city, but the vast majority of the people do not know who Chen Jingyun is, and they are asking one after another: "Who is Chen Jingyun?" ”

Chen Jingyun, who was being talked about, didn't know that he had become the focus of attention in Fuzhou City, and he was standing at the conscription point at the moment, looking at the sparse crowd of conscripts in front of the conscription point, a little worried. From now on, it can be said that Fujian has entered a chaotic situation, although he has Sun Daoren's letter of persuasion, but no one can guarantee that those generals will listen to him, and in addition to the new army, there are also a number of patrol battalions and other old armies in Fujian, which are also troublesome. If he can't recruit enough troops in a short period of time, Chen Jingyun is also worried about his future fate.

"How's it going?" After Chen Jingyun approached, Feng Qin immediately greeted him, and before Feng Qin could greet him, Chen Jingyun took the initiative to ask.

Feng Qin immediately said: "It's still early, and the three recruitment points have recruited a total of more than 170 people!" ”

Hearing the number of one hundred and seventy, although Chen Jingyun was dissatisfied, he also knew that this result was already good. The main reason for the difficulty in recruiting troops now is that there was a military rebellion just last night, and the people have not yet reacted.

"Okay, we must continue to increase recruitment!" Speaking of this, Chen Jingyun looked at the recruitment conditions, and saw that the treatment above was 8 yuan for Yuexiang and 15 yuan for settling-in expenses, and immediately said: "Increase the settling-in allowance a little, mention 25 yuan!" Wait until the soldiers are a little fuller, and then go down! ”

Now that the time is in a hurry, it is necessary to spend more money.

Feng Qin received the order and said yes, and sure enough, when the settling-in allowance was raised to 25 yuan, the number of young and middle-aged people who came to the recruitment point gradually increased, and in these years, the monthly income of the poor people was only three or four yuan, or even lower. Not to mention the 8 yuan military salary that can be received after becoming a soldier, just for the 25 yuan settling-in fee, it is enough to attract the young and middle-aged people of the poor people.

In addition, Chen Jingyun also found that in addition to these ordinary people, there were also many young students who also went to recruit soldiers, and Chen Jingyun also specially instructed Feng Qin to distinguish students and other high-level intellectuals from ordinary soldiers, and not to put them into ordinary soldiers as cannon fodder. These people should best be trained as reserve officers.

Feng Qin was presiding over the conscription, and Chen Jingyun was also relieved, but as soon as he returned to the headquarters, someone came to report that it was the military situation of the second regiment.

After Chen Jingyun opened it, he read it for a long time, then closed the letter and pondered.

The current situation outside the city is a bit chaotic, there are Li Jimin's department, Lin Wenying and Peng Shousong's department, and Yuan Fang's department, according to Chen Jingyun's plan, first drive the second regiment Lin Wenying out of the city, let them fight for a while, and then say, even if they surrender, they will be because they promised to upgrade to the regiment first to avoid that they will not annex each other. And he settled the situation in the city, and then began to recruit a large number of troops.

When you have soldiers, salaries, and ordnance, you can give yourself an advantage in the future struggle for power.

The letter said that Li Jimin's troops began to confront Yuan Fang's troops last night, and after receiving reinforcements from Lin Wenying in the morning, they first persuaded Yuan Fang to surrender, and after being refused, they launched several charges, although the strength of the second and fourth regiments exceeded the strength of Yuan Fang's troops, but the battle was not very smooth, and it was not fought for half a day. Later, it was not until the personal soldiers sent by Chen Jingyun sent Sun Daoren's handwritten letter of persuasion that Yuan Fang's attitude changed.

However, Yuan Fang insisted on seeing Chen Jingyun, and said that he would only surrender after seeing Chen Jingyun. That's why Lin Wenying and Li Jimin sent the letter.

After receiving the letter, Chen Jingyun pondered for a moment, and then stood up: "Ma Cheng, you can gather troops to follow me out of the city, Lin Chengkun, you lead the guard battalion to guard all important places in the city." In addition, I ordered Xiao Qibin to lead the artillery regiment to fight with me. ”

Chen Jingyun's arrangement needed to ensure that Fuzhou City was in his own hands on the one hand, and on the other hand, he would go out of the city with the main force and artillery regiment to avoid the trap of Li Jimin or others, and if Yuan Fang refused to surrender at that time, he would lead superior forces to defeat him.

After this hurried arrangement, Chen Jingyun led Ma Cheng's 1,200 men and Xiao Qibin's artillery regiment out of the city, and in the afternoon, Chen Jingyun finally saw a large figure in the distance.

"Your Excellency, you're finally here!" As soon as Li Jimin saw Chen Jingyun, he hurriedly stepped forward.

As soon as he heard the title of the adult, which had an obvious atmosphere of the former dynasty, it did not disgust Chen Jingyun but became cordial, why? That's because this shows that Li Jimin is looking at his Chen Jingyun's boss, and he is the original boss. That is to say, it is important that he acknowledges the relationship of subordination between them.

"Brother Li, hard work!" Li Jimin is a few years older than Chen Jingyun, in order to win people's hearts, this eldest brother Chen Jingyun is still relatively smooth.

Li Jimin was obviously also frightened by Chen Jingyun's obviously respectful tone, and immediately said in panic: "It's not hard, it's just that I have a humble position and is entrusted by my lord, and I haven't been in the enemy battle so far." Please punish you! ”

After all, he wants to be short and accuse, Chen Jingyun can let him really kneel, and he just stepped forward and held it up: "Commander Li, you and I are already revolutionary soldiers now, and the previous rules are gone." Besides, you dragged Yuan Fang all day, this is the work! ”

Li Jimin had already known from Lin Wenying's mouth that he had been promoted to the head of the regiment, that is, the former standard, but from Chen Jingyun's own mouth, he was even more happy: "My lord! ”

At this time, Lin Wenying, who was watching from the side, had a strange face and said, "Commander, I heard that you brought the first regiment and the artillery regiment, I suggest that you take advantage of the fact that it is not too late to launch an offensive as soon as possible and strive for a single blow!" ”

Lin Wenying's words made Chen Jingyun frown, to be honest, although he admired the ideals and dedication of these revolutionaries, but from his current situation, it is definitely not a good thing to have too many such revolutionaries around.

Although he was unhappy in his heart, he did not change color on the surface: "Well, I think it's the same reason!"

At this time, Ma Cheng stepped forward and said, "Didn't you say that Yuan Fang wants to see the commander!" ”

Li Jimin seemed to come to his senses at this time and said: "Oh, yes, after the previous commander's personal soldiers sent a letter of persuasion, Yuan Fang replied that it was okay to surrender, but he wanted to see the commander!" ”

"Since I'm here, let's see you!" Chen Jingyun pondered: "If he can surrender, it is best if he doesn't surrender, then prepare to attack!" ”

After the order was given, it was quickly arranged, and Yuan Fang didn't seem to be afraid of his own danger, so he directly led two personal soldiers through the position to Chen Jingyun's headquarters.

As soon as Chen Jingyun saw Yuan Fang come in, he stood up with a smile on his face.

After Yuan Fang came in, his first eyes fell on Chen Jingyun, and then he took two steps forward to salute: "My lord, the order of the lord of the lowly feudal system is specially coming to report!" ”

The left sentence is an adult, and the other sentence is in control, which makes Lin Wenying next to him very dissatisfied, in his opinion, it is now a revolution, everyone is a revolutionary army, how can it still be the same as before. Could it be that he thought that Chen Jingyun was Sun Daoren's subordinate.

Chen Jingyun was obviously also a little surprised by Yuan Fang's words, but after hearing this, he remembered many things, especially about the issue of power in the future. You must know that he Chen Jingyun is not a genuine revolutionary party, but a league that he joined until the end of the day, whether it is himself or Lin Wenying and others, Chen Jingyun is not regarded as a real revolutionary party, so it can be seen that Chen Jingyun does not have much prestige in the hearts of the people of the alliance, but Chen Jingyun also has an advantage, that is, his status as a senior officer and the actual military power in his hands. Now that you have been under my control, your department will be the Fifth Regiment of the Fujian Nationals in the future. ”

"Yes, Commander!" Yuan Fang also changed his name at this time, which shows that he is not a pedantic person, but his face is very calm, and he does not show a particularly excited expression at all about Chen Jingyun's feudal official establishment.

But to be honest, at present, Chen Jingyun's official wish does not have much actual surname content, Chen Jingyun has been named seven regiment commanders before and after, namely Ma Cheng of the first regiment, Lin Wenying of the second regiment, Li Lianyang of the third regiment, Li Jimin of the fourth regiment, Yuan Fang of the fifth regiment, Yu Shaoying of the military police regiment, and Xiao Qibin of the artillery regiment. However, among these regiments, there were about 1,200 people under Ma Cheng's command, and the others were 3,400, 5,600.

Yuan Fang surrendered in an unexpected way, and the soldiers under him naturally surrendered as well! In this way, the inside and outside of Fuzhou City were basically under the control of the Fujian National Army.