Song Jiabei returned to Xuzhou, and it was already late January.

The spring is cold, Surabaya has just thawed, and the river is crowded with boats transporting grain, wood, iron, coal, and cloth.

The carrying capacity of inland river boats is small, and even so, the high transportation efficiency is not comparable to that of human camels and horses.

After the recovery of Xuzhou, the Huaisi River was frozen, and the scarce materials could only be transported by mules and horses, but a large number of materials needed for reconstruction were gathered in Siyang, Shanyin, Huai'an, Shukou and other towns along the Huai River.

Catch up with the beginning of spring after the river has just thawed, such a huge amount of materials, to be sent to Xuzhou in a short period of time, thousands of ships to start together, the river sails on the mast such as a forest, when the Cao Road is smooth, it is difficult to see such a grand scene on the Surabaya River.

Song Yi is the son of Song Shixing, the commander of the Song family, at the age of 21, although he grew up in the battalion, and in recent years, he has also followed his father in the army to manage military affairs, but he has not experienced cruel wars. This trip to the north is the first time he left Fujian, so that he felt too much freshness, from Huaikou into the Huai River, see the coastal city standing like a mountain, flat fields such as a domain, as far as the eye can see, and the Huaisi River, the prosperity of the boat, far from Fujian can compare, only to really realize the strength of the Central Plains, not Fujian can reach.

If the Central Plains falls into a chaotic situation of falling apart, if Fujian can succeed, but as long as a slight strong figure rises, it can curb the expansion momentum of Fujian.

Traveling thousands of miles and reading thousands of books, Song Yi did not have a deep feeling in Quanzhou, and this time he went north by sea ship, and he was deeply touched. It was the Lin Zhengjun-class sea ship they were riding that subverted his previous understanding.

In the past, Jin'an and Quanzhou could build seagoing ships with a maximum capacity of 3,000 stones, which in their eyes were already huge ships, but the Chongzhou shipyard can now build six Lin Zhengjun-class seagoing ships with a capacity of 20,000 stones every year.

From Yizhou Zhuxi County to the sea, sail north, six days to enter the Huai River, with the ship loaded with more than 10,000 bags of rice, it is difficult to imagine how much manpower and material resources it takes to transport so much grain to Huaikou by land.

Song Jia and Song Yi and other Song children changed to river boats to rush to Siyang, saw the congestion of the Surabaya river, and then changed to horse-drawn carriages and mules and horses to go north by land, and entered Xuzhou City on the 28th day of the first month of the third year of Yongxing.

At this time, Xuzhou City was shining for the marriage of Lin Jian and Liu Miaozhen.

When going south, the city of Xuzhou has just been recovered, dilapidated, a desolate, now back to Xuzhou, the city has not been repaired on a large scale, but the weather is very different.

In order to alleviate the pressure of food, a large number of displaced people accumulated in the city were evacuated to Suining and Suyu in the south; Military camps were also built outside the city to relieve the pressure on the ruined city.

As soon as the pressure on the population was reduced, order in the city was greatly improved, and the streets were reorganized compared to before. After the beginning of spring, the river thawed, and the warships of the Jinghai Third Water Battalion had entered Weishan Lake outside Xuzhou City, and the military pressure directly faced by Xuzhou City was greatly relieved, and the faces of ordinary people in the streets and alleys of the market were also filled with rare smiles.

Lin Tie set up a banquet to entertain Song Yi and other Song children in the lake village on the north bank of Shigou Lake, Lin Tie and Song Jia also had two months of time respectively, and they missed it tightly, and after the banquet, they went to the back house to turn the phoenix, first a fierce love, and then recounted the parting and then the separation.

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In the early spring at night, the cold air is still quite cold, and the brazier is burning in the room, which is as warm as spring.

During this time, Song Jia ran north and south, it was also very hard, her chin was much thinner and sharper, and then returned to Lin Lian's side, her body was lying lazily, so tired that she didn't want to get up, thinking of the style of the right talent, the corners of her mouth were beautiful, the style was boundless, listening to the wind blowing from the garden trees outside the window, she put on a thin shirt, lay on Lin Bin's chest, and said lazily: "It's only been two months since you walked away, and you have enjoyed all the blessings, but I'm afraid that I will leave it in a corner, and I won't pay attention to it......"

"Is there one?" Lin Jian smiled, put his hand on Song Jia's waist, the waist was delicate, and below was the plump and full buttocks, patting it gently, the buttocks and flesh were trembling gently, especially tempting, "I don't think you can come back one day sooner......"

"The ghost only believes you," Song Jia's nose wrinkled, and she gently bit the flesh on Lin Bin's chest, "I'm outside, and there is only one thing that feels strange, why do you have such a thick skin and take the girl in the red jacket into the room?" ”

"Speaking of this, I feel wronged!" Lin Jian said bitterly, and told Song Jia in detail about Liu Miaozhen running to the door and recommending herself as a concubine.

"Ahh Song Jia also sat up in surprise with Lin Lian's chest, when she heard the news in Quanzhou, she felt very strange, she never thought that it would be Liu Miaozhen who took the initiative to pierce this kind of window paper, and sighed, "She is really a strange woman, Song Jia is not as good as her." ”

Song Jia thinks very highly of herself, Lin Jian has not heard her say anything about serving mediocrity, and said with a smile: "You all praise her one by one for being a strange woman who takes care of the overall situation, have you ever thought that I would sacrifice a lot?" ”

"Sacrifice what, sacrifice hue?" Song Jiajiao laughed, remembered another incident, and said, "I'm thinking, if on the day you and Miaozhen get married, she tells you in a serious way that she marries you for the overall situation, not about the love between men and women, and wants to kick you out of the cave room, what should you do?" ”

"......" Lin Jian was slightly stunned and said, "Don't scare me with such words!" Although he respects Liu Miaozhen, but when he thinks that such a beautiful woman wants to marry him as a concubine, sometimes he can't help but be anxious and thoughtful, but Liu Miaozhen doesn't seem to be abnormal.

Song Jia said: "You can't beat people, people are not happy to have a round room with you, you just want to overlord and can't ......make a bow" This thing is that I think about it in my heart and feel very coke, and I can't stop laughing in Lin Lian's arms.

"She can't make a hard bow against the overlord, but I'm afraid that you won't be able to make a hard bow?" Lin Tie copied Song Jia's thin waist, pressed her under her, separated her feet, and wanted to forcibly love again, Song Jia struggled to resist, but how could she have Lin Tie's strength, she only felt that it was so interesting.

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Although Liu Miaozhen married Lin Jian as a concubine, her identity was different from that of others, and Emperor Yongxing specially agreed to marry and gave Liu Miaozhen the title of Mrs. Sizhou, the marquis of the same township. Although this marriage will not be carried out in a big way, it will be done according to the six rites, and the wedding date is about mid-March.

When Song Jia returned to Xuzhou, the Xuzhou War Training School had been established, and the first batch of battalion officers in Huaiyang Town had been selected to be trained in the War Training School for half a month.

Huaiyang Town was officially incorporated into the Huaidong Army Division, organized as the Huaiyang Army of the Northern Army, Fengli Battalion, Changshan Battalion, Chongcheng Infantry Battalion, and Jinhai Battalion were all upgraded to the army, and Lin Jian also promoted the system of military commanders and commanders joining the army at the two levels of the Huaiyang Army Brigade and Battalion, and assisted the chief general in operational command, daily training, logistics and supply, etc., and also allowed Huaidong generals to take this opportunity to be incorporated into the Huaiyang Army system on a large scale, and formally and thoroughly integrate the Huaiyang Army.

Lin Bin's title is also different from the past, changed to Pengcheng County Duke and Changshan, Fengli, Chongcheng, Jinhai, Huaiyang and Jinghai armies, and concurrently leads Zhedong, Huaidong, Xuzhou system and envoys, and concurrently leads the Hailing prefect, the right squire of the military department, etc., Lin Tie can't help frowning for a long time every time he sees his long title.

Liu Miaozhen was willing to lead the troops as a general, served as the commander of the Huaiyang Army, and Li Liang was the deputy commander of the command, and organized the 25th battalion of the 5th Brigade, the 5th battalion of light cavalry, and the 1st battalion of armored cavalry, with a total of 19,000 soldiers; At this time, the Xuzhou marching camp army was formed, with Ma Lantou as the commander and Liu Xilin as the deputy commander, with a total of 20 battalions of foot soldiers.

In the system of the Huaidong Military Division, Fengli, Changshan, Chongcheng, Jinhai, and Huaiyang are the main forces directly controlled by the Military Division, and the marching army is the local garrison.

With Xuzhou City as the boundary, the periphery of the fortress, including Peixian, Huaiyang, Xuzhou, Guangqi and other cities, is located in the periphery of the entire Xusi defense line, the battle is fierce, mainly by the Huaiyang army is responsible for defense, the camp army assists in defense; The cities of Suining, Yusu, and Yizhou, which are located south and east of Xuzhou City, are relatively located on the inner side of the relatively safe defense line, and are mainly garrisoned by the marching army.

Through this kind of deployment, the limited troops, armor, and ordnance resources will be effectively distributed to form a more stable defense line.

In addition to strengthening the outer defense of Xuzhou City as the core, he also selected an island to build a water village in Weishan Lake between the north of Xuzhou City, Guangqi and Pei County, and with Yang Shi as the general, he transferred a brigade of naval troops and warships from the Third Water Battalion of Jinghai into Weishan Lake as an extremely important supplement to the outer defense line of Xusi.

In addition, nearly 30,000 soldiers were deployed in Xuzhou, Huaiyang, Peixian, Guangqi, Xiapi, Yizhou, Suining and other places, responsible for repairing the city and assisting the local authorities in building ditches, bridges, and roads to restore production.

In addition to the outer defense line with Xuzhou City as the core, the Fengli Army with Ning Zechen as the main general and the two brigades of the Jinghai Third Water Battalion, nearly 30,000 soldiers and 20,000 soldiers from the Gongli Battalion were stationed on the inner side of the Xusi defense line with Shanyang and Siyang as the core.

In order to make Huaidong have a relatively safe inner line, Lin Jian directly invested 60,000 soldiers and 50,000 soldiers on the Xusi defense line.

After the beginning of spring, the river thawed, and the defense line of Xu Si was stabilized, and Yan Hu also deliberately reduced the military operations in front of Xu Si to avoid the battle of the large corps, but at the same time increased the suppression of the resistance forces that stretched into the eastern part of Shandong such as Yishan and Kunyu Mountain, and more importantly, strengthened the siege of Miaoshan and Jinwei Island near the hinterland.

The warships built by Yanhu in a hurry were naturally unable to compete with the warships of the Huaidong Water Camp at sea, but Jinwei Island and the Miaoshan Islands were too close to the land, which became the deadliest threat to the soldiers and horses of the Miaoshan Special Camp.

The nearest island of the Miaoshan Islands is only twelve or thirteen miles away from Dengzhou City, and even if a paddle boat goes out to sea, it only takes two sticks of incense to sail such a close distance. Once the Yanhu soldiers and horses go to sea, they will not be entangled with the Huaidong water camp warships on the sea, and they will be able to quickly rush to land on these coastal islands.

In early February, Nahe Xiongqi organized a group of fishing boats to transport more than 3,000 soldiers, raided the sea from the river bay on the inner side of Dengzhou, and landed on the beach on the south island of Miaoshan, forcibly captured the south island, destroyed the defense facilities of the south island, and organized fishing boats to take the soldiers back to land at night.

The loss of more than 300 people in the Miaoshan camp also made Huaidong realize that at such a close distance from the land, it was difficult for Huaidong's warships to give full play to their advantages.