Gu Wuchen's meaning is that he wants to transfer Liu Xilin from Xuzhou to Qingzhou to assist Gu Siyuan.

Liu Xilin has the talent to govern the army, and after being transferred to Xuzhou, with the support of Zhang Yubo and Huaidong, he soon had more than 1,000 elite cronies, which made Zhang Yubo's situation in Xuzhou a little better.

But under Chen Hansan's suppression, it was difficult for Zhang Yubo and Liu Xilin to expand in Xuzhou in a short period of time, and what Chen Hansan really wanted to do, Zhang Yubo and Liu Xilin relied on this bit of manpower in their hands, and they also lived in separate cities, and it was difficult to effectively contain Chen Hansan.

"It's okay for Xilin to go to Qingzhou to help you......" Lin Jian nodded, approving such an arrangement.

Huaidong is now mainly relying on the Red Jacket Army on the northern front to prevent Chen Hansan from any changes, and Liu Xilin stays in Xuzhou, which is actually in a very dangerous situation, so it is better to go to Qingzhou. Lin Lian hoped that Zhang Yubo could be transferred out of Xuzhou together, but in this matter, Zhang Yubo's temper was very stubborn, and people could not be persuaded to persuade him.

In addition to Liu Xilin's own talent in governing the army, and there are more than 1,000 elites in the department, the Liu family is a rare Jiangmen family in the Dongyang department, Liu Xilin joined the Qingzhou Army, and he can help Gu Siyuan recruit some military attachés to the past, which is what the Qingzhou Army urgently needs at the moment.

Due to the large-scale influx of displaced people, Qingzhou has an abundance of Dingkou. In addition to Gu Siyuan's department, Liu Xilin's department, the Jiaolai River Transport Army, and the Yangxin County Army, some strong people will also be recruited from the local area to support the Qingzhou Army to 30,000 people.

When the Qingzhou army wanted to get two Huai salt and silver, it had to march north to Yangxin to establish a defensive line, and together with Liang Chengchong, who guarded Pingyuanfu, and Tao Chun, who guarded Qinghe and Anyang, they could jointly resist Dongyu Fengrui, who was already in the direction of Yannan.

In the ninth year of Chongguan, Lin Jian led the Jiangdong Left Army to the north to Qinwang, and the most glorious battle took place in Yangxin. During the Yangxin War, Zhang Jin trusted Yangxin Zhixian, and after Zhang Jinxin left Yangxin, Cheng Weiyuan was appointed Zhixian. Although the Liang family got control of Linzi in the later period, they were never able to infiltrate the power into Yangxin.

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

Although the number of soldiers in Yangxin County is small, less than 1,000 people, they are all elite veterans who have experienced the cruel test of war, and whether they are in armor, they are really the only elite combat force that can be used in northern Shandong except for the Liang family and the Changhuai army.

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

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

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

The stability of the defense line or the solidity of the city is closely related to the direction of the Donghu people's troops.

Take Jinhai as an analogy: as long as the Donghu people do not fight Jinhai with more than 40,000 troops, Jinhai is an impregnable city. However, when the Donghu people gathered more than 100,000 soldiers and horses outside Tianjin, some fatal weaknesses in Jinhai's city defense would be exposed.

The same is true for Yangxin, as long as the direction of the Donghu people's troops is not in Yangxin, it will not be a problem for Gu Siyuan to guard Yangxin and resist the 20,000 or 30,000 partial divisions of the Donghu people.

Lin Tie supported the Qingzhou Army to fight for more Huai salt and silver, supported the transfer of Liu Xilin to the north, and supported the Qingzhou Army to integrate the Yangxin forces, Gu Siyuan and Zhao Qinmin were very satisfied with this, these are also the main purposes for Gu Siyuan to come to Huaidong in person, but he didn't expect to spend much money on these.

"Qingzhou wants to become an army, and the lack of armor and bows and crossbows is still a fatal weakness...... Gu Siyuan held the desk with his hand and said the most difficult thing for the Qingzhou army at present.

The Qingzhou Transport Army was formed in the hands of Tang Haoxin, mainly responsible for maintaining the transportation of the Jiaolai River, with less than 20% of the people equipped with weapons, and the total armor of the whole army was less than 100.

The scale of the workshop under the jurisdiction of the Jiangning Ministry of Industry is very large, but the armor produced every year is far less than the expansion of the Manning Wangfu Guard Battalion, the Jiangning Garrison Army, the Changhuai Army, the Huinan Army, and the Northern Zhejiang Army.

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

The armor that Gu Wuchen could win was very limited, and Gu Siyuan could only ask Huaidong for help.

"How much can Huaidong squeeze out?" Lin Jian asked Lin Mengde, and casually kicked the burden to Lin Mengde.

"You have to ask Jing Xuan to find out." Lin Mengde casually kicked the burden to Sun Jingxuan, who was not present.

The previous few incidents supported the Qingzhou Army, after all, it did not directly occupy the resources of Huaidong, and Lin Jian was also generous to others. Huaidong's armor resources are not abundant, although some of them can be squeezed out to Qingzhou, but they will not be free - this kind of thing Lin Jian personally talked to Gu Siyuan about a little hurtful feelings, so he naturally kicked it to Lin Mengde and Sun Jingxuan to deal with it.

At this time, a guard outside handed over a note, Lin Jian opened it and looked at it, and said to Gu Siyuan: "I still have something to leave, let Uncle Mengde stay with you." If there is anything unfinished, let Uncle Mengde make up the mind for me...... "Don't say anything to Lin Mengde, just leave first."

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

The news of Liu Miaozhen's trip is even more leaky than Gu Siyuan, and she will not even arrange for Liu Miaozhen to enter Chongcheng so as not to leak the news.

This is the place where Lin Tie handles official business and meets with officials and generals, and when Lin Tie leaves, Lin Mengde sends someone to invite Sun Jingxuan to go to the city together and move to the garden arranged for Gu Siyuan and others to temporarily live in Chongzhou to talk about things.

Gu Siyuan's schedule was very tight, and Sun Jingxuan also expected that he would talk about armor and ordnance tonight, so he didn't sleep in the house, and when Lin Mengde sent someone to invite him, he rushed to the garden in the city to meet and talk about things.

In the war in eastern Zhejiang, the Huaidong Army successively annihilated or captured, and a total of more than 14,000 people were eliminated from Zhejiang, Fujian and Mingzhou. Of the more than 14,000 people, less than half of the elites of Zhejiang and Fujian were captured, and less than 4,000 sets of armor were captured.

The Changshan Battalion, the Fengli Battalion, and the Chongcheng Infantry Battalion were all expanded on a large scale in a short period of time, which caused the sophistication of the Huaidong Army's armor to decline sharply in a short period of time, and the combat strength of the Huaidong Army also declined a lot, and it took a long time to make up for the shortcomings.

"Spears and spears are a little more generous, and they can produce more than 3,000 pieces, and knives and shields can also squeeze out more than 1,000 pieces," Sun Jingxuan said. You must know that Ao Canghai, Zhou Pu, and Ning Zechen in the Huaidong Army are not easy to mess with, and they all sent people to squat at the door of my house. I'm just giving all the inventory in the prison to Qingzhou now, and there are only 200 sets of armor and 300 foot bows......"

Even if only the military attachés above the commander of the capital are armoured, the Qingzhou army with a strength of 30,000 people needs seven or eight hundred sets of armor, and the armor rate must reach thirty percent to be called the elite of the armor soldiers. In the future, the battle will be mainly to defend the city, especially the need for strong bows and crossbows.

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

"What about the iron, Huaidong can even out some fine iron?" Zhao Qinmin asked.

Qingzhou also has iron workers and craftsmen, as long as there is fine iron, you can make weapons and simple iron armor.

"This can also be evened out," Sun Jingxuan said, "but it is not easy for Huaidong to smelt refined iron, grain prices fluctuate greatly, Huaidong all the workshops and divisions pay the wages with the actual number of rice and grain, refined iron, swords, spears, armor, and bows, Huaidong can squeeze out some to Qingzhou every month, but I hope Qingzhou can use rice grain to account for ......"

The chaos has appeared, the price of silver and copper has fallen, and grain, iron, salt, cloth, and mules and horses have become the materials for the various forces to compete with each other.

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

"Of course." Zhao Qinmin said.

Gu Siyuan wanted to rely on the Qingzhou Army to stand on his own, and he didn't want to become a vassal of Huaidong, so naturally he didn't mean to take it in vain, which was discussed by Zhao Qinmin on the way to meet Gu Siyuan.

In recent years, the eastern part of Shandong has not been harmed by the scourge of war, and although floods and droughts have continued, the situation is much better than that of Henan and other places. In the past, the Jinhai Grain Road had to draw grain from Shandong, which caused a shortage of grain in Qingzhou, and as soon as the Jinhai Grain Road stopped, Qingzhou's grain supply was relieved.

Of course, rice grain has become the most important material at present, and Gu Siyuan really wants to stand on his own feet in Qingzhou, so he can't just allow Qingzhou's rice and grain to flow out.

One stone of rice for three catties of refined iron or twelve catties of rough iron, this is still depending on the relationship between Huaidong and Qingzhou with the same qi and branches, and it is the relationship between Lang's uncle, in exchange for other forces, one stone of rice grain can only be exchanged for two catties of refined iron or ten catties of rough iron.

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

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The red-jacketed girl came to Chongzhou to see even more disgrace, and even feared that Gu Siyuan and Zhao Qinmin would bump into it, so Lin Jian specially instructed Sun Zhuang to escort Liu Miaozhen to the south of the Beiguan River, avoiding the Hanhaidi Avenue, so he delayed some trips on the road.

Chongzhou cleared out the Beiyuan Yashe where Su Mei originally lived at the northern foot of Zilang Mountain, and arranged for Liu Miaozhen to come over and move in; The matter of escort is also in charge of a women's battalion led by Sun Wenwan.

When Lin Jian and Gu Siyuan were talking in Dongya, they received a note that Liu Miaozhen had 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 Jian that night.

Qin Chengzu stayed in Huaiyang as a hostage, Lin Tie was in a hurry in Chongzhou, too busy, and also hoped to meet Liu Miaozhen, and come back with Qin Chengzu as soon as possible.

Lin Jian and Song Jia sat opposite each other in the carriage, the curtain was raised, and some slight rain foam floated in, hitting the face, slightly cool.

"I heard that the girl in the red jacket is a stunning beauty, but there are really few people who have seen her appearance over the years," Song Jia sat against the carriage, with a lazy expression, and her gestures had a charm that other women were not like, talking about Liu Miaozhen's appearance, with a light smile on her lips, and said, "At the beginning, Liu An'er intended to use the marriage of the girl in the red jacket to solicit Qin Zitan, but I don't know what happened, and in the end it didn't ......work out."

Qin Zitan is still planning for the luxury Feihu in Dongyang County, if you want to talk about planning, it should be a strategist of the same level as Gao Zongting, and his back is on the enemy of Huaidong. It is not clear why Qin Zitan is so loyal to the luxury flying tiger, if Qin and Liu were 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 threaten Jiangning to the south, maybe the whole battle situation would have changed differently.

Compared with Liu Miaozhen's appearance, what impressed Lin Jian more was that Liu Miaozhen's delicate body was actually stronger than Zhou Pu, Ao Canghai, Sun Zhuang and others. If he hadn't insisted on grinding his muscles and bones and practicing swordsmanship diligently, he might have beheaded Liu Miaozhen in a battle outside Suining City.