Chen Yan was afraid of extraneous branches, so he got the warrant from Lin Bin, and on the same day, he took Sun Zhuang and his subordinates out of prison, kowtowed outside the line, and slipped back to Chongzhou like a rabbit; Zhang Gou also crossed Huai with Li Wei on the same day, and secretly went to Suyu through Siyang to make contact with the Wandering People's Army.

After Cao Ziang finished handling the military affairs of Siyang, he returned to Shanyang County to learn that Lin Jian had taken away Sun Zhuang and others from their posts and incorporated them into the Chongcheng Infantry Battalion, and said: "You threw Sun Zhuang and others to the Chongcheng Infantry Battalion, Zhou Pu knows about it, don't you want to be anxious?" It took him a lot of effort to capture Sun Zhuangsheng! ”

"So before Zhou Pu reacted, I hurriedly asked Chen Yan to take the person away." Lin Jian said with a smile.

"Sun Zhuang deprived the commander of the generals, to start with the big soldiers, the cavalry camp has no war to fight in the near future, Sun Zhuang has to accumulate enough military exploits to atone for his sins, how easy is it to talk about?" Song Jia said beside him, "Now it is easy to use the Chongcheng infantry battalion to land and attack southern Zhejiang and northern Fujian, and it is easy to accumulate military merits, and when General Zhou really wants to use people, transfer Sun Zhuang and his troops to the cavalry camp, and it can also be used on the blade......"

"It's not easy to make ten achievements and get hundreds of grades!" Cao Ziang sighed softly.

If in a battle, a twelve-man spearhead can get a record of killing 100 enemies, at least it can completely smash the enemy formation in front of it!

In the siege battle, the 12-man spearhead attacked the city, and he was able to kill 100 enemies, and the city was almost captured. At this time, the Chongcheng infantry battalion was cooperating with the Jinghai battalion to attack and harass the hinterland of the luxury family, and there would be occasional battles to attack the city and set up the village, so such sharp soldiers were indeed needed.

Putting aside Sun Zhuang and the others, Cao Ziang asked about the disposition of other generals of the Northern Army. When Sun Zhuang lost the two cities, there were more than 30 generals who came over with their families.

"These more than 30 people, the good and the bad are mixed, but many people are watching," Lin Jian frowned and thought, and said, "Choose the best and use them, and those who are not good will be given money according to the original general's position...... Let's leave it at that. ”

There are also good generals in the exile army, such as Zhang Gou, Han Caizhi and others, but more generals are uneven. Just like Sun Zhuang, a first-class military general in the world, he also has the bad habit of killing and brutality. Many people in the military department are optimistic about Sun Zhuang, but it is difficult to say whether he can become a good general of Ning Zechen and Ao Canghai at this time.

The middle and low-level generals of the Wandering People's Army are better, after all, their status is low, their posture is also low, and they are easy to accept the transformation of Huaidong; High-ranking generals, especially the generals of the exile army who once held thousands or tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, are arrogant and stubborn, and it is difficult to correct or tame them.

Although Lin Jian is more concerned about soldiers and a large number of middle and low-level generals, he often has a stronger exemplary role in the disposal of the generals of the Liumin Army, and it needs to be treated with caution if it cannot be used and discarded as garbage.

Just like the treatment of Sun Zhuang, there will be some negative effects, Lin Jian can almost imagine what kind of tone Liu Tingzhou will use to roar at him after knowing this, but Sun Zhuang is a person who thinks that "whoever is kind to him, he should be righteous to whom", it is more useful to keep it than to kill.

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Liu Tingzhou knew that Lin Jian asked Sun Zhuang and other generals who had lost the city to be taken away from the Shanyang County prison, and sure enough, Tang Shuen, Gao Yi, Liu Yefei and others came to Xingshi to ask for their guilt.

"Sun Zhuang and others are responsible for losing the city, I took away his generals and became soldiers, what is the wrong way to deal with them?" Lin Jian sat in the official hall and calmly responded to Liu Tingzhou's rebuke.

In addition to the punishment of beheading and beheading, exile and confiscation are the most serious punishments. However, Lin Jian understood that what Liu Tingzhou wanted to investigate was not the responsibility of Sun Zhuang and others, but the responsibility of his eastward march of the Red Jacket Army.

Liu Tingzhou was resentful in his heart, but he had no choice but to grasp Lin Lian's handle, and sat on the hard and cold chair in the official hall, very uncomfortable.

Lin Jian yawned and said, "Instead of dwelling on these, let's discuss how to deal with the aftermath!" Please send a letter from Xiao Kuian, who is the commander of the Northern Army of the Infantry Division, and it will take a few days to wait for the reply of the Jiangning Military Department, but the situation in Huaisi is grim, and the reorganization of the Northern Army should not be delayed any longer...... Doesn't Lord Liu have to argue with me about the rights and wrongs of the minutiae before discussing these things? ”

Of course, Liu Tingzhou is reluctant to tell others that he doesn't know what to do, but he is also very unwilling to change the topic so easily for Lin Lian.

Liu Shidu seconded the proposal next to him: "The reorganization of the Northern Army should be a top priority, and it must not be delayed......"

Lin Jian glanced at Gao Yi and Liu Yefei, meaning that the next thing was an internal matter in Huaidong, and it had nothing to do with the two of them. Gao Yi and Liu Yefei were helpless, so they had to leave first; However, when leaving, Liu Yefei glanced at Liu Tingzhou, with obvious distrust in his eyes.

The two cities of Suining and Suyu were lost, and the previous Huaidong Army Infantry Division Northern Army was considered to be "the whole army was destroyed", Lin Jian promoted Xiao Kui'an to be the commander of the Northern Army, reorganized the Northern Army, and gave the establishment of twelve battalions - this Xiao Kui'an was a person from Liu Tingzhou.

Liu Tingzhou accused Lin Tie of raising Kou for self-respect, but in the eyes of outsiders, Liu Tingzhou's benefits this time were greater than Lin Tie's, and it was no wonder that Liu Yefei suspected that Liu Tingzhou and Lin Tie were singing against each other.

Liu Yefei is used to deception, this kind of person is the best at speculating on others with the lowest limit of malice, Lin Jian looked at Liu Tingzhou in his eyes, just smiled in his heart, and didn't say anything.

Xiao Kuian'an was guarding in Shuyang at this time, and he couldn't get out of his body, and when he reorganized the Northern Army, Lin Tie and Liu Tingzhou set a charter to ask Xiao Kuian'an to act in accordance with it.

Lin Jian hoped to recruit Liu Yong from Shuyang and Haizhou to join the Northern Army, in fact, to alleviate the food shortage and public security pressure in Shuyang and Haizhou counties. Although the salary for being a soldier in these years is not much, it can barely keep the family from starving to death.

Lin Lian gave the 12th Battalion of the Northern Army 6,000 auxiliary soldiers and 2,000 soldiers, a total of 8,000 soldiers, including family members, which can almost solve the problem of the survival of more than 30,000 displaced people in Shuyang and Haizhou counties.

Yishui was blockaded in time, but due to the eastward advance of the Red Jacket Army, the displaced people who poured into Shuyang and Haizhou counties, plus the displaced households that existed before, were about this order of magnitude.

Lin Jian also hoped that during Xiao Kuian's garrison in Shuyang, he would reclaim the wasteland on the river beaches of Yishui and Shushui, first, to resettle the families of the generals, and second, to make up for the lack of military funds and military maintenance.

Although Liu Tingzhou had great differences with Lin Jian in terms of political views, he was much more pragmatic and capable than officials of the same period, and he was not the kind of pedantic official who opposed for the sake of opposition. Lin Lian really couldn't put forward any opinions on the disposition of the reorganization of the Northern Army.

"The reorganization of the Northern Army, the affairs are complicated, Captain Xiao is alone in Shuyang, I'm afraid that he can't catch it, can I ask Lord Liu and Lord Tang to help him in Shuyang?" At the end of the discussion, Lin Jian asked Liu Tingzhou and Tang Shuen.

Liu Tingzhou knew that Lin Jian was going to kick him to Huaibei, but he couldn't raise any objections.

Xiao Kui'an has a set of rules for governing the army, but the reorganization of the Northern Army involves all aspects, but Xiao Kui'an alone can deal with it; The involvement of the military consulate is justified.

Of course, in addition to the 2,000 soldiers and armor led by Xiao Kuian to guard Shuyang before, the new 6,000 soldiers and horses, and the food and salary are provided by the military commander, but the armor is in short supply, and this depends on Liu Tingzhou's help to find a way. It is easy for each recruit to be equipped with a spear, but armor and bows and crossbows are extravagant.

Lin Jian asked Liu Shidu again: "It is difficult to do two things in Huai'an, such as checking public land and changing the bank to collect grain, do you start with Shuyang and Haizhou counties?" Otherwise, the pressure to raise an army is too great! ”

Liu Shidu glanced at Liu Tingzhou, thought for a while, and said, "Yes, I'll accompany Lord Liu to the north!" But can you make sure that the rogues don't cross the Yishui and attack eastward? ”

"The Huaidong cavalry battalion has left Siyang, forming a vigilance on the east bank of Yishui, and if bandits are found on the east bank of Yishui, they will be resolutely cracked down," Lin Jian said, "I plan to send a document to Jiangning, suggesting that the western front should also be changed to blockade, for the sake of today's plan, the Changhuai army should be transferred south to prepare for war, and the bandits may be appeased......"

When Lin Jian said the word "appeasement", Liu Tingzhou and Liu Shidu didn't say anything, and the two of them actually had a lot of criticism about Chen Zhihu's forbidden tyranny, but it was just inconvenient to show it.

Liu Tingzhou is not stupid, he is also inclined to appease in his heart, but he can't submit a proposal, otherwise he will have no position on Lin Lian's accusation of raising Kou's self-respect.

In the current situation, the Red Jacket Army captured the two cities of Suining and Suyu, and got a chance to breathe, and Chen Zhihu would not storm Huaiyang City, which was garrisoned by the elite soldiers of the Red Jacket Army, at this time. In the eyes of many people, even if the Red Jacket Army captured the two cities of Suining and Suyu, due to the limited supplies that could be obtained from these two counties, the Red Jacket Army would have been given a maximum of ten or twenty days of breathing time. Even if Liu Tingzhou and the others were aware of the secret communication between the Military Secretary and the Displaced People's Army, they categorically could not imagine that the Military Division's Mansion had the ability to receive 40,000 stone rice and grain from the Displaced People's Army every month.

Liu Tingzhou, Tang Shuen, and Liu Shidu left one after another.

Lin Lian, Cao Ziang, Liang Wenzhan and others also had to discuss the expansion of the Huaidong Army. Although the Huaidong Army temporarily focused on building warships and developing a naval army, this time it also gave the infantry division eight battalions, and it could not do without it. The infantry battalion should also be moderately developed to prevent a serious imbalance in the combat strength of the water infantry army.

"I think the Changshan battalion should be expanded first," Cao Ziang thought about it for a long time, and finally suggested that the Changshan battalion should be expanded first, "The cavalry battalion will temporarily stay on the north bank for a period of time, and after the situation stabilizes, the military pressure on the northern front will not be great." First expand the Changshan battalion, if there is a need for war, it can be quickly transported through the water battalion warship......"

Even after the completion of the post road to defend the seawall, it would take five to six days for a large-scale infantry movement from Chongzhou to Shanyang. Even after the collapse of the Yanbei defense line, the imperial court issued another edict from the king, and Lin Jian had no intention of sending troops, but it did not mean that he was not prepared at all. In this sense, it is of greater significance to expand the Changshan camp first.

On the northern front, the garrisons of the Huaidong Army were mainly concentrated in Siyang, Shukou, and Shanyang, and Siyang was the main force to form a defensive line against Huai. Lin Jian implemented the strategy of elite soldiers, as long as the city was strong enough, only three or four thousand elite combat power was needed, which was enough to resist several times or more than ten times the enemy army to attack Siyang City in a short time.