On the 25th, Zhao Qinmin returned to Jiangning with the newlywed Yan'er Lin Jingzhong, Sun Wenpei and his wife, Sun Wenbing and others, and Zhao Hu led the prison island soldiers to accompany him; Qin Chengzu quietly arrived in Chongzhou at dusk on this day.

Hand in hand with Fu Qinghe, save Su Mei and Xiaoman, and save thirty robbed boys on Changshan Island, Qingjiangpu met Qin Chengzu and Zhou Pu, and worked together to save Cao Ziang and Si Niangzi, and returned to Shanglin, taking advantage of the situation in Jiangning, lobbying the forces of Taihu Lake Water Village, rescuing Xisha Island, going north to King Qin and becoming famous, supporting troops to force Shandong, solving the danger of the Xihe Society, and returning to Chongzhou Tuguangjiao Temple...... At this time, Lin Jian can already be said to be a hero.

From Changshan Island to Jiyun Society, to Jiyun Wuwei, to Prison Island Warriors, to Xisha Island Township Camp, to Jiangdong Left Army...... Although it is said that Lin Jian has the elite of the Jiangdong Left Army, there are still many combat forces that are scattered, lack effective integration, and do not form a complete and effective system.

While lacking efficiency, it is not only not conducive to cohesion of combat effectiveness, but also makes logistics and supply quite chaotic.

After solving the fundamental problem of Chongzhou's foothold - Han Zai came alone, and even harbored deep hostility towards Wu Meijiu, and it was impossible to break the layout of Chongzhou in Chongzhou in a short period of time - the most urgent thing at the moment was to integrate the Jiangdong Left Army and all its affiliated forces to form a concise and effective system to operate.

In addition, an important question that needs to be urgently solved is: how to maintain the huge supply that the Jiangdong Left Army needs?

Qin Chengzu, Fu Qinghe, Cao Ziang, Lin Mengde, Sun Jingxuan, Sun Jingtang, Zhou Pu, Wu Qi, Ning Zechen, Zhao Qingshan, Ao Canghai, Ge Cunxin, Ge Cunxiong, Hu Zhiyong, Hu Zhicheng, and almost all other important figures gathered in Chongzhou to concentrate on discussing several core issues that will determine the future development of the Jiangdong Left Army.

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In addition to the 400 soldiers who stayed in Jinhai under Sun Shangwang's control and the 200 prison island soldiers who went to Jiangning under Zhao Hu's control, the five-battalion system of the Jiangdong Left Army still has more than 800 elites from Jiyun Wuwei and Xisha Island Township Battalion, more than 200 elites from Changshan Island, and more than 1,500 elites sent to Xisha Island in mid-to-late February to recuperate.

The total number of elite combat forces that Lin Jian could integrate in Chongzhou to act as the main pawn of the left army was close to 6,000 people.

Lin Jian finally decided to keep the five battalions in Chongzhou.

Set up the Xun Leopard Battalion, which is a cavalry battalion, with 600 cavalry guards, 800 horses, and 200 auxiliary soldiers.

King Qin's four battles, led by Ning Zechen, Zhongzhou Feng left the generals who made the most meritorious contributions, killed the enemy the most bravely, set up Feng Li's camp, as a foot battalion, and made up eight hundred armor guards. With Ning Zechen as the battalion commander, stationed in Guanyintan.

Set up the Chongcheng infantry battalion, with 800 people in four guards, with Zhou Tong as the battalion commander, stationed in Chongzhou Zilang Mountain.

The first and second battalions of the Jinghai Battalion were set up as standing naval divisions, and the warships were also formally formalized, with the Jinhai-class, Jiyun-class, and loach-class being the main combat ships going to sea, and the small and medium-sized inland river vessels, such as the shipwreck, the boat, the fighting ship, the large-wing boat, and the vehicle and boat, as the auxiliary warships. Each battalion is composed of one Jinhai-class warship, three Jiyun-class warships, a number of loach ships and various auxiliary warships, 800 soldiers and 400 auxiliary soldiers, the first battalion is commanded by Zhao Qingshan, Ge Cunxiong is the deputy, stationed at Guanyin Beach; Ge Cunxin of the second battalion was the commander of the battalion, and Sun Wenyao was the deputy, stationed at the South Cliff Wharf of Zilang Mountain.

Zhou Pu, Ning Zechen, Ao Canghai, Zhao Qingshan, Ge Cunxin and others were all rewarded for their military merits, and they were awarded military positions ranging from the seventh rank to the ninth rank of the Yuncai cavalry captain, the Xiao cavalry captain or the feather cavalry captain, which was also regarded as the official military attache establishment of the Jiangdong Zuoying Township Army.

In addition, Lin Jian also secretly set up a Changshan battalion on Changshan Island, with Qin Chengzu as the commander of the battalion, with the elite of Changshan Island as the backbone, and selected the elite from Xisha Island to supplement the establishment of the three sentinels, and organized two sentinel auxiliaries, which were incorporated into some warships, and continued to act in the name of Tan Zong, the fox of the sea fox east of Changshan Island.

In addition to more than 4,400 elite soldiers, 1,400 auxiliary soldiers were recruited from the grassroots congregations of the Xihe Society and the people, and nearly 1,500 veterans who had experienced hard battles were allowed to retire from the army and settle in Chongzhou or Xisha Island.

No matter how elite the army is, it is inevitable that a large number of soldiers will have war-weariness and fear of war.

As outstanding generals, it is necessary to encourage the brave spirit of the generals and to curb the growth of war-weariness and fear of war in the army. Sometimes this is the existence of two sides of the same coin, and it should not be simply attributed to greed for life and fear of death.

Lin Jian thought about his previous life and resolutely broke away from the worldly life, and when he said it, he couldn't suppress the boredom that rose from the bottom of his heart.

There are many extremely good soldiers, they are not simple killing machines, the war-weariness that breeds in their hearts is, in the final analysis, the mood of boredom and spontaneous thoughts, perhaps after a period of time, the martial arts in their bones have precipitated more deeply and purely.

Lin Jian authorized some generals to return to the locality, allowing them to join the township camp or participate in local affairs, even if they returned to their families and farms, and there was no compulsory way to integrate them into auxiliary soldiers, which was also to achieve the goal of keeping soldiers in the people.

There are two battalions of permanent troops stationed on Xisha Island, and there are more than 2,000 auxiliary soldiers in total, and in addition to the rotation training of the people, there will be no additional township battalions -- this arrangement is also to save more manpower and materials for production and construction.

In addition, a women's camp was set up, and 300 healthy women were compiled, headed by Sun Wenwan and Sun Jingtang's concubine Zhao Hongyu; Organized a guard battalion, organized a sentry horse step elite, with Ao Canghai as the battalion commander, Chen Enze and Hu Qiaoguan also officially enlisted as deputy sentry generals - Hu Qiaozhong was obsessed with the Shanghai ship and asked to go to the Jinghai No. 1 Water Battalion as a deputy sentry general.

In addition to the generals of the battalions, Lin Jian also appointed Cao Ziang as the envoy of the Guanjun Rong, who has the right to supervise the army, responsible for correcting the discipline of the whole army and assisting Lin Jian in handling military affairs; Wu Qi is the chief sentinel, responsible for news scouts and other things; Fu Qinghe is the head of the general education, responsible for the training of the whole army and the rotation training of the township camps; Sun Jingtang was the general secretary and was responsible for assisting Lin Jian in handling trivial affairs in the army.

At this point, Lin Lian can be regarded as integrating the main combat forces at hand into a relatively complete system for unified scheduling, with a total of more than 6,500 regular soldiers and auxiliary soldiers.

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Since the Jiangdong Left Army belonged to the township army system, the money and soldiers' armor and even the cost of the garrison had to be raised by themselves, and Chongzhou County was set aside as the source of the Jiangdong Left Army, which was also a special reward obtained by King Qin of the Jiangdong Left Army after making his first contribution.

In order to maintain a force with more than 6,500 regular soldiers and auxiliary troops, and almost completely self-raised troops in terms of money, salaries, armor, and even garrisons, the requirements for logistical supply are extremely demanding, not to mention that the Jiangdong Left Army is organized into cavalry battalions, infantry battalions, and water battalions, and the complexity has risen geometrically.

Although he was restrained, he was no longer a subordinate official subordinate to the Jiangdong Inspectorate Division, and had the right to set up the Jinghai Metropolitan Envoy Department in Chongzhou and recruit officials to assist in military affairs.

In fact, Lin Mengde was the leader, supplemented by Hu Zhiyong, Sun Jingxuan, Hu Zhicheng, Lin Jingcheng and others, and was in charge of the logistics supply of the Jiangdong Left Army and the construction of the people's tun and ordnance on Xisha Island.

Cao Ziang, Wu Qi, Fu Qinghe, Sun Jingtang and others all stayed in Chongzhou with Lin Tie to take charge of military affairs.

Jiyun Society was controlled by Lin Mengde, and also secretly controlled the civil affairs of Chongzhou; Jinhai Jinwei Island was also controlled by Cao Ziang, and he also secretly controlled Chongzhou's personnel and military affairs, and he was also in charge of various affairs on Prison Island, so that a relatively complete military and political system was formed.

Each has its own division, each performs its own duties, and whatever happens, he can find the specific person in charge, and no longer has to pile up on Lin Bin's desk regardless of priority, which makes his head bigger.

Relatively speaking, although managing the army is the most important thing, it is an easy thing to do, after all, a preliminary military attache system has been formed, and everything has a pulse to be found. Although Lin Mengde has nearly 400,000 taels of silver in his hand, compared to what he has to do, these 400,000 taels of silver is just a drop in the bucket, far from enough.

In addition to the first and second water camps in Jinghai, the Jiyun Society also had to form a formal merchant fleet headed by Sun Wenbing, and integrate all the excess capacity into the merchant fleet, temporarily taking charge of the transportation from Jiangning to Chongzhou. After the delivery of the third batch of sea ships, it is necessary to try to officially open up the route to the north to the Tianjin Sea - when the third batch of sea ships with a total capacity of 10,000 stone is delivered, it will also pay 30,000 taels of shipbuilding silver to the Longjiang Shipyard.

Even if the people of Xisha Island do not need to provide additional relief and cash-for-work is enough to solve their livelihoods, the construction of farms, fertile fields, the purchase of animal power, the construction of water conservancy facilities, the construction of roads, and the construction of enclosure layers all require long-term continuous investment.

In the following period of time, in addition to increasing investment in Xisha Island and reclaiming wasteland for farming with the formation of collective farms, the most important type of investment was the construction of various workshops.

In the early stage, in order to resettle the displaced people, build walled buildings and large-scale enclosed houses, the island only took soil and burned bricks on a large scale, but in order to support the logistics of the Jiangdong Left Army and the livelihood of the people on Xisha Island, in addition to taking soil and burning bricks, ironmaking and iron work, ordnance manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, weaving, shipbuilding, etc., are all basic factory operations that urgently need to be invested on a large scale at present.

In particular, in shipbuilding, in order to crack down on the East China Sea Invaders, to contend with the extravagances, and to have the opportunity to fight side by side with Li Zhuo in two or three years, to attack Liaodong by sea and copy the back route of the East Captives, the Jiangdong Left Army must ensure a strong surface combat capability. It is not possible to rely on the Longjiang Shipyard for everything in the simple repair of seagoing ships and the repair of small and medium-sized warships, and it is necessary to build a dock and a shipyard in Chongzhou or Xisha Island immediately.

Not only the armor, but also the arrows, war equipment, warships, and cantonments, the consumption of iron products is a large amount - the largest consumption of the war in the world can be said to be concentrated in iron.

At that time, the level of ironmaking in the world was higher than imagined, such as the iron-control workshop under the Ministry of Industry of Jiangning, smelting raw iron and filling steel with a scale of nearly one million catties every year.

Lin Jian and Lin Mengde also roughly estimated that in order to maintain the military level of the Jiangdong Left Army from slipping, 200,000 catties of raw and wrought iron and steel are needed every year, and the level of equipment is almost proportional to the amount of iron used by the army.

The Jiangdong Left Army's armor and ordnance needed to be raised by itself, and it was also necessary to spend a large amount of money to build iron, iron work, and various ordnance repair workshops; Even at this time, it is necessary to establish the storage of iron sand, coal and other materials, so as not to come in troubled times and cut off the supply of materials.

A strong army needs excellent generals and soldiers with a martial spirit, but it must also be seen that almost any strong army is made of silver.

The ancients often said that "soldiers are not expensive, but they are more expensive", not because they do not want to have as many elite soldiers as possible, but because the regime with agricultural civilization as the main body simply cannot support a large contingent of elite soldiers.

Lin Mengde, Cao Ziang, Hu Zhiyong, Sun Jingxuan, Sun Jingtang and others are planning these things these days, but there is no shortage of manpower, and even need to build these workshops to accommodate the surplus labor, but to build these factories on a large scale, it is necessary to take 200,000 taels of silver out in the early stage to prepare.

In Guanyintan, the walled tower and dock port can be used as a permanent garrison fortress, but in Chongzhou, no matter where the new city is to be built in the future, Lin Jian has to build a permanent military fortress at the eastern foot of Zilang Mountain for the garrison.

Unlike temporary garrisons, permanent military fortresses do not require lower defense than ordinary cities, but the scale is smaller, and the construction cost is naturally surprisingly high.

Lin Lian is entrusting the old worker to do this work, to say the least, it will cost sixty or seventy thousand taels of silver to be enough.

As soon as these few items of silver were deducted, Lin Mengde had 100,000 cash left to supply the Jiangdong Left Army. Even if the armor, battle equipment, warships, and horses of the Jiangdong Left Army do not need to be replenished for the time being, 100,000 taels of silver will be enough for the daily expenses of the Jiangdong Left Army for half a year.