The deliberations of the Admiral's Mansion could not be considered pleasant, and everyone had their own calculations in their hearts.

Yue Lengqiu made up his mind to move west as soon as possible to avoid the main force of the Eastern Cavalry, but he only had the name of the governor, and the generals under his command resisted him in a group, so that he could not master the Eastern Min Qin Wang Division as commanded.

Yue Lengqiu tried to ask Lalin to lead the five battalions of the left army of the Jiangdong Qin Wang Division to move west with him, so as to weaken the resistance to him within the Eastern Min Qin Wang Division; Lin Jian just took out the Jiangdong soldier coach Cheng Yuqian as an excuse to push and push, and did not clearly say that he would stay or leave. Although it is said that the same origin Chu Party should help each other, it is impossible for Lin Lian to be subject to Yue Lengqiu in action.

As the leader of the general group of the Eastern Fujian Qinwang Division, Lu Jingyan was promoted to the current high position by virtue of his military exploits, and his martial courage was undiminished, and his ambition was still there, and he wanted to defend the place in Shandong, fight against the cavalry of the Eastern Invaders, and establish meritorious deeds, but he could not get rid of Yue Lengqiu's moderation.

Lin Jian wanted to befriend Lu Jingyan, thinking that if they wanted to stay in Jinan Mansion together, they would have to help each other, and they also deliberately curry favor during the luncheon held in the Admiral's Mansion. However, in the eyes of outsiders, Lin Tie is a member of the Chu Party, and he is the backbone of the Chu Party's charge trap, how can Lu Jingyan, as Li Zhuo's old subordinate, have a good face for Lin Tie?

Lin Lian was also depressed in his heart, in front of Yue Lengqiu, there were many things that he couldn't do too obviously.

The lieutenant general of the two Zhejiang Qin Wang Divisions had an ambiguous attitude, and he wanted to refuse and welcome, obviously thinking that the offer of 10,000 taels of condolence silver was far from enough for him to lead thousands of elite soldiers in the two Zhejiang provinces to stay and work for Shandong. In Lin Bin's view, such a general cannot be trusted at a critical moment.

Coming out of the Shandong Governor's Mansion, Lin Jian was worried about things, and seeing that it was still early, he was not in a hurry to go out of the city and return to the Jing'er Lake camp, so he took seven or eight guards to wander around the city.

Jinan City is not big, only 600 steps square, and it also occupies one-third of the area of Daming Lake, which gathers all springs, and Lin Tie walks along the stone street on the south bank of Daming Lake. The lake froze, the willow leaves withered clean, only the sparse branches hung down, and the scenery was depressed.

Lin Jian walked to a Taoist temple in Xicheng and met the people sent by Lin Mengde to find him.

Lin Jian rushed to the market in the east of the city, Lin Mengde came out of the market, pulled him to a mule cart on the side of the street, lifted the corner of the lacquered cloth, and said, "Look at ......."

What caught his eye was actually two pairs of scale armor, which were in good condition, and Lin Lianxi said: "Can you buy such a good thing in the city?" Lifted the lacquered cloth covering the car, in addition to two pairs of scale armor, there were more than a dozen pairs of high-quality group armor, thirty or forty knives and Mo knives, and more than a dozen crossbows, and asked Lin Mengde, "Are they all bought here?" ”

"The key is the price, guess how much silver these two sets of scales cost?" Lin Meng hurriedly covered the lacquer cloth, for fear that his wealth would be exposed.

"How much silver?" Lin Jian asked.

"This count......" Lin Mengde bought Guan Zi and raised three fingers.

"Three hundred taels of silver?" Lin Jian asked.

Three hundred taels of silver is converted into copper and 360,000 yuan, and you can buy 60,000 or 70,000 catties of rice in Jiangning, a family of four, you can eat it for more than 20 years, but buying two pairs of scale armor with such good condition, Lin Jian doesn't feel expensive at all.

Although in Jiangning, the price of such scale armor can be slightly cheaper, but at such a critical moment, a pair of scale armor with excellent protection and weight even lighter than the group armor can be worn by a brave soldier, fearless of ordinary slashing and stabbing, and fearless of short-distance arrows, coupled with a sharp Mo knife or a knife with great lethality, which can immediately increase the combat power of the fifteenth pawn squad with good combat coordination to a higher level.

Lin Jian trained elite soldiers with the new formation method, that is, he used the armored Mo swordsman as the core of the five pawns, but good armor is hard to find, it is only a Jiyun Wuwei with only two hundred people, and there are only sixty or seventy pairs of high-quality group armor.

Lin Mengde laughed like a profiteer, sneakily leaned into Lin Lian's ear, and whispered: "These two pairs of armor cost thirty taels of silver......

"......" Lin Jian stared at Lin Mengde in disbelief for a while, and asked, "You didn't lie to me?" ”

"Can I lie to you?" Lin Mengde asked rhetorically, "Not only these two sets of scale armor, but also such a group of armor doesn't cost ten taels of silver, twenty Mo knives, a total of only thirty taels of silver......

"It too; But there are only seven or eight people around you, and it is impossible to buy and ......sell by force," Lin Jian said with a smile, just the smile lasted on his face for a few breaths, and in the blink of an eye, the smile solidified on his face: Except for the military attaché and non-commissioned officers selling it privately, how could Lin Mengde buy such a sophisticated armor on the market at such a cheap price?

"Did you think of that?" Lin Meng saw Lin Lian's face change, and knew that he had thought through the joints.

"Hmm!" Lin Jian nodded heavily and said, "There's nothing hard to guess about this, it's just that I was a little overjoyed when I saw such a good thing at first glance......

"The other party didn't say their identity, looking at their clothes, it should be the town army that withdrew from the three mansions of Yannan......," Lin Mengde said.

After the defeat of the defenders of the three prefectures of Yannan, a large number of remnants of the defeated army will retreat into Shandong, and Dezhou can not give them a sense of security, so they retreat to the territory of Jinan on a large scale. The Shandong Governor's Mansion came forward to collect these remnants of the defeated generals, increasing the size of the defenders of Jinan Mansion to more than 20,000.

Lin Jian didn't think that these remnants of the defeated soldiers who had gathered would have much combat power in a short period of time, but he didn't expect that they would be eroded to such an extent, and the military attachés and soldiers would openly take the armor that had made their lives to the market to sell it.

Group armor and scale armor are only available to military attachés above the commander of the capital, and Mo knives and knives are only distributed by a few elite combat forces in the army.

Lin Mengde saw Lin Jian frowning for a long time, and asked in a low voice: "The other party said that there is still a batch of good goods, the quantity is relatively large, and there are many horses, which can be sold outside the city, should we take over?" ”

"Pick up, why don't you pick it up?" Lin Jian said viciously, "These armors are still in their hands, can they still be expected to use them to kill the enemy!" He issued an order to transfer troops by car, handed it to the guards around him, and said, "You go to Caozhuang, so that Zhao Qingshan will transfer the fourth battalion to the southwest of Jinan City to stand by, and transfer 20,000 taels of silver for backup with the army; Zhou Pu and Ning Zechen led the second and fifth battalions to Caozhuang to stand by, so that Cao Ziang made preparations for the first and second battalions to pull out the camp at Jing'er Lake, and sent scouts to the northeast of Jinan Province to reconnoiter in the eastward direction along the Yellow River......"

"To prevent the other party from eating black, as long as Zhao Qingshan leads the fourth battalion to stand by......" Lin Meng said puzzled, not understanding that Lin Jian suddenly mobilized all five battalions of the left army.

"How can you live in such a Jinan Mansion for a long time?" Lin Jian asked bitterly.

Lin Jian hated those moth-eaten generals and officials who ate national salaries and collapsed without a fight, and felt sorry for millions of people who trampled on the Dongyu Iron Cavalry, but he was not an idealist, he had his bottom line in life, but he would not talk about morality, if people want to live, they must first be pragmatic.

When the main force of Dongyu will come, everyone in Jinan has their own thoughts, and the soldiers below are rotten, and he will not bury the lives of thousands of soldiers who follow him here in vain for the unbearable in his heart.

Lin Mengde didn't say much else, and said: "Since this is the case, I will contact them and strive to make this deal done at night, so as not to have too many ......dreams at night."

Lin Lian nodded and said, "As long as it is a good weapon, a good armor and a good horse, the price might as well be relaxed, and the silver is a dead thing in your pocket." You let out the wind, we will set up a city on the bank of the Yufu River in the southwest of the city, group armor, scale armor, foot bows, strong crossbows, and horses outside the mouth, how many, how much we collect, and it will become a ...... if we spend 50,000 taels of silver" Let Lin Mengde take seven or eight people to contact the remnants of the defeated generals who fled to Jinan Mansion. Although they bought a large number of armor from them, there was a suspicion of digging the foot of the Jinan wall, but the armor remained in their hands, and it was impossible to expect them to contribute to the defense of Jinan! Thinking about it like this, Lin Bin's conscience was much less uneasy.

When the fifth battalion of the left army set out from Jiangning, most of the 3,000 soldiers were new soldiers, and there were only more than 400 pairs of various armors in the east and west, and the weapons were all simple straight spine knives, spears and spears; Ordinary mules and horses are easy to handle, and good horses are the two hundred horses that Lin Mengde got from Texas this time.

Along the way, in addition to training and training with the inferior bandits encountered along the way, the most urgent thing to do was to do everything possible to improve the armament of the soldiers.

Jiangning is the southern capital of the empire, and the Jiangning Ministry of Industry and other yamen have the second largest armor manufacturing workshop in the country, and there are special large-scale arsenals, and high-quality armor is quite easy to do. Lin Jian didn't expect to encounter an opportunity to improve his armament in an all-round way in Jinan, but such an opportunity is chilling to think about.

After Lin Mengde left, Lin Jian also asked the riders to escort the two large carts of supplies that Lin Mengde had collected earlier out of the city.

When he went out of the west gate, he met Song Bo, the clerk in front of Yue Lengqiu's tent, and Song Bo greeted him eagerly: "Lord Lin hasn't gone out of the city yet, can I be allowed to be a little east in the city at night?" ”

"I'm afraid it's inconvenient, this city gate is going to be closed, and I will have the opportunity to invite Brother Song to eat and drink in the future." Lin Jian said, they are guest troops, it is impossible to enter and exit Jinan City at night so conveniently, besides, he wants to rush out of the city, set up a black market on the bank of the Yufu River to buy excellent armor from the defeated soldiers who retreated to Jinan Mansion, how can he have the heart to deal with Song Bo?

Song Bo saw that Lin Tie was in a hurry, and more than 100 rode out of the city gate with two carts, frowned slightly, and instructed his entourage: "It's a little weird, you take two people to take a look, don't conflict with them......" Lin Tie became famous in Jiangdong, but most of them were obtained by trampling on the luxury family, not only did the luxury family not, but also tried their best to hide the news of the bloody battle in Jiyang in Eastern Fujian, Lin Tie is still a nameless junior in the eyes of the people of Eastern Fujian. But for the Song family, even if there is no Song Jia's private messages repeatedly mentioned, a forest binding that kills Du Rong and makes the extravagant flying bear break the halberd under Jiyang City is enough to attract the attention of the Song family.

Since he could meet him in Jinan Mansion, Song Bo naturally refused to let go of the opportunity for direct contact.