After receiving Lin Bin's order, Zhao Qingshan led the fourth battalion of the left army to advance about twenty miles along the Yufu River to join Lin Tie at Sanyuzhuang.

Sanyuzhuang, named after three hundred-year-old elm trees at the head of the village, is thirteen or fourteen miles away from the gate of Jinan Xikuo, Zhuangzi had sacked a group of officers and soldiers who had withdrawn from Pingyuan Mansion three days ago.

At dusk, Lin Tie rushed to Sanyuzhuang surrounded by all the horses, and the villagers looked at them as jackals, and some dragged their families to escape to Zhuangzi in the cold dusk, and those who hid in the house with closed doors did not dare to probe.

Lin Jian ordered the cavalry to forbid him to enter Zhuangzi to disturb the villagers, and they all dismounted and camped outside Zhuangzi with him.

The soil by the river was so frozen that it took a long time to set up three tents with iron drills and sledgehammers. When Zhao Qingshan led the fourth battalion of the left army to arrive, he first took tent cloth and built a curtain wall along the periphery of the woods to block the biting cold wind blowing from the north, and made a fire to pour hot water through the ice and soil, and then built a simple camp before the second half of the night.

Lin Jian semi-openly purchased the armor here, not only did Lin Mengde secretly contact the military attachés who had been incorporated into the Shandong Governor's Office, but also sent several teams of men to guard the road to Jinan in the north, and directly purchased the armor from the stragglers who were fleeing to Jinan.

For those Yannan town army who killed the Dongyu cavalry, rushed to Jinan City, saw a large number of troops gathered here, and felt much safer in their hearts, and the establishment was scattered, and they had become the remnants of the defeated generals, and they were not afraid to hold the responsibility for the loss of the armor.

These stragglers came bravely, and they didn't care how much silver a good knife or a good armor could be exchanged for. They fled in a hurry, and all they lacked was silver. Even if you rob a house and a house, and you go through a rural place, how much money can you rob?

It is a burden for the armor to be left on the body, is it possible that there is a good knife and a good armor and dare to turn around and fight with the Dongyu cavalry? Silver is an excellent thing, you can eat and drink, you can play with girls, wait for Dongyu to withdraw, and then go back to the Yannan military camp, and still worry about the reissuance of military armor?

Often a high-quality group armor can be bought for only seven or eight taels of silver; A stainless steel Mo knife can give a silver bill, which is already very generous; The foot bow and arm crossbow can be exchanged for a bag of copper coins, and the horses outside the mouth can only be sold as ordinary ploughing horses; The iron cluster arrows are even cheaper than two or three copper coins each, that is, the iron arrows are broken off and sold as iron, not only at this price......

In six or seven days, he collected more than 1,400 pieces of armor, more than 1,100 foot bows, more than 400 crossbows, more than 2,000 quivers, and more than 50,000 arrows of various types, ranging from dozens to hundreds of stainless steel knives, knives, halberd knives, axes and hammers, nearly 2,000 spears, more than 300 military horses, more than 600 camel horses, and seven three-bow bed crossbows installed on wheelbarrows......

Lin Jian didn't know whether it was better to be happy or sad about such a result.

Happily, he had spent about 40,000 taels of silver on these ordnance in the past few days, but even if this batch of fine ordnance was placed in Jiangning, which was more well-equipped, it would be worth two or three hundred thousand taels of silver.

The Fifth Battalion of the Left Army is in the nature of a militia recruitment, and under normal circumstances, Lin Jian is racking his brains, exhausting his means, and spending a lot of money, but he can't find a way to obtain so many excellent weapons.

The sad thing is that the imperial court spends hundreds of thousands of taels of silver every year on the officers and soldiers of the three towns of Yannan, and every piece of armor and every spear has condensed so much people's fat and people's ointment.

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Yue Lengqiu and Lu Jingyan had differences of opinion on the issue of whether to leave or stay, and the contradictions intensified to the point of openly glaring and slapping the table. Yue Lengqiu is seizing the time to win over the military attache in the army to follow him, after all, he is a dignified and second-class governor, Lu Jingyan is not even a commander, under Yue Lengqiu's hard work, many generals have become wavering.

Song Bo knew that if the trouble continued, most of the troops of the Eastern Min Qin Wang Division would be divided into two routes, and the Dongyu outpost cavalry had already crossed the Yellow River into the territory of Jinan Prefecture, and the more and more obvious trend indicated that the main force of the Dongyu cavalry would go south to Shandong; If Yue Lengqiu doesn't leave, there will be no excuse to go.

Shandong County Division also gathered tens of thousands of troops in Dezhou, Linqing, Jinan and other important places, trying to strengthen the city. The number of soldiers and horses of the Zhuluqin Wang's division stranded in Shandong also exceeded 50,000, but the imperial court's edict was delayed. The Zhulu Qinwang Division had no obligation to assist in guarding the locality, and the Shandong Prefecture did not have the authority to mobilize the Zhulu Qinwang Division.

Song Bo, as a civil servant of the Governor's Mansion, could only move westward with Yue Lengqiu, and did not have the right to choose to stay with Lu Jingyan, and it was impossible for Lu Jingyan to rest assured that the children of the Song family would stay.

After today, it will be the wax moon.

Song Bo led a thin horse, took two entourages, and took leave to Sanyuzhuang.

The cold wind was bleak, and the rivers in Jinan Prefecture were all frozen, and the dangerous Yellow River and Xiaoqing River, which could once be relied on, also became a thoroughfare conducive to the passage of cavalry.

Although Jinan City has gathered nearly 40,000 soldiers and horses, and can defend the city, Song Bo is not optimistic about the fate of Jinan City, he sat on horseback, looking at the continuous camp tents of the fifth battalion of the left army of Jiangdong Qinwang's division, it seems that Lin Tie has pulled people and horses out of the mountains that can be defended by danger in the past few days, which makes people wonder what he is thinking.

Song Bo led the horse to the front of the barracks with his entourage, and asked to see Lin Tie, thinking: He shouldn't hide today, right?

Someone kept pulling mules and horses into the camp, and Lin Tie was in Sanyuzhuang to buy armor from the Yannan officers and soldiers who fled to Jinan, which was almost a semi-open secret in Jinan City, but no one came forward to care about him.

Which general in Jinan City would pay out of his own pocket to improve the equipment of his soldiers? Most of the people who have surplus wealth in their hands are greedy by nature, and how can there be any surplus wealth in the hands of generals who cherish soldiers and do not withhold food and salary? However, there are many local Zhai Hao, who also secretly buy armor to strengthen the combat power of Zhai Ding.

Only the officers and soldiers of Yannan who escaped can't be supported, and the Shandong County Division can't even reprimand!

A moment later, Lin Jian sent a personal guard to lead Song Bo and his entourage into the camp.

This was the station of the 1st Battalion, the 2nd Battalion and the Workers' Battalion of the Left Army, and Song Bo saw from afar that several craftsmen in front of the Workers' Battalion were cutting off more than a dozen spears on the field, clamping them with wooden planks, and installing them on wheelbarrows.

The chariot had a strange form, with spears fixed to the wheelbarrow neatly arranged in two rows, one pointing diagonally and one pointing forward, and two dovetail shields attached side by side to the frame at the rear end.

Dozens of these shield and spear vehicles have been renovated on the other side of the site, and many soldiers are using this kind of shield and spear vehicles to practice in the school field. Song Bo took advantage of the time he was walking to look at it for a while, and then he figured it out: this kind of shield and spear carts, especially dozens or hundreds of vehicles connected to form a vehicle formation, can effectively prevent the impact of the Dongyu cavalry with bows and arrows and straight ridge knives as the main combat weapons in the field.

In the flat plain terrain north of Jinan, two soldiers pushed a shield spear cart, dozens of vehicles were connected, and even the cavalry formation could be suppressed in turn.

As soon as the two cars were combined, they became two-wheeled vehicles, and they were driven on the flat plains north of Jinan, dragging and leaving; There is also less space at the rear of the car for food and grass or sitting.

Could it be that the Jiangdong soldiers were preparing for the battle with the Dongyu cavalry in the field? Song Bo was secretly surprised in his heart, it was really hard to imagine that with such a temporarily recruited army, Lin Jian actually had the courage to fight with the Dongyu cavalry in the field.

However, seeing the large-scale construction of this kind of shield spear car here, Song Bo thought to himself that Lin Jian had purchased a lot of armor in the past few days.

A chariot is almost full of eighteen or nineteen short spears and two large shields, and even if you build a hundred chariots, in addition to the wheelbarrow, you will have to use nearly two thousand spears and two hundred large shields, and you can't really be so extravagant without sufficient ordnance in your hands.

Generally, when defending the city, dozens of cars will be built, and when the city gate is broken, it can be used to block the door to prevent the enemy from attacking.

Song Bo thought to himself: Lin Lian's large-scale transformation of a wheelbarrow into a shield spear cart should not be used to guard the city gate.

The guards sent by Lin Jian to bring Song Bo in didn't mind Song Bo looking around in the camp, watching him stop and go, and didn't urge, obviously because he was instructed by Lin Bin.

In the open space near the river in the camp, more than 100 soldiers are practicing shooting with crossbows and crossbows; On the other side of the Yufu River, which was less than 100 paces wide, many target buttresses were erected, and they were full of featherless arrows diagonally.

Compared with the infantry bow, the crossbow is easy to operate, the shooting stability is much stronger, although the rate of fire is slow, but the strength is strong, the penetration is strong, and it is also more suitable for new pawns to master after a short period of training.

Diagonally through nearly half of the camp, to the main tent of the forest, before lifting the curtain, Song Bo couldn't help but look back at the camp where the training of all arms was so neat, and he was secretly frightened: Are these really all new soldiers who have been recruited for less than two months?

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Of course, the 3,000 soldiers of the fifth battalion of the left army are not all new soldiers who have only been recruited for two months.

In addition to having half a month or a month of basic military training before being recruited into the army, the most important thing is that Lin Jian and the generals of the Left Army have extremely high prestige.

Generals and military attachés should cultivate such a high prestige among non-commissioned officers, which cannot be achieved in a short period of time by municipal favors or strict military discipline. During training, the cooperation and enthusiasm of the non-commissioned officers have a great impact on the training results; Fighting against the enemy is more directly related to the internal cohesion of an army.

After the Battle of Hekou, Lin Jian left the twenty or thirty military guards who were injured in the First Battle of Hekou in Hekou to be responsible for the preparation and training of the people's bravery, as well as more than a dozen veteran soldiers of Lin Jiayong who were recruited into the army with Zhao Qingshan, and they were all the backbone elements of Hekou's recruitment.

Nearly 50 wounded guards were left on Xisha Island, some of them were assigned to the township camp, and more than 20 people were in charge of the training of the people, and this time they were also incorporated into the army.

In addition, Lin Jian also transferred more than 100 elite combat forces from Changsha Island to be scattered and incorporated into the fifth battalion of the Left Army.

There are the people of Hekou and Xisha Island as the main force, and there are 1670 elite veterans who fill in them as the backbone, and there is another month and a half of marching training to run in; The improvement of training and combat experience is difficult to make up for without conditions and not enough time, but Lin Jian has done everything possible to improve the equipment of the fifth battalion of the left army, and it has almost reached the level of the main force of the town army.

Although the Fifth Battalion of the Left Army is still a long way from the world's strongest soldiers, it is by no means a soft egg soldier who can be bullied at will.

Lin Jian was looking at the topographic map of Heji with Cao Ziang and Wu Qi in the camp tent, and when he saw the guards leading Song Bo in, he put down the charcoal in his hand and said with a smile: "I was going to find time to say goodbye to Brother Song, but I didn't expect Brother Song to come over first." What's the matter, Yue Shuai also made the decision to move to the division? ”

"Yue Shuai hasn't made a final decision yet, but it's almost there," Song Bo knew that Lin Jian also knew about the discord between the generals of Eastern Fujian, but there was no need to go too far, he just asked, "Lord Lin, where are you going to move your master?" ”

"Let's go north and go to Yannan!" Lin Bin's fingers were spread out, pressed on the map, and pressed on the Yannan area where the main force of the Eastern Capture was gathering.

"......" Song Bo looked at Lin Jian in a daze, who would have thought that Lin Jian would make such a decision? Neither stayed in Jinan to assist in the defense, nor avoided the war to go to Jinzhong, but even had to go directly to the Yannan Sanfu area.

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