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Chapter 448 Recruitment

After Yin Chang and Guo Ning made an agreement, he wanted to leave Laizhou that night, and hurriedly summoned his subordinates to Jinan.Unexpectedly, Ni Yi sent him to the building, and Geng Ge and Shi Poli came to see him hand in hand.

These three people are all old fritters who have been restless since the early years of Taihe, and have been ups and downs several times.There is a lot of friendship with each other, and they both respected Yang An'er as their leader. Yin Chang's choice to join Guo Ning was also influenced by the persuasion of the two.Now the three of them arrived at their feet and talked, having a good night.

On the next day, some local heroes from Shandong, such as Zhang Lin and Yan Ning, who were neither high nor low, came to see him.These people had the highest status back then, but they were able to lead a city or a village, and now they are roughly at the level of generals, hoping to take advantage of this wave of Ding Navy's great development to raise all boats.

In contrast, Yin Chang was one of the top ten powerful factions under Yang An'er's command that day.These people's status, prestige, and military and political means cannot compare with Yin Chang's, so they regard Yin Chang as a senior in their speech, which is very polite.

Yin Chang wanted to learn more about Guo Ning's style from their mouths, so he stayed for an extra day and went to several banquets.

He keenly felt that the system of setting up the navy was completely different from the one he was used to.This system can be said to be much rougher or more rigorous, but it really attracts people to join in and enjoy it.

These days, relying on the sky and the earth is worse than relying on soldiers and horses.But Yan Ning and the others, are they completely tied to the rumbling chariot of the Dinghai Navy?How did they have such confidence?Yin Chang was a little puzzled and a little apprehensive, but he felt even more that it was not easy for him to maintain an independent attitude under the banner of the Dinghai Navy.

In the evening, Guo Ning sent someone to ask questions, saying that he had made an appointment with the civil and military officials of the Ding Navy to have a banquet with Yin Chang.Yin Chang resolutely resigned because he said that he had not made an inch of merit.

Recruiting troops is a big deal, Guo Ning promised ten days, but he didn't know if he would go back on his word when things came to an end, and withhold a few days.

Long nights and many dreams, let’s hurry to Jinan!
Yin Chang left immediately with his subordinates, and Guo Ning rushed to the city gate with his subordinates to say goodbye with a smile.

A group of people rushed straight into Jinan.

Jinan City was occupied by several groups of troops, and the damage suffered was indescribable.Up to now, there are very few people in the city, wild dogs can be seen walking in the streets during the day, and rats can be seen walking in groups on the ruined walls.Because under the broken bricks and tiles, there are layers of bones; the 72 springs in the city are all full of floating corpses, so that countless beasts can be raised and fat.

Only in the water gate area of ​​the West Lake, there is a rough refugee army camp built on the city wall, where a group of warriors with their families are stationed.

They cultivated a piece of land in the lake area north of the city and were self-sufficient.Earlier when the Red Coat Army was strong, several leaders had received the title of general given by Yang An'er, and now they seem to be honored by Huang Ding, the leader of the water bandits in the Licheng water village in the north.

Except for these people, there are only a few settlements in the remote mountains and fields in the entire Jinan Prefecture. The 30 households with a population of nearly 200 million that once crowded together are almost gone.

After seeing it here, Yin Chang also understood why Guo Ning never thought of recruiting troops in Jinan.This place, not to mention recruiting troops now, may take more than ten years of continuous relocation and gathering of people, before it can be slightly restored to its old appearance. Before that, it was just a dead city, a big tomb.

However, Yin Chang's goal is not in Jinan, so there is no problem.

He also really has the means and the courage, so he rode straight into the water gate military village of the West Lake, arranged his horse and horse, and begged to see the leader of the water village.

The few leaders here are just wandering souls under the iron heels of the Mongolian army, how dare they fight in front of Yin Chang?Quickly pissed off and reported his name.

The owner of the village is Guo Zheng, a merchant from Baoquan Township, Licheng County. He has two other figures in his arms, one is Xu Wende, a scholar who has been exiled here from the Daming Mansion, and the other is Shi Yan, an old soldier who defected here two days ago. .

Yin Chang didn't hide anything, and said directly that Shandong East Road had changed hands, and the important generals and soldiers under the command of Shandong Xuanfu envoy and Dinghai Jiedu envoy Guo Ning would come at any time.

Right now, I, Yin, have arrived early under the order of Guo Jieshuai, and I am going to recruit manpower from Dongping Mansion. If you are willing to serve me, then follow me honestly. All as powder.

Guo Zheng and the others were hesitant at the time, flattering them, but saying they needed to discuss it.

Yin Chang agreed without hesitation, and his family went out to find a dry highland to station.

In the evening, more than a hundred cavalrymen under him, whom he had urgently recruited from Binzhou, arrived, and immediately armed with pine torches, they drove in, took control of the Shuimen military stronghold, and took over the city defense.

However, all the soldiers and civilians in the original water village were driven to the new camp in the east of the city. When they were in a state of panic, Yin Chang stepped forward to appease him again.

At noon the next day, hundreds of infantry from Binzhou arrived first, followed by the grain convoy sent by Guo Ning from Zizhou.

Yin Chang has soldiers and food in his hands, so he has enough confidence.

When Huang Ding from the water village in Lili City brought more than a thousand people and came to visit aggressively, Yin Chang stepped forward to follow.The two sides originally had an old friendship, but Yin Chang said softly and firmly, Huang Ding knew that he was definitely not Ding Haijun's opponent, so he withdrew.

At present, Yin Chang dispatched people to deliver the news in the direction of Dongping Mansion.

Dongping Mansion was regarded as the national capital by Yang An'er earlier, it was repaired and operated, and a large amount of food and materials collected in the city were hoarded.When he attacked Nanjing Road, in order to ensure that the Dongping mansion was not lost, he deliberately left two important generals, Fang Guosan and Zhan Hui, to garrison. There are contradictions.

As a result, after he was defeated and died, the two generals immediately fought.They first fought for the leadership of the Red Coat Army after Yang An'er's death; when the Red Coat Army was torn apart, they fought for the huge amount of supplies that Yang An'er left behind in Dongping Mansion; They continued to compete for the civilian villages and military villages around Dongping Mansion.

In the end, there was no need to talk about fighting for anything. Anyway, I just killed with jealousy and had a good time. I killed people in the six counties and nineteen towns of Dongping Prefecture. Military Jiedu envoy Huang slapped the old department of Wudian, and they all had to take their families and flee to the barren mountains and wild places.

It's because although they have force, they can't compete with Fang Guosan and Zhan Hui anyway. Instead, they are easily involved in the war and become human shields for their knives.

At this time, in Jinan Mansion, which is adjacent to Dongping Mansion, a well-known Shandong tycoon raised a recruiting flag, so how could there be a shortage of food people?
The news was spread by word of mouth, and soon spread throughout Dongping Mansion, and people began to come to visit one after another.

Those who can struggle to survive in this kind of world without dying of war or starvation on the side of the road have more or less confidence, not to mention there are many stragglers as the backbone?
Only three days later, Yin Chang's big camp in Jinan City had two to 3000 more adults, men and women.

But Yin Chang felt that it was not enough.

Guo Ning promised to give Yin Chang 5000 posts. In fact, how can this be calculated clearly?Yin Chang recruited more, could Guo Ning still make him spit it out?What really matters is the time limit of ten days. Within ten days, if you recruit more soldiers, you will have more confidence to survive in troubled times!

He was figuring out a way, and his own soldiers came to report that one of the leaders of the Shuimen Army Village, the old soldier Shi Yan, asked to see him.

Yin Chang said casually, "Let him come."

Shi Yan came in to pay a visit, and said, "General, it's too late for us to wait for the soldiers to vote. I am from Dongping Mansion, and I would like to return to the territory of Dongping Mansion to spread the name of General and attract them."

Yin Chang suddenly became interested.

In the past few days, he was busy with the affairs of his own recruiting camp, but he didn't pay much attention to these new recruits.At this time, I looked at the old soldier carefully, and saw that he was about thirty years old, although his stature was not strong, his eyes were bright, and there was a rather hideous arrow scar on his cheek, obviously he had experienced fighting and had some knowledge of.

"What do you want? What can you bring me?" Yin Chang asked.

Shi Yan was neither humble nor overbearing: "All I want is wealth and honor. What I can bring is about ten days to recruit enough troops for the general."

Hey, Yin Chang really didn't mention this ten-day agreement to many people.Only a few of his cronies know about this.It seems that Shi Yan is a caring person.

This kind of people, if you use it, maybe there will be a surprise?

"Fugui, it's a small matter!" Yin Chang nodded in agreement, and then asked again: "Do you need me to cooperate?"

Shi Yan said proudly: "I have my own confidants to accompany me, and I have my own methods, so I don't need to bother the general!"

After a pause, he said again: "There is only one thing."

"speak!"

"I see that there are very few troops in the general's camp. However, there are many stragglers in Dongping Mansion who are rebellious. After two or three days, many people will arrive. The general should station more troops to prepare for repression. Otherwise, Afraid of trouble."

Yin Chang laughed out loud.

He didn't know the details of this Shiyan, so naturally he wouldn't believe it.If Shi Yan proposed to ask Yin Chang to send troops to protect him, Yin Chang would have to worry about whether this is a conspiracy by some enemy to invite you into the urn.

But he actually only asked me to station more troops in my camp?
This person is interesting, if this person is indeed available, he is worthy of promotion!

Immediately Yin Chang sent some money to Shi Yan and let him go.Thinking about this person's confidence, maybe he really has a way, Yin Chang then issued an urgent order to transfer 300 people from Binzhou.

Jinan Prefecture and Binzhou are located on the upper and lower reaches of the Beiqing River, and seem to be far apart.But Yin Chang's family is a salt lord who lives by the river, so he found a few ships to transport troops, but they arrived every day.

(End of this chapter)