Lord of the House

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Lin Su led the army from Yangxin on the ninth day, and did not arrive at the mouth of Jinhainan until the fourteenth.

Yue Lengqiu led the main force of Qin Wang's division on the southern line not too slowly. Thirty thousand soldiers marched eastward to Zhangqiu, bypassed Huangfan District, took the road from Yangxin, and recovered Dezhou on the 14th. The main force of the southern line of Donglu had already withdrawn to the south of Baoding. The cavalry at the rear of the Donglu Palace was led by Na Hexiongqi. About 10,000 cavalry remained in Xingzhou to monitor the Yue Lengqiu clan to the south, forcing the Yue Lengqiu clan to not dare to approach Ye Lengqiu too much. The main force of the southern line led by Zirhan himself.

For Donglu, this harvest is already rich enough, and returning home safely is its fundamental purpose. The cavalry that was monitoring Jinhai increased to 8,000, but there was no intention to launch a battle in the south of Jinhai, siege the city and seize the fortress. Lin Bie led the crowd to Wukou, and the Donglu troops who were monitoring Wukou retreated to the north to avoid contact. intent is obvious.

Even if it is certain at this time that the main forces of the North and South lines of the East and the North will be withdrawn from the Jingdong area after the confluence, it will be difficult for Lin Bie to do anything in Jinhai.

Including the remnants of the Jiangdong Zuo Army, the Jinzhong Army, the Shaowu Army, the Dixiang Wuzhai armed forces, and the captured and surrendered soldiers, the troops assembled in the three villages of Wukou, Changlu, and Qingqi are almost ten thousand, but they can really get out of the village. The elites in the field are only about 5,000 people. These troops were enough to defend the three villages of Wukou, Changlu, and Qingqi, but it was difficult to defeat the 8,000 cavalry soldiers who were watching over the Jinhai in the field.

At the same time, the main force of the northern line of Donglu also moved from the west of Gyeonggi to the Jizhou and Ninghe areas in the east of Gyeonggi, which is more than 100 miles away from the Jinhai Sea.

A total of 60,000 elite troops from the three towns of Datong, Xuanhua, and Jibei were stationed in Xianghe, Sanhe and other places in the east of Gyeonggi. Wrapped in 300,000 to 400,000 young men, they passed through the eastern part of Gyeonggi.

The rear cavalry led by Hexiongqi also withdrew from the western border of Qingxian County in Hejian Prefecture, speeding up the speed of joining with the main force of the captive soldiers to exit the customs.

After Yue Lengqiu led his troops into Dezhou, it was much slower, and it was not until the 19th that they went north to recover Xingzhou.

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On the 22nd, the sky that had been cloudy for a long time began to rain at dusk. This was the first rain in Jinhai since the beginning of spring. Lin Bie was reading the official documents in the tent. At first, he heard the sound of raindrops dripping from the edge of the tent and didn't realize it was raining. It was Sun Shangwang who came from Wukou Village to look for him, and stood outside the tent curtain to take off the wet raindrops, which caused Lin to fall. Bing's attention, Lin Bing noticed that it was raining outside.

"It's raining!" Lin Fu put the pen on the pen stand, stretched out, walked outside the tent, and walked under the shelter to watch the rain. The light snow in the corner was poured by the rain, but there was no trace of it. .

"Oh, it's been raining for almost half an hour before you can feel it," Sun Shangwang said, handing the tangchao to Lin Fu, "The main force of the captives has already arrived in Changli, and the Hexiong Qi troops have also withdrawn to the north of Jizhou. Now, it should be out in the next two days, Ning He has also been recovered by Hao Zongcheng's department, Jinhai is completely stable..."

"This spring can be considered to be able to pass a period of time with peace of mind, but what about after the autumn?" Lin Bie frowned and said worriedly, "Donglu entered the bandits this time, and the loss of troops was less than ten thousand, but about thirty people were taken away by them. There are more than 10,000 people, and the young and strong should be more than 100,000. At this time, there are still nearly 20,000 soldiers... The prisoners are withdrawing from the gate, how to clean up the mess left behind? Who will clean up?"

Sun Shangwang also sighed sadly. His wife, eldest son, brother and sister-in-law were all taken away, and the old father, mother and youngest son were killed by the captive soldiers. Only the second son and nephew retreated to Jimo after the victory of Cangnan, and they were still in Jimo at this time. It's not too bad for a family to die.

Lin Mengder covered his forehead and walked over, seeing Lin Fu holding a tangchao in his hand, he took it and stood in front of the tent to look over it and said, "The wind direction is favorable for the southbound travel in the past few days, Master Ge and the others should almost arrive in Chongzhou. right?"

"It should be early." Lin Fu saw Liu Zhi, the deputy envoy of Guanjun Rong, poking his head outside the camp. He didn't know what was going on. Seeing that he didn't come, he ignored him and stood in the camp with Lin Mengde. He spoke under the awning, "Going south is easy, going north is difficult. We have to wait for them to come back, and we will have to wait for another month..."

When Lin Su and his troops arrived in Jinhai, Hao Zongcheng wrote a letter in his own hand to Liu Zhi to send to him, asking the Jiangdong Zuo Army not to fight again, and to send the captive soldiers out of the customs and not to be reborn as the priority.

Without the active offensive cooperation of the Gyeonggi Qin Wang division, in Jinhai, he was restrained by Liu Zhi, the deputy envoy of Guanjun Rong. Lin Fu also knew that no matter how sharp the teeth of Jiangdong Zuojun were, they would not be able to bite the main force of the captured soldiers, so they tightly guarded the Jinhai gateway. , abandoning the efforts to pursue the captive soldiers northward.

Since there was no possibility of a battle, as early as the 16th, Lin Fu asked Ge Cunxin to transfer a large number of captured foreign horses, weapons, gold and silver goods and other materials, as well as the wounded who needed long-term recuperation, to Chongzhou.

In the four battles, not counting those who returned from minor injuries, the 3,000 new soldiers who accompanied Lin Bing from Jiangning to Yannan had more than 400 dead and more than 1,100 wounded. About 1,200 soldiers were replenished from Cangnan and Jinhai three times before and after. Among these 1,200 people, 200 were killed and nearly 600 were wounded.

The Jiangdong Left Army combat attrition rate exceeded 50%.

For the soldiers replenished in Cangnan and Jinhai, the dead will be buried in Cangnan and Jinhai, and the wounded will recuperate in the whirlpool before deciding where to go; the bodies of other dead and wounded, as well as more than 400 wounded from the remnants of the Shaowu Army will be transported to Chongzhou was buried or recuperated.

In addition to leaving the Dongyang, Lin Fu sent the other six thousand stone ships and two five thousand stone ships back to Chongzhou.

When carrying out a troop assault, a thousand-stone ship carrying people, horses and ordnance can be forced into half the battalion's strength, but the long-distance HNA can't be so foolish.

The standard preparation of the Qianshi is based on a team of Jiazu plus nearly 100 boatmen, sailors, and handymen, with 5,000 ships as the main warships, and a sentry team with about 250 boatmen, sailors, medical officers, and handymen. Ten people are prepared for the standard. Southbound, six thousand stone warships and two five thousand stone warships made up a total of 800 soldiers in the reinforcement battalion, with Cao Ziang as the battalion commander. In addition to guarding the armored soldiers, boatmen, sailors, private individuals and medical officers on board, these eight ships mainly transported the wounded and the bodies of soldiers who died in Yannan, as well as some light and small ordnance materials that did not take up space.

In addition, it specially hired eight horse-carrying ships to transport 1,200 foreign horses to Chongzhou with Dengzhou Maritime.

The price of foreign horses in the south is extremely high, and a foreign horse is ten times or even dozens of times the price of ordinary mules and horses.

It is the same as the wealthy people or officials in later generations who like high-end cars to show their identity. The big businessmen in Jiangning, Weiyang, Pingjiang and other places also regard horse carriages as a sign of identity. A good horse is meant to be looked down upon. It is quite normal for a horse outside the mouth to buy hundreds of taels or even hundreds of taels of silver in Jiangning and Weiyang.

Even if it is very distressing to sell these stray horses, they can't afford to raise them. It takes 24 stones of coarse grain and 360 grasses a year to carefully care for a stray horse, plus other expenses. To eat twenty taels of silver.

Lin Fu only planned to keep the cavalry of one battalion, and Zhou Pu, a former horse bandit, would be the commander of the battalion. The rest of the horses were shipped to Chongzhou, Weiyang, Jiangning, etc. for sale, in exchange for money to make up for the shortfall in military resources.

Lin Bie kept only 800 foreign horses in Jinhai, and there were more than 1,200 ordinary mules and horses.

Since Hejian Mansion also needed animal power, the Jiangdong Zuo Army was stationed in the coastal port, and there was no logistical pressure. Lin Fu only kept 200 ordinary mules and horses, and transferred the extra mules and horses to Hejian Mansion.

This time it is not free, and there is no reason to give it forever. Besides, most of the people who pay this time are local squires. They urgently need mules and horses for spring ploughing and rebuilding their homes. In the south, an ordinary mule and horse is only worth seven or eight taels of silver. , In Jinhai, due to a large number of mules and horses being taken away by Donglu, the demand has surged, and the price has doubled and the supply is in short supply.

However, compared to Lin Tie's extravagance in military spending, nearly a thousand mules and horses only lightened the burden on Lin Mengde's shoulders.

"I have something for you to tell me," Lin Mengde took Lin Bing to the tent, Sun Shangwang walked away knowingly, Lin Mengde said, "Jinhai Victory, four hundred first-level skills are distributed to the place, you know How much money did the eldest son exchange for it?"

"How much?" Lin Bie asked.

"The frontier soldiers mainly focus on defending and retreating from the enemy. It is extremely difficult to obtain the first rank. In the plan of leading thousands of soldiers, they can obtain ten points of merit and advance to the first rank. This is the reward standard given by the Ministry of War," Lin Mengde said, "You How much is this head worth?"

"Then how many levels should I upgrade?" Lin Bie laughed.

"Don't tell jokes," Lin Mengde said sternly, "Liu Zhi wants to buy a head, he doesn't dare to discuss it with you, he probably thinks that I'm good at talking, and he makes a bid for twenty taels of silver for a head!"

"Some heads~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The Ministry of War has already calculated..." Lin Bie asked suspiciously.

"Don't worry about this. Hao Zongcheng can't fix the Ministry of War, and he won't offer this price through Liu Zhi," Lin Mengde said. "Besides, haven't the Jinhai Victory and Yangxin Victory been reported yet?"

Lin Bing stared at the rain outside the tent. Hao Zongcheng and the others thought of buying a first-class head in order to hide their cowardice and incompetence. He stared at the pattering rain for a while, and said to Lin Mengde, "Go and speak to Liu Zhi. , Shengman's head is two hundred taels of silver, and if you agree to this price, we can give them a thousand heads!"

Lin Mengde smiled, and he admired Lin Fu's ruthlessness, and the price was directly increased tenfold. One thousand savage heads were only two hundred thousand taels of silver, which was considered a bargain for them. Even if they fill in 10,000 lives, it is impossible for them to obtain such military exploits.

Lin Fu didn't know how many military exploits Yue Lengqiu would make on the southern line. Hao Zongcheng, who was actually in charge of the diligent king's division on the northern line, was too ugly. He could afford 200,000 taels of silver. Even if he couldn't afford it, Ji The generals in Bei, Xuanhua, and Datong towns also have enough oil and water to scrape off. The problem of the Jinzhong Army is still a headache. Hao Zongcheng is the biggest obstacle to properly deal with the problem of the remnants of the Jinzhong Army. At this time, selling his head to him can be regarded as a way out.

Besides, Lin Fu was too short of money, and the pensions for the wounded killed in battle required a large sum of money, and he couldn't create this money out of thin air.

The reward might raise him a few levels, but the court is a miser, and there won't be many silver rewards. How to solve the food and salary of the Jiangdong Left Army in the future is also a big problem. The head can be exchanged for money. Even if he made a deal with a character like Hao Zongcheng, Lin Bie could only recognize it with his nose. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter