Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Not only the border guards of the two towns went out on this day, but also the newly formed fifth and sixth towns of the Yangtze River Navy.

The composition of the soldiers of the two townships is somewhat complicated.

Mainly from the selected soldiers of the Wuhu Navy (Huang Fei Department), followed by the selected soldiers of the Zhenjiang Navy (Zheng Hongkui Department), and then mixed with the selected soldiers from the first and second towns of the Yangtze River Navy Dozens of middle and low-level generals.

However, the navy under the command of Huang Fei and Zheng Hongkui originally had a complex composition, including officers and soldiers of the original Daming Navy, as well as pirates and water bandits.

Among them, the most famous one should be Gu Sanmazi who has friendship with Yan Yingyuan.

Not long after he attacked Jiangyin and was repelled by Yan Yingyuan, he was recruited and surrendered. He joined Zheng Hongkui's navy, changed his name to Gu Sanfan, and served as a lieutenant in the Zhenjiang navy.

For the purpose of dividing and suppressing the forces of the Zheng family, Zhu Yu promoted him to be the commander-in-chief of the sixth town of the Navy.

However, the soldiers in the Sixth Town of the Navy are mainly former Daming officers and soldiers and Zheng family sailors, and there are very few soldiers from pirates.

Huang Fei served as the commander-in-chief of the Fifth Town of the Navy, and concurrently served as the admiral of the Huaiyang Navy, plus the title of Zuo Dudu.

In addition, the seventh town of the navy was reorganized, with Zheng Hongkui as the commander-in-chief, plus the title of governor of the right, and the admiral Chang Susong's military affairs.

The location of the garrison in the Seventh Town of the Navy was changed from Zhenjiang to Jingjiang. It was mainly responsible for combating water bandits from the Yangtze River to Taihu Lake and pirates who harassed Changsu Songsanfu.

The Sixth Town of the Navy led by Gu Sanfan is stationed at Clam Harbor.

At this time, Clam Harbor was not only facing the sea, but also Miaowan Town not far to the west. There was a waterway leading directly to Tongzhou, the southernmost point of Yangzhou Prefecture. Tongzhou was located on the north bank of the most downstream of the Yangtze River, connecting the north and the south.

Therefore, Clam Harbor is a very important water and land node.

The fifth town of the Navy led by Huang Fei and the No. 11 town of Weng Zhiqi's border guards took the sea to Haizhou in the northeast corner of Huai'an Prefecture.

Haizhou is near the sea and is very close to Yuzhou Mountain Island. The Ming Dynasty originally established the East China Sea Center here, which shows the importance of this place.

Considering that it is very close to Shandong and far away from Zhu Daming's other troops on the Huanghuai line of defense, Zhu Yu sent out two towns of water and land.

In this way, even if the Qing Dynasty sent a large army to attack, Huang Fei and Weng Zhiqi could not resist, and they could retreat by sea without being annihilated.

As for the No. 12 town of the frontier army led by Liu Fangliang, they took the boat of the second town of the navy to escort food, grass and other armaments, transported northward, and stationed in Suqian.

At the same time, the fourth town of Ainengqi's imperial guards will also receive a new transfer order to move from Shanyang (Huai'an Fuzhi) and Andong to Shuyang.

This place is located in the middle of Suqian and Haizhou, with Shushui flowing from Shandong in the north and Lianshui flowing in the Yangtze River in the south.

And after Lianshui passes through Shuyang, it merges with Shushui to the east, flows through a lake, and flows into the sea at Haizhou.

Therefore, Shuyang is quite important as a water and land transportation hub in the north-central part of Huai'an Prefecture.

Since the Qing army withdrew into Shandong, the northern part of Huai'an Prefecture was basically in a state of no government, and small groups of thieves and landlords fought endlessly.

Zhu Yu asked Ainengqi to lead the Fourth Town of the Imperial Guard Army to move to Shuyang, firstly to prevent the Qing army from going south, and secondly to clear up and appease all kinds of illegal armed forces in the northern part of Huai'an Prefecture.

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in the afternoon.

Aunt Zhu came to Qinglong Camp for inspection.

"See Your Majesty!"

General Ning Jianglong of the Qinglong Battalion led the guerrilla Yan Yingyuan and other generals to greet him at the gate of the camp.

"Flat body."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

After the ceremony, Ning Jianglong, Yan Yingyuan and others straightened up and led Aunt Zhu and the accompanying imperial army into the barracks.

The camp of the Qinglong Camp is actually the former residence of the Caojiang Navy, and it is a water village built by the Yangtze River.

Auntie Zhu doesn't know much about sailor drills, she just came here this time to see how the water fortress is being repaired - before Ning Jianglong reported that it was in disrepair, Auntie Zhu appropriated military expenses to order repairs.

Because in Aimee Zhu's plan, this place will probably develop into a navy school, or naval school in the future.

After entering, seeing that many places in the water village had indeed been renovated, Auntie Zhu nodded.

After the visit, she asked, "Apart from the soldiers, are there any other requirements for the formation of the Qinglong Battalion?"

Because the Qinglong Battalion belongs to the Imperial Forest Army, the soldiers were selected from the first and second towns of the navy and the imperial guards.

As for the lack of personnel in the first town and the second town of the Navy, they were supplemented from the selected soldiers of Huang Fei and Zheng Hongkui.

And because the Qinglong Battalion plans to train a battalion first, with more than 3000 people, the problem of soldiers has now been solved.

Ning Jianglong was in his early forties, plain-looking, low-key and down-to-earth, and was transferred from the first town of the Yangtze River Navy.

He was originally the general of the Chongqing Army Navy, and was later incorporated into Zeng Ying's command, and together they went to Sichuan to vote for Aimee Zhu.

He also made some contributions in the first town of the Navy, accumulating contributions to the generals.

Although he was transferred to the Qinglong Camp as a general, it was actually a promotion. After all, the rank of general of the Imperial Forest Army was one or two ranks higher than that of other armies.

Hearing Auntie Zhu's inquiry about the needs, Ning Jianglong hesitated for a while, and said: "The Qinglong camp is not lacking in other aspects, but the warships are a bit lacking. It would be great if... if there were one or two iron-clad warships."

Ning Jianglong mustered up his courage to say the last sentence, because he knew that iron-clad warships were very precious.

Aunt Zhu smiled when she heard this, and said: "General Ning, don't worry, Qinglongying is the Imperial Forest Army, if there are new armored warships from Sichuan, there will be one from Qinglongying."

Ning Jianglong was very happy to get the promise, and immediately clasped his fists and said: "The final general will definitely practice the Qinglong Camp well!"

Auntie Zhu looked at Yan Yingyuan again, and asked, "How does Yan Heng feel during this time?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the general feels very fulfilled." Yan Yingyuan clasped his fists and said, "The establishment and training of a navy is not easy, and many things are very different from what the general thought before. However, the general has the confidence to be a good sailor." Division commander."

Yan Yingyuan's words were plain but full of confidence.

In fact, Yan Yingyuan originally knew a lot about the Navy through Gu Sanfan. It was only because the tactics of the Qinglong Battalion were biased towards the first and second towns of the Navy, and they used artillery, muskets and other firearms, which made Yan Yingyuan think a lot. different.

Aimee Zhu still wanted to encourage Ning Jianglong, Yan Yingyuan and several other generals of the Qinglong Camp, when she saw Li Zicheng approaching, she said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, the Telecommunications Office received an urgent telegram from Governor Du Yinxi of Huguang, saying that Li Zicheng is likely to died."

Hearing this, Aunt Zhu was slightly taken aback, and immediately said: "Send me back to the palace!"

Ning Jianglong and Yan Yingyuan were about ten steps away from Aimee Zhu, so they couldn't hear Lianqiao whispering in Aimee Zhu's ear at all.

Seeing Auntie Zhu suddenly let her drive back to the palace, they were very curious, but they didn't dare to ask more questions, so they could only lead the other generals to send them off respectfully.

Although Auntie Zhu was anxious to read the detailed telegram, she did not rush the team, but returned to Bauhinia City at a normal speed.

Then she went straight to the apse of the Hall of Martial Arts, and got the telegram from Du Yinxi from the telegraph office.