In addition to the appointment of General Qian, Yang Zhen also appointed a large number of generals, such as Yang Dagui, Jie Lizhu, Ma Keqing from the old advance camp, Li Ji who was rescued in Xiongyue City and valued by Yang Zhen, and

There were several veterans recommended by Pan Wenmao of the Ammunition Factory for making saltpeter and dispensing, and twenty-two people including Wang Ju, Wang Chi, Liu Da, and Liu Er were recommended by Wang Shoutang of the Iron Works.

Including the previously newly attached Tu'er Island pirate team, except for Hu Dabao, who was recommended by Yang Zhen to guard Gaizhou Bay, Gao Chunhe and other three subordinates recommended by Hu Dabao before Yang Zhen and others evacuated, were all recruited by Yang Zhen this time.

Accept and appoint to be the chief officer.

At the same time, taking into account Fang Guangchen's principle of using power for one's own benefit and giving favor from above, Yang Zhen directly appointed Hutug's subordinate Adu Qin and Ao Rijin's subordinate Ulega as general officers.

Yang Zhen appointed so many generals in one fell swoop. The generals looked very heroic, but in fact, he did not have many people to lead them.

In addition to the musketeers, grenadiers, and artillery teams of the advance battalion for the Eastern Expedition, which are about to receive a large number of reinforcements, other newly appointed generals and generals will not belong to which department they originally belonged to, and will still belong to which department in the future.

How many people and horses do you have? How many people and horses will you still control in the future? At least under the current circumstances, this is the only way.

According to the camp system of the Ming Dynasty, the camp commander Qian usually led 500 troops, and the general led 100 troops. However, this was simply not possible under Yang Zhen's command.

Of course, in the Ming Dynasty's official army during the Chongzhen period, almost no border town or general soldier could do this. In the late Ming Dynasty, there were too many officials and too many soldiers.

However, despite this, once the new Commander-in-Chief sent the list of appointments to various ministries and posted the list outside the gate of Songshan General Military Mansion, the entire Songshan City was once again filled with a jubilant atmosphere.

The happiest people are of course none other than the newly promoted Commander-in-Chief Qian and the Commander-in-Chief, but besides them, the lower-level soldiers in Songshan City are also happy about this.

For them, the appointment of military attachés above the garrison level is a matter for the imperial court. It is a bit too far away from them, soldiers at the bottom, and it is by no means a life goal that they can achieve overnight.

However, the positions of Commander-in-Chief Qian and Commander-in-Chief are very close to them, especially Commander-in-Chief, who is actually only one step away from most of the battle-hardened soldiers.

If you wanted to be promoted to a general officer in the past, you still needed to rely on family background, connections, and bribes. Now, Yang Zhen has set a good benchmark among the officers and soldiers of Songshan. That is, he has been promoted from an ordinary soldier to a general officer.

In order to be promoted from a general officer to a general officer of a thousand, or even from a general officer of a thousand to a garrison, general, guerrilla, or general, you don't need anything but your merit.

Moreover, this merit does not have to be achieved through military exploits. Those who are good at blacksmithing are fine, those who are good at boiling salt water are fine, and those who can speak Tatars and pretend to be Tatars are fine.

It doesn’t matter what your identity was in the past, whether you were a blacksmith, a stonemason, or a leatherworker. Even horse thieves, pirates, grassland slaves, and captured Tatars were no problem. Under Yang Zhen’s command, they all came from military families for generations.

The guards are all treated equally.

Once the upward path for soldiers at the bottom of the army is opened, the power they can generate is astonishing.

Just like the soldiers of the advance battalion after a winning streak, not only were they no longer afraid of fighting the Manchu Tatars, but many people began to hope that the Manchu Tatars would come to attack the city and die. If the Manchu Tatars did not come to attack the city, how could they have made any merit?

What about opportunities?

After the soldiers from various departments in Songshan came up with this idea, they worked even harder on the construction site to build the bastion and urn city.

However, it is said that Yang Zhen promoted a large number of people to the rank of Qian Chief Officer. On the morning of the second day of the appointment, the weather was still gloomy and hot. Many people thought that rain was coming, but God just held back and refused to nod, and the rain never fell.

That morning, Yang Zheng just returned from inspecting the ammunition production situation at the ammunition factory in the primary school behind the General Military Mansion when he heard a commotion in the front yard of the General Military Mansion.

"Where is the Governor? Is the Governor in the mansion?"

Although there was a lot of noise outside across a courtyard, with voices mixed with footsteps, the voice was loud and there was excitement in the words. Yang Zhen heard it clearly and knew it was Li Lu's voice.

"Oh, Guo Xiaowu, it turns out you are back?! Where is that bastard Yang Zhan'ao?"

This is Zhang Degui's voice.

"Wait, what is he talking about? Guo Xiaowu?!"

Yang Zhengang walked around the ammunition factory, arranged a lot of things, and talked a lot. When he returned to the inner courtyard of the General Military Mansion, he didn't even have time to drink tea. He was about to take a rest, but he heard Li Lu's words, especially Zhang Degui's words later.

As soon as his name was called, he jumped up from the couch.

"Guo Xiaowu, Guo Xiaowu, you are finally back!"

Yang Zhen smiled and called Guo Xiaowu's name excitedly while hurriedly walking from the inner courtyard of the General Military Mansion to the front yard.

When he passed through the hall of the second hall and came to the second entrance courtyard, he saw Zhang Degui and Li Lu happily surrounding a person and entering through the hanging flower ceremony door between the front courtyard and the second entrance courtyard.

Go to the second entrance.

And the man who came in surrounded by Zhang Degui and Li Lu turned out to be Guo Xiaowu, who had left Songshan before and went to Denglai to recruit troops.

"Sir, I'm back from my humble position!"

Guo Xiaowu followed Yang Zhan'ao and Yan Shengsan across the sea by boat and went to Denglai to recruit troops in Cangzhou. After going there for several months, his already dark face became darker and his already thin body became thinner. However, after this incident, his whole person seemed

Got a lot of experience,

His eyes were bright and his demeanor became more and more calm. When he saw Yang Zhen coming out, he quickly stepped forward, knelt on one knee on the ground, and bowed his head to Yang Zhen. He didn't say much, but he was full of emotions. It was obvious that he had been drifting away in the past few months.

, suffered a lot.

"Get up quickly, get up quickly! Did your trip to Denglai go well? Where are Yang Zhan'ao, Yan Shengsan and the others? Will they come back with you?"

When Yang Zhen saw Guo Xiaowu kneeling down to salute him, he quickly stepped forward and bent down to support him. While pulling him up, he asked him about various situations.

After nearly three months of absence, Songshan City has undergone many changes, and Yang Zhan'ao, Yan Shengsan, Guo Xiaowu and others have also missed many things.

But in Yang Zhen's eyes, these people are still different from the newly attached people. These are the people who followed him to rescue Songshan City when he was at his lowest point and least favored by others.

In his heart, the status of these people is naturally different.

"Thanks to Your Excellency, our trip went smoothly! We took the imperial edict to Denglai first, and then to Cangzhou. We coaxed and deceived, recruited first and then recruited. Finally, we brought Denglai back to Your Excellency, and the people of Cangzhou were strong.

One thousand two hundred and sixty-one!"

After Guo Xiaowu got up from the ground, he quickly answered Yang Zhen's question. Although this line of work was difficult, the results were good.

"General Manager Yang Qian and General Manager Yan Qian are currently at sea with Vice Admiral Yuan of the Juehua Island Navy and his party. Their humble duty is to follow General Yang Qian's order to land ashore first and come back to report the news! At this time, Vice Admiral Yuan's fleet

, I must have successfully docked at the pier of Sailor Camp!"

Guo Xiaowu was right. When Yang Zhen led Zhang Degui, Li Lu and others out of the east gate, they rushed to meet Yuan Jin's fleet. On the way, they met the messengers sent by Qiu Zhenhai and Zu Keyong to report that they were sleeping.

A large fleet of Huadao Navy arrived at the sea at the mouth of Xiaoling River.

When Yang Zhen rode his horse through the plank road and pontoon in the reed marsh, and boarded the long-lost Sailor Camp sandbar, he saw the gloomy but calm sea outside the Xiaoling River mouth. It was dark and full of large and small ships.

, the sails are like clouds, the masts are like forests, and there are probably more than 200 large and small ships.

"Mr. Yang, oh no, Governor Yang, Governor Yang, brother, you are really blessed with three blessings this time. Yuan is awarded the title of deputy general thanks to you, and he is about to come to congratulate you. Congratulations, hahahaha——"

As soon as Yang Zhen and his people arrived at the Sailor Camp sandbank, Yuan Jin, accompanied by Yu Liangtai, rushed over to meet him. They were still far apart, but Yuan Jin laughed and congratulated Yang Zhen.

Yang Zhen and Yuan Jin had not seen each other for a while. Now that they met again, their status was different from before. The bright prospect of promotion and wealth that Yang Zhen had originally described for Yuan Jin had become a reality one by one.

This had a great impact on Yuan Jin. As a pirate, he was recruited by Yuan Keli and joined the navy for more than ten years. However, before meeting Yang Zhen, he had been working as a subordinate and had difficulty getting promoted.

Now, only a few months have passed, and he has been promoted step by step due to his merits such as following Yang Zhen north to relieve the siege of Songshan, crossing the sea and attacking behind enemy lines. He has been promoted from an old guard who has been stagnant for more than ten years to the rank of deputy general.

Not everyone can encounter such an encounter in life, so it is not an exaggeration to say that Yang Zhen is his noble person, Yuan Jin, even his former benefactor's son Yuan Shu, and even Yuan Jin himself are like this

think.

To him, the current Yang Zhen was not the down-and-out lieutenant general who had less than three hundred soldiers and burned incense and worshiped Buddha everywhere but was still sent to die. Instead, he was another giant pillar who was trusted by the emperor and relied on by the court.

thigh.

Publicly and privately, he had to hug this thick thigh and hold it tight.

I saw him trotting quickly to the front while continuing to say with a smile: "From now on, except for the imperial court's governor stationed in Liao, our Juehua Island Navy is also under the control of the governor. If it is used in the future,
Chapter completed!