On the afternoon of March 11th, the 13th year of Chongzhen, Yang Zhen convened the generals for a meeting at Yongfeng Temple outside Fuzhou City, and re-arranged Jinhai North Road and Jinhai East Road. At the same time, he also finalized the operation of Jinhai East Road.

All aspects of the road.

Around Chen time the next morning, he struck again while the iron was hot and rushed to the Mingtong Gate of Fuzhou City in person to see off Zu Keyong's East Route troops.

Yang Zhen, who was present in person, brought a bowl of Zhuangxing wine to Zu Keyong and Zu Keyong's subordinates Le Wu, Ao Rijin and others, and encouraged them.

Of course there was a reason why Yang Zhen sent them off with such great fanfare and solemnity.

Although he decided on the name of the Zhuanghe regiment camp led by Zu Keyong, the chief soldier of the Jinhai East Road Assistant Guards, there were not many people under the Zhuanghe regiment camp.

After Yang Zhen removed Xu Changyong's troops, Zu Keyong only had the heavy cavalry team with only three sentries and 900 people. Including the auxiliary soldiers who served camels and horses, there were only a thousand people in total.

Move people around.

Although such a number of men and horses is called a regiment camp on the surface, in fact, this regiment camp cannot keep up with the size of a battalion on the North Road or the Middle Road.

When Jierhalang actually attacks south from Zhenjiang Fort, it will be impossible to defend the east road if they rely on thousands of them. However, Yang Zhen does not have more men to send now.

In fact, even if there were people to send, the specific situation at Zhuanghe Fort was unclear, and Yang Zhen did not dare to suddenly send more troops there.

The Zhuanghe Fort, also known as the Huanggu Island Fort, which has been in disrepair for many years and has been inaccessible for many years, is still unknown as to what it looks like now and whether it can still be used.

Everything that follows requires Zu Keyong to take his East Route cavalry and rush there to see everything before he can make any further decisions.

If the supply of grain, grass and baggage was not a problem, and if the local terrain was conducive to defense and suitable for stationing heavy troops, Yang Zhen would certainly not mind moving his eastern outpost forward, and then give priority to settling there for cultivation.

After all, the entire Liaodong Peninsula is covered with continuous mountains, except for some relatively large plains on the east and west coasts.

Fortunately, Zu Keyong has always been said to be a hard-working person, and among all the generals under Yang Zhen's command, he is also the one who is least able to bargain with Yang Zhen.

Although Yang Zhen entrusted him with a small number of troops under the command of the Eastern Route Coordinator, he did not make any requests. As soon as the order was issued, he quickly led his troops to set off.

Of course, Yang Zhen was also worried that Zu Keyong and the others were not familiar with the topography of the east coast of the Liaodong Peninsula, so he specially sent his adjutant, Xu Tingxuan, son of Xu Tianchong, to act as their guide and show them the way.

This Xu Tingxuan once lived with his father Xu Tianchong on Shicheng Island for a long time, and was very familiar with the east coast of the Liaodong Peninsula near Shicheng Island.

Later, he followed his father to leave the island and abandon his ship, and joined the Manchu Tatars for a period of time. During this period, he was stationed in Fuzhou City for a long time.

Therefore, Xu Tingxuan and many of Xu Tianchong's men were very familiar with the terrain near Fuzhou City, especially the terrain and roads to and from the east coast, making them excellent guide candidates.

In this way, after Yang Zhen decided on the garrison position of the East Road troops the afternoon before, at midnight the next morning, Zu Keyong led more than a thousand troops under his command, led a large number of camels, and carried baggage, and left the city to the east.

, and then led by Xu Tingxuan and others over the mountains and ridges, all the way to the east coast.

After Yang Zhen himself saw them off outside the east gate of Fuzhou City, he also said goodbye to Lu Pinqi, Xu Changyong, Hu Changhai, Gao Chengyou and other generals who stayed on the front line of Fuzhou City, and then took other generals and troops,

Divided into land and water routes, we quickly headed south.

Although the battle with Dorgon ended victoriously, Jinhaizhen's career has just begun, and there are still a lot of difficult things waiting for him.

In the evening of that day, Yang Zhen, accompanied by Xu Tianchong, the chief military officer of Jinhai Middle Road, led the soldiers and horses of the battalions who had followed him to retreat south. Facing the afterglow of the setting sun, they arrived at the village near the mouth of Beidahe outside Jinzhou City.

Longwangmiao Shipyard.

After the battle with Dorgon's army, all generals in Jinhai Town, including Yang Zhen, from top to bottom, all deeply realized the extreme importance of the navy, and thus also deeply realized the extreme importance of the shipyard.

important.

The more than a thousand precious shipwrights captured by Yu Liangtai from Lianyun Island were sent to the rear by Yang Zhen on the first day he returned to Fuzhou City after he won the ambush at Guanmashan.

The Supervisory Shipbuilding Office took over the ship, and then all of them were relocated to the Jinzhou Shipyard in Longwang Temple.

With the addition of these skilled boat craftsmen who also belonged to the former Dongjiang Town, the number of skilled boat craftsmen in the Longwangmiao Shipyard in charge of Xiangping Bo Shen Zhixiang more than doubled in one fell swoop.

Of course, the size of the Jinzhou Shipyard has more than doubled rapidly. In addition to more new shipyards being expanded, excavated and built, a large number of 200-material and 400-material warships have already been under construction.

The construction progress of the ship was also greatly accelerated.

From the beginning of February to mid-March, the first batch of warships with more than 100 materials that were originally under construction at Jinzhou Longwangmiao Shipyard had completed a total of thirty more warships before Yang Zhen arrived at the shipyard this time.

Among them, there are twenty warships with a level of 100 materials and ten warships with a level of 200 materials.

Facing these newly launched 100-material warships and 200-material warships, the naval generals under the jurisdiction of Jinhai Town are all eyeing and salivating, and they all want to get a batch of new ships from them so as to further expand themselves.

Navy team.

However, this time, after Yang Zhen heard the report from Xiangping Bo Shen Zhixiang, he did not hesitate to allocate all the thirty 100-material and 200-material warships newly built and launched by the shipyard to the newly established East Road.

Yu Liangtai of the Navy Camp, and fulfilled his promise to select a young man from the nearby prison camp and shipyard to expand the East Road Navy.

If in the past, Yang Zhen still had some doubts about the dispersion and expansion of his naval forces and was worried about losing control, then now, with the large-scale Longwangmiao Shipyard, he no longer worries.

In his opinion, as long as he strictly distinguishes shipbuilding, shipbuilding and ship use in Jinhaizhen, the problem of the navy under his command losing control will basically be solved.

Shipbuilding is under the supervision of the Shipping Office of Xiangping Bo Shen Zhixiang and the Jinzhou Longwangmiao Shipyard.

The use of boats is a matter for the naval camps in the southeast, northwest and central areas of Jinhai Town.

As for the allocation and deployment of ships, it is up to Yang Zhen himself to decide.

As a result, the various navies in Jinhai Town cannot build and purchase ships on their own, and their future development will be controlled by Yang Zhen.

This time, Yu Liangtai went north to Lianyun Island and captured a large number of shipwrights. These skilled craftsmen who could build or repair ships were an inexhaustible treasure.

However, faced with such a treasure, when Yang Zhen gave the order, Yu Liangtai handed over more than a thousand shipwrights he brought back to Shen Zhixiang's Jinzhou Shipyard without saying a word.

This alone was enough to make Yang Zhen completely satisfied with him and completely relieved.

For this reason, this time, Yang Zhen also led his men on the south bank of the Fudu River and on the post road below Guanma Mountain to equip Yu Liangtai's expanded fleet with a large number of small and medium-sized artillery pieces.

use.

Of course, Yang Zhen did this, firstly to praise Yu Liangtai and his navy for their previous achievements, and secondly to strengthen the defense of Jinhai East Road.

At present, the Jinhai East Road troops led by Zu Keyong do not have a strong city to stay in, nor are there any large-scale fortification camps to station a large number of troops. Yang Zhen can only temporarily think of ways to strengthen the naval force on Jinhai East Road.

At the very least, he must allow the East Route Navy fleet led by Yu Liangtai to have more ships and stronger maritime transportation capabilities.

As a result, although there are currently not many land troops on Jinhai East Road under Zu Keyong's command, as long as they have a relatively powerful navy, they can be invincible.

Once the land troops on Jinhai East Road really encounter danger in the future, Yu Liangtai's navy can help them retreat into the sea in time and move to coastal islands such as Shicheng Island.

In addition, under Yang Zhen's layout, the uses of the Jinhai East Road Navy Fleet will also become very extensive in the future.

For example, heading north, they could take the sea route to the mouth of the Yalu River and attack the Tatar rear area.

For another example, going east, they can go to Lee's Korea or even to the Japanese country to seize what they want.
Chapter completed!