After Yang Zhen's order for large-scale military expansion was issued, the local military headquarters in Jinhai Town took quick action.

For many of them, this is a long-awaited order.

The expansion not only means that the strength of their men and horses will be strengthened, but also means that the status of many middle and low-level military attachés will also rise with the tide.

Especially those at the lowest level in the army, a large number of unofficial shed chiefs, finally received the long-awaited opportunity for large-scale promotions.

Anyone who has been on the battlefield and fought will almost without exception be promoted to a full-fledged commander-in-chief, or an alternate commander-in-chief appointed by the various general military offices.

Among them, the shed chiefs who have been injured and lost their jobs have a great chance of being directly promoted to the position of Chief Qian or alternate Chief Qian.

Under the camp, sentry, and shed structure implemented by Yang Zhen, military attachés above the team level all had operational positions above those of the commander-in-chief, which meant that team officers had to have the title of commander-in-chief at the very least.

But below the team officer level, such as the team adjutant, the shed chief, and the junior corps commanders below the shed chief, most of them do not have serious official status.

The reason why Yang Zhen designed this was mainly because he didn't want to control the progress of the lower-level soldiers.

In his design, the hut chief should be elected by the public recommendation of the lower-level soldiers living in the same hut, while the corps commander should be appointed by the hut chief recommended by the public.

As for the adjutant of the team, the team officer should select the person who can best convince the public from a group of publicly recommended shed leaders and appoint him.

Moreover, once appointed, the shed chief, who serves as the adjutant of the team, has the status of alternate commander-in-chief, and can be filled when there is a vacancy.

Correspondingly, the sentry officer is usually served by Commander Qian, while the adjutant of the sentry is selected by the sentry officer Qian from the three sentry teams to serve as the commander-in-chief concurrently, acting as the second left officer of the sentry commander.

The commander-in-chief, who also serves as the adjutant of the main post, has also obtained the status of alternate commander-in-chief, and can also fill in any vacancies.

Yang Zhen hopes that through such a design, the lower-level soldiers from all walks of life in Jinhai Town can maintain a smooth flow up and down. This will not only allow the brave soldiers to have more opportunities to stand out, but also allow the sentry and team officers to

Able to use fingers like arms.

Of course, the final expansion plans of the various assisting general military headquarters and the major regiments and camps of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, as well as the promotion of low-level military attachés, must be approved by the associate camp affairs office of the general town government.

In particular, all promotions of middle and low-level military attachés, including General Qian, and promotions and appointments of low-level military attachés like General Commander, must be reported to the general town government and must be approved by Yang Zhen.

Yang Zhen still attaches great importance to this point and never dares to easily delegate this power to various departments.

Because he knew very well that once he lost the power to appoint and remove personnel, the army would sooner or later fall into the hands of others.

Correspondingly, as long as he always controls personnel appointments and dismissals, food, pay and weapons, that is, personnel and financial rights, then the troops guarding the General Military Mansion in Jinhai Town will not be out of control.

Because of this, starting from late June, the general officers of the Eighth Regiment and Battalion of Jinhai Town, except for Qiu Zhenhai, the chief officer of the Anton Forward who was stationed at Anton Fort at the mouth of the Yajiang River, and Xia Chengde, who was in Songshan City, came to Lushun one after another.

At the headquarters of the town, they reported to Yang Zhen the expansion of their regiments and battalions and the promotion of middle and low-level military attachés.

The first ones to arrive at Lushunkou to report on the expansion were Lu Pinqi, the chief military officer of the Jinhai North Road Assistance Guard, and Xu Tianchong, the chief military officer of the Jinhai Middle Road Assistance Guard.

On the afternoon of June 21, Lu Pinqi and Xu Tianchong rode their horses to Lushunkou with their entourage, and then, accompanied by Zhang Degui, went to the main town house to meet Yang Zhen.

Although Yang Zhen gave the major regiments participating in the expansion plan a deadline of thirty days, the North Road and the Middle Road took less than half a month to complete.

On the basis of the original Fuzhou City Defense Camp, Tuoshan Patrol Battalion and North Road Navy Battalion, the Fuzhou Regiment Battalion added a Yongning City Defense Battalion and a North Road Firearms Battalion, achieving the establishment standard of five battalions.

Of course, according to Yang Zhen's numeral weaving method of one, two, three, four, or five, or the directional weaving method of front, rear, left, right, and middle, Lu Pinqi chose the traditional azimuth weaving method of front, rear, left, right, and center.

The new Fuzhou regiment camp has Xu Deyi's Yongning City Defense Battalion as the front camp, the Fuzhou City Defense Battalion directly under his command as the middle camp, Hu Changhai's North Road Navy Battalion as the rear camp, and Xu Changyong's Tuoshan Patrol Battalion.

It is the left battalion, and the newly formed North Road Firearms Battalion commanded by Ma Zhuang is the right battalion.

Xu Deyi is Xu Changyong's old subordinate. The Yongning Battalion that was expanded from the Fuzhou Regiment Battalion was actually given to Xu Changyong.

In addition, after Hu Changhai was promoted to deputy general, he is currently in charge of the North Road Naval Battalion. Although the designation has not changed, he and Gao Chengyou actually established a separate battalion after separation, which is equivalent to expanding his team.

As for the remaining Fuzhou City garrison, it is the old team brought by Lu Pinqi from Songshan City. After the replenishment is completed, it will still be led by him himself.

The newly added so-called North Road Firearms Battalion was a mixture of the men and horses from several independent posts that Yang Zhen had left in Fuzhou City to assist in the defense and Lu Pinqi's own firearms team.

The reason why Lu Pinqi recommended Ma Zhuang, an old subordinate of Yang Zhen, as the commander of this new battalion is because Ma Zhuang has now become the son-in-law of the old Lu family.

Ma Zhuang, who is nearly thirty but alone, got engaged to Lu Pinqi's daughter who was less than fifteen years old during the Chinese New Year last year and made a betrothal gift with Xu Changyong's help and matchmaking.

Yang Zhen has always been happy to see things like this come to fruition, and naturally he will not object.

Including this time Lu Pinqi recommended Ma Zhuang, Yang Zhen immediately agreed.

In addition, North Road's Zhong Lingxian, Hu Dabao, as well as other Qian Generals, General Managers, and Yang Zhen who were proposed to be appointed by Lu Pinqi also all signed letters of appointment based on the air letters from the Ministry of War.

Faced with the expansion and personnel adjustments of the Jinzhou regiment and camp reported by Xu Tianchong, the commander-in-chief of Jinhai Middle Road, Yang Zhen did the same thing and rejected none of them.

There were originally not many people under the jurisdiction of Jinhai Middle Road. They were stationed from the Jinzhou Isthmus to Nanguanling, and they had always been equivalent to a strategic reserve force.

There hasn't been much fighting in the past two years, but the achievements in building fortifications and reclaiming wasteland for farming have been quite remarkable.

From last winter to this spring, the Assistant Operations Office of the main town government collected a large amount of coarse grain materials transported to the south, such as dried sweet potatoes. More than half of them came from various reclamation areas on Jinhai Middle Road.

After Yang Zhen learned about this situation from Zhang Degui, he was very satisfied with the contribution of Xu Tianchong and Liu Wanzhong.

Correspondingly, Yang Zhen naturally didn't hesitate and immediately approved the expansion plan and personnel adjustments reported by Xu Tianchong and the others.

After the expansion, the Jinzhou Regiment Battalion was expanded from the original three battalions to five battalions in the front, rear, left, right and center. The original three battalions continued to be retained and all were expanded to a five-post establishment.

Then the Jinzhou City garrison camp led by Xu Tianchong was the central army, Shen Yongming's newly built middle naval camp was the left camp, and Liu Wanzhong's original Wutun camp in Nanguanling was the rear camp.

On this basis, the Jinzhou regiment camp also added a firearms battalion and a cavalry battalion.

Among them, the firearms battalion is the right battalion, stationed in Daheishan, commanded by Jie Lizhu, and the cavalry battalion is the front battalion, stationed in Shihe Fort, commanded by Xu Tianchong's adopted son Xu Zhankui.

Regarding the arrangement reported by Xu Tianchong, Yang Zhen had no objections. Since Xie Lizhu could independently command a battalion, Xu Zhankui could of course also command a battalion on his own.

A few days after Lu Pinqi and Xu Tianchong left Lushunkou, Zu Keyong personally led a group of followers and went south from Zhuanghe Fort to Lushunkou.

After taking the Xiuyan Fort, Zu Keyong spent most of his time garrisoning the Xiuyan Fort, while the Zhuanghe Fort area was entrusted to Yu Liangtai, the Shen brothers and others.

Two months ago, Yang Zhen transferred away Shen Qicheng and Lin Qingye, and not long after that, he transferred away Yu Liangtai and the main force of the fleet.

Yang Zhen's major adjustments to Jinhai East Road made Zu Keyong a little worried.

What if he doesn't go back to Zhuanghe Fort? Zhuanghe Fort is the base camp of Jinhai East Road Defense Zone. With Shen Qicheng, Lin Qingye and Yu Liangtai being transferred away one after another, he won't be worried if he doesn't go back to take charge.

But if he returns to Zhuanghe Fort, what will happen here in Xiuyan Fort?

After all, Xiuyan Fort on Jinhai East Road is still the closest outpost to Gaizhou City where Dorgon's main force is entrenched, and it also needs someone to lead an army to guard it.

Although Yang Zhen appointed a Xiuyanbao general, namely Anqinghou, Anqinghou was far away in western Liaoning at that time and would not be able to arrive for a while.

In this way, after Yang Zhen's various reward and transfer orders were issued in late April, Jinhai East Road entered a period of relative chaos and unrest.

Fortunately, in mid-May, Gao Chengyou led his fleet to move the defense from Jinhai North Road to Jinhai East Road, giving Shicheng Island and Zhuanghe Fort a deputy general to take charge of the defense.

In late May, several generals that Yang Zhen transferred from the Songshan regiment camp in western Liaoning were ordered to lead people across the sea from Songshan to Jinhai Town after Qiu Biyong returned to Songshan to get married.

Among them, Anqing Hou, who was appointed by Yang Zhen as the commander-in-chief of Xiuyan Fort, after landing at Fuzhou Bay, rushed directly over the mountains and ridges to Xiuyan Fort City and took over the defense of the area.

However, the newly appointed Xiuyan General after Anqing brought a team from western Liaoning with only a selected grenadier sentry of about 300 people.

Even Gao Chengyou, the newly appointed deputy general of the Jinhai East Road Naval Battalion, only brought three men to the fleet.

For the entire area under the jurisdiction of Jinhai East Road, this additional manpower is almost a drop in the bucket. After the adjustment, the strength of the Zhuanghe regiment and camp is still stretched thin.

Therefore, Zu Keyong, who has always been worried about the future direction of Jinhai East Road, has long wanted to go south to Lushunkou to meet Yang Zhen in person and find out the details.

Of course, Yang Zhen's order to expand the army in early June had actually given Zu Keyong and the other remaining generals on Jinhai East Road a reassurance.

Because after the army expansion is completed, the strength of the Zhuanghe regiment and camp is no longer an urgent problem.

However, Yang Zhen's major adjustments to Jinhai East Road made Zu Keyong deeply feel that Yang Zhen's thoughts on the face-to-face purge of Jinhai East Road may have had some new changes.

Yang Zhen transferred Yu Lewu, who was brave and good at attacking with force, and then asked An Qinghou, who was rumored to be very good at defense, to serve as the branch defense general of Xiuyan Fort. In this way, after Jinhai East Road captured Xiuyan Fort

The offensive against the Qing captives suddenly turned into a defensive one.

This shows that Yang Zhen is probably not going to start another battle with the Qing rebels in the direction of Jinhai East Road or Jinhai North Road in the short term.

Thinking again that Yang Zhen set up the Andong regiment camp in the northeast of Jinhai East Road, asked Qiu Zhenhai to serve as the commander-in-chief of the Anton forward, and ordered Qiu Zhenhai to recruit people for work in the Jiangshan area of ​​​​Yajiangkou Town to build the Anton Castle.

Ke Yong felt guilty in his heart.

Could it be that the main task of Jinhai East Road next is to guard the new and old immigrant households in the defense area and let them cultivate wasteland with peace of mind?

"Commander, this is the current number of personnel, stations, generals and officers of the five battalions at the left, right, center and front after the expansion of the Zhuanghe regiment camp on Beizhidong Road. Please take a look at it!"

On the afternoon of June 25, the 14th year of Chongzhen, Zu Keyong led a group of followers and arrived at Lushunkou by land. They immediately came to the main town house to pay homage to Yang Zhen.

After hearing the news, Yang Zhen personally welcomed him outside the gate of the town hall, and then invited him to the meeting hall of the second hall of the town hall to discuss matters.
Chapter completed!