novelbest Chapter 258
Chapter 258
After the battle with the 34th Division, the prisoner-of-war camps and prisons in Jiangbei were filled again.
Lin Hongfei was not in a hurry to deal with these captives. Unlike Hong Tianwu's [Jiangbei United Defense Force] before, the 34th Division was also considered a formal direct line number. Naturally, these captives could not be executed easily, depending on the meaning of the above.
Not to mention that there are quite a few officers in it, either from Baoding Military Academy, or acquaintances at home who knew Lin Hongfei.
Anyway, with seven or eight strings, you can always find an acquaintance or friend.
There is no way to start with them.
As for Liu Wanyi, Lin Hongfei naturally couldn't shoot him, after all, the old Beiyang's rules were there.
Lin Hongfei also didn't want to create a gap with the whole old Beiyang circle because of Liu Wanyi.
Simply, Lin Hongfei detained soldiers and officers separately to prevent them from colluding with each other.
As for Liu Wanyi, he also locked him in a small courtyard and sent a platoon of soldiers to guard him day and night.
Liu Wanyi also proposed to meet Lin Hongfei halfway, but Lin Hongfei ignored him, he was just a prisoner, wasting time on him with enough food.
At the same time, the captured soldiers were also disrupted, and people who did not know each other were locked in a room.
However, Lin Hongfei was not idle, but asked Chen Zhicong, who had taken refuge in him, to help him select some soldiers with relatively high basic qualities from the captives.
Just like the guns and ammunition seized from the 34th Division, Lin Hongfei does not intend to return these high-quality soldiers to the 34th Division.
In Lin Hongfei's words, this is Liu Wanyi's apology to himself!
After some screening, Chen Zhicong selected more than 34 soldiers who met the standard requirements from the captives of the 400th Division.
As for whether these people are willing to leave the 34th Division and go to the 5th Division to serve as soldiers, as each of them has [-] yuan more in their hands, this group of people happily and willingly followed Chen Zhicong into the [-]th Division's barracks.
Excluding these more than 400 people, plus Chen Zhicong and the troops under the command of the other three regiment leaders.
In this battle with the 34th Division, Lin Hongfei once again expanded his team by 2000 people, plus the weapons and ammunition of a division.
At this time, together with the garrisons, mobile troops, recruit battalions, and militias stationed in various places in Jiangbei, the number of soldiers under Lin Hongfei's command has reached more than 11000, which basically meets the establishment of a reorganized division.
But the key point is that there is no such thing as empty pay for Lin Hongfei here. The registration book says that there are more than 11000 people, but the actual number is more than 11000.
This is completely different from the half of the 34th Division, which has 12000 people in the register but actually only 6000.
Even, the number of troops actually controlled by Lin Hongfei has surpassed the military governors of individual provinces.
After taking up the post of warlord, he can already be called [handsome].
In a sense, Lin Hongfei is already qualified to be called "handsome" by outsiders at this time.
According to people's usual names, they usually take a word from the name of the warlord and add the word "handsome" to call it.
For example, Marshal Wu is called Yushuai because of his character Ziyu.
Zhang Dashuai, because of the word Yuting, is honored as Yushuai.
Dashuai Sun, whose name is Xinyuan, is called Xinshuai.
However, because these three people have all held positions above the military governor, such as the patrol envoy of the three provinces and the commander of the coalition forces of the five provinces, everyone later called them Marshal Wu, Marshal Zhang, and Marshal Sun.
Lin Hongfei's character came from drinking with Qian Minghe once before, and the old man had a good time drinking, so he became interested in it for a while, so he got it for Lin Hongfei, the word [Yunsheng].
The meaning is very clear, Guang Hongfei is not enough, you have to fly higher, above the clouds, and go up, directly to the highest point!
Lin Hongfei thought to himself, old man, you are not afraid that I will fall when I am tired from flying, and something bad will happen again.
But he didn't dare to say this, otherwise the old man would be so angry that he would swing his cane and beat Lin Hongfei up and down the yard.
Therefore, if Lin Hongfei is honored by the people below, he has to be honored as [Yun Shuai].
It's just that Lin Hongfei is not so high-profile yet. Compared with the false name of "Yun Shuai", he still pays more attention to how many soldiers, how many guns, and how much money he has in his hands!
Not long after the war ended, Jiangdu County ushered in a group of special guests.
They are special because they are all local gentry and dignitaries from Bei'an County and Pingcheng County.
Naturally, there is no need to say more about Bei'an County. The local gentry headed by He Shuzhong, Liu Hengliang and others have completely invested in Lin Hongfei's side. This time, they came to get closer to Lin Hongfei face to face.
And the Pei family in Pingcheng County also brought a meeting gift this time, that is, Chen Ze, the commander of the Pingcheng County Militia Corps, and the heads of all his confidantes!
After Lin Hongfei and Pei Zongze discussed privately, Pei Zongze hurried back to his hometown Pingcheng County overnight.
For this nephew that he valued the most, the magistrate of Pingcheng County, Pei Feng, still cared about his opinion.
Lin Hongfei's prediction was correct. There was indeed a big conflict between Pei Feng, the county magistrate, and Chen Ze, who was the commander of the militia.
Chen Ze wanted to use martial arts to do government affairs, and to hold all the military and political power in Pingcheng County in his hands.
But Pei Feng naturally refused to agree, relying on the Xiangyong formed by the Pei family and several close-related families, he could barely compete with the militia.
But even in this case, Pei Feng did not agree with Pei Zongze's idea at the beginning, and chose to take refuge in Lin Hongfei. Pei Feng, who was somewhat cautious, wanted to wait and see.
It's just that this kind of wait-and-see didn't last long. After the security team of Bei'an County was knocked out and Zhang Tangyu's family was wiped out, Pei Feng realized that what Pei Zongze said was indeed right.
If Lin Hongfei didn't fight Pingcheng County, it was giving Pei Zongze face in primary school, otherwise, Zhang Tangyu's family would be the future fate of the Pei family!
Without any hesitation, Pei Feng immediately pretended to invite Chen Ze to come to his home to discuss how to guard against Lin Hongfei under the banner of "community to defend against foreign enemies".
Chen Ze didn't doubt it. After all, Lin Hongfei's power was something he was quite afraid of, so he naturally went to the banquet happily.
Then, this banquet became a Hongmen banquet.
Chen Ze and other confidantes were killed, and the militia was also dismembered by Pei Feng, so they couldn't make a difference.
Lin Hongfei was very satisfied with the head gift package presented by Pei Feng, which also represented the attitude of the Pei family to come to seek refuge.
For this group of guests, Lin Hongfei was satisfied with the high-standard reception. He not only hosted a banquet in person, but also took them to the barracks of the [-]th Division, as well as the printing and dyeing factory, cotton spinning factory, coke factory, coal mine and other places in Jiangdu County. After a while.
This is also to show He Shuzhong, Pei Feng, Liu Hengliang and others' muscles and show their strength.
This visit seems to have had an effect.
Because during the whole process, Pei Feng, Liu Hengliang and others looked shocked.
The visit lasted until the evening. After having a simple dinner with everyone, Lin Hongfei returned to the county government office to handle official business.
But He Shuzhong, Liu Hengliang, Pei Feng and others were a little restless in their residence.
In Pei Feng's yard, he was seen standing under a tree with his hands behind his back, staring at a leaf with absent-minded eyes, his brain seemed to be thinking about something.
At this moment, several figures walked in, the two leading the way were He Shuzhong and Liu Hengliang.