There was no need to know the specifics. Knowing where they were was enough.
After learning the location of the Road Building Team, Luo Chong immediately wrote an order and had it sent to You Fu by Flying Eagle Message.
The order was roughly as follows:
First, the railway construction team would be divided into two. From then on, it would temporarily be split into Team One and Team Two.
Second, Railway Team One would continue following You Fu and open up the Qi-Tai Railway—that is, the railway from Qian Commandery to Taigang Commandery.
Third, Railway Team Two would be transferred to Tangcheng Commandery to open up the Tangpan Line, meaning the railway from Tangcheng Commandery to Panshi Commandery.
After sending out this order, Luo Chong immediately wrote several more and had them all sent out.
One of them was sent to the Qiongzhou Provincial Commander's Office. It ordered the Leopard Strategy Guard, one of the six garrison forces under Grand Protector of Qiongzhou Yang Feng, to immediately withdraw from active service upon receiving the order. All 2,500 officers and soldiers of the Leopard Strategy Guard were to be reorganized on the spot into the First Railway Regiment.
All officers and soldiers of the First Railway Regiment were to be transported by ship to Tohai Commandery. After completing their reorganization there, they would be divided into two and assigned to Railway Teams One and Two.
The Han Tribe now had more advanced firearms, so all its active forces would be reorganized into modern-weapon armies.
The Leopard Strategy Guard was somewhat special, however. When the Han Tribe had attacked Bamboo Island, it had been short on troops and had paid the Tang Tribe to hire these soldiers as mercenaries.
When he had recruited these soldiers, Luo Chong had promised the Tang