This time Li Chaosheng approached Song Yingxing in the hope that Song Yingxing could help research firearms. In fact, the firearms in Lantian County are already very powerful, especially after Li Chaosheng changed the gunpowder formula, the effect was even more amazing.

What Li Chaosheng wanted Song Yingxing to help with was to study the types of cannons, shells, and the type of grenades with wooden handles that Li Chaosheng wanted Song Yingxing to help study most.

Theoretically speaking, the difficulty of the wooden handle grenade is not difficult. After all, later generations can even imitate Tubalu. It is not a sophisticated technology, and Li Chaosheng also found the blueprint of the wooden handle grenade in the library, but this dynasty's

The craftsmen couldn't understand it, so the technology has been stuck here.

After hearing this, Song Yingxing looked at Li Chaosheng and said: "Your Excellency, you have given me too many tasks. I am a little busy now. The steam engine is enough for me. At most, I can only find time to help you."

Let’s study this grenade. As for improving the cannon, I really can’t do that.”

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng was a little disappointed, but he also understood that Song Yingxing was not a robot. Although he was very powerful, he could not do more things while being distracted. Li Chaosheng also felt that it was not good to be distracted.

However, Song Yingxing gave Li Chaosheng a suggestion.

"Your Majesty, when it comes to cannons, I think Westerners are more powerful. I heard that a Western missionary named Tang Ruowang is very good at firearms and astronomy. Your Majesty, you might as well look for him."

Li Chaosheng slapped his head after hearing this, wondering why he had forgotten this person.

Tang Ruowang, a German and a missionary of the Catholic Church of Jesus, came to China in 1620. He helped Emperor Chongzhen revise the calendar and made great contributions to the most standard lunar timekeeping in China.

Then there is the artillery. Together with Xu Guangqi, he modified the artillery of the Ming Dynasty and caused great damage to the Manchu Qing Dynasty. He also wrote the book "The Essential Points of Fire Attack".

Thinking of this, Li Chaosheng thought a lot. In the future, he wants to strive for ocean hegemony. Since he wants to conquer the ocean, he needs to at least hire some sailors, especially foreign sailors. The first is to learn navigation knowledge, and the second is to learn foreign languages.

, after all, if foreigners are robbed in the future, the language barrier is likely to affect profits.

After thinking about this, Li Chaosheng decided to ask Bai Shoumin to look for Tang Ruowang and go to the coastal areas to find some pirates. If not, he would catch some. It was not important. Li Chaosheng did not have a good temper when dealing with these red-haired devils.

The Han people of the Ming Dynasty like courtesy and virtuous corporals, because the people of the Ming Dynasty are influenced by poems, books, rituals and music, and Confucian teachings are integrated into their bones and blood, so they are very fond of this. However, foreigners, who have been drinking blood for so many years, believe in the winner is king. For them, all they need to do is show off their muscles.

That’s it.

Bai Shoumin's current spy agency is very powerful, with personnel spread all over the world. Using telegraphs that transcend this era as communication, he has completed the layout of the spy network across China.

In addition to buying some resources, most of the money earned from Jiangnan over the years has been invested in intelligence. The intelligence organization can now spend 400,000 taels of silver on Li Chaosheng a year.

However, Li Chaosheng didn't feel bad about spending the money, because the intelligence brought back by these spies every year started at least one million taels.

There are even some things that cannot be measured with money at all.

Lantian Academy is the root system of Li Chaosheng's vast Lantian County. As Lantian Academy becomes more and more perfect, Li Chaosheng will gain a group of very loyal and capable subordinates. These subordinates will be the pillars of Lantian in the future.

Also in the process of the academy's vigorous development, Li Chaosheng once again reorganized and optimized the troops. From the original 15,000-strong army, Li Chaosheng once again conducted a more stringent screening, and finally selected the best 10,000.

Two thousand people.

These are truly elite soldiers, and these selected soldiers have not been idle. They were incorporated into the Lantian County government service team by Li Chaosheng. Lantian County now has four counties. The government officials needed in these areas are:

Many times before, as for the government officials, Li Chaosheng also hopes to be the most professional, and these veterans are a good choice.

The Lantian County government team was established to take charge of arresting bandits, thieves, and various criminals in Lantian County, and stabilizing the place. This operation was called by Li Chaosheng to eliminate evil and eliminate local gangster forces.

Although these 3,000 are not considered powerful among the most elite soldiers, but placed in one place, one of them can really defeat seven or eight. When these 3,000 government officials fight local ruffians and bandits, they are really easy to capture. It is the most powerful record ever.

It was a team of ten government officials who killed a hundred bandits entrenched on Chicken Neck Mountain.

You can imagine how powerful the fighting force is.

However, the troops were reorganized and the number of people was reduced. The leading generals were very unhappy. However, Li Chaosheng did not comfort them immediately. Instead, he found the best group of people from the latest batch of students who graduated from the academy and gave them to them.

He was sent to serve as a scribe accompanying the army, and by the way, he served as a political commissar to carry out intensive ideological transformation for the army.

Some generals had objections to this, but they were criticized and educated by Li Chaosheng personally, and their attitudes became very good. At the same time, Li Chaosheng established the National Salvation Party in the army, and determined that saving the country and loving the people was the main guiding ideology, with Li Chaosheng as the highest

The leader's party was first formed in the Lantian Army.

This is of great epochal significance. Li Chaosheng told every soldier through the political party that the purpose of the Lantian Army's existence is to save the country and the people and protect the fruits of his victory.

When this idea spread throughout the army, the soldiers who had been forcibly taught literacy began to understand the meaning of their battles. At the same time, the National Rescue Party also expanded within the government and militia groups. Li Chaosheng began to rule Lantian with his thoughts.

process.

After ensuring that the people of Lantian had enough to eat and drink, Li Chaosheng began to strengthen the ideological unification of the people. When the thoughts were unified by Li Chaosheng, Lantian would become monolithic.

After carrying out the transformation of the army, Li Chaosheng inspected the gunpowder factory in Lantian. This is the most important military institution in Lantian and is guarded by soldiers. There are many workers here, but they are all veterans. They are all arranged to make new gunpowder here.

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Approximately 500 kilograms of gunpowder can be produced here every day, which is enough to equip all of Li Chaosheng's current firearms troops.

Li Chaosheng's current troops have been reorganized. Half of them are cold weapons troops and ordinary hot weapons troops. Currently, Shi Xiaolei's firearms battalion has more than 2,000 people, which is considered the most elite force under Li Chaosheng.

Equipped with the latest flintlock guns, they can be said to be the most powerful in combat. In addition, Li Chaosheng now also has an artillery team with twenty artillery pieces, equipped with the Lantian cannon with a longer range and faster rate of fire.

This kind of cannon is an organic combination of the red cannon and the Fran cannon. It has the characteristics of high power and long range of the two cannons, and can be regarded as a weapon for attacking cities and demolishing strongholds.

In addition, Li Chaosheng also has a cavalry unit of 600 people. The cavalry units are all equipped with two kinds of weapons. One is Li Chaosheng's compound bow, and the other is the short-handled firecracker that Li Chaosheng studied with the firearms workshop. This kind of firecracker

The range is only fifty meters, but it is very powerful and can be used as an emergency device.

In addition to these, Li Chaosheng also inserted a large number of flintlock soldiers into Li Chaolong's troops. The ratio of flintlock soldiers to soldiers with cold weapons was almost one to two. However, cold weapons still had the advantage. The main reason was that the flintlock soldiers of this era had an advantage.

There is a huge drawback to firing guns.

Afraid of rain.

Yes, the current gunpowder is still ignited. If it rains, light rain is okay, but if the rain is a little heavier, it will be the end, and the combat effectiveness of the troops will be directly reduced by half.

Therefore, all firearms are not feasible in this era, mainly because of the fear of rain. Although Li Chaosheng and the people at the firearms workshop researched, they finally developed the idea of ​​wrapping gunpowder with oil paper, which can not affect shooting in light rainy days, but the effect is very average, unless

Li Chaosheng could invent the modern cartridge-type drug delivery method and invent firearms such as revolvers in advance, but Li Chaosheng cannot do it now.

Therefore, cold weapons cannot be put down. They must still be recruited as the main unit. During normal battles, cold weapons can guard against the opponent's sudden thrusts, while muskets can carry out intensive shooting from the back row.

This is the current fighting style of Li Chaosheng's troops. It has to be said that it is absolutely ahead of the current battlefield of the Ming Dynasty, and 12,000 people are not a burden for the now prosperous Lantian County.

However, the only thing that dissatisfied Li Chaosheng was that there were too few cavalry as a mobile unit, only 600 people. The first reason may be that the requirements of the cavalry unit were too high. The second reason that restricted the development of cavalry was that there were too few war horses.

Nowadays, there are many mules used to transport goods in Lantian County, but there are very few horses. The main reason is that Lantian does not have its own horse farm and cannot raise horses. If you want good war horses, you can only go to the Mongolian grasslands to find them.

But now that the Manchu Qing Dynasty has consolidated its power on the Mongolian grassland, it has controlled the horse trading channels, so that Li Chaosheng cannot buy Mongolian horses even if he wants to spend money. Not only Li Chaosheng, but also the Ming Dynasty cannot buy Mongolian horses. For this reason

Li Chaosheng found Hong Chengchou, and Hong Chengchou said that there was nothing he could do, and he also brought extremely bad news to Li Chaosheng.

Since Huang Taiji returned from the Ming Dynasty, he has begun to use troops against Mongolia. The Mongolian leader Lin Dan Khan is obviously no match for Huang Taiji. He will be defeated in a short time. If Lin Dan Khan is defeated and Huang Taiji seizes Guihua City, then Mongolia will be completely defeated.

Jiannu's men, when the Mongolian Jiannu join forces, they will pose a fatal threat to the Ming Dynasty.

Li Chaosheng didn't care whether it posed a fatal threat to the Ming Dynasty. What Li Chaosheng cared about was not to pose a threat to Lantian. If the Manchus and Qing Dynasties occupied Mongolia, especially Guihua City, they would have long-distance supply areas.

The peak can easily reach Zhangjiakou and even the border of Yulin, Shaanxi Province. When the time comes, Lantian County will be the first to bear the brunt of the Jiannu Pass. Then won’t our many years of construction be destroyed in one day?

Therefore, this naturalized city cannot be taken away by Jiannu, otherwise it will lose its strategic advantage and at the same time it will also lose an important horse-raising land.

You must know that before cars came out, horses played an irreplaceable role in war. Even in the Anti-Japanese War, horses were the main strategic materials. Think about how excited Li Yunlong was when he saw a cavalry battalion, and you will know the importance of horses.

Li Chaosheng thought about going back to his study and started reading information about Guihua City.

Information shows that Guihua City is the old city of Nmghhht City. Its geographical location is very important. It is surrounded by the Yinshan Mountains to the north, the Yellow River to the south, and across the river from the Eeds Plateau. It is bounded by Manghan Mountain to the east and the Hetao Plain to the west. It controls

This is equivalent to a large area of ​​land.

Li Chaosheng looked very excited. If he gets this place, his power in the north will be enough to intimidate the world. By then, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Qinghai and other places will be within his grasp.

At this moment, Li Chaosheng wanted the Guihua City, and if he wanted the Guihua City, he could not avoid a fight with the Manchu Tatars. Thinking of this, Li Chaosheng's eyes sharpened.

It seems that it is impossible to avoid war. Since we want to fight, the army must expand.

However, he still has plenty of time to expand the army, because the Guihua City is still in the hands of the Mongolian Han Lindan Khan, but next year, in 1632, Huang Taiji will defeat Lin Dan Khan, chase Guihua City, and set it on fire

Then Huang Taiji thought that the city's geographical location was very good, so he rebuilt Guihua City on the ruins.

This is a good opportunity to go to Guihua City to collect sand. Thinking of this, Li Chaosheng made a plan. Since Guihua City is about to be burned down, he can't stop it. However, Huang Taiji wants to rebuild it, and Li Chaosheng

Chaosheng can take the opportunity to immigrate to Guihua City, and when things are ready, he can seize Guihua City, so that he can get a place to raise horses.

Along the way, we slowly regained the Hetao Plain.

Thinking of this, Li Chaosheng began to make a plan. However, the Long March was also carried out step by step. It is impossible to eat a fat man in one bite, so Li Chaosheng decided to organize two groups of people to enter Mongolia first.

The first wave was caravans, and the second wave was horse thieves.

The caravans sold exquisite ceramics, salt, iron pots, tea and other items to the Mongols in exchange for cattle, sheep, and horses. Horse thieves needed to plunder the Mongolian grasslands and even lead uprisings.

You must know that the Mongolian grassland is not a place without oppression. On the contrary, the oppression there is no less than that in the Central Plains. The oppression in the Central Plains is the land, while the oppression in Mongolia is the cattle and sheep, and the rich pastures.

Li Chaosheng feels that he can let people do what Li Zicheng did on the grassland. The Central Plains is the king of Chuang who comes and refuses to pay for food, so our slogan is: "Push it to the Mongolian princes and divide the most fertile pasture equally!"

After the plan was finalized, Li Chaosheng began to plan and implement the plan. After some screening, the position of horse thief was snatched by Wang Guixiang. As a cavalry battalion commander, he was very suitable to be a horse thief.

At least Wang Guixiang said that his cavalry troops, even if they fight one-on-one with the Tatars, can kill the Tatars with very few casualties because their equipment is better than the Tatars.
Chapter completed!