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Chapter 233 There is a foreign devil named Tang Ruowang

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

What Li Chaosheng wanted Song Yingxing to help was to study the types of cannons, shells, and the hand grenade that Li Chaosheng wanted Song Yingxing to help research the most, the kind with wooden handles.

Theoretically speaking, the difficulty of the wooden-handled grenade is not difficult. After all, later generations can even imitate the Tuba Road. Craftsmen can't understand, so this technology has been stuck here.

After hearing this, Song Yingxing looked at Li Chaosheng and said, "Master Xian, you have given me too many tasks. I am too busy now. The steam engine is enough for me to do. At most, I will spare time to help you." Study this grenade, as for improving the cannon, I really can't do it."

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng was a little disappointed, but he also understood that Song Yingxing is not a robot. Although he is very powerful, he can't be distracted to do more things. Li Chaosheng also feels that distraction is not good.

However, Song Yingxing gave Li Chaosheng a suggestion.

"My lord, when it comes to cannons, I think Westerners are better. I heard that a Western missionary named Tang Ruowang is very good at firearms and astronomy. You might as well look for him."

Li Chaosheng slapped his head when he heard this, how could he forget 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 calendar timing in China.

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

Thinking of this, Li Chaosheng made a lot of associations. In the future, he wants to devote himself to fighting for the hegemony of the sea. Since he wants to fight for the hegemony of the sea, at least he needs to hire some sailors, especially foreign sailors. The first is to learn navigation knowledge, and the second is to learn foreign languages. After all, in the future, if you rob foreigners, the language barrier may affect your income.

After thinking about this, Li Chaosheng decided to let Bai Shoumin look for Tang Ruowang, and go to the coastal area to find some pirates. If not, he will catch some. This is not important. Li Chaosheng has no good temper towards these red-haired devils.

The Han people of the Ming Dynasty like courtesy and corporals, because the people of the Ming Dynasty are influenced by poetry, books, rituals and music, and the Confucian teachings are integrated into their bones and blood. That's it.

Bai Shoumin's current spy agency is very powerful, with personnel spread all over the world, using telegrams that span this era as communication, and completing the deployment of a spy network throughout China.

In addition to buying some resources, most of the money earned from Jiangnan in these years was invested in espionage. The espionage organization can now spend 40 taels of silver for Li Chaosheng a year.

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

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

Lantian Academy is the root of Li Chaosheng's huge 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 supporting Lantian in the future.

Also during the vigorous development of the Academy, Li Chaosheng once again reorganized and optimized the troops. The original 5000 troops, Li Chaosheng once again conducted a more rigorous screening, and finally selected the most outstanding 1 taels Thousands of people.

These are all truly elite soldiers, and these soldiers who were screened out were not idle, and were incorporated into the Lantian County government servant team by Li Chaosheng. There are now four counties in Lantian County, and the government servants needed in these areas are Many times in the past, Li Chaosheng also hopes to be the most professional yamen servant, and these retired veterans are good choices.

Set up the Lantian County Yamen Team to be in charge of the bandits and thieves in Lantian County, arrest all kinds of criminals, and stabilize the place. This action is called by Li Chaosheng to sweep he and evil, and wipe out the local gangsters.

Although these [-] soldiers are not very powerful among the most elite soldiers, they are really capable of fighting seven or eight when they are placed in the local area. These [-] yamen servants are really easy to catch when they are fighting local ruffians and bandits. The most powerful record ever It was a team of yamen servants, ten people, who killed a hundred bandits entrenched on the chicken neck mountain.

It is conceivable how powerful the fighting power is.

However, the army was reorganized and the number was reduced. The leading generals were very unhappy, but Li Chaosheng did not comfort them immediately. Instead, he found the best group of students from the latest graduates of the academy and gave them Sent to serve as a clerk with the army, and by the way, as a political commissar to carry out intensive ideological reform for the army.

Some generals had objections to this, but they were personally criticized and educated by Li Chaosheng, and then their attitude became very good. The leader's party was formed for the first time in the Lantian Army.

This is of great cross-age significance. Li Chaosheng told every soldier through the party that the purpose of the existence of the Lantian Army is to save the country and the people and protect the fruits of its victory.

When this idea was spread throughout the army, the soldiers who had been forcibly taught to read and write began to understand the meaning of their own battles. At the same time, the National Salvation Party also expanded within the government and militia groups. Li Chaosheng began to rule Lantian ideologically. process.

After ensuring that the people in Lantian had enough to eat and drink, Li Chaosheng began to strengthen the ideological unity of the people. When Li Chaosheng also unified his thoughts, then Lantian was monolithic.

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

About [-] catties of gunpowder can be produced here every day, enough to equip all of Li Chaosheng's current firearms troops.

Li Chaosheng's current troops have been reorganized, half of the cold weapon troops, and the general hot weapon troops. At present, Shi Xiaolei's firearms battalion has reached more than [-] people, which can be regarded as the most elite troops under Li Chaosheng.

Equipped with the latest flintlock guns, it can be said that the group has strong combat effectiveness. In addition, Li Chaosheng now has an artillery team with [-] cannons, equipped with the Lantian Cannon with a longer range and a faster rate of fire.

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

In addition, Li Chaosheng also has a cavalry unit of 600 people. The cavalry unit is equipped with two kinds of weapons, one is Li Chaosheng's compound bow, and the other is the short-handled firecracker researched by Li Chaosheng and the firearms workshop. Only 50 meters, but the power is very good, it can be used as an emergency device.

In addition to these, Li Chaosheng also interspersed a large number of flintlock soldiers in Li Chaolong's troops. The ratio of flintlock soldiers to cold weapon soldiers was almost one to two, but cold weapons still dominated. The main reason was that the flintlock soldiers of this era Shooting guns has a huge drawback.

Afraid of rain.

That's right, the current gunpowder is still ignited. If it catches up with the rainy day, the light rain will be fine, but if the rain is a little heavier, it will be over, and the combat effectiveness of the troops will be directly reduced by half.

Therefore, all firearms are not feasible in this era. The main reason is that they are afraid of rain. Although Li Chaosheng studied with the people in the firearms workshop, and finally found that using oil paper to wrap gunpowder can not affect shooting in light rainy days, but the effect is very general, unless Li Chaosheng was able to invent the modern method of administering drugs in the form of a cartridge case, and invented firearms such as the revolver in advance, but Li Chaosheng is still unable to do so.

Therefore, cold weapons still cannot be put down, and they must be recruited as the main arms. In normal battles, cold weapons are used to guard against the opponent's sudden stabs, while muskets can be used for intensive shooting in the back row.

This is the current fighting method of Li Chaosheng's army. It has to be said that it is absolutely ahead of the current battlefield of Ming Dynasty, and 2000 people are not a burden for the now affluent Lantian County.

However, the only thing that made Li Chaosheng dissatisfied was that there were too few cavalry as a mobile force, only 600 people. The first reason may be that the requirements of the cavalry force are too high, and the second reason for restricting the development of the cavalry is that there are too few horses.

Now Lantian County has a lot of mules used to consign goods, but 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 the Manchu Qing forces on the Mongolian grassland have been consolidated, and they have controlled the horse trading channels. As a result, Li Chaosheng can't buy them if he wants to spend money. Not only Li Chaosheng, but even Daming can't buy Mongolian horses. Li Chaosheng found Hong Chengchou, and Hong Chengchou said that he had no choice but also brought Li Chaosheng an extremely bad news.

Since the return of Ming Dynasty, Huang Taiji has started to use troops against Mongolia. The leader of Mongolia, Lin Danhan, is obviously not Huang Taiji's opponent, and he will be defeated in a short time. If Lin Danhan is defeated and Huang Taiji seizes Guihua City, Mongolia will be completely Jiannu's subordinates, when the Mongolian Jiannu joined forces, they would pose a fatal threat to Ming Dynasty.

Li Chaosheng doesn't care if it poses a fatal threat to Ming Dynasty. What Li Chaosheng cares about is not to pose a threat to Lantian. If the Manchu Qing occupy Mongolia, especially Guihua City, they will have long-distance supply land. Feng can easily spread to Zhangjiakou, or even the border of Yulin, Shaanxi. At that time, Lantian County will bear the brunt of the establishment of slaves and customs clearance. Wouldn't my years of construction be destroyed?
Therefore, this city of Guihua cannot be snatched away by Jiannu, otherwise he will lose the opportunity strategically, and at the same time he will lose an important land for raising horses.

You must know that before the advent of automobiles, horses played an irreplaceable role in the war. Even in the War of Resistance Against Japan, horses were the main strategic material. Thinking about how excited Li Yunlong was when he saw a cavalry battalion, he knew the importance of horses.

Li Chaosheng thought about going back to his study, and began to read the information about Guihua City.

According to the data, Guihua City is now the old city of NMGHHHT City. Its geographical location is very important. It faces the Yinshan Mountains in the north, the Yellow River in the south, across the river from the EEDS Plateau on the opposite side, the Manghan Mountain in the east, and the Hetao Plain in the west. Here is equal to a large area of ​​land.

Li Chaosheng looked very excited. If he got this place, his power in the north would be enough to deter the world. By then, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Qinghai and other places would be in his pocket.

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

It seems that it is impossible to avoid war. Since you want to fight, the army will have to expand.

However, he still has plenty of time for the expansion of the army, because the Guihua City is still in the hands of the Mongolian Han Lindan Khan, but next year, that is, in 1632, Huang Taiji will defeat Lin Danhan, chase the Guihua City, and set it on fire. After that, Huang Taiji believed that the geographical location of the city was very good, so he rebuilt Guihua City on the ruins.

This is a very good opportunity to get rid of the sand in Guihua City. Thinking of this, Li Chaosheng made a plan. Since Guihua City is about to be burned, he can't stop it, but Huang Taiji wants to rebuild it. Chaosheng could take the opportunity to immigrate to Guihua City, and when the time came, he would seize Guihua City, so that he could get a place to raise horses.

By the way, slowly recover the Hetao Plain.

Thinking of this, Li Chaosheng began to formulate a plan, but the Long March came step by step, and it is impossible for a person to eat a fat man with one bite, so Li Chaosheng decided to organize two groups of people to enter Mongolia first.

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

Caravans sell exquisite ceramics, salt, iron pots, tea and other items to the Mongols in exchange for cattle, sheep, and horses. Horse thieves need to plunder on 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 land, while the oppression in Mongolia is cattle and sheep, which are fat pastures.

Li Chaosheng felt that he could have someone do what Li Zicheng had done on the grassland. In the Central Plains, the King Chuang didn’t pay for his food, so our slogan is: "Push it to the Mongolian princes and share the fattest pastures equally!"

After the plan was finished, the person who followed Li Chaosheng to plan and implement the plan, after some screening, Wang Guixiang snatched the position of horse thief. He, the commander of the cavalry battalion, was very suitable to be a horse thief.

At the very least, Wang Guixiang said that his cavalry unit, even in a one-on-one battle with the Tartars, can kill the Tartars with few casualties, because their equipment is better than the Tartars.

But for this caravan candidate, Li Chaosheng had a difficult time. This requires a person with an exquisite mind, and almost all of his troops are stubborn guys. Who should we send?
(End of this chapter)