Seeing that his boss Du Fuwei fled in embarrassment, the small fleet from the Wujiang River in the north naturally did not dare to continue to block the river and not let Li Qin go north. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Eventually, in the midst of the roaring sound one after another, the small boats that were scattered like sesame seeds gathered together as if they were desperate for their lives, and sailed towards the west coast.

They didn't dare to bomb it. They could see clearly what kind of power those terrifying iron bullets had just erupted from Li Qin's fleet.

When it is impossible to understand how much combat power the enemy has and where his weaknesses are, no one wants to fight to the death with an enemy who does not know the depth unless it is absolutely necessary.

Especially when the commander-in-chief has retreated.

The navy is necessary and scarce for the Jianghuai army, and the Jianghuai army is certainly not willing to waste the ship casually.

So retreat became their only option.

As they retreated, there was a clear sky above the river, and Li Qin's warship quickly adjusted the direction of its sails, and swayed northeast with the river breeze blowing diagonally.

Homecoming!

Victory and return!

It was a modest victory, but it was an exciting one for the top and bottom of the fleet.

After this battle, they saw blood and understood their own power.

They have gained self-confidence.

This was something that made Li Qin happy, but Li Qin only smiled faintly at this and did not praise them too much.

The army has its own rules, and every performance of officers and soldiers on the battlefield is recorded by a special soldier as the basis for evaluating merit after the war. Because of such a record, there is corresponding evidence whether these soldiers and officers should be rewarded, promoted, or criticized and punished, but Li Qin does not need to rely on his own eyes to observe.

After initially completing the basic literacy eradication of his soldiers (with 1,500 reading and writing as the standard), Li Qin gradually established a system of military merit evaluation independent of the commander-in-chief, making his army more regular.

At this time, on the surface, Li Qin's army still continued the Sui army's establishment, but secretly, Li Qin's army had a slight change compared with the Sui army:

Five people are in the team, and there is a military chief;

The three armies are the team and have team officers;

Five teams plus one pro-soldier, a total of 80 people are a song, and there are military commanders;

Three songs plus one pro-soldier team, a total of 255 people, under the command of the military academy;

Five parts, a pro-soldier song, a scout song, and a support song, a total of 1,500 people are a battalion, which is under the command of the battalion captain;

The town above this is composed of three standard battalions, plus a support department and a law enforcement department, with a full number of 5,000 men.

Of course, this is the ideal situation.

In fact, the towns that Li Qin organized were divided into eight towns because of the different directions and types of troops they were responsible for, and their specific numbers ranged from 4,000 to 6,000:

When Tu garrisoned the town, the standard town of 5,000 people, which was left for the emperor to see, belonged to the model goods, and was also a new recruit town in Li Qin's army;

Magang Garrison Town, the defensive force stationed at the Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Plant, is a large town of 6,000 people, with average mobility, but equipped with a variety of the latest weapons, and its offensive ability is also the strongest. In fact, the town is also tasked with the latest weapons and tactical drills;

Maoshan Town, a small town of 4,000 people, trains for mountain warfare, and its soldiers run like flying, good at interspersing, and sports to destroy the enemy. He is the town under Li Qin's command with the most blood and the most practical experience (all of them are trained with the blood of bandits in the Maoshan area);

The cavalry town, which exists in a small town of 4,000 people on paper, has a cavalry establishment, and is usually used as a horse team, with the scale of the department, and is stationed in various places, and there is no unified ministry, battalion, and town management organization for the time being.

Jinling Town, a town of 4,000 people, is divided into two large camps of 2,000 people. Mingying entrenched himself near the Purple Mountain as a bandit; And the secret camp hides in Jinling City in various capacities, secretly monitoring everything in Jinling City.

Xuancheng Town, a small town of 4,000 people, rampant between Xuancheng and Biling, served as a bandit rebel army to suppress the attention of these surrounding counties to Danyang, and as the object of Li Qin's military training exercises, he fought against Li Qin's army. It was precisely because of the activity of this group of people that the emperor and the officialdom in Jiangnan became more and more assured of Li Qin's existence - after all, Li Qin had always been at war with the rebel army.

Huyang Town, a town of 3,000 people, Li Qin's sailors, stationed in Shijiu Lake in the south of Lushui County, have 50 boats, 5 fighting ships, 3 building ships, and 5 improved building ships (that is, the five ships that came to pick up Li Qin at this time).

Taking the boat back to Huyang Shuiying, Li Qin took Li Jing, Kou Zhong, Xu Ziling, Fu Junwu, and Su Su and his party off the boat.

At this time, it was already around the afternoon Shen hour, and it would be dark in another hour or two, and it was impossible to rush back to Dangtu overnight. Li Qin planned to stay in Shuiying, and by the way, at the request of the captain of Huyang Town, he presided over the post-war review meeting of the naval army.

The post-war review meeting was a method that Li Qin learned from later generations, which was used to cultivate the ability of officers and review the gains and losses of battles, so as to avoid making mistakes again.

Because Li Jing, Xu Ziling, and Kou Zhong all decided to join Li Qin's command, the three of them also showed a certain interest in this, and Li Qin intended to cultivate them, so he took them with him to observe.

The review will take place after dinner.

At this time, it was already dark, but the camp of the navy was still brightly lit, and in the big tent of the Chinese army in the middle of the camp, all the officers of the navy and above gathered together. More than a dozen people sat in a circle, regardless of superiority, only listening to Li Qin presiding over the meeting.

Li Qin announced the start of the review meeting, and everyone began to talk to each other according to the original routine.

The credit that has been obtained, everyone passed in a few words. The focus was then on the shortcomings that the war had exposed.

The first thing they talk about is their familiarity with the equipment.

“…… We didn't train enough and didn't know enough about the power we had, so that at the very beginning of the war, we didn't dare to fight at all. As a soldier, you don't dare to fight, it's a matter of mentality. I'm timid, and this needs to be reviewed. Nangong Haizhu, the leader of Li Qin's boat, bowed his head and said his mistake.

As soon as he spoke, the rest of the tent became accustomed to it. But Li Jing, Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling, who had seen this kind of meeting for the first time, were dumbfounded.

"My mother! Obviously won the battle, but he took the credit and only talked about the shortcomings, and this victory was almost like a defeat. Kou Zhong whispered his opinion.

The atmosphere in the tent was a little depressing, which made him feel quite uncomfortable, and naturally he didn't dare to speak too high.

He was far away from Li Jing and Xu Ziling, and only occupied a few Mazha in the corner of the tent, which did not attract the attention of others for a while.

"By recalling the course of the battle, discovering the mistakes in it, and proposing ways to correct it accordingly, the more such an army fights, the fewer shortcomings it will have, and the stronger its combat effectiveness will be. I believe that as long as they continue to fight, they will eventually become a shocking and strong army.

Then, with the kind of horrific weapons we see today. Who in this world will be their opponent? Being able to lead such an army in battle, even if you are not a famous general, you can eventually have the record of a famous general. ”

Li Jing knew more than Kou Zhong, and quickly grasped the benefits of doing so.

"Since there are so many benefits...... Why hasn't anyone done this before? Xu Ziling was a little strange about this.

"Because the requirements for the junior generals are too high. You look at how they did at the meeting...... Everyone here can write! Maybe their handwriting is very poor, or maybe they don't know many words, but compared to the brave men who don't know a few big characters and only know how to kill the enemy with strength, they are much stronger. Li Jing whispered his judgment.

"I see!" Kou Zhong was very interested in this, and he recorded Li Jing's words in his heart little by little.

The review will be fiercely carried out in the eyes of these onlookers. Although limited by the level and vision of these generals themselves, most of the questions raised by them involve some details, and some of them are not like that at all and are wrong, but the lack of such mistakes cannot cover up the goodness of this method. And as everyone talked about it, everything that really needed to be improved was unanimously agreed by everyone.

"Artillery needs to be improved...... We need artillery with a longer range and greater power. ”

"The ship also needs to be redesigned, and the hull needs to be reinforced! It would be nice to have a ship specifically designed to carry artillery. ”

"The deployment of artillery has greatly increased the density of the ship's fire projection. But the hit rate of the artillery was still too low. I took a look, and at a distance of three hundred meters, only three out of ten guns were able to hit the enemy ship, which may also be due to our insufficient training......

But if it is possible to increase the number of guns that each ship can carry appropriately. I think the number of shells that actually hit the enemy should be much higher. ”

"I don't think it's realistic to simply increase the number of guns on a single ship, the ship is so big, and the guns are very heavy, how many more guns can you put and how many more guns can be added. The fleet is a whole...... I think we should still find ways to improve the communication between the ships and make the command of the whole fleet more fluid. ”

"What's there to improve on?"

"We can't imagine this, so let's hand it over to the crazy people of the Tiangong Academy."

……

There was a lot of talk. The note-keeper in the military tent wrote down these things one by one at a very fast writing speed.

When the meeting was over, a thick document was delivered to Li Qin.

"I'll send these requests to the people of the Tiangong Academy for you, as for whether they will have any good solutions, I don't know." Li Qin took the material, looked through it a little, and nodded in agreement.

The review meeting lasted for more than two hours. By the time everyone had dispersed, the night had fallen silent. A crescent moon hung in the sky, silently telling the delay of time.

With a stack of papers, Li Qin led Li Jing back to his military tent.

Walking on the road, facing the cool night breeze, Li Jing put forward his own request: "Can you show me what they wrote?" ”

"Of course it's fine, as long as you can read it." Li Qin smiled, and then handed the document to Li Jing.

"Understand?" Li Jing was slightly stunned, took the document from Li Qin's hand, and looked at it. Then in the hazy moonlight, Li Jingyun was able to see the handwriting on the document clearly, but he was stunned when he saw it like this.

The scribbled handwriting on the document was something he had known for a long time, but there seemed to be too many simple words in it. Some Li Jing can still guess what the words are, but some ......

He didn't recognize it at all.

"What is the word on this......" Li Jing looked at Li Qin in surprise.

Simplified Chinese...... Nowadays, there are too many characters, and it is too difficult to understand and too slow to write, so I designed a set of simplified characters for the sergeants and workers to use. Li Qin said calmly.

At this time, he did not change his face and attributed the credit for organizing and creating simplified Chinese characters to himself.

"I see!" Li Jing suddenly said, "These words have few strokes and are simple...... It can make those soldiers master it faster. No wonder most of the soldiers in your army are literate in military schools. Just, aren't you worried? ”

"Worried about what?" Li Qin was puzzled.

"It's better for the army not to have thoughts...... That kind of army will be difficult to bring. Li Jing said what he thought was the biggest hidden danger in Li Qinjun: "When there are more smart people, people's hearts will be scattered." An army will not be an army. ”

"Well, I get that, too. So my solution to this problem is, to be theirs with my own thoughts. ”

Li Qin told Li Jing his solution to the problem:

"Weapons are getting more powerful, and the soldiers who operate them are becoming more and more demanding, and I need soldiers to know more. So...... That's the only way I can do it. A stupid army is not what I want. ”

"Really?" Li Jing listened to Li Qin's words and was silent for a long time.

"You said that the path chosen was unprecedented...... Are you sure you can get through? After a long time, Li Jing asked in a low voice.

"Why not...... Who else but me can make a huge difference in the world? Li Qin stopped and said confidently.

At this moment, Li Jing felt that Li Qin was extremely domineering.