"The enemy advances, I retreat...... When the enemy retreats, I will chase after ...... The enemy is stationed in our ...... The enemy is tired and I fight, which is a little interesting. Ning Zhongyuan's eyes lit up, but he couldn't help but read it, and then asked: "Your set of tactics is not bad, if you execute it effectively, I'm afraid the Qing army will really have nothing to do with you." ”

Ning Yu smiled slightly in his heart, joking, this has been tested by a long war, it is the essence of guerrilla warfare theory, if it is really used to deal with the encirclement and suppression of the Qing army, it is very suitable.

"However, to implement this law, we need to understand a truth, that is, we must not stick to one city, as the so-called 'save the land and lose the people, and the people and the land will be lost; If people lose land, people and land will survive'. ”

As Ning Yu narrated, Ning Zhongyuan felt more and more weird, such a quintessential theory of tactics, if he was crawling on the battlefield for a very long time, how could ordinary people understand this? Although this Ning Yu has also fought a few battles, after all, his age is limited, where did he start to learn this set? Could it be that there are really geniuses in this world who are born to know?

At this time, Ning Yu didn't notice the strange look in Ning Zhongyuan's expression, and continued to talk like a river, gushing: "Through the way of movement warfare, the Qing army will be gathered and annihilated separately, so that it is impossible for the Qing army to concentrate on attacking our Huguang, and our army will also grasp the initiative on the battlefield, and with the initiative, there will naturally be a good opportunity for development. ”

Ning Zhongyuan asked: "What if the Qing army doesn't care about you and directly attacks my Huguang with all its might?" In fact, he didn't know about this consideration, but he just wanted to test Ning Yu again.

Ning Yu laughed, "If I go all out to attack Huguang, I will naturally attack his heart and go straight down to Jiangning from Anqing, and the world will be in chaos." As for my Huguang, don't worry, I have invented a new thing, called cement, as long as this thing is used, my Huguang and other defense lines can be guaranteed. ”

The emergence of cement is Ning Yu thought for a long time, only to let the craftsmen trial production, mainly through the limestone ore mining, crushing, and through various methods to transport to the limestone warehouse, the limestone raw materials and a small amount of clay raw materials, correction raw materials after crushing, according to a certain proportion of matching, grinding and blending into the appropriate composition, uniform quality of raw meal.

Then put the raw material in the kiln after calcination, and finally add some gypsum, can be made into a relatively rudimentary cement, although the technical conditions are not as good as the cement of later generations, but the effect of use is also very obvious, by using this cement, can effectively carry the bombardment of artillery, especially for the defenders of the city.

It is precisely because the whole process is not particularly complicated, so Ning Yu also specially chose the deaf and mute production under the Fu Han Army, so that he can better keep the secret, and the appearance of cement is actually of great significance for the war, at least for the defenders.

At the end of the first month of the 60th year of Kangxi, Ning Yu took the officials of the Privy Council to the Hanyang Gun Factory to hold a groundbreaking ceremony, the entire scale of the new Hanyang Gun Factory is several times that of the original Ning Family Gun Factory, and the number of workers that can accommodate it is more than 10,000 people, and the scale can be regarded as a first-class one in the whole of Asia.

However, the biggest problem is that the number of mature craftsmen under the command of the Fu Han Army is not enough, and there are only more than 1,000 mature craftsmen after many searches, but Ning Yu also has arrangements for this, that is, to send a few apprentices to each of these craftsmen, and promise that as long as each apprentice is brought out, he will be rewarded with ten taels of silver, so these craftsmen are also more enthusiastic.

Lei Huozi became the director of the new Hanyang Gun Factory, and his face was also full of joy at this time, and he introduced Ning Yu along the way: "Tell the Major General that the Hanyang Gun Factory will be able to initially produce flintlock guns from next month, and as for the cannons, it will take about two months, and the old gun workshop will undertake part of the gun production." ”

"As for the entire gun factory to go all out for production, it is estimated that it will take about a year, and by that time both the equipment and workers will be able to basically meet the requirements of production, and by that time our army will be able to produce 30,000 flintlock pistols and 500 new artillery pieces in its planned annual production. If I were given three years, it would be half as much as possible. ”

While listening, Ning Yu wrote down in a pencil notebook, these data are very critical, and they will directly determine the subsequent army expansion plan and campaign plan, so Ning Yu cannot be careless.

As far as the current armament is concerned, Ning Yu is a little anxious, the reason is very simple, the current Qing army is still very good in terms of equipment, the proportion of firearms is increasing year by year, and the traditional sword and shield archers are greatly reduced. If the Fu Han army does not pay close attention to this aspect, it is very likely that it will be completely suppressed by the Qing army.

No matter how much stronger than the Qing army in terms of performance, we can't ignore the difference in numbers, especially in this war years when the team was shot, sometimes it was more than whose guns and whose artillery. Of course, Ning Yu also knew in his heart that there were very serious problems in the manufacture of firearms in the Manchu Qing Dynasty at this time, and the firearms battalion in Beijing was actually inferior to the muskets produced in some towns in the south, like many bird guns in Guangzhou, which were obviously more sophisticated than those made by Jingshi.

In addition, the corruption of the Qing army is also breathtaking, which also determines that the Qing army is to take a high price to make inferior products when making firearms, if you are bolder, it is normal for the Qing army to charge 20 taels of silver for a gun, and the musket made is not only of poor quality, but also extremely high price, resulting in a large amount of military expenses not being spent in practice, so that the muskets held by the green battalion soldiers at that time are actually not as good as a burning stick.

Although it is inevitable that there will be corruption in the Fu Han Army, after all, it is the initial period, and many people's morale is still very high, so there is no large-scale corruption, which also determines that in terms of the cost and quality of firearms, the current Fu Han Army is much more victorious.

In the new army establishment plan, Ningyu has further subdivided the current main force and garrison army, in which the guns used by the three main divisions are the latest flintlock guns, and the artillery is also the latest six-jin guns and eight-pound guns, of course, this part of the army is currently only 15,000 people, and it will be expanded to 30,000 at that time, and each division will become an integrated division of 10,000 people, which can undertake the campaign objectives in a single direction.

As for the original three regiments of the garrison army, they will become three divisions after expansion, and these three divisions will adopt the previous small division formation, each division will only have 6,000 people, and they will be stationed in Jingzhou, Yichang and Wuchang and other places, and only part of the weapons of these three divisions are flintlock guns, and the rest are mainly captured Qing army shotguns, and will be mixed with certain swords and bows and arrows, plus each division will have ten cannons, so it is enough for defense.

As for the last remaining people, Ning Yu still plans to organize into independent city defense regiments, these city defense regiments are basically based on cold weapons, each regiment is only 1,500 people, covering all the prefectures of the current Fu Han Army, each state will have one, and at present, the entire Fu Han Army occupies nine prefectures in Hubei, namely Wuchang Mansion, Hanyang Mansion, Huangzhou Mansion, Jingzhou Mansion, Xiangyang Mansion, Yunyang Mansion, Anlu Mansion, De'an Mansion and Yichang Mansion, and a Jingmen Prefecture.

In this way, the strength level of the entire Fuhan Army will be divided into three, namely, the three divisions as the main force of the field battle have a total of 30,000 people, the three divisions as the main force of the garrison have a total of 18,000 people, and the ten regiments as the urban defense system have a total of 15,000 people, and when added together, there are almost 63,000 people.

is the only person, but Ning Yu has it, because he is about to go to Yunyang Mansion.