Jianminggang occupies three counties and one district and most of Lingchang County, which is the richest place in Luo'an County.

However, this place, like many places in Nanhai Prefecture, is a plain area, with some ups and downs at most, but on the whole, it is still a flat river, not like Lianguan County, which has mountains and hills.

At the same time, he only occupied this area, and did not occupy the surrounding places, such as Lianguan County, the northern part of Pingdan County, and Yonggu County, which have complex terrain.

The two counties with a denser water network in the south are also not in his hands.

The above places are all in the hands of Lin Ziran, Li Kun, Zhao Song, and Li Dingjun.

This means that it is more difficult to attack externally, and there is no danger to defend when defending!

For a long time, the military defense pressure of Jian Minggang was very high, because there were enemies on all sides, and there was no good terrain to defend, so heavy troops had to be deployed on all sides.

And the most important thing is that the other four feudal towns all regard Jian Minggang as their biggest enemy, and the reason why the situation in Luo'an has remained calm for most of the previous half a year is that Jian Minggang has no way to clean up the other feudal towns one by one.

It is because the four feudal towns have a tacit understanding to maintain the same advance and retreat, and if Jian Minggang fights any one, the other three will consciously send troops.

Last year, Jian Minggang wanted to clean up Li Kun, trying to concentrate his forces to kill Li Kun first, and then recruit Zhao Song, Lin Ziran, and Li Dingjun, wanting to break them one by one.

But as soon as the army was assembled, Lin Ziran and the others had already begun to mobilize, and heavy troops were gathered.

Everyone knows the truth that the lips are cold and the teeth are dead.

In the end, Jian Minggang had to give up the plan to clean up Li Kun first and break them one by one.

After this incident, Luo An's situation can be regarded as calming down.

It's not that Jian Minggang doesn't want to fight, but he can't!

Although he is the strongest, it is impossible for him to directly resist the other four feudal towns!

In this situation, for example, if Jian Minggang starts a war with a certain Li Kun or Lin Ziran or Lin Ziran, the 10,000 troops in the northwest will be transferred out to fight Lin Ziran under the tension of troops.

It is estimated that the poor and crazy Zhao Song will wave his army south as soon as possible, anyway, this southward journey is a flat river, and it will not take a few days to directly kill the county town.

Other feudal towns were similar.

Under such circumstances, it is very difficult to move troops from almost any direction, and once mobilized, the entire three counties and one district will basically be exposed to the enemy's guns.

Heavy garrisons were to be stationed in several directions, and their forces were already quite tight.

But the recent emergence of the New Army in the South China Sea has made Jian Minggang anxious.

This new army of the South China Sea that came out of nowhere is not an ordinary rebel army, although the number is relatively small, it is estimated to be a few thousand, but it is full of guns, and the combat effectiveness is not bad, and more importantly, they use a very special rifle.

A reloadable rifle with an extremely fast rate of fire!

There is no doubt that this is a rear-loading rifled gun.

The rear-loading rifles equipped by these rebels caused great trouble to the encirclement and suppression troops under the command of Jian Minggang, and in several battles between the infantry, the troops of Jian Minggang suffered a big loss, and in the end they could only rely on a huge number of artillery to fight.

In order to exterminate this South China Sea New Army, Jian Minggang has already mobilized an army of 15,000 people from all over the country, although it suppressed them and made the South China Sea New Army less rampant, but it still failed to completely annihilate them.

The troops involved in the encirclement and suppression are building battle lines at various levels on the periphery, preparing to advance gradually, reduce the scope of their activities, and finally gather and annihilate them.

But it will take time!

At least for now, at least fifteen thousand troops are pinned down and unable to move at all.

Under such circumstances, it is difficult to draw troops to continue to reinforce the east bank of the Luo River!

But even if it is bitter, Jian Minggang also knows that the South China Sea New Army is just rootless duckweed, which seems to be equipped with a new type of rear-loading rifle, and its combat effectiveness is relatively strong, but it has few troops and lacks heritage, and now it is surrounded by its own troops in the periphery.

It was only a matter of time before they were destroyed.

Lin Ziran is the real confidant!

So he said: "Even if it is difficult, the situation on the east bank must be maintained, let's increase the number of troops by a brigade!" ”

As he spoke, he suddenly said, "By the way, what's going on with the rear-loading guns in the arsenal?" ”

Jian Liangzhi said: "Since we seized the sample gun last month, it was sent to the arsenal, and the engineers of the arsenal have reported that we can also do this kind of breech-loading rifled gun, that is, the quality of the barrel we made may not be up to par, and the output cannot be too much, and at the same time, this kind of rear-loading rifled gun uses a paper shell fixed ammunition, after we tested, the air leakage is very serious, and the firing pin is easy to break!" ”

Jian Liangzhi said in a slightly heavy tone: "When we tested our imitation sample guns before, there were soldiers whose eyes were injured due to air leakage, and the life span of the firing pin was very short. ”

"The engineers of the arsenal did not suggest that we copy it directly, but to improve it on this basis, at least to solve the problem of air leakage, otherwise, the soldiers will be more resistant to large-scale equipment!"

Jian Minggang said: "The problem of air leakage, my father also knows, but even so, this is also a sharp weapon, those people in the South China Sea New Army are not afraid of air leakage, are our soldiers more hypocritical?" ”

"Tell the arsenal to ignore these things and prepare for mass production, I want to see at least 10,000 of these rear-loading rifles in half a year!"

When Jian Minggang and his son were talking about rear-loading rifles, Lin Ziran also went to Qingshan Machinery Factory to inspect!

He has been very busy for a while recently, and there is naturally a reason why he went from Sanyang Town to Qingshan Town to inspect this machinery factory.

Yesterday, Ding Quankun personally came to tell him that the laboratory had completed the design of a new musket and made a batch of prototypes.

This new musket naturally cannot be a front-loading smoothbore gun, let alone a Mini rifle, but a rear-loading rifle, and it is also a rear-loading rifle with metal bullets that Lin Ziran requested at the beginning of last year.

However, it was not a newly designed rear-loading rifle, but a rear-loading rifle modified from the Fuyuan musket.

As for why they didn't directly engage in a newly designed rear-loading rifle, it was naturally because they were still unable to produce high-quality barrels so far, so they could only rely on the Fuyuan musket for modification.

However, even if it is a modification, Qingshan Machinery Factory has been digging technicians all over the world since last year, purchasing almost all the advanced equipment that can be bought, just for this modification of the rear loading rifle, the cost of no less than 300,000 yuan before and after.

This means that the technical level of this world has reached a certain foundation, otherwise, it will not be possible to get it in a short period of time no matter how much money is spent.

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