Now in early spring, the temperature is suitable, even if there is a drizzle falling, the drills in the camp are still continuous, and from time to time some soldiers turn their heads to look outside and are scolded by the instructor.

Outside Beilei Town, four or five huge locust trees are connected together, with the tendency of overwhelming, Qian Yuan, Qi Jiguang, Qi Jimei, Zhao Dahe and his party are here to rest for a while, and talk about sharing the spoils by the way.

Without outsiders, Qi Jiguang looked at Qian Yuan's face and complained: "Zhancai, Ningbo is an important town, but there are more than 3,000 soldiers, which is really not enough." ”

"Who made you come so late?" Qian Yuan rolled his eyes, "What's the difference between you reprimanding Jimei and scolding me?"

Qi Jimei on the side nodded again and again, today he was angry, and now he dares to speak with Qian Yuan's support, "First recruit two thousand soldiers, and then the number of people who took the initiative to join the army is countless, and then another thousand are recruited." ”

The first soldiers recruited are often those who dare to fight, not to mention those who take the initiative to join the army, the population of Yiwu County is not small, but in the past two years, 4,000 soldiers have been recruited one after another, Wu Weizhong and Chen Dacheng have only recruited more than 1,000 soldiers so far, not to mention that the criteria for selecting soldiers in the Qi family army are so harsh.

In other words, the population resources of Yiwu County have come to an end, and most of the soldiers recruited this time are in the hands of Qi Jimei, which is unbearable for Qi Jiguang, the camp is just an excuse, Qi Jiguang is trying to get a piece of the pie from his younger brother.

For Qi Jiguang, making meritorious contributions is his life's wish, and to achieve his goal, an invincible army is his greatest support.

"You can think about it." Qian Yuan thought for a short time and replied: "The two armies are training together, but Brother Yuan Jing is still training for half a year."

"The big war is coming, three months." Qi Jiguang was uneasy in his heart, he proposed two army recruits and trained in one place, a total of more than 4,000 recruits, and finally split in half.

This idea was proposed by Qi Jiguang as soon as he arrived in Yiwu this morning, but Qian Yuan was angry at the time and refused...... Now that I think about it, Qi Jimei lacks experience after all, and Qi Jiguang is a famous general in history who can train soldiers.

"There are few soldiers in Taizhou, one month, before March 10, Jimei will first select 2,000 soldiers to set off." Qian Yuan waved his hand and said: "The ordnance and equipment are selected first, and the deficiencies are written to the Governor's Mansion." ”

Qi Jiguang gritted his teeth and responded...... In the past two years, he recruited and trained in the army, went into battle to kill the Japanese, during which Qian Yuan was behind the support, and now he is promoted to the deputy chief soldier of Zhejiang, but Qian Yuan is faintly a little ignorant.

Speaking of Qi Jiguang, he was also quite unlucky, he came to Zhejiang and got involved with Qian Yuan, so that Tu Dashan, Zhang Jing, Yang Yi, and Hu Zongxian were quite cold to him, unlike Yu Dayou, Qi Jiguang's foundation in the army was too shallow, and others regarded him as Qian Yuan's person...... Especially after Qian Yuan went south again at the end of last year with Zhejiang Patrol.

"Lou Nan left it to you, after all, it is your old friend." Qian Yuan glanced at the more than two hundred men who came to join the army not far away, "But Feng Ziming stayed." ”

Two quarters of an hour ago, when Qian Yuan tried to pull Lou Nan to Taizhou, when everyone was embarrassed, Feng Ziming, a native of Qiaoting in Yiwu who came with Lou Nan, fell to the ground and claimed that he was willing to go to Taizhou.

Later, Qian Yuan and Qi Jiguang carefully interrogated and learned that Feng Ziming was also a civil and military master, and he was quite famous in the local area, and he had led the villagers to repel the Lishui people who came to Yiwu to rob the minerals several times, and the more than 200 young people brought were all miners.

Qi Jiguang immediately moved his mind...... And Qian Yuan is not to mention, he vaguely remembers that Qi Jiguang's original time and space was because of this incident in Yiwu to recruit troops to form the Qi family's army.

Indeed, in history, Feng Ziming asked to see Hu Zongxian and asked to kill the Japanese with the army, and was later allocated to Qi Jiguang, who suggested that the new army be recruited and trained in Yiwu, which is the origin of the Qi family's army.

"Lou Dayou is in Ningbo, Lou Nan stays in Taizhou, and the two brothers compete with each other to kill the Japanese, and it will be a beautiful talk in the future." Qi Jiguang smiled and said, "It's better to stay in Taizhou, Feng Ziming will go to Ningbo with me." ”

Qian Yuan looked at Qi Jiguang's eyes fixedly, and nodded after a while, "However, it is rumored that Ningbo has a new artillery."

Qi Jiguang immediately glared at his younger brother fiercely, and then said: "Although the bird gun is accurate but the force is small, it is difficult to resist the brigade, and it is difficult for the Franc machine to move on the bar. ”

Qian Yuan came to his senses, and after careful questioning, he learned that this was a kind of artillery newly developed by Qi Jiguang, about two to three feet long, weighing thirty-four catties, made of wrought iron, each time with seven or eight taels of gunpowder, it could fire 100 lead bullets or small stones weighing five coins.

Qi Jiguang said as he spoke, his eyebrows fluttered, and Wu Weizhong next to him praised this as a big weapon, but Qian Yuan pondered in his heart, that is, light artillery, mainly relying on scattered bullets to kill the enemy and block the enemy, I don't know what the effect is.

"In case of conflict on the road, take the name Tiger Squat Cannon ......"

Hearing this, Qian Yuan raised his eyebrows, and the tiger squatted and ...... Seems to have heard of it.

"How many are there now"

Qi Jiguang swallowed his saliva, looked left and right, and the rest of the people, including Zhao Dahe, avoided one after another, leaving only Qi Jiguang and Qian Yuan.

"It was rebuilt with old artillery and five were completed." Qi Jiguang said softly: "There are not enough craftsmen, and they use wrought iron, which needs to be transferred from Fujian, Guangzhou, and Beizhili. ”

Qian Yuan took a few more steps outside, and said in a low voice: "Brother Yuan Jing is quite dissatisfied today, and thinks that Qian is deliberately making things difficult."

"Where, I delayed the recruitment of soldiers for too long, and Zhao Zhixian didn't know that Jimei was transferred to Taizhou, so he thought he followed me to Ningbo."

"In this year's war, Xu Hai will not choose Susong and Jiaxing, and it is likely that the target is Ningshaotai." Qian Yuan suddenly changed the topic, "Then, Brother Yuan Jing must be the main general, Shaoxing Liu Xian, and Taizhou Lu Bin can only be the deputies." ”

Seeing that Qi Jiguang hadn't understood yet, Qian Yuan sighed: "At this time, if you don't go to the Governor's Mansion to ask for craftsmen, ordnance, silver, and iron, when do you want to wait?"

Qi Jiguang was excited, his mind turned sharply, the depression of more than a month was swept away, and he paused: "That's true!" ”

If Xu Hai takes Ning Shaotai as the main battlefield, Qi Jiguang will bear the brunt, and he will be the first in terms of strength, followed by the general Liu Xian, who is the descendant of Hu Zongxian, and the second is Lu Bin.

So before the year and the New Year, Qian Yuan's strength was used on Lu Bin's body, Qi Jiguang was quite dissatisfied with this, you must know that Qian Yuan took care of the logistics for him before, even in Beijing, he had written to Wu Baipeng, Hu Zongxian, Tang Shunzhi, and Tan Lun several times.

Now that Qi Jiguang understands, what he lacks should be asked for from the Governor's Mansion.

This is the dead spot in the inertia mode of thinking, Qian Yuan was too thoughtful for Qi Jiguang before, so that Qi Jiguang had any requirements to contact Qian Yuan directly, such as recruiting troops in Yiwu, Qian Yuan contacted Yiwu Wu Baipeng, Wang Daokun, the former Yiwu Zhixian Wang Daokun, and later specially sent a letter to Zhao Dahe, the new Yiwu Zhixian in the same year.

Qian Yuan sometimes thinks that he uses resources on Lu Bin, but Qi Jiguang will be dissatisfied, which is not a rise in Mien and Mi hatred

Qi Jiguang saluted solemnly: "It's Qi who thinks badly." ”

"It doesn't matter, just leave Feng Ziming behind." Qian Yuan looked at the sky, the spring rain had stopped, but it was still full of dark clouds, just like his mood now.

"I'll leave for Taizhou tomorrow, and I'll leave the training to you." Qian Yuan ignored Qi Jiguang's objections, and said straightforwardly: "In this year's war, Xu Hai will be killed...... I'm a guarantor in Beijing! ”

"Kill Xu Hai"

Qian Yuan was about to go back to the town, but stopped and asked, "How many warships are there in Ningbo?"

"There are three lucky boats, twelve sand boats, plus about ten ships and sea firmaments."

Qian Yuan pondered for a moment and whispered, "Keep Xiangshan Port." ”

Qi Jiguang nodded immediately, Xiangshan Port leads to Dinghai Housuo and Zhoushan Islands at one end, and Ninghai County in Taizhou Prefecture at the other end.

In the past two months, Qian Yuan and his father and brother have also corresponded several times, and the ones who came and went were all the guards of the Qian family, and the secret letters sent were all written in codes.

Xu Hai will indeed choose Ning Shaotai as the main direction of attack, but where to choose, even if Qian Rui is the mastermind, he doesn't know.

If Xu Hai chooses Shaoxing and Ningbo, Qian Yuan is not worried, after all, Xu Hai will send at most five or six thousand troops under his command, and with Qi Jiguang here, he should not suffer a loss against the enemy in a dignified manner, and he will be able to calmly capture and kill when Wang Zhizhi cuts off his back road.

Therefore, what Qian Yuan is afraid of is that Xu Hai chooses Taizhou, the coastline of Shaoxing Mansion is not long, and although Ningbo Mansion is near the sea in the southeast and northeast, the area is not large, and it is very convenient to transfer troops.

Only the shape of Taizhou Mansion is long and narrow, almost the size of two Ningbo Mansions, facing the sea in the east, and there are too many landing sites that the Japanese can choose, if Xu Hai chooses Taizhou as the target, Qian Yuan is really afraid that Tan Lun and Lu Bin will not be able to hold it.

The current situation is completely different from the historical southeast anti-Japanese war, and Qian Yuan has no way to guess what Xu Hai will do next, so he needs to go back to Taizhou immediately, go to Huangyan County, and ask in person.