Li Guo's face sank, "Although our army is less powerful than the Qing army and is temporarily unable to go on the Northern Expedition, Azig wants to defeat our army, and it will not take a year or two to ...... Don't! ”

"That's true."

"Then why did General Ben listen to Fulin's arrangement? Why should we conform to his arrangement? ”

Qian Qianyi said: "The general's act of pretending to betray King Wu has been seen through by our court...... If the general does not agree, our dynasty will definitely devote the strength of the country to expel Guangxinwei from Fengyang Mansion. Our dynasty and the new dynasty have a treaty first, and Guangxinwei has also been listed as a rebel army by the General's Mansion...... In this way, the general asked himself if he could withstand the blow of Prince Ying's force? ”

Li Guo's face changed several times, glared at Qian Qianyi angrily, and after a long time, he suddenly sighed and said, "Hey...... The times are not as good as people, that's it! ”

Qian Qianyi was overjoyed, "The general is wise." ”

However, Li Guo immediately said: "Please tell your master that Li has a condition." ”

"General, please."

"Six hundred thousand taels of silver."

“……。”

"In Dingyuan City, there are more than 30,000 soldiers in Guangxinwei...... When Lord Qian went back, he said so, 600,000 taels of silver, not a tael less. ”

Qian Qianyi swallowed his saliva and looked at the gift slip in Li Guo's hand.

Li Guo stretched out his hand and pinched it, raised it in front of Qian Qianyi, and said, "This doesn't count." ”

Qian Qianyi couldn't help but smile bitterly.

……。

A crisp gunshot rang out in the test site of the military workshop.

Three hundred paces away, a soldier of the Northern Expeditionary Army shouted the target, "Seven Rings".

Wu Zheng stroked the musket, which still exuded a woody fragrance, and a relieved smile appeared on his face.

This is not an epoch-making advanced weapon, and it is more than half a century behind the rifle invented by Germany, which was still called the "Holy Roman Empire" in Europe at this time.

But this is indeed the most advanced individual weapon in Asia.

Although the military workshop has been trial-producing "yellow powder", although Wu Zheng still understands the basic structure of the breech gun in his mind.

But this does not have any possibility of mass production and equipment.

This musket is still a black powder gun, and the biggest change is that there are six rifling wires in the barrel.

The rifling is important because it allows the round projectile to become a long strip at this time, without the appearance of a bullet out of the muzzle and tumbling forward.

In this way, it is not a fantasy that the round bullet will be replaced.

A long bullet is better than a round bullet, it can fit more closely to the barrel wall, so that the kinetic energy generated by the combustion of gunpowder can not be wasted as much as possible, which increases the power at the same time, the original bulky barrel can be lightened, and the reloading charge of a bullet can be reduced.

In addition, this gun has been changed to rear loading, and the biggest disadvantage of rear loading is that the air tightness is not enough, and the phenomenon of deflating after gunpowder combustion is also produced, which has pre-loaded metal cartridge shells.

The pre-loaded metal cartridge case solves the disadvantage of insufficient airtightness of the breech gun.

And the musket in front of him, although it is still fired by flint, not by firing pin, but the prototype of the rifle in later generations has appeared.

The middle finger-thick pre-loaded copper case, the small prefabricated black powder, and the sharp iron bullet made the range and penetration increase in the weight of the gun.

Wu Zheng gave it a name - the Type 52 rifle.

Because the manufacturing process and process are still rough, the rifling needs to be engraved by hand, and it takes four experienced craftsmen three days to complete the engraving of a barrel rifling, and there is a high probability of rejection.

This speed could not be satisfied with the Northern Expeditionary Army's change of clothes, so Wu Zheng had no choice but to order Qi Daokun and Chen Shoujie to produce 3,000 poles and 52 strokes in half a year.

……。

What excites Wu Zheng is that Song Yingxing's research has made a breakthrough.

The connecting rod mechanism of the steam locomotive improved by Song Yingxing has greatly improved the kinetic energy conduction efficiency, and according to Song Yingxing, it is conservatively estimated that the locomotive speed can be increased by more than three percent.

That is, the speed of the locomotive will be close to fifty miles (25 km/h).

At the same time, Song Yingxing has developed a bullet automatic loading structure and trial-produced samples.

This is a structure that uses a spring as a restoration structure, and the spring is obtained by winding a cylinder after being drawn and then wound with a cylinder.

The durability of this spring is not long, the life is only one and a half years, and then it is easy to get stuck, but, it does not seem to be important, under the strong insistence of Wu Zheng, the musket manufacturing has been streamlined, although it cannot be compared with the assembly line of later generations, but the barrel, butt, flint device and other components have been clearly distinguished, that is to say, even if the spring is really not long, it is not too much of a drawback, it is nothing more than a year later, replace a re-accessory.

Therefore, Wu Zheng immediately ordered Song Yingxing to start developing it, and in the shortest possible time, he applied this achievement to the new 3,000-shot Type 52 rifle made by the military workshop.

As for the improved connecting rod components, they cannot be applied to steam locomotives without delay.

Wu Zheng is not worried about failures and accidents, because he understands that all new things can only be improved the fastest in real practical use.

If Wu Zheng needs to choose, then Wu Zheng will not hesitate to pay the necessary price.

……。

Wu Zheng's fall is not angry, and it seems to be disorganized.

And the situation in Fengyang Mansion is that the mountain wind is coming, and the wind is full of buildings.

As Azig led the army back to Fengyang City, he deployed the main force in Linhuai and Huaiyuan, forming an iron triangle with Fengyang City, so as to achieve the effect of taking care of the end and looking at each other.

But Azig was clearly not as impassioned as he was when he was born, and he did not immediately attack Dingyuan.

Not only did he not attack, but instead sent an envoy to Dingyuan to ask Li to meet.

In order to reassure Li Guo to go to the appointment, Azig even chose the meeting place on a ferry boat on the Donghao River.

The Donghao River is not wide, and the narrowest part is only less than two zhang.

This distance is within the range of the arrows of the crossbowmen on the shore.

That is, the degree of danger on both sides is the same.

The same danger, that is, there is no danger.

……。

Li Guo went to the appointment.

He didn't have a crush on Azig, in fact, Li Guo hated Azig no less than he hated Dorgon.

But Li Guo knew very well in his heart that if this battle really started, Guangxinwei would definitely support it for less than a year, and it would be the limit if it could last for half a year.

According to the strategy agreed with Wu before, Guangxinwei needed to take the initiative to launch a feint attack on Fengyang City, in order to lure the main force of the Qing army to the direction of Dingyuan, so that the 1,000 people who were stationed in the direction of Tianchang at this time and were originally under the jurisdiction of Chen Sheng moved in the direction of Sizhou.

Of course, at this time, Tianchang is no longer a thousand people, Wu Zheng has transferred 4,000 Jiangdu garrisons and quietly supplemented them, and the main general of this army is Shi Ergou Shi Kun, a student of Wu Zheng when he was in the military academy.