"It should be Nikan who has gone south."

Who is Nikan, Chen Kai probably knows something. However, the report sent by Lin Cha pointed out that Xu Degong and Zhang Daocheng carried the Hongyi artillery to the east again, obviously to prepare for the next offensive, and the Qing army sent troops, so there is only one reason, Li Dingguo has left Guangxi, otherwise the tiger is on the side, how dare they be distracted?

After receiving the urgent report, Chen Kai had already realized that the Qing army would need some time, at least until the Hongyi artillery was in place before launching an attack. This was the final time to prepare, and since this was the case, he immediately began to check the combat readiness of the first instance.

In the last confrontation, the consumption of gunpowder was extremely large, so Chen Kai made up his mind to set up a military production department outside the Ordnance Bureau, so as to get rid of Feng Xifan's constraints.

The establishment of the Chaozhou manure accumulation plant was accompanied by a turmoil, and Chen Kai had already issued an order for the official ships to prepare in the port.

"It's really a city of tens of thousands of people, which is indeed much higher than the amount of manure produced in a corner of South Australia, well, no, it is much higher than the amount of nitrate."

The production of nitrate requires nitrifying bacteria to transform, which undoubtedly takes time, but for now, the manure accumulation plant in Chaozhou has not had any problems in curbing production capacity due to the earlier technology accumulation on Nanao Island, and it is already on the right track, which is the best news.

The importance of saltpeter lies in the fact that it is one of the three major raw materials for the production of black powder, charcoal is easy to obtain, and sulfur is always the most desired by their Ming army. At this stage, their sulfur mainly comes from the sea trade - Japan and Taiwan, and the Zheng group has a relationship in both aspects, although they are also guarding against each other, but the Ming army is deeply involved in the war between the Qing army and the fate of the dynasty and the continuation of civilization, and it is powerless to pose much threat to them. In such a situation, there is no money to make bastards.

Gunpowder is still being produced at full capacity, not only in South Australia, but also in the center and left. Even because the Ming army's furious surge in the southern Fujian battlefield came to an end temporarily, the production capacity of the Ordnance Bureau had to be reluctantly tilted towards Chaozhou to a certain extent under the order of Zheng Chenggong.

The stockpile of gunpowder was gradually increasing, and the artillery needed to be used as long as there was enough for the fortress. Granulated gunpowder and fixed powder packets, these are the technical achievements he accumulated in the past few years, and now they have been widely accepted and used by this Ming army.

After reading the report in Chaozhou, Chen Kai took a boat to Nanao Island, exchanged views with Chen Bao, and then turned west, reaching Jieshiwei. Go to Lufeng Twin Fort via Jieshiwei.

If the Lufeng Twin Fortresses are the core of the Ming army's defense line in the east, west and south of Guangdong, then the Jieshi Acropolis is the material reserve and the stamina of the naval division. Chen Kai checked the stock here, and then rushed to the east bank of the Luo River, which was across the river from the fortress and connected by two pontoon bridges, where the Ming army had a large number of troops to deal with sudden changes, and even the training during this period was carried out.

In terms of drills, it is still the cavalry that each relies on its main generals, and Wang Qifeng's iron cavalry town is the earliest cavalry town established by the Ming army, and the combat experience of soldiers and generals is relatively rich. But at this moment, at a glance, it seems that Wang Qifeng's Iron Cavalry Town is still much inferior to Li Jianjie's subordinates.

On the school field, the soldiers of Hussar Town have already changed into the new military uniforms of the Ming Army, and the long and short weapons have basically been replaced with the standard equipment of the Ming Army. Like Chen Kai, although he doesn't understand cavalry, he has seen a lot, and even if he can't use some doorways, he can still see some clues.

Thinking about it carefully, it is normal, Li Jianjie's department is the elite under Li Chengdong, and it is very different from those cavalry under the command of Wang Qifeng who have only been in the army for a few years, and they are killed in the sea of corpses and blood in the north.

Cavalry requires a lot of experience and inspiration, and it's not something that can be learned just by looking at it. After a slight sweep of the training situation, Chen Kai left here and transferred to various towns to inspect one by one. It's just that the drills of each town have gone through several months, but they still seem uneven, not the queue of a single town is uneven, after a few months, one by one looks like the same, but if the towns are put together, there will always be a superiority in terms of superiority and inferiority.

"Perhaps, it is better to set up a special training organization than to let each town train its own like this."

After a round, it was already night. For the proficiency of the new tactics, the reinforcement of the Houzhen is naturally the first to be the first, among the other towns, the three towns of Zhongchong, Qianchong, and Houchong are better, especially Zhou Quanbin's Qianchong Town, and the three towns of Guarding are second, as for the Houjin Town, this time it has really become a backward advance, thinking that if it is Zheng Chenggong's temper, maybe he will take away Chen Bin's military power with "can't do it", and he has not done this kind of thing.

"It seems that once a field battle breaks out, more consideration will be given to the arrangement of formations and the order of sorties."

With the flickering candle flame, Chen Kai lay on the desk and looked at everything on the map carefully. He is already familiar with these, but the Qing army is about to attack again, and this battle that will surely become the decisive battle of the battlefield in eastern Guangdong this year is about to begin, and he can't help but feel worried about this, and then further estimate whether there are any fatal loopholes in it.

This kind of work has been repeated many times, and the deduction with the generals has also been carried out many times, and everything that can be conceived has been imagined as much as possible. After a month, time has quietly stepped on the line of Layue, relying on hauling all the way, the Qing army's Hongyi artillery finally moved back to Haifeng County from Guangzhou. And within a few days, along with the arrival of the Hongyi cannon, it was the army of the Jingnan Domain led by Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan.

"It seems that Arzin and Marashi are a little too busy, and probably won't come."

Once the Qing army arrived in Haifeng County, it was only a short rest, and Huang Yingjie, who was entrenched here, took the lead in marching eastward, arriving at the same camp where they had camped in the last attack on Lufeng Twin Fortresses. Even, while the camp was being built, according to the report of the Ming army Tanma, it seemed that they were also busy hauling those Hongyi cannons over, obviously to launch an offensive as soon as possible.

"It's almost the New Year, and the feudal soldiers are also going to celebrate the New Year."

Chen Kaiyan said that all the generals agreed with this. Looking at those old opponents at this moment, the confidence of the generals is much more than in the last encounter, and they are gearing up one by one. Especially Chen Kai, a hint of anticipation appeared on the corner of his mouth, and it flashed away.