The war against bandits is gradually deepening.

On the northern front, Ma Jinxi and Chen Ergou also clashed with the horse thief army many times, but they fought very conservatively and carried out many trial and error, because the terrain of the Sanshan Qizhai control area was more complex and the horse thief army was too mobile, so they never ventured.

Relying on the propaganda and mobilization work of Di Yong's two battalions among the herdsmen in the west, after many confrontations and trial and error in the northern front theater, Ma Jinxi felt that the environment for letting go of the war was gradually maturing, and more and more herdsmen were participating.

The herdsmen will reveal the specific environmental deployment of the three mountains and seven villages, and will also ventilate and report the location of the cavalry team of the horse thief army they have seen.

Chen Ergou has no heart and lungs, and this war Ergou and Ma Jinxi are on the same level. But Ergou is trained by old horses, so most of them listen to old horses.

When he learned of the battle situation on the southern front, the whole Berlin had gone deep into the hinterland of the horse thief occupation area, and Zhanzhao was scolded for his defeat, so far, the witty old horse already knows how to fight the next battle, which obviously means that the big demon king recognizes Lao Quan's tactics more.

So Ma Jinxi asked Chen Ergou's whole battalion to keep moving, learn from the whole Berlin to go deep into the hinterland, the principle is not to fight easily, cooperate with the information provided by the herdsmen, if you encounter a small group of horse thieves and reach a three-to-one force, you will have no brains to eat, otherwise you will rely on the range of the flintlock pistol to fly a kite and keep the war horse maneuvering. In addition, it is not allowed to easily attack the city, it is not yet that time.

As for the headquarters of Ma Jinxi, they learned from the Zhanzhao Department to be in the Ming Division, attracting the horse thief army to attack, stretching the battle line of the horse thief army as much as possible, and giving the two mobile battalions in the hinterland greater depth.

For the time being, this was the situation in the early days of the war against bandits. Due to the defeat of the Zhanzhao Division, the Funing Army has no results for the time being, and it is considered to be at a disadvantage, quite weak and passive. Moreover, the strength of the six battalions was not fully invested, because Di Yong's two battalions engaged in the routine of mobilizing the herdsmen in the west are also gradually deepening......

During this period, Funing County was fine as the front line, but in the Suide Military District, those Xiucai Pill Party Shock Party had appeared very neatly and unified.

"This time, Da Song is afraid to become the biggest loser!"

"Shocked! Wang Yan, who claims to have the flintlock pistol, an artifact of war, lost? ”

"Pills! The little kid has opened a war that he can't win. ”

In general, Suide County's forums are full of such headlines.

Of course, there are a few brainless and angry youths, and there are not many such people in culture, but they still write tabloids:

"The Great Demon King said a word, Xixia didn't dare to move, and the Xiangyou Military Division was so frightened that he retreated thirty miles!"

Yelu Hongji exclaimed that the Song Kingdom was invincible, because the flintlock pistol with a range of 2,000 steps had been secretly trial-produced!

"Awesome! A breakthrough has been made in the key technology of the 400-horsepower steam engine! ”

Khan, such stall literature is not very bad, and some of the people in the northwest who are not too bad also love to buy it.

As for the profiteer group, they have no heart and lungs, and they pay attention to policies all day long, so the sales of "Funing Industrial Development News" are very large. Because this is the official newspaper of Funing County's propaganda mouth, many policy tendencies can be revealed from it. Therefore, profiteers like to pay attention to the industrial development newspaper the most, in order to determine the next investment direction, and they think it is most comfortable to follow the east wind to make money.

For example, in the early stage, I saw the clues from the industrial development newspaper, and the people who knew that the Fusui section of the railway must be repaired had already taken action, organized materials, organized manpower, won many orders from the Northwest Investment Bank, and became Ye Wushuang's small supplier group.

In fact, there are many opportunities like this, and they can generally be seen in the industrial development newspaper.

“……”

Now Wang Yan, who is grounded and can't go out to cause trouble, can only read this kind of stall all day long.

Are they that powerful? If so, why didn't I, the founder, know that a flintlock pistol could shoot 2,000 steps?

The current 60 horsepower of the steam engine is basically the end of the existing process. It is indeed a great improvement from the more than 30 horsepower of the first machine, and the volume and weight of the unit have also been reduced by nearly 30%.

But this design has really reached the end of the tunnel, and it is difficult to make a big improvement. For the time being, the machines used to supply Ye Qinghua and Funing County's own machines, just like Intel, which dug the core architecture to the end in later generations, are just making small repairs, commonly known as squeezing toothpaste.

The new generation architecture has indeed been prepared to be designed, but there are pros and cons in the various alternative schemes, and Wang Yan really doesn't know what the future steam engine should look like, so he can't quickly determine the plan.

Some solutions have a very high starting point, and there can be subversive breakthroughs in thermal efficiency, but it is too difficult to limit the materials and current process technology. Lao Luo's father said that there is no problem in making it, it is nothing more than a matter of yield and cost.

Abandoning the existing machine tools, production lines, apprentices, and all the top craftsmen can indeed build a machine with a high starting point plan, but the production efficiency is too low, if the yield rate cannot be raised, for example, even if the master makes a move, there is a situation that eight out of ten parts cannot be used, then such a machine is good, and even the Ye family can't afford to use it.

Therefore, Xu Langshan and some others wanted to make big news and go directly to high-tech projects, but Lu Huiqing was afraid that the steps would be too big, so he did not approve the plan for a high starting point.

The design of the new generation of steam engine architecture is imperative, those stall literature is not all bragging, if Xu Langshan supports the high-precision scheme, it is indeed possible to achieve 400 horsepower of the two-belt steam engine.

But the cautious Lu Huiqing weighed it and thought: It is better to lower the starting point in a solid manner. In this regard, Lu Huiqing also came to consult Wang Yan, who was studying behind closed doors.

Wang Yan's brain was not sick, and he was not brainwashed by the angry stall literature, and after careful weighing, he suggested that a third set of plans be designed, that is, the most backward but the most mature set of plans.

This new structure is the least technically difficult and can also be done by upgrading existing production lines and relying on existing workers. It's just that it's a little "poor", because the first machine that started with this new architecture is estimated to not even be able to beat the magic modification of the current first-generation machine. The requirements for the design of the second-generation steam engine were only fifty horsepower.

However, it can be made smaller, and production costs will be reduced quickly, and when the next generation of architecture is dug to the end, it is completely safe to reach more than 100 horsepower.

Did he make this decision, Wang Yan knew that he would definitely be despised and poked in the backbone by the Angry Youth Party. The situation that will arise can be thought of now, just like the self-built aircraft carrier of the Turkish Communist Party in later generations, when everyone learned that it was not nuclear power, not electric propulsion, not electric bomb, it was very discouraged and hated iron and steel.

However, there is no way, Wang Yan knows that Xu Langshan and Lao Luo Dad and others are not Long Aotian, there has to be a process for these, and they must come slowly, otherwise it will be a great success.

In this way, when Wang Yan was under house arrest, Funing County was in full swing of war, and Wang Yan, who watched a large number of stalls, finalized the plan for the second-generation steam mechanism.

Little Bell and Little Wendan think he is a great man who can afford to put it down!

At such times, he could read quietly, and sometimes he would be sprayed by the contents of the stalls, or he would smile and clutch his stomach. can also objectively and seriously analyze the various technical solutions of the steam engine, and when he sees the casualty report sent by Lu County Lord about the border people and Funing County, sometimes the big demon king's eyes are red, and sometimes he will laugh and scold.

Because of this, Lu Huiqing and Mu Guiying did not dare to let him out, they were really afraid that he would kill the wrong general, and they were also afraid that he would fool himself, so they ran to the front line to command him personally.

Therefore, Mu Guiying and Lu Huiqing did not dare to let him out, but also did not dare to let him contact people. Because the two of them know very well that as long as the words of the Great Demon King can be spread out of the county government, the people of the whole county will come to "King Qin", and everything will be out of control in that case.

These are the daily lives of the big duck during the war in the eyes of the little bell.

Lu Huiqing is very sure in private that once this battle is won, the Great Demon King's road to green clouds will officially begin, and it will never be easily denied. No matter who the future emperor and prime minister is, it will not affect the Great Demon King to become the first soul figure in the Northwest, so as long as Western Xia exists for one day, the political life of the Great Demon King will not be over. It really doesn't necessarily need to rely on the emperor's favor, and it doesn't necessarily need the banner of Wang Anshi.

Because the Great Demon King itself is a banner, a faith. It is undeniable that in this war that belongs to Funing County, his royal spirit has leaked, that is, the legendary leader temperament......

Capital.

As an invincible commander on the battlefield, Di Qing felt that Wang Yan's character was very problematic, in addition to obscenity, he also had stubbornness and persistence. This is not bad for a politician with civilian status, but as the decision-maker of a war, Di Qing sweated for the war that Wang Yan started in Funing County.

What the Northwest is like, but anyone who has been in that quagmire knows it. The results of Wang Yan's diplomacy have not yet been clarified, and the trade routes in the Golden Triangle region not only involve many interest groups within the Song State, but also involve the interests of the Western Xia border army.

So as an existence that was scared to death in history, Di Qing, who was very worried about Wang Yan, was very worried about Wang Yan.

Di Qing felt that in this way, it was only a matter of time before the Western Xia, which had obviously withdrawn its troops, regained its troops in the Western Territory. It depends on how fast Wang Yan fought this campaign against bandits.

If it is delayed until the Western Xia border army advances to Yongle City again, then because of the vital interests involved, even if the Xiangyou Military Division does not have the authorization of the Western Xia court to start a war, it is likely to be mixed in one area and misfired.

Whether the Western Xia will re-use the confrontation to deter at this time, Di Qing can't say this, but the political pressure on this campaign is far greater than the military pressure, even if the Western Xia border army does nothing, it is estimated that the Western Xia's national letter will soon arrive in Bianjing for diplomatic intervention.

Di Qing knows better than anyone that there are many battlefield commanders in history who are not necessarily lost at the hands of the enemy, but are tied by their own people. That's politics.

Aside from the above, Wang Yan's combat method also made Di Qing completely incomprehensible, if he decided to use the opportunity to fight a battle against bandits, it should be very fast and accurate, without declaring war or coercion, he took the elite cavalry to advance and shockingly pulled out two to three strongholds in Sanshan and Seven Villages, and obtained morale and the tactical form of dominating the world, and the later battle would be easy to fight.

However, Wang Yan's tactics this time were obviously very different from his army in Shuzhou, which was actually mobilized as a national war, an ultimatum within a time limit, and he also killed other people's negotiators. This is completely equivalent to hardening the whole, giving the horse thieves in the three mountains and seven villages time to prepare, and also uniting the horse thieves tightly.

This is Di Qing's doubt, because he can't understand Wang Yan's final strategic intentions, he can't understand Wang Yan's local tactics.

In short, the situation is not good, the military report received by the capital shows that the Funing army has not obtained the results for a long time, but has a report of five battles and five defeats of the Zhanzhao Division, and after the loss of the army, the Zhanzhao Division retreated to the front line of the Yulin River Estuary from the new.

In this regard, Di Qing did not dare to say that the Funing army could not win, but knew that Wang Yan was about to flood politically......