When I got here, I had the experience of going out to fight with the "Nan" battalion and the "Ling" battalion in front, and Fan Li's military prestige was also erected, and there were a few battalions in the back that went out to fight, and the effect was not bad.

So when Fan Li found out that these people he had trained could not only fight, but also win battles, he was quite happy! Taking advantage of this momentum, Fan Liang recruited more than 5,000 people in one go, which is 20 battalions, a full 10,000 people!

But soon, Fan Li found out another thing, that is, when his good friend Zhong Yuan was resisting the rebel army in front, there was a problem: that is, he had a naval army for this group of rebels, but we didn't have it on our side! When you meet the opponent's water army, you can't help others. On the contrary, people take advantage of the turbulent river to go downstream, and you can go wherever you want, and you can't stop them at all!

So when the rebels fight you with the water army, they take bows and arrows on the boat and shoot at you "whoosh", you are a fixed target! But when you shoot at someone with a bow and arrow on the shore, they are a moving target and it is not easy to shoot, so it is a special loss to fight!

So Fan Li is very anxious, we are all landlubbers, when we fight on the shore, I am not afraid that there are more people on the rebel side. But now that the rebels are amphibious forces on their side, then I really can't move you!

What to do? Hurry up, I'll also organize a water army! However, it is not easier to organize a naval army than those soldiers recruited before, mainly because there are two difficulties: first, how do you recruit people? Where did you get the second money?

What is the difficulty in recruiting people? Recruiters don't have the strength to be on all fours like before, you have to be able to swim! You can swim again, you are brave, and you know the news of my recruitment, and you can still come to me, this number is far less than the number of troops recruited before! So people are not very easy to recruit!

Also, the court will issue an edict if it is fine, saying which piece is urgent again, and follow the holy decree to let your trained soldiers go to which piece! Therefore, although there are more than 10,000 soldiers trained in Fan Li's hands, he can't stand the fact that you give an order to get one or two thousand people today, and another order to get one or two thousand people tomorrow, and the speed of recruiting people will never be able to catch up with the speed of sending them to the front line! To put it mildly: the speed of life cannot keep up with the speed of death!

So sometimes when the emperor's order came down, Fan Li lied, pretending not to receive the order, thinking that the emperor could forget about it! It wasn't until the second and third times when the emperor urged the emperor to ask for someone that Fan Liang delayed again and again, and there was really no way to send people out

The second problem is to raise money, you still want to do things without money? That's impossible! Didn't you say it earlier, in order to get thousands of people, Fan Liang forced the prefect of Huizhou to move out the money for repairing the city wall! Now that you have expanded your enrollment to more than 10,000 people, 10,000 mouths are just eating and drinking every day, which is all white money!

What's wrong? Now you have to build a navy, which costs a lot more than an army. Not to mention the rest, just the silver to build the warship will have to be thrown into tens of thousands! Where do you ask the prefect of Huizhou to get you money? Even if you borrow from a loan shark, you have to have somewhere to borrow it! Looking for money from the imperial court, I'm sorry, the imperial court is also short of money now, if you look for someone in the local area to go, it's not like you're going back to a dead end!

So when it comes to money, it's more difficult for Fan Li! But it's hard, but you have to keep doing it! How to deal with it? He went to Zhang Liangqing and Gao Ji and said: I want money no matter what, the navy is not what I want to build, there is no way, so you have to find a way to raise money for me, otherwise I can't do it!

So everyone tried to find a way, and they reluctantly scraped together some money for Fan Li, although the money was still not enough, but they could only do it first! While recruiting people first, while thinking of ways to build ships, although it is difficult to recruit people, but the procedure is not complicated, that is, to post the notice, pass the news, and write down the salary, benefits and requirements clearly, just wait for people to come!

But shipbuilding is different, it's a technical job, who can build ships? Where to find someone who knows how to build a ship in the short term? None will!

So Zhong Yuan was in a hurry to fight with the rebel army's navy, saying that the other party's people passed in front of my eyes, and by the way, they also shot and injured many of our brothers, so I could only stare at the shore and couldn't stop it! Even if you stop a boat, don't you stop it all in the back!

As a result, he had to figure out his own way, and Zhong Yuan took a group of generals to study there all day. What are you cutting down trees, building rafts, blocking the river, setting up cannons on the shore, and waiting for the opponent's navy to come, I will bombard! It's a very good idea, and it's done the same, and it's okay to try it! As a result, it's too slow! When you've built this thing, the thief ship won't come! I'm not going to walk away from you, okay?

So the rebel army is not easy to stop under normal circumstances, Zhong Yuan wrote these situations to Fan Li, Fan Li also took this into account, saying that I can't defend this tower alone, I have to attack forward, how to attack? Still have to build a ship!

The question is how? Fan Li also followed his subordinates to study there all day and night, saying that my boat was single-plank, double-sided, or had an oar or something, so I had to try it myself.

Fan Li also personally participated in the experiment to see if these rafts and boats were good? Anyway, it's just a little bit of groping, because no one can build it, and no one can build a warship in such a short time!

Later, Fan Li's experiments all failed, it really didn't work, and he was still in a hurry, what should I do? If you don't have a move, you have to buy civilian ships at a high price, and then transform them into military ships, and then transform some of them into gunboats, so as to meet the current emergency!

Of course, although this is a busy mess, Fan Li did not forget to ask for more instructions, report frequently, and write an excerpt to the emperor if he has nothing to do, report his work, talk about what he is doing, and say that now the urgent war is over, but I want to take precautions, and ask the emperor to allow me to prepare the warship, so that we can stop the thief ship on the Kuojiang River, I will do this in Huizhou now, if it happens, I will immediately work overtime to do it, and do a special job!

After the emperor got the excerpt written by Fan Li, he also felt that Fan Liang was right, so he replied and said: What you are worried about is very much, you can consider the urgency, it is commendable, admire!

What does it mean? That is to say, Fan Li, you are right, you can think of which one to do first and which one to do later, very good, do it! This is a batch down.