The horse galloped quickly, and a few days later, Li Dingguo and Lin Jiading, who were far away in Hanzhong, also received military orders.

"Haha, good, 30,000 firearms soldiers, more than 10,000 war horses and 10,000 war cattle." Although there were 20,000 fewer people, Lin Jiading still couldn't help but be overjoyed. The power of firearms soldiers is not comparable to that of armor, and there are more than half of the valuable war horses and cattle.

Li Dingguo also received the military order at the same time, and then he immediately called the generals.

Now most of the 110,000 Hanxi troops are in Hanzhong, and the 200,000 troops have now lost nearly half.

As soon as the generals came, Li Dingguo read out the report of the annual meeting of the Han army.

"The Yanhuang Empire began to reorganize, three pro-army 60,000 cavalry, of which 20,000 were firearms, and a forbidden army of 40,000 cavalry plus 10,000 firearms. The remaining ten main armies were no longer expanded, and only three divisions of 60,000 men were retained in the reorganization. Among them, 20,000 were armor soldiers, 30,000 were firearms, 10,000 cavalry, 13,000 war horses, and 10,000 war cattle. ”

"Then the commander, can our Western Army also be reorganized?" Although the Great Western Army was numerous, it had low combat effectiveness.

All the generals were very envious of the equipment configuration of the Han army, and the strength of the Eighth Han Army also let them know that the soldiers were fine but not many.

Li Dingguo nodded: "We will also be reorganized, and the rest will belong to the City Guard, and will no longer belong to the Western Army in the future." ”

"It's handsome." All the generals have no opinion, but look forward to it more!

Vice Marshal Lu couldn't help but ask: "Dashuai, is our firearm Chongzhen 19 style or Chongzhen 17 style?" ”

It's only two years away, but it's twice as powerful. Type 19 is rifled with yellow explosives, while Type 17 is just smoothbore, and black powder!

Li Dingguo glanced at the military newspaper and nodded affirmatively: "It's all the same, our equipment will be on par with the main forces!" ”

"Okay, that's good!" Lu Qingyan couldn't help laughing, and he was also very hot from the dozens of field guns of the Eighth Army of the Han Dynasty.

Guangzhou, Yanhuang 02 (1648).

Time is always in a hurry, and as soon as the Lantern Festival passes, Chen Xiong also begins to get busy.

As soon as the spring rain passes, there will be three more months for him to go north. After the war, he could only brave the spring rain and travel all over the two Guangzhou Prefectures to cast spirit seeds.

The whole of Lingnan is preparing for an army of nearly one million, which also makes it possible to have a huge shortage of food in the future. In order to maintain grain stability, Chen Xiong can only increase planting.

The three armies did not move the grain and grass first, and hundreds of thousands of cattle and horses alone also needed a lot of miscellaneous grains. There is no time to graze on the battlefield, so the food needs of cattle and horses are also unusually large.

After that, Chen Xiong also had to go north and plant grain again, which was enough to maintain the empire's grain stocks.

Guangzhou Outer Wharf, 20 kilometers away from Dongcheng, is the largest maritime trade wharf in the whole Guangzhou Bay. At the same time, it is also the location of the new shipyard, and today the dock is full of solemnity.

"That's a lot of cavalry, isn't it a shipyard over there?" The merchants on the dock are puzzled, isn't it just a shipyard!

"It's going to take thousands of cavalry! And they're all the strongest lancers in the Empire! ”

Boom~~ Suddenly the sound of horses' hooves came out, and a group of cavalry rushed over.

Bell bell ~~ "The emperor travels, and the carriages and horses suspend traveling." ”

Bell bell ~ Gong shouting at all intersections, and everyone understands now.

"It turns out that the Emperor is coming!"

"Okay, let's go have a cup of tea, and the emperor is not in a hurry to travel for another while."

Boom ~ A thousand cavalry rushed first, and then several four-wheeled carriages also appeared on the cement avenue.

The blue, red, black, heaven, earth and people tricolor flag fluttered high, one side was two golden words: Yan Huang, and the other side was no longer Chen but two golden words: Empire.

The two golden characters of empire are exclusive to the emperor, while the word Chen is used by the people of the royal family.

The carriage was followed by two thousand cavalry, who followed not far from the dirt roads on both sides of the cement avenue.

Tens of thousands of cavalry guards, this is not Chen Xiong's cowardice, nor is it a fork. But there were not only three emperors and queens and three princes and princesses on the carriage, but the rest of the carriages were all five chiefs and family children, and even the queen of Goryeo also traveled together.

"Mother, this is going there, haven't you arrived yet?" The three-year-old little prince Chen Jiu'an, his spoken language is already very clear. Or maybe it's because Chen Xiong has been optimized, the eldest prince and the eldest princess are much stronger than ordinary people.

Touching her son's hair, Aimin smiled and said, "Ao'er has arrived, and we will go out to sea with my father to fish and grill fish to eat!" ”

"Erniang, I want to eat it too!" Chen Yi, the princess of the snack goods, immediately swallowed her saliva!

Xinna immediately frowned: "Xiao barley doesn't eat much, you see you're fat!" ”

Hey! Chen Xiong couldn't help but laugh secretly, maybe his genes are powerful, his children are not thin, and he can eat and sleep very much!

The eldest son, Chen Jiuyan, is the name taken by Chen Xiong himself, he doesn't need his son to be so eloquent, but he must live for a long time in the entire empire. For the eldest daughter, he hopes that his daughter will have an independent personality and soul, but a puppet of fame, fortune, and vanity and social consciousness.

"Husband, do you think Xiaobao will get seasick?" Changping said worriedly?

Chen Xiong shook his head and said softly: "Don't worry, this boat is relatively stable, and it should be fine without sails rocking on the boat." ”

Hoo~~ At this time, the carriage also slowly stopped.

"The lord has arrived." The Guard Coachman shouted!

"It's here, let's go down!" As soon as the car door opened, Chen Xiong got out of the car with his two children in his arms.

Seeing the carriage stop, Li Ke immediately came over to salute: "Lord! ”

"Meet the Lord!"

Everyone saluted Chen Xiong and hurriedly spoke: "Today is a private trip, so you don't need to be too polite." ”

"The main steamer has been inspected and is ready to board." Li Ke personally checked it, and asked people to start it, and he was relieved that everything was fine.

At this time, the chief and the family also got out of the carriage and walked over.

They had never seen a big black boat on the dock, and Wu Jiu couldn't help but say, "Lord, this ship really doesn't need sails?" ”

He knew the steam engine, but this ship was nearly 100 meters long and could transport 2,000 tons of cargo, which required a lot of strength to propel.

"General Politics, let's get on the boat first, and you'll know in a moment!" This is not the first steam-powered ship, but it is the largest steam-powered ship, and it is an alloy ironclad ship with steel as the bone and steel plate as the skin.

Everyone was curious to walk up to the big ship, this is a gunboat, but many equipment such as artillery are not installed.

Boom~~ The boiler roared, and the smoke came out one after another.

Chen Xiong looked around, and sure enough, he couldn't see the paddle wheel, and the propeller had been transformed and hidden underwater. For this propeller, hundreds of people in the Ministry of Science and Industry barely completed it in a year.

Chen Xiong stepped on the deck hard, and the solid steel plate echoed powerfully!

"Well, it seems that you are also very attentive!" Compared with the previous failures, Chen Xiong was still satisfied with the ship in general.

Woo~Woo~~ As soon as the whistle sounded, the ironclad steamer also started slowly.

Boom boom boom ~ ~ The steam system shouted even more enthusiastically.

In the warm cabins, the sailors were naked.

"Well, that's good!" Chen Xiong praises again!

"The lord has won the award!" Li Ke smiled and nodded, this is the most perfect product of their Academy of Engineering.

"Well, okay, let's go to the deck!" In fact, Chen Xiong was not very satisfied, for example, this speed was still not fast enough, he estimated that it would be more than 20 kilometers per hour at most! Also, the boiler system is not perfect, too much water vapor is wasted, and the transmission system is not accurate enough, and the noise of the whole boiler system is too loud!

But looking at their proud and happy expressions, he was embarrassed to say it!

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