Soon, the sentry rider with a happy face brought the news that Liu Guoneng's ministry was indeed going to be surrendered. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info facing Monk An who was laughing out loud, Liu Guoneng looked ashamed.

"General An, Liu is late anyway, I hope the general will forgive me!"

Liu Guoneng knelt on the ground and bowed his hands, and behind him, Dong Guoying led a group of rogues and knelt down in the dark.

"General Liu, please get up quickly."

Monk An helped him up with a smile on his face: "Your department can be corrected in time, so as to avoid a good sword fight, it is really a great achievement." And go back to the camp with me, today our brothers are open to drink, and we will definitely drink to the death! ”

The two laughed, and then, Liu Guoneng ordered all the rogues to unload their armor and weapons, hand them over to the Ming army, and then follow Monk An back to the dock fort where they were stationed.

After returning to Wubao, Monk An arranged a banquet and warmly entertained Liu Guoneng and his party.

Liu Guoneng, Dong Guoying and a group of rogues saw Monk An Hu Shangwen and others treating each other so warmly, and their hearts were extremely moved, and the guests and hosts became more and more happy and harmonious.

During the banquet, Liu Guoneng took advantage of his drunkenness and asked Monk An: "Brother An, but I don't know, how does your lord Li Xiao treat people?" ”

Monk An, who was already drunk, saw Liu Guoneng asking such a question, so he smiled and said: "General Liu, let me tell you the truth, you don't go to the Ming army of other departments, but you can come to our department, which is really a very smart move." You ask me how my family Lord Li is, and I will tell you the truth, this Lord Li, who was named Chi Fengbo at a young age, is really a leader among people, the pillar of the country, and knows people very clearly, and the energy is used, it is really a blessing for you and me to meet such a boss. In a word, as long as you have martial arts, ability, and can work for it with peace of mind, Lord Li will definitely reuse you. ”

Liu Guoneng sighed, and his eyes were full of hope.

After resting for a few days, Monk An ordered a sentry to send Liu Guoneng to Shandong.

And when Liu Guoneng and others went to Shandong, Mo Changrong's department in Shaanxi had just surrendered Li Wanqing's department, which had fled Shanxi.

It turned out that after Li Wanqing's troops were defeated by Cao Bianjiao and He Renlong in Shaanxi, he led more than 2,000 troops and more than 1,000 remnant family members to flee to Shanxi, and has been surviving in the Linjin area.

After a period of time, the news that Mo Changrong's troops in Haoyang, Shaanxi Province were wantonly recruiting displaced people reached Li Wanqing's ears through the remnants of Zhang Miao's cavalry after fleeing before the battle that day.

"Hmph, Zhang Miaoshou is really greedy and not enough to swallow the elephant, he is a remnant of the army, and he wants to play tricks to seize Haoyang City, he really can't do it, he can be regarded as killing himself."

Li Wanqing, who had a fierce face and a strong figure, listened to the reports of these cavalry of the original Zhang Miao's hands, and said with a sneer.

Then, Li Wanbed's eyes flashed, and he said in a low voice: "However, Zhang Miaoshou's trick of selling himself to the Ming army is not bad." Now, the whole army will go to Haoyang with Ben Shuai and sell himself at a good price! ”

A day later, Li Wanqing led his troops across the Yellow River and came to the city of Haoyang.

Li Wanqing immediately ordered the whole army to abandon their arms in order to show their sincerity to Mo Changrong and others in the city.

and sent someone to shout, hoping to get the same money as Zhang Miaoshou to buy people, so he could let Mo Changrong and others arrange it.

Mo Changrong laughed, and then agreed, and after paying eight thousand taels worth of cigarettes and cloth, he successfully surrendered Li Wanqing's department.

Two days later, Mo Changrong sent someone to send Li Wanqing and others to Shandong.

At the end of October of the tenth year of Chongzhen, Liu Guoneng and Li Wanqing had arrived in Shandong.

Seeing that these two famous generals in history are now coming to serve themselves, Li Xiao was overjoyed, and gave another reward to the two who took the initiative to surrender, so that the two of them were sincerely grateful.

Li Xiao knew that these two people, in real history, after surrendering to the Ming army, were different from the rogues such as Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai who surrendered repeatedly, they had always been loyal to the Ming court, quite reliable, and finally loyal to the Ming Dynasty.

Like in history, when Liu Guoneng surrendered to Xiong Wencan, he bowed down and said: "The foolish people fell into injustice, and the Mengming Mansion was reborn. ”

For such a person who is essentially loyal and reliable, Li Xiao, who knows the history of the Ming Dynasty, naturally has to vigorously recruit him.

Up to now, Li Xiao's plan to buy people has been implemented for four months, and on average, nearly 80,000 captives and displaced people can be collected from Shandong and Shaanxi every month, and in addition to Xu Xiuqing and other civil officials in Henan, Beizhili, and Shandong, they can receive 20,000 displaced people per month, so that on average, Li Xiaojun can collect 100,000 prisoners and displaced people every month.

In the past three months, 400,000 people have been taken under Li Xiao's command.

On the basis of sufficient manpower, Li Xiao decided to start his own plan to expand the army.

The focus of this military expansion is Taiwan's dispatch of troops.

Li Xiao expanded the Taiwan Dispatch Army, which originally consisted of only 3,000 men, into the Pingnan Battalion, which was the same size as the Chifeng Battalion.

In this way, the Pingnan battalion has three generals, that is, nine sentinels of soldiers and horses, with a sentry of 5 teams of shield soldiers, 10 teams of spearmen, a total of 45 teams of shield soldiers, 90 teams of spearmen, and a horizontal sentry, Xuanhu heavy cavalry sentry, flying harrier sentry and so on are exactly the same as the Chifeng battalion.

However, in addition to these standard configurations, Li Xiao also equipped the Pingnan battalion with 1,000 auxiliaries and 600 Manchurian infantry posts.

Li Xiao asked them to still wear the armor of the Zhenghuang Banner, and like the rampant sentry, everyone was armed with combat weapons such as tiger knives, tiger guns, long-handled knives, and heavy military sickles, hoping that they could be the same as the rampant sentry, and have the impact force to change the situation of the battle since they were caught in a hard battle.

Li Xiao considered that the Pingnan battalion stationed in Taiwan would have to fight in hot and humid terrain in the future, and in such an environment, the cavalry had Xuanhu heavy cavalry and flying harriers, which was actually sufficient, but on the contrary, there was a greater demand for infantry, so Li Xiao decided to equip the 600 Manchurian Zhenghuang Banner auxiliaries in Jintang City into infantry sentinels.

In this way, in Li Xiao's Pingnan battalion, there were 4,590 shield soldiers, 9,180 spearmen, 600 rampant soldiers, 600 Xuanhu heavy cavalry, 600 flying harriers, 600 Manchurian infantry, and 1,000 auxiliary soldiers.

The total number of troops reached 17,170 people.

However, even if the soldiers and horses of the Pingnan battalion were assembled into a powerful military force of nearly 20,000, Li Xiao was not satisfied.

He decided to equip this unit with powerful firearms equipped with new-style dragon guns, so that the Pingnan battalion stationed in Taiwan would become a fierce tiger that was quite sharp and terrifying, armed to the teeth, both offensively and defensively.

After all, Li Xiao's ambition is not only to swallow the entire island of Taiwan, but also to the broader Luzon Islands in the future.

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At present, in the Iron Dragon City Artillery Factory, the iron mold casting cannon technology is still being developed, and the clay mold casting cannon technology being used can basically reach the speed of an average of two heavy dragon guns per month.

Up to now, 8 heavy dragon guns weighing 2,500 kg and can fire 32 kg of iron bullets have been produced, plus 6 medium dragon guns that can fire 18 kg of iron bullets, and 4 light dragon guns that can fire 8 kg of bullets, a total of 18 dragon guns have been produced, which are equipped in the firearms post of the Pingnan battalion.

For these artillery, Li Xiao formed a firearms unit of 1 to a total of 200 people according to the establishment of 8 gunners for heavy dragon guns, 6 gunners for medium dragon guns, and 4 gunners for light dragon guns, as well as some reserve gunners.

Then next month, when Li Xiao leads his army to set off on the southern expedition, there will be two more heavy dragon bombarders, and the number of artillery pieces should reach 20.

With these 20 new-type dragon guns, Li Xiao is sure that whether it is Spain's Santo Domingo City in Taipei, or the Dutch City of Chichi or Gelanjia City in Tainan, they will all be quickly wiped out under the powerful blow of such artillery.

Next, Li Xiao began to appoint personnel appointments to the Pingnan battalion.

The commander of the Pingnan Battalion is Li Dingguo, the former commander-in-chief of the Taiwan Dispatch Army.

The deputy commander of the Pingnan Battalion is Luo Zheng, the former deputy commander-in-chief of the Taiwan Dispatch Army.

In addition, other commanders, sentry commanders, and the like are all arranged, and they are basically selected from among the outstanding officers in the Chifeng Battalion.

Among them, Li Wanqing, the leader of the Liukou who had just surrendered, was appointed as the deputy head of the Pingnan Battalion A General Outpost.

Although this person was a rogue who had just surrendered, Li Xiao valued this person's long-term experience in leading troops to fight, so he appointed him to this official position, hoping to make full use of Li Wanqing's military talent.

This deputy sentry commander is only the starting level of Li Wanqing, if he undergoes further brainwashing and education, and performs well in future battles, Li Xiao will be promoted again to more prominent military positions such as sentry commander and chief commander.

When arranging Liu Guoneng, Li Xiao's line of thought was also reflected.

Liu Guoneng, who broke into the sky, took over the post of chief of Chifeng Battalion A and B after going to Pingnan Camp to serve as the deputy chief of General C.

Li Xiao hoped that such a means could be used to motivate them to continue to fight for their own loyalty and become the backbone of the Tiger Army after changing their courts.

And Liu Guoneng's lieutenant Dong Guoying was sent to Jeju Island to garrison the army as a spear captain.

Liu Guoneng and Li Wanqing were very happy that they had just surrendered and were entrusted with important tasks, and they both loudly expressed their allegiance to Li Xiao.

After the establishment of the Pingnan battalion and the generals of the army had been arranged, Li Xiao immediately wrote to Zheng Zhilong in Penghu, asking him to bring at least 100 large ships to Dengzhou Port to receive the hundreds of thousands of displaced people collected by Li Xiao and go to Taiwan.

Li Xiao is actually quite powerful now.

He owned a total of 16 ships captured from the Dutch and 44 ships captured from the former Dongjiang Town Naval Division, a total of 60 large and small ships.

Originally, Li Xiao wanted to transport the displaced people and the army with his own strength alone, but after thinking about it for a long time, he decided to borrow a boat from Zheng Zhilong again to transport military and civilian goods.

Because after the arrival of Zheng Zhilong's fleet next month, Li Xiao has a total of more than 500,000 displaced people and nearly 15,000 soldiers and horses from the Nanying to transport, and a large number of commercial goods, ordnance, grain and grass, and all kinds of daily necessities will be sent to ship for shipment.

In addition, because Li Xiao also occupies Jeju Island, the land between Jeju Island and Shandong also needs a large number of ships to transport commercial goods back and forth, as well as to facilitate the military and civilian exchanges between the two places, so that Li Xiao can use fewer ships.

Moreover, if the number of ships were too small and the ships were to be overcrowded, the sanitary conditions on board would immediately become extremely bad, and it would be likely that all kinds of diseases would be caused during the nearly month-long voyage to the sea, and if a vicious plague broke out on such a closed ship, it was estimated that the whole ship would be destroyed.

Therefore, in order to provide a relatively relaxed and comfortable environment for the displaced people and the soldiers, Li Xiao still decided to transport as many displaced people as possible to Taiwan safely and healthily, regardless of the cost of silver.

A month later, when Li Xiao's Dengzhou City was finally successfully completed, Zheng Zhilong sent his younger brothers Zheng Zhifeng and Zheng Cai to lead a fleet of 150 large ships to Dengzhou, and all the ships were anchored in the water city temporarily.

Seeing the wide Dengzhou Water City in front of them and the majestic Dengzhou Outer City in front of them, Zheng Zhifeng and Zheng Cai suddenly had an eye-opening feeling.

"Second leader, you see, this water city is so big, I'm afraid it can stop at least five or six hundred ships of thousands of materials."

Zheng Cai looked at the wide and deep water city, and couldn't help but sigh.

"Alas, I didn't expect that this Lord Li could build this originally dilapidated Dengzhou into such a magnificent and magnificent state, which really impressed Zheng. In my opinion, the scale of this Dengzhou Water City is even comparable to our Penghu Port. ”

Zheng Zhifeng was amazed and very emotional.

When the two of them came ashore, Chen Zilong took several civil officials to welcome them into the outer city from the north gate.

Along the way, the two took a good look at the newly expanded Dengzhou outer city.

They saw that the entire outer city of Dengzhou was extremely vast, and the preliminary estimate was that the circumference was about 20 miles, but it could be compared with the provincial city of Jinan.

The four city walls are all designed as huge city walls with a width of 6 meters and a height of 15 meters.

And except for the north gate leading to the northern water, the urn city was built outside the city gate.

On the city wall, such as pheasant moats, female walls, corner towers, fort towers, sheep and horse walls, forts, perforations and other defensive measures, are all built according to the system to ensure the defensive ability of the city wall.

And the outside of the whole Dengzhou City, outside the east, south, west and three city walls, there are moats, because the whole Dengzhou City presents a trend of high in the south and low in the north, just use the Huangshui River in the east of Dengzhou City and the Pingchang River in the south, introduce river water from it, and fill it in the moat, so that it passes around the city and flows into the sea of the water city.

The two of them admired again and again, and when they passed through the city gate and moon road, they saw that the city gate of Dengzhou was no different from the ordinary city gate on the outside, but the inside was designed to hide the way of the jack pendant, this extremely delicate and very expensive mechanism, when defending the city, it can be quite effective in blocking the enemy army inside and outside, so as to facilitate its division and destruction.

Entering the inner city of Dengzhou, the two saw that the structure of the inner city of Dengzhou was the same as that of Chifeng City, planning four central avenues, and planning the entire city into four regions: northeast, northwest, southwest, and southeast.

Among them, the northeast and northwest districts are used by Li Xiaojun's sailors, of which the northwest district is the sailor's camp, and the northeast area is a very eye-catching large shipyard.

In the southwest area, all kinds of barracks such as barracks, stables, school yards, and arsenals have been built, and a large number of soldiers of the Tigers are shouting and drilling.

In the entire southeast area, there are weapons depots, armor depots, gunpowder depots and giant granaries, looking at these warehouses with tall appearances and closed doors, Zheng Zhifeng secretly said in his heart, this Li Xiao has such a large amount of reserves, if he guards the city, I am afraid that it will be no problem to defend it for a few years.

After Chen Zilong accompanied the two of them around the outer city, he took them into the core area of Li Xiaojun, the inner city of Dengzhou.

This is an inner city with a circumference of 2 miles, and the city walls are the same size as the outer city, and there are also various defensive measures, and then in the inner city, there are important institutions such as Li Xiao's mansion, various government offices, and silver treasury.

The two saw that there were many officials in different clothes, shuttling through the inner city, doing things in a hurry.

"Zheng now knows that this Dengzhou City has been designed by Master Li as an amphibious military city, but it is different from the Chifeng City that is purely for business and trade." Zheng Zhifeng said with a sigh to Zheng Cai. Just when the two of them were sighing, Li Xiao had already walked out of the mansion with a smile and a smile with a few relatives. Seeing Li Xiaoxing, who was wearing a python robe and jade belt, approached, Zheng Zhifeng and Zheng Cai hurriedly knelt down and saluted. "You don't have to be polite, please get up quickly." Li Xiaoxu helped the two of them up, smiled and made a welcoming gesture. "The two of you have come thousands of miles away, it is very hard, Ben Bo has prepared a thin banquet, please follow Ben Bo to the table quickly, but today you are not drunk."