Shi Quan walked forward while looking through the binoculars, and unconsciously walked to the edge of the pit where the original person smashed the iron plate test, one did not see clearly, and one fell into the pit, everyone hurriedly stepped forward and pulled him up, fortunately, it was only stained with some sand, and there was no broken flesh and bleeding on the body. Seeing that Shi Quan was so embarrassed, the soldiers around him laughed while helping him clean up the sand on his body and clothes, and when he was cleaning up, he heard a loud voice asking, "Shi Qianhu, what's wrong?" Got weird dirty? ”

Shi Quanyi looked up and saw Yuan Keli and Xiong Tingbi, the overseer of the Northeast Military Region, standing in front of him, and it was Xiong Tingbi who was smiling and asking, it turned out that he had just arrived on Juehua Island from the other side, and the boat was accompanied by a soldier who came to the island on another boat to do business, and wanted to go around the island to check the situation. Let the pit be filled in first, lest others fall into it. After speaking, he walked with Yuan Keli to the house inside.

Xiong Tingbi usually rarely speaks loudly, but today suddenly his voice is very loud, indicating that he has good news and is happy in his heart, Yuan Keli knows that he is happy for a reason, and after entering the house and sitting down, he asked, "What good news did Lord Xiong bring?" ”

Xiong Tingbi said: "The emperor sent someone to assist Lord Yuan in the experiment, so Lord Yuan doesn't have to do these things himself, he just needs to wait for the news on the sidelines." ”

Yuan Keli didn't know why Tianqi suddenly asked others to do the experiment, so he thought about it and said: "I don't feel at ease when I don't see it with my own eyes, only when I see the cannon on the ship, the iron armor resists smashing, and the serial ship is loaded with iron armor, I will go to Fuzhou with confidence." ”

Xiong Tingbi said with a smile: "One of the three things you said is related to the order I received, Lord Sun of the Military Affairs Yuan said that the Northeast Military Region and the Bohai Military Region should immediately start harassing the Jurchens, with the purpose of cooperating with the Ming army to build a city in Huining." Yuan Chonghuan was busy settling the Karaqin people who had just migrated to Liaoxi, the Mangui Man army took the newly formed 20,000 cavalry to Huining to provide protection for the repair of the city, Zu Dashou brought more than 10,000 people to defend along the Daning River, Wu Xiang took people to patrol the border wall of Ningyuan, and now only I personally went out to harass the Jurchens. The test cannon also harassed people, killing two birds with one stone. ”

It turned out to deal with the Jurchens, no wonder Xiong Tingbi was energetic, everyone had the idea of falling down and getting up, Xiong Tingbi suffered a loss in the hands of the Jurchens and wanted to take revenge. Yuan Keli thought for a while and wanted to call someone to inform Shi Quan to come over, and after Shi Quan came in, Yuan Keli asked: "Shi Qianhu, how many serial warships have been made now?" ”

Shi Quan didn't know what Xiong Tingbi was here for, seeing that he had brought two boats of people over, he had questions and wanted to investigate, and when he saw Yuan Keli asking about the serial boat, he said: "A total of eight big ships have been pulled to prepare to be linked into four serial ships, and now there is one that is really done, and this one is only equipped with iron plates on the deck, and the bow and both sides are not yet installed, and it is estimated that it will take two days to finish, and the adults asked if this is to be used urgently?" ”

Yuan Keli thought that Shi Quan's brocade guards were ordered to assist but also had the responsibility of supervision, and he had to tell them if he wanted to use the ship, so he said: "The cannon firing on the serial warship to see the stability and the installation of iron armor are two different things, and now time is not waiting for us to do the test separately, it just so happened that Lord Xiong was ordered to harass the Jurchens, so I decided to pull out this ship with iron plates on the deck to test the cannon first." You can continue to assemble the next one, so that you can continue to try the test of iron plate on the water to resist smashing, what do you think? ”

Shi Quan said: "It's good to do the same separately, but you can put an iron plate and fire a gun, will you leave a familiar gunner to do the anti-smashing test?" ”

Yuan Keli was thinking about who to keep among the two gunners, Xiong Tingbi said at this time: "No need to stay, the Military Affairs Yuan sent someone to assist Lord Yuan in the experiment, I brought them all with the ship, and let them do these are the apocalypse - I will ask someone to ask him to bring the person he brought."

After a while, Xiong Tingbi's guards brought in four beardless young eunuchs and three people in civilian clothes, and after the four young eunuchs came in with expressionless faces, they stood there without saying a word, Shi Quan looked familiar and tried to say: "I seem to have seen you somewhere, but not in the palace." ”

One of the four eunuchs said: "Shi Qianhu has a bad memory, last year I came to ask you to cooperate with us to go to the warehouse in Chaning Yuancheng, when you were still a hundred households, now you have been promoted to a thousand, although it is a little late, but I still want to congratulate you." ”

Xiong Tingbi was about to be introduced, and when he saw them, he seemed to know each other, so he said: "Since you know each other, I won't introduce them, but first introduce these three, these three are people from the Red Tree Company who came to assist Lord Yuan by the emperor's order." The emperor's will is to let a few of them assist and watch this time, and in the future, everything related to armaments will be done by the Red Tree Company, and if they find Lord Yuan to do things again, they will pay Lord Yuan. Since it is now a waste of Shi Qianhu, I will listen to their opinions more, they have all spent a lot of knowledge in the doctoral college, and knowledge can be exchanged for a knighthood. ”

Shi Quan first bowed his hand to the three people from the Red Tree Company, and then said to the eunuch who started to speak: "You said last year that you were inspecting the warehouse on behalf of the Great Iron Company, and Lord Xiong said that you were representing the Red Tree Company this time, where are you people?" Who will do the specific work? ”

The eunuch who began to speak said: "We are the emperor's people, and we will represent whoever the emperor asks us to represent. Our internal guards, plus your Jinyi Guard, as well as garrisons and official offices in various places, as long as the emperor needs to do things for these two companies, but if it is not for nothing, a certain amount of remuneration will be given. The specific affairs are done by the subordinates of the army and the government, we only need to supervise their work, and we can consult these three for technical problems, they are also temporarily invited by the Red Tree Company from the Bo Academy, does Shi Qianhu still have any questions? ”

Shi Quan didn't say anything yet, but Xiong Tingbi was thinking in his heart: "I often hear that the Chishu Company and the Datie Company are everywhere in Daming, thinking that there are so many of them, the original fixed people are some eunuchs and Jinyi guards, and the others are temporarily borrowed or designated to use the Apocalypse Fengyun." The emperor organized these idle people to direct people to do things, which is equivalent to scrapping and using, it seems that the emperor is really better than my old bear. Thinking of this, he remembered that he was waiting for death in prison, and it was the apocalypse who was extra kind to release him, which can be regarded as waste use, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart and didn't say anything.

After explaining clearly, Yuan Keli left Shi Quan to do experiments on Juehua Island, he and Xiong Tingbi boarded the two big ships brought by Xiong Tingbi, and there were some sailors and soldiers of the Marine Battalion who protected them on the ship, behind the two boats were the chain ships that had just been installed with iron plates and cannons on the deck‖ the ring boat was two big ships, and it looked like a big thing when the wooden board was connected, and after installing the iron plate, it looked very majestic, and the muzzle of the gun pointed obliquely forward, which had a certain deterrent effect invisibly, which made the soldiers on the ship feel very proud.

Xiong Tingbi looked at the serial boat and said: "Lord Yuan, please see, although this serial boat is put together by two boats, it is not slower than our boat at all, I think the main reason is that the sea water passes between the two boats and there is less resistance, I don't know what Lord Yuan thinks I said?" ”

Yuan Keli nodded and said: "Lord Xiong, I have also tried this kind of ship a few times before I understand the principle, but unfortunately now I can only install one cannon, and I am afraid that I will not be able to run fast if I install two more guns and then install iron armor." To use this kind of boat to compete with the red-haired foreigners, it is still a bit unsuccessful. ”

Xiong Tingbi said: "The boat is heavy and rowing is slow, that's for sure, you see that the sailors who have just rowed for a long time have changed shifts several times, because it is a sneak attack, so they can't raise the sails, has Lord Yuan ever thought of using cattle and horses and other powerful livestock to replace people rowing?" ”

Yuan Keli said: "I have also considered the matter of animal boats, but livestock will not row back and forth like people, they can only walk in a straight line or keep turning, so they must add some clever structures, and I am afraid it is not possible to make it in a short time." In addition, the livestock are afraid of thunder and lightning, and the sound of the enemy's cannons will also frighten them when they are pulled out to fight, and when the time comes, they will run around on the ship and add to the chaos, the only advantage is that they can look at the food that can be stored, as long as they do not die, they will not stink and rot. ”

Xiong Tingbi laughed and said: "There is nothing difficult in the world, only afraid of people with hearts, Lord Yuan will think about it more and then ask those people from the Bo Academy to help, there will always be an apocalypse." ”

At this time, a general came to report: "Report to your Excellency, there is Tashan Fort not far ahead, do you want to go ashore and take a look?" ”

Xiong Tingbi looked at the sky and said: "After we withdrew, I heard that the Jurchens were not stationed, and now Huang Taiji's posture is to stick to Jinzhou, he may not send people to inspect Tashan Fort, send some people to reconnoiter to see if there are any Jurchen footprints, pay attention to safety, there is an enemy can not be alarmed, it is best not to alarm." ”

After receiving the order, the general went down to send people to reconnoitre, and after a while, the people who came back reported that they had not only seen the Jurchens, but also saw a lot, and it seemed that the Jurchens were not patrolling but were going to stay here for a long time after restoring the Tashan Fort. According to the analysis of the observed situation, the number of Jurchens in it is not much, but it is not a lot, they can do it while they are unprepared, but it is difficult to avoid slipping through the net, and I asked if I would go back and call some people to kill all the Jurchens in Tashan Fort.

Xiong Tingbi thought about it and ordered not to alarm the people in Tashan Fort, if he could easily kill it, it would naturally be a handball as a tooth sacrifice, but too many enemies were equivalent to gnawing bones, and there were not many people with him, just like a person with a bad tooth who forced himself to gnaw bones and easily broke his teeth≤ Tingbi decided to give up and let the three boats continue to move forward to the Jinzhou side, who knew that the intelligence from the reconnaissance along the way showed that the Jurchens had a large number of people here, not to mention that Jinzhou even Xingshan Fort, Songshan Fort and other places were stationed and had been stationed for a long time, made Xiong Tingbi and Yuan Keli feel unbelievable, what did this Jurchen person arrange so many people for?

Xiong Tingbi's first reaction was that the Jurchens wanted to sneak attack Ningyuan Pass, and then after thinking about it carefully, they felt that it was impossible, and if they wanted to attack the city, they must concentrate people and horses to build siege equipment, but now the Jurchens are putting on a stick posture, and they didn't hear anyone say that holding on to the other party's city can collapse the other party's city, and the Jurchens must have other considerations. Seeing that it was getting late, Xiong Tingbi ordered people to return the boat to rest and eat, and after he and Yuan Keli ate indiscriminately, they were thinking about what the Jurchens were doing this, fighting a war, not afraid of the enemy's real sword and real gun, afraid that the enemy would have a conspiracy and tricks, and he would not be able to see through it.

Yuan Keli thought for a while and said: "I think the enemy is bluffing, we can fire a few shots at night to see, if the enemy flocks to the sea, it means that they want to fight, and then we will retreat and think about it in the long run." If the enemy is bluffing, he will not dare to come out, and a few shots may not be able to bring out the true intentions of the Jurchens. ”

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