Such a crude cannon naturally cannot be compared with the bronze cannon carefully cast by Chen Xian with the data of Napoleonic cannons.

But this group of outsiders in Laiwu didn't think so, they felt that with these two weapons, it was not difficult to calm Yiyuan in concentrating several times the military strength of Chen Xian, so when they saw the test firing of the new cannon brought by Bai Shijie with their own eyes, they confidently agreed to Bai Shijie and cooperate with General Yan Pingtao to set a trap against Chen Xian.

This is why Chen Xian found that there were fewer and fewer people sending people to Yiyuan to do business, and even the results of his armed march and the extortion letters sent to various families gradually became invalid.

Just as Chen Xian activated the intelligence team to try to figure out what was happening in Laiwu, on the fertile plains east of Fengfu County (about the area directly under the jurisdiction of today's Tai'an City) to the west of Laiwu, several Jurchen Meng'an Moke military villages were in a bit of confusion because of the arrival of an army.

Among these villages, there is a Meng'an village called Su Shilie, which is the largest military village in the vicinity, there are thousands of Jurchens in this village, and tens of thousands of Han tenants, Wanyan Pingtao was stationed in this village at this time.

Compared with the Han landlord Haoqiang Zhuang Zixiu's one race and one sturdy, the Jurchen village is very simple, and the strength of the Jin people is weakened in these years, and there are many bandits in various places, and the Jin people began to clean up their own villages, but they can not be compared with the Han people's strong forts.

Most of the earthen walls are very old, but in some places the soil color is very new, obviously the traces of repair, but this repair is also very sloppy, the outer wall is full of potholes, the surface mud falls off, revealing the sand and gravel below.

Compared with the Han people, the Jurchens had the protection of the imperial court, and the general bandits did not dare to make up their minds, and the security pressure was much lighter.

The area of the village is not large, only the Jurchens and their domestic servants live in the village, and most of the Han tenants live outside the village around the village.

When this village was originally built, it was built as a military village, so there was a large school field in Tucheng, but because of the increase in population, the school field in Tuweizi had been encroached upon at this time.

Wanyan Pingtao, who led the army to camp here, could only level a piece of farmland and build a military village on the west side of Tuweizi.

Wanyan Pingtao had been promoted to the Tianping Army at this time, that is, Wanhu.

There are more than 10,000 households in the Tianping Army.

Now the 10,000 households in the Jin army are no longer like the 10,000 households at the time of the founding of the country, and they can lead tens of thousands of troops.

Because of the long period of peace, the superstructure multiplies, and the army of the Jin State is also swollen, with more wolves and less meat, take Wanhu as an example, there are really three or five Meng'an troops under his command, and he is already a powerful general, and some Wanhu even have only one or two Meng'an, just this face is Meng'an, and the empty amount is huge, and it is too many to have five hundred people, so if there are ten thousand households in the Jin country, but there is only an army of less than a thousand people, you don't have to be surprised.

The same is true of Meng'an Mouke, it is said that in Zhongjing, where the powerful gather, a Mouke has only one or twenty soldiers under his command, and a Meng'an is not even one hundred or ten!

Wanyan Pingtao has a backer on his back, so naturally this is not the case.

Wanyan Pingtao is the eldest son of Wanyan Chengzong, the first heir of his family, because he has been smart since he was a child, so he has always been pinned on high hopes by the family.

Wanyan Pingtao's defeat in Yiyuan this time is considered to be a private army, and the defeat will not be recorded and reported to the imperial court, as for the dead soldiers, there are actually not many, there are only a few hundred people in total, Wanyan Chengzong can easily erase this matter.

After Yan Pingtao returned from defeat, he immediately asked his father for an official, because this outstanding eldest son has always been indifferent in officialdom, so Wanyan Chengzong didn't care about his son's new defeat, and immediately readily agreed to his request.

After Yan Chengzong's transaction, he kicked out the two old Wanhu from the Tianping Army, and as soon as his son was promoted to Wanhu, he immediately had five Meng'an in his hands.

After a few months of purging, Wanyan Pingtao replaced the five Meng'ans with his own people, and made up for the five Meng'ans.

After demonstrating the power of cannons and muskets to Wanyan Chengzong, Wanyan Chengzong agreed to Wanyan Pingtao's proposal to take Yiyuan and seize better guns and manufacturing techniques in Chen Xian's hands.

With the order issued by Wanyan Chengzong to suppress bandits, Wanyan Pingtao quietly drove his army to Fengfu County, and he did not rush to enter Laiwu, but stationed in the place where the Jurchen villages in the east of Fengfu County were more concentrated.

The reason why Wanyan Pingtao chose Sushilie Village is because it is close to the road to Laiwu, and on the other hand, the Jurchen villages in this vicinity are dense, and the land is also fertile, so it is easy to raise grain and grass.

Stationed outside the Sushi Lie Village, Wanyan Pingtao immediately started training non-stop.

He completely mastered the five Meng'an under his command and made up for the horses, but it was only three months, and the training of the people and horses was still very insufficient, so he naturally had to hurry up at this time.

This time, the army brought by Wanyan Pingtao came out, in addition to the two cavalry Meng An and the three infantry Meng An, there were also two special personal soldiers Mou Ke, the commanders of these two Mou Ke were all served by the generals of the Wan Yan family, and even the soldiers below were all the family members of the Wan Yan Pingtao family.

These are two newly formed artillery mouk.

After forcing the craftsmen to make usable artillery, the scholar Chen Xian made a gun carriage, formed an artillery team, and formed a special artillery unit.

In addition to the artillery Mouke, Wanyan Pingtao also added musketeers to the three Meng'an infantry under his command.

Originally, most of the infantry of the Jin Kingdom consisted of four types of soldiers, sword and shield men, pikemen, crossbowmen, and archers.

In formation, the sword and shield bearers are in front and the pikemen are behind, and the crossbowmen shoot the enemy in front of the formation, and when the enemy is approaching, they retreat back to the sword and shield hands, and behind the pikemen, they inflict a projectile strike on the enemy.

This time, when Wanyan Pingtao recruited the new army, he replaced some of the archers with some musketeers.

On the one hand, this is of course because Wanyan Pingtao is optimistic about the power of the musket, and on the other hand, the rarity of excellent archers is also a reason.

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Just when Wanyan Pingtao lurked next to Laiwu County like a predatory tiger waiting for an opportunity, a major event also happened in Yiyuan West Zhuangzi.

Just after entering the last month of the eighth year of Taihe, the people of Yiyuan began to put on lanterns, because the owner of Yiyuan, Chen Xian Chen, was going to get married!

After several months of negotiations, the marriage between Chen Xian and Yang Miaozhen was finally determined, and the dowry and dowry of both parties were also determined in private negotiations.

Chen Xian's dowry was 2,000 pairs of armor and vests, 3,000 three-eyed muskets, 30 flying sand cannons, and 3,000 catties of gunpowder.

The dowry promised by the Yang family was 500 castrated war horses, 50 high-quality stallions with 15 palms on their backs, and 200 high-quality stallions with 14 palms on their backs.

Zha Jia and vest are not a problem for Chen Xian, he picked up a batch of high-quality vests from the seized Zha Jia vests, and let his factory produce a batch at full capacity, which was completed in less than a month.

As for the three-eyed musket, Chen Xian, the shoddy and indiscriminate goods seized from Liu Erzu's hands, couldn't look down on it, and all of them were returned to the furnace, because these cast barrels were all made of coal and iron, so they were all recast into farm tools.

For the newly produced three-eyed god musket, Chen Xian did not adopt the machining method to process, but adopted the casting method.

However, the casting method he used was somewhat different from the usual method of the era, and he used sand mold casting instead of the usual sand mold casting.