"Jin Ren really wants to go south? What is the court going to do? Where to fight the Jinren? "Immediately, there was an inquiry.

"It's true that the Jin people want to go south. I really don't know what the imperial court is going to do, maybe they are still arguing now, and they can't be sure if the Jin people really dare to tear up the peace contract. Yang Congyi said quite helplessly.

"Those sour literati, misleading the country and the people, it's time to send someone to the north to take a look, don't you know if the Jin people are preparing to invade the south? Sitting in Lin'an, what results can be fought for! ”

Pan Cheng was indignant, and everyone responded and agreed.

"Don't say anything about complaining, whether to fight or not, when to fight, we can't decide, but if the court figures it out, once the order is given to fight, whether we can fight or not, and how to fight, is the question we should consider." Yang Congyi immediately stopped the chaotic discussion, and the council room returned to calm.

When the hall quieted down, Yang Congyi continued: "As far as I know, Yan Liang has made a lot of preparations for going south this time, so he is by no means simply beating a grain and grass, and going back after a plunder, his goal is likely to cross the Yangtze River, break through Lin'an, go south to the entire south of the Yangtze River, and destroy the Great Song Dynasty, so he will not act rashly." According to my analysis, in the spring and summer, the Jin army will gradually gather from all over the Jin country to the vicinity of Bianjing, and after the autumn harvest, the newly harvested grain and grass will be sent to the Bianjing camp, which is when Wan Yanliang led the army south to attack the Great Song Dynasty. Therefore, the real time for the start of the war should be in September and October, and according to this calculation, we only have more than half a year to prepare for the war. ”

"My lord, can it really be our turn to go to war? I'm afraid the court has forgotten about us! "There is a general who asked.

"Resisting the invasion of the Jin people into the Great Song Dynasty is not only a matter for the imperial court, but also for all our Great Song people and all the Great Song soldiers. Once the Jin people go south, the place they pass must be ruined and mourned, and our relatives, which one is not in Jiangbei, can our family let them bully? No! As long as we are alive, we must not! Once the Jin people invade the south, even if the imperial court can't remember us, we will go north to fight the Jin people. The rise and fall of the world, the husband is responsible, the homeland, we guard! Yang Congyi replied loudly to the general's question.

Then he continued: "The Jin people will definitely go south, and we, as soldiers, soldiers from the north, must be prepared to resist. North of the Yangtze River, there is no natural danger to defend, it will be occupied by the Jin people, and then the Jin people want to cross the Yangtze River is not so easy, the Yangtze River is very wide, it is difficult for the Jin army to cross the river, and we have escorted the ocean-going fleet to the sea many times, marching on the water all the year round, driving a boat to cross the sea is quite familiar, on the Yangtze River, we definitely have an advantage, when we take a boat to the north, into the Yangtze River, the Jin people want to cross the river, it depends on whether we agree or not. Once the Song and Jin armies formed a confrontation across the Yangtze River, the victory or defeat of the two armies was in our hands, this is a great feat, once we block the Jin people, do not let them cross the Yangtze River, it will not take a few months, they will have to flee back to the north in disgrace, we will land again, and then cover up, it is another feat! Over the years, I have known that everyone is eager to fight and make achievements on the battlefield, and now that the opportunity has come, it is up to you whether you can grasp it or not! Is there confidence? ”

"Yes!"

More than 30 generals spoke in unison, and their voices burst out from their chests, and their voices echoed in the hall.

"Okay, time is running out, everyone must follow the training plan, pay close attention to training, naval battles, military formations, cavalry archery, marching, none of them can be left behind, training must be completed within six months! Su Zhong, Yao Chang, Pan Cheng, the three of you each lead four commanders to train separately, those who perform well will be rewarded, and those who procrastinate and slack off will be dealt with by military law! Xue Wang, Luo Cong, you two go with me to Huaixi to recruit troops. The rest of the people are begging to train well, and they are not allowed to leave at will! ”

"Yes!"

The generals responded.

After the intensive training and mobilization ended, the generals and colonels left immediately.

Yang Congyi left Su Zhong, Yao Chang, and Pan Cheng alone, and explained some training to them alone, although they fought several battles together in Guangnan, but after all, many years have passed, and the opponent has changed from Li Yueren to a more powerful Jinren, and he has to think about training in many ways.

Water warfare is rarely short-handed, basically in a dozen battles, or even a hundred zhang away to solve the enemy, and the solution to the enemy is to use the ship's trebuchet, throw fireballs, burn the enemy ship, the Xuanwei army was specially trained, they threw not fireballs, but earth-shaking thunder, the object of attack is also Li Yueren, in the past ten years, although they are still training in water warfare, but more is to manipulate the ship, rather than thinking about how to destroy the enemy ship most efficiently.

If the elite army wants to completely block the Jin army on the Yangtze River, they must be extremely proficient in water warfare, and how to effectively destroy enemy ships from a long distance is the focus of their training in water warfare. Yang Congyi had some ideas on how to practice, so he left the three of them and carefully communicated and discussed with them, in order to find the most suitable and rapid training method.

The trebuchet throwing stone bombs involves mechanical problems, and Yang Congyi naturally can't talk to them about these contents, so he can only have the most popular discussion with them from the relationship between the weight of the stone bullet, the projectile angle, the tension and the landing point of the stone bullet, and finally let them understand that whether the trebuchet throws the bomb accurately is a regular follow, not by luck.

As for how to find this rule, Yang Congyi told them that the only way to measure the effective throwing distance of the same trebuchet under different throwing angles, different weights of stone projectiles and different tensions can only be measured by conducting standard tests on land.

When the calculation is clear and the standard is formulated, the throwing training will have a law that can be followed, and anyone who comes according to the standard can point where to hit and improve the hit rate of the trebuchet.

After some more detailed explanations and discussions, Su Zhong and the others finally figured out how to train soldiers to use trebuchets effectively and reached a consensus.

At the end, Yang Congyi also reminded them that if they encounter any problems that are difficult to solve or they can't figure out, they might as well go to the "building courtyard" and ask, there are many skilled craftsmen who will help them solve the problem.

As for the military formation and cavalry training, Yang Congyi did not have any special suggestions, after all, the most important battle was still on the water, and it was best to have the opportunity to go ashore to pursue the enemy army, and if there was no opportunity, they could not force it, besides, with only two legs, how could they catch up with the enemy army retreating on horseback? It was enough to be able to block the enemy army in the Yangtze River, and he couldn't afford to think about anything else.

After the arrangements were made in the Jingwu army, Yang Congyi went to "build a hospital".

The four tasks assigned to the "Gongji" three years ago have now made some progress.

Transparent lenses are fired, and although they are not particularly transparent, they can see certain things through the lenses, and with the arrival of Fathira glass craftsmen, they are rapidly improving, and it may not be long before truly transparent lenses can be fired.

Marl firing progressed rapidly, from the beginning of experimental research, to the successful shaping of sand, it took less than half a year, of course, the initial marl shaping effect is not good, with a hammer can be easily broken. However, after three years of improvement by craftsmen, the sand molded by the firing is difficult to break, and the disadvantage is that the shaping process is too long, and it takes three days to successfully shape at the shortest, and it is soft before the successful shaping, so it has to continue to improve.

Musket casting has also made great progress, after countless experiments with bamboo tubes, the craftsmen finally replaced the iron cylinder, although it will not be used a few times, the iron cylinder will be ** exploded, but the effective shooting distance has reached more than 20 zhang away.

During the period in order to further improve the shooting distance, the craftsmen thickened and lengthened the iron cylinder, so as to be able to load more, as the iron cylinder was thickened, more and more **, and the shooting distance was getting farther and farther, the longest distance actually reached more than 100 zhang away, but when they increased **, ready to go further, the iron cylinder was blown apart under the action of a large number of **, one of the craftsmen died on the spot, and many people were injured, so Shen Jin ordered the termination of the large musket research experiment.

There are craftsmen who died because of the study of muskets, although Yang Congyi was distressed, but he was still happy for their achievements, this is the achievement of craftsmen in exchange for sacrifice, it is a pity to seal or shelve it, so under his inquiry, the research experiment on the big musket, that is, the artillery, was restarted, and put him in a more important position than the development of the musket.

Of course, for the development of artillery, Yang Congyi also put forward some suggestions from his point of view for Shen Jin and the craftsmen to refer to and study.

The development progress of the thruster of the sea ship is very slow, because this is a very complex thing, whether it can be used must be manufactured first to know, and before it is manufactured, it must be designed first, once there is a mistake, it has to be restarted, the design is troublesome, and it is even more troublesome to manufacture, Shen Jin led the craftsmen to spend three years, and finally manufactured a thruster that can only push a small boat more than two zhang long to sail slowly, and the speed is slower than that of rowing with oars.

Although Shen Jin was not satisfied with this, Yang Congyi was very happy after seeing the real thing.

He told Shen Jin that in his opinion, the thruster they had made was definitely a very remarkable thing, it could be slower than an oar today, maybe faster than a sail tomorrow, and with the improvement of not only that, it was possible for a big ship of ten or twenty zhang to be easily pushed.

Then, together with the craftsmen, they carefully sorted out the original intention and principle of the design, pointed out the problems, discussed the solutions, and put forward suggestions for improvement. Of course, the most important thing in developing thrusters is for them to explore on their own, there are only a few places where he can help, and he doesn't have that much time.