Liaodong was being shrouded in the clouds of a great war, and a little further south in the province of Qi, a warlord unification war continued.

And with the return of Xu Shiyang, this war quickly entered the most intense stage.

At the meeting of the main body of the dock fort within the Qingzhou Alliance, Xu Shiyang directly exposed the huge threat that each family was about to face, and then asked all the departments to unite and face the retaliatory army of the Tartars who would go south at any time.

"The next time the Tartars come to plunder, it won't be a few Mok or one or two Meng'an troops, they may even come with the whole division."

Xu Shiyang said at the meeting:

"The imperial court has the Yangtze River body, and the Tartars don't think there are many good ways, but we don't."

"A few years ago, because of the hard work of our Xu family, the Tartars did not rob everyone's wealth as usual, so you all have some savings."

"These accumulations will become the target of the next Tartar raid, if you want to keep your family and wealth, settle down and unite to fight the enemy together!"

Subsequently, Xu Shiyang's tone rose sharply:

"From now on, Qingzhou will carry out comprehensive mobilization and preparation!"

"The military law is fully implemented within the alliance, and I warn you that the military law is strict, and it was only a crime of reprimand in the past, and it is likely that you will be beheaded after the military law is enforced!"

Xu Shiyang didn't pay attention to the complicated eyes of the new and old dock lord in the alliance looking at him, anyway, he had already reminded them, and when the time came, he couldn't be regarded as untaught.

And his methods are still much gentler than Xu Muhe - at least now he didn't say nothing, looking for a reason to directly kill the owner of another family's dock fort and annex other people's armies.

In order to strengthen the confidence of the new alliance, and to quickly end this unification war, which he saw as unnecessary, Xu Shiyang decided to immediately commit the new army and destroy all those who resisted.

After making this decision, Xu Muhe also quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

He had not forced the Forces nouvelles to go out for two main reasons:

First of all, Xu Shiyang, who was worried about building the new army single-handedly, mistakenly thought that he wanted to grab the military power of the new army, and he didn't want his father and son to turn against each other.

In addition, as a feudal lord, he really didn't know how to use the new army, which seemed too new in this era - Xu Muhe was confident that he would use the trap and choose the front well, but the array composed of a large number of spears and muskets seemed to be the main force of the new army.

Xu Muhe knew that the new army was the foundation of the Xu family's dominance of Qingzhou, and if he lost a few battles in his own hands, those newly joined Wubao owners would probably have other ideas.

Now that Xu Shiyang is back, he can defeat the Tartars, and there is no problem in using the new army to deal with a few local tyrants, and if he can get a few happy victories, the hearts of the inner dock lord will definitely be calm.

Perhaps, their own forces can take advantage of the trend to expand out of the scope of Qingzhou, and the local forces in the surrounding Laizhou, Dengzhou, Yanzhou, and Quancheng Prefectures will look forward to the wind.

Xu Shiyang also had a similar idea, for him, time was already very tight, first use his father's method to try, take down the population and territory, and then slowly regain people's hearts is not an unacceptable choice.

In short, let's get past the Tartars on a large scale south!

Xu Shiyang himself only rested for half a day, and then retook command of the new army.

Although Xu Muhe did not interfere in the command of the new army, he did not relax his investment in the new army during this time, so at this time the new army already had 9 battalions, as many as 4,200 people, plus 300 trapped soldiers who were not included in the establishment of the new army, a total of 4,500 people.

This number is a lot more than the 3,000 people in the 7 battalions when Xu Shiyang went south, mainly because of the addition of two new infantry battalions "Jiyuan" (Rizhao Wangjia) and "Weiyuan" (Rizhao other dock fort owners jointly sent people).

In addition, the mounted infantry battalion "Jingyuan" was expanded to 500 people.

If it weren't for the rarity of war horses, it would have been very difficult to maintain the existing 200 cavalry of the Zhiyuan battalion, and Xu Shiyang estimated that his father would expand the Zhiyuan battalion to the normal size of 500 people.

Xu Shiyang seized the time to conduct a review of the current new army, but the news he saw made people laugh and cry, and various problems emerged one after another.

The biggest problem of the Zhiyuan camp now is the lack of suitable war horses, but they can still maintain it with a small number of people, and this problem is easy to solve - Xu Shiyang took more than a hundred good horses from the Tartar envoys of the Jiangnan Dutingyi.

After leaving half for Wen Xianggong and Xu Shiliu, the Wen family promised to help him ship the remaining 50 horses to Qi Province.

Although not enough to expand the strength of the Zhiyuan battalion, these horses can effectively supplement the horse gap of the regular cavalry.

Compared with the Zhiyuan Battalion, the situation in the Jingyuan Battalion is a bit funny.

As a semi-professional cavalry formed by mounted infantry, the Jingyuan battalion has been relying on inferior horses and pack horses to travel before, and after Xu Muhe expanded the scale of the Jingyuan battalion to 500 people, even the number of pack horses was not enough, so more than 100 mules were incorporated into the team .......

Mule cavalry, this is really a bit of a peasant army.

The problems of the infantry battalions are concentrated in two aspects: First, the five battalions originally formed had many veterans who had participated in many battles as instructors and led apprentices with their teachers, but the newly formed Jiyuan and Weiyuan, because Xu Shiyang was not there, Xu Muhe was unwilling to interfere in the personnel work of the new army, so there was no such convenience.

The new battalion has indeed been formed, but so far, the training work has not been on the right track at all, and Xu Shiyang estimates that their combat effectiveness is not much stronger than that of the militia.

The second is the lack of weapons, and the production progress of muskets has been significantly accelerated after receiving the material support of Jiangnan.

Xu Shiyang ordered people to count that there are now 270 flintlock pistols, 50 flintlock short guns, 80 flintlock pistols, and 550 snake pole arquebuses in the new army.

The flintlock pistols were mainly equipped for the Zhiyuan cavalry, and the rest were all equipped for other new military camps, including the Jingyuan battalion.

Even so, the musket gap is still close to 400, and it can only be made up with the muskets made by each family before.

The gap is even bigger is the artillery, according to Xu Shiyang's previous "Artillery Manual", a 4-pound general artillery crew has 15 gunners and 4 pack horses (Napoleon's 4-pounder gun is 13 people and 4 horses); The Shenji gun crew is 10 gunners and 2 pack horses.

At present, the new army has a total of 6 small cannons of 4 catties (including one brought back by Xu Shiyang from the Dengyingzhou, which is still not enough for each infantry battalion to have one), and 14 magic cannons (just two for each infantry battalion).

In other words, the gunner establishment is full.

But the number of artillery pack horses and the guns themselves was completely insufficient to meet the needs.

Xu Muhe gave most of the pack horses that could be used to the Jingyuan battalion, and the artillery not only had to use mules to fill the numbers, but even donkeys!

Fortunately, the Shenji gun is light enough, the number of artillery crews is large, and it is not impossible to pull it with a donkey, but in this way, there should not be too much thought about the mobility and ammunition carrying capacity of the artillery.