It's already April, and there is still half a month before Qin Yiming is about to send troops, and now he is counting how many troops he can contribute, but at this time, he is most concerned about how well Tang Ruowang is training.

Tang Ruowang introduced a lot of Western battle formations to Qin Yiming, and finally Qin Yiming decided to let Tang Ruowang help train 10,000 soldiers, with Liu Guoneng as the general and Tang Ruowang as the military adviser, and now I don't know how these 10,000 people are trained.

Qin Yiming had already issued orders to all the generals to assemble at Pingli Fort with their soldiers.

Qin Yiming himself also arrived at Pingli Fort early, and at this time, Song Xiance and others were all in Pingli Fort at this time.

"How's our stockpile?" Qin Yiming asked Yang Lezi, Yang Lezi looked at Qin Gongming, now he is his logistics minister, in charge of the food, finance and taxation of several health centers, originally this position was to be given to Hou Fangyu, but Hou Fangyu was not there at that time, so he asked Qin Gongming to replace him, and Qin Yiming found that his younger brother did a good job.

"The current stock of grain in the guard is as high as 400,000 stones, and the sweet potato flour is 300,000 stones, even if it is 100,000 troops for a few years, it will not be a problem. However, we have recently received a lot of new refugees from Henan, at least more than 50,000 people, and more than 20,000 people under General Li Shen's new recruits, so we have to support nearly 80,000 more at once. "Qin Gongming is very confident, when he took over here, there was actually a lot more food, but people kept joining in, and it was a large number of people, this person had a lot of mouths, and the consumption of food was also very fast.

"A lot of new refugees?" Qin Yiming asked.

Qin Gongming was a little hesitant, this was not Qin Yiming's idea, nor was it his idea, this was Xu Zhen'er's idea, Xu Zhen'er saw that those refugees from Henan were pitiful, so she asked Qin Gongming to accept a large number of refugees from Henan.

"This is Dasou's idea, and I also follow her decision!"

Qin Yiming nodded and said, "Well, well done, as long as we still have extra food, you will boldly accept refugees." But don't assign these refugees to the lower guard post first, and then I will build some new guard posts and assign them all to the new guard house. ”

"Well, it's not realistic for them to be placed in the guard now, and now there is no extra land left behind in the Hindu Division for them to plant, big brother, I'm worried about this matter, these people can't stand it even if they drink a bowl of porridge every day, and they won't be able to raise it for long if they go on like this!" Qin Gongming was very embarrassed, this was a practical problem he encountered, the contradiction of less land and more population, he was not able to solve it.

"The imperial court has approved the construction of several guards, such as Zhuxi, Daye and other places, you first arrange for them to build roads, build guards, houses, city walls, etc., and when they settle down, let them mine in these places!" Qin Yiming said.

"Open a mine?" Qin Gongming and the others were very surprised, Qin Yiming knew that there were mines in these places?

"Yes, don't care about the other guards first, first build Zhuxi and Daye Weisho, there are a lot of silver mines under Zhuxi, and there are a lot of coal mines and iron mines under Daye!"

Qin Yiming swore an oath, but the others present were very surprised, with a look of disbelief, Qin Yiming had no choice but to say: "This is what Mr. Song told me, although this magic stick is unreliable, but he doesn't dare to talk nonsense about such a major matter, you just do it!" ”

"Yes, Grand Duke!" Everyone nodded.

According to Qin Yiming's memory, this Zhuxi is a place with very rich silver ore reserves, not to mention this Daye, the heavy industry in Central China in later generations is based on the pig iron in this place, and the iron ore mining in this place is at least enough for them to use for a hundred years, and the other is the Jianghan Oilfield, but now the use of oil is not much, and it is too wasteful to use it as thermal oil, so Qin Yiming decided not to exploit it first.

"How well is the oil prepared? And the copper cannon? ”

"Now there are a lot of people in the guard, the production is very fast, the fire oil is enough, there are almost a hundred copper cannons, and the Zi Gong is also equipped enough. For a war like Henan's, it should be enough to fight one! Yang Lezi said.

"Only one fight? So slow? Qin Yiming said a little unhappily.

"My lord, this is already very fast, everything has to be made with one hand at a time, we are almost day and night, and almost all the people who can be mobilized have been mobilized!" Steward Hu was a little frightened, in his opinion, the speed of his arsenal's production was definitely the first in Daming, but at such a speed, Qin Yiming was not satisfied.

Hey, after all, it's a handicraft workshop, it seems that the current scale is impossible to support his soldiers to contact the war, but the current level can only be like this, after all, his current sphere of influence is only the basic scope of the Xingdu Left-behind Division, if it is expanded to the entire Huguang, it may still be possible.

"And how was the steam engine developed?" Qin Yiming asked, he is very concerned with this thing now, if this thing is successfully developed, it will be a earth-shaking change.

Steward Hu immediately replied: "There are still defects, and they can't be put into use yet!" But according to the old man, they should be able to finish it soon! ”

Hearing that the development of the steam engine was about to be completed, Qin Yiming was in a good mood, but looking at Qin Gongming's face, he had something in his heart.

"Well, brother, you did a good job, and my mother will be relieved to know about it, why do you feel that something is hidden? Let's hear it. ”

"Brother, the guard will soon be unable to operate, we now lack everything except food, this purchase of pig iron, as well as ** raw materials, copper nuggets, etc., all need a lot of money, but we have no money, now these are all Xu family credit, it has been as high as 200,000 taels, the production volume is getting bigger and bigger, the inventory is getting bigger and bigger, and the silver gap is getting bigger and bigger."

"What? Will I run out of money? Doesn't Zhen'er have a silver horn? And didn't you earn hundreds of thousands of taels from selling bonds last time? Why is there no money again? Qin Yiming couldn't believe his younger brother, was this spending money so terrifying?

"The silver ticket of the De'an silver cannot be circulated in many places, and I did not dare to move the silver of the silver to buy it, for fear of hurting the foundation of the silver number. So these are all to be bought with real money, and we still have some cash, but now we have to build a health center, we still have to build roads, and there are so many refugees, these hundreds of thousands of taels are allocated to a person A few taels of silver, how is this enough! ”

"Okay, okay, I don't like to hear it!" Qin Yiming had a headache, it was too difficult to be in charge, he only cared about fighting outside, this family looked so prosperous, it turned out that he already owed so much silver, and this was thanks to Xu Zhen'er, who was in charge of the house, otherwise it would have been impossible to operate for a long time.

It seems that this grain and grass weapon or something is not a big problem, and now it will be up to us to see how many people can be found. As for the problem of silver, he can only solve it by his two wives, and he will definitely not be able to solve the problem. All he can do is make more gizmos that can be exchanged for money.

Two days later, the army of Tang Ruowang and Liu Guoneng had arrived and camped around Pingli Fort, and Qin Yiming personally went to inspect it.

As soon as I entered the camp, I felt immediately different, the spears held by these people were simply a bit exaggerated, at least five meters long, and there were a large number of musketeers, the musketeers were distributed in all directions of the phalanx, protected by spearmen, and the discipline of the entire phalanx was extremely high.

"What kind of army is this, a mixture of spearmen and firearms, so that it can fight?" Yang Jiuyi, Da Niu and others all have questions.

"Haha, my Lord Qin, welcome to your arrival, how is it, the phalanx I trained is okay!" John Tang opened his hands and smiled, expressing his welcome.

"Meet General Qin!" Liu Guoneng bowed, he had surrendered, he was already a national army, and now he was loyal to Qin Yiming, and this new army was led by him.

Qin Yiming also showed a smile and said: "Mr. Tang, I have worked hard, there will be better wine in the future, I will definitely let you taste it first, General Liu, you can also get up, this year's time, you have helped me train out of this ten thousand elites, and the hard work is high!" ”

"Where is the duty of the last general, the general is serious!"

"Okay, don't say much politely, it's a stove or a horse, pull it out and yo-yo, and see how your training has been this year!" Qin Yiming was very eager to see the combat capabilities of this Spanish infantry phalanx.

"Da Niu, how about you take a thousand shield soldiers and practice against General Liu's soldiers?" Qin Yiming said by name.

Da Niu was eager to try, and as soon as he heard Qin Yiming's roll call, he immediately became excited, and shouted: "That's a good feeling, young master, let me take my brother to practice with them!" ”

Liu Guoneng's infantry phalanx had already set up a position, two large phalanxes, each with 500 people, waiting for the battle, and Da Niu's 1,000 people were standing 100 meters away, and Da Niu was studying how to fight.

"Tell me, can you win?" Qin Yiming asked.

Yang Jiuyi looked at these two phalanxes and analyzed: "This drill is not a real battle after all, if it is a real battle, the shield battalion of the big bull is protected by a big shield, but there are firearms on the side of this new army, and it is impossible to prevent it, and I feel that this phalanx with spears and muskets is even more powerful!" ”

"Not necessarily, this musket is powerful, but it is not a problem for the shield battalion of the big bull to rely on the shield to get closer, and this musket has no effect after getting closer, one inch is long and one inch is strong, one inch is short and one inch is dangerous, the most powerful thing about the shield battalion of the big bull is melee combat, I think the shield battalion is even more powerful!"

"It all makes sense, look, the bull has launched an offensive!" Song Xiance pointed to the phalanx, looking at the situation of the battlefield with great interest, there were a large number of recruits and guards and military households in Pingli Fort around, everyone looked at the battlefield, and the dust on the ground quickly floated, covering the sky and the sun!

watched the bull continue to attack, but this new army was like a hedgehog, making it difficult for the bull to enter.

"This phalanx is really powerful, if it is a real battle, once those firearms soldiers shoot, I am afraid that the people of the big bull will lose a lot if they do not approach! Even in melee combat, they didn't suffer either! Yang Lezi exclaimed.

Qin Yiming nodded, this phalanx is indeed very powerful, he is very satisfied, this army encounters those thieves, I don't know what the effect will be, will there be a one-sided slaughter? However, Qin Yiming was also worried, how should such a clumsy phalanx face those elite Tartar cavalry who almost had the ability to move?