Zhu Dayou heard the report and said to Zhang Qiang: "This person's name is Zhao Siyang, a native of Liaodong, the banner of the Han army, captured by our army, and later pulled out to supplement the army, and then you personally trained him. ”

Zhang Qiang patted his head, "Yes, look at my memory." ”

Zhang Qiang took a few more steps with the people, "This person is very good, the trained artillery is very good, call him over." ”

Zhao Siyang was training artillery, and he also saw Zhang Qiang and his party, but he didn't dare to step forward, because the identity of a soldier made him feel a little inferior, what he could do was to work hard to do his job and train these artillery soldiers better, only in this way can he gain a firm foothold in this army.

He didn't have the luxury of hoping that this army could defeat the Qing army, fight back to Liaodong, and rescue his parents, the only thing he could do was to climb up as much as possible, and after having his own strength, he could kill more Tartars, and give his parents who had been Jurchen Tartar slaves for all these years and had enough of being bullied and angry with himself.

A personal soldier walked up and said to Zhao Siyang arrogantly, "My lord called you over." ”

Zhao Siyang pressed the waist knife in his hand, and was about to fall to the ground with excitement, trying to stabilize his emotions, Zhao Siyang followed his own soldiers to Zhang Qiang, and knelt on the ground, "Hundred households in the artillery battalion, Zhao Siyang knocks on the lord." ”

"Get up, Zhao Siyang." Zhang Qiang carefully observed Zhao Siyang, yes, the memory of him in his mind is still very clear, it looks fierce on the surface, but the heart under his chest looks more delicate and weak.

Zhao Siyang stood up with the support of his own soldiers.

"Zhao Siyang, tell me what you think about artillery?" Zhang Qiang has the heart to test this demote.

Zhao Siyang tried to calm down his emotions, thought for a while, and said: "My lord, artillery is not very useful in the south, a place with a dense water network, but it has to be used. ”

Zhang Qiang asked again, "What do you mean?" ”

Zhao Siyang lowered his head and followed Zhang Qiang forward, Zhu Dayou followed Zhang Qiang's side, and the surrounding soldiers stared vigilantly around, Zhao Siyang answered Zhang Qiang's question, "My lord, whether it is our army or the enemy's artillery, the cannons are bulky and southward, and the smaller ships simply cannot support the weight of such a cannon, and the larger ships are impassable in some small rivers, and there are some places where they can't go, and some places need artillery to overcome the enemy's strong camps, so the villain says that the cannon is useless in the south." ”

"Well, can you think about this a little, it's still good, so is there a solution?"

Zhao Siyang raised his head as he spoke, and his waist straightened, "It's not that there is no way, but the villain feels that those Hongyi cannons don't need to follow the army's actions, just put them on the city wall, and the Furlong cannons can barely keep up with the march, but the kind of cannon has a short range and serious air leakage, and the villain proposes to call craftsmen to improve those Furlong cannons, although the Tiger Squat Cannon has a short range, it can cover our infantry to a certain extent, and you can bring more." ”

Zhang Qiang was a little discouraged, Zhao Siyang's ideas did not surpass the ideas of people in this era, the key is that the technical problems cannot be solved, but he can have such thoughts, which means that he is at least a qualified artillery commander in this era.

Zhang Qiang said to Zhu Dayou beside him: "Zhao Siyang has a thought, and he is a great talent, so he was immediately promoted to the artillery battalion and in charge of the artillery battalion." ”

Zhao Siyang was stunned when he heard this, and was immediately flattered, knelt down again, kowtowed, and said loudly: "The villain will thank the adult, and the villain will be the liver and brain, and he will die for the adult." ”

Zhang Qiang smiled and helped him up, "It's nothing, you have this talent, I will reuse it, promote you, can you manage the artillery battalion for me?" ”

Zhao Siyang patted his chest and said: "The villain must do his best, and the adults should watch it." ”

"Okay, as you said, the Tiger Squat Cannon is equipped with more, and the Furlong cannon is also equipped with more, as for the Hongyi Cannon,"

Zhang Qiang turned back to Zhu Dayou and said: "Adjust the artillery of a small banner, pull the three Hongyi cannons, put them at the head of Wucheng City, and transfer a few more Franc machine guns, I don't know that at the head of Wucheng City, let Wucheng become a barrier in Jinhua Mansion, Zhu Dayou, you tell Zhou Congee to send another hundred households to Wucheng to strengthen the defense of Wucheng, after my army leaves, leave a hundred cavalry to defend Wucheng." ”

Zhao Siyang said: "My lord, you have forgotten a place, since you are going to fight Taizhou, you must not ignore the defense of Tangxi County." ”

Zhang Qiang didn't release troops in Tangxi County, but he just put them in a small amount, only the cavalry of Wucheng and the garrison of the county seat, Zhao Siyang proposed that for this county town close to Jinhua Mansion, of course Zhang Qiang should also be strengthened, "Well, let Wei Wuji handle it, let him transfer another hundred households, and some prisoners to supplement." ”

Zhao Siyang said: "My lord, you have to prevent the enemy from using Nei Ying to break the city." ”

Zhang Qiang was very satisfied when he saw that Zhao Siyang, who was promoted, had such insights and improved the defense of Jinhua Mansion sentence by sentence, he needed such a talent.

The confrontation with the Manchu Qing is a long-term process, their own strength is still small, it is impossible for a person's head to take into account all aspects, there are too many generals in the Qing Dynasty, so many Ming Dynasty officials have surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, these officials do not want to serve the Ming Dynasty, but they surrender to the enemy, they can burst out tenfold, a hundred times the combat effectiveness, wisdom, Li Chengdong is to use the Qing army to deceive the gate of the Tingzhou Mansion, and kill and shoot the Longwu Emperor in the hall of the mansion, these people can not be guarded, these enemy tricks can not be guarded.

"Zhu Dayou, you organize some people to watch those county towns for me, and as soon as there is any trouble, immediately report to the local guard commander and let them deal with it." Zhang Qiang can only do so at present.

Hu Kui was originally in charge of intelligence and sentry work, but he was also a guard commander, and sometimes he couldn't do anything else, and his internal defense and external intelligence reconnaissance became weak, and he had no one available at the moment, so he could only use Zhu Dayou, whose ability was not too high.

After discussing some issues with Zhao Siyang about Jinhua Mansion and artillery, Zhang Qiang returned to Jinhua Mansion with his guards, and Zhu Dayou quickly announced the appointment of Zhao Siyang, and sent fast horses to inform Zhang Qiang's subordinates around of this appointment.

Jinhua Mansion, Zhu Mansion, this is also a relatively intact Jinhua architectural courtyard, just like the county government and the government office, because of the two Jinhua siege wars, many times become the key area of the Qing army siege, was destroyed by artillery fire and the Qing army in many places, has been dilapidated, although after two months of repair, still no longer complete and gorgeous at that time, Zhang Qiang can only take up his post in Zhu Mansion, Zhu Mansion as his office yamen.

Jin Sheng joined the prefect's yamen and became the highest-ranking civil official in Zhang Qiang's team.

At this time, the two were discussing the details of the battle of Taizhou Mansion.