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Eat Li Chun a little bit, Tutu Chenghuang also understood the importance of this trip, the mood is smooth, the people are also spiritual, after pondering it, they began to buy gifts for Li Maocai, Liaodong is not better than Huainan, where Li Mao is the family, he is a decoration, if you want not to be angry, you have to deal with the relationship first, there is a way to be polite, many people are not to blame, reach out and don't hit the gift giver, a big gift is sent up, forgive him Li Mao is not good to bully me again. There are almost all the books that sugar hua wants to read.,It's much more stable and updated faster than the general station.,There's no ads in the whole text.。

He has been in the emperor's house for a long time, has seen a lot of things, and is good at figuring out people's psychology, so the gifts prepared are different.

Tutu Chenghuang didn't go far away, I thought that in addition to Chang'an and Luoyang, the world is an animal paradise, and I went to Yangzhou to know that Datang is very big, and there are really a lot of good places, but he has no good impression of Liaodong, Liaodong has fallen to Hu Chen for a long time, and the smell is foul and barbaric, what can be good, this way, Tutu Chengguang has a heavy mood and worries step by step.

He is going to go to the East and Gao Erzhou not long ago was just a small ferry on the edge of the Liao River, even if now the grass chicken has become a phoenix into the state and county of the Tang Dynasty, it is also the same soil slag, Tutu Chengguang specially bought a good felt tent when he passed through Yingzhou, he heard that the Han people in Liaodong live in the cellar, the cellar he drilled, damp and dark, that is not a place for people to stay

Therefore, when he really arrived in Gaozhou, everything in front of him made him feel surprised, although the two states of East Gaozhou were far less than Chang'an and Luoyang, but they also initially had some city appearances, especially in Dongzhou, the city framework has been opened, although the tall city tower is still under construction, the surrounding city walls have already taken shape, the city is full of construction sites, lively and chaotic, and prosperous.

This city is backed by mountains and waters, built according to the topography, not as square as Chang'an, the streets and alleys are not straight, but the whole city is planned to be refreshing and refreshing, the streets are wide and flat, the main streets are paved with bluestone slabs, the small streets and alleys are paved with gravel, the drainage ditches on both sides of the streets and alleys are not as bare as Chang'an is facing the sky, but covered with bluestone slabs, neat and convenient.

The evergreen street trees on both sides of the street are neatly built, and the walls of the city are zigzag and twisted according to the topography. There are many shops in the center of each square, and the business is prosperous, but no shops are allowed to be opened in the rest of the square. The houses in the city are simple and practical, few of them are luxurious, but they are not even as good as the pig's nest as he imagined, and many residents have dug cellars in their homes, but they are not used to sleep, but to store food.

The whole city is not very high, not poor and sour, clean, refreshing, simple, and the mood of the sudden vomit Chengguang is slowly getting better. However, when he saw the Thorn Mansion, he didn't feel that his brows were twisted again, how could the dignified Thorn Mansion not even be as good as the county government in the mainland

His Prison Mansion and the Assassin's Mansion are side by side, only one square away, this is a newly built mansion, tall, magnificent, greatly beyond his expectations, Tu Tu Chengxuan is very satisfied with Li Mao's courtesy.

Li Mao didn't hate this tall eunuch, he was able to get out of Chang'an smoothly, and he was able to get out of Chang'an, and he couldn't have made a lot of contributions, if he hadn't ventilated the news and presented the Shence army for defense, he wouldn't have been able to get out so easily.

Tutu Chenghuang, the envoy of the prison army, in addition to liking to put on a show, bragging, greedy for money and lustful, has no other bad habits, of course, he is used to being a slave in the royal family, and he can't help but be contaminated with some lust for power, like to point fingers and show off, but that's all, after all, Liaodong is different from the mainland, and is always in a state of war, and there is no market for blind commanders who don't know how to pretend to understand. Read the full text of the latest chapter

Tu Tu Chengguang looks a little tall and stupid, but he is actually as careful as a hair and shrewd.

It will take time to build warships, and it will take time to train the navy after the formation of the army, during this time, Li Mao, in the name of the Liaodong Economic Envoy, took the Liao River as the axis and successively subdued more than 20 towns along the river, established close commercial and trade ties with them, and used this as a base to eliminate the forest tribes that threatened the trade routes.

The garrison of the Han strongholds on both sides of the Liao River was more than enough, but the initiative to attack was weak, and this war was a one-man show for Li Mao from the beginning.

Li Mao's intention was to use this war to train the new army and cooperate with the various strongholds, and another "sinister" intention was to cut off the possibility of peace between the strongholds along the river and the forest tribes, and completely tie them to his chariot.

In order to achieve this goal, this crusade battle was extremely bloody, and the two words that often appeared in Li Mao's orders to his subordinates were "destroy", which was used instead of the previously commonly used "break" and "crush".

The scattered forest tribes had been incompatible for hundreds of years, and it would be difficult to expect them to unite under temporary pressure.

The war began in favor of Li Mao, and remained so until the end of the war.

In this "long" and fierce war, three field corps and one garrison corps of the Anton Army were finalized.

The garrison corps is based on the original Qing Navy, and the main force is the 1st Guards Division, stationed in the core areas of Dongzhou, Gaozhou, and Tortoiseshell Mountain, with a gun in one hand and a hoe in the other;

The Second Division, headed by Zhu Jiu and Xue Veterans, developed into a waterway amphibious assault corps, with the Liao River as the axis passing through northern and northeastern Liaoning, and guarding the six divisions of Murowei in the north;

The Third Division, led by Xue Luoke and Shi Xiong, had both infantry and cavalry, both offensive and defensive, and used Tortoiseshell Mountain as a base to pass through southern Liaoning, guarding Liaodong City and coastal pirate groups;

The Fourth Division, headed by Ma Hedong and Huang Renfan, was formed into a mixed corps and was good at large-scale field battles. Based on Gaozhou, it passed through western Liaoning, and guarded the Zhu forces in Yingzhou and the Diera Department in the northwest.

The division of labor among the various armies was clear and coordinated with each other, and Li Mao authorized each division to allow it to develop on a rolling basis.

A fifth special forces regiment is also secretly being prepared, a special mercenary corps.

Not everyone of the barbarians who belonged to the Tang Dynasty was willing to naturalize the Tang Dynasty, they valued the immediate economic interests, and if they were advantageous, they would be the courtiers of the Tang Dynasty, and if they were unprofitable, they would rebel against the Tang Dynasty. There is not much loyalty to speak of, and Li Mao's attitude towards these people is to make good use of them.

The leader of this beast regiment should also be a beast, Mao Taigong is undoubtedly the most suitable person, Li Mao equipped him with two assistants, Mao Dayou and Wei Guanhai.

Mao Taigong's own family is thick-skinned, can withstand scolding, can stick to Mao Taigong like kraft candy, is good at borrowing strength, and is good at fox and fake tiger power, these advantages are convenient for Li Mao's actual control of this army.

Wei Guanhai's advantages are that he is cautious, not stubborn in trouble, knows how to advance and retreat, and is especially good at organizing retreats. With him, there is no chance that this army will be completely destroyed.

The first thing Li Mao did when he got up early every day was to practice, and after he finished the exercises, he went out of the city to the shipyard to check the progress of the construction of the battleship.

With the Liaohe River as the axis, the overwhelming naval army as the strong backup, and the eighteen fortresses on both sides of the Liaohe River as the support, the strategic core support belt of Liaodong was built, and the three main enemies fought a war of attrition that decided the fate of Liaodong.

This is a secret hidden in Li Mao's heart that he does not want to tell.

At the beginning of the morning, the three large warships have shown their magnificent faces, and the eyes of the future generations will open, these three warships are far from being strong, but considering the current technical level, it is enough to be described by the words "born out of thin air".

Before building the warship, Li Mao sent people to carefully survey the topography and hydrological conditions of the Liaohe River, and put forward new requirements for the design of the new warship that conformed to the actual battlefield conditions. The wooden rafts of the Khitans and the canoes of the Murowei people did not pose much threat to the large warships, the real threat was the arrows in their hands, they would place hemp ropes in some narrow sections of the river, go down the river piles, sink stone buildings, restrain the movement of large warships, and then suppress the sailors with superior bows and arrows, and then use wooden rafts or canoes to load warriors to board the ships and fight.

In response to the usual tactics of the Khitan and Murwei people, Li Mao boldly put forward his own concept, and he asked Jiang Haitong to add a dome cover to the new warship, then insert sharp blades into the hull, and then install several wheels on both sides of the hull.

This novel idea made Jiang Xiyuan, the assistant of Jiang Haitong, the shipbuilding director, dumbfounded, and the other two craftsmen also muttered, not daring to say it, but the expression was complaining that Li Mao didn't know how to pretend to understand, and the layman commanded indiscriminately.

But Jiang Haitong has seen a lot of knowledge after all, and he calculated Li Mao's suggestions in his heart, and although these suggestions are novel from a technical point of view, they are not impossible to realize.

He comforted his assistants and companions: "I don't know how to pretend to understand, you know how to build a ship, do you know how to fight, do you know how to fight the battle in Jiangnan, but you know how to fight the battle in Liaodong" Jiang Xiyuan waved the ruler and shouted unconvinced: "I don't know, but I have never seen a warship covered with a sharp blade, it is a hedgehog and a turtle"

Jiang Haitong was amused by his assistant's words, and he didn't want to explain anything, so he beckoned to the other two masters: "We don't care about the war, just talking about shipbuilding, can we build this kind of turtle ship full of long thorns and engines?"

A master said: "Turtle shell plus turbine, it's not a new thing, as long as you are willing to spend money, it won't be a problem to build it, but at the moment, it's too late to add turtle shells, and it's not a problem to add some thorns." ”

The four of them gathered together, stayed up all night to work out a set of plans, and when Li Mao came to the shipyard early in the morning of the second day, Jiang Haitong reported to Li Mao, but at this moment Li Mao had a new idea, he asked Jiang Haitong if he could cover the hull with a layer of iron and turn the wooden ship into an ironclad ship.

Jiang Xiyuan, Jiang Haitong's assistant and deputy director, finally couldn't help jumping up: "Since ancient times, have there been ships made of iron, ironclad ships, ships can also wear iron armor" Li Mao responded with a smile: "People can wear armor, horses can wear armor, why can't boats be bigger than people and horses, they should be able to wear heavier armor." ”

Jiang Xiyuan was speechless, Jiang Haitong groaned, and said for a long time: "The inland river boat is not as good as the sea boat, and it should be possible to cover the ship with iron armor, but this armor piece should not be too thick, and it should not be too thin, can we forge such a good iron in Liaodong?"

Li Mao asked Shikong to bring an iron shield, and gently tapped it with his hand, the iron shield made a crisp sound, Li Mao said proudly: "This is an iron shield that we mine by ourselves in Liaodong, smelt by ourselves, and forge by ourselves, and such a shield will be hung on the ship in the future, and the tenon nails are reserved on the hull, which can be hung with or without an iron shield."

Jianghai channel: "If it is to guard against the rockets of the Khitans, you can brush the hull with raw oil several times, which is not only lighter but also prevents the hull from rotting, isn't it lighter than hanging an iron shield."

Li Mao said with a smile: "Raw oil is to be brushed, and it needs to be brushed a few more times, but the iron shield must also be hung, and I have another use for hanging the iron shield." "Jianghai Channel:" In this way, it will be necessary to use large timber, increase the process, and the construction period may be delayed. ”

Li Mao said: "The construction period can't be missed, I will send you more manpower." ”

The reason why Li Mao insisted on hanging an iron shield on the battleship is not revealed, and outsiders do not know.

The matter was discovered by some spies lurking in Dongzhou, and quickly passed back to their respective headquarters, which was a very interesting game, Li Mao poured some red ink on the ground to lure the lurkers to gather and visit, and when they left, their feet were stained with red ink, and Li Mao followed the red footprints they left behind to touch their lair, or end it in one fell swoop, or lead it but not trigger, and the loser himself knew nothing.

There is a small inconspicuous market town on the north side of the Anton Army's Commander's Mansion, and every day there is an endless stream of people coming and going here, they are dressed in various costumes and speak in various accents, but they all belong to a common organization, the Anton Army Guards and the Right Wing of the Army. This is the base camp of the right wing, and there are two battalions in the right wing, but there are not many people who appear here, and most of them are scattered outside, acting as Li Mao's eyes and ears, and detecting the information from all parts of Liaodong regardless of whether it is good or bad.

The left-behind personnel classify and analyze this information, extract useful information, and report it to the principal, who then decides on its specific use.

This whole set of work processes is completely a clone of the copper tiger head, Li Mao's right wing of the pro-army and the right wing of the Yangdao army are the same, they are all excellent intelligence systems, naturally speaking of excellence, it also depends on who you compare with, compared with the copper tiger head of Ziqing, the Longxiang camp of Chang'an, and the Wufang Division, it is inevitably a little inferior, but I don't know how much it will be compared with the Khitan Khan's Tanma and the scouts of the Murowei people.

It can also turn around the high-level ears and eyes sent by the King of Silla and the King of Balhae.

The master of the right chamber will be Qin Mo, Li Mao's most trusted confidant, but Qin Mo's out-of-the-box personality is not suitable for cumbersome and meticulous intelligence affairs, so the actual principals in the right chamber are Qin Fengmian, Li Taitai and Zeng Zhen.

Qin Mo coordinates under his name, and is not in charge of specific affairs, and the three of them skip the level to find Chang Mucang instead of Qin Mo when they encounter indecidable matters.

Qin Fengmian and Li Taitai are all old people with copper tiger heads, Qin Fengmian's real name is Zheng Wei, and he is Zhang Jingjiu's right-hand man, Li Mao's intelligence system was blank after he arrived in Liaodong, and it was too time-consuming and energy-consuming to start a new stove, and what he lacked most was time and energy, so he discussed with Zhang Jingjiu in Taiyuan and asked him to help.

Zhang Jingjiu is a real person, and with an order, his branch in Youzhou was transplanted to Liaodong. This is the "Youzhou Tribulation" that once shook the Longxiang camp, the branch of the Longxiang camp in Youzhou was connected overnight, and the steward Zheng Wei and all the backbones disappeared without a trace, and they did not know where to go.

Li Taitai was one of Li Mao's assistants in Chang'an, and after Li Mao left Liaodong, he was ostracized, so he came to vote. Li Taitai has no other points, that is, he is loyal and reliable, and he is down-to-earth and hardworking, which Li Mao values the most.

Zeng Zhen was originally Li Mao's bridge to communicate with the right wing, Li Mao saw that she was doing things safely, so he gradually let her contact the right wing, Zeng Zhen temperament is feminine and resolute, after so many years of beating, washed away the lead, only to see her true face, but also a scheming like the sea, a person with faith and ambition, she was born to do this line of materials.

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