Seeing that the other party was soft, Yang Xuan was overjoyed in his heart, and returned the salute, and after everyone sat back down, he said: "Saving soldiers is like fighting fire, this, of course I know, but in addition to fighting the general's strategy, the skillfulness of the formation, and the bravery of the soldiers, I think it is more money and food." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

This time, Lord Wang, the governor of the four provinces, sent Lord Qian Bangqi Qian as the supervisor of the army, and ensured through Lord Qian that the loyal and righteous army was loyal to the court and to my Ming Dynasty.

Through Lord Fan, I will ensure that the military needs of my loyal and righteous army are safe, and that my soldiers have no worries.

Two adults, is this the intention of Lord Wang? ”

The two glanced at each other, quickly stood up, and didn't dare to say anything.

Yang Xuan motioned for everyone to sit down, and said with a smile: "Don't be too humble, two adults, I said in advance that we should be honest with each other, work together in the same boat, and share weal and woe, I said that I don't mean anything else, I just hope so."

As the saying goes, the soldiers and horses go first before the grain and grass are moved, and I think that the governor of the four provinces, Lord Wang, is currently lacking grain and grass, and my loyal army is also lacking grain and grass.

Although the officials resettled the displaced people through the Guantun, Juntun, and Mintun, and the place was settled, the people were not completely stable, and the people could not live and work in peace and contentment.

Guang'an Prefecture and Nanchong County have just been recovered, the localities are not stable, there are still some remnants of the rogue soldiers in the locality, some bandits need to exterminate some treacherous people are waiting to see and see, waiting for an opportunity to make a comeback, the government is establishing grassroots organizations in the past few months, is rehousing the homeless, is carrying out farming, and is implementing a new policy.

In addition, it is now spring ploughing, it is really not suitable to use soldiers and horses on a large scale, if so, Shunqing and Dazhou will inevitably be unstable.

If the rogue launches a large-scale counterattack in the future, I may not be able to protect Shunqing. ”

Qian Bangqi suppressed the dissatisfaction in his heart, and arched his hand: "My lord, what you said is the right way, and what you said is good." However, the matter was urgent, the war situation was critical, and the governors of the four provinces strictly ordered the governors to lead their subordinates down the river to flank the people of Chongqing. ”

Yang Xuan said with a smile: "Lord Qian, don't get excited, I said that it is not appropriate to use troops on a large scale, not that you can't use soldiers."

Speaking of Governor Ma Qianma, Adjutant General Zeng Ying claimed to have 100,000 troops, although 100,000 is exaggerated, but in any case, there are still 30,000.

Governor Ma Gan, General Zeng Ying has just occupied Chongqing, and the morale of his troops is booming, while our loyal and righteous army is only more than 5,000 people, and we still have to hold such a large territory.

Sending troops to attack Zhang Wenxiu is beyond my power, but if I send a partial division to harass and harass, it is not impossible. ”

Qian Bangqi thought for a while, nodded and said: "What the lord said is good, now that the situation has changed, the old man expects that the governor of the four provinces, Wang Yingxiong, and General Zeng Ying also mean this." ”

Yang Xuan said with a smile: "In this case, I only need to make a little more powerful and send a surprise army to make the Liukou feel the threat of northern Sichuan, so that the goal of containment will be achieved." ”

Qian Bangqi nodded, and arched his hand: "You, you didn't say it earlier, if you said it earlier, how could the old man argue with you?" ”

Yang Xuan smiled, confessed his guilt, and immediately said his plan, that is, to send the water army battalion, Yao Zhijiao's 3rd Battalion of the Infantry Army, and the Ma Chao Cavalry Battalion down the river, advancing by land and water, bluffing, and containing Zhang Wenxiu's army in the name of attacking Hezhou.

After more than a month of hard work, more than hundreds of young and strong men who live on the banks of the Jialing River all year round have been recruited from various battalions and wharves in various places, and the water battalion was officially formed ten days ago.

The navy can be said to be where Yang Xuan's hard work is, in order to form a navy, it can be said that he spared no effort, Yang Xuan will capture the precious Furlong machine guns, tiger squat guns are installed on the battleship, in order to ensure the power of the battleship.

In the past, due to the lack of artillery in the army, some warships only installed one, and at most only installed two tiger squat guns, this time a total of 20 Furlong cannons were captured, and Yang Xuan pressed all of them on the Flying Tiger battleship.

Due to the small size of the Flying Tiger and the single-deck size, it was impossible to install guns on both sides of the battleship like a sea ship, but only one Furlong cannon at the bow and stern and three Tiger squat guns on each side of the battleship.

The Franc cannon can be rotated 90 degrees through the gun mount to shell enemies from a distance.

Considering that the Tiger Squat Gun is a front-loading gun and the firing speed is very slow, Yang Xuan plans to convert the Furlong cannon in the bow and stern of the ship into a large Furlong cannon in the future, and the Tiger Squat Cannon on both sides into the No. 3 Furlong cannon.

The Franc cannon is a typical rear-loading gun, first put the ammunition into the sub-gun, when firing, the sub-gun is loaded into the mother gun, and the fire rope can be ignited, so simple to change the equipment, the firing speed is more than doubled.

In addition, the battleship is also equipped with 10 bird guns, several rockets, and several barrels of sky-shaking thunder to shoot targets at close range.

At present, the Loyal Army has two gunboat brigades, each of which has five Flying Tiger warships, so that there are a total of ten Flying Tiger warships.

The Loyal Army also has 2 sampan boat brigades, each with about 10 sampan boats.

The sampan is about seven meters long and two and a half meters wide, with five oars on each side, a total of four tiger squat guns, and a captain and a helmsman and 10 sailors. (The sampan ship of the Hunan army pressed four small guns)

Taking into account the rate of fire, the Tiger Squat Cannon on the future sampan ship will also be replaced with the No. 3 Furlong Cannon.

In addition to the two gunboat brigades and the two sampan boat brigades, the navy also has a transport brigade, with a total of more than 20 large and small clippers, each ship has 1 captain and 4 sailors, and can load 50 loads of grain and grass to ensure the military needs of the army.

Hearing that this time only a battalion of infantry troops, a battalion of naval troops, and a battalion of cavalry were dispatched, which made Qian Bangqi really unbearable, thinking that the troops were too small to contain the other party.

After several explanations, after Yang Xuan promised to capture Hezhou, although Qian Bangqi was quite unconvinced, he did not say anything.

That night, Yang Xuan set up a banquet to entertain Qian Bangxin, Fan Wenguang and others, eight people on the table, eight dishes and one soup, looking at the things served, Qian Bangxin couldn't help frowning secretly.

The first was a bowl of tiger meat, Yang Xuan introduced that this was a month ago that the soldiers of the first battalion went out hunting and caught it, and they were all dried as military food.

Ten days ago, Fan brought 20 catties, and today Qian Bangxin and Fan Wenguang came, and they specially ordered the kitchen to cook 5 catties.

Tiger meat is a treasure in ancient times, this time to northern Sichuan Qian Bangxiong, Fan Wenguang also encountered tigers on the road, but now I see that the first dish is actually tiger meat, and I am surprised again and again, especially Fan Wenguang, who praised this battalion is always a tiger general.

Yang Xuan smiled, shook his head and said, "Brother Fan has won the prize, if the tiger killed is a tiger general, I think the brothers in each battalion will be very arrogant."

In recent years, natural disasters have continued, the climate is abnormal, there are many tigers in northern Sichuan, and there are more than 30 tigers killed by the loyal and righteous army every year. ”

Fan Wenguang didn't believe it at first, but when Yang Xuan promised to get a tiger skin for each of them at that time, he would make a coat to wear in winter.

Fan Wenguang expressed his gratitude repeatedly, while Qian Bangxin thought with a straight face that the gift was too expensive and that he would have to spend money to buy it anyway.

Yang Xuan acted as an intermediary, and the two of them each spent ten taels of silver to buy two tiger skins from the guard camp.

Then, what came up was wild bear meat, when Yang Xuan sandwiched a bear paw in the bowl of Qian Bangqi and Fan Wenguang, although Qian Bangqi's eyes were shining, he still shook his head again and again: "Zixiu, your enthusiasm is very good, but, but now there are natural disasters for many years, coupled with the rebellion of the rogue and the local tyrants, the people are not clothed, you invite us to eat bear paws, this, this is really not good." ”

Zhao Sixuan, the same governor of Shunqing Mansion next to him, said with a smile: "Don't be surprised by the supervision of the army, natural disasters continue in other places, and the soldiers live a difficult life, but the general leads the troops in a good way, and sees that there are many birds and beasts in the deep mountains and old forests, and the soldiers of each battalion go into the mountains to encircle and suppress."

This wild bear or something, it should have been fought by soldiers in the mountains, and it wasn't bought outside with money. ”

Shi Jinchen next to him pursed his lips and said: "I haven't seen with my own eyes how General Yang Shen led his troops to fight, but the life of the loyal and righteous army is indeed different from other departments.

The soldiers of the loyal and righteous army went into the mountains to hunt every once in a while, and the soldiers had to eat several meals every month for tiger meat, bear meat, venison or something.

From time to time, the brigades of the Loyal and Righteous Army went down to the river to fish, not only crucian carp and carp, but also crabs and mussels in the river.

In the past, the old man saw that the soldiers in each barracks were all rugged, but the soldiers of the Loyal and Righteous Army were not like this, and they were all very strong. ”

Qian Bangqi complained that there were too many delicacies and wild game in the mountains, and it was too wasteful to eat these things.

And Fan Wenguang praised again and again, and praised Yang Xuan for leading the troops well.

Shi Jinchen smiled, secretly thinking about how to sue the complaint.