Li Chengdong and Wang Deren have no choice, now that their father doesn't hurt and their mother doesn't love them, what do you let them do? You can only figure it out on your own.

The two finally finalized a contract with Tong Dawei for weapons, equipment and training of about one million taels of silver.

Li Chengdong had a large number of people, and asked for 1,000 broadswords, 2,000 spears, 4,000 shields, 2,000 short bows of the Qing army, 3,000 longbows of the Qing army, 3,000 crossbows of the Qing army and the Ming army, 1,000 shotguns of the Qing army, 1,000 guns of the Ming army, 4,000 arquebuses of the Huaxia army, 300 tiger squat cannons of the Qing army, 200 Furang machine guns of the Qing army, 50 cannons of the Qing army, 30 pieces of 1,500 jin of red-coated cannons, and 12 guns of 2,500 catties, all of which are not very much.

The Huaxia Army's Jingai 1 arquebus is slightly more expensive, thirty-five taels of silver per rod, these are all used by the Huaxia Army, retired, even if it is more expensive, it is also the same price as the arquebus that the Portuguese sold to the Qing army and the Ming army in the past than the Jingai 1, and it may be cheaper, and the two people also bought the arquebus in the Portuguese Where did they know that the most expensive time was a hundred taels of silver, do you want it yet.

The key is the artillery of the Huaxia Army, the artillery used by the Huaxia Army after the previous war with the Qing Army is basically eliminated by the Huaxia Army, the quality is good, complete, and the heavy artillery is placed at the head of the city, on the pass, so that the militia and garrison troops can use it, and the regular army is all equipped with new artillery, which is better in quality than before, lighter in weight, better in mobility, and has a longer firing range, and is also equipped with experimental flowering shells.

Each brigade of the Guards Brigade of the Huaxia Army is equipped with a new-style artillery brigade, each brigade of the field brigade is equipped with a new-style artillery battalion, and the other battalion is an old-style artillery battalion.

Nowadays, although the six-pounder gun is a little heavier than the three-pounder gun, the firing range can cover the range of 80 to 750 meters, compared with the addition of the three-pounder gun covering the range of 30 to 150 meters, the six-pounder gun is more economical, and the addition of a few more six-pounder guns will make the huge artillery unit a lot more streamlined, and more field brigade artillery will be formed.

The obsolete artillery, the old three-pounder and six-pounder guns were equipped with a small number of garrison troops, a garrison regiment had a hundred households, which was equivalent to a company of artillery, militia units, there were two companies of artillery at the brigade level, and the rest were put into warehouses and ready to be sold for money.

In this case, Tong Dawei, who had sold weapons and equipment to Longwu Nanming, the rebels in various places, and Yongli Nanming, had the unshirkable responsibility to do his old job and sell these weapons and equipment to the two.

Under the persuasion of Tong Dawei, Li Chengdong bought 80 three-pounder guns, 50 six-pounder cannons, and 30 nine-pounder cannons, not that he didn't want to buy more, these were much better than those that captured the Qing army and the Ming army, and even the Portuguese, but they were expensive, a three-pounder cannon reached 300 taels of silver, a six-pounder cannon 700 taels of silver, and a nine-pounder cannon of 1,000 taels of silver, which cost him 90,000 taels of silver, plus shells, the artillery was 120,000, and he had to pay training fees, that is, 150,000 taels of silver.

He bought those more than 300,000 taels of silver before, but now nearly 500,000 taels of silver went out, and he was very distressed.

And Wang Deren also bought about 500,000 taels of silver weapons and equipment and artillery, but the training fee was not much, because he was given by the imperial court, and his troops were originally scheduled to accept the change and training of the cavalry brigade.

Tong Dawei, who made a deal, was of course happy and returned drunk.

A few days later, the training began.

In the past, he didn't realize that he was an expert in training troops, because he himself was a halfway monk and surrendered to the Huaxia Army, but when he began training, whether it was the new cavalry brigade under Su Zhengqing, the new cavalry brigade under Wang Deren, or the 20,000 soldiers under Li Chengdong, they all advanced by leaps and bounds under the training of the training instructors of the cavalry brigade under his command.

This made him very happy, perhaps thanks to the conversation with Zhang Qiangqiang Governor when he left, in the conversation, he felt like he was sleepwalking, countless training scenes, like a movie, entered into his mind, he actually remembered those things, and some of the essentials could be quickly mastered.

He couldn't forget Zhang Qiang's bright eyes that shone with wisdom.

Day by day, the battle between the Southern Ming Kingdom and the Qing army never stopped, the battle of 100 people on both sides occurred from time to time on the border, the battle of 1,000 people also occurred once every ten days and half a month, and the battle of more than 10,000 people occurred once, this time the Ming army recovered three of the several county towns that were lost before, and pushed the border to the border of Guangxi and Guangdong.

Two and a half months have passed since the training of the Ming Army of the Southern Ming Kingdom, and the relationship between Tong Dawei and Li Chengdong and Wang Deren has become closer and closer, and he has also become friends with Su Zhengqing.

Su Zhengqing once fought side by side with Zhang Qiang, and the soldiers of the Huaxia Army could accept him, and the other soldiers of the Ming Army were very unhappy because they always looked like ruffians, or were high up on top, and looked like a master.

The Huaxia Army is not very popular in the Southern Ming Kingdom, because the theme of propaganda in the Southern Ming Kingdom is that the Qing Army is the most evil, and it is the culprit who seized the Ming Army, and the Huaxia Army is a chaotic minister and thief, and a rebellion that disobeys the emperor, but the leader of the Huaxia Army still takes care of the Ming Dynasty and contributes to the comeback of the Ming Dynasty, so it is an ally and a warlord who does not obey orders, and of course he will not give face to such a person.

Tong Dawei wrote down all these situations and reported them to Zhang Qiang, but in addition to praising him for his good job in arms trading, Zhang Qiang told him to do his own thing, be vigilant against Nanmingguo's attack, and then do his job well.

Tong Dawei was a little disappointed, he knew that these things were done by people from the Ministry of Military Intelligence, and he was a dog with a mouse to meddle in his affairs, and now the policy of Zhang Qiangdu, the Huaxia Army, he has done personal guards and knows, except for the Huaxia Army, the more chaotic the outside, the better, the Huaxia Army is now growing in population, prosperous business, and strong force, so it will not care about other places.

The reason why Zhang Qiang contributed money and people, and sometimes sent troops to help the Southern Ming Kingdom fight, was because the Southern Ming Kingdom was a controllable barrier that could help the Huaxia Army resist the intrusion of the Yongli Southern Ming or Qing Army on the border, so that the Huaxia Army had a stable development environment.

Now the Huaxia army is facing the Qing army across the Yangtze River, and the Qing army does not have such a powerful sailor who can rush across the Yangtze River and harass the Huaxia army, but the river fleet of the Huaxia army is more powerful than the Qing army, and they harass the Qing army is almost the same.

Today's Huaxia army territory is the West Lake singing and dancing when to rest, the wine to ask the sky, the smoke curling, a prosperous, peaceful and auspicious picture, I don't know how many people in the Southern Ming Kingdom and the people on the territory of the Qing army want to come over, become Huaxia people.

However, the Huaxia army controlled the border strictly, and the militia patrolled from time to time to inspect the villages, and outsiders, except for the merchants of the caravan, it was impossible for them to hide in the Huaxia country.

After the invitation failed, Tong Dawei continued to serve as the commander of his Fifth Cavalry Brigade, continued to carry out the important task of training soldiers of the Southern Ming Kingdom, and drank with Li Chengdong and Wang Deren in his spare time.

Through their mouths, they learned about the dynamics of the Southern Ming Kingdom and what was happening in other Ming territories.

(End of chapter)