In the conference room, everyone sat on both sides of the long table, and several people who knew each other chatted with each other, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

The door was pushed open, and the unique voice of the young man in Chengfeng sounded: "Handsome! ”

Suddenly, everyone in the conference room stopped talking and stood up in a neat position. The right fist slammed into the left chest.

The sound of Changxing's military salute sounded neatly in the conference room, and everyone's eyes looked out of the door, only to see Zhang Dou walking into the conference room in military uniform.

He came to the end of the bookcase and stood still, said with both hands, "Please be seated!" ”

"Xie Dashuai!" The congregation replied neatly, and then straightened up.

"It's a wind! Let's go! Zhang Dou saw that everyone was doing a good job, and nodded to Cheng Feng beside him and said.

Cheng Feng saluted and came to the opposite wall. Reaching out to pull open the curtain above, a map outside the Daming Pass was revealed.

The Changsheng Island on the map has been marked red, the Ming Dynasty's controlled area is yellow, and the Jurchen-controlled area is marked green.

In the Fuzhou area of the Liaodong Peninsula, many red arrows were drawn, and Jinzhou was also marked with blue arrows, so that people could see the purpose of the meeting at a glance.

Cheng Feng picked up a bamboo cane and said in Fuzhou: "According to reliable news from the shadows, Mao Wenlong of Dongjiang Town is going to capture Jinzhou in late February and early March. In March, our Changxing Army will take advantage of the time when Fuzhou sends troops to Jinzhou to capture Fuzhou and cut off Mang Gurtai's return route.

As long as Fuzhou is controlled by the Changxing Army, the entire Liaodong Peninsula will be under the control of Changsheng Island.

Jinzhou in the south is no longer a problem, even if it is occupied by Mao Wenlong, it doesn't matter. As long as the Lushunkou in the south of Jinzhou is occupied, Jinzhou can be pinned down in the north and south, and as long as the Changxing army is willing, Jinzhou can be recovered at any time.

Conquering the Liaodong Peninsula, the Changxing Army will no longer only control Changsheng Island. In the future, it is necessary to use this place to radiate its influence to Gaizhou, build this place into a strong fortress, and let the Jurchens shed their last drop of blood. ”

After Cheng Feng finished speaking, he looked at the generals who were doing it, and when he saw that the others had no objections, he continued: "Fuzhou Mang Gurtai has 10,000 Jurchen Eight Banners and Blue Banners, and there are about 5,000 Jurchens in other banners. There are also 30,000 people in the Han army banner, and after more than a year of Mang Gurtai, more than 20 Zhuang forts have been established on the periphery of Fuzhou.

Over here! Over here! In addition, strong forts have been built here, so the difficulty of this attack is not small! Cheng Feng said, saluting everyone sitting here, and retreated behind Zhang Dou.

Zhang Dou glanced at the general who was doing and said, "If you have any questions, just say it, you must know yourself and your opponent before the war." ”

After speaking, Zhang Dou looked at the people seated, and Hu Tieniu said directly with a big grin: "Handsome! Brothers just do it with you, as long as you give an order, Lao Hu and I will be the first to rush forward, and I will never frown! ”

Zhang Dou shook his head and smiled bitterly when he heard this, he didn't want to make decisions for his subordinates in everything. Now when the Changxing Army is still small, it is completely feasible, once the Changxing Army needs to fight on multiple fronts in the future, it can't divide itself into two halves!

The generals under him must be trained, otherwise they will end up with Zhuge Liang and Napoleon in the future.

Before each battle, Napoleon had to write a letter to his generals, which would be detailed enough to clearly state what formation to use in each battle, and what position and coordination were required of each branch of the army, such as musketeers.

This has caused the generals to be rigid in their thinking and not to adapt to changes at all. None of his generals, except Davout, had the ability to command the army to adapt to changing circumstances, which led to the crushing defeat of Waterloo.

Zhuge Liang is even more exaggerated, after becoming the prime minister of Shu State, even such a trivial matter as beating soldiers with twenty military sticks needs to be personally instructed.

The final result of a person like him can only be to die with all his might, and then he will die of exhaustion, and his Shu Kingdom will also perish.

Zhang Dou never wants such a thing to happen to him, he wants everyone who is doing it to speak freely, and he wants everyone to learn to think.

It doesn't matter if it fails twice, the current Changxing Army can afford to fail, and it is no longer the trembling appearance of Changsheng Island at the beginning.

Seeing that no one spoke except Hu Tieniu, Zhang Dou looked at Qin Shi, his own brother.

Seeing Zhang Dou's gaze, Qin Shi cleared his throat and said, "Handsome! Jiannu's fort is gradually becoming stronger, we can bombard it with heavy artillery, as long as we can transport the heavy artillery to the city, we will be able to smash Jiannu's tortoise shell! ”

When everyone sitting heard Qin Shi's words, their eyes lit up. They have all seen the effect of heavy artillery siege, and the original strong Nagasaki was also smashed by the early sun cannon to collapse the city wall.

For a while, everyone had a heated discussion about how to use heavy artillery, and after a while, several methods of attacking the city with heavy artillery were summed up.

Zhang Dou saw that everyone was talking enthusiastically, and nodded to Zhang Wei. Zhang Wei, who was sitting on the side and did not speak, got up and said, "Ladies and gentlemen! Shadow got the latest news, and Huang Taiji got a lot of craftsmen who could forge cannons from the Great Ming.

Artillery is currently being forged day and night, and although their guns are heavy and small-calibre, they still have some power for defense. According to the information obtained by the Shadow, there are hundreds of artillery pieces in the Fuzhou area alone, and artillery is installed in almost every Zhuangbao. There are more than a dozen, and there are three or five less! ”

After Zhang Wei finished speaking, he sat down, continued to treat himself as a shadow, and no longer paid attention to the stunned crowd.

"His mother's, Jiannu, this is smashing pots and selling iron cast cannons! Where did they get so much iron? Could it be that iron ore has been discovered in Jiannu? Hu Tieniu's loud voice sounded in the conference room, and everyone who was doing it looked at each other with angry faces.

Everyone understands in their hearts that there is only one place that can sell so much iron to Jiannu~ Shanxi.

The Jin merchants had formed a force in the Ming Dynasty, smuggling goods to enemies outside the Guan, and then exchanging gold and silver from the enemies for Ming blood.

They then use the gold and silver to subsidize those poor and potential scholars, and once these scholars reach high school, their influence in the court will be a little greater.

The power of the Jin merchants was huge, and it was even more intertwined in the court. After Huang Taiji conquered Guangning Fort, he sold the goods directly to the Jurchens.

The Changxing army was helpless against the Jin merchants, with the Jurchens and the Ming in the middle, even if Zhang Dou's hand was long, he couldn't touch the Jin merchants.

After Hu Tieniu finished scolding, he said: "Since they also have artillery, this battle will not be easy to fight." The range of the early sun cannon is too close, and it will be knocked out before it retreats to the range. If you want to talk nonsense, it is better to dig tunnels and blast the city walls.

Xiucai's idea is good, if it weren't for Lao Hu's gunpowder not enough last time, he would have blown up the city wall of Wangzhuang a long time ago! ”

His words lit up the eyes of everyone present, and then someone said: "Although Lao Hu's method is good, it is not easy to excavate the many mountains and rocks in Fuzhou. Once Fuzhou cannot be taken quickly, the battle of the Jurchens to increase troops will be even more difficult to fight! ”

Liu Xitian of the artillery team said again: "Can we dig a larger trench and put the artillery in it." That way, we'll be able to safely advance the Sunrise Cannon through the trenches to the city! ”

Dig trenches for artillery? Will this work?