It is possible to come to China again within two months, and this speed is still very much expected by Zhu Jinglun, because Adolf is coming, which means that the cannon is coming. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

But before that, you have to do your job.

The most important task is not the tax revenue of Xin'an, but the defense of the Pearl River Estuary.

The matter of the battery is handed over to those engineers, and then the soldiers who will fight in the future will have to solve it themselves.

To defend the Pearl River Estuary, the main thing is to rely on the fort, and of course it is the artillery that operates the fort.

Over the past year or so, Zhu Jinglun has not relaxed the training and training of the army, and as long as he has time, he will run to the barracks, basically once a day or two, and no more than once every three or five days at most.

At present, military training must be carried out every day, queue training in the morning, design training in the afternoon, and training combining queue and shooting in the evening, at present, nearly 3,000 infantry have been able to do the loading and design on the march, in Zhu Jinglun's view, the technology is no different from the soldiers of the British and French forces.

The problem with the infantry is not big, but there is a problem with the artillery.

A big reason why Zhu Jinglun's infantry training went smoothly was that there was a group of experienced Indian soldiers as officers, but the artillery was not so lucky.

While in Canton, he did take advantage of the problem of the crow and recruit a group of Irish artillery officers. These officers were honest at first, and even in the manholes, they bombarded the landing force under the command of Sima Migoli with artillery. However, when the battle ended, Zhu Jinglun transferred them back to Xin'an, and recruited some Chen family disciples to learn how to operate the cannon with them. As a result, within a few months, these mercenaries fled en masse.

It's no wonder that Hong Kong is opposite Xin'an, and with the reopening of trade on the docks, there are many British ships coming in and out, so they can leave easily. Even if they planned to leave in the open, it was impossible for Zhu Jinglun to stop them. As a result, after receiving their third month's salary, they disappeared overnight.

The children of the Chen family, who had studied with them for less than two months, had basically just mastered the loading technique, and their mathematical ability was not very good, and they could not even understand the principle of the sighting device, and the instructor was gone.

Zhu Jinglun couldn't do anything about this situation, those Irish artillerymen returned to Hong Kong, and they joined the British army again, still holding military salaries, and no longer smoking big cigarettes, and continued to use the British army's crow tincture, at this time, even eight cows couldn't pull them back.

Hiring them for a few months, not only did they not train their own artillery, but it was likely that they took away some military intelligence from Xin'an, and the deal was a loss.

Without instructors, it is impossible to recruit from Hong Kong, Zhu Jinglun fortunately let these Chen family children explore by themselves, anyway, there are cannons and shells, let them experiment slowly, and they can always find the law.

But there is a clever ghost who really figured out how to use the cannon sight ruler, as for whether it is the same as the foreigner, I don't know, in short, he has summed up a set of methods by himself, and the effect is good.

Zhu Jinglun only knew when he asked that this child was not a descendant of the Chen family, but just a branch, the economic situation of the family was average, and the family had carpentry skills, probably often using carpentry straightening tools, so that he knew some geometric knowledge better than other children, of course, these knowledge was limited to some mantras passed down from generation to generation in the carpentry industry, and there was no theoretical knowledge of geometric theory.

It's good to be able to use it, it's good to have a literate little carpenter, Zhu Jinglun simply appointed him as the commander of the artillery regiment and let him be responsible for training other Chen family children, at this time he had already compiled the methods he had mastered into a mantra and taught it to others, and he was practicing hard.

Once the battle started, these Chen family children were not the best artillery, but they could barely be used, but the number was too small, and the small carpenter was only eleven people, so it was impossible to defend the fortress group composed of forty main guns, so it was imperative to continue to expand the scale of artillery.

It is not difficult to recruit people, the practice of manholes can be recruited by the Hakka people, as long as they give money, they don't have to worry about no one. The worry is that there is no reliable person, the last time the British army attacked the manhole, the thousands of coolies left by Zhu Jinglun basically did not play a role, and most of them fled directly, and the rest were directly driven back to Guangzhou by Zhu Jinglun.

Zhu Jinglun had fought with the British army in the East Fort, and knew how powerful the British artillery fire was, and under that kind of powerful artillery fire, it was unrealistic to expect the soldiers who had just put down their hoes to pick up arms to fight.

Zhu Jinglun was convinced that once some peasants were recruited to the fort, even if they did not escape, they probably would not have the courage to brave the artillery fire to confront the British fleet, and this was not only a matter of courage, but also a question of battlefield experience.

Zhu Jinglun has considered this question more than once, the children of the Chen family in Shajing are reliable, the British are about to kill all the young people in their clan, they have a deep blood feud with the British army, they naturally will not escape, and they have already fought with the British, and they can't be afraid.

But the Chen family's consumption last time was too great, and it seemed too unkind to recruit people from their family, and Chen Zhiting would never agree, he couldn't really let the Shajing Chen family cut off their heirs, and let the ancestral ancestral hall cut off the incense.

It is impossible to recruit the children of the Chen family, so where to find an artillery soldier who dares to fight the foreigners and will never escape?

After thinking about it, it wasn't until the Swedes came that Zhu Jinglun had an idea.

This time he planned to go to the Kowloon Peninsula to recruit people, he remembered that the last time he sent troops to threaten Hong Kong, besieged Wei to rescue Zhao and rescued the siege of Shajing, some local clans in Kowloon were very active, this time he planned to recruit these people, and he would make these people not take a step back even if they died in battle.

"Fang Shan, you go to Kowloon City and recruit soldiers from various nearby villages and clans, remember, the soldiers recruited this time must be literate. If you have math skills, well, you can do math, and these people are recruited first. Military salaries are paid according to our military salaries. When recruiting, we also have to tell them that we plan to recover Hong Kong! ”

Zhu Jinglun knew last time that the reason why those clans were active was because they had land disputes with the British government in Hong Kong, and land was the lifeblood of these clans and squires, and some of their landlords and clans could not recover their land in Hong Kong, which was enough to make them hate the British to death.

Therefore, once it is said that the government intends to recover Hong Kong, it will definitely attract a large number of clans to participate. However, this is just a smoke bomb released by Zhu Jinglun, with this smoke bomb alone, it is impossible for him to let these clan disciples fight to the death, so Zhu Jinglun will have other means later, as for what it is, there is no need to tell Fang Shan for the time being, otherwise it is estimated that Fang Shan will not understand.