Jizhou camp, Xu Tianxiang and Li Xuanqing stared at Zhu Quanzhong's intelligence on the southern front and smiled, Xu Tianxiang put the information on the table and said with a smile: "Lord, if Zhu Quanzhong tastes the sweetness of coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes this time, maybe he will make persistent efforts, and the tens of thousands of fish belly troops in Shipu will not be the opponent of the Xuanwu army at all, I feel that Zhu Quanzhong's 150,000 army will not stay in the Xuzhou area for more, and will definitely go south quickly along the canal to equal those large and small separatist forces in Huainan, Thus establishing the dominance of the Xuanwu Army north of the Huai River. Taking Huaibei not only has greater strategic depth, but also can obtain the human, material and financial resources of Huainan, so that we can have the capital to reflexively compete with us for the dominance of the world. ”

Li Xuanqing nodded, he knew Zhu Quanzhong's thoughts well, but coercing the Son of Heaven to make the princes might be effective for other feudal forces, but it had little effect for the Tiance Army, which was also the reason why the Xuanwu Army and the Tiance Army basically didn't play this card when they were fighting, in addition to the strong strength, Li Xuanqing's clan identity was a headache for everyone.

"My lord, what do you mean by these lines and arrows?" Xu Tianxiang saw Li Xuanqing drawing countless lines and arrows on the large Tang panorama newly hung behind him, and leaned over and asked.

"This is the strategic goal of our Tiance Army. If it weren't for Zhu Quanzhong's painstaking management over the years, maybe the Central Plains would be the same as Caizhou, thousands of miles of uninhabited. Li Xuanqing put down his pen and sighed and said: "So our goal in the next step is actually similar to Zhu Quanzhong, he beats his Huainan, and we fight ours, looking at each other across the river, but we will not easily use swords." ”

"What do you mean?" Xu Tianxiang was a little surprised by what Li Xuanqing said.

"It's very simple, the next step is to prepare to go south to Sichuan, and take this country of abundance into our hands, and we will have an endless stream of war potential and financial resources." Li Xuanqing nodded and said: "The terrain of Sichuan is closed, the rebellion in the Central Plains basically did not affect the central Sichuan region, and the two Tubo invasions and the rebellion of Nanzhao were also quickly quelled, so this can be regarded as a paradise." If we take Sichuan, we will win a super logistics base. And if you look at the territory of our Tiance Army, what does it look like if it is connected? It is a semi-circular encirclement. If you add another short board, it is all surrounded. ”

Xu Tianxiang frowned and said: "My lord, although this territory is conducive to us outflanking the enemy, it is actually conducive to Zhu Quanzhong's central breakthrough. Once the main force of our army is pinned down on both sides, it is very likely that it will be completely cut into two pieces by a black tiger on the other side. ”

"There is a natural danger of this before a new mode of transport takes shape, but the era of rail transport has already begun. After the opening of the Yining line, the Department of Railways also officially took up his post and began to be responsible for the construction of all railways in the country. The next step is to build a long horizontal railway line along the Yellow River, running through all our areas, so that the army can be quickly deployed by rail when necessary, and achieve the goal of multi-point war. Li Xuanqing smiled slightly, the construction of railways in this era was too affected by the terrain, unlike later generations who could almost ignore the obstacles of mountains and rivers, but after he delegated the right to use black powder to Yang Yi, it became much easier. In fact, what really needs to be considered is the river's constraints on new bridge construction technologies. However, Li Xuanqing has nothing to do about this, bridge technology is not his specialty, so he can only wait for the maturity of the technology slowly, fortunately, the Qiaoxi shipyard is progressing very quickly, and it is always possible to go directly to the ferry when the time comes.

"Then do you want to prepare in advance to strengthen the strength of the Hanzhong Corps?" Xu Tianxiang also has nothing to say about railway transportation, but this novel way subverts all previous cognitions. So I thought about it and prepared in advance.

Li Xuanqing nodded and said with a smile: "It's to make preparations, but it's not Hanzhong's side, Hanzhong is close to the Chang'an base camp, as long as we make a move, Wang Jian and Li Maozhen will be able to detect it immediately, or wait until this battle is over, and transfer part of the army to garrison Guanzhong in the name of returning to the rear to rest." In fact, we have to prepare in the southeast. ”

"Southeast? What does the southeast prepare? Xu Tianxiang didn't understand for a while, and asked in a daze.

"Okay, anyway, it's not a big deal now, there are two front-line battles, Chen Fan and Tiancheng, and they will deal with any emergencies on the north and south fronts. I asked Qiaoxi to take Yang Fuyao over, let's go to Yingzhou today to have a look, I heard that the shipyard's first ship was laid with a keel today. Li Xuanqing didn't pay attention to this guy, and when he walked out of the big tent, he saw that Qiaoxi was already standing outside quietly with an eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl, waiting for them.

"I've kept you waiting, Miss Yang. Tianxiang is in the big tent, you go to him. Li Xuanqing stopped Yang Fuyao from saluting him, and said with a smile: "I have asked him to be responsible for accompanying Miss Yang to Yingzhou today, although the north is still cold in spring, but there is a different scenery, and it is also interesting to travel in early spring." ”

Yang Fuyao was blushing at Li Xuanqing's straightforward words, but then found the smile on the other party's face, and suddenly he was no longer shy, but bowed to Li Xuanqing generously, turned around and walked towards the big tent.

"Qiaoxi, let's go, let the two of them think about where to go for themselves." Li Xuanqing smiled when he saw Qiaoxi's stunned look.

"Big brother mean to let the two of them be alone?" Qiaoxi came back to her senses and said with a smile as she walked with Li Xuanqing.

"When the war in the north is over, let Mr. Cen propose to Tianxiang and get married as soon as possible. and Chen Yu's, hasn't his party girl also been punished for almost a year, and this time he did it together. Li Xuanqing is like the head of a big family, counting the lifelong events of his sworn brothers.

"I feel like we can open a matchmaking agency." Qiaoxi was also amused by Li Xuanqing's funny look, and after getting on the horse with him, he accelerated and rushed out of Jizhou City with the guards, and said with a smile: "Many of these people are single, I think this deal is worth it." ”

"What about Sister Feixue? Who is Big Brother going to introduce her to? I heard that the third brother Murong is worried every day that his sister can't get married. Qiaoxi suddenly remembered and smiled.

"This girl? Forget it. Li Xuanqing shook his head and said, "It's too shrewd, and it's too picky, let's let Murong have a headache by himself." ”

Regarding Murong Feixue, in fact, the Murong family intended to let her get close to Li Xuanqing just to think if she could let Li Xuanqing marry again after Qiaoxi, and the relationship between herself and Qiaoxi is also very good, it stands to reason that it doesn't matter if Li Xuanqing marries, it's just that Qiaoxi and Li Xuanqing are newly married Yan'er, plus Li Xuanqing is a lot indifferent to the concept of three wives and four concubines, and the previous Tubo princess has pushed it, so everyone can't say anything, even Murong Feixue herself gradually calmed down, and concentrated on opening factories everywhere with Qiaoxi to do business.

Qiaoxi blinked her big eyes when she heard Li Xuanqing say this, and suddenly laughed to herself, ignoring Li Xuanqing's different gaze, and changed the topic: "Today is the day when the first ship in the shipyard starts construction, does the eldest brother have any plans?" ”

"There is a plan, but there is no talent." Li Xuanqing smiled bitterly and said: "I have already asked Huanjiu to set off back to Chang'an to pick up Senior Brother Han Xun to come to Yingzhou, and I plan to open a naval branch of the Military Academy, but from top to bottom, there are few people who are familiar with naval warfare, even if they are familiar with water." This large number of plans are on the table but there is no way to implement them, you say it is not difficult. ”

"So the eldest brother is ready to hit Brother Xu with his idea to see if the long-distance fleet he formed can have any new performances?" Qiaoxi said with a smile: "But it is not an overnight matter to form a navy, and it is useless to rush this matter." If you really can't find it, you can only cultivate it slowly. I remember that the classics of those imperial palaces captured by Brother Hu last time didn't record a lot of naval tactics and naval battles? Brother Han should have researched something during this time, right? ”

Li Xuanqing nodded and said: "The tactics and naval battles recorded in the classics do exist, and even the Baijiangkou naval battle of Liu Renliang a hundred years ago is there, but the iron-hulled ships we use, and the new weapons on the equipment side are almost successful. ”

The remarks of the two are not comparable to those of this era, so when they talked to each other about these things that transcended the times along the way, and they were thinking about how to solve the talent gap brought about by new weapons, Yingzhou City was also in sight. However, the shipyard is not located in Yingzhou City. At this time, Yingzhou City is the ancient city of Changli in the past, but with the start of the shipyard, a large number of affiliated factories continue to extend along the shipyard, creating a very strange phenomenon, the population living outside the city quickly exceeds the city, and various auxiliary facilities are also constantly improving, the Ministry of Civil Affairs quickly instructed Yingzhou to assassinate the history after discovering this situation, change the previous development strategy, and put the focus of government affairs on the seaside outside the city, around the shipyard continue to start new living and production facilities, and began to do a good job of various planning, The out-of-town area has also developed more rapidly. Even the Assassin's Mansion was preparing to move the government outside the city.

Li Xuanqing didn't care about this, the two flashed outside the city, came to the vicinity of the shipyard, handed the jade lion to Baixin, and walked over with Qiaoxi.

Along the way, all kinds of large and small factories are neatly arranged on both sides of the road, which is a typical way to learn the layout of the industrial park in later generations, relying on the cement road as the main road to connect the large and small factories along the line.

"Forging plants, rolling mills, assembly plants, auxiliary facilities, production workshops, loading and unloading areas, living quarters." The two of them pointed as they walked. Li Xuanqing said with a smile: "It seems that Zhang Qiang is well prepared, and he also knows how to build a branch line from the railway station to the shipyard." ”

"Brother Zhang is indeed very capable, this shipyard is basically in charge of him alone, and the headquarters has not given any major support." Qiaoxi smiled: "Let's go, I'll be at the dock soon, listening to this voice, it should be that the keel has been laid." ”

"The first ship is experimental and practical, how big are you going to build?" During this time, Li Xuanqing's energy was mainly focused on military affairs, and he did not pay much attention to government affairs, economy, and even transportation and shipbuilding, which he was most concerned about, so it was not clear how big a ship they planned to build.

Qiaoxi smiled: "I plan to start with a displacement of one hundred tons to five hundred tons. The ships of about one hundred tons were ready to be delivered to Brother Yang's National Guard for inland river patrols. ”

Li Xuanqing nodded and said with a smile: "If you want to go to sea, the displacement of five hundred tons is estimated to be a bit enough, I remember that during the Baijiang Estuary Water War, the largest of Liu Renliang's fleet has been recorded with a thousand materials, and basically there is already a displacement of one thousand tons." ”

"Cargo ships are a little less difficult to build. However, when the workers become more skilled, not only will the construction speed increase, but the size of the ship will also increase. Qiaoxi was very confident, and said with a smile: "A few days ago, there was a letter from Weinan saying that they were also preparing to start building an iron-hulled ship for internal navigation in the Yellow River." ”

"Looks like things go hand in hand." Li Xuanqing smiled: "Okay, it seems to be Xu Xingxia in front, let's go over too." ”

Just when Li Xuanqing and his wife met and talked about the ship that had just started, the war in the north had already begun. Under the careful design of the Flying Eagle Brigade, the Banten tribe that attacked Abaoji that night made a killer and killed all the remaining members of the royal court guards. The three teams of the Flying Eagle Brigade, under the leadership of the captain, shot Abaoji with one arrow in front of the forward general. The long arrow with black wolf teeth is the symbol of Banten himself, but at this moment, it is inserted in Abaoji's chest, taking the life of this tyrant who will dominate the grassland in the future.

This arrow is equivalent to completely poking this hornet's nest out, this practice of killing Abaoji in person made all the people of the Yelu tribe can no longer suppress the anger in their hearts, and they rushed towards the Banten tribe like crazy, and the grassland war suddenly became fierce with the fall of Abaoji.

However, the Flying Eagle Brigade, which had completed the mission, quickly retreated towards the predetermined location at this time, taking advantage of the war. A battle was pushed by this pusher, and finally completely changed the original face of history.

And Su Xiaohu, who had been guarding outside the battlefield, saw that the offensive of the two armies had suddenly intensified, and immediately guessed that the three teams had completed their tasks, and hurriedly ordered all the remaining men of the Flying Eagle Brigade to set off to meet the three teams, and at the same time asked the accompanying Xuanying Wei Feiqi to send a message to the rear and Chen Fan's group army headquarters to report the death of Abaoji. At the same time, Hu Xiaosi, the leader of Xuan Yingwei, was also riding his horse towards the location of Chen Fan's base camp at this time. All of a sudden, the forces of the steppe began to enter the final stage of competition.

However, Li Xuanqing couldn't receive any information for the time being, and at this moment, his mind all rushed to the iron-hulled ship in front of him, which began to turn out little by little in the dock, and was attracted.

"Qiaoxi, how do you solve the power of this ship?" Li Xuanqing suddenly asked.