After the artillery was decided to be sold, it was indeed a bigger question of who to sell to, and now that the buyer Wu Duyan was basically paralyzed, it became an urgent need to find a new buyer.

Otherwise, not only the artillery, but even the foreign trade version of the musket produced by Li Qingyuan would not be sold, and Li Qingyuan found Meng Can when he didn't leave just after the meeting.

Li Qingyuan thought about it for a while, and was afraid that Meng Can would not do it, so he went to call Wu Sanniang over, and sometimes he could still listen to what Sanniang said.

After a while, Meng Can and Sanniang arrived one after another, and after the two sat down, Li Qingyuan looked at Meng Can and looked at him in his heart, Meng Can also looked at himself, and felt that there was nothing wrong with him before glaring back.

Li Qingyuan smiled and asked, "How is it?" Have you finished changing your team's outfits? ”

Meng Can sneered: "Have you finished it, don't you have a little bit of B in your heart?" Not all the weapons are issued by you! We still have three people empty-handed! ”

Li Qingyuan touched his nose a little embarrassed, he did give priority to equipping other detachments with weapons, and later sold the weapons produced to Wu Duyan, Meng Can's side did not seem to have completed the redress.

Li Qingyuan coughed and said, "Look! I'm not here to help you out! I called you over this time, just to send you weapons, and I also have to transfer people from Sanniang to strengthen you! ”

Meng Can looked at him suspiciously, he would never believe that he had such good intentions, Li Qingyuan said, "Aren't you more than one hundred and fifty people now?" So, I'm giving you one hundred and fifty men, and you're divided into three detachments......"

Li Qingyuan saw that Meng Can's eyes lit up, and Li Qingyuan continued: "But you want to develop in the southwest, and you can't stay at home." ”

Meng Can had such an expression and asked, "Where do you want me to go?" ”

Li Qingyuan touched his nose and said: "You have also seen that Wu Duyan should be the only one that is easily surrounded by the Qing army, get up, so we must learn a lesson, and then increase the strategic depth to lay a good foundation for the next war...... ”

"You just said where you want me to go!" Meng Can obviously didn't believe him.

Li Qingyuan touched his nose and said, "You go to Zhongtiao Mountain to open up a new base area......

"You ......" Meng Can rolled his eyes angrily, but his eyes rolled and asked, "Okay, I can go to Zhongtiao Mountain, what about Sanniang?" Where did you put her? ”

Li Qingyuan said awe-inspiringly: "Don't worry, you open up the base area first, I will send at least five or more firearms battalions there in the second half of the year, and you find a safe Yellow River crossing, I will let Sanniang go to Funiu Mountain in the south!" ”

From the Taihang Mountain to the southwest, you can reach Zhongtiao Mountain, cross the Yellow River from Zhongtiao Mountain to Funiu Mountain, Funiu Mountain is connected to the Qinling Mountains, and after crossing the Qinling Mountains, it is the Sichuan and Hubei regions where the White Lotus Sect is active.

This is not only to expand the base area, but also to open up this trade route, as for the southern heaven and earth will only find a way to contact it later.

Meng Can nodded after listening: "Okay, as long as you talk and count, I will go to Zhongtiao Mountain, and the five musket battalions over there will also be under my command?" ”

Li Qingyuan shook his head and pointed to Shandong and said, "Your side will set up a five-member leading group with reference to Shandong, and you can negotiate and solve any problems." ”

Li Qingyuan didn't want to let his rival in love have too much power, use it, prevent it and defend it, as long as the other party didn't give up on it, Li Qingyuan wouldn't give him a chance.

But this opening up a new base does require a person with the ability and appeal to do it, Meng Can has the ability, and Meng Can also has the appeal as Wang Lun's righteous son.

Anyway, it is to fight an outpost, and the real main force is still the firearms battalion, after Zhongtiao Mountain and then west is Luliang Mountain, from Luliang Mountain across the Yellow River is the Northern Shaanxi Plateau.

And Funiu Mountain is connected to Dabie Mountain, and if you enter Dabie Mountain, it will not be far from Jiangnan, so Zhongtiao Mountain and Funiu Mountain are the top priorities in the next step, and there must be a large army stationed there.

In this way, it seems that among these places, only Shandong is the easiest to be separated, because it is separated from Taihang Mountain by a North China Plain, so Li Qingyuan needs to arrange things in Shandong even more.

Meng Can and Wu Sanniang went to hand over the personnel and equipment, after Meng Can left, Li Qingyuan over there will send a new detachment, and there is still a large area to the south that has not been occupied, and the remaining veins of Taihang Mountain have been deep into the Henan region.

The base area is no longer a secret confrontation and occupying the mountains as kings, but is really openly competing with the Qing court for population and resources, and establishing its own stable sphere of influence.

Li Qingyuan estimated that his first base would be in Shandong, and in order to distract the Qing court, Li Qingyuan planned to open up a real base area in the Luliang Mountain area.

Luliang has a Taihang Mountain does not have an advantage, that is, it is farther away from Beijing, the place is more desolate, the most troublesome thing for ancient soldiers to fight is not the front line, but logistics, the Qing army wants to send a stone of military food to the front line, if you want to consume three buckets in Taihang.

Then if you want to transport it to the Luliang area, you have to consume seven buckets, this is not counting Li Qingyuan's robbery from the road, the huge consumption will make the Qing army be restrained everywhere, and Li Qingyuan can also grasp the rhythm of the war more calmly.

Li Qingyuan's era is different from the era of ***, at that time, under internal and external troubles, there were warlords internally, and devils invaded outside, so it was difficult for Lao Jiang to concentrate his main force to deal with Taizu.

However, the Qing court is now known as a prosperous era, although there are wars in the northwest and southwest, but they are all small wars in the border areas, and the roots do not affect the overall situation.

Therefore, Li Qingyuan must always be prepared to face the encirclement and suppression of hundreds of thousands of people, and in order to disperse the enemy's forces, he must also adopt this tactic of blossoming everywhere.

To reach Luliang Mountain, you don't have to pass through Zhongtiao Mountain, as long as you cross the Fen River from Li Qingyuan's current nest to the west, you can reach Luliang, so Meng Can's actions will not affect Li Qingyuan's action to open up the Luliang base area.

Therefore, what Li Qingyuan is waiting for now is not Meng Can's news, but the situation in Shandong, once the Shandong side is discovered, then the Luliangshan base area will officially start to move.

And the person who went to Luliang Mountain to fight the front station is Liuzi, Liuzi has experienced a great experience since he led the detachment to the west in the past few months, and he has grown up very quickly, and now the crow wants to hold the north, Meng Can wants to go to the southwest, and Sanniang is going to Shandong with Li Qingyuan, and only Liuzi is suitable for doing this thing.

called Liuzi over and told him about letting him go to Luliang's side, Liuzi was much better at talking than Meng Can, and immediately nodded in agreement, and was very excited.