In order to solve the problem of songs, Li Qingyuan chose key locations to station musketeers, and the work of going to the countryside to divide the fields was handed over to the recruits who did not have guns, which was also a kind of exercise.

It is said that the recruits have been trained for more than two months, and these people are waiting for the guns, but unfortunately the output of muskets is a little unable to keep up now, Li Qingyuan has asked everyone to lay a new place to collect blacksmiths attentively, and I believe that it will not be long before the output can increase a lot.

On the side of northern Shaanxi, many landlords still rely on Zhuangzi to resist, Li Qingyuan only arranged people to uproot one by one, and the effect was not as good as that of the Luliang area, but the enthusiasm of the people was very high when the autumn harvest was approaching, and Li Qingyuan agreed with everyone that only half of the grain in the season should be handed over to the land, and the rest would be owned by each family, and the rent and taxes owed in the past would be free.

In addition, when the news of the victory spread, more people were willing to join the army, and in less than half a month, Li Qingyuan recruited 6,000 recruits in northern Shaanxi, which was still the result of selecting the best of the best.

The Qing army finally adjusted after half a month, and the first step of the Qing army, which was relieved from the defeat, was to strengthen the forces of the city close to the area occupied by Li Qingyuan, and then half a month later, it completely blocked this area.

In the rear, troops were nervously deployed, and Xi'an City quickly assembled 20,000 troops, and more troops were still coming.

Li Qingyuan estimated that 80,000 people were defeated, and the Qing army had to concentrate 200,000 people before they dared to attack this time, right? And when the autumn harvest was approaching, the Qing army did not dare to do it.

Because in the event of a war, it is necessary to recruit people to conscript, and 200,000 troops to fight a war must also recruit 400,000 people, and in the autumn harvest season, to do so will starve to death.

Therefore, Li Qingyuan estimated that after the autumn harvest and before the snow fell, the Qing army was organizing a large-scale offensive at most.

The autumn harvest is a respite for Li Qingyuan, and it is impossible to train new soldiers in more than a month, but there is no problem in training veterans to the point that they can go to the battlefield.

During this time, Li Qingyuan laid down four county towns in northern Shaanxi, and Luliang also laid four, and the addition of seven or eight hundred blacksmiths could raise the firearms workshop to the level of three thousand muskets per month.

And now Lu Liang's side has been equipped with nearly 10,000 muskets one after another, and in a month it will be able to reach 15,000, although it cannot be said that the attack of the 200,000 Qing army is completely certain, but it is definitely enough for self-protection.

In order to drag on the battle for a longer time, Li Qingyuan is looking for a big killing weapon in northern Shaanxi, as long as he finds it, he will have no worries about defending the city.

This thing is oil, Shaanxi has a record of oil since ancient times, and later during the Anti-Japanese War, there was small-scale mining, although the output is not large, and the quality does not seem to be high, but there should be no problem in manufacturing fire oil bombs.

With fire oil bombs and ballistas, it is definitely an artifact to deal with the shield array of the Qing army, and the Molotov cocktail can even deal with tanks, not to mention their wooden planks.

It's just that although Li Qingyuan knows about the oil in northern Shaanxi, he really doesn't know where it is, so in addition to oil, Li Qingyuan also continues to produce artillery.

Don't talk about the tiger squat cannon, it's okay to beat people, but if you want to shoot at the Qing army, it's not enough to rely on this, through the study and familiarity with the captured Qing artillery, plus the guidance of the master transferred from Taihang, this time Lu Liang finally began to cast the second type of cannon.

This kind of cannon is an improved version of the Napoleonic cannon, there are two changes that need to be made, one is the improvement of materials, the original Napoleon cannon is cast in bronze, the weight is large, the movement is inconvenient and very expensive, Li Qingyuan lacks copper and can't afford to make it, so it uses wrought iron casting, and the second is to engrave rifling to improve accuracy.

In fact, the smoothbore gun in this era has more advantages than rifled guns on the battlefield, although rifling improves the shooting power and accuracy, but the power of flowering bullets in this era is limited, and the prefabricated fuse is easy to make mistakes, so the war is still dominated by solid bullets, although the pointed bullets fired by rifled guns increase accuracy and penetration, but they are not as large as the range of round bullets.

The reason why Li Qingyuan insisted on engraving rifling was indeed forced by form, because the purpose of this batch of artillery was to restrain the artillery of the Qing army, so what Li Qingyuan needed now was accuracy, and with accuracy, he could destroy the opponent's artillery position in the first time and have an advantage in the artillery battle.

In Pu County, Li Qingyuan dared not to rely on the city wall when he was 1,500 to Fukangan, but when he was 15,000 to 200,000 in the next step, Li Qingyuan was not big enough to dare to let the other party bombard the city wall casually.

When the number reaches a certain level, quantitative changes will lead to qualitative changes, and Li Qingyuan does not have the courage to use 15,000 people to fight field battles with 200,000 people.

These 200,000 are not a peasant army, this is a green shadow soldier, and Zai Cai still has some combat effectiveness.

Li Qingyuan hopes to delay it, drag it out until after the heavy snowfall, and drag it out until next year, then he has 20,000 or 30,000 available troops in his hand and then fight a decisive battle, and then Li Qingyuan can both win and swallow the fruits of victory, unlike now, it is a little powerless to eat a few county seats.

Just when Li Qingyuan thought that this month would be spent safely, news came from Taihang Mountain that the Qing army had gathered 30,000 people in Handan, intending to clear Taihang Mountain, and the follow-up troops were still being assembled.

Li Qingyuan sighed helplessly, secretly cursed Deputy Division Commander Qin again, summoned the generals over, arranged the next battle plan and strategic objectives, and then packed up and went back to Taihang.

The investigation on the road was really much stricter, Li Qingyuan took a day to jump out of the blockade line of the Qing army, and it was a peaceful scene when he got out of the blockade line, and he rushed towards Taihang, and when he arrived at the foot of Taihang, he closed the mountain.

When I returned to the headquarters of Taihang, everyone dared to wait, Taihang was more efficient than Luliang, Hou Zheng first reported the movements of the Qing army, since Fukangan's performance came to the capital, there were more strangers in Taihang Mountain, especially the old workshop, it was like cutting leeks, and after killing a wave and a wave.

This time, a large number of Qing troops gathered in Handan for the purpose of destroying the firearms production workshops of the bandits.

Fukangan is arrogant and looks down on firearms, which does not mean that the Qing army is all fools, and they can't see the benefits of firearms, so the Qing army will be so concerned about the old workshop area this time.

After listening to the report, Li Qingyuan saw that Hou Zheng was about to speak and stopped, and asked curiously, "Why is there anything that hasn't been finished?" ”

Hou Zheng thought for a while and said: "One of my brothers listened to the thought in the kiln and said, this time the Qing army is waiting for the Jingying troops, and I heard that this time they have prepared a powerful guy to deal with us... I don't know what it is. ”

Li Qingyuan immediately paid attention to it when he heard it, this is an important news, if you don't figure it out, you will suffer a big loss, Li Qingyuan whispered: "Let your brother make more efforts, make a little effort, let his good friend find more accurate news, and there will be a lot of rewards!" ”