Cheng Wen wrote a message to He Tengjiao, asked Wang Kefan to see the seal, and then handed it to the messenger and sent him back to the Yamen, the governor of Huguang.

At the same time, the army continued to move north, entered Jiangxi, met the Ganzhou naval division who came to meet in the upper reaches of the Zhangjiang River, and once again advanced by water to Jinggangshan. There are not many things to do on the ship, and in his spare time to deal with official business, Wang Kefan often goes to the deck to take a turn, chat with Zhang Jiayu, Zhu Ji and others, and discuss future development plans.

When passing through Nankang County, he naturally talked about the original battle of Ganzhou, and heard that the army adopted frog jumping tactics and let Nankang County not fight, but smashed Ganzhou, Zhang Jiayu admired it and praised Wang Kefan's courage again and again.

He is a person who understands military affairs, of course he knows that this kind of unconventional tactics contains huge risks, once entangled by the Qing army, the Ming army's back road is cut off, there is a danger of annihilation, but it is precisely because of the surprise that the deployment of the Qing army was disrupted, and the main forces of Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren were mobilized, so that there was a blitzkrieg in the back, and the weak defeated the strong.

Nankang County is close to the Zhangjiang River, and the fleet goes down the river, seeing this county clearly.

With the defeat of the battle of Ganzhou, the Qing army here has withdrawn, and the banner of the Ming army is now inserted on the city wall, because the Qing army is in a hurry, all kinds of city defense facilities have not been demolished, and the Ming army uses these facilities to continue to strengthen the city defense, as if Nankang County has been built into a fortress, which looks solemn and solemn from a distance.

"This Nankang County is really not easy to fight, even if there are tens of thousands of troops, there is no ten days and eight days that can't be taken......" Zhang Jiayu was just halfway through speaking, but was interrupted by a strange voice.

"No, no, no, if we have Franco's cannons, we can take the city in a day." Hear this stiff Chinese. Everyone knew that it was Father Qu Shawei of the Portuguese soldier who was speaking.

Zhang Jiayu was choked by his words, frowned and wanted to refute, but he couldn't say anything, the three hundred Fran soldiers had a new type of red-coated cannon, and they had a test shot on the road, which was very powerful, and Zhang Jiayu saw it with his own eyes. There are not too many cannons like this, only more than a dozen cannons are fired together, and they can quickly collapse the city wall of Nankang County.

Thinking of this, Zhang Jiayu couldn't help but be worried. Kong Youde's troops had hundreds of red-coated cannons, as well as countless old-fashioned bronze cannons, and in front of such artillery units, except for a few fortified cities, most of the Ming army's cities were vulnerable. The prospects for the Battle of Huguang are not optimistic.

(By the way, the bronze cannon is a traditional Chinese artillery.) The advantage is that it is lightweight. It is not easy to explode, the disadvantages are that the firing range is short, the power is small, the gun body is also easy to deform, and the manufacturing cost is too high, in general, it is an era behind the redcoat cannon. ）

Seeing that it suddenly became cold. Wang Kefan smiled, Qu Shawei, a German guy, is good at everything, but he loves it too much, and he doesn't care about time and occasion. At this time, of course, we have to help Zhang Jiayu save face.

"Although the Furlong cannon is powerful, it is too bulky, long in siege, clumsy in field battles, and useless in defending cities." Speaking of the advantages and disadvantages of various artillery, Wang Kefan is like a treasure.

"How can it be useless? If you bombard it out, no kind of siege equipment will stop it! Qu Shawei argued.

"The rate of fire is too slow." Wang Kefan didn't explain much, Qu Shawei was a military priest, and he didn't know much about military affairs.

The cannons of this era are front-loading smoothbore guns, after firing, they will be strictly displaced, and they need to be re-aimed, and after the front-loading guns are fired once, they must be filled with water into the barrel to extinguish the fire star, and then wipe them dry and refill the gunpowder, this loading process is too cumbersome, and it takes a few minutes to shoot a shot, and it is too late to stop the enemy's high-speed charge.

"Is slow rate of fire a serious problem? Can you improve through guò training? Qu Shawei asked seriously.

"Of course it can be raised, but there is a limit, no matter how fast it is, it can't compare to the flintlock pistol, Father, to defeat the evil Tatars, we need a lot of flintlock pistols, please help." Wang Kefan saluted first and then soldiers, and gave Qu Shawei a preventive injection.

When these three hundred Portuguese soldiers arrived in Huguang, they kneaded with Wang Kefan, not afraid that they would not hand over the flintlock pistol, but on the premise of getting the flintlock pistol, they should try to minimize the impact of this matter, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble, and this Father Qu Shawei is the key to it.

"Ah, that's not going to work! These guns are soldiers' weapons and cannot be sold to you, please forgive General Wang! Qu Sha couldn't help but be slightly startled, and hurriedly refused. Wang Kefan wanted to buy twenty flintlock pistols last time, but he never mentioned it again after being refused, Qu Shawei thought he was dead, but he didn't expect to keep thinking about it.

"Well, since the priest is unwilling, I'll go back to the matter. But when it comes to mission, I have a request for the help of a priest. Wang Kefan diverted the topic.

"General Wang is our good friend, please tell me anything directly." Qu Sha breathed a sigh of relief, as long as she didn't mention the flintlock pistol, the rest was easy to say.

He went to Huguang this time, in addition to helping the Ming army fight, he also intended to promote Catholicism in Huguang, which was something that Wang Kefan personally agreed, and it was easier to talk about this topic. Of course, if Wang Kefan threatened with preaching, he would not give in lightly.

"The priest wants to go to Huguang to spread Catholicism, and the town wholeheartedly welcomes it, but I hope that the priest can break down doctrinal prejudices and introduce a more comprehensive Western culture to China."

"Is General Wang talking about Orthodox Christianity and Protestantism?" The corners of Qu Shawei's mouth twitched, and her face changed suddenly.

They all worship God, and there are several schools in Christianity, in addition to Qu Sha**'s Catholicism, there are also Orthodox Christians and Protestants, in this era, these sects are on the same page as each other, and they are almost the same as enemies.

If Wang Kefan still has ties with Protestantism and Orthodox Christianity, it will definitely be bad news for Catholicism, and Qu Shawei will never tolerate pagans getting involved in Huguang.

"I'm not interested in Protestantism or Orthodoxy, I'm talking about natural sciences and art literature, such as mathematics, philosophy, physics, astronomy, geography, music, painting and sculpture," Wang casually uttered a long list ......of names, Leonardo da Vinci, Dante, Shakespeare, Erasmus, and even Bruno and Galileo.

The corners of Qu Shawei's mouth twitched constantly, for the Holy See, these names are too exciting, not to mention Bruno who was burned to death, even if it is Dante and Leonardo da Vinci and others, they are not good friends of the Holy See.

In the "Renaissance" movement, the Holy See was supportive of the arts, for example, Michelangelo received long-term funding from the Church, but in the field of natural science and culture, the relationship between the Church and the Renaissance was hostile.

What puzzled Qu Shawei was why Wang Kefan was so familiar with these people.

Because of the translation, he didn't know who the names of several people were, until Wang Kefan said their main achievements and masterpieces, and finally got on the number, looking at Wang Kefan's casual appearance, it seems that he has a certain understanding of these people, not hearsay, just know a name to bluff people.

That's weird!

Qu Shawei found that Wang Kefan's understanding of Europe was very biased, he knew nothing about social forms and politics, politics, and economy, but he seemed to be very familiar with military aspects, and he also knew a lot about natural science, culture and art, which was unique among the Chinese Qu Shawei had seen.

If you only have ordinary contact with Europeans, you will not pay much attention to these professional issues, and looking at Wang Kefan's appearance, it seems that he has done special research on this...... Qu Shawei was of course happy that a high-ranking official of the Ming Dynasty was so close to Europe, but what bothered him was that Wang Kefan seemed to have a lot of respect for those enemies of the Holy See.

Suddenly, Father Qu Shawei felt that his responsibility was heavier, and he was determined to convince Wang Kefan to keep him away from those evil bewitchments!

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When the ship arrived in Ganzhou, Jiangxi Governor Wan Yuan Ji sent someone to the wharf to greet him and invite Wang Kefan into the city. That night, he held a banquet to entertain Wang Kefan, and after the banquet, the two had a deep conversation.

Although Wang Kefan served as the commander of Caojiang, the northern part of Jiangxi was still under the control of the Qing army, and there was not much intersection between him and Wan Yuanji, who was worried that if Hunan was occupied by Kong Youde, Ganzhou would be in a passive position of being attacked on three sides.

He expressed great concern about the upcoming Battle of Huguang, but there were not many officers and troops in Ganzhou, so he could not directly send troops to help, but he could launch a counteroffensive in Jiangxi to reduce the pressure on Huguang...... Of course, when the Ganzhou official army launched a counteroffensive, it was hoped that the Fuzhou volunteers, Ji'an volunteers and Ningzhou volunteers would cooperate in action to fight the Qing army as much as possible and recover more lost territory.

Obviously, Wan Yuan Ji is playing his own small calculations.

Wang Kefan controlled the Ji'an Volunteers and the Ningzhou Volunteers, and also had a deep relationship with the Fuzhou Volunteers, and was a force to be reckoned with in Jiangxi.

But against the Qing Dynasty, this must also be a good thing, Wang Kefan readily agreed.

The so-called alleviating the pressure on the Huguang battlefield is just an unbounded promise, and it doesn't have to be taken seriously. Wang Kefan is 100% sure that it is possible for Wan Yuan Ji to recover several county seats, or even one or two state capitals, but if Jin Shenghuan can't resist it, he is forced to ask Kong Youde for help, and Wan Yuan Ji does not have that strength.

What Wang Kefan hopes is that Wan Yuan Ji can put the greatest pressure on Jin Shenghuan to urge him to rectify it as soon as possible.

Jin Shenghuan failed to conquer Ganzhou, and now the situation is already very difficult, and the Manchu Qing's attitude towards him will be even worse.

Therefore, Wang Kefan reminded Wan Yuan Ji that he should have a big stick in one hand and a carrot in the other hand to Jin Shenghuan, talk while fighting, and lure him to surrender and appease, and don't fight hard with him, so as not to affect the safety of Ganzhou. (To be continued......)