After the plan to break into the camp and march into Henan was reported, Wang Kefan quickly approved it and named the operation Matao Central Plains.

In view of the specific battle plan, Wang Kefan proposed two proposals.

First, the camp was originally planned to dispatch 3,000 cavalry, but the scale of 3,000 cavalry was too large, and it would lose its flexibility, and food supplies would not be easy to raise, so Jian Yide reduced the scale to less than 2,000 cavalry.

Second, it was not a wise choice to attack a fortified city with light cavalry, so instead of attacking Luoyang in the north, you should try your best to enter the plains of central and eastern Henan to give full play to the mobility of the cavalry.

Li Guo and the generals who broke into the camp discussed repeatedly, and finally made a decision to dispatch 2,000 elite cavalry to attack the Central Plains from the northeast of Funiu Mountain, Dengfeng, Changge, Xuchang, Zhoukou...... This circle went around and stirred up Henan chickens and dogs.

Now that he has entered Funiu Mountain, there is no need to hide this plan from Zhang Qilun, Li Laiheng explained it carefully to him.

"I walked the road in Dengfeng back then, and I can basically cross the horse, but it is slower. If the road is too bad, let's go around slowly, try to find a boat in Yiyang, and get out of Ruzhou......"

"It's not impossible to go to Dengfeng, it's too slow, if you go around to Ruzhou, you have to drill in the ravine for at least 20 days, I think you should still go to Luoyang!" Zhang Qilun's eyes flashed, revealing a sly smile: "General Xiao Li doesn't know yet, the current Luoyang City is Li Jiyu's master, and there is a loophole to exploit." ”

Zhang Nai was stunned: "Li Jiyu? Did that carp spirit Li meet it? I heard he's in Huaiqing Mansion! ”

Zhang Qilun's smile was even thicker, and he nodded again and again: "It's that guy who is chattering." He was no longer in Huaiqing a year ago, and he had just become the chief soldier of Luoyang of Tartar, and I heard that he was going to Beijing to become a marquis......

Li Jiyu. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the local Haoqiang in Henan, that is, the local warlords who divided one side, and their subordinates claimed to be 200,000 troops, did not listen to the orders of the Ming court, and kept a distance from Li Zicheng's peasant army.

Li Jiyu is a native of Dengfeng. Influenced by the local martial arts, he also learned Shaolin Kung Fu, and he has obvious habits of life and behavior. And very superstitious...... His most trusted subordinate was a Taoist priest, pinching his fingers and saying that he was the reincarnation of the carp fairy, Li Jiyu was convinced, and did everything possible to plan an errand to guard Luoyang. Get ready for a carp to jump over the dragon gate. Since then, the wind and clouds have turned into dragons and soared. (There is a Longmen Grotto in Luoyang, which is very famous.) ）

In history, Li Jiyu was promoted after jumping the dragon gate, and was summoned to the capital by the Manchu Qing Dynasty to be rewarded by high-ranking officials, but only half a year later, he casually found a crime and killed him. is similar to Zheng Zhilong's fate.

The strong dragon did not suppress the head snake, and the Dashun army turned to Henan that year. and Li Jiyu basically do not interfere with the river water, but a lot of information about him can be collected, and generals at the level of Li Laiheng and Zhang Nai, all know this person.

"Li Jiyu is easy to deal with!" Zhang Nai was very excited: "His subordinates are a group of bandits, King Chuang didn't care about him back then, so he took the opportunity to sit big, let's have a surprise attack this time, we will definitely be able to beat him down!" ”

Li Laiheng nodded, thought about it and said: "If Li Jiyu is defending Luoyang, he can indeed try to fight, but he can't attack by force, he has to think of a more secure way......

An hour later, the Qing pursuers came to the front of the valley.

Sent sharp soldiers into the valley to check, repeatedly verified that there were no ambushes, and the main general of the Qing army entered the valley with a team of elites, and the large army remained outside.

After looking in the valley several times, no trace of the Ming army was found, and the Qing army commander had no choice but to send someone to report to Wu Jingdao, and the Ming cavalry disappeared in Funiu Mountain and was lost.

After Wu Jingdao received this news, he felt very troubled, the cavalry of the 2,000 Ming Army was not a small force, what were they going to do when they drilled into the hinterland of Henan?

On the one hand, he mobilized troops to search for Funiu Mountain, and on the other hand, he notified all localities to strengthen their vigilance, Wu Jingdao thought about it again and again, and sent someone to send a message to Dolgon in Shanxi.

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After Chuang Ying and Jin Shenghuan started the war one after another, the Eastern Crusade has entered the countdown.

The movement of the Eastern Expeditionary Army on the South Road was faster, and the troops of Chen Bangfu, Zhao Yinxuan, and Hu Yiqing had already entered the mountains from eastern Jiangxi and marched towards Xianxialing, with the Chu army's Zhenxiao battalion following behind.

Other forces are also massing towards the front line, but have not yet launched an offensive. Everyone was waiting, waiting for Chen Bangfu's troops to capture Xianxialing and close the gate between Fujian and Zhejiang, and then launch an attack.

By boat and on foot, Wang Kefan led the main force of the Chu army to Raozhou Mansion, leaving a vacuum behind him, and if the Qing army at the mouth of Poyang Lake dared to rush in, it would hardly meet any resistance. Of course, Raozhou Mansion is not far away, and it is no problem for the Qing army to make a small fight on the shore of Poyang Lake, if you dare to go deep into the inland of Jiangxi, you will just wait to be made dumplings by the Chu army.

Jiao Lian urged the logistics department of the Chu army to deliver the grain and grass materials transported, and then left in a hurry. Before leaving, Jiao Lian deliberately found Wang Kefan and asked for a letter from him, so that Wang Jing would not be embarrassed and unable to learn how to make a mini gun.

He was very thoughtful, although Wang Kefan agreed very happily, but the king of Hades was easy to see, and the little ghost was difficult, and after Wang Kefan's handwritten order, Wang Jing and they couldn't be perfunctory.

Jiao Lian was running around all day long, noisy and shouting, the generals of the Chu army all knew that he wanted to steal from the master to learn the arts, some people were rough and didn't care, and some people felt very worried.

During the march, Li Yuncong asked about the Minnie gun again.

Unlike traditional smoothbore guns, the Mini gun has increased rifling and its range has increased by three or four times, and this new type of musket is so powerful that if it is equipped with the whole army, it can almost run rampant in the world. Wang Kefan's appearance was very strange, he didn't have a sense of secrecy, and let Tang Laihe and Jiao Lian learn how to make a mini gun, Li Yuncong was moved and couldn't understand.

"I have asked General Wang Yi, the Mini gun can shoot two hundred paces away, and if the enemy's cavalry battle formation is bound to collapse, why don't you build more military gates, is it because it is too expensive?"

"Yes, the cost of the Minnie gun is indeed very high, and to build a Minnie gun is worth ten flintlock pistols."

"There's nothing to be reluctant to do! So I stopped the flintlock pistol and made Minnie guns with all my might, even if I only made 500 of them, it would be of great use. ”

"Expensive is only one aspect, the key is not to make so much." Wang Kefan said: "I mentioned the idea of the Mini gun to Wang Jing and them a long time ago, and it took more than two years, and now there are only a few samples. This thing is completely handmade, and there is no large-scale production capacity, so you can only make four or five sticks a month on average. ”

"So little?!" Li Yuncong was stunned for a moment, thought for a while and said, "Isn't it okay to send more people?" Find some skilled craftsmen to learn together, the master leads the apprentice, there are more people who know, and more and more mini guns are made. ”

"That's not good, the Minny gun has high requirements for process accuracy, a craftsman has a standard, and the gun made is still unusable, if you rely on people to pile it, you must at least make the vernier caliper first......"

Vernier calipers...... What is it? "Li Yuncong is like listening to the book of heaven.

"A tool for measuring length, specifically for measuring the slightest difference." Wang Kefan was concise and to the point.

To put it bluntly, a smoothbore gun is a troll, and the bullet can be fired as long as it is thinner than the barrel, but the bullet of the rifled gun has to be stuck in the rifling line very precisely, and the gunpowder and the barrel are tightly pressed together, almost not at all...... By hand alone, a good craftsman can make a qualified Mini gun, but each gun must be equipped with a single bullet, which loses the meaning of actual combat.

In addition to this, the Minnie gun has some shortcomings, as well as technical difficulties that are difficult to solve.

The Minnie gun, like the bird gun and the flintlock pistol, is a front-loading ammunition, which cannot be loaded in a kneeling and lying position, and after the ammunition is loaded, the gunpowder bullet is compacted with a whole strip, and it can shoot up to three shots in one minute, and ordinary soldiers can shoot two shots are considered passable.

Handmade products are similar to real yàn room products, in some aspects of the accuracy to the extreme, in other aspects there are obvious shortcomings, the biggest problem of the Mini gun, is that it cannot be mass-produced...... If Wang Kefan had saved up for three years and five years, he should be able to make up more than 100 mini guns and equip 100 musketeers, but it would not have much significance in actual combat.

In order to realize the mass production of mini guns, it is necessary to carry out large-scale standardized production, must have precision machining capabilities, perfect quality control, and almost reach the scientific and technological level in the middle of the industrial revolution...... For Wang Kefan, the mass production of the Mini gun is a long-term research project, and it doesn't matter if it cannot be realized in five years, ten years, or twenty years, the key is to provide a direction and an idea for the arsenal to study the mass production of the Mini gun, produce other by-products, and raise the standardized production of the arsenal to a higher level.

After saying this big set of truths, there are still a lot of modern words in the middle, and Li Yuncong still doesn't understand it even after guessing.

"Rifling is key, isn't it?"

"Is rifling hard to do? What is a rifling machine? Why use water power? ”

"If the clearance is too large, why is gunpowder wasted?"

"I still don't understand! It's okay if the military doesn't explain, but the more you explain, the more you won't understand. ”

"Well, even if the Minny gun is not easy to make, it should not be imitated by the imperial military department, in case it leaks out, what should I do if it is learned by the Manchu Tartars......" Li Yuncong finally concluded.

"It's okay, the Minnie Gun is about the same as other Divine Blades, and it's useless if the number is less. For example, our Chu army, if the soldiers all ride sweaty and bloody horses, use Damascus knives, and wear mountain armor, they will definitely be invincible in the world, but this is obviously impossible. Wang Kefan said with a smile: "Although the Minny gun is sharp, it is just a thing now, it is similar to the BMW treasure knife, it doesn't matter how the imperial court imitates it, it will not affect the overall situation." (To be continued......)