After sending Lu Wenlong away, Cao Conglong set off for Lanxi County. Thinking back to what Lu Wenlong said, Cao Conglong is not without the ability to distinguish things, and he can also hear the speculation in it.

The year before last, although the plan designed by Chen Wen to break through the internal operations was not seamless, even if it was later sent to Zhoushan, the civil officials and ministers in the court also praised it after reading it, and even Zhang Mingzhen decided that this was the most likely way to defeat the encirclement and suppression of the Qing army. Moreover, Chen Wenwen would also participate in that war, but Wang Yi chose to let Chen Wen stay in the camp, not that Chen Wen voluntarily stayed, but if it was all Chen Wen's calculations, it would be too complicated.

Moreover, if it weren't for the intelligence brought by Chen Wen, the Ming army in Siming Mountain would probably be broken by the Qing army, and the battle of Siming Lake, which caused heavy damage to the Tibiao battalion, would not have broken out at all, and it would be too far-fetched to say that Chen Wen colluded with Wang Sheng.

As for Wang Jiang's matter, it is even more groundless delusion. sacrificing the prestige of the invincible generals of his cronies and the army under his command in order to frame the civilian officials of the prison army who have always been in harmony with him, is he not afraid that the new civilian officials of the prison army will fight for power with him, why bother?

And the most important thing is that all this is not possible until Chen Wen learns that Ruan Jin died unexpectedly and the Zhoushan Ming army goes south to Fujian, but this person went to Jinhua before the Battle of Zhoushan, if he colluded, it must have been before that, and he could not predict all this is even more unimaginable for Cao Conglong.

Chen Wen has a strong control over the army and his personal ability to use troops, and he is also willing to go east to Taizhou to welcome Lu Jianguo to land, based on these considerations, Cao Conglong unceremoniously ordered tea to send off guests.

It's just that when Lu Wenlong was leaving, he had seen Chen Wen's private meeting with Wang Sheng's personal soldiers, and this incident still made Cao Conglong a little vigilant, so he left another cronie who came to Jinhua with him in Fucheng. In order to be able to get the news of the city in time.

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Happily sent away Governor Cao Conglong Cao, who had gone to "patrol the county", Chen Wen returned to the camp to continue supervising the training.

The so-called treasure presented by Yu Shizhong yesterday is actually very common in European armies, but it is a set of extremely rare objects in China at the moment.

Gauges, rulers, degree plates, telescopes. These things are the basic tools used to range and aim artillery and improve their hits. It's just that on the current Chinese battlefield. But almost no artillery will use these, and it can even be said that more than 99.99% of the gunners do not even know that there are such tools to improve the accuracy of artillery in the world.

In fact, historically, these tools were not unused in the Ming army. During the reign of Tianqi and Chongzhen, the Ming court recruited mercenaries to train artillery for the Ming army, trying to strengthen the army by learning Western military technology. However, with the outbreak of the Dengzhou Rebellion, this process was completely interrupted, and those who had learned more well were executed by the Ming court in batches due to their involvement in the Dengzhou Rebellion, such as Sun Yuanhua and Zhang Tao; And those whose skills are not up to the mark are mostly surrendered to the Manchus, such as Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and others.

It's time for that. The artillery still operated according to experience, and the Ming and Qing armies were all like this. Even in the Opium War in the nineteenth century, under the care of the Manchu chieftains who loved science and technology, the firearms of the Qing Dynasty had "developed by leaps and bounds", and the Qing army in the late Qing Dynasty, which had almost caught up with the level of the same period in Europe at the end of the Ming Dynasty in terms of equipment and popularity, was still aiming for artillery with experience. That being the case, there is nothing out of the ordinary to be hung up and beaten by the Brits in the heyday of the Victorian era.

Watching Yu Shizhong demonstrate the use of these tools to the artillery commanders, Chen Wen vaguely remembered that the use of granulated gunpowder and customized artillery medicine kits seemed to have existed in the late Ming Dynasty. It's just that the troops he has come into contact with don't seem to know these things very well, even Yu Guowang, who has always attached importance to firearms, is no exception. And things like the ratio of black powder composition, the difference between black powder for guns and black powder for guns, and other things are also known to almost everyone in later military history forums. However, I didn't care much about it in the first place, and it may take time and stimulation to remember it.

You can't eat a fat man in one breath, so let's practice the aiming technique first. It's just that the caliber of the artillery in his hand is relatively small at the moment, especially those small tiger squat guns that hit iron sand and stones, it is estimated that there is no need to aim, and those Furlong cannons that can improve the hit rate are those Furlong machine guns. I hope it can have a better effect.

After watching the artillery training, Chen Wen went to Jinhua Town to lecture on martial arts. Previously, he had already planned the Imperial History Observatory and the Yamen of Jinhua Guarding the Thousand Households, and had even begun to rebuild. However, when Cao Conglong arrived, he was very dissatisfied with the private martial arts, and simply moved his luggage to the Imperial History Patrol Platform when he failed to oppose it. took it as the yamen of the governor of Zhejiang, and said that if Chen Wen continued to build martial arts here, he would simply build it into the wall.

For such an uncle who has to come to be a nail household by virtue of his identity as a governor, Chen Wen really has no choice but to give up the house to him. However, the Jinhua Town Martial Arts School was still established as scheduled, but it was changed to the camp, so that Cao Conglong had nothing to do.

The first batch of officers to enter the school are all from the newly established Jinhua Town General Staff, and among these staff officers are officers who have experienced bloody battles, and there are also scholars who have just joined the Ming army; as chief of the general staff, Lou Jiye is now taking a part of his staff officers to survey and map and make sand tables in various parts of the Ming army's occupied areas, while the rest stay in the martial arts academy to listen to Chen Wen and some experienced officers give lectures.

In fact, there is no class for him today, but it will always be reassuring to come and see, at least if there is a problem such as whether the artillery can't go off is the opponent's use of **** array, he can also try to correct it, lest these guys harass the Buddhist disciples who are eating fasting and reciting Buddha.

Unlike these staff officers who were studying the art of war and military knowledge in the battalion, the part of the staff officers who went to survey and map and make sand tables under the leadership of Lou Jiye was now under the protection of the Ming army under the scorching sun and went out of Anhua Town to observe and record the terrain trend of the area occupied by the Qing army.

Li Ruixin, Wu Dengke and Yin Yue, who were also deputy commanders of the assistant guard, were previously deputy generals appointed by Lu Jianguo, and this time Cao Conglong found out that they were still working under Chen Wen when he announced the edict, so he appointed these three people as the chief military officer of the regimental training in the name of Lu Jianguo. And Lou Jiye, who had just been promoted to assistant commander-in-chief, missed this promotion because Lu Jianguo didn't know that there was such a person as him, and even after Cao Conglong asked about his work, he just impatiently said that he would confirm his rank as deputy commander-in-chief to Lu Jianguo, and that's it.

Lou Jiye and his staff officers were quite indignant in private at this kind of behavior of taking bean bags and improper dry food, and all this directly led to the fact that some of them retreated, while others worked harder to learn the relevant skills of staff operations.

However, at present, this general staff headquarters has just been established, and although the personnel are in place and the scope of work has been preliminarily divided, it will probably take a long time before it can really play an effective role. At present, these surveying and mapping maps and making sand tables are the most basic and most effective work, so Lou Jiye personally took the group of officers he selected out to do things.

After advancing north for most of the day, he finally got a general idea of the terrain on the left, but if he went deeper, he might encounter the Qing army, and Lou Jiye did not plan to use these seeds to fight against the Manchu consumables, so he gave up and continued to move forward, but led the team back.

When they returned to Anhua Town, the coolies who were stuck in the fortifications that the Qing army had to pass through seemed to have finished their day's work and were returning to the labor camp near the left to receive dinner.

It's just that, in response to Lou Jiye's dissatisfaction with the labor time of these former green battalion soldiers, the messenger with the order to speed up the construction of the fortifications has already ridden over, and probably when Lou Jiye and the staff officers under his command leave this place and go to Pujiang County, the whipping here will suddenly intensify with Chen Wen's will. (To be continued.) )