Wang Yingxiong's urgent letter was sent out of Changsha City overnight by his personal guards, from Changsha to Kuizhou, along the most convenient Wuchang Road has not worked, this road has fallen into the hands of the Qing army, if you want to pass safely, only to turn over Wuling Mountain, around Lou Mountain, in order to avoid the Qing army fortified territory, in this way, it took a lot of time, until a month later, the letter was sent to Kuizhou, when the dusty messenger was exhausted and was connected to the Yamen of the prefect of Kuizhou, the time has come to February 15 of the first year of Longwu. 【Fengyun Reading Network. 】

Xu Tiezhu, the prefect of Kuizhou, asked the messenger roughly, knowing that something was wrong, and hurriedly showed the letter at a glance, and his face turned white in surprise, because his back was against Huguang, and behind him was the relationship between friendly troops, Kuizhou was not the main direction of Wang Huan's defense, the huge Kuizhou, there were few armed forces, Xu Tiezhu was in his hands, there were only 1,000 people in the regimental training, and there were hundreds of Martin Buding in each county, which was used to suppress bandits, although they also trained every day, but both military quality and military equipment were different from regular white-robed soldiers.

However, this difference is mainly reflected in the experience of battle, compared with the white-robed soldiers, there are few opportunities to see blood in regimental training that have only been entangled with mountain bandits and horses, and the largest battle fought is only a thousand people, but when it comes to equipment, it is not bad.

The iron-clad weapons captured by Wang Huan in previous battles, except for the bird commander, were basically given to the three prefects to let them develop regimental training, so the regimental training soldiers in Xu Tiezhu's hands, everyone wore iron armor, although there were various styles, chain armor, half-body waist armor, and even a few people even had a full set of armor, and the defense of individual soldiers was comparable to that of the white-robed soldiers wearing rattan armor with fire raccoon robes. The weapons in their hands are basically the standard knives and guns of the Ming army, spears, halberds, shields, waist knives, and they do not fall, and even the iron helmets that the white-robed soldiers generally do not have, and many people have them in the group training.

Even so, the news of He Tengjiao's attempt to enter Kuizhou mentioned in the letter still made Xu Tiezhu break out in a cold sweat, and the soldiers couldn't stand the crowd, Xu Tiezhu was clear about the war in Huguang, and the spies sent sent sent back the battle situation in a timely manner, He Tengjiao had tens of thousands of peasant troops for nothing, and had 100,000 troops, and he only needed to use one percent of his men and horses to attack Kuizhou Xu Tiezhu couldn't bear it.

So Xu Tiezhu didn't say a word, sealed the envelope as it was, sent it to Longquan Mountain quickly, copied a copy of it, and sent it to Shizhu Qin Liangyu.

Xu Tiezhu here is preparing intensively, and Wang Huan and Li Dingguo over there have been spending more than half a month in Longquan Mountain.

Over the past few days, Li Dingguo's fighting spirit has been worn out to the point of almost nothingness, from the initial attack every day to an attack every three days, and in the last few days, he has not shown his head for seven days.

At the foot of Longquan Mountain, the corpses are scattered, the officers and soldiers of the Great Western Army are chaotic and maintain the appearance of the time when they died in battle, no one to clean up, fortunately, the weather is still cold, and the cold of spring is swept down, and the corpses are exposed to the field and rot, and the epidemic will not occur immediately.

Li Dingguo has paid a high price, his miscellaneous barracks and war battalions took turns to fight, all kinds of means were exhausted, and even secretly dug tunnels, trying to blow up the city gate with the method of conquering Kaifeng, but Wang Huan had already guarded against him, Longquan Mountain was full of rocks under it, and he didn't want to dig under the city wall with the backward means of this era.

Speaking of the bamboo tube, Li Dingguo is about to go crazy, it's too powerful, once an arm-sized bamboo tube explodes, no one can live within a radius of five zhang, the person wearing armor within ten zhang is seriously injured, and the unarmored person has to save two or three out of ten, the iron nail gravel that bursts out of the bamboo tube can easily harvest people's lives, and the lethality is comparable to that of a red-clothed cannon, and it is erosive.

He wanted to get the bamboo tube so badly, so he changed his plan, spent a lot of time nailing it to the foot of Longquan Mountain, paid nearly 10,000 lives and didn't care about it, and when he suddenly realized it, the loss he had suffered was already very large.

The team of 23,000 people, there are more than 10,000 people left, looking at the demoralized soldiers in the battalion, Li Dingguo was shaken, since joining the army, he felt a deep sense of powerlessness for the first time, this feeling was not when he was chased by Zuo Liangyu, when he was ambushed by Yang Sichang on all sides, but when he faced the Ming army that could not gnaw and bite on Longquan Mountain.

There is nothing to do, Li Dingguo understands that if it continues to be consumed, the Ming army in the city will probably not be so honest anymore, and when the number of people on both sides is not much different, the attack and defense of the two sides will be reversed.

Li Dingguo was not afraid of the Ming army attacking, the Onishi army was in the cavalry, the proportion of cavalry in his battle camp was very high, and the 3,000 pro-military camp was one person and two horses, galloping like the wind, and the two-legged Ming army could not catch up with the strength of the milk, but in this way, it was completely out of his original intention. The original plan to quickly annihilate the Ming army of Longquan Mountain fell through.

Li Dingguo under the mountain was annoyed and painful, and Wang Huan's head on the mountain also grew bigger.

Wang Huan was originally very happy, watching Li Dingguo drop a large number of corpses under the city every day, nailing to S Hong like a fool, he was in a happy mood, Li Dingguo could not pass Longquan Mountain, Ma Xintian who was far away in Baoning Mansion would have more safety, as long as Li Dingguo did not go to many things, it would be much easier to deal with Ma Yuanli, the town governor of Daxi Baoning Mansion.

But never thought that He Tengjiao actually dared to start the idea of Kuizhou silver mine, according to the normal historical development, after the defeat of Jingzhou, entering the Three Gorges * near Kuimen, it should be the loyal battalion headed by Li Guo, Wang Huan is foreshadowing, when Li Guo went out of Kuimen, Wang Huan's play left a deep impact on Li Guo, Wang Huan is very sure to take this new force into the bag, but history turned a corner, Li Guo was taken to Changde by Yinxi, and now he wants to enter Kuimen, replaced by He Tengjiao.

This is not fun, He Tengjiao made it clear that he wanted to occupy the silver mine, that was Wang Huan's lifeline, whoever fought it would not finish with anyone, how could he allow the governor of Huguang to come and be wanton? But now the main force of the Kuizhou Army is divided into two, staring at Li Dingguo, Ma Xintian is far away in Baoning Mansion, and now I am afraid that it is close to the Sword Pavilion, and they can't be separated, how can it be good?

So as soon as Xu Tiezhu forwarded Wang Yingxiong's letter and arrived, Wang Huan became worried. He didn't even want to read the second letter from the stone pillar that followed.

Frowning and thinking for a while, Wang Huan only felt that his head was as big as a fight, and he couldn't sprinkle beans into an army without soldiers at hand, he shook his head, and reluctantly picked up the letter from the stone pillar on the table.

He originally thought that this letter was an urgent letter from Qin Liangyu, because the Fengjie of Kuizhou Mansion was very close to the stone pillar, and Xu Tiezhu's news arrived at the stone pillar, and Qin Liangyu's re-cultivation of the book was similar to sending a letter from Fengjie directly to Longquan Mountain.

Unexpectedly, Wang Huan stood up with a high-five, pinched the letter and shouted: "Okay, good, Li Huaien talent!" In such a short period of time, he was able to find out the charge of S yellow gunpowder issued by the bird, talent! ”

It turned out that this letter was written by Li Huaien, and the letter explained that he was in the stone pillar Wanshou City, after a long period of experiments, and spent countless bird systems, and finally tried out the charge law of the bird system using yellow gunpowder to issue S lead, and worked out a stable charge amount, and opened a military battle bureau in Wanshou City, with the help of Wang Yingxiong sent five hundred blacksmiths from Yungui, to create a tool equipment, and began to design and manufacture qualified bird systems for the Kuizhou army, Li Huaien was rigorous and careful, and the bird system created by him was much better than the goods of the Ming Military Bureau. As long as it is done in strict accordance with the regulations, at least it will not explode.

With the letter, there are a hundred brand-new bird system, Wang Huan picked up one casually, looked at the front and back, only to see that the wall is thick, riveted tightly, selected with iron, the material is superior, even the Wangshan and the front sight, have been strictly calibrated, the whole body is in accordance with the Ming regulations, Y engraved with the name of the craftsman and the year of manufacture, the whole bird system exudes the smell of refined iron, with a faint dark light.

Wang laughed happily, the troubles in his heart were temporarily gone, rubbing his body, a thought suddenly exploded in his mind, to say that the expert in using bird system, today's Daming, Chen Qiyu is called second, who else dares to call first?

There are a lot of generals in the Kuizhou army, but unfortunately there are too few people who can stand alone, now is the time to employ people, the direction of northern Sichuan is really inseparable, Xu Tiezhu on the Kuizhou side does not know the military affairs, and there is a lack of a general in charge, so it is better to ask Chen Qiyu to go out of the mountain and be the main general of the Kuizhou army.

Wang Huan wanted to go to Hezhou in person, but Li Dingguo did not leave, and he did not dare to leave without authorization, so he had to repair a book, with sincere words, explaining that the current situation is severe, if Kuizhou is lost, the entire eastern Sichuan will be doomed, please Chen Qiyu to help. Let the horse be sent to Hezhou quickly.

Chen Qiyu was in the backyard of the Yamen of Zhizhou, Hezhou, holding the carbon stove and sitting on the leisurely chair to read Wang Huan's letter, sighed, and gave the letter to Chen Kun, who was standing on the side.

Chen Kun looked at it in a hurry and blurted out: "My lord, your body can't withstand such a toss!" ”

Chen Qiyu squinted his eyes and replied to the question: "He Tengjiao, when the old man was the governor of the five provinces, he was still a county commander, but he didn't expect that now he has become a feudal official, what a hero is created by the times." ”

Chen Kun was anxious, and said hurriedly: "My lord, Mr. Wang invited you to go out of the mountain, but your body is ......."

Chen Qiyu glared at him: "Then you go?" ”

Chen Kun's face turned pale, and he waved his hand and said embarrassedly: "My lord is joking, I don't know about military affairs." ”

Chen Qiyu squinted his eyes again, and said to himself: "He Tengjiao is too domineering, Sichuan can't fight with him under the jurisdiction of the governor of Huguang, so he is greedy for silver mine profits, and he is making a big move, and now there are strong enemies outside, bandits inside, and C Ge in the same room, is he crazy?" ”

He took a break and continued: "Wang Huan does things for others, although he is disrespectful to the court, but he is kind to the people, under his rule, is it far better than Chen Shiqi, Zeng Ying and others? ”

Chen Kun next to him thought about it for a while, and replied honestly: "Yes, at least this winter, no one in the three prefectures of eastern Sichuan was frozen and starved to death, I heard that a large part of the harvest of his silver mine was also used to help the people's livelihood, not to mention the good government of three years of tax exemption and one year of tax exemption. ”

Chen Qiyu closed his eyes and was silent, and said slowly after half a sound: "The old man is half into the ground, but he is also started by this kid's chat, that's it, for the sake of the people in eastern Sichuan, I will take this trip, so that even if the sun falls in the next Y, I can also win a Y virtue." ”

His eyes widened, his eyes were shining, and the whole person seemed to be several years younger, and his thin body stood up suddenly, and shouted: "Take my clothes and armor, prepare the boat, the old man will meet that He Tengjiao for a while!" ”

(End of chapter)