In accordance with Wang Huan's order, Chen Xiang sent people to Guangdong to recruit craftsmen from the Macao Artillery Factory to enrich the strength of the Hanzhong Military Bureau.

However, although most of the Portuguese came to the Far East as adventurers, no one was willing to go deep into the heart of China to make money, and their living habits were very different, and it was difficult to live. These people are not like missionaries like John Tong, who have religious beliefs, they only have money in their eyes, but they can't spend the money if they have nowhere to spend it, and when they go to the Chinese mainland, they can't even eat bread, what is the use of the money? So the recruitment operation is struggling.

Chen Xiang's people didn't dare to recruit people with great fanfare, if they attracted Li Chengdong's attention, it would be over, so they had to continue to increase the amount of silver and quietly seduce, and finally attracted the two of them.

But these two people were only low-level workers, and Chen Xiang's people were afraid that they would not have much effect, so they used some means, and when the two senior craftsmen of the artillery factory went out to drink, they knocked on the sticks, put the sack in the sack, and tied the ticket and transported it to Hanzhong.

These methods are not on the table, but Wang Huan doesn't think so, those who become big things are not informal, and the big husband does something and doesn't, they are all saints, so go up the mountain and drink the wind.

So Wang Huan nodded appreciatively at Chen Xiangkuan, brothers don't need to communicate with each other in words, just a look.

"However, if we don't move at all, the Qing army will think that we are as weak as an ordinary Ming army, and we will only be spectators like turtles with shrunken heads, and the soldiers will still come out, and it depends on where they come out." Wang Huan turned his head around, and knocked on the table with his finger knuckles and said: "From tomorrow, a war battalion will be stationed in Tongguan, where Ma Mingtu said just now, it has been occupied by the righteous army, and crossing the Yellow River from Tongguan is Shanxi, and the garrison here can give the Qing army in Shanxi a threat, so that they have to stay on guard, and it can be regarded as a support for Jiang Jiu." ”

He swept his gaze and crossed the faces of the three battalion commanders, three of them were stunned, and before the other two could react, Li Dingguo took a step forward and said loudly: "Master Hou, leave this matter to me Fengzi Battalion, wait for the opportunity to move, advance and retreat, this fire, the end will be grasped!" ”

After Li Dingguo finished speaking, Li Tingyu and Ma Xintian came to their senses, feeling that Li Dingguo was grabbing the fighter plane, the two of them quit, and they competed to win this errand.

The military merits of the Kuizhou system are great, and military merits can not only be rewarded, but also earn a share of the money and food issued by the government for the wife and children at home, and the promotion and reuse are also promoted according to the size of the merit.

The commanders of the three battalions themselves will not talk about it, for the sake of the many brothers in the battalion, they must also try their best to fight for the opportunity to fight, otherwise they will attract complaints when they return to the battalion.

The three of them quarreled, and finally Wang Huan came forward to make a decision, Li Dingguo asked for the battle first, this time he went from the Fengzi camp, and next time he sent Li Tingyu and Ma Xintian's people.

Seeing the scene in front of him, Meng Zhiyu felt a lot, when did the Ming army have such a martial and belligerent army? It seems that there is no memory of those general generals, as soon as they heard that they were going to send themselves to the battle, it was like mourning, and the bullets that were not sent were celebrated, where did they ever see the battlefield as happy as following up the cave room? Perhaps only the Kuizhou Army has this mentality.

Thinking of this, Meng Zhiyu became more and more happy in his heart, glad that he followed Wang Huan, how lucky.

Seeing that the big thing was basically over, Meng Zhiyu stepped forward, took out a letter from his sleeve pocket, and reported to Wang Huanyu: "My lord, this is an urgent letter from Governor Wang, saying that he was attacked by Tartar stragglers in Qinling and lost the chief Meng Qiaofang. ”

Wang Huan took the letter with a strange face, glanced at it casually, and said indifferently: "Let's run away, and it didn't run away from us, reply to him, and say that although the northwest has been recovered, the remnants of the Tartars have not been cleared, please be more careful along the way." ”

Looking at the secretly empty look on Wang Huan's face, Meng Zhiyu was confused, Ping Lianghou has always been the master who can't afford to lose, how has it changed today?

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Ma Mingtu came to the door again the next day, he took a bath, changed his clothes, ate a full meal, was full of energy and refreshed, and planned to say a few more words to Wang Huan.

Unexpectedly, Meng Zhiyu politely asked him to sit down, served tea and snacks, pinched his nose and returned the bamboo pipe and seal letter to him, and then told him apologetically that Wang Huan was not there.

"Master Hou is not here?" Ma Mingtu was stunned: "Wasn't it still there yesterday?" ”

"Alas~! The war is urgent, Hou Ye listened to his father-in-law's words, isn't this in a hurry? I went around to inspect and train the troops, but I don't know when I will be able to come back. Meng Zhiyu sighed and said: "Even I'm here, it's a big mess, the new annex in the northwest, everything is messy, father-in-law, please take care of yourself, the official will go and get busy first, self-convenience, self-convenience." ”

Then he hurriedly walked out, leaving Ma Mingtu and staring at him in the room.

At this time, Wang Huan had already taken Ma Wannian's personal guards and galloped on the official road back to Hanzhong.

The Hanzhong Military War Bureau is located in a valley surrounded by mountains, surrounded by high hills, and only two valley entrances and exits, one front and one back, are safe and hidden. There are mountain springs in the valley and flow smoothly, which converge into a river at the bottom of the valley, which solves the problem of drinking water for people and animals, and also provides a source for a large amount of industrial water for the War Bureau.

Xu Erjue then entered the site, according to the regulations of the workshop, carefully arranged, where to set up the rough room, where to set up the iron room, how far away from the blast furnace, and how many blast furnaces are needed.

Xu Erjue has already done it here, although the rank of the Nanming military department is higher than that of the ambassador of the War Bureau, and there is a lot of oil and water on weekdays, but he is not as happy as the officer here, basically what he wants, Wang Huan will give him, except for Princess Changping, Wang Huan can give him everything he has, so Bole, what more can Xu Erjuefu ask for.

After running on the road for two days, Wang Huan appeared outside the city of Hanzhong, he didn't even enter the city, he went directly to the military battle, so that the newly appointed prefect and garrison officer of Hanzhong looked through the autumn water outside the city, and waited outside the city gate for a long time before he knew that the Hou Ye did not plan to enter the city at all.

Outside the gate of the military battle, a tall wall was built, and the rocky mountains were connected on both sides, sealing the valley. The wall is nearly 100 zhang long, up to four zhang and five feet, almost higher than the city wall in Hanzhong, there is a female wall arrow tower on the wall, there is a horse road to protect the slope, the horse face enemy platform is readily available, the guards come and go to patrol, walk through the city like a shuttle, the slightest change inside and outside the city can have a panoramic view, it is simply equivalent to a fortress.

Xu Er felt waiting at the gate, leading a group of craftsmen, and bowed to Wang Huan from afar.

Wang Huan urged the horse to Xu Erjue, rolled the saddle and dismounted, stretched out his hand to hold Xu Erjue's hand, helped him up, and said urgently: "Ambassador Xu doesn't have to be like this, thanks to you these days, the War Bureau has been able to be completed and started, and I should thank you." ”

Xu Erjue was excited when he heard this, and said again and again: "My lord, Xu can't afford it, he can't afford it!" ”

Wang Huan smiled and took his hand, and walked towards the gate together, only to see the two gates, made of solid wood, up to a foot thick, with several layers of wood and rivets firmly nailed together, the barricade behind the door is directly a large tree trunk surrounded by one person, and several big men must work together to lift it up.

Wang Huan looked left and right, and praised Xu Erjue again and again: "It's so well defended, it's foolproof." ”

Xu Erjue became serious, and said to Wang Huan solemnly: "The cannon, the sharp weapon of the country, thunder, is invincible." Therefore, in order to protect everything, the subordinate officials should take more reliable preventive measures, so as not to break into the military battle bureau in case someone destroys it, and the life of the subordinate officer is small, and the military aircraft is a big matter! ”

Hearing this, Wang Huan's impression of Xu Erjue was a little better, it turned out that this engineering man was not only good at firearms, but also very cautious, thinking far enough, and feeling more and more that he was not looking for the wrong person.

"Li Huaien Muna, although the technology has nothing to say, but it is inferior to the world; Xu Erjue is extremely sophisticated, and it seems that he has not been in vain in the officialdom of the Ming Court for so many years. Wang Huan compared the two in his heart, and had a preliminary idea of their future official status.

(End of chapter)