The waiting time is always so hard. Xu Shilian and Wang Jun's you come to me, you push me to block, Li Zhao, who is far away in Lushan, anxiously wants to enter the field and shout: Don't earn it, I'll get the silver!

But Li Zhao really can't do this.

So Li Zhao has to continue to wait. This waited, and waited until the end of September, when the Ruzhou battalion, which had completed the assembly, finally got a price that satisfied them, and hundreds of Ding Zhuang with signs, dragging two Weiyuan general cannons, slowly walked on the road to Lushan.

It's not that Xu Shilian and they don't want to drag better artillery, it's that the Ruzhou battalion is not qualified to equip the general's cannon.

There is not a 2,000-pound general cannon in the entire Nanyang Town, and this thing will only appear in the city and the border army, as well as key cities such as Beijing Division and provincial capitals. Nanyang Town is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, why do you want a sharp firearm like a general's cannon? Do you need it?

The Manchu government, whether from the perspective of practicality, or from the perspective of suppressing the armed forces of the green battalion and controlling the balance of military power, would not have deployed such a powerful thing as a general's cannon in Henan. Even compared with the European artillery, the general's artillery is already a lot behind.

General Weiyuan's cannon is an absolute small cannon, weighing only 330 kilograms, the gun body is copper, about six feet six inches (about 2.2 meters) long, and the barrel caliber is about three inches and three points (about 110 mm), which is an absolute light artillery. With a two-wheeled artillery car, the ideal firing range is 400-500 meters, and in fact, it can hit two or three hundred meters, thank God.

And this is still in the early middle and early period of Qianlong's reign, the Manchu government has not yet gone through the disaster of Heshen and the adults, if it is in the later period, or into the Jiaqing and Daoguang years, such a small cannon can hit a hundred and ten meters is good. The cutting corners in the craftsmanship and texture and the cutting of corners in gunpowder add up to an unimaginably large impact on firearms.

The Chen family, who were temporarily isolated to the west of Phoenix Terrace, did not know this information, because Xu Pengqiu did not tell the Chen family about it.

Not only that, but the 'paving' that the Xu family had just started was also stopped by Xu Pengchun, the first leader of the Xu family.

Regardless of whether your Chen family really has 3,000 laborers and craftsmen, you should deal with the following crisis first, and only after passing this threshold can the Chen family be qualified to continue to take the next step.

As for the Xu family not telling the Chen family the news, Xu Pengchun didn't want to tell it, why did the Xu family tell the Chen family the news? Why should he take such a risk? The status of the Xu family in Lushan County is there, and the Xu family can do some things that other families can't do. But some behaviors that cross the line, the Xu family also has to stay away.

Luyang Pass, Gao family.

Since returning from Ruzhou, Gao Peng, who has played a lot in Lushan County, has been sick when he returns to Luyang Guan. The direct family of the Gao family honestly shrank in Luyang Pass, and were 'filial sons and grandsons' in front of Gao Pengqi.

Whether Gao Pengqi is really sick or fake, no one cares, this is a gesture made by the Gao family. Just like Chen Ming's father-in-law has closed the school he has worked hard for more than ten years, he is 'sick at home'.

"Dad, the Ruzhou battalion dispatched hundreds of officers and soldiers, and dragged two cannons, which is not comparable to the militia that is not even as good as the smuggler salt dealers. If my uncle didn't know about it, he would suddenly suffer a big loss. Look at whether we ......" Gao Pengqi's eldest son, Gao Yanjing, whispered to his father.

Don't look at the Gao family's pit by the Chen family, after Gao Pengqi returned to Luyang Pass from Lushan County, he did have a sudden illness. The entire Gao family is also really dissatisfied with the Chen family's 'falling grass'. But after calming down, thinking about it, falling grass is really a way for the Chen family to protect themselves, otherwise the current Chen family has been swallowed by Chang Rui and Li Zhao with a belt and bones.

The Gao family and the Chen family are still in love, and even the contact is still there.

At least Gao Peng's position, before the Ruzhou government did not exterminate the Chen family, it seemed unlikely to be passive. Gao Yanjing is the eldest of the next generation of the Gao family, and when Gao Pengqi was away, he was already responsible for taking care of the entire Gao family. In his eyes, the Chen family has a very existing comparison. It is close because of the close relationship between the two families, and because of the tangible benefits.

The Ruzhou militia, known as 800 people, could not move forward in front of the Phoenix Terrace, and in a small battle, the Chen family broke up the military spirit of the militia. This news can't hide from many local snakes in Lushan County, and the Gao family's originally rejected and crowded environment has suddenly become comfortable. Gao Yanjing knows why!

"Don't act rashly. This Lushan County is still the world of the Qing Dynasty. Don't underestimate Chang Rui, this is a poisonous snake. Gao Pengqi decisively rejected his son's meaning. He can't risk the entire Gao family, who knows if Chang Rui has sent someone to keep an eye on them. "You find an opportunity to send a message to the Huang family, asking them not to move lightly." As for the Li family, forget it. Gao Pengqi doesn't think that Li Xiu will have any 'superfluous' actions.

Therefore, in Tumenji was controlled by the militia, in the Gao family and the Huang family, and in the case of the Xu family's 'turning a blind eye', Chen Hui really didn't know that the hundreds of officers and soldiers of the Ruzhou battalion had dragged the cannon south.

Of course, in the vast land east of Fenghuangtai, there is not no Chen family in the real sense, Chen Guang, who has escaped from Zhoujiakou, is now hiding in Xuzhou. Of course he knew the news that the Ruzhou camp was going south, but the tragedy was that he didn't know such news, and the Chen family didn't know!

Tiezhai School Field.

The entire army assembled and began to change equipment. Yes, change gear.

Not everyone has changed their muskets, and to be honest, the Chen family now has two or three hundred muskets in their hands. At first, the firearms workshop had few people, but with the Chen family's material and manpower tilting towards firearms production, the total number of firearms workshops has reached 100 so far. But some of the 100 or so men were in the artillery department, and the whole crew of the musket department was only 63, and it was divided into three groups: long and short guns and rifled guns. The production capacity is worrying, and for such a long time, the Chen family has only reserved more than 200 muskets in their arsenal.

Of course, the current strength of the Chen family is also very weak, compared to the current strength of the Chen family, the stock of muskets is enough to arm most of the Chen family's army. However, the Chen family has guns and no gunpowder!

Artillery units are big eaters of gunpowder, especially when it comes to test firing and formulating artillery schedules, which can only be completed after hundreds of firings. Chen Ming never thought that he would go to the opposite side of the Qing court so early, and the gunpowder was reserved, but he did not list it as the first necessity. As a result, there are only more than 500 barrels of gunpowder reserves left in the mountain, and a barrel of granulated black powder is 50 catties, even if it is 60 catties, and more than 500 barrels of gunpowder are only less than 30,000 catties. This is the total reserve of gunpowder, including the opening of mines.

It looks like a lot, but it's not enough at all.

Therefore, the Chen family's firearms unit only had a certain number of artillery and relatively elite but small musketeers. The vast majority of people still have to put on cuirasses, pick up swords, shields, and spears, and become standard cold weapon troops.