After counting, only 132 of the more than 500 Mongolian soldiers survived. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoIn this battle, the navy brought by Huang Yuan was completely wiped out, and more than half of them were killed, drowned, and buried in the belly of the fish.

The Shaoxi Mansion Naval Army, which was out of the limelight, except for a few people who were shot and injured at the beginning, and a gunner who accidentally got pinched by a shell while loading the cannon, and his fingers were swollen and painful, there were no casualties.

With the cannon, he was also shot and wounded by the Mongol army, which made Li Xiang deeply uneasy. At this time, he also felt that with the weapons that his army now possessed, it was more than enough to attack the enemy, but his own protection was extremely insufficient. When it came to the field battlefield where thousands of troops and horses were fighting, there were no fortifications to protect themselves, and the only few thousand people he had were not eaten at once. Thinking of this, Li Xiang suddenly sweated profusely.

The inventory, screening, and surrender of troops, which were carried out by Zhang Shan and Zhang He, the leaders of the navy, went extremely smoothly thanks to the assistance of Zhu Zi, the small leader of the navy.

In the hall where the commanders of the ship were eating—a hall, it was just a large room made up of two rooms—Zhang Shan separated a few feet of cloth and let the pillars and others sit in it, and then one by one he called in the soldiers and asked the master to register and ask a word or two, and when the pillars and others who could see through the cracks in the cloth pulled the small bell on the table, he told them to go out through the door where they had entered, or to have them take them out through the other door. There were many people who entered and exited the same gate, and those who were brought out from another gate were only forty-six until all the troops were counted. Forty-six of them, all recognized as Mongols, were immediately sent to the broken "Mongol" ship that had captured them and had their oars taken, leaving them with no chance of escaping except by jumping into the sea.

These Mongolian soldiers are not stupid, this river is full of whirlpools and rapids, and now jumping down is tantamount to killing themselves, and they can only feed the belly of the fish waiting for delicious human flesh, so they all obediently sit on the deck under the supervision of the sailors and dare not make a slight move.

These soldiers under his command are basically made Li Xiang very troubled, if he really fights with the Mongolian army, it seems that it will definitely not work. Not to mention the question of whether they can be trusted, this is how to send them to the battlefield, and there is no other use than to fill the numbers and pretend to scare people.

After thinking about it, Li Xiang decided to find a place to train these recruits for a period of time, and then talk about it, and there are a few months to train, which can probably come in handy.

Bringing Zhao Er and other naval army generals and telling them what they thought, Zhang Shan raised a question: "One thousand people, just enough to be organized into ten sentinels, together with the generals, team officers, chiefs, bannermen, etc. we sent, a total of about 1,250 people, the training needs will not be small." And it can't be let the above know that these people are extra guards, so we have to find a place that is not easy to be discovered, and such a place is best than a small harbor, but do we have it in Shaoxi Mansion? ”

Li Xiang smiled bitterly: "You ask me, who should I ask?" ”

Zhao Er said: "I'll ask the boatmaster on the ship, or if any of them know, I don't know." Everyone, I'll go back in a minute. ”

However, Zhao Er walked into the room with a smile and Huang Laowang, the boat master, and said to Li Xiang with a smile: "I can't imagine that there is such a place, and this can solve our big problem." ”

Huang Lao Wu said: "There are many uninhabited places in this area, but in line with the conditions mentioned by Commander Zhang Du, the villain knows that there is one, there is a harbor in the southwest of our Shaoxi Mansion, and there are only more than 100 families who live by farming and fishing, you might as well go there tomorrow." ”

Li Xiang looked at the sky outside, patted his leg and said, "Okay, let's go and have a look tomorrow, if it is suitable, we will occupy a temporary base for us to train recruits, and then send a boat to pick them up." Zhao Er, you are going to be busy today, go and arrange all the preparations, our time is too tight, we can't delay more. ”

Zhang Shan and Zhang He stood up in response, and Huang Lao Wu also got up and said, "There is nothing else, the villain will also retire." ”

After they left, Li Xiang asked Zhao Er: "Zhao Er, if more than 1,000 people stay in a secret place to train, the monthly grain needs about 500 stones, and you have to send them a month's worth of grain every month." ”

Zhao Er smiled and said, "My lord, don't worry, when the time comes, we will build a few motor boats to transport grain, rice, vegetables and vegetables to that location." ”

Li Xiang knocked his head: "Yes, how did I forget the steamship, this kind of ship can be used not only as a gunboat, but also as a transport ship, very good!" You need to pay more attention to this. ”

"No problem, it's just a ship for loading, the gunboats we are building now are very successful, and building a transport ship is not a trivial matter." Zhao Er said: "Please rest assured. ”

"Okay, that's up to you." Li Xiang smiled: "Okay, let's also leave early, and strive to rush back before sunset today." ”

It was already evening when I returned to the shipyard dock, and Li Xiang was also tired, so he rested early.

Early the next morning, Li Xiang took Zhao Er and the others to the Tuojiang River harbor that Huang Lao Wu said, but it actually took more than three hours to arrive, and it was really about 60 miles of waterway, mainly because the boats on the inland river used machines to move slowly when there was no wind.

This place is very good, there is a natural harbor, and there is a small island in the middle, which can really be said to be a natural harbor, and even the gunboats with a draft of nearly one zhang can sail to a close place more than ten feet from the shore. The small warship is better, and it can still walk less than five feet offshore, but if it weren't for the boatman's great care, he almost ran into the beach and ran aground.

A ship with a draft of three feet could go straight to the beach and bring all the recruits and carpenters, as well as food and tools, to the harbor twice. This Hongwan is surrounded by mountains, and it is really rare for people to come. Even the passing ships are few.

After seeing this uninhabited harbor, everyone was greatly satisfied. Lian had just been promoted to a sentry commander of the recruit corps, and after seeing the mountains, springs, and large areas of flat land that could be used as training grounds, he finally smiled a little.

It took more than two hours to transport 48 tiger squat cannons and more than 4,000 two-and-a-half-pound sub-guns, together with more than 100 chicken carts and more than 1,000 people, to the shore.

Of course, there are also some materials, and they are going to build a base here as a hidden naval base in the future.

After more than half an hour of hard work, the 48 tiger squat guns of the two artillery teams have been erected at a distance of 50 zhang. At this time, the Tiger Squat Cannon is completely different from the original. The old carpenters had the ingenuity to make the wheelbarrows a combination that could be temporarily assembled and disassembled, and the two wheelbarrows could easily be fitted into a tiger squat gun carriage with a hardwood-inlaid iron plate chute, and a half-gourd-shaped spring was added to the rear of the barrel to eliminate recoil. Not only is it easy to adjust the muzzle, but it also has two wheels that can be pushed around.

When shooting, you only need to fix the wheels and aim to fire. Compared to before, there was only one rack to install the barrel, and after each shot, it took a long time to pad the gun mount because the gun carriage jumped. In the past, it took half a quarter to a quarter to fire a single shot, but now three shots can be fired in a quarter of an hour. If it weren't for Li Xiang's strict order, once the barrel of the cannon was hot, no more fire would have been fired, and these gunners would probably have fired five or six shots in a moment. (To be continued.) )