Dongxiang County and County Ya, on a slippery Nanmu chair, sat the cabinet bachelor Shang Daoxing, the military police battalion general Chen Gui, the Jinyi envoy Zhenfu level commander Yin Cesheng, the Li Branch to Lu Lang in the matter, the household department to Zhang Youcai, the criminal department to the matter and the Metropolitan Procuratorate Yu Shi Lan Liangshan, the military department to Luo Fengjie, the engineering department to the matter, the engineering department to the Han family ordnance institute Liu Hede, Meng Yunpu, Jia Kui, Kuizhou prefect Gui Chongchun, Suiding prefect Gongsun Yan and other military government cadres.

And they all turned sideways at this time, looking at Yang Ming sitting in the center of the room, Yang Ming was still wearing a white robe, with a brocade of rat satin around his neck, his expression was indifferent, and the governor of the secretariat, Yun Die, stood aside, folding his hands on his waist, a pair of peaks on his slender waist seemed to be a lot fuller, and on the other side was Xu Shuixian, last night's madness with Yang Ming made her still full of souls, and her eyes revealed a kind of gentleness like a spring breeze in March.

"The left army Jin Shenghuan has arrived at Xiashan Pass yesterday, and captured Xiashan Pass, a few days ago from Qingxi Town, Dongxiang County, less than 300 miles away, from the nearest first line of defense is only 50 miles away, and the main force of the left army has also left Kaixian yesterday, and is now rushing to the Fan Hao area, that is to say, in the next few days, we and 5,000 Han soldiers and millions of people will have a decisive battle with the more than 80,000 left army, and we can't retreat, and there is nowhere to retreat, now we can be described as a backwater, Whether you win or lose is also a matter of course. ”

Yang Ming stopped when he said this, and glanced at the officials present, now with the expansion of the Han army, the number of officials and generals has also increased sharply, Yang Ming now can't remember how many people he has under his hands to do things for himself, but he still knows all the important people in this room, and he must know all of them, and the attitude of these people will directly affect his success or failure, so Yang Ming cares about the attitude of these people very much.

Now that Zuo Liangyu's army is pressing, the civil ministers and generals present are not as worried as when they first heard that the officials and soldiers of the imperial court are coming, on the contrary, although they know that the officials and soldiers they encountered this time are more and more powerful than last time, they all do not show panic, but they all have heavy faces, maybe everyone has their own ideas in their hearts, and everyone's courage is also big and small, but now they are all thieves in the eyes of the imperial court, and they can only follow Yang Ming all the way to the dark.

Seeing that these people were all silent, Yang Ming had no choice but to glance at Shang Daoxing: "Bachelor of Commerce, let's talk about our current situation." ”

"Yes, now we have here in addition to the 5,000 brave and good fighters of the gendarmerie battalion, there are also 5,000 soldiers of the garrison regiment belonging to the criminal department and 5,000 city defense soldiers belonging to the military department, in addition to hundreds of thousands of people have been mobilized and 50,000 young men have been selected to form a temporary army, and the fortresses and fortresses and retaining walls have also been built, from the northernmost Liangfeng Township to the southernmost Qingxi Town, there is a composite defensive position every five miles, it can be said that the left army will definitely pay a very huge price if it wants to attack it!" Shang Tao said.

Yang Ming nodded and motioned for him to sit down, and then asked Liu Hede to report on the situation of the Han Army Ordnance Institute, Liu Hede hurriedly took out a piece of paper and read: "Now the Han Army Ordnance has stepped up to produce more than 2,000 Han guns, and another 500 Mini guns, in addition, the newly established artillery factory has also produced more than 30 artillery pieces of various types, plus the 100 or so artillery pieces we have captured, which is enough to defend various fortresses, in addition, the gunpowder storage is enough to cope with the consumption of January. ”

The Minny gun is a rifled gun, and it is also a representative gun of rifled guns that have been officially used in large-scale warfare, if there is no Yang Ming in this world, this kind of gun will not appear until the middle of the nineteenth century, but even if Yang Ming appears and let this epoch-making firearm appear hundreds of years in advance, it will not allow him to be used on a large scale on the battlefield in a short time.

The engineers of the Han Army Ordnance Institute have been pondering painstakingly for more than half a year, and only 500 have been made after spending a lot of money in this half year, and it took two or three months just to study how to draw rifling, and now these 500 Mini guns are also made by the engineers of the Han Army Ordnance Institute day and night with a pair of skillful hands, if it were not for the improvement of the ironmaking process, the speed would not be so fast, but it would have to wait another year or even several years for large-scale production. This can only be achieved when the level of steel smelting in the ironworks is improved and the industrial standards of rifling drawing and barrel manufacturing processes are improved.

Yang Ming was not surprised that the number of Minny guns manufactured was so small, and he nodded and said, "Lord Lu, how is the mobilization of the gentry and the common people?" ”

Lu Lang hurriedly stood up and said excitedly: "Childe, rest assured, the people and gentry from all over the country are very enthusiastic to participate in all kinds of money and material donation activities held by the lower officials, and even many people spontaneously go to temples around the country to burn incense to pray for the blessing of the Han army, pray for you Gongzi, and the students of Xilin Academy want to participate in the Han family army and the soldiers of the Han family army to resist the imperial court riot army!" However, there are also a few people who are stubborn and secretly scold us thieves who will be suppressed by Wang Shi sooner or later, but the lower officials have begun to mobilize students with thoughts and loyalty from all over the country to criticize these people. ”

"You have done a good job, after the war begins, you can ask Kuizhou Daily to hire more readers as war correspondents to report on various battle hero stories, so that the gentry and the common people can know how our Han army won this war."

Yang Ming suddenly stood up as he spoke: "Now I order, the whole county immediately enters a state of first-level alert, except for special circumstances, no one is allowed to enter and leave at will, including you!" ”

Here, Zuo Liangyu did not find any trace of Yang Ming after occupying the county seat of Kaixian, which made him very unhappy, and there was a feeling that he wanted to eat Yang Ming alive, but he had to catch Yang Ming before he was eaten alive, and it happened that at this time, he got the news of the advance army Jin Shenghuan, according to Jin Shenghuan, the thief leader Yang Ming had returned to Dongxiang County and appeared in the area of Qingxi Town just yesterday, and had a face-to-face with Jin Shenghuan's scout cavalry.

Zuo Liangyu has lost tens of thousands of horses in order to capture the thief leader Yang Ming, and if he gives up easily, he will not be able to get over his own face, not to mention the other Zuo officers and soldiers who have not robbed half of their property so far. So, Zuo Liangyu didn't care about resting at all, and immediately waved his army to attack Dongxiang County after occupying the county seat of Kaixian, and this time, in order to completely prevent Yang Ming from escaping again, he didn't order the army to rest on the way, and also ordered all the officers and soldiers to speed up their advance, and if the officers and soldiers who couldn't arrive within two days were directly beheaded!

In this way, the left army, which was already tired from continuous campaigns, was even more tired because of the rapid march, which was also one of the important reasons why the Han army was able to achieve its strategic goals.