Because of Li Zicheng's fraudulent surrender in Chezhou Gorge, the court no longer believed that the surrender of the rebel army was sincere. Chen Qiyu was removed and imprisoned, which is already an unchangeable fact. It turned out that Xiong Wencan, who advocated appeasement, was also placed under residential surveillance by Jinyiwei. If Chen Qiyu is imprisoned, Xiong Wencan probably won't be able to escape. Li Zicheng's fraudulent surrender led to the imprisonment of two court officials, and other court officials could not but take this as a warning.

Similarly, due to the accident in Chezhou Gorge, the Shandong government is also deeply wary of Zhang Zhun. For the anti-thieves, the government has basically formed a consistent mentality, that is: kill! Cut the grass and eradicate the roots! Leave no trouble! In particular, Zhang Zhun has a criminal record. The front had just been recruited and got the title of Ao Shanwei's commander, so he immediately turned his head to attack Lingshan City, killed Wang Jian, the commander of Lingshanwei, and replaced him. With such a person, how can the Shandong government rest assured?

Now that Zhang Zhun controls Ao Shanwei and Lingshanwei, God knows if he will be satisfied? After taking control of the territory of the two guards, Zhang Zhun wanted people, guns and guns, food and food, and the scope of his activities became larger, and the threat was stronger. Whether it is Jimo County, Pingdu Prefecture, Jiaozhou and other places near Aoshan City, they are directly under the threat of Zhang Zhun. Moreover, Laiyang, Dasongwei and other places in the direction of Laiyang are also within the radiation range of Zhang Zhun. As long as Zhang Zhun is willing, he can raid these places at any time and keep them for himself.

"It's a must."

Zhang Zhun actually knows very well that his honeymoon with the government will not exceed three months. He wasn't an innocent man who was shot while lying down. In fact, even without Li Zicheng's relationship, it is impossible for the government to believe him, and it is equally impossible for him to believe in the government. The temporary peace is only for the sake of fighting more fiercely in the future.

The reason is simple, neither side wants to maintain the status quo.

The government still hopes to suppress Zhang Zhun and completely eliminate his hidden danger. Put a tiger that can go out of the gate at any time, pillow by your side, if you can sleep, it's strange! What's more, when this tiger bites, it is still silent. Even if Zhang Zhun has no criminal record, the position of the two guard commanders has also made many officials blush. Get rid of Zhang Zhun and replace him with your own people, why not?

Aoshanwei and Lingshanwei, two guards, and ten thousand households, are enough to arrange more than a dozen military attaches of more than five grades. Moreover, there is so much land in Liangwei, which is a truly priceless treasure! If you can send troops through the imperial court to seek personal interests for your relatives and friends, it is a very cost-effective thing. Therefore, the officials at all levels in Shandong are quietly swallowing saliva behind Zhang Zhun's back.

And Zhang Zhun also wants to control a larger territory.

Rebellion is sailing against the current, and if you don't advance, you will retreat. This is a road of no return, and if you embark on it, there is no chance to turn back. If you believe in the government's recruitment, it is tantamount to making a joke with your own life. A small fortune is safe, and living in a corner is very dangerous. History proves that those rebels who have won a brief victory, then stop the pace of expansion, and pursue pleasure have a miserable end. Huang Chao, Li Zicheng, Hong Xiuquan, all like this. If you have such a mentality, when the officers and men recover their strength, everything will be over. Even if the officers and soldiers do not slow down, they will also be bulldozed when the Qing army enters the customs.

If you want to change the course of history, the most important thing is to prevent the Qing army from entering the customs and prevent the Manchu Dynasty from ruling the Central Plains. It would be even better if you could wipe out all the tartars. Compared with the decaying Ming army, the Qing army was Zhang Zhun's real opponent. Through the battle of Tianheng Island, Zhang Zhun has clearly realized that the combat effectiveness of the Tartars is indeed very strong. On Tianheng Island, they did not have war horses and could not give full play to their advantages in riding and archery, and their combat effectiveness was only three or four percent at most. If the Tartars had war horses and tens of thousands of people, their combat effectiveness would be very terrifying.

"The Jurchens are not more than 10,000, and more than 10,000 are invincible."

This sentence is not to increase the morale of others and destroy one's own prestige, but there is a certain amount of truth.

If the cavalry of the Tartars reaches 10,000 people, they can adopt a lot of tactics, such as attacking at night, attacking together, cutting off the grain route, ambushing the soldiers, and mangu gangsters, etc., as long as they are used properly, defeating the 100,000 Ming army, it is a trivial matter. Even if he pulls his troops up now, facing the same number of Tartar cavalry, he does not dare to say that he will definitely win. The Tartars are all cavalry, even if they can't be beaten, they can escape! Whether they are pursuing or not, the Tartars are in absolute initiative.

If you want to accumulate enough strength to compete with the Qing army before the Qing army enters the customs, expanding the territory is undoubtedly the best way. The larger the territory, the more resources, the more population, and the higher the degree of resource integration. To form your own cavalry troops, it is absolutely impossible to do without a large territory. Not to mention anything else, Shandong Province must be firmly controlled. If possible, in addition to controlling Shandong Province, Dongjiang Town will also be controlled. Even, Jiangnan has to plug in. Zheng Zhilong's strength in Taiwan is not very strong now, and he has to fight Taiwan's idea. Of course, that's all for later.

After controlling Lingshanwei and Aoshanwei, Zhang Zhun's eyes have been eyed at Jimo County, Jiaozhou, Pingdu Prefecture, Laiyang, Dasongwei and other places. Among them, the first ones that Zhang Zhun is ready to capture are, of course, Jimo County and Jiaozhou. After controlling these two counties, their own territories are truly linked together on land. Whether it is maneuver maneuver or strategic depth, it is quite impressive. At the same time, Fushan City is also in the encirclement, and it is absolutely safe.

Whether it was the attack of the officers and soldiers, or Zhang Zhun's own expansion, Aoshan City was a military fortress that both sides had to control. As long as you understand Zhang Zhun's thoughts, you know that in the spring of next year, the ground near Aoshanwei will definitely not be calm.

"Expansion starts from Aoshan City."

Zhang Zhun and his heart and abdomen are tacitly aware of this.

The Fushan Navy is now also renamed the Navy. The navy still maintains two combat detachments, each of which is 50 soldiers, not counting officers, and the commanders are still Fang He and Liu Dong. For the time being, there is only one battleship. However, the three Cangshan boats will soon be launched. After the launch of the three Cangshan ships, the navy can be regarded as having four professional combat ships.

Of course, the navy, which has only four combat ships, is very shabby. The status of Zhang Zhun Navy in the Ming Dynasty is probably equivalent to the status of the Mongolian Navy in the world in later generations. It's a good start, though. With the continuous expansion of the dock, more and more combat ships will appear on the sea like dumplings.

In this expansion, the new soldiers are mainly from Xiahezhai, Aoshan City and Xiongyasuo, as well as some Laiyang refugees. There are even some refugees from Liaodong. This is also Zhang Zhun deliberately. He wants to expand the influence of the Tiger Army. Only when all strata, all groups, receive practical benefits, can he unite the broad masses of the people.

Among them, the Tiger Ben Army absorbed the most local residents of Aoshan City. Stimulated by the "Juntian Order" and the "Juntian Order", the people of Aoshan City were very active in joining the army. Originally, Zhang Zhun only planned to recruit 300 new fighters in Aoshan City, but as a result, more than 2,000 people signed up. At the time of the test, the competition was unusually fierce, and the record of lifting stone locks was constantly being refreshed.

Shi Zhenshan's three grandsons were all brushed down. Huang Qingping's two youngest sons also failed the test. Meng Qinghao was the luckiest, and the third son successfully passed the test. So much so that many old people who were present to watch the test sighed that if everyone had been so active when killing the Tartars, the Tartars would have disappeared in a long time.

The population base of Aoshan City is also very large, and there are quite a lot of young men with good quality in all aspects, and Zhang Zhun only recruits 300 people, which is really difficult to meet everyone's needs. In the end, Zhang Zhun temporarily decided to recruit another 200 people to train as naval sailors. Although the sailors of the Navy were inferior to those of the Army, many young people participated without hesitation. As a result, Yang Guohua and Zhou Zhengyu unexpectedly had two hundred more reserve sailors. It does take more time to train a qualified sailor than it takes to train a standard army soldier, and Zhang Zhun did this, which can be regarded as a precaution.

To this end, Zhang Zhun also specially established a naval training school at the Partridge Bay Naval Base. The main task of the naval training school is to train sailors. At the same time, there was also a conscious start to train some officers. Every month, Zhang Zhun will take two days to come here to give lessons to everyone. In general, the naval training school, which is still relatively rough, is at the stage of auditions. Here, there is no fixed education model, and most of the knowledge depends on what you want to learn from other veterans, comprehend, delve into, accumulate, and finally become your own knowledge.

However, if you really have the talent and the opportunity to express yourself, then it is easy for you to stand out and become an officer. After all, the newly established Navy is in great need of talent, and there are countless vacancies waiting for you. The most typical example is the captain, first mate, sailor, helmsman, pilot and other positions. With the large-scale production of Cangshan ships, the demand for these positions is quite large!

There are also a small number of young people in Lingshanwei who took the initiative to apply to join the army. This shows that Lingshanwei's indifference is gradually dissolving. In the past, Lingshanwei, everyone was quite resistant to joining the army. It's not easy for them to have such a change. After Zhang Zhun's observation, the young men who arrived in Lingshanwei generally have a characteristic, that is, they are very obedient and can endure hardships. As long as it is an officer's order, there is no one who does not listen. The intensity of the training is increased again and again, and they will not cry out that they are tired.

Their only drawback is that they don't have their own opinions, they don't have their own ideas, and they don't know how to be flexible. However, in the army, what is needed is this kind of "mechanized" soldier who is obedient and can endure hardships. Therefore, although their numbers are small, they are very popular with officers of all ranks. Among the new soldiers, the Lingshan Guards always attracted the most attention from the officers. Slowly, these warriors also began to emerge.

The highlight of the expansion is the skills competition in November. The current skills competition has a more resounding name, called "Military Competition". Since there is a word "big", the content of the military contest is naturally very rich. Everything from individual skills, to the combat of the squad, and even the confrontation between the two armies.

Zhang Zhun, who came from later generations, was very impressed by the military competition in 1964. Because, the commander of the large military region where he is located was the top of the military competition that year. This commander, who turned out to be a squad leader, was later received by [***] because of his excellent results in the military competition, and he was promoted to platoon commander before he returned to the army.

When he became the commander of the Grand Military Region, he was already over 60 years old, but with a Type 56 semi-automatic rifle, he could still maintain the achievement of more than 45 rings of five bullets. This is an achievement that the average new fighter can't do, let alone a sixty-year-old man! It can be seen that the old man's training foundation back then was profound.

Zhang Zhun hoped that through such a large-scale military competition, the combat effectiveness of the Tiger Army would be comprehensively enhanced, and a group of outstanding training elites would be trained to serve as the backbone of the unit's future development. The Tartars of Tianheng Island have been wiped out, and in the short term, the Tiger Ben Army should not have a chance to fight the Tartars. As for the ordinary officers and soldiers, it is not that Zhang Zhun despises them, and their combat effectiveness is really not flattering. The actual combat with the officers and soldiers could not improve the combat effectiveness of the Tiger Ben Army. Therefore, it is still necessary to pay unremitting attention to training, and it is necessary to grasp it more strictly than before, otherwise, the combat effectiveness of the troops may regress.

Of course, there are many procedures that need to be prepared to organize such a military competition. The current Tiger Army, plus the Navy, has almost 2,000 people. Getting 2,000 people up and running to the level of proficiency is a challenge in itself. Most of the commands of the Ming army were not so flexible. The rigid and pedantic command system was also an important reason why the Ming army was often defeated by the Tartars. The plan is not as good as the change, the time has passed, and the implementation is still according to the old routine, of course, it will be tragic.

Moreover, most of the officers of the Tiger Ben Army did not have a clear concept of such a big competition. Even, they do not understand the significance of the military competition. Therefore, Zhang Zhun is basically responsible for the work of this overall arrangement. He drew up a plan and then handed it over to the relevant personnel to carry it out. In order to ensure the effect, he also checks the relevant feedback information to avoid deviations.

Because he was really busy, basically, Zhang Zhun never went back to the White House. Most of the time, he ate and lived in the military camp in Aoshan City. The White Lady can only stay alone in the empty room at night. However, the White Lady is very satisfied with her current life and has no other requirements. She lives alone in the White House, and she is also happy. Shen Lingfei would also go to the White House from time to time, pulling the White Lady to talk, and sometimes simply sleeping with the White Lady. Ning Lingwei also goes occasionally, and spends the night at the White House. Of course, the premise is that Zhang Zhun does not come back. Yang Yinghan also took time to come to the White House to meet with the White Lady. Kind people are always likeable, and the White Lady quickly integrated into this big family.

On this day, Zhang Zhun returned to the White House rarely, busy with some written matters. He now has a female secretary who is in charge of writing, and he can handle affairs as long as he dictates. This female secretary, of course, is Xue Ningying. After exercising for a period of time, her role as a female secretary is becoming more and more proficient.

While he was talking, Zhu Chengtai suddenly came in and reported: "My lord, Yu Nan is here." ”

Zhang Zhun said casually: "Please let him in." ”

Yu Nanyi soon arrived, bowing down to greet Zhang Zhun.

Zhang Zhun was in a good mood and said with a smile: "Master Yu is here, what do you care about?" ”

Yu Nanyi hurriedly said, "Don't dare, don't dare." This time, I was commissioned by the Lord to send a man to my lord. ”

Zhang Zhun was a little surprised, and said with a smile: "Send me someone?" ”

Giving away?

Who to send?

It's not going to give me a woman, is it?

In other words, there are quite a few women around me, although there is only one to eat. However, the rest is always eaten. If you send a few more, Lao Tzu will fight night and night, and he won't have the energy to do business. Besides, there are more women, and gradually it becomes boring.

Fortunately, Yu Nan said euphemistically: "I heard that adults lack some talents in artillery research? ”

Zhang Zhun suddenly became interested, and said with a smile: "Master is a person with a heart. ”

The problem of artillery has always troubled Zhang Zhun. Since the Tiger Ben Gun was introduced, the combat effectiveness of the escort force has greatly increased. However, on the naval side, artillery is still a soft underbelly. In the Navy, the Tiger Gun did not completely replace artillery. For modern naval warfare, without artillery, it is really impossible to shoot. The artillery can fire chain shells, fire grapeshot, and inflict massive damage on enemy ships. These are all things that the tiger can't do.

However, these technical things are absolutely impossible to handle without the corresponding talents. Even Zhang Zhun from later generations could not provide much help for casting cannons. The key reason is not in him, but in craftsmen such as Zhou Shiwen. They have no experience in cannon casting, nor do they have the relevant technology to cast cannons, no matter what Zhang Zhun says, it is difficult for them to understand. Even if Zhang Zhun was good at it, they were still at a loss and didn't know what to say. The so-called interlacing is like separating mountains, and that's probably it.

Yu Nan didn't hide it, and said euphemistically: "My family master is closely related to adults, and the affairs of adults are naturally the affairs of my family master, and being able to share the worries of adults is the most happy thing for my family master." ”

Zhang Zhun nodded and said, "I really lack talent. ”

Yu Nan hesitated for a moment, and said with some hesitation: "What I brought is a guilty body, I don't know if the adults have scruples?" ”

Zhang Zhun smiled disapprovingly and said, "What kind of shit are you putting on?" What is there to scruple about? What is the body of sin in me? I'm a thief! ”

Yu Nan put his mind at ease and said with relief: "Then the man led him in." ”

Zhang Zhun nodded with a smile and said, "Please." ”

Yu Nan went out and quickly brought in a person, but it was a middle-aged man with a rather haggard expression. Judging from his original age, he should not be very old, probably in his twenties, but his appearance is quite full of vicissitudes, as if he is already middle-aged. At the same time, for some unknown reason, there seems to be something wrong with his eyes, as if he can't see where the target is. Ever since he came in, his gaze has been a little distracted.

Zhang Zhun couldn't help but wonder a little, Yu Nanyi's lord recommended a disabled person who could cast cannons to himself? It's a bit unexpected!

(To be continued)