At the meeting, he was fooled by the generals, and in the end, Shi Kefa gave up his plan to send troops, and instead guarded Huai'an and waited for the enemy.

Yang Chao didn't say a word, obediently returned to his camp, and honestly continued to train the troops.

It's not bad to stay in Huai'an, at least all kinds of materials are guaranteed, and the gunpowder and lead bullets that Yang Chaoguan Shi Kefa asked for were all delivered in time.

Shi Kefa, as the governor of the six prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River, is also the governor of Caoyun with the title of squire, he has a great influence in Jiangnan, or the governor of Caoyun has a great influence in Jiangnan.

Among them, it naturally includes gunpowder and other materials, and among the other Qinwang's armies, there are very few people who know how to operate firearms, and this batch of gunpowder is cheaper than Yang Chao.

Yang Chao can let go of live-fire training, which was a little reluctant in the past, not because he can't afford gunpowder, but it's not easy to buy, military gunpowder is granular gunpowder, which is not the same as civilian gunpowder, the processing process is more complicated, and the materials selected are more sophisticated.

It's just that Yang Chao thinks that the gunpowder issued by Shi Kefa is also of average quality, similar to the gunpowder he bought from the War Bureau, maybe it came from a family.

For the manufacture of gunpowder, the Ming Dynasty people have been at the forefront of the world, at least not lost to any country.

Qi Jiguang recorded in the new book of Ji Xiao's method of making bird gunpowder: "Nitrate one tael, one yellow and one coin, four cents, one coin and eight cents, a total of forty taels of nitrate, five taels of yellow and six coins, seven taels of willow charcoal, and two bells of water, which is extremely fine." Secret method: first grind the nitrate and yellow charcoal into the end, mix it with one place, and use two bowls of water in the wood and pestle. Those who don't use stone hyenas are afraid of fire. Each of them can be ten thousand pestles. If it is dry. Add a bowl of water and scoop it again, with fineness as the degree. Half-dry, take the sun. Broken into large pieces of beans, this medicine is wonderful. Only tens of thousands of pestles are also licked. The big end is similar to the ink method. If you add water to the table more than ten times, you will pile a handful on the paper and burn it with fire, so that the medicine will go away and the paper will not hurt, so that you will not dare to enter the gun. Only put two coins of medicine in the palm of the person's hand, and burn it and the palm of the hand is not hot, and you can put it into the gun. But those who burn through with black stars and white spots, and those who burn hot in the palms of their hands are not good. Then add more water to it, and stop as it is. ”

This kind of gunpowder, which is the so-called granular gunpowder in later generations, is considered to have been invented by Westerners, but in fact, the Ming Dynasty has long mastered it.

It's just that the workmanship of the War Bureau is rough, which affects the quality, at least Qi Dashuai said to use willow charcoal, preferably willow charcoal, many craftsmen may not use it.

But it's better than civilian gunpowder, and it's free. Yang Chao does not need to be in vain.

Therefore, the soldiers are trained with live ammunition every day, and the skills of the soldiers are still good.

Whether it's reload speed, or aiming level. have improved a lot.

Yang Chao remembered seeing a discussion somewhere that said that arquebuses could not be aimed, and that they used covering strikes instead of precision strikes, and that probability was used to make up for accuracy.

However, Yang Chao's experience proved that the bird gun could be aimed, and Qi Dashuai recorded that the bird gun was aimed within 80 steps and then shot, which was reliable.

Eighty steps Yang Chao is still conservative, Qi Jiguang's bird gun training, the bird gun shoots the target within a hundred steps distance. Two out of every three shots must be hit to qualify.

The length of one step is equivalent to one and a half meters in later generations, and eighty steps is equivalent to more than one hundred meters. This is also the effective range of the bow and arrow, so Yang Chao trained the bird gun to position eighty steps. The purpose is actually to fight the bow and arrow.

Qi Dashuai's tactics are to use the advantage of twenty steps to cast two rounds of bird guns, and when he is eighty paces, he uses rockets, and when he is sixty paces, he attacks with throwing stones, and then with the habit of nomadic troops, it is time to charge.

Yang Chao's thinking about this is that Qi Dashuai seems to have given up the bow and arrow shooting link with the northern cavalry, probably thinking that it takes a long time for you to train an archer, and the Li Wuliu archery team trained by Yang Chao was disdained by Lao Jin, thinking that no matter how much training, it is not as good as the nomadic army that has been trained since childhood.

This is also true, the Mongols in the era of Genghis Khan, four or five years old began to train horseback archery, when he was a child, he used a wooden bow, rode a sheep, slowly increased in strength, and when he grew up, he could pull a strong bow and ride a fierce horse.

The Manchus in the northeast also had similar training, and the Manchus also persevered in hanging their arms, so their arm strength was quite large, and the power of the Qing bow was not inferior to that of the Mongolian bow.

But Yang Chao did not give up shooting, in Yang Chao's design, he used his shield to resist the opponent's bow and arrow, and then he safely cast the bird gun. Because of this, Li Wuliu's archery team has turned into a bird gun team, and now there are 100 people.

Yang Chao hoped that the continuous firearm shooting could suppress the nomads' bows and arrows, so that the nomads would no longer have an advantage over one of the two major advantages of the Ming army, and as for the other advantage of 'riding' Yang Chao had not yet come up with a good way to deal with it, and it seemed that he could only use cavalry against cavalry, just like the so-called only tanks that could deal with tanks and only airplanes that could deal with airplanes in later generations.

Before the appearance of machine guns that completely restrained the cavalry, the cavalry would have an advantage in speed.

has been carefully training for ten days, and Shi Kefa has not moved.

There were several promotions, and they all wanted to send troops, but under the repeated questioning of several generals, Shi Kefa himself was discouraged, and with the idea of focusing on Caoyun and trying to protect the important town of Caoyun, Huai'an, and Yangzhou in the south, he extinguished the heart of King Qin in the north.

This continued until the beginning of March, when suddenly a report from the north arrived.

Shi Kefa raised the account again.

Sure enough, a new mansion newspaper arrived.

Shi Kefa had a big concept, it turned out that the Dongyu really joined forces in Shandong, and the siege of Dezhou was not overcome, and he turned to attack Wuding Prefecture, but was also rejected by the soldiers defending the city, and the artillery level was inferior, and the artillery actually injured his own people, and the result was overcome.

Shi Kefa believes that the eastern soldiers are dull and suitable for attacking.

As a result, several generals made a long speech again, and all kinds of excuses for not being able to send troops.

Yang Chao still didn't say a word.

Shi Kefa patiently listened to the reasons of the various generals, and was full of an open-minded attitude.

Suddenly, there was a commotion outside the tent, and soon several soldiers walked in with a very embarrassed soldier.

The guard knelt down on one knee and said to Shi Kefa: "My lord, this person claims to be Haizhou Wei Baihu, come to me for help!" ”

"What!"

Shi Kefa's face immediately changed, and he stood up: "Haizhou was also attacked?" ”

Haizhou is close to the northeast of Huai'an Prefecture, and Haizhou is under the police, doesn't it mean that Dongyu has gone south again!

Shi Kefa immediately asked the 100 households in Haizhou to speak, and the 100 households asked people to take out the seal letter from his arms, sure enough, it was the military attache of the 100 households in Haizhou, and he also carried a letter from the governor of Haizhou.

After reading the seal letter, I checked that it was indeed the official seal of the governor of Haizhou, and Shi Kefa immediately lost his color and had no idea.

Even asked the generals how to be good?

All the generals said that they could not fight, and they all said that Dongyu really went south, and they were afraid that they were plotting to fight Haizhou, and they advised Shi Kefa to take Nanjinggi as the priority, and not to move lightly.

At this time, the hundreds of households in Haizhou broke free from the guards, fell to the ground and cried for help, bluntly saying that if Haizhou was lost, Huai'an Mansion would bear the brunt.

At this time, the generals asked the 100 households in Haizhou again, and directly accused the 100 households in Haizhou of being a careful work of the east, and specially induced the Huai'an army out of the city, which must be deceitful.

It is reasonable and well-founded, saying that if it is really as Haizhou Zhizhou said, the army of Dongyu has arrived in Haizhou, how can he let a small hundred households escape, unless the Haizhou hundred households are fine, and the seal letter is captured or faked, if the proceeds of the seizure prove that Haizhou has been lost, both civil and military have been killed in battle, and Donglu uses tricks to earn Huai'an Mansion.

If it is a fake, let alone said, there is no doubt that this hundred households in Haizhou must be meticulous, and they should be immediately detained and questioned after the investigation is clear.

Yang Chao's mind is rapidly analyzing, he does not have the impression that the Eight Banners attacked Jiangnan Forte before the death of the Ming Dynasty, if there is such a major event, there will be something in the history textbook, there are things in the textbooks, Yang Chao always has some impressions, but this time there is really no impression at all, which shows that the Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty have not yet been able to hang their divisions to expedition thousands of miles away.

Throughout the first four invasions of the Dongyu, the main raiding destinations were mainly in the area of Beizhili and Shanxi, and this time they went deep into Shandong, also near Beijing, and the desire to go south was not strong, mainly because the farther south was from the northeast, the greater the variables, and the more unsuitable the climate.

Comparing left and right, Yang Chao decided that the target of the Dongyu this time was still Shandong, and the one who appeared in Haizhou must be a partial division, and it was likely that the team came to fight the autumn wind, and in the absence of backup, it would definitely not attack the city on a large scale.

The letter from the governor of Haizhou was vague, and bluntly said that there were thousands of captives, but he couldn't say how much, and probably he didn't find out clearly.

According to Di Bao, now the main force of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is joining forces in Denglai, and Haizhou is definitely not the main force.

Thinking of this, Yang Chao was a little nervous, and stared at the whole map of Nangi hanging in the big tent a few times, and suddenly Yang Chao stood up.

Everyone looked at Yang Chao.

Yang Chao took a deep breath, then clasped his fists at Shi Kefa and said in a deep voice: "My lord." The last general is willing to go to Haizhou to rescue! ”

For a while, there was a dead silence in the big tent, and everyone looked at Yang Chao like fools.

Even the 100 households in Haizhou looked at Yang Chao as if they were looking at a fool, and others hated to stay away from Dongyu.

The results of the previous Dongyu into the Kou show that there is no good result for those who actively go to war, either they are beheaded by the Dongyu, or they are beheaded by the emperor for their ineffective combat, in this case, it is better to preserve their strength, wait for the Dongyu to grab enough, and go back by themselves, and then hello, I am hello, everyone, who knows that there are still people who take the initiative to ask for war.

Shi Kefa looked excited, and said with relief: "General Yang is a loyal and brave man!" ”

Yang Chao clenched his fists and said again: "But the last general has three things, if the three things are agreed, the last general dares to make a military order, and Haizhou will be saved!" ”

Shi Kefa didn't have any idea of bargaining at this time, and said directly: "General Yang, please say, but if you don't violate the laws of the imperial court, this official will never shirk!" ”

Yang Chao secretly said in his heart, Shi Kefa is not Xiong Mingyu after all, if Xiong Mingyu is here, he will definitely not be responsible, I am afraid that the least active one is Xiong Mingyu, not these generals.

Then Yang Chao put forward his request. (To be continued)