"Xinghua, what's the matter with calling Lao Liu over this night?" Liu Zhaoji shouted out when he returned to the courtyard. When he walked into the hall and saw that Chen Zhilong was also there, he suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

"Brother Liu, come over and sit down, we are discussing how to fight this battle with the Qing soldiers." Luo Jian saw that Liu Zhaoji couldn't let go of Chen Zhilong's presence there, and said, "Brother Liu, how are you using this rifle now?" ”

Seeing Luo Jian talking about the rifle, Liu Zhaoji suddenly came to his senses, hugged his fist towards Chen Zhilong, and then said to Luo Jian: "Xinghua, the aim of your rifle is much stronger than that of a bow and arrow, and the bow and arrow can only be shot accurately by finding a feeling through long-term personal training, and your rifle can only be shot accurately with a little practice." Isn't it my practice at home, and I wonder if this rifle could find the feeling of archery. ”

Luo Jian thought to himself that the sharpshooters in later generations were all fed with bullets, how could you find that feeling just by practicing at home. didn't say anything, and said with a smile: "If Brother Liu can find this feeling, it will be terrible, if on the battlefield, a general who specializes in fighting the enemy, one person may change the outcome of a battle." ”

"There is a special gun that can shoot two or three miles at a distance, and if we can wear our clothes and camouflage them, we can shoot important people of the enemy army from a long distance, and this will also become a way of fighting. But I don't have this kind of gun here," Luo Jian simply told Liu Zhaoji about the concept of sniping.

Liu Zhaoji listened thoughtfully, and Chen Zilong next to him spoke, "Brother Xinghua, what kind of weapon are you talking about, can you let me see it too?" ”

While a few people were talking, Wang Qiang came back with a rifle on his back, and said when he entered the door: "Chief, I taught them to wipe and maintain just now, and the guns were dismantled and placed on the ground, I was afraid that they would mess up the set, so I didn't come over." ”

"Brother Mao, please see, this is a rifle." As he spoke, Luo Jian took the rifle from Wang Qiang's hand and handed it to Chen Zilong.

Chen Zilong took it and looked at it for a long time, but he couldn't see why, so he had to ask Luo Jian: "Brother Xinghua, what is the difference between this rifle and the firecracker?" ”

Liu Zhaoji was a little unhappy when he saw him comparing the rifle with the firecracker, and said: "Qin Cha's words are wrong, how can the firearm be compared with the rifle, this rifle can be fired in bursts, and there is no need to ignite, Xinghua once killed a general wearing armor in Qing soldiers on one hundred and fifty steps, do you say that the firearm can be compared with it?" ”

"One hundred and fifty steps?" Chen Zilong was a little surprised.

"Xinghua is right, this rifle will be used to fight the generals of the Qing soldiers in the future, and it will indeed be wasted to beat ordinary soldiers." Liu Zhaoji has rich combat experience, and he has obviously thought about it seriously and can get to the point.

"Let's not talk about this, Brother Mao has just come from Nanjing, can you tell us about the overall situation now?" Luo Jian didn't want to be entangled in the rifle all the time, and wanted Chen Zilong to talk about the overall situation.

"It's... In late March, the imperial court received a report that the Dashun army was being pursued by the Azig tribe of the Manchu and Shuo princes, and Li Zicheng was defeated and retreated to Jingzhou and Yueyang. As soon as Chen Zilong said this, Luo Jian said "Wait", Chen Zilong mentioned the Dashun Army, which reminded him of an extremely important event in history, that is, Li Zicheng was killed by local armed forces in Jiugong Mountain, Tongshan County, Hubei Province in early May. Calculating the time, in less than ten days, Li Zicheng was defeated, and his subordinates suddenly became a plate of scattered sand, except for a few troops who surrendered to the Manchus, most of the troops have been insisting on fighting against the Manchus.

Chen Zilong saw that Luo Jian was deep in thought, and he also stopped talking.

Once Li Zicheng died, Luo Jian thought of it, the hatred of many people in the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty towards the Dashun Army would be reduced a lot, and it would also provide the possibility of contacting the rest of Li Zicheng to jointly resist the Qing Dynasty in the future, and even if Luo Jian wanted to save Li Zicheng, it would be impossible in time.

After thinking for a while, Luo Jian said to Chen Zilong again: "Brother Mao, please continue, I thought of other things just now." ”

Chen Zilong thought about it carefully, and then slowly explained the current situation around the Southern Ming Dynasty.

The Qing soldiers Azig and Duoduo entered Shaanxi and defeated the Dashun army and then went south in two ways, and the Azig army chased Li Zicheng's defeated army straight to Wuhan, Hubei, and now it has approached the Jiujiang area. Zuo Liangyu heard that the Dashun army was coming, burned the city and slaughtered the people, and then went south along the river, in the name of "Qingjun side" to avoid the Dashun army, to Jiujiang when Zuo Liangyu died of illness, his son Zuo Mengeng continued to lead troops eastward, successively occupied Pengze, Dongliu, Jiande, Anqing, the front of the army went straight to Taiping Mansion (now Ma'anshan), and was defeated by Luzhou Huang Degong, is slowly retreating to the Jiujiang area.

Another Qing army, led by Gushan Ezhen Zhunta who was originally stationed in Shandong, went south to Xuzhou, advanced along the canal by land and water, and had entered Suqian, Huai'an, Xinghua, Tongzhou (now Nantong), Rugao and the coastal areas north of the Yangtze River.

Chen Zilong, who was not very clear about other situations such as the Dashun Army and Zhang Xianzhong of the Great Western Army, was not very clear about the situation in the whole country at this time, which shows that the area actually ruled by the Hongguang Imperial Court at this time was very limited. Luo Jian asked the rest of Gao Jie and Liu Liangzuo around Yangzhou, but Chen Zilong didn't know.

According to Chen Zilong's account, Luo Jian carefully marked the general military situation around Yangzhou on the map, and now that the transmission of information is extremely slow, it is unknown how the situation will change in the past few days.

Looking at the green arrows marked on the map, the targets of which were basically pointing to Nanjing, the capital of the Southern Ming Dynasty, Luo Jian frowned and felt great pressure.

Luo Jian stared at the map, thinking nervously in his heart. The Qing army advanced to Nanjing from three directions, and now the middle road Duoduo Department was blocked in Yangzhou, if the Azig Department on the left and the Zhun Tower Department on the right road were close to Nanjing, there were no less than 500,000 people on the three roads, and they would not be able to do it even if they had three heads and six arms. For the sake of today's plan, the only way to break through first and gain a little strategic detour space for the Yangzhou army is to wait for the fall of Nanjing, then I am afraid that it will not be possible.

At present, the strength of the Duoduo Department faced by the Yangzhou army is actually the strongest among the three Qing soldiers, and the surrendered Ming army it received is basically formed, and its strength has not been lost in the resistance, and it now belongs to no less than two or three hundred thousand. To repel such a formidable enemy, it is necessary to adopt flexible tactics.

Luo Jian's biggest headache now is that the enemy situation is unknown, after Duoduo retreated to Tianchang County, how his troops were deployed, and what his strategic intentions were for the next step, he didn't know at all now, which made Luo Jian very annoyed.

Just as Luo Jian lowered his head and thought, Chen Zilong and Liu Zhaoji were also staring at the map and thinking nervously.

After a long while, Luo Jian made up his mind and said to the two:

"Both, the situation in front of us is extremely grim now, and for today's plan, we must first break through it, which is why I decided to fight this battle." Luo Jian pointed to the middle of the three arrows on the map that were approaching Nanjing.

"To fight this battle well, I think we must start from the following aspects." Luo Jian looked up at the two of them.

"First, Brother Liu's side needs to send more scouts to reconnoiter and understand Duoduo's troop deployment and his intentions for the next step as much as possible, and if necessary, he must also send spies to go deep into Tianchang's territory to investigate; Second, starting tomorrow, the Yangzhou army will be intensively trained, and those who cannot keep up with the intensive training will be directly eliminated. The content of the intensive training will be handed over to Brother Liu later, the food of the troops during the intensive training must be guaranteed as much as possible, if you are short of money, please ask Brother Liu to send someone to ask Xiao Liu directly, these days can not be saved at all; Third, tomorrow, I ask the Inspector and Ruan Shangshu to send a letter to the towns near Yangzhou as soon as possible, ordering all departments to move closer to Yangzhou as soon as possible, and we must clench our fists to avoid being broken by the Qing army. ”

Speaking of this, Luo Jian turned his head to Wang Qiang and said, "Starting tomorrow, you will concentrate the dozen or so people drawn by Zhao Quan for shooting training, don't save bullets, and make sure that they master the basic use of guns as soon as possible." Wang Qiang nodded and agreed.

Seeing that Liu and Chen did not speak, Luo Jian sat back in front of the computer, his eyes fixed on the screen, worried that the role of this warrior armored car would be greatly reduced due to the exhaustion of on-board machine gun bullets.

Suddenly, a line of words appeared on the screen that lifted Luo Jian's spirits, "Friendly reminder: all kinds of bullets and grenades carried are owned by the entire convoy", Luo Jian was overjoyed, the entire convoy also refers to the combat brigade where the mobile Luo Jian Artillery Regiment was located at that time, and the combat brigade has several infantry battalions, machine guns and rifles are their main battle equipment, and the amount of ammunition carried is several times that of the artillery regiment, so there is no need to worry about the problem of insufficient bullets and grenades.

Luo Jian subconsciously looked up at the screen of the projector, and saw that this line did not appear on the screen, thinking that this intelligent system was not dormant, why did it come out to speak again? Seeing that no other information appeared on the computer screen, Luo Jian was a little puzzled.

Luo Jian, who got the news, was in a good mood, and said to Liu Zhaoji: "Brother Liu, when you organize intensive training tomorrow, you will specially select five hundred people for throwing training, and let them take more stones of about the same size to practice first." ”

Liu Zhaoji was also very happy when he heard this, and asked, "Xinghua, aren't you worried that there are not enough grenades?" ”

"It's enough, Brother Liu can rest assured, it's no problem to guarantee five or six per person." Luo Jian said with a smile.

"You're saying that these five hundred people are guaranteed five or six each?" Liu Zhaoji was a little unconvinced of his ears.

"Of course it is." Luo Jian replied in the affirmative.

"Haha, Xinghua, in this case, I'm going to blow Duoduo back to Beijing." Liu Zhaoji laughed happily.

"Brother Liu, you can't be happy too early, you have to let your generals carefully think about how to use this grenade well and let them play their best role." Luo Jian said.

"That's natural, I'll go over and explain to them later, and let them go out to find stones tonight." Liu Zhaoji can't wait.

Chen Zilong saw that Luo Jian and Liu Zhaoji were suddenly in a good mood, and he didn't understand what they meant after talking for a long time, but just looked at the two with puzzled eyes.

"Xinghua, did you send you any news again?" Liu Zhaoji pointed to the sky with his finger, this old Liu reacted very quickly, seeing that Luo Jian was frowning before, he suddenly became happy again, and guessed what prompt he got again.

Luo Jian secretly admired Liu Zhaoji's carefulness and said, "Brother Liu, yes, in this way, our battle will be much easier." ”

Chen Zilong was originally an atheist, and when he saw the two of them pretending to be gods, he felt very suspicious, and looked at the two of them with a little wrong eyes.

"Hehe, I just got the latest news, and we are carrying far more ammunition than I originally estimated." Luo Jian laughed.

"Got the news? Why didn't we hear that? Chen Zilong became more and more suspicious.

Luo Jian pointed to his laptop and said, "Of course you didn't hear or see what was shown on it. Chen Zilong will be skeptical.

"Brother Mao, don't doubt anything, our origin has been told to the superintendent, we are not some gods and ghosts, but the knowledge we have and the technology we use are much more advanced than those of today." Luo Jian didn't want a few of his people to be made into fairies and ghosts, so he also told Chen Zilong the truth.

Hearing Luo Jian's words, although Chen Zilong still had doubts, he believed most of Luo Jian's words.

Ruan Dacheng returned to his residence and did not rest, he was busy understanding the situation, and he had to write a letter to Ma Shiying to report the situation, he was not going to let Zhang Cheng take this letter back, it was too slow, he gathered a lot of martial arts people around him, and he was ready to send a few people to Nanjing overnight after he finished writing.