In the first battle of Shaozhou, there were too many lessons to be summed up. Zhang Hanjin's death in battle exposed a fatal flaw in Li Shi's rapidly expanding army: the system construction was very imperfect, and there was not even a unified military intelligence spy department. The Qing court's strategic mobilization information, Shang Jun used the Heaven and Earth Society to secretly obtain through government officials, merchants, boatmen, and even the green camp, but the battlefield intelligence was only obtained by sentinel scouts and rangers, and they were more engaged in the battlefield covering work of the defensive surname, and there was a big gap in the middle. Yue Zhongqi's Hunan Fubiao was mixed with Miao soldiers, and this situation was not controlled, resulting in a night attack on Huanggang Mountain, and the losses were great.

The Siwei Military Intelligence Department was established with such a blood debt, and Li Shi pulled out Luo Tangyuan to be in charge of battlefield intelligence reconnaissance and coordinate sentinel and secret spies. The Praetorian Guard Department is internal, the Heaven and Earth Society is external, and the Military Intelligence Department is focused on warfare, so far, Li Shi's intelligence system has finally formed a complete system, and the three intelligence giants of Yu Hanyi, Shang Jun, and Luo Tangyuan have also made a complete appearance.

In terms of details, Jia Hao and Wu Ya mentioned a lot, first of all, many people hope to strengthen the armor, the original rattan cuirass can block the arrows at most, once it enters hand-to-hand combat, the protective power of this cuirass is not much better than the cotton armor of the Qing soldiers. In the hand-to-hand combat between Furong Mountain and Huanggang Mountain, only British and German veterans could firmly withstand the Qing soldiers, and the fast soldiers who had only received simple bayonet training were really not opponents against the Qing soldiers who dared to fight hand-to-hand, and they did not rely on numerical superiority to suppress them.

This situation brings out three problems, the protection of cold weapons is one, the training degree is one, and the other problem is that the bayonet damage rate is too high, after all, it is only wrought iron charcoal thing, and the tenacity is insufficient. If it is built by the sandwich ladle method, the output is too low.

The Qing soldiers of this era were not yet a commodity that would collapse at the touch of a hundred years later, and hand-to-hand combat could not be avoided in close combat, so Li Xi put the transformation of the cuirass on the agenda. And the problem of training, Yan Sanniang just held back the hardship, let her think about how to spend the least amount of time to train the soldiers to be not afraid of close combat. As for the bayonet...... Li Xi had to bow to the times, replacing the bayonet with a three-edged spear, and those who liked to play with knives learned from the Yao soldiers of Panshiyu, who basically brought their own straight knives in addition to musket bayonets.

First, the role of the divine arm cannon is getting smaller and smaller, and many grassroots officers feel that it is not worth wasting two soldiers on this thing, there are snipers, the list is meaningless, there are flying cannons, and shotguns are useless.

This problem is easy to solve, with the previous idea of flying artillery, Li Xi set the role of the divine arm cannon as "the last line of defense for the infantry team to block the enemy's hand-to-hand combat", the barrel was truncated, the cannon wall was thinned, the charge was reduced, and it became a divine arm gun, the total weight was about the same as that of an ordinary musket, and one person could fire it, only loading shotguns. The pursuit is to cover a large wide area within twenty to ten paces, and one or two are issued to each eye, which are mastered by the skirmishers, and no longer occupy the battle formation of the queue.

The second point has become the focus of everyone's attention, and that is the flying cannon. This new weapon made the guards love and hate, what they loved was that it was powerful, and without it, the battle of Shaozhou would be quite dangerous. I hate that there are still too many problems with this thing, including insufficient range, poor accuracy, and what's worse is that the reliability of the flowering shell is very low. At least 20 percent of the fire was muted, and 10 percent was exploded early, and many of them were blown up when they were discharged, and many gunners were killed and wounded, so that many gunners would rather throw flower shells than use flying cannons. You can throw more than ten or twenty steps at most, and if you don't master the time, it won't work, or it will blow up yourself, so it will work when you lean against the wall to defend.

Li Xian couldn't solve this matter by patting his head, so he handed it over to Tian Dayou, who was specially pulled out to be in charge of military quartermasters, and he supervised the improvement, starting from the design of the flowering bomb, the production process of the fuse and the projectile body, and the final quality supervision.

"These are all trivial things, and the real trouble now is that 20,000 muskets, more than 200 large and small artillery, can be completed within three months, even if the Foshan Manufacturing Bureau is at full capacity, it is equivalent to a fantasy."

Tian Dayou was complaining about this, and the topic turned to a new round of arms expansion. According to Li Xianduanhong's estimate, the worst-case scenario is that the Qing court will fight in stages. The soldiers of Guangxi, Hunan, and Jiangxi were disabled, and in the first stage, troops from Fujian and Zhejiang would be transferred to the east, and the existing troops could be stopped. In the second stage, it is likely that within three or four months, we will face more than 100,000 or 200,000 green battalions in the southern provinces, and now these six or seven thousand field soldiers will not be enough, and the army must be expanded to at least 20,000.

Not to mention the training, the production capacity of ordnance will not be able to keep up with this progress at all.

"The Foshan Manufacturing Bureau doesn't make muskets, find blacksmiths in Guangdong Province to build, and then send them to Foshan to grind the inner chamber, the charge of these guns is reduced, the range and lethality are insufficient, and the concave bottom cylindrical bullet I said is tested to find an ideal plan."

Li Xi came up with the "smoothbore gun plus mini bullet" scheme that he had conceived earlier, the mini bullet is used on the smoothbore gun, and the propellant after adjusting the combustion rate can increase the range and accuracy of the smoothbore gun, and reduce the charge at the same time. However, the disadvantage is that it has an impact on the life of the barrel, and there is no need for a faster firing charge, and the concave bottom cannot be completely stretched out before the Mini bullet is out of the chamber, and it cannot play a role in sealing the chamber to improve efficiency. Rapid propellant can be used, and the quality of the barrel must be guaranteed.

Before the relocation of the Foshan Manufacturing Bureau, there was no time for quantitative testing, and the Mini bomb was loaded into the troops, and the battle of Shaozhou was ushered in. Now that the army is to be expanded, this scheme will lower the standard and further reduce the charge, which is just used to make up for the uneven quality of the local barrel.

However, in this way, it is necessary to provide two different quantities of ammunition, and the logistical supply is more complicated, and the two types of muskets produced by themselves can only be grouped in a centralized manner, which in turn involves the issue of the establishment of guards after the expansion of the army.

Just the military, there are a bunch of things pressed over, Fan Jin, who is only in charge of the military's heart, heard these practices, and suddenly felt that his scalp was numb, which was too much trouble than building an army in ancient times.

"The more trouble we have, the more trouble we will make for Kangxi Lao'er."

Duan Hongshi said things that seemed to be comforting, but were actually cool.

"The trouble of the battle of Shaozhou, I don't know if he can withstand it."

Li Xi seemed to be worried about Kangxi.

Yanjing Changchun Garden Ning lived in the apse study, the guard Zhao Chang was guarding in the corner, looking at the two figures sitting and kneeling, his eyes were also full of worry, since the "black tea case", Kangxi has become more and more distrustful of the eunuch, and transferred Zhao Chang to his side.

"The master has to withstand it, you are the pillar of the world, if you fall, how can the minions be born? May the Lord bless him and be in good health forever...... Amen......"

Zhao Chang closed his eyes and secretly drew a cross, but he was so frightened by a series of shouts that he shuddered, and his fingers poked his throat weakly, and he didn't move for a long time. 【1】

"Presumptuous!"

"Unconscious!"

"Ignorance!"

Kangxi scolded Yinzhen while looking for something on the bookcase, as if he wanted to throw it in Yinzhen's face. But even his qi was sick, his hands trembled uncontrollably, and he threw a large pile of music to the ground, but he couldn't catch anything.

He was completely annoyed, pushed the bookcase away, got up and rushed over, and kicked Yinzhen with his foot.

But he was an old man, after sitting for a long time, he got up suddenly, his left foot was raised, his right foot was soft, and he stumbled, but his foot didn't kick Yinzhen, and his head hit down first.

"Huang Ama!"

Yin Zhen was so frightened that his soul flew away, and he hugged Kangxi, and at that moment, he felt that the body under the dragon robe was so weak and powerless, not only trembling slightly, but also spitting at the corners of his mouth, revealing his old age.

When I was young, I looked up at the impression of my father's tall figure, which had always been deep in my heart, but now it shattered a corner and gradually turned into ashes. Yin Zhen sighed in his heart, Huang Ama ...... It's old indeed.

The whole set of plans he proposed just now was condensed with his subordinates, but it was completely denied, and Huang Ama sighed when he was old, and in Yinzhen's heart, it quietly extended from Kangxi's physical condition to his heart.

When he was a young man, he was full of spirit when he was young, and he resisted the three feudatories with half of the country, and then he chased away the desert three times, and completely destroyed the emperor Ama, his courage, his pride, and his bearing to look down on the world, it seems that in this fall, everything is broken.

Zhao Chang ran over to help Kangxi, Yinzhen knelt back on the ground again, muttering about Huang Ama forgiving his sins, and in his churning thoughts, there was suddenly a trace of extremely cold breath, if Huang Ama fell to the ground and went, how far away is his position?

This breath was so cold that he was also covered with sweat and hair standing up, so that Kangxi, who was still angry, kicked him on the shoulder, and he didn't react.

"Fourth Elder Brother!"

Zhao Chang looked at Yinzhen who was lying on the ground like a stone turtle halfway, and was so frightened that he hurriedly reminded in a low voice, at this time Kangxi's toes kicked his shoulders again, and Yinzhen woke up to the fact that although the power of this toe was weak, he quickly rolled down the ground with this force. 【2】

"Get out! The shaft is not enough! ”

Kangxi scolded sharply, and when he saw Yinzhen rolling to the side, he kowtowed a few more times, and retreated as if flying, before he gradually calmed down.

"It's not your country, of course you don't feel heartache!"

He was still scolding hatefully in his heart.

Bai Daolong was the first to hand over the defeat of Shaozhou, followed by the guilty plea of Man Pi and Chen Yuanlong, and the governor of Huguang followed in the footsteps of Wang Wenxiong, the governor of Guangdong, and died in battle, more than 40,000 soldiers, and the whole army was wiped out!

This is not the worst, the worst thing is that the Manchu Pi impeached Bai Daolong and the Shaozhou prefect to close the city, did not let go of his position to enter the city and defend it, and was complicit in rebellion, although Bai Daolong reported that he was defeated and did not retreat, and he still wanted to erosive Guangdong, and had a heart to stabilize Guangdong. From another point of view, it is not that Li Shi suppressed Guangdong and did not dare to move, Guangdong, except for the two isolated cities of Guangzhou and Zhaoqing, other places have already been lost.

Kangxi is still very calm, he died again, lost 40,000 soldiers, and lost a province in Guangdong, which is compared to the rebellion of the three feudatories, it is simply a pediatric, he can withstand it!

From Nian Qianyao's recitals, he saw hope, Li Xi was not invincible, the young general named Yue Zhongqi, who led the Miao soldiers to attack the enemy camp at night, was not a high position to ignore, not to say, not even Li Shi's reinforcements did not help to block, Li Xi had already been defeated.

What is the most feared enemy of? It's a complete defeat, he doesn't know where he is defeated, and he doesn't know the enemy at all, but now through Nian Qianyao, he has the bottom in his heart. Li Xian himself is only suffering from scabies, the power of the guns he shows, and his trend of supporting businessmen to break away from the government, these two are the real enemies, and behind these two things, there are more terrible things.

Thinking that Nian Qianyao had gone to Yinzhen, most of them knew some of Li Zhen's roots from Yinzhen, so he had the initiative to activate Yue Zhongqi and Miao Bing, and Kangxi was more sure of Yinzhen. When it comes to doing things, this son can still make achievements.

How to smooth out the beginning and end of this battle and save face for himself and the court, I don't have time to think about it, and I'm a little afraid to think about it. Kangxi was half pragmatic, half evasively planning the next step of disposal, and invited Yinzhen to hear his opinion.

But he never thought that Yinzhen proposed a package of articles, which were like knives, stabbing him in the heart.

"Imitate the sea order, order the relocation of the border, and isolate Guangdong!"

Isolated from Guangdong? Can this be compared to the Taiwan incident? Guangdong is a must, Jiangnan Lake is full of devastation when it is wide, tens of millions of displaced people, when the time comes, any Han people shout a voice to expel the Tartars, then it will become another Zhu Chongba, Li Xi is afraid to wake up from a dream with a smile!

I have worked hard to keep the prosperity of the forty years of hard work, you Yinzhen did not sit in my place, so you will be at the mercy of the world like rags, let me go back to forty years ago overnight!?

"Build guns and cannons, train new troops, and defeat the enemy with weapons!"

New Army!? Whose new army? We're full? With a fast gun in his hand, with a hint of dissent, we are full of people and the world is going to be over!

"Negotiate peace with the conspirator Alabutan, mobilize a large army, force the siege in all directions, and seek an opportunity to attack."

This one is a little bit like it, but I also think too highly of this Li Shi, this is not a decision of life and death, Li Shi has already revealed flaws in this battle, the court can be defeated ten times, but he can't be defeated once, the family of gold and jade, fighting to the death with a ragged wanderer? Rats' eyes!

Kangxi was helped back by Zhao Chang to the book case, and his heart gradually condensed, although this Li Shi is only entrenched in a province, he is still a strong enemy, although there is no need to fight with him, but it is still worth paying attention to. Speaking of which, after Galdan, in addition to the barbarian who plotted Alabutan, he actually had another opponent.

Rare...... It is rare that at the age of old age, he can still add another trace of his sainthood, an emperor through the ages.

"Folds, pack them all up."

Kangxi instructed Zhao Chang, he was already in high spirits, that Li Xian was just a weak-crowned child, relying on tools to run rampant, I Yuyu for more than 50 years, I haven't seen any wind and waves, how can I be captured by you? You're going to take it!

took Bai Daolong's recital, and there was a big red cross on it, which was when he first saw the recital, he was shocked and angry, as if he was a god, and if he went down with a fork, this matter would not exist.

Then he opened the fold of Man Pi, and a little red ink stained the paper, which was the red ink that dripped when he confirmed that this was true, and he was afraid and uneasy with his pen, and did not know what to approve.

Then there is Nian Qianyao's excerpt, which is clean, and he has recovered his soul from this fold, this person can be of great use...... Kangxi cheered up his spirits and prepared to give approval to the governors around Guangdong, no matter what the follow-up decisions were, let them block Li Shi's way out of Guangdong first, and ensure that the chaos would not spread.

was approving it, and the eunuch in the performance office sent another excerpt, Kangxi thought it was the military situation in Guangdong again, so he opened it, looked at it for a while, and froze.

After staring for a while, Kangxi squinted, as if he thought he had seen it wrong, lifted the fold to a high place, looked at it carefully, and then his eyes were round, his arm was raised, and the fold flew out.

"Your Majesty!"

Zhao Chang was taken aback, thinking to himself that tens of thousands of officers and soldiers had been eaten by that Li Shi?

"It's okay...... It's okay......"

Kangxi sat down slowly, it really seemed that there was nothing wrong, he pulled a blank fold, lifted the pen and seemed to write a personal message, but he couldn't stop coughing violently, on the white paper, a little scarlet dripped, I don't know if it was the red ink on the pen, or the blood spots that Kangxi coughed up.

"In the whole world, I am the only one who cares for this country! These wolf-hearted and dog-hearted people! It's worse than that! Hateful! ”

Kangxi gritted his teeth, dropped the tip of the pen, and smeared the little scarlet into a stroke, and at the same time, two lines of tears quietly slipped from the corners of his eyes.

On October 27, the 54th year of Kangxi, the abolished prince Yinren used the doctor He Mengfu to treat his wife Shi's illness, and used alum water as a book to communicate with Puqi, begging him to protect himself as a general and lead the army to recruit the Guangdong rebel Li Shi.

(To be continued)