When the news of Xiaoliuqiu's victorious recovery came, when Zhao Lie was accompanying Zhao Haiming and Francisco to have a drink at home, the family was also happy, and this atmosphere was really not easy to encounter. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhao Haiming now has sons at home, and he is busy with fishing in the Caspian Sea every day, this time he caught a few from the sea, and after he came back, he specially asked the kitchen to make seafood, and had a drink with Zhao Lie and Zhao Lie's uncle Francisco, which is the norm recently.

Since the old man is in high spirits, of course Zhao Lie has to accompany him, and he has nothing to do recently, and now his subordinates have taken charge of themselves back then, and they will be placed from Beihua in the northeast to Jeju and Denglai.

Zhao Lie is now sitting in Shidao to coordinate the overall situation, of course, this matter is not light.

Now that it has been spread out everywhere, and at the same time, the Broken Capture Army is also registered in Daming and Jiannu, which are all targeted by the public, and the decision must be more cautious and careful at this time, after all, Zhao Lie is now carrying the burden of tens of thousands of Broken Prisoner Army, Shui Bu Army, and nearly one million soldiers and civilians.

As for Francisco, Zhao Lie asked to stay, that is, let him accompany Alexandra well, one south and one north, the two brothers and sisters have not had many opportunities to meet over the years, and it is good to get together more.

When the meal was about to end, Li Lu's letter about the recovery of Xiaoliuqiu was reported.

"Francisco, from now on, there will be no obstacle for the merchant ships of Macao to pass through Xiaoliuqiu to Shidao or the Wa Kingdom, and the soldiers under my command have taken Xiaoliuqiu."

Zhao Lie said to Francisco with a smile after reading the letter.

"Oh God, that's great news," sighed Francisco, who was flushed with wine, "and the Dutch warships are nightmarish there. ”

Francisco shook his head, as if he couldn't look back. In recent years, the merchant ships of Macao have been plagued by Dutch warships.

"Lie'er, this little Liuqiu is not big, it is said that the natives are densely populated and the miasma is pervasive, it is not a good place to open up, how do you plan to deal with Xiaoliuqiu in the future."

Zhao Haiming asked suspiciously.

In the eyes of the generals of the Daming Water Division. Xiaoliuqiu is a wild place, which is really useless, which is why until the Ming Dynasty, only scattered Han people were forced to cross the sea to open up there.

And the Ming court also didn't care about it, and even acquiesced to the Dutch occupation there, because the court's views on this place were similar to Zhao Haiming's, and it was nothing to give up, and they could neither raise the army nor the people, so what was the use.

Even if you know that some of these plains can be cultivated. But as for the money and food for pioneering, the Ming Dynasty's finances have collapsed, where is the hundreds of thousands or even millions of taels of silver needed to develop this wild island.

For the theory of sea power, hehe, the Ming officials don't know anything, you just explain it to them, and they will laugh at it, the entire Ming Dynasty is still too busy in the interior now. What a desert island, joke.

"My father sees the urgency of the sailor now. If our army does not have a strong naval division, it will be impossible to capture Beihua, defeat the Wa State, and recapture Xiaoliuqiu, let alone earn silver money from the Wa State and Beihua. ”

Zhao Haiming nodded slightly when he heard this, he was proud of being an old sailor.

"The sailor is very prosperous, it is different from the synchronous army, and the sailor does not need to be on the mainland to resist the attacks of the Xiyi people. It can be done by relying on these islands, and we must also rely on these islands, if our army does not occupy them, it will be occupied by the Xiyi people, as a stronghold to watch my Ming Dynasty. This is the case with Xiaoliuqiu. ”

In order to explain to his father, Zhao Lie said this a bit bluntly, Francisco blushed when he heard it, this Xiyi people must include the Portuguese in Macau, and their means of occupying Macao are extremely disgraceful.

Zhao Lie said it so simply, of course Zhao Haiming knew it, and then thought about the situation that Xiaoliuqiu was occupied by the Netherlands and harassed the coast of Daming, making the Ming Fujian Sea Frontier tired, Lao Zhao also nodded, these big islands are really impossible not to occupy.

The next day, Zhao Lie came to the test gun factory east of the smelter in the northwest of Shidao.

When Zhao Lie came to the test artillery site, the test artillery site was heavily guarded, and the range of several miles was blocked by the soldiers of the Broken Army, and no one could approach.

Zhao Lie was satisfied with this, this new type of marching cannon is a sharp weapon to control the enemy, and it must not be leaked out, and he estimated that there must be a slave in Shidao.

Although he exerted pressure on the Military Intelligence Department and the Internal Security Department, he didn't expect Du Li and Wang Quanneng to wipe out all the fine works, which was impossible.

After all, the Jiannu who have eaten a trench and grown wise will also change, and their meticulous work will definitely be more cunning, and their whereabouts will be more secretive.

This game of cat and mouse is still a thorny problem in the application of various cutting-edge means in later generations, let alone in this era.

Therefore, Zhao Lie must take precautions, and important military situations must be strengthened to protect and be on guard.

There were ten small marching guns in the field, which at first glance looked smaller and lighter than today's six-pounder guns.

Zhao Lie took a closer look at these iron cannons, their cannon bodies were shorter, the barrels of the cannons were much thinner, and his gun carriages were also very strange.

"Lord Bing, these marching cannons have reduced the weight by half, they are all cast of fine iron, but they are 。。。。。。"

Guo Fu was talking nervously on the side, he looked at Zhao Lie's face a little slurched.

"Haha, Guo Fu, just say it, this cannon can be fired a few times without exploding." Zhao Lie said disapprerovingly.

"My lord, it's only more than ten times, even if there is less charge, that is, more than twenty times." Cui Fu stammered, and he peeked at Zhao Lie.

"Well, that's enough, if the number of launches is just a few times, can the weight be lighter."

Zhao Lie asked.

"This, this can be tried again, I'm afraid, I'm afraid it won't save much." Cui Fu stammered.

He was slandered in his heart, Lord Zhao, are you sure you want artillery, so many precious objects made of fine iron, you just plan to fire a few cannons and then scrap it, is this a play.

Zhao Lie saw Cui Fu's surprise, but he didn't say much.

Ever since Zhang Keda sent his right-hand men to report on the situation of the Denglai general army fighting against Jiannu at that time, Zhao Lie was deeply wary of the newly rising Han army, the No. 1 thug of Jiannu.

The tactics of the Jiannu Han army are exactly the same as those of the Broken Army, that is, the combat mode of the Shanzhai Broken Army, although the guns of the Han Army are arquebuses, and the rate of fire is slower, but tens of thousands of rebels are fighting with the Broken Army, and the elite strategy of the Broken Army, Zhao Lie can't afford to fight with casualties so hard.

Just as Jiannu and the Broken Army couldn't afford to fight for casualties, in the eyes of the Jurchens, it was a more cost-effective way to let the lowly Han people fight with the Han people opposite, so as to preserve the strength of the Eight Banners.

Thinking of the Han army that Jiannu expanded in order to deal with the Broken Army, and the iron shields and wooden shields that are now densely packed with the Broken Army, it seems that the Broken Army can only win by fighting hard.

Therefore, Zhao Lie needed a sharp weapon to break the enemy's defensive formation before taking the formation, and of course the marching cannon was the best.

But even the volume of nearly two thousand catties of the six-pounder marching cannon is too heavy, and the road condition is good, if the road condition is poor, then the marching speed is too slow, the goal is to turn all the broken army into mules and horses, and Zhao Lie, who has a fight with Jiannu's marching speed, must not allow the marching cannon to drag down the marching speed of the entire army.

Therefore, Zhao Lie instructed the smelter to try to produce a five-pound or four-pound marching cannon, and at the same time make the inner wall of the barrel thinner.

As for scrapping it after more than a dozen bombardments, Zhao Liehun didn't care, what Zhao Lie wanted was to win one or two general battles.

As long as you can fire artillery to defeat the enemy's battle formation and destroy the neat formation of the Han army in such a battle, in order to win the decisive battle, in order to greatly reduce your own casualties, what is it to waste some artillery.

This is the origin of these cannons in front of you, that is, consumables once or twice, and even for the safety of the gunners in the future, they were thrown away immediately after a major battle.

So Zhao Lie's request is that it is enough to have a few launches, consumables.

Of course, this requirement frightened these craftsmen, and now the artisan battalion of the Broken Army has extremely high requirements for the quality of cannons and firecrackers, and each cannon and firecracker is the name of a craftsman, once the minimum number of scrapping according to the sound is too different, it will be held accountable.

Therefore, Guo Fucai was trembling, he was really afraid, and when the time came, a few shots would be scrapped, what should the calmers do if they were looking for trouble with him.

The results of the test firing were not bad, the maximum fifteen times, the least eleven scrapped, the barrel cracked, and that was enough.

However, Zhao Lie still told Cui Fu to still lose weight, and did not hesitate to sacrifice the number of shellings for this reason.

Cui Fu could only reluctantly agree, and Lord Zhao's orders could only be obeyed.

Zhao Lie hadn't walked out of the test field yet, Du Li came in a hurry, Zhao Lie immediately felt a headache, to be honest, Du Li personally came to report that there was no trivial matter, this is for sure.

Sure enough, Du Li brought him new exciting news.

Jiannu has formed a new army of more than 60,000 Han Eight Banners, and it has been organized and trained, and Huang Taiji and others personally inspected it some time ago.

At the same time, Liaodong also reported that Jiannu had gathered tens of thousands of troops to prepare to attack Korea.

Zhao Lie's heart sank after hearing this, this is definitely not good news.

The number of more than 60,000 weighed heavily on his heart, and Zhao Lie felt deeply heavy about the confrontation with the power of the same country.

Zhao Lie quickly estimated the strength of the enemy and me, and couldn't afford to wait, Zhao Lie decided to fight a decisive battle with Jiannu the next time Jiannu entered the Koukou, otherwise the Han Eight Banners would continue to expand, and even if the Broken Army won a big victory, it would be a broken bone.

You have to think about it, you can put this aside and think about it.

Because there are more important things to deal with, that is, Jiannu's conquest of the dynasty, Huang Taiji such a shrewd person will not conquer the dynasty for no reason, he must want to get something in North Korea, what he wants.

Zhao Lie had a good discussion with Du Li, and finally made some decisions.

Zhao Lie and Du immediately returned to the official office, and a new journey had to begin. (To be continued.) )

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