Wang Feng only thought about asking for silver, he couldn't imagine that Fuxing could be blessed by misfortune, it was really worthy of the word Fuxing!

In the past three days, the British and the Qing army did not have abnormal behavior, but no one in the whole army dared to relax, Wang Feng even sent spies far away, and at the same time, because the news of his personal bombing and sinking of the Hermes spread, the people of Baoshan looked at him differently, and they no longer avoided the Taiping army like a snake and scorpion as before, which showed that after doing a big job, the local people's confidence in him Wang Feng was strengthened!

After day and night of modification, there are already one hundred and twenty mini guns in the army, Wang Feng and Hong Xuanjiao are one and a half, each equipped with sixty, but the price paid is 300 British high-quality barrels, and the scrap rate is amazing, this is also no way, after all, it is easy to carve rifling, but it is difficult to do, and the soldiers cannot carve it at once like Wang Feng, and if they are not careful, they will engrave the barrel, and Wang Feng will carve a barrel for more than an hour, relying on himself, at least a year, which obviously can't afford to wait!

What's even more troublesome is that because it is rifling inside the barrel, the strength structure of the barrel will inevitably be destroyed, and the service life will be shortened accordingly.

"Hey~~" Wang Feng put down the carved barrel and sighed helplessly, machinery, but with machinery, you have to have power, modern production is one ring after another, and what he is facing is a poor and white, except for himself, no one knows anything about modern science and technology!

"Wang Feng, why are you sad?" Hong Xuanjiao also stopped her carving movements, turned her head and asked.

"Sister Xuanjiao, you don't know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive, and the Mini gun should be saved," Wang Feng truthfully said the difficulties he faced.

"Huh?" Hong Xuanjiao frowned slightly, and muttered: "I didn't expect there to be such a problem, by the way, Wang Feng, although the Hermes sank to the bottom of the river, the guns on the ship should still be there, do you think it is possible for us to salvage it?" This season the river is not cold, the wind and waves are calm, if it is dragged to the next month into the rainy season, I am afraid it is difficult to fish, as for the method of salvage, you can use the method of piling sand and sinking ships. ”

The method of sand sinking was first introduced in the Song Dynasty, in which several iron hooks installed on the ship were used to hook the salvage object, and then the sediment was piled up on the ship, and the target object was salvaged by the buoyancy of the water.

Wang Feng had a flash of inspiration, Hermes uses a steam engine as an auxiliary power, if the steam engine is salvaged and repaired and then studied and imitated, wouldn't this be able to solve the most basic power problem?

"Good!" Wang Feng immediately nodded: "It's just that the premise of salvage is that the Qing army and the foreigners dare not interfere, it seems that they have to fight fiercely, I hope they will act as soon as possible." ”

"It's been three days, and I always feel that foreigners either don't move, and if they move, it must be a big move." Hong Xuanjiao looked into the distance, suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly said, "Why didn't Liu Lichuan send someone to contact us?" ”

Wang Feng thought for a while, and then said: "Liu Lichuan is also the leader of a party no matter how bad it is, there is a good saying, rather than the head of the chicken, not the queen of the cow, if I guessed him correctly, Liu Lichuan should be suffering from gains and losses at this time, he not only hopes that we will relieve him from the siege, but also afraid that we will dominate the situation, therefore, how to face Liu Lichuan after the siege is lifted, and even divide and persuade the leaders of the various departments to have to think carefully."

I believe that Liu Lichuan is not the only one who will have similar thoughts with Xiaodao, they are also thinking about how to face our Taiping Army, so we should do our own things at hand first, do not rush to relieve his siege, give both sides a sufficient cooling time, calm down and think about how to go in the future.

What's more, since we left Tianjing, we have fought four battles, including one ambush, two sneak attacks and one defense of the city, only missing a frontal attack, and the siege of the Xiaodaohui also means that we must attack the Qing army's position head-on, which must be based on sufficient information to formulate a detailed battle plan in order to avoid unnecessary casualties among the soldiers as much as possible. ”

Hong Xuanjiao deeply agreed with Wang Feng's prudence, nodded and said: "Our main problem is the lack of powerful means of attacking fortifications, and the grenades and explosives bags have been exposed one after another.

On the surface, we have won four battles, but in fact, the shape is not optimistic, we only have such a little manpower and materials, Tianjing is impossible to give any support, to put it mildly, I am afraid that if you ask for help Xiaodao will be regarded as his own death, he is happy to be a favor, so as not to be nagged in your ear, accusing him of all kinds of wrongs.

Moreover, the composition of the Knife Club is complex, there is no unified guiding ideology, even if it is rescued, it must have its own thoughts, but it is just a plate of loose sand, not only can not enhance our strength in a short period of time, but even become a burden, biting us back, this is the most dangerous.

On the contrary, the Qing army and the foreigners have a deep foundation, and collude with each other, at the moment only temporarily suffered a small loss, there is no big loss in strength, if we slow down, mobilize heavy troops to besiege, I am afraid that we will not escape! ”

"Hey~~" Hong Xuanjiao sighed, and said with worry: "How similar is our current situation to the Taiping Army's wandering operations in the past three years?" I don't understand what's wrong, why the victories don't have the results they deserve, but the Qing army has been defeated one after another, but the more defeated the more people are coming, and the strength is gradually increasing, Wang Feng, can you sue me? ”

Hong Xuanjiao looked at Wang Feng, her beautiful eyes were full of puzzlement, Wang Feng took advantage of the situation to hold her tender little hand, put it into her palm, and said with a slight smile: "Sister Xuanjiao, I am relieved if you think so, what I am most afraid of is blind optimism in the army, in fact, your question is not difficult to understand, there is a paradox in the theory of war, that is, if you win, you lose, it sounds incredible, right?" But there are many such examples in history, and if you want to avoid falling into this strange circle, you must grasp the time, place and people, which is the so-called general trend!

The king of heaven rebelled under the banner of reviving the Han nationality, it was for the time of heaven, but it was a pity that he was defeated by his arrogance and stupidity, and Nanjing is lonely in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, lacking strategic depth, you see that Rong dares to block the east gate of Nanjing with only 20,000 people, which shows that the geographical advantage is not in my hands, as for the people, the holy treasury system and the separate camps for men and women have long made people feel cold, who will have their hearts to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom? We don't own any of them!

But don't worry, we left Tianjing less than a month, just the beginning, often the most difficult to start a business, as long as you survive this hurdle, the situation in the future will inevitably slowly improve, until the whole trend firmly in the palm of your hand! ”

"Hmm~~" Hong Xuanjiao reluctantly smiled: "Listening to your analysis, my heart is much better." As he spoke, he sighed again, and couldn't help but put his head on Wang Feng's arm.

Wang Feng was about to take the opportunity to take Hong Xuanjiao into his arms, but Ding Daquan waved his arms in the distance and shouted: "Supervisor army, division commander, the Qing army has a grain team from Taicang this morning, it is likely to send grain to Jiading!" ”

(Thank you Yunqi Qinggu for your tip~~)