The mountainous area in the south of Jiangxi is full of vast and precipitous lofty mountains, the hills and mountains are undulating, the canyons are vertical and horizontal, the cliffs are steep and precipitous, the forests are deep and the trees are dense, the clouds and mist are shrouded, and the people are inaccessible. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoGanzhou lies between the two rivers, the left is Zhangshui, the right is the tribute water, and the surrounding is connected by the mountains, the forest and the sea are thousands of miles, covering the ground and covering the sky.

Ganzhou is a remote mountain town, originally it seems that the city should not be in anyone's sight, after all, this is a poor and barren land, in the year of harvest, farmers can only survive, if it is in the year of drought, many people are afraid that even the bark of grass roots can not be sustained.

That is, in the remote mountain town, two months ago, but suddenly there was a burst of gunshots, the gunshots came from the yamen, and even before the people in the city could react, the city changed the king's flag, and a strange blue-background flag rose in the dilapidated city tower, and some scholars in the city only recognized what the flag was, and they were all stunned by the flag. Of course, there are only a few who will be excited by the flag.

What does the "Sun and Moon Flag" fluttering on the bamboo flagpole on the city tower mean?

For the people, it seems to have little meaning, and even because the soldiers patrol the streets day and night, and breathe a sigh of relief, after all, in this chaotic army, there are these soldiers patrolling, which always makes people feel more at ease. Of course, what really relieved them was that the "bandits" in the city did not force everyone to cut their braids, let alone forcibly occupy the people's daughters and rob the big households, at most they just asked the big families to donate a batch of grain money to work the army.

When everyone breathed a sigh of relief, this "bandit" did not leave as quickly as people imagined, but appointed the county order and reset the county office, in short. I have a big intention of staying here.

After the news that the bandits who came out of there seized Ganzhou City came out, they naturally attracted officers and soldiers, from the defense battalion to the new army, and they tore down for two months. Instead of recapturing Ganzhou City, this official army lost several county seats, which really frightened people and greatly boosted the morale of the "bandits".

Even when the so-called "people's army" soldiers were patrolling, their faces were full of joy, but for the people, whether it was a rebel or a government, it didn't seem to have much influence on them. After all, since ancient times, emperors have not killed Shunmin!

In the silence of the night, a soldier dressed as a common man, but carrying a gun, walked back and forth at the corner of the street, his eyes vigilantly watching the street, watching the wind and grass on the street, he stood quietly in the middle of the street, because there was a shop beside him. There would be a door ajar open, and light would be shining through. The shadow of this soldier can be seen.

The soldier occasionally looked at the shop, and then he saw the door closed, with only a little light peeking through the crack into the dark street.

"Jingle bells, jingle bells......"

In the courtyard with a few lanterns, the sound of striking iron echoed, and in this midnight, the sound of striking iron was extremely clear.

A dozen of the city's best blacksmiths were swinging hammers in the corner of the courtyard. With red pieces of iron and repairing broken and broken bayonets, this streetside courtyard is more of a blacksmith than an arsenal, but this is not quite accurate. After all, in addition to the blacksmith who made iron, there were also craftsmen who rolled firecrackers.

These craftsmen are invited from all over the country, saying that it is please, in fact, it should be more accurate to say that it should be "tied", although it is true that people are "tied", but these craftsmen are here with wages, and their wages are far more than in the past, as little as a few taels, more than dozens of taels of silver, enough to make these craftsmen willing to work here.

With the sound of "tapping" in the corner of the courtyard, the mouth of the iron furnace that was more than one person high was immediately opened, and the reddish railway flowed down the tap hole into the sand mold below.

"Hereby ......"

When the molten iron was poured in, a mist came out of the sand mold, and several craftsmen kept changing the sand mold, and after a while, hundreds of sand molds were used up. Next to the craftsmen, a young man in military uniform looked even more nervous than those craftsmen/

Knocking on the sand mold, the young man in military uniform saw the red iron shell, and immediately threw it into the bucket, in the steam diffuse, the iron shell of thousands of degrees cooled down, and took out the black and white iron shell from the bucket, Looking at the iron shell that was still steaming, he immediately asked a little nervously.

"How? Will this shell work? ”

At this time, his voice seemed a little anxious, no wonder he was so nervous, this iron shell is the shell of the grenade, it is a necessary object to make a grenade, and the grenade can be produced by itself, which is directly related to the future of this people's army.

"Commander-in-chief, it's easier to cast this thing than a cast iron pot, if it doesn't work, then it's not a slap in the face of our old Wang's cast pot!"

The old craftsman said with a smug smile, and if the "commander-in-chief" in his mouth spread, it might attract the attention of many people. If it is left in the field, I don't know how many people will be attracted, this young man in military uniform is not Li Qinyu, the commander-in-chief of the Zhejiang People's Army back then, and his head alone is worth tens of thousands of taels of silver.

As the commander-in-chief of the People's Army, in the past year, Li Qinyu led no more than 1,000 officers and soldiers of the Zhejiang People's Army to leave Hangzhou, hiding in the mountains and forests like bandits along the way, and finally disappeared into the mountains.

When he was deep in the mountains, in the process of advancing inland from the mountains, in order to obtain supplies, he used banditry to extort and extort rich people, but that was in the name of bandits. Because of this, no one could have imagined that the Zhejiang People's Army, which disappeared in the mountains, would still be active in the mountainous areas of Jiangxi a year later, until two months ago, after more than a year of lying on the salary and tasting courage, the former Zhejiang People's Army once again played the "Sun and Moon Flag" and captured Ganzhou City in one fell swoop.

Although in the past two months, under the command of Li Qinyu, the people's army that captured the city of Ganzhou has repelled the Qing army several times, but the ammunition they carried when they withdrew from Hangzhou last year was not much left in the fierce battle, and although it was replenished and captured a lot in the battle, only a few hundred grenades remained in the most important case. For the people's army without artillery, grenades are equivalent to cannons in their hands, and even the reason why they can inflict heavy damage on the Jiangxi New Army is that thousands of grenades are thrown during ambushes.

Over the past year or so, it has relied on the dense firepower of grenades thrown during encounters that the civilian military has been able to save the day many times, and that is why. After learning the news that the grenades were running out, Li Qinyu immediately instructed the improvised arsenal to start manufacturing grenades.

"Master Wang, I still don't believe you,"

Laughing, Li Qinyu picked up the iron shell and said.

"Just like this iron shell, how many can we come out in a day?"

"This furnace of iron can make about 200 shells. At least ninety percent of what can be used, if you work continuously, six or seven hundred a day will be no problem, it is ......"

The old master looked at the commander-in-chief, although the other party usually looked very close, and he didn't have much arrogance, let alone official authority, but after all, he was the leader of the bandits, so he said cautiously.

"It's just that this iron can't keep up. That's no fun! ”

Isn't it just no fun, what kind of grenades and mines can be made without iron?

His brows were slightly locked, and Li Qinyu said in a deep voice.

"I will find a way to solve the problem of iron, Master Wang, you just need to produce......"

In fact, the problem that needs to be solved is not only this one. As the commander-in-chief of the People's Army, no one knows better than Li Qinyu. Now the problem faced by the people's army is not only that there is not enough raw materials to produce grenades, but also faces many other more serious problems, and even if it were not for the fact that the ammunition problem was solved by making projectiles to replace the primer as early as in Hangzhou, I am afraid that the ammunition carried at the beginning would have been exhausted long ago.

“…… The immediate priority is funding. Without sufficient funds, it is impossible for the People's Army to recruit new soldiers, let alone recruit new soldiers, and even maintaining the current team of more than 3,000 people is a problem! ”

Look at the commander-in-chief in front of him. Jiro Fukushima said helplessly.

"The silver brought out from Hangzhou has long been spent, although there are still hundreds of thousands of taels deposited in the Shanghai branch of the Bank of North Korea, but those silver will not be able to get it from our side for a while......

Last year, with the team all the way to Fukushima Jiro in Jiangxi, it was at this time that he really realized the size of China, and although this "big" made the people's army have room for maneuver, but it also brought some troubles, the simplest trouble is that the silver salary can not be transported from the outside world, although now there is no support from the family, but after all, he deposited a huge amount of money in the North Korean bank, but now the silver can not be transported to Ganzhou in the short term.

As the deputy commander-in-chief of the People's Army, he naturally needs to solve the worries of the commander-in-chief, but this worry is not something he can solve, not to mention, some things, even if he wants to do it, he must first get the approval of the commander-in-chief.

"The problem of silver salary, slowly solved, there will always be a way,"

Nodding silently, Li Qinyu's eyes narrowed slightly, and then ordered softly.

"If there is really no way, then borrow another tens of thousands of taels, I still don't believe it, those people dare not borrow!"

The commander-in-chief's answer made Fukushima's heart tremble slightly, this was talking about borrowing, but in fact, he was borrowing from a large family with a gun. It's not that he hasn't thought about this solution, but now they still need the support of those big families.

"Besides, when the autumn tax comes down, this problem will naturally be solved by then."

The reason why they decided to occupy Ganzhou and several nearby counties was not only to obtain a stable base area, but also to obtain tax sources and military sources, but they came a little "late", and the annual tax had been collected by the government before they seized the city.

After all, the foundation of the people's army is not stable, and if the coercion of the big households is too tight, it will only make them completely fall to the Manchu Dynasty, which is not conducive to the survival of the people's army, and those squires enjoy great prestige in the countryside, if they do not have their support, it will be difficult to get the support of ordinary villagers, and then conscription and taxation will be a problem.

"If you really can't help it, I'll borrow some from them first, but I must talk about this borrowed word well!"

After admonishing him, he agreed to ask the big family about borrowing money, and Li Qinyu asked again.

"Anything else?"

"Then there is the weapon, although the people's army has been expanded to two regiments, the number of soldiers has increased nearly four times, but the number of firearms has actually increased less than double, the problem now is that there are more people and fewer guns, Ganzhou is not as good as Hangzhou, when we are in Hangzhou, we can buy from foreign companies, but in this ......"

Fukushima Jiro's wry smile made Li Qinyu shake his head helplessly, in such a remote place as Ganzhou, let alone foreign companies, even foreign missionaries are extremely rare, so naturally they can't buy it if they want to.

"Now at most, you can collect some front-loading guns from the countryside, if you want to solve the problem of guns, you have to find a way to go to big cities like Nanchang and Fuzhou, and you can't solve this problem locally, but if you want to buy it from a foreign company, you need to take into account the matter of silver, and now, we can't squeeze out this money......

When I was in Hangzhou, we don't need to consider this problem, in addition to the abundant silver salary from the Hangzhou Domain, the more important thing is the support from the "family", when the northeast sent a large amount of arms to Hangzhou, so that the Zhejiang People's Army did not need to worry about guns and ammunition at all, but now the people's army in Ganzhou, after losing the support of the "family", not to mention that the supply of guns and ammunition has become a problem, and even the food and salary cannot be supplied.

"It seems that if we want to gain a foothold here, we have to get in touch with our families......"

Looking at Fukushima, Li Qinyu sighed helplessly.

"Not to mention that we can't get in touch with my family now, just because Ganzhou is located inland, even if we get in touch with my family in the future, how can this family give us support?"

Looking up at the sky, the big and small starspots are densely spread in the sky, the wind blows over, there are a few starspots, and they keep flashing, Li Qinyu, who walked out of the headquarters, looked around at the shadows of those houses, trembling, as if they were sinking down, sinking down. Just like his thoughts, thinking of the problems that Fukushima had said earlier, he couldn't help but think of the distant "home", and the predicament faced by the troops without the support of "home", and finally sighed.

Soon the family will know about the news here, will these problems still be problems then? Even if there will be difficulties at home, when the time comes, the principal will do everything possible to find a way to solve these problems!

Definitely! The headmaster will definitely do it!

Thinking of this, Li Qinyu straightened his chest and walked towards an alley not far away. He also had to meet someone, and if it wasn't for that, perhaps, they wouldn't have made it all the way from Hangzhou.

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