"Third master, the British and French forces are well equipped, from weapons and ammunition to food, what kind of flaw is it, the chief wants to hear a thing or two!"

What is the big flaw, Xu Ziwei sorted out the information, and he was also confused, the equipment of the British and French forces is extremely neat! It is completely a combat unit, and even in some equipment, they are not much worse than the new army in Yunnan.

A set of equipment of the Yunnan New Army is worth at least two or three hundred taels of silver, such equipment can already be proud of the armies of all countries in the world, long and short guns, bayonets, short knives and big blades, the new army can be said to be armed to the teeth, and the equipment of the new army is almost the same, I think the British and French coalition army is also the elite of the world, how can such an army have a big flaw?

"Hehe, the water and soil are not adapted!"

Seeing Xu Ziwei's confused face, Yang Meng also sold Guanzi, Yang Meng was still a little worried about the matter of employing people to clear mines, and it was also a pleasure to see this live monkey eating deflated.

"The Comptroller doesn't understand!"

Yang Meng said that it was a bit big, and Ergin's first Anglo-French army did not adapt to the water and soil, if it was not adapted to the water and soil, it could be found during the first battle of Bali Bridge, and now the Anglo-French army in Zhangjiawan is alive and well, and the water and soil are not adapted? Xu Ziwei didn't understand.

"The right time and place!"

This unsuitability does not seem to be enough to say the weakness of the British and French forces, Yang Meng thought about it, and came up with another statement.

"The right time and place ......"

After hearing this, Xu Ziwei looked through the information again and confirmed what he thought in his heart, and then he said his opinion with hesitation.

"Third master. But the Anglo-French forces did not have enough digging tools? ”

"Right! That's it. A whole fleet. There were only a few thousand new digging tools, and even if there were a few on board, they were far from sufficient compared to the sheer number of Anglo-French troops and Russian mercenaries.

The stalemate of the Grand Army and the Crimean War have fully demonstrated the important role of trench warfare in it, so that we can give the British and French forces a head-on blow.

But...... How to exploit this weakness. We'll have to think about it again, but the preparation will take place right away.

Didn't the Taiping Army have a battalion of soldiers? Let Shi Dakai and Li Xiucheng enter Beijing under the banner of the militia group, and let Li Xianming come to visit! ”

Although the Crimean War confirmed the benefits of trenches to the army, because of the guns, most of today's wars are still face-to-face executions, and the distance between the two armies has been widened a little further because of the progress in the performance of firearms. The means of war of the Anglo-French forces were basically based on the straggler line.

Front-loading guns. Determine the external appearance of the war, the British and French forces want to shoot quickly, to maintain the density of rifle fire, must choose a standing position, and the rear-loading guns equipped by the new army of Wei Huozi can take a lying or sitting position, the enemy's target is large and our target is small, which is an advantage, which is determined by firearms.

Nowadays, the frozen soil in the north is quite hard, and if you want to dig fortifications quickly, you need a large number of digging tools, and the front loading guns, so that the British and French troops can only choose to shoot in a standing position, without enough digging tools, it is difficult to dig trenches on the frozen soil that are enough to accommodate a large number of soldiers, and the guns are slightly superior, plus the cover of the trenches, if the British and French forces launch a formation to fight with the new army, it is basically equivalent to slaughter! Without sufficient excavation tools, it is not only a big flaw, but also the fatal weakness of the British and French forces.

This was a foreshadowing of Yang Meng's war in winter, but I didn't expect the British and French coalition forces to really give face, and with the combat troops, they hurriedly came across the sea, which is called looking for death!

"Third Master, didn't you give the Taiping Army a three-month rest period? It's only been more than a month now, and now that Shi Dakai and Li Xiucheng have entered Beijing, I'm afraid it's a little inappropriate!

There are many people who are proficient in the civil work industry, and the Yang family has a lot of them in various places, so there is no need to use the soil camp of the Taiping Army, right? ”

The Taiping Army, which is still unusable! As long as Tianjing is still there, the Taiping Army has the backbone, regardless of whether the faith collapses or not, Tianjing is undoubtedly a place to gather people's hearts for the Taiping Army, at this time, with the Taiping Army, it is easy to turn between elbows and armpits, Xu Ziwei feels that this matter is a bit rushed!

At the beginning of the training of the new army, the third master added a project of earthwork, as long as more miners were found, it could also replace the soil camp of the Taiping Army.

"Hmmm! This matter is a bit hasty, but it may not be an opportunity to submit Shi Dakai and Li Xiucheng!

Moreover, the earthen camp of the Taiping Army has been in actual combat, and they know what kind of fortifications are not safe, and this alone is enough for Lao Tzu to transfer them to Beijing, if they can abandon some useless fortifications, there will be fewer deaths on the front line.

So be it! Let Shi Dakai and Li Xiucheng bring 3,000 local battalion soldiers, transfer 3,000 miners from Yunnan, and transfer another 4,000 miners from all over the country to form a new army. This makes them a lot less of a threat!

Let's give Li Xianming a trip! ”

For Shi Dakai and Li Xiucheng, Yang Meng is also careful! But these two people, Shi Dakai is a handsome talent who is good at strategic layout, and Li Xiucheng's shadow evaluation of him is higher than Shi Dakai, this person not only knows how to fight, but also is good at internal affairs, these two people can be said to be the essence of the Taiping Army, give up, it's a pity!

"Third master, this time it's a big gamble!"

Leaving such a sentence, Xu Ziwei got up and sent someone to summon Li Xianming, but Yang Meng's face was a little more ruthless.

The scale of the war is constantly increasing under his promotion, and his real purpose is not in the Anglo-French army, but in the navy.

If dozens of warships of the Anglo-French alliance are captured this time, then Britain's maritime superiority will be greatly reduced, and the navy of the empire on which the sun never sets will have more than 500 warships, and these more than 500 warships, I am afraid that there are only more than 300 warships that can really be used for far-sea operations, right?

Eighty ships last time, and another eighty ships this time, the navy of the British Empire. It's about to be more than half of the loss. Such a loss can trigger a chain reaction. The hegemony of the British Empire, the hegemony of Europe, England, France, Germany, Ross, Europe is a mess, the European land hegemony of Tsarist Russia does not exist after the Crimean War, if the maritime hegemony of England is also in the Far East, if more than half of the Qing Dynasty is lost in the Qing Dynasty, the situation in Europe is ......

Lethal and injure the Army. Even if Yang Meng killed and injured hundreds of thousands of British and French troops in World War I, this is not a loss that can hurt the national capital of England and France, which have a population of tens of millions.

"Third Master!"

"Oh...... Shi Ming is here, there is something you can do, this is the drawing of the shovel and iron pickaxe. A month's time, let Guangzhou and Huang E. Make 300,000 each, and send it to Jingshi! ”

Plate shovel iron pickaxe, very simple design, now Bali Bridge and Zhangjiawan are not without excavation tools, but the efficiency of those tools is too low, Yang Meng has seen it before, because these things are very easy to manufacture, Yang Meng did not specifically arrange for Guangzhou or Yunnan iron factories to manufacture, farm tools, most of them are still made by blacksmiths from all over the world.

"Third master, a month's time, even manufacturing and transportation, is it too short?"

Although Li Xianming is young, he has also been involved in the business of Guangzhou shipyard before, don't look at the plate shovel and iron pick on the drawings is very simple, but a blacksmith, I am afraid that it will not be much in a day, a month's time, 300,000 each, that is to say, Guangzhou and Huang E only have more than ten days of production time.

"Cast iron stamping, this is the speed of the Westernization war, go and do it!"

After saying the method, Yang Meng stopped talking, this thing looks difficult! In fact, it is very simple, cast iron stamping is good, the stamping machinery of each subway factory, as long as you change the mold, it is only a day or two to make abrasives, the number of 600,000 a month, for Guangzhou and Huang E, a small matter.

"Third master, these are military? Do you want to use a short handle? ”

Li Xianming's brain is really good, but this one touched Yang Meng's sensitive nerves, and the short handle is definitely not something that should appear now.

"Nope! You can use a long handle, expand the size of the shovel and pickaxe by three percent, at least use a five-foot long handle, and you will send the size and pattern directly to Guangzhou and Huang E by telegram! ”

How did the sapper shovel come about, Yang Meng knew very well, although that thing was small, it was not small, and the difficulty of making that thing was not great. Why didn't Yang Meng equip the new army with sapper shovels? The reason is also simple, I am afraid that Tsarist Russia will steal the teacher!

Since Li Xianming can come up with this problem, the new army on the front line is likely to think of the handle of the saw short shovel iron pick, this thing is nothing more than a temporary use, it seems that the size of his design is still small, if it is expanded by three percent, these plate shovel iron pickaxes can only be regarded as farm tools, and it will be very laborious to see the handle short.

In this way, even if the excavation tools of the new army flow into the hands of the Anglo-French coalition army, it will be difficult for the Anglo-French coalition army or Tsarist Russia to make any changes on it, as long as the European army does not equip a large number of sapper shovels, then the new army will have an advantage in the future battles.

The Beijing-Tianjin land war, to put it bluntly, was just a means for Yang Meng to test the combat strength of the new army, to protect the homeland and defend the country, and to expand the scale of the war, all of which were associated with it, as long as the new army in Yunnan could withstand the test in this war, that is, his Yang Meng's method of training troops was feasible, and if this battle was won, Yang Meng would be able to expand the army in the entire Qing Dynasty.

As long as the production of grain can be guaranteed in the next year or two, the two million troops of Tsarist Russia, in Yang Meng's eyes, are just pediatrics, with a population of 40,000 in the Qing Dynasty, it is easy to organize a 5 million plundering army!

"Third master, the short one is light and can be used, why use the long one? Why do you want to make a shovel and pickaxe so bulky? ”

As Li Xianming, he didn't understand Yang Sanye's approach, after expanding the size, it would be a little laborious to use the shovel and iron pick, if it was digging a pit on the ground, the increased plate shovel and iron pick might be very convenient, but digging a pit or something like that, such a large plate shovel and iron pick, it would be cumbersome.

"Whatever Lao Tzu says, you can do it, you can understand the truth or not! You need to understand it yourself, and if you don't understand it, it's your own business! Do it! Don't shout about it, top secret! ”

Li Xianming is young and reckless, in order to prevent him from doing bad things, Yang Meng also specially added, with this sentence, Li Xianming will naturally know the strictness of speaking at will, if you can't figure it out, then Li Xianming's talent is limited.

"Presumably, the third master does things for his own reason, and he doesn't understand that he doesn't understand that he doesn't have enough skills, third master, can you tell him about this matter in the future?"

Li Xianming's tactfulness made Yang Menggao look at him, the times are different, the children of Seventeen are quite scheming, if it is in the future generations, Seventeen is just a child, it is the time to play wantonly.

"Yes! Xianming, just rush this sentence, you kid is still worth cultivating! ”

Doing things is the same as being a person, not the more upright the better, some things are handled differently at different times, even if they are doing knowledge and science, people with open minds and flexible minds have a world everywhere.

"Wanton Ming, let's go down and arrange!"

Young and old, I am afraid that it will be forced out, Yang Meng uses Li Xianming as the head of the Jingshi Science Troupe, in addition to his family background, the most important thing is to hone Li Xianming, there are some things, Yang Meng can't participate from time to time, it is also good to find a spokesperson, and now it seems that Li Mingfu's son can be regarded as a material that can be made.

"Commander, let Shi Li and the mines in various places speed up, enter Beijing within half a month, and let them go directly to Bali Bridge to build position fortifications!"

"Bali Bridge? So deep? ”

"The last line of defense, the Bali Bridge is unbreakable!" (To be continued......)