In general, the battle of Yangzhou was a victory of science and technology, more than 200 artillery pieces made it possible to pay thousands of people or even more in this era, and it would take days, more than ten days, or even dozens of days to attack and defend a city, and it only took more than two more than three hours before and after, and its own casualties were only more than 300 people, and it ended in a complete victory for the counterinsurgency army. Although this battle was doomed from the moment the first shell of the thirty-six siege guns was fired, under Wang Kunjun's arrangement and arrangement, the result he hoped for before the battle was not left behind.

Although the city of Yangzhou was already in the pocket when the artillery bombardment ended and the counterinsurgency infantry began to charge, the resistance of the rebels did not completely collapse because of the death of Li Chongjin and the heavy losses of the leading generals. Some of Li Chongjin's die-hard cronies, who had escaped the shelling, managed to organize nearly 3,000 men and horses, and took advantage of their familiarity with the terrain to continue to resist stubbornly in the complicated streets and alleys of Yangzhou City, and started a face-to-face battle with the counterinsurgency infantry who rushed into the city. It was precisely this stubborn resistance of the remnants of the rebels that gave Wang Kunjun the opportunity to carefully observe the independent combat capability of the newly formed "security forces" and test the strength of this new force, which was not too reassuring to him, in actual combat.

In fact, before the infantry launched an assault on Yangzhou City, Wang Kunjun ordered the new "Security Army" to be the vanguard and lead the city. The "Flying Dragon Army" served as the strong backing of the new "Security Army", and as the "second echelon", it set off after the vanguard entered the city about a pillar of incense, ensuring that the final result of the Battle of Yangzhou was firmly in their own hands.

Although there are still some loopholes and deficiencies in the cooperation and trust between the soldiers of the new "Security Army" in terms of cooperation and trust among themselves, they were first shocked by artillery bombardment, and now they are facing Li Chongjin's rebels, who are fighting to the death and fighting to the death, and they know that they will either defeat the rebels in front of them, or they will be treated as deserters on the battlefield by the "Flying Dragon Army" behind them, which is both a support force and a supervising team, as a deserter to enforce military law. Therefore, whether it is those veterans who have been fighting in the Beiping Army for many years, or those "recruits" who have just been adapted from the imperial forbidden army or Zhao Kuangyin's rebel army, it can be said that they are all vying to be the first and moving forward bravely, neither retreating, nor daring to show other thoughts, and finally used their super strength to defeat the strength of Li Chongjin's remnants of the rebels, proving their strength and will.

Wang Kunjun was very satisfied with the performance of the new "security army", and although he paid the price of more than 300 casualties, it was all worth it for him. Therefore, after returning to Kaifeng, Wang Kunjun played a victory to the imperial court on the one hand, and on the other hand, he asked for credit to the soldiers under his command to the greatest extent, and won a lot of rewards for them. The glory of counterinsurgency and the rich rewards also made those soldiers of the former Hou Zhou court forbidden army or Zhao Kuangyin rebel army who had just joined the "security army" see the benefits of following the new master, and saw the hope of making meritorious contributions and sealing their wives and sons in the future. At this point, the new "security army" can be regarded as truly having combat effectiveness, becoming a "brother" of Qingyuan again, and one of the iron fists that Wang Kunjun can rely on.

After pacifying Li Chongjin and training the new "security army", Wang Kunjun and others also put their minds on two other important things.

The first major event was to make a decision on the proposal jointly proposed by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Logistics Department, the Military Department, and other departments to build a new production base near Kaifeng City to ensure the supply of weapons and equipment to the troops stationed in Kaifeng, especially the "Flying Dragon Army."

The Committee had no objection in principle to this proposal. After all, as the most important foundation for the Beiping Army to control Kaifeng City and even the Later Zhou Dynasty, the combat effectiveness of the "Flying Dragon Army" must be fully guaranteed. Traveling thousands of miles from Beiping City to transport all kinds of weapons and equipment, especially ammunition, for the "Flying Dragon Army" is obviously not a haode choice. Once some ill-intentioned people see this weakness of the "Flying Dragon Army" and try to cut off the ammunition supply line between Beiping City and Kaifeng City while consuming its ammunition, it will inevitably weaken or even seriously affect the combat effectiveness of the "Flying Dragon Army" -- this is something that the princes of the Beiping Army absolutely do not want to see and will never allow to happen.

It's just that the principle agreement is the principle agreement, but what kind of positioning and what scale of a new production base should be built has caused a heated discussion among the relevant departments of the crossing team, so that it is difficult to reach a consensus on the relevant resolutions for a while. Among these debates, the most concentrated and critical point is whether it is necessary to build an "all-round" production base outside Kaifeng.

As the ultimate beneficiary of this production base, the military department is clearly a staunch supporter of the construction of an "all-round" production base. In their view, an "all-round" production base can minimize the dependence of the Kaifeng garrison on the original two production bases of the Beiping Army, and ensure its combat effectiveness to the greatest extent - this is actually the original intention of building a new production base.

However, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Logistics did not agree with this plan, taking into account factors such as raw material transportation, duplicate construction, and so on. In their view, the Beiping Army now has two mature production bases, "Xianglong" and Taiyuan, and in terms of production capacity, it can already meet the training and combat needs of the Beiping Army. At present, it is only from the aspect of wartime support that it is proposed to build a new production base near Kaifeng for the purpose of supplying weapons and ammunition nearby. Relying on the spare parts and semi-finished products provided by the two production bases of "Xianglong" and Taiyuan, on the one hand, it can provide the Kaifeng garrison of the Beiping Army with the relevant support for the daily training and operation of hot weapons, and on the other hand, it can also provide daily maintenance of weapons and equipment for the Kaifeng garrison nearby, and repair the weapons and equipment that have broken down or damaged. What's more, Kaifeng is located in the Central Plains, although there are certain coal resources, but iron ore, another important resource for the production of weapons and equipment, ammunition, is very scarce. If an "all-round" production base is to be built, the iron ore needed will inevitably need to be transported thousands of miles from Peiping Province. In this way, it is much less efficient than just transporting finished steel, and it also faces the problem of security of supply in wartime. Rather than this, it is better to reduce the scale of the production base and change the "large and complete" to "small and fine".

Although it was very concerned about the supply of weapons and equipment and ammunition to the troops stationed in Beiping in Kaifeng, after listening to the opinions of various departments, weighing the pros and cons of all aspects, especially after giving full consideration to the long-term development plan of the crossing team, the committee finally adopted the suggestions of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Logistics Department, and decided to build a medium-sized production base near Kaifeng that integrates the assembly, production, routine maintenance and repair of weapons, equipment and ammunition.

On the first day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar in the ninth year of Xiande, according to the relevant resolutions passed by the enlarged meeting of the committee, the Kaifeng production base broke ground on the side of the Cai River fifty miles south of Kaifeng. By the time Wang Kunjun returned from Huainan, the construction project of Kaifeng production base had been more than half, and as the team committee and various departments shifted their attention to this, the construction speed of the entire project began to gradually accelerate, and it is expected to be completed before winter.

The second major event was what Zhang Weixin had mentioned at the beginning, about the civil strife caused by the death of Zhou Xingfeng in Wuping (Hunan), and the Beiping army could take this opportunity to pocket Wuping (Hunan) and Nanping (Jingnan) in one fell swoop.

According to Zhang Weixin's impression, the civil unrest in Wuping (Hunan) seems to have occurred in September and October of the lunar calendar, when Zhou Xingfeng's 11-year-old son, Zhou Baoquan, sent his general Yang Shifan to quell the rebellion, and at the same time asked for help from the Central Plains regime. It's just that in the history of the previous life, Zhou Baoquan's object of asking for help was the Great Song Dynasty, and now he is afraid that it will be changed to the Later Zhou Court.

Although the civil strife in Wuping (Hunan) was absolutely good news for the Beiping Army, after all, all this was only a prediction made by Zhang Weixin based on the historical process of his previous life, and no one could be sure whether the relevant events would still occur in this time and space. In addition, Wuping (Hunan) and Nanping (Jingnan) were not the focus areas of the crossing team before, and the Liliang invested by the Ministry of Intelligence in these two places not only could not be compared with the areas controlled by the Later Zhou and Khitan, but were even far inferior to the Southern Tang Dynasty, and could not influence the situation of these two separatist regimes by exerting external force. Therefore, apart from ordering the Intelligence Department to send a large number of agents to Wuping (Hunan) and Nanping (Jingnan) to carry out the necessary infiltration and investigation operations with the cooperation of the agents of the Intelligence Department who were previously stationed there, all the committee could do was to wait patiently, wait for history to develop as it did in the previous life, and wait for God to deliver a great gift to it.

It's just that in this world, "eight or nine times out of ten", Wang Kunjun, who has been in charge of the Huainan class, very much hopes that he can hear the good news of the Wuping (Hunan) chaos after he leads the army back to Beijing, and as a result, he has completed the transfer with Zheng Zhiwei, and Liang Ziyue, who is in charge of the intelligence work of the Beiping Army Kaifeng, has brought him bad news - Zhou Yihan, who had been fostered in Yuqingguan by the crossing team, suddenly left without saying goodbye on the eighth day of the seventh lunar month of the ninth year of Xiande, and his whereabouts are unknown. Also missing is her younger brother, Zhou De'an, who has been transferred to foster care at Huanglong Temple since he was 12 years old.