"How's the Wind Thief training?"

Zhu Jian asked Song Xiance, most of the big and small things now are thrown to Song Xiance to manage, how can those who can work harder, besides, if you don't get him something to do, he is still worried about falling out of favor.

After the extermination of the people's army, several armies then carried out a devastating and decaying clean-up of the mountain kings entrenched in the mountain, Shanxi basically restored calm, the water was clear, and it was naturally not good to touch the fish, so he ordered the wind thieves to stop their activities, retreat to Shanhaiguan, and the wolf thieves trained together to adapt to the environment and climate in the north, the country can stop tossing, but the customs must not stop tossing, can not let the Jin army live too comfortable, after the beginning of spring, the wind thieves and wolf thieves continue to enter the prairie to toss.

Song Xiance replied respectfully, after several months of intensive training, the wind thieves have basically adapted to the environmental climate in the north, even if they don't adapt, it doesn't matter, it's spring, the temperature has warmed up, and they can start working.

Just talking about this, a little eunuch sent Lu Hongniang's recital in time, although the ice and snow have not completely melted, and the road is muddy, but she has ordered the wolf thief group that merged two groups of wind thieves to go out to hunt, and if you catch one, you will lose nothing.

The wolf thieves rescued some of the Ming people who were taken captive by the Jin army to the outside of the pass in several hunting operations, and listened to the cry of these people, knowing that these people were living a miserable life outside the pass, which was not as good as pigs and dogs, coupled with Zhu Jian's previous brainwashing, she had long hated the evil and inhumane Jin army, so an unwritten rule was formed in the three new armies, they never left a mouthful, did not take prisoners, as long as the head remembered the war exploits.

For this matter, Zhu Jian is painstakingly enlightened, knowing how much a young and strong labor force can produce in a year? What about ten or twenty years? Of course, this requires payment, and the Ming Dynasty is now financially empty, so a free labor force can help the empire save a lot of silver, of course, only for those who are young and strong and have no disabilities, and the rest is not considered.

Again, those guys don't treat our people as people, and bully them as two-legged sheep, let's also repay them in the way of others, and also treat them as two-legged sheep, so that they can also pay for the taste, isn't that better?

Because of Zhu Jian's fooling, Lu Hongniang, Li Xin, and Cao Bianjiao reluctantly took in the captives, but the premise was that they were young and strong and intact and not disabled, as for the others, they were included in the waste of resources, and of course the waste had to be cleaned up.

Lu Hongniang mentioned one thing in the song, can you equip the wolf thieves with a musket? Even if it is a short gun, after testing, when the two armies are approaching on horseback, the rider is so equipped with muskets that he can fire a round first, even if he can't kill a few enemies, but the threat caused is still quite large.

Zhu Jian slapped his forehead continuously, he was too busy to forget about it, in fact, he had considered that if the cavalry should be equipped with a horse gun, it would be best to have a short gun, and the far one should be bombarded with a horse gun, and when approaching, a short gun would be used to bombard another round, and then the bayonet would be spelled, but the production efficiency of the arsenal was too low, and even the three new armies could not all be equipped with breech-loading muskets, let alone other troops.

At present, it is impossible for the wolf thieves to be equipped with rear-loading muskets in the short term, but it is possible to have a breech-loading short gun, which requires less materials, lower cost, and faster production efficiency than long guns, but can make a batch to equip the wolf bandits.

Lu Hongniang's performance was accurate, and he immediately sent a eunuch to the arsenal to inform the workers to put the spears away first, concentrate their forces, and first rush to make 1,500 breech-loading short guns for the wolf thieves to equip the wolf thieves.

Not to mention that Lu Hongniang is his favorite concubine, the wolf thief group is one of the sharp swords he tosses the Guanwai clan, he wants to go deep behind the enemy, the danger factor is great, and it is also a money printing machine to help him earn silver, in public and private, he has to give priority to the wolf thief group.

The wolf thief group took the initiative to go out of the customs to hunt, and Lu Hongniang's Phoenix Legion and Li Xin's Shenji Battalion also had to respond and cooperate with each other to turn the Horqin grassland upside down, so that those tribes outside the customs could not graze and produce with peace of mind.

The north is playing with his life to make small moves, and the eastern Liaodong direction is still mainly defensive, at most cooperating with Cao Bianjiao's department guarding Phi Island to make some small moves, well, there is also the Liaodong Naval Division, and he has to fully cooperate, by the way, he almost forgot about the Marine Corps before, I don't know what is going on now? Alas, a lot of people are busy.

Song Xiance hurriedly replied, the three battalions of the first regiment of the Marine Corps, each battalion has a strength of 2,000 people, equipped with ten Franc machine guns, 1,500 front-loading muskets, and a large number of thunderstorms. Sun Chuanting's department is too bad, and I believe that after a few more actual battles, he should be able to provoke the main beam on the battlefield.

However, Wei Yuanqing, the commander of the Liaodong Naval Division, was scolded miserably, and he didn't even dare to go out of the door, and the resentment in the hearts of those infantry commanders was not small. The fart of the Marine Corps, equipment resources are already very tight, many troops have not been equipped with muskets, you still run to rob it, and let people live? The military expenses for building a warship are enough to form several infantry armies, and the whole loser is a big loser, and I don't know what the emperor thinks in his heart?

"Hahaha......" Zhu Jian couldn't help laughing, Wei Yuanqing is now like a street rat that everyone shouts and beats, almost offending all the infantry commanders, if this girl doesn't show well and come up with convincing combat exploits, she will be sprayed to death by countless saliva.

"Oh, by the way, send him two sets of snipers."

Zhu Jian suddenly remembered this, and quite generously dispatched two groups of expensive snipers to Wei Yuanqing, after all, the role of the Liaodong Navy Division is very great, and the strength must be enhanced, uh, he remembered another thing.

"How's the progress of the new ship?"

In order to enhance the strength of the Liaodong Naval Division, he gritted his teeth and spent a lot of money to build ten new warships, the model of the new warship was painted by him according to the modern warships of later generations, which is equivalent to giving the shipbuilders a large ship type direction, the bow is pointed, no longer the most common flat-head type, which greatly reduces the water flow resistance, just offsets the increase in weight caused by the addition of a large number of guns, resulting in a decrease in speed.

The keel is made of cast iron, which greatly enhances the solidity of the warship, each cabin is sealed, even if one of the cabins is hit by a cannonball, it will not sink immediately, at most the speed is reduced, and the main part of the hull is also laid with a thin layer of iron armor, which can withstand a certain blow, and the first batch of armored warships of the Ming Empire were made out in this way.

In the era of backward science and technology, artillery was invincible, Zhu Jian asked shipbuilders to set up cannons on warships desperately, a total of five armored warships with small-caliber artillery, twelve on each side of the ship, five large-caliber armored warships, six on each side of the ship, large-caliber naval guns have a long range, great power, and it is very good to fight in water battles or cover the landing of infantry troops.

Zhu Jian is an artilleryist, truth, within the range of artillery.