"What Governor Qian said is very true, cement also has to be loaded on ships."

Qian Tianxi mentioned cement, and Li Xingzhi was also moved in his heart, the Jingbei Army will inevitably need a stable logistics supply base for this expedition to Liaodong, that is, a bridgehead for attacking Liaodong.

Now that it is summer, if a fortress is built on the Liaodong Peninsula with cement that can be quickly formed, then the Jingbei Army can directly land on the Liaodong Peninsula.

Wang Zhong, the general of the second town, asked suspiciously: "Dashuai, let's go to war, what are we going to do with cement, if 300,000 catties of cement are transferred to Liaodong, wouldn't it be a waste of manpower and material resources?" ”

"Miss Liu, you go and get the Liaodong sand table drawn by the General Intelligence Department and Ben Shuai."

Li Xingzhi looked at Liu Rushi, the new secretary of the Military Marshal's Mansion, who was standing aside, since he decided to enter Liaodong, Li Xingzhi ordered the Military Intelligence Department to prepare a military map of Liaodong.

According to the information provided by Pan Xuezhong and other generals of the Dongjiang Army, Li Youcai actually made a sand table in Liaodong, although it is an abbreviated version, but the mountains and rivers in southern Liaoning and the distribution of rivers are still clear at a glance.

"Yes!"

Liu Ru has been in Fireworks Willow Lane for a long time, and it is not that he has not seen the world's ladies, although dozens of civil and military generals of the Jingbei Army gathered in the line, but he did not show timidity, and took Li Xingzhi's general order, and walked to the back hall.

The generals don't understand Li Xingzhi's use of a woman as a waiter, if you fall in love with someone else, you will be directly included in the backyard, what is the matter if you have to let this woman show up.

Li Bangjie is envious, the handsome is worthy of being a handsome, this woman is used as a waiter during the day and sleeps at night, and the hat of Qian Qianyi, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites in the Southern Capital, is probably greener than the hat of the Green Banner Soldier of the Jingbei Army.

Suddenly.

Liu Ru ordered someone to bring the sand table and place it in the middle of the line.

"Everyone, please see, this is Lushun, here is Nanguan and Jinzhou."

Li Xingzhi pointed to the southernmost forts on the Liaodong Peninsula on the sand table and slowly spoke.

"Marshal, when Fort Arthur was broken by the Eastern Captives, they destroyed all the fort walls of Nanguan, Jinzhouzi and Lushun, and the marshal carried cement, could it be that he wanted to rebuild the fort in Lushun as the advance base of our army."

Zhang Wu, the general of the fifth town, was Zhang Pan's younger brother, and when he was in Dongjiang Town, Zhang Pan was the general of Lushun, so Zhang Wu was quite familiar with the terrain of southern Liaoning.

"What General Zhang said is true, but Ben Shuai is not going to build a fort in Lushun, but to build a city in Jinzhou."

Li Xingzhi pointed heavily to Jinzhou City, which was more than 100 miles away from Lushun.

"The marshal Gao Jian, Jinzhou controls southern Liaoning, and the left and right sides are the vast sea, if our army takes the sea route directly to Jinzhou Bay, then the Jiannu of Lushun is the turtle in our urn."

Zhang Wu, Shen Yongzhen, Pan Xuezhong, Ouyang Sheng and other Dongjiang army generals were all praised.

"You only know one thing, but you don't know the other, although Mr. Xu offered a plan to surrender, but Hong Tai is cunning and changeable, Shenyang is its fundamental place, how can you not take precautions? If you want to take Shenyang, you must annihilate the military horses left behind, if our army attacks southern Liaoning, how do you think Hong Tai will respond? ”

Huang Taiji likes to play the strategy of encircling the point to send reinforcements, then Li Xingzhi can also use his own way to control his people, the coastline of eastern Liaodong is long, and the remaining military horses of the eastern captives are attracted to southern Liaoning, so he can attack the hinterland of the eastern captives with a partial division.

"Mr. Wang, how many medicines and artillery can be mobilized from the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau, and has the equipment of the old base camp been installed?"

After deciding on Lushun, Jinzhou, and Nanguan as the advance bases for the Jingbei Army, Li Xingzhi looked at Wang Hui, ambassador of the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau.

"Li Shuai, at present, the manufacturing bureau has a gunpowder reserve of about 200,000 catties, and there are more than 6,000 medium-caliber and large-caliber arquebuses, which should be enough for the old base camp to use, but the number of artillery is insufficient, after all, two hundred and fifty artillery pieces have just been distributed to the five newly organized towns, and the gap in the water division town has just been completed, but the old base camp has not yet had time to build."

Wang Hui is also helpless, the speed of the clay mold method to build the cannon is too slow, just the dry clay mold will take a month, if you want to improve the progress, you must use the mold that can be used repeatedly, although the Ordnance Bureau is also in the iron mold for a long time, but the technical improvement, is not an overnight thing.

"Brother Li, 6,000 arquebuses are enough to equip the old base camp? If there is no artillery, what is the current strength of your army and horses? Do you need artillery? ”

In this attack on Liaodong, Li Xingzhi intended to go out from Li Rui's Department of the Third Town, the Huideng Department of the New Third Town, and Li Dingguo's old base camp, and the idea of avoiding the real and attacking the false.

"Dashuai, the main force of the Eastern Prisoners is in Jinzhou, and the end will be a partial division to enter Liaodong, the most important thing is to fight fast and slow, and hit the Eastern Prisoner by surprise, so there is no need to carry heavy weapons such as artillery, but light mortar cannons and 400 catties of small cannons are still needed, these two kinds of artillery you can equip the last general with fifty each, as for the arquebus, there are more than 1,000 pieces, and the rest can be equipped with strong crossbows."

Li Dingguo silently calculated it, that is, to tell the required weapons and equipment.

"Mortar? Has the Manufacturing Bureau ever been built? ”

Mortar is the Ming Dynasty army usually used the bowl mouth gun, in the early Ming Dynasty was widely used, as the name suggests, is the cannon with the size of the bowl mouth, the cannon fired is a stone projectile, is a firearm used to attack targets on the city wall.

Since the formation of the Jingbei Army, there has been no offensive battle, and Li Xingzhi has not taken the installation of this cannon to heart, after Li Dingguo mentioned it, Li Xingzhi looked at Wang Hui hesitantly.

"Li Shuai, the mortar cannon is not produced by our manufacturing bureau, but Ambassador Sun has made dozens of clay molds before, if it is rushed, this official estimates that it should be used by the army to conquer Liao."

Although Wang Hui is a weak scholar, he also has a feeling of serving the country, and the reason why he abandoned the scriptures and changed to the strange and obscene skills in the mouth of the literati doctor is also to hope that what he has learned can save the country.

In history, Wang Hui also refused to eat Liukou and Dongyu rice grain after Jiashen, and died of hunger strike.

Therefore, he strongly agreed with Li Xingzhi's plan to advance into Liaodong, and assured Li Xingzhi at the moment that the Manufacturing Bureau would definitely complete the task within the corresponding time.

"Okay, the Manufacturing Bureau must prepare all the weapons and medicines before going on the expedition, and send them to the Jiaoao Wharf to be loaded and ready to go on the expedition.

After making sure that there was no problem with the weapon, Li Xingzhi looked at Lei Deng's soldier Lu Liangzhi again.

The attack on Lushun, the construction of the Jinzhou Fortress, and the auxiliary troops needed for the army's expedition, as well as the Langzhong who accompanied the army, were naturally dealt with by the Leiden soldiers.

"Li Shuai, my Jingbei Army does not have an auxiliary army, the previous army operations were all requisitioned and issued by the people, and the soldiers basically relied on the people to wear armor and change their clothes, but the commander set the time of the battle in August, and the next official is afraid that the summer harvest will be delayed."