This time, Li Chaosheng looked for Song Yingxing in the hope that Song Yingxing could help study firearms, in fact, the firearms in Lantian County are already very powerful, especially after Li Chaosheng changed the gunpowder formula, the effect is even more amazing.

And what Li Chaosheng wanted Song Yingxing to help was to study the types of cannons, cannonballs, and the kind of grenades that Li Chaosheng wanted Song Yingxing to help study, the kind with wooden handles.

Theoretically speaking, the difficulty of the wooden-handled grenade is not difficult, after all, later generations can even imitate the earth-handled eight roads, and it is not a high-precision technology, and the drawings of the wooden-handled grenade Li Chaosheng were also found in the library, but the craftsmen of this dynasty can't understand it, so this technology has been stuck here.

Song Yingxing looked at Li Chaosheng when he heard this: "Lord County, you have given me too many tasks, I am a little busy now, the steam engine is enough for me to be busy, at most I will find time to help you study this grenade, as for improving the cannon, I really can't do this." ”

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng was a little disappointed, but he also understood that Song Yingxing was not a robot, although he was very powerful, he couldn't be distracted to do more things, and Li Chaosheng also felt that it was not good to be distracted.

However, Song Yingxing gave Li Chaosheng a suggestion.

"Lord Xianzun, when it comes to cannons, I think Westerners are more powerful, but I heard that a Western missionary named John Tang is very powerful in firearms and astronomy, so Xianzun might as well look for him."

Li Chaosheng patted his head when he heard this, how could he forget about this person.

John Tong, a German missionary of the Catholic Church of Jesus, came to China in 1620 and helped Emperor Chongzhen to revise the calendar, making great contributions to the most standard lunar timekeeping in China.

And then there is the artillery, which once worked with Xu Guangqi to transform the artillery of the Ming Dynasty, which caused great damage to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and also wrote the book "Fire Attack".

Thinking of this, Li Chaosheng thought a lot, he wants to devote himself to the hegemony of the ocean in the future, since he wants to dominate the ocean, at least he needs to invite some sailors, especially foreign sailors, the first is to learn navigation knowledge, and the second is to learn foreign languages, after all, robbing foreigners in the future, the language barrier is likely to affect the income.

Thinking about this, Li Chaosheng decided to ask Bai Shoumin to look for Tang Ruowang, and by the way, go to the coastal area to find some pirates, if not, catch some, it doesn't matter, Li Chaosheng doesn't have a good temper when it comes to these red-haired devils.

The Ming Han people like Corporal Lixian, because the Ming people are influenced by poetry, books, etiquette and music, and Confucian teachings are integrated into the blood and bones, and they are very hungry for this set, but foreigners, Ru Mao has drunk blood for so many years, and they believe that the winner is the king, and they only need to show their muscles.

Bai Shoumin's current spy agency is very powerful, with personnel all over the world, and with the telegraph that spans this era as a communication, he has completed the arrangement of the spy network throughout China.

In addition to buying some resources, the most of the money earned from Jiangnan over the years has been invested in espionage, and the spy organization can now spend Li Chaosheng 400,000 taels of silver a year.

However, Li Chaosheng did not feel sorry for this money, because the intelligence brought back by these spies every year was at least one million taels.

There are even some that simply cannot be measured in money.

Lantian Academy, which is the root system of Li Chaosheng's huge Lantian County, as Lantian Academy becomes more and more perfect, Li Chaosheng will gain a group of very loyal and capable subordinates, who will be the pillars of the future Lantian Academy.

Also in the process of the vigorous development of the academy, Li Chaosheng once again reorganized the troops, and the troops were optimized, the original 15,000 troops, Li Chaosheng once again carried out a more rigorous selection, and finally selected the best 12,000 of them.

These are all real elite soldiers, and these soldiers who have been screened out are not idle, and they were incorporated into the Lantian County government service team by Li Chaosheng, Lantian County now has four county areas, and these areas need many times more government service than in the past, and the government service, Li Chaosheng also hopes to be the most professional, and these veterans are a good choice.

The establishment of the Lantian County government service team, in charge of the arrest of robbers, thieves, and all kinds of murderers in Lantian County, and the stabilization of the place, this action was called by Li Chaosheng to sweep away the evil and exterminate the local gangster forces.

Although these 3,000 are not very powerful in the most elite soldiers, but in the place, it is really a person who can fight seven or eight, and these 3,000 officials fight ruffians and bandits in the local area, that is really easy to capture, and the most powerful record was a team of government officers, ten people, and killed a hundred bandits entrenched on the Chicken Neck Mountain.

You can imagine how strong the combat power is.

However, the troops were reorganized and the number of people was small, and the generals who led the army were very unhappy, but Li Chaosheng did not comfort them at the first time, but found the best group of people from the latest batch of students who graduated from the academy, sent them to serve as a secretary with the army, and by the way, served as a political commissar to carry out high-intensity ideological transformation for the army.

At the same time, Li Chaosheng established the National Salvation Party in the army, and determined that the main guiding ideology was to save the country and love the people, and the party with Li Chaosheng as the supreme leader was formed for the first time in the Lantian Army.

This is of great cross-era significance, Li Chaosheng told every soldier through the political party that the purpose of the existence of the Lantian Army is to save the country and the people and protect the fruits of his victory.

When this idea was spread throughout the army, the soldiers in the army, who had been forcibly taught to read and write, began to understand the meaning of their own fighting, and at the same time, the National Salvation Party also expanded within the government team and the militia group, and Li Chaosheng began the process of ideological rule in Lantian.

After ensuring that the people of Lantian were well fed and drunk, Li Chaosheng began to strengthen the ideological unity of the people.

After the transformation of the army, Li Chaosheng inspected the gunpowder factory in Lantian, which was the most important military institution in Lantian and was guarded by soldiers, and there were many workers here, but they were all veterans, and they were all arranged to make new gunpowder here.

It can produce about 500 catties of gunpowder every day, which is enough to equip all the firearms troops of Li Chaosheng at present.

Li Chaosheng's current troops have been reorganized, half of the cold weapons troops, ordinary thermal weapons units, and Shi Xiaolei's firearms battalion has reached more than 2,000 people, which can be regarded as the most elite troops under Li Chaosheng.

Equipped with the latest flintlock pistol, it can be said that it has a strong combat effectiveness, and Li Chaosheng now has an artillery team with 20 guns in his hand, equipped with a Lantian cannon with a longer range and faster rate of fire.

This kind of cannon is an organic combination of the red-coated cannon and the Franco cannon, which obtains the characteristics of two kinds of cannon with great power and long range, and can be regarded as a sharp weapon for attacking the city.

In addition, Li Chaosheng also has a cavalry unit of 600 people, and the cavalry unit is all equipped with two weapons, one is Li Chaosheng's compound bow, and the other is the short-handled firearm that Li Chaosheng studied with the firearms workshop, which has a range of only 50 meters, but the power is very good, and it can be used as an emergency device.

In addition to these, Li Chaosheng also interspersed a large number of flintlock muskeil soldiers in Li Chaolong's troops, and the ratio of flintlock muskeil soldiers to cold weapon soldiers almost reached one to two, but cold weapons still had an advantage, mainly because the flintlock pistol of this era had a huge drawback.

Afraid of rain.

That's right, the current gunpowder is still ignited, if it catches up with the rainy day, the light rain is okay, but the rain is a little heavier, then the calf will be finished, and the combat effectiveness of the troops will be directly reduced by half.

So in this era, all firearms are not feasible, mainly because they are afraid of rain, although Li Chaosheng studied with the people in the firearms workshop, and finally researched that the gunpowder wrapped in oiled paper can not affect the shooting on a light rainy day, but the effect is also very average, unless Li Chaosheng can invent the modern cartridge casing method of delivery, and invent a firearm like a revolver in advance, but Li Chaosheng can't do it now.

Therefore, cold weapons still can't be put down, or recruited as the main troop, when fighting in peacetime, cold weapons guard against the opponent's spurs, and muskets can be used for intensive shooting in the back row.

This is the way Li Chaosheng's troops are fighting now, I have to say that they are absolutely ahead of the current battlefield of the Ming Dynasty, and 12,000 people is not a burden for the now rich Lantian County.

However, the only thing that displeased Li Chaosheng was that there were too few cavalry as a mobile force, only 600 people, which may be that the requirements of the cavalry unit were too high, and the second reason for restricting the development of cavalry was that there were too few war horses.

Now there are a lot of mules used to consign goods in Lantian County, but there are very few horses, the main reason is that Lantian does not have its own horse farm, and cannot raise horses, so if you want good war horses, you can only go to the Mongolian steppe to find them.

But now the Manchu Qing Dynasty's power in the Mongolian steppe has been entrenched, and it has controlled the horse trafficking channels, resulting in Li Chaosheng can't buy it if he wants to spend money, not only Li Chaosheng, but even the Ming Dynasty can't buy Mongolian horses, so Li Chaosheng found Hong Chengchou, Hong Chengchou said that he had no choice, and it also brought Li Chaosheng an extremely bad news.

Huang Taiji since the Ming Dynasty came back, began to use troops against Mongolia, the Mongolian leader Lin Dan Khan is obviously not the opponent of Huang Taiji, it will not take long to be defeated, if Lin Dan Khan is defeated, Huang Taiji seizes the naturalization city, then Mongolia will completely become Jiannu's subordinates, when the Mongolian Jiannu combined forces, it will form a fatal threat to the Ming Dynasty.

Li Chaosheng doesn't care if it is a fatal threat to the Ming Dynasty, what Li Chaosheng cares about is not to pose a threat to Lantian, if the Manchu Qing Dynasty occupies Mongolia, especially the naturalized city, there will be long-distance supply land, and then the Bingfeng can easily spread to Zhangjiakou, and even the border of Yulin, Shaanxi.

Therefore, this naturalized city cannot be snatched away by Jiannu, otherwise it will lose its strategic opportunity, and at the same time, it will also lose an important place to raise horses.

You must know that before the car came out, horses had an irreplaceable position in the war, and even in the War of Resistance Against Japan, horses were also the main strategic materials, think about how excited Li Yunlong was when he saw a cavalry battalion, and he knew the importance of horses.

Li Chaosheng thought about returning to his study and began to flip through the materials, about Naturalization City.

The data shows that Guihua City is now the old city of NMGHHHT City, the geographical location is very important, it is surrounded by the Yinshan Mountains in the north, the Yellow River in the south, and the EEDS Plateau across the river, the Manghan Mountain in the east, and the Hetao Plain in the west.

Li Chaosheng looked very excited, if this place is obtained, his power in the north will be enough to deter the world, and when the time comes, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Qinghai and other places will be in his pocket.

At this moment, Li Chaosheng wanted this naturalization city, and if he wanted the naturalization city, he couldn't avoid a fight with the Manchu Tartars, thinking of this, Li Chaosheng's eyes sharpened.

It seems that it is impossible to avoid war, and since you want to fight, the army will have to be expanded.

However, he still has plenty of time for the expansion of the army, because at present, this naturalized city is still in the hands of the Mongolian Han Lin Dan Khan, but next year, that is, in 1632, Huang Taiji will defeat Lin Dan Khan, chase to the city of Guihua, set fire to the city, and then Huang Taiji thinks that the geographical location of this city is very good, and rebuilds the city of Guihua on the ruins.

This is a good opportunity to go to the Naturalization City to pick up sand, thinking of this, Li Chaosheng made a plan, since the Naturalization City is about to be burned, he can't stop it, but Huang Taiji wants to rebuild, Li Chaosheng can take the opportunity to immigrate to the Naturalization City, and when the water is ready, he will take the Naturalization City, so that he can get a place to raise horses.

Along the way, slowly regain the Hetao Plain.

Thinking of this, Li Chaosheng began to make a plan, but the Long March of 10,000 miles also came out step by step, and it was impossible for people to eat a fat man in one bite, so Li Chaosheng decided to organize two groups of people to enter Mongolia first.

The first wave was caravans, and the second was horse thieves.

The caravans sold fine ceramics, salt, iron pots, tea and other items to the Mongols in exchange for cattle, sheep, and horses, while horse thieves needed to plunder the Mongolian steppes and even lead an uprising.

You must know that the Mongolian steppe is not a place without oppression, on the contrary, the oppression there is not less than that of the Central Plains, the oppression of the Central Plains is the land, and the Mongolian oppression is cattle and sheep, and it is a fertile pasture.

Li Chaosheng felt that he could let people do what Li Zicheng had done on the grassland, and the Central Plains was the king of Chuang who came and did not pay for food, so our slogan was: "Push to the Mongolian princes and divide the fattest pastures equally!" ”

After the plan was made, the person who followed Li Chaosheng to start planning and implementing the plan, after some screening, Wang Guixiang grabbed the position of horse thief, and he, the commander of the cavalry battalion, was still very suitable as a horse thief.

At the very least, Wang Guixiang said that his cavalry troops, even if they fought one-on-one with the Tartars, could kill the Tartars with few casualties, because they were better equipped than the Tartars.

However, this caravan candidate, Li Chaosheng made a difficulty, this needs a thoughtful person, and almost all of his army are dead-eyed guys, who should he send?