The next day, Su Yan woke up in the side room of the Zhangguo Mansion, he rubbed his still somewhat swollen head, got dressed, pushed open the door, and walked out.

As soon as he took a step, a slave and maid walked up quickly, gave a salute, and said, "General Su, do you want to wash?" ”

Su Yan nodded, and the slave continued: "The toiletries have been prepared for you, please let the slave and maid serve you to wash." ”

Su Yan did not refuse, so he simply cleaned it under the service of the slave maid, the toothbrush he used to brush his teeth was still made of pig sideburns, and he brushed the upper and lower rows of teeth with a little coarse salt on it, before he took a mouthful of water and spit it in the small spittoon held by the slave and maid.

While being served, Su Yan thought that he would buy a few slaves when he returned to Quanzhou, he had always done it himself since he entered Quanzhou, and there were no other servants in the Admiral's Mansion except for the kitchen, and he usually wore armor with the help of the guards.

So much so that Chen Qiao said more than once that he was too frugal, even if he was a Qing official like Hai Rui, he would have a few slaves at home, on the other hand, Su Yan, as the master of a mansion, had no other subordinates except for the necessary cooks.

Traveling to ancient times, only concentrating on your career and not enjoying it, isn't that equivalent to traveling in vain?

Thinking in his heart, after some washing, Su Yan came to the dining room with the slave maid, and saw Zhu Chenggong who was eating in the dining room.

"Anguo, you came just in time, I just happened to have something to look for you." Zhu Chenggong said.

"What?"

Su Yan asked, he sat opposite Zhu Chenggong and took the gruel that his subordinates put in front of him.

"Yesterday you said that when Jin Li's army went south, I claimed to be assisting you and secretly went south to attack Zhangzhou Mansion. Anguo, the Jin Li army is menacing, and the combat effectiveness of the Han army under its command with red flags should not be underestimated, and there are many firearms in the army, I am very worried. Zhu Chenggong said worriedly.

"Big brother, Jin Lijun, you don't need to worry, the kid is confident that he can deal with this crisis, but you, the capture of Zhangzhou Mansion should be fast, and you will launch an attack before the Qing army notices." Su Yan said, "The kid should have sent troops to help you recover Zhangzhou, but the enemy is now, please forgive the kid for breaking his word." ”

"Putting aside the crime of breaking your word for the time being, Anguo, although you have not tasted a single defeat since the start of the army, the Eight Banners Army is not comparable to ordinary green battalion soldiers, don't underestimate the enemy, so that the results of the battle in a few months will be lost!" Zhu Chenggong persuaded.

Hearing this, Su Yan was also a little helpless, he knew that Zhu Chenggong was worried about himself, but this worry was completely unnecessary.

In fact, according to Zhu Chenggong's character, if Su Yan was his general, he would have removed Su Yan from his position in anger and demoted him to a big soldier, but Su Yan is now at most his quasi-ally, and before the latter marries his sister, he can't really call himself an elder, in case it causes Su Yan's dissatisfaction, it is really a relative and an enemy.

Therefore, Zhu Chenggong could only temporarily suppress the dissatisfaction with Su Yan in his heart, Su Yan saw some clues from his expression, thought about it, and said: "Big brother, do you know what the Qing army fears the most in the kid army?" ”

"What?"

"Firearms, flintlock firearms that can pierce armor within two hundred paces." Su Yan replied: "The flintlock guns equipped by our army can penetrate the armor and shoot the enemy within two hundred meters, and the power, rate of fire, and accuracy are not comparable to the bird guns.

In addition, when our non-commissioned officers release their guns, they can line up in dense queues to improve their shooting accuracy, without worrying about the fire rope igniting the gunpowder on the comrades on their sides. ”

Zhu Chenggong nodded, he had also heard this from the spies, and he said: "I already know this, but although these firearms are sharp, they are few in number, and they cannot form a scale, nor can they become a sharp weapon on the battlefield. ”

This is also a problem for Su Yan at present, although the rifles in his hands are more advanced than the Qing army, but they all rely on the production of light weapons arsenals, only those 400 per month, and only 1600 have been produced so far, and the recruitment of militia, line infantry and replenishment of rifles damaged in the battle need to be consumed a lot, so there are only more than 300 rifles left.

Even with these more than 300 rifles, Su Yan didn't dare to equip all the soldiers at once, and the rifles damaged in the battle also needed to be replenished or repaired, which had to be obtained from this last inventory, otherwise the line infantry would only be equipped with captured birds.

Wait a minute......

Su Yan's head suddenly opened up, all the arms that use flintlock rifles need to obtain weapons from the inventory, and there is no mandatory provision that they can only be equipped with rifles produced in the arsenal, and now the militia in various counties do not need to participate in the battle, and it is a waste to keep the rifles in their hands, why not put those rifles away and replace them with the captured bird guns, so that he also has hundreds of more rifles to equip the recruits.

Thinking of this, Su Yan couldn't help but applaud his cleverness in his heart - he was simply smart!

Zhu Chenggong didn't know that Su Yan had thought so much in just a few seconds, he recalled Su Yan's words just now, and suddenly had a guess in his heart, and asked hesitantly: "An Guo, do you want to say that this kind of firearm is the confidence that you can defeat Jin Li?" ”

"It's just one of them." Su Yan smiled and replied, "The second is the Cheying tactics. ”

"Che Ying?" Zhu Chenggong was surprised.

Che battalion, in the Ming army is not unfamiliar, the Ming army has always used the tactics of the car battalion to meet the cavalry, such as the battle of Changshan in the fourth year of Chongzhen, the Ming army used the car battalion to resist the charge of the Houjin cavalry, and the car battalion of the general soldier Song Wei could even repel the Houjin cavalry, resulting in chaos, until Huang Taiji personally went into battle to let the chaotic cavalry collect the troops.

"That's right, it's the car camp." Su Yan nodded and said, "I am going to line up with the camp and fight with Jin Li on the north bank of Xianyou Fengcixi in a defensive position, Jin Li wants to attack Quanzhou, which is the only road that can be passed by a large army, If he wants to enter Quanzhou, he can only defeat me on the north bank of Fengcixi first." ”

"Last stand!"

Zhu Chenggong couldn't help but think of this allusion in his mind, what is the difference between Su Yan and Xiang Yu in the allusion, they are both facing a powerful enemy, with their backs to the river array, and there is no way out.

"In addition, the decisive battle site I chose is not far from Meizhou Bay, and our naval division can also provide artillery support to the land from the sea." Su Yan continued.

Zhu Chenggong nodded, he thought of another question, and said: "It's just that the Qing army has a lot of guns, if you bombard with guns before attacking and destroy the car formation, how should you deal with it?" ”

"Naturally, it is to dig a trench in front of the car camp, this trench can accommodate the soldiers to fight, the soldiers of the Qing army enter the trench to take shelter before the shelling, if the vehicle array is destroyed after the shelling, then rely on the trench camp, if the vehicle formation is intact, you can divide the troops into the trench and the car array for defense."

Zhu Chenggong didn't have anything to say anymore, he nodded, and said, "Since you have been prepared, then I won't say more, if you need help, send someone to the Zhongzuo Institute." ”

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