I met Zuo Guang first when I was in the Guannei, and I had several encounters.

And when Hezu Dabi was in Liaodong outside the Guan, and when Chongzhen was in the seventh year, the Houjin army destroyed the entrance of the Great Wall and invaded Datong.

At that time, Cao Wenzhao led the troops out of the city to fight with the Houjin soldiers, and Zu Dabi was also in Datong at that time, and he also led the troops out of the battle together, so Chen Wang still had an impression.

"I've seen General Soldier Zuo, Chief Bing Zu."

Chen Wang, Cao Wenzhao, and He Renlong finished the salute, stepped forward a little, and bowed again with their fists cupped.

Although I don't know why Zuo Guangxian and Zu Dabi came with Cao Wenzhao, there is always nothing wrong with etiquette in place.

"I remember."

Zuo Guangxian also hugged his fists and saluted back, but Zu Dabi grinned and laughed.

"At the time of Datong."

Zu Dabi smiled, and the gentle temperament on his body disappeared in an instant, and the peaceful color disappeared.

There was a fierce light in his eyes, and he looked like he was full of fighting spirit, as if he was eager to try.

"It's really an honor for Mr. Zu to be able to remember his subordinates."

Chen Wang thought that Zu Dabi didn't know him, after all, he was just a family member at that time.

"Twenty teams went out of the city, fifteen teams returned to the city, and fourteen teams did not have any merit, and the men and horses were injured."

"Only one team brought back hundreds of people when they came back, and they took back the thirteenth-level head, you are the leader of the team, how can I not remember."

At the beginning, after the Houjin entered the Kou, they were scattered and plundered, so Cao Wenzhao and Zu Dabi also made countermeasures, sending elite cavalry and family members out of the city to kill the scattered Houjin soldiers.

However, most of the cavalry sent out returned in vain, and only when a team of cavalry returned, they saved more than 100 people, and even took the heads of thirteen Houjin soldiers, which caused a sensation in the city for a while.

Zu Dabi was originally a little familiar when he heard Chen Wang's name, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it.

Now when I see Chen Wang, I instantly recall what happened in Datong.

Zuo Guangxian's eyes flickered, and his eyes couldn't help but change slightly when he looked at Chen Wang.

After all, the Jiannu in the north and the Liukou in the Guannai are completely different things, and the combat power of the two is very different, not the same thing.

When he met Chen Wang, he was basically in Hong Chengchou's military tent, and the deepest memory was when Chen Wang first met Hong Chengchou.

Chen Wangxian, Li Yangchun, and Lin Shengquan were in front of the tent, and they were unstoppable.

At that time, I only heard that Chen Wang's training was very good, and he was able to do his best.

Zuo Guangxian also saw the cavalry that came with Chen Wang at that time, and those cavalry were indeed more sharp than the ordinary cavalry of the Shaanxi Army, and the ferocity on their bodies was also more obvious.

After a simple greeting, Chen Wang followed Cao Wenzhao to get on the horse again, and then walked all the way to the side of the camp, and at the same time figured out why Zuo Guangxian and Zu Dabi followed.

The Beijing division is in an emergency, and the time limit for gathering troops in Tongguan is only one day, and the day after tomorrow it will pull out the camp and go north.

When he led the troops over, the military discussion had just ended, and several people were together, so they came with Cao Wenzhao.

For a deeper reason, Chen Wang also guessed a little.

This time, the Qing army entered the entrance, and the night did not collect returns, and the Qing soldiers gathered more than 100,000 troops, and swept all the way south along the gap in the Great Wall.

The combat strength of the Qing army is far superior to that of the Liukou, and there is no chance of winning when it meets its brigade alone, even if it is combined to resist the enemy, the chance of victory is slim.

At this time, it is even more necessary to cooperate sincerely, and no one wants to be stabbed by an ally behind them when fighting.

Cao Wenzhao, He Renlong, Zuo Guangxian, and Zu Dabi are all general soldiers, and the relationship between the four is not bad.

Cao Wenzhao was modest, sociable, and good at fighting, so there were many people who were good friends with him.

Cao Wenzhao and He Renlong, Zuo Guangxian, and Zu Dabi are all old acquaintances.

He Renlong and Zuo Guang first had a friendship with Kou in Shaanxi, and Zu Dabi had already known each other when he was in Liaodong.

The reason why the four of them are together now should be that they have agreed to attack and defend each other.

Soon, the conversation between several people also completely confirmed Chen Wang's thoughts.

This time, the main force of the northern reinforcement of the Beijing Division was the troops of the three towns of Yansui, Guyuan, and Ningxia.

Cao Wenzhao and others discussed how to deal with the Qing army, and they had already begun to assign tasks to each other.

Zuo Guang first raised his eyes and looked at the soldiers who were marching on the official road not far away.

"I heard that Vice General Chen has trained his troops well, but he has never been able to see it, but it is true that he saw it today."

Everyone saw Zuo Guangxian's gaze on the official road, and their attention couldn't help but be scattered.

Zuo Guangxian's gaze floated left and right, and there were basically no ordinary people who could serve as the chief soldier of a town in the nine-sided important town, and his eyes were naturally vicious.

On the road, a group of soldiers of the Hanzhong Army who were entering the camp lined up in a strict queue and walked in a coordinated manner.

Dozens or hundreds of people walked almost in unison, with solemn military appearance and murderous aura.

Zu Dabi looked at the Hanzhong army on the march, and a trace of displeasure flashed in the depths of his eyes.

Chen Wang is not a nobody in Shaanxi now, basically as long as the officers and soldiers in Shaanxi know that Hong Chengchou gave Chen Wang comments.

At the beginning, Chen Wangchu was famous for being good at military training, and he took Qi Jun's military training method.

The Qi army was the southern army, and the contradictions between the northern and southern armies had always existed, reaching their maximum in the Wanli period.

Although the contradictions have been eliminated a lot, there are still remnants.

Zu Dabi was naturally quite uncomfortable in his heart, but he only frowned slightly and didn't say anything else.

Although Chen Wang used the method of southern soldiers for military training, Chen Wang was born in Liaodong and was a close confidant of Cao Wenzhao, and the cavalry of his family were all Liao cavalry.

"These soldiers under your command are carrying bird guns on their backs?"

Cao Wenzhao's attention was not on the marching soldiers on the official road at first, because Zuo Guangxian's actions noticed something different.

He saw that many of the soldiers under Chen Wang's command seemed to be carrying something, like birds.

However, the bird is usually leaning on the shoulder, not behind the back.

And the strange gun is longer than the ordinary bird, and the appearance is quite strange.

"Returning to the generals, what they are carrying on their backs is a newly made gun in the Hanzhong Guard Weapons Bureau, called 'Sea Oath', which is an improved fire gun from the bird gun."

"Improvements?"

Cao Wenzhao looked at the strange-looking firearms on the backs of those soldiers with some curiosity.

He knows a lot about Han Zhongwei, Chen Wang has now removed the position of deputy chief soldier of the town guard, and he is still the commander of Han Zhongwei.

Originally, according to common sense, as the deputy commander-in-chief, Chen Wang had to be awarded the official position of the governor's mansion, and a small guard commander knew that the status of the deputy commander-in-chief was too low.

However, this matter is something that Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting acquiesced to.

Hanzhong Mansion has a special geographical location, or the domain of King Rui, at that time, Hanzhong Mansion was surrounded by wolves, and it was extraordinary to do extraordinary things, so that Chen Wang rectified Hanzhongwei.

Chen Wang was also very measured, only divided part of the jurisdiction of Han Zhongwei, and recruited displaced people to rebuild the two thousand households destroyed in the north, which Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting knew.

It is not a secret that the Hanzhong Guard Armament Bureau is also under Chen Wang's control.

Chen Wang glanced at Hu Zhili, who was following him, and explained.

"Except for the cavalry, most of the soldiers under the command of the last general are elite cavalry from Liaodong, and the rest of the soldiers are basically recruited from the homeless people, mostly from Hanzhong and Qingyang."

"There are quite a few people who can ride horses, but not many can use crossbows."

"If you train from scratch, I'm afraid that it will take at least another year and a half of hard work to be able to barely pull into the battlefield, so most of the foot soldiers in the army are equipped with firearms."

Archers are difficult to train, and a qualified foot archer must be trained for at least years before he can play a role on the battlefield.

This is not the case with firecrackers, who only need to practice for less than half a month to learn how to fill and change medicines.

The firearm is not like a bow and arrow, as long as it is raised, it can be aimed at the enemy by illuminating the door and the crosshair.

A stool that has been trained for several months can play a significant role on the battlefield.

When Chen Wang explained, Hu Zhili comprehended that he would come out of the crowd and call out a soldier with a firearm on his back from the queue.

"These firecrackers are all produced by the Hanzhong Guard Ordnance Bureau, and the firecrackers of the Ministry of Industry are really unbearable, so after the last general took over the Ordnance Bureau, he began to rectify it."

"Now these firecrackers are quite sufficient, and you can find craftsmen according to the engraving on the weapons, and they basically won't blow up."

Cao Wenzhao's first feeling after receiving the sea oath gun was that it was heavy, much heavier than the ordinary bird gun, and there was an extra butt, and it seemed to be a lot more beautiful.

Cao Wenzhao was not surprised by Chen Wang's large-scale popularization of bird guns in the army.

He has read "The New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness" and "The Actual Record of Military Training", and knows Qi Jiguang's evaluation and respect for the bird.

But the blame was that he didn't see a place for the arquebus on the bird's gun.

"The sea oath does not use a fire rope, but uses the ignition method of a self-generated fire gun, using flint to make fire."

"Self-generated firebolts?"

Cao Wenzhao's mind turned, he was a little familiar, but for a while he couldn't remember where he had heard it.

However, he understood the flint fire, and not only did he understand, but he also knew the benefits of abandoning the fire rope and replacing it with flint.

"If you use flint to start the fire, the speed of the gun should be much faster than that of the fire rope."

The sea oath was passed in the hands of He Renlong, Zuo Guangxian, and Zu Dabi.

Several of them are general soldiers, and their understanding of these weapons is not much worse than that of ordinary craftsmen, although the border army is mainly equipped with three-eyed guns, but there are not a few people who use bird guns.

Replacing the arquebus with flint fire will undoubtedly leave a lot of reload time.

"This gun should be popularized throughout the army."

Cao Wenzhao's face was solemn, and in a short period of time, he had already made a decision in his heart.

He felt that if the fire bolts caused by the fire ropes in the generals were replaced with flint firecrackers, the combat power would definitely be much higher.

"General Rong."

Chen Wang's heart moved slightly and said.

"Although flint fire is more advanced than fire rope, the fire rate is not high, and now it is only sixty percent."

The actual fire rate is more than seventy percent, but Chen Wang naturally wants to say it a little lower.

"Moreover, even if this gun is promoted to the whole army, I'm afraid that not many people will use it......"

Chen Wang didn't finish his words, but Cao Wenzhao already understood the meaning inside.

Not many people dare to use the bird guns produced by the Ministry of Industry and the Ordnance Bureaus in various places, and they have to pick and choose when they take them, so the explosion rate is still not low.

Many of the soldiers in the army were disfigured and wounded because of this.

"I was impulsive."

Cao Wenzhao was a little helpless, he knew that Chen Wang was telling the truth.

The bird gun is indeed sharp, but most of the guns produced by the Ministry of Industry and military equipment are cutting corners, and the quality is worrying, and no one dares to use it.

This sea oath is made, and it is just the same fate as the bird's gun.

"I have already given this gun to the governor and the military gate, the Hanzhong Guard Ordnance Bureau, every month will make a batch of sea oath guns, sent to Xi'an Mansion, the general and a few general soldiers can request transfer, with the identity of the general and several general soldiers to ask for some guns."

Chen Wang didn't intend to hide the matter of the sea oath, because as long as he used it, it was impossible to hide it, so it was better to simply report his existence directly to Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou, so that they would be suspicious.

"Let's not talk about the gun for the time being, I see a lot of artillery pulled into the barracks, you ...... these guns"

Cao Wenzhao put down the sea oath in his hand, handed it back to Chen Gong, and continued to ask.

In between conversations, after every round or two, one could see a small cannon dragged by two horses, and a cannon with a larger barrel in the back, dragged forward by four horses.

Cao Wenzhao knew that those artillery mounts were invented by Chen Wang in the early years, but those artillery guns, when he was in Luoyang before, he had not seen Chen Wangyou.

In addition to the Francophone and Tiger Squat Cannon, the artillery in Chen Wang's army at the beginning was only eight bronze hairs.

Cao Wenzhao knew the source of the eight bronze hairs, and now these cannons in Chen Wang's army really don't know where they came from.

"It is also a product of the Ordnance Bureau, there are craftsmen who can make cannons in the Hanzhong Wei Ordnance Bureau, and the general knows that I have been tinkering with artillery since I suffered the loss of artillery in Hutou Town, so I let people cast artillery."

Chen Wang did not hand over all the large-scale casting of artillery, some things should be said, some things should not be said, Chen Wang is now measured.

"Some of these guns were newly minted, and some were captured."

The artillery in the army is basically camouflaged, painted on the outside, and said to be iron cannons to the outside world.

After repeated consideration, Chen Wang brought a total of twenty bronze three-catty cannons and four five-catty cannons, for a total of twenty-four.

The weight of the three-kilogram cannon is about 470 catties, and the weight of the five-catty cannon is about 750 catties.

This weight is not heavy, and many of the copper hairs in the army exceeded 1,000 catties.

Therefore, more than 20 artillery pieces are not too eye-catching, but Cao Wenzhao still keenly noticed them.

The tiger squat cannon played little role in the face of the Qing army equipped with heavy armor, and it brought relatively few, basically only three guns per game.

There has not been much replenishment of the Franc cannon, so Chen Wang simply canceled it all later.

Reducing the variety of weapons in the military is conducive to alleviating the pressure on logistics.

"I've come from afar, let's go rest today, and we'll get together tomorrow."

Cao Wenzhao did not pay too much attention to the issue of artillery, but changed the topic, and now is not the time to talk about these things.

"This time the road to the north is thousands of miles away, the road is difficult and difficult, and fighting against Jiannu is different from fighting with Liukou, you have fought with Jiannu for many years, you should know how powerful they are."

"The war situation in the north is deteriorating, Jiannu has entered the Beijing division some time ago, but instead of attacking the city, it continues to ...... south"

"This time, I am afraid that the Jiannu army will go deeper, and the governor has an order, and the camp will be pulled out and headed north early the day after tomorrow."

(End of chapter)