Before going to Weihai, Xiao Ming first had to organize people to unload all kinds of materials brought to the Ryukyus from the ship, in fact, from Hangzhou now, there are basically merchant ships arriving at Shuri Port every day, unless it is in bad weather, this kind of flight will stop for a day or two, and many equipment in the Ryukyu base can be transported by merchant ships.

But this time the goods to be transported are more special, so that several craftsmen of the Mo family also came over, it is a set of distillation vessels in Ding Jianpeng's experimental equipment, and now because of the addition of a steam boiler, it is very complicated, and the reason why Ding Jianpeng needs this equipment is that he wants to carry out a set of important work in the Ryukyus.

To put it bluntly, it is the work of separating kerosene, and kerosene, as an important energy source and fuel, is an indispensable thing for Xiao Ming's development, and kerosene is currently relatively scarce on China's main road, while Ryukyu can bring in a lot of kerosene from Sumatra, that is, oil, and kerosene is obtained by fractionation of oil.

If he could obtain kerosene products in large quantities, Xiao Ming believed that it would bring a lot of changes to the whole world again, so he was very supportive of Ding Jianpeng's experiment, and sent many craftsmen to join it, and the current Hangzhou chemical laboratory was supported by Wei Yu, and Ding Jianpeng spent a large part of his time in the laboratory in the Ryukyus.

Although Xiao Ming came to accompany his family, he didn't spend much time at home in total, while Zhao Fujin was accompanied by Gu Xiaoliu to play happily throughout the islands, except for the gentleness and grace shown in front of Xiao Ming's three ladies when he went home, once she went out, she seemed to have regained her happy nature as a girl.

Xiao Ming arranged things at home, said goodbye to his wife and children and prepared to go on the road, Zhao Fujin was going to go together, but when he heard that he was going back to the mainland, he didn't want to go with him, how could there be islands in the mainland, she just hoped that Xiao Ming could come back as soon as possible, and gave Xiao Ming an embroidery for a scarf.

For this princess, the three ladies already know the hidden secret, to be honest, the behavior of giving up glory and wealth and being willing to wander the rivers and lakes with Xiao Ming does make the three ladies admire, and in the process of getting along, they also found that Zhao Fujin has a very good royal upbringing and etiquette, which even Bing'er can't compare.

Zhao Fujin seems to be able to please the three ladies, and she screamed "sister" one by one, which made Shen Bei'er very happy, and she was also the first to give up the kind of defensiveness of a woman to Zhao Fujin, which shows that the lord of Fumao still has his own charm.

Xiao Ming's warship soon left Shuri Port and sailed for the Weihai base, where it was Han Shizhong who was waiting for him, and now Han Shizhong had taken his wife and son to Weihai, not because he was unwilling to settle down in Hangzhou, but because Liang Hongyu, the wife of Xuxian, advised him to stay away from the imperial court.

But Han Shizhong is eating the imperial court after all, as the envoy of Wusheng and Zhaoqing, the official can't help but listen to the call of the imperial court, but Han Shizhong is really not called by the imperial court, he only listens to Xiao Ming's call alone, and now Han Shizhong, who has a heavy army, is basically the supreme commander of the Weihai base.

Today's Weihai City has basically formed a very strict city under the management of Wu Yong, the city has developed commerce and trade, and there are many craftsmen engaged in various handicrafts, and Weihai is the second largest shipbuilding base among all the bases of Xiao Ming, of course, after the destruction of the Liaodong base.

Due to the fall of the two roads in Hebei, many people and rebels also ran to the Shandong border of Jingdong East Road, which made the population of the entire Shandong grow rapidly in a short period of time, which also provided more talents from all walks of life for the Weihai base, of course, the most important thing is that after Han Shizhong incorporated nearly 30,000 rebels, nearly 20,000 people were selected from them!

With the arrival of Xiao Ming, and the distribution of nearly 20,000 rifles on the ship, a real Northern Expeditionary Army has been formed, plus Han Shizhong's more than 10,000 tiger divisions, Xiao Ming's actual military strength has reached nearly 60,000!

This is Xiao Ming's real strength embodiment, he required the entire Guards Northern Expeditionary Army to complete the training within three months, in March of the following year, the ice of the Bohai Sea melted, and he officially entered Liaodong to prepare for his second Northern Expedition in the true sense, but this could not be what he could do in the Great Song Dynasty as a militaristic peace.

So in this winter, the training of the Weihai base was in full swing, because of the good military quality of the Tiger Guards as an example, coupled with experienced instructors, the soldiers bid farewell to the weapons of broadswords, spears, bows and arrows, and all used the rifles of this projectile weapon, and they called it "Thunder and Fire!" ”

The instructor's reiteration is that this is the Taiping II rifle! But the soldiers always felt that "guns!" "This weapon should always be that long weapon, and the projectile weapon in your hand is called "Thunder Fire!" The elongated Taiping rifle of the same caliber being produced by the arsenal has been named by Xiao Ming: "Sansan Style" because this gun will not be officially equipped with the army until 1133.

The Song people always like to give people or objects some nicknames, such as Xiao Ming's red-eyebrow god nickname has not been called for a long time, but they are still reluctant to use simple names for weapons, such as that kind of mortar, they are nicknamed "mountain thunder!" And the infantry artillery is called "Little Thunderhammer" because of its small size! The grenade is even called: "Palm Thunder!" ”

The training of the soldiers is very hard, as the experience of training the Royal Guards in Hangzhou, Xiao Ming does not let these men who were farmers and small merchants a few months ago have a minute of leisure, the training is full, these soldiers are very tired from tossing, and they almost sleep to death at night as soon as their heads hit the pillow.

It is not so easy to build a qualified armed army in a short period of time, the queue is to train the soldiers to follow the order and act consistently, and the daily morning carrying 20 pounds around Weihai City to run circles is to train the troops to march quickly, in addition to fighting and shooting, shooting training is essential.

In addition, the military camp singing is also used as a means of training, the Tiger Guards and Han Shizhong's Tiger Division often participate in the New Army's singing competitions, which is to cultivate the soldiers' sense of collective honor, and now the types of songs have also increased greatly, Xiao Ming is still there, and deliberately used Yue Fei's new "Man Jianghong" as the new military song of the Guards to let everyone roar loudly!

The base in Weihai City has almost become a landscape, and many ordinary people will go to the vicinity of the barracks to see the training of the new army, listen to their absurd singing, listen to their shouts and killings during training, and there is the shooting training that attracts them the most.

Xiao Ming even pulled them to the seashore and set targets on the sea to train the soldiers to shoot with the fluctuation of the sea, after all, shooting stationary targets is too simple compared to shaking targets.

This army has formed combat effectiveness in just over two months, because the progress of the arsenal is not high, so the artillery equipment of this army is not too sufficient, but grenades and mortars can still be equipped, and finally Xiao Ming made a concentration of all the current artillery, and set up an artillery regiment, of course, the head of the regiment is naturally the money is gone!

To be honest, Qian Baguang is really fond of and proficient in artillery, and the gunners trained by him have good performance, but this guy still likes to operate the cannon shirtless and himself, which makes him as enjoyable and excited as drinking.

Most of the merchant ships belonging to Weihai City are the ships of Richanglong, the large sail-powered and steam-powered clippers made by the Hongshan people are given priority to Richanglong as merchant ships, due to the previous Jin soldiers attacking Jingdong East Road, Shandong and Lianghuai were threatened, Hangzhou transported Yanzhou's coal from sea and land, resulting in a large number of coal ships staying at Weihai wharf!

Xiao Ming is nearby to recruit, he needs a large number of troop carriers, the nearby fishing boats and the warships of the Great Song Dynasty Navy Division are unbearable, can only requisition merchant ships from the base in Liaodong, Weihai City to Mizhou and even to Hangzhou Mingzhou and Quanzhou and other places now have passenger ships, as long as the owner is paid, then it is okay to go to the Lushun base in Liaodong.

In March of the fourth year of Jianyan, the Weihai base took advantage of the melting of the ice in the Bohai Sea, and sent hundreds of sea ships to Liaodong in a big way, which were sent out in the morning and arrived in the evening of the same day.

"The rumored lair of the Jin Kingdom on the land of Liaodong, we are finally going to attack the lair of the Jin Kingdom!"

This is not completely unreasonable, because Xiao Ming's purpose is to attack the Huanglong Mansion with all his might! At this time, Jin Guo also noticed Xiao Ming's movements in Liaodong and other places, and frequently flew and rode to pass the book, and raised hot air balloons on the front line of Tongzhou and Hanzhou with great fanfare to reconnoiter the deployment of the Jin army.

Jin Bing with good eyes can even see those who are sitting in the balloon basket scooping the monoculars, and while watching, they are making notes with a pen, Jin Bing can only stare dryly, at the height of others, the bow and arrow can't reach it at all, even if they use the bed crossbow of the captured Liao State and the Song State, they can't do such a large elevation angle shooting at all.

The intelligence of the Tongzhou and Hanzhou fronts was continuously sent to Xiao Ming's headquarters, and Xiao Ming convened officers of all divisions and regiments to hold a combat meeting, and his request was very simple, that is, to attack Tongzhou, march along the west side of Changbai Mountain, scoop down the Huanglong Mansion to quickly solve the military presence of the Jin State in Liaodong, and even completely incorporate Liaodong into his sphere of influence.

"You are the backbone of my Xiao Ming's army, although the entire army was formed by me, but it is the people of my Great Song Dynasty, the army does not belong to anyone, but it belongs to the country behind us, that is the Chinese Empire! If someone says that the imperial guard is still the army of the imperial court, what I want to say is that the world is the world of the people of the world, and it does not belong to any individual, nor to the emperor but to the whole country. ”

The generals below are discussing, Xiao Ming's statement is shocking, but everyone can also understand that Xiao Ming is no longer an official of the Great Song Dynasty, this time it is a completely personal military action, so there is no tie and you can let go, when Hebei fell, the imperial court ignored and bent on peace, and there was no authority in the hearts of everyone, not to mention that many people were originally Liao, and they did not have a sense of identity with the Great Song Dynasty, but for the unified Chinese Empire, everyone had a unanimous identity in their hearts.

Although it is not Xiao Ming's private army, the construction of all the armies was completely built by Xiao Ming alone, and everyone only obeyed Xiao Ming's orders, so in the next step, Xiao Ming said that everyone would do what they wanted, and the attack on the hinterland of the Jin Kingdom was also kicked off in an instant......