"This strategy is unpredictable, and it will definitely make a contribution in one fell swoop. But the battlefield is changing rapidly, there is no perfect strategy, and on the battlefield this king allows you to act cheaply. Okay, you go back to the barracks to prepare for war first, and this king will go to the camp tomorrow to inspect the soldiers and horses," Li An finally ordered. ”

The generals surrendered their orders, and they returned to the camp to prepare for the big battle five days later.

After the generals dispersed, Li An took Jiang Guotai and Xu Cheng to the military and ordnance bureaus outside the city. Before Li An ordered the establishment of the two bureaus, he had already found the sites of the two bureaus sixteen miles outside the city.

After the group arrived at the place, two soldiers came over with spears to ask, and the soldiers saw that it was King Jin and hurriedly bowed.

"Where did Li Runxing go?" Ang Lee asked the soldier.

"Your Majesty, Mr. Li Qian and the craftsmen have gone to find wood." One of the two soldiers, a short soldier, replied.

For the safety of the Second Bureau of Arms and Ordnance, Li An asked his youngest son Li Runxing to lead a standard to be responsible, first, there was no suitable manpower; Second, the two games are crucial, and people who can be trusted must be in charge before Ang Lee can rest assured.

"Well, let's go check it out first." Li An turned to Jiang Guotai and Xu Cheng and said.

The construction of the two bureaus has just begun, and now only the outer walls of the War Bureau and the Ordnance Bureau have been completed, and Li An completely repaired the walls according to the city wall.

First of all, rammed earth is carried out, and the so-called rammed earth is pressed to make mud blocks with some hardness. In the specific construction of the wall, a combination of bluestone bricks and rammed earth is adopted, and the exterior that can be seen by the naked eye is stacked with bluestone bricks, and the inside of the city wall is further reinforced with rammed earth to form a double reinforcement inside and outside.

Then at the junction of the bricks of the city wall, "glutinous rice mortar" (that is, glutinous rice is mixed with slaked lime and limestone into a paste). Now it is impossible to make cement, so Ang Lee can only use this as a substitute. It is smeared on the bluestone bricks of the city wall to achieve the effect of cement, which perfectly connects the bluestone bricks and rammed earth together.

It is necessary to build the War Bureau and the Ordnance Bureau into two small fortresses, with the highest level of security, which can be used as a rear point for resisting the Qing Dynasty and as a front station for future attacks on Burma and Vietnam.

After the capture of Kunming, the two rounds here will continue to operate.

After entering the Ordnance Bureau, Li An saw that only the frames of two warehouses had been erected inside, and the craftsmen were sweating hard. Li An gave these craftsmen a daily salary, and there was a salary of 30 wen a day, and the craftsmen heard that they were in charge of both food and money, how could they not work hard.

The Ordnance Bureau consists of the Needle Engineering Division (military uniform), the Armor Division, the Saddle Braid, the Bow and Arrow Division, the Miscellaneous Manufacturing Bureau, and the Weapons Division (cold weapons such as knives, guns, and swords).

The chief officer of the Ordnance Bureau is the superintendent, the chief officer of each department is the director, and the other officer is responsible for the food and clothing of the craftsmen.

After looking at the Ordnance Bureau, Li Ang went to the Military Bureau to take a look. The construction progress of the War Bureau is much faster than that of the Weapons Bureau, and it already has a rough prototype, because Li An specially instructed that the War Bureau should be built as soon as possible.

The Bureau of Military Affairs consists of four departments: the Gunpowder Division, the Artillery Division, the Fire Control Division, and the Miscellaneous Manufacturing Division. The bureaucratic system is largely the same as that of the Ordnance Bureau, with the exception of a single secretary responsible for the research and development of artillery and firearms.

"Cathay Pacific, the chief officer of these two bureaus, Ben Wang, has not been able to find a suitable candidate, do you have a suitable candidate?" Li An asked Jiang Yutai next to him.

"Qi Lei can be supervised by the War Bureau, and he has served as the director of the Ministry of Engineering and the waiter. The Minister of Ordnance Bureau wants to recommend Ding Jishan. Jiang Guotai thought about the candidate.

Jiang Guotai no longer claimed to be a subordinate at this time, but called himself a minister, and vaguely showed his loyalty to the King of Jin. He also gradually recognized the situation and understood that even if he supported the heirs of the emperor to inherit the unification, he was just a puppet, and no one would listen to a puppet emperor.

"Since Cathay recommended it, let these two give it a try."

After saying that, Li An turned around and walked out of the Ordnance Bureau, and as soon as he walked out of the door, he ran into Li Runxing, who hurried back.

"Father, you don't come to say hello to the child."

"It's okay, I'm just coming over to see the progress of the construction, the sooner it is built, the sooner it will be cleared, and the sooner it will be successful."

Ang Lee looked at this young son, who had just turned 22 years old this year, with red lips and white teeth, a handsome face, and inherited Li Dingguo's good genes.

"Runxing, you have to call your father outside, otherwise it will not be a system." Jiang Guotai corrected.

"Okay, okay, Uncle Jiang I know." Li Runxing had a disapproving expression on his face.

"It's okay, this king doesn't care about all this red tape."

"King, this is not red tape, this is the rule."

As soon as this Jiang Guotai showed his loyalty, he began to put a tight spell on himself. Forget it, people in their sixties, don't fight with him yourself. Ang Lee had no choice but to say: "What Cathay Pacific said is extremely true. ”

"Runxing, you will take care of this place, and go back to the city to deal with affairs for your father first." After Li An finished instructing Li Runxing, he was beaten away on a horse.

After Li An returned to the city, he has been writing handouts in the study, and at the end of the day, Li An put down the brush in his hand, got up and stretched his waist.

Suddenly crackled, my hand was almost sour after writing so many words today, mainly because I was really not used to writing with a brush.

After picking up the handouts on the art of war and reviewing them carefully, after confirming that there were no mistakes or omissions, Li An put the handouts away. He decided to wait for the capture of Kunming City and give the first lecture to the generals.

After briefly tidying up the study, Ang Lee went back to the bedroom to rest.

After a night of silence, Li Antian woke up before dawn the next morning, and after getting up and washing up, he took some steel guns and practiced in the yard.

In the two months since he came here, Ang Lee has practiced his marksmanship diligently every day, never stopping. He knew that the body was the capital of the revolution, and only with a strong body could he better resist the Qing court.

After practicing for more than half an hour, the maid brought a towel, Li An picked it up and wiped the sweat on his face, and breathed a long sigh of relief, feeling comfortable all over.

Then Empress Li went to the hall to have breakfast, and then drove his horse to the barracks.

Li An inspected the barracks for a whole day, carefully checked the guns, whether the guns could continue to be used, and picked out the guns that were of poor quality and easy to explode.

After checking the soldiers' armor, Li Anxin lamented that the armor was really lacking too much, and the armor rate of the whole army was less than forty percent. After this battle, it is necessary to raise the armor ratio of the army.

Finally, after checking the cold weapons such as knives and guns, bows and arrows, shields, etc., Li An nodded, the knives, guns and arrows were all sharpened, and the bowstrings were all tightened.

After inspecting the complete army, Li An had an idea of the ability of the general soldiers of the six towns, and the abilities of Ma Bao, Lei Chaosheng, Wu Sanxing, and Jin Tongwu were much higher than those of Dao Mudao and Han Yong.

After encouraging the generals again, Li Ang returned to the city.

On the morning of the second day, Li An met the craftsman Jiang Guotai said would smelt Suzhou steel.

The continuous development of steel-smelting technology in the past dynasties reached a peak in the Ming Dynasty, when there were technologies such as embedding steel, clamping steel, wrapping steel, frying steel, and filling steel.

The steel filling method is one of the leaders, and Suzhou Iron and Steel is the advanced stage of the development of steel filling, and the advantages of steel filling have been fully expressed here.

So a craftsman who can smelt Suzhou steel is very rare, Li An and this craftsman named Gao Ping chatted, and learned that he was originally from Suzhou, because he offended the local gentry, so he fled here.

The two discussed steel smelting, and Li An was greatly impressed after hearing Gao Ping's views on steel smelting, and even if he decided to set up a steel smelting department, Gao Ping was in charge of the steel smelting department, which provided steel for the Ordnance Bureau and the War Bureau.

In the afternoon, Li An met with Qi Lei and ordered him to lead craftsmen to produce paper shell bullets. At present, all front-loading guns in the army are filled with gunpowder directly from the muzzle and then loaded with warheads, which is slow to operate and the amount of charge each time is uncertain, so the shooting effect is also unstable.

And dosing can perfectly solve this problem, in this era, there is not as advanced processing technology as modern times. However, in order to increase the speed of reloading and the amount of ammunition is constant, paper shells came into being.

Paper cartridge casings are cartridges made of paper rolls, which contain a certain amount of gunpowder and warheads. The Soldier's reload speed has been greatly increased, and the shooting effect has become more stable.

Li An gave Qi Lei a death order, and before setting out on the expedition, each fire commander had at least five paper shell bullets in his hands.

In order to be reused, Qi Lei also gritted his teeth and agreed