As the saying goes, if you have food at hand, don't panic!

After solving the food problem, Li Xianzhong can let go of his fists and feet to do other things.

Although it is said that the grain he implemented in the "Zhongkai Law" will also be adjusted according to the fluctuations in grain prices in the capital and Jiangnan and the changes in the purchase price of Mongolia, it is not a problem to increase the grain reserves of tens of thousands of stone every month.

The climate impact of Xiaoice River will become greater and greater from next year, and Li Xianzhong vaguely remembers that next year Jianzhou will suffer an unprecedented drought, almost no harvest.

I can't see anything about this grain now, and it won't be at this price next year.

At this time, the equipment promised by Yuan Yingtai before has been allocated, and other things are fine, but the birds issued by the military department are really not flattering.

After inspection, at least 100 of them were of poor quality and could easily explode, so they had to be sent to the workshop in Pingyu Fort to replace the barrels.

Now the scale of Pingyu Fort has expanded a lot, Fan Wencheng took advantage of the opportunity to recruit troops in Qinghe Road, and directly recruited more than 8,000 displaced people on Qinghe Road, and now Pinglubao has reached the scale of 20,000 people.

This is already an out-and-out military production base, and a group of craftsmen mobilized by Yuan Yingtai this time were all sent to Pingyubao.

Today, Pingyu Fort can produce all kinds of equipment, from ordinary swords, guns, bows and arrows, to all kinds of armor, and firearms can basically be produced.

It can be said that except for the inability to make artillery, everything else can be basically manufactured.

Now Pingyu is able to produce 200 bird guns per month.

Not only the bird gun, according to the "Artifact Spectrum" brought back by Li Xianzhong, after nearly 2 months of repeated experiments, the craftsmen of Pingyu Fort finally succeeded in making a qualified Lumi gun.

It turned out that the quality of the materials they used before was not good, so the Lumi Gun they created could not reach the range of 120 steps at all.

Later, it was found that it was necessary to use repeatedly built stainless steel, that is, a gun pipe made of 100 steel, in order to meet the requirements of continuous shooting.

However, the production process is much more complicated than that of the bird, and the current production is only 30 strokes a month.

No wonder Liu Gui, the eunuch who was the palm seal of the War Bureau, was reluctant to take this job.

However, I have to praise Liu Gui, although the price is black, 20 taels and one stroke, but the quality of this Lu Mi Gong has nothing to say.

In the battle of Guangshun Pass, the bird gun was scrapped for several rounds, and the Lumi gun he built could still be fired, and in the end, it was forced to give up because of the damage to the gun tube caused by too many uses.

And they also completed it ahead of schedule, and the Lumi gun, which originally took 3 months to deliver, has now been delivered in 2 months.

Now Li Xianzhong, who is rich and wealthy, originally wanted to order another 1,000 strokes, but Liu Gui was reluctant to take this job anymore, and even Li Xianzhong added 22 taels of silver to him, but he refused on the grounds that the military war bureau had other construction tasks.

In the end, under Li Xianzhong's stubborn pestering, Gonggong Liu finally decided to send a few "technical guides" to Pingyu Fort to guide them to build Lu Mi Gong by themselves.

I believe that after the arrival of these experts from the War Bureau, the output should be able to increase a little more.

Although the performance of the Lumi gun is better, the cost of the bird gun is low and the output is high, so it is still the main firearm of the Kaiyuan Ming Army.

This time, more than 5,000 pieces of heavy cloth armor were removed from the destroyed Tartars, and although they were damaged, they could still be used after repair.

This also led to a certain increase in the armor rate of the other defenders.

Although there are still more than 9,000 recruits, Kaiyuan has now recovered to the strength it had before the Tartar attack.

Because there has been no major replenishment of Zajia, the Liaodong Iron Cavalry can still only be 2,500 people; However, the assault battalion was expanded to 3,000 men, and the Pingwei was also expanded to 1,500 men.

These three units can be regarded as Li Xianzhong's special forces.

The two cavalry teams still had the same tactics as before, with light and heavy cavalry assisting each other.

The point is that the Pingyuwei was transformed into a firearms-based corps by Li Xianzhong.

The current Peaceguard consists of 200 shieldmen, 600 spearmen, 600 musketeers, and 100 gunners.

Firearms are currently equipped with 400 Rumi guns, 200 bird guns, and 20 Tiger guns.

With the current rate of fire of firearms, it is difficult to play a role in the field.

However, with the cooperation of the big shield soldiers and pikemen, they still have a little field combat ability.

When facing the enemy, the large shield was in front of the formation, behind them were several rows of spearmen, behind the musketeers, and finally the gunners.

Although the main phalanx in Europe currently has far more musketeers than spearmen, usually 4 to 1 or even 5 to 1.

However, taking into account the current differences in the performance of firearms, there are also differences in the actual number of equipment of the Ming army and the combat opponents.

Li Xianzhong did not copy the Spanish phalanx or the Swedish Gustav phalanx, and more spearmen were also aimed at the impact of the Jianyu cavalry.

Of course, at present, Li Xianzhong did not use their idea of fighting with the Jianyu cavalry, but more to defend the city, and this configuration is also the golden configuration of defending the city.

The generals of the two roads of Kaiyuan Tieling are also experienced battlefield generals, and the training of other troops is handed over to them.

What Li Xianzhong could do for them was to replenish them with some good equipment as much as possible, so the defenders of the three passes of Kaiyuan also issued 200 bird guns and a batch of granulated black powder this time.

After all, their task was to defend the city pass, and the task of attacking would definitely be handed over to the two cavalry units.

Although the assault battalion is now the main force that Xiong Tingbi draws from other armies, it can no longer be distributed according to the original proportion of troops.

However, in order to motivate the generals to train their troops well, Li Xianzhong still decided to hold a big competition every three months to determine the proportion of their departments.

There are two main items in the competition, one is the queue drill, and the second is the confrontation competition.

In the queue drill, Li Xianzhong, Li Sanshun, and Chacha Zhongwen scored each department respectively, and then decided the order of the confrontation according to the ranking.

Soon, the various departments shouted slogans and practiced in turn.

This kind of drill mainly depends on the neatness and the mental state of the soldiers.

Nowadays, all battalions are mainly recruits, and the overall mental outlook is still good, but in fact, it is difficult to distinguish between the superior and the inferior.

Dress becomes a key factor.

If you wear neat armor, you will look very neat.

On the other hand, if you dress in a variety of ways, even if you practice your movements neatly, it will look a little messy.

The four teams of Kaiyuan Sanguan and Tieling Acropolis are really good at this, and they are all Ming troops wearing red mandarin duck battle jackets.

I saw a group of Ming troops wearing red mandarin duck battle jackets neatly conducting drills. They marched in order, marched in unison, and exuded a military majesty in their gestures.

Their steps are steady and powerful, like their peers. Every step landed soundly, neatly aligned, like a red flame.

On the whole, Li Xianzhong is still quite satisfied, no matter what the actual combat power is, at least it looks like that.

Soon these four teams were successfully ranked in the top 4.

The next step is to move in earnest, and enter the link of confrontation and competition.

The rule is that each team sends 50 soldiers to directly confront each other, and those who fall to the ground exit directly, and the side with the most survivors wins.

Of course, for safety reasons, these soldiers had to choose wooden knives, guns, sticks, and shields.

There is not much suspense in the first round of the competition, and this kind of confrontation is the strength of the elite family.

The top four teams easily beat the other four teams to advance.

Soon Mao Wenlong's Guangshun Pass was on Gao Mingtai's Xin'an Pass.

Both sides selected the 50 most elite soldiers under their command.

The generals on both sides wore fish scale armor, and the rest of the soldiers also wore heavy cloth armor.

At this time, Mao Wenlong did not choose to take the initiative to attack, but put on a half-moon-shaped defensive formation.

Seeing that Mao Wenlong's side had formed a half-moon-shaped defensive formation, Gao Mingtai immediately led Xin'anguan to set up a "crane wing formation" to advance forward.

As the name suggests, the "Crane Wing Array" is like the open wings of a crane, focusing on the outflanking of the two wings!

Soon, the 50 people of Xin'anguan were led by Gao Mingtai to kill each other.

When Gao Mingtai and the others were about to approach Guangshun Pass, they only heard Mao Wenlong shouting: "Change the formation!" ”

The original half-moon-shaped large array suddenly turned into 4 independent mandarin duck arrays.

The "Mandarin Duck Formation" formation is a team of 11 people, with the first team as the captain, and the second two people hold a long card and a rattan card.

The long player holds a long shield to block the arrows and spears of the Japanese robbers, and the rattan player holds a light rattan shield with a javelin and waist knife, and the long player and the rattan player mainly cover the rear team to advance, and the rattan player can also fight the enemy in close combat in addition to covering.

Then the two of them are wolf whisks holding wolf whisks, wolf whisks are the use of the southern growth of bamboo, choose its old and solid ones, cut the end of the bamboo obliquely into a pointed shape, and leave sharp branches around it, each wolf whisk is about 3 meters long, the wolf whisk uses the sharp blade at the front end of the wolf whisk to assassinate the enemy to cover the advance of the shield hand and the attack of the spearman behind.

Then there were four spearmen with spears, two on the left and two on the right, and the shieldmen and wolf-bearers on the left and right in front of them.

Followed by two soldiers armed with "boring palladium" to serve as guards, supporters, and other work. If the enemy attacks in a roundabout way, the short soldier will rush forward with a short knife to slash the enemy.

The division of labor of various weapons is clear, and as long as each person is proficient in his own kind of operation, the key to effective killing of the enemy lies in overall cooperation and prohibition.

Of course, at this time, subject to the limitations of weapons, Mao Wenlong's mandarin duck array could only be replaced by wooden shields, wooden guns, and wooden sticks.

Although the effect is somewhat discounted, the characteristics of the melee of the Mandarin Duck Formation can still be brought into play.

At this time, Gao Mingtai and the others who entered the battle suddenly encountered attacks from several directions, although they were wearing heavy cloth armor, they were constantly hit by these wooden sticks and guns, which still made some soldiers withdraw from the battle.

Gao Mingtai saw that something was wrong, and quickly let the remaining soldiers retreat from the formation and re-formed the formation to confront Guangshun Pass.

But the characteristic of the Mandarin Duck Array is that it is flexible and changeable.

The "Mandarin Duck Array" not only closely combines the spear and the shield, the long and the short, giving full play to the effectiveness of various weapons, but also changing the formation flexibly.

Depending on the situation, the large array of 11 people can be split into small "two-talent formations", and the latter "three-talent formations".

As soon as Mao Wenlong saw that the opposite side had re-formed the formation, he immediately ordered the Mandarin Duck Formation to disperse into small "two-talent formations" or "three-talent formations" to split the opponent's formation.

After a while, Gao Mingtai and others were defeated.

Gao Mingtai said: "This is Qi Shaobao's mandarin duck array, it is really unpredictable, Gao Mou lost this game unjustly!" ”

In the end, Mao Wenlong got his wish and won the first place, Tielingwei guerrilla Li Ketai won second, Li Guanfeng of Zhenbei Pass and Gao Mingtai of Xin'an Pass tied for third.

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