Yuan Chonghuan didn't know what this kind of "heavenly thunder" was, but the opponent's musket, after such a period of fighting, he had collected a lot of information.

At this time and space, Bi Maokang didn't know what was going on and ran to the Tiangong Academy, resulting in the Ming Dynasty not having such a thing as a self-generated firearm, but Yuan Chonghuan still noticed that the range of the firearms used by the enemy was actually not very far.

It is also true that the advantages of flintlock pistols are the ease of use and the fast rate of fire, range and accuracy, in fact, there is not much improvement.

It's just that at that time, the musketeers of the Ming army generally cut corners, and the musketeers generally reduced the amount of gunpowder in order to avoid exploding, which led to a lot of reduction in their range. However, if it is installed in the standard amount, although it will be a little worse, but not too much.

And the Lu Mi gun, as a heavy arquebus, has more length and medicine than other arquebuses, so its range is also higher than that of the arquebus, and theoretically, it should also be higher than the opponent's kind of firearm.

Of course, the reduction of the amount of medicine was still due to the fear of death of the musketeers, and it didn't actually play a role, but what if it meets the standard?

So he instructed his men:

"In this way, from all over the country, more large general cannons and large franc machines (heavy franc machines) were brought over, and the craftsmen were ordered to recast the heavy cannons. The musket is to mobilize the Lumi guns from all over the world, and then mobilize the craftsmen who can make the Lumi guns, the more the merrier. ”

"More than 3,000 elite soldiers were selected from among the soldiers and practiced day and night."

"The defenders of each city will build walls, and the enemy's firearms are sharp, so it must be strong enough to withstand the enemy's attacks."

"Yes!"

Yuan Chonghuan is making a series of preparations here, and the reforms that Yan Ling implemented in his own territory are not something that can be completed in a short period of time.

And Emperor Wuxing also learned the previous lesson, saying that three years is three years, even if Yuan Chonghuan didn't make any moves, he didn't have half a point of urging, and all kinds of material resources continued to come to the front line.

All of a sudden, half a year passed, and it was the end of the twentieth year of Wuxing.

In half a year, in addition to the front line in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, many things have also happened in the rest of the region.

For example, in Nanyang, Wang Er finally succeeded in breaking through the siege and went east to Runing Mansion, on the way he didn't even need his call, and he got a large number of disaster victims, and his army, which had only 2,000 remnants left, quickly expanded to 20,000, and then broke through the Queshan Mountain and completely failed to destroy Wang Er.

After all, the twentieth year of Wuxing, that is, the thirteenth year of Chongzhen in the original time and space, is the highest peak of the "Chongzhen Great Drought".

There are people everywhere.

In addition, due to the large number of elites gathering to the southeast, the forces in other regions inevitably fell into emptiness, making it difficult for the Ming troops in various places to suppress the rogues.

However, in the process of exterminating the rebels, a large number of excellent generals also emerged.

For example, Sun Chuanting, who was the governor of Huguang at the time, and Chen Qiyu, the governor of Jiangxi, can be called "handsome talents", and other generals such as Cao Bianjiao and Man Gui are even more numerous.

However, due to the fact that there were too many rogues, this side was pacified, and that side rose again, causing the Ming army to be exhausted, and the elite Ming army was constantly losing, and the combat effectiveness was gradually declining......

……

In half a year, Yuan Chonghuan was also quite well prepared.

He recruited a large number of craftsmen to make the Lu Mi gun, and collected the Lu Mi gun from the army from all over the country, and obtained a total of 20,000 guns to equip the army.

and equipped the army with 10,000 guns of various kinds.

The rest of the various types of artillery add up to hundreds.

These guns and artillery pieces were inspected and were of acceptable quality, so he ordered the troops to add medicine according to the standard and not to release less, and after a period of training, they barely overcame the "phobia of exploding."

In addition, he reorganized the army, reorganized the previous defeated army, and gained more than 30,000 soldiers, and merged his own troops, as well as the re-recruited young and strong and gathered troops from all over the country, plus the Liao cavalry, the total number reached 100,000.

The Liao cavalry suffered heavy losses last time, and in the end, only more than 1,000 cavalry followed Hu Dawei to successfully break through, which can be said to be the loss of the old capital, but as soon as the emperor spoke, the Li family still obediently handed over the Liao cavalry.

There were a total of 20,000 Liao cavalry, and the head of the Li family's generation, Li Rusong's grandson, Ning Yuanbo, and Li Zunzu, the chief military officer of Liaodong, left 4,000 to resist the various departments of the grassland, and the rest were all sent down.

And Zuo Liangyu and other generals also said that the mistakes made last time would never be made again.

After all, they still wear sinful bodies and dare not be disobedient.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty's control over various places was relatively strong, the emperor had more than 80,000 Beijing troops in his hands, and a large number of generals loyal to him, no one dared to rebel. The last time they escaped, the emperor was greatly enraged, and it was also because of the urgency of the situation that Zuo Liangyu and some of the generals were not imprisoned, but they were also severely warned.

They are tantamount to making meritorious deeds, and now they are also active, training quite hard, and some of the previous bad habits have been changed as much as possible, and they have tried to restrain their subordinates as much as possible.

After a while, these 100,000 people are still in shape.

Jiangnan was originally the base camp, so the Jiangsu and Zhejiang military governments digested it quickly, and the rule was basically stable in half a year, and since the base camp was stable, the next step was to continue to expand, so the conflict between the two sides began to intensify day by day.

Yuan Chonghuan realized that the time he had been waiting for had finally come.

……

Before the official meeting, the two sides first engaged in some exchanges between the striker sentinels.

In some fairly solid land, there are often two groups of people chasing after each other and fighting each other.

In the wilderness, there are often passers-by fighting each other, and the winning side often ties the pigeon to its feet with the wrong message and flies.

The Ming army won less and lost more, after all, the cavalry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang at this time was equipped with a horse pistol, pistol and a saber as standard, and the Ming army did not collect it at night Although it was sharp, the other party did not fight with you at all. The Jiangsu and Zhejiang cavalry are similar to the German pistol cavalry, with extremely fierce firepower, and can easily beat the opposite side to the back of their horses, while the arrows of the Ming army are often blocked by the armor of the opposing cavalry, and it is difficult to kill and injure the enemy.

The same is true for the infantry sent out by the fine work, after being discovered, the other party took out several pistols at once and fired, and the side of the fine work had just drawn the knife, and there were already several big holes in the body.

In this case, in a short time, the eyes and ears of the Ming army outside the city were almost completely killed, and Yuan Chonghuan was so angry that he secretly gritted his teeth.

(End of chapter)