In late June, Song Yingxing led a group of craftsmen to work day and night. Liu Yi had no time to care about him during this period. There were too many things to do, including the reserve of grain, the supply of forage, and the clothing and armor.

, horses, muskets, sergeant training, etc. Liu Yi was overwhelmed. Fortunately, Liu Yi and Ruan Xing cooperated and found some ways to make money. Ruan Xing cut out part of the shares for Liu Yi, of course it was not for nothing. Liu Yi

If you don’t pay, you have to work hard, such as using soldiers to protect Ruan Xing’s caravan in private. These soldiers brought standard equipment, but were wearing casual clothes, and mainly carried goods to Jiangxi, Jiangbei, and Huguang.

Liu Yi told the soldiers that this was called long-distance training. He used the company as a unit to carry goods in batches to protect the caravan. He also fought with a small group of rioters on the road, but in front of the standard equipment, these rioters collapsed and left behind.

A few corpses ran away without a trace.

This kind of zero casualty battle helps the running-in between various arms, small flags, and even soldiers, and also helps maintain discipline in the wartime. After a few times, the soldiers of the new army have been reborn.

Although he has not experienced a great war and may still be psychologically insufficient, he is already very skilled in technical and tactical cooperation. Liu Yi's six hundred soldiers did not train according to Qi Jiguang's training formation.

Liu Yi's method is actually very simple. Musketeers are arranged in four dense rows based on the general flag. The sword and shield soldiers are divided into two general flags and arranged in front and behind the musketeers, while the spearmen are guarding against the enemy cavalry on the left and right.

The raid was used as a mobile force. In addition to the lack of artillery, this formation had already initially possessed the prototype of the European musket array at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century. What Liu Yi considered later was to gradually cancel the spearmen and use bayonets and

The fire guns cooperated to train the troops to the state of later British lobster soldiers, and the infantry and artillery could block the charge of Napoleon's breastplate cavalry and guard cavalry. Of course, this was a later event.

Liu Jin was puzzled by this formation. The shooting speed of the mezzanine was so slow. It would be fine if the enemy was a bandit, but there were no cavalry. With our thunder cannon and four-stage shooting, we should be able to deal with it calmly.

But what if this formation meets Jianlu, the world's number one in cavalry, is the shooting speed of the musket, but it can't withstand the second wave. Once Jianlu rushed up, he fired arrows at the same time, relying on a thin layer.

How can a thin sword and shield soldier defend against the shooting of thousands of arrows? Isn’t that going to repeat the fate of Sarhu? It is not equipped with long-range strike troops like archers. How can you defend with a coercion?

When Liu Jin told Liu Yi this concern, Liu Yi just smiled mysteriously. He was waiting for the steam engine and flintlock rifle. The Prussian and British troops equipped with flintlock rifle and paper shell can shoot five in one minute.

Round volleys, other countries can also shoot three to four rounds. If their soldiers can shoot five rounds in one minute, with the current strength of 240 musketeers, they can shoot sixty people in three seconds on average.

What a terrifying firepower output in this era. According to Liu Yi's vision, if you have the ability, you will completely cancel the cold weapon troops in the future, use firearms to suppress the enemy at a long distance, and then send the cavalry out to annihilate the enemy.

Of course, the biggest obstacle to establishing such a force is money and food. With the development of several industrial revolutions in the later generations, the amount of ammunition delivered increased in power. For example, the amount of ammunition released by the US military in the Shangganling Battle actually caught up with World War II.

The total ammunition is released. The ammunition consumption of individual soldiers is also amazing. In the past, dozens of bullets killed an enemy, but later tens of thousands of bullets destroyed an enemy. Therefore, wars in later generations were even more of a competition of money, the so-called cannon

The gold is 10,000 taels. Only those with money and resources can achieve the final victory. This is all the future, and now it is to create a steam engine.

Liu Yi qualified more than 100 craftsmen to Song Yingxing, and it can be said that they qualified all the excellent craftsmen that could be recruited in Taiping Mansion to Song Yingxing.

What can shorten the time is that Liu Yi gave the entire design idea and original sketch to Song Yingxing, and all Song Yingxing had to do was to create it. It was equivalent to removing the time of fantasy and discovery. It greatly shortened the process of the steam engine. In fact, the steam engine

The biggest problem is coal. The carbon consumption is amazing if the steam engine is to operate perfectly. Although China has already had mature coal mining and smelting technology since the Song Dynasty, it is nothing compared to the carbon consumption of the industrial revolution.

For this reason, Liu Yi prepared for the future. The Lianghuai area of ​​Anhui has a large number of coal mines. Liu Yi used some knowledge from later generations to cooperate with Ruan Xing to tell Ruan Xing the general location of these coal mines. Ruan Xing thought it was strange, how did Liu Yi do you think it was strange.

Knowing that there was a mine there, Liu Yi had to make excuse that he met Feng Shui experts when he was learning art under Cheng Chongdou. Then Ruan Xing organized manpower to explore, and a large coal mine was discovered in Huainan and Huainbei area of ​​Fengyang Prefecture. Hui

The Federation of Commerce immediately informed the local government and gave enough money from officials of all sizes of Fengyang Prefecture to obtain the mining rights directly.

The power of the Hui merchants' association was mixed in Nanzhili. Many officials were children of Hui merchants. They discovered large coal mines, which made the General Association make a fortune all at once. The coal produced can be supplied to the entire Nanzhili, and because

The quality is large and the quality is good, and the firepower is strong. The reputation of Huishang coal once spread along the Yangtze River to Huguang. This made them make a fortune. Liu Yi even sent his subordinates to wear the clothes of the mates and pretended to be

The stunners are replaced by one month as a unit. In addition to joining the battle formation, these new troops are infinitely close to an elite army in terms of energy and spirit.

Ruan Xing agreed that one-fifth of the mining volume would give Liu Yi the information expenses for the location of the mine site and the military expenses of the bodyguards. These Qingyi Army soldiers were much better than ordinary bodyguards.

On July 1st, a horse bandit had the idea of ​​attacking a coal mine. He took advantage of the night to try a vote, but was discovered by Qingyi Army's secret whistle. More than 20 people were killed and injured on the spot. These horse bandits did not expect this.

The escort guards actually had firearms, and they immediately scattered birds and beasts. They also seized more than a dozen war horses for the Qingyi army in vain.

On the other hand, Liu Yi began to launch a campaign to combat bandits in Wuhu County and Fanchang County, mobilizing the people to report it. Even after this idea was reported to Zhou Zhihan and Huang Yu, the two military and political chiefs of Taiping Prefecture also strongly supported it and reported it for a while.

The people's war between bandits started in Taiping Prefecture. Once verified, the reward of fifty taels of silver was rewarded, and the enthusiasm of the people was unprecedentedly high. The bandits, horse thieves, and the remnants of Bailian were nowhere to hide. After all, for ordinary people, the belief of the White Lotus Sect is not as good as that of Wu.

Ten taels of silver are real.

The ordinary people of the White Lotus Sect can't survive, but the poor people, so the government's reporting order was issued and the Qingyi Army and Dangtu's guards attacked everywhere. For a moment, the bandits of Taiping Prefecture

It was swept away. All the seized parts were evenly handed over to Zhou Zhihan and Huang Yu. The heads were also handed over to the government office to deal with, and everyone was very happy. Even the Nanjing Ministry of War announced that Huang Yu had made contributions in public security.

Zhou Zhihan's mid-year examination was even more average. If he could get a few more years and get promoted to Zhili in a few years, he might have. Zhou Zhihan is only over fifty years old and can go further. Huang Yu is not like Wu Bin.

He has a rigid military skill but cannot make meritorious in the border army. However, there are not so many battles in the Jiangnan region, and promotion can only be achieved through qualifications. Therefore, after Liu Yi made great contributions, he was promoted to the defense thousand households, and this time he carried out the suppression.

The bandit movement was commended again. If he did a good job, he could command the commander and commander like Long Zongwu to seek a good future. So he strongly supported Liu Yi, and Liu Yi's troops could fight, and as Shangguan, he was also in the face.

There is light. The actual benefits have made a lot of money.

Originally, he should have a post of 1,120 people, and Liu Yi filled 600 people. He had a garrison of a hundred households in Dangtu. There were a total of 720 people, and he could eat 400 people.

The people's salary is empty. Moreover, the combat effectiveness of the troops under his command is stronger than that of a thousand households. Liu Yi doesn't need to be managed by his military capital. He will go to Liu Yi to inspect every few months. He also knows that Liu Yi is

He had a lot of relationship with the Huizhou Merchants Association, so he was too lazy to care. As long as Liu Yi could bring him credit, he would have no choice but to not be able to get a job without paying a job, but instead he had one more general flag force than the normal general, Huang Yu actually

I admire him. Although he likes to be an official, he has not lost his conscience. After knowing Liu Yi for so many years, he knew that Liu Yi had great ambitions, and it was also for the people and the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, his various actions against Liu Yi did not violate the laws of the Ming Dynasty.

They all support it, even if you play the edge, it’s nothing. Who can control who these days?
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