"Nikkan should have gone south."

Chen Kai probably knew who Nikan was. However, the report sent by Lin Cha indicated that Xu Degong and Zhang Daocheng were carrying red cannons and marching eastward again, obviously for the next offensive.

To make preparations, and the Qing army sent troops, there was only one reason. Li Dingguo had already left Guangxi. Otherwise, if there were tigers at his side, how could they dare to distract him?

After receiving the emergency report, Chen Kai had realized that the Qing army would still need some time, at least until the Hongyi artillery was in place before launching an attack. This was the final preparation time. In this case, he immediately began to prepare for a response.

Check the situation.

In the last confrontation, the consumption of gunpowder was extremely large. Therefore, Chen Kaicai made up his mind to establish a separate military production department outside the Ordnance Bureau to get rid of Feng Xifan's constraints.

The establishment of the Chaozhou dung and saltpeter accumulation field was accompanied by a storm. Chen Kai had already issued an order for the official ship to be ready at the port. He could not help but sigh when he carefully looked over the saltpeter output.

"It is indeed a city with tens of thousands of people. This is indeed much higher than the manure production, um, no, the nitrate production in this corner of South Australia."

The production of nitrate requires transformation by nitrifying bacteria, which undoubtedly takes time. However, as of now, Chaozhou's manure nitrate accumulation field does not have any problems in curbing production capacity due to its earlier accumulation of technology on Nan'ao Island.

Now that we are on the right track, this is the best news.

The importance of saltpeter is that it is one of the three major raw materials for the production of black powder. Charcoal is easy to obtain. Sulfur is always what their Ming army desires most. At this stage, their sulfur mainly comes from sea trade-Japan and Taiwan. Zheng

The Ming Dynasty group has relations in both aspects. Although they are also on guard against each other, the Ming army is deeply involved in a war with the Qing army that is related to the fate of the dynasty and the continuation of civilization, and is unable to pose a great threat to them. This way

In this case, you are a bastard who doesn’t make money.

Gunpowder is still being produced with all its strength, not only in Nan'ao, but also in the center and left. Even because the Ming army's rampage on the battlefield in southern Fujian has temporarily come to an end, the Ordnance Bureau's production capacity has to be reluctantly reduced under Zheng Chenggong's order.

Tilt to Chaozhou to a certain extent.

The amount of gunpowder hoarded is gradually increasing, and the artillery only needs to be enough for the bastion. Granulated gunpowder and fixed charge bags are all the technical achievements he accumulated in the past few years. Now they have become universal for this Ming army.

acceptance and application.

After reading the report in Chaozhou, Chen Kai took a boat to Nan'ao Island. After some exchanges with Chen Bao, he turned west and went straight to Jieshiwei. Through Jieshiwei, he went to Lufeng Twin Fortresses.

If the Lufeng twin bastions are the core of the Ming army's defense lines in the east, west and south of Guangdong, then the Jieshi Acropolis is the material reserve and the stamina for the navy to be stationed. Chen Kai checked the inventory here and then rushed to the east bank of Luo River

, which is across the river from the bastion and connected by two pontoon bridges. The Ming army stationed a large number of troops there to cope with sudden changes, and even training during this period was conducted here.

In terms of training, the cavalry still depends on the strength of the commander. Wang Qifeng's cavalry town is the earliest cavalry town established by the Ming army. The soldiers and generals have rich combat experience. But at this moment, at a glance,

It seems that Wang Qifeng's cavalry town is still much inferior to Li Jianjie's subordinates.

On the school grounds, the soldiers of Hussar Town have already put on the new military uniforms of the Ming Army, and their long and short weapons have basically been replaced with the standard equipment of the Ming Army. They have also added war horses. Each one is like a dragon, and the horses are like the wind.

There were bursts of smoke and dust, but if you look carefully, you can see that it is quite organized and does not show any confusion. Like Chen Kai, although he does not understand cavalry, he has seen a lot and can still see some tricks even if he does not know how to use them.

Some clues.

If you think about it carefully, it's normal. Li Jianjie's troops were originally elites under Li Chengdong. They were very different from the cavalrymen under Wang Qifeng who had only been in the army for a few years and fought out of the mountains of corpses and seas of blood in the North.

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Cavalry requires a lot of experience and inspiration. This cannot be learned by just looking at it. After briefly scanning the training situation, Chen Kai left here and went to each town to inspect one by one. It was just a drill in each town.

Even after several months, they still look uneven. It’s not that the queues in a single town are uneven. After a few months, each one looks the same, but if you put each town

If we are together, there will always be a difference in terms of advantages and disadvantages.

"Perhaps, it would be better to set up a specialized training institution than to let each town train separately."

After a round, it is already night. Regarding the proficiency of the new tactics, the town behind the aid and suppression is naturally the first one. Among the other towns, the three towns of middle charge, forward charge and rear charge are better.

Especially Zhou Quanbin's Qianchong Town, followed by the three guard towns. As for Houjin Town, this time it really became a laggard. I thought that if Zheng Chenggong had the temper, Chen Bin might be "unable to handle it".

The military power was taken away. It's not like he had never done this kind of thing before.

"It seems that once a field battle breaks out, more consideration must be given to the formation and the order of attack."

With the flickering candlelight, Chen Kai lay on the desk and carefully looked at everything on the map. He was already familiar with these, but the Qing army was about to attack again, and this battle would surely become the highlight of the year.

The decisive battle on the battlefield in eastern Guangdong was about to begin, and he could not help but feel worried about it, and further estimated whether there were any fatal loopholes in it.

This kind of work was repeated countless times, and deductions with generals were also carried out many times. Everything that could be imagined was imagined as much as possible. After a month, time has quietly passed the line of the twelfth lunar month.

Son, relying on hauling all the way, the Qing army's red barbarian artillery was finally moved from Guangzhou back to Haifeng County. And within a few days, accompanying the red barbarian artillery arrived, it was commanded by King Geng Jimao of Jingnan

The whole army of the Jingnan clan came.

"It seems that Arzin and Malashi are a little busy and probably won't come."

Once the Qing army arrived in Haifeng County, they only took a short rest. Huang Yingjie, who was entrenched here, took the lead in marching eastward and arrived at the place where they camped when they last attacked the Lufeng Twin Fortresses to build a camp. Even while building the camp, they based on

According to the report of the Ming army's scouts, it seemed that they were also busy hauling the red cannons over, and they obviously wanted to launch an offensive as soon as possible.

"The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and the feudal soldiers also want to celebrate the New Year."

Chen Kai said that all the generals agreed with this. Looking at the old opponents at this moment, the generals were much more confident than in the last confrontation, and they were gearing up one by one. Especially Chen Kai, a question appeared on the corners of his mouth.
Chapter completed!