In order to eliminate Ding Nian in one fell swoop, Lu Xu led a total of 8,000 troops this time! Among the 8,000 troops, 5,000 were Lu Xu’s old subordinates, and the other 3,000 were refugees that Lu Xu had recently gathered one after another.
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In other words, among the troops Lu Xu brought this time, 3,000 were firearms troops!
It is worth mentioning that this time when forming the refugee unit, Lu Xu adopted a modern organization for the first time. There were 12 people in a squad, and each squad was equipped with two carrying guns, 12 short knives, and 12 steel round shields.
Every five squads formed a platoon, and each platoon was equipped with two squatting tiger cannons. After that, every three platoons formed a company, and so on, but there were some changes at the regiment level.
Based on these recruits, Lu Xu formed a total of two new corps, and he built a recruit brigade based on these two new corps.
This recruit brigade has a total of 100 squatting cannons and 500 lifting guns. It can be said that in this era, such firepower is already devastating. In this era, only places like Xinanzhai that have begun to use manpower and hydraulic machine tools can do so.
So many firearms were produced in a short period of time.
It was also taking advantage of this opportunity that the Xin'an Army also began to make quiet reforms. He planned to gradually start to adopt a modern organization.
The main reason why no reform in this area was carried out before was because the Xin'an Army still had to work within the Daliang system.
However, after this battle, it was almost a foregone conclusion that the Xin'an Army and Qin Fenglu would break away from Daliang. Lu Xu began to quietly change some things to prepare for the subsequent complete separation from Daliang and the comprehensive modernization reform of Xin'an Village.
For example, in this battle, although nominally the Xin'an Army still uses the "small army" organization of Daliang, in private, the soldiers of the Xin'an Army have begun to distinguish between the "main brigade" and the "recruit brigade".
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This time Lu Xu's side can be said to be strong and strong, and Lu Xu himself is also full of confidence.
However, in the past half month, Ding Nian's life has been really not going well.
He is now facing a huge crisis, that is, his military pay will be cut off!
Although the people on Qinfeng Road all know that Ding Nian is doing the job of a traitor. Moreover, he recruits troops to lead many of them to become traitors.
But for the people of Qinfeng Road, the Liang Dynasty had already abandoned them, and they had long lost all loyalty to the Liang Dynasty.
Secondly, after the Beiting people came, it really made the already very difficult life of many people even worse. Many people could no longer afford to live, so they would not die for a court they hated.
Therefore, Ding Nian now stands up to provide a way for everyone to survive. Many people have chosen to join Ding Nian's side.
At the same time, these people who surrendered to the traitors still had a vague idea in their hearts.
"That Lu Xu has a good official reputation, and I heard he is a very good person to the people."
"Perhaps he will understand our difficulties and be merciful to us?"
They had never thought that in Lu Xu's mind they had already been classified as part of the traitors. At first, Lu Xu and the rural soldiers from all over the country were recruiting soldiers, but they, the traitors, did not join the army.
It is understandable that they are unwilling to be loyal to the court. The rural soldiers are all natives of their hometown. They are armed either to defend the country or to protect their families. But these people are still unwilling to participate. On the contrary, they went as soon as Ding Nian recruited troops.
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Lu Xu has no sympathy for such people at all. When the two armies meet, Lu Xu will never show mercy!
These little traitors don't know who they are in Lu Xu's heart. But their leader Ding Nian may be able to see that Lu Xu may hate them more than he hates the people of Beiting.
In order to prevent himself from appearing helpless in front of Lu Xu, he recruited 80,000 troops one after another.
The military strength ratio between Ding Nian and Lu Xu has reached 10:1.
But I don't know why? Ding Nian always felt uneasy in his heart. He always felt that the few troops he had were not enough.
Not only him, but even the people in Beiting felt the same way. In fact, the people in Beiting had recently developed an inexplicable feeling of fear towards Lu Xu.
This is not because they are timid, but mainly because what happened recently is too unbelievable to the people of Beiting!
Although due to Lu Xu's tight protection, the Beiting people were unable to obtain information inside Xinan Village. However, the Beiting people have not given up investigating Xinan Village recently.
They discovered from a distance that large-scale production seemed to be going on inside Xinan Village. They could hear the workers' chants in Xinan Village from a distance, and many times the chants did not stop even at night.
Not only that, they also recently discovered that there always seemed to be a "thunder" sound exploding inside Xinanzhai.
It was okay once or twice, but countless thunders on the ground made the spies in Beiting frightened. They began to suspect that Lu Xu was an evil mage who was proficient in sorcery and was preparing to use evil magic to deal with them in Beiting.
Even the upper echelons of the Right Army are not exempt from this kind of thinking.
In the first few days, there were still leaders of the Right Route Army who did not believe in the idea of "thunder rising from the ground". However, after some commanders of the Right Route Army came to observe the practice near Xinanzhai, the matter of Lu Xu's practice of evil had almost become a reality.
reached a consensus among the Right Army.
However, even the upper echelons of the Right Army did not dare to discuss this matter openly, because the rumors about witchcraft quickly reached the ears of King Youxian.
After all, if Lu Xu really knows witchcraft, then this is a very important military intelligence! They must let King Youxian decide what to do in person?
But what kind of person is King Youxian? He believes that his subordinates will not lie to him. There is indeed the sound of thunder in Xin'an Village. But he does not believe that Lu Xu can do magic at all!
Although he doesn't know what Lu Xu is doing? He doesn't know why Lu Xu can summon thunder?
But he can be sure that even if he doesn't understand the principles, there is a set of reasons that can be explained. Just because he doesn't understand the principles doesn't mean it's a witchcraft!
King Youxian firmly believes that there is no such thing as "weird power and chaos" in this world. There must be a reasonable explanation behind everything that seems unusual. The problem is that it often takes a lot of effort to figure out the principle behind it.
The hard work of a wise man throughout his life.
but!
He doesn't believe that Lu Xu knows magic, but it doesn't mean that he doesn't take this matter seriously. He knows that Lu Xu is definitely not a pretender. The fact that he made such a big noise means that Lu Xu has definitely prepared a big killer weapon.
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So after receiving the news about Lu Xu summoning the sky thunder, he immediately issued two orders!
First, immediately order Ding Nian to speed up the expansion of the army in order to deal with Lu Xu's possible attack. Even if Ding Nian's troops cannot stop Lu Xu, they still have to help the Beiting people try out what Lu Xu's trump card is?
Secondly, people were immediately prohibited from discussing matters related to Tianlei, and no one was allowed to reveal news about Tianlei to Ding Nian and Daliang.