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"Please board, sir."

Chen Tianhua, who was in charge of the battalion office, held a command knife and reported loudly.

This was Li Shouhan's first official review of his new army. The purpose is to show his military strength and deter the Zheng family in the north from stabbing them in the back.

He boarded the parade car in military uniform, which was similar to the equipment of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, pulled by four beautiful horses, from the car, the four horses were snow-white, and the skeleton and fur of the horses were almost identical. The bronze four-wheeled chariot, Li Shouhan standing on it, is even more graceful and magnificent. The horses were brought from Perez in Luzon, a total of eight horses, and the four horses were given to Yan Meier and Choi Xiuxiu to use as their vehicles. Compared with those ancient chariots, the position of the driver of this car has been adjusted somewhat, from the center to the left, Li Shouhan's position is behind the right of the driver, and there is a rosewood armrest between him and the driver, which can keep him balanced during the movement of the vehicle. A pedal across the body is set up at the rear of the car, which can be used by two soldiers to stand on the pedal and perform protection tasks.

Originally, it seemed that the parade troops should be on horseback, but considering the riding skills of his two swords, Shouhan did not want to be like Commander-in-Chief Chiang, who fell off his horse while reviewing the troops, and turned himself into the laughing stock of others, not to mention, which also increased the confidence of careerists; In the end, the safest way was taken, and the car was reviewed.

A few days ago, after a period of discussion with his staff and subordinates, Shouhan finally made such a decision: first the south and then the north, first solve the south, connect the Ruan family's control area with his southern immigration area, obtain a vast strategic rear, and then turn the gun and solve the Zheng family in the north. For the temptation of Guangxi, Li Peilin replied to an official letter in the name of Hejing Shou Yuqianhu, and the general content of the letter was like this.

At that time, Lord Mao set up the river to guard the palace of thousands of households, just to transfer and detain the tribute of Annan to the Beijing Division, and did not explain the affiliation. For decades, it has been a succession passed down from father to son. Suddenly, another document arrived, saying that he needed to go to the seat of the adult to receive the official documents, but I don't know why he came? Although Hejing is small and poor, and the Han and Miao Yao are mixed, the people are favored by the Li family, and they can't bear to abandon each other. The meaning is very clear, if you want to change the Li family, there are a group of barbarians here, and they are all only the Li family in their eyes, you have to think about the consequences, once a war breaks out, it will not be good for you.

The soft and hard documents were handed over to the messenger from Guangxi to bring back. Accompanying the letter to Guangxi were two personal letters in the name of Li Shouhan. One is for the governor, and the other is for the commander-in-chief.

Unlike the official documents, the general content of these two letters is that the adults are welcome to send their henchmen to Ha Tinh to trade and do business. Shou Han should be fully supportive, make a fortune together, and deliberately write the words crudely and straightforwardly. Let those adults and gentlemen rest assured that Li Shouhan is just a rude warrior.

dealt with those officials in Guangxi who were only thinking about how to knock out some benefits from Li Shouhan, after all, their hands could not reach into Hejing for the time being. At present, it is necessary to devote energy to how to deal with the forces of the north and the south.

In the current Annan, the Ruan family, Li Shouhan, and Zheng family, from south to north, lined up in a long snake formation. Among them, the Zheng family controlled the Li court, just like Cao Cao of the Three Kingdoms, while the Ruan family in the south, how to say, relied on the Lingjiang River to confront the regime in the north.

Ten years after Li Shouhan's crossing, there was a war between the north and the south. It was the so-called First Civil War in history, which ended in defeat for the North.

In the intelligence materials collected by Li Shouhan, it seems that the military strength and economic strength of the north are far superior to that of the south, so in the civil war for several decades, the north was the attacking side, and the south only took the initiative to attack, and the rest belonged to the defensive side.

The south has few soldiers, money and food are also insufficient, and the south is also in a state of development and immigration at this time. In Hue, the Nguyen family's hometown, Quang Nam area is narrow and sparsely populated. The same idea was to lure the peasants from the north to the south to reclaim, and in this regard, he and Li Shouhan were peers.

Today, Li Shouhan's territory is mainly Ha Tranh and Quang Binh, which are located in parts of the north bank of the Lingjiang River and part of Laos, which are about 20,000 square kilometers and have a population of nearly one million if calculated in square kilometers.

Moreover, in addition to the refined salt manufacturing process, the sugar purification process, ductile iron, and crucible steelmaking, there is another natural killing weapon in Shouhan's hands.

That's Stony Brook Iron Mine!

After repeated exploration and confirmation, Li Shouhan finally wept and thanked God for allowing him to have this iron ore that could theoretically unify the whole world. Just near the old nest iron cottage of He Deputy Qianhu, it is the largest iron mine in Annan!

This iron ore contains 540 million tons of iron ore! What's even more surprising is that the average iron content of its iron ore has reached more than 61%, which means that its iron core content is much higher than this value, you must know that the average iron content of Shilu iron ore, which is known as the only iron-rich ore in China, is only 51.2%!

However, there is no such thing as the best of both worlds, Ha Tinh has insane iron ore resources, but there is a lack of ironmaking, especially another mineral for large-scale steelmaking - coal!

And the main producing area of coal is precisely on the territory of the Zheng family!

Therefore, for the sake of coal, he can't turn his face with the Zheng family for the time being, it's not that he is afraid of the Zheng family, in addition to coal, he also needs to let the Zheng family act as a wall to protect him from the wind and rain in the north, as long as the Zheng family is in the north, Li Shouhan has no land contact with Guangxi, and those adults in Guangxi can only fight the autumn wind.

Therefore, for the sake of coal, in order to let the Zheng family continue to shelter from the wind and rain in the north, it is necessary to have a relationship with the Zheng family. As a result, Lin Huofeng, the shopkeeper of the Han Yuan firm, and Jiang Yili, the shopkeeper of the Yuhe Taiyan, accompanied by Hu Zhongkang, the second young master of the Hu family, went to Shenglong to negotiate with several important members of the Zheng family and Zheng Jie's favorites, intending to reach a trade agreement. With refined salt, fish floss, white sugar, and dyed cloth produced in Hejing, trade with the Zheng family. Of course, those piles are everywhere, and the black charcoal (coal) can also be used to offset the payment.

However, the cost of opening up the joints is indispensable, and the news from Shenglong came back, several of the Zheng family's sons, nephews and favored ministers, the lion opened their mouths, and opened a bribe request that was almost sky-high in the eyes of Lin Jiang and the others: no matter how much each catty of salt is sold in the Zheng family's control area, they must be allowed to take a fee of thirty Wen!

At the same time, they should be allowed to mix fifty stone of gangue in each shipload of coal!

Your father's brother's!

After listening to the messenger's report, Shouhan's first reaction was this.

That's just the gangue! Anyway, Lao Tzu is also very useful, it is better for you to directly transport it to Lao Tzu one by one, but, Lao Tzu's refined salt, why do you extract such a high fee?!

Suppressing the anger in his heart, Shouhan and Li Peilin conspired for two days, and then proposed to the group of guys in the north to use the treasure knives and spears produced by Ha Jing to offset this part of the benefit fee.

After being installed, there was also a small amount of loss and export of the Jeno Sword and the Funeral Gun, which were found in both the North and the South, and were regarded as military treasures by their respective monarchs. After thinking about it for a long time, now Li Shouhan finally reluctantly parted his love and allowed these two things to enter the northern army, how could this not make Zheng Jie and his family inexplicably excited?!

After another fierce bargaining, the two sides signed a three-year trade agreement in Thang Long. The agreement stipulated that the Han Yuan firm on the Ha Tinh side was required to provide Thang Long with 1,000 swords and 2,000 spears every year, and in return, the Han Yuan firm and other merchants were allowed to do business duty-free in the Zheng Jia Kong area and purchase goods they deemed necessary. Three months before the expiration of the agreement, the two parties will discuss whether to renew the conditions.

"When the first swords and guns arrived, I equipped the guards first, and made them sharp blades in my hands. Then the military units in various parts of the province will be replaced. "Although the Zheng family is only the king, Zheng Jie already calls himself me. Most of his guards were soldiers from his hometown of Thanh Hoa and Nghe An. I don't know why, many people believe in their hometowns, and the famous Saddam's Republican Guard is mostly composed of his hometowners. As for Yan Xishan, let alone say, "If you can speak Wutai, you will carry a foreign knife."

The threat from the north and northeast was temporarily lifted, and Shouhan turned all his attention to the south.

For the south, he did not hesitate at all, one word, hit! Two words, elimination!

In order to destroy another political force and military strength, we must first have our own military strength and economic strength stronger than the other side.

Therefore, Shouhan took the opportunity of the formation of an army of more than 10,000 people who had just completed the training of strong men to review their military strength, and at the same time, to increase the cohesion of the people under their rule.

Naturally, the organization of a military parade in Ha Tinh cannot be compared with the National Day military parade, and moreover, all the troops stationed in various key areas cannot be transferred back, and the commander-in-chief can only take a few teams to participate in the parade with the number of his own unit.

The area where the troops were paraded was on the concrete road from Ha Tinh to Hongji Port. In the past, on the cement road, where three carriages could be carried in parallel, the troops were assembled in battalion columns, and the troops were unified to face the south. At the same time, the people and guests were allowed to watch, and in order to let the guests see more clearly, Shouhan also set up a viewing platform for the distinguished guests of the Zheng family.

On the far right is the military flag of Li Shouhan's army, the iron-blooded eighteen-star flag. And Shouhan's own Li character banner with gold edges and gold lines, yellow flames, red backgrounds, and white moonlight is fluttering on his parade car at the moment.

The color of the military flag is red as the background color, according to Li Peilin, one is to say the five elements, which means that it is located in the south, serving fire virtue, and is still red. Second, it is the red banner of the Han family, so that people do not forget the Han family and Miao descendants. To the left of the Iron-Blooded Eighteen-Star Banner is the battalion flag of the Guards Battalion. The Guards Battalion, as the personal soldier of the Han Guard, and the first unit in his unit to be fully firearmed, had the reason and qualification to stand at the forefront and accept his review. At the forefront of the Guards Battalion column were four six-pounder guns and eight Franc machine guns, that is, the guns of the son-mother gun, but Li Shouhan improved them, solved the problem of quick-replacement sealing, and was lighter in weight and had a longer firing range, and the effective range of shotgun fire was also 300 to 400 meters. The newly forged nine-turn steel cannon was wiped by the gunners like a bronze mirror. The gunners, armed with push levers and wool brushes, stood straight behind the guns with their chests held out. Dozens of aggrieved drivers were in the last row of the battalion column, pacifying the Dian horses who were responsible for towing artillery and ammunition trucks.

Eight steps to the left of the Guards Battalion column is the banner of the Qilin Battalion, which is now divided into eight battalions, including the front and back, the left and right, the vanguard, the assault, and the artillery, which is almost a brigade-level unit. On the left side of the Qilin Banner is the flag of the artillery team, and the battalion officer of the artillery team, Mai Tianen, has a recognition flag on his back, leading his troops to also stand behind his own artillery, twelve six-pounder guns, constituting the long-range firepower of the Qilin battalion. Looking to the left from the artillery battalion, there are seven battalions of the unicorn battalion, including the front and back, the left and right, the vanguard, and the assault, and the battalion flags of each battalion are also a fiery unicorn roaring in the clouds, and on the left side of their respective flags, is the artillery of each battalion. Four more six-pounder guns glittered in the sun. Then there was the Phoenix Battalion, the Marines of the Xuanwu Battalion, the eight-pounder guns and twelve-pounder guns of the Artillery Division, and so on, and the last one was the rocket launcher, a long steel launcher, which shone brightly in the sun.

Six-pounder, eight-pounder, 12-pounder, rocket, just stand for short-range, medium-range, long-range and ultra-long-range fire coverage strikes. Li Shouhan believed that artillery was the god of war, so the number of artillery in his army was so comprehensive that it could be said that it was unprecedented, and the artillery was arranged all the way to the port of Hongji.

The first units of each battalion to be inspected were battalion artillery units, and at the front of the queue was the Franc machine gun, which was now called the Whirlwind Cannon, and next to the Whirlwind Cannon was a blue-yellow six-pounder bronze cannon. The six-pounder guns were followed by the various infantry units.

From the side, the flags in the first column, whether it is the military flag of the iron-blooded eighteen stars or the big flags, battalion flags, and team flags of each battalion, are all neatly arranged in one line, and the positions of all the artillery and people are also arranged in the slightest.

Chen Tianhua and Xu Huanshan's battalion officers all wore helmets and crown armor, and the outside of the breastplate was a brand-new Shu brocade robe, and the four black feathers on the top of their heads also took care of their extra spirit. The officers of each team below the battalion officer were almost dressed like the battalion officers, but they lacked battle uniforms, while the soldiers were holding their own weapons in their hands, staring intently at the slowly approaching inspection car of Shouhan.

When the carriage was about to enter within ten paces to the right of the camp flag, a loud swan sounded in the middle of the procession, and all the people saluted with guns. Suddenly, a forest of guns appeared over the sea of people! The tip of the long spear shimmered with the sun's rays!

Shouhan waved back to the soldiers of each battalion in the car, and the crowd made a voice, "Who distributed the land to us?!" Thousands of people replied in a loud voice: "It's the general!" ”

"Who paid us a good salary?!"

"It's the general!"

"Whose meal do we eat?!"

"Eat the general's meal!"

"Whose gun are we carrying?!"

"Carry the general's gun!"

"Whose orders do we listen to?!"

"We only listen to the general!"

In the distance, Li Peilin accompanied several guests of the Zheng family on the viewing platform, looking at Li Shouhan inspecting the team, and felt proud in his heart, "With this merit, why not take it?" Defeat the enemy in this way, why not defeat the enemy?! The general has this military heart and this people's heart, so why worry about the big thing? ”

And the guests of the Zheng family are not in such a good mood, looking at the swords and guns such as a forest, the neat phalanx, the pressure on people is like a mountain, coupled with the ships on the dock that are galloping like flying, the people of the Zheng family are extremely firm in their hearts: "With the army of the Celestial Empire, we must have a good relationship, there is no certainty of victory, and we must not meet each other lightly!" ”

Stay tuned for the next section, the beginning of the dark war

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