A few years ago, Qian Zhiyu gave birth to a daughter; Not long after the Chinese New Year, Pan Ying gave birth to a son. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info plus Zheng Yunsheng's son and daughter, now Wang Xinyu is the father of four children. And the concubine with strong martial arts, the Japanese little Lori Eagle Si Xinzi, is also pregnant. According to Wang Xinyu's plan, after the Japanese little Lori gave birth to a child, she would find a way to get Japan to control the royal family, and finally take Japan into her own pocket.

Wu Sangui sent the little Lori to Wang Xinyu for a year and a half, the past year and a half, the little Lori has developed rapidly, although she is not yet fourteen years old, but she has been slim and elegant, she is a little beauty.

Looking at Wu Su, who is growing up day by day, Wang Xinyu suddenly thought of Hongsheng's two younger sisters, Xiangning and Xiangyu, who hadn't seen each other for several years, and didn't know how they were doing now, and I didn't know if they were married. The two of them are a little older than Wu Su, and it is normal to marry at the age of fifteen or sixteen in this era.

"The Divine Decree has arrived!" Just when Wang Xinyu was thinking nonsense, the messenger came to Dongfan.

In addition to canonizing Wang Yu as the prince and promoting him from the king of Nanhai County to the king of the south, he also ordered Wang Yu to send troops to capture the two cities of Jingzhou and Xiangyang, so that the Northern Expedition army no longer has to worry about the future.

"Obey the order!" Wang Yu received the holy decree and rewarded Qin Cha with a hundred taels of silver. After that, he prepared to leave Dongfan for Wuchang, where he commanded the attack on Jingzhou and Xiangyang.

When Qin Cha left, Li Guangdi asked, "Does the prince really want to help Wu Sangui and them open a passage?" ”

"No matter how bad Yongli is, after all, it's still my tomorrow! Since the holy decree has been issued, then attack Jingzhou and Xiangyang! Anyway, the clan was going to attack these two cities! It's better to push the boat down the river and send them a favor. Wang Xinyu replied.

Li Guangdi frowned slightly, and said cautiously: "Lord Wang, if you expel the Tartars in the future, they will be our enemies!" The two cities of Jingzhou and Xiangyang, it is better to divide them to attack! Let the camp fight Jingzhou, and Wu Sangui fight Xiangyang! This can deplete their strength and delay their northern expedition. Nowadays, the weapons of our army are developing rapidly, and the longer the time drags on, the more beneficial it will be to our army! If we let them succeed too soon, we will not have enough time to prepare! What's more, how much ammunition would it cost our army to attack the two fortified cities of Jingzhou and Xiangyang! It is not easy to accumulate this new type of ammunition once. ”

Wang Xinyu sighed: "They are all children of the Han family, and this clan can't bear to let the Han people pay greater sacrifices!" Jingzhou and Xiangyang, the two fortified cities, if they are allowed to attack, I don't know how many more Han people will die! Why don't we attack it! ”

"The prince is benevolent!" Li Guangdi saluted, "But just after the rainy season, the water level of Changhu Lake in Jingzhou is high!" If the prince wants to attack Jingzhou, he needs to beware of the Tatars' plan to attack with water! ”

The Qing army's stronghold on the Yangtze River is left only one Jingzhou, Jingzhou is located on the north bank of the Yangtze River, the hinterland of the Jianghan Plain, the surrounding river network is vertical and horizontal, there are many lakes, the Changhu Lake in the northeast of Jingzhou City, is the third largest lake in Hubei, the lake spans Jingzhou, Jiangling, Anlu three places, the lake is higher than the Yangtze River and the Han River, after the rainy season, the water level of the lake is high, the lake level has been far higher than the city of Jingzhou! The embankment of Changhu Lake blocks the turbulent water, and the vast Changhu Lake is like a basin of water hanging over Jingzhou's head.

Reminded by Li Guangdi, Wang Xinyu recalled the memories brought from later generations, and he vaguely remembered that the elevation of this Jingzhou City is about 20 meters, and the elevation of Changhu Lake is 28 meters, and now the water level is high, and the lake surface has exceeded 30 meters, which means that the lake is ten meters higher than Jingzhou City!

Wang Xinyu sat down and ordered his soldiers to get a map of Jingzhou.

After opening the map, Li Guangdi pointed to the map: "Lord Wang, please look, this Jingzhou City is not only lower than Changhu, but also lower than the Yangtze River!" If the Tartars want to introduce our army into Jingzhou and release water to flood our army, our army can reach the river by boat without going down the river embankment, and open the Yangtze River embankment, and then flood Jingzhou! Then taking advantage of the fact that Jingzhou became a Ze country, our army's naval division directly entered Jingzhou City. At that time, even if the Tartars opened the embankment of the Long Lake, it would be useless, and our army would kill the enemy on the boat! ”

"Flooding Jingzhou? But what about the hundreds of thousands of people in Jingzhou Prefecture? Jingzhou is located in the Jianghan Plain, and it is also the granary of Huguang, where there is a large population, flooding Jingzhou, and the people will starve to death if they don't drown! This is not a good idea! Wang Xinyu shook his head.

Li Guang said: "But if you don't use water for water, if the Tartars open the embankment of Changhu Lake, what is good?" The lake embankment was opened, and Jingzhou was flooded into a swamped country. If it is a plan to attack by water, it is a plan that does not damage a soldier or a soldier! Not only this Jingzhou City, attacking Xiangyang, but also attacking with water. It's just that the prince is benevolent and doesn't want to attack with water. ”

"How to attack Jingzhou and Xiangyang, let's go to Wuchang first! Jin Qing, let's go! Wang Xinyu said.

Wang Xinyu took Li Guangdi and left Dongfan and went to Jiangnan by boat. In addition to troop carriers, there were also a large number of ships loaded with weapons and ammunition.

The new smoothbore cannon is already the ultimate mode of front-loading smoothbore guns, and those new smoothbore guns can not only fire powerful flowering shells, but even long-barreled cannons can fire reliable flowering shells, and there will be no explosion of shells in the breech.

According to the plan for building artillery, the Ming army would cast 24-pounder howitzers, 12-pounder howitzers, 12-pounder cannons and 8-pounder cannons in large quantities. With the advent of the new artillery, mortars will gradually be phased out in favor of the more powerful and long-range 32-pounder howitzer. Those new artillery will not only be manufactured at the Dongfan Gun Factory, but will also be licensed to Shanghai Arsenal, Foshan Iron and Steel Plant and other factories for manufacturing.

However, in a short period of time, Wang Xinyu was unable to replace all the old smoothbore guns with new ones, but updated the ammunition of the old smoothbore guns and replaced them with new ones. Once newer shells and propellants are used, the old guns can be used to great power, and those old guns can be used until the barrel life ends.

The latest version of the flowering shell, which has been put into full production, has taken the rear-mounted metal cartridge fuse, which is placed on the cork stock at the tail of the shell. The front of the fuse is connected to a thunder guan that triggers the explosion of the new explosive, and the explosion power of the shell is much greater than that of the original flowering shell, and the dumb fire rate is also reduced to less than 10%.

The original cork fuse flowering shells had a very high rate of mute fire, and the explosion rate of ten shells was only more than 40 percent.

However, the price of the new flowering shells is still relatively expensive, and it costs a lot of silver just to cast the shells, so solid shells and shotguns are still in use.