Just when Yang Feng reshaped the worldview of his followers and weaved an ancient era full of Xianxia style, the Holy Sect was also experiencing its first crisis.

As he guessed, the Mongol cavalry joined the battlefield.

On the battlefield in Henan, a large number of Mongolian cavalry cut off the northern gate of the Holy Sect, Yuzhou, and the rear connection, and then the 50,000 Qing troops led by the Eight Banners outside the Guanwai stormed Yuzhou, trying to open this vital point, as long as they opened this point, they could go straight down to the vast plains of the Nanyang Basin, and then the troops came to Xiangyang, the old nest of the current Holy Sect.

But they underestimated the common people who divided the land and passed through the grievance assembly.

The latter had really felt the happiness brought to them by the Holy Sect at this time, and after the harvest last autumn, those tenants who did not need to pay a grain of rent to the landlord would not let the Qing Demon and their minions come back and continue to make them miserable, and finally the three brigades of the Xuanwu Army who defended the city and all the people who withdrew into the city used a large number of equipped flintlock guns and a large number of artillery to defend Yuzhou City, and at the same time the other three brigades of Song Zhiqing's Xuanwu Army and one brigade of Yao Zhifu's Zhenning Army, and four brigades directly under the Xiangyang Metropolitan Governor's Office, a total of eight brigades of troops went north to reinforce.

They joined 20,000 Mongol cavalry and 10,000 heavy infantry of the Eight Banners to fight at Bowang, and the result was ......

Defeated!

"How could you be defeated?"

Yang Feng said speechlessly.

"According to the report of the Governor of Qi, the battlefield commander is Song Zhiqing, the commander of the Xuanwu Army, but he has no experience in commanding such large-scale battles. And the scale of the eight brigades is larger than any battle he commanded before, the command on the battlefield is chaotic, each brigade is largely its own battle, and finally the Mongolian cavalry rushed through the phalanx of three brigades, Song Zhiqing was afraid and gave the order to retreat, the result of the retreat turned into a rout, the loss was great under the pursuit of the Mongolian cavalry, the total casualties of each department exceeded 10,000, fortunately, it was not far from Nanyang, and most of the remnants retreated into Nanyang. But one thing is very good, none of our soldiers surrendered to the enemy on the battlefield, even those lone troops who were scattered were also fighting with the enemy to the end, and the Mongolian cavalry and Eight Banners of the Qing Demon had to be killed and wounded more than 8,000, although the Mongolian cavalry broke through the three phalanxes, but the price was heavy casualties. Moreover, Yuzhou is still in our hands, Nanyang, Tangzhou, Miyang and other places have all been transferred to fortification, the common people are fortified and cleared, and there are even many righteous people who organize guerrillas to attack the enemy army under the leadership of those little patriarchs. ”

Han Lin said.

"Pass on my order, remove Song Zhiqing from the position of commander of the Xuanwu Army, let him honestly be his grand patriarch, Yang Zhong will take over the Xuanwu Army after he arrives, and reorganize the Yuzhou garrison into the fifth and sixth towns."

Yang Feng said.

At this time, the second town commanded by Xu Hui instead of him has reached Anqing, Wang Cong'er's third town has conquered Jiujiang, and Lin Zhihua and Liu Zhixie on the north bank are attacking Anqing, and there is actually a small piece in the middle that has not been opened, but there is no obstacle to information transmission, in fact, according to the current progress, it will be completely opened in half a month at most. And he has already formed the fourth town, and these brigades in Henan can achieve this kind of result, which is enough to form two more towns.

As for Song Zhiqing's defeat......

This is completely reasonable, it was originally some second-line troops, although the hollow phalanx was effective, but it was not completely immune to cavalry, although the flintlock pistol had obvious advantages, it also needed the commander's ability to match, and it could resist 20,000 cavalry in the field and cause huge casualties to the opponent, which can already be said to be glorious despite defeat.

Besides, Yuzhou hasn't been lost yet!

Next, it depends on Yang Zhong, even if Yang Zhong is still defeated and lost in Yuzhou, it doesn't matter, there is a Nanyang City behind it, and then there is Xiangyang in the future!

At this time, the Holy Sect was still able to survive several defeats.

"Let's go, let's see our new guns."

Yang Feng got up and said.

His new gun is a musket gun, and it is a rifled gun, but it is not a Mini bullet, at this time Europe already has the ability to manufacture Mini bullets, rifled guns are not worth mentioning, he has not yet had time to go out to expand, if he is in a hurry to get Mini bullets, maybe it will be learned by the British, and when he solves the internal war, maybe the lobster soldiers have been upgraded to two crows during this time. This is not good for him to go out to do things in the future, and it will also seriously affect the rise of Xiao Nana, as for the fire cap, it doesn't matter, that thing is handed over to the British, and the British can't study what it is in a short time, and that thing can't be copied by looking at the appearance, it's chemistry not mechanics.

"Immortal Venerable, this gun can't go to the battlefield, right?"

Looking at the soldier who had turned the muzzle of the gun upside down, and the wooden hammer and the whole strip were forced to smash bullets into it, Han Lin said with a shocked expression.

"This wasn't meant for ordinary soldiers."

Yang Feng said and took a gun.

This is actually Baker, of course, there must be a certain difference in appearance, but there is no difference in essence, but it is changed to a fire cap shot, which is a short barrel, a buckskin projectile, and there are four simple rifling wires inside, although it is not like the early rifled guns, which require soldiers to knock to despair, but it is still inseparable from the help of a hammer.

After Yang Feng looked at it, he changed the gun to the soldier, who took it respectfully, then took out a brass fire cap and put it on, and then aimed at the target in the distance.

"Water him!"

Yang Feng said.

In Han Lin's stunned gaze, the two soldiers next to him each picked up a watering can for watering flowers and began to water, in the simulated rain, the soldier aimed steadily eighty zhang away, where an unlucky goat was grazing, as the soldier pulled the trigger, the gunshot suddenly rang out, and the next moment the goat fell down with impact as if it had been beaten. Han Lin subconsciously let out an exclamation, you must know that such a distance is a little far even if the cannon scatters, the accurate distance of the smoothbore gun is only ten zhang, and if it can hit an excellent soldier from twenty zhang away, it will be left to fate if it is thirty zhang away.

And this is eighty zhang!

One hit from 80 zhang away!

But what shocked Han Lin even more was that the soldier actually started to reload in the rain!

He carefully blocked the muzzle of the gun with one hand and took out a new gunpowder bag with the other, bit it open, covered the rain with his body and poured it from the muzzle, and then continued to block the muzzle, took out the projectile wrapped in deerskin and stuffed it, knocked it in with a small wooden hammer, and then took the strip to resist, knocked it down with a small wooden hammer, smashed it hard with a small wooden hammer, and then put away the strip and the wooden hammer, took out a fire cap and put it on, and then raised the gun again and pulled the trigger, and in Han Lin's shocked gaze, the muzzle flame erupted again, and the corpse of the goat that fell to the ground trembled violently.

"Yes, this sheep has rewarded you!"

Yang Feng patted the soldier on the shoulder and said.

"Xie Xianzun!"

The latter said excitedly.

"Immortal Venerable, what if all the guns are changed to fire caps?"

Han Lin, who came to his senses, said excitedly.

Although the flintlock pistol has a medicine cover, it is not that it is impossible to use it in the rain, but that is just a small drizzle and the like, which is completely nonsense in the heavy rain, and there is no shortage of heavy rain in the south of the Yangtze River, fortunately, it is not yet the rainy season at this time, once it enters the rainy season, the use of muskets will be severely restricted, of course, this restriction is greater for the Qing army, after all, the Qing army uses arquebuses, but if it can be unrestricted, then it can ensure that the Qing army is always hanging, and this gun is obviously not limited by rainy days.

"Change, of course, but before that, we have to increase the production of fire caps!"

Yang Feng said.

It is not difficult to change a flintlock pistol to a fire cap gun.

But it takes a little bit to make fire caps in large quantities, nitric acid, mercury, ethanol......

Ethanol is good to say.

But copper is also needed, and a certain amount of machinery is also needed, in short, this requires a process, and at present, it is still preferential to the hunters, after all, they need precision, and a clear advantage of the flintlock pistol over the flintlock pistol is that the ignition will not be delayed, basically the trigger can be ignited, but the flintlock pistol's powder pool always needs a little time to ignite the rifle gunpowder after ignition.

In short, he still needs time.

In fact, Yang Feng has developed a lot of things now, but it just takes time to develop.

After the steam engine solved the power problem, all kinds of simple machines began to be manufactured, such as this rifled gun was made by a steam-powered rifling machine, and the primary version of the boring machine needless to say, the primary version of the lathe was available, and the primary version of the steam-powered forging hammer, which appeared in his imperial city. Yang Feng has incomparably rich experience in playing these things, Xiao Qian has all the drawings and materials he needs, which he accumulated in the late Ming Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, and the most suitable for the current technical conditions, it is nothing more than to copy it again, the lack of materials is solved by Xiao Qian, the lack of skilled workers Xianzun Lord himself, coupled with a large number of old craftsmen who have been fully mobilized to create an explosive industry.

In the next step, he is even preparing to build a steel-making furnace.

The current steel is still the same old fashion, that is, the crucible steel of the Pudling furnace and Huntsmann, which is no different from Europe, and Europe is also everywhere now.

That is, this set of things does not give him a technical advantage.

Of course, with China's huge human resources, he can still crush Europe, as long as a perfect reserve system can be established, he can rely on the number of troops, and it is enough to pile up European countries.

Are 10 million troops afraid?

But it would be better if it could evolve to the age of steel.

Especially at present, in the face of the crushing advantage of the Empire at sea, it is undoubtedly a very brainless behavior to compete with them with sail battleships, even if he starts to build ships now, it is impossible to surpass Britain in the short term, the best way is to develop the steel industry first and directly build a few ironclad ships to scare them, even Dingyuan is not needed, a warrior class with Armstrong cannons is the king who crushes everything.

But the Warrior class must have a steel-making furnace.