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Outside the city of Xiangyang, flags were unfurled, gongs and drums were noisy, and the Qiongzhou army lined up a neat square outside the city to welcome the arrival of Wu Sangui. When Wu Sangui's carriage and horse passed through the official road in the middle of the city gate, he was shocked by the momentum of the Qiongzhou army, and saw that the Qiongzhou army was neat and well-dressed. At the front were groups of infantry in red uniforms, on either side were cavalrymen in red uniforms and white armor, and artillery and auxiliaries were also wearing red uniforms.

The stragglers in green uniforms rode Mongolian horses, and Ye Bushu, who also wore green uniforms, rode tall Don hippos, and the elite of these elites greeted them and escorted Wu Sangui into Xiangyang City on both sides of Wu Sangui's convoy.

"The Qiongzhou Army is indeed the strongest army in the world! These stragglers and the lack of collection at night are probably also unique to the Qiongzhou Army. Fang Guangchen sighed.

Wu Sangui's own army was stationed outside Xiangyang City, and Wu Sangui only took a team of personal soldiers, escorted by the Qiongzhou army at night, and entered Xiangyang City.

"Time flies so fast, it's been seven years since I last saw King Pingxi!" Seeing Wu Sangui, Wang Yu hugged his fist and saluted.

Wu Sangui stroked his beard and looked up to the sky and laughed: "Yes! It's been seven years! The old man is a few years older, Nanwang, you are still young, you are really terrifying! ”

"The younger generation is not young anymore, and they are close to the age of establishment." Wang Xinyu also stroked his beard and said with a smile.

After some polite words, Wu Sangui asked again: "I don't know if Su'er is okay now?" ”

"Back to the prince of Pingxi, she is very good now. The younger generation went on the expedition, and it was inconvenient to take her family forward, so she was left in Hangzhou. Wang Xinyu replied.

After chatting about family life, Wang Xinyu asked at this time: "The younger generation is very puzzled, the younger generation has ordered the repair of the Forbidden City in Nanjing, ready to welcome back the holy car, why does the prince want to send someone to welcome the holy car to Hanzhong?" ”

Wu Sangui had already been prepared, and when he heard Wang Xinyu ask such a question, Wu Sangui replied with a smile: "The old man is about to go north to the Central Plains, and he will be able to recover the Beijing division in a few days!" As the Emperor Yongli of my great tomorrow, he should return to the capital! Since the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the first emperor was martyred, and the capital first fell into the hands of thieves, and then fell into the hands of Tartars! Now that the old man wants to recover the capital division and welcome the holy driver back to the capital, what's wrong? ”

Wang Xinyu didn't say anything more, he had already prepared for this question, Prince Chongzhen in Dongfan was just one of the candidates, and the prince of King Lu could replace Yongli at any time. The reason why there is no turning face at present is that Daming still needs the signboard of Yongli for the time being. When Wu Sangui went on a northern expedition to the Central Plains and seized the capital, it would not be too late to solve these problems at that time.

Thinking of this, Wang Xinyu nodded lightly and put forward a plan prepared in advance: "Prince Pingxi, the younger generation has a plan for the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains: since the Prince of Pingxi sent troops to Henan, then the road from the Central Plains to the capital, as well as Shaanxi and Shanxi, will be fought by the Prince of Pingxi. The younger generation will send troops to Jianghuai, capture Xuzhou, and then Shandong, and go north along the canal. You and I are divided into two routes, each of us will go on a northern expedition to see who will attack the Beijing division first, I don't know what the prince wants? ”

Wu Sangui asked with a smile: "If this domain attacks the Jingshi first, then what?" ”

"The first to enter the Beijing division is the best! If the prince of Pingxi entered the Beijing division first, he would be the first hero of my Ming Dynasty! What's more, the Son of Heaven Holy Driving is also in the hands of the prince, and at that time, the younger generation is willing to listen to the prince's orders! Wang Xinyu replied.

Wu Sangui had already made a calculation in his heart, as long as he brought Emperor Yongli into the capital, then in the future, he would coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes. Wu Sangui himself has no intention of being an emperor, he also wants to be Cao Cao, and let his son be the emperor in the future. Although Wu Sangui is not as good as Wang Xinyu in terms of strength, Wu Sangui's wishful thinking is Yongli, with Yongli by his side, as long as Wang Xinyu does not want to rebel, it is impossible to openly raise troops to resist.

However, when he came to Xiangyang today, listening to Wang Xinyu's tone, Wu Sangui felt a little puzzled, and he secretly said in his heart: This kid, shouldn't there be any reserved means, right? It may be possible that this kid wants to rely on his strong army and excellent weapons, and it is difficult to say that he will rebel in the future. But that's all for later. When he rebels, can those Jiangnan scholars agree?

When Wu Sangui returned to his own camp outside Xiangyang City, he told the other party Guangchen and Guo Zhuangtu and other military advisors about the doubts in his heart.

Fang Guangchen suddenly thought of one thing: "Lord Wang, there is one thing that students feel that things are probably not so simple!" Jiangnan Shizi recognized King Lu! If Wang Yu pushes King Lu out, he can compete with the Son of Heaven! ”

Guo Zhuangtu said: "Actually, the prince doesn't have to worry! If Wang Yu really pushed King Lu out, then it would be a big deal to have a north-south confrontation! The most important thing is strength! At present, the strength of the Qiongzhou Army is too strong! That's what we're all worried about. We also need our own arsenal, copied with their guns and guns, and have our own weapons of our own production, so that we can compete with the South. ”

Gao Dejie said: "Great commander, the last general has seen the weapons of their skirmishers, which are firearms with lines engraved in the barrel, with an extremely long range and very accurate, even the sharpshooters can't fight against this kind of firearms!" We can make a request to them to buy this firecracker. ”

"Don't just buy it, but copy it yourself!" Guo Zhuang said.

At present, in Wu Sangui's army, there are also a small number of rifled guns, most of which were captured from the Qing army, except for a few donated by Wang Xinyu. In the years of confrontation between the Qiongzhou army and the Qing army, there were also scattered soldiers killed, and rifled guns were captured by the Qing army. Wu Sangui obtained this weapon from the Qing army.

It's just that the manufacturing method of rifled guns is very complicated, although the Qing army has captured them, they can't imitate them, let alone Wu Sangui, no one teaches them, and they don't know how to make them at all.

After that, Wu Sangui sent Guo Zhuangtu into Xiangyang City to discuss with Wang Xinyu about the purchase of weapons and ammunition.

"Buy rifled guns?" Listening to Guo Zhuangtu's proposal, Wang Xinyu paused for a moment, and after a while, he said slowly, "This kind of rifled gun is extremely complicated to manufacture, even if it is not much here in this domain. General Guo, you have also seen that the number of stragglers in this domain is very small, with an average of only one skirmish out of ten musketeers. If we sell you more, we won't have enough here. ”

Guo Zhuangtu proposed: "Can you teach us how to make this kind of gun?" Let's produce it ourselves. ”

Wang Xinyu shook his head and said: "This weapon is difficult to imitate, not only tools, but also skilled craftsmen. Even if the clan taught you how to make such weapons, you might not be able to imitate them. Why don't you do that, and the clan will sell you another 200 of these weapons. ”