Lin Fei thought to himself that the thing used by the Spanish military engineer should be cement, but the old craftsman Qin Xiren didn't understand this, so he didn't recognize it.

Qin Xiren continued: "Those Spanish military engineers treat those gray powders as treasures, and they usually don't let us touch them, and only take them out when they use them, and they have to add water when they use them, and they are also very particular about adding water, and they can't make a mistake when adding water, and whoever makes a mistake will be whipped." ”

"They were also different from others when they built the walls, because I used to build the walls with stone and earth, but these people used steel rods, and they put a lot of steel rods on the outside of the original walls, and they dug deep holes in the ground and buried the steel rods in them."

"In this process is also very particular, how deep the pit is dug, how far the distance between each two steel rods, are not wrong, whoever is wrong will be whipped, we were worried at that time, a size has to be measured five or six times, for fear of a mistake. When they had finished burying the steel rods, they poured the powder and mud over them, and let the mud coagulate into lumps around the rods, and when the lumps were finished, they asked us to put a layer of mud on the walls, saying that they were protecting the lumps. ”

Lin Fei was very surprised after listening to Qin Xiren's narration, because according to the old craftsman, the Spaniards used reinforced concrete when they reinforced Cotabato City! It was pioneered in 1865 by a French horticulturist and has since spread to the rest of the world.

Qin Xiren suddenly stood up as he spoke, bowed, and said, "I heard that Your Majesty is going to attack Kota Bato City, I don't know if that's the case?" ”

Lin Fei nodded and said, "Yes, what's wrong?" ”

Qin Xiren said: "I want to remind you that the walls of Cotabato City are so strong that they can't even explode explosives. ”

Lin Fei was surprised for a moment and asked, "Can't even explode explosives?" How do you know? ”

Qin Xiren said: "After the city wall was repaired, several Spanish officials once came to inspect, they piled several large bags of explosives under the wall, and then detonated, they heard a 'boom', people's ears were shocked to buzz, a large cloud of black smoke covered the wall roots, and we saw that the city wall did not move at all, only the outer protective layer was blown off. ”

Lin Fei hurriedly asked: "You said that the Spaniards used explosives for the test, so do you know what kind of explosives the Spaniards used?" ”

Qin Xiren was stunned for a moment and asked, "Are there many kinds of explosives?" ”

Lin Fei nodded and said, "Of course!" The explosive power of different types of explosives varies greatly. ”

Qin Xiren shook his head and said, "Then I don't know." ”

Lin Fei asked, "Then tell me, what does that explosive look like?" ”

Qin Xiren lowered his head and pondered, and after a while he said, "I remembered, it's black powder." ”

Lin Fei secretly thought in his heart, those black powders were eighty percent black powder, and the explosive power of black powder was not strong, so the city walls of the Spaniards should not be as strong as they imagined.

Lin Fei asked while thinking, "Why did the Spaniards build such a strong city wall?" ”

Qin Xiren said: "I heard that it was to prevent Muslims from entering, a few years ago, the Muslims on the island used earthen explosives to blow up a big hole in the original city wall, and then entered the city and killed many Spanish officials, and the Spaniards made up their minds to build a city wall." ”

Lin Fei nodded and said with a smile: "Okay, I'm clear, do you have anything else to say, old man?" ”

Qin Xiren shook his head and said, "I know so much, Your Majesty, do you have a way to break their city wall?" ”

Lin Fei smiled confidently and said, "Of course there is a way. ”

Qin Xiren hurriedly asked, "What can you do?" ”

Lin Fei smiled: "I plan to use our strengths to fight each other's weaknesses!" ”

Qin Xiren was confused and asked, "What do you mean by this?" ”

Lin Fei said: "Old man, this matter is a matter of military secrets, you should not ask first, you will know later." You know the situation in Cotabato very well, so you might as well stay in my army, and I will recruit the miners in the city to form an engineer company, and you happen to be a craftsman in the earthwork industry, and you are old enough to lead those craftsmen, so you should be the commander of the engineer company. ”

Qin Xiren hurriedly knelt on the ground, kowtowed again and again, and said, "It is a blessing for old people to be able to serve His Majesty!" ”

Lin Fei picked up Qin Xiren, handed him over to He Kaisheng, and then wrote a briefing on the situation of the city wall of Cotabatar, which was printed by the printing workshop in the city and distributed to the high-ranking officers of the army.

He Kaisheng came to Lin Fei after settling Qin Xiren, and said with a smile: "Captain, I know how you want to fight Brother Bato." ”

Lin Fei smiled and said, "You actually guessed? So tell me, how am I going to fight Cota Bato? ”

He Kaisheng said with a smile: "You said to the old craftsman Qin Xiren, we have to use our strengths to fight the enemy's shortcomings, our strengths are field battles, automatic rifles and mortars are things that the Spaniards do not have, and these two things can be of great use in field battles." ”

Lin Fei nodded with a smile and said, "You guessed it, I do plan to use field battles to eliminate the main force of the Spanish army in Cotabato, and then defeat Cotabato in one fell swoop." ”

He Kaisheng said: "I also guessed your way to lure out the Spaniards!" ”

Lin Fei exclaimed: "You guessed this? What do you think I'm going to do to lure out the Spaniards? ”

He Kaisheng said confidently: "Surround the point and send reinforcements!" It's the same method used when fighting Wuduancheng, I'm right, right? ”

Lin Fei laughed and said, "Lao He, Lao He, you guessed wrong now!" ”

He Kaisheng was taken aback and asked, "Don't you need to surround the point to send reinforcements?" Then how did the enemy come out? ”

Lin Fei said: "This time I plan to use it for leisure!" ”

He Kaisheng hurriedly asked, "Why do you wait for work?" ”

Lin Fei said: "Now that we have conquered Wuduan City, we have brought the nearby villages into the sphere of influence of the Chinese Empire, and we have also carried out land reform, and killed many people from the Spanish Church. It's going to attack us. ”

"If you look at the location of Wuduan City, it is close to the sea, so the Spaniards have two options for attacking us, one is the sea route, send troops from the Visayas Islands to attack Wuduan City, this road the Spaniards dare not choose, because their navy has been destroyed by me; The other is the land route, which is to march from Cotabato, which is the only way for the Spaniards to send troops, so they will definitely come by land, we just have to wait for the enemy to be destroyed. ”

He Kaisheng thought for a while, gave a thumbs up, and said: "Your Majesty, you have thought it through, but we are more than 200 kilometers away from Cotabato, how can we know when they will send troops and where their troops will go?" ”

Lin Fei smiled: "I was about to go to you for this matter, so I'll leave this matter to you to arrange." ”

He Kaisheng said ashamedly: "Captain, I don't have that much ability, I can know where the Spaniards have arrived hundreds of kilometers away, how can I arrange this matter?" ”

Lin Fei said: "Haven't we been carrying out land reform in various villages recently? The peasants who were allocated the land should already be grateful to our Chinese Empire, you select Chinese in these villages, and set up an intelligence network for us, and this intelligence network works like this, as soon as a village finds out that the Spaniards are coming, it will immediately report to the next village, just such a village and report it to us village by village, and finally report to us. ”

He Kaisheng suddenly realized and said: "So that's the case, well, I'll arrange this matter immediately." ”

After He Kaisheng finished speaking, he said goodbye, Lin Fei then began to stay in Wuduan City, on the one hand to train new soldiers, on the other hand, to send troops to carry out land reform in the surrounding villages, in the process of reform, Lin Fei took a large area of land occupied by the Spaniards as his own, did not distribute it to the locals, this is Lin Fei in the future, he has decided, after conquering Mindanao, he will recruit a large number of Chinese from Guangdong, Fujian and Taiwan, and move to Mindanao.

Five days passed in the blink of an eye, and during these five days, the land reform work progressed all the way to Cotabato, and in the process of progress, many Spanish churches stood up to resist, but they were all swept away by Lin Fei's subordinates, and the Chinese in various villages were organized to entrust them with important tasks.

In five days, Lin Fei's subordinates advanced more than 100 kilometers in the direction of Cotabato, and on January 21, the village of Tampas, at the very edge, suddenly sent news that the Spanish army had dispatched more than 500 people to our village on January 19 to rest and not disturb the villagers. On January 21, the information on January 19 was delivered, more than 100 kilometers of dirt roads, and the information was delivered for two days, which is not slow.

Lin Fei was disappointed when he saw this information, because the opponent had only come to more than 500 people, which was not enough to fight, and the next day, January 22, the village of Rosiya, which was five kilometers away from Tampas Village, sent a message that on January 20, the Spanish army arrived in our village, with about 500 people.

Lin Fei was surprised for a while, thinking that Rosya Village was so close to Tampas Village, only five kilometers, and the Spanish army couldn't go for a day anyway, what the hell was going on? How did the Spanish army move so slowly? Even if the Spanish army is extremely low-level, it is impossible to walk only five kilometers a day, you must know that a normal adult can walk almost five kilometers in an hour.

After another four days, information came from the villages, which indicated that by 24 January, the Spanish army had advanced only thirty kilometers, an average of only six kilometers a day, and that the Spanish army would rest for a long time in each place, as if they had not come out to fight, but to relax.

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