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When the generals heard the news of the destruction of the First Fleet, they were already murderous and wanted to go to Yangzhou to find Gao Biao for revenge. Now that he has obtained Li Jing's military order for revenge, naturally he will not stay long, and they will all get up to make pre-war preparations.

The Jinjia Shengjie army knew the soldiers and horses, the champion general, the inspector Taibao, and Liu Xun, the prince of Yingchuan County, followed behind Li Jing and stopped. Li Jing glanced at the increasingly calm big disciple and chuckled, "Just say what you have." ”

"There is a cloud in the art of war, and the generals of the Navy Division are all angry at the moment, is it appropriate to let them send troops at this time?" Liu Xun thought for a moment in his heart before he spoke, "And at the moment, our troops are not strong, more than 40,000 men and horses have to defend the long Huai River, and our army is defending rather than attacking." ”

For this big apprentice, Li Jing is still very satisfied, Liu Xun has always had the reputation of a wise general, and in the past few years, he has followed the leader of the army, and his experience has become more and more calm. Although he is still just twenty years old, Li Jing has already awarded him the title of the commander of the Shengjie Army, and asked the imperial court for him to be crowned the champion of the Grand Army, the inspection of the Taibao, and the official of the Duke of Yingchuan County. At the age of twenty, he held the most elite guard cavalry army in Daxingtai, and he has become a real three-rank general, and he has been crowned the prince of the county. Especially his identity as the chief son of King Qin, I don't know how many people envy him.

However, Li Jing could see that this disciple was not proud of this, but became more and more calm. Even now, when he is by Li Jing's side, he rarely takes the initiative to intervene anymore, which is very measured.

What Liu Xun said may be what many generals want to say. However, Li Jing asked the sailor to send troops at this time. Of course, it's not just about revenge.

During this time, the Military Intelligence Agency made every effort to investigate the military situation in the north. At present, there is more and more information showing that Li Keyong and the four towns of Hebei have not only joined forces, but even the Khitan has joined forces with them. Now that Gao Yu has made a move, then the enemy in the north is close to make a move.

In particular, the Khitan side sent back information that just this month, the Diera tribe had defeated the Hinde Khan, and the six divisions of Yelu were defeated, with more than 50,000 dead in battle. The remnant fled. The Khitan infighting finally ended with the defeat of the Khitan Khan, and the Diera Department had completely controlled the entire Khitan 20 Divisions. Although the Diira tribe did not abolish the hereditary khan of the Yaoran tribe, it abolished the position of the Khan of Hinde and established the five-year-old grandson of the Khan of Hinde Khan's predecessor, Bara Khan, to hold a firewood ceremony and become the new Khitan Khan.

The Khitan, who had ended the infighting, had already formed an alliance with Li Keyong and turned eastward again.

The Khitan then attacked, although they did not immediately attack Liaoxi, but directly pointed their swords at Xi. Just a few days ago. The Khitan 50,000 cavalry raided the tent of King Xi and killed King Xi Tu Dong Su. Then he set up Shi Se, the king of Eastern Xi who had left the Khitan, as the new king of Xi.

Originally, Shi Se had been driven away after Xi returned to Li Jing, and King Xi had confirmed that Xi would be succeeded by Qu Zhu.

At present, Zhu Zheng is leading the Xi soldiers and horses in Hedong, and originally received an order from the imperial court to attack the Hebei rebels with the Tang army. After Li Keyong rebelled, the imperial court pardoned Li Keyong and also pardoned the Hebei rebels, but Zheng Congyan and others were not worried about Li Keyong, and tens of thousands of tribal soldiers of Xi and Tatar were in Daibei.

The timing of the Khitan's attack was very accurate, and the attack was also very poisonous.

The Khitan did not attack Liaoxi, which had already been guarded against, but unexpectedly captured the tooth tent of the king of Xi and set up the Khitan son-in-law as the new king of Xi. Now there is intelligence that the Khitan do not intend to stop there, they have continued to move southward in the southwest direction, and the next target is very obviously aimed at the Yinshan Tatars.

Breaking through Xi first, and then breaking Tatar, these two tribes with slightly weaker strength can not only avoid the threat of the Khitan in the south, but also recover from the Khitan that has just experienced civil strife. At the same time, Xi and Tatar were both allies of Li Jing, and they were also tribes attached to Tang Yan's orders.

Li Jing's power was weakened, the Khitan power was enhanced, and Li Keyong also had one less constraint, which made a good start for them to deal with Li Jing next.

The Khitan ended the civil strife at this time, and also took advantage of Xi's emptiness to break Xi, which was not a good thing for Li Jing.

The battle of Hebei may be even more severe than Li Jing predicted, and Li Jing has no time to continue in Xu Si. He needs to fight quickly, and Hu Tuzhou was defeated, so Li Jing planned to be safer. But now, since Zhou Bao has made a move and completely annihilated Liang Zhang's department, this is also a huge threat to Gao Biao.

The Huai army on the opposite side did not make a move for a long time, and Li Jing had already estimated that the other party was adjusting the plan, and the two sides originally planned to fight fast and compete to seize Xu Hao first. But now Shi Pu is not willing to surrender, and both sides are not slow to shoot, this battle is about to change from a fast attack to a decisive battle.

The Huai army is constantly increasing its strength, but Li Jing has to shift his focus to Hebei at this time, and he cannot support two large-scale battlefields.

"Attack it unprepared, take it by surprise." Li Jing muttered: "I now judge that the main force of the Huai army is secretly assembled in Sikou, and is ready to fight a decisive battle with us in Sikou first, this is because they know that the Great War in Hebei will start." Because of this, we really can't afford to delay, originally such a battle, we are good for defense and not conducive to attack, but things are not absolute. If we attack at this time, the Huai army has not finished adjusting, and the sudden switch of attack and defense will only be them, besides, Gao Biao shamelessly raided Hu Douzhou and killed 11,000 of my soldiers, the soldiers are angry, and the military heart is available. ”

Liu Xun listened to Li Jing's analysis and felt that this tactical change was not impossible. Hebei is already a huge powder keg, although the Qin army is constantly increasing troops there, but the Qin army does not occupy a geographical advantage in Hebei, there are not many dangers to pass the town, and it is difficult to predict what the situation will be when it really starts.

A quick solution is necessary.

However, Li Jing wanted to fight quickly, but there was one thing that made Li Jing's face ugly.

Yesterday, a batch of firearms had just arrived from Qingzhou, and at the same time, Li Jing had also brought a batch of firearms with him when he went south from Songzhou.

In several major wars, firearms in the army were very scarce. Originally, the firearms were very sharp, and Li Jing relied on them as the killer weapon in this battle of Xu Si. Who knows, it rained heavily last night. The Tennomi, the pier where firearms are temporarily stored, is leaking. As a result, more than half of the firearms temporarily stored there were destroyed.

At that time, these firearms were stored at the Tennoji Temple at the pier. It is also because of the danger of firearms, for safety reasons, that they are stored in the Tennomia Temple near the pier. But who would have thought that as a result, the rain was too heavy, and the Tianwang Temple by the river was flooded, causing a large number of firearms to be soaked.

Thunderbolts and thunderbolts, as well as mines, mines, explosives packets, etc., are almost useless when they are immersed in water.

Although it is said that these firearms are folded apart and the leads are replaced. Then the gunpowder is re-dried and packed, and it can continue to be used.

But this will take time, and Li Jing has already decided to launch a surprise attack on the Huai army on the other side tonight.

At the moment, don't say that it will be too late to re-dry and assemble it when the weather is clear, that is, it will be too late to re-ship a batch from Dengzhou.

Firearms such as thunderbolts and sky-shaking mines, mines, and mines are not difficult to construct, but the results are good. Now Li Jing has taken refuge in a large number of these firearms, and the effect is very obvious. On the battlefield in Hebei, the Qin army relied on these firearms to fight the four towns of Hebei.

In fact, these firearms are not classified as secrets, except for the fact that the techniques of fire, mines and mines are a little more difficult for example, and they are still kept secret. Such as gunpowder packs, thunderbolts, and earth-shattering thunder. The imperial court and some powerful feudal lords have already mastered it. The Imperial Court and several large feudal towns have even begun to manufacture equipment, but not on a large scale. The reason is not that they don't want to be as heavily equipped as the Qin army. Guan Jian has been mining and smelting iron ore, nitrate ore, sulfur minerals, gunpowder production, firearms workshops, etc., all of which have not yet formed a scale, and the scale is insufficient to mass production. And their gunpowder formula and application are not as good as those of the Qin army, and firearms need a larger amount to exert their power. Because of this, due to the limitations of property and manpower, their firearms and equipment have not yet reached the scale, and the use of firearms is naturally not as large-scale as the Qin army.

On the Qin Jun's side, the research and production of firearms has been going on for several years, and the scale has already taken shape, and it is getting bigger and bigger, and it has become an industry.

However, although many types of firearms have been developed in the Qin army in recent years, after the equipment is used, a view has gradually formed, that is, the fewer types of firearms, the better they are.

It is precisely for this reason that in today's Qin army, the firearms that began to be equipped on a large scale are thunderbolts and earth-shattering thunder, which actually belong to one kind, all of which are grenades. It's just that the thunderbolt is one pound, and it is specially equipped for cavalry. And the earth-shaking thunder is a handle of two catties, and it is dedicated to the infantry army. The navy was armed with mines and Greek fire.

In addition to these individual firearms, the Qin army is not equipped with many other firearms, such as flying thunder cannons, which are still in the testing stage.

Since the fifth year of Qianfu, all the firearms factories in Northeast China have mainly produced two individual firearms, the Earthquake Thunder and the Thunderbolt, in order to equip every soldier with hand grenades. It also turned out that every soldier armed with a grenade worked well.

Charging through formations can sometimes have an unstoppable effect.

However, these firearms, which are produced with great effort and great cost, also have many weaknesses, first of all, they are expensive. The cost of a thunderbolt and a sky-shattering thunderbolt is about the same, five hundred dollars each. And one arrow, the standard infantry uses a long stacked arrow of ten wen, an armor-piercing arrow of twenty wen, and a wolf's tooth three-edged arrow of fifty wen.

In this comparison, although the grenade is more powerful, it is more costly. A soldier on the battlefield may shoot three or five arrows at a time, but as long as he throws a thunder, it is worth forty or fifty arrows.

Every time a thunder is thrown, it is equivalent to throwing three catties of copper coins.

In addition to the high cost, this firearm also had a great disadvantage, it could not withstand the rain, and even in the wet season, even if it did not rain, the lead sometimes had to be replaced before the war.

Although the Ordnance Department has developed a bunch of methods to protect from moisture and rain, in the actual operation process, when it rains, these golden bumps are basically useless.

These things are sharp and powerful, but they are fragile, so that the Qin army loves and hates them.

Just like now, Li Jing is going to raid the Huai army on the other side tonight, and in the dark night raid battle, these thunderbolts and earth-shattering thunder can naturally play the greatest role. But now, just before the battle, 80 percent of the firearms were destroyed, which made Li Jing's face turn blue.

Li Jing also knew very well in his heart that as long as the operation was canceled tonight, he would wait for another ten days and a half months, even if the weather was not sunny and he could not dry this batch of gunpowder, he could still transport a batch of new firearms from Dengzhou and Qingzhou, and the number was even more.

But in fact, Li Jing couldn't wait so long, and if he waited one more day, the Huai army would be able to increase a lot. Li Jing also wanted to directly leave the Huai army to fight Xuzhou, but Xuzhou is an important town, although Shi Pu only has 10,000 horses, but there is still Huang Chao's general Ge Congzhou stationed in Haozhou opposite Xuzhou, Li Jing is worried that he will attack Xuzhou at this time, and Pu will join Ge Congzhou if he doesn't get it right.

But if Li Jing can defeat the Huai army and then fight Xuzhou, Shi Pu will have fewer choices. If he wants to defect to the Yellow Nest again, he has to think about it again. After all, since Shi Pu didn't want to vote for either the Qin army or the Huai army, this guy didn't intend to vote for either side in his heart.

However, this did not prevent him from wrestling with the three families of Qin, Huai, and Qi, and he used his strength to achieve the idea of preserving Xuzhou.

And what makes Li Jing want to wait the most is Hebei, although Li Jing is in Sizhou now, his heart has already reached Hebei.

Forget it, in the past, when the Qin army was not equipped with a large number of firearms, it was not the same as fighting, and after the last, Li Jing shook his head and secretly sighed that he was becoming more and more dependent on these firearms, which was not a good thing. (To be continued......)