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When the navy generals heard the news that the First Fleet was destroyed, they were already murderously trying to kill to Yangzhou to find Gao Pian to take revenge. Now that they have obtained the military order from Li Jing's revenge, they naturally do not stay any of them and have all stood up to make preparations before the war.

The Jinjia Shengjie Army was the master of the military envoy, the champion general, the chief magistrate, and the Yingchuan County Duke Liu Xun followed Li Jing and wanted to speak but stopped. Li Jing glanced at the increasingly calm disciple and chuckled, "Tell me what you have."

"There is no military strategy for the enemy to be angry. Now the generals of the navy are all angry. Is it appropriate to let them send troops at this time?" Liu Xun thought for a while before speaking, "And our troops are not strong at the moment. More than 40,000 troops are going to guard the long Huaihe line. Our army is good at defending rather than attacking."

Li Jing was still very satisfied with this great apprentice. Liu Xun has always been known as a wise general. In recent years, he has been leading the troops and has become more and more calm. Although he is still twenty years old, Li Jing has already appointed him as the leader of the Shengjie Army and has also asked the court for him to be the title of the Grand Army, the Chief Procuratorate, and the official title of Yingchuan County Duke. At the age of twenty, he held the most elite guards and cavalry in Daxingtai, and has become a real third-rank military general and was named Duke of County. In Daxingtai, he is very popular. Especially his identity as the chief son of the Qin King, he has attracted many envy.

However, Li Jing could see that this disciple was not proud of it, but became more and more calm. Even now he was following Li Jing, he rarely interrupted actively, and he was very cautious.

What Liu Xun said may be what many generals wanted to say. However, Li Jing asked the navy to send troops at this time. Of course, it was not just for revenge.

During this period, the Military Intelligence Bureau has made every effort to inquire about the military information in the north. At present, more and more information has shown that Li Keyong and the four towns in Hebei have not only joined forces, but even the Khitan has joined forces with them. Now Gao Pian has taken action, so the enemy in the north is just around the corner.

Especially when the Khitan side sent back information, just this month, the Diela tribe had defeated Hende Khan. The six tribes of Yelu were defeated and more than 50,000 were killed in battle. The rest of them fled. The Khiant Khan was not aware of his life and death. The Khiant internal struggle finally ended with the failure of Hende Khan. The Diela tribe had completely controlled the entire twenty Khitan tribes. Although the Diela tribe did not abolish the position of hereditary Khan of the Yaonian tribe, it abolished the position of Hende Khan and supported the five-year-old grandson of the predecessor of Hende Khan, holding a ceremony to become the new Khan of the Khitan.

The Khitan, who had ended the internal strife, had formed an alliance with Li Keyong and turned around and advanced eastward.

The Khitan followed suit, and although he did not immediately attack western Liaoning, he directly pointed at Xi. Just a few days ago, the Khitan cavalry raided King Xi's tent and killed King Xi's treasury, Tu Dong Su. Then he supported King Dong Xi, who had previously left Khitan, as the new King Xi.

Originally, Shi Se was driven away after Xi surrendered to Li Jing, and King Xi had confirmed that Xi would go to Zhu to take over as King Xi.

At present, Zhu Zheng led the Xi army in Hedong. He had received an order from the court to attack the Hebei rebels with the Tang army. After Li Keyong rebelled, the court pardoned Li Keyong and also pardoned the Hebei rebels. However, Zheng Congqi and others were not relieved that Li Keyong was not at ease. Xi and the Tatars were tens of thousands of tribal soldiers in the north.

The Khitan's attack was very accurate and the attack was very vicious.

The Khitan did not attack the Liaoxi, which had already been prevented, but unexpectedly captured the Xiwang tent and established the Khitan son-in-law as the new Xiwang. Now there is information that the Khitan did not intend to stop there. They have continued to move southwest. The next target is very obvious to target the Yinshan Tatars.

Defeat Xi first, and then the Tatars. These two tribes with weak forces will not only avoid the threat from the south of the Khitan, but also the final recovery of the Khitan, who had just experienced civil strife. At the same time, Xi and Tatars are both allies of Li Jing, and they are also dependent on the tribes that obeyed the orders of Tang Yan. The Khitan defeated Xi and Tatars, which one had been reduced and the other rose, and the situation in the entire northeast immediately changed.

Li Jing's power was weakened, Khitan's power was strengthened, and Li Keyong also lost a constraint, which made a good start for their next step of dealing with Li Jing.

The Khitan ended the civil strife at this time and defeated Xi while he was in a state of emptiness. This was not a good thing for Li Jing.

The battle in Hebei may be even more severe than Li Jing predicted. Li Jing did not have time to continue to hold on Xu Si. He needed a quick battle. Originally, Hu Douzhou was defeated, so Li Jing planned to be more secure. But now that Zhou Bao took action and wiped out Liang Zhang's troops, this is also a huge threat to Gao Pian.

The Huai Army on the opposite side has not taken action for a long time. Li Jing has already estimated that the other party is adjusting the plan. Originally, both sides planned to fight quickly and compete for Xu Hao first. But now Shi Pu is not willing to surrender, and both sides are not slow to take action. This battle will change from a fast attack to a decisive battle.

The Huai Army is constantly increasing its troops, but Li Jing has to turn his focus to Hebei at this time, and cannot support two large-scale battlefields.

"Attack him unprepared, he was surprised." Li Jing pondered: "I now judge that the main force of the Huai Army was secretly gathered in Sikou and was preparing to fight with us in Sikou first. This is why they knew that the Hebei war was about to begin. Because of this, we really couldn't stand it. In this case, we were good at defending but not for attacking, but things were not absolute. If we attacked at this time, the Huai Army had not completed the adjustment and suddenly changed the offense and defense, the most disadvantage was them. Moreover, Gao Pian shamelessly raided Hu Douzhou and killed 11,000 soldiers. The soldiers were angry and the morale of the army was available."

After listening to Li Jing's analysis, Liu Xun felt that this tactical change was not bad. Hebei was already a huge gunpowder barrel. Although the Qin army was constantly increasing troops there, the Qin army did not have a geographical advantage in Hebei, and there were not many dangerous places to pass and important cities. If it really fought, it would be difficult to predict what the situation would be.

It is very necessary to fight quickly.

However, Li Jing wanted to fight quickly, but there was something that made Li Jing look ugly now.

Yesterday, a batch of firearms had just arrived from Qingzhou. At the same time, Li Jing headed south from Songzhou and also brought a batch of firearms.

During several wars, the firearms in the army were very tight. Originally, the firearms were very sharp, but Li Jingyizhi was the killer weapon in this battle of Xu Si. Who knew that it was raining heavily last night. The Tianwang Temple, the dock where the temporary firearms were temporarily stored, leaked. As a result, more than half of the firearms were temporarily stored there were damaged.

At that time, these firearms were stored in the Tianwang Temple on the Wharf. It was also considered that the firearms were very dangerous, so they were stored in the Tianwang Temple near the Wharf for safety reasons. But who would have thought that the rain was too heavy and water flowed into the Tianwang Temple on the river, causing a large number of firearms to soak.

Thunderbolt fire, thunder, mines, landmines, explosive packs, etc. are almost useless when soaked in water.

Although fold all these firearms and replace the leads, then dry the gunpowder and install it again, and it can continue to be used.

But this will take time, and Li Jing has decided to launch a raid on the Huai Army on the other side tonight.

Not to mention waiting for the sun to dry and assemble again, it is too late to ship a batch from Dengzhou to re-ship.

The structure of thunder bombs, thunderstorms, land mines, water mines and other firearms is not difficult, but the effect is good. Now Li Jing has defected to equip these firearms in large quantities, and the effect is very obvious. On the battlefield in Hebei, the Qin army used these firearms to attack the four towns in Hebei.

In fact, these firearms are not classified. Except for Greek fire and mines, the technology of mines is slightly more difficult and is still in the process of keeping them confidential. For example, gunpowder packs, thunder fire, and thunder. The court and some powerful vassals have already mastered them. The court and several major vassal states have even begun to manufacture equipment, but there is no large-scale equipment yet. The reason is that they do not want to have a large amount of equipment like the Qin army. The key is that their iron ore, nitrate ore, sulfur mineral mining and smelting, gunpowder production, firearm workshops, etc. have not yet formed a scale, and the scale is insufficient and cannot be mass-produced. And their gunpowder formula and application are not as good as the Qin army, and firearms need a larger amount to exert their power. Because of this, due to limited wealth, manpower, etc., their firearms equipment cannot reach a scale, and the use of firearms is naturally not as large-scale as that of the Qin army.

On the Qin army, the research and production of firearms has been carried out for several years, and the scale has been taken shape and is getting bigger and bigger, and has become an industry.

However, although Qin's military firearms have developed many types in recent years, after the use of equipment, it has gradually formed a view that the fewer types of firearms, the easier it is to use.

It is precisely for this reason that among the Qin army today, the firearms that began to be equipped on a large scale are Thunderbolt Fire and Thunder. This is actually one type, both are grenades. However, Thunderbolt Fire is one pound per catty, which is specially equipped for cavalry. The Thunderbolt Fire is two pounds with handles, and is exclusively for infantry. The water army is equipped with two types of water mines and Greek fire.

In addition to these individual firearms, the Qin army now has not many other firearms, such as flying thunder cannons, and they are still in the test stage.

Since the five years of Qianfu, all firearm factories in Northeast China have mainly produced two individual firearms, namely the Shi Tian Thunder and the Thunder Fire, in order to equip every warrior with grenades. Facts have also proved that every soldier has a good effect in equipting grenades.

Charge breaks through the formation, sometimes it can have an unstoppable effect.

But these firearms produced at great cost have many weaknesses, first of all, they are expensive. A thunder fire and a thunder cost about the same cost, each costing 500 cents. For an arrow, a standard infantry can use a long-splitting arrow, a 20 cents-a-brick arrow, and a 50 cents-a-broken arrow.

In this way, 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, he will be regarded as a forty or fifty arrows.

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

In addition to the high cost, this firearm has a huge disadvantage. It cannot withstand rain or even in the wet season. Even in the weather, even if it is not wet, the leads must be replaced before the war.

Although the Ordnance Department has developed a number of methods to protect it from moisture and rain, during actual operation, when it rains, these golden lumps will basically lose their effect.

These things are sharp and powerful, but they are fragile, which makes the Qin army love and hate them both.

Just like now, Li Jing will raid the Huai Army on the other side tonight. In the dark raid, these thunder fires and thunders can naturally play the greatest role. But now, just before the war, 80% of the firearms were damaged, which made Li Jing's face turn blue.

Li Jing also knew very well that as long as the action tonight was cancelled, he would wait for another ten days and half a month. Even if the weather was not sunny and he could not dry this batch of gunpowder well, he could transport a batch of new firearms from Dengzhou and Qingzhou, and the number would be even greater.

But in fact, Li Jing couldn't wait for so long, and if he waited for one more day, the Huai Army would be able to increase a lot. Li Jing also wanted to throw the Huai Army directly and go to attack Xuzhou. However, Xuzhou was an important town. Although Shi Pu only had 10,000 troops, there was Huang Chao's general Ge Congzhou opposite Xuzhou. Li Jing was worried that he would surrender Ge Congzhou at this time, and if he did it well, Pu would surrender Ge Congzhou.

But if Li Jing could defeat the Huai Army and then go to Xuzhou, Shi Pu would have fewer choices. If he wanted to join Huang Chao, he would have to think more. After all, since Shi Pu neither wanted to join the Qin Army nor the Huai Army, then this guy did not intend to join either party.

However, this did not prevent him from using his strength to protect Xuzhou when the Qin, Huai and Qi families were fighting.

The one that Li Jing didn't want to wait the most was Hebei. Although Li Jing was in Sizhou, his heart had already reached Hebei.
Chapter completed!