Compared with civil affairs, military affairs undoubtedly occupied most of Zhou Shixiang's energy. In order to strengthen the combat effectiveness of each town, he inspected the towns back and forth. Almost all officers above the Guard and above met, and went to the military preparation training center several times. He even personally demonstrated the infantry assassination techniques learned in his previous life for his soldiers in the first town.↑,.

Due to limited conditions, Zhou Shixiang was unable to equip the musket soldiers with bayonets, so the musket soldiers all wore waist knives. If the number of waist knives was insufficient, they were equipped with daggers and daggers to avoid the muskets becoming fire sticks in the battle of Shenwan during foggy and rainy weather.

The coaches of the assassination tactics are mainly concentrated on the spearmen. The spear is unified in a three-meter-5-meter-long style and is made of a white wax pole. During combat, if a duo kills, one person stabs the leg and one person stabs the head; the trio kills one person stabs the head, one person stabs the leg and one person blocks the head. Both training and combat are based on simplicity and flexibility.

In order to maximize the advantages of firearms, Brigade C of the three brigades under each town is a full firearm combat force, and Brigade A and Brigade B mainly use swords, shields and spearmen.

The combatants formulated by Zhou Shixiang clearly stipulated that when fighting with the Qing army, the A and B and II must line the two wings of Brigade C and protrude about 30 meters in front to protect the Balcon C musket formation from being dispersed by the Qing army. When the musket brigade is lined up in battle, the two wings must also be placed separately to form cross firepower. The battle situation is fierce and the fire rate of the musket cannot be suppressed in front of the enemy, the muskets will abandon the muskets and draw their swords to fight.

If the group is fighting, the cavalry brigade shall bear flank cover, and the artillery battalion is placed behind the large formation, and it is necessary to fight forward. The tactic of infantry and artillery coordination Zhou Shixiang has not yet been promoted in the army. The main reason is that the artillery battalion is a backward front-loading artillery. Most of the cannons are solid bullets, and the number of large-pole guns and tiger squat cannons that can fire shots is limited. The power and range are also limited, so it is impossible to engage in infantry and artillery coordination. If you really want to do this, you will definitely be killed by your own artillery fire than the Qing army.

During the inspection of the Fourth Town of Xiangshan, Zhou Shixiang sent an order to Guangzhou, asking Duke Xiang of Song to organize blacksmiths to build shovels, even if the production of agricultural tools is delayed, it is necessary to build 5,000 shovels within one month. In fact, what Zhou Shixiang wanted was an engineer shovel. However, the current technology could not be achieved and the production scale could not be achieved. He could only use the long-handled shovel commonly used by farmers in this era.

When in Xiangshan, Zhou Shixiang asked people to build a "blockhouse". This fort was made of glutinous rice made of bricks and stones. It was three meters high. A soldier could be housed in the fort, and twelve holes were opened from top to bottom. Each hole could be placed with a musket for shooting or archery. There was also a blocking wooden board on the top of the fort, and an iron pot was placed in the middle. This way, you could boil gold juice to kill the enemy soldiers close to the fort, or you could light a "wolf smoke" on it and spread military information to the rear.

The dozens of masons found in Xiangshan County worked for three days before they completed a bunker according to Zhou Shixiang's wishes. Zhou Shi was very dissatisfied with their speed. He programmed the construction process and simplified and fixed each procedure, and asked the masons to rebuild it. As a result, it only took two days this time, but Zhou Shixiang was still not satisfied. In the end, the masons spent half a day to build the bunker needed by Zhou Dashui.

The style of the bunker is simple. There are almost no living facilities inside, and it is basically useless except for killing people. The space inside is small, and it is okay to stay for a few days in a short period of time. After a long time, people can't stand it. Zhou Shixiang went in and felt stuffy when he was stunned. This stuffyness was not because of difficulty breathing, but because of the hidden feeling of being held back.

After giving these bricklayers a reward, Zhou Shixiang asked them to build a "guardhouse" based on the bunker. This guardhouse is actually an expanded bunker, which is nearly five meters high and three times the size of the bunker. In addition to having military settings like the bunker, there are also living residences behind the guardhouse, which can live in people, cook, and raise horses. There are walls of two people as high as two people in the living area, which are more than one meter wide, and can walk on them, and there are simple fortifications.

Even if the masons worked hard for bounty, they finally took three days to build such a guardhouse.

Zhou Shixiang frowned and recognized this speed. The next step was to recruit all the masons into the army, and to let Guangzhou concentrate all the masons in each county in Guangzhou, and then recruit thousands of young and strong men to study. What they learned was not how to kill the enemy, nor anything else, but how to build bunkers and guardhouses.

A bunker for half a day and a guardhouse for three days. If you have a reward for repairing it, you will be punished. If you cannot repair it, you will be punished. This is the only order Zhou Shixiang gave to the recruited masons and young men.

Building bunkers and guardhouses requires a large amount of bricks and glutinous rice. Zhou Shixiang asked Duke Xiang of Song to prepare the raw materials needed to build 500 bunkers and 100 guardhouses, and all the original brick kiln factories near Guangzhou were produced. At the same time, the Ministry of Civil Affairs Office must immediately build new kilns in various places to ensure that bricks and stone production can keep up with the progress. All young and strong men in each county must be mobilized, and even women must go there if there is not enough men.

Not only were the counties controlled by the Taiping Army mobilized to build kilns and produce bricks, Zhou Shixiang sent people to Huizhou to ask Hu Qili to build kilns and produce bricks in the Haifeng area of ​​Huidong. The Taiping Army acquired all the bricks and stones produced, but were not transported back to Guangzhou, but hoarded them in the local area.

Although Hu Qili didn't know what the Taiping Army wanted so many bricks to do, in order to get the support of Zhou Shixiang, he immediately ordered people to implement the kiln making.

Hu Qili, who was confronting Wu Liuqi in Chaozhou, also received news that Prince Jian of the Qing Dynasty had gone south. In horror, he had sent two groups of people to Guangzhou to ask Zhou Shixiang for help. Zhou Shixiang agreed to the end of the year and personally led the main force of the Taiping Army to Huizhou, which made Hu Qili slightly calmer.

Zhou Shixiang originally planned to leave Xiangshan and return to Guangzhou on the 25th, but Duke Xiang of Song sent someone to hurried over to tell him that the imperial envoy of the court had arrived.

People came to Yongli court so quickly

Zhou Shixiang was a little surprised. The messenger he sent to Kunming to pay the victory should not have arrived in Kunming yet. Why did the Yongli court send people to Guangzhou so quickly? Is something going on?
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