Su Shi was not injured, even the demonic way and the thief could not bear to hurt Su Shi.

Su Shi was sick.

He fell ill because he was cheated, but because his concubine, Aunt Wang, was pregnant and found out that he had removed Yuanyang and cut off the path of immortality, and then fell ill.

Of course, there is another reason. Su Shi found that his medical skills were also sparse and ordinary, and he was demoted by the former imperial physician An Zhongyang. In addition, he had lost his life and could not afford to get sick after practicing Taoism these days.

However, Hua Rong did not bring too bad news: "Brother, don't worry, Master Zu has recovered a lot. With Doctor An by his side, he wouldn't have any problems. But Master Zu no longer lives in Changzhou and went to Jiangning Mansion. However, Brother Gongsun seemed to be seriously injured, but after he escorted Master Zu to Jiangning Mansion, he immediately chose to go north to ask for help."

"Damn the thief!" Li Kui was furious. He probably had guessed who this demon was. Unexpectedly, even Gongsun Sheng did not defeat the other party. What made him even more angry was that Su Shi did not provoke anyone, but suffered a disaster.

According to Hua Rong's idea, everything was a false alarm, and Li Kui shouldn't be angry.

But what surprised him was that Li Kui was not only angry, but also made a decision that stunned him - to go to Jiangnan.

"You want to go to Jiangnan?"

"Zhang Xiang, the Imperial Guards trained in the capital and lacked the training of mobile combat. The officials thought that in an uncertain long-distance raid, the top priority of training an elite force. Moreover, you also know that the Iron Supervisor may not be able to build enough muskets within three to five months to meet the needs of the Imperial Guards."

According to Li Kui's plan, a 10,000 imperial guard requires 3,000 cavalry and 2,000 artillery soldiers. The number of musketeers should also reach more than 4,000. With the addition of baggage, engineers and other troops, it will exceed 10,000. But if the number of imperial guards is 15,000, then the number of musketeers should exceed 7,000.

On the contrary, the number of cavalry does not need to be increased.

In this way, the output of the new rear-mounted flintlock rifle is only less than 300 for one month, and it takes one and a half years to meet the equipment needs of the Imperial Guards.

Even if the Imperial Guards were reduced to the newly formed troops, they only had four thousand men and two thousand musketeers.

Zhang Dun hesitated and said, "You don't want to avenge Zizhan, are you?"

"What's wrong with my master?" Li Kui opened his eyes wide, looking confused, as if he knew nothing.

Zhang Dun pointed to Li Kui and joked: "Pretend, keep pretending. Zizhan is really, she doesn't know the importance of it at such an old age. She actually followed the wild Taoist to practice immortality. Now it's not just you, but the relationship between the disciples of Sumen has been cut off and has become a laughing stock. Do you think that going south can really save your master's face?"

Zhang Dun was obviously aware of the situation. The Song Dynasty imperial guards had only more than 100,000 people around Kaifeng Prefecture. However, the entire Song Dynasty had more than 800,000 imperial guards.

Although the Song Dynasty implemented the strong trunk and weak branches, this trunk was too thin.

As a last resort, the court also had secret spies everywhere. Su Shi's unlucky experience had long been reported to the Dushitang, and Zhang Dun even got the news earlier than Li Kui.

"I really want to train."

Li Kui gestured: "Zhang Xiang, the flintlock rifle has adopted a new design, but the output of the Iron Supervision cannot keep up. It will take at least eight months to meet the needs of the Imperial Guard. If the Imperial Guard is fully recruited, it will even take more than a year to build such a number of flintlock rifles. But I went to the Imperial Guard a few days ago to inspect the Imperial Guard and found that the Imperial Guard were building artillery. And these artillery was not for the Imperial Guard."

Zhang Dun secretly saved equipment for his family brother Zhang Qi. After being seen through by Li Kui, he said a little embarrassedly: "Hao Ren, the Imperial Guards don't want many artillery."

Li Kui argued with reason: "But it shouldn't be given to others!"

"One has increased and the other has decreased, and the Imperial Guards will have a longer time to become an army. I don't know if Zhang Xiang will launch the Northwest War within the year, but if it is launched within the year, the Imperial Guards will only have 500 flintlock guns in front of them. If they want to go to the Northwest battlefield, they will die. Zhang Xiang, should you tell me when the Northwest War will begin?"

"It's within two months." Zhang Dun said a little embarrassedly. He originally wanted to use the Imperial Guard as a secret weapon and put it into the northwest battlefield. Then he killed all directions. Unfortunately, Zhang Shi disagreed. The Western Xia army had more than 300,000 troops, so what's the use of the Imperial Guard with thousands of people?

But Li Kui couldn't agree: "Zhang Xiang, in two months, what weapon did you ask the soldiers of the Imperial Guard to use to kill the enemy? Are you wooden sticks?"

Li Kui used to train troops with wooden sticks that looked like flintlock rifles, but this was just training, and fighting was two different things. And it was the premise that there was a lack of enough weapons. He covered his head and looked at Zhang Dun with a fool: "Zhang Xiang, the flintlock rifle requires a lot of training. Even before entering the battlefield, he needs to train troops with some unimportant opponents. It is best to test the soldiers' proficiency with weapons. Riskly going to the battlefield, he will ruin the new army built with a lot of money on the battlefield!"

Musketeers without flintlock rifles can only be fat sheep on the battlefield and are slaughtered at will.

Even defending the city can't stand it!

Li Kui continued: "Only when muskets reach a certain number can they gain a strong lethal advantage on the battlefield. Even the larger the number, the greater the advantage. On the contrary, hundreds of musketeers are not even as effective as hundreds of crossbowmen."

"It's really that way?"

Li Kui said annoyedly: "Zhang Xiang, why don't you even believe the truth?"

After being cheated more often, Zhang Dun had already taken too much defense against Li Kui. However, these defenses were very poor, mainly because Zhang Dun argued with Li Kui on the issue of combat in the army, and felt guilty for no reason. He was very afraid that Li Kui would mock him for his ignorance. Zhang Dun talked about military strategy, and first-rank officials such as Li Qingchen, An Tao, and Su Che were all very confident.

The bullying of these people did not know how to fight, and he was the former Privy Councilor of the Song Dynasty who had beaten the Wuxi Savages. However, facing Li Kui, his only record made him shy to speak out.

Zhang Dun looked at Li Kui suspiciously, and he was worried that he would be deceived by Li Kui again. The main reason was that the strength gap was too big. In particular, the firearm battalion was established by Li Kui, and even the troops were decided by Li Kui. Zhang Dun's way of fighting against firearms was only about the cannon killing. Even this was the battlefield killing move developed by Li Kui.

Just as his brother Zhang Shi said, even the ordinary Western Army could be reborn as long as it was equipped with a certain number of artillery soldiers. However, Zhang Dun could not imagine what kind of powerful combat power the firearm battalion advocated by Li Kui and the imperial guards built for this would have?

Zhang Dun hesitated for a long time and almost said to Li Kui: "You didn't lie to me?"

Fortunately, he finally held back, and Zhang Dun pretended to be generous and said, "Let me trust you again, where will I tell you where the Privy Council?"

Although Zhang Dun is stubborn, he is extremely straightforward in his work.

The next day, the Secretariat issued an order to assist the Imperial Guards with all their might.

At the same time, the Secretariat sent the emperor's appointment, Li Kui was the commander-in-chief of the army, Cao Fang was the deputy general, and the first musketeer of the Imperial Guard was commanded to go south. The commander of the First Artillery was also on the list of going south.

Even Hua Rong thought that Li Kui was making a big fuss. Is it necessary to alarm the emperor and the Dushitang when dealing with a demon?

Of course, the number of troops sent was not large, and the logistics were only 800.

But this army alarmed the emperor, the Capital Hall, the Privy Council, and the Palace Front Office... enough to make people look at him with admiration.

On the day the army set off, even Hua Rong felt that it was a bit too big. Isn’t it just a deal with a demon?

Of course, the demon also has helpers, but they are not fighting alone!

Send troops from Bianliang and take a boat south.

During this period, all the soldiers in the Musket Battalion were driven off the boat by Li Kui and chased the boat on the river bank.

This made Cao Fang, who originally thought he was a fat man, angry. His commander of the imperial guards actually wanted to run with him. If the friends in the capital knew where he was going to put his face?

What's even more annoying is that Li Kui sent two spies to stare at him and prevent him from having any chance to be lazy.

"Wu Song, Jiao Ting, do you two want to join the Imperial Guard?"

Wu Song and Jiao Ting looked at each other and shook their heads and said, "I don't want to."

Cao Fang was furious and said, "I am the deputy envoy of the Jiedushi. Do you think of the consequences if you offend me so much?"

"You threaten us?"

Jiao Ting took a deep breath and shouted at the ship driving in the canal: "The seat..."

“Woo woo woo woo…”

"You nine-foot man, you complain at any time, what about your face?"

Jiao Ting looked at Cao Fang's disgust with the grass he pulled up from the ground and wiped the saliva stained on his hands, and said contemptuously: "Do you think we are stupid? You dare not send us in the military command. If you go to the Imperial Guard, wouldn't you be humiliated by you every day?"

Cao Fang had a question mark on his head. He was the chief general. Isn’t this the right thing to send his subordinates?

Could it be that these two guys don’t understand that the army is very strict, can’t they even think about giving Shangguan a look?

Fortunately, Cao Fang did not think about making achievements, and he was more about not making mistakes. Even if Li Kui did not lead his troops to the war, he didn't know how to command the war.

Cao Fang was confused from the training to the combat methods of musketeers. He asked him to lead his troops to fight, but his previous experience could not be used and new tricks were not learned. This was a disaster.

"Sir, the Qinhuai River is ahead."

Li Kui was sleeping in the cabin and napping. He was not seasick, but was too bored.

He even regretted taking the Imperial Guards south to deal with a demon, and the raindrops mobilized a large number of troops.

Li Kui raised his eyelids and said to Ruan Xiaowu: "Put out the banner and enter the Qinhuai River."

Just as Li Kui wanted to stand up and move his body, the boat suddenly swayed a few times, and then it became noisy outside. Soon he started to curse: "You guys who are not open-minded, don't see that they are the family of the Guangde Army's Grand Marshal Pea, which has disturbed the inner house. Then you wait for the dog's life to be buried with you."

"I'm brave enough. The army in front of the Nai Palace never knew how to write the word "Fear". A small Guangde general dared to be disregarded by the imperial court?"

As soon as Li Kui left the cabin, he suddenly realized it and took a few steps back. He avoided the previous sneak attack. He stood on the bow of the ship angrily and said angrily: "Dog courage, assassinate the imperial court's official and take it down for me!"
Chapter completed!