Li Hu has been having a very hard time recently. The title of younger brother Li Xiao is not very useful here in Hei Niu. In addition to training every day, there are also various errands. Mr. Hu, who has never washed the dishes, has to work with the cooking class

Soldiers together, roll up your sleeves, wash dishes and chopsticks.

Hei Niu's martial arts skills are very good. Even if Li Hu uses the moves taught by his brothers in the special agent company, he can't get any advantage from Hei Niu. Hei Niu can defeat ten masters with one force. This is the best example of Hei Niu. This guy only uses

With just one arm, Li Hu can be thrown away.

Of course, there are still many people who want to curry favor with Master Hu. After all, he is the younger brother of the head of the family. When Master Hu is doing chores, there are always people who want to come and help. But after seeing Ao Canghai’s cold eyes in the distance, no one dares to

Come and help Li Hu.

After Li Xiao sent Li Hu here, he disappeared. There were a lot of things to prepare for going to Shandong to fight. Food, grass, ammunition, quilts, etc. were enough to keep Li Xiao busy for a while. In the past, these things were under the control of Mao Wenlong.

, but now the old guy is busy with the affairs of the Second Division in Shanhaiguan, so Li Xiao can only do these things by himself.

One word to describe these shabby things is trivial. But there is no way, fighting is actually about logistics. Li Xiao understands that his current achievements are based on ensuring strong logistics.

Mountains of materials are piled up in the warehouse on Changxing Island. As long as there are enough ships, Li Xiao can transport them away at any time!

Today Li Xiao can finally get away from trivial matters, because he is going to Liguan Town to see the Nanjing Forbidden Army from the south of the Yangtze River. The location of Liguan Town is very important. Whether Liaonan can hold it depends on whether Liguan Town can hold it.

.Before going to Shandong, Li Xiao had to visit the legendary Jiangnan powerhouse.

Now Li Xiao is no longer the little bandit who led 1,800 people to rob along the coastline. Li Xiao was still on Changxing Island, so Ao Canghai sent two companies, including the special agent company, to attack the front station. A newly equipped ship

The arsenal ship was also pulled to the sea not far from Liguan Town.

The so-called arsenal ship means that the deck is covered with iron plates. Six twenty-barreled rocket launchers are lined up in a row. In addition to food, the cabin is filled with rocket shells.

In order to facilitate loading, there are more than a dozen small hoisting machines arranged at the opening from the deck to the cabin. This crane-like thing can quickly hoist the rockets from the cabin.

This thing was Yu Lao's idea, which opened Li Xiao's eyes. With the arsenal ship, the attack on land from the sea will be devastating. The two hundred kilogram warhead can easily kill people within a few dozen meters.

Shocked to death. If you lie down on the ground, your internal organs will be shattered alive.

In fact, Li Xiao had already told his soldiers during training that when the enemy is shelling, it is best to find a bunker and squat down instead of lying on the ground by mistake.

As long as this kind of arsenal ship launches a covering shot, there will not be a single living person on the surface of Liguan Town!

After the arsenal ship arrived at the sea surface of Liguan Town, it conducted a test firing. It is said that after the test firing, Shi Kefa's jaw almost dropped to the ground.

Li Xiao knew that this was Ao Canghai showing off his force, and he wanted to tell Shi Kefa. If there was anything wrong with Li Xiao, then Shi Kefa would not be alive.

Ao Canghai understood Li Xiao's worries. After all, the details of Jiangnan's soldiers were unknown, and their attitudes were unclear. If he was hacked, even if he killed them all afterwards, he would not be able to survive.

It actually didn’t take long for the ship to sail from Changxing Island to Liguan Town. It departed in the morning and arrived in the afternoon.

At the end of September in Liaodong, the sea water has turned cold. The wind against the sea surface is already a bit cold. Li Xiao is wearing spring and autumn clothes, with his hat strap tied around his neck. The sea breeze is very strong today, and it is easy to be blown away by the wind if not restrained.

There is a simple small dock in Liguan Town, which can only accommodate boats with a capacity of about 1,000 tons. Li Xiao's boat can only be parked at sea, and he and his people can go ashore in a small boat.

The secret service company had been waiting on the dock early. In fact, there were not many soldiers from the Nanjing Forbidden Army in the entire dock. Li Xiao's soldiers were all wearing standard uniforms. The Nanjing Forbidden Army still wore standard Ming Dynasty cotton armor. Two groups of soldiers

Standing side by side gives a sense of time travel.

"Are you being too vigilant?" Li Xiao stood on the small boat and saw only two small officers standing next to Shi Kefa waiting on the dock.

"You are related to the entire Liao army, no matter how vigilant you are, it is not too much." Ao Canghai put down the telescope in his hand. In fact, at this distance, there is no need for telescopes at all. Li Xiao knew that he was showing off to Shi Kefa!

After landing on the shore, Shi Kefa immediately came over to greet him. Although Li Xiao and Shi Kefa were both at the rank of commander-in-chief, this was Li Xiao's territory after all. Moreover, Li Xiao's soldiers were well-fed, and Shi Kefa had to lower his head under the low eaves.

.

"I've seen General Li!" Shi Kefa clasped his fists and saluted. The two young officers beside him held the handles of their swords and stared straight at them, hammering them together like nails.

"Master Shi, it's been a year since we parted ways in Jinzhou. I didn't expect that we would meet again in southern Liaoning. The land in Liaodong is really small."

"Shi Mou is also thinking about the imperial court. If we train a group of elite soldiers in the south of the Yangtze River to intimidate the southeast, it will also make the young people less capable of evil thoughts. This time he brought the Nanjing Forbidden Army to Liaodong purely for military training. Please invite Li

Commander-in-Chief, don’t think too much.”

Shi Kefa took the matter seriously and told Li Xiao clearly that he had no intention of trying to steal his territory. In terms of wealth, Jiangnan was the crown jewel of the Ming Dynasty. If such a wealthy place was left unoperated, it would be a waste to come to a barbaric place like Liaodong.

It cannot be justified in any case to seize territory.

"This is General Ao. We came here today just to see how your fortifications are doing and whether they can withstand the Tatar attack. You know, less than two hundred miles behind you is Jinzhou. Over there

There are already many Ming people in the fields, and if the Tatars rush over here, it will be a disaster for them."

"Commander Li can rest assured that the Nanjing Forbidden Army will do its best. The Tatars will not be allowed to cross the thunder pool. Although the defense here is not as good as that of Jinzhou City, Mr. Shi still put some thought into it.

But when it comes to fighting the Tartars, General Li is an expert. If there are any deficiencies here, please give me some advice." Shi Kefa said sincerely. After all, before Li Xiao arrived, the Ming Dynasty had not done anything in Liaodong.

Winning plan. But after having Li Xiao, Nurhachi's financial support began to suffer.

Li Xiao does have experience to teach when it comes to dealing with the Hou Jin army. But I don’t know if Li Xiao has a common problem among military attachés in this era, hiding their secrets!

Why should I teach you based on my experience gained from human life? In this era, the Ming army was actually divided into two types. One was the military households with regular establishment in the country. These people had been military households since the time of Zhu Yuanzhang. They were farmers on weekdays and farmers during wartime.

As a soldier. But after more than 200 years of food, the military household system has basically existed in name only. The land of the military households has been devoured by the officers in large quantities.

Not only that, it has long been normal for officers to enslave military households. The combat effectiveness of this kind of army can be imagined with your toes.

The military households had poor combat effectiveness, but the generals still had to fight. In desperation, the generals began to tinker with their own armed forces - servants.

In fact, the retainers should be regarded as the private armies of the generals. The generals need to get their own money to pay the retainers. The famous Qi Jiajun, Li Xiao's Liao Army, and the Nanjing Forbidden Army in front of us are actually such retainers.

The imperial court is unwilling to spend money to raise troops, so it turns a blind eye to this kind of thing. Anyway, no matter what, as long as the emperor sends you out to fight and win.

"Then let's go take a look at the battlefield!"

"Array...! Oh, please!" After all, Shi Kefa had been around in Jinzhou and knew the new vocabulary in Li Xiao's army.

There are two hills in the north of Liguan Town, and a road passes between the two hills. Shi Kefa's position was built based on these two hills.

The artillery position is located on the top of the mountain, and the range of the artillery is increased to a certain extent by taking advantage of the height of the mountain. From this point of view, Shi Kefa is not that pedantic and idiotic officer.

The soldiers at the foot of the mountain were digging trenches. The trenches Shi Kefa dug were very strange. They were not very wide, but very deep. Visually, they were more than two meters wide and two meters deep. Water had been dug out in many places. The soldiers were in the water,

Still throwing dirt on top, it looks like it's very hard.

What is strange is that Shi Kefa's troops only piled up one side of the trench against the earth. Invisibly, the attacking Jin army not only had to deal with the deep trench, but also had to face an earth wall. The depth of the trench, plus the earth

The height of the pile is more than three meters high. The war horses are in the narrow trench, and trying to jump up is just a dream.

"A total of three trenches will be dug. In winter, as long as you water the excavated soil, the soil will freeze into a lump, and it will be impossible to fill the trenches.

Moreover, I will send people to sprinkle caltrops inside the trenches. If the war horses really fall, they will go crazy with pain. From the official road over there to this open area, there will be irregularly placed rocks as big as watermelons on the ground. The mines you support.

They will also be mixed among the stones. If the Tatars want to clear these stones, they will have to throw away some corpses."

Shi Kefa stood on the top of the mountain, holding a map in his hand and constantly pointing out the country.

This time it was Li Xiao's turn to be shocked. He never expected that Shi Kefa had learned all his tactics well. The soil dug out of the trenches was something Li Xiao learned from the war in the Middle East. Shi Kefa had only been in Jinzhou for one winter, and he was the only one who knew it.

The motherfuckers are all gone. Is this guy a chief sent by the Ministry of War or a spy?

"How to defend yourself on the official road?"

"There are no obstacles on the official road. I have people dig trenches on the hillsides on both sides. As long as people pass through the official road between the two mountains, they will be beaten into sieves by firecrackers. Our firecrackers are from the Folangji people.

Although the latest fire blunderbuss is not as good as yours, Mr. Li, the range is still no problem." Shi Kefa pointed to the official road with confidence.

It’s over! This guy has even learned this!

Annihilating enemy areas with firepower is a tactic used by the US military. Li Xiao came up with this tactic after reading research on US military tactics. Shi Kefa, that bastard, is a fucking tactical genius.

"Oh, there are our Falangji instructors over there. They will command our artillery when the time comes. The new artillery of the Falangji can already fire explosive shells. However... the power is still not comparable to that of your cannon!"

War is indeed the best way to make science and technology explode, but Li Xiu bombarded him. Within a year, Hou Jin tinkered with the explosive bomb with the help of the Dutch. The damn Portuguese here also tinkered with it,

Are all people in this era so rebellious?

Fortunately, I used the nitrocellulose gunpowder. If this formula were also leaked, I would lose the slightest advantage. Leaving the nitrocellulose factory in Phi Island is really a damn right thing. Phi Island is not a big place.

, can be blocked very well.

The seal must be tightened, and the formula of nitrocellulose must not be leaked under any circumstances.

Li Xiao turned around and glanced at Ao Canghai, who was actually not shocked at all. He probably knew from his subordinates that Shi Kefa had the explosive ammunition.

Even if the Portuguese bring an artillery team, it is impossible not to conduct test firings. Only after test firing the calibrated cannon can they accurately calibrate and shoot Zhuyuan. This is the common sense of artillery!

"Master Shi, I won't hide it from you. We have done some good work in Hou Jin Dynasty. Now Hou Jin has brought out the Eight Banners of the Han Army. With the help of the red-haired people, the Eight Banners of the Han Army also have artillery and muskets. Although they are not as strong as yours.

, and it is definitely not worse than yours. Since you don’t hide it, I will tell you clearly that they also have explosive ammunition. Moreover, the power is not small."

"There are no jokes in the army! General Soldier Li, you can't joke about this kind of thing." After Li Xiao said this, Shi Kefa's expression changed. After one year in Jinzhou, Shi Kefa was able to master the tactics of using firearms to deal with cavalry.

And in some places, he also made improvements based on his own experience.

But Li Xiao suddenly told him that he was facing an army with advanced firearms just like him. How could Shi Kefa bear this? He was not like Li Xiao. He also had a cavalry force in his hand, and his men totaled

All 4,500 infantrymen are here now.

"Of course, we have reliable intelligence sources. Therefore, you must be prepared to deal with the Eight Banners of the Han Army. Let me give you a suggestion. Since your artillery is on the mountain, the range of your artillery will be increased based on the height advantage.

At the beginning of the battle, you can concentrate all artillery to bombard the enemy's artillery positions. This can weaken the enemy's artillery threat to the greatest extent!

As for your men on the mountainside, you have to let them dig trenches. The trenches need to be about one person deep, and only the head and shoulders can be exposed when a person stands in them. When the enemy fires artillery, you have the soldiers squat

Inside the trenches, this can effectively avoid casualties.

These trenches can also be connected to the back of the mountain. Whether it is ammunition or evacuated wounded, they can be transported through the trenches. I will also support you with some grenades to help the enemy attack. Standing in the trenches and throwing grenades outside can give the enemy
To be continued...