Wars are never achieved overnight. If a large-scale conflict is wanted, there will inevitably be a lot of secret planning and preparations on the eve of the outbreak.

The confrontation situation in the Liaodong region has always been the focus of Emperor Chongzhen. After all, in a sense, whether wars and conflicts have formed in Liao areas will affect the development of certain areas of the Ming Dynasty.

Especially the development of the military industry, that is even more so.

"Master General, our Liaodong rebel army has no money!"

Yang Fangxing was a little excited and looked at Li Zicheng and said, "Previously, many batches of firearms, artillery, gunpowder, etc. were secretly purchased from Tianjin Zhili Prefecture to secretly purchase large quantities of firearms, artillery, gunpowder, etc., and put them in the main force of the five armies on the front, back, left and right sides, and then the batch of silver obtained from the search.

Basically, the consumption is almost done.

In addition, the capture of Haizhou Guards, Dingliao Youwei and other places caused an increase in the number of people controlled by our Liaodong Rebel Army, which led to a serious grain shortage under its rule. In this way, a large amount of grain was purchased from Tianjin and other places.

At this time, it is simply unrealistic to order firearms, artillery and other military supplies from Tianjin. After all, all areas in the coastal areas of southern Liaoning have been handed over to the Ming army."

Li Zicheng's face looked a little ugly.

He never expected that the Liaodong rebel army led by his command would be so fast to seize the previous battlefield.

"How did you, the photographer in Tianyou Palace, behave like this!"

At present, the regional battlefield in Liaodong, whether it is the Jianlu Eight Banners or the Liaodong Rebel Army, it has all invested heavily by the influence of regional wars and is gradually increasing the scale of its firearms and artillery under its command.

Although Huang Taiji spent a lot of money and food to forge self-generated muskets, tiger squat cannons, general cannons, etc., the muskets and cannons produced are still worse than the firearms and cannons installed by the Liaodong Rebels.

The previous grade, or even two grades.

A chill arose in Yang Fangxing's heart.

Whether in terms of range, power, or durability, the Jianlu Eight Banners, which lack independent research ability, would it be a rival to the Ming Dynasty's military industry?

"The secret stakes that our rebel army condemned are just unproductive. If you want to find out the internal situation of Jianlu, you have to rely on the Dongjiang Army led by Liu Xingzuo to secretly convey them to the secret stakes that Jianlu infiltrated."

Yang Fangxing's expression changed slightly. Under Li Zicheng's gaze, he quickly stepped forward, reached out to take the secret report in front of him, and looked at him with a glance.

Li Zicheng held the secret letter in his hand tightly, frowned and looked at Yang Fangxing and said, "Didn't you ask you to save some money? I remember that the money I had in the box was at least hundreds of thousands of taels. Is it all gone?

Look at this secret report.

Like the Liaodong Rebel Army led by Li Zicheng, although he regained many Liao territory from the Jianlu Eight Banners, the coastal areas were actually controlled by the Ming Dynasty, such as the Liaoxi Navy, Jinzhou Navy, Dongjiang Navy, etc.

The maritime forces are gradually expanding and growing.

This is the bare-fruit gap!

"Master General, if the Jianlu Eight Banners really want to launch an offensive against our rebel army, the only feasible way is to actively maintain contact with the Ming army."

The profits of arms trade are really high and scary.

How can standardized assembly line manual work be compared with the mass production of small workshops built by Jianlu Eight Banners?

This person became cruel and had a bit of a gambler. Now, the Manchu and the Eight Banners of the Han army are equipped with a lot of muskets and cannons, and their combat power has been significantly improved.

The movement of the Eight Banners of Jianlu this time was not like a bluff. I was afraid that Huang Taiji wanted to severely damage our Liaodong Rebel Army in one battle. In this way, his situation of Jianlu Eight Banners could establish a foothold in Liao.

These gangs of Jianlu Eight Banners are constantly moving in Liaoyang Town, Weining Camp, and Gushan Fort. It depends on the situation that they are going to launch an offensive against our southern Liaoning.

Chongzhen is right, Huang Taiji is considered a character.

From the hands of the Jianlu Eight Banners, taking away Haizhou Guards, Dingliao Youwei and other places, Li Zicheng felt extremely uneasy deep in his heart.

If an army equipped with such muskets and cannons fails on the battlefield, it will be fatal to attack the eight banners of Jianlu.

Prime Minister, you go to Tianjin in person to negotiate with Chen Yansheng. I will write a letter to Sun Chengzong, Liu Xingzuo and others to explain the current situation in southern Liaoning.

Li Zicheng clenched his fists tightly and said with his sword eyebrows: "Previously, Huangtaiji dispatched all troops to defend Liaoyang Town and Weiningying, and concentrated the eight banners of the Manchuria, Mongolian, and Han army that could be transferred under his command to launch a counterattack on the Korqin Grassland. The Chahar, Neikalkha and other troops suffered a considerable loss, which made the situation in the Korqin Grassland stabilize.

Especially through the Dongjiang Army led by Liu Xingzuo, a group of secret stakes infiltrated into the Eight Banners of Jianlu, it was learned that Huang Taiji spent a huge amount of money to build muskets and cannons, which also forced Li Zicheng to purchase a large number of weapons and firearms from Tianjin many times, thereby ensuring the combat effectiveness of the elite troops under his jurisdiction.

How long has it been so quiet? This damn Huang Taiji wanted to dispatch troops to attack our Liaodong rebel army. I am afraid that it will not take long before there will be another storm in Liao."

Once our Liaodong Rebel Army fights with the Eight Banners of Jianlu, it is probably not easy to take the initiative in the battlefield with the batch of firearms and artillery installed."

I want to severely damage my Liaodong Rebel Army in this way. He Huang Taiji is simply a fool. This time, I will definitely conquer Liaoyang Town and even enter Shenyang City!

If we cannot deal with this war loan when it expires, then our Liaodong Rebel Army will give up these areas and hand them over to the Ming Dynasty for rule."

The money and food that needs to be invested in the arms race is huge and a real bottomless pit. Emperor Chongzhen wanted to use this form to effectively make good use of the Liaodong rebel army led by Li Zicheng to continuously weaken the war potential of Jianlu Eight Banners.

"It's a thief. Chongzhen is a business that has no foundation and is doing it too smoothly."

The Eight Banners powerful brigades who fought with the power of this battle moved to various tribes of the Haixi Jurchens, which also led to the capture of a group of warlike Pijiao under the command of the Jianlu Eight Banners.

Although the territory under his command increased a lot and the elite troops under the Liaodong Rebel Army increased a lot, there was still a big gap compared with the brave and good at fighting Jianlu Eight Banners.

Li Zicheng frowned and cursed: "I want to exchange the 2 million taels of silver for the war loan for Gaizhou, Fuzhou and Haizhou. This is his mother's choice to be a long-term worker. No, the Ming court must ask the additional loan share, at least 4 million taels of silver.

In the pan-Liaodong strategy conceived by Emperor Chongzhen, the formation of arms trade and the formation of arms race was gradually implemented as time went by and with the changes in the situation in Liao.

As for the eight banners of Jianlu led by Huang Taiji, under the high-intensity battles in the past, they also forged large quantities of self-generated muskets, tiger squat cannons, general cannons, etc. The war potential they contained was consumed little by little.

Yang Fangxing frowned, faced Li Zicheng's gaze, and said, "In addition, the war loans mentioned by Chen Yansheng, the governor of Tianjin, were only able to follow what Chen Yansheng said, and promote the 2 million taels of silver war loans as soon as possible, pledging the three places of Gaizhou Wei, Fuzhou Wei and Haizhou Wei.

The war situation arising from Liao, I would like to ask Chongzhen to know that as long as this greedy guy knows, it would be possible to promote the army led by Sun Chengzong and Liu Xingzuo to actively participate in this battle."

"Here!"

Yang Fangxing immediately bowed.

Li Zicheng now understood that he was regarded as a long-term worker by Emperor Chongzhen. No matter how much progress the Liaodong rebel army he led had achieved in Liao, as long as he could not get rid of the supply of firearms and artillery from the Ming Dynasty, it would be impossible for him to truly gain a foothold in Liao.
Chapter completed!