The military towns have long heard of the news of the imperial court's reorganization. What kind of army A and army B are obviously going to be dismissed! Wu Sangui relied on his subordinates to be elite soldiers and was unaware of the fact that the army B would be divided.

Zuo Liangyu is known as a 200,000 army, but I don’t know how many types of armies can be obtained. Zuo Liangyu himself knew that his army was known as 200,000, but in fact it was less than 150,000. Among these 150,000, a small half of the army could be barely considered elite. If he had made drastic streaks, he could pull out 60,000 troops to fight. This time the court was not a bluff. According to the news from Jin Shenghuan, the emperor’s new army was equipped with several new firearms. It is said that there is a new rifle that can shoot 400 steps, and one shot within 200 steps is accurate. Compared to the musket that can only fire within 50 steps and cannot be accurately fired, the lethality can be described as terrifying. If you want to rebel, you are looking for death. What’s more, Xuzhou and Wu Sangui’s Guanning Iron Cavalry, even if you have the courage to resist the imperial army, you will not dare to resist.

Let’s talk about Zuo Liangyu’s concern about the military reorganization of the court, and even his confidant adviser Liu Jingting had no idea. Liu Jingting was originally a storyteller, with a mouth full of splendor, but he didn’t know a few words. However, with his ability to memorize, he memorized allusions and unofficial history from ancient times to the present. He relied on his mouth to be able to speak with wise words, and according to the stories in the storyteller, he could tell the truth and tell the truth. He had to follow the strategy of Liu Mazi and actually won a battle. So Zuo Liangyu had to listen to the opinions of the military advisor in everything.

.After a long time, even the documents have to be listened to Liu Mazi. Don’t think that Liu Mazi doesn’t know a few words, but it doesn’t prevent him from dictating oral copywriting to a group of documents. He can speak, ups and downs and downs, and he must not be upset. He dictates it in the tone of a calligrapher, and the documents only draw up official documents according to his oral description. After such documents are released, they are catchy and quite literary. Liu Mazi is talking to Zuo Liangyu about "The Legend of the Condor Heroes"! He heard that Zuo Liangyu was fascinated every day, and today is no exception. He put aside the troublesome military affairs and listened to Liu Junshi's storytelling.

At this time, the military academy came to report:

"Report to the general, Chen Xiu's troops fought with the Dashun army. This is the military newspaper."

"What's the fight? It's important to say."

"Report to the Grand Commander, Chen Xiu is guarding the territory close to Zaoyang. Recently, an iron ore was discovered at the junction with the crusade. Now Wuhu has released the iron ore collection, and there are as many as possible. Chen Xiu ordered mining, and it may have crossed the boundary, so he clashed with the crusade. As a result, Chen Xiu led his troops to rush over and occupy the radius of twenty miles there. However, Zaoyang was close to Xiangyang, and the main force of the Baiwang of the crusade was stationed near Xiangyang. He immediately sent troops to reinforce, and instead occupied the entire iron ore. Chen Xiu was mobilizing his troops and horses at this time, and at the same time reported to the Grand Commander, preparing to repel the crusade and regain the iron ore."

Zuo Liangyu was extremely irritated and angry, and immediately shouted: "His grandma, I'm bullying me! I've done it, quickly dispatch troops north and send troops to grab the iron ore for me to get back."

When Liu Mazi saw that the general was going to do recklessly, and the emperor had an order to not have a conflict with the riot army. Now the one who started the battle was his own side. Xiangyang riots gathered, and Wuchang and Zaoyang were more than 500 miles away. If the emperor pursued the army, it would not be fun. Besides, the riot army was not so easy to deal with! He changed his mind and said:

"Master, be slow, I have something to report to the Master."

Zuo Liangyu waved to the military academy, and the military academy immediately retreated. Liu Jingting said:

"The great commander, who has seen his humble position, has the countermeasures to reorganize the army, this is the matter."

“How to say it?”

"Master, this conflict comes at the right time, but it is not suitable to fight, but it is not suitable to make a big fight, but it cannot give in. The so-called self-respecting enemy forces means this. If we claim to attack the enemy, our army has to defend ourselves! In this way, at the intersection of our army and the army, we will not give in to each other, and from then on, the war will continue to conflict. Since the war is tight, the emperor's plan to reorganize the army must increase the organization of our army's A Division. However, for border wars, we must control the scale of the conflict. If the war is together, the situation will be uncontrollable. If the emperor sends Huang Degong, Gao Jie or even Wu Sangui to intervene, our territory will be unstable and will be unbeautiful." Liu Mazi said nonsense, saying it was very clear.

"Well, military advisor Gao Jian, that's exactly what it is!"

Adhering to this strategy, the left army and the rebel army repeatedly fought around this iron ore, but the scale of the conflict between the two armies was controlled within 2,000 people. At the same time, the two sides were fighting each other and claimed that it was the other party who provoked the war. At the same time, the two sides unanimously declared that the iron ore belonged to their own territory and could not be allowed to be secretly collected by the other party.

Liu Mazi also gave a military report to the court, claiming that the Chuangjun launched a war in order to occupy our inherent iron ore. We were forced to fight back, and the war might escalate. We asked the court to tell us whether there would be more troops to fight in the next step. The military report completely pushed the blame and pushed the party responsible on the Chuangjun.

The situation in Shandong is the opposite. Liu Zeqing's military discipline was corrupt. The Liu tribe in Laizhou area forcibly purchased the local gold mines at low prices on the grounds of banning private gold mining, and then reselled them for profit. Moreover, the looting of the Liu tribe often happened, and the local gentry dared to be angry but did not dare to speak out. This Laizhou happened to be the border with the Dashun army, so the gold mine owner invited the Dashun army to protect the mines, which caused conflicts between the two sides. Although Liu Zeqing's army forcibly robbed the people of the people, the Dashun army only took one round to fight.

Liu Zeqing's Laizhou defenders fled in panic and handed over Laizhou to the Dashun Army. However, the Dashun Army also knew that it could not openly occupy Laizhou and that it was not the responsibility of provoking the war. So he used a move to cover up the ears and steal the bell, causing a general of the Dashun Army to take off his Dashun Army uniform, lied that the Laizhou Guards, and a local mine owner selected three leaders, and then started autonomy in Laizhou. The Laizhou Autonomous Brigade also knew that the matter would not last long, so he tried to write a letter of impeachment of Liu Zeqing and reported to the Nanjing court through the channels.

The Military Affairs Office held a special meeting around the conflict in Hubei and Shandong, and this time Wang Youqing also attended the meeting.

Wang Chengen introduced: "This iron ore in Zaoyang belongs to ferrosilicon, and its quality is pretty good. It is good for refining spring steel and silicon steel. However, this is not a scarce mineral deposit, so there is no need to fight for it. Laizhou is different. There are rich gold veins around Laizhou, so you can't give up easily!" Wang Chengen accidentally told the Sanshan Island Gold Mine, a large gold mine in Laizhou in later generations. Fortunately, the reaction was timely, and he barely left it at his mouth, without saying a word.

Liu Jiyun said first: "The conflict in Zaoyang, Hubei is unlikely to cause much turmoil. At present, the Qing army has reached a foregone conclusion. This time, the Qing envoy came to join forces with our Ming Dynasty and attack the Dashun army, and was also in the name of revenge for our Ming Dynasty. It is ridiculous! Therefore, the Dashun army also dared not expand the war. However, the Dashun army's actions in Shandong were indeed untrustworthy, but the corruption of Liu Zeqing's military discipline was the root cause of this disaster. I think the Hubei issue can be solved through negotiations with the Dashun army. However, the Shandong issue can not only be properly resolved, but the disarmament of Liu Zeqing's troops should be carried out as soon as possible. I think Wu Sangui and his troops can be transferred to Shandong."

Zhang Huangyan interrogated: "I agree that the reason why the Dashun Army wanted to take the guise of autonomy in Laizhou was because of the fear of being attacked on both sides of the war. I thought that in order to achieve the goal of restraining Liu Zeqing and intimidating the Dashun Army, the unit should have no less than 10,000 people, and can be equipped with grenades and thunder throwing weapons. Just the dispatch of Wu Sangui's army, the navy can be sent directly from the sea to transport it in Dengzhou."

Seeing that the emperor looked at him, Wang Youqing said, "This conflict in Zaoyang, Hubei is worth recalling. Since Zhu Xianzhen was defeated by Li Zicheng, Zuo Liangyu was afraid that Li Zicheng would avoid it. If it is understandable that one or two conflicts are still continuous, the conflict will not escalate. I am afraid that Zuo Liangyu is playing any tricks. I guess that it may be related to the military reorganization. Zuo Liangyu decided that Li Zicheng would not launch a large-scale conflict with the Ming Dynasty, so I performed this drama, and it is not ruled out that he would resist the military reorganization. Zuo Liangyu made a move to put on a stance of Dashun Army's troops, perhaps in a different way, intending to strive for more A-type troops. I think this behavior should be punished."

"I have time and some solutions to the matter in Hubei. I want to give priority to sending troops north to suppress the so-called autonomy of Laizhou with lightning speed. I decided to transfer 3,000 infantry in Wu Sangui, led by Guo Yunlong, Zhang Huangyan, I ordered you to lead 1,500 new troops, totaling 4,500 troops, and the entire army was unified and commanded by Wang Youqing. Wang Youqing, I appointed you as the command imperial envoy, and led your army to head north by boat, land directly in the waters of Laizhou, and then use the new army as the front drive to occupy Laizhou as quickly as possible.

Those who dare to resist will be suppressed. In this battle, I have told you the key to amphibious landing, and you must be ‘sudden, fast, accurate, and ruthless’. This battle can carry pistols, shotguns and 300 rifles, equipped with grenades and thunder throwers. Be careful to make the thunder throwers show their power as much as possible. This is what I will sell to Li Zicheng to fight against the Qing Dynasty in the future, so I will make an advertisement first. This time, we must call this group of Dashun Army, who are equipped with militias, pay the price for their stupid behavior of thinking that they are smart and stupid."

"I accept the order! Obey the order! Thank you for your kindness!" Wang Youqing and Zhang Huangyan were both energetic, especially Wang Youqing did not expect that the emperor would actually assign a scholar who could only talk about the military on paper so far, and he was even more excited. In fact, Chongzhen regarded the Dashun Army, which eliminated the counterfeit militia in Laizhou this time as a training. Since the counterfeit militia, there must be not many soldiers and horses. In addition, Li Zicheng did not intend to fight with the Ming Dynasty, and the Dashun Army in Shandong could not fight to the death. Therefore, if this kind of good opportunity to train, if a rookie like Wang Youqing and Zhang Huangyan were not allowed to practice, wouldn't it be a pity for this god-given opportunity!

When Wang Chengen saw the emperor's arrangement, he immediately said: "Emperor, after taking back Laizhou, I think I don't have to be polite to those mine owners. Anyone who participates in this collusion with the Dashun Army to plan autonomy should be dealt with according to the law. I think at least a fine should be imposed to pay the crime. If the circumstances are serious, gold mines should be confiscated. Wu Sangui's three thousand troops seem to be able to stay in Laizhou and mine gold mines."

"Shi Aiqing, what the Prince said is very consistent with my wishes, and we can handle it accordingly. Wu Sangui dispatched troops and Zheng Sen to arrange ship affairs and firearms, please ask Shi Aiqing to dispatch it, and Liu Jiyun assisted Master Shi to handle it."

"I follow the order!" "I follow the order!"

"My dear friends, what are your opinions on the Qing army envoys?"

Shi Kefa responded and said: "Emperor Bing, I think I should strictly refuse the proposal of the Ming and Qing dynasties to attack Dashun and then eliminate Dashun. The Qing soldiers are full of ambitions. How can our Ming Dynasty take advantage of it!"

After hearing this, Wang Youqing was dissatisfied and rushed to say, "I think this is a great opportunity to understand the trends of the Qing army. You should not act like keeping people from thousands of miles away. You can make a false statement and even send envoys to visit. One is to find out when and how the Qing army will rise up, and the other is to take the opportunity to delay the time of the Qing army's uprising. The military strategy is that soldiers are never tired of deception. Why not take advantage of this kind of opportunity? Just inform Li Zicheng of information. I believe that for information or delaying the war, you might as well make plans and do some work."

Chongzhen smiled and said, "Yes, the soldiers are never tired of deceit. When I think about it, who will accompany the envoys of the Qing army to play with them?"

Wang Chengen didn't care what Chongzhen and his ministers said. At this moment, when he thought of North Korea and the landing north, Wang Chengen's dream of shipbuilding was aroused. He wanted to build the first steam-powered ship of this era as soon as possible. As long as the steam power passes, it is not difficult to use riveting technology to build the first all-steel ship. Regarding the issue of anti-leakage of joints, a team in the institute has been conducting experiments. The tung oil and lime used for the joints of wooden ships, as well as coal-based asphalt, by-products of coal coking, and even cement, are all on the test.
Chapter completed!