Wu Sangui said it was tough, but he still sent an envoy to Nanjing City for help.

Wu Sanrong took the initiative and had to work hard to travel, who made him familiar with Nanjing.

From Sichuan to Nanjing, you can take the Yangtze River waterway, and the wooden boat goes down the river, thousands of miles a day.

The late rice in Jiangnan and Huguang has been acquired by Yu Jing. The rice fields on both sides of the Yangtze River are full of dense rice chokes, which looks very uncomfortable, so he hid in the cabin for most of the time on the road.

In early October, the north wind had already blown to Jiangnan. Wu Sanrong worked hard all the way and finally arrived in Nanjing.

But unexpectedly, he arrived very unfortunately. King Jin went to Hangzhou to inspect the day before yesterday and was not in Nanjing.

Those who once served as officials in the Ming Dynasty knew how to do business. He gave a gift to Liu Suifeng, the Minister of Personnel. After finding out the news, he was relieved to wait in Nanjing.

In contrast, the envoys of the Daxi Army who came to pay their respects a few days ago seemed too ignorant.

Zhai Zhe had long received news that the Qing army had attacked Sichuan, and Zhao Yucheng's layout in Jiangbei was very efficient. Before the two blue flag soldiers had left Shanxi, he already knew that the Qing court regarded Wu Sangui as the primary target of attack.

Before the troops move, food and grass will go first. There will be countless traces left before the army is dispatched. The key is to find the right person to find the right information. Zhai Zhe is not clear about which Han officials Zhao Yucheng in Beijing rebelled in Beijing, he only needs to be the result. A person's energy is limited, and the King of Jin in the Ming Dynasty has never been a person with a strong desire for control, otherwise the cabinet would have been no longer there.

The storm of Xichuan is coming, which is good news for Jiangnan.

Since Dorgon dared to mobilize heavy troops into Sichuan, he must have been prepared in the Central Plains and Jianghuai. After two years of torture with the blade on his throat, Zhai Zhe was determined to appreciate the scenery of sitting in the mountains and watching the tiger fighting.

It’s not that he doesn’t want to send troops, but that Jiangnan is not ready for sending troops.

King Jin's fleet was very ordinary, but there were escorts from the front and back.

This time, there were 32 military generals, two generals and four generals in the army who followed Zhai Zhe to Hangzhou. The lowest level was also a guerrilla general. So far, Fengqin and Li Zhian did not know the purpose of Zhai Zhe's sudden summoning them to go south.

It was windy today, and Zhai Zhe stayed in the cabin and didn't come out, and the two generals sat with him.

Feng Qin was still as taciturn as ever, but Li Zhian kept giving up Zhai Zhe to speak.

This spring, Feng Qin asked for an offensive in Jianghuai, but was rejected by Zhai Zhe. Since then, his presence as the Jiangfang President has been very low.

The fleet did not stop in Hangzhou. After crossing the canal, it went up the Qiantang River and docked in Fuyang County.

All the generals in the army knew where Fuyang was.

The weapons supervisor Zhao Pu, who had only been in office for three months, and the three weapons workshop owners were waiting on the shore. Zhao Pu stood in front, and Hu Guanghou followed closely behind, and the order of arrangement indicated their status.

Zhai Zhe and his party came ashore with more than fifty people, and the warships behind him, including 300 personal guards and guards.

The bosses came forward to pay homage and finished their greetings, and exchanged a few simple greetings. Zhai Zhe immediately stared at Hu Guanghou and asked, "Are you ready for things? The people I brought today are your examiners."

Hu Guanghou proudly raised his waist and said, "Please watch the ceremony." After he continued to improve the flintlock rifle, he absorbed the advantages of Western firearms. It has been fully mature, and the problem of not fistula without sounding flint has been solved.

The group did not enter Fuyang County, but went straight to the weapons factory in the mountains and forests by the Qiantang River.

Fengqin and others felt more and more mysterious.

The cold wind blew through the jungle and whistled, less than seven or eight miles into the mountains. There were open and secret whistles every few dozen steps behind, and the guards were tightly guarded.

The sentry here not only prevents outsiders from entering, but also prevents people inside from escaping.

Zhai Zhe did not go to the weapons workshop. As far as he knew, except for a few craftsmen with superb skills and flexible brains in the research institute, the craftsmen who worked in the workshop were similar to prisoners.

They can get a considerable reward, but they can't find a place to spend money here except to take the money home to support their families. The newly recruited craftsmen from the three major weapons workshops have special residences in Fuyang County. Every half a month, they can go home and reunite with their families. After working in the weapons workshop for ten years, they can get rid of their apprenticeship and get much more free from entering and leaving.

The group kept walking into the mountains, and Hu Guanghou and Zhao Pu were by Zhai Zhe and told him about the terrain and arrangements everywhere.

After walking for about half an hour, my eyes suddenly became clear. There was an open land between the two mountains, which was artificially filled with a training ground, and there were two neat rows of dirt houses on both sides.

Hu Guanghou pointed at the front of him and said, "This is the largest firearm test site in Fuyang, and the artillery is also tested here."

Zhai Zhe asked: "Is it here?"

Zhao Pu replied: "It's here."

He clapped his hands, and dozens of people in guard uniforms in the dirt house to the east walked over with more than a dozen huge wooden boxes.

The people walked up to Zhai Zhe ten steps, put down the wooden box, and pried open the lids. Each wooden box contained ten shiny bird guns.

Zhai Zhe waved and ordered the guard to come over with a bird gun, and then handed it to Feng Qin beside him, asking, "Do you find any difference?"

Feng Qin likes to use firearms. He has designed countless firearm tactics and is also a firearm expert.

He picked up the bird gun and looked up and down for a moment, and looked surprised and said, "It is actually a bird gun designed so exquisitely."

He asked the guard standing beside him for gunpowder and lead, and his hands and feet were quickly loaded in, lifted the bird gun and pointed it in front, and then pulled the machine spring.

A loud "bang" sound immediately attracted the attention of the generals behind him.

Yuan Qizhou, Sun Zhijing and Zheng Zunqian all turned around.

Zhai Zhe looked gloomy and said, "This thing is called a flintlock spear." He waved his hand at Zhao Pu and ordered: "Let's ask the guards to test the guns, so that the generals can open their eyes."

There are guards in front of the earthen houses on both sides, and they are also gun testers at the Hu Family Workshop. Whenever a new weapon is successfully developed, they are always the first to feel it and raise various existing problems.

One hundred guards stood in five rows, each holding bird guns.

Zhao Pu called out the order, and the generals' ears were quickly filled with roar. Five rows of bird guns were fired one after another, with almost no gaps between them, and in the end it seemed that there was no end.

Feng Qin silently calculates in his heart.

The flintlock gun is twice as fast as the Fire God gun, and the design of the separatist ignition device will not affect these bird guns as long as it does not rain heavily.

The gun test lasted for about half a quarter of an hour, and Zhai Zhe raised his hand to signal the gun tester to stop.

The generals who came today are all familiar with firearms. Li Zhian exclaimed: "The weapon of the country"

Feng Qin grabbed the bird gun in his hand and kept shining with a hot light in his eyes, saying, "If you are accompanied by a few spearmen, the flintlock can compete with the Qing cavalry on the plains." He only said that he could compete with the cavalry, but did not say that he would definitely defeat the Qing cavalry.

Zhai Zhe said: "From July, the three weapons workshops no longer produce flint-cord bird guns, but instead use flintlock guns to replace them." He asked as if he was deliberately sophisticated: "If I want to put flintlock guns into the battlefield, under what circumstances can I get the most shocking results?"

Fengqin and Li Zhian spoke in unison and said: "Rain season"

The rainy season began in March, and the light rain continued for several months. During this period, the Ming army could not use muskets and the Qing court could not use bows and arrows. In comparison, the Ming army was more affected. Therefore, the Qing army was very willing to fight with the Ming army in this season.

"I am going to launch the Jiangbei offensive next spring, and then the flintlock can have at least 10,000 flintlocks."

The words of King Jin made several generals extremely excited and looked forward to it.
Chapter completed!