The south is about to go south. In the past few days, Qiu'er and Yue'er have been busy packing their luggage for Li Xingzhou, ranging from clothes and bedding to snacks and towels, and pens and inkstones they usually use, and then sort and pack them together.

Early in the morning, Li Xingzhou looked at the two busy girls with amusement, "I don't need to bring some, just go there to buy them."

"No, the things outside are not as good as those in the mansion." Yue'er turned around while cleaning up and expressed disagreement.

After a while of busyness, Yue'er ran over and held his hand and acted coquettishly: "Criminal, can you take me there too~"

Li Xingzhou smiled and pointed the tip of the little girl's nose: "No." This was the first time she proposed it. Qiu'er also took the opportunity to come over and agreed: "Yes, Yue'er is too naughty, how could she take her there?"

"Sister Qiu'er..." Yue'er looked resentful.

Qiu'er changed the subject and took his hand, "So, the prince will take me there!" The logic is clear and reasonable.

The moon is full of black lines...

Li Xingzhou was funny and took the two little girls into his arms and put one on one: "Guazhou is not far away, don't worry about me."

"It's not far away. It's obviously going to take ten days and half a month." Qiu'er knew a lot, and her little face was not good.

"You know a lot." Li Xingzhou pinched her pink nose: "But that was by land, and we had more than 3,000 people. The ships of the court were destroyed at the mouth of Anxia. There were not so many large ships carrying so many people, so this was the worst solution.

If you want to come in the future, wait for the ship of the royal palace to be built and you will be here in one or two days. But even if you are coming, let me know about General Manager Yan and Uncle Ji first, and he will find someone to give it to you."

"Anyway, I'll go sooner or later, it's not the same now." Qiu'er leaned back gently, preparing to act coquettishly.

Li Xingzhou didn't understand this little girl with a ghost spirit. She flicked her forehead gently: "Little girl, don't be smart with the prince. This time it's different. Although Guazhou is far away from Suzhou, it's probably not much better."

He knew in his mind that Guazhou was not big, and so many foreign populations were pouring in, and they were all army. Resources were scarce, and disasters were inevitable. It was impossible for the court's materials to arrive in Guazhou at once, especially when the large ships were destroyed. I am afraid that it would be uninterrupted if there were no hell on earth.

"When I go there, the situation will stabilize, I will write to you. If the ship of the royal palace is built, it will be possible to come." Li Xingzhou said to the two girls seriously.

"That's not safe..." Qiu'er whispered.

"Don't worry, you forgot that I have a musket team." Li Xingzhou comforted her. The emergence of tool steel accelerated the grinding speed, which increased the speed of gun production. It is expected that before leaving Beijing, overtime can be used to build eight or nine hundred pieces.

Even Li Xingzhou tried to make a few cannons.

In fact, the artillery processing technology in this era is simpler than that of firearms, and the requirements are not so fine. The reason why he did not do it before was that he was limited by material technology and was afraid that the materials would not be up to standard and would cause tragedy that accidentally hurt his own people.

But now that there are steel made from graphite crucibles, these are not problems.

These days, the craftsmen in the royal palace call this steel "Xiaogang".

Sometimes we will talk about how the "Xiaogang" in the royal palace is compared with the Liao Dynasty's dynasty.

The Liao Kingdom used charcoal iron as its name, which shows the strength of Liao Iron. It is normal for everyone to argue. Some craftsmen said it was not as good as charcoal iron, and some said it was far better than charcoal iron. Everyone argued endlessly. After all, they were actually blacksmiths living in the Taiping world in the capital, and they had never seen any charcoal iron in the Liao Kingdom.

Li Xingzhou also allowed them to argue that conflicts in thought were the root of progress. He actually knew that not to mention iron, even the more outstanding Damascus steel later could not reach the level of "Xiaogang" in the royal palace.

After all, it is the first real steel and the first real tool steel.

The reason why the craftsmen in the royal palace are not confident is that the process of making this kind of Xiaogang is not very difficult and has not been forged thousands of hammers and hundreds of forgings.

You should know that the erectile ferrous iron and Damascus steel in history require layer by layer forging and tiring, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive. I wonder how difficult it is to get to this Xiaogang.

But no matter how difficult it is, there are qualitative differences between them and Xiaogang.

Repeated forging can remove impurities, but they just forged ten thousand times or hundreds of thousands of times. Some inert elements can never be removed, and the ratio of carbon iron can never be controlled, and they are not as good as the chemical reactions produced by graphite and molten steel in liquid state.

This is the power of knowledge.

After that, he coaxed the two little girls for a long time. After lunch, he took Yan Shen and rushed to the imperial guard camp.

It is the end of February now, and he has to go south in just a few days. For more than ten days, he will take out afternoons every day to command training at the Imperial Guard Camp. Now, it is time to start the war mobilization.

The new army has laid off the wing-level commander and is directly handed over to Zhao Guanghua's jurisdiction.

The 10th Army training ground has begun to fire guns in the past few days, and the soldiers have truly seen the power of fire guns. Because the geographical location is relatively remote, it has not caused any trouble.

The coach is more than 30 guards in the royal palace.

The 10th Army had a battalion of 500 cavalry, which was specially drawn by the emperor from other armies.

Through these days of inspection and training, more than 30 guards have selected 300 sergeants with good shooting results, and then reorganized them, allowing two thin sergeants to become their deputy.

In this way, the Fifth Battalion of a thousand people was established!

The 900-man musket team, and the other 100 people were read and read, and they formed a cannon team. After considering it, Li Xingzhou called the Fifth Battalion "Shenji Camp". After all, the Ming Dynasty was the most popular dynasty in ancient China.

The tenth army had three thousand people, and there were six battalions, but the Shenji camp had thousands of troops at once, so there were only five battalions left.

In the past few days, the royal palace fired guns and brought them here one after another, with each three people in one group, one group of two guns, and began the three-stage shooting training. Among the three people in each group, only the one with the best shooting skills is required to shoot, and the other two are responsible for loading and cooling the barrel.

After that, the output will gradually increase, and eventually increase to three people in a group, three guns, and one person is responsible for taking turns shooting, which can almost achieve continuous firepower.

Most of the training content in the past few days is trust training, queue training, and then separate training. Shenji Camp trains three stages of shooting. The first battalion is full of cavalry and natural training for horse warfare.

In the past, the iron scale armor was allocated for each battalion. Now, Li Xingzhou directly concentrated all the iron armor of the fourth battalion except the first battalion to the second battalion and the third battalion. Whether it is the storm armor or the crossbow armor, as long as the heavy armor is heavy armor, they are all included in the second battalion and the third battalion, forming a unit of 1,000 people heavy armor. Both battalions are also of the best physical fitness.

The Fourth Battalion was regarded as a reserve battalion, because the number of artillery firearms will eventually increase gradually, and they will gradually replenish them into the Shenji Camp.

Li Xingzhou squeezed out sergeants almost all the time, and even in the middle of the night there were urgent gatherings and night training subjects.

Of course, people will complain under high-intensity training, but Li Xingzhou is notorious and everyone is afraid. In addition, he will also give some surprises from time to time, such as giving them extra meals and eating meat, or inviting people to come to the army to perform. The favor under such high pressure is very valuable.

Everyone's gratitude to him will be far more than before. It is never as good as giving him timely help if you add icing on the cake.

.........

Seeing him riding a horse, Di Zhi in the distance quickly rode his horse to greet him: "Commander!"

"Stop training and gather." Lee Sing-cheol ordered.

"Yes!" After a long period of training, Di Zhi also understood his style. He left without saying a word. Li Xingzhou slowly stepped onto the martial arts stage. When he finished the stage, more than 3,000 people below also gathered, about two minutes, and made great progress!

The training ground was filled with smoke and dust, and handsome flags were dancing, and everyone stood quietly in the dust without saying a word.

Li Xingzhou shouted: "Sit one foot apart from left and right, look right... sit!"

With the sound of the whole process, everyone sat down neatly.

"I came here today. I didn't bring you meat, nor did I invite you to drink. I just came to tell you that in three days, you will go to the Guazhou front line with me." He finished speaking, and the soldiers below suddenly burst into pieces and whispered.

"These dozens of days of high-intensity training are not unfair to you. I am not sick. I want to torture you, but I just sweat more in daily life and bleed less in war. There is only one life. Everyone has a different way of living. If you choose to hand over your life to me, Li Xingzhou, I naturally cannot send you to death casually."

He paused as he said, and there was silence below.

"I know that many of you are not voluntarily. Some are for money and some are forced by the situation. But you have chosen, so you should be responsible for yourself and for your whole life. In life, you will not always choose which path you choose, but you can decide whether to go well in this life.

I don’t expect you to sacrifice your life for the country, but for your family, yourself, and for your ancestors, you will be a human being for me one day!

I ask you, do you believe in me and your commander?"

"Faith!" Some people roared.

Li Xingzhou turned around and looked at the commander flag behind him. The 10th Army commander on it fluttered in the wind. He suddenly raised his hand and unsheathed his sword. In an instant, the flag rope broke and the entire flag fell down.

Below, the soldiers were stunned. On the battlefield, the fall of the commander's flag was equivalent to defeat.

"Now, do you still believe it?" Li Xingzhou put away his sword and asked calmly.

No one answered.

Li Xingzhou looked at them: "The handsome flag fell, but am I defeated?"

I, Li Xingzhou, still stood in front of you and gave me a knife. I can still go into battle to kill the enemy. Why can't you see me mean you are defeated, and you will live in vain in your life? It means you have no face to face the ancestors and ancestors?"

Many soldiers were asked so much that they couldn't speak...

"So, it's good for you to believe me, but it's not enough!

On the battlefield, I can't save all of you, nor can I always take care of all of you. At this time, as long as your comrades around you are the most reliable. Think about whether your comrades have let you down these days?"

Most of the time when trust training is putting a person in the most helpless situation, making him unable to dominate and change his posture, and then handing everything over to his teammates with all his heart. This kind of training is the most psychologically trustworthy.

Many soldiers were sitting in the training ground full of yellow sand. They looked at each other's comrades around them. The sparse discussion gradually sounded, and many people looked back at the platform one after another and nodded for sure.

"So, I hope you remember that on the battlefield, if you can't see the handsome flag, then trust the people around you!

You share the same joys and sorrows, share the same hardships, share the same hatred and share the same hatred and depend on each other. The life and death of each comrade-in-arms is his own life. This is the tenth army of our new army! How can you say you have no clothes? Become a comrade with me!"

Li Xingzhou said as he pulled off his cloak, threw it off the platform, and the two sergeants sitting in the front quickly caught it. In an instant, his morale was high!

"Why do you say you have no clothes? You are with me!"

"Why do you say you have no clothes? You are with me!"

"Why do you say you have no clothes? You are with me!"

“……”

Li Xingzhou looked at the blood-red soldiers with relief and shouted with pleasure. The blood-red and flushed soldiers finally worked for dozens of days of trust training.

Turning his head to look at the southern sky, dust flying, covering the sky and the sun. After three days, that is the direction they marched.

...........

"Your Majesty, this is not a trivial matter. The saints have said that rituals govern the world, enlighten the people, and educate the world, are the foundation of the country, the roots of the country, the rise and fall of the rise and fall..."

"Stop!" The emperor interrupted Meng Zhiye with dissatisfaction, "It's just that the child is ignorant. If he rides a horse in the palace, I will punish him. You go."

"Your Majesty, it is not a trivial matter to overcome the chaos of etiquette!" Meng Zhiye glared at him, "Jingchao etiquette system, under the prince, you must respectfully walk into the imperial city, bow your head and bow your waist, and do not make loud noises or......"

"What do you want?" the emperor asked with an ugly face.
To be continued...