Chapter 877

"Huben first army commander Lu Fei, see the emperor!"

In the camp of Jinling City, Lu Fei salutes Xiao Ming. After conquering Jianzhou, Lu Fei gives Jianzhou city to Lei Ming. He and Luo Xin lead their own troops back to their respective bases.

According to the original intention of military reform, each army has its own scope of responsibility, just as the contemporary military region has its own targets.

During the northern expedition, leiming couldn't deal with the barbarians alone, so Lufei and Luoxin went north. After the war, leiming's Legion was able to defend the six cities, so Lufei and Luoxin led the troops back, and each of them performed their own duties.

Now the war against the south is about to begin. Naturally, Lufei has to undertake the main offensive task. At the same time, he has also transferred three divisions of Luoxin. As a result, there are a total of 60000 people in Jinling City.

"Flat!" Xiao Ming looked at Lu Fei and stopped Luo Xin's empty gift. He said, "now what are you doing? "

" back to the emperor, everything is ready, we can go south at any time. " Luo Xin said confidently.

Xiao Ming nodded. He looked at the soldiers who lined up in two rows to meet him. At this time, these soldiers were leaning with Falcon rifles, and there were circular bags hanging on them. Each bag had a small hole, which contained paper shell bullets.

Such a bullet belt is full of 120 bullets. During the war, the soldiers can take out the bullets from their hanging bags at any time and shoot in any posture.

In addition, the cloth shoes under the soles of the soldiers' feet turned into black leather shoes, with steel helmets on their heads and dark green long shirts, making them very powerful.

As his eyes swept over the soldiers, Xiao Ming's smile became more and more intense. In fact, he had already put forward the idea of helmets, and the military workshop had been designing helmets.

However, in the northern expedition, the barbarians, who basically had no firearms, could not use helmets. However, the southern armies were different. This time, they would face a large-scale firearm battle.

Therefore, while producing Falcon muskets, he asked for the production of helmets, which are curved surfaces. If the other party's bullets do not hit the center of the helmets, because the helmets are curved surfaces, most of them will slide away. This is the reason why he equips helmets, because it can reduce the casualties of soldiers.

With the progress of Medical Science in Qingzhou, if it was not for being hit in the head, the wounded soldiers would be more than dead at the current level of firearms.

After a tour of the Jinling camp, Xiao Ming settled down and went to the staff headquarters in the camp, where a sand table in the south of the Yangtze River has been made.

Through the sand table, we can see the current situation of Li Chuyuan and the merchant Council.

"Emperor, after four months of fierce fighting, Li Chuyuan conquered Wu County, but although the merchant Council lost Wu County, it consumed a lot of Li Chuyuan's troops. Chu lost 40000 troops here, almost half of them. Now Li Chuyuan is planning to attack Suzhou directly. "

Lu Fei points to the battlefield area near Suzhou to explain the current situation to Xiao Ming.

After a pause, Lu Fei continued: "in addition to Wu County, Jiaxing and Songjiang were also attacked by Li Chuyuan, but Li Chuyuan failed here."

Luo Quan frowned, "so it seems that the two families are really equal, but what does that mean? "

while speaking, Luo Quan pointed to Jianning and Guangzhou.

Luo Xin said: "this is the news just sent by the secret guard. In these places, businessmen have responded to the merchant Council. Now they are organizing private League training to fight against the local powerful families. "

" the Cao family really has some skills, but it's not surprising that the generation of Jianning and Guangzhou have developed commerce and many wealthy businessmen who support the merchant Council. " Xiao Ming said lightly, "only in this way, we have to eliminate the merchant Council first. After all, the establishment of the merchant Council is closely related to Western forces."

After pondering for a while, he said: "I have already discussed with Li Chuyuan in private. According to the time, tomorrow he will invite me to help him fight the rebellion. In my opinion, we will first eliminate the influence of the merchant Council with Li Chuyuan, and then we will take advantage of the situation to solve the powerful families in the south of the Yangtze River."

Niu Zhen and others nodded, this is their strategy of going south this time, pulling one by one, and finally eating the living.

Make a decision and everyone will go back to prepare.

Xiao Ming took his concubines to live in Xingyuan, Jinling City. At random, 5000 imperial guards from Qingzhou protected his residence tightly.

The next day, Li Chuyuan arrived at Jinling City with Sima Hao.

Different from the arrogant and domineering appearance in the past, Li Chuyuan's face is in a mess now. Although Sima Hao is well dressed, he can see the haggard on his face.

For them, life is more and more difficult, Chu is now full of beacon fire, rich families and businessmen into a pot of porridge, the people also join the two camps to attack each other.

Now he is very glad to have bought many firearms from Xiao Ming, otherwise their property would have been robbed by the mob agitated by the merchant Council.

And with the war going on, although they played equally in the public, they gradually lost their foundation among the people.Many of the people who have been oppressed and bullied by the powerful families for hundreds of years have fallen to the merchant Council. In this way, they have only one way to fail.

Therefore, Sima Hao had to give up his insistence and agreed that Li Chuyuan should ask Xiao Ming for help. For him, as long as the merchant Council can be completely eliminated, let's talk about the rest.

"The Emperor..."

In the main hall of Xingyuan, Li Chuyuan saw Xiao Ming "Putong" and knelt down. Then he climbed up to Xiao Ming and hugged Xiao Ming's leg. "When the state of Chu was in such a big trouble, he hoped that the emperor could save Xiao Wang, and that Xiao Wang was loyal to the emperor. "

Xiao Ming's face was full of pity, but his heart was already full of joy. He cooperated with Li Chuyuan and said," the state of Chu is a vassal state of Dayu. Now that the state of Chu is in trouble, the imperial court can't stand by. After all, the state of Chu is also a territory of Dayu! "

Although Sima Hao is unwilling, he has to nod to Xiao Ming for help.

"Thank you, Emperor. If the emperor doesn't do it again, I'm afraid Xiao Wang will be worried about his life." Li Chuyuan said.

Xiao Ming nodded. He took the opportunity to say, "in this case, you can stay in Jinling City. Although the merchant Council is powerful, it is not my opponent. You can be safe here. "

Li Chuyuan was relieved. This is what he wanted this time. This is also the plan they agreed on. As long as he is in Jinling City, he can save his life.

Xiao Ming can use him to give orders to the state of Chu, killing two birds with one stone.

Sima Hao's mouth widened in amazement. He didn't expect that there would be another one. He just felt that the sky seemed to fall down.

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