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Chapter 21 Want a gun, not a cannon

When Zhang Jun heard Wang Gui say this, he asked, "Han Shizhong and Liu Guangshi, have you visited him? What are their plans?"

"Don't mention it, Han Shizhong, the old stubborn woman from a prostitute, closed her door to thank her guests. Even if I asked his sect to rebel Yue Fei and the official family needed to serve the king, he was indifferent. As for Liu Guangshi, he was determined to serve the king, but unfortunately, he was terminally ill and could not get up, and his life would not last long." Wang Gui replied in disappointment. Zhang Jun's pupils, which had already begun to shine, dimmed again.

Seeing Zhang Jun's lost expression, Wang Gui quickly cheered him up and said, "Although the two of them cannot stand up, it is still feasible to have the Jieduan come out and raise his arms to summon old generals, and raise an army to defend the king. Now there are many people who are willing to defend the king and protect the Song Dynasty, but they lack one or two prestigious people to unite these forces. With the prestige of Jieduan, it should be a heavy responsibility. If the rebel Yue Fei is killed in the future, he will return the throne to the official position. Jieduan should be the only hero of my Song Dynasty."

Zhang Jun shook his head and said, "Brother. Things are not that simple. Although some people in the army want them, they are limited to some of my old subordinates and generals. Now these old subordinates and generals are distributed in all directions. Although most of them are in the area near Lin'an Prefecture in Jiangzuo. However, they have been mixed with other subordinates and are also controlled by civil servants. I only have reputation but no title, and it is difficult to mobilize them. You know, these civil servants have always despised us and other military generals. Even if these civil servants all have the intention of serving the king and trying to win Yue, I don't think they are willing to cooperate with me and hand over the soldiers and generals to me in unified command. What's more, they and the central generals who are controlled by them do not have the heart toward me of the Song Dynasty. Many of them were from the Yue family army."

When Wang Gui heard this, he frowned and said, "The words of Jiedu make sense. If we can find someone with prestigious reputation in the civil service system to cooperate, this will be easier."

Having said that, a soldier came to report, and outside the door, a man who claimed to be the son of the Secretariat, Wang Yingchen, asked for a visit.

Wang Yingchen happened to go out to work on the day of the Lin'an mutiny and did not fall into the city. He heard that Yue Fei was behind the Yellow Robe in Lin'an, and like Wang Gui, he contacted the king-supporting army and came to Zhang Jun's door.

After hearing Lingbing's report, Zhang Jun and Wang Gui looked at each other and smiled. Zhang Jun said, "It's really sleepy that someone handed him a pillow. We are missing such a person, so he came. Go and welcome him in quickly!"

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Just when the "Protecting Song and Kings" forces outside Lin'an City were actively contacting, Yue Fei was not idle, and went step by step according to his plan. In the planning stage before the mutiny, he had repeated deductions and various response plans for the evolution of the world situation after mutiny.

Yue Fei knew in his heart that from the moment the Lin'an city gate opened, within one month, the news would reach the ears of the Jin masters far away in Liaoyang, the Jin soldiers would react at least two months later. So he had at least two months to "annei".

Regarding "Annei", Yue Fei did not expect that he could immediately make all prefectures and counties in the Southern Song Dynasty recognize the New Dynasty and obey his orders. He set a high goal for "Annei", only two. One is to destroy all the former Song army that dared to take the initiative to attack him. The other is to ensure that he has absolute control over most areas of Zhejiang, Huainan and Jingbei. These areas are the main grain-producing areas and the richest areas in the Southern Song Dynasty.

As for the further regions of Fujian, Jingnan, Guangdong and Guangxi, Bashu, Yue Fei believed that even if the prefectures and county chiefs in these places still regarded Song as the main and generals against him, they would only rule over the side under the banner of serving the king, and would not be able to launch an expedition against him.

At present, Yue Fei raised the recruiting flag in Lin'an City, recruited elite troops and rebuilt the Han army. At the same time, he sent messengers to issue edicts to several major military towns distributed in Jiangzuo, Huainan and Jingbei, removing the power of the civil servants in the Song Dynasty to control the military towns and granting the former Yue family military generals whom he could trust as heads of all levels of the military town. He did this to give these Yue family military generals a title. As for whether they could obtain actual control of the army, it depends on the actions of these old generals.

During the three days when the gate of Lin'an City was closed, Yue Fei followed the fleet that was escorting officials from the previous dynasty back to Chongming once.

Previously, in the system city located on the North Island of Chongming Island, Yue Fei had already upgraded the Enlightenment Age Intermediate Palace and the Enlightenment Age Intermediate Barracks with the initial points. This time, Yue Fei used the generous task reward points obtained from a series of tasks in the Lin'an Mutiny to upgrade the residential houses to the Enlightenment Age Intermediate level, and upgraded the primary ceramic kiln workshop to the advanced. Then, the advanced glass processing workshop, the advanced ceramic kiln workshop, and the Enlightenment Age Primary Workshop were merged and upgraded to the Enlightenment Age Intermediate Factory.

The workshop is divided into chemical industry zones, metal processing zones, textile zones and other areas. At this point, the city can produce early hot weapons such as copegs and cast iron cannons. It can also produce more precise mechanical parts such as gears, ratchets, chains, cams, worms, and bearings. There is no river on Chongming Island, and it is impossible to build a dam to store water. The kinetic energy of the metal processing machinery in the workshop uses windmills and water wheels to pump water from the reservoir built at high places, and then drives these machinery with stable water storage energy.

After the factory was completed, there were three additional types of troops, including the confeder, cannon gunner, and winged cavalry in the barracks.

Yue Fei trained 2,000 confringing spearmen and 2,000 mountain spearmen. It was shown that these confringing spearmen can cooperate half-to-half with mountain spearmen to form a square formation similar to the Spanish Corps. The 4,000 people are exactly the forces of four square formations. The number of plate armor heavy cavalry has increased to 500. The maneuverability of these plate armor heavy cavalry is too poor, and most of the battles in the future will be field battles where the specific combat location and combat time are unpredictable, so there are not many occasions that can be used, so Yue Fei believes that the five hundred foot is also.

The Winged Cavalry is a light cavalry with extremely high maneuverage power. The prototype is a Polish Winged Cavalry, but it does not have the decorative wings behind it. Yue Fei trained 3,000 people.

The range of the conflict gunmen is still far inferior to that of the longbow and the divine arm crossbow. It is only composed of the infantry phalanx and cannot be used as the main long-range army. For this reason, Yue Fei also trains many longbowmen and crossbow gunners. He has already had a new idea to showcase the specialties of longbows and crossbow guns.

Finally, Yue Fei's attention was on cannons for a long time, but he gave up. Here is his reason. The current iron cannon is the nemesis of the strong city and the infantry phalanx. It acted on the cavalry. In the future, Yue Fei's main enemies were the Jin people and other nomadic peoples in the north, so it would be beneficial to the enemy but not to oneself if the artillery was popularized in the world at this time. This was a good case in the history of the original space. The Red Barbarian cannon did not help the Ming army much, but was one of the important reasons why the Qing army quickly won the world after entering the pass.

Moreover, this cannon is different from a crossbow, which is very easy to imitate and easily seize. Whether it is good or not is one thing, but it is easy for Han craftsmen who were captured by the Jin Dynasty to imitate it. Even if it is not as exquisite as the cannons in Chongming City, it can blast the city gates and chasing the infantry phalanx.
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