As the second batch of pre-export materials were on the way, and one battalion after another under various banners gathered near Linyi City one after another, my life became busy again.

Batches of newly produced muskets and explosive bombs, as well as newly cast large and small cannons, were sent to their hands for the final test firing and effectiveness.

As the troops and horses moved forward, truck after truck after truck of supplies, as well as the transport teams at the end of the long winding roads in various places, as well as large herds of livestock driven from nearby pastures, piled up like mountains of compressed forage, gathered into the Yimeng Valley like a hundred rivers entering the sea.

For a moment, the two sides of the Yi River Valley were filled with people and horses neighing, and guns and cannons were roaring.

Although this time the troops were not what I wished, the only benefit was also a legitimate opportunity to expand the army;

The reserve and reserve troops selected from the industrial and mining sites of Tunzhuang Farms in various places, and cooperate with the students in the army who are interns in the army, they successively supplemented the temporary rack battalions with only basic structures, and carried out short reorganization and running-in training. After acting as and as the main force to take over the local garrison and the garrison forces of the Yanbian defense line.

Of course, no matter how the situation changes,

In the most basic military system of Huaidong, the most basic proportion of officers, non-commissioned officers and veterans must be mandatory. Even in the third-rate garrison regiment, a certain proportion of disabled retired veterans must be retained. This strict standard and bottom line is also the biggest restrictive condition that has always restricted the rapid expansion of the Huaidong army.

Because according to daily conditions and cycles, through step-by-step training and training in front-line battlefields, the qualified personnel required are expanded and supplemented very slowly.

If you are just a soldier who meets the basic conditions, you will actually be completely lacking in Huaidong's general population base and industrial personnel background in industry, mining, agriculture, forestry and fishery, and you can even fight several major battles more than enough.

But if the new recruits are used to form the troops completely, if they face and encounter strict and orderly or well-trained enemies, their morale and fighting spirit will easily be dragged down and crushed, which is a serious irresponsible way to give people heads and equipment?

Although they were sent to the cruel battlefield and were naturally eliminated, they could also obtain qualified soldiers who survived, and even experienced non-commissioned officers and officers;

However, this kind of military training method that the vassal states used in troubled times was too wasteful of resources for the Huaidong system that I was used to being efficient and refined.

Even if you can use the sophisticated and skillful battle formation that is queuing and shooting to suppress and destroy the enemy in a dignified manner, why give up your own advantages and pull your IQ and quality to the level of the enemy's cheap cannon fodder to fight so-called chaos and wave battles.

After all, according to the original ideals and goals, what I want is a new (modern) army that can be retracted, relaxed, and move forward and retreat freely, fingers are like arms to make the elite of the finger strong; even if you lose a battle, you can survive and have vitality, and continue to learn lessons and have growth potential.

Of course, this ideal has only been realized in a small part.

In order to achieve this combat readiness and expansion, Huaidong gun factory also concentrated most of its production capacity, and instead produced a large number of "new" muskets for emergency response with twelve hours of uninterrupted overtime, rotation and shifts.

Of course, this batch of new muskets that were rushing to produce has been extremely simplified versions of the standard muskets equipped in the army. They are the result of the experience of many exported, cutting corners and reducing low-end version muskets, and pursuing special products of scale and quantity;

In addition to the unified appearance and caliber, it greatly simplifies the number of musket components and parts, greatly reduces the cost of materials and process difficulty, so as to pursue maximum output and compress the mass production cycle.

Therefore, in addition to the cheapest outsourcing of the main road goods for accessories and guardrails, the components formed are as integrated as possible and reduced to eleven, even the most critical gun barrel material uses high-forged iron instead of the existing low-carbon steel hardened body tubes. In order to withstand normal standard sub-drug, the pipe wall is also processed thicker, and the accessories are slightly larger in size, which increases the overall weight a lot.

As a flintlock rifle, the only advantage of this is that it is simple and reliable enough and easy to get started. Of course, this new musket was not used for the main combat troops in Huaidong, but was used to replace the miscellaneous three-eyed guns, fire guns and other non-standard equipment in the hands of the defense camp;

These outdated and old things will be eliminated to the third-line garrison regiments and the patrol teams of the industrial and mining sites to continue to be used.

Anyway, I don't expect them to carry this newly equipped weapon to carry long-distance maneuver and combat; as long as they can rely on the city barriers and developed road traffic along the line to meet short-distance defensive operations or emergency suppression tasks in the interior while in daily residence.

Of course, there are also small episodes with a little disharmoniousness.

When Luo Piqiu checked the preparation and training of local armed forces a few days ago, he seized several weapons theft and sale incidents in the garrison regiment;

However, some garrison regiments in the coastal areas sold their weapons privately to those merchants who came to Huaidong to do business, or ship owners who were moored in nearby ports and other things;

Then, using wooden sticks of similar colors in the city as the equipment for daily patrols, they were not discovered for a while.

Then, after the anti-counterattack, known as the lackey of the peace administration, intervened, it was discovered that this was not a coincidence, but a group behavior of organizing the private purchase of these firearms in Huaidong under the corresponding background;

However, the firearms in the regular military order are numbered and registered under the heads of the people, so they have to turn to the second best and pay attention to those eliminating equipment from the third-line garrison regiment; the number of old-fashioned and variegated firearms that have slipped out has reached hundreds of pieces.

As a result, several foreign ship dealers and a newly established business were seized, thousands of goods and several ships were confiscated, but all clues were pointed at Fusang.

Well, I don’t know what fun the Fusang Fan is here to join in again this time. I was puzzled, so I found the toy Aqi and quarreled and tossed with Aqiu’s help...

And to the south of Duzhidao, Zhengzhou's prefecture governs the city,

Feng Juanqi and Zhang Xian's troops also initially gained a foothold here, and established corresponding military buildings, grain stations, medical camps, equipment repair centers, etc., and sent troops to take over Yangqiao Town, at the Yellow River Ferry to the north, and arranged corresponding peripheral defense lines and warning areas.

However, after years of attacks, this waterway hub near the city, which is close to the great city and the river trough, was only less than 50,000 people left; and among them, the elderly and weak were the main ones, because young and middle-aged people in the city were either surrounded by the Northern Dynasties when the Qing Dynasty was strong, or were further plundered by the Southern Army to serve in the military.

The rest of the people can only rely on digging rats and sparrows, digging grass roots and peeling the bark, and suffering or waiting to die.

Therefore, Zhang Xian decided to arm the accompanying Huaidong labor service on the spot, and then gathered and compiled the scattered friendly troops stranded in the local area, several grain patrol teams and road guards left by the Henan Expeditionary Army, the wounded soldiers placed on the spot along the way, and the husbands and servants who were recruited nearby, and obtained about 6,000 available personnel and compiled ten new battalions.

Based on this, we firmly control the situation in the city.

Therefore, when they were strictly distributing black grains and had enough money for several months, they also calmed down and maintained the most basic operations on the spot, while continuing to collect various information from the front through the channels left behind, and acted as the contact and escort force for the material transfer in the rear, and carefully waited for the main formation from Huaidong to meet with it.

However, at this time, Su Yuanjing, the Northern Court Xuanhui envoy, finally waited for good news again in the rain north of Luodu.

After being pushed to the north bank, the generals stranded on the north bank were forced to find a solution that was not possible. They risked using the 300-stone transport ship belonging to the Yellow River Navy to approach and attack the gap in the southern section of Heyang Bridge. After capsizing and sank into four ships, killing and injuring hundreds of people, they finally successfully stuck the fifth ship into the gap in the southern section of Heyang Bridge.

Then, after using various iron hoops and thick ropes for temporary reinforcement and winding, and then nailing large wooden boards that are convenient for passage, the Heyang Bridge Deck finally temporarily restored its ability to pass.
Chapter completed!