The batch of war horses sent by Zheng Sen were all the best European tall horses, with a total of 3,000 Bellshuron horses, a thousand Sharem horses and 3,000 Pitton hippos. Among them, the Bellshuron horse is a war horse equipped for heavy impact cavalry. This horse is a mixed-blood descendant of Arabian horses and European horses. It is resistant to severe cold and heat, has a gentle temperament, fast speed and strong impact. Just imagine, there are three thousand iron-armored cavalry riding Bellshuron horses that charge at a very fast speed. The Mongolian light cavalry cannot shoot through them, and they cannot run away. What kind of shock is that?

As for Sharma, he was a heavy horse-drawn cart, and he could walk like the wind when he dragged a heavy cannon truck weighing 6,000 pounds, and he could keep up with the speed of the cavalry.

The Don hippo is a mixed-blood descendant of Mongolian horses and European horses. It has both the speed and strength of European horses and the endurance of Mongolian horses. It is the best war horse for light cavalry.

In the future, the light cavalry riding the Don hippo will be a high-level light cavalry. They are equipped with breastplate, a helmet with masks, and horse armor on their bodies. The speed can be as fast as the light cavalry. In addition to being equipped with a cavalry, each of Li Guodong's light cavalry will also be equipped with two short guns, long-range riding and short-range shooting, and after firing the short gun bullet, they will draw out their sabers to charge.

However, the 7,000 good horses sent by Zheng Sen were not from afar, but excellent war horses raised on Danluo Island.

Danluo Island has a large area of ​​pasture, which is a good place to cultivate excellent war horses. Last time the Qing army invaded North Korea, Li Guodong asked Zheng Zhilong to send troops to Jianghua Island to rescue the Korean royal family. His purpose was not to carry forward the spirit of internationalism to save North Korea, nor to seize Jianghua Island. His real purpose was to seize Danluo Island.

Sitting opposite Li Guodong, not only Zheng Sen was wearing Confucian clothes, but also a young man who looked a bit like Zheng Sen but was wearing Japanese clothes and Japanese hairstyle.

"General Takawa Qizaemon, you have made great contributions in the past few years." Li Guodong gently stroked his beard and nodded with satisfaction.

Takawa Qizaemon quickly stood up, saluted respectfully, and spoke fluently in Chinese: "The Duke of Chu praised it, I dare not take it as a last resort."

"General Tianchuan, don't call me my grandfather. Lingzun and I are brothers. Just call me uncle like your brother." Li Guodong said with a smile.

"Thank you for your love, Uncle Li!"

"Didn't Goryeo Bangzi cause you trouble in the past few years?"

"No."

"They lost Danluo Island in vain. Could it be that they were willing to knock down their front teeth and swallow them in their stomachs?"

"Uncle Li, they were scared to death when they heard the name of our Yamato Warriors. How dare they come to cause trouble?" Takawa Shizaemon replied.

Li Guodong nodded while stroking his beard. Anyway, it is said that the Japanese pirates in North Korea have been in trouble over the past few years. Not only have they occupied Danluo Island but they have also occasionally taken down the Korean beach and occupied many small islands. North Korea has also sent troops to deal with the Japanese, but they have been beaten to the ground for teeth.

The relationship between Japan and Goryeo is that for more than a thousand years, every time Goryeo encounters Japan, he is beaten and eventually relies on China to save them. This relationship was not until the end of the Qing Dynasty that the corrupt and incompetent Qing government was defeated in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, and North Korea changed from a Chinese vassal state to a Japanese colony. Because the Qing government left China with weak sequelae to China, it has been affected by the Republic of China. So it was not China that drove the Japanese from the peninsula, but the United States and the Soviet Union drove away the Japanese, and the peninsula was divided into two from then on.

Therefore, a group of mixed Chinese and Japanese gangs including Takawa Shizaemon, Li Guosuke (son of the great pirate Li Dan) occupied Danro Island, stationed a group of samurai and samurai on the island, and borrowed him a thousand Koryo people and ten thousand Knights, but they did not dare to recover Danro Island.

Goryeo Bangzi once asked Emperor Chongzhen for help, asking the Ming Dynasty to send troops to help them recover Danluo Island, but at that time Chongzhen himself didn't care about him anymore, so he had no strength to help North Korea recover Danluo Island.

Zheng Sen came this time mainly to study at the Imperial College in Nanjing, and to send Li Guodong a batch of war horses. In fact, Li Guodong bought these horses by himself. Zheng Zhilong transported the stallion and mare from Europe to Danluo Island, cultivated a batch of excellent war horses, and sold them to Li Guodong, making a lot of money from them.

This time, in addition to sending war horses to Li Guodong, the Zheng family army also sent a batch of early flintlock rifles from France and Sweden, with a total of 10,000 flintlock rifles and 3,000 flintlock rifles. In addition to the previous 10,000 flintlock rifles, the flintlock rifles in Li Guodong's hands had reached a scale of 18,000. Since two thousand flintlock rifles were damaged in previous battles, they could only form a flintlock rifleman of 18,000.

Li Guodong himself knew how to build flintlock rifles, but the Ming Dynasty lacked excellent steel, so it was difficult to build the spring steel strips needed for flintlock rifles.

In fact, it was not that the Ming Dynasty's iron smelting technology was not as good as Europe, but that the Ming Dynasty's iron ore was not as good as Europe. Europeans could directly refine iron in blast furnaces, while the Ming Dynasty's iron ore could only refine iron. It was much easier to refine iron from cooked iron to steel than to refine steel from pig iron.

The reason why Li Guodong sent all the families of criminal gentry and officials to Qiongzhou was because the iron ore in Qiongzhou was of good quality and it was easier to produce high-quality steel.

The next morning, Zheng Sen and his younger brother Takawa Qizaemon bid farewell to Li Guodong. Zheng Sen went to Nanjing Imperial College to study, and Takawa Qizaemon returned to Danluo Island to continue to manage the horse farm.

Li Guodong went to Tawau Castle again, which is now the largest ordnance production base of the Huai Army.

Nowadays, the Tawau Castle Arsenal mainly produces armor. Through hydraulic forging, pieces of plate armor are created, and then these plate armor parts are combined to form plate armor. Plate armor has two types: full-body armor and breastplate. Heavy cavalry and heavy infantry use full-body armor, and light cavalry and light infantry use breastplate.

The second thing they created was artillery, field artillery, whether it was field artillery, howitzer, mortar, etc., all of which were cast in copper. The copper cannon was expensive but light in weight.

The three-pound cannon used by the Huai Army has also been replaced with copper cannons. The copper has good extension and is not easy to explode, so the barrel wall is much thinner than the iron cannon and the weight is lighter. The three-pound copper cannon, which is lighter than the iron cannon, is larger than the iron cannon in terms of range and power.

However, there are very few muskets built by the Toutu City. Originally, the elite old bird gunners in the Huai Army had already replaced flintlock guns and turned into self-produced muskets. The eliminated bird guns were used for new recruits, garrisons and militias. The quality and output of the flintlock guns built by themselves were not as good as those imported, so they simply stopped building them. Therefore, the musket factory in Toutu Castle mainly produces turtle dove-legged guns, as well as repairing damaged bird guns and flintlock guns.

In order to strengthen the lack of long-range projection firepower, the Huai Army retained archers. In addition to the light cavalry, some elite infantry also used archers.

However, the number of bows and arrows in the Huai Army is not as large as that of crossbows. The crossbows used by Li Guodong were based on the design of the Divine Arm Bow of the Song Dynasty. After improvement, the crossbows were made. The rate of fire of the crossbows was faster than that of bird guns and flintlock guns and had higher accuracy. Of course, crossbows, like archers, also need to consume physical energy, and their durability is still strong.

Compared with archers, crossbowmen training is much simpler than archers, and the training time is similar to that of a gunner. It only takes three months to grow a musketman from a farmer to a bird gunner, and the same is true for crossbowmen. It takes three months to train an excellent crossbowmen; training an archer takes several years.

In addition, the Tawau Castle Ordnance also produces bayonets equipped with flintlock rifles and turtledove-footed guns, and produces long swords for heavy infantrymen, Miao swords and other cold weapons.

While producing large quantities of weapons, the Huai Army was also expanding new recruits, and a large number of new recruits joined the Huai Army, and the instructors trained them.
Chapter completed!