At this time, Li Guodong developed the steel industry in Guangzhou. His Huai Army had already sent out to attack Guangxi. The Huai Army went upstream along the Xijiang River and was unstoppable along the way. The Yongli Dynasty's army could not resist at all. The pseudo-Yongli Emperor fled Wuzhou and Guilin, and planned to flee to Yunnan after Guilin fell.

Li Guodong didn't need to worry about the combat matters at all. The Huai Army was only responsible for driving the pseudo-Yongli Emperor out of Guangxi. When Zhu Youlang fled to Yunnan, he would just leave it to the Daxi Army and Zhongzhen Camp to deal with it. The Huai Army had no problem regaining Guangxi, and it could also recruit a group of brave and combat-ready Guangxi wolf soldiers in Guangxi to further strengthen its strength.

What Li Guodong is most concerned about is his own explosive plan, steel factory, gun factory, armor factory, ammunition factory, car manufacturer and other factories to start machines and desperately produce various weapons. The factories in Foshan can produce more than 1,000 flintlock guns, ten three-pound copper field guns, sixteen three-pound iron cannons, two six-pound copper field guns, two twelve-pound copper howitzers, one twelve-pound copper field guns, eight 24-pound iron cannons, one hundred vehicles, and one hundred thousand bullets, ten thousand shells of various types, five hundred sets of armor, one thousand bayonets, one thousand machetes and other knives.

In addition, the factory in Huizhou produces more than 1,000 flintlock guns, four 24-pound mortars, a 64-pound mortar cannon, ten Congrive rocket launchers, 100,000 rounds of gunfires, 5,000 various shells, 4,000 grenades, and 500 iron shields every month. In this way, the monthly output can arm two thousand musketeers and 500 iron armored soldiers.

At this production speed, in one year, Li Guodong would have an additional 24,000 musketeers and 6,000 armored grenadiers. According to the five-year agreement of the Ming and Qing dynasties, there would be three years for the Northern Expedition. By then, Li Guodong would be able to lead a pure firearm unit of nearly 100,000 people to the Northern Expedition and recover lost territory.

The training of cavalry has not stopped. The Danluo Island Horse Farm provides 3,000 Western war horses and 2,000 horses every year, which can be equipped with 3,000 cavalry. The cavalry is divided into heavy cavalry and light cavalry. The original heavy cavalry is divided into horse lance cavalry and lancers. The horse lance is a reusable horse-long weapon. The cavalry is basically used at one time and must be discarded after hitting the target. Most of the cavalry that was taken back after the war has been broken and can no longer be used.

So Li Guodong simply canceled the lancers. In addition to the heavy cavalry of the horse and lances, there were heavy cavalry of the horse and sabres. The two-barrel short guns were replaced by the cavalry of the cavalry. Each heavy cavalry of the sabre was equipped with two double-barrel short guns. Before approaching the opponent, the two guns were fired in a scattered manner. After four bullets were fired, they drew out the sabre to charge.

When encountering enemy cavalry on the battlefield, basically after the heavy cavalry fired four bullets, the enemy cavalry formation almost collapsed. At this time, the horse-sling cavalry repeated, and finally the horse-sabre cavalry won the harvest.

Except for half of the vehicles produced by Foshan Vehicle Factory are four-wheeled carriages and four-wheeled trucks that are exported to exchange for silver, the rest are chariots and various artillery mounts used on the battlefield.

Among them, the Congrive rocket is also similar to a gun mount. It is a rocket launcher in front and an ammunition truck behind. In the traction state, the rocket launcher and ammunition truck are connected together and traction with a war horse.

The so-called chariot is actually part-time work in the baggage vehicle. There is also a type of chariot, which is a barbed wire transport vehicle.

With the increase in steel production, Li Guodong began to consider equip the army with the weapons of barbed wire. The barbed wire transport vehicle acted with the infantry without pulling it with horses, and used human push and pull. Each vehicle was loaded with four wooden stakes and a large bundle of barbed wire. After the chariot arrived at its destination, the engineers unloaded the barbed wire from the chariot, nailed the wooden stakes into the ground, and pulled up the barbed wire. The barbed wire transport vehicle transported by a vehicle could be pulled out twenty feet long. The barbed wire transport vehicle itself could also act as a chariot, pulling up the wooden boards, and there were shooting holes on the wooden boards, which was a kind of active fortress.

The baggage vehicles are all freight four-wheeled carriages. Vehicles that adopt the four-wheeled carriage are not only larger in load capacity, but also more stable. When they are surrounded, they are less likely to be overturned by heavy infantry in the Qing army. Soldiers hiding behind the carriage can shoot outside with their shooting holes and protect themselves from being attacked by their opponent's bows and arrows. Iron armored soldiers can also throw grenades outwards with their chariots as support. Under the protection of the chariots and barbed wire, the iron armored soldiers can also be protected from impact from opponent's cavalry.

The nemesis of the iron armored soldiers is the heavy cavalry. Although the iron armored soldiers are immune to swords, guns, bows, and even bird guns cannot penetrate the iron armored soldiers, the impact of the heavy cavalry can knock over the iron armored soldiers. With the protection of the chariots and wire mesh, the opponent's cavalry cannot collide with the iron armored soldiers. Once they enter the close combat, the cavalry is not the opponent of the iron armored soldiers.

After equipping with new weapons, the Huai Army's tactics also changed. After solving the problem of spring steel strips, the flintlock spearman became a cheap military, which is the simplest and lowest-cost soldier. It does not require thick armor, and can line up in dense formations to advance and then line up to shoot.

It is generally equipped with flintlock rifles to meet the requirements of queuing and shooting, because flintlock rifles do not need a flint like a flintlock rifle. The flintlock will affect the loading of comrades, and the formation cannot be too dense.

According to Li Guodong's requirements, the line formation of the musketeers will take advantage of the opponent's shelling, muskets and bows and arrows, and move forward step by step within thirty steps, and then shoot with a face. Basically, one round of shooting can destroy the opponent. If one round cannot collapse, then another round, and then a bayonet charge.

In fact, there is no need to shoot with faces. As long as the opponent sees the Huai Army musketeers in an orderly formation, facing the rain of bullets, even if many people fall down, they will not stop moving forward, and the opponent will be under great psychological pressure. When the bullets are shot out in one round, the opponent will basically collapse.

To do this, it requires an army that evolved to modernization. The original feudal army could not do this at all. In the real history of modern European troops, both sides lined up to shoot, falling down one row after another, and the soldiers on both sides would not collapse. The Russian army was even more crazy, and they launched bayonet charges after one round of shooting. Regardless of whether the opponent was still loading bullets, the Russian army rushed up and defeated the opponent with bayonets. The tactics of the Russian army were not until the Crimean War, when the British and French coalition used Minni bullets and could carry out long-range volleys, the Russian army failed.

To transform the feudal army into a modern army, soldiers need to be more afraid of their commanders than fear of the enemy.

The soldiers of this new army are all recruits recruited from peasants, military households and engineers. Each recruit will undergo a three-month queue training after joining the army. In the queue training, the instructor trains them with the most cruel means, making each soldier afraid of the officer's whip more than the enemy's bullets. The reason why veterans do not use veterans as cheap musketeers is that the discipline of those veterans is actually not as good as the new recruits. They are sleek and know how to save their lives. Sometimes they will disobey the commander's orders, so veterans cannot serve as musketeers who line up to shoot.

In addition to musketeers, iron armored soldiers, gunners, scattered soldiers, cavalry and night-defying are still veterans. These troops are all technical troops and still need veterans to serve as them.

Originally, the flintlock gunmen in the Huai Army with accurate shooting skills will be upgraded to scattered soldiers, carrying rifled rifles on the battlefield, and before setting up the line, they will disrupt the enemy's formation with superb guns. The original scattered soldiers will be upgraded to snipers, and will be organized into Yebushi, and cooperate with Yebushi to perform reconnaissance and eliminate important enemy targets.
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