Chapter 880: Oboe

? "Lu Fei, commander of the Tiger Ben First Army, see the emperor!"
　　
　　 In the Jinling City camp, Lu Fei paid a military salute to Xiao Ming. After taking Jianzhou, Lu Fei handed Jianzhou City to Lei Ming, and he and Luo Xin led their troops back to their bases.
　　
　　According to the original intention of military reform, each army has its own scope of responsibility, which is like contemporary military districts, each with its own combat targets.
　　
During the Northern Expedition, Lei Ming could not deal with the barbarians alone, so Lu Fei and Luo Xin were able to go north. After the battle was over, Lei Ming’s army was able to defend the six cities, so Lu Fei and Luo Xin led the troops back, and everyone performed their duties .
　　
Now that the war against the South is about to kick off, Lu Fei naturally has to undertake the main offensive task. At the same time, he has also transferred Luo Xin’s three divisions. As a result, there are a total of 60,000 horses in Jinling City. .
　　
　　 "Flat!" Xiao Ming looked at Lu Fei, and at the same time stopped Luo Xin's polite gift, he said, "How are you preparing now?"
　　
　　 "Back to the emperor, everything is ready, we can cross south at any time." Luo Xin said very confidently.
　　
Xiao Ming nodded, and he looked at the soldiers who lined up in two rows to welcome him. At this moment, these soldiers tilted their falcon breech rifles and hung ring-shaped bags on them. The small hole is filled with paper bullets.
　　
　　 Such a bullet belt contains a full 120 rounds of ammunition. During a war, soldiers can take out the bullets from their pockets at any time and shoot them in any position.
　　
　　 In addition, the cloth shoes under the feet of the soldiers turned into black leather shoes, with steel helmets buckled on their heads, and a dark green gown. The military looks were very powerful.
　　
　　 His eyes swept over the soldiers, and the smile on Xiao Ming's face became stronger and stronger. He had actually proposed the idea of ​​a steel helmet long ago, and the military workshop has been designing steel helmets.
　　
　　 It's just that the Northern Expedition faces the barbarian army, which basically has no firearms, without helmets, but this is different for the southern army. This time he will face a large-scale firearms battle.
　　
Therefore, while producing the Falcon musket, he requested the production of steel helmets. This type of helmet is a curved surface. If the opponent’s bullet does not hit the center of the helmet, since the helmet is a curved surface, most of them will slip and fly. This is his equipment. The reason for the helmet, because it can reduce the casualties of soldiers.
　　
　　 With the advancement of Qingzhou medicine today, if it weren't for being shot in the head, the current firearm level would cause more injuries than deaths.
　　
　　 inspected the Jinling camp, Xiao Ming settled down, and everyone went to the general staff in the camp, where a sand table in the south of the Yangtze River had been created.
　　
　　 Through the sand table, we can see the current situation of Li Chuyuan and the merchant council.
　　
"The emperor, after four months of fierce battle, Li Chuyuan conquered Wu County, but even though the Merchant Council lost Wu County, it consumed a lot of Li Chuyuan’s troops. Chu State lost 40,000 horses here, almost half of it. Now Li Chuyuan is planning a direct attack on Suzhou."
　　
　　 Lu Fei pointed to the battlefield area near Suzhou to explain the current situation to Xiao Ming.
　　
　　 After a while, Lu Fei continued: "In addition to Wu County, Jiaxing and Songjiang were also attacked by Li Chuyuan, but Li Chuyuan failed in two places here."
　　
　　 Luo Quan frowned, "So it seems that the two are really evenly matched, but what does this mean?"
　　
　　 While talking, Luo Quan pointed to Jianning and Guangzhou.
　　
　　 Luo Xin said: "This is the news just sent by the secret guard. Businessmen in these places have responded to the merchant council. Now they are organizing a civil group to fight against the local wealthy people.
　　
"This Cao family is really capable, but Jianning and the Guangzhou generation are well-developed businesses, and there are many giants and wealthy merchants. It is not surprising that they support the Merchants Council." Xiao Ming said lightly, "It's just that, we have to eliminate them first. The Merchant Council, after all, the establishment of the Merchant Council is inextricably linked to Western forces."
　　
After pondering for a while, he said: "We have discussed with Li Chuyuan privately. According to the time, tomorrow he will invite me to assist him in countering the rebellion. With my idea, we and Li Chuyuan will first eliminate the power of the merchant council, and then we will Take advantage of the trend to solve the rich family in Jiangnan."
　　
　　 Niu Ben and others nodded, this is their strategy of going south this time, pulling one by one and hitting one, and finally eat the ones that are still alive.
　　
　　 decided this matter, everyone went back to prepare.
　　
　　 Xiao Ming took his concubines and checked into the Jinling City Hall. At random, five thousand imperial troops from Qingzhou tightly protected his residence.
　　
　　 The next day, Li Chuyuan arrived at Jinling City with Sima Hao as scheduled.
　　
　　 Different from the arrogant and domineering appearance in the past, Li Chuyuan is now embarrassed. Although Sima Hao is well-dressed, no one can see the haggardness on his face.
　　
　　 For them, life is getting harder and harder. Chu is now full of flames. The rich and the merchants have become a pot of porridge, and the people have joined the two camps to attack each other.
　　
　　 Now he is very fortunate to have bought a lot of firearms from Xiao Ming, otherwise their property would have been snatched away by the chaos instigated by the merchant council.
　　
　　 And with the progress of the war, although they played equally on the bright side, they gradually lost their foundation among the people.
　　
　　 Many people who were oppressed by the rich and bullied for hundreds of years fell to the merchant council. If this continues, they can only fail.
　　
　　 Therefore, Sima Hao had to give up his insistence and agreed to Li Chuyuan to ask Xiao Ming for help. For him, as long as he can completely eliminate the merchant council now, let's talk about the other things.
　　
　　 "The emperor..."
　　
In the hall of the hall, Li Chuyuan knelt down when he saw Xiao Ming "Puffing", then climbed up to Xiao Ming and hugged Xiao Ming's legs. "Chu State hopes that the emperor can save the little king in this disaster It’s not in vain that the little king is loyal to the emperor~EbookFREE.me~Xiao Ming's expression of pity, but his heart is already blooming, he cooperated with Li Chuyuan and said: "Chu is the country of Great Yu The vassal state, now the state of Chu is in trouble, the court naturally cannot stand idly by, after all, the state of Chu is also the territory of the state of Great Yu! "
　　
　　 Although Sima Hao was unwilling in his heart, he had to nod his head when he wanted Xiao Ming.
　　
　　 "Thank you, the emperor, if the emperor doesn't take any action again, I'm afraid Xiao Wang will already have life worry." Li Chuyuan said.
　　
　　 Xiao Ming nodded, and he took the opportunity to say: "If this is the case, you should stay in Jinling City. Although the merchant council is huge, it is not my opponent. You can also be safe here."
　　
　　 Li Chu Yuan lightly breathed a sigh of relief. This is what he wanted this time. This is also their agreed plan. As long as he is in Jinling City, he can save his life.
　　
　　 And Xiao Ming can use him to give orders to Chu State, killing two birds with one stone.
　　
　　 Sima Hao opened his mouth wide in surprise. He didn't even think that there would be such a thing. He only felt that the sky seemed to fall.