"The Wu thieves dare not raise troops!" Liu Guochang slowly stuffed the tobacco into the pot, and smoked it while saying. The tobacco was hand-made near Fang County. Liu, who was addicted to smoking in Ningbo Prefecture, loved this kind of plant that could refresh his mind very much. He would not give up without smoking a bag every day. This would also be the same when he met the East Coast envoy, former military police intelligence officer Guo Puxia.

"We used to be proud of the Wu thief, but after getting along with each other over the years, who doesn't know what he is?" Liu Guochang took a few sips of cigarettes, then looked at Guo Puxia sitting opposite him and said disdainfully: "The biggest hope of Wu thief is probably to secede Sichuan and become a vassal king. He is only at this level. In the past few years, he has obviously had the opportunity to deal with the lonely ghosts in Xiying several times, but he just played the trick of trying to get. As a result, he merged with the descendants of the Zhu family and gained a chance to breathe. Now if he wants to touch them, it is probably not that easy."

"Aren't your troops worried that Wu Sangui will attack?" Seeing Liu Guochang talking about Wu Sangui in Xichuan, Guo Puxia couldn't help but ask: "If I heard well, the troops led by the Qing army, Tan Hong, Tan Yi and Tan Wen were stationed in the Kuizhou Prefecture area, confronting the two generals Zhang Guangcui and Zhang Jingchun of Guizhou, and had a great advantage in terms of military strength. Is your troops really not worried that the old thief Wu was a fake shot this time, intending to destroy tens of thousands of troops in the Zuoying camp? You know, the Qing army in Xiangyang camp is said to have mobilized recently, perhaps not just to support the old thief Wu's actions in Sichuan."

"If the old thief dares to come, I will tell him that he will never come back. Tan Hong, Tan Yi, Tan Wen, and other people who forget their ancestors, although my old Liu's soldiers are not as good as the emperor's silver spear, but I have never lost my training over the years. Zhang Guangcui and Zhang Jingchun have more than 1,500 muskets, and there are more than 20 new and old small cannons (in fact, those cannons are no different from large caliber muskets in the eyes of people on the east coast...). They practice new tactics, and there is no reason not to compare with Tan Hong, Tan Yi, and Tan Wen's previous cowards. What's more, the generals of the camp (

Referring to Liu Zhonggui) He had returned from Gucheng area. He will soon lead his army westward to Kuizhou Prefecture to see what the old man is playing." Liu Guochang didn't take it seriously when he heard Guo Puxia mention the abnormal movements of the Wu army. It seemed that this guy had looked down on Wu Sangui and other birds in his heart. I don't know why, but he just listened to him continue to say: "But no matter what, if the Wu thieves raise troops to attack Xiying, Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, and Liu Wenxiu, our Zuoying will also move, otherwise it would make Wu Sangui think that there is no one here, and I can't afford to lose this person!"

Liu Guochang was strong and never was attracted by Li Guo, Li Laiheng and his son, but his hatred for the Qing army and the Ming army was beyond doubt. Moreover, since the Li Zicheng era, he was not a fool, and knew that once the old thief Wu really captured Yunnan and Guizhou, the arc-shaped encirclement of Dashun by the Tartar court against Dashun would be formed. Everyone knows what the ending would be like.

Liu Guochang also listened to military courses from the East Coast people in Ningbo several times. He knew that during the Southern Song Dynasty, Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty, once suggested leading his army to bypass the Xiangfan area where the Song army was defending, conquering Dali, and threatening the Song Dynasty from the flanks. Liu Guochang estimated that if Wu Sangui really allowed to integrate the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan smoothly (although the possibility is not very high), then it would be a difficult situation and would inevitably pose an extremely powerful threat to the Dashun court and have to be guarded. Therefore, no matter where Wu Sangui sent troops to attack, their left camp had to express that even if the pressure was put on the Qing army in the right-wing Xiangyang direction, some things had to be done.

When Guo Puxia heard Liu Guochang say this, he felt a little relieved. Although Liu Guochang was rebellious and liked to rely on his seniority, he was the only few veteran generals in Zuoying and even Dashun. To a certain extent, his words also represented the meaning of Liu Zhonggui, the general of Zuoying, or he would not have been sent out to receive the East Coast envoy. He said that he would put pressure on Wu Sangui's troops and not force him to attack Ming south, that would probably be true, and this was also one of Guo Puxia's main tasks for this trip. After all, before coming, he was very worried that the Dashun court would be moved by immediate interests and be so stupid that he would attack Ming with the Qing army, that would completely collapse. This was something the East Coast people were very reluctant to see. Fortunately, all this would not happen, so the situation should be able to continue to maintain.

However, Guo Puxia also had some doubts about the strength of the Zuo Camp, worried that they could effectively take on the task of restraining the flanks of Wu Sangui's troops and preventing them from going south with all their might. You know, there are more than 200,000 Xiangyang Qing troops on their flanks. Although they also faced the restraint of Dashun Central Camp, Front Camp and Right Camp, a negligence could cause heavy losses to the Zuo Camp. They only had 70,000 people, average equipment and average training, and their combat effectiveness could only be said to be careless. Once their strength was greatly damaged, can Yunyang Prefecture still defend?

According to the information held by the East Coast people, Dashun Zuoying cannot be called a modern army no matter how you look at it. Although they have gradually changed their thinking, innovated tactics, and added weapons in recent years, the pace is too slow, not much slower than Wu Sangui next door. At present, there are more than 4,200 new and old muskets in the Zuoying, and more than 20 eastern artillery pieces transported from the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and most of them are close to their lifespan. In addition, there are some mixed cold weapons and traditional weapons such as bird guns.

Moreover, the soldiers in this unit are generally not very strong. This is also an old problem in the Dashun controlled area at this time. After all, their nutrition is poor. The East Coast people once conducted a small test and conducted a small survey on the physical fitness of the soldiers in the fifth battalion of Dashun. It was found that the average height, bust circumference, skeleton, and weight of the Dashun soldiers were far lower than that of the East Coast soldiers. Some Shun soldiers whose skeletons were obviously larger than that of the East Coast soldiers, their weight was much inferior to those of the East Coast people. This may be because the East Coast soldiers provide sufficient nutrition and pay attention to physical training on weekdays. This can also be reflected intuitively from the difference in grip strength between the soldiers on both sides.

There are gaps in physical fitness, muscle strength, cardiopulmonary function (the average lung capacity of soldiers on the East Coast exceeds more than 500 ml of Shun Army), and there are gaps in battlefield sports functions and emotional stability, not to mention the gap in military combat skills and knowledge of new tactics between the two sides. Once the two sides fight, the same number of Shun Army and East Coast soldiers will definitely decide the outcome in extreme times. It is naturally the Shun Army who lost a big loss. You should know that the East Coast officers and soldiers serving in the Far East are not rookies with no combat experience. The Shun Army cannot gain much advantage in experience. The only thing they can rely on is probably the momentum of some elite camps that come from corpses and blood, but it is hard to say what effect they have when facing the East Coast people.

Can the level of Zuoying really have a great effect on the Qing army? Guo Puxia is a little suspicious. These people are short of food, money, supplies, weapons, and service livestock. They are even short of people. The average age of the soldiers of the Zuoying Army is 8 years and 5 months older than the Qing army in the Houying Army, and 4 years and 6 months older than the Qing army in Xiangyang. Therefore, the Wu Sangui army, which is generally more severely aging, can be "compared" with it. Moreover, the age distribution of soldiers in the entire camp is extremely uneven, with a huge gap.

Guo Puxia has seen a record of wars with soldiers under 15 years old. It is a systematic science. People must follow its objective laws. If they want to win the war, they must start with small things, rather than reading a few military books like many literati in the Ming and Qing dynasties, making a few tricks and making a polite righteousness. If so, how could the Master Yang, who was full of knowledge, be defeated by the illiterate slaves?

Forget it! No matter how good they are, as long as they can make the right strategic choices and don’t be fooled, they know how to restrain Wu Sangui at critical moments so that they don’t break the balance of the Chinese battlefield, don’t ask too much. At worst, they can find ways to send more weapons and equipment to the Zuoying camp, help them train more modern troops, and give them more confidence to deal with the rising Qing army. You must know that the battle sequence of the Qing army in Xiangyang is also being organized more and more to form a group of convex and spearmen and artillery. The tactics also include mercenary professors secretly sent from the Dutch East India Company. Their overall strength is slowly rising, and the gap with the people on the East Coast is also narrowing. If the Shun Army does not keep up with the times, it will probably not last much time!

After discussing military aid and future response with Liu Guochang and others, Guo Puxia mentioned whether it could be collected from Kuizhou Prefecture controlled by the Shunjun to purchase some herbs, such as some kind of plant called "Artemisia stinky" or "Artemisia stinky". This thing was a request from the local Ministry of Health. It is said that it was to purchase some of these plants and transport them back to China for research and analysis. It seemed that it was to try to extract a substance (but it seems that it would not be possible for decades, and the technology and craftsmanship level did not meet the standards...). I don’t know why I had to designate Kuizhou Prefecture.

He only vaguely heard that the plant produced in Kuizhou Prefecture has the highest content of certain chemical components and can be used to treat common malaria in tropical areas. He also doesn't know where the men of the Ministry of Health learned it. Logically speaking, they have never been to the Eastern continent, and they can actually call for a herb produced in the inland mountainous areas of Sichuan. It's really amazing.

The Zuoying was naturally willing to trade herbal medicines. They were in remote mountains and valleys, and they had nothing to do. There was no trade commodity that could be obtained. On weekdays, the East Coast people were almost unilaterally assisted by the East Coast people in recent years. At the request of Li Guo, Li Laiheng and his son, they began to transfer aid materials from Changsha. After all, they should highlight the point of "gratitude comes from the best". Otherwise, the Changsha court would have any prestige. This time, the East Coast people were actually looking at some medicinal materials they produced, which made Liu Guochang and others overjoyed. In the future, there was finally some living money available, although I don't know how much it was.

After dealing with these things, Liu Guochang took Guo Puxia and others to visit the Suiying Craft Site located in the suburbs of Fang County. The Craft Site currently has more than 300 technicians and one or two thousand young apprentices. The number of helpers is unknown. It mainly produces equipment for more than 70,000 troops in the Zuoying of Dashun. From flags, drums, supplies, armor, swords and spears, bows, crossbows, arrows, gunpowders and pellets, everything can be produced, but it is very tragic, and it rarely meets the needs of the army. It is simply impossible to maintain without relying on the outside world to supplement it.

Guo Puxia noticed that there were many familiar utensils in the Suiying Craft Site. After Liu Guochang's introduction, he realized that these were some processing utensils imported from the east coast. Shunjun's evaluation was very good and felt that they were very strong, durable and fine, which helped them a lot.

Of course, Liu Guochang and others also proposed that they could get some useful production tools like those in Changsha gun factory, such as some hydraulically driven machinery that Liu Guochang had seen in Ningbo. Guo Puxia could only laugh at their requirements. Li Guo could obtain several hydraulic machinery that had been eliminated on the East Coast for many years, and he also spent a lot of favors to exchange for a large amount of food. This was the cheap that the East Coast people in the East Coast consider that the Dutch East India Company might also introduce some hydraulic machinery to mainland China, and Shandong was hit by disasters, and it was extremely short of food and unsustainable. How could it be possible to change it to normal?

Now, what capital can you have for Zuoying to discuss such a deal with me? Did you conquer Xiangyang or Chongqing? You are just a dog raised by the East Coast. You still want this and that, and you are overestimating yourself! Therefore, Guo Puxia was very unhappy, but he did not show it too much on the surface, but declined.

At the same time, his heart began to become more and more vigilant. After all, Shunjun had his own will. Even if he was waving his tail and begging for mercy on you like a dog due to the situation, once he became powerful, the situation would be very different and he would inevitably ask for more things, many of which might be very embarrassing for the people of the East Coast.

Even if the Shun Army is lucky enough to unify the whole of China and establish the Dashun Empire under the battles in the south and the north, then its attitude towards the East Coast may be even worse in the future. It would be good if the two sides did not start a full-scale war on Ningbo and Denglai issues, so don't mention other things such as trade.
Chapter completed!