The reason why Guo Zhiyuan was able to achieve a brilliant record that Qi Jiguang had not achieved this time is not that he was better than Qi Jiguang, but because the Japanese pirates underestimated the enemy. They felt that Guo Zhiyuan had fewer troops on hand than him and could be crushed directly, so they would be able to go out in full force, giving Guo Zhiyuan the opportunity to make dumplings. Otherwise, as long as the Japanese pirates adopted the guerrilla tactics when fighting against the Ming Navy, Guo Zhiyuan would be the one who should be troubled.

Although the battle with the Japanese pirates and pirate coalition won this time, it was actually very difficult. Almost every soldier in the new army was injured. This also exposed the shortcomings of the insufficient troops in the East. If the Japanese pirates were not deceived, they did not enter the ambush and encirclement set up by Guo Zhiyuan in Jilong Bay, but instead divided their troops to attack Beigang and the officials. Then Guo Zhiyuan was really blind.

So this time Guo Zhiyuan is preparing to expand his army greatly and expand his army from 30,000 to 30,000, so that he can place 10,000 yuan each in Beigang, Keelung, and the senior officials from the New Army. In addition, Liu Ruosi's garrison army and Shen Yourong's navy army are enough to defend the security of Dongfan.

The expansion of the army is easy to solve. Now there are nearly 200,000 new immigrants in Dongbo, and they have a high sense of identity with Dongbo. As long as Guo Zhiyuan posted a recruitment announcement, there will definitely be people who respond. Most of these new immigrants are young and strong, and their nutrition will also keep up after they arrive in Dongbo. In addition, Guo Zhishi adopts militarized management of new immigrants' work, and the quality of the military source is very good. With a little training, the veterans from the new army will be able to form combat effectiveness soon.

In addition, for the two "surprise soldiers" who made great contributions at the critical moment of this battle, the Tayya warrior army led by Abu and the Black Rakshasa army led by Dax are also preparing to further expand. Now Abu and Guo Zhiyuan have given up their past grudges. Fighting can allow the tribe members to live a happy life without worrying about food and clothing. Where can I find such good things? So when Abu heard that Guo Zhiyuan was going to expand his army, he went into the mountains early in the morning to find Tayya people from other tribes and recruited soldiers for Guo Zhiyuan.

Guo Zhiyuan of the Black Rakshasa Army is preparing to expand to 500 people. Dax has already followed the sea trade fleet to find his old subordinates in Luzon. Guo Zhiyuan has given him enough money. Even if he can't find his old subordinates in the past, there are many black people working in coolies at the Luzon Wharf, so it is easy to raise 500 Black Rakshasa Army.

However, there is a problem here. This time, Emperor Wanli rejected Guo Zhiyuan's request to expand the number of troops, which shows that Emperor Wanli has already been wary of Guo Zhiyuan. If Guo Zhiyuan expands his army more vigorously, it is equivalent to directly rebelling. For the time being, Guo Zhiyuan does not want to break up with the court, so Guo Zhiyuan can only adopt a roundabout strategy. He asked half of the current soldiers of the Xinxing Army to "retire" due to injuries, and then recruit new recruits to make up. After the new recruits form combat effectiveness, he will let the other half of the Xinxing Army "retire" and then recruit new recruits to make up. But in fact, those "retirement" veterans retreat and can be summoned at any time. This is equivalent to double the strength of the Xinxing Army.

What made Guo Zhiyuan the most headache was weapons and equipment. The weapons and equipment needed by the 30,000 troops were not a small number. Now the court has been wary of Dongfan, and the inspection of merchant ships traveling to Dongfan is very strict, and military supplies are strictly controlled. Therefore, it is difficult to purchase military-style weapons and equipment from the inland. Fortunately, there are a lot of weapons and equipment captured this time. Although the damage is serious, it is still possible to use it for the craftsmen in the workshop to repair it.

However, this is not a long-term solution after all. Dongfan must have independent weapons and equipment research and development and production capabilities so that he will not be choked by the court. So this is the second major event that Guo Zhiyuan is preparing to do, to set up a military factory in Dongfan!

In fact, Guo Zhiyuan secretly built a weapon workshop as early as Gutian, which was equivalent to the prototype of a military factory. After arriving in Dongfan, he specially allocated funds to Zhao Shizhen to build a secret military research institute in Yangmingshan. The trigger was made there. With Zhao Shizhen, a firearm expert, here, Dongfan's weapons research and development work naturally could not be lagging behind.

But R&D is one thing, and it is another thing to produce and assemble the troops on a large scale. There is no modern industrial assembly line operation machinery and equipment, and the production efficiency is scary. For example, the flintlock rifle was invented long ago, but only one gun barrel requires a skilled craftsman to complete it for a month. The weapon workshop is fully started, and at most it can produce more than a dozen flintlock rifles in a month. Therefore, although Guo Zhiyuan had long planned to set up a military factory, it has never been able to achieve it.

However, this problem has been solved now. Not long ago, Zhao Shizhen had already taken his R&D team to invent the hydraulic machine tool! In fact, Guo Zhiyuan had already told Zhao Shizhen that it was because the precision of the machine tool was very high and he had never been able to produce qualified finished products.

This time, the invention of hydraulic machine tools was successful, but a man who was almost forgotten by Guo Zhiyuan made great contributions. This person was Wang Zheng! Wang Zheng was originally a member of the imperial court sent to Dongfan to mix sand. Later, this group of officials who mixed sand were driven away by Guo Zhiyuan's trick. Only Wang Zheng stayed. Wang Zheng was called "King of Southern and Xu Guangqi" together with Xu Guangqi in the original historical time and space. He was quite knowledgeable about Western machinery and was particularly good at math, so Guo Zhiyuan was also very polite to him and tried his best to win him over.

But Wang Zheng has always been dismissive of Guo Zhiyuan. Over time, Guo Zhiyuan has become a little discouraged. In addition, there are too many people and facts that Dongfan wants him to worry about, so he gradually forgot that there is such a great god around him. Wang Zheng has been in Dongfan for so long and felt a completely different new atmosphere from the court. His mood has gradually changed. Although he is not very cold about Guo Zhiyuan, he is very good at talking with Zhao Shizhen, who is also obsessed with academics. Zhao Shizhen has no sense of confidentiality. When he encounters problems in developing hydraulic machine tools, he likes to talk with Wang Zheng. Wang Zheng is particularly good at mathematics, and just learns from Zhao Shizhen's strengths and weaknesses. The two scientific madmen have been sleepless and fiddling for several months, and they actually invented the hydraulic machine tools!

With hydraulic machine tools, Guo Zhiyuan's idea of ​​mass production of weapons and equipment in Jianjun's factory can be realized. In the past, a person could only make a flintlock barrel in a month. Now, one can be bored in half a day with a hydraulic machine tool. Even if the later manual grinding process is taken, it takes less than three days to produce a flintlock barrel, which is equivalent to increasing the production efficiency by ten times!

Moreover, with hydraulic machine tools, many new inventions from the Military Industry Research Institute can also be produced on a large scale, such as a plate armor newly invented by Zhao Shizhen. The armor-wearing rate of the Ming Dynasty army was actually not high. Ordinary soldiers could only wear cloth armor or leather armor, and only high-level generals could wear iron armor. This is also an important reason for the lack of combat effectiveness of the Ming Dynasty army. When facing the Qing army who was good at riding and shooting, the protection of cloth armor or leather armor was equal to zero, and it completely turned into straw that was allowed to be harvested by the Qing army!
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