At that moment, Li Yan said again: "Hu Lianqi said that there are signs of troop transfer in Datong Azig.I guess he is going south to Yulin and cooperate with Hauge to attack.If Azig enters Shaanxi south and seizes a favorable position, General Li Guo's infantry may not be the opponent of Azig's cavalry, repeating his last defeat.We should order General Li Guo and General Gao Yigong to march to Jingbian immediately, seize the favorable terrain, and block Azige north of Hengshan.In this way, the Ningxia Corps can block from Hengshan, Ansai, Yan'an, and Luochuan step by step, so that there is enough room for defense. ”Wang Shuo nodded and said, "You can make Li Guo act now, with the goal of seizing Yulin."
It really can't be taken before Azig to occupy Yulin, and then think about blocking it south of Hengshan. ”Song Xiance said: "It is best to occupy Yulin.In this way, the troops can be divided into two routes, all the way to hold the fortress of Yulin, and all the way to the south of Yulin to gradually block.Even if Azig bypassed Yulin as he did last time, he would be in a dilemma if he had a block to the south and a threat from the Yulin defenders behind him.Last time, Li Guo also arranged it like this, and the idea was right.It's a pity that at that time, he was short of troops and had no fighting spirit, so he suffered a miserable defeat. ”Now that the big strategic plan is decided, it's time to think about how to reply to Dorgon's emissary.Song Xiance said: "If we refuse Dolgon's request, what will he think of Dolgon, he will definitely think that we are not giving him face and offending him."
After offending him, the next step, of course, is to step up our precautions against him.If he thinks so, he will inevitably step up his offensive against us, which is not good for us. ”Li Yan said slowly: "This Prince Rui is really very good, a letter contains so many profound meanings.deliberately shows that they do not treat us as enemies and confuse us; At the same time, we should use this letter to test our attitude towards him.If we don't give it to him, he will know that we are afraid that he will imitate it against us, and that sooner or later we will be his enemy.We give it to him, and if he imitates it, in the future, we will have no advantage. ”Wang Shuo smiled when he heard this: "He can't imitate it if he gives it to him."
First of all, he didn't know how to make coke and steel, and he couldn't get good steel, which restrained him. ”Song Xiance shook his head and said, "The general is bad."
Making steel from coke is not something new that you invented.In the Central Plains, where iron was produced, there were craftsmen who used coke to make steel in the Song Dynasty, but this skill was not transmitted to Xining. ”Wang Shuo was taken aback, it turned out that there was a technology for refining coke in the Song Dynasty in China, and he thought that he would be the first person in the world to use coke.Then he really didn't dare to give this gun to Dolgon, if he drummed it out, he really couldn't eat and walked away.He had planned to give a few muskets to Dorgon for free, and in turn to confuse the guy, he couldn't make them anyway, and a few muskets wouldn't matter.I only heard Song Xiance say again: "Although there are iron households that use coke to make steel, they can't get good iron steel like us.Tetsudo did not know that before the coke was refined, the charcoal had to be crushed into powder and washed away with water, which was the great general's skill. ”Wang Shuo shook his head and said, "This person can easily guess.As long as you know how to make coke, you are only one step away from making qualified coke. ”Song Xiance said: "Even if there is qualified coke, there is no vertical blast furnace of the general, the method of integrating iron and charcoal, and he still can't get good steel if he doesn't know how to blast the molten iron to remove carbon, the method of filtering slag, and the method of removing sulfur."
Therefore, it is not harmful for the general to give him a few muskets.In this way, he thinks that we are afraid of him, and we dare not be his enemy, and it is not known that we will relax the pace of attack on us. ”What Song Xiance said still makes sense.Under Wang Shuo's steelmaking method, most of them are modern technology, and the ancients are expected to ponder it out of thin air, and they don't know that it will take decades to figure it out.When Dolgon figured it out, it was estimated that Wang Shuo would have hit Beijing and destroy him.If you want to figure it out quickly, you must have someone who knows Western ironmaking technology.Because the modern iron-making method originated from the West, the path is basically the same.And China's iron-making method is not the right way.The most basic way is wrong, how can you get good steel Beijing knows Western iron-making, and it is John Tang and the few foreign priests he brought.Luo Yangxing had already contacted Tang Ruowang according to Wang Shuo's instructions, and asked Wu Langxi to write a letter to him, and Tang Ruowang had agreed to help Wang Shuo.As long as John Tong doesn't make a move, let Dorgon think about it, and he won't be able to make a new musket until he dies.Thinking of this, Wang Shuo said: "Then give him a hundred for nothing, and tell him that this kind of musket is difficult to make, and we are not rich, so let him not play it bad." ”Liang Min was a little distressed when he heard this, after all, in that era, it was really not easy to make a musket.She said: "It's good to give him seven or eight branches, why don't you give him so much at once" Song Xiance stood with Wang Shuo this time, and persuaded Liang Min: "As the saying goes, if you want to take it, you should first deal with it."
Madam don't have to feel distressed, sooner or later, we will kill him, can't this gun still come back" Wang Shuo was afraid that he would contact the Warring States story of the false way to destroy Yu again, and the verbosity gave him a headache, so he quickly interrupted him and said: "Hey, this time the military advisor is finally right." ”Then he asked him: "I'm surprised, how do you know everything, you know all the messy ways outside Hanzhongtong, how can you even smelt iron, you are clear" Song Xiance has been to Wang Shuo's iron factory in Xining, but this professional technology is not something that a layman can figure out after a few looks.This can only show that Song Xiance is not an amateur at all in ironmaking, and he knows it in great detail.Song Xiance listened to him ask, and said in his heart, I will follow you even if it is right, if you don't follow you, it is not right, and it is not right to answer Wang Shuo's question at the moment, but asked him: "I'm still strange, the general has gone from civil to military, from civilian manufacturing to firearms improvement and invention, why don't you say what you don't know, why do you know everything?"
Wang Shuo knew that Bibiscui was not an opponent, so he simply didn't ask.When everything was agreed, everyone hurriedly divided up and prepared for themselves, and immediately the order was conveyed, and the army began to move.After the meeting ended, Wang Shuo and Liang Min returned to the General's Mansion hand in hand.The two of them are busy with a lot of things on weekdays, and they can't see anyone, and it's rare to go home together like this.After more than two years of governance and construction and changing customs, Lanzhou already has the appearance of a city, and the people are no longer as feudal as in the past, and the streets are bustling, with men and women, and the market is in order.Otherwise, like Wang Shuo, walking on the street with his wife's hand, it will not let the people gather around the crowd like a monkey to see the freshness, even if there are guards on the side to protect them, they will not be able to walk
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