After listening to Huang Youde's report, Liu Yu was very satisfied.

"It's hard for the craftsmen in the Firearms Division to work overtime." He looked at the wooden shed with endless lights.

"Don't worry, sir."

"The villain must send the best self-generated musket to the adult camp." Huang Youde's eyes rolled and he said softly.

Liu Yu looked at Huang Youde with satisfaction and signaled that he could leave.

Now the Ming army has weak military strength and is relatively small.

There are not many firearm configurations required.

According to the current production capacity of the Firearms Department, it is still higher than the speed at which the Ming army expanded its armaments.

There are not many Chinese in Luzon.

When Liu Yu insisted on going south to Luzon, on the one hand, he was to escape the Qing court, and on the other hand, he was to accumulate strength to fight against the Qing Dynasty.

The human, material and financial resources of local Chinese in Luzon are naturally Liu Yu's first choice.

But when I arrived in Luzon, I realized that it was not as beautiful as that.

Perhaps there may be tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of Chinese who lived in Luzon for a long time.

However, with the four consecutive massacres of the Spanish and their indigenous people, the number of Chinese in Luzon has decreased significantly.

In the past few months, the Ming Dynasty searched almost all northern Luzon, and only two thousand Chinese were found. This was due to the Manila authorities massacred and drove away Han people in the central and northern Luzon Island.

It is estimated that there should be thousands of Chinese businessmen stranded in Manila City.

But that's all.

It is estimated that the number of Chinese in Luzon today is only 10,000 or even more than 8,000.

So much so that Ming now has to rely on the food provided by the Iroks for a living.

There are many fertile fields in Luzon, but most of them are distributed in the central plains in the central part of Luzon, and are still in the hands of the Manila authorities at this moment.

Due to the Battle of Mingcheng, Ming defeated the Spaniards and the local Tagalogs.

This allowed the Manila authorities to retreat to central Luzon.

The mountains in northwestern Luzon and the northern part became the territory of Ming, and naturally all the fertile land and indigenous people in northwestern Luzon also became the property of Ming.

The most important grain-producing area in central Luzon has become the red line between the Ming and Manila authorities entrenched in the northwest.

At this time, both forces were waiting for each other, but they were reluctant to cross the red line of the central plain.

As for the Ming sphere of influence, there were also extremely spectacular rice terraces cultivated by residents of the Yifu alpine mountainous areas in northern Luzon.

When the Ming army soldiers crossed the mountains to the northern part of Luzon, they were also shocked by the spectacular terraces.

The local natives are also good at farming.

Ming also changed the basic strategy.

The original suppression and deprivation became comfort.

The local Yiluo people and other tribes saw that the Spaniards, who were originally showing off, were defeated by the Ming army who came from afar.

It made the tribes extremely panic.

In order to protect themselves, various Shengfan tribes near Mingcheng paid tribute to Mingcheng to show goodwill.

In order to ensure that the local Tagalog people and others did not resist because of their dissatisfaction with Ming's exploitation.

Later, a pacifying policy was adopted.

Contact the chiefs of local indigenous tribes and appease the upper classes of each tribe.

He sent his weapons such as swords, guns and other weapons and sent soldiers to assist the indigenous people in guarding the city.

Help local Irok people and other indigenous peoples get rid of the invasion of the Tagalog people.

As for the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty adopted a ten-tax and one system, which not only solved the problem of grain supply in the Ming army, but also had a lot of surplus.

Of course, there are also reasons why there are only more than one thousand Ming troops and cannot consume much food.

More than two months have passed since I can't escape.

With the firearms transported by the Firearms Department and the newly recruited Han soldiers, Huben Town was officially formed.

When Liu Yu imitated the Spanish army's organization, Liu Yu also improved the organization of Huben Town.

It is mainly divided into five associations.

First, the Long Sword Association was composed of Liu Quan's personal soldiers. After the battle of Mingcheng, there were only more than 60 soldiers left. As the strongest combat force, they were divided into Liu Yu separately.

The two associations in the Shenji Camp formed by Liu Yu privately were also separated by Liu Yu and incorporated into Huben Town.

The two Divine Machinery Association fully prepares firearms,

The first team organized fifty musketeers, carrying heavy mesh rope guns such as self-generated muskets and turtledove-footed guns on the backbone. Each musketeer is also equipped with three special loaders.

At the same time, Liu Yu also introduced grenades unique to the West at this time.

Although when the Spanish attacked the Spanish at night, the sudden heavy rain caused the grenade fuse equipped by the Spanish grenades to be unable to be ignited and lost its place of use.

But it cannot be denied the actual effect of grenadiers on the battlefield.

Whether it is a siege, a defense battle or a resistance to cavalry attacks, grenadiers can play unexpected roles.

By imitating the captured Spanish grenades, the Firearms Department produced fire thunder.

And equip the Ming army troops.

Liu Yu specially formed a grenade force, which was served by strong arm strength in the army, and used fire and thunder in full.

In the future,

If you encounter the Qing Green Camp or the Eight Banners Cavalry in the Jiangnan area, you will use two divine machine tools to kill and injure infantry or cavalry with muskets.

If the Tartar cavalry rushed over, there would be grenades who would sniff the Tartar cavalry to protect the musketeers from loading ammunition.

The black gunpowder in the 17th century was not very lethal. The fire thunder produced by the Fire Equipment Department was basically blown up in half due to gunpowder, and it was difficult to break the pieces and kill the enemy.

But the shock waves of the fire thunder explosion and the loud sound of the explosion were enough to scare the war horses, thereby disrupting the intensive charges of the cavalry.

Especially in ancient times, people had not yet opened up their wisdom, and suddenly encountered earth-shaking things like fire and thunder, which would inevitably cause the enemy's morale to shake.

At the same time, the long sword cooperation acts as an assault force, which can attack and defend, similar to the spearmen, but the equipment is much worse.

The most important thing about Hu Ben is the artillery.

After defeating the Spanish in the Battle of Mingcheng, a Spanish artillery was captured.

Liu Yu organized it into the Artillery Association and equipped six squadron artillery pieces, operated by the captured Spaniards.

It can be said that this artillery unit is the artillery unit with the highest combat quality in the Ming army.

In just five or six days, the newly formed Huben Town was roughly formed.

Although the actual combat personnel in Huben Town formed in this way only had 200 people, the total number of people was more than 500, including loaders and transporters.
Chapter completed!