Soon, the whistle cavalry with a happy face brought news that Liu Guoneng's troops were indeed surrendering.

Facing the monk An who was laughing out loud, Liu Guoneng looked ashamed.

"General An, Liu is late anyway, I hope the general will forgive me!"

Liu Guoneng knelt down and bowed, behind him, Dong Guoying led a group of bandits and knelt down in a dark way.

"General Liu asked him to get up quickly." Monk An helped him up with a smile: "Your troops can avoid a good fight in time anyway, which is really a great achievement. And let's go back to the camp with me. Today, we two brothers have opened their drinks, and we must drink to the death!"

The two laughed, and then Liu Guoneng ordered all the bandits to remove their armor and weapons and hand them over to the Ming army. Then he followed Monk An to return to the stationed fort.

After returning to the fort, Monk An arranged a banquet to entertain Liu Guoneng and his group.

Liu Guoneng Dong Guoying and a group of bandits were moved when they saw that Monk An and Hu Shangwen treated each other so enthusiastically, and the guests and hosts became more and more happy and harmonious.

During the meal, Liu Guoneng took advantage of the drunkenness and asked Monk An, "Brother An, but I don't know, your lord Li Xiao, how are you treating others?"

Monk An, who was already blushing, saw Liu Guoneng ask this question, and smiled and said, "General Liu, I tell you the truth. It is a very smart thing to be able to join the Ming army of another unit, but you can join our unit. Ask me how Master Li, my family, and I tell you the truth. This Lord Li, who was named Chi Feng Bo at a young age, is a leader among people. He is also a pillar of the country and is very wise to know people. When meeting such a boss, it is a blessing for you and me. In a word, only if you have martial arts and abilities, and can serve him with peace of mind, Lord Li will definitely use you."

Liu Guoneng said oh, and his eyes were filled with hope.

After a few days of rest, Monk An ordered a sentry to send Liu Guoneng's troops to Shandong.

When Liu Guoneng and others went to Shandong, Mo Changrong's troops in Shaanxi had just surrendered Li Wanqing's troops who fled Shanxi.

It turned out that after Li Wanqing's troops were defeated by Cao Bianjiao and He Renlong in Shaanxi, they led more than 2,000 defeated soldiers and more than 1,000 remaining family members to Shanxi and survived in the Linjin area. After a period of time, the news that Mo Changrong's troops in Heyang, Shaanxi Province had been recruiting refugees, and it was spread to Li Wanqing through the remaining cavalry of Zhang Miao's hand who fled in front of the battlefield that day.

"Hmph, Zhang Miaoshou is really greedy and swallowing an elephant. He is a soldier who is defeated and wants to trick him to seize Heyang City. He is really overestimating his own abilities. He is a way to die."

Li Wanqing, who had a fierce look on his face and a strong figure, listened to the reports of the former Zhang Miao's hand cavalry and said with a sneer.

Then, a light flashed in Li Wanbu's eyes and he shouted: "However, Zhang Miaoshou's trick to sell himself to the Ming army is pretty good. Now, the entire army will go to Heyang with the commander to sell himself at a good price!"

One day later, Li Wanqing led his troops across the Yellow River and came to the city of Heyang.

Li Wanqing immediately ordered that the entire army abandon his armed forces to express his sincerity to surrender to Mo Changrong and others in the city. He also sent someone to shout, hoping that he could also get the same money as Zhang Miaoshou to buy people, so that Mo Changrong and others could arrange it.

Mo Changrong laughed and immediately agreed that after paying 8,000 taels of cigarettes and cloth, he successfully surrendered to Li Wanqing's troops.

Two days later, Mo Changrong sent someone to send Li Wanqing's troops and others to Shandong.

At the end of October of the 10th year of Chongzhen, Liu Guoneng and Li Wanqing both arrived in Shandong.

Seeing that these two famous bandit generals in history are now coming to serve themselves, Li Xiao was overjoyed and rewarded the two who took the initiative to surrender, which made them sincerely grateful.

Li Xiao knew that in real history, after surrendering to the Ming army, these two people were different from the bandits who surrendered repeatedly, such as Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai. They were always loyal to the Ming court and were quite reliable, and eventually died in battle for the Ming Dynasty.

In history, when Liu Guoneng surrendered to Xiong Wencan, he bowed and said, "The foolish people are in trouble, and Meng Mingfu will be reborn. I hope that all the people of the shogunate military books will be included in their command and will do their best."

For such a person who is essentially loyal and reliable, Li Xiao, who knows the history of the Ming Dynasty, naturally has to vigorously recruit him.

So far, Li Xiao's plan to buy people has been implemented for four months. On average, each month, from Shandong and Shaanxi, a total of nearly 80,000 prisoners and refugees were collected from Shandong and Shaanxi. In addition, civil officials such as Xu Xiuqing can collect 20,000 refugees per month in Henan, northern Zhili, and Shandong. In this way, Li Xiaojun captured 100,000 prisoners and refugees per month. In the past three months, 400,000 refugees have been taken under Li Xiao.

With sufficient manpower, Li Xiao decided to start his own plan to expand his army.

The focus of this expansion is on the Taiwan Expeditionary Force.

Li Xiao expanded the Taiwan Expeditionary Army, which originally had only 3,000 people, to Pingnan Camp. The scale was basically the same as that of Chifeng Camp.

In this case, Pingnan Camp has three generals, that is, nine scepters. Based on one scepter, five teams of shield soldiers and 10 teams of scepter, there are a total of 45 teams of shield soldiers, 90 teams of scepter, and a rampant scepter, Xuanhu heavy cavalry scepter, and Feiyaozi scepter, which is exactly the same as Chifeng Camp.

However, in addition to these standard configurations, Li Xiao also equipped Pingnan Battalion with 1,000 auxiliary soldiers and 600 Manzhou infantry posts.

Li Xiao asked them to still wear the armor of the original yellow flag, and like the rampant whistle, everyone holding combat weapons such as tiger swords, tiger spears, long-handled knives, heavy military sickles. I hope they can play the same as the rampant whistle, and have the impact force to change the situation when they are in a battle and are in a hard battle.

Li Xiao considered that this Pingnan Camp stationed in Taiwan would often fight in humid, hot and mountainous terrain in the future. In such an environment, the cavalry had a Xuanhu heavy cavalry and a flying kite, which was actually enough. On the contrary, there was a greater demand for infantry. Therefore, Li Xiao decided to equip the 600 auxiliary soldiers of the Manzhou Zhenghuang Banner in Jintang City into infantry sentry.

As a result, in Li Xiao's Pingnan Camp, there were 4,590 shield soldiers, 9,180 spearmen, 600 rampant team members, 600 Xuanhu heavy cavalry, 600 flying kites, 600 Manzhou infantry, and 1,000 auxiliary soldiers. The total force reached 17,170.

However, even if the Pingnan Camp troops were assembled into a powerful military force of nearly 20,000, Li Xiao was not satisfied.

He decided to equip this unit with a powerful firearm unit equipped with a new dragon gun, so that this Pingnan Camp stationed in Taiwan would become a hideous tiger that was very sharp and terrifying, both offensive and defense-proof.

After all, Li Xiao’s ambition is not only to swallow the entire Taiwan Island, but also to the wider Luzon Islands and farther places in the future...

Now, in the Iron City Artillery Factory, while the iron mold casting gun technology is still under development, the mud mold casting gun technology in use can basically reach the average monthly speed of two heavy dragon beating guns.

By now, 8 heavy dragon storms weighing 2,500 kilograms can be produced to release 32 kilograms of iron shells, plus 6 medium dragon storms that were originally produced to release 18 kilograms of iron shells, and 4 light dragon storms that were fired to release 8 kilograms. There are 18 dragon storms, equipped to the firearm whistle of Pingnanying.

Li Xiao formed a firearm unit with a total of 200 people, a total of 200 gunners, a medium-sized dragon gun with a 6 gunners, a light dragon gun with a 4 gunners, and some reserve gunners.

Then next month, when Li Xiao led his army to set out for the southern expedition, he could have two more heavy dragon-strike guns, and the number of artillery can reach 20.

With these 20 new dragon-kill guns, Li Xiao was sure that whether it was Spain in Santo Domingo City in Taipei, or the Netherlands in Chitchen City or Jelan Fold City in Tainan, they would be quickly destroyed under the powerful attack of such artillery.

Next, Li Xiao began to appoint personnel appointments from Pingnan Camp.

The battalion commander of Pingnan Battalion was Li Dingguo, the former commander-in-chief of the Taiwan Expedition Army.

The deputy battalion commander of Pingnan Battalion was Luo Zheng, the former deputy commander-in-chief of the Taiwan Expeditionary Force.

In addition, other general commanders, whistle commanders and others have arrangements, and are basically selected from the outstanding officers in Chifeng Camp. What is attracted by the fact that the leader of the bandits, Li Wanqing, who had just surrendered, was appointed as the deputy commander of the General C of the Pingnan Camp.

Although this person was a bandit who had just surrendered, Li Xiao valued his long-term experience in leading troops to fight, so he ordered him to hold this official position, hoping to make full use of Li Wanqing's military talents.

This deputy sentry chief is just Li Wanqing's starting point. If he performs outstandingly in future battles after further brainwashing education, Li Xiao will be promoted to a more prominent military position such as the sentry chief and the chief.

When arranging Liu Guoneng, Li Xiao's idea was also reflected.

After Liu Guoneng, who was the former chief of the A General of Chifeng Camp, went to Pingnan Camp to serve as deputy chief of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of Chifeng Camp, he took over as chief of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of Chifeng Camp, he took over as chief of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of General of

Li Xiao hopes that such means can be used to inspire them to continue to fight for their own loyalty after changing their ranks and become the backbone of the Tiger Army.

Liu Guoneng's deputy general Dong Guoying was sent to the garrison army on Jeju Island to serve as a captain of a spearman.

Liu Guoneng and Li Wanqing were very happy that they had been entrusted with important tasks as soon as they surrendered, and they all expressed their loyalty to Li Xiao.

After the arrangement of Pingnan Camp and the military generals were all arranged, Li Xiao immediately wrote a letter to Zheng Zhilong from Penghu, asking him to bring at least 300 large ships to Dengzhou Port to pick up hundreds of thousands of refugees collected by Li Xiao and head to Taiwan.

Li Xiao is actually quite powerful now. He has 16 ships seized from the Dutch, as well as 44 ships seized from the former Dongjiang Town Navy, a total of 60 large and small ships. Originally, Li Xiao wanted to transport refugees and the army with his own strength, but after thinking for a long time, he decided to borrow a boat from Zheng Zhilong again to transport military and civilian goods.

Because after Zheng Zhilong's fleet arrived next month, Li Xiao had a total of more than 500,000 refugees and nearly 15,000 troops from Pingnan Camp to transport them, and a large number of commercial goods, weapons, food, and various daily necessities were all shipped to ship, but the ships on hand were not sufficient.

In addition, because Li Xiao also occupies Jeju Island, the Jeju Island and Shandong also require a large number of ships to transport merchants and goods back and forth, and facilitates military and civilian exchanges between the two places. In this way, Li Xiao can only use fewer ships.

Moreover, if the number of ships is too small and the ship is overcrowded, the sanitary conditions on the ship will immediately become extremely bad. During the nearly one month's sea trip, it is likely to cause the epidemic of various diseases. If a vicious plague breaks out on such a closed ship, it is estimated that the whole ship will be ruined.

Therefore, in order to give refugees and military soldiers a relatively relaxed and comfortable environment, Li Xiao decided to spend money and transport as many refugees as possible to Taiwan safely and healthily.

A month later, when Li Xiao's Dengzhou City was finally successfully completed, Zheng Zhilong sent his brothers Zheng Zhifeng and Zheng Cai to lead a fleet of 350 large ships to Dengzhou, and all the ships were moored in the water city for a temporary stay.

Seeing the wide Dengzhou water city in front of you and the magnificent Dengzhou outer city ahead, Zheng Zhifeng and Zheng Cai suddenly felt an eye-opening feeling.

"Second leader, look, this water city is so vast, I'm afraid it can be stopped at least five or six hundred ships with thousands of materials." Zheng Cai looked at the wide and deep water city and couldn't help but whisper.

"Oh, I didn't expect that Lord Li could build this originally dilapidated Dengzhou so magnificently, which really made Zheng look at him with admiration. In my opinion, the scale of Dengzhou Water City has to be even better than our Penghu Port." Zheng Zhifeng stroked his beard and admired, very emotional.

When the two of them got ashore, Chen Zilong and several civil servants welcomed them from the north gate into the outer city.

Along the way, the two of them took a good look at the newly expanded Dengzhou Outer City.

They saw that the entire outer city of Dengzhou was extremely vast. It was estimated that the circumference was about twenty miles large, but it was comparable to that of the provincial capital Jinan.

The four walls are all designed as giant walls with a horse face of 6 meters wide and a city of 15 meters high. They are all rammed earth inside the middle and are inner walls. They are covered with blue bricks, which are quite sturdy and durable.

In addition to the north gate leading to the water land to the north, the urn city is built outside the city gate. On the city wall, defense measures such as pheasants, women's walls, corner towers, forts, sheep and horse walls, forts, and perforations are all built according to the system to ensure the defense capabilities of the city wall.

The entire Dengzhou City was dug in the east, south, west, and outside the three walls. Because the entire Dengzhou City showed a high south and low north, it just used the Huangshui River in the east and Pingchang River in the south to introduce river water from it, poured into the land protection moat for filling, so that it could pass around the city and merge into the sea of ​​the water city.

The two of them admired each other. When passing the Moon Road of the city gate, they saw that the city gate in Dengzhou looked no different from the ordinary city gate, but the inside was designed to hide a thousand-pound pendant. This extremely exquisite and cost-effective mechanism can effectively block the enemy inside and outside when defending the city, and facilitate the division and elimination of them.

After entering the inner city of Dengzhou, the two of them saw that the structure of the inner city of Dengzhou was like Chifeng City, with four central avenues planned and the entire city was planned into four major regions: northeast, northwest, southwest and southeast.

Among them, the Northeast and Northwest areas are both used by Li Xiaojun Navy, the Northwest areas are the Navy camp, and the Northeast areas are an extremely eye-catching large shipyard. You can vaguely see that a large number of workers inside are nervously and busy building keels, shaving boat boards, weaving sails, and applying tung oil. They look very orderly.

In the southwest area, various military barracks such as building barracks, stables, schoolyards, arsenals were built, and a large number of Tiger Army soldiers were shouting and practicing.

In the entire southeast area, there are weapons, armor, gunpowder and giant granaries. Looking at these tall and closed warehouses, Zheng Zhifeng thought to himself that Li Xiao had such a large amount of reserves. If he had managed the city, he would probably have no problem staying for several years.

After accompanying the two around the outer city, Chen Zilong took them into the core area of ​​Li Xiaojun, Dengzhou inner city.

This is an inner city with a circumference of 2 miles. The wall size is the same as that of the outer city. It also has various defensive measures. Then, in the inner city, there are Li Xiao’s house, various official offices, and important institutions such as the bank. The two saw that many officials of different clothes were running around in the inner city, working in a hurry.

"Zheng now knows that this Dengzhou city has been designed by Lord Li to be an important military city for both land and land, but it is different from the Chifeng City, which is purely for business operations." Zheng Zhifeng sighed to Zheng Cai.

Just as the two of them were sighing, Li Xiao had already walked out of the mansion with a smile and walked towards them with a smile.

Seeing Li Xiaoxingjin wearing a python robe and jade belt, Zheng Zhifeng and Zheng Cai hurriedly knelt down and bowed.
Chapter completed!