Chapter 258: New Army Reorganization, Final Targeted Training
"Commander-in-chief, is this Miss Wan'er whom you often mention?"
"Commander Wan'er, I am Little Stone."
"Wan'er, I'm Wei Ying, and this is Liang Liping, who is currently in charge of Lingshan Island affairs."...
Li Dingguo and Wan'er had just arrived at the meeting hall of the City Lord's Mansion. Several core generals were there, and with the introduction of Li Dingguo, everyone got to know each other and greeted each other.
Liang Liping and the others were secretly frightened when they noticed the faintly intimidating aura emanating from Wan'er.
However, a surprise followed.
On the eve of a great battle with a powerful enemy, it is undoubtedly a good thing to have such a powerful master on our side.
They had heard from Li Dingguo that Wan'er was the top fighter of the Fuxing Army outside the Great Wall. In the past two years, at least ten thousand enemies had died at the hands of Wan'er!
This is a real god of killing, the kind that kills people like crazy.
Liang Liping, Xiao Shitou, Wei Ying and others couldn't help but feel awe towards Wan'er.
"Wan'er, you came here at the perfect time."
Li Dingguo said to Wan'er, "In less than ten days at most, the Ye family and the white barbarians in Haojing will form an alliance fleet consisting of nearly a hundred large treasure ships of various levels. They will arrive at Lingshan Bay outside our Lingshan Island and declare war on us."
"You used to command the navy, so this navy is just right for you to take over."
"Little Stone, you will assist Wan'er and officially serve as the deputy commander of this navy."
"In terms of combat experience, you are far inferior to Wan'er now. You need to watch more, learn more, and strive to formalize our brand new navy as soon as possible."
Li Dingguo thought about it for a moment and arranged a new position for Wan'er, asking her to lead the navy together with Xiao Shitou.
Then, he said to the two of them, "Wan'er, near the big dock, in the large warehouse of the shipyard you just visited, I have already refined hundreds of second-generation psychic cannons and more than a thousand psychic crossbow carts."
"Today, you will lead your naval officers and soldiers to take out these two large weapons of war and distribute them to various artillery batteries and those large treasure ships."
"We must quickly familiarize our soldiers with the performance of these second-generation weapons so that they can exert their full power in a few days and teach the enemy fleets that dare to attack us a painful lesson!"
"With so many cannons and crossbow carts, plus the inexhaustible reserves of magic cores at all levels, we can't help but inflict heavy damage on the enemy!"
"After this battle, our Lingshan Island Restoration Army will vigorously launch a plan to take in refugees from the coastal areas, and strive to increase the total population of Lingshan Island to more than three million within this year."
"Oh, and, He Lijing, your future duties will be changed. Starting tomorrow, you will set up a Ministry of Internal Affairs."
Li Dingguo turned to look at He Lijing and gave an order, "The main responsibility of this Ministry of Internal Affairs is to set up an internal law enforcement department to maintain the internal security and stability of our Renaissance Army, eliminate enemy spies hidden among our soldiers and civilians, and any enemies who attempt to harm our Renaissance Army."
"From now on, the Ministry of Internal Affairs will only be responsible to me. Any other departments must cooperate with your actions. Those who violate this will be killed without mercy!"
"The Internal Affairs Department has tentatively decided to recruit 600 people. They can select personnel from the entire army and try to select warriors with talent in this area to join."
The operation to shelter a large number of refugee people will soon be launched.
Among those large numbers of refugees, there will inevitably be many enemy spies and some enemies with ulterior motives.
Therefore, the establishment of an internal affairs department is imminent and cannot be delayed.
No matter how strong a fortress is, one must guard against enemies breaching it from within. Li Dingguo could not have failed to understand this.
Just like the Restoration Army outside the Great Wall, it is almost cut off from all connections inside the Great Wall, but there are still many spies and people with ulterior motives mixed in?
Therefore, Li Dingguo’s current arrangements are still very timely.
After two months of observation by Li Dingguo, He Lijing, this enchanting genius, is almost as good as Chang Liyun.
Both of them are brave and careful people, and they are very calm. They do not show their emotions, are extremely smart, and do things in an orderly manner.
As long as she goes through a period of experience, He Lijing may be able to catch up with Chang Liyun's ability in the future.
"Yes! Commander-in-chief."
He Lijing looked calm and took the order solemnly.
After a new round of adjustments to the positions of these core generals was completed, everyone dispersed.
Wan'er first went to the huge backyard of the City Lord's Mansion with Li Dingguo, planted all the spiritual fruit saplings they brought, and performed a round of cloud and rain magic and earth spirit magic on them before leaving the City Lord's Mansion.
Under the guidance of Xiao Shitou, she went to the big pier on Lingshan Island and came to the naval camp that had just been built to meet the naval soldiers stationed there.
Wan'er didn't say anything more. She directly displayed her martial arts form, emitting a terrifying aura, which frightened the new recruits into silence. They dared not raise any objections to the naval commander.
She easily intimidated these new recruits, and Wan'er's prestige was quickly established.
Under the leadership of Xiao Shitou, more than 10,000 naval officers and soldiers lined up to go to the nearby shipyard, moved out all the newly refined psychic cannons and psychic crossbow carts in the large warehouse, and distributed them to various fortress turrets and large treasure ships.
Because Li Dingguo ordered the shipyard to dismantle a high-quality treasure ship, the navy of the Fuxing Army now has two top-quality treasure ships, five high-quality treasure ships, and dozens of medium-quality treasure ships.
The huge size of the top-grade treasure ship and its extremely powerful performance made Wan'er very happy.
This kind of top-quality treasure ship is basically not seen in the inland waterways of the Ming Dynasty.
In the large inland rivers, the top-quality treasure ships are not unable to sail, but they are a waste of their resources.
It is enough for all forces to have high-quality treasure ships to use in inland rivers.
Before Li Dingguo modified and upgraded his own psychic cannons and crossbow carts, the power of all psychic cannons and crossbow carts of the same level in this world was actually similar.
In terms of attack power or defense power, there is not much difference between the best-grade treasure ship and the upper-grade treasure ship when fighting in inland rivers.
The difference is that the top-grade treasure ships have more psychic cannons and crossbow carts, and the protective magic array is more powerful, but it only takes three top-grade treasure ships to go together. Fighting against the top-grade treasure ships in the inland river will actually give them a certain advantage.
Therefore, it is not that the best treasure ship cannot be used in inland waterways, but it is not as practical as the top-grade treasure ship.
In addition, all kinds of spiritual materials used to build the top-grade treasure ships must be top-grade spiritual materials, which are difficult to collect. This results in the number of top-grade treasure ships being extremely scarce.
Therefore, in the inland rivers of the Ming Dynasty, you could basically not see the top-quality treasure ships.
Wan'er took office here smoothly, and she did a great job right after taking office. Li Dingguo was also not idle.
He called Da Jin and took the top-grade treasure Wan'er had just given him: the Earth Spirit Pearl, to the center of Lingshan Island, to the top of the highest mountain, and buried the Earth Spirit Pearl in the center of the island protection formation.
Li Dingguo then made a seal, and a colorful five-element rune sank into the center of the formation, allowing the Earth Spirit Pearl and the four-level magic cores at the center of the formation to combine perfectly, jointly taking on the role of the central energy source of this small five-element sky-covering formation.
"Yes, Not Bad!"
As the master of the island protection formation, Li Dingguo could clearly feel that the power of this formation was slowly increasing.
Although the rate of increase is very small, its advantage is that it can be sustained continuously.
Moreover, the spiritual energy of the heaven and earth inside Lingshan Island, which is shrouded by a large island protection formation, is also increasing at an extremely slow rate, especially the soil on the ground, which is being continuously and subtly improved by the magical Earth Spirit Pearl, thereby increasing the fertility and spirituality of the soil on this large island.
In the past, on the island in the middle of the lake at the source of the Jialu River outside the Great Wall, the function of the Earth Spirit Pearl was completely concealed by the five-colored sacred tree, and its magic could not be perceived.
Now that the magical five-colored sacred tree is no longer here, Li Dingguo can now clearly feel the magical effect of the Earth Spirit Pearl.
After getting this important matter done, Li Dingguo felt relieved. Seeing that it was already noon, he flew onto Dajin's back, and the man and the eagle quickly returned to the City Lord's Mansion on Lingshan Island.
This city lord's mansion has changed a lot compared to two months ago. It has been completely renovated by thousands of craftsmen from the craftsman camp.
Nowadays, many buildings have been demolished and many new water conservancy facilities have been built, making the place very clean and tidy.
The most eye-catching place with the biggest changes is the original Jia family's front yard and a large number of wing rooms, which were all demolished and transformed into a large bluestone square.
The brand new barracks on one side of the Grand Square is where the newly formed Guards are stationed.
Today, the size of this royal guard is not large, with only three hundred people.
These three hundred soldiers were carefully selected from nearly thirty thousand warriors.
This group of Royal Guards had not received any actual combat training and were complete new recruits.
In addition to their usual training, they are responsible for the security and guarding of the City Lord's Mansion.
"Brother, I have prepared lunch, come and eat."
Li Dingguo had just returned to the backyard of the City Lord's Mansion when he saw Wan'er standing at the door of the big kitchen, waving and calling to him.
"Oh, right here!"
Li Dingguo agreed, went to the big well nearby, fetched some water to wash himself, and then walked into the big kitchen.
Wan'er was already in the large dining room next to the kitchen, with a table full of food and wine.
Although there were only six dishes, three meat dishes and three vegetable dishes, they looked delicious.
This girl’s cooking skills are pretty good now.
She is a real foodie and is very interested in delicious food. After learning cooking from Li Dingguo for a period of time, she has already become a master.
Although he has not yet surpassed his master, his cooking skills are not much worse than Li Dingguo's.
"Brother, please sit down. You haven't tasted my cooking for a long time. You must try it today."
Wan'er excitedly pulled Li Dingguo and asked him to sit on a large wooden chair. She then sat down opposite the dining table, quickly opened a jar of century-old Jinhua wine on the table, and filled the two jade bowls on the table.
"Brother, let's drink one bowl first, and then eat the dishes slowly!"
The girl was so happy to meet Li Dingguo again after half a year. She raised her wine bowls to clink them together, and then they both drank the whole bowl of wine.
A delicious and warm lunch was held in this cheerful atmosphere, and both of them enjoyed the meal very much.
Half an hour later, Li Dingguo and Wan'er, who had eaten and drunk their fill, cleaned up the kitchen and sat down to rest and chat.
About a quarter of an hour later, the two of them came out of the City Lord's Mansion together, displayed their skills, and flew towards the big pier.
Wan'er must seize the few days before the enemy arrives and try her best to improve the training of the artillery battalion and the navy.
At the very least, the soldiers must be able to cooperate skillfully so that they can better attack the enemy's large fleet.
Wan'er was very angry at the white barbarians and the Ye family of Fuqing who dared to invade her home.
She had recently been on the prairie outside the Great Wall, leading her soldiers to travel in all directions without encountering any rivals. It had been a long time since she had seen such a daring enemy.
If Li Dingguo hadn't told her that the enemy's individual fighting power was very strong, and that the soldiers of the Lingshan Island's Fuxing Army had not yet begun training in military killing formations, and would definitely not be able to defeat the attacking enemy in close combat, Wan'er would have had to pick up a pair of sledgehammers and teach the other side a lesson.
But it doesn’t matter.
With the help of the magic of his natal artifact, the Human Emperor Cauldron, Li Dingguo was able to refine so many psychic cannons and psychic crossbow carts, which were enough to deal with the invading enemies.
Wan'er used to be the commander-in-chief of the navy and the commander of the firearms battalion in the Fuxing Army outside the Great Wall.
Now I have come to Lingshan Island on the southeast coast and am back to my old job. I am so familiar with it.
With the arrival of Li Dingguo and Wan'er, the soldiers who had already distributed and deployed the two latest large-scale weapons of war quickly gathered under the command of Xiao Shitou.
"Dudu..."
As the navy's unique horn sounded, the naval officers and soldiers who were ready to set off slowly left the dock in their large treasure ships.
Starting this afternoon, naval officers and soldiers will begin rounds of simulated attack training.
The most important thing is to mark the target locations within Lingshan Bay and for external attacks, and use target ships to simulate real external defense battles.
In particular, we must become familiar with the artillery fire formation, so that when the enemy attacks Lingshan Bay, we can quickly take our positions and launch a concentrated fire attack on the enemy's large fleet.
Anyway, we must find ways to give full play to our artillery advantage and strive to break the defensive shields of some enemy warships in the first wave of concentrated fire attacks and achieve satisfactory results.
These routines will be the focus of the navy’s future training.
Other aspects are insignificant. We are not prepared to fight a fair battle with the enemy, nor are we prepared to engage in boarding battle with enemy ships.
For the entire afternoon, the sound of the navy fleet's guns roared, and the entire Lingshan Bay was bustling with activity.
The more than 10,000 soldiers of the Fuxing Army's navy were busy maneuvering large treasure ships, constantly disbanding, gathering, changing formations, and firing volleys...
(End of this chapter)
