I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

After conquering Chuzhou, Lu Guangzu persuaded Li Dalang, the general of the Green Camp, to surrender.

He didn't mean to appreciate Li Dalang, but he needed to use Li Dalang in his next plan.

Lu Guangzu planned to send an army disguised as a defeated army that had escaped from Chuzhou, and then deceived the trust of the Hefei generals, entered the city, and then played a game of internal and external cooperation.

The risk of this strategy is also extremely high. Wu Jun played it once when he attacked Nanchang, but the game failed.

At that time, the Qing army was not well-prepared. If the Qing army was prepared first, they could smash the Wu army once.

But now, Lu Guangzu, who has been a little crazy, is ready to play with fire again.

In order to improve the success rate of the strategy, he needed someone who the Qing army knew to lead the team, and this candidate was Li Dalang.

"The general can see that he will go down again, and then he will serve his own life. It was really helpless to go to the Qing court in the past. My heart has always been on the bright side."

Li Dalang said.

"What Daming, the current Daming is hopeless. We are fighting the Qing army on the front line, but Daming's court is attacking our army from behind. Therefore, if you are concerned about Daming, don't say anything like this, you only need to know, give What we pay is General Wu, the Governor General of Wu."

Lu Guangzu corrected Li Dalang's mistake, and Li Dalang repeatedly said yes.

For him, there is no saying that he is loyal to whoever has milk, and whoever benefits him, he will sacrifice his life.

After getting Li Dalang, Wu Jun created a mixed army of 4,000 people.

Among them, 2,000 were elites from the Wu army, and another 2,000 were soldiers from the Green Battalion who had just been captured.

This unit, one step ahead, rushed to Hefei.

And in Huainan, Xu Yuxian's troops are also making great progress.

When the news of Wu Jun's approaching reached Huainan, many big businessmen in Huainan became excited.

They had been looking forward to Wu Jun's call for a long time, and now they got what they wanted.

Today, Huainan and Nanjing have too close economic ties, frequent trade exchanges, and great interests.

Therefore, these Huainan merchants all hope that Wu Jun can recover Huainan, so that they can enjoy discounts and save a lot of costs when purchasing iron products in Nanjing.

At the same time, they can also buy steam pumps, coal trucks, and high-quality gunpowder that were restricted from export by Wu Jun.

These things can greatly improve their coal mining efficiency and reduce coal mining costs.

Interests determine their butts, and Wu Jun can bring them benefits, so they naturally tend to Wu Jun.

On this day, several big coal mine owners secretly gathered together to discuss important matters.

"Everyone, let me introduce, this is the staff officer of the Second Division of Wu Jun's First Army, Mr. Liu Yingxiong. He is currently in charge of giving advice to the Second Division's Master Xu Yuxian. This time he came to Huainan in secret, just to conspire with everyone. ."

Hu Yanlin, the owner of a large coal mine, introduced a young man to everyone, and the other coal mine owners saluted.

Through some newspapers, they also have a general understanding of some of the official system of the Wu army, and they know that the division staff is not a small official, about the same as the military division next to the chief soldier.

"All of you are people who do business with Nanjing. I don't need to say more to know the benefits of Huainan's return. Therefore, I hope you can cooperate with all your heart when our army recaptures Huainan."

Liu Yingxiong said.

Xu Yuxian tasted the sweetness of the strategy, so when attacking Huainan, he once again discussed a strategy with the generals.

This strategy required the cooperation of the coal mine owners in Huainan, so Liu Yingxiong was sent over.

"However, we are all businessmen, but we have more than enough energy to do our best."

A coal mine owner said that they have no army, only some family guards. These people are good at bullying the honest poor people, but if they are asked to fight with the army, they have to lose their helmets and armor when they meet each other.

As for the provision of money and military salaries, they can contribute to this. However, now Wu Jun is going to attack the city, and it seems that it is useless to ask for money.

"As long as everyone is willing, there will naturally be places where they can help."

Liu Yingxiong said.

"Since Wu Guogong has a place where we can use it, we naturally have to do our best. As long as Wu Guogong can open the ban afterwards and allow us to buy machines in Nanjing."

Zhong Xueyan was straight-minded, and he directly spoke out what everyone was thinking.

It's no problem to help, you have to give benefits and care afterwards.

"Of course there's no problem with that. Grandpa has always treated businessmen very favorably. You must have seen businessmen in Nanjing."

Liu Yingxiong promised that he didn't care whether Wu Changqing would treat these people preferentially in the future, anyway, let them help them first.

As for the preferential treatment of these businessmen in the future, the civilian officials will be in charge, and the army does not have to worry about it.

Nanjing's civil servants and military generals are two systems, and they both give priority to their own interests, and then leave the trouble to the other side.

This is not the first time Wu Jun has done such a thing.

Moreover, Wu Changqing also likes this phenomenon very much. The separation of civilians and generals can greatly avoid the occurrence of rebellion.

"Since that's the case, please ask Mr. Liu to tell you what we need to do."

Seeing that the time was ripe, Hu Yanlin indicated that Liu Yingxiong could talk about a specific strategy.

Wu Jun's strategy is actually very simple, that is, let these coal miners support them to incite the miners to rebel, and attract the Qing army out of the town to suppress.

Then, Wu Jun

The army arrived in a hurry and annihilated the main force of the Qing army outside the city.

Field battles outside the city are many times easier than sieging cities.

After listening to Liu Yingxiong's words, those businessmen began to ponder and calculate the risks and benefits.

Although businessmen are timid and fearful, they also need to distinguish the situation. If there is enough profit, they can sometimes turn into desperadoes.

Moreover, they don't have to go in person to do this kind of thing, and there is no danger to their lives.

"However, what if the Qing army is not fooled and does not send troops out to suppress it?"

Someone asked that such a thing is entirely possible.

"Impossible. Now the mines have to pay them tens of thousands of taels of silver every month. No one can ignore this wealth. Moreover, if they are not sure about sending troops, we will unite to put pressure on them."

Hu Yanlin said.

If Huainan had not had so many valuable coal mines, the Qing army would not have been able to station so many troops here.

Without the proceeds from the mines, those troops would not even be able to pay their salaries.

Therefore, whether there is danger or not, the Qing army cannot sit idly by.

"In that case, count me in."

Zhong Xueyan was the first to open the mouth and said, what he thought was relatively simple, just give it a shot.

Others saw that Hu Yanlin and Zhong Xueyan, the two largest coal mine owners, were on Wu Jun's side, so naturally they did not hesitate any more, and expressed their opinions one after another.

Only then did Liu Yingxiong show a smile, and then continued to discuss the details with everyone.

How to incite miners, this is also a technology and a knowledge.

If they couldn't speak, those miners might not be against the government, but against them, coal miners, and it would be funny.

It is actually very easy to transfer the hatred of miners to the government. It is nothing more than to attribute the low wages to the fact that the government levies too high taxes, so that coal miners do not make money.

Transfer their hatred to the government, and then promise a petty profit, and those miners are easy to agitate.

At the same time, in order to give these miners a certain amount of combat power, Liu Yingxiong secretly transported a batch of weapons.

Although they are all cold weapons such as knives and spears, they are better than hoes and iron rods, and the equipment of the Qing army is not much better.