There are a lot of unimportant news, and I have made more than fifty pieces of information, many of which are inconsistent. This should be caused by incomplete information.

Among these news, Zhu Hongsan saw one, Hou Fangyu left the city and his whereabouts were unknown. This is news from Nanjing, and it seems that the time was before the Spring Festival.

Zhu Hongsan sighed. It seemed that the Donglin Party finally couldn't help but take action. He sent Hou Fangyu to contact Zuo Liangyu in Huguang. The general trend of the world still cannot be changed. What should be come back.

Zhu Hongsan saw that there was no other noticeable news, handed over his approval to Zhang Jiayu, ordered him to go down and handle it, and also told Zhang Jiayu to prepare more weapons outside Jiangyin and Jiading City to prepare for the need from time to time.

Zhang Jiayu was also very confused when he heard this order. Does the King of Chu want to reprimand? Then it should be launched in Nanjing City. Why should the weapons be transported to Jiangyin, a hundred miles away from Nanjing? The King of Chu also ordered more cold weapons to prepare. Zhang Jiayu knew that muskets and cannons were piled up in the warehouse. Why should there be good things?

Seeing that Zhu Hongsan did not explain, Zhang Jiayu did not ask much and went down to arrange personnel to prepare for the Military Affairs Office.

Zhu Hongsan calculated the time. It was almost February now, and there were three months left before the fall of the Hongguang court in May, so he should start preparing. He had already transferred some elite soldiers back from Qiongzhou and Vietnam, and was preparing to send them to Nanzhili in a few months.

Zhu Hongsan had long been ready to give the Qing Dynasty a heavy blow in Jiangyin and Jiading. Now his overall strength is not as good as that of the Qing Dynasty, but it is still okay to cause some trouble for them. As for Yangzhou, Zhu Hongsan thought about it. If Yangzhou was not defeated, the small court in Nanjing would not perish. The great title he needed was still here in Nanjing, so Yangzhou would never be saved, and Shi Kefa must die.

On February 20, the unlucky ghost Zhao Hu finally finished training for the recruits and took a boat to Hongji and the garrison troops to exchange defenses with the garrison troops.

The battalion that changed its defense did not return to Yong'an Prefecture, but was directly on board the boat back to Dongguan.

After Xu Guansan and the battalion commander handed over, he watched them get on the boat and leave. The deputy battalion commander next to him asked, "Brother, what are they doing when they go back to Dongguan?"

"I heard from the commander that they should make big moves when they go back, and it should be something from the north?"

"Did the King of Chu mean it?"

"Don't talk nonsense. We are soldiers, just follow the orders. As for the others, if you think about the Qiansui of the Chu King, anyway, the prince will not let our brothers suffer a loss."

The deputy battalion commander nodded. Now the entire army is blindly admiring King Zhu Hongsan of Chu, and he can die for Zhu Hongsan.

Xu Guansan looked at the recruits in the military camp and said, "They are all recruits. They have just been training for two months and need to strengthen their training. Hongji is not as good as Yong'an Prefecture. There are natives everywhere around here, so we must strengthen our vigilance."

The deputy battalion commander nodded and continued to train these new recruits.

Zhu Hongsan has been struggling in Hongji for almost half a year. At first, Zheng, a member of North Vietnam, thought that these Ming people were just occupying a piece of space to get some coal. However, he did not expect that these Ming people's stalls were getting bigger and bigger. He heard that they had set up a county government office, which obviously meant to stay for a long time.

The Vietnamese have always had a resistance mentality towards the Ming Dynasty in the north. However, the Central Plains dynasty did not let Vietnam go when it was strong. Starting from the Qin Dynasty, whenever the Central Plains dynasty became strong, they would definitely send large troops to Vietnam to fight and suppress it.

At this time, Vietnam was in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. The north was ruled by the Zheng family, and its territory was three or four times that of the Ruan family in the south. The northern population was about five or six million, with more than 100,000 troops in the standing army, and only more than one million people in the south, with 30,000 troops in the standing army.

Judging from the overall strength, the north should take the initiative, but the reality is that the north is on the defensive. In the first year of Chongzhen, it was just a battle in Qinghua, more than 100 miles away from Hongji. In this decisive battle, the north was defeated. The south took advantage of this victory to plunder the northern population and took the opportunity to attack the surrounding Cambodia and other countries (why did Vietnam fight Cambodia as soon as it became stronger, I don’t understand). Finally, the unification of North and South Vietnam was completed during the Kangxi period.

Of course, the current war between the north and the south is also beneficial to Zhu Hongsan. A large number of people escaped the war and came to Hongji, which was still safe, joined Zhu Hongsan's coal mining army and became a member of Zhu Hongsan's sweatshop.

Although Zhu Hongsan squeezed the surplus value of Vietnamese workers, the wages he paid were all real salt. It was not the common black-brown coarse salt, but the fine salt produced by Leizhou Salt Farm. This fine salt is used directly as currency in Vietnam.

When Zhu Hongsan saw that the cheap industrial salt he generated could be exchanged for so many substances in Vietnam, he immediately ordered Leizhou Salt Field and Yong'an Salt Field to produce them with all their strength and exchange cheap fine salt for Vietnamese rice.

Under Zhu Hongsan's fine salt offensive, the price of official salt in Zheng's North Vietnam fell sharply, but it could not be compared with the fine salt trafficked by Ming people when it fell below the cost line. The originally barren North Vietnam had to rely on salt to prepare for war costs. This time the war failed, and the price of salt fell sharply, Zheng Ying, the head of Zheng's family in Zheng's north Vietnam, was already angry.

After several months of investigation, North Vietnam found that there were not many Han people in Hongji, and there were probably a Ming army of about 700 or 800 people. There were more than 1,000 people in Hongji City, and the others were all Vietnamese.

After finding out, Zheng Ying decided to take risks, destroy these Ming dynasties, and rob some silver for military expenses. Zheng Ying also knew that the Ming dynasty was in decline, and he heard that the capitals in the north were lost and should not be sent to attack him.

After making up his mind, Zheng Ying sent his son Zheng Rong to lead 10,000 people to attack the Ming army. It was not many that 10,000 people. These were already all the mobile troops that the Zheng family in North Vietnam could send, so this battle was bound to be won.

Zheng Rong led a 10,000 army to set out in Shenglong Mansion on the tenth day of February. He traveled through the mountains and ridges of North Vietnam for half a month, and finally arrived in Hongji on February 27th.

Zheng Rong is also familiar with Confucian classics and admires Zhou Yu, the Confucian general style of the Three Kingdoms, so he also took a feather fan and pretended to be Zhou Yu in white clothes.

The general below asked, "Prince, should we rest on the periphery and be siegeing the city tomorrow?"

"No, our army came quickly, and it was the momentum of thunder. Hongji could go down in one fell swoop. Issue an order and start siege immediately."

The general had no choice but to do so, but the prince dared not to obey the order. He could only go down and urge the soldiers to start preparing for the attack.

The forests five miles outside Hongji Port were cut by the new army to clear the shooting and shooting territory for the cannons. So when the North Vietnamese soldiers walked out of the forest, the soldiers standing guard saw it and immediately knocked on the gong to call the police.

When Xu Guansan heard the alarm, he quickly climbed to the lookout building and looked at the North Vietnamese soldiers coming out. These people were very different from the natives before. Although they were short, they were dressed neatly, and they looked like regular soldiers. In addition, more and more people came out of the forest, Xu Guansan knew that it should be the North Vietnamese regular soldiers.

This is the county magistrate Ma Chengzu who also came to the Lookout Building. He is a literati. He has seen so many troops. He was so scared that his face turned a little pale and asked, "Battleman Xu, do so many people have the hope of repelling them?"

Like their King of Chu, Xu Guansan hated these stinky old ninth house very much, but he had no choice but to order himself to be controlled by him. Xu Guansanyi bowed and said, "Sir, it's okay to defeat them. Please allow me to leave the city to meet the enemy."

To put it nicely, I went out of the city to meet the enemy. Hongji Port now has only a row of wooden fences and no formal city walls at all. Ma Chengzu also knew what the situation was and said, "Okay, then I'll ask Battalion Commander Xu. If I don't do it, I will serve the court with my death."

Xu Guansan cursed in his heart, thinking of death before he could beat him. But at this time, Xu Guansan quickly got off the lookout building and gathered the team to prepare to face the enemy.

The team gathered very quickly. Although they were all recruits, the training results were still achieved this month. After the five-tone sound, all gathered in place.

Xu Guansan led a battalion of troops out of the city to stand in a row, and formed a classic formation, with eighteen artillery in front and soldiers lined up in the back.

The troops in the North Vietnam opposite had not yet formed a team and were crowded in a mess five miles away.

The deputy battalion commander next to him said: "We don't have cavalry in this group of Annan monkeys, otherwise we will win directly."

"Don't underestimate the enemy, these monkeys may not have special weapons."

At this time, the teams on the opposite side finally formed a roughly square team, with archers behind and spearmen in front. Here are more than a dozen monsters emerged from the forest at the end, which are Vietnam's special troops, elephant soldiers.

Zhu Hongsan's new army was all new recruits. The team had seen such a monster with long noses and fangs. The morale of the army was a little unstable. However, grassroots officers had all attended Zhu Hongsan's class. In the class, Zhu Hongsan said that the Vietnamese had a kind of elephant soldier and drew an elephant on the blackboard. So the officers were not very afraid.

At this time, we can see the importance of grassroots officers. The morale of the army is unstable, and if it were replaced by the Ming army, it would collapse. However, due to the suppression of grassroots officers, these new recruits calmed down one after another.

Xu Guansan waited for half an hour before the opposite North Vietnam organized the team and began to rush over.

Xu Guan put three eighteen artillery in front to enhance the courage of the recruits. When he saw the soldiers on the opposite side entered the range, he ordered all live ammunitions to start shooting.

When the Ming army artillery began to fire, Zheng Rong, the opposite North Vietnam, was startled. He did not expect that the other party's cannon would have such a long range. In his understanding, the cannon had a range of 200 steps and a very slow firing rate.

At this time, the first batch of eighteen solid bombs had already been shot into the North Vietnamese team, and eighteen blood alleys were immediately fired. Each solid bomb killed seventeen or eighteen people, because the North Vietnamese team was too dense.

The elephant soldiers behind were hit by the first batch of solid bullets, and one elephant's leg was broken, and the elephant screamed repeatedly on the ground. The elephant is actually very sensitive. When other elephants heard the elephant's screams, they began to retreat, but began to move forward again under the pressure of the elephant slave.

At this time, the second batch of eighteen shells came again, and dozens of people were killed immediately.

The general beside Zheng Rong found that the fire speed of Mingren's artillery was too fast. He said: "Your Highness, you should order the army to charge now. Mingren's artillery was too powerful, but they were few. We will definitely win if we rushed forward and fight together."
Chapter completed!