Zhu Hongsan saw that he was very satisfied with this battle behind the team. This was a modern war, and all resistance in front of iron and fire was futile. In the Second Raven War, Senggelinqin's Mongolian horse team verified this at the cost of 30,000 people.

After seeing the enemy running away, Zhu Hongsan ordered no pursuit. Then he took people to the battlefield to watch the results. The tragic fierceness of the hot weapon war is incomparable to the cold weapon war. A large number of corpses were beaten into pieces of meat. The iron armor worn by the cavalry was shot through like gauze, and the ammunition penetrated through the body to form a hole the size of a sea bowl. It hit the head and limbs and broke it directly.

Zhu Hongsan said to Qian Yong while walking: "Si Treasures, how about it? It's different from cold weapons, right?"

Qian Yong said with a pale face: "Yes, sir. I didn't expect that artillery cannons are so terrible. We only have thirty-six gates. If there are 300 gates, even a hundred thousand troops on the opposite side will not be able to attack."

Zhu Hongsan smiled and said, "You are only weapon-only theory. Weapons are powerful, and people always use weapons. Any weapon that people do not have fighting spirit will be the same."

Speaking of this, Zhu Hongsan remembered that the Beiyang Navy during the Sino-Japanese War, when the tonnage firepower was better than the Japanese army, it was blocked by the Japanese fleet in the Liugong Island base and finally could not sit in the port. This is a good example of weapon theory.

It was already evening when he defeated the cavalry of Zuoying. Zhu Hongsan saw that it was not meaning to go on a rush and ordered him to stay in Yangzhuang Town for one night and leave tomorrow.

I had nothing to do all night, and I got up the next day to rush. The sky cleared, the snow began to melt a few days ago, and the road was muddy. In addition, Zhu Hongsan's ranks of big trucks weighed 1,000 pounds, and I had to get off to push the cart if I didn't walk far.

Zhu Hongsan's troops immediately became coolies, and the weather was cold, so he could only walk more than ten miles a day. Zhu Hongsan was a little regretful at this time. He had known that this would be better than walking with Ma Mingyuan and the others in August. The Dong sisters would have to go there and have to live there. At worst, they would have to stay for half a month to take care of their health. Now it's great. It's too difficult to be careful of the pursuit soldiers coming up from behind and fight against the natural weather.

Fortunately, the pursuers never came, and I don’t know if they all ran away or were scared and didn’t dare to come. Anyway, no one was chasing them behind. Although Zhu Hongsan’s group was a little hard, they were still moving from one mile to another.

In fact, Jin Dao*ming returned to Wuchang that day. When he talked to Jin Shenghuan, he exaggerated the power of Zhu Hongsan's cannons hundreds of times, and the one shot was destroyed by hundreds of miles, etc., which scared Jin Shenghuan so much that he did not dare to send the second group of pursuers.

Zhu Hongsan and his group walked in the mud and water fields for half a month, and finally arrived in Xianning on the 18th day of the first lunar month. Xianning is a county town and is under the jurisdiction of Wuchang Prefecture. They camped in a dry place outside the city. Zhu Hongsan notified how many days to rest here, and this order was supported by the entire army.

Zhu Hongsan came to Tong Yangjia and said, "Sir, let's go to the county town and buy some meat." They were all launched with manpower along the way, which consumed a lot of food. Less than half of the meat left.

Tong Yangjia nodded and brought several guards outside Xianning City with Zhu Hongyi.

Xianning County is much smaller than Wuchang County, with about 20,000 people. However, this place is very far from Wuchang and has not been harassed by Zuo Liangyu now.

After paying the entrance fee for Zhu Hongsan and his party entered the city, a street connected to the two city gates in the north and south. There were shops on the side of the street, and the business was very prosperous. It seemed that the war in the north did not affect this place.

Zhu Hongsan and others walked casually for a while and came to the Ma family shop that Ma Fu built here. Zhu Hongsan ordered the caravan to go out a few years ago and tried to set up shops in various counties, so that while making money, he could also send back information in time.

I went to the shop and found the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper was a son of a family in the Ma family. When I saw Zhu Hongsan coming, I knelt down and said, "Ma Rong welcomes my son-in-law."

Zhu Hongsan nodded and asked, "When did my second brother and the others pass by here? Now there is news that where are they?"

Ma Rong replied respectfully: "The Second Young Master and the others passed by Xianning on the ninth day of the eighth month. The news from the previous ten days has arrived in Changsha Prefecture, saying that they want to rest in Changsha Prefecture for ten days. The villain is about to leave now."

Zhu Hongsan said: "This is Mr. Tong. You accompany him to purchase things. Try to buy them. A county in Xianning may not be able to buy them all. If not, go to Puqi and take a look."

Ma Rong led Tong Yangjia down to purchase without mentioning it.

Three days later, Tong Yangjia finished purchasing, and Zhu Hongsan and his party set out again. The food was easy to eat, mainly because the raw materials for gunpowder were not easy to make. Tong Yangjia basically brought less than 500 kilograms of saltpeter in the whole county. Last time, the cannon fired a volley, he used 300 kilograms of gunpowder. Only these saltpeters could make 100 kilograms of gunpowder.

After packing up, the team went south. The temperature warmed up and it didn't snow for several days. The roads on the official road were almost done. The speed along the way was much faster, and everyone's mood improved a lot.

It happened to be February 2nd when we arrived in Puqi County. Zhu Hongsan set up a camp outside the city and took three days off. After all, he had been away for a month, so everyone had to rest.

Zhu Hongsan led Tong Yangjia and Zhu Hongyi to the county town. Although the people of all kinds were still worn, they were at least angry. Zhu Hongsan said, "This place is really peaceful. It seems that the local officials have managed it well."

Tong Yangjia said: "The main reason is that it is located in the hinterland of Huguang, and bandits cannot come here easily. In addition, Huguang is a hometown of fish and rice, and wealth cannot be said to be rich, so food and clothing can be guaranteed."

Zhu Hongsan asked: "Do you know the news about the bandits now?"

Tong Yangjia said, "I just went to the Ma family shop. Li Zicheng occupied Xiangyang in the first month and now he has returned to Shaanxi. Now Zhang Xianzhong is in Xiangyang, and Zuo Liangyu has already gone to Jiujiang."

Zhang Xianzhong is in Xiangyang? It seems that he is going to fight Wuchang.

Zhu Hongsan sighed and said, "It's not easy to help the people, but it's not easy to destroy the people." After that, Zhu Hongsan was not in the mood to walk around, let them take Zhu Hongyi back to the camp at will.

When I returned to the camp, I changed my mood when I saw my two children. I hugged Xiaoyuer and played for a while. This girl was not as handsome as his sister Zhu Luo at all. Zhu Yu didn't make any noise for a day, so she could sit for a day when she let her go. It seemed that she was a quiet child when she grew up.

He didn't pay much attention to his third son Zhu Huai and Zhu Hongsan. After all, he was a concubine's son, so he would just leave him a family business that would not have to worry about food and drink in the future. He had his own position as a brother from the Ma family and belonged to Zhu Hai for one day.

While playing with Xiaoyuer, Wang Xiaobao came back and saw Zhu Hongsan step forward and said, "Sir, something happened."

Zhu Hongsan frowned, thinking that these guys were causing trouble again. He asked, "What's wrong? He didn't pay for the brothel again?"

Wang Xiaobao said, "It's Mr. Qian. He took those thugs to the brothel and didn't pay. After drinking too much, he said he would be shady today. He had a conflict with the turtle slave and asked the inspection department to take it to the yamen."

Zhu Hongsan snorted and said, "These guys are not good enough to make trouble, so it's better for them to suffer." After saying that, he ignored everything else and continued to tease Xiaoyuer.

Seeing that Zhu Hongsan did not argue, Wang Xiaobao slowly retreated.

Zhu Hongsan didn't care about Fatty Qian in the next two days. On the morning of the fourth day, Zhu Hongsan ordered the team to set off. Tong Yangjia asked from the side: "Lord, do you care about Qian Lide?"

Zhu Hongsan said, "Let's talk about it tonight."

After the team walked out for ten miles, Zhu Hongsan ordered the camp to set up. After dark, he led Qian Yong's battalion of troops back outside Puqi County.

Zhu Hongsan looked at it in the middle of the night and said to Qian Yong: "After a while, you can open the door with a cannon, and then rush in to save Fatty Qian. He should be locked in the county jail. After entering, he sent a few loud voices to shout that Sui was in Jiazi, and the world is good. Put this shit on the head of a bandit."

Tong Yangjia was standing by and heard it, but he said quickly: "Lord, that slogan was used by the Yellow Turban Army in the late Han Dynasty. Li Zicheng used to open the door to welcome the King of Chuang. The King of Chuang will not pay any food when he comes."

Zhu Hongsan blushed and cursed: "His grandma, I know that this is the slogan. Qian Yong, I heard from Mr. Tong, go and do it quickly."

After a while, I heard a few loud noises coming from the city gate, which was very far away in the dark. Then I heard someone shouting, "Open the door to welcome the King of Chuang. If the King of Chuang comes, you will not pay the food!" "The King of Chuang comes!"

At this moment, the county town seemed to have a hornet's nest exploded, and cried and shouted one after another. About half an hour later, Qian Yong came back and came to Zhu Hongsan and said, "Sir, the person has been saved, but..."

Zhu Hongsan asked, "But what's wrong?"

"I have arrested the county magistrate."

"I asked you to save people, why are you catching the county magistrate?"

Qian Yong said: "When we shouted at the south gate, everyone ran away from the north gate. When we arrived at the county government gate, we saw that the county magistrate had already brought his whole family to kneel at the door and said he wanted to surrender to the King of Chuang. I saw that there was no way, so I took it out for the superior to see what should I do?"

Zhu Hongsan cursed: "Damn it, the Ming Dynasty was like this, but the country could not be destroyed? Go and kill his whole family, wait, keep it if you have a beautiful daughter."

Qian Yong was about to go down when Tong Yangjia said, "Lord, I want to go and have a look."

Zhu Hongsan asked: "What do corrupt officials think of? You can kill them."

Tong Yangjia said, "My lord doesn't know that there are too few people under my literacy. I want to keep him as a literati for me."

Zhu Hongsan pondered and said, "You are in charge of logistics. He won't embezzle, right?"

Tong Yangjia smiled and said, "Don't worry, lord, I will supervise him. If the lord finds out, I will be willing to commit crimes with him."

When Zhu Hongsan heard Tong Yangjia say this, he naturally wanted to give his confidant face and said, "Okay, let it be left to Mr. Tong."

Then Zhu Hongsan saw that the fat man Qian was beaten and had a bruised nose and swollen face. Zhu Hongsan took Zhu Hongyi's horse whip and rushed forward. Qian Lide rolled around on the ground and screamed. After whipping for a while, Zhu Hongsan stopped and said, "Zhu Hongyi, all those thugs were beheaded, all the men in the family were killed, and the women were sold at the next stop."

Zhu Hongyi went down to deal with it.

Fatty Qian knelt on the ground and hugged Zhu Hongsan’s thighs and cried, saying, “Brother, I was wrong. I will never go to the brothel again.”

Zhu Hongsan cursed: "Damn Fatty, this is what you said. When I go there again, I will castrate you and let you be a eunuch."

After processing, we rushed to the assembly brigade ten miles away to set off.

After dawn, the county magistrate found that Zhu Hongsan and the others were not bandits, but seemed to be just businessmen, and immediately became energetic. He cursed Zhu Hongsan and asked Zhu Hongsan to let him go. If he didn't let go, he would do whatever he wanted.

Zhu Hongsan was on the fire and was so angry that he asked Zhu Hongyi to use a whip to whip him ten times, almost killing him. But if he is honest in the future, he will never dare to scold Zhu Hongsan again.
Chapter completed!