After taking down Fragrant Hill, the officers of the Tiger Troop sent their cavalry to report the victory to Chang Yuchun. After hearing that all the officials below Fragrant Hill had been captured, but he had not lost a single soldier, Chang Yuchun looked at the Tiger Troop in a new light.
After taking down Fragrant Hill, there were no more enemies around, so Chang Yuchun did not have to worry about the soldiers 'stamina and directly marched forward. Fortunately, they were not far from Fragrant Hill, so they arrived at Fragrant Hill in the middle of the night.
After entering Fragrant Hills, other than the 1,000 Tiger Cavalry that followed Chang Yuchun, who were not tired because they were riding horses, the rest of the people's legs were already weak. When they arrived at the location, they immediately found a place to fall asleep.
Chang Yuchun didn't pay any attention to this. He ordered the Tiger Troop to be on alert, then checked the name list of the Xiangshan Garrison Army overnight. The next day, they would be incorporated into his own army.
Chang Yuchun was overjoyed to find that there were 500 salt workers in Xiangshan after reading the list of soldiers. Salt was a necessity in life, just like food. If one did not eat salt for a long time, one would become sallow, emaciated, and weak. It would also cause various diseases.
For someone like Chang Yuchun, who had been born into a bitter family, he knew the value of salt all too well. It was precisely because he knew that he had strengthened his protection of the salt workers, because with Xinhui City, there would be an endless supply of salt.
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After Xiao Ting sent Chang Yuchun to attack Xiangshan and the surrounding villages, he didn't stay idle either. He first familiarized the soldiers with the use of firearms and defense, then sent messengers to search for the remaining Ming soldiers around Xinhui and asked them to gather in Xinhui County to fight against the Qing.
Of course, he had also told the emissaries he sent not to talk about ghosts and gods, because those who had not seen it with their own eyes would not believe it and might even kill the emissary with the crime of heresy. Therefore, he only informed them as a soldier of the Qing Dynasty that he had successfully attacked the Xinhui and invited the anti-Qing righteous men to gather at the Xinhui to protect the Ming Dynasty.
As long as he could lure these people into the city, they would be like fish on the chopping board. He could decide how to deal with them.
After sending out the emissary, Xiao Ting ordered the craftsmen to start repairing the city wall. Although Li Dingguo did not take down Xinhui, many parts of the city wall had been broken by him and needed to be repaired.
It had to be said that the craftsmen of the Empire's era repaired and built things at a godly speed. The city wall, which should have been repaired in a day, was completed in less than two hours. The surrendered soldiers were all dumbfounded by this scene.
After seeing this scene, Xiao Ting suddenly had an idea. Since these craftsmen were so fast, could they build a barbican in a few days?
The sturdiness of the walls was very important in this isolated city. If there was an additional barbican, it would be more difficult for the construction slaves to take over the new city, and more of the construction slave soldiers would die.
After coming up with a plan to build a barbican, Xiao Ting immediately ordered all the craftsmen to go to the east gate to build a city wall to see how long it would take to complete.
It had to be said that the construction speed of these craftsmen was too terrifying. In just two days, they had built a 30-meter-long, 20-meter-high, and 10-meter-thick wall for Xiao Ting.
Moreover, this was not a city wall made of rammed earth, but a stone city wall...
Seeing that a majestic stone city wall had been built in just two days, Xiao Ting's face was filled with excitement. The emperors in the group of emperors were also shocked by this speed. The surrendered soldiers and the commoners were even more unbearable. They knelt down and worshipped Xiao Ting, calling him a god who had descended to the mortal world.
These commoners did not know Xiao Ting's background at first. Even when the surrendered soldiers told them about it, they were still skeptical. However, after witnessing this miracle with their own eyes, they no longer had any doubts about Xiao Ting's background.
If he wasn't a God, who could build such a city wall in two days?
If they weren't Heavenly Deities, then how did those murderous elites appear out of thin air?
After believing in Xiao Ting's background, they were also frightened by Xiao Ting's words of entering the beast path after death. Immediately, many people cried and shouted for atonement.
Xiao Ting naturally wouldn't be polite to the cannon fodders that came to him, handing them over to Shi Wanshui and Di Qing to deal with.
After seeing the speed at which the craftsmen repaired the city wall, Xiao Ting naturally wouldn't just repair one wall. He ordered the craftsmen to repair the other side of the city wall as well. Then, he would build a horizontal wall at the city gate, and the barbican would be completed.
On the third day of Xiao Tingxiu's barbican, Shang Kexi finally learned that Xinhui had fallen. His first reaction was disbelief, because Li Dingguo's army had clearly retreated. How could Xinhui be lost?
He immediately summoned the person who had come to report. This was a Green Army soldier who had fled outside Xinhui City without entering the city. After escaping, he rushed to Guangzhou to report, hoping to get some rewards.
However, he had only run out in a hurry. How would he know whose army it was that was attacking the new guild? He did not dare not make up a story for fear of being punished later.
"Your Highness, this lowly one doesn't know if this is my army, because their armor is different from mine.”
Shang Kexi frowned when he heard that the armor was different. Shang Zhixin, who was standing beside him, asked,"How many people are there in this army?"
"I…I didn't see it clearly because there were only 200 cavalrymen when they attacked the city gate. Their warhorses were tall and sturdy, and I realized that they were much taller than the warhorses in Manzhou.”
Are you sure you're not lying?" When he heard that the horses of this mysterious army were even taller and stronger than the Manchu cavalry, Shang Kexi frowned even more.
"This lowly one doesn't have the guts to lie to your highness.”
After saying that, he kept kowtowing, not caring even if he bled. At this moment, he was very afraid that Shang Kexi would think that he was talking nonsense and cut him down with one sentence.
Shang Kexi saw that the Green Army soldier did not seem to be lying, so he gave him ten taels of silver and dismissed him. After he left, he said to Shang Zhixin,"Immediately send scouts to Xinhui. You must find out the origin of this army for me.”
"Don't worry, Father. I won't disappoint you." Shang Zhixin cupped his fists.”
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