War could stimulate the potential of a country. This was not empty talk.
For example, the 200,000 people in the Rising Dragon Mansion were recruited to make gunpowder because of Zheng Gang's words.
At this moment, the men in the Rising Dragon Mansion were dragged to mine stones, polish stone bullets, and chop trees and firewood to prepare charcoal for gunpowder.
The women were asked to collect herbs, mine sulfur, and saltpeter, while the children were asked to polish the marbles for the muskets.
Even though they were extremely unwilling, they had no way to refuse.
The people of Jiaozhi at this time were no longer like the people of Jiaozhi 300 years ago who were bewitched and driven away by the Ming army.
The war between Lord Zheng and Lord Ruan had exhausted them. No matter who ruled them, their lives would not become worse.
This was just like when the Qing Dynasty was invaded by the Eight-Nation Alliance. The people were not afraid of the Eight-Nation Alliance at all. Instead, they watched them and applauded.
In fact, the East Asian people of this era were all the same. The aristocratic struggles within the Li Dynasty were very heavy, and the Japanese shogunate closed the country, causing the people to suffer.
The Qing Dynasty was heavily guarded against the Han Dynasty. They said that they would not increase taxes, but they increased miscellaneous taxes. The situation in Central South was even more chaotic.
Zhu Bomu came from a later generation, so he had a clear understanding.
It was funny to say that everyone praised the prosperous times of Kang, Yong, and Qian, but in fact, Zhu Bomu had fled from Qilu to Jiangnan, then to Huguang, and finally to Yungui.
After looking through all these, besides Jiangnan, the people who were doing the best were actually the natives of Yungui!
Although Kangxi had banned the Eight Banners 'children from encircling the land, the Han land between Qilu and Huguang was still sold at a low price by the Eight Banners' children through threats and coercion.
These commoners would usually be whipped if they were dissatisfied. They would be called dog slaves when they opened their mouths and dog slaves when they shut their mouths.
Even Zhu Bomu, who was still a beggar at that time, had been whipped twice.
The funny thing was that the officials of the Qing Dynasty were all boasting about the prosperous Kang and Qian dynasties.
This was during the prosperous times of the ancient Wenjing, Founding Emperor, Kaiyuan, Zhenguan, and the Ming Dynasty's Hongwu and Yongren Xuan. The emperor would not take the initiative to brag.
For example, during the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty had a vast territory, a prosperous culture and economy, and a strong military and military equipment.
Even the Arab Empire, the second-largest empire in the world, had to use 160,000 soldiers to defeat the Tang army at the Battle of Talas.
To the Tang, losing twenty thousand men was just a flesh wound, but to the Arabs, losing more than half of their 160,000 men meant that they did not have the strength to launch a campaign like the Battle of Talas for more than twenty years.
It was under this powerful political background that the people of the Tang Dynasty began to boast that the Tang Dynasty was the " Great Tang." When the officials of the Tang Dynasty saw the people boasting, they followed suit.
For example, in the Qing Dynasty, when the emperor started bragging, even the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty would exclaim!
However, it was only when East Asia was in such a chaotic situation that Zhu Bomu could take advantage of the situation. For example, there was a very good opportunity in front of him now!
On the fourth day of the battle between the Ming and Zheng armies, the Zheng army's ammunition and gunpowder were basically exhausted, except for the firearms.
On Zhu Bomu's side, the Southern Mountain's City had just received 100,000 stone bullets and 300,000 catties of gunpowder from Liu Zhao Mountain this morning.
For this, Zhu Bomu had sent five thousand battalions back to escort the supplies. As soon as he arranged for the five thousand battalions to be dispatched, Shen Lian gave him and Li Daolai good news.
A temporary sand table of the city had been set up in the main tent of the Ming army, and this sand table was the actual situation of the Rising Dragon Mansion!
"Old Shen, I really didn't expect that the Embroidered Uniform Guards would actually get the city map of the Rising Dragon Mansion. I reckon that even the master of the Rising Dragon Mansion, Zheng Gang, doesn't know the layout of the Rising Dragon Mansion as well as you do.”
Li Dao was not stingy with Shen Lian's praise. When Shen Lian heard the praise, he laughed dryly and continued,"
"You flatter me. Our Hundred Households are in the Rising Dragon Mansion, and now the entire Rising Dragon Mansion has been mobilized.”
"Even the Embroidered Uniform Guards have been forced to work in the gunpowder factory to make gunpowder. It can be said that this is a good opportunity for us to seize the Rising Dragon Mansion.”
"Yes, that's true." Zhu Bomu nodded and then checked the layout of the Rising Dragon Mansion.
The gunpowder factory of the Rising Dragon Mansion was in the southwest corner. Because of the war between Zheng and Ruan in recent years, it was the safest to set up the gunpowder factory in the southwest corner, and it was also the easiest to transport to the southern front line.
But right now, Zheng Gang probably didn't know that this guy's action of recruiting commoners to serve as able-bodied men was tantamount to sending a big gift to Zhu Bomu and the rest.
Looking at the sand table of the Rising Dragon Mansion, Zhu Bomu pointed at the south gate and said,"
"If we send 3,000 battalions and the Valiant Cavalry Guards to bypass Haiyang County in the southeast and infiltrate the south gate of the Rising Dragon Mansion, do the Embroidered Uniform Guards have the confidence to take the south gate?”
"The possibility is not high." Shen Lian shook his head and explained,"Even though the Zheng Army of the House of the Rising Dragon only deployed 1000 men at each city gate."”
"Moreover, they are in shifts day and night, but there are less than three hundred Jinyiwei in the inner and outer regions of the city.”
"More importantly, they don't have armor on them. With just the steel sabers in their hands, even if the Zheng army is wearing leather armor, they can't break through their defenses.”
"Three hundred Embroidered Uniform Guards without armor and blunt weapons, without armor and blunt weapons, with only the Yanling Saber, they are no match for the fifty Zheng soldiers at the southern city gate.”
"This is difficult…"
After Zhu Bomu heard Shen Lian's words, he felt a headache. War was not a television show. It was normal for a male pig's foot to cut down an armored soldier in a single stroke. But in reality?
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