Purple Dinghe Prefecture to the east, 240 miles.
Zhu Xiongying stood in the forest and said with a heavy gaze,""Just this mountain?"
"I picked it up on the mountain, but the trees and grass on the mountain are too messy. The army can't enter, let alone the 100,000 strong people.”
Zhu Zhi said.
"Come, cut down all the trees around us first and expand an empty space of 800 paces.”Zhu Xiong Ying did not hesitate and ordered the tree to be cut down.
He couldn't go up the mountain. Moreover, the gold mine was definitely hidden inside the mountain.
Following Zhu Xiongying's order, the 3,000 Ming soldiers led the 80,000 strong people and began a crazy tree-cutting journey.
In three days, this was no longer a flat ground. The entire forest at the foot of the mountain had been cut down.
There were 80,000 strong men wielding iron axes. It had to be said that these survivors of the Shang Dynasty were much stronger than the Ming army.
They were even stronger than the nomads in the north.
Of course, this did not mean that the people of Ming were weak. On the contrary, it only meant that the quality of life of the people of Ming was much better.
They didn't have to fight with wild beasts, dig for food in the ground, and the imperial court rewarded them with food. Their physical functions gradually deteriorated.
As for these survivors of the Shang Dynasty, three years ago, they were still living a life of eating raw meat and drinking blood. Those whose muscles were not developed enough had long died.
Countless pieces of wood were piled up together, reaching a height of more than ten meters.
A rough estimate was that at least 130,000 old trees had been cut down this time.
"Get ready!" Zhu Xiong Ying looked at the flat area where the weeds had been cleaned up. He sat on a chair with Zhu Zhi and Zhu Quan beside him.
Xu Miaojin stayed in the Ziding River Prefecture area, while Zhu Gaochi did his best to provide food for the people here.
Zhu Gaochi really displayed his superhuman abilities as a teenager.
"Fire!"
Zhu Quan shouted.
On the flat ground, there were more than 320 Crouching Tiger Cannons and General Cannons neatly arranged.
The artillery door lit the fuse.
rumble ~
It was still okay to have more than a hundred Crouching Tiger Cannons. Zhu Xiongying had copied the mortars from Japan during World War II. According to current technology, it was possible to reduce the weight without reducing the lethality.
Light weight naturally meant that its recoil was light.
However, the Great General Cannons were dismantled by Zhu Xiong Ying from the warship after they had landed. These 200 Great General Cannons were to be left in the Purple Calming River Prefecture to be used as weapons to defend the city.
The sound of artillery fire shook the sky. Hundreds of cannonballs flew into the sky and landed on the mountain less than 200 meters away.
"Fire!"
Zhu Quan continued to shout.
Boom! Another cannon blast.
In this unnamed area, the Ming army's cannons bombarded for six hours. They covered the mountain that definitely contained metal in all directions and dealt a destructive blow.
The artillery fire ignited the mountain, and the mountain fire spread for half a month because Zhu Xiongying had set up a fire isolation zone that was 50 feet wide and nearly 20 meters long.
The mountain fire only burned on the mountain and did not spread in all directions.
After the mountain cooled down, hundreds of survivors of the Shang Dynasty carried large and small bags of gunpowder and ran up the mountain.
Halfway up the mountain, where a huge hole had been blasted by the Ming army's artillery fire, a group of survivors of the Shang Dynasty nimbly placed the wooden boxes together.
It was stuck in the crack in the middle of the mountain.
The wooden lid of one of the boxes was opened. Upon closer inspection, it was filled with gunpowder.
Embroidered Uniform Guard Xiao Qi skillfully placed the fuse in the black gunpowder and covered the fuse with the gunpowder. The fuse in his hand was a hundred meters long, and he retreated step by step.
When everyone arrived at the foot of the mountain, the Embroidered Uniform Guards 'small flag lit a candle and ignited the fuse.
"Run!"
Xiao Qi shouted and led the rest of the members of the Assistant Defense Army to run back.
They ran very fast. Although they had brought things up the mountain, they ran very slowly in order to run faster down the mountain.
He walked and stopped to conserve his strength.
Once the fuse that was nearly a hundred meters long was lit, the speed was extremely fast.
They ran to the hole that they had prepared beforehand and hid.
Exploding the mountain, 42 boxes of black gunpowder. That huge power would affect everything within a hundred meters. The rolling stones on the mountain didn't know which direction it would go.
Therefore, Zhu Xiong Ying, Zhu Quan, Zhu Zhi, and Feng Cheng hid on the eastern mountain to watch such a dangerous event.
The mountain that contained the gold mine rumbled.
With a heaven-shaking explosion, the entire mountain was directly cut in half. Rolling stones fell, sand flew, and stones flew. The power was as if Sun Wukong had jumped out of the Five Fingers Mountain.
The earth shook.
Zhu Xiong Ying said," We can start digging. The good wood that we cut down will be transported to the Ziding River Prefecture to be stored. The inferior wood will be used for the construction of the palace."”
"Wood and other trash, keep them to make carriages. Small toys, high-quality wood, no one is allowed to touch them!”Zhu Xiong Ying glanced at Zhu Quan and Zhu Zhi.
"Nephew?" The two brothers laughed. That thing is indeed a treasure in Big Ming, but here, it's useless for us to take it.”
"That's right!"
" Your Highness," Feng Cheng said," if we go back, we can't take all 670 ships away. We have to leave at least 200 ships to continue fishing on the beach."”
"Otherwise, the population here will increase. Recently, I received news that there is a tribe with a population of 70,000 more than 800 miles to the west.”
"I really can't imagine how many of these survivors of the Shang Dynasty there are!”Feng Cheng sighed. Recently, more and more survivors of the Shang Dynasty had joined them.
From 600,000 in the middle of the year to 860,000 at the end of Hongwu's 22nd year.
They hadn't gone back for a month, and who knew how many survivors of the Shang Dynasty had come from all over the world to seek refuge.
"If we count all of them, there are 40 to 50 million survivors of Yinshang. The Ziding River Prefecture is only a small part!" Zhu Xiong Ying said confidently.
He wasn't sure how many people there were in the Eastern Victory Divine Continent, but according to historical records, the colonists of the Western Ox Continent had slaughtered nearly ten million survivors of the Shang Dynasty. This number could be used as a reference.。。
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