The Leizhou governor was very excited.
"Your Majesty, did we suffer a great loss?"
"Three ships are injured, but none of the other ships sank!”
Governor Lu couldn't believe his ears.
"What is it? Not a single warship sank?"
"Yes, my warship is much bigger than the enemy's warship, and it's faster. Frank's range is also far. Their warships can't even reach my warship, so how can they hurt my warship?”
"Since our warships are so powerful, I implore Your Majesty to immediately lead the army to the north!”
Zhu Ci was very surprised. He did not know why Lu Si would suddenly raise this suggestion.
"Lu Si, why do you suddenly want me to go north?”
"The latest news is that King Jian Nu Bo Luo has led 10,000 Red Flags and 60,000 Green Army soldiers to break through Xianxia Pass. The army is less than a hundred miles away from Fuzhou Prefecture!”
Zhu Ci Xin was dumbfounded. He did not expect the situation to develop so quickly.
"Didn't the Tang Emperor's army resist?”
"The Tang Emperor doesn't have an army. It's all the Zheng Family's Army controlled by Zheng Zhilong! Other than Zheng Chenggong's determination to fight against Slave Jian, Zheng Zhilong had no intention of fighting back at all!”
Zhu Ci Xin randomly found a rock and sat down.
"Arrange for more than ten teams of farmers to build some fixed chairs on the roads in the center of the town!”
Governor Lu Si was surprised.
"Your Majesty, we are discussing Zheng Zhilong's matter. Why did you ask them to build chairs on the road?”
"When the commoners are tired, they can rest on the chairs on the road! For example, if we want to discuss a problem now, we can only sit on this rock. It's so inconvenient!”
Lu Si nodded and looked at Zhu Cixin.
"Your Majesty, what should we do now?”
Zhu Ci Xin looked towards the north with a determined gaze.
"Northern Expedition!"
"Our army only has a few tens of thousands of soldiers. The northern expedition will have to face hundreds of thousands of Jian Slaves and millions of surrendered Green Army soldiers!”
Zhu Ci Xin was not worried at all. He could take down every prefecture and build a town center in that prefecture. The larger the territory he took, the more towns he had, and the more rebel soldiers he would have.
He imagined what the Emperor of Jian Nu would think when he brought a million soldiers to the capital.
Thinking of that moment, Zhu Ci Xin was so excited that his entire body trembled.
"Northern expedition! 30th day of the 8th month, the entire army marched north! Go and prepare now!"
A month of preparation time was enough.
Within a month, he could store 60 million units of food.
Most of the food was dried fish, which would be used to recruit soldiers.
60 million units of food, 10,000 horse choppers, 10,000 strong archers, 10,000 sword players, and 10,000 spearmen.
With the addition of the 10,000 southern swordsmen and 10,000 spearmen recruited from the second town center, the second town center camp would have a total of 60,000 soldiers.
A month was a long time.
The farmers who had been recruited had all the rice husked and placed them in sacks before placing them on the carriage made by the blacksmith shop.
The carriage forged by the Level 3 Blacksmith Shop was a long carriage made of iron sheets and covered with wood.
With two horses and eight wheels, a carriage was enough to pull two tons of food.
Governor Lü had been following Zhu Ciao to direct the logistics.
When he arrived at the market in the second town center, he was so shocked that he couldn't speak when he saw the eight-wheeled carriage.
Zhu Ci Xin had used all the wood and iron he had saved up over the past few months to build the iron sheet carriage.
A total of 1 million wood and 100,000 units of iron were used to build 1,000 such carriages.
One thousand carriages could transport two thousand tons of food at once, enough to ensure the logistics of the army.
A thousand carriages would take a month to make.
Every time a carriage was made, it would be filled with food.
Of course, the second batch of Ferghana Horses was currently being transported over from Qiongzhou Island.
At the same time, Zhu Ci Xin was also forging the Red Cannon and the Frank Machine Cannon.
In the minds of the later generations, it seemed that Slave Jian had relied on the fearless charge of the Eight Banners Army to defeat the Ming army.
In fact, it was not like that. For example, when King Tuoduo of Slave Jian was fighting, he would fight against the weak and wait for the arrival of the Red Cannon when he encountered a tough bone.
In the early stages of slave creation, they relied heavily on the Red Cannon. In the final battle between Shanhaiguan Pass and Roaming King, the vanguard had a huge advantage in the early stages, but when the 130 Red Cannons and 40 General Cannons arrived, the vanguard completely collapsed.
The attack on the Nanjing government was still like this. In the early stages, Tudor could not take down the Nanjing government with its thick walls.
When the hundreds of Red Cannons arrived, the Nanjing government was breached after a day of bombardment.
All along, people thought that Slave Jian's Eight Banners Army was very powerful, but in fact, it was the cannon making technology that Kong Youde brought over.
As for the Ming army, after Slave Jian entered the pass, their weapons were lax and they did not have enough cannons to fight against Slave Jian.
The only large-scale artillery attack was during the battle between Governor Shi Kefa of Yangzhou and Tuoduo. Almost all the cannons of Emperor Hongguang were gathered.
One hundred cannons against one hundred and seventy-five red cannons from Tudor. One could imagine that the city walls of Yangzhou had collapsed and Governor Skofa had died for his country.
However, that was in May. At that time, Zhu Ci Xin had just transmigrated to this place, so there was no way for him to go over and rescue them.
Whether it was the Chuang Army or the Ming Army, they could basically fight the Eight Banners Army head-on.
Especially the invading army. Every time they were defeated, it was only because Slave Jian's Red Cannon had arrived to support them.
Before Red Cannon arrived, he was able to use the infantry and the Eight Banners Soldiers to hold his ground.
As for the invading army, they suffered the loss of being uncultured. Most of them were Ming soldiers who had surrendered. Because the Ming Empire owed them wages, they surrendered to the peasant army. The peasant army did not have any cannons.
As a result, before attacking the capital, Li Zicheng was not confident of taking it down, so he hoped that Chongzhen would confer him the title of Northwest King and guard the northwest forever.
Chong Zhen, Zhu Ci Xin's father, refused this request for some reason.
Zhu Ci Xin had also seen the benefits of the Red Cannons and the Frank Machine Cannons, so he decided to build 1,000 Red Cannons. When he gave Slave Jian a big gift pack of cannon fire, he would probably scare them to death.
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