Nanjing City has always been a battleground for soldiers, but in fact, Chen Ye's fire that year only burned down some houses. The real abomination is the fourteen princes, who take away the population and everything that can be taken away.

If you can't take it away, don't keep it, resulting in a population of millions in Nanjing, and only a few hundred thousand remain.

Since then, the population of Nanjing City has been smaller, and there are signs of ruin everywhere, and I don't know how many years it will take to restore it to its original state.

Shifted the center of gravity to Hangzhou City, if nothing else, Hangzhou City should be armed like a bucket.

Chen Ye was able to guess why His Majesty wanted Nanjing City today, after Chen Ye's fire and the looting of the Fourteenth Prince, Nanjing City no longer had any use value.

It's a pity to discard it if it's tasteless!

If the imperial court sent troops to defend the town, a large amount of grain and grass would be needed, and the Yangtze River would have crossed the continent, and it would have been too late to defend. The troops sent are the food in Nanzhou's mouth, which can be eaten at any time.

Chen Ye is a hard stone, see who eats whom? Chen Ye didn't believe in this evil.

"Come on, from now on, Nanjing City will be my Chen Ye's, and it belongs to the management of Fengzhou City, and now Nanjing City will raise the Qilin Flag." Chen Yexin (qíng) is very good, with Nanjing City, he can intercept the Yangtze River and choke the throat of the Yangtze River. At the same time, it can also use sea transportation to open up the transportation between the north and the south.

Chen Ye wrote a letter, passed it back to Fengzhou City, and then sent a garrison to take over Nanjing City when the time came.

Now Chen Ye didn't want to stay in Nanjing City, so he spent money to requisition a lot of ships, so that the infantry and musketeers crossed the river first to form a defensive front, and the artillery crossed the river again.

The logistics department must ensure that the logistics department will slowly keep up,

Chen Ye spread out the map to see that the next city was in Wuhu, Chen Ye was ready to directly hit the other party's city in a tough way, pulling out the other party's city one by one, and knocking off the other party's confidence step by step.

From Nanjing to Wuhu are all plains, and there are river grasses going forward, sometimes more than one person is tall, which is very suitable for the enemy to hide, and there are dense rivers, and the cannons are too heavy, not as flexible as the cavalry. If it rains, the journey is even more difficult.

It would be nice if the cannon was on the ship, but alas, the dockyard is still under construction.

"Cavalry, go and open the way, meet the enemy and adapt to the situation, don't fall in love. The infantry spread out from front to back, left and right, and stood guard in all directions. The musketeers were always ready to order. "There is no way, most of the people led by Chen Ye are northerners, and for the sake of these wartimes, they don't dare to advance too fast.

It is easy to suffer from heat stroke, Chen Ye ensures the supply of boiling water for all soldiers just in case, as well as the Chinese medicine that has been boiled.

The uncomfortable soldier sat in the carriage to rest, safety first.

The soldiers were very grateful, and Chen Ye was not in a hurry, anyway, the enemy had already detected Chen Ye's location, and it was estimated that he was already laying out a net. Chen Ye is not stupid, he has already sent out a large number of secret agents and scouts to probe the information of the place.

The distance from Nanjing to Wuhu was originally a one-day policy, but Chen Ye walked for three days in order to take care of the soldiers.

The consumption of grain and grass in the past three days is very large, Chen Ye doesn't care, anyway, his logistics can be guaranteed, Chen Ye is not short of money. As long as they buy at a high price, farmers will take the initiative to send it, and the chamber of commerce can also provide a steady stream of supplies.

The current chamber of commerce is more like a gas station, providing Chen Ye with good supplies and daily necessities at any time.

In the past three days, there have been news from scouts and secret agents that there are 150,000 troops in front, holding river ships in their hands, and they are already ready to attack in Wuhu City, and they will only wait for Chen Ye to reach the attack range, and they will start to attack.

This time, Chen Ye only brought 70,000 people, which made people feel that this was simply hitting a stone with an egg.

There is also news that Cui Haoqiang is also in Wuhu, ready to give Chen Ye a fatal blow, since Cui Haoqiang is also here, it is impossible to use this army, Chen Ye ordered to probe again.

Chen Ye led the army to Wuhu City, stopped two kilometers away, Chen Ye opened the telescope and saw that the city wall was covered with rudimentary mines.

Arrange such measures to make Chen Ye a little high-minded, it seems that the people of Southern Zhou are not stupid, according to the principle of earth-shaking thunder, they created a mine and buried it in a position on the city wall.

Don't underestimate the power of these crude mines, Chen Ye didn't want his soldiers to die in vain.

Cui Haoqiang came to the city wall and shouted loudly with hundreds of people.

"Chen Ye'er, come to die, this must make people go and have no return." Hearing the arrogant words of the other side, there were already division commanders who came to ask for battle, and were willing to lead the troops to attack.

Chen Ye single-handedly galloped under the city wall, and stopped at the edge of the buried mine.

"Neigh" the horses gathered and stopped, neighing.

This time, you can see Cui Haoqiang's face, see Cui Haoqiang's gray hair, and his face is also a lot haggard.

"Cui Haoqiang, have you given birth to a son?" Chen Ye's voice was very loud, and some soldiers couldn't help but laugh when they heard this. Cui Haoqiang's face was pale, Chen Ye, which pot are you not open and which pot to mention.

"Chen Ye, shameless boy, you killed my son. I want you to pay with blood. Cui Haoqiang said fiercely while signaling the people below to obey the order

Chen Ye's (xiōng) mouth began to be a little hairy (rè), and he guessed that Cui Haoqiang had some killer features.

"Cui Haoqiang, you killed me three times and dug up my parents' coffins, this account, let's calculate it carefully, I want to slaughter the Cui family to vent the hatred in my heart." After speaking, Chen Ye rode away.

A hurried voice came, and Chen Ye saw a burning thing flying towards him.

Chen Ye hurriedly changed direction, and when Chen Ye was less than three zhang away, a cannonball came out of the rifle (shè), and a shot hit something on fire.

Rumble!

Chen Ye Zhuan (shēn) looked at it, and it turned out to be something similar to a small earth-shaking thunder, tied to a long bow and arrow, which could be regarded as a simple cannonball.

"Everyone entered the attack formation, and all officers above the corps, division, and brigade level came." Chen Ye gave an order.

When the officer's speed arrived, Chen Ye looked at them and said, "I'll teach you how to fight this battle, it's not just a bombardment." This time, Chen Ye asked them to teach them what modern battles are, how artillery works with musketeers, cavalry and infantry.

"Go and buy me fifty cows, and if there are not enough cows, you can bring chickens and ducks." As soon as the group received the order, they went to the nearby village or market and hurriedly searched for it.

On the city wall, Cui Haoqiang's heart (qíng), like the dark clouds in the sky, covers the sky (rì), and it is extremely bad.

It's going to rain, the whole sky is stuffy, and the atmosphere of the whole battlefield is very oppressive.

"It's a pity!" Cui Haoqiang was not convinced, why didn't he say it (shè), and why did there still be people in Chen Ye's troops holding long things, could this be the legendary musket?

I almost killed Chen Ye, almost.

"Family master, this musket team has not yet entered the battlefield, and we don't know the power yet, but Chen Ye's cannon seems to be different from the previous ones, but I don't know how it compares to our latest cannon." A man who resembles Gambit said with some concern.

"It's all thanks to Chen Shi, I don't know where to find it, but unfortunately, the materials are not enough, otherwise I must make more, this is a good thing." However, why didn't Chen Ye move here? What the hell are you doing" Cui Haoqiang was a little regretful, but he didn't understand Chen Ye's approach.

A group of people from Chen Ye's side came with more than a dozen cows, as well as hundreds of chickens and ducks, and these soldiers were all chicken and duck feces, and their heads were full of chicken feathers.

The others laughed and laughed at them, this is a duck group.

"Shut up for me, without them, you wouldn't be able to rush under the city wall" Seeing Chen Ye speak, no one else dared to laugh at them anymore.

"Lord Wang, let's bring it here, what should we do?" The head of a regiment came to report.

"You put the chickens and ducks five hundred meters away from the city wall, and put all the tails of these dozen oxen's tails on firecrackers, and that's it." What Chen Ye said made a group a little confused.

What kind of tactic is this, it doesn't work at all!

However, the duty of the army is to obey orders, and after receiving orders, all the chickens and ducks rushed to the designated position, and then left in a hurry.

The soldiers on the city wall couldn't understand it, what was going on, what trick did Chen Ye play, why did he send so many chickens.

Could it be that Chen Ye was scared? Hurry up and send chickens and ducks to surrender.