After the bombardment of Xu's house, General Cao couldn't say that he stayed in Zhangsu Port for another ten days before all the dishes were cleared.

The pressure from Nanjing is the majority. After all, Nanjing is in charge of Nanzhili, and the civil and military officials have the responsibility of guarding the land, and if such a big thing happens, it will not work without figuring it out.

And Cao Zongbing could only try his best to support at this time, and strive to lead the situation in the direction of "personal grievances".

As for the effect, that's it. Like Nanjing Jinyiwei, a yamen who is mixed with public hatred and personal hatred, and also killed the other party's employees, he doesn't plan to tackle key problems.

As for the others, like Jiang Tian, the lieutenant of the town guard, it is easier to handle here. Eunuchs, love is nothing more than wealth, and the most important thing to pass through is money and goods. In addition, the eunuch Jiang, who bombarded the house of the gentry, was actually praised by the civil officials every day, so everyone made friends because of this matter.

As for the yamen who should have made the biggest reaction: Governor Yingtian, because the boss Cao Wenheng went to Beijing to go to King Qin, coupled with the greasy nature of the official document on the transfer of troops, the accountability of Ying Tianfu Ya was the smallest.

In this way, it took Cao Zongbing ten days to finally fool all aspects. Of course, the bullet stamps of the various yamen must have been sent to the capital, this is a procedure that must be followed, and no one can do anything about it.

But it didn't help. All attacks will eventually be shattered in the face of war exploits.

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The Ming Dynasty began from the year of the wild boar skin incident, step by step was occupied outside the pass, and pushed into the pass, the situation has deteriorated over the years, and most of the elite soldiers have been wiped out, and now even the capital is surrounded by the Eight Banners.

In this situation, it is not an exaggeration to say that whoever can bring Chongzhen's "real Tartar" head is Chongzhen's father.

Don't think that the head of the "real Tartar" is so easy to take.

By the time of the Apocalypse and Chongzhen, the Ming army had lost the ability and determination to fight head-on with the Eight Banners Army after a series of military defeats. This time the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and the Guanning army would rather put the Eight Banners under the capital, and then "fight according to the city", which is the most obvious example.

In this situation, the Eight Banners with the advantage of battlefield mobility, even if they are defeated and killed, they will not leave time for the opponent to cut off his head. What's more, from beginning to end, the Eight Banners on both sides were pressing the Ming army, and the Ming army had no chance to clean up the battlefield at all. The ones who are really responsible for cleaning up the battlefield have always been the coaters.

As for the exaggerated battle reports of the generals of the Ming army, they are purely funny. If you count according to the numbers on the war report, the entire Manchu clan has been wiped out hundreds of times.

The real history is that if a small school can get three real Tartar heads, then he can be promoted to the next rank. If a general can get ten True Tartar heads, he can also be promoted to one level.

Therefore, the primitive method of recording the number of heads is still quite effective in some time periods, because the reason is very simple: the heads are counted by civilian officials.

This rule will expose the real Tartar heads to countless deceptive and exaggerated battle reports, and it is easy to distinguish them from the clothiers.

Therefore, those generals in the later period of the Ming army, such as Zuo Liangyu and others, could kill good people and take the merit when they exterminated the displaced people, but when it came time to fight with the Tartars, the trick could not be used.

And this time, General Cao went to Beijing, just to hold back his strength to release a satellite for Brother Chongzhen!

In real history, the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs for the first time, and after grabbing enough of the retreat, the Ming army's battle report followed behind the ass was still the usual style: big victory, recovery, recovery...... In short, there are victories every day, but there are no heads.

The reason is very simple: the left-behind troops left behind by the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the rear cities are bound to be the elite of the Mengbaqi and the Manchurian Eight Banners who can get on the horse and leave at any time, how can this kind of troops be surrounded and annihilated by the Ming army brigade and cut off their heads?

So now a variable has appeared: when Brother Chongzhen, who is accustomed to hearing single-digit and ten-digit head battle reports, suddenly sees the hundreds, or even thousands, of "real Tartar" heads brought by Cao Zongbing, not only Chongzhen, but also how will the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty react?

So, in the face of absolute power, everything is a floating cloud. At that time, the rotten matter of fighting with the Jiangnan gentry will not be put on the table at all. Chongzhen will never blame Cao Zhongchen for this, and he is counting on Cao Zhongchen to kill more Tartars in the future.

This is also the fundamental reason why General Cao sent Nanjing away in a flicker: he has a big move in his hand, and he is not afraid of small tricks.

After leveling all the forces one by one, General Cao was ready to leave. At this time, in addition to the 200 soldiers who took the transport ship in advance, the three sail warships carrying 50 special combat personnel and equipment were already ready, just waiting for General Cao to board the ship and set off.

Before leaving, the last thing Cao Zongbing did was to reconcile with the land deed alliance.

The title deed alliance, as a chess piece sent to the door by looking for his own death, was later forced to be put on the shelves by Master Xiong, and was finally used by Cao Zongbing to establish his authority.

At this time, the old man will become a medicine residue, and there is no use value. Therefore, after receiving a retired mansion in the alliance, Mr. Cao immediately said: Everyone still values peace. Forget the indemnity or something, you bring the box of land deeds, and I'll look at it and give a few pieces of silver, and the matter will be settled.

So the title deed alliance can only nod with hatred, what if it doesn't agree? The house in Shanghai County has become a tourist hotspot these days, and the 3.5-ton iron ball has shown the hard power of the general soldier.

Therefore, even if the land deed alliance is unwilling, it can only knock out teeth and swallow blood at the moment, burying hatred in the bottom of his heart.

As for the future...... After this incident, each other knew that the hatred could not be resolved, so everyone rode a donkey to read the record book, and let's see.

Mr. Cao came this time and gave the old man some cannonballs, solved the problem of land deed, and regarded it as a complete merit.

After that, the port of Shanghai, which was forcibly smashed open, will undoubtedly usher in a wave of great development, and now there will be no more eye-catching goods to make trouble here for Mr. Xiong.

Soon after, a new wave of convoys full of industrial goods from the south officially announced the reopening of the port of Shanghai.

At the same time, Xiong Dao, which had obtained the surrounding Zhuangzi title deeds, also began to integrate. He now has 300 regular soldiers of the Guards Battalion at his disposal, so his style can be a little tougher: the new tenants are sorted and screened one by one, and those who should be sent away are sent away, and there is no room for bargaining.

So, 10 days after coming to Shanghai Port, General Cao, who had made many waves, finally drove north to save the emperor on December 24, 1629.

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The fleet parted ways outside the mouth of the Yangtze River. Since the Zhenman did not need to go north, it turned south after going to sea, and accompanied by a Guang-class gunboat, went directly back to Taijiang to rest.

The remaining two Youguang-class ships and one small frigate began to brave the bitter northerly winds of winter and go up along the northern coastline of the mainland.

Although there was hydrological data from the pathfinder ship in advance, after all, it was the first time for the fleet to take the northern route, so Commander Wang Bo did not dare to be careless.

Not only did he order the ship to slow down, but he also sent frigates to explore the way ahead, and the entire fleet kept changing its course on the sea, sometimes spreading out its own routes to map different routes, in preparation for future large-scale shipping.

Due to the wrong direction of the wind in winter, Chinese merchant ships that rely solely on sails usually do not go north at this point in time, so the sea is now very cold and can be tossed casually.

After five days of difficult sailing, the sail fleet powered by coal finally joined the transport fleet that had departed in advance in the waters of Lianyungang.

After that, the army spent the New Year at sea, and then on January 4, 1630, the 10th day after its departure, they came to the easternmost part of the Shandong Peninsula and saw a series of landmarks and reefs.

The fleet has traveled a lot of routes these days, not only taking straight routes that the Ming merchant ships did not dare to take, but also surveying and mapping the trade routes along the coast.

If you talk about speed alone, the northbound fleet will definitely not be able to compare with summer this time. You must know that even the Chinese-style ships of the Ming Kingdom, when the sea was not forbidden in the early days, set off from Liujiagang in Taicang, Suzhou, and went to Tianjin to transport goods.

In other words, when everything goes well, it only takes ten days for an old-fashioned sea ship to cover 1,000 kilometers by sea and reach Tianjin. This most efficient mode of transportation was once adhered to in the Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty.

Unfortunately, the Ming court did not straighten out the relationship between shipping and transportation in the end. After Zhu Baba came to power, he began to ban the sea, and in the Yongle period, shipping was resumed again. However, after the dredging of the river in the thirteenth year of orthodoxy, shipping was banned again simply because of the high risk.

This ban means that all official material transportation has been converted to light transportation, and shipping is only reserved for a relatively small number of private merchant ships. This ban has raised a huge bloodsucking class.

In fact, in the middle of the war, under the joint corruption of officials and gentry and the Cao army, the cost has long exceeded the loss of sea transportation. Eventually, the proposal to resume maritime transport never succeeded.

And for the traversal, this kind of bullshit luck is purely unacceptable. At the moment, to put it bluntly, a certain force is mixed up by the sea, and without a huge number of sea ships, it will not be able to talk.

Therefore, a very important task of the northbound fleet this time is to plan the route for large-scale shipping in the future.

As an important transit station in the route, Shandong is a place for raising troops and a distribution center for materials, and its status is quite high. Therefore, after arriving on the Shandong Peninsula, the Beishang Fleet also deliberately circled along the entire peninsula, observing and recording some urban guards along the coast of the peninsula, and even small strongholds such as piers...... There's no way, after people saw the northbound fleet, they lit wolf smoke from afar, and the black sky rose into the sky, and the fleet couldn't be recorded if it didn't want to!