Hutou Mountain is about 200 miles away from Nanjing City, and it is a gathering place of mountain bandits.

There are three bandit leaders in this gang of mountain bandits, Wu Zhen, the second leader, Qin Mang, and the third leader, Wei Lulu.

The three of them were originally displaced people from Henan, with more than 20 brothers after falling into the grass and Hutou Mountain, to make a living by robbing the house, Chongzhen 17 years in June, the development of 500 people, at that time Zhu Cihong had just ascended the throne, the mountain bandits who fell into the grass adopted a soft policy, and the main thing was to appease them.

However, the bandit leaders of Hutou Mountain are used to robbing their homes and houses, and they have not been obedient to the imperial court, and the local county order has been appeased many times without success.

The imperial court issued an order to suppress bandits, and the local county order organized the suppression of bandits, but the terrain of Hutou Mountain was steep, and the local county ordered six encirclements and suppressions could not be destroyed, resulting in the development of Hutou Mountain bandits to 5,000 people in September of the first year of Zhongxing, and the momentum was huge, which actually alarmed Zhu Cihong.

Just more than 200 miles away from the imperial court, there were 5,000 mountain bandits gathered, Zhu Cihong naturally could not tolerate it, and it was when Zheng Zhilong entered Beijing to attend the wedding of his son Zheng Sen, Zhu Cihong in order to exterminate the mountain bandits, and also in order to deter Zheng Zhilong, immediately issued an order to be exterminated by the dragon army.

Under the leadership of the commander Zhang Kuishan, the fifth army of the Yinglong Army sent troops to Hutou Mountain, stormed for one day and one night, and finally broke through the tiger head bee, killed 3,000 enemies, captured 2,000, and destroyed Hutou Mountain!

On October 6 of the first year of Zhongxing in the Ming Dynasty, the three bandit leaders of Hutou Mountain were escorted to the capital by the Fifth Army, and Zhu Cihong aimed to judge the three bandit leaders in response to the Dragon Army camp.

Early in the morning, Zhu Cihong boarded the dragon chariot and came to the camp of the Yinglong army under the escort of the Royal Forest Army.

The two brothers Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Hongkui followed, and Zheng Sen had already arrived at the Yinglong army camp on his own.

In the entire Yinglong army camp, there are Yinglong soldiers standing and guarding like straight javelins everywhere, and every Yinglong army soldier has an extraordinary momentum.

In the middle of the camp of the Ying Long Army, a simple trial platform stands tall.

Zhu Cihong ascended to the sentencing platform in front of the judgment platform, and brothers Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Hongkui sat on Zhu Cihong's left hand side.

"The last general Zhang Kuishan saw the emperor, the fifth army lived up to the emperor's expectations, won a complete victory, five thousand tiger head mountain bandits were all wiped out, and the three major bandit leaders are waiting for the emperor to fall!" Zhang Kuishan stepped forward and knelt on one knee to report.

"Aiqing has worked hard!" Zhu Cihong praised with a smile.

"Crush the bandit leader!" Zhang Kuishan stood up and shouted at the Ying Long soldiers in the audience.

"Yes!"

With the beating of war drums, not only the Fifth Army, but also the entire Yinglong Army camp, the Third Army, the Fourth Army, the Fifth Army, the Sixth Army, and the full 80,000 Yinglong Army all moved, divided into dozens of battle formations, stepping neatly and magnificently gathered around the judgment platform.

"Hooray!"

"Hooray!"

The 80,000 soldiers of the Ying Long Army shouted together, like a mountain and a sea, the muzzle of the black hole pointed straight to the sky, and the judgment seat was in the center of the army, shrouded in magnificent momentum.

Zhu Cihong couldn't help but stand up from the dragon chair all of a sudden.

Zheng Sen also stood up, looking at the mighty and mighty Ying Longjun, his eyes shot with incomparably excited and enthusiastic light, although he always knew that Ying Longjun was the elite of the world, but Ying Longjun's surprise to him at the moment was so strong, he really wished that he was also a member of Ying Longjun.

Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Hongkui brothers showed great shock, they have not seen the Dutch military formation, the Dutch are very strong, one-on-one, the Zheng family fleet is not the opponent of the Dutch, the Dutch have made them extremely jealous, but they did not expect that the momentum of the Ying Long army military formation looks even stronger than the Dutch.

Thinking of the Ying Long Army since its birth, it has successively defeated more than one million armies such as Zuo Liangyu, Zhang Xianzhong, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the prestige of the world-shaking is by no means fake, the Zheng family may still have an advantage on the water, but if it is against the Ying Long Army on the shore, it will definitely be defeated!

The three bandit leaders were pressed by more than a dozen Ying Long soldiers to the judgment platform about twenty meters in front of the sentencing platform.

"The bandit leaders of Hutou Mountain, Wu Zhen, Qin Mang, and Wei Yulu, illegally occupied Hutou Mountain, gathered bandits, endangered the people of several surrounding counties, did not listen to advice, and killed countless innocent people in recent years, without repentance, they deserve death!"

"Respect the emperor's will, and give three people the punishment of death!" A Ying Longjun personally pronounced the sentence.

It is said that the bandits in Hutou Mountain really deserve death, Zhu Cihong did not give them a chance, but these people are used to robbing their homes, and it is difficult to repent at all, not only has they not accepted the court's recruitment, but also have the audacity to kill a county and county order, occupy the county to rebel, and what is even more unforgivable is that they dare to secretly have contact with the Manchu Qing in the north, which is the most intolerable thing for Zhu Cihong.

The Fifth Army of Yinglong Army set out on September 20, and after more than ten days, it finally exterminated this mountain bandit and pressed the three major bandit leaders to the capital for trial.

For these mountain bandit leaders who dared to kill innocent people and had contact with the Manchu Tatars, Zhu Cihong said three words, there is no mercy for killing!

"Execution!"

Fifteen soldiers of the Ying Long Army came out of the ranks, and fifteen flintlock pistols with good ammunition were pointed at the three bandit leaders.

The three bandit leaders were all unable to move, kneeling on the judgment seat, their eyes terrified and desperate!

"Fire!"

"Bang bang bang", the bandit leader who was full of evil deeds was instantly beaten into a stopper.

Bright red blood splattered, and the clothes on his body were stained red, and he couldn't see it.

Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Hongkui watched all this, bloody and the power exuded by the surrounding 80,000 Ying Long troops, the two of them were heroes in the South Seas at any time, and they couldn't help but be frightened in their hearts, especially Zheng Zhilong, thinking of the emperor's murderous intentions to him yesterday, cold sweat broke out, the Zheng family is strong, but it can't compete with the entire Ming Dynasty, unless the Zheng family is willing to abandon the foundation of the mainland and drift on the sea again, but this is impossible, they are used to Quanzhou as the foundation of the Zheng family, if they return to the sea, Under the attack of the Ming and the Dutch, the Zheng family will inevitably gradually decline.

The two brothers Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Hongkui glanced at each other, and they both saw the horror in each other's eyes. Zheng Sen also secretly glanced at his father and uncle, but did not say anything.

Seeing the expressions of the two Zheng Zhilong brothers, Zhu Cihong showed a smile, he just asked Ying Longjun to kill the chicken to show the monkey, it seems that his goal of deterring Zheng Zhilong has been achieved, and in the future, the Zheng family will have to think twice about the imperial court's order, if they want to disobey it.

"Zheng Zhilong, how is my Ying Long Army!" Zhu Cihong asked lightly.

"Back to the emperor, Ying Longjun is worthy of being the first elite of the Ming Dynasty, with a great reputation, and the minister is fortunate to have seen it!" Zheng Zhilong lowered his attitude and said extremely respectfully.

Zhu Cihong nodded with satisfaction.

"Aiqing is the commander of the Nanyang Navy of the Ming Dynasty, I have heard that the foreigners have several crops, called sweet potatoes, corn potatoes are sweet and have a very high yield, which can be used as a reserve of food for the people, I want to introduce them, can Aiqing transport some seeds back in Nanyang, I will not treat Aiqing badly." Zhu Cihong looked at Zheng Zhilong and asked with a smile.

Zhu Cihong has long been fighting the idea of these three crops, Zheng Zhilong dominates the South Seas, and if he wants to introduce it, he is the most suitable candidate.

"If you obey the order, you will live up to the emperor's expectations!" Zheng Zhilong got up and came to Zhu Cihong directly in front of him and fell down on one knee in the tunnel.

Affected by the bloodshed just now and the might of Ying Long's army, Zheng Zhilong did not dare to disobey Zhu Cihong's orders at this time no matter what.

Zheng Sen watched all this from beginning to end, but he didn't say a word, he was silent all the time, not knowing what he was thinking.

When everything is over, Zheng Zhilong and the others return to Annanbo's Mansion, Zhu Cihong doesn't know how much effect the shock of this one after another can receive, but he is sure that if he wants to incorporate the Zheng family in the future, whether it will be successful. These two successive shocks will inevitably have a large part of the effect from this.

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