The next big thing is the interrogation.

When it comes to interrogation skills, the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division are definitely inferior to Jinyiwei.

They are professional, and they are proficient in all crafts in the eighteenth class.

The interrogation of the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division was very simple and simple, and the hands and feet of those who did not confess were tied and stones were sunk into the sea.

It's brutal, but it's effective.

Don't look at these cowards as they are extremely ferocious on weekdays, they are really dying and have all become cowards one by one.

They answered whatever the officers and men of the Navy Division asked, and they never dared to disobey in the slightest.

As a result, after some questioning, a very embarrassing conclusion was reached.

These pirates are not from Denglai, or even from the coast of Shandong, but from Fujian.

Their Hokkien accent confirms this.

Denglai Governor Zhang Kentang was suddenly a little deflated.

He thought that if he caught these pirates, he would be able to plow the court and sweep the holes and end up the pirates' lair, but who would have thought that this was the result.

Even if these pirates confessed to their lair, Zhang Kentang couldn't order the sailors to kill all the way to Fujian to suppress the bandits, right?

However, Zhang Kentang soon became puzzled. Why did this Fujian pirate come to Shandong to rob? Isn't that unusual?

Could it be that they can't get along in Fujian anymore and plan to come to Shandong to find a way out?

It's puzzling!

Zhang Kentang then ordered people to continue to interrogate these Haikou coars, and it was necessary to find out the reason.

However, before those sea robbers could loosen their mouths, the officers and soldiers of the naval division made new discoveries.

The cabin of the Haikou ship was full of rice and grain, and the cabin was stuffed to the brim.

Haikou robbing food?

That doesn't make sense.

Gold, silver, jewelry, porcelain, lacquerware, and even spices are valuable, but I have never heard of food being valuable.

Besides, even if this group of pirates really happened to rob a grain ship, there was no need to carry the grain all the time, right?

This thing is so heavy that it seriously affects the speed of the ship, and the pirates will not do such a stupid thing unless their brains are kicked by a donkey.

But they just did.

It's so abnormal.

Zhang Kentang felt that there must be something strange about this matter, and he would not be able to figure it out for a while, and he wanted to bring these living pirates back to Dengzhou for personal interrogation.

Zheng Chenggong naturally heard the news.

He was also shocked to learn that these pirates were from Fujian.

The distance from Fujian to Shandong is too far, and the supplies along the way do not know how much to consume.

Unless...

Zheng Chenggong had an ominous premonition that this matter was vaguely related to the Zheng family.

After all, only the Zheng family has the financial resources to buy so much grain, and transport the grain to Shandong regardless of the cost.

But Zheng Chenggong still couldn't figure it out, what did the Zheng family do when they transported grain to Shandong?

If you sell it, the profit is too thin, right?

And why do you want to pretend to be at the hands of the pirates?

There are so many irrationalities in this.

Zheng Chenggong shook his head, hoping that he was thinking too much.

Zhang Huangyan was very excited.

He had never sailed out to sea before, let alone witnessed a naval battle.

When the pirates jumped to the gang and started a battle with the officers and soldiers of the naval division, Zhang Huangyan only felt that his blood was spurting.

The total space on the ship is only so large, it is impossible to run, you can only bite the bullet.

Even a cowardly person will become much more resolute and brave after a broadside battle.

The only thing Zhang Huangyan felt a little regretful about was that he couldn't join the battle and slash a sea coward.

You must know that Zheng Chenggong personally drew a knife to kill the thief.

is also a student from the Huangming Military Academy, after this incident, Zhang Huangyan felt that he was compared to Zheng Chenggong.

On the way back, Zhang Huangyan secretly swore that if he had the opportunity to meet Haikou again in the future, he would definitely kill one person himself.

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Under Sha Dingzhou's advice, Zhang Wenxiu and Zhang Dingguo finally sent troops to attack Kunming.

Chuxiong Mansion is not far from Kunming, and the Great Western Army has been recuperating, and the march is advancing quickly.

According to Sha Dingzhou, the Ming army blew up the city walls. Nowadays, the city wall of Kunming has been riddled with holes and flaws everywhere.

As long as the Great Western Army is under the city, it can easily capture the city of Kunming.

Zhang Wenxiu naturally won't be too skeptical about this.

Sha Dingzhou had just escaped from Kunming, so he should be very familiar with the situation inside and outside Kunming.

Even though what he said was not very true, there was nothing wrong with having a seven or eight true.

Therefore, the faster the Great Western Army marched, the better, and the sooner it arrived in Kunming, the greater the advantage.

In such a short period of time, it was impossible for the Ming army to repair all the gaps in the city wall of Kunming, and the Great Western Army could use these gaps as a breakthrough point to easily break the city.

As for the commander of the Ming army, Zhang Wenxiu has also heard of it.

Qin Liangyu, an old woman who has most of her feet in the ground.

The people in the last years of the wind and candles are still leading the troops to fight, and it seems that there is no one in the Ming Court.

Even though Qin Liangyu was famous before, he was already over seventy years old after all.

Commanding troops to fight a war is not as simple as doing two articles, and it is a great test of the commander's on-the-spot judgment and decisiveness.

A single error of judgment puts an army at risk of annihilation.

Can Qin Liangyu make a reasonable judgment in the face of unexpected situations?

Zhang Wenxiu thinks not necessarily.

Of course, there will definitely be adjutant generals in the Ming army to assist Qin Liangyu, but these people can't finally decide on the strategy of using troops, at most they only have the power to make suggestions.

As long as Qin Liangyu is confused, even the gods will not be able to save this Ming army.

However, Zhang Dingguo looked worried.

He felt that Sha Dingzhou's arrival was a little too sudden. As Sha Dingzhou said, he escaped from the tunnel, but the Ming army didn't send anyone to pursue him after discovering it, which is unreasonable.

Could it be a deliberate game set up by the Ming army?

Of course, he also knew that these were his guesses.

In the absence of evidence, Zhang Wenxiu would not listen to him.

Originally, Zhang Wenxiu had a competitive relationship with him, and now he has a large number of soldiers and horses, so naturally he will not give him face.

Hey, let's take one step at a time.

At this moment, Zhang Dingguo actually regretted a little and asked Zhang Xianzhong to increase his troops into Yunnan.

Thirty miles outside Kunming, Zhang Wenxiu ordered to set up camp.

On the one hand, he had to send scouts to investigate the reality of Kunming City, and on the other hand, he also needed to make some siege equipment in case of emergency.

In case the Ming army really repaired the broken city wall and blocked the gap that was blown up, the Great Western Army would still have to attack the city hard.

From the beginning to the end, Sha Dingzhou did not raise any objections.

He knew very well that no matter whether the Great Western Army won or the Ming Army won, it would be impossible for him to claim the throne and hegemony in Yunnan.

The only difference is that if the Great Western Army wins, he can still live, and if the Ming Army wins, he may have to be in a different place.

Therefore, of course, he hoped that the Great Western Army could win this battle and take Kunming by chance.

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