The army of the Mughal Empire is leisurely building siege equipment, but the army of the Ming Empire is in full swing, Zhu Cijiong received the news from Goa It has been three days later, he did not hesitate to order, and the army of the East Road began to advance towards the Mughal Empire.

As for the army of the South Road, due to the telegraph network, he had completely handed over the command to Lu Xiangsheng.

The advance of the East Route Army is really called pushing slowly, advancing slowly, because the strategy formulated by the East Route Army in the end is to advance while repairing the railway!

It's not that Zhu Cijiong doesn't know anything about commanding, it's not too easy for the 400,000 troops on the East Road to clean up the 200,000 ordinary troops of the Mughal Empire, the key problem is the transportation of grain and grass, you must know that Ava City is nearly 2,000 miles away from Dhaka, and it takes more than 20 days for the 400,000 troops to rush over in one go, and then fight for more than ten days, more than a month has passed, how much grain and grass can they bring, what to do if there is no grain and grass at that time, now the entire Mughal Empire is full of hungry people, and they can't grab food if they want to.

If the construction of the railway is slowly pushed over, the progress will be much slower, but there is no need to worry about the food problem, and with this foundation, the East Road will undoubtedly win.

300,000 professional prisoners at the same time to build a railway, the speed is actually quite terrifying, you must know that even if they are tightly lined up, only two people stand in each meter, 300,000 people can also line up 150,000 meters long, which is 150 kilometers, how long does it take for two people to fill one meter of stones? As long as there are stones, it doesn't take an hour!

Of course, it is unrealistic to build 150 kilometers a day, and Zhu Cijiong's plan for them is to build 50 miles a day, so that on average, there will be more than 10 people per meter, and they can divide labor and cooperate, digging foundations, laying stones, laying sleepers, and laying tracks, and they will be repaired much faster.

In fact, after Cao Wenzhao rushed back to Ava City from Xingcheng Port, he had already begun to prepare materials for the construction of the railway, and when all the troops and prisoners gathered, he ordered people to start repairing in the direction of the Mughal Empire, and in the more than ten days of waiting for the order, the railway had been repaired for five or six hundred miles, and it was about to be repaired to the border between Donghu and the Mughal Empire.

After receiving Zhu Cijiong's telegram order, he immediately ordered all the captives to speed up the progress and repair desperately, while he himself led the Guanning Army, the Donghu Army and the Annan Army to attack a small border city of the Mughal Empire more than 100 miles away, and used actions to tell the Mughal Empire that the Ming Empire had entered from the east!

He also had a strategic need to do this, mainly to hold back the 200,000 troops in Dhaka, and if they were to drive them back to Delhi, the Ming army would have to spend a lot of time.

The Mughal Empire didn't want the Ming Dynasty to build cities everywhere, and even a small county town had city walls, and only a few major cities in the Mughal Empire had city walls, and other places were basically open-air, without shelter, similar to fighting in the field.

Delhi must have a walled city, so the 200,000 troops of the Mughal Empire must be dealt with on the eastern front, otherwise it will not be easy for them to enter the city of Delhi.

However, the small border city that Cao Wenzhao is now attacking has no city walls, and there are less than 100,000 residents inside, and the garrison is less than 1,000 people.

At the beginning of the Mughal Empire, it can be said that the whole territory was in chaos, and the commoners ran to rob the nobles' property, where did they still have the heart to farm, so that almost all the fields in the country were barren, and there was no food output if no one farmed, coupled with the large population of the Mughal Empire, the stored grain was basically looted by the nobles and sold for money, and the hardships of the civilians can be imagined, and almost no grass grew where the army passed, and even the bark was gnawed away!

When Cao Wenzhao led the army to the border town of Saha, he did not see a single Mughal Empire soldier with a weapon, but he saw a lot of civilians with green eyes, they were almost hungry and crazy, if they did it, it is estimated that all 300,000 Ming troops would be slaughtered as rations!

Seeing this scene, Cao Wenzhao shuddered in fright, Nima, don't you want to be so miserable, the emperor has strictly ordered that civilians must not be slaughtered, and in the face of this group of hungry people who are about to go crazy, they can't fight, they can't kill, they can't kill, it's really a headache.

Fortunately, the emperor has already made arrangements, and has made the Ming Imperial Xinglong Business urgently allocate a lot of grain over, as long as the railway is repaired, the problem of starving people will be solved.

Of course, Zhu Cijiong is not ready to provide disaster relief free of charge, don't look at these civilians who are more hungry than beggars, they are very rich, almost all the nobles and rich merchants of the Mughal Empire have been robbed by them, they can dig wherever they want, it is very likely that they will dig out a lot of gold bricks!

This is not an exaggeration at all, according to the report of the secret agent of Jinyiwei, in many places in the Mughal Empire, a gold brick can't even be exchanged for a bag of grain, after all, everyone has to eat, and gold bricks can't be eaten as food.

A bag of grain for a gold brick, Zhu Cijiong is not so dark, you can't let people eat the last meal or the next meal, when the time comes, they will still rebel if they have no food to eat, it is better to reluctantly raise them, let them be half full, and when the war is over and food production returns to normal, they will not rebel.

According to the population of the Mughal Empire and the total amount of gold and silver, he roughly estimated it, and finally set a reserve price for the Ming royal Xinglong firm, ten taels of silver per stone of grain, and any more is not allowed.

In fact, ten taels of silver has also risen tenfold, the cost of collecting grain from all over the Ming Dynasty is not even nine dollars, the profit is so high that it can be imagined, the harvest time has finally arrived, you chaotic people and hungry people hurry up to dig out the gold bricks and silver ingots hidden in the ground for food!

Cao Wenzhao's side has begun to advance slowly, Lu Xiangsheng's side is not idle, after he received the news from Qin Yiming, he immediately ordered the South China Sea Fleet to secretly send the 50,000 soldiers of the First Legion of the Frontier Army near Mysore Beach to Goa, anyway, they have already been disguised, and they can't be seen among the locals, this is an insurance he added to Qin Yiming just in case, 150,000 against 200,000, or defend the city, as long as they are not greedy for life and afraid of death, it should be no problem to keep it for a few years!

After the South China Sea Fleet turned around, four days passed, according to the schedule, the army of the Mughal Empire also rushed to the outside of Goa, Lu Xiangsheng immediately ordered all 300,000 troops to board the ship, rushed to Goa to support, for a time the South China Sea Fleet and the North Sea Fleet all the warships were almost crowded with the Ming army, densely scared to death, fortunately, at the end of last year, the South China Sea Fleet replenished 50 super battleships, otherwise the two fleets really could not transport away 300,000 troops.

Qin Yiming was looking forward to the Mughal Empire's army attacking the city, but after waiting for three days, their siege equipment had not yet been built, but an unexpected person suddenly entered Goa City, this turned out to be Hou Shilu, the commander of the First Army of the Expeditionary Force!

Damn, didn't you say five days, why did you run over in three days!

Fortunately, it was not the main army led by Lu Xiangsheng who came, but the 50,000 soldiers of the First Army of the Expeditionary Force, who were ordered to come to assist in defending the city, that is, he still had the opportunity to make meritorious contributions.

Qin Yiming is in a hurry at this moment, he can't wait to run out of the city to drown, he has been grinding for so long to build a siege machine, can he still fight well?