At this time, Annan actually made artillery, and there were Dutch people behind him, which already gave Zhu Cijiong a headache, but the next news from Menggen's Mansion gave him even more headaches, according to Wang Zhengnan's report, the Donghu Dynasty also had a small number of artillery and a small number of muskets!

What the hell is going on, we must find out, Zhu Cijiong immediately ordered to go all out to investigate.

This is actually not very difficult to check, Wang Zhengnan quickly found out, because in the first year of Chongzheng, the Dutch East India Company and the British East India Company set up branches in Donghu at the same time!

No wonder the Donghu Dynasty was so violent, it turned out that they had already hooked up with the European powers, if the Dutch and the British did not give them benefits, how could they allow people to set up branches on their own territory, it seems that this benefit is probably to buy muskets and artillery from them!

All this forced Zhu Cijiong to overturn all the original plans and start over, the so-called "lion and rabbit, also need to go all out", not to mention that Donghu and Annan are not rabbits, it seems that they must go all out.

He spread out the latest military deployment map of the Ming Dynasty on the table and studied it carefully.

For the sake of safety, at least 400,000 troops should be sent to deal with Donghu, and at least 200,000 troops should be sent to deal with Annan, that is to say, the army alone will send 600,000, and it is certainly unrealistic for these 600,000 troops to be transported by naval warships, and it is necessary to take the land route, and the problem of grain and grass supply must also be considered, Wanli's Ming-Burma War is a lesson, at that time the Ming Dynasty was not without an army, mainly because the supply of grain and grass was difficult, and it was recorded in the information of the Ministry of War: the southwest antarctic land has rugged mountain roads, the rivers are rushing, and rice is transferred, Stone freight rate to a thousand gold!

It must be an exaggeration to say that the freight cost of a stone of rice is 1,000 gold, which means that the cost of grain and grass transfer in the southwest antarctic border is extremely amazing, it is not very difficult to solve this problem, and the railway is directly repaired, just now the railway in the Monan grassland has been repaired, and the Dongcheng District of the capital has also been built, and the labor force of the railway is more, and with the mining of iron ore and coal in the Monan area, the problem of steel does not have to worry at all, and now the only thing to consider is the problem of the line.

Zhu Cijiong carefully studied the map, it is unrealistic to directly build the railway to Menggong Mansion, Yunnan is located in the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, not to mention, the vicinity of Menggong Mansion is even more lofty mountains, ravines are dense, with the current technology of the Ming Dynasty, it is impossible to build the railway over. It is relatively easier to build the railway to Siming Mansion in the north of Annam, although it is also mountainous, but it is not very high mountain, and there are fewer ravines, so the difficulty of building should not be very large, and the most important thing is that Siming Mansion is close to the coast, and you can also build a port, sea and land combined transportation, so it is more secure.

As for the army, the Dingliao Army and the Wuwei Army must be brought with them, because this time they will first build the railway and then start the war, and these two legions have gained experience in repairing the railway.

Then, the Tianxiong army and the Guanning army also had to bring it, because they were all first-class legions, and 50,000 cavalry were stationed east of the capital to guard this prisoner, as long as the infantry was summoned, and it would only be a matter of a day or two to transport them by rail.

In the end, Zhu Cijiong decided to take the First Legion of the Praetorian Guard and the Second Legion of the Frontier Guards to fight in person, needless to say, the First Legion of the Praetorian Guard has always been his personal guard, as for why he brought the Second Legion of the Border Guards, mainly because Ma Xianglin was a Xuanfu envoy before, and he also had to deal with those Tusi this time, and it was very helpful to take him to understand the situation of the Tusi.

As for the other legions, Sun Chengzong still led the Liaodong Army and the Dongjiang Army to guard the northern Xinjiang, with this Zhenguo Gong in the northern Xinjiang can ensure that there is no danger, the Qin army is ready to be transferred back to Shaanxi, there is the northwest frontier, there is no strong corps to sit in the town, the first corps of the border guard army is transferred to garrison the northern camp, as for the three reserve corps, let them be stationed back and forth in the Great Wall and fortress in the northern Xinjiang, it is regarded as training.

Personnel set, Zhu Cijiong began to issue an edict, people from all walks of life have pulled out, Zhu Cijiong did not order the 600,000 army to set off at the same time, at this time take the train to Nanzhili at most, if the 600,000 army and 700,000 prisoners are all piled up in Nanzhili, it will not be spread at all, and it will take so many people to work at the same time to build a section of the railway, you must know that 1.3 million people, even if they are lined up tightly in two rows, they can be hundreds of miles long, and the railway will be excavated for hundreds of miles at the same time!

He divided the personnel who built the railway into four groups, first transferred the Nanyang Naval Division and the Beiyang Naval Division to transport the Tianxiong Army and 150,000 Manchu and Mongolian prisoners to Siming Mansion and build a port, and then built the railway from Siming Mansion to Guilin Prefecture, and then the Nanyang Naval Division and the Beiyang Naval Division immediately turned around and transported the Guanning Army and 150,000 Manchu and Mongolian prisoners to Guangzhou Prefecture, and built a railway from Guangzhou Mansion to Guilin Prefecture, while the Liao Army escorted 250,000 peasant army prisoners to Nanzhili by train first, and set off from Nanzhili with the officials of the Ministry of Industry to build a railway bridge along the line to the south. In the end, the Wuwei army escorted 250,000 peasant prisoners to Nanzhili by train, starting from Jinling and repairing all the way to Guangzhou.

As for the First Army of the Praetorian Guard and the Second Army of the Border Guards, they will first assemble in the capital, wait for the railway to be repaired, and then take the train directly to Siming Mansion.

With this transfer, the entire Ming Dynasty was busy:

The Tianxiong Army, the Guanning Army and 300,000 Manchu and Mongolian prisoners began to assemble in the East Camp, and the Beiyang Naval Division and the Nanyang Naval Division also began to assemble in the port of the East Daying.

The Dingliao army and 250,000 peasant army prisoners also began to board the train and rush to Nanzhili, and for a time the entire railway line from northern Xinjiang to Nanzhili was full of trains full of Ming troops and prisoners, day and night, whistling by.

The Wuwei army also escorted 250,000 captives and began to assemble in the northern camp, and they had to wait for the Dingliao army to finish the shipment before they could set off for Nanzhili.

There are also machinery factories and steel factories of Daming Royal Machinery Group that have also begun to work day and night to make trains and rails, one by one trains have been built, more and more trains on the Jinjing Railway, one by one the rails have been cast, and the open space of the steel plant is full of mountains of rails!

In addition, the provincial and state capitals along the way have also begun to prepare stones and standard sleepers, and the planned railway line is full of mountains of materials, and officials at all levels have shown quite enthusiasm, and the repair of this railway can not only transport troops, but also have immeasurable benefits for the economic development of various places.

At this time, the busiest may be Zheng Zhilong, because most of the grain and grass of the Ming army and the prisoners who built the railway this time had to be transferred from the places under his jurisdiction, which was more than a million horses, and the amount of grain and grass needed could be imagined, and he was more tired than robbing a large caravan when he was a pirate, and no matter how big the caravan was, it was impossible to carry the grain and grass of millions of people!