In the spring of March, the grass grows and the warbler flies, it is the time when the spring is brilliant, the colorful flags are flying everywhere in the east camp, it is very lively, the army in the port gathers, it is mighty and majestic, the warships on the sea are dense, the momentum is magnificent, and you know that the Ming soldiers are going to go out again at a glance.

This time, Zhu Cijiong is still the royal driver, there is no way, in the face of the same huge Mughal Empire, the Ming Dynasty not only smashed into the real money worth 500 million taels, but also invested more than one million troops on land and sea, it can be said that this is the Ming Dynasty's hard work, how can he rest assured if he doesn't go.

He originally thought that the Mughal Empire would be able to hold out for at least half a year after being cut off from external supply, but he never thought that the entire Mughal Empire would be in chaos in less than two months, although Shah Jahan immediately sent Aurangzeb to lead an army of 200,000 all the way to quell the rebellion, but the troubled times have become complete, and it will take at least a year or so for the Mughal Empire to resume production, that is to say, in this year, the Mughal Empire will inevitably have soaring prices, poor livelihoods, and fragile people, and it is a good time to attack!

It took such a big price to create the current situation, and Zhu Cijiong naturally couldn't let go of this opportunity, so he decided to immediately launch an offensive against the Mughal Empire.

The collision between such a huge two empires naturally cannot be a matter of one or two days or even a month or two, just the preliminary preparation will take at least a few months, you must know that the predecessor of the Mughal Empire, the Timurid Empire, has been preparing for nearly half a year before attacking the Ming Dynasty, fortunately, after a delay on the road for three months, the emperor of the Timurid Empire fell ill and died, otherwise it is really hard to say what the war would be.

However, this time the beginning was reversed, it was the Ming Dynasty that wanted to attack the Mughal Empire, not the Mughal Empire to attack the Ming Dynasty, and since there were ships, the sea route had become a shortcut, and it didn't take much time to get to the Mughal Empire from the eastern camp of the Ming Dynasty.

This time, Zhu Cijiong's preparations were also relatively thorough, starting from the first month, the grain and grass baggage were constantly transported to Nanyang by train and steamer, and I don't know how many materials were piled up in Ava City in Donghu and Xingcheng Port in Daming.

The Timurid Empire was a mountain of grain, horses and sheep into a sea, and the Ming Dynasty could pile up several mountains with grain and grass this time, and countless shells and bullets were prepared, so it can be said that Zhu Cijiong's preparations were more thorough than Timur's.

As for the number of troops, not to mention, Timur only dispatched two or three hundred thousand people at that time, he was ready to put a million troops into battle one after another after the Ming Dynasty gained a foothold, and Zhu Cijiong was ready to invest a million troops at one time, and the navy was counted!

It is inevitable that such a major action shocked the government and the opposition, fortunately, Zhu Cijiong has established absolute authority in the Ming Dynasty, just like the original Taizu and Chengzu, the government and the opposition dare to contradict him and really can't find a few, Liaodong, Northwest, Dongfan, Dongying, Monan and other previous battles of the great victory, so that the entire Ming Dynasty and the opposition almost fell into the blind worship of the emperor, the civil and military officials were just shocked by the huge amount of this hand, but no one dared to dissuade him.

It is precisely because of the unprecedented huge handwriting that almost all the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty rushed to the East Camp to see them off, the whole port can be described as a crown of covers, high-ranking officials are everywhere, and when the first legion of the Praetorian Guard and the Tianxiong Army all boarded the battleship, Zhu Cijiong directly waved goodbye to the civil and military officials who came to see him off, and resolutely stepped on the Daming and began another journey.

Behind him, Zhu Youzhen, the king of letters, and Xu Guangqi, the prince of Zhuguo, knelt down together with hundreds of civil and military officials, and shouted in unison: "Congratulations to the emperor, the flag is victorious, the territory is expanded, the prestige of our country is raised, and the victory returns." “

It is natural to return with a big victory, after such careful planning, and so many troops have been invested, it is impossible for a Mughal Empire to take it down, and it is very likely that there will be greater gains, if the combined fleet of the anti-Habsburg alliance stays in Batavia honestly, if they dare to run out again and point fingers and wantonly interfere with the actions of the Ming Dynasty, then I'm sorry, even they have to clean up this time!

Because this war may be protracted, Zhu Cijiong brought the most accompanying officials this time since the previous expedition, not only Wang Zhengnan, the commander of Jinyiwei, Cao Huachun, the commander of Dongchang, but also Bi Maokang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Sun Yuanhua, the secretary of the Ministry of War, Cheng Guoxiang, the secretary of the household department, Wu Jianye, the envoy of the general government, etc., and even the Guozi priest Huang Daozhou took the initiative to ask for Ying, asking to accompany him, his excuse was to go by the way to see the Chinese teaching situation in Goa and Mysore and other places, in fact, he couldn't help the restlessness in his heart, Want to participate in this feat of expanding the territory, the Mughal Empire, what a territory!

This time, Zhu Cijiong prepared to launch an offensive against the Mughal Empire in two ways, the east route started from the city of Ava in Donghu and automatically advanced slowly to the west, while the south route started from Goa City in Portugal, first dealt a fatal blow to the main army of the Mughal Empire, and then went all the way north to Delhi, the capital of the Mughal Empire.

The huge combined fleet slowly advanced on the endless sea, Zhu Cijiong felt a burst of blood boiling, it began, it was finally about to start, the dream of many years was finally put into action, and the Ming Dynasty finally took the first step in the battle for hegemony at sea!

The first stop of the combined fleet was the Ming Dynasty's Xingcheng Port in the South Seas, in order to facilitate communication, in the early stage of the war, Zhu Cijiong prepared to sit in Xingcheng Port, using the telegraph network and fast sea communication there to command the two armies to advance, as for the later stage, it will depend on the progress.

Dongdaying is nearly 10,000 miles away from Xingcheng Port, if it is still the era of sailing ships, then this sea route alone has to sail for at least half a month to arrive, it is still in the case of a tailwind and smooth water, if the wind direction and water flow are not right, I am afraid that it will not be able to arrive in a month, now with a steamer, it is different, do not care about the wind direction and current, in five days, the combined fleet will arrive at Xingcheng Port on time!

At this time, Xingcheng Port can be said to be star-studded, and those who came to the port to greet not only Zheng Zhilong, the king of Zhennan, but also Cao Wenzhao, the chief general of the Ning Army, Mao Wenlong, the chief general of the Dongjiang Army, Zheng Zhihu, the chief general of the Nanyang Naval Division, Zheng Xing, the chief general of the South China Sea Fleet, and even the Portuguese governor of Goa, Conde, came.

Anyway, the Mughal Empire has sent troops to Goa, why did he come here? This thing doesn't want to escape!

As a member of the feudal general, he is not so timid, in fact, the protagonist of this Goa war is not him, as far as the more than 10,000 horses under his command have no impact on the war situation at all, the Ming Dynasty's million-strong army is the main force of this war, and he is only engaged in logistics at best.

At this time, Qin Yiming had already rushed to Goa in person, how could he, a Portuguese governor, fight with the commander of the Ming Empire, so he simply handed over the command of his army to Qin Yiming, and he ran to Xingcheng Port to welcome His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire!