Zhu Hongsan was very satisfied with this battle when he saw it at the back of the team, this is a modern war, and all resistance in front of iron and fire is futile. The Mongol horse team of Seng Lingqin in the Second Opium War verified this at the cost of 30,000 people.

After seeing that the enemy had run away, Zhu Hongsan ordered not to pursue. Then take people to the battlefield to watch the results. The ferocity of the war of hot weapons is incomparable to that of the war of cold weapons, and a large number of corpses have been beaten into pieces of flesh. The iron armor worn by the cavalry was shot through like gauze, and the submunitions passed through the body to form a hole the size of a sea bowl. hit the head and limbs and cut off directly.

Zhu Hong said to Qian Yong as he walked: "Four treasures, how is it?" It's not the same as cold weapons, right? ”

Qian Yong's face turned pale and said, "Yes, sir." I didn't expect the artillery to be so terrible, we only have thirty-six, and if there are three hundred, the 100,000 troops on the opposite side will not be able to attack it. ”

Zhu Hongsan said with a smile: "You are weapon-only, weapons are powerful, and it is always people who use weapons." People don't have the fighting spirit and use any weapon. ”

Speaking of this, Zhu Hongsan remembered that the Beiyang Navy in the First Sino-Japanese War, when the tonnage and firepower were superior to the Japanese army, was actually blocked by the Japanese fleet in the base of Liugong Island, and finally had no way to sit and sink in the port, which is a good example of weaponism.

Repelled the cavalry of the left battalion, it was already evening, and Zhu Hongsan saw that there was no point in hurrying, so he ordered to stay in Yangzhuang Town for one night and leave tomorrow.

Nothing happened all night, and the next day I got up and hurried. The sky cleared, the snow of the previous day began to melt, and the roads were muddy. In addition, Zhu Hongsan's line of carts is a lot, and the gun cart weighs 1,000 catties, and he has to get down to push the cart after walking a short distance.

Zhu Hongsan's troops immediately turned into coolies, and coupled with the cold weather, they could only walk more than ten miles a day. Zhu Hongsan regretted it a little at this time, he knew that it was better to go with Ma Mingyuan and them in August. The Dong family sisters will be born there when they go, and they will be able to nourish their bodies for half a month. It's good now, it's too difficult to prevent the chasing soldiers from coming up from behind, and to fight against the natural weather.

But fortunately, the pursuers never came, and I don't know if they all ran away or were too scared to come. Anyway, no one was chasing after them, and although Zhu Hongsan's group was hard, they were still moving mile by mile.

In fact, Jin Dao * Ming returned to Wuchang on the same day, and said to Jin Shenghuan that he exaggerated the power of Zhu Hongsan's artillery hundreds of times, and what kind of cannon eroded hundreds of miles, etc., so frightened that Jin Shenghuan did not dare to send a second batch of pursuers.

Zhu Hongsan and his gang walked in the muddy water for half a month, and finally arrived in Xianning on the eighteenth day of the first lunar month. Xianning is a county seat, and it is also under the jurisdiction of Wuchang Prefecture. Set up camp in a dry spot outside the city. Zhu Hongsan informed him to rest for a few days, and this order was supported by the whole army.

Zhu Hongsan found Tong Yangjia and said, "Sir, let's go to the county town to have a look and buy some meat by the way." "All the way is pushed out by manpower, which is very consuming of food. Less than half of the meat is left.

Tong Yangjia nodded, and Zhu Hongyi took a few guards to the outside of Xianning City.

Xianning County is much smaller than Wuchang County, with about 20,000 people. However, this place is far away from Wuchang, and now it has not been harassed by Zuo Liangyu.

Zhu Hongsan and his entourage entered the city after paying the entrance fee, and a street connected the north and south gates. The streets are lined with shops, and business is booming. It seems that the war in the north did not spread here.

Zhu Hongsan wandered around casually for a while, and came to the Ma family shop that Ma Fu set up here. A few years ago, Zhu Hongsan ordered the caravan to go out, and at the same time, he tried his best to set up shops in various county towns, so as to make money and transmit information back in time.

I went to the shop to find the shopkeeper, and this shopkeeper was a son of the Ma family. Seeing Zhu Hongsan coming, he knelt down and said, "Ma Rong greets my uncle." ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded and asked, "When did my second brother pass by here?" Now there's news where they're going? ”

Ma Rong replied respectfully: "The second young master passed through Xianning on the ninth day of the eighth month, and the news from the first ten days has arrived in Changsha Mansion, saying that they are going to rest in Changsha Mansion for ten days. It's time for the villain to leave. ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "This is Mr. Tong, you accompany him to buy things, try to buy them, Xianning may not be able to buy all in a county, you can't go to Puqi to see it again." ”

Ma Rong led Tong Yangjia down to purchase without mentioning it.

Three days later, Tong Yangjia was purchased, and Zhu Hongsan and his entourage set off again. The food is easy to eat, mainly because the raw materials of gunpowder are not easy to get, and Tong Yangjia basically got all the saltpeter in the county for less than 500 catties. The last time the artillery fired a salvo, it used 300 catties of gunpowder. These saltpeters can make a hundred catties of gunpowder.

After packing up and heading south, the temperature warmed up and there was no snow for several days. The official road is almost dry. The speed along the way has increased a lot, and the mood of the crowd has improved a lot.

It was the second day of February when I arrived in Puqi County. Zhu Hongsan took three days off after camping outside the city. After all, it's been a month, and everyone has to rest.

Zhu Hongsan led Tong Yangjia and Zhu Hongyi to the county seat. I saw that all kinds of people were still wearing shabby clothes, but at least they were a little angry on their faces. Zhu Hongsan said: "This place is really peaceful, and the magistrate seems to be governing well." ”

Tong Yangjia said: "The main reason is that this is located in the hinterland of Huguang, and Liukou can't come here easily, plus Huguang is the land of fish and rice, and wealth cannot be talked about, and food and clothing can still be guaranteed." ”

Zhu Hongsan asked, "Do you know the news of the Liukou now?" ”

Tong Yangjia said: "I just went to the Ma family's shop, Li Zicheng occupied Xiangyang in the first month, and now I am back in Shaanxi. Now that Zhang Xianzhong is in Xiangyang, Zuo Liangyu has gone to Jiujiang. ”

Zhang Xianzhong in Xiangyang? It looks like it's going to fight Wuchang.

Zhu Hongsan sighed and said: "The people are hard to prosper, and the people are hard to die. It's not easy. After saying that, Zhu Hongsan was not in the mood to go down, so let them feel free to lead Zhu Hongyi back to the camp.

When I returned to the camp and saw my two children, I changed my mood and played with the little fish for a while. This girl is not at all like his sister Zhu Luo. Zhu Yu didn't move for a day, he could sit there for a day, and it seemed that he had grown up to be a quiet child.

didn't pay much attention to his third son, Zhu Huai and Zhu Hongsan. After all, he is a concubine, and he will leave him a family business that he will eat and drink without worrying in the future. His position is the Ma family brothers, and one day it is Zhu Hai's.

When he was playing with Xiao Yu'er, Wang Xiaobao came back and saw Zhu Hongsan step forward and said, "Sir, something happened." ”

Zhu Hongsan frowned, thinking that these guys were causing trouble again. "What's wrong?" he asked. Visiting a brothel again and not paying for it? ”

Wang Xiaobao said: "It's Mr. Qian, he took those splashes to the Qinglou and didn't give money, drank too much and said that he would have black money today." There was a conflict with the turtle slave, and the inspection department was brought to the yamen. ”

Zhu Hongsan snorted and said, "These guys are not enough to succeed and more than to lose, so it's good to let them suffer a little." After saying that, he didn't care about anything else, and continued to tease the little fish.

Wang Xiaobao saw that Zhu Hongsan was noncommittal and didn't dare to say anything, and slowly retreated.

In the next two days, Zhu Hongsan didn't care about Qian Fat, and on the morning of the fourth day, Zhu Hongsan ordered the team to set off, and Tong Yangjia asked on the side: "Lord, does Qian Lide care?" ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "I'll talk about it in the evening." ”

After the team walked ten miles, Zhu Hongsan ordered to set up camp. After dark, he led Qian Yong's battalion back to the outside of Puqi County.

Zhu Hongsan saw that it was the middle of the night, and said to Qian Yong: "Blasted the door open with a cannon for a while, and then rushed in to save Qian Fatzi, he should be locked up in the prison of the county government." After entering, send a few loud shouts to shout in Jiazi, the world is lucky. Put this basin on the head. ”

Tong Yangjia heard the suspense on the side, and hurriedly said: "Lord, that slogan was used by the Yellow Turban Army in the late Han Dynasty, and Li Zicheng used it to open the door to welcome the king, and the king did not pay for food when he came." ”

Zhu Hongsan's face turned red and scolded: "His grandmother's, I know that this is the slogan of that." Qian Yong, listen to what Mr. Tong said, go ahead and do it. ”

After a while, I heard several loud noises at the city gates, which spread far away in the night. Then I heard someone shouting, "Open the door to meet the king, and the king will not pay for the king!" "The King is here!"

This time, the county seat was like a hornet's nest exploded, and the cries and shouts continued one after another. About half an hour, Qian Yong came back. came to Zhu Hongsan and said: "Sir, the person has been saved, but it is ......"

Zhu Hongsan asked, "But what's wrong?" ”

"I also arrested the county order."

"I asked you to save people, what are you doing with the county order?"

Qian Yong said: "When we shouted at the south gate, everyone ran away from the north gate. When we arrived at the gate of the county office, we saw that the county magistrate had already knelt at the door with the whole family and said that he was going to surrender to the king. I don't think I can do it, so I'll take it out and let the chief see it, what should I do? ”

Zhu Hongsan scolded: "Damn, the Ming Dynasty is such an official, can he not lose the country?" Go and kill his whole family, wait, if you have a beautiful daughter, keep it. ”

Qian Yong was about to go down, and Tong Yangjia said on the side: "Lord, I want to go and see." ”

Zhu Hongsan asked: "What do corrupt officials and corrupt officials have to see, they can be killed." ”

Tong Yangjia said: "The lord doesn't know, there are too few literate people under me, and I want to keep him as a secretary for me." ”

Zhu Hongsan groaned: "You are in charge of logistics, he won't be corrupt, right?" ”

Tong Yangjia said with a smile: "Don't worry, I will supervise him, if the lord finds out, I am willing to share the crime with him." ”

When Zhu Hongsan heard Tong Yangjia say this, he naturally wanted to give his henchman's face, and said, "Okay, I'll leave it to Mr. Tong to deal with." ”

Then Zhu Hongsan saw that the beaten man with a blue nose and swollen face came back, Zhu Hongsan took Zhu Hongyi's horsewhip and stepped forward to smoke Qian Lide rolled all over the ground, screaming. After a while, Zhu Hongsan stopped his hand and said, "Zhu Hongyi, all the people in the family were beheaded, all the men in the family were killed, and the women were sold at the next stop." ”

Zhu Hongyi went down to deal with it.

Qian Fatzi knelt on the ground and hugged Zhu Hong's three thighs and cried, saying, "Big brother, I was wrong. I'll never go to a brothel again. ”

Zhu Hongsan scolded: "Damn money and fatty, this is what you said, if you go in the future, I will castrate you and make you a eunuch." ”

After processing, rush to ten miles away to assemble the brigade and set off.

After dawn, the county magistrate found that Zhu Hongsan and they were not rogues, but they seemed to be just businessmen, and they immediately came to their senses. scolded Zhu Hongsan and let Zhu Hongsan let himself go. If you don't let go, you can do whatever you want.

Zhu Hongsan was on fire, and angrily asked Zhu Hongyi to whip him ten times, almost killing him. But in the future, he will be honest, and he will no longer dare to scold Zhu Hongsan.

The team passed through Puqi County, passed Yanglou Town, and then went out of Wuchang Mansion, and Yueyang Mansion was in front. It has been more than 500 miles away from Wuchang. Zhu Hongsan can be regarded as completely calming down.