What Nanjing sent was a report of the expeditionary force in Nanyang. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The expeditionary force led by Luo Zhang is sweeping across the entire South Seas.

In fact, after the defeat of the naval battle of Ambuna Island, Malacca and Batavia were conquered by the Ming army one after another, the Dutch had lost the ability to resist, and their real fortresses were only Malacca and Batavia, and the rest of the place were small trading posts, and even the first two were destroyed by the Ming army, not to mention that these even had few garrisons, and they were scattered in small strongholds that could not support each other on the islands. The huge Ming fleet only needed to bombard port by port, and then land and receive it port by port, and by the end of Yang Fengfeng's report, the entire Dutch population in Java and Sumatra and the nearby islands had been completely wiped out.

In addition to the plunder income of about 30 million dragon yuan for the Ming Empire government, there were also a large number of fixed assets such as oil fields, rubber plantations, sugar cane plantations, etc., which were estimated at about 40 million dragon yuan, and there were almost 15,000 prisoners of war......

Or it can also be said that slaves.

"Your Highness wants them to build the road?"

Feng Zhen said.

"Of course, I'm not interested in feeding them in vain, I'm going to dig a tunnel through the bottom of the mountain in Kipshi, which must be about three or four miles long, so that the train doesn't need to climb up the mountain, just pass through the tunnel directly under the mountain, it is estimated that it is impossible for such a large project not to kill one or two thousand people, since this is the case, let these ghosts do it."

After Yang Feng finished speaking, he said to the attendants: "Immediately send an order to Nanjing, bring all the prisoners of war here, and then give Luo Zhang an order to let him catch more brown slaves in Nanyang, as for how to find a slave trader to teach him, all brown slaves must be castrated according to the old rules, and then they will also be sent to the north." Next, we still have too much work to build roads, after taking Xi'an, we must continue to attack Longyou, and Guanlong Road must also be repaired on a large scale, not to mention paving the railway, at least we must first repair it to the extent that it can pass through heavy carriages. ”

After capturing Xi'an, he had to attack westward with all his might, and his goal was to fight all the way to the Tianshan Mountains, to Shanshan to dig that huge sodium saltpeter mine, and then to start large-scale industrial production of nitric acid, and then to make explosives, which fully evolved from the gunpowder age to the explosives age.

In this way, Guanlong Road, that is, the road from Guanzhong through Liupan Mountain to Longyou must be repaired, although the real transportation in the future will have to rely on the railway, but I am afraid that at least ten years, he will not be able to build the railway to Shanshan, so in the short term he has to rely on the road.

In the same way, this kind of work also requires a large number of dead people, and it is best to do it by slaves, just grab brown slaves on a large scale from Nanyang, of course, not do it yourself, hire pirates, provoke wars in different religious countries to buy prisoners of war, these Western slave traders in Africa commonly used methods, can be transplanted to Nanyang, not only to catch slaves for themselves but also to reduce the population of Nanyang on a large scale to facilitate Han immigration, why not do this kind of good thing?

In fact, he's been doing it all these years.

The use of slaves in the Ming Dynasty has been very common, not only those mines owned by Yang Feng himself, but also the use of these slaves in private mines, there were people who bought black slaves before, but then after the brown slaves began to be introduced in large quantities, no one immediately bought black slaves. After all, the cost of shipping here from Africa is much higher, buying one black is enough to buy three browns, but no matter how good a black one is, it is definitely not as good as three browns, of course, whether it is black or brown, it must be castrated, not to say that it is completely cut, it is the same as Yinren, just two eggs, so that basically nothing is affected.

In fact, at this time, the Chinese population was not much, the pre-war registered population was only more than 20 million, plus the non-registered will not exceed 100 million, and this should be counted as the entire country, including the northwest and northeast snow region of all places combined, in fact, to really count Yang Feng's current control area, the total population is less than 40 million, the use of slaves is a very inevitable choice, after all, Yang Feng's special land system is there, there will be no bankrupt peasants forced to go to the mine to risk death to make money.

They don't even like to go to some factories.

At least for a short time.

In this case, the bloodiest primitive accumulation of the industrial age began with the slaves, which is a good thing to kill two birds with one stone, there are tens of millions of brown slaves in the South Seas, and there are tens of millions of Japanese slaves next to it, and there are countless white slaves outside, there is no shortage of slaves after the Ming Dynasty, and the British sweatshops still have to pay wages to workers, and these slaves do not need to be paid.

What a wonderful thing!

In this way, the order of the Prison Lord was immediately sent to Nanjing.

Yang Feng continued the next battle.

Because it was impossible to supply the two armies for the operation of the logistics transportation across the Kunshan Mountains, the task of attacking to the west was entrusted to the First Army, and the Fourth Army was transferred to the defense, defending the transportation line from Luoyang to Shaanzhou, and the main task was to suppress bandits.

But one army is enough.

The Ming army now has four infantry brigades, a cavalry brigade, and a heavy artillery brigade, and the total strength is almost 30,000, and the Qing army has suffered heavy losses after a series of battles.

The next day, an infantry brigade of the Ming army arrived at Hangu Pass first.

Here is actually a canyon between two mountains, the length is almost more than ten miles, the left side of the Yellow River on the right side of the Yellow River, the Qing army's defense layout is still the old rules, the middle of the city is the main city, the two sides of the mountain fortress are supplemented, the three are each other's horns, an east-west city wall connects the three, completely lock this only way to the west, but also the Qing army's last line of defense against the enemy outside the door, because once the Hangu Pass is conquered by the Ming army, the next step is to kick the gate Tongguan in the pass, that is the battle of the door.

The Ming army, which arrived first, did not attack.

This place is not easy to fight, because the heavy artillery has not been able to pass through the Kunshan Mountain, the Ming army only has light artillery, and the light artillery is definitely not able to bombard Hangu Pass, including light rockets are not playful, only heavy rockets can do, but the problem is that Hangu Pass is in the canyon, but also in the middle of the canyon, the Ming army's rocket artillery must slowly move forward along the rugged road in the canyon, and then be hit by the Qing army as a target, which is obviously useless, so Hangu Pass needs a new cannon......

"Human cannon, secondary preparation!"

A solemn voice sounded in front of Hangu Pass.

Well, the new artillery of the Ming army is their supreme commander.

Less than thirty zhang away from Hangu Pass, Prince Yang stood proudly wielding a huge meteor hammer, and the cannonballs fired in three directions in front of him at the same time continued to stir up dust around him, and occasionally the cannonballs that entered his defense range fell to the ground, and the meteor hammer above his head became faster and faster, gradually turning into a black afterimage, like an umbrella covering the top of his head.

"Human cannon, fire!"

Prince Yang said solemnly.

At the same time, his right arm suddenly reached forward, the iron chain in his hand was released, and the meteor hammer that was the size of a water tank suddenly flew out, and went straight to Hangu Pass with a piercing whistling sound, and smashed on the city wall almost in the blink of an eye, and the huge force smashed the rammed earth and brick city wall into a large area at once, and the big iron ball like a water tank smashed directly into the rammed earth of the city wall.

In the fortress on the mountain on the right, Nian Qianyao, who personally supervised the battle, subconsciously wiped his face.

This demon is too vicious.

At this moment, a terrifying flame at the city wall that had been hit suddenly expanded like a monster drilled out of the ground, and a section of the city wall at least five or six zhang long instantly turned into pieces that rose to the sky, and then an explosion sounded as if the sky was collapsing, and even the ground under his feet trembled violently.

"Huh?!"

Nian Qianyao was dumbfounded.

Well, there's gunpowder in there.

Prince Yang was very satisfied with lifting a giant meteor hammer from under his feet, took out a match and rubbed the woodpipe fuse on it, and then waved it again, this iron ball weighed about more than 600 catties, but it was stuffed with more than 200 catties of gunpowder, not to mention the city wall of Hangu Pass, even if it was smashed on the wall of Jubaomen, it was estimated that it could be blown up, when the Taiping army attacked Nanjing, it was loaded with a coffin of gunpowder to blow up the Yifeng Gate, and their coffin of inferior black powder was not much stronger than his iron cylinder potassium nitrate mixed with aluminum powder gunpowder.

Less than ten seconds later, a second giant meteor hammer flew out.

Almost at the same time, the city gate of Hangu Pass was also opened, a large number of Qing soldiers ti bombs swarmed out, and there were more Qing troops who provided cover for them, it was obvious that Nian Qianyao could not let Yang Feng smash it like this, thirty zhang away to smash a target nearly three zhang high, that was almost not missed, no more, Yang Feng smashed ten meteor hammers, then this Hangu Pass did not have to be guarded, this thing is not only to kill the Qing army, just the broken bricks that were blown up to the sky, etc., are enough to smash a piece of flesh and blood within a range of dozens of zhang on both sides of the gap.

How long is that Hangu Pass?

However, the luck of the Qing army today is really bad.

The Qing army general who led the Qing army to kill Hanguguan looked at the top of his head in amazement, and the huge meteor hammer swept straight over his head with a whistling sound, and at the moment he turned around, it smashed above the city gate, and then he saw that the brick city wall turned into countless pieces and sprayed outward, and then the meteor hammer smashed in front of the city gate with a large piece of the city wall, just blocking the entire city gate, and dozens of Qing soldiers who were out of the city were buried alive at once.

At the same time, he saw the burning red dot on the meteor hammer.

"Run!"

This guy screamed desperately, running as fast as he could, and the hundreds of Qing soldiers around him also reacted immediately and fled frantically with horror on their faces.

And at that moment, a blaze exploded behind them. (To be continued.) )