In the following days, the wharves of Shangyuan Port were busy.

More than 600 well-trained officers and men of the naval division rushed to the shipbuilding workshop from Baoshanwei and Longtan Qianhusuo, and under the leadership of three newly promoted captains, they boarded two brand-new 700-ton ocean-going transport ships and maintained a new 500-ton warship, and immediately began adaptation training in nearby waters.

The new officers and men in the barracks who were about to go out of the camp stopped their daily training, and the officers and men of each battalion were given the opportunity to take two days off in turn.

In the depths of the wharf, the military depot area hidden among the green trees and green bamboos was heavily guarded, and the 300 officers and men of the pro-guard battalion and the 500 members of the wharf guard team were all dispatched to transport 2,170 tons of copper, 850 tons of tin ingots, and 1,400 tons of lead bars scattered in different places to the B bunker for unified storage.

Subsequently, Guo Zhongjun, the chief of the guard, led 200 guards to divide more than 300 tons of rice, corn, bacon, sausages and other specialties purchased from Tianshu Pavilion into three parts and send them to Ziyangguan, Ziyang Wuguan and Hushan Main Courtyard respectively, and then transferred 150 tons of tightly packed banknote printing paper from the warehouse of the old printing factory in the East Courtyard to the C-shaped warehouse of the ordnance center.

Four days later, at midnight, Zhu Daolin, who had disappeared for many days, quietly returned to the empty A-shaped warehouse, and in less than ten minutes, rows of wooden boxes and cardboard boxes of different specifications occupied the entire space.

These wooden boxes and cardboard boxes contain 210,000 sets of military uniforms of the Ming Navy, 80,000 sets of black police training uniforms and black training shoes, 100,000 sets of jungle camouflage training uniforms and 200,000 pairs of Type 07 military training shoes for the army, as well as 5 million sets of military rank and branch insignia for the navy and army, 4.5 million silver military emblems and 22 million specially customized mirror copper buckles and other items.

Zhu Daolin brought back almost all the military supplies stored in the warehouse of the Qixia Northern Suburbs Printing Company.

Zhu Daolin, who was deeply tired, let out a sigh, glanced at the 40 bundles of custom embroidered spring knives tied with green canvas straps at his feet, gently opened the hidden warehouse door and flashed out, locked the door reflexively, and then slowly walked along the dark wall foot to the hill behind, stopping twice on the way to hold his breath. Evading the two groups of elite guards, they silently ascended the densely vegetated hill and returned to the main courtyard of Tiger Mountain along a specially opened path.

October 25, the fifth year of Chongzhen, heavy snowfall, December 6, 1632 in the Western calendar, Monday.

The northern frontier of the Ming Empire was already stormy and snowy at this time. Freezing three feet, the Jiangnan area is also cold and biting with frost.

To the concern of countless farmers, all the ditch ponds were frozen with several inches of ice, but there was not a single snow on the sunny and cloudy sky.

This extremely rare vision has made countless people panic and uneasy, and rumors of "a severe drought in the coming year" and "there will be a locust plague" have risen sharply, and the price of rice in Jiangnan, which has finally returned to normal, has risen again.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the warm sun was shining.

Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the busy Shangyuan Port, and 3,000 soldiers of the New Army wearing black steel helmets and green wool overcoats lined up. In the midst of all the attention, the following teams boarded the ship one after another.

Hundreds of happy households, women from Qinglou and representatives of various industries who came from the city crowded the wharf with bamboo baskets filled with boiled eggs and rice cakes and cakes, and delivered gifts to the officers and soldiers who walked by.

What made people feel even more helpless was that none of the new officers and men received gifts from the people, except for the constant thanks, and the officers in shiny chain mail had to step forward, explain loudly to the people again and again, and then speed up to catch up with their troops and quickly board the ship.

Under the canopy of the military dock.

Zhu Daolin, who was wearing a steel helmet and a black coat. At this time, he was still talking in a low voice with the Jinling nobles who saw him off, and few people knew that Zhu Daolin led the army north this time. I don't know who spread the news, and it attracted so many people to see them off.

Wu Jingxian grabbed Zhu Daolin's hand tightly and told him for a while, and then retreated to the side of Xuanqing Daochang and the others, sighing while whispering about Zhu Daolin's northern expedition.

The reluctance in the hearts of these elders is not necessarily less than that of Zhu Daolin's family on the other side, although Zhu Daolin, who has been doing his own thing for a long time, often leaves. It's not uncommon to walk for ten days and a half months, but none of them are as worrying and disappointing as today.

Zhang Gongwei withdrew her gaze from the crowd surging outside the cordon, took over the topic of Zhao Zhilong and said to Zhu Daolin:

"I'm afraid the disaster situation in Shandong is even more serious than what Xin Chengbo said, and it is very difficult to raise military rations...... Daolin, you have to be prepared. Relying only on the four seas commercial banks in Beijing and Tianjin Wei, I am afraid that it will not be able to solve the problem of food and clothing for 30,000 soldiers! ”

Zhu Daolin nodded: "Uncle Zhang, don't worry, the little nephew has a way to solve the food problem, and within half a month, Baoshanwei's transport fleet will definitely be able to return to Shangyuan Port, and then Uncle Zhang and Brother Dezhong can only lead the soldiers under their command to board the ship lightly." ”

"Look, look! It's good to be with a rich man, and I don't even have to worry about food and grass when I march and fight, why don't I have this blessing? Zhao Zhilong complained sourly.

Everyone chuckled, Zhang Gongwei looked at the two sons in military uniforms behind him with a smile, and felt very relieved, he had made up his mind to send his youngest son Zhang Deyi to Zhu Daolin to study, maybe he could follow Zhu Daolin to create a great career in the future.

Xu Hongji was in a very good mood, and the anti-bandit operation launched by his two guards with a total of 8,000 officers and men has lasted for 25 days, and he has benefited immensely from the powerful power of the new naval guns and flintlock guns.

No matter how fierce the outlaws, under the intense fire of artillery and flintlock guns, the result is one - corpses are strewn all over the ground, and rivers of blood are flowing!

So far, Xu Hongji's various departments have handed over more than 700 taels of gold, silver and jewelry, and more than 70 ships have been seized from various things sent back to the base camp.

The brilliant achievements of the various units of the suppression of bandits and the good news sent by the generals one after another made Xu Hongji establish an unprecedentedly strong confidence, and he had a hunch that it would be a hundred times easier to fight north with the fleet under Zhu Daolin's command than he had previously speculated.

As long as he took advantage of the strength of the combined fleet's ships and guns, cut off the retreat of the tens of thousands of rabble of the rebellious Kong Youde, and then launched a fierce artillery bombardment of the rebel-occupied city of Dengzhou, he would definitely be able to bring himself unprecedented and outstanding military feats as Zhu Daolin expected.

Seeing that the soldiers under his command had boarded the ship, Zhu Daolin apologized to the seniors, walked alone to his wife and concubine with tears in his eyes, shook the hand of his beloved wife Xiaoying and told him a few words, turned to Xu Fu and Ruyan, who were silently crying, and comforted him in a low voice, and finally stretched out his hands, pulled Liu Rushi and Gu Mei, who were full of tears, to his side, gently wiped away the tears on their faces, and told them to pay attention to their bodies, pay attention to keeping warm, practice the piano and chess skills if they have nothing to do, and wait for the triumphant return to take the school exam.

After saying goodbye reluctantly, Zhu Daolin returned to the elders to say goodbye one by one, and then led the guards to board the ship, and the crowd suddenly burst into earth-shattering cheers.

Standing on the battleship with a flaming red battle flag and white sails, Zhu Daolin solemnly saluted the tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians on the wharf.

Tens of thousands of excited people desperately waved their hands and shouted blessings, cheers and blessings one after another.

The officers and men, who were deeply inspired, spontaneously walked to the edge of the ship, faced the fathers and villagers who were cheering from the heavens below, held their heads high, and saluted in unison.

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