Zhu Dadian was also considerate, and immediately agreed, and ordered all parts of Shandong to vigorously raise soil and nitrate, and send it to Fushan in accordance with Yu Xiaotian's request.

In order to reduce transportation costs, Yu Xiaotian simply built a refining workshop in Fushan, directly refining soil nitrate into refined fire nitrate on the spot, and also produced by-products, that is, edible salt, which can be resold on the spot for profit, and refined nitrate has become the most important raw material for the production of black powder.

Of course, this is all gossip, don't say it, in short, Yu Xiaotian tried his best to pull out all kinds of things he needed from Zhu Dadian's hands, although it was far from enough to make up for his investment, but if he could pay less, he would pay less.

After the official army besieged Dengzhou City at the end of September, they began to attack Dengzhou City, but because Dengzhou City was strong and artillery, the rebels had a large number of troops, and the official army was frustrated several times and failed to achieve much results.

Of course, the big losses were still those Shandong soldiers and Zhejiang soldiers, they had no cash weapons to use, and could only use the most primitive methods to attack the city, so under the artillery fire of the rebels, they suffered great losses.

The situation of the Yu family army is different, they have strong firepower, although they failed to break through Dengzhou City, but the most loss is only some ammunition, the loss of personnel is not very large, mainly under the artillery fire of the rebels in the city.

But the rebels also suffered a lot of losses, but wherever the Yu family army attacked the city, the rebels suffered heavy casualties, and the defense line could be said to be precarious.

In order to hold Dengzhou City, the rebels have also repeatedly gone out of the city to attack the official defense line, breaking through the official defense line several times, and also robbing a number of official and military materials and grain.

However, the defense line where the Yu family army was stationed has never been attacked by the rebels, as long as the place where the Yu family army is located, it is the place of death demarcated by the rebels, and there will never be a rebel who dares to attack the defense line of the Yu family army, so of course Yu Xiaotian will not be scolded and reprimanded.

Later, in order to trap the rebels, Zhu Dadian could only use local methods to let the officials and soldiers dig a wide and deep trench around Dengzhou City, which completely blocked the rebels' counterattack.

But when the weather arrived in October, the temperature dropped sharply, and in mid-October, the first snow of the year fell in the sky, and the hideous face of the Xiaoice River period finally showed itself at this time.

However, a large number of officers and soldiers, because of insufficient supplies, until the snow, the officers and soldiers were still wearing single clothes, and they were shivering from the cold, so they could only warm themselves around the bonfire every day.

On the other hand, the soldiers of the Yu family army, they are really more damned than people, and the goods should be thrown, and the people of the Yu family army from the beginning of October, after the weather and temperature plummeted, they soon obtained a large number of cotton clothes and quilts, and each of the soldiers of the Yu family army changed into warm winter clothes and cotton boots, and even cotton gloves were distributed on their hands, and a pair of double-layer thick cotton gloves were issued to the generals at the worst.

Therefore, after the Yu family soldiers entered the winter, they did not suffer too many crimes, but relatively speaking, the soldiers of the Yu family army also suffered frostbite from time to time.

These soldiers of the Yujia army, the main force is actually mostly southerners, although there are also some northerners, but the proportion is low, these Fujian soldiers, although the winter in Fujian is not warm, and even snow, but relatively speaking, it is just an extreme climate, most of the time, the temperature in Fujian will still be above freezing.

By the end of October, Yu Xiaotian had found that among the soldiers under his command, many people began to have chilblains on their hands, feet and faces, which made him really feel a little distressed.

However, this kind of frostbite is not too strict, and this time the battle in the north is actually an opportunity for these southern soldiers to see the winter operations in the north and temper their ability to fight in the winter in the north.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian asked the soldiers to conduct regular running drill training in the morning every day in the camp, so that the soldiers could move their bodies as much as possible, keep their blood flowing smoothly, and rub their hands and faces more when they were fine, and pat their whole body to improve their adaptability to the cold.

In addition, he prepared a relatively sufficient amount of cotton clothes in advance and distributed them early, so that the officers and soldiers did not suffer too much.

But even so, Yu Xiaotian felt that things could not continue to drag on like this, in history, the official army did not defeat the rebels until after December, but he didn't want to continue to delay like this.

Because at this time he received a letter from Xiong Wencan, in which Xiong Wencan tactfully asked him that it was best to lead his troops back to Fujian, because after he took office in Liangguang, he encountered the problem of pirates, especially in Guangdong, where pirates are numerous, and there are hundreds of pirates of all sizes.

These pirates did not dare to go to the coastal areas of Fujian to cause trouble, and now they basically rely on their activities along the coasts of Guangdong and Guangxi, and even go to the coastal areas of Qiongzhou to loot.

After Xiong Wencan took office, he sorted out the big pirates over there, there were one or twenty shares, and there were forty or fifty medium-sized ones, although there were also sailors in Guangdong, but there was no need to think about the combat power, and they were not able to deal with these pirates at all.

Moreover, these pirates were entrenched on various islands along the coast of Guangdong, and colluded with some local tyrants and gentry along the coast, coming and going without a trace, and the officials and soldiers sent troops to suppress them, so they led people to escape into the sea.

This time, the imperial court transferred Xiong Wencan to serve as the governor of Liangguang, in addition to the intention of commending him, another idea is to want Xiong Wencan to solve the pirate problem in Liangguang, to put it bluntly, let Xiong Wencan pacify the sea of Liangguang.

After Xiong Wencan took office, he was also full of confidence, and he sacrificed the banner of Zhao'an in the past, but although he recruited a few pirates, these pirates of Zhao'an could not compare with Yu Xiaotian at all.

In this way, Xiong Wencan found that Zhao'an's trick didn't seem to be very effective in Liangguang, and after thinking about it, he still thought that he could only take hard measures, and it was best to completely eradicate and pull it down.

The biggest problem on the Liangguang side is that the strength of the naval division is too poor, speaking of which, there are 20,000 or 30,000 naval troops on paper, but after his examination, in fact, there are only 6,000 or 7,000 soldiers, and most of them are old and weak, and there are more than 300 warships on paper, but in fact there are less than 200, and most of them are old and broken ships.

What's even more infuriating is that among these warships, the usable ships have not been used as warships, but have become some military generals' private merchant ships, and the sailors have also become their personal sailors, specially for them to run the sea, do sea trade, and make a lot of money.

So although he wanted to use tough measures, but there were no soldiers at hand, and no ships were available, he finally thought of Yu Xiaotian, and now the Ming Dynasty only has a strong sailor force in the hands of Yu Xiaotian, and only Yu Xiaotian's sailor has the strength to solve these pirates.

So Xiong Wencan was in a hurry, so he wrote a letter to Yu Xiaotian in his personal name, sent someone directly to the front line of Denglai, found Yu Xiaotian, and handed the letter to Yu Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian was waiting for Xiong Wencan's letter, for so many years, he has never stretched his hand to Guangdong and Guangxi, because he was wearing an official skin, and he was embarrassed to stretch his hand too long with great fanfare, so he could only use covert means to stretch his hand over and move along the coast of Guangzhou.

Among these dozens of pirates, at least a few of them were secretly controlled by him, and Yan Siqi and Chu Cailao's two groups of people were actually his secret chess, and these two groups secretly obeyed his call and maintained contact with him.

Therefore, on the Liangguang side, Yu Xiaotian is very familiar with the situation over there, and every month the intelligence department has a detailed summary, which will be handed over to him and report to him the main things that happened along the coast of Liangguang.

Yu Xiaotian's ambition is not to control the coast of Fujian at all, he will be satisfied if he occupies Taiyuan Island, he wants to be the real king of China's sea, and the entire coastal waters of China must be included in his pocket.

Even this is not enough to describe Yu Xiaotian's ambition, and now Yu Xiaotian's ambition cannot even be satisfied with the Central Plains, his greater wish is to use his sea power to reach out to all parts of the world and establish a large area of colonies after taking China, which is the long-term future he planned.

Now he has only just taken the first step, stretched out his hand to Shandong, and gained a firm foothold in the Denglai area, and then he will use Xiong Wencan to completely include the sea surface along the coast of Liangguang, including Qiongzhou Mansion (Hainan Island), into his own pocket, and this time he will use Daming's money to achieve his goal.

So he can go back now, but if he wants to go back, the premise is to solve the problem of the Dengzhou rebels first, and only after sweeping this side can he turn back to Fujian and start using troops against Liangguang.

So he finally decided, don't wait, he sent Xiong Wencan to deliver the letter to return to Guangdong first, he promised to end the war here, he will rush back to Fujian immediately, but the premise is that the war here is over, Xiong Wencan's side must first lay the groundwork for the court and let him go back, otherwise, the one sitting in the court, in case he is happy, leave him and his soldiers and horses in the north, transfer him to deal with Jiannu outside the customs, or transfer him to Shanxi, Henan and other places to suppress bandits, then it will be ruined!

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