After listening to Song Ding's words, Duan Fei nodded slightly and said with a smile: "You're right, the battlefield is changing rapidly, three hundred meters is nothing, not to mention that we still have an improved general cannon, reload the cannon, it's time to go." ”

"It's still going to be loaded...... Old Song opened his eyes innocently, although this Franc cannon is much lighter than the old Ming cannon, but it also weighs two or three thousand catties, and it has no wheels, so it is lying there in a big lump of dead ......

Duan Fei sent a few brocade guards to help, but it still took almost a moment to reload the two cannons and put them in the carriage, seeing everyone's sweaty appearance, Duan Fei couldn't help but smile slightly, Lao Song said well, the new Franc cannon is really much easier to move, which is far better than the original Franc cannon.

After loading the cannons, everyone continued on the road, accompanied by the sound of waves on the river, and gradually disappeared into the darkness......

Duan Fei left the capital on August 13, arrived in Suzhou on the evening of the 15th, came to Hangzhou on the 16th, arrived in Ningbo on the 17th, and returned to Hangzhou on the 18th.

When he remembered it, the tide of Qiantang had already receded, but he looked at it again in the morning, and it was a worthwhile trip.

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Zong Shi and his subordinates are hidden on a small island between Dayangshan and Xiaoyangshan outside Hangzhou Bay, where there are many islands and reefs, and the big ships of the government dare not approach without anyone to guide them, but the ships of the Japanese and smugglers have long been familiar with this sea area, and their movements are unhindered, drinking water here is not a problem, and it is close to the land, which is convenient for obtaining food from the mainland, and it is also convenient to go out to raid and plunder coastal states and counties.

After the sacking of Ningbo and the defeat of Guo Zhen, the strength increased greatly, there were thousands of more people under his command, the ships and artillery have multiplied, and no one on the East China Sea can be said to be able to compete, everyone shouted to loot Shanghai again, sack Songjiang, and even Jiaxing and Shaoxing at the same time to celebrate the achievement, but did not mention Suzhou and Hangzhou, that is because Suzhou is located inland for the Japanese Invaders, and the Japanese have never penetrated so far, and Hangzhou has a long bell mouth, which is getting narrower and narrower, and the raid is basically hopeless, and a big city like Suzhou and Hangzhou has high walls and thick gates, There are not tens of thousands of people who don't even think about it.

However, the goal of Zongshi has already crossed Shanghai and Songjiang. When he returned to Ningbo from Shaoxing, there were two brave Ming thousand households with soldiers who wanted to intercept and kill this group of arrogant Japanese robbers, and as a result, two hundred people against two thousand people, did not damage one person, but killed the other party to a big defeat, two thousand households were killed on the spot by Zong Shi and his men, they chased the defeated soldiers all the way into Ningbo City, and looted this ancient city again.

With such an experience, it is no wonder that the sect set up the idea of Hangzhou and Suzhou, if the plan is thorough, as long as you rush into the city gate, the flower world in the city, isn't it at the mercy of other sects? Ming defenders? No matter how many sheep there are, they don't put them in the eyes of Zongshi!

After the defeat of Guo Zhen, it takes time to count the battlefield and distribute the spoils, as well as balance the forces within the Japanese Invaders, and after the great victory, the Japanese Invaders also need to relax for a few days.

This time, the Ming government's response was so fast that Zong Shi was caught off guard, and the last time Guo Zhen and the Qin cha surnamed Wang arrived in Jiangnan after almost ten days.

Qin Cha took the elite of the five thousand brocade guards - the Golden Bull Guard, into Suzhou City, which made Zong Shi hesitate, he had never heard of Duan Fei's name, but some of his Han people knew that Duan Fei was powerful, they told Zong that the five thousand Golden Ox Guards were equipped with muskets, and they had beaten the rebellious White Lotus Sect in Shaanxi with five thousand to tens of thousands, without losing one person, and these five thousand Golden Ox Guards could not be compared with ordinary land reclamation soldiers.

The musket has not yet become popular on a large scale in Japan, not to mention that Zongshi has only seen old-fashioned muskets, and he doesn't care much about the achievements of the Taurus Guard, the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are so vulnerable, how powerful can those rebellious farmers be? If it is replaced by his sect, it may be ten thousand enemies!

However, since that damn Qincha stayed in Suzhou, presumably Suzhou's defense will be much stricter, and it will be much more difficult to infiltrate Suzhou, so should the target be changed to Hangzhou?

Zong set just started the idea of Hangzhou, but I heard that the damn Qin Cha actually went to Hangzhou, Zong Shi almost didn't give his nose crooked, for a few days, the news of the Qin Cha kept coming, Zong Shi made him confused, what the hell does this guy want to do!

Garrisoned in Hangzhou, divided troops to defend Songjiang, Shanghai and other places, Lord Qincha seems to intend to strictly defend every prefecture and county, but he clearly said that he does not plan to divide troops to garrison Hangzhou.

The time is approaching August 18, the tide of Hangzhou Bay is turbulent, and Zongshe does not dare to rashly do it, he is idle here, Lord Qincha is not idle, I heard that he made a big reform in Hangzhou through the prefect Shao Shijie, and encouraged businessmen to open factories in Hangzhou, so that businessmen from all over the country have responded, it is said that in order to cope with this situation, Datong Qian Zhuang transferred a large amount of cash to Hangzhou from Yingtian, Suzhou, Yangzhou, Zhenjiang, Shaoxing and other places, and a while ago made a lot of rich businessmen in Suzhou also went to Hangzhou with a large amount of cash......

The wealth of Jiangnan gathers in Hangzhou, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Zong Shi can't help but be a little tempted, if he loots Hangzhou, he will be able to get astronomical wealth, so that he will have the face to return to Kyoto to meet his master!

The Three Thousand Taurus Guard Musketeers were nothing in Zong Shi's eyes, and he began to secretly plan to sack Hangzhou, but he never said what was on his mind, because this plan was too crazy, and if he said it in advance, it would cause a lot of trouble.

In order to wait for the tide in Hangzhou Bay to subside somewhat, Zongshe tried to suppress the subordinates who had already clamored to attack Shanghai, but it was not a way to suppress it for too long, there was a group of Japanese leaders who had just taken refuge in Zongshi called Fuji Naoshiro, he was originally a well-known Japanese leader, and there were hundreds of Japanese Koukou under his command, and he was second only to Zongshe in the Zongshe Group, he didn't understand Zongshi's psychology of eating a full mouthful, and when he saw Zongshi's delay, he thought he was a bad seed, so he kept lobbying others, clamoring to attack Shanghai.

Although Shanghai is only a small county town, but it is built near the sea, the city wall is not high, although the county is not as rich as the big cities of Suzhou and Hangzhou, it is also very rich for the Japanese invaders, if you can loot Shanghai, maybe you can also loot Jiading and Kunshan by the way......

At the suggestion of his advisors, he decided to let Fuji Naoshiro go to Shanghai to test the strength of the Shu army's musket, so that he could assess the possibility of a surprise attack on Hangzhou, maybe this could also attract the attention of the Shu army and shift the focus of defense to the mouth of the Yangtze River.

In this way, Naoshiro Fuji took his old subordinates and those who lobbied, a total of about 300 people, and drove away in a dozen small boats......