Zheng Zhilong gave a few more instructions and then dispersed.

And Shen Lian also returned to his room and reported his itinerary to Zhu Youzhen.

When Zhu Youzhen received the news, he was reading the news from Liaodong.

To be exact, it should be news from the Northeast.

After the beginning of spring this year, the weather warmed up, and Zhu Kezhen led the soldiers to continue to move northeast, and at this time they had reached the vicinity of Xingkai Lake. Judging by the territory of later generations, they have already gone abroad, and two hundred miles to the south is the famous Vladivostok, and to the north is the easternmost part of the Heilongjiang River, which is not far from the border.

Zhu Kezhen meticulously inherited Zhu Youzhen's beliefs. There was only one thing in his head:

Territory! Territory! Or the territory!

In fact, as long as Zhu Youzhen's students are fanatical, they all have a fanatical paranoia about expanding the territory. In Zhu Youzhen's words, don't care if there is no one living now, let's take it first.

As the saying goes, if you occupy it for a long time, you will slowly become your own?

What's more, this huge northeast was originally Ming, and those who are not convinced and disobedient should go to mining.

So, in Zhu Kezhen's singing all the way, thousands of slaves were sent to the Saddle Steel Group, as for whether they can survive and how long they can live, it depends on the means of Fangzheng.

And Zhu Youzhen's attitude is also very clear, even if you fight, I will eat and drink enough, and the food and salary will be doubled. There is an additional bounty for capturing slaves. In a word, it is worth it for the soldiers who fought in the bitter cold land!

For Zhu Kezhen, he is extremely relieved, this is an all-rounder with outstanding abilities in all aspects, with him, there is no need to worry about anything.

After reading the letter sent back by Zhu Kezhen, he took over the information from Shen Lian from Wang Chengen.

Sure enough, just as he expected, Zheng Zhilong also successfully landed.

"Wang Companion, reply to him and let Zheng Zhilong act according to the plan."

"Yes, hooray."

Early in the morning of the second day, Zheng Zhilong led the army along the Taojiang River.

He wanted to catch up with Xu Zhi'an's army as soon as possible, unite his troops, and besiege Shenglong.

Three days later, they joined Xu Zhi'an in Jingbei.

Xu Zhi'an's march was slow for two reasons.

One reason is naturally to wait for Zheng Zhilong.

Another reason is that naturally the forces of Shenglong are gathered more.

"Mr. Zheng, meet again." Xu Zhi'an arched his hand towards Zheng Zhilong and said with a smile.

Zheng Zhilong hurriedly returned the salute, and after the two exchanged politeness, Zheng Zhilong asked suspiciously.

"General Xu has been landing for many days, why did he get here?" On the way here, he observed that there was no sign of battle except for a few slightly larger cities. If there is no stubborn resistance, why is it walking so slowly?

"I did it on purpose." Xu Zhi'an said with a smile.

"Deliberately?"

Zheng Zhilong was stunned for a moment. Xindao This Xu Zhi'an is crazy, His Majesty's orders dare to be passive and deliberately delay time?

"Zheng Zongbing, it's not what you think, I don't dare to disobey His Majesty's orders. I haven't had enough of my good days!" Xu Zhi'an guessed what he was thinking as soon as he saw Zheng Zhilong's expression, and explained with a smile.

"That's—"

"Wait for the soldiers of Cochin to rendezvous at Shenglong, or come and surround me."

"Huh?"

Is there still a deliberate slow walk, waiting for others to encircle and suppress this theory?

"I wonder if Mr. Zheng has found anything along the way?"

"Discovery? What did you find?" Zheng Zhilong was stunned again.

Seeing this, Xu Zhi'an stopped selling Guanzi, pointed to the distance and said to Zheng Zhilong:

"Look at the paddy fields over there, then at the grass over there, then at the dense woods and the creek in the distance. This is not at all suitable for the rapid passage of large armies. Only by bringing their soldiers together as much as possible can they catch them all and once and for all. Otherwise, even if you capture Shenglong and kill Zheng Jie

These soldiers go into the mountains, into the woods, and every now and then make a sneak attack, which will also make us quite uncomfortable.

It was with this in mind that I marched unhurriedly on their territory. Just to let them know that we're here! Hurry up and send troops to besiege it, or, hurry back to defend your nest. For now, they've chosen the latter."

Xu Zhi'an's face was full of pride.

He was a good commander, and likewise, he was a nobleman.

A proud aristocrat.

After returning to Beijing, this matter can be blown up again, and other countries are used as backyards, tsk, comfort!

Zheng Zhilong had a hard time understanding his feelings, so he forcibly swallowed back his words.

"You've come this way without resistance?"

"Yes. When we first landed, we started a fierce siege battle at Hai Duong!"

"Oh? It's intense?"

"It's intense! We had forty mortars and two demolition squads. is worthy of breaking through the opponent's city gate! But there were not many enemies, only two or three hundred. After that, there was no decent resistance, and the enemy fled wherever he went, and even ran away before he arrived."

「...... General Xu is mighty!"

Zheng Zhilong said sullenly.

Only a few hundred people were dispatched, do you call this intense?

"Eh~ Your Majesty has taught you well!" As he spoke, he arched his hand towards the north.

Yes, this product can't be boasted about. Zheng Zhilong bluntly changed the topic:

"So what do we do next? Do you want to keep walking, move forward, or do you want to wait here?"

"I can't go any further." Xu Zhi'an shook his head. "During the march in the past two days, I got a message that Zheng Jie had ordered generals from all over the country to lead troops into the Shenglong Qin King.

Shannan, Shanxi, Jingbei, and Haiyang, which are close to each other, must be about to reach Thang Long, and the distant provinces are estimated to take two days, so let's wait for two days, and then strive to catch turtles in an urn for them!"

"But we can surround it with more than 30,000 soldiers and horses?"

"The son of Mu Tianbo, the Duke of Qianguo, and Qin Liangyu, the chief soldier of Shizhu, also brought more than 10,000 people into the country, and they should be able to make peace with us."

"That's more than 40,000 people, no matter how much this Jiaozhi can't be less than us, right?"

"No, if the soldiers are united, there will be more than us."

Xu Zhi'an still looked relaxed.

Zheng Zhilong, who watched it, was stunned for a moment, and he couldn't figure out whether Xu Zhi'an was really confident or had a problem with his brain.

He knew that the combat effectiveness of the soldiers in the Beijing camp must be terrifying, but if the enemy was really several times his own, how could he be able to surround him?

Your Majesty asked me to fight with this goods, is it reliable? Why is it more and more out of tune?

"By the way, General Zheng, I'll show you something good." As he spoke, he pulled out something covered in spikes that looked like a mace.

Then he took out a knife and skillfully opened it, picked up the gourd inside and handed it to Zheng Zhilong.

"Taste."

Zheng Zhilong immediately smelled the smell of rotten stinky beef, subconsciously leaned back, frowned and asked:

"What is this?"

"Gambling!"