Chapter 148 Letter from Xiong Wencan

Zhu Dadian was also considerate. He immediately agreed to come down and ordered all parts of Shandong to vigorously raise earth and gunpowder and send it to Fushan Institute according to Yu Xiaotian's request.

In order to reduce transportation costs, Yu Xiaotian simply built a refining workshop in Fushan and directly refined earth nitrate into refined fire salt. In addition, he also produced a by-product, that is, edible salt, salt can be sold on the spot for profit, and refined nitrification becomes the most important raw material for *.

Of course, these are all gossips, not to mention it. In short, Yu Xiaotian tried his best to find out all kinds of things he needed from Zhu Dadian. Although it was far from enough to make up for his investment, he could compensate less.

After the officers besieged Dengzhou City at the end of September, they began to attack Dengzhou City. However, due to the strong artillery of Dengzhou City and the large number of rebels, the officers and soldiers suffered several attacks and failed to achieve much results.

Of course, those Shandong soldiers and Zhejiang soldiers suffered heavy losses. They had no cash weapons to use and could only use the most primitive method to attack the city, so they lost a lot under the fire of the rebels.

The situation of Yu's army is different. They have strong firepower. Although they failed to break through Dengzhou City, the most lost was only some ammunition. The loss of personnel was not very large, mainly due to the artillery fire of the rebels in the city.

However, the rebels also suffered a lot of losses, but wherever the rebels attacked the city, the rebels were killed and injured, and the defense line could be said to be in danger. If it hadn't been for Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde and others, they would have been broken by the Yu family army.

Two months have passed the siege of Dengzhou City. In order to defend Dengzhou City, the rebels have also repeatedly gone out of the city to attack the defense line of officers and soldiers, broke through the defense line of officers and soldiers several times, and also * a batch of supplies and grain for officers and soldiers. The angry Zhu Dadian angrily scolded those incompetent military generals, and even killed several delinty generals to deter these officials. Army.

However, the defense line garrisoned by the Yu family army has never been attacked by the rebels. As long as the place where the family army is located is the dead place designated by the rebels, there will never be rebels who dare to attack the defense line of the family army, so Yu Xiaotian will certainly not be scolded or criticized.

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

But when the weather comes in October, the temperature drops sharply. In mid-October, the first snow of the year fell from the sky, and the ferocious face of the small glacier period finally appeared at this time.

And a large number of officers and soldiers, because of insufficient supplies, were still wearing single clothes until it snowed, and each of them was so cold that they could only warm up around the bonfire every day.

In contrast, the generals of the Yu family army really deserve to die. They should be compared with goods. After the temperature plummeted in October, they soon received a large number of cotton-padded quilts. Every soldier of the Yu family army changed into warm winter clothes and cotton boots, and even equipped with cotton gloves on their hands. At worst, a pair of double-layer thick cotton gloves will also be distributed to the soldiers.

Therefore, Yu's soldiers will not suffer much after the winter, but relatively speaking, Yu's soldiers will also suffer frostbite from time to time.

And the biggest problem on the other side is that the navy is too weak. Speaking of, there are 20,000 to 30,000 sailors on paper, but after his investigation, in fact, there are only 6,000 to 7,000 soldiers, and most of them are old and weak. There are more than 300 warships on paper, but in fact, there are less than 200, and And most of them are old and broken boats.

What's more annoying is that among these warships, the useful ships have not been used as warships. They have become private merchant ships of some military generals, and their sailors have also become their private sailors, specializing in running the sea for them, making sea trade, and earning a lot of money. Once they are robbed or missing by wind and waves, they will report that I encountered wind and waves on the way to practice.

So although he wanted to use tough means, he had no soldiers and no boats at hand. Finally, he thought of Yu Xiaotian. Nowadays, Daming only controls a powerful sailor in his hands, and only Yu Xiaotian's sailors have the strength to solve these pirates.

So in a hurry, Xiong Wencan 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 waited for this letter from Xiong Wencan. For so many years, he has never stretched out his hand to Guangxi, Guangdong, because he was dressed in official skin. He was embarrassed to stretch out his hand too long. He could only use secret means to reach out his hand and move in the coastal areas of Guangdong.

Among these dozens of pirates, at least several were secretly controlled by him. In addition, Yan Siqi and Chu Cai's old group of people are actually his dark chess. These two groups secretly obeyed his command and maintained contact with him.

Therefore, at present, Yu Xiaotian knows the situation there very well. Every month, the intelligence department has a detailed summary, which will hand over to him and report the main events that happened along the coast of Guangdong and Guangxi to him.

Yu Xiaotian's ambition is not to control the coast of Fujian at all. He will be satisfied by occupying Taiwan Yuan Island. What he wants to do is the real king of the Chinese sea, and the whole coast of China will be included in his pocket.

Even this is not enough to describe Yu Xiaotian's ambition. Now Yu Xiaotian's ambition can't even be satisfied with the Central Plains. His greater wish is to use his maritime power to reach out to all over the world and establish a large-scale colony after winning China. That is the long-term future he planned. .

Now he has only taken the first step, extending his hand to Shandong and standing firmly in the area of Denglai. Next, he will use Xiong Wencan to completely incorporate the sea area of Liangguang coastal areas, including Qiongzhou Prefecture (Hainan Island), into his pocket, and this time he will use Daming's money to reach him. This purpose.

So he can go back now, but if he wants to go back, the premise is to solve the problem of the rebels in Dengzhou first. Only after sweeping this side can he return to Fujian and start to use troops against the twoguang.

So he finally decided not to wait to go down. He sent Xiong Wencan to send letters back to Guangdong first. He promised to return to Fujian immediately after the end of the war here, but the premise is that the war here is over. Xiong Wencan will first set a foreshadowing for the court and let him go back. Otherwise, he will sit in the court. If the one is happy and leaves him and his soldiers and horses in the north, and transfer him to deal with Jiannu outside the customs, or transfer him to Shaanxi, Henan and other places to suppress bandits, it will be ruined!

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