The day when Shen Tingyang, the second rich man of the Ming Dynasty, arrived in Nanjing, it happened to be the first day of April in the ninth year of Hongxing of the Ming Dynasty, where the military parade was held.

When the private boat he took arrived at the Longjiang Wharf, the nearby Yifengmen Street was already full of people waiting to watch the triumphant army, and everyone's faces were full of excited expressions that could not be concealed. Most of these people are northerners who have been displaced in Nanjing, some are military dependents, some are righteous people, some were once high-ranking scholars, and some are ordinary people who are nothing, just to escape the scourge of war and flee to Jiangnan to find a place to stay.

Among these displaced people, some have been given the opportunity to flourish, and some have lived a well-off life and settled down in the rich hometown of Nanjing, but most of them are struggling on the poverty line!

How can it be easy to live in a foreign country?

No matter how these people from the north live in Jiangnan, most of them miss their hometown all the time!

As soon as many people close their eyes, the mountains and rivers of their hometowns, towns and villages, as well as their parents and villagers who have not seen each other for many years, will appear in their dreams.

With the passage of time, the longing for hometown of people who wander far away will only be deeper and stronger!

Now, the news of the victory of the Northern Expedition has arrived!

Henan has recovered! Hebei has recovered! Shanxi has also recovered!

In the end, even Beijing was recovered! The invincible Northern Expeditionary Army even slaughtered the Monan grassland, and even the Mongolian Chahar Division, known as the orthodox Great Yuan Dynasty, and the Mongolian Tumut Division, known as the Northern Yuan Little Khan, also bowed down to the Great Ming Dynasty!

The Northern Expedition has been won!

The Northland has been reclaimed!

The sons and daughters of the northern country who wandered in the southeast finally saw their hometown and beckoned to them!

When it's time to go home, it's already here!

And before they packed their bags and prepared to return to their hometowns to see their relatives, landscapes, villages, and towns of their dreams, they had to welcome the triumphant return of the army and the lord of Zhongxing of the Ming Dynasty with the greatest enthusiasm......

"GI triumphant! The GI is triumphant......"

With the forty ironclad soldiers riding on the oceanic horses driving the war horses to advance neatly, and at the same time loudly shouting "triumph", the Zhujie military parade in the ninth year of Hongxing began!

There were not many troops participating in the Zhujie parade, because although the Northern Expedition had won a complete victory, the northern land, which had been in turmoil for twenty or thirty years, had not yet been completely calm. The authority of the Ming court still needs to be defended by the Northern Expeditionary Iron Army, and there are still enemies who are unwilling to fail outside the Saibei and Guanbei who need the Ming Dynasty's male soldiers to deter.

Therefore, the army that was able to temporarily end the expedition and return to Nanjing to participate in this Zhujie parade was only five regiments of nearly 10,000 people, including one cavalry regiment of the forbidden army, two flintlock pistol regiments and two ordinary infantry regiments.

At the head was a regiment of lancers of the forbidden army, all of whom were Yanmar plate armor, and had long been lined up neatly on the dock, and when the shouts came from afar, the war drums also sounded.

A whole regiment of ironclad cavalry, with forty cavalry as a formation, lined up neatly, one team after another, marched along Yifengmen Street towards the city of Nanjing.

On both sides of Yifengmen Street, there were bursts of cheers!

"Daming Wansheng! Daming Wansheng ......"

Most of those who ran to the streets outside Yifeng Gate and occupied the best positions to greet the triumphant division were mostly northerners, and some were veterans who had retired from the new army.

Seeing these two thousand ironclad cavalry, it was hard to suppress the excitement!

They all know a little bit about military affairs, and of course they know what it means to have two thousand ironclad lancers on tall horses?

If there had been such cavalry twenty or thirty years earlier than the Ming Dynasty (it would have been impossible, how much would it cost!) The Manchurians could not enter the Great Wall at all. Their bows and arrows could not penetrate the plate armor, and their dwarf horses could not outrun these tall Yanmares, and they did not even have a chance to escape in the face of the onslaught of the Yanmares......

Immediately after that came rows of infantry in red and black armor with flintlock pistols on their shoulders with bayonets, these were two whole regiments of flintlock musketeers! They were all equipped with flintlock pistols, no spears, and no knives. Such an army may not be very useful in the European battlefield where the shock cavalry is strong, but in the east, where there is no strong shock cavalry, it is almost invincible.

Anyone who has actually been on the battlefield of 17th-century land warfare knows that it is very, very difficult to defeat a comparable number of flintlock musketeers in hand-to-hand combat or mounted fire with cold weapons! It would be even more ridiculous fantasy to shoot at the flintlock musketeers with a long-range rifle of rifles - to use a whole squad of Baturu to fight with the privates who have only been laying down their hoes for a few months? And the winners of this war of attrition are not necessarily the Baturus...... As long as the privates are equipped with plate armor, it is enough to resist the "100 steps through the Yang" of the Baturu people!

At present, almost all the large iron mills in Shanghai, Nanjing, Quanzhou, and Guangzhou are equipped with hydraulic hammers (hydraulic hammers cannot directly process plate armor, but can smash medium and heavy plates), so the cost of producing plate armor is lower than that of armor, and it can be equipped with a large number of troops.

The loudest cheers suddenly erupted outside Yifeng Gate, and it turned out to be Zhu Cihong, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty wearing golden plate armor, riding a majestic Arab horse, and appeared on the street of Yifeng Gate. The people on both sides of the street bowed down to him, and at the same time shouted "Long live", and the whole street fell into madness.

Zhu Cihong was also surrounded by a large group of meritorious officers wearing plate armor and riding war horses—all of them officers who had made great contributions in the Northern Expedition, and were now honored to escort the emperor to participate in the Zhujie military parade.

Among them, who was closely followed by Zhu Cihong was the Prince of Kong Dai who was dressed in black plate armor!

Speaking of which, he is the real "chief planner" of the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, and the plan of the Northern Expedition and the key victory of the Battle of Diandian are actually his handiwork.

And in the past few years in the East, he has also gained a lot of ability! First of all, I got the opportunity to practice commanding a large corps, and commanding a legion of tens of thousands in Europe and a war involving hundreds of thousands of people in China are fundamentally different things!

Secondly, he also learned real skills in the battle of the siege of Beijing! The parallel trench siege method "invented" by the Ming Emperor himself opened his eyes and made him realize the truth that as long as the mathematics is good, the fortress can be fought casually!

What surprised him even more was the flowering bullet wooden tail and woodwind fuse "invented" by Emperor Zhu - with these two things, the reliability of the flowering bomb has soared several notches.

With reliable flowering shells and parallel siege methods, the era of the bastion is coming to an end...... For Europe, which is full of fortresses, a new era is about to emerge!

Zhu Cihong also couldn't suppress his joy at this time, not because of how powerful the cavalry and flintlock muskeers looked in front of him, but because he came all the way from the other side of the Yangtze River, and had already witnessed the "war boom" in Nanjing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, - a very busy handicraft center with shipbuilding workshops appeared in the Pukou area, and dozens of slipways were spread out near the bank of the Yangtze River, all of which were busy building ships. On the other side of the Yangtze River, both sides of the Qinhuai River and Jinchuan River are all cargo ship wharves, densely parked with river boats waiting to be loaded and unloaded......

Zhu Cihong, who has lived in Nanjing for more than ten years, can feel that Nanjing is now more prosperous than any period in the past ten years!

Since fighting a war can promote economic development, it is better to fight more wars in the future!

Who's next?

When Emperor Zhu was thinking about who to fight in the next war, the war horse under his crotch had already arrived outside the Yifengmen Urn City, and the terrain in this area was particularly open, so a lot of people gathered, all of whom were refugees from Shuntianfu, and many of them were righteous people who fled with Emperor Zhu. Now seeing their emperor majestic and riding a horse, he was really excited, and he didn't know who took the lead, and suddenly shouted: "Long live Lord, take us home!" ”

Immediately afterward, more people shouted!

"Long live the lord, take us home!"

"Hooray, let's go home......"