"Big brother! Is it a letter from home? "Huang Xigon, the left attendant of the military department, didn't know when he walked into Huang Ji's study. Because he is a younger brother, he can enter his brother's mansion at will. Every time he came, he didn't let his brother's servants inform him, so he broke in. When I first entered the study, I saw my brother reading a letter, so I asked.

"yes!" Huang Ji nodded and said, "It's a letter from my hometown." ”

"Can you let the little brother take a look?" Huang Xigon asked.

"My own brother, why not?" Huang Ji handed over the letter home.

Huang Xigon took the letter and looked at it, and was stunned: "Big brother! This letter is a great rebellion! How did you get here? If outsiders see it, you and I will have to fall to the ground! I don't know how many people will be involved! ”

Huang Ji said: "Brother, but our family is in Jiangnan's hometown!" Haikou are still quite popular in the south of the Yangtze River, they have developed very rapidly, and with the power of sailors, they can come and go freely on the sea, and develop many lands overseas. Ordinary people don't have to worry about having no land to plant. Everyone has more money in their hands, and they can make more money from business. They rely on business development to increase their income and make a good life for everyone. ”

Huang Xigon shook his head and said: "This letter is very good, the Haikou Sailor is powerful, and there is nothing the court can do about it for the time being." But the red-haired ghost is about to help the court! Big brother, I didn't blow it, brother, I've seen the battleship of the red-haired ghost, it's as big as a mountain! On one ship, there are hundreds of red-coated cannons alone! Do you think Haikou's sailor can beat the red-haired ghost? If we go back, they will be destroyed by the imperial court, and we will not escape death! It also affects the family! ”

"Red-haired ghost! I'm worried about this for my brother! Alas! My grandson-in-law, if you don't do anything good, you have to join the traitor! If this is known to the court, it will affect us! Originally, I thought that my brothers and I would resign and go back together with the help of their people. But there are red-haired ghosts, and if they are defeated, they will not even have a place to go! Huang Ji said helplessly.

"Big brother, the matter has come to this, let's cut off contact with them! Otherwise, it will really affect us! Huang Xigon sighed, suddenly remembered something, and asked, "Big brother, how did they send this letter?" ”

"In the north, there is also the eyeliner of the Heaven and Earth Society, and they send letters through the eyeliner." Huang Ji replied.

Huang Xigon was overjoyed: "Big brother, then we can pretend to promise them and deceive the heaven and earth in the capital to catch them all!" In this way, we have made a great contribution in front of the emperor. ”

Huang Ji smiled bitterly: "Don't play with fire and self-immolation, since they dare to send eyeliner to contact us, they must have a backhand!" When the time comes, not only can they not be wiped out, but they will be bitten back! How suspicious is our court? As soon as they show us evidence, we're all going to be headshots. ”

"In that case, then we have to turn a blind eye! Ay! I have to hope that those traitors will not be caught by the court, otherwise our brothers will not be able to protect their heads! Huang Xigon sighed.

Huang Ji asked one more thing: "Brother, I heard that you negotiated with the red-haired ghost and bought their ship at a high price?" ”

"yes!" Huang Xigon responded, "Said to form a Qing navy!" I think that after buying these foreign boats, my brother-in-law (Shi Lang) must be very happy! He wants to build a powerful sailor! ”

Huang Ji nodded: "Yes, my brother-in-law lost to Zheng Wei three years ago, and with this batch of red-haired warships, I can take revenge!" It's just that if Haikou is defeated, the old man's granddaughter and grandson-in-law, hey! ”

On Chinese New Year's Eve, firecrackers shook the sky all over Jiangnan, peach charms and couplets were posted in front of the house, the god of fortune and the god of wealth were hung in the house, and everyone was saying goodbye to the old year and welcoming the new year at night. Except for a team of soldiers on duty, everyone let go of their bellies and ate a lot.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, officials at all levels and the gentry of Jiangnan came to pay New Year's greetings, congratulating them, and the threshold was almost broken.

Since the second year of junior high school, Wang Xinyu has been preparing for the expedition. At this time, there was good news from Qiongzhou: his wife Zheng Yun gave birth to a daughter. Maybe Zheng Yun felt a little disappointed that she couldn't give birth to a son, and she didn't use the clipper to report the good news for the first time, but Wang Xinyu was still very happy, and he thought that his daughter was not bad.

The news that the king of Nanhai County had a daughter came out, and there was an endless stream of people who came to propose marriage. Wang Xinyu didn't have time to send these people one by one, so he had to let the servants deal with them, but he hid in the barracks.

Beginning on the fifth day of the first lunar month, all the officers and men began training. On Chongming Island at the mouth of the Yangtze River, the Ming army built a simulated Ningbo city to conduct landing combat training. A large group of Ming troops went ashore on ships and launched an attack on the simulated city of Ningbo. On the large-scale training ground, the sound of artillery rumbled and the sound of killing shook the sky.

On the Yangtze River, the sails are dotted, and one after another ships loaded with weapons, ammunition, clothing, medicine, food, and various supplies sail into the mouth of the Yangtze River and dock at the Shanghai wharf. On the Suzhou Creek, transport ships laden with grain sail on the river. In the warehouses next to the wharf, there are mountains of grain requisitioned from all over the south of the Yangtze River.

A Spanish galleon came ashore, and the soldiers removed boxes of cargo from the ship.

An officer who came to escort the goods pointed to the wooden box in the warehouse and said, "This is the newly produced canned food of our Nanyang Company, please take a look." ”

Qian Qianyi, who was in charge of logistics, did not come, and at the age of 83, he did not have a few months to live. Since years ago, Qian Qianyi's health has been bad. Now it is Qi Bansun who is in charge of logistics support, and personally watches the respective goods enter the warehouse.

Qi Bansun, who experienced the three major cases in Jiangnan, was rescued by the Ming army and their family. After Qian Qianyi was not in good health and could not come, he succeeded Qian Qianyi, who knew how to settle accounts for money.

Qi Bansun had heard of this kind of canned food produced by Nanyang Company, and because he was not in charge of logistics before, he had never seen the canned food in the warehouse. Driven by curiosity, he picked up a bottle of can and looked through it in his hand: it was made of clay pots, the mouth of which was closed with a cork. On the outside of the jar was a piece of paper with the words "canned braised beef" written on it.

Some cans say "canned braised pork" and others say "canned braised fish", and in addition to canned fish and meat, there are also canned fruits, canned rice, etc.

Wang Xinyu introduced to Qi Bansun, who had just taken over the logistics: "After we have canned food, the pressure on logistics support is much less, and the officers and soldiers can also be guaranteed nutrition when they go to the battlefield to fight. Especially on the battlefield of forward positions, we can cook without firing, which increases the concealment. ”

In addition to canned food, there are boxes of compressed biscuits, which were also invented by Wang Xinyu. Compressed biscuits are mixed with flour and other cereal flours, placed in a sealed jar and heated at high temperature to become puffed powder, so that the moisture in the grain itself is reduced. After that, it is mixed with cream, sugar, vegetable oil and salt, mixed with a certain amount of water, and then baked, and it becomes a compressed biscuit. This food can provide enough energy for the soldiers, and each soldier can carry a few pieces on them to last for days without food.

Qi Bansun was very curious, and after Wang Xinyu agreed, he opened a canned pork and tasted it, feeling that the taste was still quite good. I tasted a compressed biscuit again, and I thought it was delicious, so I asked, "Isn't it possible to use firehead soldiers in the army?" ”

Wang Xinyu pointed to a new four-wheeled vehicle and introduced to Qi Bansun: "Of course, there are still firehead soldiers, but we have this kind of dining car, and their work is much easier." ”

This four-wheeled vehicle, like other four-wheeled vehicles, also has a device that provides a two-wheeled rotation device in front, which can be pulled by mules and horses, or by human power. The dining car is mainly a mobile stove, and the carriage is a coal stove, on which a large pot and soup pot are placed, on which you can directly fry vegetables, steam rice, and cook soup. Take off the cauldron, and put an iron cabinet on top of the dining car, add water to it, and put the cooked meals in iron boxes, which in turn are placed on top of the iron cabinets with water, and the coal stove below is heated to ensure that the meals are hot.

Not only is the dining car light to use, but it also doesn't need to carry firewood, just honeycomb coal. With a coal stove, you can save a lot of space for firewood. However, this kind of food truck can also use firewood, and in densely wooded places, the firehead can obtain firewood from local materials.

The Qiongzhou Army's logistical support unit can be said to be the most complete logistical support unit in this era, not only ensuring the supply of food and ammunition, but also first-class in terms of battlefield treatment. When a large army goes out, it will be followed by a field hospital.

The director of the field hospital is named Gu Qihong, who has excellent medical skills and was a famous doctor back then.

Since Gu Qihong joined the Qiongzhou Army, he disinfected the wounds with alcohol in the Qiongzhou Army, boiled knives with boiling water, anesthetized the wounded with a mandala, and then cut the wound with a knife for treatment, and finally used thread to suture the wound The method is very amazing.

"This method is indeed a good way to treat trauma! If the tutor is here, he will definitely be happy to stay here when he sees the conditions of your medical center! Gu Qihong said.

"Who is your master?" Someone asked.

"Zhu Fangdan." Gu Qihong replied.

Zhu Fangdan? Who? Wang Xinyu, who has a sparse knowledge of history, doesn't know anything about it.

In the blink of an eye, the fifteenth and sixteenth days of the Lunar New Year have passed, and all localities have not yet faded out of the lively atmosphere of celebrating the Lantern Festival, and the transport fleet of the Ming army has begun to load ships in the port of Shanghai.

The people who were conscripted by the army carried boxes of ammunition, medicines, canned food, baskets of vegetables, bacon, and bags of grain onto the transport ship. The flotilla full of cargo was about to set sail, sailing out of Wusongkou, making a circle from the sea and heading for the mouth of the Yongjiang River.

After receiving the transfer order, the Qiongzhou Army and the Zheng Jiajun Army, which were scattered throughout the Yangtze River Delta, rushed to Haiyan (now Jinshan) to assemble. In the rivers of the Yangtze River Delta, boats full of troops and baggage flow endlessly, sailing towards Haiyan.

Haiyan temporary camp, one after another troops arrived. (To be continued.) )