But Jiannu does not mean that this road has always been smooth sailing, some Jiannu soldiers and horses who were sent out to raid and plunder, but in some places, they hit a wall.

Some Jiannu encountered fierce resistance in front of some inconspicuous-looking forts, and some of the forts that they thought could be broken with just one rush, when they roared and rushed over, they suddenly slashed their faces and shot out rows of shells, and even the sound of cannons.

These Jiannu soldiers were unprepared, and when the beaten people turned on their backs and suffered heavy casualties, they quickly gathered more Jiannu to besiege these forts, but after the battle, they found that these forts were very different from other forts.

There are many village warrior regiments stationed in these forts, and they are quite good at fighting, and what is even more powerful is that they are equipped with a lot of sharp firearms that Jiannu has not encountered before.

Many of the soldiers of Jiannu stayed at a distance that they thought were safe, and suddenly they were inexplicably knocked to the ground by the bullets fired from Zhuangzi, and every time a big hole was punched out of the chest or head, even the armor on their bodies could not stop these bullets.

Under the onslaught, they encountered even more fierce resistance, rows of bullets were fired from the village wall, no matter how thick the armor of the Jiannu soldiers was, as long as they were shot, there was no chance of survival.

Even among these forts, when Jiannu attacked the foot of the village wall, some black iron melons were thrown under the village wall, and these iron melons would suddenly explode, and the Jiannu within a radius of a few meters would be blown up by these iron melons, and the casualties would be heavy.

So Jiannu began to be afraid, they didn't know where these forts got this sharp firearm, although they were extremely angry, but in addition to paying a heavy price, it was difficult to break these forts.

And Jiannu entered the customs this time, but not to gnaw hard bones, their purpose is obvious, is to loot, so their favorite is to pick soft persimmons to pinch, once they encounter such a fierce resistance to the fort, after hitting the wall, they would rather give up, than waste time here or waste their precious troops.

Therefore, although Jiannu raided a lot of places along the way, but from time to time will encounter one or two such forts, after touching a nose of ash, Jiannu will often know the difficulty and retreat, this is not a city, just a village fort, even if it is a desperate fight, and finally break through such a Zhuangzi, it is not necessarily how much oil and water can be fished, but it is also a lot of troops, it is really not cost-effective.

And they will have such an opportunity in the future, they can't break their big teeth in front of these rigid forts, so these forts they encountered along the way have become the iron plates kicked during the great raid of Jiannu to the south, and these forts have also become some safe places in the places where Jiannu passed, these forts without exception, during the period of Jiannu, they sheltered a large number of people who were chased by Jiannu and saved a lot of lives.

Jiannu did not know the identity of the people in these villages, but the locals regarded the big families of these villages as their saviors, and after the slaves retreated, the people who were rescued all respected the people in charge of these villages and forts as gods, and regarded them as benevolent people, which also made these people the most respected people in the local area.

But there are a few people who know that the so-called big households in these villages and castles are actually not big households at all, they are mostly some foreign nouveau riche on the surface, with money and people, they have purchased land and real estate in the local area, and do some business, but in fact they are the intelligence officers of the sea wolf, and they were assigned to these places by the sea wolf early, until they went deep into various places in Shandong, and lurked as businessmen or landlords.

As soon as these intelligence officers have gained a foothold in the local area, they will be replenished with a group of men and weapons, and in the forts where they are located, with their personnel, they will form a regiment to be responsible for guarding these forts.

A few months ago, they were replenished with more weapons, ammunition and food, which made them more armed, and also enabled them to become a rock standing in the tide of Jiannu soldiers when they went south this time.

However, there is still a Zhuang Fort, which was finally broken by the red-eyed Jiannu at any cost, when Jiannu broke through this Zhuang Fort, he paid a very heavy price, and was killed and injured by the Xiang Yong in the Zhuang Fort, and after breaking the Zhuang Fort, the Xiang Yong in the Zhuang Fort still fought to the end with the Jiannu, and finally all were killed.

At the same time that Jiannu invaded the courtyard of the big family surnamed Li in this Zhuangzi, this big family surnamed Li finally ignited the gunpowder hidden in the compound, and after a loud bang, he was martyred with Zhuangzi, and with more than 200 slave soldiers who attacked Zhuangzi, the nearby ones were directly blown into slag, even if they were a little farther away, they would be shocked to death.

Later, when Jiannu cleaned up the Zhuangzi, he found that a large amount of grain was stored in the Zhuangzi, but when the Zhuangzi was broken, the village Yong, who guarded the granary, splashed the fire oil into the granary and ignited it, so that Jiannu did not get any cheap.

When the entire Zhuangzi compound exploded at the end, it was almost razed to the ground, and a large crater was blown out of the ground, which shows that a lot of gunpowder was hidden here, and a lot of strange-shaped shells were found around the explosion.

Jiannu picked up some damaged bird guns in Zhuangzi, and most of these bird guns had been destroyed by Xiang Yong when Zhuang was broken, or smashed and bent the gun pipes, but Jian Nu still collected these bird guns as if he had obtained a heavy treasure, found a lot of disassembled and discarded parts, and finally let the craftsman assemble two bird guns.

Jiannu found out that these bird guns are very well-made, and the materials are also very good, the most surprising thing for them is that these bird guns, they don't need to use the fire rope to shoot, the bird guns are equipped with a set of firing mechanisms, after pulling open the stuck faucet, there is a flint on it, when the flint falls, hit on the fire door, it will hit the spark, the spark falls into the medicine pool, ignite the medicine pool to introduce the medicine, and finally complete the shot.

What they don't understand the most is that among the barrels of these birds, many of them are not smooth inside, but they don't know how to carve out a few grooves, so that they can still be fired, which is really strange.

Such an exquisite mechanism made Jiannu breathtaking, and collected it as a treasure, ready to take it back to the customs this time, so that the craftsmen could take a good look at it and see if it could be imitated.

This is also the first time in recent years that Jiannu has obtained such a firearm, but unfortunately, even if they take these repaired bird guns out of the customs, they can't imitate them in large quantities, because none of them knows how the rifling in the guns is carved, so at best, they can only simply imitate the flintlock mechanism, but the kind of reed in the flintlock mechanism requires very superb craftsmanship and quite good steel to create, and it is completely impossible to effectively imitate without repeated trials.

This is also the reason why after so many years, the sea wolf has fought everywhere, and the number of guns left behind is really not less than three digits, but there is still no one who has successfully copied the wolf tooth rifle of the sea wolf, and even the Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese, have tried their best to get a wolf tooth rifle at any cost, even at the expense of a large reward, but in the end their craftsmen can only imitate the flintlock structure, but can not imitate the rifling of the barrel.

This time, the Jiannu army harvested a huge harvest, and self-confidence also soared to the commanding heights, all the way to the Hula began to go towards their intended meeting place Hejian Mansion, although there were also many Ming officials and soldiers along the way, but these officers and soldiers have now been frightened by the ferocity of the Jiannu army, whether it is a civilian official or a military general, they are scared enough, hearing that the Jiannu army is coming, they are so frightened that they are fart and urine, and they avoid the city one by one, pouting their butts to make a posture of strict defense.

And Jiannu has already had enough of it now, and if they encounter opportunities along the way, of course they will still take advantage of it, but for Jiancheng, they no longer carry out onslaught.

Therefore, when they traveled to some prefectures and counties, they saw that the officials and troops were closed and did not dare to go out of the city to fight them, and no one took the initiative to stop them, so they swaggered past these cities.

Those officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty looked at the Jiannu army and the refugee team they were carrying away with fear, not to mention letting them go out of the city to stop them, seeing that Jiannu did not attack their city, they all felt that they had burned high incense.

Therefore, on the way to retreat, Jiannu basically did not encounter the effective interception of the Ming official army, so after driving straight in, he once again drove thousands of miles towards Hejian Mansion.

According to their plan, this time they will not return by the old road, but can continue to loot along the way, directly through the northeastern part of Shandong, from Hejian Province to Guò Tianjin Wei, and choose a place along the Great Wall to go out.

But they didn't know that at this time, in the Bohai Bay, a large number of ships appeared and were heading in the direction of Tianjinwei.

From the beginning of September of the 11th year of Chongzhen, some fishermen along the coast of Shandong, Nanzhili, and Zhejiang began to find batches of large ships on the sea, formed formations, and went north along the coastline.

These ships heading north were basically fully loaded, with a draft and a very deep draft, and it can be seen that the ships were loaded with all kinds of supplies, and there were small clippers to escort the perimeter of these fleets.

And the flags of these ships are all sea wolf flags, sea wolf flags are now as long as they are begging for food along the coast of China, no one does not know, the pirates can be said to hate this sea wolf flag at the same time, and frightened, how many pirates did not understand the power of the sea wolf before, stupidly chirped to rush over, trying to make a big profit, but the result was a head and blood, many pirates were killed on the spot.

And some large groups of pirates wanted to fight against this group of sea wolves at first, but the result was that without exception, they were beaten by the sea wolf's warship and the sailors of the Yu family army on board.

Nowadays, China's coastal waters have almost all been controlled by sea wolves, although it cannot be said that the control is very tight, and the giant thieves on the sea have been completely wiped out, as for the remaining small groups of sporadic remaining pirates, they are all unclear, and the ship with the sea wolf flag is said to be nothing that can be touched.

Therefore, when the ships of the sea wolves are operating along the coast of China, let alone a fleet, even if there are only one or two ships, the average pirate will immediately roll up the flag and retreat after seeing it.

(Commuter pass, I want a commuter pass!) ）