Daming Military Empire

Chapter 397
The army of the Mughal Empire is leisurely building siege equipment, but the army of the Ming Empire is mobilizing in full swing. It has been three days since Zhu Cijiong received the news from Goa, and he ordered without hesitation , The East Army began to advance towards the Mughal Empire.

As for the army on the South Road, due to the failure of the telegraph network, he has completely handed over the command to Lu Xiangsheng.

The advance of the East Road Army is really called slow push, slow progress, because the final strategy formulated by the East Road Army is to advance while repairing the railway!

It's not that Zhu Cijiong doesn't know anything about commanding blindly. It's not too easy for the 40 troops on the East Road to clean up the 20 ordinary troops of the Mughal Empire. The key problem is the transportation of food and grass. You must know that Ava City is close to Dhaka. It takes more than 40 days for a 20-mile army to rush across two thousand miles, and another ten days, and more than a month will pass. How much food and grass can they bring? What will happen when there is no food and grass? Now the entire Mughal Empire But there are hungry people everywhere, and they can't get food if they want to.

If the railway construction is slowly pushed forward, the progress will be much slower, but there is no need to worry about the food problem. With this foundation, the East Road will undoubtedly win.

The speed of 30 professional prisoners building a railway at the same time is actually quite terrifying. You must know that even if they are lined up tightly, with only two people standing per meter, 30 people can line up 15 meters long, which is 150 kilometers. , How long does it take for two people to fill a meter of stones?As long as there are stones, it doesn't take an hour!
Of course, it is unrealistic to repair 150 kilometers a day. The plan Zhu Cijiong set for them is to repair [-] kilometers a day. In this way, there are more than ten people per meter on average, and they can divide and cooperate, digging foundations, paving stones, and laying sleepers. Those who lay the track and those who lay the track go their own way, and the repair will be much faster.

In fact, after Cao Wenzhao rushed back to Ava City from Xingcheng Port, he had already started preparing materials for the construction of the railway. When all the troops and prisoners gathered, he ordered people to start repairing in the direction of the Mughal Empire. In the past few days, the railway has been built for five or six hundred miles, almost reaching the border between Donghu and the Mughal Empire. This is the result of his slow construction. If you want to work hard, you will have already completed the border.

After receiving Zhu Cijiong's telegram, he immediately ordered all the prisoners to speed up the progress and repair desperately, while he himself led the Guanning Army, Donghu Army, and Annan Army to a small border town more than a hundred miles away from the Mughal Empire. Come and tell the Mughal Empire that the Ming Empire is coming in from the east!
There is also a strategic need for him to do this, mainly to hold back the 20 troops in Dhaka. If they are allowed to rush back to Delhi, the Ming army will have to spend a lot of money.

The Mughal Empire didn’t want Ming to build cities everywhere, even a small county town had city walls. In the Mughal Empire, only a few major cities had city walls, and other places were basically open-air and unobstructed. It's almost like playing field battles.

Delhi must have a city wall, so the 20 troops of the Mughal Empire must be dealt with on the eastern front, otherwise it will not be easy for them to sneak into the city of Delhi.

However, the small border town that Cao Wenzhao is attacking now has no walls, and the residents inside are less than 1000, and the garrison is even less than 30. Hearing that the [-] troops of the Ming Empire are coming, they can run faster than rabbits Soon, Cao Wenzhao's journey was not so much to attack the city, as to receive refugees.

At the beginning of the Mughal Empire, it can be said that the whole territory was in chaos. The common people ran to loot the property of the nobles. How could they care about farming? As a result, almost all the fields in the country were barren. If no one farmed the land, there would be no food output. , coupled with the large population of the Mughal Empire, the food stored was basically plundered by the nobles and lords, and sold for money. They were all eaten up!

When Cao Wenzhao led his army to the small border town of Saha, he did not see a Mughal Empire soldier with a weapon, but saw a lot of civilians with green eyes. They were almost hungry and crazy. If they If you have done it, it is estimated that all 30 Ming soldiers will be slaughtered as rations!

Seeing this scene, Cao Wenzhao shivered in fright, Nima, do you want to be so miserable? The emperor strictly prohibits the massacre of civilians. Facing this group of hungry people who are about to go crazy, you can't beat them, and you can't kill them. Killing, it's really a headache.

Fortunately, the emperor had already made an arrangement, and ordered the Daming Royal Xinglong Company to urgently allocate a lot of food. As long as the railway is repaired, the problem of the hungry people will be solved.

Of course, Zhu Cijiong didn’t plan to provide disaster relief for free. Don’t look at these civilians who are more hungry than beggars. They are very rich. Almost all the nobles and wealthy businessmen of the Mughal Empire were robbed by them. Once planed, it is very likely that a large pile of gold bricks will be produced!

This is not an exaggeration at all. According to reports from Jinyiwei secret agents, in many places in the Mughal Empire, a piece of gold brick can not even be exchanged for a bag of grain. After all, everyone has to eat, and gold bricks cannot be eaten as food. It's all broken for you, who will replace it with you.

A bag of food is exchanged for a gold brick, Zhu Cijiong is not so dark, he can't let people eat the last meal, and they will still rebel when they run out of food, so it is better to forcefully raise them and let them They are half full, and when the war is over and food production returns to normal, they will not rebel.

He made a rough estimate based on the population of the Mughal Empire and the total amount of gold and silver, and finally set a base price for the Daming Royal Xinglong Company, ten taels of silver per stone of grain, no more.

In fact, ten taels of silver is a tenfold increase. The cost of collecting grain from various places for the Daming Royal Xinglong Company is less than nine taels. One can imagine the high profit. The harvest time has finally come. You disorderly and hungry people, hurry up! Dig out the gold bricks and silver ingots hidden in the ground and exchange them for food!

Cao Wenzhao's side has already started to advance slowly, and Lu Xiangsheng's side is not idle either. After receiving the news from Qin Yiming, he immediately ordered the South China Sea Fleet to first secrete the 15 soldiers of the First Frontier Army Corps near Mysore Beach. Sent to Goa, anyway, they have already changed their appearance, and they can't tell it among the locals. This is an insurance he added to Qin Yiming just in case, 20 against [-], or defend the city, as long as It's not a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, so it should be no problem to keep it for a few years!

After the South China Sea Fleet turned around, four days passed. According to the progress, the army of the Mughal Empire also rushed outside the city of Goa. Lu Xiangsheng immediately ordered all 30 troops to board the ship and rush to Goa for support. All the warships of the Fleet and the Beihai Fleet were almost packed with the Ming army, so densely packed that it frightened everyone to death. Fortunately, the South China Sea Fleet added 30 super battleships at the end of last year, otherwise the two fleets would not have been able to transport [-] troops.

Qin Yiming was eagerly looking forward to the siege of the Mughal Empire army, but after waiting for three days, their siege equipment had not yet been built, but an unexpected person suddenly entered the city of Goa. Hou Shilu, the commander of the First Corps of the Expeditionary Army!
Damn, isn't it five days as promised, why did he come here in three days!
Fortunately, what came was not the main force led by Lu Xiangsheng, but the [-] soldiers of the First Corps of the Expeditionary Army. They were ordered to come to help defend the city, which means that he still has a chance to make meritorious service.

Qin Yiming is in a hurry right now, he can't wait to run out of the city and drown in the battle. It takes so long to make a siege machine, can he still fight well?

(End of this chapter)