After the five-tone assembly number was completed, six thousand people stood silently on the playground. The clothes Zhu Hongsan designed for them were red on the upper body and blue on the lower body, and high-tube hats, which stood in rows with a very impressive appearance.

At this time, Qian Yong and Zhao Guodong came forward to report the number of people who were fucked and asked for leave. Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "Very good. I will check your training situation in the past six months when I come back this time. If I am not satisfied, I will punish you two."

Qian Yong and Zhao Guodong shouted: "Please review by the officer!"

Zhu Hongsan said: "Bring your team and all the equipment, let's do training today. Target Xin'an County, I want you to march urgently and arrive outside Xin'an County in three days."

Xin'an County is more than 120 miles away from Dongguan County and more than 100 miles away from Nanhaiwei. The task of the army rushing to Xin'an County with all its equipment within three days is not easy.

But Qian Yong and Zhao Guodong were not afraid at all and replied loudly: "Yes, sir!"

After saying that, he gathered the team, pulled up the cannons and ammunition trucks, and left the Nanhaiwei and headed for Xin'an County.

Zhu Hongsan's army was equipped with three artillery companies, a total of fifty-four artillery and sixty ammunition trucks. Each gun cart was pulled by two horses, and the ammunition truck was pulled by one horse, plus the officer's horse, and a regiment was nearly five hundred horses and mules. In addition to three thousand people, each regiment was five miles long and two regiments were more than ten miles long.

Zhu Hongsan walked in the middle of the marching team with the guard company, looking at his team. Zhu Hongsan found that although he had only 6,000 people, his current momentum was really enraged. What would it look like if there were 100,000 troops?

No wonder Chang Yuchun said, "Give me 100,000 troops, I will sweep the world."

Zhu Hongsan looked at the army moving forward, and the bayonets shone brightly in the sun. Zhu Hongsan remembered that Napoleon also led 500,000 French troops to attack the Russians, but he didn't expect to be beaten and thrown away his armor. He wouldn't follow his old path.

Training is the best way to test the training situation of an army. Seeing the surrounding troops walking slowly, Zhu Hongsan frowned, and there was no effect when walking like this.

Zhu Hongsan ordered: "The commander, tell the front team to speed up and wait for a break at Hutou Gate fifty miles away tonight." The commander went down to convey the command. After a while, the team began to speed up the marching speed.

The speed of the marching was immediately seen. The marching queue was stretched very long, the infantry was OK, but the artillery and supplies behind them were not good. The roads in the Ming Dynasty were not as perfect as Europe. In addition, Guangdong was located in the south with dense water networks, and artillery weighing 1,000 kilograms could easily fall into mud.

Relying on his being Zhu Hongsan's old subordinate, Qian Yong stepped forward with a thick face to plead and said, "Sir, it's already noon. It's too difficult to get to Hutou Gate fifty miles away in half a day."

Zhu Hongsan cursed: "Stop talking nonsense. Who cares about your roads during the war? I ordered the group who went to the evening to wash their underwear for ten days for the group who arrived first. Do you know?"

Qian Yong stood attentively and said, "Yes, sir!"

This order was too shady, and soldiers all had a sense of honor. It would be better to let them die than to wash their underwear for their opponents. Zhu Hongsan's order was issued, and immediately both groups were afraid of washing their underwear for the other party, so they used their strength to push the cannon truck in the mud.

Zhu Hongsan led the guard company and Zhu Hongyi to Hutoumen first. Hutoumen was the location of the Hutoumen Fort in the late Qing Dynasty. This place has always been a military important place. After leaving Hutoumen, the Zhujiang River became a huge sea outlet more than 20 miles wide, so Hutoumen is also the first gateway in Guangzhou.

There was originally a small flag guarding the Hutoumen area. Since the Nanhai Guard fell into Zhu Hongsan's hands, no one cared about this place. No one guarded the forts built on the hills.

Zhu Hongsan entered the fort and sat on the stone waiting for his subordinates to arrive.

Zhu Hongyi stepped forward and handed Zhu Hongsan the water bag. Zhu Hongsan took it and took a sip and asked, "Brother, look at Qian Yong and the others and the others can arrive first."

Zhu Hongyi said: "Qian Yong was too cunning in the war, so he would definitely arrive first. Zhao Guodong was cautious and he would definitely be able to arrive with all his equipment."

It seems that Zhu Hongyi, the former instructor, was in vain and knew the temperaments of these two people. Zhu Hongyi was right. The generals and masters under his command had their own characteristics. Qian was good at attacking; Zhao Guodong was good at defending; Zhao Guoliang was strong at surrounding points and attacking; Zhou Yu was careful and cautious, and he was completely missed; Wang Jinbao had many ideas and was good at attacking behind enemy lines; Zhang Sanqiang was good at using cavalry because he was a bandit in Shaanxi; Han Shirong went forward bravely and was good at making breakthroughs on the front.

Zhu Hongsan thought about his men. It seems that some professional soldiers have been trained in the past few years of military career. He also wants to expand the size of the army, and the 6,000 people are still too small.

Zhu Hongsan predicted that it would take 50,000 such troops to defend Guangdong, and 300,000 troops to attack Nanjing and Qing dynasties to rule the river. As for the Northern Expedition, it would be impossible to have 500,000 troops.

But the soldiers said it was nice, 300,000 or 500,000 yuan, which was all money. Now the equipment can be produced by itself, and a soldier's equipment costs 100 taels of silver. With Zhu Hongsan's current financial resources, he can only equip 30,000 people to the top.

Zhu Hongsan sat on the stone and thought silently that it seemed that he should try to minimize production costs. However, in terms of current productivity, he has reduced to the extreme. To reduce costs, he has to start from the raw materials.

Now Zhu Hongsan invests a lot of money in the procurement of iron ore and coal. Guangdong is not the source of these two raw materials, and local inventory has been almost consumed by Zhu Hongsan. It seems that the key is to open up new source of raw materials.

Iron ore has already existed, and Tong Yangjia will go to Qiongzhou Prefecture in more than ten days. Tian Du and Shilu, two famous iron ore in China, are their own capital. Coal is still a terrible thing, and it is really unstable to buy it with money. It is better to have money to come with money. However, most of China's coal production areas are in the north, and the Qing Dynasty may not be able to buy it for itself.

Zhu Hongsan remembers that Hongji, Vietnam, is a coal base. I heard that it is an open-pit coal mine, and mining is very simple. It seems that Old Man Feng has to discuss with him the candidate for the prefect of Lianzhou Prefecture.

But Hongji is far away in Vietnam, and there must be a navy to go there. I wonder how Yan Qingshan and the others are doing?

Zhu Hongsan was thinking about it here. It was getting darker and there were already sporadic troops reaching Hutou Gate. The first one to arrive was Qian Yong.

Qian Yong came to Zhu Hongsan and said, "Sir, Qian Yong reported!"

Zhu Hongsan looked up at him and said, "Where is your team?"

Qian Yong said: "Didn't the sir say that you will win first? My team is behind."

Zhu Hongsan cursed: "Fuck, what's the use of you? Can you deal with the enemy by yourself? Go back and gather the team, and I'll keep you from the army like this."

Qian Yong was shocked and said, "Yes, sir! I'll gather the troops now!"

Zhu Hongsan waited until the moon came out, Zhao Guodong came. When he saw Zhu Hongsan, he said, "Sir, all the Second Regiment has arrived, please review it!"

Zhu Hongsan nodded and left the fort and saw the Second Regiment standing at the door in a twist. Although the team was not good-looking, none of them fell behind and the equipment was brought neatly.

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "Very good. I announced that the second group won. The first group will wash your underwear for ten days."

All the soldiers of the Second Regiment cheered long live, and Zhao Guodong said happily: "Damn it, I have a dozen unwashed underwear that require money to wash four treasures, haha!!!"

Zhu Hongsan also smiled and looked at the cheering soldiers and said, "Okay, everyone eat first, then rest. Be careful to have your feet high and your head low when sleeping, so that you can reduce fatigue."

Zhao Guodong took the order to take the soldiers down to rest without mentioning it.

Zhu Hongsan stood on the fort and looked at Qian Yong's group in the distance. The long line continued twenty miles like an ant. The last soldier rushed to Hutou Gate and it was already midnight.

Zhu Hongsan looked at Qian Yong coldly and said, "Sibao, what else do you have to say? If you said how many brothers you killed during the war?"

Qian Yong also knew that he had done something wrong and lowered his head and didn't say anything.

Zhu Hongsan said: "I hope you will teach you a lesson this time. You go to Zhao Guodong. He said there are dozens of underwear that you need to wash."

Qian Yong looked up and said, "Sir, how can you be clean?"

Zhu Hongsan cursed: "I am willing to accept the loss of the bet. How can I teach you? This is a military order. Go fucking."

Qian Yong had no choice but to go down and find Zhao Guodong to wash his underwear.
Chapter completed!