Piao Tianwen    The Henan Prefecture has gathered nearly 15,000 troops in total, which is less than the Li Chao army guarding Nanding City. However, both sides understand that these troops in Henan Prefecture are reinforcements from various prefectures, and the Li Chao army in Nanding City has no more than 5,000 troops. This is just to protect the safety of Li Zhenzong, Zheng Zhuang stayed there specially.

The negotiation between Li Zhenzong and Calder ultimately failed. There were only more than 1,000 sailors and gunners under Calder. Although they were all professional pirates, they had very strong combat power. The problem was that they were used to fighting water battles, and fighting on land was not their strength. In addition, Calder and others had no loyalty to the new master, and they were all focused on returning to Qinghua, so Li Zhenzong had no choice.

A few days later, Li Zhenzong received a report and an army came to Henan Prefecture, with a number of more than 10,000. Now Li Zhenzong could no longer sit still and immediately informed Yulin Guard to retreat to Ningping City. Li Zhenzong was not a fool, and used a group of civilians who drove cars to move things to fight against the soldiers. This was even more stupid than dying. Only if you win would you be able to win.

As a result, Zhou Shixiong and Zheng Dong carefully led their troops to Nanding City and saw an empty city. "Reported to the Lord, there is no one in the city. Then let the Lord tell me." Ten thousand miscellaneous troops guarded the four gates of Nanding City, and Zhou Er led the Langshan army into the city to search and brought back such news. Zhou Shixiong frowned and looked at Zheng Dong, "Master Zheng, what should you do about this matter?"

Of course, Zhou Shixiong asked whether he should occupy Nanding Prefecture, but asked Zheng Dong how to write this battle report. If it were to be honest, it would be not that easy for the two of them to ask Zheng Zai for benefits. If they fabricated a story of hard work to seize the city, so many soldiers from Beppu here will sooner or later expose the lies. Zhou Shixiong didn't care about lying Zheng Zai, and didn't know if Zheng Dong would care, so he asked this question.

"Leave this matter to our government. Lord Ji will go fishing for a boat and wait until our government writes a war report." Zheng Dong smiled and did not answer Ji Hongchang's question, but kept it a secret.

Seeing that Zheng Dong was confident and was not obsessed with this matter, Zhou Shixiong waved his hand and said, "Enter the city!"

The war in southern Vietnam began to tilt towards the Northern Vietnamese. Ji Hongchang and Zheng Dong easily occupied Nanding Prefecture. When they took out the cannons, they would learn from Zheng Zhuang and use the cannons to smash the gates of Ningping City, making the Li Dynasty army often forced to be pushed.

Zhou Shixiong personally took 7,000 troops from Langshan Army to the Shuizhai to fish for boats. Zheng Dong commanded the coalition forces in Nanding City to dig up the debris in the well, rested and prepared the city defense, and acted as if he would stay for a long time.

The job of fishing for artillery was very easy. Zhou Shixiong ordered people to get nearly a hundred Niu Fu, scientifically named Niu Fu. He tied the blowing Niu Fu to the underwater cannon. When the buoyancy created by Niu Fu exceeded the weight of the cannon, the water ghost could easily push the cannon to the shore. The rest was easy to deal with, and put the cannon with a rope and pull it up like a tug of war. Zhou Shixiong only took three days to get all the thirty-two cannons that sank to the bottom of the river. In addition, there were nearly a thousand projectiles.

Zhou Shixiong asked Zhou to escort the cannons back to Nanding City, leaving behind a thousand water ghost army and tower ships with blue gold and water to find ways to catch the warships. These eight warships were just made of a few holes and could be used after they were repaired. How could Zhou Shixiong abandon them?

When he returned to Nanding City, Zheng Dong greeted him in a genius outside the city gate. Although he wanted to show that he was not for the cannon, he betrayed him with a erratic look. "Master Zheng, the cannon is behind, if you want to see it, go and see it." Seeing that the performance of the Zheng house master was really unbearable, Zhou Shixiong had to tell him the specific location of the cannon so that he would not get sick in a hurry.

"Haha, Lord Ji, I'm not polite." Zheng Dong did not hide his eagerness for artillery, lifted up his robe and ran back to see the artillery he had longed for.

Back in the city, Zhou Shixiong nodded all the way. Zheng Dong was really capable. In just a few days, he cleaned up Nanding City, saving Zhou Shixiong a lot of trouble. It seems that Zheng Dong can have a close relationship.

Zhou Shixiong had just made up his mind to deepen his relationship with Zheng Dong, but the Zheng Mansion Lord made a request that he was unacceptable. "Mr. Ji, can you give me more cannons? Anyway, you have as many as thirty-two cannons on your hands, so it should be fine to give me more cannons." Zheng Dong couldn't put down every cannon. If it weren't for the lack of strength, Zhou Er believed that he would carry one to leave.

"Master Zheng, this request is a bit difficult." Zhou Shixiong had already arranged the place for artillery, so how could he agree to Zheng Dong's unreasonable request?

Zheng Dong replied confidently, "Mr. Ji, you have occupied Nanding Prefecture and asked for some benefits from Zheng Zai. After all, Nanding Prefecture will be handed over, but there is a mansion that is unparalleled. If Lord Ji occupied that mansion, no one can ask the master to hand it over." Zheng Dong did not talk about artillery, and suddenly talked about this topic, Zhou Shixiong was stunned. "Master Zheng's Mansion, please tell me directly."

"Zheng Yiguan, the head of Heping Prefecture, will be in a rebellious manner. If the Lord takes over Heping Prefecture, neither Zheng Zai nor Ruan Phuc will have any excuses to force the Lord to hand it over. Even if they want to do this, if our mansion and his nephew Zheng Lisheng help the Lord, they will not be able to do anything." Zhou Shixiong understood. Zheng Dong was using painting cakes to exchange artillery. What a waste of money.

"Master Zheng, Hongchang has not many troops in his hands. How can he steal the Yiping Mansion from the tens of thousands of Li Chaojun? Master Zheng is joking." Zhou Shixiong saw this trick of karate for too many times, and wanted to fool his cannons with a few words, but he had no way.

When Ji Hongchang saw through his tricks, Zheng Dong was not discouraged and smiled and took out a document. Zhou Shixiong opened it and found that it was a military newspaper sent by Taiyuan Prefecture and Beijiang Prefecture. The two prefectures had a total of 22,000 troops were about to arrive in Henan Prefecture, hoping that Zheng Dong would prepare the military camp and food in advance.

"What does Master Zheng mean?" Zhou Shixiong didn't understand what Zheng Dong wanted to express after reading the military newspaper.

"I have heard of the alliance between Lord Ji and Taiyuan Prefecture and Beijiang Prefecture. With the help of these two government troops, it would be easy to win the Heping Prefecture." Zheng Dong opened the trump card, thinking that Zhou Shixiong would definitely agree to his request.

"The Lord of Zheng's Mansion is such a bad statement. Even if our three governments can join forces to take over Heping Mansion, this Heping Mansion is not Hongchang's. Hongchang has no intention of governing a mansion with others." Zhou Shixiong's own acre of three-point land has not been managed yet, so he has no intention of getting another mansion to bother with him, and is not interested in Zheng Dong's idea.

"Master Ji, Zheng Lisheng only needs the support of his master. He will definitely not compete with him for Heping Prefecture. As for Fan Gandhi of Taiyuan Prefecture, he dare not divide his strength before solving the Ruan Phuc family. This Heping Prefecture must be Lord Ji." Zheng Dong's analysis makes sense, but Zhou Shixiong does not want this Heping Prefecture, so of course he will not be convinced by him.

"There is no need to say much, Hongchang has no intention of taking another mansion." Zhou Shixiong's firm attitude made Zheng Dong understand that his plan was gone, so he could only leave the government office with a sigh and go to the warehouse to enjoy the artillery for a while.

Three days later, the soldiers of the Taiyuan Prefecture, Beijiang Prefecture, who received the war report, rushed to Nanding City under the leadership of Fan Gandhi, the head of the Taiyuan Prefecture. Zhou Shixiong and Zheng Dong went out to greet him. Fan Gandhi was so happy that he couldn't stop seeing the two of them occupying Nanding City.

He led his army to set off earlier than Zhou Shixiong left Lang Son, but Van Gandhi was not confident of using this force to attack Nanding City, which had artillery cheering. He walked along the way and only hoped that he would not go to the place for a hundred years. Unexpectedly, he received a war report as soon as he arrived at Henan Prefecture, saying that Nanding City had been taken down by the coalition forces of many prefectures such as Lang Son Prefecture, Henan Prefecture and other governments, and immediately accelerated the march and came to see if it was true or false.

"I would have nothing to worry about if I had known Hongchang had come." Van Gandhi was very impressed by Ji Hongchang. Not to mention anything else, he was not as good as this young man when he was marching and fighting.

"Mr. Fan is too much, Hongchang is just a coincidence." Zhou Shixiong knew that pretending to be striking, but he still had to pretend, otherwise he would say that young people do not understand the virtue of modesty.

When he arrived at the government office, Zhou Shixiong briefly introduced the process of taking over Nanding City. Of course, it was not the content fabricated in the good news written by Zheng Dong. What is the battle that killed countless enemies in three days and three nights, etc., is purely literary creation.

"I thanked Hongchang Gaoyi." Zhou Shixiong mentioned that he was about to send a few cannons to his allies. Van Gandhi's expression was very wonderful. He secretly regretted when he heard Ji Hongchang say that he passed by. He didn't expect that Nanding City would fall into Ji Hongchang's hands so easily. If he had known that he would come boldly, all of this would be his own! When he was envious and jealous, Ji Hongchang said that he would give him a few cannons for free, and Van Gandhi's expression was naturally ever-changing.

"Mr. Fan doesn't need to be like this. Since our two departs are allies, it is appropriate to help each other." Zhou Shixiong did not read the mind and could not understand why Fan Gandhi's expression was so wonderful. Zheng Dong, who was standing beside him, guessed something and sneered a few times.

Zhou Shixiong would definitely not give it for free if he gave such a big gift. He immediately proposed the idea of ​​attacking Ningping City. Under Zheng Dong's strange gaze, Van Gandhi willingly gave up his command and led more than 20,000 troops to Zhou Shixiong for unified command.

Of course, Van Gandhi was willing to do this not only to repay favors, but the most important thing was that he believed in Ji Hongchang's ability, but also because Ji Hongchang had thirty-two cannons in his hand. With these cannons, the small Ningping City was no problem at all.

"The two palace masters just stay in Nanding City and wait for good news from Hongchang." Three days later, Zhou Shixiong led the 30,000 army that had been integrated, and wanted to set off in Ningping City. He promised to send Zheng Dong and Van Gandhi artillery, but he didn't say he would give it to him now, and the two of them were embarrassed to urge him to transfer the household immediately.

Nanding Prefecture dispatched a large army to attack Ningping City. Li Shenzong, who was in Ningping City, got the news early. When he learned that there were thirty-two artillery pieces in the Vietnamese army, Li Shenzong calmly issued an order, "The entire army retreated!"

ps: It hurts to type with one hand, alas.
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