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Under the night, the entire Xintan City was in a panic of wind and panic. With Gan Ziba's order, the 3,500 naval officers and soldiers who went to Hongdu Port in Annan began to indulge in the city.

"General Gan, is this too much?" Zhang Shaoyu was a little embarrassed and suggested to Gan Ziba, "Your Majesty asked us to come to Annan to choose a harbor to provide a place for our future maritime trade for our Han merchants. But you did not let you ravage the people of Annan so much. What if His Majesty knew what you did in Annan, how should he explain to him?"

Gan Ziba enjoyed the pleasure of Zheng Sanbao cleaning his ears. After hearing Zhang Shaoyu's words, he waved his hand to stop Zheng Sanbao, stood up and said to him, "Shaoyu, you are a woman's kindness. You know what is going on in Zhennan Pass,

Those soldiers have been guarding the frontier for twenty years, and their beards are all white, but they are not the monkeys that have caused them? What's the point of getting some interest for those old generals now?

Besides, what kind of fuel-efficient people do you think these Annan people are? They all hate us Central Plains people to the core. If you don’t believe it, you can try walking on the street alone. I’m afraid that it won’t take long for someone to cut your neck.

So you don’t have to worry about it. Let your brothers have fun, which can be regarded as making up for the hardships of the sea during this period of time…”

After saying that, Gan Ziba grabbed a lychee and threw it into his mouth, chewing it with relish.

Seeing that Gan Ziba could not persuade him, Zhang Shaoyu had to give up and could only watch the navy soldiers spread their anger on the group of Annan civilians.

He saw a house brutally smashed open by Han soldiers. Soon the soldier was carrying a large bag of plundered bags on his back. When he came out, he was dragging a woman and a child who was crying and screaming, he couldn't help but frown.

After all, Gan Ziba had been a mountain bandit and a water thief who had no fortune in his career before joining the Han army. In addition, he had not been able to join the Han army for a long time, so the banditry aura on his body had not been completely removed and he did nothing to do anything.

But by heart, Gan Ziba was already very restrained. He did not let the soldiers treacherously, and did not let the soldiers kill people unless they had no choice. He could already be considered a benevolent and righteous army in the old army.

If Bai Qi was here, I am afraid that the entire Xintan would become a dead city in an instant. After all, no matter whether the enemy provoked Bai Qi or not, it would inevitably end up dead without a burial place...

The robbery continued until late at night. The navy officers and soldiers were satisfied and concentrated a large amount of money and property collected from the homes of the civilians to Hongdu Port. Some of these goods would be transported by the fleet to the Han territory and reported to the court for the enrichment of the tense treasury of the court, and the other part was naturally used as naval military expenses and rewards for soldiers.

Perhaps it was the first time I participated in a war, and these unconventional naval officers and soldiers did not even let go of the pots and pans of the civilians' houses. Gan Ziba shook his head and scolded them for being unpromising.

After counting the materials plundered by the soldiers, the officials of the Statistics Division, they removed some useless items and finally returned to Gan Ziba: "I report to General Gan, these materials totaled 2.2 million silver dollars, and the detailed accounts are all in the document book. Please check it out."

Gan Ziba took the document book, flipped it around, threw it aside, and said worriedly: "I only worked hard for a long time and only had more than 2 million silver dollars? It's too little..."

The Statistics Department suddenly felt a sudden overwhelming feeling when he heard this. Two million silver dollars are still less? You know that the cost of sailing is less than one million silver dollars (the weapons on the ship do not count), and these are enough to build two sail battleships again.

But no matter how much I think about it, the officials of the Statistics Department did not say what they thought. They just recorded all the matters that followed the army, and as for the others, they had no right to care about them.

Gan Ziba thought about it, took the map of Xintan that was found in Hongdu Port, pointed and glanced around, and asked, "Ruan, the Palace of Annan...what is Ruan?"

"Ruan Qingtong..." The officials of the Statistics Department couldn't help but remind him.

Gan Ziba nodded and asked, "Yes, how far is the palace of Ruan Qingtong?"

The official from the Statistics Department did not speak, and Zhang Shaoyu, who was standing beside him, said: "Report to General Gan, the royal palace is about 45 miles away from Hongdu Port..."

"Forty-five miles?" Gan Ziba muttered twice, smiled on his face, slapped the map heavily, jumped onto the table and shouted: "What are you waiting for? Do him!"

Zhang Shaoyu was shocked: "General Gan, think clearly. It doesn't matter how we act in the city. If we besiege the royal city, the impact will be great!"

"Big? How big can it be?" Gan Ziba was distracted. "No matter how hot the meat is, it has to be eaten. We finally came to a foreign country and brought so much money back. I was embarrassed to tell my colleagues that it was your commander,

Your Majesty trusts me so much, so I naturally want to make more profits for him, and I don’t want more. As long as King Annan gives me one billion or eight billion yuan in silver, I will be satisfied.”

"Billion or eight billion silver?"

Zhang Shaoyu was speechless. He was afraid that he could not find so much money by rummaging through the entire Annan. Moreover, even if there were, even if we had it, we might not be able to put it on the ships without installing anything...

Gan Ziba waved his hand: "I have decided to inform the entire army and ask them to stop robbing and gather quickly, and go with me to do the big tickets, and then ask Ruan Qingtong, a bastard, to sign the things they should sign and go home with the glory!"

Zhang Shaoyu continued to persuade: "General Gan, please consider it again. We only have a few thousand people. There are millions of people in Annan. Once the palace is besieged, it will be troublesome if their army counter-encircles..."

Gan Ziba sneered: "The army? Their special code is also called the army? I'm afraid there are 20,000 people left in our hands since the war started yesterday, right? So far, I have not heard of the casualties of the soldiers in our army.

What does this mean? It means that they are simply a group of mobs, let alone how long has it been, and what about the Annan army? I haven't even seen a figure of it, so I'm afraid that we've been killed by us for a long time.

It was decided, leaving two thousand people to guard Hongdu Port, and the rest immediately followed me into the palace. I want to see who is not very eye-catching in the world dares to be presumptuous in front of the Han army!"

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In the palace, Ruan Qingtong, who learned that the Han army was approaching, and the ministers who hid in the palace for refuge overnight were anxious like ants on a hot pan.

"Have the people sent out of the orphans already left the city?"

"Report to the king, you have asked eight times. My subordinates have sent more than a dozen waves to various places in Annan for help. Calculate the time and now it's probably just now out of the city..."

Ruan Qingtong now regrets not obeying Ruan Wenhe and Huang Teng's words, and sent someone to find the king's army early. Now, facing the powerful Central Plains army, he can only hold on to the palace and can't do anything except worry.

"By the way, the navy in Keelung Bay also returns to help quickly. The attack between water and land has a chance of winning..." Ruan Qingtong said again.

Ruan Wenhe sighed: "The king, my subordinates have sent people to Keelung for help, but it will take at least five or six days for Keelung's navy to arrive in Hongdu. Even the army that serves the king will take as fast as seven or eight days to arrive..."

"Seven or eight days?" Ruan Qingtong stood up and pointed at Ruan Wenhe and said, "It will take so long? The Central Plains army is about to approach the palace. How can these hundreds of people in the palace hold on for eight days?"

An official immediately said, "Your Majesty, there are five thousand defenders from the Nanshui Camp in our city. We can let them come to resist the people of the Central Plains. Even if they are defeated, they can last for some time..."

Li Hong smiled bitterly and said, "Nanshui Camp? Isn't it unknown that the five thousand defenders in the Nanshui Camp are just the goods you servants and servants who are taking to make up the numbers. Can you expect them to fight the Central Plains army like wolves and tigers?

Even the 15,000 soldiers of the Hongdu Navy were defeated in one battle, and the seven thousand veterans of the two camps in Xiangzhou were wiped out. It would be fine if the army of the Nanshui Camp could not cause trouble..."

The minister immediately shut up because what Li Hong said was indeed the truth, and the army of the Nanshui Camp could not count on it at all.

Looking at the lifeless look in the palace, Ruan Qingtong anxiously urged: "Then tell me, what should you do now? Are you just waiting to die here? If something happens to me, you don't want to escape!"

"Report~~"

At this time, a guard stumbled into the palace, knelt in front of Ruan Qingtong and said in panic: "Your Majesty, you are here to kill me, and the people from Central Plains are here to kill me!"

As soon as these words came out, the entire hall immediately became noisy, and many ministers looked frightened and shivered...

Ruan Qingtong was stunned for a moment and asked hurriedly: "Where are they? How many people are there?"

The guard replied, "Now they are outside the palace, with countless people, but no less than two thousand..."

"What should I do, what should I do..." Ruan Qingtong was so scared that he collapsed on the throne, burst into tears, and no longer had the demeanor that a king should have.

There were only four hundred defenders in the palace. After receiving the news of the terrible combat effectiveness of the Han army and the astonishing casualties, Ruan Qingtong knew that these four hundred people could not resist the group of Han soldiers outside no matter what.

Listening to the faces of the officials around who were usually tall and arrogant, the guards couldn't help but smack their lips, took out a letter folded into a circle, and continued to say to Ruan Qingtong: "Report to the king, this is the letter shot in by the Central Plains people outside the palace. Please check it out..."

Ruan Qing snatched the letter and looked open.

Since Annan used Chinese characters in the Central Plains, the languages ​​were basically similar, it was not difficult for the literate royal family and those officials to understand the above content.

Ruan Wenhe carefully paid attention to Ruan Qingtong's expression. Seeing that his expression gradually began to improve, he knew that things had turned around.

Sure enough, after reading the letter, Ruan Qingtong let out a long sigh, restored a trace of the king's majesty, and said to everyone: "It is worthy of being the supreme country of the Celestial Empire, and it is a negligence. The letter said that they were the navy (navy) of the Han Dynasty!

I came here to ask Gu Tong who sent a messenger from Chang'an (Shendu) to ask for an explanation without reason. Gu went to meet them and explain the whole story to them..."
Chapter completed!