The day when Shen Tingyang, the second richest man in the Ming Dynasty, arrived in Nanjing happened to be the first day of April in the ninth year of Hongxing reign in the Ming Dynasty when a grand military parade was held to celebrate victory.

When the private boat he took arrived at Longjiang Pier, the nearby Yifengmen Street was already full of people waiting to watch the triumphal army. Everyone's face was filled with excitement that could not be concealed. Most of them are northerners living in Nanjing. Some are military dependents, some are volunteers, some were once high-ranking scholar-bureaucrats, and some are nothing but ordinary people who fled to the south of the Yangtze River to find a place to stay in order to escape the disaster of war. .

Among these people living in other places, some have had the opportunity to achieve great success, and some have lived a well-off life and have settled down in Nanjing, a prosperous hometown, but most of them are struggling on the poverty line!

How could it be easy to live in a foreign country?

No matter how these people from the north live in Jiangnan, most of them miss their hometown all the time!

As soon as many people close their eyes, the mountains and rivers of their hometown, the towns and villages, and the folks they have not seen for many years will appear in their dreams.

As time goes by, the longing for hometown of people wandering far away will only become deeper and stronger!

Now, news of the victory of the Northern Expedition has arrived!

Henan has been recovered! Hebei has been recovered! Shanxi has also been recovered!

In the end, even Beijing was recovered! The invincible Northern Expedition army even reached the Monan grassland. Even the Mongolian Chahar tribe, known as the orthodox Yuan Dynasty, and the Mongolian Tumote tribe, known as the Little Khan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, also attacked the Great Yuan Dynasty. Tomorrow the dynasty will surrender!

The Northern Expedition has been victorious!

The Northern Kingdom has been recovered!

The children of the North who were wandering in the southeast finally saw the hometown they had dreamed of, waving to them!

It’s time to go home!

And before they pack their bags and prepare to return to their hometown to see the relatives, mountains, rivers, villages, and towns in their dreams, they must also welcome the returning troops and the Ming Dynasty's resurgence master with the greatest enthusiasm.

"The soldiers are triumphant! The soldiers are triumphant"

As forty armored soldiers on ocean horses drove their horses forward in order and loudly shouted "triumph", the victory parade of the ninth year of Hongxing began!

There were not many troops participating in the Victory Parade, because although the Northern Expedition had been a complete victory, the northern land that had been in chaos for twenty or thirty years had not yet completely calmed down. The authority of the Ming Dynasty still needed the Northern Expedition Iron Army to defend it. Outside the pass, there are still enemies who are unwilling to fail and need to be frightened by the Ming Dynasty's powerful troops.

Therefore, the army that was able to temporarily end the expedition and return to Nanjing to participate in the victory parade only had five regiments of nearly 10,000 people, including one Forbidden Army cavalry regiment, two fusilier regiments, and two ordinary infantry regiments.

The leader was a regiment of Forbidden Lancers, all wearing horse plate armor. They had already lined up neatly on the pier. When the shouts were heard in the distance, the sound of war drums also sounded.

A whole regiment of armored cavalry, with forty cavalry forming a square, lined up neatly, one team after another, marching majestically along Yifengmen Street towards the city of Nanjing.

There were bursts of cheers from both sides of Yifengmen Street!

"The Ming Dynasty will be victorious! The Ming Dynasty will be victorious"

Those who ran to both sides of the street outside Yifeng Gate to occupy the best positions to welcome the victorious army were mostly family members of the Northern Army, and some were veterans who had retired from the New Army that overcame the difficulties.

Seeing these two thousand armored cavalry, I could hardly contain my excitement!

They all know something about military affairs. Of course they know what these two thousand armored lancers riding tall horses mean?

If there had been such cavalry twenty or thirty years ago in the Ming Dynasty (that is impossible, how much money would it cost!), the Manchus would not have been able to enter the Great Wall. Their bows and arrows could not penetrate the plate armor, and their ponies could not outrun these tall men.

The foreign horses, facing the attack of the foreign horse soldiers, did not even have a chance to escape.

Immediately after, row after row of infantrymen in red clothes and black armor appeared, carrying flintlock muskets with bayonets on their shoulders. These were two entire regiments of fusiliers! They were all equipped with flintlock muskets. There were no long rifles.

There is no sword card. Such an army may not be very useful on the European battlefield where the shock cavalry is strong, but in the East where there is no strong shock cavalry, it is almost invincible.

Anyone who has actually been on the land battle battlefield in the 17th century knows that it is very, very difficult to defeat a large number of well-organized fusiliers with hand-to-hand combat or mounted archery with cold weapons! Use rifles and long-range shots to defeat fusiliers.

It is even more ridiculous to imagine that the gunmen are fighting against each other. It is a ridiculous fantasy to use a whole team of Batulu to compete with the private soldiers who have only put down their hoes for a few months? And the winner of this kind of war of attrition is not necessarily the Batulu. As long as they give

Private soldiers equipped with plate armor are enough to withstand the batulus' "a hundred steps to penetrate the poplar"!

Now almost all the large ironworks in Shanghai, Nanjing, Quanzhou and Guangzhou are equipped with hydraulic hammers (hydraulic hammers cannot directly process plate armor, but can break out medium and thick plates), so the cost of producing plate armor is already lower than that of armor, which is completely possible

Equip troops in large numbers.

The loudest cheers suddenly erupted outside Yifeng Gate. It turned out that the Ming Emperor Zhu Cixi, wearing golden plate armor, appeared on Yifeng Gate Street riding a majestic Arabian horse. People on both sides of the street knelt down and saluted him.

At the same time, the mountain shouted long live, and the whole street fell into madness.

Zhu Cixiang was also surrounded by a large group of meritorious officers wearing plate armor and riding war horses. They were all officers who had made great contributions in the Northern Expedition and now had the honor of escorting the emperor to participate in the victory parade.

Among them, the one closely following Zhu Cixiang was Prince Kong Dai, who was wearing black plate armor!

The French prince now also has a proud face. It is said that he is the real "general planner" of this Northern Expedition to the Central Plains. The plan of the Northern Expedition and the key victory in the battle of Dian were actually his handiwork.

And in the past few years in the East, he has also developed a lot of skills! First of all, he got the practical opportunity to command a large army, commanding an army of tens of thousands in Europe and commanding a war in China with hundreds of thousands of people participating.

, which are completely two different things!

Secondly, he also learned real skills in the siege of Beijing! The parallel trench siege method "invented" by the Ming Emperor himself opened his eyes and made him realize the truth that as long as he is good at mathematics, he can build a bastion at will!

What surprised him even more was the wooden support tail fin and wooden tube fuze of the blooming projectile "invented" by Emperor Zhu. With these two things, the reliability of the blooming projectile went up several levels.

With reliable explosive shells and parallel siege methods, the era of bastions is about to pass. For Europe, which is full of bastions, a new era is about to begin!

Zhu Cixiang couldn't restrain his joy at this time, not because the cavalry and fusiliers in front of him looked so powerful, but because he had come all the way from the other side of the Yangtze River and had witnessed with his own eyes the beauty of Nanjing, the most virtuous capital of the Ming Dynasty.

During the "war boom", a very busy handicraft center with shipbuilding workshops appeared in Pukou area. Dozens of slipways were laid out near the bank of the Yangtze River, and they were all busy with shipbuilding. On the other side of the Yangtze River, the Qinhuai River and Jinchuan River

Both sides of the strait are full of cargo ship terminals, densely packed with river boats waiting to be loaded and unloaded.

Zhu Cixiang, who has lived in Nanjing for more than ten years, can feel that Nanjing is more prosperous now than at any time in the past ten years!

Since fighting can promote economic development, we should fight more in the future!

Who to hit next?

When Emperor Zhu was thinking about who to fight in the next war, the war horse under his crotch had already arrived outside the Yifengmen Wengcheng. The terrain in this area was particularly open, so a particularly large number of people gathered, all of whom were refugees from Shuntian Prefecture.

Many of them were volunteers who had fled with Emperor Zhu. Now seeing their emperor majestic and coming on horseback, they were really excited. They didn't know who was leading the army, and suddenly they shouted: "Long live the Lord, lead the army."

Let’s go home!”

Then more people started shouting!

"Long live Lord, take us home!"
Chapter completed!