The caravan was resting in Nongnai City, and Chen Shangchuan specially moved a courtyard for Chinese merchants to provide them with the help of the merchants.

As the Zhenla foreign soldiers besieged Dongpu, the caravan had to suspend his plan to go to Hexian and instead stayed in Nongnai City.

Chen Shangchuan treated Chinese businessmen very well, and even the thirty guards who accompanied him were treated differently from ordinary soldiers.

Unfortunately, the war has come, and not many people care about the goods carried by Chinese merchants, let alone transactions.

After all, what the Nong Nai Ming army today needs is soldiers, armor, gunpowder and artillery shells, which Chinese merchants cannot provide.

In this way, the caravan also lived in Nongnai City, while the Ming army guards who were escorting the caravan were invited by Chen Shangchuan to help defend Nongnai City Wall.

For several days, Zhenla, who invaded Dongpu, plundered several Mingren villages and communities one after another, and fought several battles with local village soldiers. The two sides won and lost each other.

The Ming army in Dongpu has been consolidating the Nongnai city wall and several nearby camps.

It was also during these days that the Minghai merchant ships heading to the coast of Jiading also landed near the coast.

Because it was a sea route, they arrived at the coast of Jiading earlier than the Ming caravans who were on land routes.

When he learned that the Zhenla foreign troops attacked Dongpu, several merchant ship owners of the caravan negotiated with the Ming army and decided to go to Nongnai as originally planned.

The soldiers of Huben Town were personally escorted, and hundreds of caravans brought herbs, iron tools, whale oil and other goods to Nongnai. At the same time, just in case, the soldiers of Huben Town even brought the three-pound Bolang cannons from two armed merchant ships. After dismantling them into several pieces, they were consigned by mules and other livestock.

The group did not meet foreign soldiers on the road, so they soon arrived at Mingren Village and led by the village soldiers to Nongnai.

Finally, the group arrived safely at Nongnai on the occasion of the rainy season.

The arrival of the new force of Huben Town has undoubtedly greatly strengthened the strength of the Nongnai defender.

In addition to more than 20 merchants, the caravan led by Li Liu had about thirty officers and soldiers, more than fifty gunners and sailors.

In addition to the three squads led by Lin Xu, there were about 110 sailors in the Ming army officers and soldiers gathered in Nongnai at this time.

It includes dozens of light and heavy muskets and ten Flang machine cannons.

With these firearms and the elite Hu Ben and Fu Bo soldiers, Lin Xu guessed that if the Ming soldiers were fighting in the ambush before, the Ming soldiers present could deal with at least five hundred people.

Since Lin Xu has the highest official position, this temporary mixed army is commanded by Lin Xu.

Chen Shangchuan naturally knew what was going on with this Ming Shang guard team.

After obtaining Chen Shangchuan's acquiescence, this Ming army also participated in the defense of Nongnai City.

Six or seven days after preparing for the war, the rainy season also arrived as scheduled.

The sky in Nongnai City was rainy and rainy, and thin raindrops hit the vine armor of the soldiers guarding the city, and the raindrops continued to seep into the ground along the spear.

Everyone was soaked by the drizzle, and many rural soldiers were pushing the carriage brought by the Chinese merchants into the city.

The carriage carried a lot of cotton and silk, which was covered by canvas, could not resist the infiltration of the drizzle.

"Quick." Several businessmen stood anxiously in the rain, looking at their goods while reminding the village soldiers.

Chen Shangchuan was looking at the dark clouds in the distance on the city tower.

"It's rainy season, and the roads are muddy. I really don't understand why those real lascivious fans invaded Dongpu at this time?" Qianhai Camp guerrilla general Li Shi cursed angrily.

The continuous drizzle and humid rainy season made the generals guarding the city very irritable.

"According to the news from the front line village soldiers, a large number of foreign soldiers came from the Chaipu area. It is estimated that they will be able to join the foreign soldiers in Dongpu in ten days and half a month. At that time, they will definitely attack Nongnai after the joining forces." Chen Shangchuan looked at the generals present and said.

"At this time, the roads in Shuizhenla are muddy, and it is difficult to marching and gathering, let alone supplies and food. If you encounter a mountain torrent and muddy flow on the way, you may even be able to return to the army." The generals of Pinghai Camp looked at the dark clouds in the distance and said disdainfully.

Although he was caught off guard by the Zhenla soldiers during the rainy season.

But the Ming generals present did not agree with these foreign soldiers.

Not only was it because of the contempt of these people, but more because the roads were muddy and slippery during the rainy season, the difficulty of marching, and the roads were damaged by mosquitoes. If the Zhenla foreign soldiers wanted to attack Nongnai, there were various risks and sufferings along the way, and I was afraid that when they arrived at Nongnai, the Zhenla foreign soldiers would have already lost more than half of their staff.

"Don't underestimate the enemy." Chen Shangchuan said coldly.

"Although I don't know why they are attacking during the rainy season."

"But since they have arrived, they must be fully prepared. You must be more cautious." Chen Shangchuan warned.

In a village about thirty miles away from Nongnai City.

Bonfires lit the dim rain screen, and hundreds of tents stood in the rice fields.

In a main military camp tent, several foreign generals were staring at the map of Dongpu in front of them.

"ah!"

Thunderous screams broke into the tent, accompanied by the bang of heavy objects.

"The 1,500 soldiers who came from Chaiban have entered the territory of Dongpu yesterday, and the 1,000 soldiers stationed in Dongpu are enough to break through Nongnai." A foreign general pointed to Nongnai City on the map and laughed loudly.

The screams outside the tent gradually became weaker.

Several foreign generals did not dare to make a sound, and stood there with their heads down.

"If you are not dead, drag him up." Nie Wu ordered.

Soon, two personal soldiers of the foreigners brought a half-dead foreigner into the tent.

The man was covered in blood, dark red blood stains were covered with vine armor, and his hair was messy and covered with mud and blood stains.

"I brought two hundred soldiers to guard the border to prevent Midi from rushing to Dongpu. I didn't expect that I would lose sixty or seventy people and still have the face to come back." Wei Weiwu's face turned cold.

"Sir, it's really not Midi's Ming people reinforcements, it's really just a Ming people's caravan." The general who was beaten to death half-kneeled on the ground, and blood ticked on the mud.

"Shut up." Wei Weiwu shouted angrily.

"You mean a caravan defeated me two hundred warriors?" Niu Weiwu's expression became colder. Unexpectedly, this man was tortured to death, but he still insisted that he had only encountered the Ming people's caravan.

"Sir, although Daen is stupid, he must be able to distinguish whether he met a caravan or a reinforcements from Ming. I have also asked the soldiers in this battle that they were indeed caravans, but there were hundreds of Ming soldiers guarding them." A general of the sermon could not stand it and spoke.

"Sir, if we were just one hundred soldiers of Diming, we would definitely be able to wipe out all of them, but there were many musketeers in those caravans. Their firearms were extremely sharp, even stronger than the firearms sold to us by Guangnan people." Daen was covered in blood, but he still raised his head and looked at Niu Wu with a serious look.

"Seeing the morale of the army, dragging it down and chopping it down." Wei Weiwu said with a ferocious expression.

"Sir, the Ming people really have firearms..." Daen was pulled out by two foreign soldiers, and the howling stopped abruptly with a cold light.
Chapter completed!