After distributing the weapons, the Fire Head Army carried out training like the combat soldiers.

However, he did not teach any tactics, but only carried out queues and marching exercises, or he would have been in one stop for most of a day.

Zhao Ming raised objections to this, but Old Li told him that the HuoTou Army is not a regular soldier, and it is only necessary to train people to improve everyone's discipline and ensure that they do not get separated during the march.

The training time was very short. Three days later, the army marched north from the foot of the mountain.

Zhang Mingzhen's army was stationed here, with strict military discipline and rarely disturbing the people. The local gentry organized the people to bid farewell to Taizhou soldiers to go north and instructed the official army to recover Wu. Both sides parted in tears.

Five thousand troops crossed the Fuchun River at Dongzi Pass and headed north along Gexi. Zhao Ming sat on the cart of the baggage camp, and saw the silence of the carriages and horses. On the undulating land of western Zhejiang, the eyes were filled with official troops wearing mandarin duck battle robes.

After the army crossed the Fuchun River, it soon approached Xincheng County. The Central Army's command cavalry ran along the road against the crowd, loudly conveying the commander's military order, making the army be on guard.

Xincheng was the territory of the Qing general Wu Zhaosheng. The Ming army immediately became alert. The killer team was unsheathed, the firearms team installed the bird gun, and held the fire pieces in their hands. Even the fireheads picked up the shoulder poles and sticks.

Although Zhao Ming judged that Wu Zhaosheng might really have to be correct, he still felt alert in his heart, afraid that an accident would happen.

However, Zhao Ming's concern was still unnecessary in the end. The army came outside Xincheng County. Wu Zhaosheng, who had picked up the braids, led a group of generals wearing Ming Dynasty armor to greet him. Zhang Mingzhen met with him, and both sides were as intimate as brothers.

After the army arrived at the new city, the troops camped and rested by the Gexi River. Soon, another group of people rushed to the west, about 2,000 people. They went down not far from Taizhou soldiers, and then several cavalrymen, protecting an official in a robe, entered the new city.

When Li Zhongming and others saw it, they couldn't help but smack their tongues secretly, and at the same time they were a little excited. The reinforcements were undoubtedly coming, and they were also a first-rank official. The strength of the Western Route Army increased and their chances of victory were a little higher.

There were not many Qing soldiers in Hangzhou, only more than 10,000 people. Now the Taihu Rebel Army attacked Huzhou and cut off the connection between Hangzhou and Nanjing from the north. Zhang Mingzhen led the Western Route Army, broke through the Qing army's defense line, penetrated westward, occupied Changhua, Huanghua Pass, Tianmu Mountain and other places, and cut off the connection between Hangzhou and Chizhou, Anqing and Wuhu Qing army from the west. The Qing army in Hangzhou became a turtle in the jar.

The King of Lu had a 100,000 army besieged Hangzhou, but there was a chance to conquer it.

Although Li Zhongming was a hot-headed army, he was very informed. Seeing Wu Zhaosheng, other people joined, he became optimistic.

Zhao Ming looked at the figure of the robe from afar and felt a little strange in his heart, but he didn't care and continued to help the fire-headed soldiers to clean rice.

Xincheng County, on the city gate building, there were great wine and fun, and the generals gathered in the school, with a sharp sword, Zhang Mingzhen, Wu Zhaosheng, and the newly-entered official in the city stood at the top of the city, full of energy and guidance.

Zhang Mingzhen pointed to the camping soldiers in the distance and asked the official with a smug robe with smugness, "Sir, what do you think of someone under his command?"

The old official in a robe nodded and said, "The elite troops under General Zhang will definitely succeed in this battle."

After the five thousand troops gathered outside the new city and set up a camp, Ruan Mei brought a few more people into the city with a cart to buy some salt and food.

There is paradise above and Suzhou and Hangzhou below. Xincheng is a county town in Hangzhou Prefecture. The commodity economy is developed and the population in the county town is 60,000 to 70,000. However, due to war and hair shaving orders, the population in the city has been reduced by nearly half and business has become in decline.

Zhao Ming and his group walked on the street and searched for a long time before they found a shop open. Ruan Mei asked loudly: "Shopkeeper, is there salt in the store?"

Salt is a must-have in life. In the past, when Jiangnan ate salt, mainly Huai salt. The Qing army occupied Jiangbei and the richest salt merchants in Lianghuai were almost killed by the Qing army in Yangzhou, eating salt in Jiangnan became a problem.

Shanxi merchants from Shanxi took advantage of their relationship with the Qing Dynasty to control the salt industry in Lianghuai, kept the salt not selling, and raised the salt price, making it a problem for Zhejiang to eat salt.

Ordinary people eat less salt at home and can still persist. If the army does not eat salt, the soldiers will not have the strength and cannot fight.

The shopkeeper in the store was playing abacus to settle accounts for several soldiers. Wen Yu looked up and smiled apologized: "This general is really sorry. The salt in Alaska has just been sold out!"

Another group of people in the store turned around and led a middle-aged man. He glanced at Ruan Mei, and bowed with a smile: "You are people under the command of Zhang Mingzhen and Zhang Dashen!"

Ruan Mei nodded, "That's right, brother, are you?"

The man didn't answer, as if it was difficult to speak. He smiled unnaturally and bowed: "Since it's Mr. Zhang's man, then I'll give up a generation of salt."

After saying that, the man left a group of salt, and the shopkeeper repaid the bill, and the man took the man and left with the salt.

"Thank you, brother!" Ruan Mei said to her back, and after that, she went in to check in with the shopkeeper to pay.

Two groups of people came in and out. When they met at the door, the leading man was stunned when he saw Zhao Ming and suddenly said happily: "Xi'er."

Zhao Ming walked at the end, was shocked when he heard the sound, and hurriedly pulled the man aside, which made Li Zhongming turn back in confusion.

Zhao Ming and the man came to the alley. When their relatives met in troubled times, the man was overjoyed when he saw Zhao Ming and tears flew.

"Xi'er, why are you here and you don't go to find your father?" The man took a step back and looked at Zhao Ming carefully, "Where are you joining the army under Zhang Mingzhen?"

Zhao Ming's head was blank for a moment, but he quickly realized that this person was not Ma Shiying, but his elder.

Zhao Ming didn't know how to answer, nor did he know what to call the man in front of him, but just sighed: "It's a long story."

The man didn't notice the abnormality, "Your father is outside the city. Come with me to see him. He must be very happy!" As he said that, the man went to pull Zhao Ming, but Zhao Ming did not move.

Seeing this, the man frowned slightly, and his expression suddenly dimmed, "Do you want to abandon your father and refuse to recognize him?"

After the two regimes of Hongguang and Lu Wang were destroyed one after another, Ma Shiying did not surrender to the Qing Dynasty, but instead pulled up troops in western Zhejiang to fight guerrillas.

The King of Tang ascended the throne in Fujian to establish the Longwu court, and the King of Lu governed the country in eastern Zhejiang and established the regime of Lu governed the country. Ma Shiying once submitted letters to the two regimes and requested to submit, but was rejected by the two regimes of Tang and Lu and abandoned by the Ming court.

With Ruan Dacheng, the second-ranked figure of Ma Ruan's party, joining the Qing Dynasty, Ma Shiying can be said to be betrayal of his relatives, and those who had previously attached themselves abandoned Ma Shiying one after another.

The first minister was in front, with only two thousand private soldiers beside him, hiding in the mountains of western Zhejiang to fight against the Qing Dynasty.

Seeing that Zhao Ming was not leaving, the man sighed and said, "The situation is at this point, it is not your father's fault. Do you know everything about the family in Nanjing?"

Seeing this, Zhao Ming whispered: "After I came out of Nanjing, I encountered some things and didn't know many things."

The man seemed not to understand his words and continued, "After the fall of Nanjing, your elder brother Ma Luan did not escape, and the whole family was killed. Your sister's family also died in Nanjing, and your uncle, third uncle, and my family all died under the butcher knife. Now the Ma family is only left with your father, your uncle, and me, and you. If you don't recognize your father, the Ma family will be extinct."

After saying that, the man was already in tears.

At this moment, Ruan Mei and her group came out and shouted to the entrance of the alley: "Big Man Zhao, what's going on? Let's go!"

When Zhao Ming heard the sound, he hurriedly bowed to the man and said, "Uncle, I'll go to see my father tonight!"

After saying that, Zhao Ming turned around and left the alley. Ruan Mei asked, "What's going on?"
Chapter completed!