There are excavated canals and diversion channels everywhere, roads, wells, greenhouses, towns and trests everywhere.

This is a vibrant land, and this is an emerging grassland built by Zhang Han and Hutchison’s subordinates in five or six years.

This is an emerging foundation founded by hundreds of thousands of Mongolians, hundreds of thousands of Han people, and millions of people on the grassland.

This is a great achievement that neither the Han people nor the heroes of the nomadic people have accomplished.

Commerce drives industry, and industry and commerce make agriculture develop, with sufficient manpower and sufficient tools, and straight roads everywhere make agricultural reclamation easier and more efficient.

With the emphasis on agricultural technology, irrigation, fertilizers, and good varieties, it is not surprising that the scene in front of you is presented on the grassland, which is quite normal.

This is a vast new world full of vitality and various new orders.

A large number of merchants are representatives of this vitality. From Zhangjiakou and all over the north, and even some southern merchants rushed over. Due to the prevalence of maritime trade, some southern merchants even followed the ship to Tianjin and then left the Great Wall to the north to see if there was anything to do with the Russian trade.

The trading cities have become more and more prosperous. The permanent merchants have founded more than a thousand commercial banks, and the annual trade volume has been easily over 10 million. However, due to the slow growth of capacity in Russia, it is said that the Tsar has planned to build roads and set up supply cities along the way to increase trade quota and increase transportation capacity... Chinese goods are not only able to digest most of the Russians, but are also welcomed by Nordic countries and Central and Eastern European countries, and are even more popular with Western European countries.

Marine trade in this era could not steadily provide Europe with a steady stream of high-quality goods, and this process was relatively slow. Moreover, even in the 19th century, Chinese porcelain and silk fabrics were still rare high-priced goods in the European market. Although they were no longer luxury goods patented by nobles, they still had a considerable market position.

Russians are very interested in the high-quality tobacco and sweet potato wine provided by Hutchison, and even buy as much as you can, even if you sacrifice other goods, you have to buy in large quantities.

In the words of Europeans, the grassland has become a place of milk and honey, covering all kinds of gold, silver, silk fabrics, tea, cloth, porcelain, iron, tobacco, and all kinds of goods.

The Russians did not have any idea about the grassland, because the reason was the endless army in front of them.

From the old capital to the distant skyline, there are gray and red robes everywhere, and black and silver iron armor. The flags are towering, flagpoles and flying military flags everywhere, and cold spear tips of high-mounted spears, and bayonets that are as cold as the forest.

What is even more shocking is the large number of artillery troops, with no side at a glance, one cannon after another, and together with a large cart and a horse, it formed the artillery of the artillery.

The Russians also came to the mission and witnessed everything about the oath-taking meeting in front of them.

At this moment, whether it was Petrine, Madov, or a Cossack officer, or an ambitious nobleman who rushed over from Moscow, they were of course very concerned about Hutchison's wealth and were very coveted. Although the profits brought by trade are not small, how can trade be more cost-effective?

But when they saw everything in front of them, they saw more than 100,000 main troops gathered together, heard the sound of long live as high as the sky, saw the army in a uniform manner like a knife-cut tofu, saw a large number of military flags commanding the army heading forward, saw the swords, guns and muskets and bayonets like forests, and saw the group of artillery being transported forward, at this moment, they saw much more powerful armed forces than Russia.

At this moment, all ambitions and covetousness were shattered, and all that was left was fear and fear, and happiness.

A nobleman from Russia said sincerely: "This is a terrible nation. They have such strong arms but are willing to live in peace with us and start trade. Never be enemies with them, otherwise we will be torn to pieces!"

Petrilin and others nodded, but Petrilin, who was familiar with the situation, also had deep hidden worries in his eyes. Those tough Cossacks would also think so?

Also, Hutchison really will maintain the current peace and not covet Russian land?

The future is worrying!

...

Sun Yao and Xia Xiping are closest to Zhang Han, and now Xia Xiping reports to Zhang Han about the latest developments of the troops: "The 2nd Guard Division, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, and 6th Dragoons, as well as the 1st and 2nd Artillery Divisions and the 1st and 2nd Cavalry Divisions, the 2nd and 3rd Lancers, which are the left-wing group, with a total of 110,000 combat soldiers. The task of the left-wing is to break through the defenses of Jizhen and Liaozhen, and at the same time, the camera eliminates the main force of the Donglu. Then divide a part of the troops to siege or conquer the capital, but this is a secondary strategic task. The main task is to eliminate the Jiliao military group of the Ming Dynasty, mainly consisting of about 60,000 Guanning soldiers. The second is to surround and conquer the capital."

Zhang Han nodded and said, "It's not important to the capital. The grain transportation has been isolated. The price of grain in the capital has exceeded 20 taels per stone. People are starving to death every day. Many civil and military officials with low positions are hungry. The capital is already unstable, and even bandits are robbing during the day. It's no problem for us to capture the capital. What's important is how to appease the capital and the people in the north..."

Tian Jitang, not far away, smiled and said, "In finance, we have prepared two million taels of silver and purchased a large amount of supplies to help the people for free. We have done much more than the emperor."

Sun Jingting also said: "We have prepared 12 million stones of grain, and released them all within a month, and the price of grain is three cents and four cents per stone. The powerful people who bought grain in the capital are equivalent to being robbed by us... Let them cry."

Xia Xiping also smiled, but continued to say: "The right wing group consists of the First Guard Dragoon Division, the First and Fourth Lancer Regiments, the Second Hunting Cavalry Division, the Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh Dragoon Division, the Third and Fourth Artillery Divisions, and also 110,000 people, and cooperates with 65 baggage brigades. Well, the left wing is similar, with a total of 220,000 combat troops and 130,000 baggage troops. A total of four artillery divisions and eight regiments, two thousand five hundred artillery pieces, mainly composed of tiger squat cannons, clove guns, four-pound cannons, six-pound cannons, and nine-pound cannons. Nearly 300,000 war horses and mixed horses were mobilized, 210,000 pure horses, more than 19,000 vehicles, prepared three million stones of military rations, 60 million cannons of various kinds, and more than 200,000 gunpowder, artillery shells, and bullets were all supplemented..."

"Very good..." Zhang Han took a deep breath, which was a very wonderful feeling.

Ten years of operation have been replaced by everything that is rich in front of you, by the rolling iron flowing forward now, and by the most powerful armed force of this era.

The 12th Regiment of Kuandian, the 4th and 13th Divisions of Taiwan, the invincible fleet had already arrived in Luzon, and should have conquered the Spaniards, returned to the estuary of the Yangtze River as planned, and conquered Nanjing, Huguang, Fujian and Zhejiang in the shortest time.

This is a great era. The new world that Emperor Chongzhen had not faced had been pushed open by Zhang Han. All the forces of resistance would be crushed into mud in front of the iron stream in front of him. There was no second possibility.

This is a dignified momentum, a dignified army, the strongest armed force in the history of the Han people, this is the force to subvert the Ming Dynasty, and this is also the force to save the Ming Dynasty and China.

Everything that is old will inevitably be swept into the garbage dump of history, while everything that is new will be built by Zhang Han. China will become unprecedentedly powerful, but this is not important. Territory, army, and country are just necessary to protect the people. All Chinese people must live happily, confidently and dignifiedly. Protecting rather than restraining them with the law is the more important thing.

Zhang Han smiled. In front of him, the army was still rolling forward like a torrent, with flags one after another almost connected to the end. What a spectacular scene, Zhang Han could no longer hold back... He said to everyone: "Follow me to go to war, with a thunder blow, I can't wait to end everything that was old."

...

The flags were flying, the military horns were loud, and a large number of soldiers and artillery had approached the Yulin city wall. The Ming army's flag was floating on the wall half-covered yellow sand. Large areas of Ming army stood on the top of the city like groups of red ants. The weapons in their hands were like weeds floating from the bushes, with different heights and flashing cold light.

The commander-in-chief of the right-wing army is Wang Yikui, and he is also an old corps in Hutchison's army. He has been on the front line of leading troops silently. Now Hutchison has reached the scale of two 200,000 troops heading south, and this old army has also reached the peak of his military career.

His deputy were Li Congye, Duoer and others. They were all old friends, and they had a very tacit understanding when they cooperated.

There has been almost no war in the past year and a half, and there are only sporadic bandit suppression battles. More than half of the soldiers are recruited from miners and peasants. However, under the bandit suppression battles and constant high-intensity training, these new recruits also have combat skills and physical fitness that are no less than veterans. The only thing they lack is the experience on the battlefield.

But among the tens of thousands of troops, there were lancers wearing iron armor, covering hundreds of cannons, and spearmen moving forward like walls, and comrades holding exquisite muskets, stabbing like forests. Standing in such a team, looking at the comrades around them, it is difficult for new recruits to feel fear and timid.

From Yunzhong Fort as the starting base, the troops were divided into three units, one went straight to Yulin, one went to Gansu Town, and the other went straight to Xuanfu and Datong from Xiaoheihe Fort.

Among the three divisions, Yulin is the heaviest, because Xuan Dabing has lost all his elite troops and can be easily captured.

Yulin City is full of northwest generals, and the Qin army is characterized by perseverance and courage to fight. Yulin is a central important city. As long as you take it down, Shaanxi Town, Gansu Town, Datong Town, Xuanfu Town, these military towns and Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia where they guard, are almost within your reach.
Chapter completed!