The people watching outside the thatched ward and the patients waiting for life-saving help now all know that Zhu Shenxian's life-saving medicine is made from garlic heads - there is no way to hide this thing. How can you hide the smell of allicin? It can travel a long way despite the wind.
And before extracting allicin, the garlic must be crushed into fine pieces... In the past few days, one or two thousand kilograms of garlic have been smashed by Zhu Heji's young artillerymen and bearded cavalry. Therefore, there is a garlic smell around the British East India Trading Company's business building!
Of course, knowing that garlic is the main raw material of allicin and successfully extracting allicin are two different things.
The area around the small building where Zhu Heji used the distillation method to extract allicin was heavily guarded. Only Da Boling, Zhuge Sanhe, Guo Youde, Su Zhanshan, and Yu Xiaoqian, their confidants, could go in and operate the distillation equipment with Zhu Heji. . Even Bei Jiaxin, Zhu Heji's new Latin teacher, was not qualified to enter that small building. But she can stay with Zhu Heji and be his female assistant... She has only been with Zhu Heji for a few days, and this little mixed-race beauty is already having a crisis of faith.
This God seems to be less efficacious than Confucius and Mencius!
Father Sampaolo sang so beautifully at St. Paul's Cathedral, why didn't he run away and become a slave of the Qing Emperor in the blink of an eye?
When an epidemic broke out in Macau earlier, the bishop also prayed sincerely, but many people died every time!
The prince who believed in Confucius and Mencius only used a drop of golden garlic oil to save a person who had diarrhea, high fever and was about to die.
This is a miracle! If this is not a miracle, what is a miracle?
And this miracle has nothing to do with Jesus and his family... It turns out that the true God is not in the West, the true God is Confucius and Mencius!
Of course, the little girl's view of Zhu Heji, the ferocious big bad wolf, has completely changed. He just looks fierce, but he is actually more kind than any sanctimonious priest. It is his benevolent heart that saved so many dying people...not saving souls, but save life.
There is no way to verify the saving of souls, but the saving of lives can be seen and touched.
Just when Bei Jiaxin was thinking that he must serve Prince Zhu well in the future, Zhuge Sanhe shouted "The garlic is gone" and pushed the door open and broke into the ward.
"What? The garlic is gone?" Zhu Heji was shocked when he heard this, "I clearly remember that..."
Zhuge Sanhe quickly grabbed Zhu Heji's arm, pulled him and rushed out from the back door of the thatched house. There were no onlookers outside the back door of the thatched house, only a few soldiers in brocade uniforms guarding there.
Zhu Heji already knew something was wrong, so he lowered his voice and asked: "Military advisor, is it from Chaozhou..."
"Your Majesty," Zhuge Sanhe said, "I just got the news. I'm so happy to risk my life! The whole army is dispatched and heading straight for Jieyang City. It seems that he already knows that we have captured Macau, but he refuses to return. I also want to use the strategy of besieging Wei to save Zhao!"
I want to change my home! Zhu Heji frowned, "How will my father cope? Fight or retreat?"
"The third prince has personally led his troops to resist him at the Xiushui River, and is preparing to use the bridge-breaking strategy to deal with him!"
"The bridge-breaking plan...have you won?" Zhu Heji asked hurriedly.
"I don't know yet," Zhuge Sanhe said, "but even if we win, we won't win much. It's good to have an army of 40,000 to 50,000 people. We only have 600 elite soldiers left in Jieyang. The capital is too small."
"That's right!" Zhu Heji frowned, showing worry.
Shang Kexi has an army of tens of thousands and will not retreat even if it loses hundreds of people. The Xiushui River is the last danger west of Jieyang City. As long as the army can pass through the Xiushui River, they can climb to Jieyang.
"But there is no need to worry, the prince," Zhuge Military Advisor said, "Jieyang City is strong and the firearms reserve is sufficient. As long as all villages on Jieyang Island can send troops, the third prince can hold on to Jieyang City and Jieyang Island. And Guan Shang is pleased to have passed. With such a record, he won’t be able to attack a city, and he will probably be stuck in the end!”
Zhu Heji believed this, and that was the extent of Shang Kexi's ability to tackle difficult problems. In those days, we relied on long sieges to defeat Guangzhou, and later we relied on sieges to defeat Wen'an City in Wen Village. Only when we were attacking the Jieshi Guards, we were lucky, and one of his men shot the intruding Dadu Su to death with one arrow, so we won a quick victory.
Jieyang's city defense is unmatched by Wen'an City in Wencun, nor can it be compared with Guangzhou City at that time... Jieyang is not big, but it has been rebuilt into a fortress, and it is surrounded by water on three sides. The number and equipment of the defenders are far greater than those of Wencun and Jieshiwei back then. It can only be said that they are impregnable!
Therefore, the most promising tactic is probably siege. Although this siege was a stupid way to destroy the city, the Qing Dynasty was now rich in the world, and Zhu Ming only had such a small piece of land left, almost fighting against the world with one point.
Shang Kexi didn't even need to surround Jieyang City on all sides. He only needed to set up a few camps next to Jieyang to cut off or even interfere with the connection between Jieyang Island and the outside world, which was enough to make Zhu San and his son run away without food.
Because the regime of Zhu San and his son has four pillars: one is the epoch-making sweet gunpowder weapon; the other is the righteousness of Prince Zhu San; the third is the hard-working original Confucianism; the fourth is the five factories in the southeast and northwest as the core Competitive industries!
Among them, the sweet gunpowder weapons and the five advantageous industries need to maintain contact between Jieyang Island and the outside world.
It was precisely because there was no way out of being trapped in Jieyang that Zhu Heji tried his best to break up with great powers such as Portugal and England, and also hijacked the armed merchant ships of the East India Company to attack Macau in order to open up the situation.
However, the capital that Zhu Heji brought to Macau was also limited. Not counting the 3,000 men of the Qiu family, his own troops were only 1,200.
It's okay to rely on these people to attack Macau by surprise, but there are too few to rely on them to occupy the entire Guangfu.
That's why Military Advisor Zhuge just now shouted that the garlic is gone!
"Your Majesty, your prestige in the hearts of those strong men has been established!" Zhuge Sanhe said, "Now is the time to strike while the iron is hot and coerce them to go to Guangzhou to grab garlic! Shang Kexi's base is all in Guangzhou. As long as the city of Guangzhou is lost, he will Our army will definitely not be able to sustain itself in Jieyang, and we will have no choice but to return to counterattack. By then, Chaozhou will be revitalized, and maybe they can be swept away!"
Just sweeping through Chaozhou Prefecture is not enough!
Zhu Heji thought to himself: "There is only one center in Guangdong, and that is Guangfu, which occupies almost the entire Pearl River Delta! If we cannot sweep it all away this time, even if we occupy an isolated Guangzhou, there will be no guarantee that it will not be trapped by a Hong Tianwang in the future." The situation in Tianjing.”
"No," thinking of this, Zhu Heji shook his head and said, "One Guangzhou is not enough... at least the entire Guangfu must be eaten! Otherwise, when Kangxi gets anxious, all the troops from all over the world will come up, relying on Guangzhou One city cannot withstand it.
Relying on the advantage of sugar and gunpowder, we suddenly rose up in Chaozhou, and the fight was just a time lag. When Kangxi calmed down and figured out the formula of sugar gunpowder, he would definitely use the power of the whole country to suppress it. So we must grow stronger as soon as possible, otherwise we will be dead! "
Sugar powder is indeed sharp, but its shortcomings are also obvious. First, it is easy to dissolve due to moisture; second, the formula is too simple and must be prepared in advance, so it cannot be kept secret for a long time.
Once Emperor Kangxi figured out the formula for sugar and medicine, Manchuria's military force could soar to its peak in a very short period of time - although the current Eight Banners of Manchuria cannot be a batulu, they can definitely do the job of dropping bombs on horseback.
Therefore, if Zhu Heji wanted to overthrow Kangxi and become the emperor himself, he would have to swallow the entire Guangdong in one gulp before Kangxi could get the sugar and medicine.
"Conquer Guangfu?" Zhuge Sanhe frowned, "How? Master, we only have a few elites and have to leave some people to defend Macau. How can we capture so many states and counties in Guangfu?"
Zhuge's military advisor has no tricks up his sleeve this time - "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" doesn't even work!
"I have a way!" Zhu Heji smiled, "We can use the countryside to surround Guangzhou!"
