Chapter 736: Losing Liangshan

More than 30,000 soldiers of the Beijing Army, led by generals such as Zhang Fu and others, carrying a large number of firearms, first boarded the warships of the Chaohu Navy and then traveled to Guilin Prefecture. The water journey was nearly 3,000 miles and took more than one and a half months. If there had not been no rivers and waterways, the Ming army would have taken even longer to walk. Pei Youzhen, in the seat of the Guangxi Provincial Administration, took the imperial edict and asked local governments to gather a large number of corvée men and official ships, and sent the belongings of the officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp to Nanning Prefecture by land and water. In Nanning Prefecture, they received tens of thousands of garrison troops recruited from Guangxi and Guangdong, and continued to march towards Annan.