Estimating the direction from the western city wall, it should be Shenqian Wo. This is the name of this era, and later generations once changed its name to Shenqian Street, until 1927 A.D., when the road was built and renamed Hengzhu Road, it was temporarily settled.

It was already an ordinary road in Xiamen City in later generations, and it was not a short distance from the coastline. However, in the Ming Dynasty, before the "fattening" of the land reclamation project that the Republic of China, which is known as the infrastructure madman, is best at, it was still one of the more northerly in a series of wharves that stood west from Gulangyu Island in the middle and left.

Who is here, Chen Kai does not know, but the night is dark and the wind is high, even if the two places are only one or two miles apart, when the superior cavalry of the Qing army is hiding outside the city, the plan to go out of the city to Shenqianwo is still opposed by Lan Deng, Zhou Quanbin and other generals, even Lin Dezhong.

They are worried that it is still the Qing army, which is very possible, after all, it has only been ten days since Chen Kai asked for help from Nanao, and it takes time to come and go, so it is impossible to determine it now. Only Chen Kai, through the curtain of history, estimated that the Qing army should not have so many ships coming, but he was even more convinced that reinforcements arrived, but he still couldn't convince these three guys.

"If you join the army, if it's reinforcements, you will always send someone to contact you. Let's wait and see what happens. ”

"What General Lin said is very true, this city on the left and the center really can't withstand any changes."

After listening to some persuasion, Chen Kai had nothing to say. Thinking about it, he was still vigorously opposing going out of the city to rescue those Zheng family children earlier, but now he wants to take a risk to go to Shenqianwo to discuss the matter of encircling and annihilating the Qing army on the island with the fleet that doesn't know if it's reinforcements, which seems to be really a bit inconsistent.

Waiting, the more I see hope, the more anxious I feel. Since being woken up by the news from the west of the city, Chen Kai has never slept again, but he has waited hard all night, and there is still no news until dawn, even during the day the next day.

However, some changes still happened, that is, the number of ships in the vicinity of Shenqian Wozuo was greatly reduced, and on this afternoon, the Qing army did not come to the city again to humiliate the Ming army, and the distant woods also reappeared from time to time the scene of birds roosting. However, the cavalry of the Qing army appeared in the west of the city, wandering between the city of Zhongzuo and Shenqianwo.

Dozens of Qing troops, Chen Kai didn't know whether these Qing troops were all the Qing troops in the area around the west of the city, let alone whether those boat fires would be another bait, and he didn't know where a large group of Qing troops was waiting to swallow him in one gulp.

There were too few cavalry to explore and understand the situation in the surrounding area, which made Chen Kai like a deaf and blind man. What's even worse is that history has changed too much, and many places, especially in many details, can no longer help him, but he needs to remind himself from time to time that he should not be affected by the original history to his normal judgment, how can it be a tangle.

Anxiety began to gradually turn to anxiety, and the feeling of being blindfolded was really uncomfortable. This kind of mood gradually spread, and it wasn't until Lan Deng asked for orders again to lead the team out of the city to investigate clearly, and Chen Kai subconsciously prepared to continue to refuse with the unknown situation, that he really discovered that this problem actually originated from himself.

He firmly believed in that period of history, so Chen Kai believed that reinforcements would definitely arrive. It is precisely because reinforcements will inevitably arrive that all his actions will be relatively conservative, in order to wait for the reinforcements to arrive before turning the tables, which is more secure. But the soldiers are dangerous, there is no safe way, and some are just desperate to fight again and again. On the other hand, Landon didn't have this kind of mind from the beginning, and he would not be disturbed by this, but it was much easier.

"Then there will be Lao Lanshuai."

The two places are only a mile or two away, and the Qing army does have dozens of horsemen on the side, but the rush to kill the past is not theoretically non-existent. Lan Deng took all the cavalry in the city, prepared a pair of weapons, and entered Ximen Moon City. When the sky was bright, there was no need to worry about the problem of the horses running wild in the dark and the horses would miss their hooves, the gate of the Moon City was opened, and the Ming army of more than ten horsemen rushed to the distant Shenqian Wo.

Standing on top of the gate tower of the west city wall, this is already the place where you can climb high and overlook. Chen Kai took the binoculars and looked from a distance, when the Ming army stepped out of the city of morning light, the Qing army's rapid reaction really surprised him.

The Ming army had fewer troops, and did not dare to entangle more, but just rode horses and galloped, and did not dare to do too much confrontation with them at all. Lan Deng's choice made Chen Kai couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, this martial arts general, what Chen Kai was most afraid of was that he was self-sustaining and brave, fighting with the Qing army, but he ignored the matter of finding out the situation of God Qianwo, and now it seems that he is too careful. Then, as soon as they chased and fled, the two cavalry teams ran wildly, but when they approached the pier in front of Shenqianwo, the Qing army gave up the pursuit and returned to the area between the two places, which seemed to be back to the state of surveillance.

"It seems that reinforcements should have arrived."

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Lang Deng to lead his team out of Shenqian Wo, and this time there were more than a dozen cavalry of the Ming army, and they rushed straight to the west gate as they did.

Compared with the Qing army's team of cavalry, the number of cavalry of the Ming army was still at a disadvantage, Chen Kai hurriedly ordered, Zhou Quanbin, who had already prepared in Yuecheng, led a group of 300 Ming troops with spears and foot bows to form a formation out of the city to respond.

This time, the Qing cavalry also did not chase too much, so they returned and continued to keep watch. Chen Kai had probably estimated the situation, and when Lan Deng returned to the city, several people in charge of the city had already gathered. The person Chen Kai brought had some impressions, he was Zheng Hongkui's personal captain, when Chen Kai first came to the Zhongzuo Institute, he met Zheng Xiyuan on the boat, and this guy was always vigilant against him like an old hen guarding his chicks.

"Hearing that my uncle is well, Guogong is also very happy, and I just hope that my uncle can hurry over and discuss how to solve the major matter of Ma Rebellion's success."

The six rites have passed the five rites, Zheng Xiyuan is already the daughter-in-law of the Chen family, and the captain of the personal soldiers is very cordial when he sees Chen Kai, as if he sees his own relatives. The existence of the chain of allegiance of the feudal army is understandable, and Chen Kai can't think about it a lot, so he hurriedly asked about the details of Zheng Hongkui's return.

According to the captain of the personal army, Zheng Hongkui came back this time to preside over the marriage of Chen Kai and his baby daughter, but when he arrived on Kinmen Island, he learned about the Qing army's surprise attack from the people who fled to Kinmen for refuge, so he hurriedly sent someone to Zheng Chenggong to report the emergency, and at the same time ordered the fleet stationed in Kinmen to come to the rescue.

It was indeed Zheng Hongkui's fleet that arrived in Shenqianwo late at night the day before yesterday, and quickly occupied the port, Zheng Hongkui once wanted to send the city that did not receive the left at night to investigate the situation, whether it was whether the city was lost, or Chen Kai's life or death, he was extremely concerned. However, he didn't stop at night, and he didn't go far before he was attacked by the cavalry of the Qing army, and he was forced to retreat to Shenqianwo.

The cavalry superiority of the Qing army was always a big problem, but Zheng Hongkui was not a dead brain, and in the early morning of the next day, he dispatched the fleet, divided the troops, and only took half a day's work to destroy and seize all the ships of the Qing army, and by the way, he controlled the large wharves including Gaoqi and Wutong, and dispatched sailors to cruise. The Qing army was already trapped on the island, and there was no way to return with all the divisions.

According to intelligence, the Qing army trapped on the island was not only under the command of Youma Degong and Feng Junrui, but also had an additional Xingquan Dao Huang Shu, which was very unexpected by Chen Kai.

However, yesterday afternoon, Zheng Hongkui's troops still suffered a crushing defeat in the process of attacking Wutong Village, and the general Wu Bo was killed by an arrow. However, Shi Lang, who returned with the ship, led a group of attachés to defeat the Qing army guarding there in Gaoqi and barely controlled the area.

The 500 cavalry of the Qing army is a serious threat to the infantry of the center and the left and the sailors brought by Zheng Hongkui, and now Ma Degong relies on cavalry to crisscross the island, Chen Kai and Zheng Hongkui can't help this Qing army regardless of either side, but the large docks have been controlled by Zheng Hongkui, there is no boat, Ma Degong doesn't want to escape easily, the war is deadlocked, so Zheng Hongkui wants to hear Chen Kai's opinion.

"I'm ready, and I'll leave to visit the prince."

Gao Qi is in the north of Xiamen Island, which is not far from the coastline of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, and Shi Lang did not kill the city of Zhongzuo as in history, but took control of Gao Qi, which made Chen Kai worried.

Preparation, it doesn't take much time, Chen Kai didn't have a chance to learn to ride a horse, this time he still rushed by carriage, and the town will also send cavalry and brigades of infantry to accompany him, and there should be no big problem with the mixed soldiers and horses of the infantry and horses out of the city for two miles.

However, this side is still preparing, and Zeng Ying, who has been listening to all this, seems to be a little speechless. Seeing this, Chen Kai found a reason to support others, and said to Zeng Ying: "Old Pavilion, there is anything that needs to be instructed, but please speak up." ”

"There is a way that is inseparable, this is what the old man should not say. But the safety of this Zhongzuo city is all on your own, so I have to say this. ”

In the past ten days, although it is Lu Ruoteng who has organized the people and contributed more, as a seventy-one-year-old man, Zeng Ying is also doing his best to preside over related affairs, Chen Kai does not need to worry about too many matters at all, as long as he coordinates the overall situation and sits on the city wall. At this moment, it has reached the zero threshold of launching a counterattack, Zeng Ying has something to say, and Chen Kai is not bad for these three or five minutes. However, once he heard these words, his confidence in this trip diminished too much.

"As far as the old man is concerned, Ling Yue may not really be able to do what you want. Moreover, Zheng Zhiguan's matter, I'm afraid you still need to be wary of one or two, that guy is Ling Yue's brother after all. ”8)