On the wharf of Nan'ao Island, as it was when Lin Cha came to invest, as long as it seems at first glance, it can be seen that the long-term lack of maintenance of sea vessels are moored here, and the wharf is crowded.

The boatmen were busy under the supervision of the overseers and the Ming army, and sometimes they took out long maggot-like objects from the wood and threw them into the basin. The barracks outside the city were already full of beggar-like men, some with their hair disheveled, some with their hair tied, and more in the midst of a pile of hair that was not short, with a braid hanging from the back of their heads, which was very eye-catching. Of course, if you look closely, you can vaguely see that those "clothes" that have long changed color, lost their style, and are just a bunch of strips of cloth in many places seem to still have a gray-blue background, so it doesn't matter about those braids.

Zheng Chenggong and Chen Kai hurried back, and Chen Bao was already waiting on the dock. In addition to Chen Bao, there is also a thirty-six or seventeen-year-old young general, if you just look at that age, it is probably a Chen Bao's general, but this person is not inferior to Chen Bao in terms of momentum, or even better, but it is also an outlier.

"The last general will be blessed and meet the country's surname."

Wu Yibo Shifu, enshrined in March of the second year of Longwu, in the winter of the same year, he was ordered by Zheng Zhilong to lead the main force of the Zheng Group to surrender to the Qing Dynasty with Cheng Jibo Zheng Zhibao, and then led part of the Fujian Ming army to follow Li Chengdong into Guangdong in the case of Zheng Zhibao's retirement, and made great contributions to the conquest of Guangdong by "my Qing Dynasty" and even the eastern part of Guangxi.

But even so, Shi Fu did not obtain any titles and positions on the side of the Qing court, and only strangled the Ming army and the righteous army of the Yongli Dynasty for the Qing court as Wu Yibo of the Longwu Dynasty. Waiting for Li Chengdong to be anyway, Shi Fu's department was first stripped of the two divisions of water and land, and stationed in separate places, and then Li Chengdong exerted his strength in the court, and he was given a title of Earl of Yanping by the Yongli court, and was directly "sent" to Fujian to recover the lost land, and Shi Lang and Huang Ting, like them, abandoned it like a shoe.

This incident happened in August of the second year of Yongli, but now it is the winter moon of the third year of Yongli, spanning as long as one year and three months, and even Shi Lang, who took the land route, had already been under the command of Zheng Chenggong a year ago. Yesterday, when he saw Shi Fu's report, Chen Kai thought about it carefully, he had been adrift at sea for a year, and even he once wondered if Shi Fu had drifted to Australia and went to fight with kangaroos, so that he was beaten so dizzy that he almost didn't find his way back to Fujian.

"Uncle Shi, why is it too late?"

Chen Kai planned to ask Shi Fu, but in this kind of scene, he didn't need to fight for this righteousness, so he simply watched Zheng Chenggong and Shi Fu greet each other.

Shi Fu is Zheng Zhilong's general in the Chinese army, and he is the most cronie. In the Zheng Group back then, even today's Chen Bao and Hong Xu are far inferior. Compared with Shi Lang, Zheng Chenggong and Shi Fu are more familiar, talking about all kinds of past events, the color of emotion constantly appears on the faces of the three people other than Chen Kai, and even Chen Bao is worse in many cases.

Along the way, Chen Kai didn't talk much, and the others also had a tacit understanding not to ask where Shi Fu had gone for more than a year. Back at the head town mansion, before the reception banquet arrived, Zheng Chenggong still pulled the Shi family's uncle and nephew to talk, while Chen Kai and Chen Bao accompanied them, just waiting for the meal to start.

Chatting and chatting, Zheng Chenggong quickly mentioned the appointment of Shi Fu, but compared to Lin Cha, Shi Lang, and Zhou Rui, compared to these people who were directly appointed as the chief military officer of a certain town, Zheng Chenggong asked Shi Fu's personal opinion, whether to continue to take the water division, or to transfer to the land division, if you have ideas, you can take them out and talk about it.

However, Zheng Chenggong was full of fists, but Shi Fu did not answer immediately. originally thought that it was his person who still needed time to think about it, but before Zheng Chenggong could speak, Shi Fu got up and said: "It is the honor of the last general to be worthy of the last general. It's just that the last general is too old, and this matter of conquering the Quartet is still left to the young people to do. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone present changed color, but there was no difference in the faces of Zheng Chenggong and Shi Fu, the two people who answered each other, as if what Shi Fu said was taken for granted.

The expressions of everyone present were all in Chen Kai's eyes, and this surprise was also true for him. Actually, the problem here is very simple, because Shi Fu was born in 1612 A.D., and now he is only thirty-seven years old. Compared with his nephew Shi Lang, he is only nine years older, and if he is compared with Chen Bao and Hong Xu, he is twelve and seven years younger respectively. has just entered the prime of life, which is the age of great promise.

Now Shi Lang is a general under Zheng Chenggong, Chen Bao and Hong Xu are also presiding over the affairs of a party under Zheng Chenggong, as Zheng Zhilong's cronies, he is desperate, but he has a mouth, the implication is that he has made up his mind to retire, and it is clear that the carriage and horse are unwilling to work hard with Zheng Chenggong, which not only hurts Zheng Chenggong's face, but even Chen Bao also shows a displeased look.

"The kangaroo is really powerful, it is worthy of the generation of overlords who beat Nanshan Nursing Home in Australia and kicked Beihai Kindergarten, beating Shi Fu to the old, convinced, convinced."

Shi Fu said this, Chen Kai was full of thoughts, Shi Lang was thoughtful, and Shi Xian hurriedly persuaded him, but Shi Fu had made up his mind, and it was not something that others could persuade. Seeing this, Zheng Chenggong also expressed his understanding of Shi Fu's experience in the past three years, and said that he could build a mansion for Shi Fu in the area under his control and live for a long time. It's just that in Chen Kai's eyes, Zheng Chenggong seems to be very dissatisfied with this, but he doesn't show it too much, and he only has this feeling because of his years of interaction and experience in later generations.

The reception banquet was held as scheduled, and everyone present, except for Chen Bao and Shi Fuduo, did not show anything unusual. When the reception banquet was over and everyone retired, the Shi family's uncles and nephews got together again, and only after making sure that the partition wall had no ears did they say something sincerely.

"Uncle, why did you retire so early?"

Shi Xian didn't know what he meant, but Shi Lang seemed to have understood the intention, but he didn't say it, and he wanted to see Shi Fu's heart. As a result, as expected, Shi Fu was afraid that Shi Jiajun's proportion under Zheng Chenggong's command would be too high, and he would be impressed by Zheng Chenggong's trust in Shi Lang, and on the other hand, he was really unwilling to be a general under Zheng Chenggong.

"Honorable Marquis, Anhou, your brothers have been in the national army for a long time, you should know what their strength is!"

Shi Fu pointed out, how could Shi Lang not know, just after thinking about the wording, he said to Shi Fu: "The national surname is good at water warfare and neglected land warfare, even if it has been conquering the city in Chaozhou for more than a year, it seems that the momentum is flourishing, but it is nothing more than the luck of the national surname, which is just stuck in a golden opportunity when Guangdong is changing dramatically and Fujian is exhausted." If it is really a fight with a clear knife and a gun, it is not a strong force of the Eight Banners, but I am afraid that even if it is Li Chengdong's fight, it will be much worse. ”

In a similar way, Shi Lang once talked to Li Guangdi, an important minister of the Kangxi Dynasty in his later years, saying that Zheng Chenggong "led the naval soldiers, who were accustomed to water warfare but not land, and their parents and wives were all at sea, and the rabble was often centrifuged." At the beginning of this dynasty, the troops are sharp, and the first voice is already strong, how can they be the enemy".

In fact, Zheng Chenggong only had about 90 subordinates when he started, and after taking over Chen Bao's South Australia Association, there were only more than 1,000 veterans and two or three thousand recruits.

attacked Haicheng and was routed by reinforcements; The battle of Peach Blossom Mountain relied more on Zheng Hongkui's troops; In the first battle of the stone village, it was completely relied on the trick to deceive the Qing army to death before winning the battle. After a few battles, the combat effectiveness of the department has improved, which is true, as evidenced by the fact that the Qing army was able to defeat the Qing army in the field in the Battle of Tong'an. But in the final analysis, the problem of recruits everywhere still exists, even if Shi Lang and Huang Ting are attached, Zheng Chenggong was able to sweep all the bandits during the attack on Chaozhou, but he really ran into Hao Shangjiu, but he still fell under the city and was forced to break the siege.

Due to the appearance of Chen Kai, Zheng Chenggong's department is much stronger than in history, whether it is weapons, equipment, or the number of soldiers, or the achievements achieved. However, the combat effectiveness of the Left Pioneer Town, the Aid Suppression Left Town, and the Right Chong Town, which are mainly composed of Zheng family veterans, are still better than the average level of the army, which is inevitably despised by Shi Lang.

"Uncle's wishes?"

"The Zheng family, originally two brothers, one in the north and the other in the south, no matter who dies in the end, the Zheng family will have a minimum statement. Our Shi family also has to leave a way out, just like we shouldn't have followed Li Chengdong into Guangdong back then, and now we can't follow Zheng Sen's stupid boy without opening his mind. ”