The moment Wang Guerrilla found those small black dots on the dock in the distance, cold sweat broke out on his head. He was now full of regret, and the good things he had been thinking about before this morning had all dissipated as the little black dots gathered more and more.

"Get everyone out of the house, array, array!"

Wang Deqiao had already judged that those black spots would most likely be reinforcements, so his first priority now was to assemble the troops first. As for what to do after this, I can only improvise.

Just as a large number of officers and soldiers hurriedly ran out of the courtyards of the commercial area to line up, those small black spots in the distance also began to move slowly this way like ant colonies.

By the time Wang Guerrilla finished his armor and stepped on his horse under the service of his own soldiers, he could already see the true face of the black dots, some sturdy soldiers wearing green jackets and holding firearms, or were they pirates?

The number of this group is not large, and it is only one-third of the number of officers and soldiers.

The people who came were dressed strangely. He has no armor, and he is wearing a one-piece green jacket, and there are two rows of copper buckles on his chest that are shiny. The men wore black boots under their feet, strange square hats that appeared to be made of cotton, and a piece of fur sewn on their forehead and ears, and a round piece of iron in the center.

Although the guerrilla king who lived in the seventeenth century could not understand the military coat and the Lei apap front hat, the people who came were elite, and he could understand them, and these pirates who slowly approached were not only fearless in the face of 1,500 officers and soldiers, but also had an excited expression on their faces.

"I'm afraid it's not the master's family?"

Although Wang's guerrilla guess was not true, it was not far away—the battalion that came was the first guard battalion formed by the crossing people.

The next moment, a large number of soldiers who were slowly approaching with the "wild goose marching array" surrounded the officers and soldiers who had already lined up in formation.

Yes, it's encirclement. 500 soldiers surrounded 1,500 officers and soldiers with a thin line that was not formed in formation.

Looking at the green-jacketed soldiers standing 300 paces away with their guns swaggering, Wang Guerrilla knew that if he didn't do something, he would be wiped out. Knowing the power of those quick guns, he didn't think that his men who had gathered together and had pale faces could survive a few rounds of guns.

So, the eloquent prince and the soldiers once again held a small white flag and came out of the crowd, "Rank robe, brothers on board, misunderstanding, misunderstanding." ”

It didn't take long for the bitter-faced prince soldiers to come back, "My lord, Mr. Cao wants to see you!" ”

The cold sweat on Wang Deqiao's head broke out again.

The current situation is that if he doesn't agree, then the other side will definitely shoot, and then his own army will be defeated like a mountain, the rout army is scattered and looted, Jiangnan is shaken, and after he goes back, his family is dismissed and questioned, and his head is cut off and his house is what he should do.

So what if he went to see that Cao Zongbing? How to explain the industry of the general soldier by leading troops to besiege it? This one is Zhao'an, and he probably won't pay so much attention to the rules of the court, what if he cuts off his head on the spot?

As the drops of sweat on Wang's guerrilla head remained, as time passed, the atmosphere on the field became more and more solemn. And the 1,500 officers and soldiers behind Wang's guerrilla attack had already begun to stir up a little at this time.

"That's it, if Lao Tzu is beheaded, you wait and collect the soldiers and horses, go back and tell the general, and settle the family for Lao Tzu!"

In the end, after weighing the pros and cons between the beheading and the simple beheading, the hearted Wang Guerrilla threw off his helmet, took off his armor, and after giving an explanation to the general manager around him, he took two cronies and slowly walked to the green jacket soldiers opposite.

Not long after, Wang, who was sent to a small boat, quickly sailed to the side of the huge blue-gold building ship.

When he was still far away from the big ship, Comrade Wang Deqiao saw the three-sided tooth beads hanging high on the mast.

The largest side in the center is embroidered with four large gold characters: "Serve the King of Qin." ”

There are more words on the left side: "General Zhenguo went on the light car, the lieutenant office commanded the deputy general army of Tongzhi Xiehou, Zhangchao and other places in Nanao"

On the right side, there is only a big "Cao" character.

Standing at the bow of the boat, Wang Deqiao was full of bitterness, he was really cheated by that gang of inferior gentry, who said that the surname Cao's hands were short, and he couldn't reach out to Jiangnan? Isn't this time when people pass by and come to clean up themselves?

With a full of depression, Wang Deqiao grabbed a swaying soft ladder and boarded the building boat.

The deck of the building boat was very clean and there were not many bits and pieces. Even the dense skeins that are customary on Western-style soft sailing ships are not available - the mast of the Zhenman is an imported steel hollow casing, and the structural strength is the same as that of later ships, and there is no need for slings to help stabilize the sails.

In this way, the largest piece of land is saved. In addition, there is no artillery arranged, so the top deck is spacious and airy, neat and tidy.

After getting on the boat, Wang Guerrilla was immediately escorted to the bow of the boat by soldiers who were also wearing large jackets, but in blue.

On the broad bow of the ship, a "young" officer in his thirties, wearing a big red official robe, was sitting on the official hat chair at the moment, surrounded by civil and military generals, and kneeling at the feet of a man dressed as a Ming army.

As soon as Wang Deqiao saw the red official robe, he knew that this was the main master. And the kneeling person who looked like a military academy, unfortunately he also knew, and he was still an acquaintance, Chongming Qian, who was always rich and noble.

As the real power of Chongming Island, Yu Fugui, who is entrenched in the Chongming Water Camp and has 500 soldiers under his command, is equivalent to the first line of defense set up by the Ming Dynasty at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and the responsibility of early warning is very important.

Therefore, Yu Fugui, who sent people to observe from the lookout day and night, learned the news of a giant ship knocking on the gate for the first time this morning. To tell the truth, when Yu Fugui ran to the lookout for the first time, he was scared out of his urine - if this was a pirate, his old man would be loyal to the country today.

Fortunately, the sentinel sent to make contact soon brought the news, and it was his own man, a general soldier of Rausch. After that, Yu Fugui trembled and changed into official robes and came to inquire about the truth.

Fortunately, for Yu Fugui, who is a lowly official, today's trip is not a bad thing.

When Wang Guerrilla saw his old acquaintance, Mr. Cao was explaining to Mr. Yu Qian, who was kneeling in front of him, "This official is stopping by to see the family business, and Mr. Yu Qian will truthfully report it to all the adults along the river, don't panic." Well, the army will leave in a few days, and there is no need for local support, and the soldiers and civilians everywhere can live in peace. ”

"The last general knows, so he will go back and send someone to spread the message along the river."

"Well, that's hard work." At this time, Mr. Cao nodded with a smile, "Come on, look at the reward." ”

The next moment, a Cao Datou "silver dollar stick" wrapped in red paper and a men's gift box containing nail clippers and lighters were stuffed into Yu Qianzong's hands.

"Lord Xie Zhentai rewards, the last general wishes your Excellency a victory in Beijing this trip, and the prince and marquis!"

"Haha, then thank you to Mr. Yu Qian's auspicious words."

I didn't expect this general soldier Cao from the south to be so particular, and when he met Yu Fugui and Yu Qianzong, who could still get benefits from a trip, he got up from the ground with a grin, smiled and hugged the reward and prepared to go back to the camp.

Then as soon as he looked up, he saw his old acquaintance Wang Deqiao Wang guerrilla.

As the two watchdogs of the Qiantang River Estuary and the Yangtze River Estuary, these two naturally often deal with each other on weekdays. So when Mr. Yu Qian saw Mr. Wang's guerrilla, he was stunned for a moment, and then a lewd smile instantly appeared on his face, Mr. Yu Qian had already made up everything in his mind, Wang Deqiao must have followed him all the way from Qiantang, and he was afraid that he also wanted to mix some benefits.

Poor Mr. Yu Qian, who has no WeChat and news broadcasts, doesn't know what Wang Guerrilla on the other side of the river has done in the past two days. So he smiled lewdly, and at the same time squeezed a look at the old acquaintance with a wry smile, and then passed away.

At this time, it was the turn of Wang Guerrilla to kowtow, "The last general, Jin Shanwei, guerrilla Wang Deqiao, meet Lord Zhentai." ”

At this time, Cao Zongbing did not have a comrade-like smile, but instead had a sneer like an autumn breeze, "Hehe, Wang Guerrilla, are you guilty?" ”

What else can Wang Deqiao say at this time? The people are all surrounded, does it make sense to deny it in front of the boss at this time? So he could only say honestly and in a deep voice, "It's the last general who is not in line with his mind and is confused, greedy for the benefits given by that group of sours, and led the troops to surround the nobleman's family business." ”

"Well, it seems to be convicted." Hearing this, Lord Cao nodded.

"Please also let Lord Zhentai know that the last general didn't plan to be serious with Master Xiong from beginning to end, but only planned to be a middle-aged person."

"That's just going to keep you on the head."

Zhang Dongdong looked at the fool guerrilla at his feet, and shook his head: "If I destroy your troops today, causing the rout army to plunder the four townships, I am afraid that it will be difficult to explain to the capital, and I will be slandered." But don't be complacent, when the official sees the emperor, he will always ask for justice and come back.

Zhang Dongdong said here and waved his hand: "I will send the bullet seal here today, you go back and wait for the sin!" ”

So Wang Guerrilla was sent back to the shore by flickering.

By this time, he had already lost all his thoughts about this trip, and he didn't catch any hair, but accompanied his official body.

Fortunately, as predicted in advance, this general soldier, who is said to be a big pirate, still recognizes the rules of the imperial court, and does not break through the bottom line, turning the situation into two arms and this can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune.

As a result, the murderous guerrilla king can only take his troops with his head down and leave in disgrace.

After sending away these annoying flies, the northbound fleet immediately began a series of actions.

The first is loading and unloading and replenishment.

All ships had to call at the port one after another to replenish the coal water. In the process, the 500 soldiers of the Guards Battalion will be divided once, and eventually two companies will go north with the ship to King Qin.

The remaining three companies will stay in Shanghai Port for the time being, and when they retaliate against the land deed alliance in the next step, they can all be used when they "rob the people's land and Ladinlaf".

The first batch of supplies was carried out by ten transport ships. These transport ships, which are full of goods, will still go north first after the supply is completed.

It's northerly wind season, and headwinds from the sea are not good for heading north. If the slow convoy sets off early, it can save fuel and use the sails to slowly move through the sea, waiting for the high-speed fleet behind to catch up.

Among the remaining combat ships, excluding the "Watch", which has already gone to the north to explore the shipping routes, there will be three more combat ships going north this time, one of which is a small frigate and two are of the light class.

As for the large-tonnage Zhenman, in view of the fact that there is no shore bombardment mission in the north, and there are no European ships to train it, this trip to Shanghai Port is the end of the Zhenman's voyage.

Of course, it's hard to come to Shanghai Flower World once, and you can't just leave, right? Nanjing Road doesn't go around? Lujiazui doesn't go to see? The Bund is also going to take a few selfies, isn't it?

So, early the morning of the second day after the fleet arrived at the port, the battleship Zhenman, which was headed by a frigate and sandwiched between two Youguang-class gunboats, once again rose billowing black smoke, and the "sightseeing fleet" composed of four ships immediately set off from the mouth of the Yangtze River and went straight to Wusongkou.

This is a big move.

You must know that the Yangtze River and even the Wusongkou section have been a waterway with dense ship traffic since ancient times. Originally, when the fleet was stationed outside the port of Shanghai yesterday, it had already attracted the attention of the surrounding military and civilians, but the position of the fleet was far away at that time, and the situation along the Huangpu River was not known.

And this time, when several large ships full of white sails broke into Wusongkou, both sides of the Huangpu River immediately became a sensation. For a time, the river was full of fishing boats, merchant ships, and flower boats, and both sides of the river were also full of Ming people who came out to see the Western scenery - since Jiajing, no foreign ships had ever entered the Huangpu River, so people were particularly excited.

And when the surrounding ships saw the three-sided tooth scarf hanging on the Zhenman, the news spread lightning on both sides of the Huangpu River, and the general army of the southern Tubaozi came here to visit?

This time it's even worse. After discovering that this beautiful series of big ships turned out to be their own people, a dense crowd of all kinds of ships surrounded them, and everyone wanted to get closer to the big blue and gold ships, see what was on it, and go back to blow it.

Fortunately, after the navy was embarrassed by the civilian boats in Baietan, Guangzhou, it took special precautions against this, so the Ming boat that rushed up was successfully driven away this time - high-pressure water cannon.

However, what the people on the boat didn't expect was that when the civilian ships found that these big ships did not shoot and fire, but sprayed with water dragons, they didn't know what evil the Ming people had committed, and there were more civilian ships surrounding them, probably the high-pressure water gun was also a novelty in the eyes of the Ming people?

As a result, the sightseeing fleet could only maintain the range of water cannon spraying, and then took a large number of civilian ships together to awkwardly walk along the Huangpu River.

However, this little trouble did not dampen the interest of tourists. Standing on the observation deck unique to battleships, many people who came to sightsee were still in high spirits.

Not only did they take pictures of the fishing boats, the Ming people, and the banks of the Huangpu River in their pristine state, but they also kept pointing to the farmland and fish ponds and saying, "Pudong, Lao Tzu didn't buy that house back then." Well, it should be that fish pond, and I'll keep the land when I turn around, and I'm going to be a developer, 500,000 per square meter! Haha, cut leeks! ”

In this way, the brigade passed all the way through Hudong, and at noon, bypassed Lujiazui, and under the gaze of thousands of officials and people on both sides of the strait, the fleet slowly slowed down, and finally, anchored in the river outside the east gate of Shanghai County, opposite the Xu family's mansion.