Chapter 218: Night Fire (I)
Going out of the city again, Chen Kai had to go farther than the one in the morning.
On Gulangyu Island, there is already a fleet anchored here. Chen Kai got on the boat from Shenqianwo, and when he arrived at Gulangyu, the two people he had been waiting for had already visited Zheng Hongkui in Shenqianwo, and he already had enough understanding of the current situation, and even some of Chen Kai's thoughts and words.
"Hou Ye Chen, Uncle Hong, I won't say much on the side, now the cavalry between the Tartar placed between the city of Zhongzuo and Shenqian Wo has been withdrawn. There is not much time left for us, and I hope that the two of you can do their best to be a sailor and completely leave these Tartars on the ground of the Zhongzuo Institute! ”
Chen Kai pointed out that they naturally understood that the Qing cavalry no longer continued to monitor, only indicating that they were ready to evacuate. As for the boat, Zheng Hongkui also transferred a lot from Gulangyu and Xiaojinmen, and he just left not long ago, and Zheng Hongkui did not hide from Chen Bao and Hong Xu, and he did it very openly and naturally.
"Actually, this matter has made Yue have already made it count......"
Staring at Hong Xu's eyes, Chen Kai said categorically: "I only listen to the military orders of the country's surname, and I don't know if there is a father-in-law in the army. Today, I only ask you about your plans! ”
In this matter, Chen Kai behaved very firmly. With this question, Chen Bao and Hong Xu glanced at each other, and then the former spoke: "It is indeed right to do what you think." However, Dingguogong's concerns are not entirely unreasonable. When we eat the Zheng family's food, we always have to think more about the clan behind the national surname. ”
"Actually, the two of us didn't bring many ships this time, and once the troops were dispatched, I was afraid that there would be any unhappiness with the Duke of Dingguo. Why don't you discuss this matter again? ”
At this point, Chen Bao and Hong Xu scratched their heads because they came too early, and as a result, they were involved in this Weng son-in-law dispute, and they were in a dilemma, and one was not a person inside and out. It's already coming, they naturally can't let others not see them, at this moment Chen Kai asked them to express their position, the two of them were hard and soft, in order to refuse the matter, but also cooperate tacitly.
However, this tacit understanding was completely useless to Chen Kai, his eyelids drooped, his eyes reappeared, and the cold glow was soul-wrenching, Rao was so experienced in battles for so long, and they couldn't help but be shocked.
"What is the Duke of Dingguo, and what does it have to do with us. The two have followed the surname of the country for many years, and they should know the surname of the country from the bottom of their hearts. In this matter, what Hou Ye Chen and Uncle Hong said is reasonable, but below, they have an idea, maybe they can achieve the best of both worlds. ”
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On March 12 of the fifth year of Yongli, it was late at night, the moon and stars were scarce, and the glimmer was scattered on Xiamen Island, but there were only a few places that were still trying to respond to the starlight twinkling.
In general, the area from Wutong Village to Wutong Wharf in the northeast is brightly lit, and there are torches or bonfires at intervals, illuminating any foxtail that wants to sneak in.
The Qing army in Wutong Village was gradually withdrawing, and a large number of ships had been sent to the Wutong Wharf in the distance. These boats are not very large, most of them are fishing boats, and there are two small fortune boats, both of which are already behemoths among them. However, compared to the few large ships that had brought them earlier, and now they were either burned or plundered, they even stopped at the same pier, and if these two lucky ships were thin-skinned, they would feel panicked.
Zheng Hongkui is not Zheng Zhibao, there is no way to get back a batch of the same size, but Ma Degong doesn't care. After some coercion, the ship was small, but the army that transported him could barely do it. And a lot of the looted goods on the island had already been transported away before Zheng Hongkui arrived, and even leaving here with the governor was a burden.
"Ma Shuai, are these ships enough to transport all the officers and soldiers away?"
"Rest assured, the whole division of our army is coming, and the whole division is leaving. It may be a little squeezed, but it's enough. ”
"And when will we be able to cross this strait?"
"Today's all-night work should be enough, and you can go to Liu Wudian tomorrow at the latest."
"Will there be any accidents on this night boat, or what if they are discovered by the pirates?"
"The zodiac is too worried, the sea is ......"
Huang Shu, this guy, with Zhang Xuesheng landing on the island, made suggestions on the side, saying that he could force Chen Kai to open the city gate of Zhongzuo, even if he couldn't open the door, he could also separate the relationship between Chen Kai and the Zheng clan, and in time he would definitely be able to kill people with a knife.
Now, the door has not opened, and Ma Degong has not seen whether he is separated or not, all he sees is that this guy is still jumping up and down to compete with Chen Kai, but the people haven't made a move, but an old man has come and controlled a few docks, which has already made him chaotic. If it weren't for the fact that he was familiar with Zheng Hongkui and knew his temperament well, and used Zheng Zhilong and the Zheng clan people in Anping Town, especially his mother, Mrs. Huang, to coerce them, maybe they would really be trapped and die on this island.
At this moment, Huang Shu is like a problem baby, pestle beside Ma Degong, asking this and that vigorously, as if he doesn't take advantage of the current moment to show some sense of existence, maybe he will be left behind when he gets on the boat for a while.
Ma Degong was very dissatisfied with this, and the thought of kicking him into the sea churned back and forth in his mind, almost covering up the chatter of this guy. However, this person has won Zhang Xuesheng's heart recently, and even if this raid failed, Zhang Xuesheng regarded it as Chen Kai's sideways insertion, otherwise Huang Shu's plan was still very likely to succeed. Such a character, although he is said to be civil and military, but he is really inconvenient to offend easily, so he simply has a helpless explanation, and when Feng Junrui rushed over, he finished after returning to the Wutong Zhai Palace, and only then did he get rid of this guy for the time being.
"This waste, when he hooked up with Zuo Liangyu to go east, he caused Lao Tzu to follow Yasukuni Gong to stop him. If it weren't for the emperor, ah, no, no, it was the puppet emperor who fled into the army, maybe Lao Tzu might not even have the opportunity to join the Qing Dynasty...... This guy doesn't know anything but messing around, and he still pretends to be a decisive victory in the middle of a strategy, I'm sorry. What is the meaning of strategizing, look at the people of Scholar Hong, and then look at the demeanor of Chen Kai when his calculations are still gratifying, that is called real ability. Bragging, Lao Tzu will also ......"
Full of complaints, in fact, it is no wonder that Ma Degong, he had already intended to grab a few days and then returned, who knew that as soon as Zhang Xuesheng came, Huang Shu jumped out to offer a plan, Zhang Xuesheng couldn't let go of the gold and silver jewelry of the Zheng family in the city of Zhongzuo, so he left them all to calculate Chen Kai. It's good now, I almost didn't die here, and I still have to listen to him ask this and that endlessly, even the Buddha will be a little angry.
Rushed to Wutong Village, the evacuation task here was basically ready, Ma Degong pacified the troops behind the palace, and then returned to the dock.
There, most of the sergeants had already boarded the ship, and the horses were the most troublesome, and they were arranged on larger ships as much as possible, and the artillery that had been brought with them had to be thrown down. When the boarding was almost completed, Ma Degong sent someone to Wutong Village to transfer the troops behind the palace back to board the ship.
Everything was ready, and under the cover of night, the Qing army that attacked Zhongzuo embarked on the way back. It's a pity that the strait is not long, but it has not reached the halfway point, and in the distance of the north, the fire on the sea is overwhelming, rushing towards them!