Leaving the Zhenhai Tower on Yuexiu Mountain in the north of Guangzhou, Chen Kai leaned on the carriage of the carriage and swayed towards the south wharf of the city.

In the early morning, the wheels were rolling in the mist, and at the same time, Chen Kai's thoughts were inevitably rolling. Last night's cup was changed, Rao is his "battle-hardened" and quite unbearable to this kind of tossing is the rhythm of the all-night, those guys are very face-saving, and they didn't use the excuse of getting drunk in the middle to pull a maid, a dancing girl or something to change the place and be chic, but Chen Kai didn't like this kind of face very much, because this face made him drink almost all night.

The carriage moved slowly on the bluestone pavement, and Chen Kai was drowsy. Outside the car window, many men, women and children huddled in the alley in the humid air, perhaps with their eyes closed, and still worrying about the food after opening their eyes.

In a drowsy state, it seems that even time cannot be quantified. I don't know how long it took, but when I arrived at the dock, the boat was ready, and Chen Kai dropped the smell of alcohol emitted from this sleep in the carriage, so he got out of the carriage and sailed towards the lucky boat when he came.

"Chen joins the army."

"Lin Hou."

The fleet set sail and slowly sailed out along the direction of the Pearl River. Chen Kai took a nap in the carriage, and when the river breeze blew, he was also much more energetic. After entering the cabin and retiring from the others, he communicated with Lin Cha.

"How's it going in the city?"

"It's okay, this time the Tartars are not so much besieging the city as it is about the city, the order in the city is in order, it is the people of this Guangzhou City, and their days are not as good as before. When you came, you mentioned that there are always hairpins in the city of Guangzhou, regardless of men, women and children, and there are fewer of them, and I think that not only the people who are pouring in from outside the city are having a hard time, but also the people in the city are not much better. ”

"It's better than dying."

There are large flower fields and flower beds outside the city of Guangzhou, and there are flower farmers who come to the wharf to sell or transport them to the flower market and flower shop in the city every morning. Regarding Lin Cha's point of view, Chen Kai nodded, and then asked, "Lin Hou, what is the situation of the surrounding prefectures and counties?" ”

"It's bad." Lin Cha's sigh pulled Chen Kai out of the hustle and bustle of Guangzhou.

According to Lin Cha's various investigations of old relations launched in the past few days, the Qing army had already set off from Shaozhou Mansion to the south as early as the end of the first month, and by the beginning of March, it had already taken Qingyuan and Conghua County. On the sixth day of the first month of March, the Qing army arrived near the outskirts of Guangzhou, and was severely rejected by Du Yonghe, and as a result, the siege was launched in the early morning of the ninth day of the first month, resulting in more than 1,000 casualties and a heavy defeat.

However, Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao did not give up because of this, and slowly dug trenches on the north, west and east sides of Guangzhou to cut off traffic, and at the same time cleaned up the outer prefectures and counties, and wantonly recruited rebels.

For example, Huang Yingjie, Fenghuabo, the general soldier of Huizhou, Li Shilian, the patrol of Chaohui, Shen Shiqi, the commander of the Dongguan army, Zhang Daoying, the general of Dongguan Town, and Zhang Shan, the general of Dongguan, were demoted under such circumstances. He also killed the kings of Ziyang, Tongling, Xinghua, and Yongping to please the Qing court.

With their fall to the Qing Dynasty, the east of Guangzhou reached Chaozhou, and the large area in between ceased to be owned by the Ming court. The Qingyuan captured by Shang Kexi earlier became the forward position of the Qing army to defend against the Zhaoqing Ming army, and Conghua became Shang Kexi's base camp, and cast artillery there for the siege of the city.

Next, it was nothing more than to recruit the Red Flag pirates, use Liang Biaoxiang and others to defeat the Guangzhou Naval Division, and obtain the right to control the sea in the middle and lower reaches of the Pearl River, forming a relatively loose four-sided encirclement posture for Guangzhou City.

"According to the news from Zengcheng and Dongguan, it seems that the Tartars are still building ships and trying to further form actual control over the Pearl River. However, with our experience, I am afraid that it will not pose much threat to Guangzhou for a while. Speaking of this, Lin Cha was not a little complacent, and was completely on the facts. In Chen Kai's view, it was more of a disdain for Liang Biao and others, a kind of contempt for miscellaneous pirates by the regular army.

"Let's go back to Chaozhou, if the sailors of Chen Qice, the chief military officer, are drawn from Sanshui to the east, I'm afraid that the Tartars won't even be able to build a boat. This Guangzhou, the Tartars are only afraid that they will have to draw more troops to have a chance to take it. ”

"Don't think about it over there in Sanshui, Du Yonghe won't ask Chen Qice to come over."

"Why?"

"He Wuju."

"I see."

Lin Cha is thorough, but compared with Chen Kai, he still has a lot of confidence in Guangzhou's city defense. This is actually more due to his own experience - you must know that even Li Chengdong deceived the city of Guangzhou when he led the main force of the Shaowu Imperial Court to fight a decisive battle with the army of the Yongli Dynasty, and he can be said to know how strong this city is.

"This city of Guangzhou, if nothing else, will be attacked by the Tartars by the end of this year at the latest."

Hearing Chen Kai's assertion, Lin Cha was stunned at first, but before he could ask, he suddenly thought of something, and immediately agreed with Chen Kai's opinion.

Speaking of which, Du Yonghe is also pitiful, as the governor of Liangguang, you can look around, Zhaoqing Mansion has Wen'an Hou Ma Jixiang, the military department Shangshu Cao Ye and the governor of the imperial camp Li Yuanyin, and there is a university scholar He Wuyu in the neighboring Sanshui County, what he can command is these guards and defenders in the city, and the entire Guangzhou battlefield is actually a piece of scattered sand, waiting for Shang Kexi to surrender and smash one by one

Such a situation is also common in Guangxi. Qingguo Gong Chen Bangfu is a local military general in Guangxi, as well as Xuanguo Gong Jiaolian, Wei Guo Gong Hu Yiqing, Founding Gong Zhao Yinxuan, Yongguo Gong Cao Zhijian and a large number of outsiders, now there are more loyal battalions and those warlords who have retreated from Huguang, and there is no possibility of getting along with each other at all, let alone unified command.

The two Guangzhous, Sichuan and Guizhou, the warlords are fighting, and Yunnan is already the Great Western Army. Turning his head to Fujian in the east, Zheng Chenggong successively absorbed Chen Bao, Lin Cha, Shi Lang, Shi Fu and other departments, and seized Chaozhou with the help of Chen Kai, his strength has improved to a higher level, but the Zheng group and the Fujian Ming Army are still under the command of the three commanders.

As far as Nanming is concerned, the overall situation is still as continuous deterioration as it has been in history, which is inertia and cannot be easily leveraged. In Chen Kai's view, the only thing to be thankful about now is that Zheng Chenggong's strength is stronger, and this person is also a rare military commander who can create miracles in this era.

"I don't know what's going on with the surname of the country, the east and west are attacked, and the court is rich and rich, and it is a big deal when you play."

"I don't think it's going to happen, Wang Zhigang, Xu Long, Su Li, a group of local chickens and dogs, it's just time."

"I hope so, otherwise wouldn't my efforts in the past three years be in vain?"

Chen Kai will not say this, in fact, he also has a lot of confidence in Zheng Chenggong, but in his impression, Zheng Chenggong seems to have a strong nerve in land warfare, he can win many battles that are securely defeated, but he can also lose many battles that are guaranteed to be won, it is not as stable as in naval battles, and there are inevitably some worries here.

Thinking of this, Chen Kai suddenly found that on the Pearl River, no matter what kind of tricks he had, he couldn't help Zheng Chenggong, and in the end, it depended on the on-the-spot response of this national master. Since this is the case, there is no need to bother with mediocrity, but once he figured it out, Chen Kaimeng remembered that from the time he got on the boat to the present, Lin Cha didn't seem to have asked him what the result of what he had done.

"Lin Hou is so confident in his subordinates?"

"Of course, with Chen Senjun's intelligence, even if he sells Du Yonghe, he still has to count the money for Chen Senjun, not to mention that this incident was not intended to be counted on him."