Zheng Chenggong's reply was quickly sent out, but it is still unknown when it will be delivered to Li Dingguo. But what is certain is that Zheng Chenggong and Chen Kai will not be involved in the battle of Zhaoqing, and during this period, they will also act according to the plan agreed earlier, and strengthen the soft and hard power of this army step by step.

Leaving Zheng Chenggong's mansion, the next day, Chen Kai announced that he was going to return to Chaozhou. Zheng Chenggong set up a banquet to say goodbye, and after a mutual encouragement of "encouragement with you", Chen Kai took his newlywed wife to board the official ship when he came.

On the boat, Chen Kai carefully calculated his earlier plan, and Zheng Xiyuan was also waiting beside him. Plain hand ink, red sleeves add fragrance, even on the boat, there is a unique style.

Chen Kai vaguely knew that his mother-in-law had told Zheng Xiyuan to conceive a child as soon as possible, spread the branches for the Chen family, and extend the heirs. With children, you can better consolidate the family status and make the husband and wife more harmonious, which is the personal experience of the mother-in-law, and it is naturally passed on to the daughter without the slightest regret.

"Husband, it's time to rest, staying up late is not good for your body."

Cultivating immortals' strange theories, Chen Kai didn't feel the need to laugh at them. It was Zheng Xiyuan's urging, but Chen Kai showed a lewd expression of "you know", and Zheng Xiyuan had goosebumps falling to the ground.

"Husband, today, forget it. This is still on the ship......"

On the boat, hearing this, Chen Kai sneered, and just wanted to discuss the issue of sound insulation, but then thought about it, but then laughed again: "It's good to go to bed early and get up early, this truth is true." But, lady, you can't help but think a little too much. ”

"Cut, the husband has come to tease the concubine again."

Zheng Xiyuan said that, he didn't pay attention to it, and went directly into the quilt, and didn't speak, just closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep. However, Chen Kai did not coax her as usual, he simply blew out the lamp, lay on the side, and stopped making a sound.

There was silence in the cabin, only the sound of breathing could be heard, Zheng Xiyuan pretended for a while, but Chen Kai still didn't move, he simply pursed his lips, turned around and looked at Chen Kai, but what he saw was a smile that he had expected, and the moonlight that came in through the window was presented in front of her eyes.

………………

returned to the capital city of Chaozhou, and the governor's wife naturally entered the back house of the governor's yamen. A few days later, Chen Kai reviewed the official documents that should be stranded, and waited for the 3,000 Quanzhou soldiers and those large and small warships that Zheng Chenggong had promised, and Chen Kai mobilized Du Hui's Zhongchong Town. Li Jianjie's Hussar Town and Jiang Meiao's East Guangdong General Standard Battalion 3 boarded the ship and set off again.

The fleet went west, in Hong Kong, the sea ships were bustling, due to the implementation of the Ming army's license system in the Pearl River estuary, after paying the license fee, continue to go north to Guangzhou, or go south to the South Seas, but there are also many maritime merchants and ship owners who choose to trade directly on Hong Kong Island. Moreover, this proportion continues to expand over time.

The island's ancillary facilities are becoming more and more complete, and along the harbor, a thriving town is springing up. Every day new houses are built, some for human use, some for goods, and some for livestock sheds, but more remotely.

The island is getting noisier and noisier, but the only thing that is not beautiful is that on the Kowloon Peninsula opposite, the camps of the Qing army are more and more repaired, and the densely packed from the other side of the sea looks more and more unpleasant.

In the wounded and sick room of the barracks, due to the absolute superiority of the Ming army's naval division on the sea, the Qing army's naval division had to shrink up, and even those Guangdong pirates did not dare to go to the mouth of the Pearl River to lightly brush the tiger's whiskers.

Nie Yiniang is the captain of the ambulance station, and she brought out these 20 or so ambulances with one hand and one foot, and she also knows the situation in the injury and sick station best.

Of the few wounded who lived in the wounded house, two were sick. This kind of soldier who pretends to be sick is the most lazy, and Nie Yiniang is thinking about how to drive them out, so as to save everyone from wasting their energy here.

However, the boss of these two soldiers, the guard in charge of the security of the port, every time he saw her, he couldn't help but talk about it, as if he couldn't live without taking advantage of it, and it seemed that he was still in a hot fight with a little widow in the town, and he would drill into the little widow's house as soon as he had any effort. From the bottom of her heart, Nie Yiniang really didn't want to see him, let alone have any intersection with him, even if it was official business.

If you can't use the relationship between the other party's boss, you can only figure it out by yourself. As she pondered, she gradually walked to the ward, but a few voices inside swept away her thoughts.

"Your Nie team leader, if you look closely, it still looks a little beautiful. It's just darker, not as fair-skinned as those sisters. ”

"Phew, what a team leader, a crazy woman. If you are rare, you marry her, just so that people will say that we ambulances are in the hands of women. ”

"Hey, brother, your grievances are not small."

"Nonsense, you let a woman take care of it, big man, shame!"

“……”

It's not the first time Nie Yiniang has heard a similar conversation. For working under a woman, these guys who claim to be good men are naturally very dissatisfied. She even knew better that these male ambulances were originally recruited into the army, and most of them were unqualified, so they were handed over to her, and now they are showing off their might, which is also ridiculous.

"What's the use of you being dissatisfied here, if you have the ability, you can get her into bed, and you can't make you arrogant?"

"Hahahaha."

Between men and men, especially such villains, the least they have to talk about what is going on in bed. The more she talked inside, the more she didn't like to speak, Nie Yiniang outside frowned slightly, and her patience gradually approached the zero boundary point, but she soon heard someone speak for her.

"Don't talk nonsense, I've heard that in the Pearl River Water Battle that year, Xu Long, the chief soldier of the Tartar Chaozhou Naval Division, was stabbed to death by the head of this Nie team, and it was not a knife, but a wooden thorn that collapsed from the boat, which was directly inserted into Xu Long's throat. That mother-in-law, but she kills people without blinking. ”

The one who spoke was a really injured old soldier, a subordinate of Fuming Hou Lincha. In that battle, Lin Cha's troops did not participate, and the main force in the decisive battle was still Chen Qice's people and their Guangzhou volunteers, but after the war, Lin Cha's troops followed, exterminated the remnants of the captive division, and escorted the people to this Hong Kong Island, but more or less they also knew something.

It is extremely rare to be able to say a fair word for her, even if it is a slightly dejoratory title such as "that mother-in-law". But when Nie Yiniang listened carefully, the ambulance soldiers who were ashamed of doing things under her earlier sneered at this.

"I've heard about this, the Tartar marshal of that battle is the one surnamed Sheng, I heard that it is the red man in front of the old thief Shang Kexi, and the marshal of the feudal soldiers. That Xu Long is just a Chaozhou bandit, a lost dog who was driven away by the national surname and Master Chen, and he slaughtered such a person, which is also called ability? ”

"Hey, those who are not capable of doing things are really on the battlefield."

"You said that the defensive battle of the center and left? Come on, the battle standard battalion was on the wall to assist in the defense, but she didn't go up, she was arranged to take care of the wounded soldiers under the city, and she was doing the current job. Otherwise, how did she get this captain! ”

The ambulance soldier was dismissive of this, but another soldier with a sick number teased the old soldier and said, "Brother Wang, don't you fall in love with that woman." ”

As soon as the words came out, there was another burst of laughter. The more Nie Yiniang listened outside, the more annoyed she became, a pair of seemingly small fists rattled, and she was about to push the door in to give these guys a good memory. But at this moment, several cries of "The Governor is here" sounded outside, but even though it was like thunder, she was shocked on the spot.

"Governor? Which governor? ”

"You don't even know this, but I've heard that a boat that went west from us some time ago was an angel's boat. The emperor issued an edict to canonize the surname of the country as the Duke of Zhangguo, and promoted Chen Daotai to the governor, this must be the arrival of Master Chen! ”

"My God, Master Chen is here, go out and have a look!"

Saying that, the crowd rushed out, but when they went out, even when they saw Nie Yiniang standing outside the door, their hands clenched into fists in a daze, they were embarrassed in an instant.

Tell some meat jokes, but secondly, it's not a big deal to be heard by the parties, it's a big deal to fight with the parties' men, brothers or concubines, they are all in the ranks, and the last thing they are afraid of is fighting. However, Nie Yiniang is a widow, and the reputation of bullying widows is not good, not to mention that this widow is now also the opponent in the army, or the top boss of most of this group.

The embarrassment of looking at each other soon became active, and a reminder of "go quickly, go quickly, I can't see Governor Chen if I'm late" came out of the crowd, and these people fled from here, leaving only Nie Yiniang alone, still standing there in a daze.

"He's already a governor."

He sighed lightly, and somehow, the melancholy drowning out the anger he had had earlier, only the fist was still clenched tightly, and he refused to let go of anything.

………………

The last time Chen Kai came over, he didn't check the injury and sick place, which was not the most critical place here, and his mind was on the dock and the Honghua Pavilion.

This time, Chen Kai entered the camp, but he didn't come to the wounded and sick center to take a look. I only listened to Lin Cha's brief introduction to the coastal defense situation at the Pearl River Estuary in recent times, and then mentioned this trip.

"This is the order of the national surname, Lin Hou will take it and see it."

After receiving the letter, Zheng Chenggong's familiar handwriting met Lin Cha's eyes. When he raised his eyes again, Lin Chadang even expressed to Chen Kai all the attitude of obeying orders, and immediately sent people to prepare.

"Time is running out, so let's get started."

This time I came to Hong Kong just to use it as a transit point for the army. The soldiers were still resting, and Chen Kai had already issued an order in advance, which was to be established by Jiang Meiao's general standard battalion in eastern Guangdong, and the new number was the Pearl River Estuary Patrol Fleet. As the name suggests, it is to use Jiang Meiao's water division to replace Lin Cha's left army to defend this place.

"Actually, this is a matter over there in Macau, I think you need to pay attention to it."

Lin Cha handed over a report, which he was about to send to Chaozhou and Zhongzuo, and Chen Kai happened to arrive, so he handed it over directly to Chen Kai.

After a careful look, Chen Kai learned more about Lin Cha in detail, and after thinking about it, he made a decision in a short time: "There are priorities, and this matter is not in a hurry. I will send someone back to the Zhongzuo and ask the country to send some more ships over to maintain our strength at the mouth of the Pearl River. Let's do this for now. ”

After talking with Lin Cha in detail, Chen Kai seized all the time to understand the recent movements in the surrounding area, so as to know himself and his opponent. In addition, Chen Kai also sent people to Shangchuan Island to deliver a letter, asking Chen Qice to come here to discuss important matters.

Soon, Chen Kai re-clarified the surrounding situation, after the second defense of Lufeng Fort last year, the Qing court as to the Fujian side of Jin Li to replenish troops, in Guangdong, also sent two towns of the northern green battalion to assist in the defense. One was appointed as the commander-in-chief of Huizhou, and the other was appointed as the commander-in-chief of Xin'an, and the establishment of Dongguan Town was cancelled, which clearly indicated that it was to be used to watch the troops living in Hong Kong.

After understanding the surrounding situation, Chen Qice's side also quickly rushed here. Before the necessary exchange, Chen Qice naturally congratulated Chen Kai on the happy event of being promoted to governor, but also mentioned another thing.

"Actually, do you know that this time the canonization of the country's surname and the promotion of you are not the meaning of Xingzai, but the order of the Qin Wangfu, just to send someone to Xingzai to use the seal."

Chen Kai had already guessed this. Chen Kai also believed that Chen Qice would definitely know that he would not be ignorant of this. But at this moment, Chen Qice still has to remind him that it will obviously not be so simple.

"Isn't the governor angry?"

Hearing this, Chen Qice also smiled, and just said, "There's nothing you can't guess" and said no more. The faction's opinion, and now the possibility of collusion and rape has been added, and Chen Kai estimates that there is no need for him and Lian Chengbi to meet. In that case, it is better to offend as death.

"It's okay, in a few days, there will be things that make him even more angry."

After sending Chen Qice away, Chen Kai held a military meeting overnight. The left army of the Navy Division, the auxiliary Ming Hou Lincha, the chief military officer of Hussar Town, An Subo, Li Jianjie, the chief military officer of Zhongchong Town, Du Hui, and the deputy general Cai Yuan, who was assigned to Chen Kai with the 3,000 Quanzhou soldiers this time, participated in the meeting.

In this, the first three have cooperated with Chen Kai many times, and they have already had a tacit understanding. That Cai Yuan was originally a Chaozhou bandit, who was taken in Shi Langzhiwei and invested in Zuo Pioneer Town, and later Zheng Chenggong Qin Wang, he transferred Cai Yuan's troops to Rongqi Town. After a few years, he was loyal and daring to fight, and this time he was sent to work under Chen Kai.

"The goal of our army in this battle is to regain lost territory. In addition, the official can also tell you that the king of Xining, who was the king of Xining last year, is about to launch an attack on Zhaoqing, which is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and our army must take advantage of this great opportunity for the Tartars to send troops to assist in the defense, and strive to succeed in the first battle! ”

"The last general and others must obey the orders of the Fu Army!"

The generals commanded, and Chen Kai vaguely felt that Li Jianjie's voice was louder than others, especially when he looked at his expression at the moment.

The army boarded the ships, and the fleet slowly sailed away from Hong Kong Island, and sailed out of the waterway of Tsing Yi Island, without even crossing Tai Xi Mountain, and turned south, and then headed west. And their goal is only one place, and that is Qiongzhou Mansion in western Guangdong!