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More and more news of Xinhui spread to Xiangshan, and in the senses of the local gentry and common people, the feudal soldiers became more and more equal to ogres.

The dish of Confucian bacon has spread wildly on the ground in Guangdong, and there are rumors everywhere you go. Xinhui is just the starting point of radiation, and the nearby Xiangshan is not the end of the rumors, not even a stop. From here, it spread to Shunde in the north and crossed the Lingding Ocean in the east, which was well known to the gentry and common people of Xin'an and Dongguan, and it was inevitable that it would spread to Macao in the south, which frightened the Portuguese and Macao Councils to hurriedly fund and reinforce a round of St. Paul's forts.

Theoretically, the Portuguese rented land in Macao for trading and docking merchant ships, and they had to pay rent to the Guangdong side every year, and there were many local administrative and judicial subordinates to the Xiangshan County government.

Although the Ming and Qing dynasties were more inclined to cooperate with the Ming court through the Jesuits for a long time, the strength of the Qing army was superior, and neutrality was their usual attitude. Even if Chen Kai has bled the Qing army several times in the past four years, and even mastered the control of the Pearl River, the comparison of the strength of the two sides is still the same, lest the slightest bias will become an excuse for the Qing court to attack in the future.

However, now it is Li Dingguo's army that swept through western Guangdong, Chen Kai not only played a decisive role in the battle of Xinhui, but also took the county seat of Xiangshan, Macau and the Zheng Group have frequent economic exchanges in recent years, do not send people to Xinhui to make friends, always go to Xiangshan to meet Chen Kai here.

"Dear Chen, I heard that this time you have created another miracle."

The person who came was the Portuguese gentleman who had accompanied him back to the Zhongzuo to meet Zheng Chenggong, who set off from Macao and soon arrived at the county seat of Xiangshan. When he saw Chen Kai, the gentleman was very enthusiastic, especially the kind of cordial words that Europeans are used to, and he was even more stunned by the guards present.

"Jose, do you really believe the rumors that a single shot can knock down a wall like Xinhui?"

"If it were someone else, maybe I wouldn't even be interested in listening. But dear Chen, you are a hero of the civilized world, whom even the great King João IV has praised. Heroes will always have abilities and performances that are different from ordinary people, and I will always be skeptical. ”

João IV was called a reupper by the Portuguese, and the Jesuits, who had a close relationship with the Macau Council, were also staunch supporters of João IV in Portugal. The last time this Portuguese gentleman traveled with him, he told Chen Kai about Portugal's struggle for independence a few years ago, and compared China and Portugal to the same disease.

With the last rescue in Guangzhou, Chen Kai's name has not only spread in China itself, such as the South Seas, but even in Europe with the passage of merchant ships. As for whether João IV said this, Chen Kai does not know, but judging from the attitude of João IV towards the borrowing of troops from the Holy See in Europe by the Son of Yongli in history, at least he will not give this Jose the possibility of reversing black and white.

In fact, Chen Kai was not interested in what the Portuguese king thought. The exchange of pleasantries here is nothing more than to set off the atmosphere for the next talks. The representative of the Portuguese side was like this, and Chen Kai was also happy, and the two sides talked about the past, and then talked about the current stage of the war.

"These Tatars are only afraid that they are even more cruel than the Moors, and the Lord will never tolerate such a disgusting cannibalism!"

José was outraged by the cannibalism incident in Xinhui. But this sentence of the lord or something, or Chen Kai couldn't help but slander him, but he didn't show it, only said that it was not in line with the sage's teachings on benevolence, and it was no different from a beast, so it ended here.

"Jose, Ming people don't say dark words, you come here this time, it won't be as simple as catching up with the past."

There was no hesitation in Chen Kai's words, and Jose probably had enough greetings, so he didn't show any embarrassment about it, and directly talked with Chen Kai in detail according to the resolution of the Macau Council.

According to him, the Portuguese side still preferred the Ming court. He came over this time to give an explanation for the exchanges between the two sides in recent years and resolve the misunderstanding between them. As for further cooperation, or anything else, there is not at all.

"This, in fact, does not need to be said. The Tatars are powerful, the dynasty is in danger, and even the vassal vassals of Korea, Ryukyu, and Annam have changed their courts over the years, and you can strictly maintain neutrality, and the national surname and I are understandable. There is still a long time to come, and there are opportunities for cooperation, and there is no need for this. ”

The Zheng group split to Zheng Chenggong for reunification, and the cooperation with the Macau side was contacted by Chen Kai. The two sides initially made an agreement to purchase artillery and expand the volume of trade, but as Shang Kexi put pressure on Macao, the volume of artillery trade dropped sharply to a negligible share, and the volume of trade also dropped by a relatively large margin with the establishment of the license rate in Guangdong. The relationship between the two sides has been lukewarm in the past two years, but this time, Chen Kai just wanted to show a smile before placing a bet, and he didn't plan to care about anything. It is nothing more than a gesture of goodwill, hoping that the Macao side will continue to maintain a neutral attitude, and as for anything that is hostile to the Qing court, they will not need their help.

"Dear Chen, thank you for your understanding."

It has been fourteen years since Portugal was theoretically restored, but it has always been trembling if it is not recognized by the European powers and the Holy See. For this reason, adhering to the principle that the enemy of the enemy is the friend, through the Thirty Years' War, Portugal made great friends with the enemies of Spain, but with little success, and even the alliance with Britain paid a great price.

This situation also inevitably affected the Portuguese overseas, and the reality was that they were nothing more than rams surrounded by wolves, and they had to rely on their horns to protect themselves. In this way, one less wolf and one more wolf may be the difference between life and death for them.

"At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, only the Chinese themselves decided the future of China, and the rest, the Portuguese, the Dutch, the Spaniards, and the British, were all negligible. The future of the country lies in the sea, but now it is decided by a war on the continent. Only by basing ourselves on the present can we embrace the future. ”

The conversation was very pleasant, and José left on the same day. Chen Kai thought back to the exchange between the two, but he remembered that he had heard people hypothesize the idea of the Zheng Group establishing an overseas country. But now that I think about it, without the human, material, and financial support of the mother country, just a move to the sea will bring the Zheng Group back to its original shape. When he arrived in Nanyang, in the face of Western colonizers, and there was a Qing court behind him that would rather cede land as long as it could exterminate the anti-Qing forces, the result was at most a strengthened version of the Lanfang Republic.

"First of all, we still have to deal with the Manchu Qing, otherwise there will be no future to speak of."

Thinking about it, he returned to the original point, and Chen Kai's side did not stop the deployment of the fleet and the army. Xiangshan was immediately down, and Chen Kai left Zhongquan Town to sit here, allowing the rest of the troops to board the ship.

Instead of returning to Hong Kong Island, the army crossed the mouth of the Pearl River and reached Xin'an County in the south of the east bank of the Pearl River, where it landed at Xixiang on the coast.

Here, as early as the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it was already the seat of Dongguan County and Bao'an County, and it was only in the Tang Dynasty that the center of the area west of Huizhou, east of the Pearl River, and south of the Dongjiang River was transferred to the later Dongguan County. Since the Tang Dynasty, Bao'an County ceased to exist, this place also belonged to Dongguan County for a long time, until the Ming Dynasty Wanli was re-divided into a county, including the later Shenzhen City and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the seat of governance was once Bao'an County on the south bank of the east bank of the Pearl River, that is, the establishment of Dongguan in the early Ming Dynasty to guard the city of thousands of households.

This place, in the Ming Dynasty, theoretically had 112 warships and 2,000 soldiers stationed, and was called "the outer government of Humen, the screen of the provincial capital".

But now, it is already different from the past, Chen Kai has bled the Guangdong sailors over and over again, and the limited boats are also docked at the south wharf of Guangzhou where they are shivering, there is a town of 3,000 green camps, which is also specially set up because Chen Kai occupies Hong Kong Island.

After the landing of the army, it went directly south to Xin'an County. The green battalion there had already set up a beacon tower in Xixiang, and once the Ming fleet was discovered, it lit wolf smoke early.

Chen Kai was well aware of this, and he especially stopped on the road leading to Dongguan, and at the same time also adjusted the Houjin Town, which was stationed on Hong Kong Island, to land on the Kowloon River and advance from south to north, which was exactly the situation of being attacked from both sides.

After the last failed Qing raid on Hong Kong Island, the south of Luoxi was already undefended. The speed of the advance of Houjin Town was very fast, that is, the Luohu Bridge on Luoxi was demolished by the Qing army, so that Chen Bin had to build a pontoon bridge. Chen Bin delayed the time, but the troops going south also had the strength of seven thousand troops in five towns, and they went straight to Xin'an County, but they were not afraid of those green battalion soldiers. It's a pity that when they arrived, they found that they were still late, and as soon as Xin'an Zhenfu learned that Chen Kai's army had landed in Xixiang, he did not hesitate to turn to the northeast, and he had already run away without a trace.

"The Tartars don't want to be defeated by the kings, so they have to give up some cities that are easy to besiege, so as to preserve their living strength."

Xin'an County is already not far from Luoxi, turning northeast, most likely to Chigang. For this reason, Chen Kai sent Wang Qifeng to take the cavalry to investigate, and as a result, traces of the Qing army were really found in Chigang. It's just that the traces there can already be regarded as a thing of the past, and Wang Qifeng's vanguard watched the troops of Xin'an Town continue to move in an orderly manner in the direction of the northeast, and they didn't even look back.

"Fu Jun, continue to the northeast, the Tartars are going to Huizhou Fucheng."

Wang Qifeng was still on his way back, but the news was sent back as quickly as possible. Li Jianjie was most familiar with the situation in Guangdong, and immediately made a statement to express his speculation, which was also echoed by the generals. However, it is not easy to say whether the Qing army would flee to Huizhou first, and then enter the Dongjiang River to Dongguan or even Guangzhou.

"Then, Fu Army, will our army continue to advance towards Dongguan?"

According to the original plan, after dividing the troops with Li Dingguo, the army went down to Xiangshan first, and then Xin'an. With these two places, Chen Kai's road from the transit station in Hong Kong to the front line of Xinhui is smoother. The next step is naturally to advance northward, seize Dongguan, and further encroach on the control area of the Qing army. However, the current situation is that Xin'an Town fled north, and the viable force of the army was preserved, plus Dongguan Town, 6,000 troops, Chen Kai only relied on the strength of the six towns of Fubiao, Qianchong Town, Houchong Town, Houjin Town, Tieqi Town, and Hussar Town, and the advantage was not very obvious.

Zhou Quanbin expressed his worries, and the generals naturally knew very well how to solve the problem and seek speed, which was nothing more than to immediately rush to Dongguan County, and capture Dongguan County before the arrival of Xin'an Town, which was still detouring; As for stability, it is necessary to wait for the follow-up troops led by Ke Chenshu to follow up and have sufficient strength, and then go to Dongguan, and the Qing army in the two towns will definitely not be enough.

"It's already the sixth day of November, and it stands to reason that Marquis Zhou and Admiral Ke will be able to go to Hong Kong in a few days."

"There is no such thing as a matter at sea."

In the era when there was no radio, no Internet, and no satellite, Chen Kai had no way of determining where the follow-up troops had gone. But no matter where it goes, at least the plan will continue to be carried out. is nothing more than an inevitable worry about the coming days.

"According to the original plan, the army will rest for three days and then advance to Dongguan."

It was decided that three days later, the army steadily advanced along the east bank of the Pearl River towards the county seat of Dongguan. Along the way, after all, it was an army of nearly 10,000, and I didn't even see the shadow of the Qing army, at most, I saw the Qing army's beacon towers along the river constantly lit, running in the direction of Dongguan and Guangzhou.

By the time we advanced to Dongguan County, it was already November 16. The army is steady, and the speed is not fast, but one safety is enough. However, this time when they arrived at the county seat of Dongguan, the local defenders did not flee like Xin'an Town, but used the time of these days to strengthen the defense, and from the outside of the city, they could clearly see the dense equipment on the city, as well as the dampness that could rarely be seen on the wood of the plum blossom stakes that had been newly inserted into the soil under the city.

"This Dongguan seems to be the eastern defense line of the Tartar arch defending Guangzhou City."

Naturally, there is a limit to shrinking the number of troops. It is unwise to blindly shrink to the core, not to mention the problem of narrowing the strategic depth, but to say that it is not possible to use the outer defense line to effectively consume the enemy's vital forces and to gain more time for the core.

The Qing army's strict defense in Xinhui lies in this point. Now Chen Kai has encountered another Xinhui, but he is not in a hurry to attack the city, but to set up camp step by step, clear the plum blossom piles outside the city, build siege equipment, and even dig a tunnel in the south of the city, which is completely a way to copy the capture of Xinhui.

Everything is going on in an orderly manner. The only thing is that time is passing day by day.

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