In his living room, Mr. Yan invited Gan Hui and Mr. David to breakfast, and they ate steamed buns and dried porridge with meat and vegetables, plus some mustard and fried peanuts.

The filling of the steamed bun is fresh chicken, soaked shiitake mushrooms, fungus and eggs, which is extremely delicious!

The chef killed a raw chicken on the ship early in the morning, and made a small part of it into steamed buns, and most of the chicken was made into old fire soup with various medicinal herbs for Yan Changwu to eat at noon.

All kinds of dishes are made by Yan Changwu's full-time chef, he doesn't eat the big pot of rice on the ship, so as not to poison people, in addition to his clever cooking methods, the key is to pass the political test, such as from Yan Dashao's hometown, and Yan Dashao can be related, and his two children are in the administrative center and the other is in the navy or something.

Even so, it must be tested manually before it is delivered, and there must be no ambiguity.

The content of the three talks did not involve the upcoming war against bandits, but other matters, such as Gan Hui's proposal:

"The army has to train, but it's more about fighting, and we now have a navy that is constantly fighting, and it's getting stronger and stronger! And the combat effectiveness of the Marine Corps has not improved! ”

"They are confined to the pattern of a ship, and when they see the enemy, they shoot at the enemy, this combat mode is quite low-level!" Gan Hui said eloquently: "Once there is a large-scale battle with the enemy, such as dealing with the northern captives, I think the situation is not optimistic.

"What do you have a good proposal? My Chief of Staff! Yan Changwu asked.

"Expatriate, round battle!" Gan Hui pointed out.

"Send troops to the mainland to fight against the northern captives, only in battle can a strong army grow!" Gan Hui's eyes flashed and said: "Just like our Southeast Fleet, we have been to the battlefield of life and death, and after the face-to-face bombardment, the people who survive are the real naval soldiers!" ”

"Do you have a charter?" Yan Changwu said.

"Yes!" Gan Hui confessed, went back to his cabin and took a few pieces of paper, and brought them back to Yan Changwu to see, he roughly said the meaning: select 2,000 people to go to the Ningyuan Army to participate in the war, change half of the people every three years, replenish the soldiers every six months, form a battalion of their own, and the equipment should be studied, whether it is a musket flow or a hand-to-hand combat flow, but there is one point, at least some cavalry must be trained, as well as treatment, military training, education, etc.! ……”

"Not bad!" Yan Changwu thinks that it is feasible, and everyone can focus on studying it after the bandits return to Kaohsiung, such as treatment, because they are separated from the direct support of the Southeast Fleet and are isolated in the north, they can consider paying double the military salary.

As soon as he said this, Ganhui stood up and thanked the Overseers for their grace!

This matter is basically settled, and after this battle has been fought, he will return to Kaohsiung, and he can implement it after completing the detailed rules.

……

Huilai Shenquan Port, no trace of the enemy was found;

In the sea area of Haifeng, the enemy ship still could not be found;

The Southeast Fleet directly took the Wanshan Islands at the mouth of the Pearl River!

Wanshan Islands, located in the south of the Pearl River estuary, are the only places where Guangzhou must pass through the sea route. It includes the Qingzhou Waterway in the east of the Pearl River Estuary, the east of the Great West Waterway, Hong Kong's Lantau Island (Ohori Island), the Sokwu Islands, and the islands and reefs south of the Po Toi Islands, including the Dangan Islands, Jiapeng Islands, Sanmen Islands, Aizhou Islands, Spider Islands, Wanshan Islands, Wailingding Islands, Guishan Islands and other large and small islands, a total of dozens of large and small islands, the geographical scope includes: east from the south end of the Kowloon Peninsula and the west of the Dangan Island, west to the west of the west coast of Yamen and the east of the west coast of Dajiao Island; All the islands within the range of Sankishi Liquor Island in the north from Humen in the north to the south of Dajiao Island. The scattered area is 2,600 square kilometers, and the total area of the island is 80.582 square kilometers.

Most of them are deserted islands, and it is conceivable that in the age of sails, it was an excellent hiding place for pirates.

This is the sphere of influence of Liu Xianghai's bandits, and the Guangdong sailors are all timid and dare not enter lightly.

Having said that, if Yan Changwu hadn't risen, Liu Xiang would have little interest in the Pearl River Estuary in Guangzhou, after all, the richest sea area was still Minhai, but after Yan Changwu deployed a cruiser at the junction of the Minhai Sea and the Guangdong Sea, he had a righteous name, (he was an official army!) With both a well-informed and locals helping him, and a fast warship, Liu Xiang had to abandon the Min Sea in favor of Guangdong Province, especially the relatively wealthy Pearl River Estuary became the place where he wreaked havoc.

……

Wailingding Island.

It is located at the northeast end of the central part of the Wanshan Islands, the east side of the Pearl River estuary, when the route from Guangzhou to Hong Kong and the coastal ports of eastern Guangdong is to rush, because the island is isolated, and it is named after it.

The island covers an area of more than four square kilometers. It is composed of granite, and the terrain is high from east to west and slightly lower in the north and middle. The main peak in the center of the island, Lingding Peak, is 300 meters high. On a clear day, you can observe the entire sea surface of Hong Kong, Dangan Island, Beijian Island, Guishan Island, etc., and the entire sea area within the connection of each island. The surface is brown clay with outcrops, wild pineapples and shrubs grow in the east, and the rest of the area is sparsely planted. There are many rock crevices and caves in the valley. The shore of the island is steep and steep, and the island has plenty of water.

There are a total of ten large and small harbors, and the current larger Lingding Bay anchorage is moored with a large number of Liu Xianghai bandit ships.

They did not dispatch, and Guy did a vote yesterday, robbed a fleet of grain from Cantonese businessman Zhu Tianzhao, transported it back to the anchorage, and now waited for the middleman to sell the stolen goods.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, due to natural and man-made disasters, grain was hard currency, and this Zhu Tianzhao was a maritime merchant, who went overseas to purchase a large amount of rice last year, and wanted to take advantage of the lack of grain in the north this year when the grain was not ripe and there was a shortage of grain to be transported to the north for sale in order to make a big profit, and he took the sea route.

Zhu Tianzhao also abided by the rules, and gave Liu Xiang to buy travel expenses before departure, but Liu Xiang saw that the fleet had ten Dafu boats, and the amount of food transported was innumerable, and then he saw that the army was also about to run out of food, this Liu Xiang is a guy who doesn't count when he talks, and he can't buy the road expenses, who told him so much food, and the road expenses he gave are not enough!

After this vote, everyone could rest, so they wandered in groups of three or five, wandering around the simple camps on the island or sleeping on the boats, with the high-ranking leaders sleeping with the women in their arms, and the minions sleeping on their own.

Liu Xiang's Chinese army ship, shouting three and drinking, is gathering a crowd to gamble.

Don't think how noble a pirate can be, there are so many items in the chess and card room in the warship as Yan Changwu that pirates can't imagine.

Use the dice to shake the size ratio points, the two major enemy chiefs Liu Xiang, Li Kuiqi and the Zhengjun Shi Yu Xianke and the left pioneer Zhong Bin You come and go, taking turns shaking the dice bell. (Their gambling method is that each person has a dice clock, and each game rotates the dice clock)

Their bet is very chic, it is to grab a share of the grain.

Liu Xiangwu, who sits in the middle, has a short figure, his eyes are fierce, he is born with a strange appearance, similar to Zhang Fei's style, there is a poem as evidence: "The sea travels to sleep on the sea, the sea breeze blows the face of the skin, the northerners do not know the southern barbarians, and the Tao is the demon king for nine days"

Gambling / fighting can also be seen as a person, the style of the card is the style! Like Yu Xianke, he is quiet, no matter how big the bet is, it is difficult for others to see his mood swings; Liu Xiang makes big bets at every turn, and he is extremely fierce; Li Kuiqi is personable and doesn't seem to care about winning or losing; Zhong Bin kept scolding, and the dice clock in his hand hit the table heavily, if it weren't for the heavy rosewood made of the table, he would almost be unbearable.

The audience next to them was heckling, and someone was smoking! Swallowing clouds and spitting fog, black smoke and miasma.

The southeast government has purchased a lot of tobacco (almost all the tobacco on the market) to make cigarettes and market them to the mainland, which has become the leisure preference of the guys.

It's a pinch again, and the total bet is almost a fortune boat's grain.

The dice clock shook violently in Liu Xiang's hand irregularly, and suddenly flipped over violently and buckled upside down on the table.

He gently lifted the lid and looked inside, and his heart was as cold as the sea.

All three dice are big with a red dot pointing up, three dots, terrible!

When he was in a hurry, a voice suddenly shouted: "Big dragon head, it's not good, I found the fleet of the Southeast Province!" ”

The big dragon head is not bad, but good, he Huo Ran stood up, pushed hard, and pushed his dice clock to other people's dice clocks, he said righteously: "Go, let's kill Taiwan Aberdeen!" ”