Chapter Twenty-Five: Exchanges of Gifts (II)

As soon as the report arrived in Qiongzhou Mansion, Chen Kai immediately recruited Lin Cha alone, just to give Lin Cha a face. As a result of the facts, after reading the contents of this report, Lin Cha was shocked by what his nephew had done, but he did not plead with Chen Kai, but instead demanded severe punishment.

This performance was within Chen Kai's expectations. Speaking of which, Zheng Chenggong has always been known for his strict military law, and the generals of the department do not say that they have left their posts without permission, escaped from the battle, and deceived the officials, even if they only lost the battle, and they are not the kind of people who have tried their best but still can't win, and they often have to record the record of being executed if they are defeated again. For this reason, many of Zheng Chenggong's generals surrendered to the Qing because they were afraid of military law, but the generals who were able to hold on were all fighting to the death, which also made Zheng Chenggong's troops have a more amazing victory rate against the Qing army.

Lin Cha is a diehard loyalist of Zheng Chenggong, and of course he knows that what Zheng Chenggong values most is military law. This nephew of his, when he is in front of him, can still be restrained, but the problem of greedy for women cannot be changed. Even earlier he had told his wife that this kid was going to die on a woman sooner or later, but he didn't know that it would come true so soon.

Speaking of which, Lin Cha has the responsibility of recommending non-human beings in this matter. Yili demanded severe punishment, which was the attitude towards Chen Kai and Zheng Chenggong, and it was also an attitude of hatred for iron and steel.

In this regard, Chen Kai said that he would make a judgment when there is accurate human and physical evidence, so as not to cause unjust, false and wrongful cases because Li and Jiang were deceived because they did not see each other in person. But if the evidence of the crime is conclusive, he naturally cannot tolerate it, so as not to hurt the hearts of those soldiers who fought bloodily and cause an even worse impact.

After last night's questioning, Chen Kai got the answer from Li Jianjie, Jiang Meiao, Jiang Meiao's deputy general, and Nie Yiniang's mouth, all of which were that this person was extremely guilty. As for those officials, some said that they did not know and wanted to stay out of the situation, while others had already understood the situation and immediately pointed out to Chen Kai that the garrison had escaped. As a result, there was no need to say anything more, and Chen Kai immediately ordered that the person be divided by Ling Chi's punishment, thinking that the latecomer would be punished.

"By the way, Liu Shichang, this official remembers that you said last night that when you went to inform this guy, the little widow also kept this guy, right?"

"Yes, this guy was still reluctant at that time!"

This chief was not only the one who rushed to inform the garrison that day, but also the confidant of the thousand presidents. Speaking of that incident at this moment, even if it is a gritted tooth, he can't wait to devour the dog man and woman alive.

After receiving the confirmation, Chen Kai nodded, and then said slowly: "Oh, since you are so reluctant, then ask her to watch the whole sentence." After reading it, behead the public, saving our garrison from being lonely on Huangquan Road. ”

With a wave of his hand, a guard lifted the garrison down. Ling Chi is one thing, of course, in terms of the number of knives, it is not as good as Ma Degong and Huang Shu, after all, it is still a short level. But when the knife took down the slices of meat, it hurt even when I thought about it, let alone the person who was tortured.

The garrison was pulled down, and when he was about to go out, he glanced at Li Jianjie with hatred in his eyes, but the latter looked disdainful and didn't take it seriously at all.

All of this is in Chen Kai's eyes. In other words, from the very beginning, Chen Kai was waiting for this scene to happen, and the performance of both sides was as he expected, which led to a smile on the corner of his mouth, which was fleeting.

"At the celebration banquet, someone heard the guy tell An Su Bo about your life experience, which is about the death of your deceased husband and brother."

"But Uncle Li didn't do what he thought?"

"Yes, Uncle Ansu, he is an upright man, and he can't afford to look down on such a despicable villain with a knife in the back."

"Humble duty, thank you to Fu Jun. In fact, that guy is right, the lowly post has indeed not forgotten those things, but please rest assured that the lowly post will never abolish the public for personal reasons, and everything will be done according to the public heart. Moreover, Li Shuai could be regarded as saving his lowly and lowly subordinates in that battle. It's just that the lowly position is grateful to him, but the lowly position can't do it. ”

"Well, I trusted my eyes, and I knew early on that you could be trusted."

In yesterday's conversation, Chen Kai broke the inside story to Nie Yiniang, and the answer he received also made him satisfied. Such satisfaction is actually not a surprise beyond expectations, and it can even be said that Nie Yiniang has already been within Chen Kai's expectations.

After the battle, Nie Yiniang was polite to Li Jianjie, but she quickly found a reason to leave, and she had never seen her these days, let alone told her the inside story. But for Chen Kai, he knows everything and says everything, and he has no precautions. Comparing the two, in fact, many things can be seen clearly.

As for Li Jianjie's treatment of this Nie Yiniang, in Chen Kai's opinion, he is afraid that it is not only because he can't look down on despicable villains to sow discord between the two, but also because he despises women. Of course, the most important thing here is probably not these two points, but the factional opinion.

"The decision to execute this guy will be reported to the country's surname. However, the post of garrison is vacant, and this officer thinks that Hong Kong Island is the hub of our army on the battlefield in Guangdong, and it is of great importance, and it is indispensable for a day! ”

Chen Kai's words are so far, the generals and officials present can understand. In today's Guangdong battlefield, they recovered Chaozhou Prefecture, Qiongzhou Prefecture, and a series of islands at the mouth of the Pearl River south of Guangzhou. The Chaozhou Mansion is in the eastern part of Guangdong, and the Qiongzhou Mansion is in the western part of Guangdong, and the two places are connected, all relying on this small Hong Kong Island as a transit point. Because of this, Shang Kexi will regard it as Chen Kai's seven-inch land, and Chen Kai will quickly send Li Jianjie's troops back to help him when the war in Qiongzhou is over.

"Nie Yiniang, the captain of the ambulance team under the Hong Kong Island garrison, launched a counterattack with his own strength when the garrison abandoned the army and fled and Yu Qian's total force was martyred, boosting the morale of the generals, and successfully dragged it back to the Ansubo headquarters, making great contributions to the total annihilation of the prisoners."

All of this is a fact, Chen Kai told it eloquently, and everyone also turned their attention to this woman who even looked a little thin: "The ancestral system of the national dynasty, meritorious service will be rewarded, and mistakes will be punished, so the king of the beginning of the country can be invincible in the world." To this day, the national surname and the official also firmly believe that only in this way is the only way to drive out the Tartars. Therefore, this official decided to appoint Nie Yiniang as the garrison of Hong Kong Island, responsible for the defense of the island, and cooperate with Jiang Shuai, the chief officer of the Pearl River Naval Division, to defend this important place! ”

As we all know, the Emperor Ming was a dynasty established by expelling the Tartars, and Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, never accepted the official position and title of the Tyrant Yuan at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. Therefore, whether in later generations or in this era, the orthodoxy of the Han family of the Emperor Ming is unquestionable, and there has been no one who has won the country since ancient times.

It is a fact that the guards of the early Ming Dynasty were rampant all over the world; Now Zheng Chenggong's management of the army also emphasizes a reward and punishment, which is also a fact. From the previous precedent, and then with this situation, Chen Kai specifically mentioned Nie Yiniang's performance, and the questioning gaze no longer existed, and some were just praise and envy for the meritorious service being rewarded.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, Wang Yangming's psychology was prevalent in the world, which led to a lot of "advanced" ideas, such as the "strange talks" of Li Zhen, a Fujianese from the same province as most of the people present, especially the short book in "Book Burning", which is a short book on women's learning Taoism, and there is a preliminary enlightenment of equality between men and women.

But that's only one aspect. The people present will not use gender as a reason for opposition, among them is the existence of Chen Kai, the merits of Nie Yiniang are indeed reasonable, and there is also the influence of ideological emancipation. However, the most important thing is that the Ming Dynasty really produced female generals, the world-famous loyal Marquis Qin Liangyu is an example, Qin Liangyu's daughter-in-law Zhang Fengyi is also the same, and even Emperor Yongli had a female general named Hou Shizhen in front of the palace. With these precedents, it is nothing new that there are now multiple female guards.

"At the end of the Ming Dynasty, well, the emancipation of the mind really still exists. When I carry forward the quintessence of wrapping small feet in the Qing Dynasty, I will have to wait until I am kicked open by foreigners to see the characters of Jianhu Woman. ”

Chen Kai wanted to come, and his own guards sent the official uniforms, seals, armor, swords and other items of the garrison. Chen Kai stood up, and under the eyes of everyone, he put the tray in Nie Yiniang's hand, and immediately nodded heavily.

"The land safety of Hong Kong Island will be handed over to Nie Garrison."

Nie Yiniang took the tray and looked at the neatly placed objects on it, all of which she had never thought of when she fought back in that battle. At that time, she thought very simply, and never expected anything, but now that her efforts have been more rewarded, her nose couldn't help but sour, but she immediately remembered her status as an officer, so she quickly took a breath and suppressed the agitation a little.

"Humility, humility will not disappoint Fu Jun!"

"This official also believes that Nie Shoubei will not let me down."

Chen Kai smiled calmly, and then said that he would recover as soon as possible, and even enhance the strength of the defenders - Jiang Meiao's fleet should be expanded to continue to widen the gap between the Ming and Qing divisions; Nie Yiniang's garrison naturally had to be restored, and it had to be expanded to the size of a battalion of 500 soldiers. It can even be said that whether it is Jiang Meiao or Nie Yiniang, their current official positions are only temporary, and promotion is only a matter of time.

"Jiang Shuai was persuaded by Chen Fujun to come to the country with the surname of the master, and the Nie garrison was from Guangdong Yiyong and later the patrol standard battalion, so he was naturally also Chen Fujun's cronies. This Hong Kong Island, it seems that the surname will be Chen in the future. ”

When the official in charge of the payroll at the scene thought about it, his eyes quickly met with the official in charge of local civil affairs, and he felt the same way. However, this Hong Kong Island was originally restored by Chen Kai, and now Chen Kai's position in the Zheng Group is also the number two person in a stable manner, and the relationship with Zheng Chenggong, the leader of the group, is so harmonious that some people even suspect that the two are friends of Longyang, they are now working under Chen Kai, and at the same time they are also sharing the credit for gradually recovering Guangdong, and they have no bad feelings about it, as long as Chen Kai does not bomb them back, it is none of their business.

The appointment was announced, and Chen Kai did not delay in delay, and immediately issued a new round of combat missions. This time, the combat mission was not to regain the lost territory, but to regain the face of the attack on Hong Kong Island, and to prove to the gentry, merchants, and common people in Guangdong, Nanyang, and even the whole of Guangdong that the Ming army not only still had the right to control the sea in the Guangdong Sea, but also wanted to and pee on his still gratifying head!

Nie Yiniang's garrison continued to stay on Hong Kong Island, and Jiang Meiao's fleet set sail with Li Jianjie's hussar town. This time, it was not to cross the Kowloon Strait, nor to cross the Mingxi to Xin'an County to find trouble with the local green camp, but to use the south wind blowing on the ocean to go upstream.

The fleet went upstream, and because the mouth of the Pearl River was controlled by the Ming army's naval division, the Qing army built beacon towers along the coast to ensure that the Ming army could get early warning when attacking the coastal counties.

Along the Pearl River, the four counties of Xiangshan, Xin'an, Shunde, and Dongguan have received early warnings from the beacon tower, but there has been no report of being attacked by the Ming army. This time it was obviously the Ming army's retaliation against the Qing army's raid on Hong Kong Island, and the most disturbing were the Qing court officials, generals and colonels in Xin'an County.

The wind went against the current, and the sails were sufficient, and the fleet bypassed the Daxi Mountain, crossed the ocean surface of the Ding Yang, and soon sailed into the main channel of the Pearl River.

Standing on the deck of the Jiang Meiao ship, Chen Kai looked around, and there were familiar mountains and rivers everywhere. Remembering that the last time he passed through here was in November of the fourth year of Yongli, the Qing army under the command of Shang Kexi collapsed the city wall of Guangzhou, and the massacre was about to start, and he contacted the local guards and grassroots officials to find a way out for the good people in this place.

On that occasion, he commanded the warships of the Marquis of Fuming and the Marquis of Min'an, the merchant fleet of Zhongzhenbo Hongxu, the merchant fleet he rented from Macao, and the large and small merchant ships and fishing boats on the wharf in the south of Guangzhou, which he had temporarily organized. In addition, Wu Wenwen, the second general Yin Zhirong's naval division of the Guangzhou garrison, and even the land divisions of Zhang Yue, Li Yuantai, and Li Jianjie also temporarily followed his command, and the fleet of Linghai General Chen Qice was used as reinforcements.

It was precisely because of such a huge maritime strength that he was able to pull out his teeth and save so many people in Guangzhou under the butcher's knife of the Qing army, and was able to almost completely annihilate the Qing army's Guangdong naval division in the Pearl River Water Battle, laying a solid foundation for the Ming army to control and strangle the Pearl River Estuary.

This time, he revisited his old place, but some of them were only Jiang Meiao's fleet, and the size was only half of Lin Cha's department. The land division contained was only Li Jianjie's hussar town.

Speaking of which, in terms of strength, it is simply a day and a place, especially compared to the more than 10,000 feudal soldiers in the city, it is more like the foolish behavior of the egg hitting the stone. But there is a problem that this time, the Guangdong naval division of the Qing army is cleaner and more slippery than the last Pearl River water battle, and there are only two boats left, and any one under Jiang Meiao's command is always more stylish than Gai Yipeng's general soldier!

After the fleet crossed the mouth of the Dongjiang River without entering, it turned westward, and the beacon tower in Panyu County quickly rose wolf smoke. Here, it is said that the Qing army is the least likely to be attacked, but the alarm really appeared, and the defenders in the south of the city of Guangdong hurriedly reported to Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan, and Li Qifeng, the governor of Guangdong, and the two quickly rushed to the city wall of the new city.

The Ming army came very quickly, and the fleet lined up on the main channel between the city of Guangzhou and Henan Island. However, seeing the arrival of the gratifying Wang Qi, the Ming army only waited for the flagship's order to open fire, and the starboard artillery facing Guangzhou City immediately opened fire, and in an instant it had the momentum of sweeping the southern wharf of Guangzhou City, and even bombarding the southern city gate!

The cannonballs whistled, and the jade burned everywhere they went. Seeing that the Ming army was so arrogant, the Qing army in the city immediately reacted, and immediately escorted Shang Kexi and Li Qifeng down to the city, and protected them to the south wall of the old city for remote command.

The Ming army opened fire, and the Qing army also planned to return fire. However, Shang Kexi's Hongyi cannons that attacked Guangzhou City had changed their surnames to Chen as early as last year, and all the ones captured during the siege and the newly cast ones recently were moved to Zhaoqing, thinking that Zhaoqing City was guarded and never shipped back - after all, Shang Kexi could not guarantee that the king of Xining would not go and return.

The artillery battle turned into a one-man show of the Ming army. The ships of the Ming army put down their anchors on the main channel without any scruples, and then continued to pour shells, and soon beat the south wharf of the city into a mess, especially the military camp of the wharf, and the green battalion of the Guangdong sailors who had no ship was beaten to cry and cry for their mother.

Next, while the shells were extended, the Ming fleet laid down a cavalry on Henan Island. The banner of Ansubo and Li Jianjie quickly swept away the few Qing troops on Henan Island.

The Qing army on Henan Island was Li Jianjie's opponent, and it was quickly cleaned up by the Ming army. Subsequently, the Ming army swaggered onto the south dock of the city, and the Qing army captured in the previous battle were all escorted, and then only waited for the sword and axe hand to be in place, after an order, it was hundreds of right hands completely separated from their masters.

The shelling stopped abruptly, and the screams came one after another. In the midst of this new tune, a loud Ming army held an iron horn and shouted loudly to the Qing army at the head of the city: "My family Fu Jun said, come and don't be rude, these shells are a gift for Shang Kexi's dog traitor." In addition, my family's Fujun respectfully warned that if you dare to stretch out your dog grip, it will no longer be the hands of these captives! ”