Li Dingguo's battalion was located in the north of Xinhui City, with a headquarters of 40,000 troops, accompanied by a group of Ming troops and righteous troops from all over the city.

The one who came to intercept him was Li Dingguo's confidant Jin Tongwu, who had recently crossed the Enping River to coordinate disputes between several Ming and righteous armies in Xinning County. As a result, the dispute has not been mediated yet, but Chen Kai was met first. He is Li Dingguo's confidant, and of course he knows that Li Dingguo has been trying his best to win over Zheng Chenggong's intentions. Moreover, he also knew a little about last month's reply, and knew that Chen Kai was coming, but he didn't know what day it was.

After a short period of panic, when it was learned that Chen Kai led the army to help, the Ming army and the righteous army who were originally still at each other's throats and had some grudges against each other forgot the contradictions between each other, and came up one by one, just to see what the legendary Chen Kai looked like, so that the two feudal clans could not make a big move for a few years.

"Governor Chen, it's Governor Chen!"

"Governor Chen, who rescued Guangzhou, defeated Geng Jimao twice, and bombarded Guangzhou City, is here, really here!"

"With the king of Xining here, now that even Chen Zhuge is here, the Tartars will be defeated. Long live the Ming Dynasty! Long live the Emperor! ”

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In the midst of the cheers, Chen Kai remembered that he was obviously not very compatible with the civil officials in western Guangdong, and now there was such a big popularity, and he was in a trance for a while.

In a trance, Chen Kai naturally did not lose his courtesy, and frequently bowed to the Ming army and the righteous army around him, which attracted bursts of cheers. After arriving at Tripe Bay, the cheering came to an end, and the group continued northward, straight into the seemingly endless besieged camp.

The camp was built according to the division of soldiers and horses. The most important thing outside Xinhui City is Li Dingguo's army, which is located in the core and the most powerful. Chen Kai took the hussar town to walk through it under the guidance of Jin Tongwu, which also attracted everyone's attention. His banner has already been played, but there are not many literate people, and it didn't cause much reaction at first.

Speaking of which, since Li Dingguo led a large army into Guangdong again, the Ming army and the righteous army, which had rushed to help in the war, had swarmed like carp crossing the river, and a new army would arrive and camp almost every few days. At first glance, Chen Kai's group at this moment is nothing more than another newcomer, at most they are all cavalry, and the leader is a civilian official, which is quite at first glance, and this is probably what it looks like.

However, when someone recognized Chen Kai's banner, the sound of word of mouth became louder and louder, and the cheers of the afternoon soon reappeared here.

"Chen Fujun, who Zhuge was reborn and Berwyn was alive, has arrived!"

"Four years ago, the villain's family had to be rescued by Chen Fujun before they could get out of the tiger's mouth, Chen Fujun's prince Wandai!"

Among the rebels, there are some people in Guangzhou, they are the people who survived the catastrophe, and they are naturally grateful to the high-ranking officials and lords who abandoned the city and fled, and to Chen Kai, who rescued them from the butcher's knife of the Qing army.

This is a life-saving grace, a life-saving grace for 300,000 people!

It's night, but it's better than in the afternoon. People kept pouring out of the camp, wanting to see Chen Kai closer, and at this time, even Jin Tongwu and the southwestern Ming troops under him all looked at Chen Kai with admiration. After all, similar scenes, in their opinion, have only happened to their managers.

Hussar Town escorted Chen Kai straight to Li Dingguo's camp, and the more he went inward, the more he saw, the camp was more rigorous, the sergeants looked more elite, and the weapons and armor were fully equipped.

Walking to the main camp near Li Dingguo, Jin Tongwu suddenly stopped and said that he had arranged a camp for Hussar Town. The implication of his words was naturally that Li Jianjie's cavalry was inconvenient to go deeper, and Chen Kai didn't care about this, and gave an order to Li Jianjie, and the latter took his own hands to take the troops to rest with one of Jin Tongwu's lieutenants.

Chen Kai and Jin Tongwu continued to march, and they were already able to see the large camp in front of them. Behind the dense antlers, the wall is neatly aligned, the lookout platform is towering, when you can overlook this large camp, the position of the camp, a distinct "Li" character banner is waving in the wind, showing everyone the identity and status of the owner of this camp and the glorious glory of the past.

When they reached the camp gate, the guards straightened their waists and stood on both sides, and an officer stepped forward, ignoring Jin Tongwu's status as a cronie, and as usual to check the waist card, and Jin Tongwu did not hesitate or be dissatisfied, everything went smoothly, as if this was the normal state on weekdays.

At this time, the Ming army's drills had long ended, and it was time to eat. The smoke curled up, but the camp was extremely quiet, after checking the waist card, the officer guarding the door was about to come forward to check Chen Kai again, at this time Jin Tongwu seemed a little unhappy, but he didn't say anything.

Li Dingguo's management of the army has always paid attention to orders and prohibitions, which is very similar to Zheng Chenggong. Seeing the officer step forward at this moment, Chen Kai did not show the slightest dissatisfaction, and directly took out a handcuff from a leather bag hanging on the official uniform, held the barrel of the gun and handed it directly to the officer.

"Chen Fujun, what is this?"

A civil official, with five or six hundred cavalry guards by his side, even carried a short firecracker, which really made Jin Tongwu a little incomprehensible. At least, when he fought in the Northland, and even later attached, he had not seen a civilian official behave like this for so many years, and more often than not, he didn't have any weapons on his body, and even if he did, he basically wore a sword on his waist to use it for self-determination in times of danger.

Jin Tongwu's incomprehensible gaze came, but Chen Kai laughed, and then explained: "Jin Shuai, sometimes, when facing some special situations, even if you are full of wisdom and a lotus, it is far more effective than directly taking out a handcuff and shooting at the other party's brain. ”

Chen Kai said it as a matter of course, but he stunned Jin Tongwu for a moment. The civil official in front of him is really completely different from the civil officials he has seen, even if those civil officials are really ruthless, at most they can do so when they are secretly plotting against others, but when it comes to face to face, there is only the so-called "death to report the king". Where is it like the one in front of him, when he is in danger, he not only wants to fight back, but also gives the opponent a "shot", which seems to be more outlaw than their generals.

With that, the guards had already rushed to report it. After a while, I saw a military general in a python robe and jade belt striding out, followed by two civil officials, looking at the rhythm of the pace, it seemed that he was a little reluctant. However, Chen Kai didn't care, walked up in three steps and two steps, and bowed his head.

"Xiaguan Chen Kai, meet His Royal Highness the King of Xining."

As soon as he gave up his hand and wanted to worship, a pair of iron arms had already helped Chen Kai up. After taking a closer look, he then smiled and said: "I have heard the name of Chen Fujun for a long time, like thunder, and it is really a blessing in my life to see it today." ”

Speaking in the official dialect with a Shaanxi accent, Chen Kai could understand that Li Dingguo was looking at him at the moment, and he was also watching Li Dingguo.

I think back then, when I first met Zheng Chenggong, in his early twenties, he had a slight Confucian temperament among his heroic spirit. Now, Li Dingguo in front of him is only in his early thirties, and he is two or three years older than Zheng Chenggong. However, this person in front of him has a very heroic atmosphere, and there is a little vicissitudes in his temperament, which may be related to his early years as a rogue.

The two looked at each other and smiled, and Li Dingguo was about to introduce the two civil officials who came out with Chen Kai. At this moment, Chen Kai shook his head, stretched out his hand to stop it, and then sneered in front of Li Dingguo.

"Even the general system, Xia Guan has seen it. When the lower officials made a special trip to Wencun to pay a visit, even the general system asked whether the lower officials were officials of the Zhu family or the Zheng family. ”

As soon as these words were uttered, the surrounding temperature immediately plummeted to freezing. Between civilian, military and military generals, even among ordinary people, there is always some superficial harmony. When Li Dingguo heard that Chen Kai had arrived, even if he got up to greet him, of course these two civil officials understood that Li Dingguo was aiming to win over Zheng Chenggong and Chen Kai to fight against Sun Kewang. Now that Li Dingguo has come out to greet them, even if they are reluctant, they can't continue to sit in the big tent, so they have to follow out. The superior came out to greet him, even if he was with him, and he had to do his best as a subordinate. Who knew that Chen Kai was so faceless, and directly showed the contradictions between the two of them, and even the civil official group and the Zheng group in western Guangdong to Li Dingguo.

There was already a stunned speechlessness, and no one knew what to say at this time. Unexpectedly, at this moment, Chen Kai turned to the civil official on the other side of Li Dingguo, looked up and down, and directly named his identity.

"This must be the Guo Inspector behind General Lian, Zhang Fujun and Zhou Daotai."

In this way, it is almost directly clear that Guo Zhiqi, a scholar of the Inspector University, is the general backstage of Lian Chengbi, Zhang Xiaoqi, and Zhou Tengfeng, a group of civil officials in western Guangdong, and is naturally the culprit who squeezed out Chen Kai.

The scene froze for a while, and everyone present didn't know what to say. Who knows, at this time, Chen Kai spoke again, and said, "I've seen the two officials", but he simply arched his hand, and the right was considered to have bowed, and his expression was not at all respectful to the higher-level officials.

"Ahem, since you know each other, Your Highness doesn't need to be introduced. Chen Fujun came from afar, and the night was heavy, according to the student's humble opinion, why don't you go to the big tent to talk first? ”

"Mr. Kim has a point."

Several high-ranking officials froze here, and a Confucian dressed as a staff member who followed behind hurriedly took over the conversation. With this stubble, Li Dingguo's reaction was also extremely fast, while speaking, he took Guo Zhiqi with one hand and Chen Kai with the other, and took it directly to the big tent.

Li Dingguo dragged Guo Zhiqi and Chen Kai into the big tent in great strides, and Jin Tongwu and Lian Chengbi and others could only follow behind and follow in.

Speaking of which, they were disgusted by the Zheng Group's forces entering western Guangdong, which stemmed from the inertia of party struggle, and was also related to the fact that the former leader of the Zheng Group had betrayed Emperor Longwu and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. It was precisely because of this disgust that they were wary of Chen Kai, and at that time, they used their status as an official to squeeze out Chen Kai, which was also for other civil officials and generals in Guangdong.

However, the current end of the Ming Dynasty is no longer the time for the senior officials to crush people to death. Now we are paying attention to strength, military, political, economic, and all aspects of strength. is just squeezing out, which is completely ineffective for Chen Kai. There is no need for Guo Zhiqi, the superintendent of Bule, and there is no need for the consent of Lian Chengbi, the governor, Chen Kai led the army of the Zheng group to dominate the Pearl River estuary, and went back and forth to bleed the Qing army's sailors, and he could float thousands of miles into the sea and directly recover Qiongzhou Mansion, without the help of the Ming army and the righteous army in western Guangdong.

Not to mention that the original exclusion could not work, but now it has been turned out by Chen Kai, and it is clear that it is to let Li Dingguo understand that the contradictions between the two sides are irreconcilable. If an accident happens, then the charge of destroying unity and causing the situation to deteriorate will run directly on their heads, and they will not be able to shake off it.

Everyone stepped into the big tent, Li Dingguo stood on top of it, Guo Zhiqi and Lian Chengbi sat on the left hand, and Chen Kai, as the dual representative of the Zheng Group and the Southeast Ming Army, sat on the right hand without humility. As for Jin Tongwu and the staff, they sat under Chen Kai and Lian Chengbi respectively, and seemed to be ready to go up and fight when the two sides really started.

To mediate the contradictions, Li Dingguo does not have this leisure for the time being. Joining forces with the Zheng Group to confront Sun Kewang is the fundamental reason why he must pull Zheng Chenggong in these two expeditions into Guangdong, and now that Chen Kai is here, he naturally has to understand the relevant trends of the Zheng Group first.

Standing high in the seat, Li Dingguo's attention has been focused on Chen Kai. Since the Southern Ming Dynasty, there have been many well-known ministers - Shi Kefa, Ma Shiying, Qian Qianyi, Liu Zongzhou, Zhang Guowei, Zhu Dadian, Huang Daozhou, Su Guansheng, He Tengjiao, Qu Shiyun, Du Yinxi, Ding Kuichu, Wen Anzhi, etc., etc., there are auxiliary governments inside, and there are fighting outside, the vast majority of these people have been ancient, even if they are not dead, now they are just trapped in one predicament after another, although they have risen, but they have little effect.

In contrast, Chen Kai claimed to be a child, but in fact, he didn't even take the county exam and the government exam, and he couldn't even talk about a child. The background of the imperial examination is like this, the time to enter the officialdom is also very late, and the starting point is also very low, but he is just a staff member of Zheng Chenggong. But it is such a small person, since his debut, he has fought desperately again and again in Guangdong and Fujian provinces, sometimes to assist Zheng Chenggong, sometimes to lead an army, a few years later, the strength of the Southeast Ming Army, which originally had only about 90 people, should not be underestimated, and the most important of these is Chen Kai's hard work.

Such a person, fighting for several years, especially with the Qing army sweeping through Liangguang four years ago, the Qin Wangfu overthrew the Yongli Imperial Court, and the civil officials of the Southern Ming Dynasty withered, this rising star is already the most powerful civil official in the limelight today, there is no one!

Entering the big tent, first of all, it is naturally the greeting time, where did you come from, what was the itinerary along the way, the hard work of the boat and car, and then there was nothing more than taking out some of Chen Kai's great achievements to "look up" for a while. In this regard, Chen Kai naturally has to care about Li Dingguo's physical condition and praise Li Dingguo's feat of becoming a famous king.

Li Dingguo carefully observed Chen Kai's posture, confident and calm, which is the most obvious. Recalling some of the information about Chen Kai collected for him by the staff member sitting on the other side, the image in the fantasy slowly merged with reality, and his image gradually became clearer.

"Chen Fujun has come from afar, and this king has prepared a banquet for Chen Fujun to pick up the wind and wash the dust."

Speaking of this, Chen Kai got up and thanked him. Immediately afterwards, the embarrassment outside the tent seemed to have passed, and Guo Zhiqi suddenly asked Chen Kai: "Since Chen Fujun is here, the headquarters wants to ask, where is Zhang Guogong now, and will he come to join Wang Shi later?" ”

Guo Zhiqi asked about this, and everyone present was concerned, especially Zheng Chenggong's "old relative" who was even more concerned about whether the "general with the surname of the country" whom he had always called him could come.

With his eyes converging, Chen Kai did not hide his selfishness, and replied calmly: "The surname of the country will not come this year." Some time ago, Fujian was in turmoil, and now the national surname is leading the royal division of southern Fujian to sweep the land of Fujian. Before the next official came, the army with the surname of the country had already entered Jianning Mansion, and the soldiers were pointing directly at Xianxia Pass! ”

Zheng Chenggong can't come, this news can be said to be the worst news for Li Dingguo at present. But before a look of disappointment appeared on his face, Chen Kai's next words immediately attracted his attention. Especially when the words of the soldier pointed directly at Xianxia Pass, what that level meant, everyone present did not understand, and immediately there was an incredible shock.

"Fujian, how is it in chaos?"

Unlike Li Dingguo, who still has a disappointment to digest, Guo Zhiqi, as the person who just opened his mouth to inquire, was the first to realize the key to Zheng Chenggong's sweep of Fujian.

"Hmm." Chen Kai thought for a while, and then replied to Guo Zhiqi affirmatively: "The Tartar played it by himself, well, that's it." ”