Sure enough, when we arrived at Xishan Island in the center of the lake, it was getting dark, and several cold herons chirped and skimmed the lake, and the shadows of black islands were revealed not far away. There was an unknown island twenty or thirty zhang north of the West Island, and they were only heard from the mouths of the sailors on board.

"It's bigger than the mountain, bigger than the mountain."

In the twilight, it looks a little blurry than the mountain, it is only four or five hundred meters in circumference, and the whole island is completely composed of small hills with strange rocks hidden by trees. Seeing this, no one could have imagined that there would be people on such an island.

But on this small island with a radius of only two or three miles, the inventory is so strict. Along the way, there were at least five interrogations between the open and covert sentinels, and there were many who did not show up. The final entrance is from an inconspicuous cave in the forest, and only after entering it can you see the scheming of this Shenzhou City.

It took a considerable amount of depth before a glimmer of light was revealed. When I got closer, I saw the light of a small flame from the searchlights of the aiming lights of the two Flying Gods guarding the concrete bunkers. Walking further inside, there was a small cement door, and after entering, it suddenly became cheerful.

On both sides of the rather wide passage was a wall lamp, and there were soldiers in black armor back and forth, and after two checks, it was not easy to see the commander, Wu Shengzhao would never have imagined that he would actually see him! I didn't expect that there would be such a huge base under this hill. I haven't seen it with my own eyes, and I won't believe anyone if I tell it.

Under the gray hair, there is a gray extremely clean gown, and when you see him, people will misunderstand that he is a common private school gentleman in Jiangnan. And Wu Shengzhao can be sure that the person in front of him has seen it many times.

That time it was he who acted as a messenger for Shenzhou City, asking him to intervene in the matter of disturbing Kou Baimen. It was also he who came to tell himself that Ruan Dacheng was secretly trading with Shenzhou City for silver, and he had exchanged more information and news in the back and forth later, all of which were caused by this person, I really didn't expect him to be the person in charge of Shenzhou City in Jiangnan. At that time, I just sighed in my heart, the suction power of Shenzhou City is really strong enough, and even conservative people like Mr. Private School will use it for them. Who would have thought that such an ordinary person would actually be the boss of the person in charge of the Jiangnan base in Shenzhou City! So what is his true identity.......

"Wu Hou, let's meet again."

"You are ......" Wu Shengzhao arched his hands, guessing in his heart that since the Yue City Lord had put him in charge of the affairs of the entire Jiangnan, then in Shenzhou City or the Shenzhou Army, he must be an extremely remarkable figure.

"In Xia Chen Rong, he is a person who works for Shenzhou City in Jiangnan."

"Hehe, it turns out that Your Excellency is the general office of the Shenzhou Army stationed in Jiangnan!"

Hou Fangyu followed Wu Shengzhao's side for a long time, and the people he came into contact with were all bold generals, so he naturally didn't like Chen Rong's performance in the city. Especially when I saw Chen Rong's kind of virtue of "meeting people but talking about three points, I feel physically and mentally uncomfortable if I can't throw away all my hearts." In addition, I have always had no good feelings about Shenzhou City, so I couldn't help but laugh.

Chen Rong didn't seem to hear his words at all, and his attitude was still affectionate. While giving up a three-seater, he asked his subordinates to prepare meals for a few people.

"Report to the chief, the retreat task has been successfully completed, and there has been no conflict with the Qing army during the period. Report complete. ”

The little officer in Shenzhou City didn't seem to like it here, and was in a hurry to report the situation, and he was about to leave as soon as he paid.

Chen Rong nodded and ordered: "Well, very good, the wounded should be arranged to enter the hospital as soon as possible, if there is not enough manpower, they can be recruited from the civilians, and other housing and other related matters can be arranged." ”

"Yes!" The petty officer answered, got up and left. Only Wu Shengzhao, Chen Rong and Hou Fangyu were left here.

Soon, someone opened a meal for the three of them, and there was nothing special, nothing more than canned food, and a few quite fat white water fish, whitebait, white shrimp and other things, all of which were specialties of Taihu Lake, especially the rice, vegetables, and meat combined in the canned food, there were also these things, and the meal was accompanied by leap wine from Shenzhou City.

"Mr. Hou, Mr. Hou, please take a seat, please take a seat."

After fighting on the shore for a day and a night, Wu Shengzhao and Hou Fangyu, who had been floating on the lake for a long time, were naturally hungry, and suddenly smelled the fragrance of hot rice and couldn't help but swallow a few mouthfuls of saliva, and at the same time, they began to worry about their subordinates.

Chen Rong seemed to understand, and said with relief: "Please rest assured that Wu Hou will all have soldiers from the Shenzhou Army to take care of them." ”

Hearing this, Wu Shengzhao relieved himself. In my heart, I believe that those soldiers of the Shenzhou Army even believed in their cronies. The conscientiousness and responsibility they do occasionally make people feel unkind, but after getting along for a long time, they know that they are only for the sake of justice.

As if to reassure them, Chen Rong never mentioned the war, and only talked about some light things such as the anecdotes of Shenzhou City and the notoriously grotesque Yue Da City Lord. It wasn't until the end of a meal that the conversation got to the point.

At this time, after a day and a night of fighting, Hou Fangyu, who had been holding on to this time, was really unable to hold on, and it was not easy for him to be a literati and brave enough to go into battle. In the warm room, after a few glasses of wine, sleepiness swept over like a wave, and then I couldn't help myself lying on the table and fell asleep.

Chen Rong made a careful gesture to Wu Shengzhao, and the two left here and came to Chen Rong's "study".

What Wu Shengzhao couldn't imagine was that there was not a single book in Chen Rong's so-called "study", or it was more reasonable to call it a "gun room", on top of the two rows of gun racks, there were weapons ranging from gun-type crossbows to rifles, and on the platform behind the gun racks, there were short weapons from chain crossbows to revolvers.

"Please take a seat," Chen Rong invited Wu Shengzhao to sit down on a group of four single sofas with small coffee tables in the center of the room, and then said slowly.

"I guess what Hou Ye wants to know most now is the situation in Hangzhou!"

Wu Shengzhao, who was in a calmer mood, suddenly heard the word "Hangzhou", and couldn't help but fall into a panic again. You must know that "Hangzhou", as one of the only two big cities in the hands of Zhu Yihai of Lu Jianguo, is no weaker than Suzhou in terms of defensive strength.

Although the focus of the defense of the "Shengwu Army" was forced by the military department to favor Suzhou City because it was the "capital", Hangzhou was garrisoned by the naval army of Lu Jianguo and Zhu Yihai, and it could transport troops to the enemy's flank at any time to carry out a flank attack on the enemy, so it should not fall so easily!

Wu Shengzhao remembered the "warning" sent by the "Shenzhou Army" to Hou Fangyu before the outbreak of this battle, and muttered to himself: "Could it be him?" ”