Twenty days later, on May 28.

Temasek Port Terminal is crowded with people.

The deck of the "Unicorn" is polished.

Lin Xiao selected and appointed the new captain Zhang Jinshan from the sailors, standing on the deck.

The sails have been raised high, and the flags embroidered on the sides of the ships on both sides are "Daming Old Port Propaganda Division", "Daming Old Port Camp", "Old Port Righteous Army", "Overseas Volunteer Army", "Anti-Qing Restoration of Ming" and other words are displayed in the wind.

The 200 crew members performed their duties under the command of the newly appointed gunner, Guan Erdao, and 400 infantry of the New Army lined up at the pier in full armor, waiting to board the ship.

The fresh water and food supplies for each ship had already been completed, and Shi Zhaoxiang had made several large flags and 100 tents for camping.

Temasek's Chinese neighbourhood was empty, with men, women and children flocking to the pier to bid farewell to the rebels.

The mother sends the son, the wife sends the husband, and the ears are full of earnest entrustment and low crying......

……

Lin Xiao is making a final admonition to Shi Zhaoxiang:

"Your garrison battalion has been divided into four teams, and the location and responsibilities have been clarified. You must strengthen military discipline and step up training, especially in physical training, and you must not slack off in the slightest in physical training. ”

"In addition, the new musket must be supervised and maintained by a special person, and it must be emphasized that no one can be lost when the gun is there."

"Okay, the humble duty must be kept in mind, Lord Baihu." Shi Zhaoxiang stood upright, responded with a smile, his face was like a spring breeze, and he was full of confidence.

He had handed over the letter to Lin Xiao, who had appointed him as the commander of the Temasek garrison and the leader of the 200 soldiers who remained behind.

Lin Xiao originally only wanted to take away 500 piglet soldiers, but after Shi Zhaoxiang discussed with several local elders, he thought that nearly half of the "piglet soldiers" were sailors, and the army only had 300 people, so he strongly asked Lin Xiao to take another 100 local soldiers.

Shi Zhaoxiang saw the power of the new musket and felt that two hundred left-behind soldiers were enough, Lin Xiao left them 200 boxes of bullets, 200 boxes of fragmentation grenades, a total of more than 300,000 rounds of ammunition, 10,000 grenades, enough to use.

Moreover, since Lin Xiao returned to China to resist the Qing Dynasty in the name of the Old Port Xuanwei Si Yijun, no matter what their overseas travelers from Temasek said, they had to contribute to the Ming Dynasty.

"After we are gone, you can deal with the ordinary pirates, if a large number of foreign invaders come to invade, you can retreat to the Bukit Timah Hill to hold on or fight guerrillas, and try to send someone to inform us."

"Whatever the future holds, we will definitely come back. This place is so important that it must never be taken by anyone else! ”

Lin Xiao turned to look at the crowd in the direction of the pier, and said in a deep voice: "You must protect these overseas compatriots!" ”

……

Suddenly, there was a loud and majestic military song on the pier, and the recruits began to sing the military song and board the ship in procession.

"There is a truth that needs not be said,

Warriors should go to war.

If it's a tiger, it should walk in the mountains,

If it's a dragon, it's supposed to make trouble in the ocean.

Who doesn't have a father,

Who has no mother,

Who does not tie their hearts with their loved ones,

As long as the trumpet sounds,

Let's put everything aside.

There is a truth that does not need to be said,

Warriors should go to war.

Good steel should cast a sharp sword,

A good soldier should fight a tough battle,

Who has no love,

Who has no affection,

Love for the good sons of the family and country,

As long as the motherland calls,

Sing the battle song and run forward.

…………

……

"Woo......"

With the long whistle of the "Lufeng" ship and the "Longsheng" ship, in the farewell of the crowd at the dock, the "unicorn" untied the cable and set sail, slowly left the dock, and then took the lead, chopping the waves, and galloping eastward, leaving only a snow-white wave for people.

On the pier, people waved goodbye, and some family members of local soldiers wept bitterly......

Behind the "Unicorn", the two giants "Lufeng" and "Longsheng" lowered their speed and followed, gradually disappearing from people's sight......

……

Half a month later.

In the fourth year of the Ming Yongli calendar, June 13, morning.

In the northern part of Annam, about 20 kilometers south of Haiphong town, in a huge bay, at the mouth of the Thai Thai River.

"Unicorn" appeared in the sight of people on the shore.

Farther behind, two giants loomed out into the sea. The weather was fine, the sun was covered by a thin cloud from time to time, and a slight hot wind blew on the sea.

In North Vietnam, the rainy season has already entered in June, and the sun is often blazing one moment and a torrential rain the next.

The "unicorn" slowly sailed into the mouth of the Taiping River, and anchored in the center of the river about two kilometers upstream.

Occasionally, a breeze swept across the river, blowing a river of spring water. On the right bank of the river is a beach with clumps of artemisia and unknown shrubs.

Behind the beach is an embankment just over a meter high, and behind the embankment is a large area of flat, sandy wasteland, which is too high in salt to be cultivated because it is too close to the sea.

The sailors were busily lowering their mainsails and lowering their two sampans. The two pirate boats and the four lifeboats that came with the big ship were already leaning against the side of the "unicorn", rocking gently with the waves.

In the cabin, 8 special operators with 50 soldiers with loaded guns quietly waited for the order to go ashore, and the 400 soldiers of the old port battalion were divided into 8 squads of 50 people each.

Since the inauguration ceremony of the old port battalion, Lin Xiao and other 10 special combat team members have all been replaced with US military equipment, and the guns they brought have no matching ammunition supply, and there is not much ammunition, so Lin Xiao decided to seal them all as a souvenir.

In addition to rifles and pistols, Lin Xiao felt that there was no need to equip other firearms for the time being, and the special combat team members were also equipped with M16 rifles, but each of them was equipped with a pistol.

"It's a good thing, much more reliable than our own Type 92." Duan Zhenghong played with the Beretta M92 pistol, played with a gun flower in a chic manner, and then neatly inserted the holster, muttering happily.

The 10 people also solemnly held a small ceremony to seal all their beloved domestic equipment in the locker of the dormitory cabin of the "Lufeng" ship.

……

In the high stern, Lin Xiao, who was wearing a U.S. military jungle camouflage training uniform, held binoculars, and Li Tao and Xiao Kaifeng stood upright behind him.

Li Tao was very humble and offered to propose that he and Xiao Kaifeng be Lin Xiao's staff officers, but Lin Xiao had no way to excuse himself, so he had to emphasize that it was temporary.

Haiphong, close to Quang Ninh Province in the north, Hai Duong Province in the west, Taiping Province in the south, Beibu Gulf and Hainan Island in the East China Sea in the east, only 100 kilometers northeast of Hanoi, and only 150 kilometers away from Dong Xing, the Chinese territory of Beibu Gulf, is the largest port in northern Vietnam.

Hai Phong is bordered by the Tu River in the north and the Taiping River in the south, which is a large fertile alluvial plain sandwiched between the two tributaries of the Red River, with an altitude of no more than 3 meters.

From the 15th century onwards, there were already foreign ships coming and going, but it was not until 1870 that the Nguyen Dynasty built a large-scale wharf, set up a merchant house, built a military station, and carried out coastal defense, which was later called "Hai Phong City".

Today, Hai Phong has not yet been built into a city, but is just a large market town with only a few streets and about tens of thousands of residents, which is a very prosperous place in Vietnam at this time.

What appeared in Lin Xiao's telescope lens, not to mention the city, there were not even larger towns, except for rice fields, which were open spaces. As far as the eye can see, there is only a small fishing village with dozens of families on the shore, and there are several small villages in the distance inland, and occasionally a few dogs bark faintly.

Because here, it is 20 kilometers south of Haiphong, by the sea, at the mouth of the Taiping River.

Because the coast is covered with mangroves, it is not suitable for landing, so Lin Xiao chose the river bank on the right side of the Taiping River, and it is an open flat land that is suitable for camping. Five or six kilometers to the north of the flat land, there is a convex corner that juts into the sea, and there is a large forest on it, which can be cut for wood, and not far north of the lobe, is the bay where Haiphong is located.

At the northern end of the bay, there is a large island called Cat Ba Island, I don't know if there is a permanent residence, there is a 200-meter-high mountain on the island, and there are many, many small islands around the big island.