"Eight hundred miles of urgent will!"

The splitter snatched the fire paint seal from the soldier's hand, and Huang Wu hurriedly opened it and looked at it. After reading the edict a moment later, his eyes were glazed, and his hands were cold, as if what was in front of him was not a glorious holy decree, but bloody heads.

All day, he didn't think about tea and dinner, and sat in the signing room like a puppet. Huang Wu, who was the "Haicheng Gong" of the Great Qing Dynasty, was once Zheng Chenggong's confidant. In the thirteenth year of Shunzhi, King Shang Kexi of Pingnan commanded more than 10,000 troops to recapture Jieyang, causing the Zheng army to lose its troops. In March of the same year, Zheng Chenggong punished Jieyang for the crime of losing his teacher, beheaded Su Mao, and Huang Wu was held responsible, but he was ordered to "wear the crime to guard Haicheng". However, Huang Wu knew that Zheng had always been strict in governing the army, and he was afraid that he would die if he made another mistake, so he consulted with the deputy general Su Ming and decided to surrender to the Qing court. In June of the same year, the two led the crowd to surrender Haicheng to the Qing court.

Haicheng is a strong fortress built by Zheng Chenggong with considerable manpower and material resources over the years, and Huang Wu's move not only caused Zheng to lose millions of ordnance and food, but also lost an important stronghold to defend Xiamen. For this reason, Emperor Shunzhi named Huang as "Haicheng Gong" in the same year, gave the imperial seal, and opened the capital of Zhangzhou; In the fourteenth year of Shunzhi, he posthumously crowned Huang Wuzu and gave gold to build an ancestral hall in his hometown Xiaoling. For this honor, Huang Wu naturally felt the grace of the new lord and did his job with all his heart.

And in the past few months, the disappearance of thieves in Jiangnan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and other places has weighed on Huang Wu's heart, how could the imperial court be so defeated?

Although there are only a few words in the newspaper, Huang Wu's eyes will always show the scenes of the defeat of the court. Now that Zheng Chenggong has captured the three provinces of Jiangnan, Jiangxi and Zhejiang, maybe one day he will suddenly attack Fujian and conquer Haicheng. Because of this, he has been constantly strengthening Haicheng's defenses, but this sudden will has made his every inch chaotic.

The imperial court asked him to lay down Keelung at any cost!

At that time, his head was either cut off by Zheng Chenggong or by the imperial court. When Huang Wu thought of this, his eyes went dark, and he fell off the Taishi chair......

"Well, finally wake up! Quick, bring the ginseng soup! ”

When Huang Wu opened his eyes, he saw his wife waiting beside him with tears in his eyes. Only then did he realize that he was lying in the bedroom. It was already dark, and under the candlelight, I vaguely saw Su Ming and others standing around the couch. Huang Wu beckoned them to sit down.

"You have all seen the edict, the emperor has issued a decree, let us lay down Keelung!"

After taking a sip of ginseng soup, Huang Wu's spirit was much better. looked at Su Ming and the others and said.

Su Ming is his deputy general and Su Mao's cousin, if it weren't for his cooperation, I am afraid that he would not have dedicated Haicheng to the imperial court so easily in exchange for the glory of the Huang family, and because of this, Huang Wu can be said to have a lot of trust in Su Ming.

"This time, the emperor has issued a strict order, it seems that Keelung must be taken down this time!"

Su Ming's expression was also a little dignified, after all, he also knew that the current situation was very likely to develop in a direction that was unfavorable to the imperial court.

Huang Wu nodded and said:

"This time, the emperor ordered our errand, because we are good at water warfare, and now we all know that the colleagues of the court who are made by the evil method of this Zheng thief in Jiangnan are uncertain, and I don't know how many people abandon their officials and flee every day, even in Fujian, there are officials from the three provinces who are afraid that their families will be implicated and abandon their officials! So, we have to take down this Keelung! ”

At first, when he learned from the merchants that the Loyal and Righteous Army appeared in Dayuan (Taiwan), Huang Wu did not feel anything, after all, it was a place outside the country, and the Loyal and Righteous Army there was far less threatening than the Zheng Army in Xiamen and Kinmen, although there were only a few thousand Zheng troops left there.

"Haicheng's guard can't be relaxed."

Su Ming's words made Huang Wu nod in agreement.

"In any case, Haicheng is our foundation, this time the emperor ordered our errand, we will do our best to do our errand!"

I don't know if the ginseng rewarded by the real emperor has a significant effect, or if it is a psychological effect, after drinking a few sips of ginseng soup, Huang Wu's spirit has fully recovered. He thought, just while everyone is here, to talk about how to fight Keelung, he said:

"This time to fight Keelung, in addition to our difference, there is also the emperor personally ordered Shi Lang, so that he commanded the sailor, so the emperor can be regarded as a good person, this Shi Lang's longest water battle, the governor set up three thousand sailors a few years ago, and recruited thousands of pirates, there are dozens of sea ships, more than 100 sentinel ships, this Keelung is just stationed in thousands of Zheng thieves partial division, if the heavy troops are suppressed, this Keelung must be able to go down, however, we can't just look at Keelung, but also think about our foundation - Haicheng City must not be lost."

Again, Huang Wu emphasized the importance of Haicheng, he is the "Haicheng Gong", without Haicheng, or what is the "Haicheng Gong", and he also has his selfishness, he doesn't want his family to be folded in Keelung, after all, there are many risks in this sea battle, he is no stranger to the sea, and he knows that the sea is the real enemy of the army.

"What Grandpa said is very true, this Haicheng is our foundation, and there is no room for mistakes, but if the governor orders it strictly, I'm afraid we will ......"

The governor in Su Ming's mouth is the governor of Fujian, Li Shutai, in recent years, it is under his full suppression, this Zheng Chenggong's days are sad day by day, this time the reason why he went north to the south of the Yangtze River, not so much because of the emptiness of the south of the Yangtze River, but also because of the practical reasons in Xiamen, Kinmen and other places, after all, last year it was the governor who asked the imperial court to send Jiangning Manchurian soldiers to help resist, so that Zheng Chenggong was defeated and fled, and finally the defeat contributed to his northern expedition to the south of the Yangtze River. As the governor of Fujian, Li Shutai is naturally the governor of Fujian's military affairs, and Huang Wu is naturally under his control, the reason why Su Ming mentioned this person is because of the strict decree of the imperial court, and Li Shutai is naturally the commander of Huang Wu.

"This sea boat division water battle is different from the land, even if we send all Haicheng's soldiers over, there may not be so many ships!"

Huang Wu said with a sneer.

"How can you transport troops without a ship?"

Since four years ago, after the imperial court issued a strict ban on the sea, and not an inch of board was allowed to go to the sea, the sea ships along the coast were either destroyed by the court or sold to Zheng thieves by profiteers, and there were naturally not many sea ships in the hands of the court, in fact, there were many sea ships in the original court. Two years ago, Zheng Chenggong's general Chen Bin, who had surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, rebelled and led his people to occupy Luoxing Tower. Li Shuotai sent troops to burn more than 1,000 of his large and small sea ships, but still let Zheng Chenggong escape, and then Chen Bin surrendered to the Qing Dynasty again, and Li Shuotai went to the imperial court to kill Chen Bin. Chen Bin was killed, but Chen Bin's hundreds of large and small sea ships were burned clean.

Even now, there are only a few dozen large ships in the imperial court's sailors, and if you want to transport troops, you must first have ships.

"The ship is not a problem, with Shi Lang's temperament, he will definitely seize this opportunity, ask the governor to appoint a sailor, and then take the opportunity to build a sea ship, although the sea has been banned for several years, but there are tens of thousands of shipwrights in Fujian? As long as the Governor allocates the money, he can build a hundred ships in less than a month! ”

Shipbuilding has never been a difficult thing, as long as there is silver and wood, a ship can be built immediately, and it only takes ten or twenty days to build a ten-zhang long big bird ship.

And Shi Lang, who is the chief soldier of Tong'an, has repeatedly suggested training the sailors, and now since the emperor personally ordered his errand and ordered him to command the sailors, how could he miss such an opportunity, he will definitely take the opportunity to build a large number of sea ships and expand the sailors.

After pondering for a moment, Huang Wu shook his head and said:

"Hmph, don't forget, this ship is easy to build, but the sailors who operate the ship are not easy to practice, even if the Governor allocates hundreds of thousands of taels of silver for Shi Lang to build a ship, how can this sailor be trained in three or five days. Without sailors, even if a ship is built, what is the use? ”

It's easy to build a ship, but it's hard to train a soldier!

Even Huang Wu is not good at water warfare, but as Zheng Chenggong's subordinate, he has led troops to carry out landing operations many times, so he naturally knows that the most important thing in this water battle is never the ship, but the sailors who are skilled in handling the ship. Zheng Chenggong was able to escape every time, completely thanks to the sailors under his command who were good at naval warfare.

It is precisely because of this that Huang Wu, who knows that if he wants to save his life, he must practice water masters, so he will try his best to recommend Shi Lang to the imperial court, after all, there is no one else in the Qing Kingdom who is better at water warfare except Shi Lang, and Shi Lang is also the same as him, he is Zheng Chenggong's rebel general, and there is a blood feud between Zheng Chenggong.

"But, grandfather, don't forget, under the ban on the sea in recent years, most of the sea ships in Fujian have been demolished by the imperial court, and tens of thousands of boatmen and sailors are unemployed. Even if those sailors are no longer good at water warfare, they are good at making ships! As long as you can transport the soldiers over! ”

Su Ming reminded Huang Wu that in fact, he didn't say that he didn't want the court to win, but the current situation made him have to think about the back road, and this back road was to maintain some strength, rather than use all his troops in Taiwan.

Su Ming's reminder made Huang Wu's expression become condensed, he drank ginseng soup, but did not speak, if in the past, he would definitely do his best to run errands for the imperial court, and he would never dare to think about it in the slightest, but now, in the face of the reality of the army attacking Taiwan, he had to consider another possibility - once he led the troops to fight Taiwan, when the time came, what if because Haicheng and other places were empty, the Zheng army left behind in Xiamen and Kinmen took advantage of the weakness to enter?

Haicheng!

The court can afford to lose it, but he can't afford it!

But this time, the emperor personally ordered his general, which made him have to think of ways to protect himself.

"Hmph, in fact, this matter is simple!"

After thinking for a moment and thinking of the importance of Haicheng, Huang Wu sneered.

"Let's let him Shi Lang run a sailor, let him build a ship, hum, when the time comes, we only need to ......"