Qi Zuguang lying on a pile of canvases on the bow of the boat, looking at the white clouds constantly floating in the blue sky, some like mountain peaks, some like animals, and some like a little lady who turned her head to look behind.

After staring at the cloud that looked like a little lady for a long time, Qi Zuguang seemed to see the woman with a pair of dark and shiny eyes that he saw when he lifted the curtain again, and from the moment he saw those eyes, he seemed to have lost himself.

Even when he was finally sent to the cell by the girl's father, he could not bear any resentment at the thought of those forcibly calming eyes, but felt as if a fire had been born in his heart to roast his heart.

By chance, he was not beheaded, but followed the Lord Dong, who was admired by the people of the capital, to Taiwan. Sitting on the largest ship I have ever seen in my life, sailing towards the vast sea that will never see the end, I have never vomited once in the bumpy waves, just like a boatman who was born to eat water food.

After more than 20 days of sailing, he saw a continent covered with forests, and although the sailors who knew him well said that it was just an island, Qi Zuguang insisted that it should be a land. Because he never thought that there would be such an island in the middle of the sea with no edge in sight, even bigger than Woniugang.

On the island called Taiwan, Qi Zuguang found himself as if he had been given a new lease of life, and no one here regarded him as a ringing horse lying on Niugang, but only a sergeant in the Sihai Battalion. Although there are not many Han people on the island, and the natives look strange, Qi Zuguang still feels that it is very happy here.

Because there are no gentry and lords who want to avoid people at every turn, and there are no chiefs who call him around, only companions who depend on each other to survive. On the island, as long as he is free, he is free to do what he wants, or fishing, or hunting, or calling a few companions to go to the nearby mountains to find the legendary dog's head gold, every day is so happy, happy that he forgets many things in the past, except for the owner of those eyes.

As the days on the island passed, many memories in my mind were quietly blurred, but those eyes became more and more vivid. Whenever he thought of the owner of those eyes, Qi Zuguang felt that he was about to stop breathing. The wine is getting less and less tasteful, there is nothing to be excited about hunting prey, and the headhunters in the deep mountains are becoming more docile day by day.

Only then did he feel that Taiwan was indeed an island, although it seemed boundless, it was still a lonely island in the sea, and the people he missed were not here.

Dong Weixian, the commander of the Sihai Battalion, seemed to be aware of his change in mood, so he continued this battle against Quang Nam, allowing his subordinate to go out of the island to relax. The battle on the battlefield certainly lifted Qi Zuguang's spirits a little, but the battlefield that was getting farther and farther away from the mainland also made him feel that he always had emotions that he wanted to get angry but couldn't.

Qi Zuguang held his breath, his face slowly turned red, and finally took a long breath of fresh air, which reduced the irritability in his heart a little.

After exhaling this breath, he unconsciously shouted loudly, "Little Wu, what time is it today." ”

A young man who was grinding the deck with stones suddenly sat down, turned his head to look in the direction of the bow of the ship and said, "Twenty-five, Brother Qi." ”

The weather in October of the Pattani lunar calendar is the most comfortable season of the year, and Qi Zuguang, who is wearing short sleeves, will feel very cool as long as he is not exposed to the sun.

But today he felt like he wanted to move his muscles, after all, after coming to Pattani from Vietnam, their fleet had been stationed in the sea near the mouth of the Pattani River for almost 20 days.

As the commander of the 600 soldiers of the Four Seas Battalion, Qi Zuguang still knew why he came here. The Queen of Pattani took advantage of the Siamese throne to take over and brazenly raised the banner of independence. At the instigation of someone, the King of Siam finally decided to send troops to quell the rebellion.

However, King Baseton obviously still had a certain degree of vigilance against the Ming Dynasty, although he purchased a large number of arms from the Ming Dynasty and asked the Ming navy to help contain the Dutch. However, he was hesitant to invite the Ming navy to directly participate in the counterinsurgency against Pattani. After all, the envoy representing the Ming Dynasty clearly asked him to obtain some land in the Pattani and Songkhla regions after the war.

Although King Basetong was willing to surrender to the Ming Dynasty, he did not intend to let the Ming army appear at his doorstep.

However, Su Yue, the envoy of the Ming Dynasty in Siam, and Yang Tiansheng, the commander of the Ming fleet, were not at all dissatisfied with the prospect of King Basethorn. Because King Baseton's army did not take advantage of the army of Pattani.

Even, under the release of the Ming fleet, the Dutch continued to send * and other war materials to Pattani. Su Yue and Yang Tiansheng both believed that King Baseton's persistence would not last long, as long as he heard the news of a defeat at the front.

However, for the fleet stationed at the mouth of the Pattani River, the blue water against the blue sky is beautiful, but if you stay here in a daze, you will get tired of the beautiful scenery.

For example, this Qi Zuguang can't hold back his temperament anymore. He jumped to his feet, called a few of his guards, put down the boat, and prepared to go ashore on the beach, far from the city of Pattani, to see what wild beasts to hunt on land, or to buy some live fowl.

On the Mingyuan, which was adjacent to Qi Zuguang's ship, although Li Guorui, the officer on duty, saw Qi Zuguang's boat rowing towards the shore, he didn't say anything, but thought that if the other party found something good on the shore, he must go and share it.

Regarding the idea that Su Yue and Yang Tiansheng were still waiting for King Basetong to give in, Li Guorui scoffed. With the strongest force in this fleet, the Mingyuan, although this battleship is not his yet, but after seeing the low earthen walls of Pattani City and the adjacent port, he feels that just relying on the Mingyuan's artillery fire, it is enough to destroy these low city walls.

As an important transit port from Malacca to Siam, Cambodia and Vietnam, Pattani is one of the most prosperous cities on the Malay Peninsula, with a population of more than 10,000 people. As a city that has not been through war for decades, the city is more prosperous and wealthy than the previous Hoi An City.

Looking at such a rich city, Li Guorui was worried about how much oil and water could be scraped out of the city, where could he care about how much force there was in the city, and what was King Baseton's opinion. If he can call the shots, he will definitely order the fleet to rush directly into the mouth of the Pattani River and launch an attack on Pattani City, first snatching the wealth in the city before anything else.

But now, he can only look at the faint Pattani City at the mouth of the river and drool. Qi Zuguang brought people ashore, but he wished he could make some noise, maybe he could find an excuse to do something.

Watching Qi Zuguang and the others walk onto a beach in the telescope, and a group of soldiers did not rush out of the jungle not far away, which made Li Guorui a little disappointed, it seemed that this was just a safe outing. He handed the telescope to his deputy, and he sat back on the chaise longue at the bow of the boat, and began to look at it.

Perhaps a god heard Li Guorui's heart, and after he turned more than 20 pages of the book, he heard the frightened cry of the deputy duty officer: "Captain Li, it's not good, it seems that the people who came ashore are being hunted down..."

Li Guorui quickly dropped the book in his hand, Huo got up and rushed to the side of the deputy duty officer, grabbed the binoculars and watched. Sure enough, Qi Zuguang and the others, who had just gone ashore to explore, were hurriedly retreating from the jungle.

"It's really the blessing of the Buddha..."Li Guorui immediately realized that he had said the wrong thing, and under the surprised eyes of the sailors on the side, he said casually: "They really need the blessing of the Buddha, and the blessing can last until our cannons can reach the group of natives." I command: Raise the sails immediately..."

Li Honggui, who was studying the nautical charts in the captain's room in the stern building, suddenly felt the ship move violently, which caused his pencil to draw a long line on the nautical chart. After scolding the country in a low voice, Li Honggui dropped his pencil and walked out of the cabin, grabbed the railing on the aisle and shouted at the bow of the boat: "What happened?" Who ordered the sails to be raised? ”

Li Guorui turned around and saluted and replied: "Report to the captain, our people are being chased and killed by the natives, so the lower officer ordered the sails to be hoisted and sailed, ready to receive our people to go to sea safely." ”

Li Honggui grabbed the binoculars hanging on his chest and looked at the coast, just in time to see a Ming army soldier alone blocking the pursuing natives, although more than a dozen Ming soldiers had washed up on the beach, but there was still a steady stream of natives with wooden guns and short knives emerging from the jungle, at least hundreds of people.

"What the hell." Li Honggui dropped his binoculars and began to take over command of the ship, and Li Guorui and other officers began to enter their respective posts and prepare to fire artillery on the opposite shore.

Qi Zuguang was also extremely annoyed when he held a wooden spear that he had seized from the natives to block the attack of these natives. He didn't expect his luck to be so bad, there was a natives stronghold behind this obscured beach jungle.

If it weren't for these natives trying to capture them alive, it is estimated that more than 20 of them would have been left on the shore. Although these natives did not have much armor, the wooden spears in their hands were much more advantageous than the short knives of self-defense on their side.

In order to make up for his mistakes, Qi Zuguang took the initiative to cover the escape of his subordinates, and with a good skill, Qi Zuguang fought and retreated. But as more and more natives pursued him, his retreat gradually slowed down, and many natives began to bypass him, wanting to continue to pursue the fleeing Ming army.

After being poked and cut a few times in a row, as the blood continued to splash to the ground, Qi Zuguang felt that the weapons wielded in both hands gradually slowed down, which gave him a hint of enlightenment, as if he was going to explain here today. Although he knew that he might be about to die, his heart was unexpectedly calm, and he just wondered if the woman he missed would shed a tear for him after learning about his death.

"Well, maybe she'll never know I'm dead." After the wooden spear in Qi Zuguang's left hand was broken in the neck of a native, he finally knelt on the ground from exhaustion, and he suddenly thought of it in his heart when he didn't want to move anymore.

However, the death he had hoped for did not come, and with a few thunders, the natives besieging him suddenly screamed a few times, and turned and fled in panic, and his men rushed back and dragged him up to the dinghy.