chatted with Liu Guoxuan for a while, and then Zhang Qiang followed Liu Guoxuan through several places, all of which were several villages that were originally under Dutch rule that Zheng Chenggong had recovered.

This is the coast, there are more saline land, more sandy beaches and gravel land, and there are many rugged mountains, steep slopes, weathered rocky areas, and the inhabitants here can survive in such harsh conditions, one is from the sea, most of them are fishermen, and the other is from the city of Geranza, where there is trade from the Dutch, Portuguese and other Westerners, so that the fishermen here can exchange goods, food, and necessities.

When I returned to Zheng Chenggong's camp, it was already evening.

By this time, most of Zhang Qiang's army had recovered, and some soldiers were undergoing evening acclimatization training.

"Stand upright, take a break, walk in unison, one-two-one, one-two-one, turn around, stand, run and walk-" In the entire camp where the Jinhua Righteous Army troops were stationed, the sound of training came and went, and one after another shouted, which made Zheng Chenggong's troops very uncomfortable, and many people had no intention of working, and gathered around Zhang Qiang's camp to watch the Jinhua Righteous Army train.

Zhang Qiang saw Feng Xin seen earlier, and a young man, that young man was probably Yu Xing, yesterday he led the army to storm the outer breastwork of the Dutch castle, the battle was quite brave, it can be said that although he paid huge casualties, he implemented Zheng Chenggong's strategy well.

"I've seen the Governor," a cadre of generals saw Liu Guoxuan leading Zhang Qiang back, walked over, and greeted Zhang Qiang together.

"Colleagues, excuse me," Zhang Qiang returned the salute.

"Lord Governor, your soldiers are really powerful, they don't know how tired they are after such exercises, they look energetic, their fighting spirit is high, and they really have the demeanor of a strong army." A middle-aged military general sighed loudly.

Zhang Qiang smiled, and did not respond to the compliments of others, but turned his head to Liu Guoxuan beside him and said, "Who is this?" ”

Liu Guoxuan said: "This is a subordinate of the county king, the original Haiden guard, Huang Yan, the general of the left army, and the rebel general Huang Wu is his cousin." ”

"Oh," Zhang Qiang was interested in him, Huang Wu was one of the original eighteen Zhizhi, Zheng Zhilong's people, he actually did not follow Zheng Zhilong to surrender to the Qing, but took the initiative to surrender the Qing, and later Shi Lang also surrendered, and participated in the encirclement and interception of the Zheng army, it can be said that for the extermination of the Zheng army, the most active people are Huang Wu and Shi Lang.

It's just that these two people, now Huang Wu is more powerful, the official position is extremely high, when the Qing army was originally beaten, Shi Lang had not yet surrendered to the Qing Army, and later when he fought Zheng Cai, Shi Lang defected to Zheng Chenggong, but Zheng Chenggong here, he was not reused, although he was among the top five tiger generals, and he was more powerful, but this person was born anti-bone, and before Zhang Qiang came here, he surrendered to the Qing army.

This is what Liu Guoxuan told himself.

Nowadays, Zheng Chenggong's real five tigers will be Zhou Quanbin, Liu Guoxuan, Gan Hui, Feng Xin, Yu Xing, and the others are old fritters, although they are also powerful, and they have made a lot of achievements for Zheng Chenggong, but most of them are not famous.

I didn't see Gan Hui here, Zhou Quanbin, I guess I followed Zheng Chenggong to do other things.

"Fortunately, General Huang is exaggerating, they are just ordinary training, put on a show, don't take it seriously, if you talk about fighting, the generals under the county king are more powerful, if you have time another day, I will definitely ask you for advice." Zhang Qiang said modestly.

"There, there, the Governor is humble, such an army is not a strong army, we don't believe it, although we are sailors, although King Zhengjun's fleet is all over the southeast coast, and there is no invincible, but we are not as strict as your army in training." Huang Yan continued to praise Zhang Qiang.

Feng Xin touched his nose, rolled his eyes, and interjected: "Everyone, why don't we go back to the camp and wait for the king of the county, and talk while eating and drinking, how about it?" ”

"Okay, I'm hungry after a day's walk," Zhang Qiang responded.

"Please" Feng Xin always looked cold and polite.

A group of people turned to Zheng Chenggong's Chinese army camp, where Feng Xin was in charge, and it can be said that now that Zhou Quanbin and Gan Hui are not there, Feng Xin is the top person in charge here.

In Zheng Chenggong's Chinese army camp, everyone was staggered, drinking and talking, so it was not lively.

Soon, I suddenly heard the guards on duty outside the tent shouting: "The king of the county has arrived—"

Everyone hurriedly stood up to greet them.

"The King of the County,"

"Your Excellency the Doge."

After saluting each other, everyone took separate seats.

Zhang Qiang saw that Zheng Chenggong was accompanied by four or five generals, a large group of guards, the guards were waiting outside the tent, and four or five generals were sitting around Zheng Chenggong, who seemed to be his most core figure.

After Zheng Chenggong sat down, he first asked Feng Xin to understand the situation here, and then everyone continued to drink.

"King Zheng Jun, I don't know when we will be able to conquer the castle of these two Dutchmen?" Zhang Qiang asked.

"Alas, it's difficult, nowadays, I'm just besieging the city, and then constantly transferring the deployment and people here, opening up the wilderness, and now the most difficult thing is not how to lay down the castle of the Dutch, but where to get enough food.

Now the people on the treasure island have reached more than 200,000 people, my army has 100,000 people, plus family members, I am afraid that there are 200,000 people, a total of more than 400,000 people to eat and drink, if you add the original residents of the island, it is nearly a million, although those people do not need me to be responsible for now, but I have to think about the future, so the main work now is to reclaim the world, and wait for the spring of next year, sowing and harvesting. ”

Zheng Chenggong looked sad and said to Zhang Qiang in embarrassment.

"But if the Dutch don't get rid of it, I'm afraid you will make wedding dresses for other people in the future." Zhang Qiang said.

"I don't want to get rid of the Dutch, I guess they have plenty of supplies in their castles, and if they can be used by me, then we will have a lot less expenses," Zheng Chenggong said.

"Then we have to take the castle as soon as possible." Zhang Qiang urged.

"I've done my best, if it weren't for the fear of a counterattack by the Dutch, I wouldn't have begged your lord to lead the army here, we will deal with it on the sea, and the Jinhua Righteous Army will deal with it on the land, this is my idea, you know, most of us are heroes on the sea, but in the face of the battle on land, our strength is really useless." Zheng Chenggong is still very sensible.

Historically, their Zheng family's infantry on land was like the Italians of World War I and World War II, it was a joke, many times there were many soldiers, but they lost one battle after another, and there were few victories, and they were not even as powerful as the Ming army of King Lu led by Zhang Huangyan, a civil official.

"So, when will our Jinhua Righteous Army enter the battle?" Zhang Qiang asked.

"Wait for another half a month, wait for our army to clear all the enemy's periphery, and then ask the Jinhua Righteous Army to attack the city, how about it?" Zheng Chenggong said.

Sure enough, as Liu Guoxuan said, Zheng Chenggong estimated that he had any scruples, or he didn't want to destroy the Dutch yet, maybe although his troops were numerous, but as Liu Guoxuan said, the actual combat strength was only 5,000 people, which was only three times the strength of the Dutch in the castle.

"Well, let's try it tomorrow, and I promise to take two cities within a week and annihilate the Dutch." Zhang Qiang really didn't want to be so consumed, so he said to Zheng Chenggong.