Zhao Guoliang stepped forward to call the door, and a young man in his teens came out after a while. He looked at Zhao Guoliang's strange clothes through the crack in the door, and said, "You are the officers and soldiers of that place?" My lord is Qian Shangshu, if you don't have anything to do, you can go quickly. Otherwise, the Qing army in the county town will come and you will look good. ”

Zhao Guoliang is also a soldier who has killed countless people, and when he heard this family member say this, he wanted to kick the door open, but after all, this is Princess Qian's maiden family. He said patiently: "We are from Guangdong, and our princess has a letter to hand over to your old lady." After speaking, he took out Qian Yuting's letter and stuffed it through the crack in the door.

That family member is the son of the Qian family, so he naturally knows about Qian Yuting and Zhu Hongsan's bloody affairs, so he hurriedly took the letter and went in to show Qian Qianyi's eldest wife Chen.

Zhao Guoliang stood at the door for less than ten minutes, when the side door opened, and a middle-aged man came out to look at Zhao Guoliang and the more than a hundred people behind him, and asked, "Are you the guards of the King of Chu?" ”

"Really, Princess Qian ordered us to pick up the old lady and go south."

"Come in, now there is chaos outside, come in and talk." After speaking, he opened the gate and let Zhao Guoliang and them enter the Qian Mansion.

After entering, the housekeeper arranged for others to rest, and led Zhao Guoliang to the second hall in the backyard to meet the Chen family.

When Zhao Guoliang entered the house, he saw an old lady sitting in the house, and two middle-aged women and a young man standing behind him. The two middle-aged women were Qian Qianyi's concubines Wang and Zhu, and the young man was Qian Qianyi's youngest son Qian Sunai, born to Zhu, who was fifteen years old this year.

Qian Sunai knew that his sister was snatched away by a prince, but he was still by Qian Qianyi's side in Nanjing at that time. This time Nanjing fell, Qian Qianyi was afraid that his son would not be safe in Nanjing, so he sent him back to his hometown in Changshu.

Qian Sunai looked curiously at the big man who entered the house, wearing strange red clothes, dark blue pants, white armed belts, black riding boots, and a tube-like military hat, which was setting off Zhao Guoliang's tall figure, which was really heroic.

Chen saw Zhao Guoliang enter the house and said, "General, please take a seat." The general is the guard of the king of Chu? ”

After Zhao Guoliang sat down, he arched his hand and said: "Back to the old lady, the subordinate is the deputy division commander under the command of King Chu, entrusted by Princess Qian, to pick up the old lady's family to go south to Dongguan. ”

Hearing Zhao Guoliang mention his daughter, Chen couldn't help but feel heartbroken, and the image of his daughter being snatched away was right in front of him. "How am I?"

"The princess is fine in Dongguan, and she was found to be pregnant in February this year, so the princess also misses the old lady and asks the old lady to go south to meet."

Hearing that her daughter was pregnant Chen was even more sad, originally her daughter Yuting was ready to marry the Zhao family, but she didn't expect to be snatched away by Zhu Hongsan, the king of Chu, and finally the emperor actually gave marriage to the king of Chu, thinking of this Chen couldn't help but shed tears.

Zhao Guoliang couldn't help but feel irritated when he saw that Chen was just crying, but there was no way, he didn't dare to violate the military order. Although he is a secret agent of Dongchang and has the right to arrest Zhao Guodong, it is under extraordinary circumstances, and if he does not carry out the normal military order, he will be even more guilty.

Seeing that Chen couldn't stop crying, Qian Sunai asked on the side: "May I ask this general, how did you come here?" Nanzhili is thousands of miles away from Guangdong, how can we get there? ”

"Rest assured, Gongzi, we are ordered by the king of Chu to come to Nanzhili this time with a total of 7,000 people, and the rest of us have repelled several attacks by the Qing army in Jiangyin and Jiading. Now the fleet of the king of Chu is on the Yangtze River, and it only takes half a month to reach Guangdong by boat. ”

"Seven thousand of you can defeat the Tartar army?"

"Yes, in Jiading we wiped out 20,000 of Li Chengdong's men. Before I came, I received news that in Jiangyin, 3,500 of us had killed more than 50,000 Manchus. ”

Hearing Zhao Guoliang talk about the war, Qian Sunai couldn't help but be interested, he was a teenager, and he was very interested in these wars, guns and so on.

Qian Sunai said excitedly: "No wonder the Qing troops in the county were transferred a few days ago, it turned out that they went to fight with you." This is when he saw the short musket in Zhao Guoliang's waist and said, "Can I see your musket?" ”

Zhao Guoliang took out the lead bullet and handed the musket to Qian Sunai.

Looking at the musket in his hand, Qian Sun Ai liked it very much, and said, "What a delicate musket, did you buy it from the Francophone?" ”

"No, this is made by the King of Chu's arsenal, Gongzi rest assured, if you go to Dongguan, we can make our own artillery if we want as many muskets as we want."

At this time, the Chen family also cried enough, and when he saw Qian Sunai pestering Zhao Guoliang, he couldn't help but say, "Ai'er, don't return the fire gun to General Zhao." ”

Hearing his mother-in-law say this, Qian Sunai reluctantly returned the musket to Zhao Guoliang.

Chen said: "General Zhao, don't blame, my kid likes these guns and cannons." May I ask General Zhao, how do we go? ”

"Mrs. Hui, I will bring a few boats, which can enter the Yangtze River along the Pu River, and then go to the Liuhe River, and the big boat is waiting for us over there."

"But our master is still in Nanjing, so there is no way to inform him."

"This subordinate doesn't know, when the King of Chu came, he just ordered to pick up the old lady's family, what to do with Master Qian, where did the King of Chu not explain."

The Chen family also knows the filthiness of Zhu Hongsan and Qian Qianyi, and it seems that it is still up to his daughter Qian Yuting to pick him up. The daughter's letter also explained that Qian Qianyi's side could not follow him south, and it was estimated that he was going to Beijing to become an official. With Chen's many years of understanding of Qian Qianyi, this old guy will definitely go to Beijing.

At this time, Chen also thought of Qian Qianyi's ruthlessness towards him, and that old guy disregarded the relationship between husband and wife for more than 40 years, and actually married Liu Rushi with the gift of the main room. Thinking of this, Chen gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, General Zhao, let's prepare, and we will go south with General Zhao the day after tomorrow." ”

Seeing that Chen agreed to Zhao Guoliang, he was also relieved, and he discussed with Zhao Guodong that if Chen did not agree to go, he would use force. But after all, the Chen family is the princess's mother, and the king of Chu will not say anything if he has a bad relationship, but he will not let the princess blow the pillow wind in the future.

The next thing is to prepare things, and there are more than 100 people in the entire Qian Mansion, and there are a lot of things. This time, if you want to flee, you can't take it all away, and you can share everything that can be given to the surrounding villagers, and if your family doesn't want to leave, you will be compensated with more silver. After a busy day of preparation, and finally on the third day, one hundred and twenty people from the Qian Mansion got on Zhao Guoliang's ship and prepared to go south.

After all, Chen has lived with Qian Qianyi all his life, and he is not worried that this old guy is fake. said that he didn't care about him, but he still asked someone to give Qian Qianyi a letter, telling him that he took the whole family south to go to his daughter, old guy, if you want to go, you can go together, the boat is at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and it will not wait.

Qian Qianyi received a letter at his home in Nanjing five days later, and by this time he was ready to go to Beijing to become an official. Seeing the letter from his hometown, Qian Qianyi thought deeply for a long time. At this time, he had already received the news that Zhu Hongsan was in charge of the country in Guangdong, not only that, but he also knew that there were now five or six people in the entire South China prison country, the Tang King of Fujian, the King of Lu in Shaoxing, and several other little princes.

Qian Qianyi weighed for a long time, if he went to Guangdong with him, he would have to condescend to the old guy Feng Ruoshu. In addition, at this time, the Manchu Qing Dynasty had already occupied most of China, and the small courts in the south should not be able to become a big weapon, so let's go to Beijing, since they have already surrendered once, do not surrender a second time. Thinking of this, Qian Qianyi burned the family letter and prepared to go to Beijing to be his official.

Just when Qian Qianyi burned the family letter, Zhao Guoliang and the others had already entered the Yangtze River, and at this time there was a big battle taking place on the Yangtze River, and Yan Qingshan's five gunboats were facing five hundred warships of the Manqing Water Division.

After waiting in Jiangyin for ten days, Bolo finally waited for reinforcements from Nanjing, and this time Nanjing sent all the sailors to sink Yan Qingshan's navy in the Yangtze River.

The Manchu naval division was divided into two parts, one part was the warships under the former Nanjing Caojiang Admiral, and the other part was the Zuo Liangyu naval division that surrendered to Azig in Jiujiang. The scale of these two naval divisions is quite large, and there are more than 500 warships in total. The Manchus were a horseback people, and there were really no generals for water warfare, so there was no way to select Xincheng Bozhao Zhilong among the generals of the Southern Ming Dynasty who surrendered.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty has just entered the customs now, and I haven't yet experienced the profound braggaking kung fu of my Han people, and I saw that this Zhao Zhilong said that the head is the Tao, and in the former Ming Dynasty, this Zhao Zhilong guarded Nanjing for a long time, thinking that he must be a person who knows the soldiers, so he chose this waste to be the commander of the sailor.

Zhao Zhilong also couldn't say it, who called himself bragging, there was no choice but to take the sailor to Jiangyin and Yan Qingshan's naval decisive battle.

In the Ming Dynasty, the river in Jiangyin was narrow, and the Yangtze River slowed down after passing through Zhenjiang Mansion, and the sediment in the water was deposited in the river to form a lot of sandbars, and the county seat of Jingjiang was built on a large sandbar. Therefore, the Jiangyin section of the Yangtze River is really not suitable for sea ships to enter, not to mention that Yan Qingshan's sea ships each have a displacement of eight or nine hundred tons, and the waterline is five or six meters deep. On the contrary, this terrain is very suitable for the small boats on Zhao Zhilong's side, these boats of only more than 100 tons are built for driving on the Yangtze River, with a flat bottom and shallow draft, which is very suitable for this shallow water terrain.

Therefore, Yan Qingshan pretended to be invincible after seeing the Manqing Water Division, and led the fleet to retreat fifty miles to make way for the Jiangyin channel. On the contrary, Zhao Zhilong felt that the other party was afraid of him, and ordered everyone to move forward at full speed, striving to destroy these big ships as soon as possible, and also regarded himself as making a great contribution to the new dynasty.

Yan Qingshan's withdrawal made Qian Yong on the shore miserable, and at this time, less than 30,000 soldiers and civilians in Jiangyin City were evacuated, and there were still 100,000 people in the city. The Qing army in the outer city of the city saw that there was a advantage to take advantage of, and immediately organized and began to attack the city.

After the Yangtze River passes through the Jiangyin section, the river gradually becomes more open, and the width of the Tongzhou and Fushan sections is more than 40 li, and the sea ships in this place can be fully deployed. Yan Qingshan looked at the Qing army sailor who had been left behind by himself for ten miles, and scolded: "Damn, these water rats are still catching up, little ones, get ready, let these water rats see how the naval battle is fought in this place!" ”

The sailors under his command thought to themselves: "Boss Yan, you have only been a water rat for a few years. But I dare to think about it in my heart. However, they have been chased by the Manchu sailors for a day, and they are all holding their breath in their hearts, and now they can finally take revenge.