??“ What is it? ”

"Why are you in such a hurry?"

An ominous thought flashed in Zhang Qiang's mind, could it be that the Qing army attacked?

"Impossible, impossible, there will definitely be no Qing army attacking now."

Zhang Qiang almost shouted his worries.

"My lord, it's not the Qing army, it's a little problem within us," Zhu Dayou said strangely as he looked at Zhang Qiang's panicked appearance.

"Oh," Zhang Qiang's worried heart was put down, and then asked in a calm tone, "What's wrong there?" ”

Zhu Dayou stared at a few reports and said: "A few days ago, an officer at the border post found that there was a problem with several caravans coming from Fujian, but the officers of the garrison stationed there did not pay due attention. ”

Zhang Qiang sat down, "Not everything has problems, but not every subtle report cannot cause the enemy's infiltration and attack on us, which requires professional talents to distinguish, maybe the enemy just flicked a shot, gave us some false information, confused us, and mobilized us to achieve the goal of exhausting our army." ”

He took a sip of water from the teapot, moistened his throat, relieved his excitement due to excessive worry and nervousness, and said: "But don't be unprepared, there are many smart strategists in the Qing army Tartars, and those talented and people who are unwilling to do so will show their talents in the Qing army, such as Fan Wencheng, who helped the Qing army in the past, Hong Chengchou, who was captured in the Battle of Songshan, and Ruan Dacheng, who was killed by us. ”

"Yes, my lord, but if it weren't for the following information, I might have treated this matter as a trivial matter like everyone else, and some small shop harassment was let go." Zhu Dayou said calmly.

"Oh?" Zhang Qiang raised an eyebrow.

"That's right, and then a report from the outpost on the border of Jinhua Mansion was sent to them, and when they inspected the caravan coming from the Chuzhou capital, they found a caravan, a very small caravan, three carriages loaded with bows and arrows, armor, and gunpowder, and a few pack horses disguised as pulling carts, which were actually Western war horses."

Zhang Qiang stood up.

"It's a big deal, who captured this caravan?" Zhang Qiang asked.

"Feng Wuyu, you arranged him at the junction of the state capital and Quzhou mansion and Jinhua mansion, and the county seat of Longyou, this time when he personally led the team to conduct a routine inspection, he found the abnormal situation of this caravan, and then pursued and captured them. Also captured were three Dutchmen, a subordinate of a guerrilla general of Fuzhou Prefecture, and five or six caravan guards. ”

The situation has become complicated.

Zhang Qiang's first feeling was that Longwu began to guard against him, although there were Jin Sheng, the secretary of the ministry, Zhu Dadian, the secretary of the military department, and Xiao Fei, the elite soldier and officer he promoted, but only Xiao Fei would really serve him wholeheartedly.

Jin Sheng is just an affirmation of his own merits, as well as a good impression of himself, out of friendship, out of the immortality of the Ming Dynasty, and he needs to support this righteousness to help him watch the DPRK and China not be hurt by others.

In the final analysis, he was a Ming official in Chongzhen's era, and Longwu was one of the new helmsmen of the Ming Zhu family.

To put it simply, Jin Sheng is not his cronies, he has no loyalty to him, in some small details, in some things that can suppress him, he is still towards the Longwu court of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

And Zhu Dadian, who is estranged from him, is willing to support him because he has been defeated many times, but he has turned the tide, although he does not deal with himself, but he can be regarded as from his disciples, he and himself are people all the way, a political force.

But that doesn't mean he's going to help himself wholeheartedly, he has his own demands.

It is more likely that the newly joined officials of the Southern Ming Dynasty are dissatisfied with their control of the army, similar to the state of warlord secession, and perhaps many people want to get themselves down.

There may be other possible .......

Zhang Qiang rubbed his head, there were too many possibilities...... What's wrong with me, why is my suspicion so bad lately?

"My lord, are you not feeling well?" Zhu Da asked heartily.

"It's okay, Feng Wuyu is a good general, I didn't misunderstand him, he is the pride of our Jinhua Righteous Army, give him an order, let his army enter the first level of alert, and deal with emergencies at any time."

"Yes, my lord, there are other reports, let me finish," Zhu Dayou said.

"Speak!" Zhang Qiang said.

"After Feng Wuyu discovered this situation, a report sent to the garrison by the militia patrol near our arquebus found that in recent days a total of three patrols have been attacked, all three patrols are missing, and the garrison has sent more patrols to investigate the missing patrol area. No further reports have been made at this time. ”

"In the next report, some villagers reported that some of the names of the villages who went to the mountains to visit relatives did not return for several days, and the people sent by their families to look for them did not return, and they reported that there may be tigers or wolves in that area, and the county government warned people not to go to that area."

Zhang Qiang felt that the matter was serious, he glanced at Zhu Dayou, and the two of them had the same meaning in their eyes.

"Someone has infiltrated our territory," he spoke first.

At the same time, Zhu Dayou also said: "Their target is an arquebus factory, or an artillery factory,"

Zhang Qiang continued: "Maybe they want to reduce our war potential. ”

Zhu Dayou considered the problem from the other side, "Maybe the Dutch and Portuguese have such a large production and such a good quality of arquebuses to sell, which threatens their business." ”

Zhang Qiang shook his head, the Dutch and Portuguese would not think so, because although the Ming Dynasty army attached importance to the use and development of the musket team, but the Qing army did not think so, they still liked their horse bravery, maybe they had noticed the role and power of the arquebus in our hands, but they would not equip the arquebus themselves, and only a very small number of Han troops in the Han Eight Banners were equipped with arquebuses.

For example, Kong Youde, Geng Jingzhong, and Shang Kexi, these are professional firearms units from Shandong Governor Sun Yuanhua who understand the role of artillery and muskets.

"Don't guess, convey orders to all troops, enter the first level of alert, send reconnaissance troops to various blind corners that we don't know, send additional patrols, and increase patrols at various intersections, maybe an enemy has infiltrated our heartland, but what we need to watch most is that the Qing army Tartars take the opportunity to attack us."

Zhu Dayou said: "My lord, what should we do next?" ”

"Do you want to watch them wreak havoc in our territory?"

"It's not that easy, but before I find out where they are, I'm going to settle the issue of François's loyalty." Zhang Qiang got up.

"Pack up your things and order the Chasseur Guards to follow me."