Emperor Ming Fengyunlu

The second volume is rampant in Qilu

Chapter 2: Sailing across the sea and setting off on the return journey

Section 9 To the port

Liu Yunwei and Yuan Mingxuan kept admiring the moon and drinking each other, and they didn't go back to their rooms to rest until the early hours of the morning. Back in the room, Liu Yunwei had no more waves in his heart, hid everything in the past deep in his heart, remembered the bitter hatred and pain in his heart, and fell asleep deeply.

When the first rays of sunlight in the morning spilled into the room, Liu Yunwei had already finished washing up and was wearing armor with the help of Lu Ying. At this time, the entire southern courtyard was noisy, and more than 2,000 soldiers of the Hanwei battalion were packing up and waiting for the order to be pulled.

After getting dressed, Liu Yunwei and Lu Ying came to the courtyard together, only to see Yuan Mingxuan, Wu Xing, Wen Poyu, Zhao Kaishan, Li Tianhao, and Wang Gandang all waiting in the courtyard. After everyone saw Liu Yunwei, they stepped forward to salute and say hello, and Liu Yunwei also responded one by one.

"Everybody's up early." Liu Yunwei smiled and said, "What about Cheng Shiyong? ”

Li Tianhao said: "Shi Yong has gone to mobilize people, and his sentry wants to stay, so he needs to give orders in advance." ”

Liu Yunwei nodded and said, "Since we are all together, let's go to meet Qian Yuanwai together and see when we can leave for the port." ”

Everyone was about to go to the east courtyard, and as soon as they got out of the courtyard, they saw Zhao Bo coming over and said, "Haha, the little general, the generals are early." ”

Liu Yunwei and others greeted Uncle Zhao one after another.

Uncle Zhao said with a smile: "Little general, everyone, we have prepared breakfast in the courtyard, let me invite you over." After breakfast, the staff will personally take the little general and the soldiers to the port, and the ten large ships mobilized by my family have already docked at the port and are ready to sail. ”

Liu Yunwei and the others were very happy when they heard that the sea ships were ready. Liu Yunwei said: "Okay, then Uncle Lao Zhao will lead us over." ”

Uncle Zhao was polite and said, "Little General, let's go over." In addition, the soldiers' breakfast has also been prepared. ”

Liu Yunwei and others were grateful again.

After speaking, Zhao Bo led Liu Yunwei and others to the other courtyard, and as soon as he entered the courtyard gate, he saw that Qian Mingli was already waiting there. Liu Yunwei hurriedly walked a few steps to greet him, and said, "How can you wait here outside the driver." ”

Qian Mingli said with a smile: "Where is this little general, haha, come, little general, come in and have breakfast." Everyone followed Qian Mingli into the house and sat down one after another according to the order of the guest of honor. Qian Mingli was polite to Liu Yunwei and Yuan Mingxuan again, and everyone began to eat breakfast.

After a while, Liu Yunwei remembered something, so he asked Qian Mingli: "By the way, outside the staff, has the cloth shopkeeper already gone to the port?" ”

Qian Mingli nodded and said, "Yes, I heard from the next person, the cloth shopkeeper passed before dawn." ”

"Oh." Liu Yunwei continued to ask: "I don't know how many sea ships and how many people are in the hands of the cloth shopkeeper?" ”

Qian Mingli saw that Liu Yunwei kept asking about Blanco Melo's situation, and felt a little strange in his heart, but he still said truthfully: "There are about eight or nine sea ships under the shopkeeper of Nabu, and there are about two hundred people, but most of them are helpers, sailors who drive ships, and there are also one hundred and eighty hired escort sailors. ”

Liu Yunwei nodded, as if thinking about something.

Qian Mingli was a little curious, so he asked, "Why did the little general remember to ask about the situation of the shopkeeper?" ”

"Oh, that's right." Liu Yunwei said: "On the first day we arrived in Lushun, we met the cloth shopkeeper, but the way we met was not very pleasant. After speaking, Liu Yunwei briefly described the encounter between his group and the group of Franc machine sailors, and then continued: "Among that group of people, there is a very tall and strong person with an unknown animal tattooed on his chest, like the leader of those people, very unruly; Moreover, this group of Franc machine people do not seem to have much respect for the cloth shopkeeper, and even very disdainful, and only for some reason have to obey the dispatch of the cloth shopkeeper. Therefore, I am worried that the weak control of the cloth shopkeeper over his subordinates will affect our business. ”

Qian Mingli thought for a moment after hearing this, and said: "According to the description of the little general, those Francophiles who don't listen to discipline should be the escort sailors hired by the cloth shopkeeper. Those people are not the subordinates of the cloth shopkeeper, but because the cloth shopkeeper needs to be hired with talents for a while, they don't take the cloth shopkeeper very seriously. ”

Yuan Mingxuan said: "In other words, the person with an unknown animal tattooed on his chest is the leader of the group of Franc Ji people, and the cloth shopkeeper just paid someone to do things?" ”

Qian Mingli nodded and said, "Indeed, things like this are very common among us sea runners. However, the little general and Lord Yuan don't have to worry about anything because of these people, according to the rules of our industry, basically only one group of people will be hired for a single business. In other words, when the cloth shopkeeper finishes the business in hand, he will not continue to hire those disobedient Francophone people. ”

After listening to Qian Mingli's explanation, everyone understood, and continued to chat while eating breakfast.

After a while, everyone finished breakfast, and Liu Yunwei said to Qian Mingli: "Outside the staff, the time is not early, and the soldiers are almost ready, I think let's go to the port." ”

Qian Mingli said: "Okay, the little general wait for a while, I'll ask Uncle Zhao to prepare some things, and we'll set off in a while." ”

Liu Yunwei and Yuan Mingxuan looked at each other for a moment, and did not continue to ask. Everyone walked out of the courtyard with Qian Mingli and walked around the manor casually, chatting and waiting for Uncle Zhao to come back.

After a while, Uncle Zhao came back, walked to Qian Mingli's side and whispered a few words.

Qian Mingli nodded, and said to Liu Yunwei with a smile: "The little general has a long way to go to Sichuan, and the money and grain he needs must be not a few, so I prepared five hundred stone of grain for the little general to eat on the road, the amount is not very much, just a little heart." ”

Liu Yunwei waved his hand again and again and said, "This is not something to do outside!" I've been waiting for you for a few days, and the search for a firearms craftsman might not have been possible without the strong support of the outside staff, and I don't know how to thank you, how can I ask for such a gift? ”

Qian Mingli said with a smile: "It's just a small courtesy, the little general doesn't have to take it to heart." In the future, when the little general fights on the battlefield, he will destroy more Jiannu. ”

Seeing that Qian Mingli had already said this, Liu Yunwei was no longer polite, clasped his hands into fists, and said: "Then Yunwei is not welcome, rest assured, as long as I can return to the anti-gold battlefield in the future, I will definitely make Jiannu's life worse than death!" ”

"Good!" Qian Mingli was overjoyed when he heard this, and said: "Little general, the grain has been loaded into the car, and it is at the gate of the manor, let's set off." ”

Liu Yunwei said: "Okay, let's go." ”

So, Liu Yunwei and others followed Qian Mingli to the gate of the manor, only to see that the soldiers of the Hanwei camp were already waiting outside the manor. I saw more than 2,000 ironclad soldiers standing neatly and solemnly, and a killing aura emanated.

At this time, many Zhuang Ding, subordinates and merchants had gathered around the soldiers of the Hanwei Battalion, and everyone was impressed by the neat and majestic military appearance of the Hanwei Battalion, and they were all talking in a whisper, and from time to time they let out bursts of exclamation. However, at this time, there was no figure of Francophone in the crowd of onlookers.

Lu Ying and the others had already returned to the formation and joined their respective subordinates; Cheng Shiyong waited alone with a sentry under his jurisdiction, while Liu Yunwei, Yuan Mingxuan, and Qian Mingli stood in front of the formation and watched the soldiers in the battalion.

Qian Mingli looked at the soldiers in front of him, and said with some emotion: "Such soldiers are all heroes who defend the country, there are such soldiers in the country, why worry about the immortality of Jiannu!" When the little general goes to Sichuan, he must have a good rest and recuperation, and when he returns to Liaodong in the future, I am willing to sell my wealth as military funds for the soldiers to wipe out the slaves! ”

Liu Yunwei saw that Qian Mingli understood the righteousness so deeply, and he was very moved in his heart, and said: "We admire the high style and bright festival outside the staff. Rest assured, Yunwei will definitely return to Liaodong! ”

Qian Mingli nodded heavily, cleaned up his excited thoughts, and said, "Okay, it's not too early, let's go, little general." ”

Liu Yunwei nodded and said, "Okay, let's go." ”

With Liu Yunwei's order, the soldiers of the Hanwei battalion neatly walked south along the road, and more than 2,000 soldiers sang triumphant songs and marched towards the port in high spirits.

Qian Mingli was also riding on a horse at this time, walking side by side with Liu Yunwei and Yuan Mingxuan, the three of them talked and laughed casually while riding their horses, and Cheng Shiyong led a sentry under his command to line up alone and followed behind the three.

About half an hour later, Qian Mingli said to Liu Yunwei and the others: "Little general, Lord Yuan, look, there is the port. ”

Liu Yunwei and Yuan Mingxuan looked in the direction indicated by Qian Mingli, and saw that the sparkling water could be seen faintly in the distance, and there were many houses standing in the area between the water and land, like a small town surrounded by city walls.

"Great, is this the sea?" Liu Yunwei said excitedly. And the marching army also made a commotion, obviously most of the soldiers also saw the sea for the first time, although they had not yet reached the beach and only vaguely saw the coastline, but the soldiers were already able to feel the breath of the sea.

At this moment, a very fierce sound of firearms suddenly broke out in the port in the distance, and then everyone saw bursts of gunpowder smoke burning on the side of the port, obviously a large number of firearms were firing at the same time, and even the roar of artillery was heard from time to time!

Liu Yunwei and the others were shocked, and Qian Mingli was even more shocked and said, "It's not good! The ships I prepared are all moored in the harbor, how good is that! ”

Liu Yunwei was immediately anxious when he heard this, and shouted: "Cheng Shiyong, you take the people of the department to leave the protector Wai and Lord Yuan." The soldiers obeyed the order and captured the port! Capture the port! Anyone who refuses to put down their weapons and surrender will be killed! ”