Early in the morning, the Yuexiu sailed into Dongshui Port.

Compared to the last time I came, the changes in Dongshui Port are obvious. There is a circular fort on each side of the sandbar entrance.

The coastal battery was the main battery, with two tiers of granite and pocanic cement, with 12-pounder and 9-pounder guns on the ground floor and 4-pounder guns on the lower floor.

The Sandbank Fort is an auxiliary battery, single-layered, and is rammed with three layers of soil and pebbles after laying the foundation, and there are only 4-pounder guns. The main purpose of this fort was to control the sandbar and prevent the enemy from landing at the first time.

The main building of the port, Dongshui Fort, is being expanded, and the attached port wharf has taken shape. There are not many workers, only more than 100 people.

The commander of the Dongshui garrison, Andreosi, complained when he saw Shou Xian that he was now almost a contractor, doing boring projects every day, and had not killed anyone for a long time.

Shou Xuan smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "Andre, don't worry. Repair the fortress, train the soldiers, and in the future, there will be battles for you. ”

To the south of Dongshui Fort, a new street has been set up, with more than a dozen shops, hostels and brothels.

Refugees from Guangzhou, Guangzhou, and Guangzhou, although the Qiongzhou government tried its best to resettle, it was inevitable that some people would be displaced. Regardless of whether it was a former eunuch or a wealthy businessman's wife, once you fall into the situation of refugees, some choices will become inevitable.

The salaries of federal soldiers in Dongshui Fort are high, and 1 year is enough time for many people to smell the business opportunities. There should be a lot of parasitic industries around the military station.

Riding by in an orderly manner, the warbler Yanyan on the street made him frown.

The physiological needs of military personnel are strong, and this is a problem that must be faced. Shou Zhi is not a Taoist, if there is no prostitute, the soldiers will definitely harass the surrounding women of good families, causing the collapse of military discipline. But prostitutes are also a source of disease transmission. STDs have always been one of the biggest killers of the military, and can easily destroy even the most elite troops.

"Andrey, how long have those women been around?"

"Your Excellency, the prostitute came early. Soon after we arrived, I noticed prostitutes operating around the barracks. ”

"Who's in charge of the streets now?"

André laughed, "Nobody's in charge, Your Excellency. Chinese officials seem to have a tacit agreement not to approach a one-mile radius of our barracks. ”

"You can't let it go, you take care of it yourself."

Andrei said reluctantly, "Your Excellency, I am already a contractor and I don't want to be the village chief anymore. ”

"Then find a Chinese among them to manage, and you pick people." Then call in a couple of doctors and check the woman every week. Expelled immediately as soon as the disease is ill. ”

"All right, Your Excellency."

……

On the street, a house that Orderly had just passed.

Lu Zhan was awakened by a quick knock on the door.

Pushing away a lump of white flesh on her body, she used to be the daughter of the same acquaintance, and she was wrapped by him for a month.

Lu Zhan casually found a piece of cloth to drape it and opened the bamboo door.

"What's the matter?"

"Muraza, the people we were waiting for have arrived. I just rode over, I should have gone to Fucheng. ”

"Brother Wang Peng, please go to the courtyard and discuss something."

Wang Peng agreed, turned around and left.

Lu Zhan returned to the room and slapped the woman's ass twice, "Get up quickly, wait for the master to change his clothes and then go to boil water." ”

The woman screamed coquettishly twice, and the temper of the eunuch always retained traces.

Lu Zhan put more force on his hand and slapped him twice, "I'll take the whip if I don't get up again." ”

Lu Zhan looked towards the head of the bed, where there was a nine-tailed whip made of black leather goods,

"Oh, don't."

The woman hurriedly turned over and got up, didn't care about washing, and helped Lu Zhan put on his clothes.

It was a Franc outfit with a white shirt and slightly tight trousers. Lu Zhan grabbed his saber and walked to the courtyard.

People are arriving one after another.

Naval and land battles, with a keen sense of smell on the battlefield, Dianbai Shou Yu Qianhu is hereditary Wang Peng.

Huguang Yongdingwei squire Huang Dali.

Former Marshal of the Republic of Catalonia Francis. Morality. Tamarat's aide-de-camp, Bandus. Ensu. Hill.

Spanish republican freedom fighter, Pedro. Patus.

"Mr. Patus."

"Mr. Hill."

A spark sparked between the gazes of two Spaniards, oh no, a Castilian and a Catalan to be exact, fleeting.

Lu Zhan pretended not to see it. He learned Spanish and Spanish history from the missionaries of Macao, and knew some of the allusions.

Pedro is an opposition in Spain, but he is still a staker.

Bandus, on the other hand, was an honorable Catalan officer who fought for the freedom and independence of his homeland. Before the Battle of Montjuïc, he sent an envoy to the Spanish army. The Castilian considered Bandus to be a rebel and did not recognize him as an officer and prisoner of war. On that bloody twilight, Bandus saw the combined Catalan and French forces crush the Irish Regiment, the vanguard of the Spanish army, and kill the Earl of Tyron.

On that day, Catalonia won its freedom. Can Bandus. Ensu. Hill was reduced to slavery and bought into the Americas, and after several rounds, he was bought into the Philippines.

Last year the South Seas Federation raided Cavite, Bandus. Ensu. Hill escaped from the slave camp and boarded a Chinese ship to Macau. Originally, he wanted to try his luck in the Federation, but the monsoon at that time could only take him north to Macau. Bandus lived incognito in Macau, barely surviving for a while.

Pedro's past is a mystery, and there are many theories, but Lu Zhan is not too sure.

Last year, Lu Zhan brought the gold to Qiongzhou, and Shouxuan promised to return the electricity to him within a year.

Lu Zhan then deposited the gold in the Nanyang Bank and went to Macau to recruit the men needed to recover the electricity white. It was at that time that Bandus and Pedro were recruited. After Bandus joined Lu Zhan's team, he didn't hide his experience anymore, in fact, he was proud of his identity.

The woman carried a pot of boiling water, made a large vat of herbal tea, and poured a bowl for each person.

"Everyone," Lu Zhan placed his sword on the bamboo table, "I buried a treasure, and now it's time to take out those lovely silver." ”

……

Orderly entered the capital city of Qiongzhou.

There were more houses outside the city, wooden and rammed earth houses, and there were poor people everywhere.

Lin Zhuyong rode at the forefront of the heraldic flag holding the orderly heraldic flag.

The officers and soldiers defending the city of Hainan Wei hurriedly moved away from the horses, knelt on the ground, and let the guards enter the city.

There has not been much change in the interior of the city, and Zeng Ying's governor's yamen has been changed to the governor's cabinet department.

Shou ordered to dismount in front of the line, Zeng Ying opened the door to greet him, very happy.

"Pavilion Elder !" Shou Xuan smiled and clenched his fists.

"Hahaha, I can count on waiting for you." Zeng Ying took the orderly hand and entered the study.

Shou Xian first took out a map of Borneo.

"Elder Ge, keep the order and live up to the mission. We have already taken Kuching, now all we have to do is to resettle and develop as soon as possible. ”

"Did you find the giant bat cave?"

"Yes, in the mountains of the upper Sarawak River. There are certainly other river valleys that we haven't explored yet. ”

"Okay, then the old man won't have to worry about the source of gunpowder in the future."

"Elder Ge, refining saltpeter requires manpower, and we have to immigrate to Kuching as soon as possible."

"You say, how many people are the right people to move over in the first batch?"

"The more the merrier, I brought 120 ships this time, and there are many ships in western Guangdong that can sail far away, right? Pull them all out, fill them up, and the north wind will go south together. ”

Zeng Ying was a little surprised, "I now have nearly 100 Fu ships and Guangzhou ships, but they can all be sent out, what should I do in western Guangdong?" ”

Shou Xuan said: "Now that the whole territory of Guangdong has been recovered, there is no enemy on the sea. It is enough to use small boats to contact the two sides of the strait, and all large ships can be dispatched. ”

"A small boat may not be enough ......"

"If we don't have enough to hire another ship then," said Shou Xu, "Elder Ge, a mere Qiongzhou Island is too small, and we must open up new territories to hope winning the war." Immigration should now come first. ”

The smile on Zeng Ying's face disappeared, "You still think that the imperial court can't win?" ”

"Elder Ge," Shou Xuan tried to slow down, "the imperial court has been fighting wars with the Tatars for many years, and some of the patterns are very obvious. Is there something breaking the rules now? ”

Zeng Ying was silent for a while, and handed the military intelligence report to Shou Xu, "Plug Yinxi recruited the loyal battalion out of the mountain in Changde, Li Chixin and Gao Bizheng were called to send out the division, and tens of thousands of elites have crossed the Yangtze River and marched towards Changde." The rest of Yuan Zongdi and Liu Tichun were also marching towards Hunan. ”

Shou Xuan took over the military report, and it seemed that he still had to start convincing Zeng Ying from the battlefield.

Li Guo and Gao Yigong's troops finally climbed out of the mountains. Jingzhou was defeated, and the remaining elite of the Shun army suffered extremely serious losses, and they rested in the mountains around Badong and Kuimen for two and a half years, and now they are out of the mountains. With the hope of all the people.

Zeng Ying: "Kong Youde retreated to Wuchang, south of Dongting Lake, and only Chenchang General Soldier Ma Jiaolin, Hengzhou General Soldier Zhang Guozhu, Changsha General Soldier Xu Yong Three Towns remained, and Yongzhou City is now under siege. ”

Ma Jiaolin came from Sun Chuanting's Qin army, and after the complete collapse of the Qin army, Ma Jiaolin defected to Zuo Liangyu and surrendered in Jiujiang. Ma Jiaolin was defeated and collapsed by Ma Jinzhong's loyal battalion in the Battle of Mahe in Changde not long ago, and suffered a annihilating blow.

Zhang Guozhu is an acquaintance. It turned out that Liu Zeqing's subordinates were one of the Ming troops from Tianyang and Chongming. After surrendering to Tartar in Zhejiang, he captured the relatives of the Lu prison and raped the concubines of the prison state. More than 1,000 people under Zhang Guozhu's department have just been transferred from Zhejiang to Huguang.

Xu Yong of Changsha is the core unit of the Hunan Tatar Army, also from Zuo Liangyu, and Jin Shenghuan was the same as the general army of Chu Town.

If you don't consider the consumption of civilian resources, just looking at the advancing arrows from the map, the situation of the Ming army is indeed okay. The Loyal Battalion, which rushed to the battlefield from the flanks, could change the balance of power on the Hunan battlefield.

"Is there any news from the Tatar court?"

"Not yet."

"Elder Ge, the Tatars will definitely come. If He Tengjiao advanced to Yuezhou before the Tatars arrived, he still had a glimmer of hope, but he had just arrived in Yongzhou. ”

"Alas, this is because the civil war between Hao Shaoqi and Chen Youlong delayed time."

Kong Youde captured Wugang Prefecture last year and sent Liu Chengyin's subordinate Chen Youlong into Liping Mansion in Guizhou to capture He Tengjiao's family as hostages. failed to surrender, Kong Youde asked Chen Youlong to kill He Tengjiao's entire family.

This may have been an unintentional act of revenge, with far-reaching consequences. Chen Youlong was in Wugang anyway, and led his troops out to attack Baoqing Mansion. He Tengjiao couldn't forget the deep feud in the sea of blood, and he sent Hao Shaoqi to raid Chen Youlong from behind. Chen's army was defeated and retreated to Liping. Hao Shaoqi seized Wugang Prefecture as a territory, and he was complacent, and he continued to chase and kill to the west, and he had the posture of not giving up if he did not kill Chen Youlong.

Shou ordered and scolded, if it weren't for the civil war between the two main forces, the Ming army might have been in Changsha.

Jiangxi was more miserable, Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren were surrounded by Tan Tai and He Luohui in Nanchang, and they were defeated in several battles. The Tatars could even divide their forces to attack other prefectures and counties in Jiangxi at the same time as besieging the city.

"Nanchang can only hold on, they are powerless to attack. What about the imperial court reinforcements? ”

"Hui Guogong ordered troops in Guangzhou and prepared to go north out of Meiguan. The Son of Heaven canonized him as a general and granted him full military and political powers outside Meiguan. ”

Huiguo Gong Li Chengdong is about to go on the expedition, and it seems that he will not be able to see him before he sends out the army.

Overall, the situation of the Ming army is indeed okay. The Huguang battlefield is in the stage of a counteroffensive with superiority. Jiangxi is very passive, but Li Chengdong will soon have reinforcements.

There were three armies in the Hunan and Jiangxi battlefields, the Loyal Battalion in Xiangxi, Li Chengdong in Guangzhou, and the Tatar Southern Expeditionary Army, which was bound to come.

Zeng Ying was eager to try, and he wanted to put the power in his hands into a certain battlefield.

Shou Xian sighed slightly in his heart, he could understand Zeng Ying's mood. If you only look at the mainland, this is almost the only chance for the Southern Ming Dynasty.

If cooperation is still maintained, it is not possible to block it. Zeng Ying is a bachelor of Yongli, and it is his responsibility to send troops.

Shou Xiang changed his way, "Elder Ge, then do you want to send the army to Jiangxi or Hunan?" You can't go both. ”

"I was about to discuss this with you."

"The army travels long distances by land, and the loss of baggage is too great, and it is difficult for the soldiers to hold on, so they can only choose the water route."

Zeng Ying nodded in approval.

"There are two waterways, from Guangzhou to the Pearl River, or along the Beijiang River to Meiguan, or along the Xijiang River to Guilin."

"Guangzhou is the most convenient."

"Elder Ge, there are two problems with going to Guangzhou. First, it's July, and the southerly wind season is about a month away. Will you have time to regroup your scattered army? ”

"This ......"

The Ming army in western Guangdong confronted Li Chengdong until April. Later, when the busy farming season came, Zeng Ying sent the army to various places to help Shuangbao, and scattered all over the Leizhou Peninsula and Qiongzhou. Gathering troops and equipment before boarding the ship, the rest of the time was tight.

"Also, whether Li Chengdong will agree to the landing of your army from Guangzhou is also a question."

After all, it is a guest army, and the host is definitely not at ease, and the trust between the host and the guest army is difficult to establish at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

"So what to do?"

"Elder Ge, sending troops is a big deal, and you can't act in a hurry. Most of the soldiers in Hainan do not have the ability to go on expeditions, so I think it is better to choose the elite to form an army, and the generals will be led north, and people don't have to go too much. ”

Soldiers are not much more expensive, and troops with low combat effectiveness will only waste food when they go to the battlefield.

"What should I do if I miss the wind season?"

"Go to Hepu nearby, and go north along the south river. As long as you walk through the land route of Tianmen Pass, you can get on the boat again. ”