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"Oh, little girl—" Fancheng County Yali. Chen Ming was like holding a beautiful work of art that was most precious and rare and fragile in the world, and carefully picked up Chen Ding in the baby, and the little Chen Ding, who was about to turn one year old, was sleeping, not knowing that his father, who had been 'missing' for many days, had picked him up.

This was a surprise, Chen Ming never expected that Li Xiaomei would come to Fancheng with her children, and the joy of accepting the twelve new barracks was suppressed by this sudden sense of happiness.

Fingers touch the baby's smooth skin, this is his son, next to his wife is his own feeling, a kind of family affinity and blood connection touch in the bottom of the heart spontaneously.

Chen Ming hugged his own flesh and blood, that kind of natural closeness, cherishment, and spiritual feeling that cannot be fully expressed in words. As a traverser, there is a kind of devotion to the love of blood and flesh that outsiders can't experience. Undoubtedly, this little baby has now occupied an extremely important position in Chen Ming's heart.

Li Xiaomei looked at Chen Ming's appearance, and a comfortable smile appeared on her face. Chen Ming loves her son very much, and now after a month, she is not surprised at all by behaving explicitly. Just like the moment when the county government and their mother and son met Chen Ming just now, the surprise and hot emotional ...... burst out in Chen Ming's eyes made Li Xiaomei feel that she came to the army without her husband, and the little risk she took along the way was really not enough to be humane.

Chen Ding, who was sleeping, was picked up, and the feeling of discomfort was immediately born. A pair of round black eyes opened, looking at the big face in front of him that seemed familiar, and the small mouth opened and closed with a cry on his face. However, he still remembered Chen Ming, and after recognizing Chen Ming's face in his eyes, all the crying disappeared, and then a smiling face appeared.

Fingers slid over Chen Ding's little face, and Chen Ming unconsciously lowered his head. And as he kissed Chen Ding's little face, a loud cry immediately erupted in that small mouth. Xiao Chen Ding was hurt by the beard on Chen Ming's face.

Chen Ming laughed happily, and he had to use his beard to tie little Chen Ding, which made Chen Ding cry even louder. Li Xiaomei watched with a smile on the side, she loved the child, but she didn't dote on the child. If her husband plays with the children, she won't spoil the scenery.

"This cry is getting louder and louder!" Chen Ming grinned, "I have the style I had back then." Before the crossing, many of his relatives of the same generation had married and had children, and when they sat together, they talked about children, and the relatives did not mention him when he was a child. His crying at that time was really a loud, complete tenor, especially love to cry at night, very noisy!

And Chen Ming after crossing over is almost this virtue. Gao's baby died of him at the beginning, but he was tossed very miserably.

The baby's crying and Chen Ming's laughter did not last long. Just when Chen Ming continued to try to coax the child, he suddenly felt a heat in his left hand, followed by a moist feeling. The kid peed! The boy's urine was still scorned on Chen Ming without hindrance!

The smile on his face immediately turned into a bitter smile, and he handed the child to the maid who rushed forward, and Chen Ming went down to wash his hands.

In the evening, after the clouds and rain dissipated, Chen Ming hugged his slippery wife, but he still couldn't help but 'reprimand' her, and even took his children to the front line without telling him, I don't know if there is instability on the way from Nanyang, and I don't know if those recruits are in danger at the head of the barracks? Although Chen Ming knew very well that without the permission of his father, it would be impossible for Li Xiaomei to come to Fancheng with the child, let alone hide it from him. But in the time between having dinner and going to bed to do exercise, he still issued many orders in succession, spraying him with blood on the hands of some people in General Lushan's Mansion and Nanyang Mansion.

What if this kind of thing is something that Daddy means? What is the purpose of these hands and even the nails in the dark that Chen Ming has planted? is to be able to know at all times about the General's Mansion - the central government, Nanyang Mansion - the locality, and every change from the central to the local, as a result, these people look at this matter with a 'good joke' attitude, and they dare to treat it separately on their own, which makes Chen Ming very annoyed and very annoyed.

"Brother Ming, can Xiangyang City be defeated?" Shrinking in Chen Ming's arms, Li Xiaomei asked uneasily. She was really worried about the 'expedition' that Chen Ming was about to start. But as a woman, Li Xiaomei doesn't understand military strategy at all, so she can't worry about Chen Ming.

"If you can't beat it, go around." The men and horses of Yichang Town had already marched into Xiangyang, and the general soldier Xue Shiyan had brought at least 5,000 men. Now there are 10,000 people in Xiangyang City just in the regular green battalion, and the Dingchang has successively sent a lot of people to Xiangyang, and the strength of the Xiangyang Qing Army is really not to be underestimated. The Hankou Naval Division Battalion of the Hanyang Association of the Qing Army has also arrived at Xiangyang City. A small battalion of sailors, with only three or four hundred men and a dozen warships of different sizes, is not a big obstacle.

In the early and middle Qing Dynasty, there were as many as thirty or forty kinds of inland river naval ships, but if you plan carefully, most of them can be counted as bluffing boats and sentinel boats. The 20~50 feet (about 6.34~15.36 meters) long bluff boats and sentinel boats are used to chase the sentry scouts, and the flat surface of the boat allows the Qing soldiers above to leak out in front of people's eyes without concealment. Needless to say, the combat effectiveness is not a few points stronger than that of civilian ships.

Since the rebellion of the Ping San Feudatories, the situation of the Manchu Qing inland river division has become increasingly embarrassing, under the river. After all, they didn't need to fight for hundreds of years, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty would always maintain a strong inland water division when their heads were sick.

The Jingzhou Naval Division, which could easily send fifty warships to attack Yueyang, has disappeared, and there is only a small Hankou battalion left in the whole of Hubei, with no more than 400 people at full strength, with twelve small sentinel ships, two medium-sized sentinel ships, and one large sentinel ship.

A medium sentry ship can be equipped with a small cannon, and a large sentry ship can be equipped with two small cannons, which is pitiful.

It is completely two treatments with the offshore naval division that still maintains a huge establishment after taking Taiwan's Zheng Ming Group, the latter is his own son, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty's offshore warships are backward in terms of performance and firepower, but the Manchu Qing Dynasty really manages them with heart; And the inland water master is raised by a little lady, and they have a bite to eat on weekdays.

Chen Ming didn't have the confidence to conquer Xiangyang in a short period of time. The main reason is that there are too many green battalions in Xiangyang City, even if the defenders still lack artillery, especially heavy artillery, it is very difficult for Chen Ming to break this fortified city now. Because of the moat that was one or two hundred meters wide. What if the water surface of the Han River, which was more than a mile wide, was covered by the artillery fire of the Chen family, and what if the warships of the Qing army's inland water division could only hide in the moat of Xiangyang City? A desperate battle, the gains outweigh the losses.

Chen Ming also has a lot of civilian ships under him, and he can cross the Han River from Wanshan, so he doesn't believe that Lao Longdi can really let the Qing soldiers block the artillery fire of the Chen family's army. But what about the south bank of the Han River? can't take Xiangyang City, it's all for nothing.

"You don't have to worry about me, take care of the children at home."

Chen Ming had already sent a force of troops and horses from Fancheng to the west, along Baishui into De'an Mansion, and then along Zhuanshui to the south to Hanchuan and Xiaogan. The Qing army did not have any regular soldiers in De'an Mansion at all, Chen Ming led the team with an old battalion leader, organized four new battalion heads and a logistics team to attach, even if ninety percent of the troops were cold weapon teams, he believed that there was an invincible existence in De'an Mansion where only the militia was left. Even if you can't take the two cities of Suizhou and Anlu, other counties can also pass by.