After Zheng Zhilong made all the arrangements, the only thing he could do was to wait, waiting for Zheng Sen to lead the most elite foot soldiers of the Zheng family back to Anping, only when these earliest soldiers who followed him returned to Anping, his apprehension could be settled.

However, Zheng Sen, who made Zheng Zhilong look forward to it, did not return for a long time, until last night, more than a dozen remnants fled back to Anping, saying that they had served the order of the eldest prince Zheng Sen to escort King Huai to Anping, but they were robbed by an unknown group of thieves on the way. And they themselves were beaten up.

Zheng Zhilong was initially reluctant to believe it after hearing this, but after several confirmations, he finally believed it, which is indeed a fact. What is more surprising is that Zheng Zhilong personally met with the remnants of the defeated soldiers.

"How many people did you bring with you when you came back this time, and who were you escorting?"

The palm secretary next to Zheng Zhilong asked questions on his behalf, while Zheng Zhilong only sat on the Taishi chair, his face gloomy and he didn't say a word.

"It's true that the eldest prince sent the villains back to Anping." The soldier who was questioned had never seen Zheng Dashuai, and he was already afraid of sin, but at this moment, his body was already trembling a little, and he couldn't help himself.

The palm book was a little impatient, "I didn't ask if you were sent back by the eldest prince, just answer the question!" ”

Originally, several soldiers who escaped back were interrogated a lot, so as soon as they met, they tried their best to clarify that they were indeed sent back by the eldest prince.

Then, the palm of the book felt that his question seemed to be a little undirect, so he added.

"You tell me in detail, what happened that day, remember, not a word of lie, otherwise the commander will not spare you!"

The words of the palm book were originally the usual words used in the interrogation of subordinates, but when they fell into the ears of several soldiers, they were already trembling with fright, and they didn't even hear the meaning of this sentence clearly, and knelt on the ground with a puff, kowtowing like pounding garlic and begging for mercy.

"The handsome spare, the handsome spare. Even if the villain has eight guts, he doesn't dare to deceive the handsome, the handsome is clear, the villain's sincerity can be expressed every day, and there will never be a word of falsehood......"

Although some of the preambles did not match the afterword, the soldier still threw out a set of begging for mercy in his mouth.

Zheng Zhilong glanced at the palm book in front of him dissatisfied, and said gloomily: "Ben Shuai knows that you are all innocent, what happened that day, just tell the truth." ”

Hearing the marshal's personal speech, the soldiers were like being amnestied, and after a period of kowtowing and thanksgiving, they intermittently talked about the experience of that day.

"The eldest prince originally sent five hundred strong soldiers to escort King Huai back to Anping, but after passing Daxian Mountain, he suddenly encountered a strong man ......"

At this, the sharp-toothed soldier had a look of apprehension on his face, as if the horror of the day was far beyond his capacity.

"Nope. They're not strongmen, they're ghosts. Those people never said a word, and when they suddenly appeared, they slashed with knives, like, just like they had a hatred with the villains. If it weren't for the quick sighting of the villain, I'm afraid that now, no one will be able to come back to report to the marshal. ”

The soldier was indeed sharp-tongued, and in the end he did not forget to find some high-sounding reasons and excuses for his escape.

However, the soldier's words fell into Zheng Zhilong's ears, but it gave him a strange fear.

"You say those people haven't said a word since they appeared, and only know how to kill?"

"Go back, go back to the big handsome, that's true!"

The soldier still stammered.

"Are you sure you haven't said a word?"

The soldier patted his chest and swore with a curse, "The villain doesn't dare to say half a sentence to the end of the handsome, those strongmen are like evil ghosts from hell, the scene is terrifying, it is really not what the villain has seen in his life." ”

After listening to the soldier's vivid description, Zheng Zhilong's body leaned on the Taishi chair with a slight weakness. He didn't believe in any demons and monsters, the reason why those people didn't say a word, they only knew how to kill, in the eyes of Zheng Zhilong, who had experienced a hundred battles, this was clearly an iron army that had been well-trained and killed countless people.

At that time, the most difficult thing in training was not to kill people, nor to be invincible, but to silence a team of people. Otherwise, there would be no way to rank the soldiers in the night raids, in order to prevent the soldiers from making noise and exposing their whereabouts during the march.

And this raiding force can be silent, this kind of military record is really terrifying, if this is some kind of mountain strongman, only a ghost will believe this statement. But if they are not strongmen in the mountains, who are they?

In the end, all the goals were directed at a person that Zheng Zhilong wanted to admit but was unwilling to admit, that was Li Xin.

Looking at the territory of Fujian, there may be no other possibility for those who have such military discipline except Li Xin. But how did Li Xin's Three Guards infiltrate Yanping Mansion in Fujian Province under a tight blockade? You must know that the southern part of Zhejiang is in the hands of the Zheng family, and it will definitely not work from this road. And the Three Guards Army, which had previously invaded Fujian, was also defeated by Zheng Sen.

Thinking of Zheng Sen, who had not returned for a long time, Zheng Zhilong's body couldn't help but tremble. An ominous premonition rose abruptly from his chest.

A terrifying thought suddenly popped out of Zheng Zhilong's mind, could it be that Sen'er had an accident? Immediately, he denied this idea again, after all, Zheng Sen has always had a close connection with An Ping, and if something went wrong, then the news should have come back long ago. This worry of his own may be the gain and loss caused by the fiasco of the sailor.

Subsequently, Zheng Zhilong asked Zheng Sen how he was doing in Shaowu. The soldier then told how the eldest prince designed the total annihilation of Shi Kefa, and how he annexed the rebel troops of King Huai......

From the smug expression of the soldier, Zheng Zhilong interpreted something he wanted to see, so he became even more determined, the idea that he had just popped up was unfounded. It's just that he couldn't figure out where that mysterious group of people came from.

In the end, Zheng Zhilong did not hold those soldiers accountable, and only sent hundreds of rangers to Daxian Mountain to investigate the situation, but after searching for a while, he found nothing, except for finding dead bodies all over the ground, he did not find a single living person.

This was also expected by Zheng Zhilong, since the other party was so well-trained, it was impossible to stay where he was and wait for him to send someone to investigate. For a while, Zheng Zhilong even suspected that Zheng Hongkui, the place of death who had escaped. However, he quickly denied this idea, for no other reason, Zheng Zhilong's old subordinates were basically taken away by Zheng Sen, and he didn't have many cronies in the Anping area, which was one of the reasons why Zheng Zhilong dared to deal with him suddenly.

However, Zheng Hongkui's eyeliner is still pervasive, otherwise it would not have been possible to escape from Anping in such a timely manner, or with foresight.

In order to calm people's hearts, Zheng Zhilong did not arrest Zheng Zhilong with great fanfare, he just ordered his cronies to secretly search and arrest, hoping to minimize the negative impact of this incident. However, such a big thing is like wrapping fire in paper, which is simply unrealistic. A wave of uneasiness and commotion was stirring in the Anping army.

Just think about it, first the news of the annihilation of the entire army of the Navy Division faintly came back, and then Zheng Hongkui's defection, and one unfavorable thing after another happened one after another, causing great trouble to Zheng Zhilong's troops. This is why Zheng Zhilong is so looking forward to Zheng Sen's return to Anping.

However, starting early in the morning of this day, rumors suddenly broke out in Anping and even the whole of Quanzhou, claiming that Zheng Sen had suffered a crushing defeat in the Shaowu area, that the army had collapsed, and that there had even been desertions in some places.

Although these are all gossip, but when they are summarized in the General Military Mansion, Zheng Zhilong still can't help but be shocked. He suddenly had a premonition that the mountain rain was about to come, and the wind was full of buildings.

Is it really inevitable? In the dead of night, he couldn't calm down, so he could only helplessly look at the dark night sky in a daze.

Just now he received the news that southern Zhejiang had returned to Fujian, and the generals who led the troops actually rejected his military order to withdraw to Anping, and stayed in Funing Prefecture and Fuzhou on the grounds that the Three Guards were eyeing him. At the same time, the feudal officials of Fuzhou actually transferred the interrogation documents sent from Nanjing to Fujian to Anping one by one, which had the meaning of falling into the ground.

This further confirmed his previous hunch.

Perhaps it's time to prepare for the way back, as Zheng Sen, who had been in charge of Taiwan's immigration before his expedition to Shaowu, now seems to have become the most prescient of all.

"Someone! Send someone again, no matter what, you have to find out the news of the eldest prince! ”

Zheng Zhilong absolutely did not believe that Zheng Sen would be defeated miserably, or even annihilated. Maybe he did run into trouble, but with Zheng Zhilong's understanding of his eldest son, he planned everything and would never do anything he was not sure of, so he would easily lose all his chips.

The cranky Zheng Zhilong thought of the Dutch again, and couldn't help gritting his teeth and scolding: "This group of treacherous red-haired fans, if you don't take revenge, you won't be a man!" ”

Suddenly, some soldiers broke into the back garden in a panic.

Zheng Zhilong was furious, "Don't you know how to send someone to spread the word?" Come on, drag it out and give me twenty sticks! ”

The pro-soldier didn't care about begging for mercy, and said anxiously: "Dashuai, Dashuai is not good, there is a fire in the northwest of Anping......"

After hearing this, Zheng Zhilong was stunned for a moment, and then asked: "Arson or arson?" ”

"The military gate has already sent a battalion of men and horses over, according to, according to the military gate's speculation, when it is, when someone deliberately did it!"

Now Fujian is raining and raining, wet and cold, and it has long passed the days when the ordinary water can go and catch fire, and the soldier's voice has not fallen, and suddenly he heard a faint rumbling sound in the distance, and the ground seems to be trembling faintly.

Zheng Zhilong's heart is like a lost person who falls on the edge of a cliff, sinking, sinking......