On the vast and boundless sea, the wind swept the dark clouds, and between the dark clouds and the sea, a sea boat was tossing among the waves......

"Vomit ......"

Li Yanzhi, who was fixed to the board of the boat by a rope, finally couldn't help but spit it out.

I thought I was familiar with the sea boats, and I didn't feel any discomfort after walking from Tianjin to Juehua Island, but I didn't expect to encounter real winds and waves, and I couldn't bear it anymore.

After vomiting, he couldn't help but look around, and saw that Zheng Hongkui didn't notice him at all, and Li Yanzhi breathed a sigh of relief.

After sending grain to Juehua Island and returning to Tianjin, and after half a month of training, Li Yanzhi and the Zheng brothers finally went south by sea ship and rushed to Fujian to take office.

He was accompanied by five ships of two thousand and a thousand Janissaries who were already familiar with ships.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the fleet bypassed the Jiaodong Peninsula, it encountered a hurricane. The 2,000-material sea ship seems to be very large, but in the face of hurricanes and waves, it is like a toying up and down between the waves.

Fortunately, Zheng Zhilong was experienced and ordered the sails to be lowered in time before the hurricane arrived, otherwise the ship would have been overturned by the hurricane.

Even so, one of the masts of the ship where Li Yanzhi was located was broken by the sea breeze and killed an unlucky sailor.

Everyone fixed themselves to the boat with ropes, silently waiting for the wind and waves to pass. In the face of the power of nature, human beings are really pitiful.

Half a day later, the hurricane finally passed, and calm returned to the sea.

Li Yanzhi immediately ordered to count the manpower of the ships. A total of eight soldiers were missing from five sea boats, and more than 200 people were wounded, all of whom were bruised during the turbulence.

It's pitiful, except for some sailors of the former coastal defense battalion, most of Li Yanzhi's subordinates are Praetorian Guards from the mainland, where have they experienced such storms?

Seeing that his subordinates were a little sluggish and demoralized, Li Yanzhi could only order to dock and repair, replace the broken masts by the way, and repair the broken sea ships.

The flotilla turned west, approached the coast, and stopped at a bay.

Zheng Zhilong looked at the sea chart and told Li Yanzhi that he should go to the vicinity of Haizhou, and after sending someone ashore to ask, Haizhou was indeed in a bay.

It took several days to repair the ships damaged by the hurricane, and the soldiers were in better spirits, and the fleet left Haizhou to continue sailing. Fortunately, there was no hurricane in the future, and ten days later it crossed the mouth of the Yangtze River and reached the sea surface of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

There were more ships at sea, and most of them were fishing boats that went out to sea to fish, and when they saw the official and military flags of the fleet, they all avoided them from a distance.

The number of islands has gradually increased, and as far as the eye can see, there are lush islands everywhere. Zheng Zhilong told Li Yanzhi that he had arrived near Zhoushan.

"I heard that there are a lot of pirates in Zhoushan, will there be unsightly pirates looking for trouble?" Li Yan said with a straight smile.

Zheng Zhilong smiled bitterly and shook his head: "How is it possible." We are flying the flag of the official army, and the draft of the ship is shallow and there is no cargo at a glance, so the pirates will not be so stupid. ”

Sure enough, until he left the Zhoushan sea area and arrived in Fujian, he did not encounter any accidents, which made Li Yanzhi a little disappointed.

With a thousand Praetorian Guards under his command and a large number of artillery pieces, Li Yanzhi really wanted to compete with the pirates.

On April 16 of the second year of Chongzhen, Li Yanzhi led the fleet to the waters off Fuzhou, and Yu Zhigao, deputy chief soldier of Fujian, led a sea ship to meet him. Yu Zhigao, the son of Yu Dayou, a famous anti-Japanese general, has a family background, is the deputy general of Fujian, and has a high prestige among the Fujian officers and soldiers.

Seven or eight three-masted ships stood in front of them, and in front of the tall ship, the two thousand ships that Li Yanzhi was riding were like sampans.

"Is this the lucky boat, it's really tall." Looking up at the lucky boat in front of him, Li Yan praised directly. Compared with the Fujian Naval Division, the ships of the Dagu Naval Division are simply unmatched.

"Bastard!" Zheng Hongkui scolded in a low voice. Zheng Zhilong's face on the side was also a little ugly.

"What's wrong?" Li Yan said bluntly.

"Yu Shigao, this bastard must be on purpose, I want to give you a dismissal." Zheng Hongkui explained in a low voice.

Li Yanzhi suddenly realized that Yu Zhigao was the deputy commander-in-chief of Fujian, and he definitely wanted to go further and become the commander-in-chief, and now his arrival was tantamount to blocking the way for others to rise, so he naturally did not welcome himself.

Moreover, along the way, Li Yanzhi learned from Zheng Hongkui that the relationship between Yu Zhigao and the Zheng family brothers was not very good, and the reasons were very complicated.

"But Mr. Li?" Yu Zhigao stood on the high bow of the boat, looked down, and shouted loudly.

"It's Ben Shuai!" Li Yanzhi stood up, looked up and smiled.

"The last general, Yu Zhigao, met with the marshal."

The corners of Yu Zhigao's mouth twitched, and he still bent down, but his bending was more like looking down from above.

Li Yanzhi laughed: "Deputy Chief Yu doesn't have to be polite, please lead the way." ”

"The last will obey." Yu Zhigao arched his hand, turned around and returned to the cabin, and disappeared in front of Li Yanzhi's eyes.

originally wanted to give the new commander-in-chief a dismount, but Li Yan smiled as if he didn't notice it, so that Yu Zhigao's follow-up methods were not easy to use again.

Yu Zhigao's fleet turned around and sailed back, leading Li Yanzhi's fleet into the Min River.

The sea ship docked outside the city of Fuzhou, and Yu Zhigao took the generals of the Fujian official army to formally meet Li Yanzhi.

Looking at Li Yanzhi's youthful and excessively young face, many officers couldn't help but shake their heads. Yu Zhigao kept a calm face throughout the whole process, without a smile, and ignored the Zheng family brothers.

Li Yanzhi always smiled and greeted the officers, as if he didn't notice anything.

After the group entered the city, Li Yanzhi first came to the governor's yamen and met with Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian.

"Hahaha, I finally looked forward to Mr. Li." Xiong Wencan was smiling and very kind.

After the greetings, Xiong Wencan introduced the officials present to Li Yanzhi one by one.

"This is the new Inspector Liu Mao Liu, and he has only arrived in Fuzhou for a short time." Xiong Wencan said with a smile.

"I've seen Mr. Li." Liu Mao's face was calm and he bowed his hand slightly.

"Meet the Patrolman." Li Yanzhi didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly saluted.

Although he is the chief soldier of Fujian and the nominal supreme general of the Fujian army, his status cannot be compared with the Qipin patrol in front of him.

After greetings, Xiong Wencan hosted a banquet to entertain Li Yanzhi, and asked Li Yanzhi to clean up his residence. Li Yanzhi refused, saying that he wanted to live with his subordinate soldiers.

The Zheng Zhilong brothers remained in the city of Fuzhou, where they had their own residence.

Li Yanzhi's subordinates were placed in the barracks outside Fuzhou, and Li Yanzhi naturally did not live elsewhere. Although he had only been in Fujian for a day, he had already instinctively felt that the situation in Fujian was very complicated. You can only feel at ease if you live with your own subordinates.

At night, Li Yanzhi arranged a sentry, and when he was about to go back to the barracks to rest, suddenly a subordinate came down to report that someone was outside the camp asking to see him.