Seeing this, several generals didn't say anything, but they just looked at the prefect's mansion angrily with angry faces.

Although Wu Qijue only needs two silver for this trip, no matter how small the mosquito meat is, it is still meat, which is better than nothing.

Soon, a close general personally led a team of officers and soldiers to the treasury to take away two pieces of silver, and went straight to the Qing army's green camp station.

At this time, in the Qing army's Zhenbiao camp, Qing officers and soldiers were in full swing to prepare for war.

This time, the war on Qiongzhou Island came too suddenly, coupled with the sudden collapse of the Qing army's green camp in Yazhou, so that the Qing army's green camp in the north had no time to react.

At this moment, the Green Camp is also busy.

A large number of barrels of gunpowder were introduced, because there was basically no war in the northern part of Qiongzhou and Qiongzhou Island was tropical, most of the gunpowder stored in the warehouse for a long time had long been damp and basically unusable.

More than a dozen craftsmen are working intensively on repairing their guns.

Some horsemen were cleaning their horses, and a group of handymen not far away were also loading bundles of horse material onto the carts.

But many more Qing officers and soldiers were just sharpening their broadswords or spears on their own.

A flag officer shouted loudly in the camp, searching for the soldiers who had not yet returned.

Wu Qijue returned to the camp in the afternoon.

"And how many people are gathered in the left and right camps of the town mark now?" Wu Qijue strode into the main military camp tent, looked at the several generals present and asked.

"Except for dozens of officers and soldiers from the province, most of the horsemen and infantry are in the battalion." The left battalion of the town standard guerrilla Liu Baodao.

"My lord, are there really thousands of pirates attacking my Qiongzhou Island?" A Qian general manager stepped forward and asked.

The generals present also looked at each other.

In fact, if someone told them that there were thousands of pirates attacking Qiongzhou, they would laugh their big teeth.

However, now the battle reports from all over the country show that there is really an extremely large pirate force attacking Yazhou.

"The Yazhou Green Battalion has been completely wiped out, and now Wanzhou and Danzhou are being attacked by pirates and Li people, and Yazhou, Changhua and other prefectures and counties have fallen into the hands of the pirates." Wu Qijue shook his head, revealing a solemn expression.

"By now, our scouts haven't figured out where these pirates came from?" Liu Bao scolded angrily.

"There is news from the Wanzhou Green Battalion, I heard that Yang Yandi is back, the pirates' attack is too fast, and when we just received the news of the loss of Yazhou, the pirates have already occupied Changhua County." The guerrilla Wang Rui of the right battalion of the town standard exonerated his subordinates.

In fact, the speed of the Ming army's attack has indeed far exceeded the expectations of the Qing army defending the island, and at the same time, the complex terrain on Qiongzhou Island also gave the Ming army a large buffer time.

The topography of Qiongzhou Island is complex, except for the coastal area, which is flat and flat, and the central part is mountainous.

The main roads of the whole island are rough and bumpy, which makes it very difficult to connect the northern part of Qiongzhou Island with the southern part of the island.

When the Ming army attacked Yazhou, the local officials and gentry fled, and could only flee to the mountains in the direction of Wanzhou or to the Changhua area.

The fastest day along the way, when the Qing army learned the news, it was already seven or eight days after the loss of Yazhou.

"The Yazhou battalion has been wiped out, the Wanzhou battalion and the Danzhou battalion have collapsed, can the two battalions on the left and right of my town mark expel the pirates on the island alone?" Wang Rui looked at Wu Qijue, and the meaning was also very clear.

"Now, there is only one officer and soldier in the battalion, plus the two battalions on the left and right of the sailor, there are only 3,000 people at full strength, and I have to disperse the troops to stay in the state and county, I'm afraid it will ......."

Before Wang Rui finished speaking, he was interrupted by Liu Bao.

"What do you mean by that? Could it be that our Green Camp can't do a bunch of pirates." Liu Bao glared angrily.

"Don't forget, Yang Yandi was in thousands of people, and there were more than 100 warships, wasn't he also expelled to Guangnan by us?" Liu Bao sneered, very disdainful of these pirates.

"General Liu is right, in fact, our Green Battalion on Qiongzhou Island is already scattered, and the local Li people in Wanzhou have rebelled, which gives pirates a chance to take advantage of

opportunity." Several thousand generals nodded in agreement.

"Whether it is in the waters of Qiongzhou, or in the direction of Liangguang, or even in Annam, there are no pirates with more than a few thousand people, so we can conclude that the scale of the pirates attacking Qiongzhou this time is about a thousand people, and it happened to coincide with the Li rebellion, and the main roads around Yazhou were blocked, so the Yazhou battalion and the county government cut off contact with us." A thousand general manager explained.

Compared with the fact that the pirates annihilated the Yazhou battalion and occupied Yazhou, Changhua and other prefectures and counties, they were more willing to believe that these pirates were fighting on the move, plundering all the way from Yazhou to Changhua, after all, the Qing officers and soldiers guarding the island were themselves scattered, and there were only a few dozen people in a flood.

It is really impossible to hold such a long coastline.

As for the occupation of Yazhou City, it must have taken advantage of the Qing Army's green battalion not paying attention and attacked Yazhou City, but the Yazhou green battalion that must have reacted should have recovered the county seat by now.

Such an assertion, even the chief soldier Wu Qijue nodded in agreement.

After all, there are thousands of officers and soldiers on land and water in the southern part of Qiongzhou Island, how could they be annihilated by a group of pirates in just half a month?

Rather than those horrific reports, Wu Qijue was more willing to believe that the pirates had deliberately spread rumors.

"The two battalions on the left and right sides of the town mark have 1,000 troops, and they will go south with me to collect Fuchanghua, and their men will gallop south to help Wanzhou, and the left and right battalions of the naval division will also go south with me, looking for opportunities to annihilate the pirate fleet at sea." Wu Qijue commanded.

With the order of the chief officer, the entire battalion became even busier.

All night, the Qing army camp was brightly lit, and the angry scolding of the flag officers, the neighing of the horses, and the complaints of the officers and soldiers came and went.

Early in the morning of the second day, with the order of the two guerrilla generals.

A Qing army green battalion soldier assembled in the large camp and stood by.

Wu Qijue wore a six-petal iron helmet on his head and strode out of the main military camp tent in cloth armor.

She looked at the Qing army in front of her, and there was a trace of melancholy in her eyes.

I don't know how many brothers he can bring back to the north today.

"Warriors, I guess you already know about the southern part of Qiong Island." Wu Qijue looked at the thousands of officers and soldiers in front of him and spoke.

"That's right, that Yang Yandi led pirates to attack our Qiongzhou Island again."

"These pirates lost their conscience, plundered villages, did all kinds of evil, and the huge Yazhou City was slaughtered by them." Wu Qijue scolded the Ming army for burning, killing and looting on the stage.

However, the Qing officers and soldiers in the audience yawned one by one and looked at the chief officer on the stage sleepily.

The Qing troops present were also veterans, so it was naturally impossible for them to be enthusiastically boiled by a few words from the chief military officer.

"As the so-called soldiers and horses have not moved, grain and grass go first, according to the practice of the imperial court, this time on the expedition, it is natural to increase the food and salary for everyone."

As soon as these words came out, the more than 1,000 Qing officers and soldiers present suddenly came to their senses, and their eyes looked at them in unison, and their eyes were as green as oil, like wild beasts.

Seeing this, Wu Qijue just smiled faintly.

The treatment of the Qing army's green camp is very poor, only one tael of silver a month, and only twelve taels of silver a year, basically only a whole family can only be fed.

Therefore, in order to increase the enthusiasm of the soldiers, the imperial court will also pay an extra war salary in wartime, which is probably an extra tael of silver for the officers and soldiers every month.

More than a dozen Qing soldiers carried boxes of large boxes, walked to the front, and when they opened the boxes, they were all white snowflakes and silver.

The eyes of the Qing officers and soldiers present were all wide-eyed, if it weren't for the flag officers on the side, who angrily reprimanded the generals there, I am afraid that they would have pounced on them like beasts.

"This month's salary, and the additional war pay, are two taels of silver per person." Wu Qijue looked at the Qing officers and soldiers present and said.

"My lord, these two taels of silver are too little, right?" Suddenly, there was a question from the crowd.