Just as the Ming army on Qiong Island was like a bamboo, it was approaching Qiongshan in a colorful way.

Guangzhou City

Li Shizhen, the governor of Guangdong, was listening to a Huangmei opera in his house, and was sipping tea and eating pastries at home at the moment.

I saw a subordinate hurriedly come to report, saying that it was the governor of Guangdong who had visited him.

When Li Shizhen heard this, he couldn't care about the pastry in his hand and hurriedly got up to greet him.

Seeing that the officials outside the mansion for a year hurried to the courtyard.

"Brother Yi Ke, it's not good, it's not good."

"Lord Wu, why are you so alarmed?" Governor Li Shizhen hurriedly greeted him.

"Qiongdao has changed." Wu Xingzuo's face was red, and he couldn't catch his breath.

When Governor Li Shizhen heard this, he smiled and waved his hand.

"I knew about this half a month ago, but it's just a bunch of pirates."

"It just so happened that I caught up with the local Li rebellion again, and I was taken away from a Yazhou county."

Li Shizhen slowly took out a fold from his sleeve.

"You see, the prefect of Qiongzhou also said that he is ordering General Wu to lead the army south to suppress the traitors, can't I also inform the left camp of Leizhou? Let them work closely together." Governor Li Shizhen said.

Hearing this, Wu Xingzuo was simply angry.

"Brother Yi Ke, this was all half a month ago in Qiongdao, and now the thieves have defeated General Wu, and the soldiers are already on the heights." Wu Xingzuo shouted.

"What?" When Li Shizhen heard this, the time was like being struck by lightning.

In what direction does he know where Lingao is?

"How did this pirate get to the north of Qiong Island?"

"What do the Shima Thousand Green Battalion do for food?"

Governor Li Shizhen suddenly scolded.

"According to the gentry who fled north to Guangzhou on Qiong Island, several green battalions on Qiong Island have long been annihilated by the pirates, and even the general army has been defeated and died." Speaking of this, the governor's voice became quieter and quieter.

After all, even when he himself got the news from the gentry, he was greatly surprised.

After all, the Qing Dynasty has been established for decades, and it has never been heard of pirates being able to capture several counties in a state and annihilate thousands of green battalions of the Qing army.

The governor's words also made Li Shizhen stunned in place.

Not to mention the fact that Haikou occupied several counties in Qiongzhou, they even annihilated thousands of green battalion soldiers.

"Is the Green Camp on Joan Island really wiped out?" Governor Li Shizhen's face was full of horror.

It has only been half a month since the prefect reported the news, and the war in Qiongzhou has been so bad that even the green battalion has been wiped out.

Who are these pirates sacred? It's so fierce.

Suddenly, the governor's face changed drastically, and he hurriedly held Wu Xingzuo, "If the Haikou can occupy several counties in Qiongzhou within a month, and all the green camps on the island are wiped out, I'm afraid that the Haikou army will go straight to Guangdong."

Hearing the governor's words, Wu Xingzuo also nodded hurriedly.

"That's exactly what I mean, these pirates came so suddenly that Liangguang didn't even know it."

"I have ordered all the battalions in the two provinces of Haiphong to be on higher alert, especially the flood camp in Ko Lien Lei Province, but whether it is to transfer troops or strengthen vigilance, it is necessary to inform General Yin Dali." Wu Xingzuo said.

At this time, Li Shizhen finally understood why the governor came to his mansion in the dust.

"Okay, let's go together." Governor Li Shizhen said.

At this time, Guangzhou put down the rebellion of the three feudatories, and it was only nearly ten years.

Because coastal defense was critical, the Qing court still deployed 60,000 or 70,000 green battalion soldiers in Guangdong.

However, the Qing court was afraid of the rebirth of Guangdong, so it specially set up the post of general of Guangzhou.

3,000 elite Eight Banners were specially dispatched from the Beijing Division to garrison in Guangdong.

Of course, these 3,000 so-called Eight Banners are just Han Eight Banners, not the Full Eight Banners in the real sense.

But it is still the strongest hole card of the Qing court in Guangdong.

Governor Li Shizhen also understood why the Governor came to him in a hurry

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Although the governor has the military power of the Cantonese Green Battalion, the problem is that his military power is given to the Cantonese general to control it.

In the Qing court, in the delicate environment of Manchu-Han relations.

Any matter of transferring troops and sending generals in the province must be reported to General Canton.

When the two of them met Baiyindar, it was already noon.

At this time, the Guangzhou general was training in the teaching field.

When he saw that the governor and the governor had visited together, he was also surprised.

"Why are you coming together?" The armor-clad Baiyin Dali hurriedly dismounted from his horse.

"General, the general situation is not good, Qiongdao is changing." Wu Xingzuo said.

"Hey, Qiongzhou was invaded by pirates, and there were Li people rebelling inside, and now several counties in Qiongzhou have been occupied by thieves." Governor Li Shizhen hurriedly said.

Hearing this, the Guangzhou general's face changed slightly.

"I have indeed heard the news of the encounter with pirates in Qiongzhou."

"Didn't Tong Xiangnian say that the green battalion soldiers in the state capital were enough to suppress the Li rebellion and the invasion of the pirates?"

A few days ago, he also wrote to me, saying that General Wu was leading thousands of officers and soldiers of the Green Battalion to conquer the Li and Haikou, and won a complete victory." Baiyindari's face became more and more gloomy.

Hearing this, the Governor and the Governor also smiled bitterly.

"This Tong Xiangnian is confused, it is clear that Yazhou has been lost half a month ago, but he knows that he did not report it, so there is such a disaster." Governor Li Shizhen scolded angrily.

"Even if he didn't report it, how could Qiongzhou deteriorate like this in just half a month?"

"There are obviously Wanzhou Battalion, Yazhou Battalion, as well as the three towns of Zhenbiao and the Qiongzhou Naval Division on the island, and there are thousands of officers and soldiers on land and water."

"Even if the Haikou invaded the local Li rebellion, the scale of the rebellion was only a few hundred people, how could there be a fall of several counties." Bayindari felt more and more that something was wrong.

He has also seen this Wu Qijue, not to mention that he has been on the battlefield for a long time, but he is also familiar with the art of war.

The most important thing is that in the past, the Qing army also suppressed dozens of local Li rebellions.

It stands to reason that since the Ping San Domain, there have never been pirates with a scale of more than 1,000 on the Liangguang Sea.

And the rebellion on the island is only a few dozen or hundreds of people each time.

Not to mention the green camp on the island, even if it is a flood soldier in various places, it should be able to suppress it.

"Who are the pirates on this island and how big is the bandits?" Bai Yin Dali hurriedly asked.

Wu Xingzuo thought for a while before he said: "If what the local gentry who fled north to Guangzhou said is true, it should be Yang Yandi, the sea giant of the year, and the scale is probably thousands."

Hearing this, the brow of the Darry furrowed.

"I also know this Yang Yandi, didn't he go to Nantou Guangnan? And most importantly, it was he who had thousands of people on Longmen Island at the beginning, and he had never captured a single state or county in Qiongzhou."

Baiyin Dali always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it.

"General, for now, we should immediately send sailors and boats to Qiongzhou to investigate, second, strengthen coastal defenses in various places, warn of floods, and at the same time immediately recruit and deploy green battalions from various prefectures to prepare to go south to Qiongzhou." Wu Xingzuo said.

Hearing this, Bai Yin Dali also nodded in agreement.

"What about the Kyoshi?"

"The old minister will write it." Governor Li Shizhen said.

Since the Ming army took Lingao and Chengmai, they rushed to Qiongshan County non-stop.

Most of the local gentry have fled north after hearing the news.

However, with the arrival of the Ming naval division, a large number of sea vessels were intercepted by the Ming naval division.

For these local wealthy merchants, gentry, and Ming army sailors who tried to cross the Qiongzhou Strait and flee to Liangguang, they were not polite.

In just a few days, more than 20 seagoing vessels were seized.

and the gold and silver on the ship, and the silver, and the silver, and all of them were collected.

The Qiongzhou gentry who fled north suddenly cried loudly.

For a time, the people of Qiongshan County were panicked, and after the prefect learned about it, he hurriedly ordered people to build a city wall and send it

The flood soldiers were stationed in Haikou for fear that these thieves would land from Haikou.

However, before the prefect of Qiongzhou could finish his work, the officers and soldiers of the Marine Battalion had already arrived at the foot of Qiongshan City.