On the East River between Long Island and Manhattan Island, a small boat tries to cross the river from Manhattan Island to Long Island.

As a result, halfway through, a violent splash suddenly erupted in the water in front of him.

A continuous stream of small-caliber cannon shells hit the water.

The helmsman of the boat was startled and immediately changed his course from crossing the river to going down the river.

At the same time, together with the passengers on the ship, they looked up in the direction where the shells were coming.

It was a patrol gunboat of about 500 tons, with two twin 40-millimeter cannons mounted on the bow, and several small-caliber cannons of 20 millimeters.

The patrol boat quickly approached the boat, sailing more or less parallel to the boat.

A man dressed in a new Ming style formal suit stood out from the cabin of the small boat and shouted at the patrol boat in Daming Yayan:

"Dear soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, I am also from Lin County now, I have already registered, please let me go!"

There was silence on the patrol boat for a while, and a transport boat was lowered, and a soldier and an interpreter approached the boat.

The Ming soldier with a gun shouted into the boat:

"Those who have already registered in Linxian County can follow us across the river, and no one else is allowed to pass.

"Take out your household registration certificate, I hope you really have registered, otherwise I will throw you into the sea to feed the fish."

After the soldier's words were finished, the man who had just shouted immediately cheered in surprise:

"Thank you Daming, thank you Junye, I'll go back to my home in Linxian County now, and I'll never go to Manhattan again."

He cheered and began to dig into his pocket, took out a red pamphlet, jumped onto the soldier's dinghy and handed it over.

The soldier took it over and checked it, and it was indeed the official household register issued by Lin County recently.

The exit information above shows that he left Linn County and went to Manhattan a few days after the imperial examination.

After a little thought, the soldier put the man in his dinghy and prepared to take him across the river.

At the same time, the interpreter translated the words of the Ming soldiers, and the small boat on the opposite side immediately became a mess.

The passengers on the small boat were not just the man, but a large group of dozens of people.

Their purpose was clearly to take refuge on Long Island.

In the past two months, fighting between the British and French forces and the United States and Canada has begun, and panic has begun to spread in Maryland and New Jersey, which are closest to the battlefield.

It's just that Long Island has always been in a state of peace and stability, so the people on the island don't feel anything.

When the British and French fleets officially attacked Staten Island, officially threatening New York and New Jersey, panic broke out.

No ordinary person likes war, and in the eyes of ordinary people there, the safest place is the Dongyi Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty.

So in the past two days, some people have tried to cross the river by boat.

But Daming's patrols have been cruising at high intensity, prohibiting anyone from crossing the East River at will.

Only those who have registered in Linn County can pass.

All the others who came to try their luck were driven back or sent directly to the bottom of the sea with people and boats.

On this ship, there were only three people in total who were really from Linxian County, and they were picked up by Daming's patrol boat and taken to the other side.

This kind of thing, in these days, has been happening one after another.

The situation is even worse in the right Changshi Mansion, Dongyi Peninsula.

The Dongyi Peninsula is connected to the United States on land, and the border line is relatively long, and it is closer to the battlefield.

From time to time, before the war began again, people secretly crossed the border.

Now that the war is back in flames, there are even more Americans in Maryland running to the Dongyi Peninsula.

Even if the garrison of the Right Changshi Mansion laid out barbed wire on the border line, there were still people trying to cross it every day.

Mu Yongfu had to send a new militia and deploy a manpower cordon along the border barbed wire.

Li Qingsong, the commander of the newly formed militia banner of Wei County, led his subordinates to leave Wei County to support the guard on the western border of Cecil.

The border of Maryland in western Cecil County is a river, and the water at the mouth of the river is so deep that there is a harbor.

But as the river extends upwards for ten kilometers, it is similar to many other rivers in North Yinzhou.

The width of the water surface is about one kilometer, but the depth of the water is only more than one meter in most areas, and the water depth is less than one meter in many places, and there are many sandbars in the middle of the river.

It's August now, and the weather is not too cold, and the Taisi people who really want to run here can even skip the boat and directly wade or swim across the river.

Therefore, the defense and vigilance of this river bank has become a relatively important task.

Due to the possibility of encountering people at any time, the Ming officers had no way to communicate with the local people, and even within the new militia.

Therefore, Erica, the female translator who worked as a translator for Li Qingsong during the training, is still by Li Qingsong's side, serving as the chief translator and the civilian recorder in the team.

Erica has passed the exam and has become an official translator and civil servant in Dongyi Kingdom, although she prefers to stay in the Changshi Mansion, but she is also satisfied with the job in front of her.

Now it is with Li Qingsong, sitting on the bank of the river blowing the cool autumn breeze and enjoying the comfortable scenery around him.

It would be better if someone didn't bother from time to time.

Erica thought to herself, and an inappropriate picture appeared in front of her.

Carrying a small boat on their backs, the three young men of Tessie trotted all the way from the opposite shore to the water's edge, put down the boat and paddled in this direction.

The soldiers on duty sounded the warning order, and Li Qingsong and several resting officers jumped up at the same time.

"Shoot and intercept it now! Warn each other not to cross the river! ”

Erica jumped up and went to translate the orders for the Tessie soldiers.

A Yin soldier had already taken control of a machine gun mounted on the shore and fired a dozen rounds at the water.

The original intention was to warn and dissuade.

But as soon as the gunshots rang out here, the three young people from Tessie over there seemed to be startled and jumped directly into the water.

Li Qingsong frowned and continued to issue orders:

"Everyone disperses along the riverbank, and if they find a suspicious person ashore and do not obey the order, they can open fire directly."

Erica translates the order and tells Tessie's soldiers to split up their work.

Li Qingsong held his rifle and observed the situation on the water.

Soon after, on the shore near his side, a man's head was exposed, as if to ventilate.

Li Qingsong kept a straight face, waited for the other party to climb ashore, and when he tried to run inland, he directly pulled the board machine, and a bullet hit the ground in front of the other party.

The young man stopped at once, and cried out in English rather frightened:

"Don't shoot! Don't shoot, I don't have malicious intent......"

Li Qingsong couldn't understand what the other party was calling, and at the same time as Erica translated, the two soldiers had already greeted him.

A Yin soldier swung the butt of his rifle and smashed it the side of the young man Tessie, knocking him directly to the ground.

The two Tessie soldiers in the back immediately followed, tying each other's hands and feet with the ropes they had prepared.

The other two young Tessie who tried to cross the border had also been caught by other soldiers, tied their hands and escorted over.

Li Qingsong asked them to tie their hands and feet, and threw the three of them on the ground together, so that the soldiers could continue to be vigilant.

Erica picked up her notebook and went over to interrogate and record the situation of the three Tessie youths as scheduled.

Before opening his mouth, he directly mocked:

"You Tessie men are really wastes and cowards, instead of fighting for your country, they fled to Daming."

When a young man from Tessie heard Erica's taunt, he immediately twisted his body very excitedly and said loudly:

"We're not cowards, we just don't want to fight our own people, Virginia and Maryland are both English."

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The other immediately continued:

"We don't know exactly which side is our country, what's the difference between England, Scotland, and the United States?"

The last one also said aloud:

"My parents are both Dutch! Why should I follow the British to fight the British? ”

While recording the situation, Erica continued to ask rhetorically with a look of disgust:

"You don't want to go to war, why do you support American independence? Why join the North? ”

A young man from Tessie immediately exclaimed:

"We didn't join the North, we didn't join any side, and we didn't think about independence!"

Erica went on to ask rhetorically:

"You don't want independence, so why didn't you object to Adams when he wanted independence?

"You don't want to fight for independence, so why don't you fight for independence?

"Why don't you rebel against Adams and Napoleon? Wait until the British and French troops arrive before thinking about escaping?

"Anyway, you are always like this, and you will never dare to take responsibility."

The three young men of Tessie are all big, and they are messily asking rhetorical questions and questions:

"Why are you unreasonable, why don't we go against Adams? Do we stand a chance against Adams? ”

"It's not up to us to decide whether to be independent or not, we're just three ordinary people."

"What does Napoleon, that Frenchman have to do with us?"

Erica listened to their doubts, but she was even more disgusted:

"Emperor Shizu of the Ming Dynasty said that the rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband, but you don't have this kind of consciousness at all.

"You are born ignorant, but you don't know how to learn, you can only go with the flow, how can you have good results?"

In a mocking tone, Erica communicates with the three Tessie youths for a while, noting down some key points.

After sorting out his thoughts, he returned to Li Qingsong and reported:

"Mr. Qi, these three Tessies, one is of English descent, one is of Scottish descent, and one is of Dutch descent.

"They are all ordinary people who are ignorant, ignorant, and numb, who don't know why they are fighting, and they don't want to fight.

"They all want to escape the war and escape to the safest Daming, what should we do with them?"

Li Qingsong looked back, and the three young people from Taixi were still struggling from time to time:

"Since they are all ordinary people, if they are starved on the ground for a day with their hands and feet, they will be punished slightly, and they will be sent back to the other side tomorrow."

Erica listened and took a step forward, and was only less than half a meter away from Li Qingsong, and said with exaggerated admiration:

"Mr. Qi, you are really too merciful......"

Li Qingsong's expression was a little strange, obviously the same thing had happened several times, and he basically handled it like this.

As a result, this woman behaved very exaggerated every time, and every time she pressed so hard to her side, she couldn't wait to stick it up.

If he wasn't a soldier, if it weren't for the military regulations, he would have corrected this girl on the spot dozens of times.

When is this life a head......