On the surface of the Lingding Ocean, when the afterglow of the twilight sun sprinkled the entire sea, the "fleet" composed of dozens of bluffing boats was plowing white waves on the sea.

The so-called bluff is actually a small galley warship, which has good maneuverability, is easy to turn around and turn, because it has both sails and long oars, so it is very flexible in the offshore sea where the wind direction is changeable, and it can also move quickly in inland rivers. Therefore, it is a light ship that is very suitable for inland and offshore operations, anti-smuggling, and smuggling.

This bluff fleet was composed of seventy or eighty bluff boats, each of which had 20 to 30 green battalion sailors, with a total strength of 1,000 and hundreds of less than 2,000.

At the head of the group was a larger "big bluff" than an ordinary bluff boat, with a full 31 officers and men on it, including 18 oarsmen, a helmsman, two drummers, two flag bearers, a bow boat, six Goshha and the general soldiers of Humen Sailor Town!

This is still a flagship!

Under the leadership of this bluff flagship, more than 70 bluffing boats launched a bluffing team on the sea surface of Lingding Ocean, along the east coast of Xiangshan County, all the way south.

The Qing Dynasty may still be the Qing Dynasty's Guangdong Navy Division, Chen Shikai, the chief soldier of Humen Town, is sitting on a Taishi chair in his flagship "command cabin" (that is, a shack built with curved bamboo and reed mats), his face is pale, his forehead is full of cold sweat, and he keeps swallowing something—he is seasick, and he feels a strong feeling of vomiting, although there is nothing to vomit for a long time.

Although this Chen Shikai is a brave general in the Kuidong area, he has made the thirteen rebels in Kuidong suffer a lot, and he is also "amphibious", and none of the rivers in the Kuidong area can stop him. But "amphibious" is not the same as "amphibious"! Since he became the chief soldier of Humen Town, he knew that the sea and the Yangtze River are not a little more water and a little windier at all. It's that there's so much water that you can't see the edge. The wind was too strong to blow the whole sea.

It can take 30 people and spend hundreds of materials to build a "big boat", which is as small as a leaf on the sea surface of Lingdingyang, and a real light boat can only drift with the wind and keep swaying. Chen Shikai, who was originally not seasick in Huguang, was almost dizzy as soon as he went to sea today, vomiting more than a dozen times along the way, and now he has no strength to stand, so he has to sit in the "command cabin" and "command" the fleet to go south to attack Macao. I don't know if this sneak attack can be done?

If it really doesn't work, it's better to go back.

Just when Chen Shikai's heart began to retreat, the bow of the bluffing ship, which was holding the mast outside the cabin to investigate, suddenly shouted: "Master Zongzhen, smoke is billowing on the southwest shore. It should be that Hao Ao City is on fire! ”

Hao O on fire?

Is that Wang Guodong's fake Aobai successful?

Thinking of the gold and silver mountains in Haoao City, Chen Shikai forgot about seasickness for a while, stood up suddenly, rushed out of his "command cabin" with a brisk step, stood on the bow of this bluffing ship, and then stretched his neck to look southwest.

Sure enough, there was a lot of smoke!

And there was not just one pillar of smoke, but several pillars of smoke raised at the same time!

It seems that there is a mess in the city! Knowing that the opportunity could not be missed, General Chen hurriedly ordered loudly: "The commander will order the whole team to march urgently, and we must go to Macao City tonight!" Let's cooperate with Wang Xietai and take Macau in one go! ”

The bow of the boat under Chen Shikai was stunned when he heard this order, "Zong Rong, you said you want to take Macao?" ”

"This is the official's order!"

"But isn't Macau the seat of the Canton Customs Road now? That's the territory directly under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Court's Internal Affairs Office, if we want to take Macao, isn't it a rebellion? ”

Chen Shikai was asked by his subordinates, and he was stunned for a moment, not knowing how to answer.

What he's doing now seems to be a real rebellion!

But he is obviously a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty, why is he confused?

"Mr. Rong, are we going to reverse?"

"It's long overdue!"

"Zong Rong, have we already taken refuge in Xin'an's Wu Siye and Aobai?"

"Great!"

"Finally waiting!"

The soldiers of Humen Sailor Town, who were rowing boats, heard that they were going to rebel, and they all came to their hearts. It's good to rebel! Rebellion has a future! If the rebellion is successful, everyone will be the founding heroes in the future, and no matter how bad it is, they will have the treatment of the bannermen of Pingnan Wangfu, right?

Hearing the discussion of a group of Guangdong soldiers below, Chen Shikai was helpless. Who are these people? Is this the Qing Dynasty spending money to support the Guangdong sailors who protect smuggling? But there's nothing he can do about these alternate thieves now.

Because his own soldiers are all landlubbers, most of them are now staying at the Humen Fort and Shajiao Fort, and now there are only six Goshha on this bluffing boat with him, and they are all seasick and faint.

Thinking of this, he gritted his teeth and stomped his foot: "Yes, it's against him. Enter Macau and rob it for three days! Add a paddle and paddle hard! ”

"Huh!" The people below cheered!

"Bow to you!"

"King Pingnan is reversed!"

"Wang Fuchen is reversed!"

"Wang's head is reversed!"

"Ao worships and the king of the south are reversed."

The night has gradually shrouded, and in the city of Macau, it is already a rebellious!

Guangzhou's people who worship Wang Guodong and Huang Linsheng and Huang Siye shouted everywhere, "Ao worship is here".

A group of gentry from the three counties who were instigated by Huang Linsheng shouted everywhere, "King Pingnan has rebelled," "Wang Fuchen has rebelled," and "Wang Datou has rebelled." Some of them felt that Wang Datou and his father Wang Fuchen had done something and that the Juntian Township soldiers were obviously rebelling! Others felt that Wang Fuchen and Wang Zhongxiao were both officials of the Qing Dynasty and persecuted them on behalf of the Qing Dynasty, so they wanted to rebel with King Pingnan!

And the Wenzhou iron soldiers brought by He Tianran, who were ordered to suppress Shenzhen, shouted everywhere in the commercial market, "Ao Bai and the King of Pingnan are reversed together" - Ao Bai and the King of Pingnan are reversed together, so Wang Zhongxiao will not be able to enter the army in Guangfu in the name of justice? Anyway, Wang Shang Kexi of Pingnan is the public enemy of the Cantonese in Guangdong, and whether he is against it or not, it will not prevent the Cantonese from opposing him!

And such a shout, well, there is a group of anti-thieves in this Macau city! Wang Zhongxiao is an anti-thief, Shang Kexi, who opposes Wang Zhongxiao, is also an anti-thief, and Aobai who came out of nowhere is even more anti-thief!

But why can't these three gangs of thieves unite to fight together? Each is against each other, and the anti-thief and the anti-thief are still fighting, what is this what the hell is called?

And the anti-thieves on the Guangdong side, whether it is the gentry anti-thieves, the sea anti-thieves, or the peasant anti-thieves, they are all relatively capable of fighting, and they will come to a clan fight every three or five times!

Although in the face of the green battalion soldiers who have not yet decayed, their weapon fighting skills are not very reliable (they still have to practice again, and when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom rises, they will be more powerful than the green battalion), but at this time, there is chaos in a crowded commercial market, and the martial arts honed by the weapon fighting are still quite useful.

To the northwest of the castle of Macau, on the site set aside for the gentry of the three counties, it was now in chaos, with fires everywhere, shouts everywhere, crackling gunshots everywhere, and screams from the dying everywhere.

He Tianran and Wang Shiyuan have already led their men to suppress it!

But the effect of the suppression is not very good, not that He Tian's iron man soldiers are not good at combat effectiveness, but that these iron men are the elite of the Zheng family and "Shen Aobai" on Dayuan Island, which are already famous.

Therefore, the group of gentry of the three counties and their families saw the iron deck of the brigade carrying the Pu knife and drove in, and thought that it was the people of Aobai, who originally did not plan to rebel, but now they also made a fuss.

And the fast class and strong squad under Wang Shiyuan and Zhang Baosan, to put it bluntly, are government servants, and their combat effectiveness is not strong, and the guys who are equipped are also used to catch thieves, and now they meet anti-thieves, they will definitely not be able to hold back!

What's even more troublesome is that Wang Guodong and Huang Linsheng's gang also smuggled some handcuffs (pistols) into the commercial market, crackled and beat them indiscriminately, and set fires everywhere, causing chaos in the northwest corner of the commercial market.

He Tianran's Wenzhou iron soldiers rushed and killed several times, not only failed to succeed, but made this area even more chaotic!

And Wang Shiyuan and Zhang Baosan's people were even more unlucky, they wanted to maintain order at first, but they ran into "Guangzhou Aobai" next to a ruin that had just passed the fire!

The "Guangzhou Aobai" didn't know who he had met, and when he saw a big bald head wearing a round-necked robe with a group of officials, he picked up the Pu knife in his hand and pointed forward, and shouted: "Bah! A certain family is to worship General Hu in the sky, and the third prince of Zhu in the Ming Dynasty ordered to take Macau and so on, and they will not return quickly! ”

This stunned Wang Shiyuan.

By the order of the third prince of Zhu. Why didn't the third prince himself know? This Aobai. Which third prince of Zhu was he ordered to?

Before he could answer in a hurry, there was another shout behind him: "Ao Bai is coming!" Ao Bai is here with the Iron Man Soldiers! ”

With this burst of shouting, I saw a group of men with torches, holding knives, and wearing iron armor appeared behind Wang Shiyuan and them, and this group of "iron men" was also followed by a group of "cheering and shouting", that is, they were shouting what "Ao Bai is coming"!

Of course, they shouted in Cantonese, and He Tianran was from Shaanxi, and most of the iron men under him were from Wenzhou, so they couldn't understand what these Cantonese people were shouting?

However, Wang Guodong has been in Guangdong for many years and understands Cantonese, so he laughed wildly at the moment: "Dog thief, you have been surrounded!" ”

It's surrounded!

There is a bow in front and a bow in the back. The belly and back are worshipped, where else can this run?

But there's always something wrong with that!

"Wang Xietai, that's not right!" Huang Linsheng had already come to Wang Guodong's side at this time, and said in a trembling voice, "Why is there one more worship?" ”

"One more bow?" When Wang Guodong heard this, he was also dumbfounded.

That's a lot!

He's the Aobai!

How about another one on the other side. Or with the Iron Man Soldiers!

Did you meet a real worship?

As soon as Wang Guodong thought that he had met the real Aobai, he was immediately intimidated!

Can you not be cowardly?

What grade is he, and what grade is he worshipping? How could he possibly beat Aobai? If he had this ability, he would have led his troops to recover Xin'an, Shenzhen, Kowloon and Xiangdao!

And what kind of soldier came with Aobai? That's the Iron Man! They are all wearing iron armor, how can he fight?

"That's true, really run away!"

Wang Guodong coaxed, of course, his own soldiers were even more cowardly, they all knew that their master was a fake Aobai, and now that the fake Aobai met the real Aobai, why don't you hurry up and smear the soles of your feet with oil?

As a result, before the fight began, this group of "Aobai's subordinates" sold "Aobai", shouting that the real Aobai was coming, and running away.

Wang Guodong and Huang Linsheng saw that the people under them had run away, and they didn't dare to fight, so let's run together. If you don't run, you'll die!

At this time, the gentry and their relatives who rebelled with the "fake worship" were dumbfounded. They are in the wrong place!

How good is that? Can it be corrected?

But what happened next plunged them into complete despair.

Because that "Zhen Ao Bai" actually merged with the Macau Governor Wang Shiyuan, not to arrest Master Wang, but to get together with Master Wang, and led a "bearded Ao Bai" and saluted Master Wang!

Obviously, this group of iron men did not come from Shenzhen at all, they were iron men trained by Wang Zhongxiao!

Then I heard the "bearded Aobai" shouting: "Sons, the one wearing a red hat in front of you is Aobai, grab Aobai, kill!" ”

The one who wears a red hat is Wang Guodong, and everyone else is a red scarf, so he is the only one who wears a red hat!

Hearing him roar like this, those guys who followed the coaxing were almost faint!

This is a real worship for a while, a fake worship for a while, and a fake worship for a while! Is this worship true or false?

Just when they were about to faint, the group of iron men had already shouted the slogan of "Catch Aobai", and rushed up with a simple knife. However, they are not the target of the iron man, He Tianran has only one goal, that is the fake worship!

Those unlucky gentry are all Wang Shiyuan's dishes. It was just right for Wang Shiyuan's subordinates to catch them quickly and to go to prison.

"It's Ao Bai who wears a red hat in front of you!"

"Grab the Ao!"

"Catch the Aobai, there will be a reward"

Wang Guodong and Huang Linsheng tried their best to escape, but they couldn't get rid of the chasing soldiers behind them, and they only heard a burst of Wenzhou officials shouting "Catch Ao Bai".

The fake Aobai met the real Aobai, but the real Aobai caught the fake Aobai as the real Aobai. This real worship and fake worship are all worship, so why kill each other!

The two of them didn't know how long they had been running, but they didn't stop panting when the night completely covered Macau, and a bright moon and stars had hung up in the sky, and they stopped breathing—not to throw off the pursuers, but to see an ocean in front of them.

They ran from the vicinity of the inner harbor of Haojiang to the beach east of Macau!

It's not that the two of them are in a panic, but the terrain of Macao is originally a peninsula, and the entrance is very narrow, and a Gongbei narrow is built to block it. So they had to run to the beach on the east side of the Macau Peninsula. Moreover, Wang Guodong had made an appointment with Chen Shikai, the chief soldier of the Humen Naval Division, at the junction of the east coast of the Macao Peninsula - if the uprising of "Guangzhou Aobai" in Macao was successful, Chen Shikai's sailors would take advantage of the situation to land!

If the uprising is unsuccessful, then Wang Guodong's plan to escape on Chen Shikai's ship is very good, but the question is what about Chen Dabing's ship?

Wang Guodong and Huang Linsheng searched the sea with wide eyes, but they didn't see the "bluff boat" of the Guangdong sailors at all, but there was a large bird boat with many lanterns hanging and shining in the dark.

This kind of large bird ship is not comparable to bluffing boats, this is a large ship of thousands of materials, very strong, you can install several layers of "red-clothed small cannons" on the side side, and you can also run the Zheng family pirates on the ocean Dayuan Island are equipped with a large number of big bird boats, it is said that there are also such bird boats on Xiangdao!

I don't know whose house this bird boat is?

When Wang Guodong and Huang Linsheng were pondering, the shouts behind them became louder and louder: "Seize the Aobai, there is a lot of appreciation on the beach!" ”

The pursuers are coming!

Wang Guodong and Huang Linsheng are in such a hurry!

They are now guilty of impersonating Aobai and rebelling. If he is caught by Wang Zhongxiao's people, he will definitely be punished for rebellion! But if you are caught by the worshippers. It's definitely a dead end!

This is really no way to heaven and no way to enter the earth!

"There is a small boat on the water in front of Wang Xietai!"

At this moment, Wang Guodong's only remaining personal soldier roared.

Wang Guodong and Huang Linsheng took a look. Really! There is really a life-saving boat on the water, and it is not very small, it seems to be a bluffing boat with more than a dozen oars, and there is a big man standing in the bow of the boat, with a bald head and no hat, could it be Chen Shikai?

The two of them didn't care about seeing what was going on, so hurry up and get into the water, maybe they will have to live when they get on the boat.

The bluffing boat seemed to have spotted them too, and came towards them in the dark. Wang Guodong and Huang Linsheng felt that they were saved, and shouted while dripping water: "Chen Zongrong save me, I am Wang Guodong!" ”

The people on the bluffing boat seemed to hear their shouts, so they sailed towards them, and after a while, they came to the two of them, and the two long poles stretched out, Wang Guodong and Huang Linsheng thought they were coming to catch them, so they reached out to grab them, but the black light blinded them and didn't catch them, and they slapped the two long poles on the head twice, and their eyes were dark, and they all fainted

(End of chapter)