The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

Chapter 563

The rumors in Li Guopei's camp shook the morale of the army, and they were so depressed that they searched for half a day but couldn't find out the root cause.Fortunately, Dai Xian still has the heart to make progress, and personally manages the matter of grain, grass and warships.The rumors in the army changed, and it became that although Fujian did not send troops and horses, General Li put a knife on the neck of the fourth-rank official in exchange for food and grass.Fuzhou city is stepping up the search for the assassin who assassinated the general Zheng Chao'er, and the whole city is in panic.The rumors in Li Guopei's camp changed again, saying that his family protected the assassin, and he sent him to become the assassin less than half a day later, and Wan Zhang became the assassin that night.

In the afternoon of the next day, Dai Xian personally came to the camp to see Li Guopei.After probing for half a day, he finally asked cautiously: "I wonder if there is a general named Wan Zhang under General Li's tent?"

Li Guopei said: "There is indeed such a person, but he never came with the army and stayed at the station."

"Oh oh oh..." Dai Xian nodded again and again, "Now the officials have heard rumors that the news came from your camp." Li Guopei glanced at him.Dai Xian said quietly, "Rumors say that the assassin who assassinated Mr. Zheng happened to be named Wan Zhang."

Li Guopei shouted angrily: "Bold!"

Dai Xian said with a flattering smile: "The general calms down, the officer is just asking."

Li Guopei said angrily: "General Wan is thousands of miles away, how can he be blamed for no reason?" Dai Xian hurriedly apologized.

Just as he was talking, a soldier came in and said: "A general came from outside the tent, saying that he is the deputy general under the command of Mr. Zheng, the Fujian general. I have something to see the general."

Dai Xian looked at the soldier and then at Li Guopei, and immediately said: "Then... General Li is very busy, so I won't bother you as an officer. Let's take my leave now, hahaha..." He said on the side. He clasped his hand over the wall, and before he could finish his sentence, Dai Xian's feet were smeared with oil, and he ran faster than a rabbit.

Li Guopei stumbled: "Incompetent!"

Naturally, the lieutenant sent by Zheng Chao'er also came to inquire about Wan Zhang.Li Guopei categorically denied it, and only said that he would investigate where the rumors started.However, the deputy general was very good at eloquence, and he blocked Li Guopei with a few words, so he swore: "If there is such a person as Wan Zhang in the old man's camp at this time, it will be thundered immediately!" He said so confidently, the deputy general I finally believed it and bowed down to apologize.After this person left, Li Guopei breathed a sigh of relief.Since Wan Zhang was not in his camp, Cai Cai was not guilty of the oath just now.

After this wave, Li Guopei completely lost his desire to join forces with Fujian, and only urged Dai Xian to prepare things quickly.Dai Xian also felt that it was extremely unsafe for them to stay outside the city. It would be better to spend money to avoid disaster and send the Buddha to heaven earlier.A few days later, warships, grain and grass were all ready.Li Guopei was not familiar with the place where he was born, so Dai Xian sent some veterans from the Fujian Navy, these people are good at sailing ships and can distinguish the channel on the vast water.Li Guopei then led the troops to board the ship from Fuzhou Port.As for Wan Zhang, I don't care where he went.

When the fleet enters the sea, there will inevitably be some rapids and hidden reefs along the way, because Zheng Chaoer's chart is clear, the veterans sent by Dai Xian are experienced, and Li Guopei is a persuasion, they all avoided the past without any danger.Li Guopei secretly sighed: Zheng Chao'er was disregarding major issues because of his anger with his colleagues, but this chart is accurate and detailed, and it is not without merit.Although Dai Xian is somewhat incompetent, he does things wholeheartedly.If the two of them can work together with him, why worry about Jia Lian's injustice?

For a while, Li Guopei took the chart Zheng Chaoer gave him and put it on the table together with the chart he brought from Jinggangshan, and discussed with several generals under his command to occupy Ping An Harbor first after landing, and then divide the troops into two groups: one to defend Chengtian Mansion, the other to go to Dajiala New City, which Zheng Chaoer specially circled.While discussing, a soldier suddenly shouted: "General! There seem to be two ships coming towards us." Li Guopei frowned: "Explore again!" Nai stood up and led the people out of the cabin and onto the deck .

Looking from a distance, two small boats rowed over like arrows.The boat is not big, just like two leaves in front of the warship.One of them approached in the blink of an eye, and Li Guopei was about to ask someone to ask, when a boat lady wearing a turban suddenly lit up and sang. "I have been fishing in Liao'erwa all my life, and I don't plant green seedlings or hemp. Kill all the cruel officials and corrupt officials, and repay Zhao's family loyally." She sang the words of Ruan Xiaowu in Water Margin, and she was probably a traitor.Li Guopei ordered "Take it!" But the boat was nimble, and it rowed away from Li Guopei's warship in the blink of an eye.

Another boat came again.A strong man above sang. "The red sun is scorching like fire, and the rice in the wild fields is half scorched. The heart of the farmer is like soup, and the son and grandson shake their fans." It is another word in the Water Margin.Li Guopei shouted, "Fight!" Some soldiers raised their guns and shot at the boat.The boat was also generally nimble, passing through and rowing away among dozens of warships.Li Guopei felt bad and ordered everyone to be more careful.

Unexpectedly, after waiting for half an hour, nothing happened.Li Guopei became more and more uneasy, not sure who owned the two small boats and what was the plan behind them.Jarvis from the Taiwan government has suffered for Wan Zhang, and he is best at using water and fire.Nai thought to himself, "Could the news have been leaked, and Jia Lian is on guard?"

The lieutenant general said: "The theory says no. Whether it is the people in Fuzhou or us, they only say that we are the Fujian Navy and went into the sea for drills."

Li Guopei thought for a moment, pointed to the map and said: "There is a port in the north of this island, why don't we go around here and land." "Jilong Port" is written on the chart.

The generals looked at it, and thought about the two small boats just now, they all agreed: "General Mingjian."

Li Guopei ordered someone to ask the Fujian sailor sent by Dai Xian to ask. The old soldier said: "I have never been to this port. I heard that it was built by Western Maozi a hundred years ago. After the founding of the dynasty, the mother-grandfather sent sailors to drive away After Xiyangmaozi left, the port was abandoned as a fishing port. Later Jia Zhifu came and said that Ping’an Port was close to Fujian and Chengtian Prefecture, and vigorously built Ping’an Port, and there were fewer and fewer merchants there. Today it is still a fishing port. It’s big, in the early days when the Westerners were still there, there were many Western merchant ships berthing there.”

Li Guopei said: "Since it was established by Westerners to do business, it must not be small."

But at this moment, a general looked at the chart carefully and said: "My lord, this chart of Mr. Zheng is somewhat different from the chart on our mountain."

Li Guopei saw that the labeling of Jilonggang was really different.The port on Zheng Chao'er's chart is more northwest than the port on their own chart.Where Jilong Harbor is marked on the Jinggangshan chart, Yeliu Harbor is written on Zheng Chaoer's chart; where Jilong Harbor is marked on Zheng Chaoer's chart, there is no port on the Jinggangshan chart.And the topography of the two places is also different, both maps are Jilong Hong Kong University.Li Guopei asked the Fujian sailor, and the man pointed to Zheng Chaoer's sea chart and said, "That's right. Yeliu Port is a small broken port where birds can't lay eggs. Thanks to the master mapper." Li Guopei remembered that this journey was all due to Zheng Chaoer's sea chart Figure avoided the rapids and rapids, and nodded.He ordered the whole army to divert to Jilong Port at the northern tip of Taiwan Island.

The boats from Fujian are good and fast.The fleet set off before dawn, and dusk was approaching.Li Guopei ordered the soldiers to have a full meal and prepare to go ashore to kill the enemy.The horizon was already visible in the distance, and all the soldiers were full of energy, holding the long knives and western firearms tightly in their hands.

Suddenly hearing a cannon fire, Li Guopei was startled and asked, "What's the matter?"

He saw a big ship rushing out from behind, bigger than his own, with western cannons on the bows.Li Guopei immediately knew that the Taiwan government was on guard, so he sneered, "Don't we have artillery?" The Taiwan government's cannons arrived first, and they shot over like rain. Unfortunately, the accuracy was so poor that they didn't even touch Li Jun's flagpole.Li Guopei laughed loudly, and said: "It's indecent to come and not to go." The order was "fire!" Li Jun's gunners also aimed at the ships of the Taiwan government and fired.Li Jun's guns were not accurate, and they fought for half a day. Not only did they miss the Taiwan government's ship, but they missed it badly.The Taiwan government is getting more and more aggressive, throwing shells over like they don't want money, but they still can't hit them accurately.

Li Guopei saw that his subordinates were still uncertain, so he became anxious and cursed at him.Naiqin came to the cannon at the bow and kicked the artilleryman: "What are they doing for food!"

The artilleryman calmly said: "My lord, don't worry, the aim of their artillery is crooked. The humble job has already learned the rules."

Li Guopei stumbled: "Where did they buy it!" He ordered the artillerymen of the ships to be ordered, and the sight of the artillery might not be good.Not long after, the ships came back with news, and all the artillerymen found out about it, and they were all trying to adjust their minds.Li Guopei sighed, "It's all my fault. I left in such a hurry that I didn't let everyone have a good time trying these cannons."

Not long after, all the gunners got their hands on the temper of the artillery, and gradually some of them hit the warship near the Taiwan government.Li Guopei laughed loudly: "Okay!" Before he said it, a cannonball landed beside his warship with a "boom", which startled the old man.Looking at the artillerymen of the Taiwan government, it seemed that they had also found their sights. The mast of the ship next to them was shot first.Cannons rained down.The soldiers came to report that another ship had been hit.Before Li Guopei had time to ask for details, the surroundings were already full of flames.

Li Guopei urgently ordered: "Fight! Concentrate firepower on their leading ship, the one with the banner." Li Jun's ships immediately abandoned their nearby targets, and the artillery rushed to aim at the largest ship in the Taiwan government.Although there were many enemy ships, only one had a flag, and on the flagpole was a large "Wu" character.After a few blows, a shell hit the bow of the ship.The artilleryman seemed to be frightened, so he left the cannon and ran away!Li Guopei laughed when he heard the newspaper.

After laughing a few times, soldiers came and went: their boat was badly damaged.Li Guopei was in a hurry and ordered to fight again!The ship with the "Wu" flag was bombarded by Li Jun for half a day, shaking and about to sink.But at this moment, the warships of the Taiwan government that surrounded Li Jun in a semicircle suddenly all hung up banners, all of them were "Wu".Li Guopei originally thought that the enemy leader must be on that ship, but the enemy army was not at all disturbed.Li Guopei shuddered suddenly: "Not good, I'm afraid I've been fooled!" Then he saw countless warships rushing up behind these enemy ships, so densely packed that I don't know the number.

One of his generals came over and clasped his fists and said, "My lord, it's not good! The shells of the artillery in the cabin, except for those on the surface, are good, and many of the rest are squibs!"

Li Guopei shouted: "What?!"

The general stumbled and said: "There are many squibs in the shells in the cabin! It can't be seen from the outside, the medicine cores inside are all mixed with soil! If you shoot them out, they will at most be used as catapults!"

"It's unreasonable!" Li Guopei stomped on the plank of the ship anxiously, "I'm going to kill Dai Xian!"

The Fujian veteran who was beside him snorted: "What good thing can Dai Xian give!"

Li Guopei grabbed the veteran by the collar: "What are you talking about? Why can't Dai Xian give you something good?"

The old soldier was frightened and shouted: "Don't do the villain's work!"

Li Guopei gritted his teeth and released him: "Say!"

The veteran then said: "Dai Xian was originally the No. [-] official businessman in Tianzi, Fujian. He does all kinds of business and loves doing business with the government the most. The things Dai's family buys for the government are like this. The first few are good. Call that a sample. When it’s time for serious shipments, all of them will be sold as good ones, and it will take many times, so that you can’t see people at all. The price is still the price of a good product. He has a good relationship with Master Huang, and he will flatter and suck He is willing to give gifts every day, but Master Huang doesn't care about him. Now Master Huang is sick, and the whole Fujian is in his hands. General, you let him give the boat and the things. These are not done by the government! It must be him Made by Dai’s shipyard~~ Take the tax money from Mr. Huang’s warehouse to buy the ship from his Dai’s shipyard.” He pointed to his feet, “I dare say that only this ship belongs to General Li, and Guanbao is All right; the rest—" He rolled his fingers outward, "It's good to have one good ship out of ten!"

Li Guopei couldn't help being startled.After a long while, he said grimly, "Dai Xian, how dare he?"

"If you don't believe me, just look it up!" The veteran snorted, "He dared to adulterate even the emperor's stuff, what else would he not dare to do. There is no evidence anyway, and no one can blame him."

"Ah—" Li Guopei angrily drew out the saber from his waist and slashed at the veteran.Thanks to the nimbleness of the veteran's feet, "Zi Liu" ran away.There were fireworks everywhere, and no one stopped him.

Li Guopei's confidant lieutenant general took a few breaths, and stepped forward to persuade him: "My lord, since there may be something wrong with the ship, anyway, this place is close to Jilong Port, so hurry up and go ashore first."

Li Guopei thought about it, there was really no other way, he gritted his teeth and cursed twice, "Traitors are harming the country", and ordered to retreat to the shore.Although I thought there might be an ambush, it was better than letting the duds destroy the ship and die at sea.

A general looked around for a while, and wondered: "Our artillery sights are not good. It took half a day to sink only one of their ships. Could it be that Jia Lian's artillery sights are also not good? The ship didn't sink either?"

Li Guopei was in a hurry at the moment, he didn't have time to think about it, and scolded: "Are you still looking forward to sinking a few ships?" The man didn't dare to say anything.

In the midst of artillery fire, Li Guopei's warships gradually retreated to Jilong Port.Only when I got there did I realize that Jilong Port is so small that it can't accommodate so many big ships at all!It's just that they didn't care too much at this moment. Dozens of large ships were crowded together, and each ship was on fire.Those who are close to the shore will jump to the shore, and those who are far away will jump to other boats before running in.

There is a small slope not far from Jilong Port, and there is a person lying in the grass on the slope.The woman in the lead looked at the port with a binoculars in her hand, and praised: "It's not chaotic! Look, every ship has been drilled by Wu You, and there are not enough berths in the port, so they can be pulled ashore in such a neat way. .This Li Guopei really has two tricks."

The man beside her said: "Want to accept it?"

The woman said: "I think. He is really a master who is good at training soldiers."

"That's not difficult." The man said to the soldiers beside him, "Pass the order to General Wu You. The military commander has an order, and Li Guopei will live." The soldier in camouflage uniform ran away.

At this moment, the Taiwan government's fleet has gradually surrounded the port, forming a half circle.