The "Da Bo Ling" that boarded the Penglai, the flagship of the Dengzhou Navy, in full view of the public and watched by several telescopes, was of course a fake... but it was not completely fake. The "bo" was quite a bit,

It's not all about covers and cushions. This person is Aoi Saiwu, a maid that Zhu Heji took in Macau. She took over the house very early, but she never had a title until Zhu Heji took over Nanjing and became the Ming Dynasty.

I just gave her the title of waiter...

This time, she was asked to be Obo Rei's "Kage Musha". This time, she was swaggering around the market to attract attention and create the illusion that Zhu Heji had arrived in Dengzhou.

The generals who actually presided over the expedition in Dengzhou were not one person, but three people on the big ship in Aoi. They were Liu Jinzhong, the governor of Liaodong, and Jiang Sheng, the admiral of the Dengzhou navy.

, Admiral Zhao Hongkui of the Liaodong Army.

In addition to the three of them, there were also Princess Kunxing on the ship who was in charge of Dengzhou affairs in place of Zhu Cijiong, Wang Shiyuan, the prefect of Dengzhou, Zhu Shangxian, who had just been promoted to the chief soldier of Dengzhou Town, and the Dengzhou Qianhu Office of Jinyiwei North Town Prefecture.

Qianhu Wang Zechen - This man was originally a subordinate of Eunuch Pang. His ancestral home is Sichuan. His father was a Dongchang fan who followed Eunuch Pang to the south. Now he is the chief instructor of Jinyi Guardi Cavalry.

He had been hanging out with "little father-in-law" Pang Siming since he was a child. After Pang Siming joined Zhu Heji's team, he also joined. At first, he served in the army, but his talent was obviously not in the battlefield, and later he joined the army.

Pang Siming became the Jinyiwei and was the first generation of Tiqi in the Jinyiwei of the new Ming Dynasty.

When Aoi boarded the ship, Wang Zechen, the highly vigilant spy chief, was squinting his triangular eyes at Wang Shiyuan, the prefect of Dengzhou who was about to go with the army to Liaodong... There was something wrong with this Wang Shiyuan at first sight.

!

He has an unusual relationship with Princess Kunxing. He always goes to the princess's house when he has nothing to do. This is okay, the princess is a widow now, and it is normal for the widow to have many disputes in front of her house. But why does Liu Jinzhong look at him so weirdly? The two of them are so strange.

Are there any unknown secrets?

In addition, why are there tears in Wang Shiyuan's eyes? And why is he so enthusiastic about restoring Liaodong?

Originally, Princess Kunxing arranged for Penglai County Magistrate Wu Xiaobao to take several "big farmers" found in Dengzhou to inspect farmland at Lushunkou opposite, but Wang Shiyuan had to go there himself...

Just when Wang Zechen felt strange, an older woman opened the door of the cabin, got in from the outside, and crossed her hands in a salute to Princess Kunxing: "Princess, Cang Xuan has boarded the ship...

..In addition, the bow of the ship reported that there is now a westerly wind in the sea, and it is possible to raise the sail and go out to sea."

Princess Kunxing nodded, looked around the cabin solemnly, and said with a serious face: "The troubles in my family are ultimately caused by the defeat in Liaodong...Since the rebellion of Nurhaci in the late Wanli year, in the

There are countless famous and loyal generals who died on the battlefield in Liaodong. Nine out of ten of my elite soldiers and generals were lost in Liaodong. This land of Liaodong can really be said to be the place where the souls of millions of kings and masters return, and there are loyal bones everywhere in the green mountains!

Today, 60,000 royal troops went to Liaodong again, not only to regain the lost territory for the imperial court, but also so that these millions of loyal bones could rest in peace on the land of the Ming Dynasty, and also to comfort the spirit of the late emperor in the Ming Dynasty!

It's a pity that as a female streamer, I have the responsibility of staying in Dengzhou, so I can't go to Liao with you... However, I can still pray for the soldiers on the expedition in Penglai Pavilion and Sanqing Palace!"

After hearing what she said, Liu Jinzhong, Jiang Sheng, and Zhao Hongkui all stood up and saluted and thanked Princess Kun.

Princess Kunxing also stood up from her chair, nodded to Liu Jinzhong, Jiang Sheng, and Zhao Hongkui, and said: "The wind direction is right now, you should set off quickly... We are going to Liaodong for three hundred miles. If the wind direction is right,

, we can disembark tomorrow. The loyal souls of Liaodong have been waiting for too long, so you should set off early!"

After saying these words, Princess Kunxing took Zhu Shangxian and Wang Zechen, who were staying in Dengzhou, out of the cabin together, and then went down the gangplank to the pier.

At this time, the sailors on the large sand boat shouted in unison, and the wide bamboo-ribbed hard sail slowly rose to the mast. At the same time, two long poles extended from the deck into the water, slowly pushing the wooden boat away.

Got to the pier.

On the long Dengzhou Commercial Port pier, there are more than a dozen large sand ships that have also completed boarding, and they are also raising their sails one after another.

At the same time, in Dengzhou Water City, there were also more than a dozen large sand ships that had completed boarding, and also raised their sails and sailed out of the port.

On the water outside Dengzhou, the two fleets completed their rendezvous, and then headed northwest toward Liaodong Huangniwa Bay (Dalian Bay) in the setting sun, with the help of the westerly wind.

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Liaodong, Huangniwa, on the evening of November 8th.

Gunshots rang out sporadically, not intensively, but they never stopped. On the sea near the Huangniwa Beach where there was a lot of thin ice floating on the sea, hundreds of sand boats had already washed up directly on the beach.

, the soldiers were busy transporting bags and boxes of supplies to the beach.

Braving the cold wind of Liaodong, the Ming army coming from across the sea burst out with the greatest energy. On and off the ship, there was a lot of excitement.

Because there are too many ships and troops concentrated in Dengzhou, and the capacity of Dengzhou port is limited, even if the commercial port and Shuicheng (military port) are combined, only dozens of large ships can be dispatched at a time. Now they are concentrated in Huangniwa

There are more than a hundred large ships on the side, which were sent out in two batches yesterday afternoon.

As for the two to three hundred ships concentrated in Dengzhou, it will have to wait until at least early tomorrow morning before all of them can arrive. After all, it is inconvenient to board a ship at night, and the wind direction on the sea is constantly changing. If it becomes completely

If there is a headwind, then there is no way to go to sea.

Even if these two to three hundred ships completed a transportation mission, they could only transport less than 30,000 people to Liaodong.

Therefore, if you want to transport all the army of more than 60,000 people who have been organized into five towns in Dengzhou to Liaodong, you will have to make at least two round trips. If you want to transport some supplies, you will have to make three round trips.

Even if God helps me, I still have to run for more than half a month!

Landing across the sea is really not easy.

Liu Jinzhong, Zhao Hongkui and Wang Shiyuan have all landed. Liu Jinzhong and Wang Shiyuan together commanded the landing at Huangniwa.

Zhao Hongkui had already assembled three fusilier battalions and two cavalry-led teams and marched towards Lushunkou.

Now the Ming Army's infantry battalion has reached a thousand people! It is subordinated to a direct leader and four musketeers, and each musketeer is composed of four deputy musketeers and a deputy chief of lances.

The direct leader is composed of hammer artillery, skirmishers and battalion headquarters, and is mainly responsible for command and support.

The number of cavalry leaders in the Ming army was also 200, but only a very small number of elite cavalry were equipped with good horses that could launch attacks, and most of the cavalry only had bad horses that could carry them around.

The cavalry of the two leaders who are now following Zhao Hongkui are musketry cavalry on inferior horses. They basically do not attack. Dismounting or riding on horseback to fire muskets is their main method of combat.

Some of the sporadic gunshots now being fired were caused by these musketeers... They should have encountered a small number of Qing blocking troops.

Liu Jinzhong listened for a while with his ears pricked up, and suddenly laughed: "The gunfire is getting farther and farther... It seems that Zhao Junmen is progressing very smoothly, and we will be able to capture Lushunkou soon! Maybe tonight

, we can enter Lushunkou City."

Wang Shiyuan was wrapped in a thick cotton coat, but he was still shivering from the cold and his face was a little pale. After listening to Liu Jinzhong's words, he smiled slightly and suddenly saw something in the corner of his eye. Then he turned around and found a few people in the distance.

There were plumes of black smoke rising from every mountain peak.
Chapter completed!