Lord of Ming Dynasty

"My lord, are you uncomfortable?" Zhu Dayou asked with concern.

"It's okay. Feng Wuyu is a good general. I didn't misunderstand him. He is the pride of our Jinhua Rebel Army. Give him an order to put his army on a first-level alert to deal with emergencies at any time."

"Your Excellency, there are other reports, let me finish," Zhu Dayou said.

"Speak!" Zhang Qiang said.

"After Jifeng Wuyu discovered this situation, according to a report sent to the garrison by the militia patrols near our matchlock guns, a total of three patrols have been attacked in recent days, and all three patrols have disappeared. , the garrison has dispatched additional patrols to scout the area of ​​the missing patrol. No further reports have been made at this time."

"In the next report, some villagers reported that some village names who went to visit relatives in the mountains did not return for a few days, and the people sent by the family to search for them in the mountains did not return. They reported that there might be tigers or wolves infested there. The county government warned people Don't go in that area."

Zhang Qiang felt that the matter was serious, so he glanced at Zhu Day, and the two had the same meaning in their eyes.

"Someone has infiltrated our territory," he said first.

At the same time, Zhu Dayou also said: "Their target is the matchlock gun factory, or the artillery factory,"

Zhang Qiang continued to add: "Maybe they want to reduce our war potential."

Zhu Dayou considered the issue from another perspective, "Perhaps the Dutch and Portuguese are threatening their business because we have such a large output and such good quality matchlock guns that we can sell them."

Zhang Qiang shook his head. The Dutch and Portuguese would not think so, because although the Ming army attached great importance to the use and development of musketeers, the Qing army did not think so. The role and power in our hands, but they will not equip themselves with matchlock guns. Only a very small number of Han troops in the Han Eight Banners are equipped with matchlock guns.

For example, Kong Youde, Geng Jingzhong, and Shang Kexi, these are professional firearms troops who understand the role of artillery and muskets from Shandong Governor Sun Yuanhua.

"Don't guess, send orders to the troops, enter the first-level security, send reconnaissance troops to blind corners we don't know, send additional patrols, and intensify patrols at every intersection. Maybe an enemy has penetrated into our heartland But the most important thing for us is that the Qing army Tartars take the opportunity to attack us."

Zhu Dayou said: "My lord, what should we do next?"

"Are you watching them destroy our territory?"

"It's not that easy, but before I find out where they are, I have to solve the problem of Francois' loyalty." Zhang Qiang got up.

"Pack up your things and order the Chase Guards to follow me."

Chapter 171 Ambush [-]

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Walking out of the gate of the Governor's Mansion, Zhang Qiang turned around and said to Zhu Dayou when he saw the [-] Chasseurs guards lined up, "You go and mobilize a battalion of garrison troops to go to the mountain village reported by the county government. Pay attention, the enemy may be Elite troops."

"My lord, don't you want to bring more people?" Zhu Dayou asked worriedly.

"No need, there are so many troops stationed around the arquebus factory, here is only a dozen kilometers away from there, and it only takes an hour for the cavalry to go back and forth. If there is something, the militia troops around the arquebus will also rush there , the three battalions of the garrison troops stationed outside the Arquebus Mountain will also rush there, with so many people, unless thousands of their elite troops come in, no one will harm me."

Zhang Qiang said indifferently, climbed on the horse led by the guards, jumped on the horse's back, turned around and took the whip from the guards, checked the saber on the horse's belt, the short-fired gun, and There are shields.

Waved at Zhu Dayou, Zhang Qiang drove the horse, and led the cavalry guards, and jogged. He ordered that the cavalry troops not be allowed to move fast in the city. Take the lead in changing the rules he set.

Zhu Dayou looked at the back of Zhang Qiang who was going away, and said to the followers around him: "My lord has ordered that the first battalion of Jinhua mansion guards gather immediately, and the first battalion of cavalry gather. By the way, the first battalion of cavalry is replaced by a hundred households of muskets." Immediately the infantry, let them leave the city at once, and wait for orders."

Zhu Dayou returned to the Governor's Mansion, and successively issued orders to the attendants to guard the entire territory to guard against sneak attacks by the Qing army, and then sent someone to report the situation to Wei Wuji, the admiral of Jinhua Mansion, and then set off with 20 entourages.

At this time, the moon was bright and the stars were thin, Zhang Qiang led two hundred cavalry cavalry guards to march towards the matchlock gun factory.

Far away in a barracks by the sea in Quanzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province, Zheng Hongkui was discussing matters with his staff.

"My lord, the Portuguese have rubbed against us at sea time and time again, knocking down the fishing boats and merchant ships we protected, and their warships drove our warships within our jurisdiction. We have lost more than ten fishing boats, three merchant ships, one three It’s a shame and a shame for a battleship of Bailiao, when Master Zheng was here, when they passed through our jurisdiction that time, they didn’t obediently fly our Zheng character flag, and then pay us a fee every year.”

An aide said angrily.

"These foreign devils can't do without fighting, but we can't let Zheng Chenggong strengthen his own strength just because we fight with them. You know, if we go to war with the Portuguese, then every time we lose a ship, Zheng Chenggong's strength will be greater than ours. At one point, Zheng Cai was wiped out by Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Qiang's Jinhua Rebel Navy, Zheng Tai defected to Zheng Chenggong, and we became the only force that could contend with him at sea."

Zheng Hongkui touched his fat belly and said.

An aide said: "My lord, we don't need to worry about Zheng Chenggong. Your nephew will be more powerful than us. Zheng Cai has been dealt with. Of course Zheng Chenggong has become the biggest winner. I'm talking about the sea, but we are not without gains. Many The pirates who had a grudge against him defected to us, and some of Zheng Cai's leaders also defected to us, and we now have two-thirds of his strength. Besides..."

The staff paused for a while, organized his sentence, and continued: "Besides, he is not developing so steadily. He attacks everywhere, annexes those pirate forces, and even rubs against the Spanish in Manila, trying to expand his influence to Spain. At the same time, he also fought against the Dutch, attacking the Dutch everywhere, and the strength of the Dutch is currently the largest maritime force on the coast of Daming."

"Yes," said an aide, "the Dutch own more than [-] large Karak ships, and more than a dozen Galen warships of [-] materials. Each ship has [-] to [-] cannons. If you want to come to them When colliding with Zheng Chenggong's warships, Zheng Chenggong would suffer a lot every time. Even if Zheng Chenggong won, he would still need to exchange a dozen small warships and five or six medium-sized blessing boats for victory. Didn't Zheng Cai's strength not expand much at that time?"

"I heard that he also plans to capture Treasure Island occupied by the Dutch, and wants to transfer his power from the mainland to Treasure Island in order to cope with the possibility that the Qing court may defeat the imperial court in the future, and he loses the possibility of a coastal foothold."

The aides were all talking about analyzing the situation for him. Zheng Hongkui just watched and listened silently. Finally, he patted the table impatiently, "Quiet,"

Everyone fell silent, and turned to look at him, "I didn't invite you here today to discuss these things, but I have something to tell you, please pay attention."

Everyone was at a loss, not knowing what happened.

Zheng Hongkui said word by word: "The Dutch and the Portuguese are in collusion."

"Ah!" This is big news and a big problem.

The question is what are these foreign devils going to do?

Zheng Hongkui continued to throw out the next even more shocking news, "And I heard that they have gathered many small groups of pirates along the coast who have taken refuge in them. These pirates are probably tens of thousands. Although there are no big ships, they have two thousand small boats, three Hundreds of medium-sized lucky boats, and..."

He glanced at everyone, and everyone was shocked by the news.

An aide said: "My lord, is it because the Portuguese want to solve us once and for all because of our friction with them?"

"This is a big leak. The Portuguese may only have a dozen warships equipped with more than 30 artillery pieces. We may be able to defeat them with all our strength. As long as they do not have reinforcements in Malacca, we can eliminate their naval strength. , maybe we can't take down the moat mirror, but we can cause them heavy losses. Those foreign devils can't compromise with us until the end. We can talk about everyone's comfort, but if we add the Dutch..." The staffer stopped After speaking, he looked at the crowd.

Before they could speak, Zheng Hongkui said, "It's not about us and the Portuguese."

One of the staff rushed to say, "It's not against us. Could it be that they want to deal with Zheng Chenggong?"

Hearing this staff member's words, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but one staff member said: "Maybe we should help Zheng Shizi, after all, we are all under Mr. Zheng's subordinates, and we have fought side by side together. One may be us, we will have no future at sea, and the sea will be controlled by foreign devils."

"It's not this problem." Zheng Hongkui stood up abruptly. He was already disappointed with his staff. The person in charge pays attention to it.

"What's the problem?" A staff member who had no vision asked again.

Zheng Hongkui was almost pissed off, "According to our reports in the little pirates, they are going after the Jinhua Rebels, they want to attack the Jinhua Rebels and destroy the Jinhua Rebels—" Zheng Hongkui almost yelled out what he knew matter.

"This—" Everyone was dumbfounded.