On the sea surface of Lingding Yangtze River, when the afterglow of the setting sun at dusk filled the entire sea surface, a "fleet" composed of dozens of boats was plowing white waves on the sea surface.
The so-called bluff ship is actually a small galley warship with good maneuverability and easy to turn around. Because it has both sails and long oars, it is very flexible in offshore waters with changeable wind directions, and can also be used in inland rivers. Move quickly among them. Therefore, it is a light ship that is very suitable for inland river and offshore operations, anti-smuggling, and smuggling.
This fleet of ships is composed of seventy or eighty ships. There are twenty to thirty green camp sailors on each ship, and the total strength is between one thousand, several hundred and less than two thousand.
The leader is a "big boat" that is larger than ordinary boats. There are thirty-one officers and soldiers on it, including eighteen oarsmen, one helmsman, two drummers, two flag bearers, one bowman, Six Geshiha and the commander-in-chief of Humen Navy Town!
This turns out to be a flagship!
Under the leadership of this flagship, more than 70 ships formed a fleet on the sea of Lingding Yang, heading south along the east coast of Xiangshan County.
The Qing Dynasty may still be Chen Shikai, the commander-in-chief of the Humen Town of the Guangdong Navy. At this moment, he is sitting in his flagship "command cabin" (which is a curved bamboo and reed mat). Sitting on the Taishi chair inside the shack, his face was livid, his forehead was covered with cold sweat, and he kept swallowing something - he was seasick and felt a strong sense of vomiting, although there was nothing to vomit.
Although this Chen Shikai was a brave general in the Kuidong area and caused a lot of hardships to the Thirteen Rebels in Kuidong, and he was also "amphibious", no river in the Kuidong area could stop him. But "amphibious" does not mean "amphibious on land and sea"! After he became the commander-in-chief of Humen Town, he realized that the sea and the Yangtze River were not just more watery or windy. Instead, they had too much water, so much that they could not be seen to the edge. The wind was also too strong, causing the entire sea surface to rise and fall.
A "big boat" that can carry thirty people and cost hundreds of materials to build is about the size of a leaf on the sea of Lingding Ocean. A real light boat can only drift and sway in the wind. Chen Shikai, who was not seasick in Huguang, was so dizzy as soon as he went out to sea today. He vomited more than a dozen times along the way. Now he has no strength to even stand, so he has to sit in the "command cabin". "Command" the fleet to go south to sneak attack on Macau. I don't know if this sneak attack can be successful?
If it doesn't work, just go back.
Just when Chen Shikai began to retreat in his heart, the bow of the ship, which was holding the mast to investigate outside the cabin, suddenly shouted: "Master Zongzhen, there is thick smoke billowing on the southwest bank. It should be that there is a fire in Haoao City. !”
Is Haao on fire?
Did Wang Guodong's fake Obei succeed?
When he thought of the gold and silver in Haoao City, Chen Shikai forgot about seasickness for a moment. He stood up suddenly, rushed out of his "command cabin" in one swift step, and stood on the bow of this big ship. , then stretched his neck and looked to the southwest.
Sure enough, there was a lot of smoke!
And there was not just one smoke column, but several smoke columns rising at the same time!
It seems that there is already a fight in Haao City! General Chen Da knew that this opportunity was not to be missed, and quickly gave an order loudly: "I have been told that the entire team will march urgently. We must reach Macau City tonight! We and Wang Xietai will cooperate with each other inside and outside, and we will take Macau in one go!"
The bowman under Chen Shikai was stunned when he heard this order, "General Rong, you said you want to take Macau?"
"This is my general's order!"
"But isn't Macau now the headquarters of the Guangdong Customs Road? That is the territory directly under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Household Office. If we want to capture Macau, wouldn't it be a rebellion?"
When Chen Shikai was asked by his subordinates, he was stunned and didn't know how to answer.
What he is doing now seems to be a real rebellion!
But he was obviously a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty, so why did he become so confused?
"General Rong, are we going to rebel?"
"We should have rebelled long ago!"
"General Rong, have we already taken refuge with Fourth Master Wu and Obai in Xin'an?"
"Very good!"
"Finally the wait is over!"
When the soldiers in Humen Naval Town who were rowing heard that they were going to rebel, they all got excited. It's good to rebel! There is a future for rebellion! If the rebellion is successful, everyone will be the founding heroes from now on. No matter how bad we are, we will still be treated like bannermen of Prince Pingnan, right?
Chen Shikai was helpless when he heard the discussion among a group of Guangdong soldiers below. Who are these people? Is this the Guangdong navy that the Qing court spent money to protect smuggling? But now he has nothing to do with this group of potential rebels.
Because his soldiers are all landlubbers, most of them are now staying at the Humen Fort and Shajiao Fort. There are only six Gosheha on this big boat with him now, and they are all very sick from seasickness. of.
Thinking of this, he gritted his teeth and stamped his feet: "Yes, those who are against him will rush into Macau and let us fight for three days! Add an extra oar and paddle harder!"
"嗻!" The people below cheered!
"Obai is here!"
"King Pingnan has rebelled!"
"Wang Fuchen rebelled!"
"Wang Datou has rebelled!"
"Obai rebelled together with King Pingnan."
The night has gradually enveloped, and there is already a rebellion in Macau!
The people of Guangzhou Ao Bai Wang Guodong and Huang Linsheng Huang Siye went everywhere shouting "Ao Bai is here".
A group of gentry from three counties who were inspired by Huang Linsheng went around shouting "The king of 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 nothing to equalize the land. The rural soldiers are obviously rebelling! Others felt that Wang Fuchen and Wang Zhongxiao were officials of the Qing Dynasty and persecuted them on behalf of the Qing Dynasty, so they wanted to rebel with King Pingnan!
The Wenzhou Iron Soldiers brought by Shenzhen Aobai He Tianran, who were ordered to suppress them, shouted everywhere in the shopping mall, "Aobai and Ping Nanwang rebelled together" - Aobai and Pingnan Wang rebelled together, so Wang Zhongxiao cannot be justified. Entering the army in Guangfu? Anyway, King Pingnan Shang Kexi is a public enemy of the Cantonese people in Guangdong. Whether he rebels or not does not prevent the Cantonese people from rebelling against him!
And with such a shouting, well, there is a group of rebels in this city of Macau! Wang Zhongxiao is a rebel, Shang Kexi who opposes Wang Zhongxiao is also a rebel, and Obai who appears out of nowhere is even more a rebel!
But why can't these three groups of rebels unite and rebel together? Everyone is rebelling against each other, and rebels and traitors are fighting each other. What the hell is this?
As for the rebels in Guangdong, whether they are gentry rebels, sea rebels, or peasant rebels, they are all relatively capable of fighting. They will have clan fights every now and then!
Although facing the green camp soldiers who have not yet decayed, their fighting skills are not very reliable (they still need to practice more, and when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom rises, they will be better than the green camp), but at this moment in a crowded shopping mall There was trouble in the house, but the martial ethics honed in fighting with weapons are still very useful.
To the northwest of the Macau Castle, the territory set aside for the settlement of the gentry from the three counties was now in chaos. There were fires everywhere, shouts everywhere, crackling gunshots everywhere, and dying people everywhere. The screams.
He Tianran and Wang Shiyuan have already led their men in to suppress it!
However, the effect of the suppression was not very good. It was not that He Tianran's Iron Soldiers were incompetent in combat, but that these Iron Soldiers were the elites of the Zheng family and "Shen Aobai" of Da Yuan Island, and they had already become famous.
So when the group of three-county gentry and their families saw the large group carrying simple knives coming in from the iron deck, they thought they were people from Obai. They had no intention of rebelling, but now they started making trouble.
The Kuai Ban and Zhuang Ban under Wang Shiyuan and Zhang Baosan are, to put it bluntly, yamen, not very strong in combat effectiveness. The guys equipped with them are also used to catch thieves. Now that they encounter rebels, they will definitely not be able to hold them back!
What's even more troublesome is that Wang Guodong and Huang Linsheng's gang also smuggled some muskets (pistols) into the mall, and they started beating them randomly and setting fires everywhere, causing chaos in the northwest corner of the mall.
He Tianran's Wenzhou Iron Soldiers charged and killed several times. Not only did they fail to succeed, they actually made the area even more chaotic!
Wang Shiyuan and Zhang Baosan were even more unlucky. They wanted to maintain order at first, but ended up running into "Guangzhou Obai" next to the ruins that had just been burned!
That "Guangzhou Obai" didn't know who he met. When he saw a bald man wearing a round-neck robe and a group of government servants, he picked up the plain knife in his hand, pointed it forward, and shouted: "Hey! Someone We are here to ask General Hu Aobai, who came to capture Macao on the orders of Prince Zhu San of the Ming Dynasty, and you guys have not returned as soon as possible!"
This time Wang Shiyuan was stunned.
On the order of the Third Prince Zhu. Why didn’t the Third Prince Zhu himself know? This Obai, which third prince of Zhu was he ordered to do?
Before he could answer in a hurry, there was another shout from behind: "Obai is here! Obai is here with his iron soldiers!"
Following this burst of shouting, a group of men holding torches, holding swords, and wearing iron armor appeared behind Wang Shiyuan and the others. These "iron men" were also followed by a group of "cheering and cheering" people. They are the ones who are yelling about "Obai is coming"!
Of course, they were shouting in Cantonese, and He Tianran was from Shaanxi, and most of his iron soldiers were from Wenzhou. He couldn't understand what these Cantonese people were shouting.
However, Wang Guodong had been in Guangdong for many years and could understand Cantonese. He laughed wildly and said, "Thieves, you are surrounded!"
It's being surrounded!
There is Obai in front of you, and there is Obai behind you. With Obai on your belly and back, where can you go?
But there’s something wrong with this!
"Wang Xietai, that's wrong!" Huang Linsheng had already approached Wang Guodong at this time and said in a trembling voice, "Why is there an extra Obai?"
"There's an extra Obai?" Wang Guodong was dumbfounded when he heard this.
That’s a lot!
He is Obai!
Why is there another one coming from the opposite side? It’s still Obai with the iron soldiers!
Have you met the real Ao Bai?
When the fake Obai Wang Guodong thought about meeting the real Obai, he immediately gave up!
Can you not be cowardly?
What's his level, and what's Obai's level? How could he beat Obai? If he had this ability, he would have led troops to recover Xin'an, Shenzhen, Kowloon and Xiangdao long ago!
And what kind of soldiers came with Obai? That's the Iron Man! They are all wearing iron armor, how can he defeat them?
"That's true, Obai, run away!"
Wang Guodong is cowardly, and his soldiers are of course even more cowardly. They all know that their master is a fake Obai, and now that the fake Obai has met the real Obai, why don't they quickly rub oil on their feet and run away?
As a result, before the fight started, this group of "Obai's men" sold "Obai" and ran away while shouting that the real Obai was coming.
When Wang Guodong and Huang Linsheng saw that all their men had run away, they didn't dare to fight. Let's run together. If they didn't run away, they would be dead!
Now the gentry and their relatives who followed the "fake Obai" in rebellion were dumbfounded. Together they followed the false Obei!
What should I do? Can it still be corrected?
But what happened next plunged them into despair.
Because that "real Obai" actually joined forces with the Macau general manager Wang Shiyuan. He didn't go to arrest Master Wang, but got together with Master Wang. The "big bearded Obai" in the lead even saluted Master Wang!
Obviously, this group of iron soldiers did not come from Shenzhen at all. They were iron soldiers trained by Wang Zhongxiao!
Then I heard the "bearded Obai" shouting: "Gentlemen, the one in front wearing the red hat is Obai. Capture Obai, kill him!"
The one wearing the red hat is Wang Guodong. Everyone else is wearing a red hat, but he is the only one wearing a red hat!
Hearing his roar, those guys who were cheering almost fainted!
Sometimes he is real, and sometimes he is fake, and then he is fake again and becomes real again! Is this Obai real or fake?
Just when they were about to faint, the group of iron soldiers had already shouted the slogan "Capture Obai" and rushed up with their swords. Without Obai as their backbone, the gentry from the three counties had no fighting spirit. They were all lost. He grabbed the guy in his hand and started running away. But they are not Iron Man's goals. He Tianran has only one goal, that fake Oboi!
Those unlucky gentry were all Wang Shiyuan's favorites. Wang Shiyuan's policemen and strong squads caught them and imprisoned them.
"The one wearing the red hat in front is Obai!"
"Catch Oboi!"
"Catch Oboi and you will be rewarded heavily."
Wang Guodong and Huang Linsheng ran away desperately, but they could not get rid of the pursuers behind them. They could only hear bursts of Wenzhou Mandarin shouting "Capture Oboi". This was really unfair!
The fake Obai met the real Obai, but the real Obai caught the fake Obai as the real Obai. The real Obai and the fake Obai are both Obai, so why rush to kill each other!
The two of them didn't know how long they ran. Anyway, when the night completely enveloped Macau and a bright moon and dots of stars appeared in the sky, they stopped to take a breath. It wasn't that they had thrown away the pursuers. Instead, a vast ocean appeared ahead.
They ran from near the inner harbor of Haojiang to the beach east of Macau!
It's not that they were in a hurry, but the terrain of Macau was originally a peninsula, and the entrance was very narrow, so Gongbei Narrow was built to block it. So the two of them could only run to the beach on the east side of the Macau Peninsula. Moreover, Wang Guodong had made an appointment with Chen Shikai, the commander-in-chief of the Humen Navy, to meet on the east coast of the Macau Peninsula - if the "Guangzhou Obai" uprising in Macau succeeds , Chen Shikai's sailors took advantage of the opportunity to land!
If the uprising fails, then Wang Guodong's plan to escape on Chen Shikai's boat is a good one, but the question is, where is General Chen's boat?
Wang Guodong and Huang Linsheng searched the sea with their eyes wide open. They did not see the "bluff boat" of the Guangdong Navy at all. Instead, there was a large bird boat with many lanterns hanging on it, which looked bright in the darkness, moored on the beach. .
This kind of large bird ship cannot be compared to other ships. These are large ships made of thousands of materials. They are very strong and can be equipped with several layers of "red cannons" on the sides. They can also run away from the Zheng family pirates on Da Yuan Island in the ocean. It is equipped with a large number of large bird boats. It is said that there are also such bird boats on Xiang Island!
I don’t know who owns this bird boat?
While Wang Guodong and Huang Linsheng were thinking about it, the shouts behind them became louder and louder: "Catch Obai, there is an Oboi on the beach!"
The pursuers are coming!
Wang Guodong and Huang Linsheng are so anxious!
They have now committed the crime of posing as Obai to rebel. If they are caught by Wang Zhongxiao's people, they will definitely be punished as treason! But if he is caught by Obai's people, he will definitely die!
There is really no way to heaven and no way to earth!
"There is a small boat on the water in front of Wang Xietai!"
At this moment, the only remaining soldier of Wang Guodong roared.
Wang Guodong and Huang Linsheng took a look. Sure enough! Sure enough, there was a life-saving boat on the water, and it was not very small. It seemed to be a boat with more than ten oars. There was also a burly man standing on the bow of the boat, with a bald head and no hat. Could it be Chen Shikai?
The two of them didn't care to see what was going on. They quickly jumped into the water and leaned on it. They might have to survive if they got on the boat.
The bluffing boat seemed to have noticed them, and came towards them in the dark. Wang Guodong and Huang Linsheng felt that they were saved, so they shouted while running into the water: "Mr. Chen, save me, I am Wang Guodong!"
The people on the boat seemed to hear their shouts and sailed towards them. After a while, they arrived in front of the two people. Two long poles stretched out. Wang Guodong and Huang Linsheng thought they were coming to catch them, so they I stretched out my hand to grab it, but in vain I missed it and was slapped twice on the forehead by the two long poles. My vision went dark and I fainted.
(End of chapter)
