Arrive at Haodao and Haojiang Pier.
The gongs and drums are noisy, and the sea breeze is howling. Amidst the sounds of gongs and drums and the sea breeze, the neat troops of the Yanping Prince's Palace were walking down from several big bird boats. Near the pier, there were a large group of Chaozhou rebels wearing civilian clothes and their heads wrapped in red cloth. They stretched their necks and looked around with smiles, and cheered loudly from time to time.
The vassal troops from the Yanping Palace actually came to support... This was really beyond the expectations of the Chaozhou rebels, and it also greatly boosted the morale of the rabble from the Qiu Hui, Zhu Hesheng families.
That's right, what Qiu Hui and Zhu Hesheng have organized now is just a bunch of rabble!
Both of their families have very few standing troops. Qiu Hui has about 3,000 men, and 2,000 of them have already gone to the front to confront the Qing army. Zhu Jushan, Zhu Hesheng and his son originally had more than 200 heroes, but now half of them are trapped in Guiyu. Zhu Hesheng tried his best to pull out 188 people from Danan Mountain, and they were not elites. At most, they were "refugee soldiers". After a period of training, the boss Huiyou finally became more decent after supporting a batch of military resources.
However, with these less than 1,200 men plus the 2,000 men already dispatched, they could not deal with more than 10,000 Qing soldiers, so Qiu Hui and Zhu Hesheng had no choice but to ask for people from the townships (actually villages) under their command. Shot.
Zhu Hesheng wanted more, so he gritted his teeth and gathered less than 600 people.
Da Laohui's mobilization efforts were not that strong - he was not his father when he was trapped, so he mobilized more than 5,000 people and added a thousand veterans, making up a total of 5,600 to 700 people. Including Zhu Hesheng's less than 600 people, plus the 2,000 people who were already on the front line, the total was less than 8,300 people.
This is all the money Qiu Hui and Zhu Hesheng have!
As for the opponent's military strength, according to the data Yang Qilong gave to Zhu Hesheng, even if not counting the thousands of "soy sauce soldiers" under Shang Zhixin, the number was twelve to three thousand! Moreover, they are all professionals in killing people, which is different from the large number of "temporary soldiers" under Qiu Hui and Zhu Hesheng.
Although they had a trump card like Sweet Gunpowder, most of the people under Qiu Hui and Zhu Hesheng were unsure...until reinforcements from the Yanping Palace appeared on the Haojiang Pier.
At this time, the vassal army of the Yanping Palace was the most powerful presence in the anti-Qing and Fuming camp!
At least people outside Chaozhou seem to be very powerful!
So after learning that the reinforcements from the Yanping Palace had arrived, Big Boss Hui and Zhu Hesheng stopped even practicing their troops and immediately led their men to the Haojiang Pier to greet them.
Looking at the soldiers of the Yanping Palace who were wearing uniforms and carrying large bags of armor and weapons from the tall armed bird boats on the side of the ship, everyone felt that this battle had a good chance of winning.
Qiu Hui and Zhu Hesheng were each leading a group of subordinates at this time, standing together on the largest pier on the bank of the Haojiang River, smiling at Chen Yonghua leading a black man and a Dongfang dressed in colorful foreign clothes. People, and a foreign devil in Confucian robes and a scarf got off an old lock ship with a high side.
Zhu Hesheng looked very strange, so he asked Qiu Hui: "My father-in-law, who are the Chinese people in Western clothes and the foreign devils in Confucian clothes? Why did they get off the ship with Military Advisor Chen?"
Qiu Hui frowned and said: "Uncle, these two are not fuel-efficient lamps... One of them is the chief officer of the British East India Company stationed in Anping Royal City, his surname is Cha, and the tea in the big teapot is called Chali Gao . One is a Han Chinese on Luzon Island, who has a foreign name, Nicholas Sibao, and is a second class member of the British East India Company stationed in the Anping Dynasty."
He is actually a representative of imperialism!
Zhu Hesheng immediately became vigilant! He is quite disgusted with imperialism... Well, the business he did in his previous life had anti-imperialist elements.
His high imitation business involves high imitation of imperialist perfumes and famous wines! This is destroying the economic foundation of imperialism and poaching the corners of imperialism!
Moreover, his imitation perfumes and famous wines are of a very high level of craftsmanship and are enough to look real. Not only do they sell well domestically, but they are also sold overseas... He is indeed a little anti-imperialist!
And his anti-imperialist cause in this life is even more vigorous... instead of imitating imperialist perfumes and famous wines, he is preparing to directly turn imperialist perfumes and famous wines into Chaozhou local specialties.
The roots of imperialism were dug up by him!
Therefore, Zhu Hesheng naturally placed himself on the opposite side of these two British imperialists.
But now is not the time to fight imperialism. The main task now is to fight against feudalism - against the feudalism of Emperor Kangxi!
When Zhu Hesheng thought of this, Chen Yonghua, Liu Guoxuan, Cha Ligao and Nicholas Bao had already arrived.
After the two groups of people met, there was no distinction between superiority and inferiority. They all met each other politely and exchanged greetings. Chen Yonghua also acted as an introducer, introducing Liu Guoxuan, Charlie Gough and Ji Dabao to Zhu Hesheng one by one.
Zhu Hesheng had heard of Liu Guoxuan's name and knew that this was the current top thug of the Zheng Jiajun!
This Zheng Jing actually sent him out!
Zhu Hesheng was even more suspicious of his true identity - Zheng Jing was working under the three "giants" Chen Yonghua, Liu Guoxuan and Feng Xifan! Now both of them have come to Chaozhou, and it seems that there are quite a lot of reinforcements sent.
What does this mean? Does this mean that he and Chen Yonghua really know some secret?
At this time, Qiu Hui was already inquiring about the number of reinforcements.
"Military advisor, Guan Zhen, how many people have you brought here this time?"
Chen Yonghua smiled and said: "This time we came to two towns, Zuowuwei Town and Yongwei Town, with more than 1,800 soldiers!"
The towns of Zheng's army in the Ming Dynasty should have more than 2,000 people when they were full, but Zheng Jing, who was defeated and retreated to Taiwan, could not gather the manpower, so he had to make the names of each town inconsistent with his reality. There is a signboard showing a town, but the actual number is only one battalion.
However, the Zuowuwei Town and Yongwei Town of the Ming and Zheng Army were both outstanding elites.
Among them, the Guanzhen of Zuowuwei Town is Liu Guoxuan, and the Guanzhen of Yongwei Town is Chen Yonghua himself!
"Okay, okay!" Qiu Hui nodded heavily, "Commander, Artillery Zhu and I have gathered more than 8,000 people. Adding in your 1,800, the number will reach 10,000!"
Zhu Hesheng added from the side: "Now the Ming army is less than ten thousand, and it is invincible if it is full of ten thousand!"
This tone is really not small!
Liu Guoxuan glared at him and asked with a smile: "Third grandson, if you say so, you must have a clever plan to defeat the enemy?"
Zhu Hesheng nodded and said with a smile: "To be honest with Liu Guanzhen, I am planning to attack Beixi Bridge by surprise! As long as Beixi Bridge is captured, Jieyang County will be under control!"
Liu Guoxuan frowned, "How come Qing Gou doesn't know that Beixi Bridge is important? It's hard for a surprise attack to succeed, right?"
Zhu Hesheng said with a smile: "Liu Guanzhen, don't worry, the official has already made preparations. He has selected three hundred elite soldiers. He will definitely succeed with a surprise attack using makeup!"
Liu Guoxuan wanted to ask again, but Chen Yonghua spoke first, nodded and said: "Okay! Liu Guanzhen, Qiu Zongrong and I are waiting for your good news! To be honest, I brought products from Britain this time The twelve-pound Hongyi cannon! As long as you can capture the Beixi Bridge... Jieyang County, Liu Guanzhen and I are here to help you do it!
In addition, I also brought 500 turtle-dove-foot muskets to you and Big Brother Hui. They are all good guns made in Britain. I can share a batch with you! "
The twelve-pound red barbarian cannon he was talking about was an "old cannon" that he had just bought from Charlie Gough at a high price. It was indeed a British product with good quality. It was over eighty years old and had fought in Spain. Armada!
The 500 muskets that Chen Yonghua brought to Zhu Hesheng and Qiu Hui were not made in Britain, but were produced in the Grand Duchy of Milan. The quality was equally excellent. They were all old Spanish heavy muskets that had fought in the Thirty Years War!
As expected, Chen Yonghua and Chen Dajun were tricked by two imperialist profiteers!
