Zhao Guoliang stepped forward and called the door. A young man in his teens came out. He looked at Zhao Guoliang's strange clothes through the crack of the door and said, "Are you the official army in that place? My master is Qian Shangshu. If you have nothing to do, please leave quickly. Otherwise, the Qing army in the county town will come to see you."

Zhao Guoliang was also a soldier who killed countless people. When he heard this servant say this, he wanted to kick the door open, but after all, this was Princess Qian's home. He said patiently: "We are from Guangdong, and our princess has a letter to you to give to your old lady." After that, he took out Qian Yuting's letter and stuffed it into the crack of the door.

The clerk was born in the Qian family, so he naturally knew about the bloody affairs between Qian Yuting and Zhu Hongsan. He quickly took the letter and went in to watch Qian Qianyi's eldest wife Chen.

Zhao Guoliang stood at the door for less than ten minutes, and the side door opened. A middle-aged man came out and looked at Zhao Guoliang and the more than a hundred people behind him, and asked, "Are you the escorts of the King of Chu?"

"Really, Princess Qian ordered us to pick up the old lady south."

"Come in quickly, there are now soldiers outside, come in and talk." After saying that, he opened the door and let Zhao Guoliang and the others enter the Qian Mansion.

After entering, the housekeeper arranged for others to rest and led Zhao Guoliang to the second hall of the backyard to meet Chen.

After Zhao Guoliang entered the house, he saw an old lady sitting in the house, with two middle-aged women and a young man standing behind him. The two middle-aged women were Qian Qianyi's concubine Wang and Zhu. The young man was Qian Qianyi's youngest son Qian Sunai, born to Zhu. He is fifteen years old this year.

Qian Sunai knew that his sister was snatched away by a prince, but he was still with Qian Qianyi in Nanjing at that time. This time, Nanjing fell, Qian Qianyi was afraid that his son would not be safe in Nanjing, so he sent him back to his hometown in Changshu.

Qian Sunai looked at the man entering the house curiously, wearing strange red clothes, dark blue pants, white armed belts, black horse boots, and a military cap that set off Zhao Guoliang's tall figure, which was really heroic.

When Chen saw Zhao Guoliang enter the house, he said, "General, please sit down. Is the general the guard of the King of Chu?"

After sitting down, Zhao Guoliang bowed and said, "Report to the old lady, he is the deputy commander of the King of Chu. He was entrusted by Princess Qian to pick up the old lady's family to Dongguan."

When Chen heard Zhao Guoliang mention his daughter, he couldn't help but feel heartbroken. The image of his daughter being stolen was right in front of him. "How is my son?"

"The princess is in Dongguan. She was diagnosed with pregnancy in February this year, so the princess misses the old lady and asks the old lady to go south to meet."

Chen was even more sad when he heard that his daughter was pregnant. His daughter Yuting was already preparing to marry the Zhao family, but he didn't expect that he was snatched away by King Zhu Hong of Chu and finally the emperor gave him marriage to the King of Chu. Thinking of this, Chen couldn't help but shed tears.

When Zhao Guoliang saw Chen just crying, he couldn't help but feel irritated, but he had no choice. He didn't dare to violate the military order. Although he was a secret spy from the East Factory and had the right to arrest Zhao Guodong, it was in an extraordinary situation. If he did not enforce the normal military order, he would be even more guilty.

Seeing Chen crying constantly, Qian Sunai asked, "May I ask, General, how did you come from? Nanzhili is thousands of miles away from Guangdong, how can we go?"

"Don't worry, young master, we are ordered by the King of Chu. This time we came to Nanzhili to a total of 7,000 people. The rest of us have repelled the Qing army's attacks several times in Jiangyin and Jiading. Now the King of Chu's fleet is on the Yangtze River. If you take a boat, you can reach Guangdong in just half a month."

"Can you defeat the Tartar army in just 7,000?"

"Yes, in Jiading, we wiped out 20,000 Li Chengdong's people. The news I received before I came that in Jiangyin, we killed more than 50,000 Qing people in 3,500 people."

When Qian Sunai heard Zhao Guoliang talk about the war, he couldn't help but become interested. He was the young man's character and was very interested in these wars, guns and so on.

Qian Sunai said excitedly: "No wonder the Qing army in the county town was transferred a few days ago. It turned out that they were going to fight with you." This was when he saw the short musket in Zhao Guoliang's waist and said: "Can I see your musket?"

Zhao Guoliang took out the lead bullet and handed the musket to Qian Sunai.

Qian Sunai looked at the musket in his hand and said, "What a delicate musket, did you buy it from the Florian?"

"No, this is made by the King of Chu's arsenal by himself. Don't worry, if you arrive in Dongguan, you can make as many guns as you want, and we can also make the guns ourselves."

At this time, Chen had cried enough. Seeing Qian Sunai pestering Zhao Guoliang, he couldn't help but say, "Ai'er, why don't you return the musket to General Zhao."

After hearing what his mother said, Qian Sun reluctantly returned the musket to Zhao Guoliang.

Chen said, "Don't blame General Zhao, my child likes these guns and cannons. May I ask General Zhao, how can we go?"

"Report to my wife, I bring a few ships that can follow the Pu River to enter the Yangtze River and then go to Liuhe. The big ship is waiting for us there."

"But our master is still in Nanjing, so he can't notify him."

"This subordinate doesn't know. When the King of Chu came, he just ordered the old lady to take away his family. What Mr. Qian did not explain to the King of Chu."

Chen also knew the filthiness of Zhu Hongsan and Qian Qianyi. It seemed that it was because of the face of his daughter Qian Yuting. The daughter's letter also explained that Qian Qianyi's side probably could not go south, and probably wanted to go to Beijing to become an official. With Chen's many years of understanding of Qian Qianyi, this old guy would definitely go to Beijing.

At this time, Chen also thought of Qian Qianyi's indifference to him. The old guy ignored the relationship between husband and wife for more than 40 years and actually married Liu Rushi with the courtesy of his wife. Thinking of this, Chen gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, General Zhao, let's prepare and go south with General Zhao the day after tomorrow."

Seeing Chen agreeing, Zhao Guoliang was relieved. He discussed with Zhao Guodong that if Chen does not agree to leave, he would use force. However, Chen is the princess' mother after all, and he would not say anything if he gets into evil with the King of Chu, but the princess is not allowed to blow the pillow in the future.

The next thing was to prepare things. There were more than 100 people in the Qian Mansion, and there were a lot of things. This time, if you want to escape, you naturally couldn't take them all away. You could all share the villagers around you. If your family didn't want to leave, you would give more money to compensate. After a busy day, I finally prepared on the third day. One hundred and twenty people in the Qian Mansion boarded Zhao Guoliang's boat and prepared to go south.

After all, Chen spent his whole life with Qian Qianyi, and he was not worried that this old guy was fake. He said he didn't care about him, but he still asked someone to write a letter to Qian Qianyi, telling him that he took his whole family south to join his daughter. If you want to go, you should go together. The boat is at the estuary of the Yangtze River, and it will never be over.

Qian Qianyi received a letter from his home in Nanjing five days. At this time, he was ready to go to Beijing to become an official. When he saw the letter from his hometown, Qian Qianyi thought for a long time. At this time, he had received news that Zhu Hongsan was in charge of the country in Guangdong. Not only this, he also knew that there were five or six states in the entire South China, including the Tang King of Fujian, the Lu King of Shaoxing, and several other little princes.

Qian Qianyi has been weighing for a long time. If he goes to Guangdong with him, he will be under the old man Feng Ruoshu. In addition, the Qing Dynasty had already occupied most of China at this time. No matter how many small courts in the south view, they cannot become great. It is better to go to Beijing. Since he has surrendered once, don’t surrender for the second time. Thinking of this, Qian Qianyi burned his family letter and was ready to go to Beijing to be his official.

Just when Qian Qianyi burned down his family letter, Zhao Guoliang and others had already entered the Yangtze River. At this time, a great battle was taking place on the Yangtze River. Yan Qingshan's five gunships fought against the Manqing Navy's five hundred warships.

After waiting in Jiangyin for ten days, Boluo finally waited for reinforcements from Nanjing. This time, Nanjing sent all the navy troops and must attack Yan Qingshan's navy in the Yangtze River.

The Manchu navy was divided into two parts, one was the warships under the former Admiral Caojiang in Nanjing, and the other was the Zuo Liangyu navy who surrendered to Ajige in Jiujiang. The two navy were quite large in scale, and after joining forces, there were more than 500 warships. The Qing Dynasty was a horse-backed nation, and there was no general to fight in the waters, so it was impossible to choose Xincheng Bo Zhao Zhilong among the surrendered generals of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

The Qing Dynasty has just entered the pass, and has not yet appreciated the profound bragging skills of the Han people. Seeing that Zhao Zhilong was very good at speaking, and in the former Ming Dynasty, Zhao Zhilong, who had been guarding Nanjing for a long time, thought he must be a soldier-minded person, so he chose this waste to be the commander of the navy.

Zhao Zhilong also had trouble, but he was so angry that he had no choice but to take the navy to the decisive battle between Jiangyin and Yan Qingshan.

The river channel in Jiangyin in the Ming Dynasty was narrow. After passing through Zhenjiang Prefecture, the flow rate of the Yangtze River slowed down. The sediment in the water deposited in the river to form many sandbanks. Jingjiang County was built on a large sandbank. Therefore, the Jiangyin section of the Yangtze River was not suitable for sea boats to enter, not to mention that each of the large sea boats in Yan Qingshan had a displacement of eight or nine hundred tons, and the water line was five or six meters deep. On the contrary, this terrain was very suitable for the small boats of Zhao Zhilong. These small boats with only more than one hundred tons were built to drive on the Yangtze River. The bottom was flat and the draft was shallow, which was very suitable for this shallow water terrain.

So after seeing the Manqing Naval Division, Yan Qingshan pretended to be defeated and led the fleet to retreat fifty miles to give way out of the Jiangyin channel. Zhao Zhilong's side felt that the other party was afraid of him and ordered everyone to move forward at full speed and strive to eliminate these large ships as soon as possible, which could be considered as his great contribution to the new dynasty.

Yan Qingshan's withdrawal made Qian Yong on the shore suffer. At this time, the soldiers and civilians in Jiangyin City had withdrawn less than 30,000 people, and there were still around 100,000 people in the city. When the Qing army outside the city saw that there was a advantage to take, they immediately organized and started to attack the city.

After the Yangtze River passed through the Jiangyin section, the river surface gradually became wider. It was more than 40 miles wide in Tongzhou and Fushan sections. The sea boats could be fully deployed here. Yan Qingshan looked at the Qing army navy who had landed for ten miles and scolded: "Damn it, these water rats have caught up. Young people, be prepared to let these water rats see how to fight the sea battle in this place!"
Chapter completed!