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Chapter 356 Sentinel Pass

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Three days later, Tong Tuchang finished preparations, said goodbye to his family, and then went to five miles outside the city. Tong Yangjia and Jinyiwei commander Qian Lide were waiting for him here.

For this trip to Fujian, Qian Lide sent a large number of personnel, and four hundred people were sent in advance, and this time, with Tong Tuchang, one hundred people were sent. Qian Lide had no choice but to persuade Li Chengdong to surrender, and if he failed, he would have to rescue Princess Yuyang by force. So Qian Lide sent his subordinates Wang Xian, the best man to fight.

Wang Xian was born in Zhu Hongsan's teaching group, but he was said to be the direct line among Zhu Hongsan's direct line. When he was in Wuchang County, he was lent to Qian Lide to clean up the underworld in Wuchang County, because Wang Xian was originally a short mule from Kaifeng, Henan, and in Kaifeng, he "fried salt beans" and "Zahuotun" did everything (fried salt beans are pretending to be pigs and eating tigers to deceive foreigners, and Zahuotun is an immortal who jumps to cheat Kaizi. These are all terms in the underworld in the Ming Dynasty). After following Qian Lide, he was really like a fish in water. He worked a lot when cleaning up the underworld in Nanchang County and got along very well with Qian Lide.

After arriving in Guangzhou, Qian Lide was ordered to reorganize the Jinyiwei and immediately asked Zhu Hongsan to come to Wang Xian. Wang Xian had already become the company commander in the new army at that time, but he was very uncomfortable with the rigid life in the new army. As soon as Qian Lide asked, he immediately transferred to the Jinyiwei.

Wang Xian was very happy when he got the Jinyiwei. After all, he used to be a short mule, but he didn't expect to be a Jinyiwei now. It was like being a husband, but he didn't expect to become a prostitute after he became a prostitute. The mood of being prostitute by someone else was incomparable to others.

This time, in order to rescue Zhu Yu, Qian Lide sent his most capable subordinate Wang Xian to let him go to Fujian to take charge of the general manager.

The Jinyiwei set out this time, and in addition to Wang Xian, another group was sent to Jiangxi. Because Zhu Hongsan had an order, the Jinyiwei sent people to assist Jin Shenghuan. Anyway, the environment in Jiangxi is much better than that in Fujian. At least Jin Shenghuan has made it clear that he should be, so there are not many people sent to Jiangxi, with only thirty people in total. The leader is Zhao Mengguan, a thousand households of Jinyiwei who made his mark in the Battle of Luzon.

As the first to be a cannon in Guangdong, Lao Zhao was the first to join Qian Lide, and is now highly valued. In addition, he made contributions in Luzon and was promoted to Qian Lide by Qian Lide and transferred back to the Jinyiwei Town and Fushi. This time, the environment in Jiangxi was complicated, and Zhao Mengguan was a man of "oil-soaked glass balls - slipping without stopping", which was just right for him to go to Jiangxi.

Tong Tuchang came to the pavilion, and his uncle Tong Yangjia had been waiting here for a long time.

Tong Tuchang had met Qian Lide first, and then said to his uncle Tong Yangjia: "Uncle, please don't worry, my nephew will definitely live up to his uncle's high hopes!"

Tong Yangjia didn't say anything, but just patted Tong Tuchang on the shoulder. Qian Lide from the side said to Wang Xian: "Wang Qianhu, your primary task this time is to protect Lord Tong's safety. If it is not done, you must protect Lord Tong's safety and withdraw it back to Guangdong!"

Wang Xian bowed and said, "Please rest assured, Lord Qian, I will complete the task!" Qian Lide gave him two tasks. On the surface, it was to protect Tong Tuchang and ensure the success of the negotiations. It was mainly to rescue Princess Yuyang. After all, Tong Tuchang was just Tong Yangjia's nephew, and even if he died in Fujian, it was probably not a pity for Tong Yangjia. However, he was unsafe to get Princess Yuyang back, and the emperor started anger and Qian Lide would be in danger of his life.

Qian Lide was very satisfied with Wang Xian's pun and nodded repeatedly. He had nothing to hide from the other group of people.

"Old Zhao, you must ensure that you complete the task when you go to Jiangxi this time. Don't let the eunuchs in the East Factory make contributions in front of us!"

"Sir, the East Factory has also sent someone?" Zhao Mengguan asked quickly when he heard Qian Lide say this.

Qian Lide nodded and said, "Yes, Cao Fang, this old eunuch, I was scolded by the emperor this time, and Cao Fang has also begun to disrespect me. It depends on you whether you can surpass the East Factory this time!"

Zhao Mengguan and Wang Xian bowed together and said, "Please rest assured, we will definitely complete the task!"

After saying goodbye, Tong Tuchang kowtowed to Tong Yangjia, got up and followed the Jinyiwei.

Tong Yangjia watched his nephew walk away and said to Qian Lide: "Mr. Qian, you must ensure the safety of my nephew. If something happens to him, I will not let you go even if I become a ghost!"

Qian Lide dared to say that the order he gave to Wang Xian was to rescue the princess. After hearing Tong Yangjia say this, he quickly smiled and said, "Don't worry, father-in-law, I have already explained it!" Qian Lide muttered in his heart, why did Old Man Tong care about Tong Tuchang so much? Isn't it just a nephew? Tong Tuchang was not born by Tong Yangjia and his sister-in-law, right?

Tong Yangjia naturally didn't know Qian Lide's dirty thoughts. He looked at his nephew who was leaving and silently thought to himself, Chang'er, come back safely!

Twenty miles away from Guangzhou City, the official road is separated here, leading to Zengcheng, Conghua, and then entering Nanxiong Prefecture. Zhao Mengguan has to take this road. Wang Xian and Tong Tuchang have to go east, enter Huizhou Prefecture, and then follow the seaside to Haifeng, and Chaozhou Prefecture enter Fujian.

At the intersection of the official switch, Wang Xian and Zhao Mengguan bowed and said, "Brother Zhao, we are going our separate ways here. I wish you a victory here!"

Zhao Mengguan laughed and said, "Brother, I will lend you auspicious words. I wish you success and take care of me!"

After saying that, Zhao Mengguan left the team with thirty people and rushed to Nanxiong Mansion.

Wang Xian took Tong Tuchang and Yibai's men to the east and entered Huizhou Prefecture. In fact, the fastest way to Fuzhou is to take the sea and can reach it in five days. However, now that the Qing Dynasty occupied Fujian, after Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, his son Zheng Chenggong did not surrender, but instead took Zheng Zhilong's remaining troops to entrench in Kinmen and Penghu.

The coastal areas of Fujian are now in chaos. The Zheng family navy, the Qing Dynasty navy, the Guangdong navy, the Taiwan Dutch, and the pirates along the coast are really unsafe to take the sea route. In order to keep it confidential, they cannot ask for naval escorts, so they have to ride horses and go on land.

Fortunately, it was safe and sound in Guangdong. Wang Xian and his party were wearing Jinyiwei Feiyu suits. This suit was synonymous with the King of Hell in the Ming Dynasty, and the inspection departments throughout the way did not dare to stop him.

Wang Xian and his group slept in the open air. After eleven days of walking, they finally arrived at Chaozhou Prefecture. Now Chaozhou Prefecture has completely become a large army camp, and Qian Yong's first division has 18,000 people stationed here. In the first half of the year, Li Chengdong set out to attack Guangzhou from here. Although the emperor did not fine Qian Yong, Lao Qian felt very sorry. After all, he was dereliction of duty. Therefore, Qian Yong completely treated Chaozhou Prefecture as a fortress. In addition, Fujian is opposite here. In order to prevent the Qing Dynasty's sudden attack, in addition to the 18,000 new army, there are about 30,000 Ming Dynasty guards here.

When he arrived outside Chaozhou Prefecture, Wang Xian said to Tong Tuchang: "Sir Tong, we have to change our clothes when we are here. We will enter Fujian further. We can't ride horses, we can only dress up as merchants!"

"All everything is subject to Lord Wang's arrangement!"

Wang Xian nodded and brought people into the city to Chaozhou Qianhu Station. The things they needed were already prepared here! There were more than 20 mules and horses in total, all of which were filled with salt and sugar. Fujian also had salt farms, but the cost was far higher than the salt produced in Guangdong. Even if it was transported from Guangdong from afar, it was 70% cheaper than the real estate in Fujian. Sugar was even more expensive. The Manchus who were stationed in the Eight Banners in Fuzhou liked this sweet thing very much. The Manchus needed to enjoy it, and Guangdong needed silver. So although Guangdong and the Qing Dynasty were fighting, the trade routes between the two provinces had never been cut off. Dozens of caravans traveled between the two provinces every day.

Wang Xian checked the things and found that there was no flaw. In order to reduce the trouble, he didn't bring any firearms, but only brought cold weapons.

After resting in Chaozhou Prefecture for three days, all the staff shaved their heads, all of whom were the kind of money-tailed braids like the Qing Dynasty. Then Wang Xian took the people on the road and drove to Huanggang, which borders Fujian and Guangdong.

Huanggang is the front line of the Guangdong New Army, and there is a battalion here to guard it. Further ahead is the area controlled by the Qing Dynasty.

The platoon leader guarding the pass saw that Wang Xian and his party were from Guangzhou. After checking the pass, he kindly said: "Several people, there are the Tartars' whistle fifty miles ahead. Be careful!"

Thanks to the platoon leader's kind reminder, Wang Xian and his group stepped into the Qing Dynasty controlled area.

After walking forty or fifty miles, I met the platoon leader's whistle.

Tong Tuchang looked at the ward opposite, and there were more than a hundred people stationed in them, wearing various clothes. Some of them were wearing Ming army's mandarin duck battle robes, wearing bamboo hats, and a few bald heads without hats, revealing their freshly shaved blue and white scalp. There were a few people inside that were not wearing Ming army's uniforms, and they were wearing blue and blue horns. There was a piece of white cloth in front with the word "soldier" written on it.

Wang Xian did not recognize the clothes of these people, but Tong Tuchang recognized them. His Tong family was a large clan in Tieling, Liaodong, and naturally recognized these people wearing the clothes of the Han military flag of the Qing Dynasty.

The Qing army was originally in a mess, but when they saw a caravan coming from the opposite side, they stood up and shouted, "The fat sheep is here!"

Wang Xian brought people to the front and said to a small leader of the Qing army: "Everyone, we are a caravan from Guangdong, I'm sorry, you guys let you go!"

The little leader looked at the horse team and said, "How many of you are? How many horses?"

Wang Xian said: "One hundred people, twenty-five mules and horses, all the salt and snow sugar on them are pulled. Please check the military officer!"

After Wang Xian said that, he asked the man to open the sack quickly and asked the Qing army to check. At the same time, he took out ten taels of silver from his sleeve and stuffed it into the hands of the little leader, saying, "This is what I mean to give tea to all the soldiers!"

The little boss weighed the money and smiled and said, "Look at you, let's go!"
Chapter completed!
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