Dai Xiaoshan finally said, obviously, the person behind all these things is us, at present, in addition to the Ao family, the Qiao family has begun to arrange the area, and the Zhong Liang family is busy with the affairs of Dongshan Island, and they can't get away for a while, but they have already expressed their willingness to do this with the other two families.

In addition, Ingres of the House of Mercy reported that more than 1,000 displaced people had also come to Macau, and that I had entrusted the Church of Mercy to buy more than 100 children from those refugees, and all of them were currently placed in orphanages, waiting for the arrival of the Nicole to transport them away......

On the morning of July 8, the Pride arrived at the wharf of Dongshan Island again, and Li Sanduo brought Chen Shangchuan the news that Zheng Chenggong was attacking Jiangning, and most of the Eight Banners garrisoned in Huguang were going north to reinforce them.

Previously, the Pride received a telegram from Nicole that the fleet would arrive at its destination within twenty-four hours, so Li Sanduo's fleet waited for an extra day on Dongshan Island.

Sure enough, at noon on July 9, the Nicole led fourteen large and small sailing ships to appear on the sea south of Dongshan Island.

The appearance of the Nicole was an eye-opener for the soldiers and civilians of Dongshan Island, and the people on the island, except for Xiao Ai and a few soldiers of the garrison who had seen the Nicole in Macau Harbor, all watched the incredibly large iron ship cleaving waves on the sea until it reached the vicinity of the pier at the western end of Dongshan Island.

Obviously, Nicole's draft is not close to the pier, but Captain Gu has been to Guangzhou Bay in the old world, and he still knows the water conditions here, and finally the Nicole is anchored in the sea near a headland called Tsim Sha, because it is relatively close to the western end of Dongshan Island and the refugee gathering point called the old village, which is very convenient for the transfer of refugees and materials.

This also made the soldiers and civilians on Dongshan Island, including Chen Shangchuan and his generals, really see the Nicole as real - sure enough, as the legend says, the Australians' big iron ships can do their own without sails and oars, and they are really iron!

Many brave men rowed the boat cautiously close to Nicole, first to see the impressive large anchor chain, and then to touch the iron hull, and everyone looked incredulous.

Among the crowd who went to touch the hull and anchor chain of the Nicole, there were also Chen Shangchuan's personal soldiers, and after they touched it, they went ashore and flew to report to the general that the Australian ship was indeed iron, as if it were fake.

In fact, Chen Shangchuan didn't need to send his own soldiers to explore the truth for him, when the Nicole anchored and stopped on the sea, the three boats came to the dock and carried Xiao Ai, Chen Shangchuan and his deputy Chen Anping and the master's personal soldiers and a group of people to the gangway of the Nicole.

Immediately afterwards, the Pride also leaned on the Nicole's gangway, and Li Sanduo and the Liang family's family also boarded the Nicole.

So everyone trembled and held on to the gangway handrail, followed Li Sanduo and Xiao Ai and they came to the foredeck of the Nicole, Chen Shangchuan and Chen Anping were treated with a grand protocol: a row of neatly dressed sailors saluted the guests at the command of Yue Chu, the new first mate of the Nicole.

Then, Xiao Ai enthusiastically introduced Captain Gu and Wei Hong, commander of the garrison, to the guests.

After experiencing the initial shock, the people who boarded the Australian big iron ship for the first time finally took a seat in the crew dining room on the first floor, because it was already noon, and Captain Gu gave an east banquet to all the guests.

Chen Shangchuan and Gu Jin became the chairmen, and after the greetings, Xi Ciqian tossed everyone again for a while, and finally sat down, followed by Shangqing tea, obviously Australians don't have too much red tape, and the next thing is to serve all kinds of wine and food.

After three rounds of wine, Gu Jin got up and took Chen Shangchuan and Chen Anping to leave the table to persuade ---- wine.

To be honest, for people like Chen Shangchuan and them, they really feel that the Australian wine table customs are novel and warm, and throughout the afternoon, everyone is immersed in Xianrendong milk wine and various Australian delicacies, and everyone is very happy with this banquet from Chen Shangchuan himself to his personal soldiers.

Because the fairy cave milk wine is a sweet fruit wine with a relatively high sugar content, it is easy to get on the head after drinking too much, and after this banquet, everyone was a little dizzy, so Chen Shangchuan and his party, including Li Sanduo and others, temporarily stayed on the Nicole to rest.

It's just that Li Sanduo, Wei Hong, Xiaoai and others are all night owls, and it seems that the wine is also appropriate, so the brothers who haven't seen each other for a long time in the evening got together and rubbed together, of course, talking about some military affairs while eating.

Wei Hong was excited after listening to Xiao Ai's briefing, he immediately spread out the map, began to look for the pass roads around the Leizhou Peninsula, and discussed with Xiao Ai that those places are battleground for soldiers, and those places can set up ambushes, Li Sanduo saw this and said to Wei Ai and the others, you are purely talking on paper, useless, it is recommended that you still train the soldiers well these days, and then wait for Chen Shangchuan's cavalry to listen to the situation of the Qing army, and then make a decision after on-the-spot investigation, pay attention, war is not child's play, it is not good to die!

Early the next morning, after Chen Shangchuan and his lieutenant general and his entourage of soldiers had an impressive breakfast in the crew cafeteria, they began to agree with Gu Jin on the details of transporting the refugees to the Nicole, after the meeting, Gu Jin drew a gourd according to the old rules of the past, and gave Chen Shangchuan and Chen Anping a pair ----of binoculars and a topographic map from Qinzhou to the Leizhou Peninsula to the coast of Gaozhou.

After Chen Shangchuan returned to the station, he brought a rattan box, and everyone opened it to see that it was actually some pearl agate corals and other jewelry, Gu Jin naturally smiled without hindrance, because these things definitely do not belong to him personally, and they must be counted in the financial income of the "North Going Fund".

On the morning of the third day, Nicole and the accompanying ships began to hurry up to load the refugees, and now between the west end of Dongshan Island and the old county village wharf, it has been densely lined up with ships, this time Nicole brought fourteen large and small ships, and the fleet led by the Pride has a total of twenty-two, plus Chen Shangchuan's fleet, a total of forty-five large and small ships shuttle back and forth between the dock and Nicole, so it only took two days, Nicole has taken nearly 1,500 households, a total of more than 4,000 people and a large number of supplies.

At the same time, Wei Hong's garrison soldiers also disembarked, and the arrival of these soldiers made Dongshan Island a sensation again---- yes, it was a sensation, because in the eyes of the soldiers and civilians of Dongshan Island, except for a small number of Han family sons and daughters who looked full of eyes, most of them were either Kunlun slaves or Japanese people, and there were even Hongmaoyi! This is very curious.

And Wei Hong was still leading the team into Chen Shangchuan on the way to the barracks, and let the military band play music while marching, the music was very refreshing, and that style and rhythm had never been seen.

That's right, of course, because the music played by the military band is the famous military music of the old world - "Victory Belongs to Us".

The military and civilians on the island reacted enthusiastically and curiously, but after seeing this scene, it was Ai Rush who was most touched, he immediately ran to the Pride and sent a telegram, asking the Dai brother in Macau to buy him a musical instrument, at this moment Xiao Ai has decided that the march of the Wanshan Island garrison should be different from Wei Hong's, as for what the song is he has not yet made a final decision, but he has heard earlier that Ren Ke has obtained the right to use the "March of the Grenadiers", so Xiao Ai thought about it, and immediately decided to put the "Yankee Song" of the Old World Midi As a marching song of the garrison of Wanshan Island......