Shen Xi accepted Xi'er and Yunliu, not to include them in the house, but to leave them in the camp for the time being to do some things to investigate intelligence. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

He wanted to see what Yu Niang's intentions were for leaving her two "daughters" by his side, and with Yu Niang's mercenary style, she must have regarded Xi'er and Yunliu as important chess pieces, which required him to be careful.

"My lord, I just asked before, saying that two years ago, Yu Chengxiang, the pirate leader of Nanao Mountain, led his troops to besiege Chenghai County, and in the next two years, Chenghai County was still on high alert to prevent pirates from coming back." Jing Yue will know the situation he has gotten to Shen Xi.

The pirates of Nanao Island have always been the most rampant existence on the southeast coast, and now it has developed to the point of besieging the county seat, and in a few decades, the bandits Zeng Yiyi and others have been entrenched in the Nanao Mountains, and have repeatedly broken through the county seat, robbed and killed the military and civilians, fortunately, there are famous generals such as Yu Dayou and Li Xi, in order to keep the southeast coast peaceful.

Shen Xi asked, "Is there any news from Chenghai Zhixian County?" ”

Jing Yue saluted: "No." ”

"Hmm."

Shen Xi nodded, depending on the situation, Chenghai is not even safe in the county seat, let alone outside the county seat, which is almost occupied by bandits, but there are many guards around Nanao Island, such as Chaozhou Wei, Haimen, Pengzhou, Dacheng, Nanzhao, Tongshan and so on.

Shen Xi had just arrived at the Haimen Institute, and the thousands of households in the Haimen Institute came to ask him for credit, which was also something that made him feel annoyed.

Now that the local health office can't even keep Chenghai County, there is still the face to come to ask for credit?

Really invite merit, even if you can't exterminate the bandits on Nanao Island, at least you should first solve the bandit problem in Chenghai County, so that pirates and pirates dare not go ashore.

On the evening of 19 March, Xu Yang, a thousand households in Haimen, visited again and handed over the situation of the bandits around Nan'ao Island requested by Shen Xi, but Xu Yang was obviously dealing with official business and did not know anything about the situation on the island, and even the bandits around Chenghai County did not mention anything.

Shen Xi knew that the local guard was now paralyzed, so he didn't force a thousand households to help him, so he simply convened a meeting of lieutenant generals and colonels to discuss the strategy of marching in the coming day.

Shen Xi's fleet is considered to be strong, and it has enough strength to land on the island to fight, but now I don't know if the bandits on Nanao Island have received the information that he led the army to come.

If you can launch a landing and raid the island in one go, you may be able to annihilate the pirates and pirates on the island in one fell swoop. But now the situation on the island is mostly unknown, and the land area of Nanao Island is very large, almost 139 square kilometers, coupled with the lush forests and mountains on the island, it is easy to fall into passivity in the battle for landing on the island because of unfamiliar life.

Therefore, Shen Xi decided not to land on the island for the time being, but sent a fleet to make a feint posture, and then temporarily relieved the siege of Chenghai County by land soldiers and horses, and forced the bandits back to Nanao Island before the next battle.

Nanao Island was under the jurisdiction of Shantou City in later generations, and Shen Xi had been to it several times before, so he was generally familiar with the environment on the island. However, the vicissitudes of the sea, the terrain and landform have changed greatly in the past few hundred years, and many rivers in northeast Guangdong in later generations are now inconsistent, even the urban area of Shantou is now a barren mountain and wild mountains, and the military households of the Pengzhou Thousand Households have opened up some fields here, and occasionally there are a few earthen forts and beacon towers, and Shenxi is simply unable to make a plan to send troops according to the terrain and landform known by later generations.

What Shen Xi is seeking now is to win in stability, not to blindly send troops, and to avoid unnecessary losses.

Shen Xi will explain in detail in his heart, after the fleet arrives near Nanao Island in the early stage, don't rush to launch a landing operation, if you can attract the bandit sea ships on the island to the sea battle, it is naturally the best, after all, the fleet has advanced Franco warships, equipped with dozens of Franco cannons, and the fleet is huge, so it has obvious advantages in naval battles.

If you can't lure out the pirates and pirates, you will go around the island, burn all the coastal ships, cut off the supply on the island, and then calmly land in the Hanjiang Xixi in the south of Chenghai County, and cooperate with the land infantry cavalry to wipe out the bandits who have been entrenched around Chenghai for two years in one fell swoop.

After Shen Xi finished explaining, many generals in the big tent of the Chinese army were unwilling.

Shen Xi's plan sounds good, but it seems too "nested", with big ships and strong soldiers, and it is so roundabout not to take the opportunity to flatten Nanao Island in one fell swoop.

Baihu Ma stood up with a big grin: "My lord, the battle is the most important about morale, they all say that one drum is vigorous, and then three times and exhausted, you can't attack the island like this, and the thieves on the island are on guard, so how to attack the island after that?" ”

Shen Xi squinted and looked at Ma Shi, not that Shen Xi didn't want to fight quickly, the key was that the terrain was unfamiliar.

Perhaps it was because the battle of the bandits was too smooth a year ago, so that the soldiers of the three armies thought that the bandits on Nanao Island were not enough, and as long as the soldiers arrived on the island, they could be destroyed.

The lieutenant general and colonel of the army held the Franc cannon and the explosive bag projectile very high, and felt that with these two respectful sharp weapons, they could see the mountains and the mountains, land on the islands and destroy the islands, but they did not know that these two weapons only played a certain role in a frontal encounter or a tough battle, and they should be established under the condition that the other side had no strategic depth.

Once the thief army takes the initiative to retreat, it is not just with you head-on, but a roundabout side attack to fight sneak attack warfare, guerrilla warfare, with the bulkiness of the Franc cannon, basically in the complex and changeable environment of Nanao Island, basically has little effect.

Even if there are different opinions in the army, they are all arranged according to Shen Xi, most of the soldiers have a kind of blind trust in Shen Xi, of course, the most important thing is that Shen Xi led the soldiers and horses to win a big victory a year ago, so that almost everyone of the four thousand soldiers who participated in the war had military merits and rewards.

Shen Xi said that if you slow down the fight, there must be a reason, no matter how pertinent your opinion is, only Shen Dufu will affirm it, otherwise others will only let you fart.

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On March 21, early in the morning, the army set out in two ways.

Shen Xi had led a land army before, and this time he was ready to command the sea road, and the land infantry cavalry was much harder, and along the way, under the local guard, they had to cross several major rivers such as Rongjiang, Meixi, and Hanjiang, and finally arrived near Chenghai County.

Although Shen Xi could not personally command the infantry cavalry, he explained very carefully before leaving, first of all, to guard against a sneak attack, when setting up camp, he had to dig two or three trenches around the camp tent, and at the same time set traps and repelled horses. At night, the officers and men of the three armies patrolling the camp should keep vigil in shifts, and they should distinguish between light and dark sentry, and the scouts should extend from the barracks for a few miles to more than ten miles......

All feats are built on a solid foundation, because sometimes a hundred victories can't hide the bad effects of a single defeat.

This is a battle that can only be won and cannot be defeated!

What Shen Xi said was the requirements of the orthodox northern Xinjiang to fight with the Tatars, and it was even harsher than the border army, and as for the setting of scouts and light and dark posts, it was unheard of by the officers and soldiers of the guard posts in Fujian and Guangdong.

While Shen Xi led the troops to quell the bandits, he also trained the troops by the way, and gradually trained a temporary patchwork of miscellaneous soldiers into an invincible and invincible ace army on the battlefield.

Unfortunately, there is still a long way to go.

After arranging everything, Shen Xi boarded the boat, and suddenly got on the boat Shen Xi was a little uncomfortable, and he was also tired, and he was swaying and dizzy on the boat.

"What the hell, do you want to get seasick?" Shen Xi was somewhat helpless.

Jing Yue asked, "What did the adults say?" ”

"It's okay, it's a one-day boat ride, but you have to hurry, and arrive at the golden lion's roar off the coast before dark!" Shen Xi gave a military order and began to sail.

Shen Xi entered the cabin, and a thin figure immediately followed behind him, and it was Liuya. When Shen Xi arrived at the boat, no matter where he went, Liuya followed behind him, and no one stopped him at all, and Yunliu and Xi'er, who had just been taken in by Shen Xi, did not board the boat with Shen Xi, and were ordered to follow the army to Chenghai County by land.

Departing from Haimen Port, it takes about three hours to cross Maerjiao and arrive at Shantou Port from time to time...... The fleet followed the coastline and did not go directly towards the Nanao Mountains. This is also Shen Xi considering that the time of the day is not enough to carry out a round of deterrent attack on Nanao Mountain, and is ready to rest in the coastal waters for a day, and circle around Nanao Island in the coming day, using artillery bombardment and tentative landing on the island as a feint signal, and then Mingjin will withdraw his troops and land troops from Lianjiang to Chenghai to garrison near Chenghai.

On the first day, the ship went smoothly, and there were no merchant ships passing in the coastal waters, mainly because the merchant ships knew that pirates and pirates were rampant around Nanao Island, and they would rather take a long detour in this section of the sea area and pass through the periphery of the Penghu Islands, but even so, they would still encounter pirates and pirates from time to time, and end up with a ship destroyed and people killed.

Shen Xi felt very good from time to time when he arrived on the ship, and after staying in the cabin for a long time, he felt nauseous and almost wanted to vomit, so he had to come out to the deck to blow the sea breeze, and he was alert in his heart: "I have been studying hard since I was a child, and I didn't exercise much. Is it true that at the age of twenty or so, he will only play conspiracy and tricks, and sit on the title of young man and old man? ”

Like a cold bird, Shen Xi kept reminding himself that he should exercise well after going back, otherwise he would really have to grow old and decay before he got old.

At the turn of Shen You in the afternoon of the same day, the fleet arrived at the mouth of the Lianjiang River in the north of Jinshi, which was more than 20 miles away from Nanao Island, and at the same time would not disturb the bandits in Chenghai County.

The main reason is that Shen Xi considered that if he rashly drove to the vicinity of Laiwu Island, he might startle the snake, even if he feinted, he had to pretend to be a sign of a formal attack, and he could not leak his hiding in advance, although Shen Xi knew that his action of sending troops was very high-profile, and it was unlikely that the bandits on Nanao Island would not receive the news in advance.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the fleet lowered its sails and anchored in the south port, but did not land and station, mainly considering that the follow-up infantry could not reach the border of Chenghai County until the afternoon of the next day, and the danger factor of rushing ashore was very great.

Nowadays, Chenghai County, Waisha and Xinxi on land are infested with pirates and pirates, and it is safest to stay on the ship.

Even if there are no soldiers stationed on the shore, scouts will be sent to shore to spy on the situation to prevent pirates from sneaking up at night, and the scouts are carrying fireworks and flares, so they can send a signal at any time to let the fleet know that there is danger on the shore.

In the early morning of the second day, before dawn, the officers and men regrouped, one or two sleepy-eyed, and they were about to start a new day's journey. (To be continued.) )