On the morning of the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, the fleet arrived at Tongshanwei Wharf after a night of sailing.

The flotilla flying the flag of the Ming Army's sailors sailed into the Tongshanwei sea area, and Weng Tianyou, the commander of Tongshanwei, personally led his generals Guo Yi and Cai Lu to greet Wang Xinyu's fleet on the dock.

When Wang Xinyu's 750-ton Spanish galleon sailed into the dock, the Ming soldiers and people on the dock were in a commotion.

"It can't be the red-haired ghost, is it?" One cannot tell the difference between a Dutch Galen and a Spanish galleon.

Someone muttered: "I don't know if it's a red-haired ghost or a Francophone?" ”

Weng Tianyou shouted: "Don't mess up, it's our own ship!" And this is not a battleship either, it's a transport! ”

"Transport?" Now everyone is even more peeking at each other. It would be a waste not to use such a large ship as a warship, but as a transport ship! This ship is like a mountain, with two gun decks and gun doors, such a ship is actually a transport ship! They didn't know that the wood used by merchant ships was different from that of warships, and no matter how big a merchant ship was, it would suffer a big loss if it encountered a small fifth-class ship.

The huge transport ship docked at the pier, and Wang Xinyu and his subordinates got off the ship.

On the shore, firecrackers rang out, gongs and drums were noisy, and people played festive banners to welcome Wang Xinyu to Tongshan to recruit troops.

The island where Tongshanwei is located is not small, with more than 200 square kilometers, which is larger than Xiamen Island, and there are cities, barracks, shipyards, wharves, handicraft workshops and other facilities, and if all the farmland is used to grow sweet potatoes, it will not be a problem to feed 50,000 or 60,000 people. Zheng Chenggong fought Chaozhou three times, bringing back more than 20,000 people who came to join the Zheng family's army, plus the original more than 40,000 people on the island, the population of the island has reached more than 60,000 people, and it has reached saturation.

The original more than 40,000 people, most of them were old and weak women and children, young and middle-aged men had basically joined the Zheng family's army, and the rest were also shipbuilders and other craftsmen, and the people in charge of farming were all old people, women and children.

"Weng Junmen!" Wang Xinyu led his group and saluted Weng Tianyou with his fists.

"Everyone, please get up!" Weng Tianyou greeted.

Under the leadership of Weng Tianyou, the governor of Tongshan, Wang Xinyu began to recruit soldiers.

As soon as the banner at the recruitment office was raised, the people who came to join the Zheng family army enthusiastically signed up to join the army. Among the more than 20,000 new defectors, there are only about 5,000 young men and men.

When a soldier has a salary of silver, two taels of silver a month is much better than farming, when a family of five, save a little, two taels of silver can provide a family for a year; The monthly salary of two taels of silver, as long as one person is a soldier, can make the family well-fed and warm, and Zheng Jiajun does not deduct the salary, so everyone squeezed their heads to sign up.

"Let go of me! Why catch me! "When he was recruiting, suddenly a strong man was pulled out of the queue by members of the Heaven and Earth Society in the Zheng family's army.

A veteran of the Ming Army in his fifties sneered: "Hao Jun, you are from Shaoguan, Guangdong, according to our investigation, you have a wife and a pair of children at home. The people who come to us to serve in the army are all dragged by their families, but you came alone, so you are not afraid that your family will be retaliated against by the Tartars? This is one of them; Second, you are from a tenant household, so it's good to be able to eat well, but when you were in Shaoguan, you often went in and out of the kiln, mingled with the kiln sisters, and you often went to gamble and lost a lot of silver! Where did you squander? Third, for a while, you didn't farm at home, and our people saw you go in and out of the Guangdong Sailor Yamen! That's all there is to it, it's suspicious enough, right? ”

"Wronged!" The guy named Hao Jun struggled desperately, but to no avail, he couldn't break free at all. Those two agents of the Heaven and Earth Society were both masters and had great strength.

The veteran of the Ming Army watched as the guy was escorted down, and then turned his head and continued to stare at the queue for registration.

In the team, a guy with a thief's head and a rat brain just saw Hao Jun being escorted down, his legs were trembling, and cold sweat broke out on his head. When the veteran's gaze swept over the team, this guy subconsciously lowered his head and didn't dare to look at each other.

"You! Come out! The veteran suddenly pointed at the thief-headed guy.

The more scared you are, the more you will be exposed.

The thief-headed guy couldn't hide it, so he had to walk out obediently. But when he walked out, he suddenly took out a dagger from his arms, turned around and rushed straight to Wang Xinyu, who was standing at the recruitment office five steps away.

The people of the Heaven and Earth Society are all masters, but the incident happened suddenly, and the Qing Soldier Scout's martial arts are also very strong, and his movements are extremely fast, and the two secret agents of the Heaven and Earth Society have no time to stop that guy. The veteran chased after him from behind, but it was too late, and the Qing army spies had already approached Wang Xinyu.

At this time, Wang Xinyu was watching his own soldiers selecting new recruits, but he was caught off guard and a black shadow lightning rushed towards him.

Obviously, that Qing soldier scout is very strong in martial arts, and his movements are extremely agile. Wang Xinyu's two personal soldiers didn't have time to draw their knives, and seeing that the situation was critical, they didn't care about the danger, so they had to use their bodies to meet them. But the Qing army spy was very powerful, and he knocked one of his own soldiers away at once, and kicked another soldier a few times.

At this time, Wang Xinyu reacted a step too late, the Miao knife on his waist was too long, and he pulled it out twice in a hurry, but he couldn't pull out the knife. The guy was about to pounce on him, so he had to parry it with his scabbard. But that guy's martial arts are very high, Wang Xinyu only parried twice, and was kicked once.

The power of this kick is extremely great, although there is armor on his body, Wang Xinyu still feels a strong attack, and his internal organs are overturned, and the scabbard almost comes out of his hand in pain.

Wang Xinyu held back the pain and pulled out the short hammer from his waist, but before he could pull out the short hammer, he saw a white rainbow flash, and the blade of the sword slashed across the wrist of the Qing army spy.

"Ahh The Qing army spy screamed miserably, covered his injured hand, and the dagger fell to the ground with a "dang".

The veteran of the Ming army stabbed out with a sword like lightning, piercing the pipa bone of the Qing scout.

This veteran's martial arts are indeed powerful, he subdued the masters of the Qing army with just one move, and it seems that his martial arts are not under the masters of Cai Jiuyi, Emperor Hu De, and Hong Xiguan!

"Take it away!" Wang Xinyu snorted coldly.

Two agents of the Heaven and Earth Society came up and escorted the guy down. The veteran walked up to Wang Xinyu and knelt down and saluted: "Chief soldier Wang!" The lowly duty is not effective, and the thief almost injured the chief soldier! Despicable crimes deserve death! ”

Li Rui and several pro-soldiers also knelt down: "Lord Commander! Poor care by subordinates! Please, my lord! ”

"Get up, all of you!" Wang Xinyu waved his hand, "As long as everyone is okay!" Take the tartars down and interrogate them. ”

After a full day of conscription, the second town of the Zheng Jiajun Water Division completed the conscription work on Tongshan Island.

There are more than 5,000 men, not everyone can be soldiers, and after careful selection by the pro-soldier team, Wang Xinyu selected 1,500 hardcover men to join the Zheng family's army. In addition, more than 200 homeless orphans were selected and integrated into their own youth camps.

The Heaven and Earth Society is still interrogating, and the second person who was caught, the Qing army named Wu Ergou, was hiding a sharp blade and trying to kidnap Wang Xinyu, the evidence was conclusive, and he really couldn't hide it, so he had to confess honestly. But that guy named Hao Jun was very hard-mouthed, and even though the people of the Heaven and Earth Society tried their best, they couldn't pry his mouth open.

"Your Excellency!" Seeing Wang Xinyu walk in, Fang Chonggong of the Heaven and Earth Society stepped forward and arched his hand, "That Hao Jun's mouth is very hard, we have tried our best, but this guy just refuses to speak." ”

Fang Chonggong, a native of Funing, is already in his fifties, and his martial arts are very strong, he is the veteran of the Ming Army who just found out Hao Jun and Wu Ergou. Since his wife's death, he has joined the Heaven and Earth Society with his young daughter Fang Qiniang. Because there was a young daughter in the family, Chen Jinnan asked Fang Chonggong to take his daughter to Xiamen Island, not allowing him to engage in dangerous intelligence work behind enemy lines, but specializing in the matter of capturing the Qing army.

Old, Fang Chonggong's eyes are very poisonous, since a group of people were brought to Tongshan Island by Zheng Chenggong, he took the brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society to find out the Qing army from the people who came to defect. In the past half a month, more than a dozen people have been caught blending in with the people.

All the Qing soldiers who confessed their sins were executed on the spot by the Heaven and Earth Society.

Wang Xinyu glanced at Hao Jun, who was covered in blood, and said, "Let's let General Ben come, I have my own way to make this guy confess honestly!" ”

After that, Wang Xinyu ordered people to carry firewood and a large iron pot into the cell, and let people fill the big iron pot with water, and then let people light the firewood.

"You'd better confess honestly, save yourself the pain of flesh and skin! As long as you recruit, we will give you a good time! An agent of the Heaven and Earth Society said to Hao Jun.

Hao Jun raised his head and snorted: "If you give me a knife, it will be death, and if you throw me into the pot, it will be a death, both horizontally and vertically, what do you want!" ”

Wang Xinyu sneered: "There are different ways to die, one is to die happily, the other is to die slowly, you choose!" ”

"Phew!" Hao Jun turned his head over, "Whatever!" Don't you just throw labor and capital into the pot? Please! ”

"Hahaha!" Wang Xinyu laughed a few times, "Little brother, you're too naïve to think about it!" Is there such a cheap thing in this world? ”

In less than a meal, the water in the iron pot boiled to a boil.

"Make the fire small, make it simmer." Wang Xinyu ordered to the person.

Wang Xinyu first asked two agents of the Heaven and Earth Society to fetch bamboo sticks, propped up Hao Jun's eyelids with bamboo sticks, and prevented him from closing his eyes, and then put a wooden flail on his head, nailed two wooden boards to the wooden shackles, clamped his cheeks, and made his head unable to turn, and then asked someone to clamp his left hand with iron tongs and forcibly press it into the pot of boiling water.

"Ahh Ten fingers connected to his heart, Hao Jun let out a heart-rending scream, and passed out in pain.

A large basin of cold water was poured on Hao Jun's head, rejuvenating him from his coma.

Because the bamboo sticks supported his eyes and his head was fixed again, Hao Jun could only watch his hands being slowly cooked.

"Recruit or not?" Fang Chonggong shouted.

"I'm not a spy! You let me go! Hao Jun shouted with all his might.

An agent of the Heaven and Earth Society came up, pulled Hao Jun's cooked left hand out of the pot of boiling water, and then brushed it with an iron brush, and the cooked meat fell into the pot, and Hao Jun's left hand was suddenly only Bai Sensen's skeleton.

"Recruit or not?" Fang Chonggong shouted again.

Hao Jun desperately wanted to turn his head, but the wooden flail stuck his head and couldn't turn, and his eyes were supported by bamboo sticks, and he couldn't close his eyes.

"Hmmm! Now it's right-handed turn! It's okay, the right hand is finished, and the left foot, the right foot! Then the left arm, the right arm, then the left leg, the right leg! Take your time, don't rush! Fang Chonggong sneered.

"I say! I'll tell you everything I know! Hao Jun finally relented.

Subsequently, the Qing soldier poured a bamboo tube on a bean, and confessed everything he knew.

According to the list of Hao Jun's confessions, after that, the Tiandihui captured another group of Qing troops from Xiamen Island, Nanao and Kinmen Island.

"Push it out, cut it!" Fang Chonggong drank the order, and asked Hao Jun and Wu Ergou to be pushed out and beheaded.

"Wait!" Wang Xinyu shouted.

"Mr. Wang?" Fang Chonggong asked, "I wonder what is the use of the adults leaving these two thieves?" ”

Wang Xinyu smiled sinisterly: "For the time being, leave these dog traitors to live for a few more days, and after half a month, they will be handed over to the recruits to practice!" Let the recruits kill and let them see the blood! ”