There is a mistake in the previous article. Chen Qice was General Linghai of the Southern Ming Dynasty and was not General Jinghai. Because the chapter name cannot be changed, I hereby explain it.

On the Tanjiang River, hundreds of warships under the jurisdiction of General Linghai of the Ming Dynasty were large and small. The larger warships were divided into two layers, and several cannons weighing three or four thousand kilograms were installed on the ship. The smaller ones were equipped with copper (iron) small cannons on both sides of the chords, and the smaller ones were densely packed with large pole guns on the ship, with no less than a hundred. The personnel on the ship were all wearing red uniforms, and the flags they were cast were red. From a distance, hundreds of warships full of red flags were sailing against the wind, covering the river surface, which was very majestic.

The warship that was guarded by a group of warships had three levels of flag flying the "Ming Linghai General". At this time, there were more than a dozen Ming generals in armored army looking into the distance of the river ahead. The leader was Chen Qice, the commander of this navy.

Chen Qice was a native of Baochang County, Nanxiong Prefecture, Guangdong Province. In the 46th year of Wanli, he was appointed as the garrison of Taishan in the seventh year of Chongzhen. In the 12th year, he was promoted to the Thousand General of Yangjiang County, and in the 15th year, he was appointed as the General of Leizhou. After the Longwu regime was destroyed, Chen Qice followed Emperor Yongli to resist the Qing Dynasty. After the Qing army invaded Guangdong, he led his troops to capture the Shang and Shuchuan Island in the south of Taishan County, Guangzhou Prefecture, and actively rectified military affairs on the island, gathered scattered soldiers of the Ming army, recruited righteous people to re-establish the Guangdong Navy, and sent envoys to contact Lian Chengbi, the governor of Guangdong under the Yongli regime in Leizhou, and were willing to accept the unified control of the latter.

After Li Chengdong was defeated and killed, King Shang Kexi of Pingnan of Qing Dynasty, and King Geng Jimao of Jingnan led his troops to Guangzhou. The former general of Li Chengdong, Du Yonghe, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi in the South Ming Dynasty, who was on his own, abandoned the city to break through. After learning the news, Chen Qice led his troops to help to save the anti-Qing forces and sent Du Yonghe's troops to Qiongzhou to settle down. Later, Du Heyong led his troops to surrender. Chen Qice was indignant and sent troops to attack Du's troops, severely attacking Du Yonghe's sea surface with Qiongzhou, causing more than half of his navy warships to sink.

Later, in order to cooperate with Li Dingguo to recover Guangdong, the Guangdong Governor Lian Chengbi and the Grand Secretary of the Supervisor Guo Zhiqi issued a document in Guangdong that was still insisting on resisting the Qing Dynasty, asking them to respond to the Li Dingguo army and jointly attack Guangzhou. So Ming troops and Yishi were rushing up from all over the country. Chen Qice, who received the order, also happily led his troops out of the upper and lower Sichuan Island, entered the West River from Jiangkou to capture Jiangmen, and defeated Liang Biaoxiang, the general general of the Qing Dynasty's Guangdong Navy, who arrived later, and killed the deputy general Gai Yipeng. During the subsequent battle of Li Dingguo's siege against Xinhui, Chen Qice always led his troops to defend Jiangmen until Li Dingguo's defeat and rescued the siege that he had no choice but to lead his troops back to Shangxiachuan Island.

At this time, Chen Qice was already a white-haired veteran. It has been 37 years since he passed the military rank at the age of 21, but he stood on the top of the boat in military uniform and looked still energetic.

This time, Chen Qice led his troops into Tan Jiang again in order to support the Taiping Army that was trapped in Xinhui. However, at this moment, he had no expectations for whether Xinhui City was still sticking to it, because a few days ago, the spies reported to him that the besieged army led by Shang Zhixin had begun to attack Xinhui. Combined with the troops and food of the Taiping Army in the city that Qi Hao mentioned before, the white-haired veteran had already made the worst plan in his heart, and at the same time regretted the months wasted before. He even expressed confusion about the stalemate of the Governor Lian Chengbi and the Grand Secretary Guo Zhiqi.

As early as when the Taiping Army occupied Xinhui, the Ming army troops scattered everywhere to resist the Qing Dynasty knew about this amazing news!

Guangdong Governor Lian Chengbi did not believe it at first, but after the news was confirmed, he immediately collaborated with Grand Secretary Guo Zhiqi to report to Anlong's court. At the same time, he sent someone to quickly inform the King of Xining Li Dingguo of the matter, and asked the court and Li Dingguo to take advantage of this rare opportunity in a thousand years to send troops to Guangdong again.

While waiting for the reply from the court and Li Dingguo, Lian Chengbi and Guo Zhiqi did not immediately take action to support the Taiping Army of Xinhui. First, they did not know the sudden emergence of the troops in their territory, and second, the troops in their hands were really difficult to bear the heavy responsibility of rescuing Xinhui.

Last year, in order to cooperate with Li Dingguo's attack on Guangzhou, the Ming army and Yi army in various parts of Guangdong suffered considerable losses. Now, the strength of the Ming army in various parts of Guangdong includes the Jingxing General Deng Yao's army in Qinzhou, the Zhenguo General Zhu Tong's army in Lianzhou, Zhou Tengfeng's army in Haibei Road, and Zhang Xiaoqi's army in the four prefectures of Gaozhou. Tang Pingbo Zhou Jintang's army in Lianjiang County, Gaozhou, Li Changrong's army in Hailing Island south of Yangjiang County, Zhaoqing Prefecture, Wang Xing's army in Enping, and Chen Qice's army in Linghai, Shangxiachuan Island, etc.

These people and horses were scattered in one place, with no direct connection with each other, and there was no territory for long-term garrison. What's more, most of these Ming troops were naval troops, lacking the strength to fight land, and often could severely damage thousands of Qing troops on the water, but once they got ashore, they could not even deal with the Qing army with hundreds of people. Therefore, even though they knew that the Taiping Army occupied Xinhui City and the Nanming regained Guangdong, it was a rare opportunity for Nanming to recover Guangdong, but because they had no soldiers and horses in their hands could undertake the mission of eastward advance, even Chengbi and Guo Zhiqi could only wait. After all, the only ones who could defeat the Qing army in field battles were the only officers and soldiers of the Xiying under the command of King Qin Sun Kewang and King Xining Li Dingguo. If they wanted to fight in the east, they could only be the officers and soldiers of the Xiying. Other soldiers were really useless, and it would be useless to go there.

During this period, there was not a single army who had the idea of ​​supporting Xinhui. Li Changrong, the general stationed in Hailing Island, wanted to lead his troops to support Xinhui City in July, but was defeated by the Green Camp of Yangjiang County. Zhou Beifeng, Haibei Province, also led his subordinates to support Xinhui from Tanjiang, but was also defeated by the Qing Guangdong Navy. These two failures made even more Chengbi and Guo Zhiqi dare not order their troops to enter Xinhui. Chen Qice requested several times in succession and was refused.

After waiting for more than half a month, the envoys of the Yongli court and Li Dingguo's reply arrived at the Guangdong Governor General stationed in Leizhou one after another. As soon as the envoys of the court arrived, they ordered Lian. Guo and others to repel their followers and presented them with the letter from the General Yongli Emperor in the secret room to see them. After that, Lian and Guo did not mention supporting Xinhui again, and ordered Ming troops from all over the country to gather in Wuzhou, Guangxi as much as possible, which made the Ming generals in all over the country confused.

What Li Dingguo said in his letter was that no one except Lian Chengbi and Guo Zhiqi knew. The only thing he knew was that the officers and soldiers of Li Dingguo, who were stationed in Gaozhou, were suddenly transferred to the West Camp. In September, the situation became more and more strange. Rumors said that the Qin King Sun in Guiyang, who was in Guiyang, wanted Li Dingguo to go to discuss matters, but Li Dingguo said he was sick and refused to leave.

What is wrong with Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo, two princes who were born in Western thieves? In fact, the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty in Guangdong did not care about it. On the contrary, they did not respect these two pillars of the Ming Dynasty. They said a thousand words and ten thousand, and the soldiers of the Western wing were all a group of thieves. If these thieves hadn’t been making trouble back then, would the Ming Dynasty be destroyed?

There are definitely many people who hold this idea, and Chen Qice is one of them, but he looks down on Sun and Li and the other two look down on him. He will try his best to do what the court needs to do, otherwise he would not have led his troops to conquer Jiangmen and cooperated with the Xinhui battle of Li Dingguo last year. He often told people that those who are subjects must have the duty to be subjects, and the court will do whatever the court asks the ministers to do.

As October approached, an astonishing news came from the Grand Secretary Guo Zhiqi, saying that Sun Kewang was planning to rebel and usurp the throne. The emperor wrote a blood letter to summon Li Dingguo to send troops to rescue him. The truth of this news is naturally difficult to distinguish between Chen Qice who was on the island, but one thing he was certain. Something must have happened in the court, otherwise why would Li Dingguo not lead his troops to fight again? Why did the Governor suddenly move the headquarters to Qinzhou? That place is close to Guangxi.

Because his troops were naval troops, the order from the Governor's Office was not sent to Chen Qice. On October 3, there was no news from the Governor's Office, which had moved the headquarters to Qinzhou. Chen Qice didn't know what happened. He tried to send people to Qinzhou, but somehow the Qing army on the shore also began to block the road and investigated the passers-by in particular, especially those who were going to Guangxi and Guizhou, who found that one arrested the other.

All the changes made Chen Qice a little nervous. He had no idea about Xinhui. After all, it had been a few months. No matter how powerful the Taiping Army was, it would be destroyed by the Qing army. He is now concerned about the court and the safety of the emperor. If the rumors were right, Sun Kewang really wanted to usurp the throne, and the emperor in Anlong Mansion, Guizhou would have life worries. If the Emperor Yongli was killed by Sun Kewang, then there would be no possibility of revival in the Ming Dynasty!

Under extreme tension and concern, a team of soldiers sent to fish under Chen Qice received a message from the fishermen in Tanjiang Riverkou that many wooden boards on the boats floated upstream in the past two days, and some fishermen also found hundreds of corpses upstream.

River mouth, upstream, wooden boards, corpses?

These keywords made Chen Qice slam and couldn't help but wonder if this would be related to Xinhui? As far as he knew, there was no Ming army activity on Tan Jiang, because the closest to Tan Jiangkou was here. Now, a large number of corpses floated down from Tan Jiang, and there were many wooden boards. Based on this, it was inferred that it was the wreckage of the warship. If you look at it carefully, there was no Ming army activity on Tan Jiang, so these warships naturally belong to the Qing army.

Who destroyed the Qing Navy and Taiping Army?

After this thought appeared in his mind, Chen Qice was a little excited. Judging from the days, it had been more than four months since the Taiping Army occupied Xinhui. If the Qing Navy was really destroyed by the Taiping Army, does that mean that Xinhui City is still in the hands of the Taiping Army? If the Xinhui is still in the hands of the Taiping Army, then this Taiping Army is amazing!

Chen Qice, who couldn't help but decide to venture into Tan Jiang to explore the truth and reality. If Xinhui is really in the hands of the Taiping Army, then he will act according to the opportunity and support the Taiping Army no matter what. As long as the Taiping Army is nailed to Xinhui, no matter what happened to the court, he will always use Xinhui to make a big move in Guangdong in the future! If things are different from what he thinks, it's no big deal. Whether it's on the sea or on the river in Guangdong, Chen Qice thought that the Qing army could not defeat him.
Chapter completed!