Li Dingguo's camp is located in the north of Xinhui City. It has 40,000 troops, together with a group of Ming troops, rebels, and company battalions from all over the country. They directly cover the direction of Xinhui County that is not close to the waterway, forming an airtight seal.

Breathable.

The person who just came to intercept was Li Dingguo's confidant General Jin Tongwu. He had recently crossed the Enping River to coordinate the disputes between several Ming and rebel armies in Xinning County. As a result, before the disputes were mediated, he ran into Chen Kai first.

He is Li Dingguo's confidant, so of course he knows that Li Dingguo has been trying his best to win over Zheng Chenggong. Moreover, he also knows a little bit about last month's reply. He knows that Chen Kai is coming soon, but he doesn't know what day it is.

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After a short period of panic, when they learned that Chen Kai was leading the army to come to the rescue, the rebels, who had previously had no idea about each other and had some hatred towards each other, forgot about their conflicts and gathered together one by one.

, I just want to see what the legendary Chen Kai looks like, so that I can torment the Shang and Geng vassals for several years without making any big noise.

"Governor Chen, it's Governor Chen!"

"Righteousness saves Guangzhou, defeats Geng Jimao and bombards Guangzhou City. Governor Chen is here, he is really here!"

"With King Xining here, and now even Chen Zhuge is here, the Tatars will be defeated. Long live the Ming Dynasty! Long live the Emperor!"

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Amid the cheers in the streets, Chen Kai remembered that he obviously didn't get along with the civil servants in western Guangdong, but now he was still so popular, and he felt a little dazed for a while.

In a daze, Chen Kai naturally did not lose his etiquette, and frequently saluted the surrounding Ming troops and rebels, which attracted bursts of cheers. When they passed Niudu Bay, the cheers came to an end, and the group continued northward, straight into

That seemingly endless siege camp area.

The camp was built according to the division of troops and horses. The most important thing outside Xinhui City was Li Dingguo's army, which was located at the core and most powerful place. Chen Kai led the hussar army through the town under the leadership of Jin Tongwu

In the meantime, it also attracted everyone's attention. He had already raised his banner, but not many people were literate, so he didn't attract much reaction at first.

Speaking of which, since Li Dingguo once again led his army into Guangdong, the Ming army and the rebels came in succession like crucian carp crossing the river, and a new army would arrive and set up camp almost every few days. At first glance,

At this moment, Chen Kai's group is nothing more than another newcomer. At most, they are all cavalry. The leader is a civilian official. At first glance, that's what they look like.

However, when someone recognized Chen Kai's flag, the voice of word of mouth became more intensive and louder, and the cheers in the afternoon soon reappeared here.

"Zhuge is reborn, Chen Fujun, who is still alive in Bowen, has arrived!"

"Four years ago, the villain's family had to be rescued by Chen Fujun before they could escape from the tiger's mouth. Chen Fujun will be a prince for generations!"

Among the rebels were some people from Guangzhou, who were survivors of the catastrophe. They were naturally grateful to the high-ranking officials who abandoned the city and fled, and to Chen Kai who rescued them from the Qing army's butcher's knife.

This is a life-saving grace, a life-saving grace given to 300,000 people!

It was already dark, but the enthusiasm was even greater than in the afternoon. People kept pouring out of the camp, wanting to see Chen Kai closer. By this time, even Jin Tongwu and the Southwest Ming troops under him were all harboring suspicion.

They looked at Chen Kai with admiration. After all, in their opinion, similar scenes had only happened to their coach.

Hussar Town escorted Chen Kai straight to Li Dingguo's camp. The further inward he saw, the camp was more orderly, the sergeants looked more elite, and they were fully equipped with weapons and armor.

When approaching Li Dingguo's main camp, Jin Tongwu suddenly stopped and said that he had arranged a camp for Huqi Town. The implication was that it was inconvenient for Li Jianjie's cavalry to go deep. Chen Kai didn't care about this, and talked with Li Jianjie.

After giving the order, the latter took his troops and followed one of Jin Tongwu's lieutenants to rest.

Chen Kai and Jin Tongwu continued to march and could already see the camp in front of them. Behind the dense antlers and twigs, the village walls were uniform and the observation deck was towering. They could overlook this large camp area. In the middle of the camp, there was a distinct "Li"

The banner fluttered in the wind, showing everyone the status of the owner of this camp and the glorious past glory.

When they arrived at the camp gate, the guards straightened their backs and stood on both sides. An officer stepped forward, ignoring Jin Tongwu's identity as a confidant, and checked his waist badge as usual. Jin Tongwu did not hesitate or be dissatisfied at all. Everything went on smoothly, as if this was the case.

This is the normal situation in daily life.

At this time, the Ming army's drill had already ended, and it was time to eat. There was smoke from the cooking pots, but it was extremely quiet in the camp. After checking his waistband, the officer guarding the gate stepped forward to check Chen Kai again. At this time, Jin Tongwu seemed a little uncomfortable.

I was happy, but didn't say much.

Li Dingguo always paid attention to the execution of orders and prohibitions when running the army, which was very similar to Zheng Chenggong. Seeing the officer step forward, Chen Kai did not show the slightest dissatisfaction and directly took out a leather bag hanging on his official uniform.

He held a gun and handed it directly to the officer with the barrel in his hand.

"Chen Fujun, what is this?"

A civil servant, surrounded by five or six hundred cavalry guards, actually carried a short fire blunderbuss. This really made Jin Tongwu a little confused. At least, he did not do so during the campaign in the North and even later in the Ming Dynasty.

I have seen a civil servant behave like this, and most of them don't have any weapons on them. Even if they do, they usually have a sword on their waist, which they can use to kill themselves in times of danger.

Jin Tongwu's puzzled gaze came to him, but Chen Kai laughed, and then explained to him: "Jin Shuai, sometimes, when faced with some special situations, even if you are full of wisdom and eloquence, you are still far away.

It would be more effective to just take out the gun and shoot it at the opponent's head."

Chen Kai said it matter of course, but Jin Tongwu was stunned for a moment. The civil servant in front of him was really completely different from the civil servants he had seen. Even if those civil servants were really ruthless, at most they could only plot against others behind their backs.

In this way, when it comes to face to face, all that is left is the so-called "death in danger to repay the king." How is it like this person in front of me? In times of crisis, he not only has to fight back with all his strength, but also "comes with a shot" to the opponent. This

They seemed to be more desperadoes than their generals.

As he said that, the guard had already rushed to report. After a while, a general in a python robe and a jade belt strode out, followed by two civil servants. Judging from the pace of the steps, they seemed to be reluctant. However, Chen

Kai didn't care, he walked up three steps at a time, bowed his head and bowed.

"Your Majesty, Chen Kai, pays homage to His Highness the King of Xining."

Just as he held his hands in a gesture of worship, a pair of iron arms from the newcomer had already lifted Chen Kai up. He looked at it carefully, and then he smiled and said: "I have heard about Chen Fujun's name for a long time, and it is like thunder to my ears. It is really a blessing in my life to see him today."

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Speaking in Mandarin with a Shaanxi accent, Chen Kai could clearly understand that Li Dingguo was looking at him at this moment, and he was also looking at Li Dingguo.

I think back then, when we first met Zheng Chenggong, he was in his early twenties, heroic and somewhat scholarly. Now, Li Dingguo in front of him is only in his early thirties, which makes him two or three years older than Zheng Chenggong.

However, the person in front of him has a very heroic appearance, and his temperament reveals a bit of vicissitudes of life, perhaps because he was a bandit in his early years.

The two looked at each other and smiled, and Li Dingguo was about to introduce the two civil servants who followed Chen Kai. At this moment, Chen Kai shook his head, stretched out his hand to stop them, and then sneered in front of Li Dingguo.

"Commander Lian, I've met Xiaguan before. When Xiaguan made a special trip to Wen Village to visit him, Lian Zongzhi asked him if he was an official from the Zhu family or from the Zheng family."

As soon as these words were spoken, the temperature around him immediately hit freezing point. Civil servants and generals, and even ordinary people, always pay attention to some superficial kindness. Just when Li Dingguo heard that Chen Kai had arrived, he immediately stood up to greet him. These two civil servants

Of course, we understand that Li Dingguo aims to win over Zheng Chenggong and Chen Kai to fight against Sun Kewang. Now that Li Dingguo has come out to greet them, they cannot continue to sit in the big tent no matter how reluctant they are, so they have to follow them out. Shangguan comes out to greet them, even if they are accompanying them

Yes, subordinates should always show their courtesy. Who would have thought that Chen Kai would be so disrespectful and directly expose the contradiction between the two of them, and even the Western Guangdong Civil Service Group and the Zheng Group, to Li Dingguo.

The whole place was stunned and speechless, and no one knew what to say at this time. Unexpectedly, at this moment, Chen Kai turned to the civil servant on the other side of Li Dingguo, looked at him up and down, and then directly named him

person's identity.

"This must be the company commander, Commander Guo behind Zhang Fujun and Zhou Daotai."

This statement almost directly identified Guo Zhiqi, the supervising scholar, as the general backstage of Liancheng Bi, Zhang Xiaoqi, and Zhou Tengfeng, the group of civil servants in western Guangdong. They were naturally the culprits in squeezing out Chen Kai.

The scene froze for a moment, and everyone present didn't know what to say. Who knew that at this moment, Chen Kai spoke again and said, "I've met the two Shangguan officials", and just bowed briefly.

He bowed his hand as if it was a salute, and his expression showed no respect for a higher-ranking official.

"Ahem, since we are acquainted, Your Highness does not need to introduce you. Chen Fujun has come all the way and is exposed late at night. In my humble opinion, why don't you go to the big tent to talk first?"

"Mr. Jin is right."

Several high-ranking officials froze here, and a Confucian scholar dressed as an aide who followed behind quickly took over the conversation. In response to this conversation, Li Dingguo's reaction was also very fast. While talking, he held Guo Zhiqi's hand with one hand and held Guo Zhiqi's hand with the other.

He grabbed Chen Kai and took him directly to the big tent. With such eagerness, those who didn't know it thought he was going to kidnap the two of them.

Li Dingguo took Guo Zhiqi and Chen Kai and strode into the tent. Jin Tongwu, Lian Chengbi and others could only follow behind and follow in.

Speaking of which, they were resentful of the Zheng Group's entry into western Guangdong. This was due to the inertia of party struggle and was also related to the fact that the former leader of the Zheng Group had betrayed Emperor Longwu and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. Because of this resentment,

This made them wary of Chen Kai. At that time, they used his status as a Shangguan to exclude Chen Kai, which was also done to other civil servants and generals in Guangdong.

However, in the current end of the Ming Dynasty, it is no longer the time in peacetime when high-ranking officials suppressed people to death. Now we pay attention to strength, military, political, economic, and all aspects of strength. It is just exclusion, which for Chen Kai

It was completely ineffective. There was no need for Guo Zhiqi, the superintendent of Buller, nor the permission of the governor, Lian Chengbi. Chen Kai led the Zheng Group's army to dominate the Pearl River Estuary, and went back and forth to bleed the Qing navy.

It is even possible to travel thousands of miles across the sea and directly recapture Qiongzhou Prefecture, without the help of the Ming army and the rebel army in western Guangdong.

Not to mention that the exclusion was not effective at the beginning, but now it was brought out by Chen Kai, making it clear that Li Dingguo should understand that the contradiction between the two sides is irreconcilable. If something unexpected happens, it will destroy unity and lead to the destruction of the situation.

The crime was placed directly on their heads, and they couldn't get rid of it even if they wanted to.

Everyone entered the big tent, with Li Dingguo standing high above, Guo Zhiqi and Liancheng Bi sitting on the left, and Chen Kai, as the dual representative of the Zheng Group and the Southeast Ming Army, sitting on the right without humility. As for Jin Tongwu and Na

The staff were sitting under Chen Kai and Lian Chengbi respectively, and seemed to be ready for a fight between the two sides.

Li Dingguo has not yet had the leisure to mediate conflicts. Joining forces with the Zheng Group to fight against Sun Kewang is the fundamental reason why he must win over Zheng Chenggong during his two forays into Guangdong. Now that Chen Kai is here, he naturally has to first understand the relevant trends of the Zheng Group.

Sitting high on the throne, Li Dingguo's attention has been focused on Chen Kai. Since the Southern Ming Dynasty, there have been many well-known civil servants - Shi Kefa, Ma Shiying, Qian Qianyi, Liu Zongzhou, Zhang Guowei, Zhu Dadian, Huang Daozhou, Su Guansheng,

He Tengjiao, Qu Shichu, Du Yinxi, Ding Kuichu, Wen Anzhi, etc., some assisted the government internally, and some fought hard externally. Most of these people have died in ancient times, and even those who are not dead are nothing now.

I was trapped in one dilemma after another. Although I tried to rise up, I had little effect.

In comparison, Chen Kai claims to be a child student, but in fact he has never even passed the county examination or the government examination, and cannot even be called a child student. With such an imperial examination background, he entered the officialdom very late, and his starting point was also very low.

He is just an aide of Zheng Chenggong. But he is such a small person. Since his debut, he has fought desperately in Guangdong and Fujian provinces, sometimes assisting Zheng Chenggong, sometimes leading the army alone. After a few years, the team that initially only had

The strength of the Southeast Ming Army, which has about ninety people, cannot be underestimated. The most important thing among them is Chen Kai's hard work.

Such a figure has been fighting hard for several years, especially with the Qing army sweeping across Guangdong and Guangxi four years ago, the Qin Palace taking over the Yongli court, and the civil servants of the Southern Ming Dynasty aging and withering away. This rising star is already the most popular civil servant today.

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After entering the big tent, the first thing is to spend time chatting, where are you from, how was the journey along the way, how hard it was after traveling and traveling, etc., and then the rest is nothing more than to show some of Chen Kai's great achievements to "long admire". In this regard, Chen Kai naturally also

We should pay attention to Li Dingguo's physical condition and praise Li Dingguo's feat of becoming king twice.

Li Dingguo carefully observed Chen Kai's posture. He was confident and calm. This was the most obvious. Recalling some information about Chen Kai collected by the staff sitting on the other side for him, the image in fantasy and reality slowly changed.

Fusion into one, its image gradually becomes clearer.

"Chen Fujun has come all the way, and I have prepared a banquet to welcome Chen Fujun."

At this point, Chen Kai stood up and thanked him. Immediately afterwards, the awkwardness outside the tent seemed to have passed. Guo Zhiqi suddenly asked Chen Kai: "Since Chen Fujun is here, the headquarters would like to ask, Duke Zhang Guo

Where are you now, will you come to join Master Wang later?"

Guo Zhiqi's question was related to everyone present, especially Zheng Chenggong's "old relative" who was even more concerned about whether the "General with the surname of the country" whom he always respected could come.

With his eyes focused on one body, Chen Kai did not hide his secrets and answered calmly: "Guo Xing will not be able to come this year. Some time ago, Fujian was in chaos, and now Guo Xing is leading the king's division in southern Fujian to sweep across the land of Fujian. Xianguan

Before coming, the army of the national surname had already entered Jianning Mansion, and the troops were pointing directly at Xianxia Pass!"

Zheng Chenggong could not come. This news could be said to be the worst news for Li Dingguo at the moment. But before a look of disappointment appeared on his face, Chen Kai's next words immediately attracted his attention.

Especially when he said "Bingfeng pointed directly at Xianxia Pass", everyone present understood what that pass meant, and they were immediately shocked.

"What caused the chaos in Fujian?"

Unlike Li Dingguo, who still had some disappointment to digest, Guo Zhiqi, as the person who had just asked, was the first to realize the key to Zheng Chenggong's sweeping of Fujian.
Chapter completed!