The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 589 Bian Yujing and Chen Yuanyuan

"Your Highness," Liu Guoxuan, who had been silent before, cupped his hands and said, "You mentioned just now that the captives are transporting a large amount of food, grass and luggage to Laizhou for loading. Even if the navy immediately pulls anchor and heads north, it will take at least seven or eight days to arrive. In Shandong, Bandit Zheng may have left Hong Kong to commit crimes in the South at that time, and he must have planned for this earlier."

"It's possible to worry about sightseeing." Zhu Linmei nodded with a smile, "However, it's not difficult to drag the captives to Laizhou for a few days.

"Everyone, do you still remember the rebel army led by Xie Qian in Zichuan? Although it was severely injured by Luck Dehun, there were still nearly a thousand troops left. During this time, they were hidden and repaired in Lijin County, only a hundred miles away from Laizhou The day before yesterday, I sent Jinyiwei Beizhen to contact Xie Qian, and asked them to harass the Jianlu grain transport team along the way. Zheng Zhilong's supply of grain, grass and ammunition is not smooth, so he can only honestly stay in Laizhou for a few more days."

Zheng Zhilong has more than 600 boats, and the grain consumption for half a month alone requires more than [-] shi. It is impossible for Laizhou Port to store so much grain and grass on weekdays. At this time, it can only be allocated from all over Shandong and even North Zhili.

"And as far as I know, there are [-] to [-] bottles of canned food shipped to Chongming from Zhoushan recently." Zhu Linmi looked at Zheng Chenggong and said, "If the navy uses canned food as the main food, each ship will prepare five more days of food and rice. When will the resupply set sail be completed?"

Zheng Chenggong said without hesitation: "Return to Your Highness, the five-day ration can be carried by the sailors with them. It takes about half a day to replenish fresh water and ammunition, and we can set off tomorrow morning at the earliest."

This is the power of canned food, which is a logistics killer. It can be transported piecemeal at ordinary times, and it can be stored directly in the cabin without risk of deterioration.Once the military situation is urgent, the warship can be dispatched immediately without any extra supplies.

You know, on a big ship like the Shaowu, the crew needs [-] catties of rations for half a month, and it usually takes less than a day just to move so much food on board.

"Okay, tomorrow morning, I will personally practice it for the sailors!"

The time for the attack on Laizhou was finalized, and Zhu Linmi ordered another map with fine lines, which was the detailed map of Laizhou Port.It not only marked the positions of all the forts in the port, but even the habitual docking positions of Jianlu's main warships were indicated one by one.

He looked at the generals and said: "The specifics of how to attack the enemy are up to the directors. You must make careful plans and strive to accomplish all your achievements in one battle!"

"Yes!"

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Bian Yujing is wearing a brand-new blue Taoist robe, a Hunyuan hat on her hair is fastened with a sandalwood hairpin, her feet are wearing plain socks and cloud shoes, and she holds a copper fairy bowl and a foxtail Buddha dust in both hands. Not stained with dust.

It's just that she urged the car to go fast all the way, until she saw the courtyard wall of the Wu Mansion from a distance, and then let the driver stop the horse.

She calmed down, got out of the car, called the little Taoist priests who were traveling with her and walked slowly towards the vermilion lacquer gate, but she was extremely anxious, and all kinds of events in the past two months since she came to Yangzhou could not help but emerge before her eyes.

It was because she thought things were too simple at first, until she stepped on the ground of Yangzhou, she realized that her eyes were dark, not to mention the "big event" she was planning, but she didn't even know where the real master was.

It took several days and spent a lot of money, she managed to find out where the Guan Ning army was stationed, but the camp was full of soldiers, where did you see any female family members coming in and out?

In order to avoid arousing suspicion, she did not dare to go to the prison camp to inquire - could it be possible to ask these prostitutes where your coach's inner house is?And she only had an old relationship with Chen Yuanyuan, but she didn't know Wu Sangui, so she had no clue for a while.

In desperation, she thought about going to Fanliguan, the most prosperous place in Yangzhou, to inquire about some news from the pilgrims, but unexpectedly learned that the abbot of the temple was from the Longhushan lineage.After knowing her identity, the abbot was very respectful to the grand master, and even opened several large-scale Taoist temples for her, attracting many officials and celebrities from Yangzhou to pay pilgrimage.

It wasn't until a few days ago that a female family member of Wu Sangui's subordinate came to Fanliguan to ask her to test her handwriting.Under her constant insinuation, she finally found out the location of Wu Sangui's house in the city.

Later, she gave a hundred taels of silver to the "grand disciple" of Fanliguan, and asked him to go to Wu's house in person, claiming that he saw a bad omen in the house.

The Wu family was panic-stricken, and the host of Fanliguan said that only his grand master Zhang Tianshi's true biography in Yangzhou could suppress the ominous things.As if the Wu family had won the heavenly order, they hurriedly invited the disciples of the heavenly master to do it at home, and this was the beginning of her trip today.

"Miss," Caiyue entered the room, immediately changed her staggering attitude, and whispered to the beautiful woman kneeling in front of the Buddha statue, "It's time for lunch..."

Seeing that the young lady just stared at the Buddha statue without saying a word, she took out a plate of snacks from the food box and handed it over carefully, "You should eat something first."

The beautiful woman just turned her head around, but she saw the two new scars on the back of Caiyue's hand, and hurriedly held her hand, frowning, "The general hit you again?"

Caiyue hurriedly withdrew her hand and hid it behind her back, whispering: "No, no..."

The beautiful woman got up and found a porcelain bottle in the cabinet, applied ointment on Caiyue's wound, and said coldly: "The wound is in such a conspicuous place, he just wanted to show it to me, you don't need to hide it. This time he is for what?"

Even though the young lady moved gently, Caiyue still let out a low groan in pain, her eyes filled with mist, "The general said that the young lady didn't eat enough last night, it was because the servant girl didn't take good care of her, so..."

"What else is he going to do?!" the beautiful woman said angrily, "I've already said I'm not going to seek death, but he's so aggressive that he doesn't even care how much I eat!"

"Miss, it's all my fault..." Caiyue finally couldn't hold back her tears, "If it weren't for me, you would have been able to escape long ago..."

"Don't talk stupid." The beautiful woman wiped away the tears for her, "We have lived together for so many years, how can we divide each other? Besides, for me, whether I am alive or dead, whether I want to escape from this place... What is the difference?"

While the two were talking, a jingle bell rang outside the house, and then they heard the sound of several Taoist priests chanting mantras in unison.

"Caiyue, what are you doing?"

"Miss Hui, she said there was a murderous creature in the house, so I invited Master Zhang Tianshi's disciples to suppress the monster."

"Suppressing demons?" The beautiful woman sneered coldly, "This room is full of demons, but it seems that he can suppress half of them to death."

Outside the house, Bian Yujing glanced at the compass, pointed at the courtyard in front of him with the Seven Star Sword, and asked the housekeeper, "Who's residence is this?"

"Going back to Tianshi, it's Mrs. Ru's yard."

Bian Yujing raised his eyelids, and said in a drawn-out voice, "The black air lingers and does not disperse, and there is no aura of heaven and earth flowing. This is the place!"

As she spoke, she took a piece of talisman paper and pasted it on the door, and then told a few young Taoist priests, "This is the inner house of the women's family, and you are here to protect the Dharma." After saying that, she raised her sword and stepped into the house.

After arriving at the Buddhist hall, the beautiful woman who was facing her glanced at her face, she was taken aback for a moment, and then said pleasantly: "Sister Yunzhuang..." But seeing the latter winking, she hurriedly closed her mouth again.

Bian Yujing walked closer to the beautiful woman and whispered, "Yuanyuan, it's really you."

(End of this chapter)