The war will come at all, and the people are naturally struggling on the brink of life and death without considering potential crises, but generals such as Tong Hai are well aware of this.

Chenxi Island is too important to the Li family. Sooner or later, the Li family will discover the changes in Chenxi Island and will usher in an inevitable war.

The indulgence and plundering of generals such as Ding Huan, Pang Xin, and others were also due to their fear of the unknown future. They wanted to search for more benefits. In the future, when the Li family came, they quickly fled to other islands or mainlands to become rich men. Unfortunately, Chu Zheng came back too quickly and suddenly, so they had no time to react.

In fact, Chu Zheng and Qin Ruyun also made a lot of arrangements in advance before leaving Chenxi Island.

When Chu Zheng led his troops to raid the dock, he captured and surrendered the Li family members in the dock, in order to block the news that the Chenxi Island had changed and delay the time for the Li family to send troops as much as possible.

However, the 20,000 navy of Li Qi was on the Moon Island, which was three or four days away from Chenxi Island. The grain storage on it was only enough for ten or half a month. There were ships communicating almost every day to ensure contact with Chenxi Island. There were grain transport ships coming to transport grain every five days.

For this reason, Chu Zheng specially asked Tong Hai to send reliable people to escort Li's surrendered generals to guard the dock. When Yuedao sent a communication ship, the surrendered generals came forward to deceive him.

Everything went smoothly at the beginning, but a few days later, several warships escorted the grain transport ship to Chenxi Island and asked for grain transport, and they had to open bags to count and verify, and they had to meet Xue Wanche to discuss important matters. Tong Hai naturally could not agree to these conditions, so he had to decisively send people to seize the warship and grain transport ships. However, the combat power of these soldiers from the rebel army under his command was really weak and they were not quick enough, so they were eventually escaped by a warship.

This means that Tsukishima will soon know that the island of Morning Light has changed.

Tong Hai had no choice but to send people to prepare fortifications on the dock, and even made a decision to burn the entire dock if there was no way to delay the login of the Li family.

As soon as Qin Ruyun returned to the island, she asked Li family about it. After hearing the news, she immediately asked Xu Fangyuan to send a sentry ship to monitor the movements on the Yuedao from afar.

Just as Chu Zheng had just completed the internal rectification of Chenxi Army, Xu Fangyuan sent someone to send an urgent report of a letter from Feidi. The Li family coalition forces on Yuedao sent nearly 200 large and large warships to rush towards Chenxi Island. It is expected that they will reach the waters outside Chenxi Island in three days.

That night, Chu Zheng quickly summoned the generals and the Li family to discuss the situation in the future to understand the enemy situation.

The surrendered general of the Li family was called Wei Qirun. He was a former senior Li family naval master, that is, a staff officer. This person had a common problem with most scholars, his bones were soft, and he was frightened by He Lan'er with a few poisonous snakes and scorpions, and he immediately surrendered. However, this person has rich experience in naval battles and has almost participated in the entire process of the formation of the Li family naval master, and has a deep understanding of it.

At this time, when Chu Zheng was stared at him coldly, Wei Qirun was so scared that his face was gone and he quickly poured out all the things he knew and speculated.

According to Wei Qirun, the navy admiral who was stationed in Yuedao was Er Wenhuan, another confidant of Prince Li Jiancheng. He was born in the Changlin Army and fought fiercely, but he was not familiar with water wars. The entire navy was formed based on the suggestions of Wei Qirun and more than a dozen military officers, including Wei Qirun and a group of low-level navy generals. However, Er Wenhuan did not take the navy seriously from beginning to end, and he still valued infantry and cavalry the most.

This time, when troops were sent to retake Chenxi Island, Erwinhuan mostly followed the strategy of opening warships, landing troops, and relying on infantry to capture Chenxi City.

After reading the shape of the warship described in the information provided by Xu Fangyuan, Wei Qirun confirmed his judgment even more.

It is estimated that 150 of these nearly 200 warships are warships, and the remaining thirty or forty should be troop transport ships. Based on the average of warships, the average of 60 people, and the average of troop transport ships is 300. This time, the Li family's navy dispatched at least 15,000 people, exceeding 70% of the total troop troop.

The navy on Chenxi Island is nearly zero. The Li family sent 150 warships to easily defeat and completely control the coastline, ensure that the transport ships dock safely, and allow well-trained infantry and cavalry to land. After the team gathers, more than 10,000 infantry as the main force and two thousand cavalry as the mobile force to launch a thunder offensive and recover Chenxi City in one fell swoop. This is also Erwinhuan's first strategy to capture Chenxi Island.

After hearing this, the generals couldn't help but look as if they were ashamed.

With Chenxi Island's current strength, let alone more than 10,000 elite soldiers from the Li family, even if they come to 5,000, the city will be lost in one day.

After discussing with Qin Ruyun, Chu Zheng quickly made a decision.

On the one hand, he ordered the news of the Li family attack, and on the other hand, he summoned the navy to prepare for attack, intending to defeat the Li family army before approaching Chenxi Island. They must not be allowed to land, otherwise it would be a catastrophe for the people of Chenxi Island.

All the generals were worried. The Chenxi Army's navy currently has only more than 300 people, and even if there are no more than 500 surrendered sailors, there are only more than ten warships available. Although several of the pointed-headed ships of the Shenlong Sect have red barbarian cannons, there are also a large number of pointed-headed ships and red barbarian cannons in the Li family's navy.

No matter what you think, the navy's attack on the island is a foolish move to seek death, but staying on the island is also a dead end.

But seeing that Chu Shuai and the new chief executive, Miss Qin, were full of confidence and repeatedly comforted the generals that they had a plan to defeat the enemy, the generals had to hide their doubts in their hearts.

Before the meeting ended, Chu Zheng solemnly said: "No one is allowed to disclose the incident of the Li family attack, otherwise military law will deal with it!"

The generals agreed with great confidence. They had seen Chu Shuai's iron-blooded methods, so how could they dare to act rashly?

Not to mention that the generals tossed and turned all night and couldn't fall asleep, the city lord's mansion and the government office seemed to have forgotten the crisis of the Li family, so what should we do?

At dawn, the government office under Qin Ruyun first released the recruitment news. Not only were there many places, but the treatment was also good. Chu Zheng's City Lord's Mansion followed closely and issued a recruitment announcement for the recruitment of soldiers. The people all participated enthusiastically, and the government office and the city lord's mansion were crowded with people.

Especially the recruitment announcement of the City Lord's Mansion, the food and salary stated on it was even more generous. Not only were the middle-aged men who had long been interested in seeking revenge on the Li family, but even some young and middle-aged people who were originally afraid of death flocked to sign up.

In one day, the City Lord's Mansion recruited 3,300 carefully selected new recruits through layers of screening, together with the original more than 1,700 people, a total of 5,000 people, accounting for about one-twentieth of the total population of the island.

Chu Zheng divided the five thousand people into five divisions. The left and right armies were divided into three armies, each armies with a thousand armies. The left army commanded Tong Hai, and the right army commanded Cheng Sanniu. The central army was directly under the command of the city lord's office. Chu Zheng arranged Ximen Rou, who was interested in joining the army.

A unit of the Navy, with one thousand people, commanding Xu Fangyuan.

A guard camp was set up with 300 people, responsible for the defense work of the city lord's mansion. A Fei temporarily took charge of the guard Wei Yan and handed over to Wei Yan after he arrived.

The remaining 700 people were transferred to the government office to manage, and a police camp was set up to be responsible for the arrest of the whole city, and the He Han temporarily took charge of the situation.

To the surprise of all the informed generals, Chu Zheng clearly recruited 5,000 soldiers. Instead, he did not urgently distribute weapons to prepare for the upcoming war, but instead made the following arrangements in an orderly manner:

In the morning, we conducted strict training based on the training manual of the Young Marshal's Army, and in the afternoon we joined the reconstruction of disaster victims, assisted the people in building and repairing housing, reclaiming farmland in advance, repairing bridges and roads, etc., and conducted ideological education and cultural learning at night.

This is naturally the result of Chu Zheng and Qin Ruyun's discussion. The troops are the most important military force. On the one hand, such arrangements improve their ideological understanding and deepen their flesh-and-blood ties with the people, and on the other hand, they are also to reserve future lower-level officers and personnel.

Chu Zheng had no intention of letting them participate in this naval battle with the Li family.

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The next day, the city of Chenxi was very lively. The people cleared snow, diluted passages and roads, logged wood to build houses, repaired city walls, cleaned up moat silt, restored markets, built weapons and farmers, prepared spring plowing, built school and medical clinics, etc.

The Five Thousand Dawn Army trained according to the arrangement to assist the people in their work, learning culture and ideological education.

The prisoners and criminals were sent to dig the mines...

In addition to the original powerful and wealthy families in the city who were observing Chu Zheng's actions after his return with a complex look, almost all the poor people in the city, men, women, and young and old, were all out of their homes, because Chu Shuai said that everyone is responsible for building a home, and not only formal workers have wages, but also food, but also the elderly and children. As long as they participate in the labor, they can get a bowl of hot rice and a few pieces of pork on it. This is a great thing for the hungry people in the city and the newly moved mountain village villagers.

Moreover, in most jobs, Qin Ruyun's government offices did not send anyone to command blindly, but sent supervisors, and then asked the people involved to recommend or recommend those with excellent skills as temporary supervisors. The probation period is ten days. After passing the probation period, they can be transferred to a regular business and enjoy twice the salary. Those who fail the qualification will be dismissed and selected separately.

This has aroused the enthusiasm of the people for work, and talented people have taken up management positions, greatly increasing efficiency and strengthening their sense of belonging and participation.

"Serve Chu Shuai! Build a home!" has become the slogan for countless people to work hard.

The signs of prosperity in the morning light are incomparable to the death of the previous few days.

But the shadow of war quietly descended in this passionate sky.

On the morning of the fifth day when Chu Zheng returned to Chenxi Island, on the sea thirty miles away from Chenxi Island, flags covered the sun, and more than 100 warships sailed against the wind on the sea, with elite soldiers gathering on the deck, and murderous aura soaring into the sky.

At the same time, at the wharf of the west coast of Chenxi Island, more than ten warships also began to set sail.

In addition to the 700 naval soldiers who had just been recruited, composed of the former navy sailors, surrendered sailors, and the army fishermen, and the 300 people in the guard camp, there were more than 200 people, including those who were respected in the city, powerful and wealthy, literati and poets, and representatives of the people from all walks of life, as well as many generals from the left, center and right armies, officials from various departments of the government office.

All of these people were invited by Chu Zheng in the name of "visiting the Navy's Construction Ceremony".

In addition to the military generals who were informed, the rest thought that it was the young Chu Shuai who wanted to show the appearance of the new navy and cheer for it themselves.

When the ship was driving for several miles, someone felt something was wrong. Logically speaking, the navy would not be straight away from Chenxi Island when it first sailed, right? At most, it would be done if it was turned around two times.

On the flagship, Hu Tiehua couldn't help but ask Chu Liuxiang next to her: "Hey, old bedbug, do you think something is wrong?"

Chu Liuxiang did not answer, but Zhang San interrupted, "I see that the navy and the people all looked very nervous. It didn't look like a normal drill, but more like going to a war."

"Going to the Battle?" Hu Tiehua couldn't believe it. He looked at Chu Zheng and Qin Ruyun standing on the bow of the boat. They were leisurely talking to the adopted little girl Niu Niu, but they could not see any signs of going to the Battle.

"No, right? There are also a large number of civilians and gentry representatives on this ship... If they go on the war, they will not be able to bring them with them, right?"

Chu Liuxiang's eyes fell on the big white crane beside Qin Ruyun. Niu Niu was curiously touching the big white crane's feathers. Qin Ruyun gently hugged Niu Niu and looked up from time to time to look into the distance.

Chu Liuxiang looked along her gaze and there seemed to be something faintly at the intersection of water and sky, as if it was a sail?

Before he could see clearly, Chu Zheng stood up suddenly and jumped onto the dragon-shaped wood sculpture at the bow of the boat.

This flagship is a large warship customized by Xue Wanche. It is about thirteen meters long and is luxurious and imposing. It is equipped with four red cannons, a large number of crossbows and trenchers, and can carry more than 150 people, including ship workers and sailors.

At this time, Chu Zheng stood on the dragon-shaped wood carving with his hands in his arms. The cold wind blew his blue cloak, making a sound, which immediately attracted everyone's attention.

Especially Tong Hai, Cheng Sanniu and other informed generals were worried that they did not know the purpose of Chu Zheng's move and how to deal with the Li family's army. At this moment, they looked at him nervously.

Chu Zheng looked around everyone and said aloud: "Everyone, today our master invited you to board the ship and go out to sea. In addition to visiting the navy's maiden voyage after the completion of the navy, it is also the first battle of the navy!"

His voice implicitly contained internal force, and it directly spread across more than a dozen warships around him in the chill sea breeze.

The uninformed person immediately buzzed and whispered in a low voice.

Visit the Navy's first battle? Where did the enemies come from?

Someone immediately swallowed and asked uneasily: "Dare you ask Shuai Chu, who is the enemy? What are the troops?"

Chu Zheng pointed to the distance between the sea and the sky and said calmly: "More than 10,000 people from Li Zhe Navy are coming to attack Chenxi Island. Our enemy is them."

"Li Zhe? More than 10,000 people?" Someone exclaimed with disgrace, and countless eyes immediately turned to the distance.

There are shadows of ships in the distance, and more than a hundred warships appear one after another, but the flags are waving, vast and endless, making people intimidated.

Many people sat down on the deck with weak legs.

My mother, I thought it was a fight against pirates, but who knew that he was fighting against such an elite navy? This was simply a striking stone with an egg!

It doesn’t matter if the entire navy army is destroyed, but the key is that I am also on this ship!

"Ship Chu... Our navy... the navy... the number of people is too... a little less..." A middle-aged man dressed in a wealthy businessman asked stammeringly, stutteringly.

"It's a little less, but I am a member of the navy." Chu Zheng said lightly: "Please rest assured. Since I have invited you to watch the battle, I will be sure to ensure your safety."

"This is natural...this natural..." The fat businessman's face was covered with sweat, and the smile that he could barely squeezed out was even worse than crying.

Chu Zheng ignored him and said to Xu Fangyuan, the commander of the navy who had been standing beside him: "Order all warships to fall off their sails, break down, and wait for their orders on the spot!"

Xu Fangyuan was also full of nervousness. Until this time, no one knew what the idea was about Chu Shuai and General Manager Qin, so he could only follow the order.
Chapter completed!