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Qiongzhou covers a huge area, is the second largest island in China, compared with the north and south, the Qiongzhou Strait is far less choppy than the sea off Yazhou.

The islands, reefs, and corals along the coast form a barrier against waves, and the waves seen along the coast cannot be compared with the open sea without wind and waves. Even if it is the Pearl River estuary in the heart of Guangdong, such a huge depression of Lingdingyang, due to the barrier of a series of islands such as Lengting Mountain, Weng Shoe Mountain, Lao Wan Mountain, and even Hong Kong Island and Daxi Mountain inside, it is not as turbulent as the open sea.

The coastal areas of the archipelago are well fed and are good fishing grounds. Fishing boats come and go, and fishermen cast their nets, so that the diet of the people here is not as simple as that of the inland, and it is also one of the most important sources of food for the local people to survive.

The small fishing boats, whose background is not only the island, is the land, but also the Ming warships cruising back and forth, starting from Hong Kong Island, reaching the Shizimen to the Langbai Ocean line, and then returning from there, so back and forth, to ensure the safety of the waterway here, so as to collect the license, but also to block the sea trade route of Shang Geng Erfan, it can be said that it is a lot of one stone.

Jiang Meiao has not done this job for many years. I think that back then, when Zheng Cai was a guerrilla for Zhutong, he followed Zheng Cai to start cruising the Zhongzuo Institute and its surrounding waterways, until Zheng Chenggong seized the island and Zheng Cai escaped.

Counting, there have been nearly three years, especially in the second half of the fifth year of Yongli Chen Kai persuaded Zheng Cai, he followed Chen Kai, from the water division to the land division, and not long ago changed back to the establishment of the water division, not to mention the officers and soldiers of the department, even if he is an old general who has gone to the sea, he will inevitably feel unfamiliar with these maritime deeds. Fortunately, this experience is still there, and the work that took over from the Lin Cha Department is slowly adapting, and what is needed is nothing more than time.

"Report to the marshal, a sea vessel using an old license plate and failing to pay the license fee was captured in front."

"Well, according to the order, escort back to Hong Kong Island. Leave the rest to the officials on Hong Kong Island. ”

Jiang Meiao waved his hand, and the officer retreated. It is said that Hong Kong Island was recovered by Chen Kai, but the largest income and salary here was the officials sent by the Central Left Office. This is a tacit understanding between each other, on the one hand, Chen Kai is a member of the Zheng Group, a member of the very high status, on the other hand, Chen Kai uses a water master transferred from the Zhongzuo Institute, so he naturally wants to share a piece of the pie from the Zhongzuo Institute.

These are all things that are put on the surface. In private, Jiang Meiao also knew that those children of the Zheng family were not friendly to Chen Kai, and there was hostility towards people with foreign surnames. And Chen Kai's side is not without plans to form his own faction, and being able to arrange him in such an important place has this consideration. Therefore, the more this is the case, the more he must be cautious in his words and deeds, and not let people find fault with the slightest.

The boat was escorted back to Hong Kong Island and moored at a dedicated pier. Sea vessels and cargo were confiscated, and shipowners and helmsmen were detained. The official rebuked the shipowner and the helmsman who begged for mercy, and with a wave of his hand, his own soldiers escorted them to the prison. At the same time, the officials took the wharf to move all the goods on the ship, and after filing them, they sent them to the warehouse, which was also a part of Hong Kong Island.

The work of carrying continued, and in the distance, in the tea shop on the wharf, several shipowners and maritime merchants watched from afar, recalling the time of the last payment of the license, how long it was still there, or relieved, or secretly lucky, and so on.

"Speaking of which, Wang Shi's fleet is still majestic at sea, I heard that Chen Fujun and Lin Hou went west with the fleet, don't you want to fight Qiongzhou."

"It's possible, on Qiongzhou Island, there are sailors shielding the strait, which is enough to keep the captives outside."

The merchant twisted his beard and spoke, and he pondered the pros and cons of Qiongzhou and Hong Kong. If you think about it, it's just that the goods that can be purchased are different, and the license is still inevitable. However, how to sell those goods back must always contact the relevant trading partners.

But no matter what, the chaos in Qiongzhou Mansion is about to subside, and with the fleet of the Ming army, both the Qing army and the pirates will inevitably be opened. It's a good thing that the sea is safer. Only the owner who was the first to notice the Ming army's escort of the sea ship back to Hong Kong said faintly, "The king is the master of the sea, but he still doesn't dare to compete with the Tartars on land".

This is a practical problem, since the Ming army entered Hong Kong Island, the fleet has been stationed here, but there has never been a land division stationed at the town level, and the island is guarded by nothing more than a naval division, and the garrison in the military camp next to the town, that's all.

Without a strong land division, there was no way to carry out an effective attack on the areas occupied by the Qing army. Not even far away, the Kowloon Peninsula on the other side of Hong Kong Island, where the Qing army's camp has been built for a long time, and even when Lin Cha was still there, there was no surprise attack and demolition, and now the scale of this wave of Ming army naval divisions is far inferior to Lin Cha's fleet, and there is no leisure.

"Last year, Old Master Chen defeated the Jingnan Domain twice, and it is said that it was also a defensive battle. This year, the king of Xining went east, and yesterday I heard that he was defeated, and it seems that this Tartar should not be underestimated. ”

"Yes, I heard that there are many Tartar cavalry, and the king does not take advantage of the field waves."

"Moreover, the Tartars over there in Fujian are also trying their best to increase their troops, as if they still want to fight to the death with the surname of the country. At this time, Mr. Chen was afraid that even if he wanted to make a big move on Guangzhou, he might not dare to take this risk. ”

"Hey, the Tartars are still powerful."

sighed, but also said the reality here. When the Qing army moved south, the Hongguang Dynasty in Nanjing, the Luwang Jianguo in Hangzhou, the Lu Jianguo in eastern Zhejiang, the Longwu court in Fujing, and even the Shaowu court in Guangzhou, these places were lost too quickly, and the Ming army was squeezed to the edge of the border at once, and then it was not easy to fight back.

However, the situation continues to improve. The king of Xining did not mention that with Chen Kai's efforts, the Guangdong side not only held the base area, but now it has captured Qiongzhou, which can be regarded as recovering the lost territory. It's nothing more than that it still takes time to recover slowly and wait for a good opportunity, and they still have some confidence in Chen Kai, who has always been steady and steady.

The recovery of Qiongzhou is not like other prefectures and counties, because of the special existence of its islands, so that people have greater confidence in this long-term perseverance.

This was true of those maritime merchants and ship owners, and the same was true of the Ming army. In the sick room, the two guys who soaked in the sick number have gone out, but there are always new injured and sick soldiers moving in, so there is always no idle here. Nie Yiniang came to inspect, and the heated discussion about the Ming army's recovery of Qiongzhou Mansion continued. This is not the first time, but the interest of these Ming soldiers is still undiminished, speaking of which, more still see hope, and it is a real reconquest.

"Three years, at the end of the fifth year of Yongli, you said that you would recover Guangzhou within three years. It's now the seventh year of Yongli, Hong Kong, and Qiongzhou, is this a start? ”

Nie Yiniang's mind flew far away, far away from the sight of the sight. A shallow smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and the excitement inside was gradually blocked out by her. Until, a moment later, a noise in the barracks woke her up, and she could vaguely see the wolf smoke rising into the sky in the direction pointed by the soldiers.

"The beacon tower of Daxi Mountain! It's the Guangdong sailor of the Tartars! ”

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In order to ensure de facto control over the Pearl River estuary, the Ming army set up lookouts and beacon towers at intervals on this series of islands. The lookout tower is used to observe the surrounding situation, and the beacon tower is naturally to give early warning to the Ming army's fleet after discovering the enemy's situation, using wolf smoke during the day and beacon fire at night.

Daxi Mountain is not the northernmost point of the Pearl River estuary archipelago controlled by the Ming army. To the north of Daxi Mountain, there are watchtowers and beacon towers of the Ming army on Neilingding Island, Longguzhou, and Shazhou Island, and they are the first line to monitor the situation at the mouth of the Pearl River. At this moment, the beacon tower of Daxi Mountain is lit, which means that Neilingding Island, Longgu Island and Shazhou Island have been warned, and the wolf smoke will send a dangerous signal to Hong Kong Island, the core territory of the Ming army at the mouth of the Pearl River.

The left army of the sailor division of the Lin Cha Department went to Qiongzhou with Chen Kai, and it was Jiang Meiao's Pearl River Sailor who took over the defense of this place. The Pearl River Naval Division is a unit that has recently been rebuilt from the General Standard Battalion of Eastern Guangdong, and this is not to be mentioned, except that the ships are far from being comparable with the Left Army of the Naval Division.

To control the Pearl River estuary, the sailor is indispensable, so Chen Kai is still dispatching ships and sailors from Fujian, but the time is still short, now there is only this sailor here, and the sailors patrol in batches according to the shift on weekdays, during which the patrol sailors are mostly outside, Jiang Meiao's deputy general saw the wolf smoke rising, and hurriedly rushed out with the fleet in Hong Kong in accordance with the regulations left by Lin Cha to meet the Qing army's sailors.

The fleet set sail, went out from the waterway, chose the channel according to the direction of the wolf smoke, bypassed the Daxi Mountain, and soon discovered the sailors of the Qing army.

The sailors who watched from afar and reported what they saw to the adjutant general, who recalled the information they had gathered, and it was obvious that the entire Guangdong Naval Division of the Qing Army was dispatched, which was a big deal at once.

"More than 40 warships, as well as some merchant ships and fishing boats, under the banner of Gai Yipeng, the chief soldier of the Guangdong Naval Division......"

"Even this little thing dares to come out and be conspicuous, is Shang Kexi the old thief holding on?"

The Pearl River Naval Division is not large, but there are more than 100 large and small warships, even the one left by the vice general in the port, there are more than 30 ships. In terms of quantity, it is a disadvantage, but the shape of the ships of the Ming army is much larger than those sand ships and small ships and fortune ships of the Qing army, especially the flagship ship of the ship, and the Qing army does not have such a big guy. At this moment, Mo looked at the Qing army with many ships, but the Ming army was not afraid, but the Qing army showed some generosity and tragedy on the side of the Qing army.

"Do you want to ask the marshal for help?" The deputy general thought about it, but still felt that he should seek more stability, and asked Jiang Meiao to come back to help, and when the two naval divisions joined forces, the Qing fleet would not be able to run.

Thinking of this, the vice admiral gave the order, and the fleet immediately pounced on it, like a tiger shark rushing towards the school of sardines. The bow gun fired first, splashing one water column after another, the ships on both sides quickly approached, and the Qing army relied on the advantage of going down the river to appear faster, but the Ming army was not to be outdone, only in the fleet staggered, the portholes on both sides opened, and the artillery crackled and swept towards the Qing army's ships.

The cannonballs swept across, and I saw that even if the mast of the Qing warship on the port side was broken, even the outer plate was punched out of a hole.

At such a close distance, there are still a lot of flies, which is really a big disappointment. However, it has been less than two months since the Pearl River Naval Division was transferred back to the establishment of the Naval Division, and its combat effectiveness is still recovering, but there is nothing it can do. Fortunately, the ships were superior, the Ming army was condescending, and the fire guns, arrows, and even those fire bricks and bricks were projected in the past, and even if the Qing warship was ignited in many places, when the fleet swept by, it had become a sea of fire on the water, and the Qing army was busy diving to survive, and the panic was so embarrassed that it was simply not what it looked like.

The Ming army relied on the fact that the battleships were larger, the artillery was larger, and the outer plates were stronger, and only in the first confrontation, they played a good exchange ratio.

The ships of the Qing army were small, and they were much smaller than those of the Ming army, so it is no wonder that the large ships of the Qing army under Zheng Chenggong in history were much inferior to the medium-sized ships in his fleet. This is something that can't be helped, the sailors of the Zheng group were the overlords of the Chinese sea in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, especially on the coast, and the Qing army lacked attention to the sailors when they were in Liaodong, and even more so after entering the customs.

At this moment, even if the Qing army's sailors poured out, they were still not opponents against this Ming fleet. It's nothing more than that these Ming troops have been converted into land divisions for a long time, and they are not very skilled now, and it will obviously take more time to completely solve this Qing fleet.

"You don't even run?"

At the moment of the confrontation, the losses of the Qing army could be observed with the naked eye, while the losses of the Ming army were negligible. The combat effectiveness of the two sides is not on the same level at all, but the Qing army is still fighting with the Ming army's fleet, and the spirit of sending to death really makes the deputy general suspicious.

Sure enough, the wolf smoke of Daxi Mountain, which had been extinguished when the firefight began here, rose again. This time, the first wolf smoke did not rise from Neilingding Island in the north, but from Hong Kong Island, where the fleet set sail.

On the wharf of Hong Kong Island, the boatmen looked at the Kowloon Peninsula on the other side in amazement, and the auxiliary soldiers of the Qing army carried small boats that could only carry a few people, running from those camps and rushing straight to the sea. Next, the auxiliaries retreated, the soldiers boarded the boats, and then the auxiliaries worked together to push the small boats into the sea, and let the Qing soldiers swing and paddle their oars, and slowly sail towards this side.

The nearest waterway between the Kowloon Peninsula and Hong Kong Island selected by the Qing army was only two or three miles apart, and the dense boats were like a swarm of mosquitoes, but there was no fleet on the island, and there were quite a few merchant ships that came to trade and pay the license, but no one could have imagined this, so they let the Qing army row over.

"The old prince has an order, slaughter all the men and women on Hong Kong Island, and all the seized money will belong to you and others!"

The first boat boarded a beach near the pier, and Qiang Shijue, the deputy general of the Guangdong Naval Division, raised the flag, and with a wave of his hand, the Qing troops who landed crossed his banner one after another, shouting and killing the port and town in the distance.

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