"Wait until you get to Hong Kong Island, and then go to Haode to purify them." This time, the formation also brought with them the professionals who had previously worked in the Guangzhou purification camp. The task force is preparing to open a new decontamination camp on the island of Hong Kong to deal with prisoners.

"They'll take the opportunity to escape."

"I don't think so, not anyone who sees a typewriter shooting.

The fleet passed smoothly through the Ma Wan Strait, bypassing the southwest corner of Tsing Yi Island. This is already Victoria Bay, and Chen Haiyang can see a peninsula jutting out of the mainland without a telescope - this is where the old Stonecutters Island Naval Base is located.

"This is really a natural harbor," Chen Haiyang couldn't help but exclaim, the geographical conditions of Victoria Bay are indeed too superior, and it can be used as a first-class military port and commercial port. Places that can be used as ports are everywhere.

Now it is a barren place, and there are few traces of its permanent residents. According to the information provided by the Guangzhou Railway Station, only a small number of villages exist on Hong Kong Island and the surrounding outlying islands.

But on the opposite side of Hong Kong Island, there are two counties, Xin'an and Dongguan, both of which are the land of fish and rice in Guangdong, and produce large quantities of rice, tea, indigo, tobacco, and sea salt. Economically, it is quite a wealthy area. The occupation of Hong Kong was tantamount to the Soong regime getting a straw to insert into the richest region of South China. A large amount of supplies can be transported out of this place in a steady stream.

The Ming government was also aware of the importance of Hong Kong, and in addition to the Tuen Mun inspection at the mouth of the Pearl River, it was responsible for the jurisdiction of Xin'an County in Hong Kong, and its county seat was the Dongguan Shouyu Thousand Households City under the jurisdiction of the former Guangzhou Guard. In the first year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, in order to consolidate the coastal defense, the arch defended Guangzhou, and this place was separated from Dongguan and Xin'an County was set up.

In its heyday, there were 2,000 Ming troops and more than 100 warships. The city is a key point of river and sea transportation, and an important military town of coastal defense.

Even now, there is still a garrison of seven or eight hundred men and more than fifty warships. This Nantou Village is now the Nantou District of Shenzhen, and there is also a local scenic spot - Chen Haiyang visited the old city of Xin'an in the past. The two places were not far apart, and if the Ming army wanted to intervene, they would arrive on Hong Kong Island on the same day.

The staff of the Foreign Intelligence Bureau and the Military Command Department speculated that the Ming army in Guangdong was unlikely to rashly launch an attack on the Australian and Song troops after the new defeat. Even if they wanted to attack, they couldn't muster enough threatening forces. With the strength of the contingent, it is quite capable of repelling the Ming army.

Chen Haiyang ordered the fleet to sail to Wan Chai and prepare to land near the Hong Kong and Macao Steamship Terminal in the old time and space to establish the first base. Although Hong Kong Island is the 17th largest island in China by area, the terrain is mainly mountainous, with limited plains mainly concentrated in the northern part of the island facing Victoria Bay. Therefore, the main location for the construction of the base and the settlement area was also chosen here.

After the landing of the task force in Wan Chai, a brief occupation flag-raising ceremony was conducted.

"Raise the flag and salute" with a shout of the saluting soldiers. The trumpeter blew his trumpet. A flag was raised on a makeshift bamboo pole. The sailors and sailors lined up on the beach saluted at the same time, and then sang "Sing the Motherland" in unison. The first piece of territory occupied by the traversers outside Hainan Island was completed.

Although he had already landed on Hong Kong Island, Chen Haiyang decided not to exercise substantial control over the entire Hong Kong Island area for the time being, and his forces could not be dispersed in many places, so he decided to temporarily assemble the main force at the place where the ships were anchored. This place was called Central in the old time and space, and Chen Haiyang simply called the harbor and the fortress under construction "852 Base". As for what it will be called in the future, let the people of the Senate think about it.

In order to grasp the dynamics in the surrounding area, Chen Haiyang sent a small detachment carrying a radio to Lei Yue Mun by boat to set up an observation post on the main road to the east of Hong Kong Island, and another team to set up an observation post on the west side of the island. These two observation posts can roughly grasp the movement of ships in the east and west waterways of Hong Kong Island.

The armed survey team under the command of Yellow Paw marched towards Taiping Shan on the second day of landing. They will conduct a survey of the general topography of Hong Kong Island. At the same time, an observation post was set up at the top of Victoria Peak.

Zuihou, a squadron of patrol boats will form a maritime patrol line to guarantee early warning around the entire base. At the same time, small groups of local pirates were cleared - Lantau Island has historically been the traditional anchorage of pirates at the mouth of the Pearl River, with groups of pirates sometimes numbering more than 300 ships. Although the task force did not observe many ships as it passed north of Lantau Island, there was no doubt that this area was the most infested area of piracy. Task forces must be prepared to clash with local pirates at all times.

The task force's landing on Hong Kong Island was soon discovered by the Ming forces stationed in Tuen Mun and Nam Tau. The Tang newspaper was delivered to Zhaoqing and Guangzhou.

But the Ming army was no longer able to react substantively. The morale of the officialdom and the army had fallen to the extreme, and although according to the Tong Pao, there were no more than 1,000 thieves and no more than 40 or 50 ships on Hong Kong Island, the officers and men of the Guangdong Naval Division, who had heard that their firearms were extremely powerful, did not want to start a war with them. The sailors sent from Tuen Mun arrived at the Sulphur Strait and then retreated. The two sides were locked in a silent stalemate. As for the Ming army in the south, there was no sign of a large group of men and horses at all. It was only the sentinels who observed that a small number of Ming spies had arrived in the Sha Tau Kok area across the bay.

A brief interrogation of the captured pirates revealed that they turned out to be fishermen from a nearby island. Because of the debt to the fishing pen, he was forced to do nothing, and finally decided to do a vote at sea.

The ship that was sunk was a fishing boat named Zhao Yajin, the boss of the gang, and the other two captured were the nearly sea-freighters they had robbed more than a month ago. Before they were caught, they had already succeeded several times, and each of them had received about ten taels of silver.

The crew and owners of the cargo ships were also detained on board - it was said that they had to fight or be beheaded. There were also seven or eight pirates who were kidnapped by people who were not on the shore when the pirate ship docked. If you have money, you will let it go, and if you don't have money, you have been coercing pirates on the ship.

At that time, Chen Haiyang took care of the release of the captured people and ships on the spot, and also replenished them with some of the captured food and silver money, so that they could return home safely. More than two dozen captives left with great gratitude. All that was left behind were the pirates who had been screened. Zhao Yajin had already been killed by a typewriter bullet in the battle.

No valuable trophies were found from the ship, mainly grain, salted fish and other daily necessities. According to the confession of the captured second leader, Liang 30, the trophies of little value were all in the villages on the shore.

"It's because the interest on the fish pen is too heavy, and you have to charge three or four cents of interest, and the villain can't pay it off for a few years, so he took the risk, and asked the deputy master to spare his life" A few ragged people begged the beach.

"Whether you are a pirate or a bandit, you always say that you are forced to do it. In fact, most of them are people who like to work hard" The Cantonese vernacular interpreter was a child-born scholar who had just come out of the purification camp, and he said angrily to Chen Haiyang, "Please pay attention to the chief"

The captured pirates saw that the interpreter next to him was not speaking well, and one by one they grabbed the ground with their heads and pleaded bitterly. The name of the thief has now spread to the Pearl River estuary. Just by looking at their hair, you know that they have fallen into the hands of thieves - and they are notoriously "ferocious".

The exploitation of the fish pen is extremely heavy, and Chen Haiyang knows a little. When he was in the fleet, although he was no longer interested in "remembering bittersweet memories", when he visited the ** traditional education base, most of the places involving the militia would involve terms such as "fishing pen" and "fishing tyrant".

Fishing pen owners take advantage of the advantages of capital and market to make great profits by purchasing fish at low prices and selling daily necessities and grain at high prices. And by taking advantage of usurious loans to fishermen, it is easy to keep fishermen under their control. Fishermen often have to invest a lot of money in production and operation, and their demand for loans is much higher than that of farmers, so they are more likely to fall into such a usury trap.

However, Chen Haiyang's mission was not to crack down on the fishing tyrants, and he decided to leave the matter to the civil affairs commissioner who came with the team.

"Let them work hard in the purification camp first, and then let them be interrogated." Chen Haiyang said.

A number of couriers who could speak the local dialect were sent from the civil affairs corps accompanying the army, escorted by armed soldiers, to deliver letters to various villages throughout the island of Hong Kong -- asking them to immediately send people to the 852 base for a meeting to prepare for the appointment of liaison officers.

Although Liliang is limited and the task force is not yet able to effectively intervene in the local civil affairs system, the system for organizing the local requisition and distribution of personnel and supplies still needs to be formed as soon as possible.

"If we want to enter and exit the Pearl River Estuary as we like, we must firmly grasp the Lantau waterway." In the makeshift headquarters set up in the big tent, Chen Haiyang lectured his men about the upcoming battle, "In the northern part of Lantau Island, there is a village called Tung Chung. It is the main anchorage of pirates at the mouth of the Pearl River. We must destroy the pirate base in Tung Chung. ”

Wen Desi said: "We haven't started a war with the Ming army yet, so let's fight with the pirates first, will we be attacked on both sides?" ”

"The Ming army may not be able to fight with us actively, but if it is advantageous, pirates will be a big hidden danger for us -- in the future, there will be many ships going back and forth between Hong Kong Island and Lingao, and their attack will give the navy a headache."

"In this way, we have to increase the land troops, and if we occupy Tung Chung, we need to send troops to defend it."

"It doesn't matter if we don't occupy Tung Chung first, as long as we can destroy the pirate fleet assembled in the local area at any time, the pirates will naturally not dare to face the local area."