Just when Dolgon made up his mind to change his strategy of driving the tiger and devouring the wolf, and instead launched an attack on the Daming territory in Shandong and Henan, Zhu Cihong was not idle, but came to strike first!

On the fourth day of the fourth month of the fourth month of the fourth month of the Ming Dynasty, dozens of sand boats pierced through the fog on the sea in the early morning and leaned on the beach in the bay on the south side of the "waist" of Juehua Island with a bang.

Before a sand boat could be stopped, two long gangplanks were lowered on the square bow. Then there were the Ming soldiers wearing red cloth iron armor, with iron hats on their heads, and holding turtledoves with firestrings that had been lit, and rushed down along the gangplank with a shout. An officer with a handcuff in one hand and a waist knife in the other disembarked from the ship.

At the same time, dozens of other boats also stretched out their gangplanks, and groups of heavily armed Ming troops generally rushed to the beachhead of Juehua Island in western Liaoning.

These Ming troops, both officers and soldiers, all looked nervous.

"Has anyone seen a tartar?"

"No, I didn't see the Tartars......"

"This is the territory of the Tartars, be careful......"

"Quick, array, guns in front, archers in the center, swords on both sides, pikemen in the back!"

"The Tartars will appear at any time, hurry up and line up!"

The officers had already reacted, and they all shouted hoarsely, and commanded their subordinates to list four battalion phalanxes on the beach of Kyaw Hwa Island.

What landed on Juehua Island today were four battalions under the Dengzhou Association of the Denglai New Army. Dengzhou Association is the Zhuwei Army, and it is almost a "third-line" force in the new army. However, the combat effectiveness of these "third lines" is not weak, and they are even much stronger than many "second lines", that is, the divisions and armies that have not yet been reorganized into "model regiments."

This was due to the fact that the regiments of all divisions had been determined to be "exemplary", that is, to be reorganized into European-style units using Morris tactics – which required a large number of firearms, spliced plate armor and three-pounder regimental guns. Morris-style formation training was also required, and a large number of officers and artillerymen were also trained.

This is a huge system project, and it is impossible to complete it all in two or three years.

And now the twelve regiments that are receiving "modeling" are not yet finished! The remaining 20 or so infantry regiments could only make up the numbers with spears, swords, shields, bows and arrows, not only did they have no firearms to use, but they didn't even have many good bows. Therefore, the combat effectiveness of these troops is very reliable, and it is not as good as the relatively well-equipped Zhuwei Army!

After all, the guards have the old foundation of the guards, and the guards in the south of the Yangtze River are rotten, but Shandong, Henan, and Fengyang have been chaotic for a while. Therefore, their armament has been restored, and many of the children of the guard are in the army with armor, so their armament is better. The Dengzhou Association is also the leader among the guards, not only established at the earliest, but also strengthened by Shen Tingyang and Su Guansheng. Now each battalion has a firecracker flag, equipped with firecrackers produced by Shen Tingyang's Dengzhou Gun Factory. And in the Northern Expedition last year, he fought with Liu Liangzuo and Xu Dingguo's soldiers and horses, and won a big victory!

But last time I beat a traitor, this time it's a tartar!

Therefore, no one in the Dengzhou Association dared to take it lightly, and soon listed four phalanxes with the battalion as a unit.

"Okay, it's finally lined up...... Yu Daren, the co-leader of the Dengzhou Association, breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head and said to Zhang Huang, who was also the county commander of Penglai and Juehua counties, "Zhang County Commander, you are a civil official, just wait on the boat now, I will go ashore first." ”

Yu Daren and Zhang Huangyan shared a centipede warship of the Beiyang Naval Division, for today's landing, Shen Tingyang made a bloody investment, four centipede boats poured out, and now they are lined up on the sea less than two miles away from the coast, under the big iron anchor, the gun windows in the bow are opened, and the eight 12-pounder Hongyi cannons are now aimed at the beach, just waiting for the Tartar to appear!

"This officer will go ashore with you!" Although Zhang Huangyan is a civil official, he is indeed fully armed now, wearing an arrow suit, carrying an arrow bag, carrying a Kaiyuan bow, and holding a sword in one hand. It's just that his body is a little thin, his face is too white, and he looks like a scholar pretending to be a robber.

"Okay, let's go ashore together!" Yu Daren saw that his interest was very high, so he didn't stop him, after all, Juehua Island is a lonely island, and most of the islands will not have an army of Tartars.

Centipede warships cannot be used to rush the beach, they have to be on guard near the beachhead to guard against the existence of the Great Shimizu Division, and if necessary, they will also support the beachhead with the cannons in the bow, so they must maintain mobility.

Therefore, Yu Daren and Zhang Huangyan could only take a sampan to rush to the beachhead, and the four battalion commanders under Yu Daren had already run over to see the report.

"Co-ordinator, subordinates have sent sentry agents to guard around, but no Tartar ...... have been found so far."

As soon as the battalion commander who led the report said this, a sharp whistle was heard from a distance, and it was someone shooting arrows into the air!

Yu Daren immediately became nervous, raised his hand to stop the battalion commander who was reporting, and then pricked up his ears and listened for a while, but there was no second sound of arrows, then he breathed a sigh of relief and said to Zhang Huang: "It should be the people...... Zhang County Order, do you want to see them? ”

"Naturally, I want to see it!" Zhang Huang said, "This official is the order of Juehua County, and the people here are the people under the rule of this official!" ”

Yu Daren nodded, and then ordered one of his battalion commanders to lead his subordinates to march in formation, escorting him and Zhang Huangyan to meet the people of Juehua Island.

The place where the people were found was a dilapidated village. The topography of Kyaw Hoa Island is peculiar, a bit like a dumbbell, the east and west ends are large, and the middle is narrow, so two natural bays are formed in the north and south of the island.

Yu Daren and Zhang Huangyan landed in the bay south of the island today.

In addition, the east and west sides of Kyaw Hwa Island are covered with hills and woods, and only the eastern part of the island has some flat land on the northeast corner, and there is also a bay that can be sheltered from the wind. Earlier, when Da Ming didn't give up Ning Yuan, that bay was busy. The grain and salary that were transported to Ningyuan were all transferred there. As a result, a wharf, a storehouse and a yamen were built. If the Tartars had garrisoned the island, they would probably have been there.

The small middle part of the island is full of farmland and villages, and there is a small fishing village near the bay on the back. However, the first village that Yu Daren and Zhang Huangyan arrived at after arriving on the island was a farm hidden in the woods, surrounded by freshly sown wheat fields.

More than 100 men and women were all taken out of the village and gathered in the barn at the entrance of the village, looking at the Ming officers and soldiers who came out of nowhere in horror!

They are all in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, after the massacre of Juehua Island, the people who moved from Ningyuan, lived on the island trembling for more than ten years, every winter as soon as the sea froze, they were afraid that the soldiers of the East would suddenly kill, until last winter to live a peaceful life...... Because at that time, the entire territory of Ningyuan was the territory of the Qing Dynasty, and they were naturally the people of the Qing Dynasty, and they were obedient people.

All the men on the island obediently shaved their hair and braided their hair, and no one wanted to rebel against the rule of the Qing Dynasty - the price of rebellion was too heavy for them to afford, they just wanted to live peacefully on Juehua Island.

And the Qing Dynasty didn't seem to care much about them, the people of the outer islands, except for letting the men among them shave their hair, and hand over a little food and seafood, they didn't embarrass them too much, but it was really a great emperor's grace!

In the words of later generations, now they are considered stable slaves, and they can be peaceful and obedient people for generations.

But just when they felt "stable", something unexpected happened to them.

I don't know where a group of Ming soldiers came from who looked very wrong, fierce and vicious, but they didn't rob things, they didn't rape women, and it didn't look like they were going to "borrow" their braided heads to report their merits, but they just asked everyone to go to the barn at the entrance of the village to listen to a heavily armed county order......