Yang Cong didn't come to Penghu this time to reset the Penghu Inspection Division, at this time, the sailors and warships had not yet been built, and the pirates and pirates had not yet begun to be officially cleared, so where did he have time to think about this.

He led his army over this time, mainly to use Penghu as a base to intercept and outflank the pirates gathered near the chicken coop.

According to Wang Dan's estimates, there are at least 30,000 or 40,000 pirates gathered together, and at this time there are only more than 300 new warships he built, that is to say, if the forces of the sailors are purely relied on to launch a surprise attack, the sailors who operate the ships and the musketeers and artillery on the ship will all add up to less than 10,000.

It is definitely unrealistic for 10,000 people to outflank 30,000 or 40,000 people, even if they can't beat them, they will flee everywhere, and when the time comes, it will be at sea and on land, and his men are not enough, how can they chase and suppress?

If that were the case, the opportunity might have been wasted.

Therefore, he planned to gather the forces of the naval division near Penghu, and use Penghu as a springboard to transfer the 10,000 elite infantry soldiers gathered from the three provinces of Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Fujian to the west of the chicken coop.

He really didn't expect that the people of Penghu would be so excited to see the court officials, and he didn't expect that the people here would be so eager for him to reset the Penghu Inspection Department.

To tell the truth, it is not very difficult for him to re-establish the Penghu Inspection Division, but at this time, Jiajing is looking forward to him exterminating pirates and pirates, and setting up a patrol inspection department, Jiajing will definitely agree without thinking about it, and the stationed officials and even the guards are just a piece of cake for him.

Under the pleading of several old fishermen, he agreed to the request to re-establish the Penghu Inspection Division, and ordered Yongningwei to send thousands of guards to be stationed here, anyway, the Fujian sailors are all fast boats at this time, and it is not very troublesome to transport grain or something.

The people of Penghu were naturally grateful for this, and they even discussed setting up a shrine for him, the governor, to express their gratitude.

Yang Cong didn't have much feeling about the Jiansheng Temple, but he did find out that the common people here were very eager to be protected by the imperial court to ensure that they were not invaded by pirates and pirates.

The people's hearts are available.

Originally, he also considered whether to send a large number of scouts to the northern part of Dongfan to investigate and see if he could find a shortcut to the chicken coop from the west bank of Dongfan, but when he saw that the common people were so dependent on the imperial court, he suddenly changed his mind.

Send scouts to find out where to send people to ask the local people directly, you must know that the north of Dongfan is five or six hundred miles away from Penghu, even if it takes two or three days for a fast boat like Cangshan boat and centipede boat to go back and forth, under normal circumstances, the scout can find a shortcut to the chicken coop on the west bank of Dongfan within half a month, which is good, and if you ask the local people, it may be enough to play back and forth.

At this time, time was pressing, and the sooner he found a shortcut to the chicken coop on the east and west banks, the better it would be for the overall strategy to be deployed, so he naturally chose to ask the local people directly, rather than sending scouts to investigate.

The next day, he ordered Tang Kekuan to select hundreds of elites, carry more than ten boats of grain, disguise themselves as maritime merchants, and go all the way north along the west bank of Dongfan, and show their identity when they meet the gathering places of the common people, and then directly ask the people about the shortcut to the chicken coop on the west bank of Dongfan.

This trick is really good, Tang Kekuan walked all the way to the north, it was not too comfortable, as long as he identified himself and sent a little food, the people along the way cheered, when they lived Bodhisattva general offering, nothing they need to probe, the people simply know everything, words are endless, and there are even many "well-informed" fishermen insist on giving them the way, taking them to the villages along the way.

In this way, they can even save the people who are fleeing from the desert with grain on their backs, as long as the fishermen open their throats and shout, the common people will happily hug them.

They didn't know how many fishing villages they stopped at along the way, and on the afternoon of the third day, they finally came to the north of Dongfan, near the Tamsui River to the west of the chicken coop.

Unexpectedly, there happened to be a lot of people who were robbed of their fields by the pirate Chen Sipan and escaped here.

As soon as he revealed himself, the common people cried and shouted for him to help drive the damned pirates away, and even, seeing that he didn't have enough people with him, the people offered to join them.

What are you kidding, taking the people to fight pirates, Tang Kekuan is not so fierce, besides, there are not only thousands of people on Chen Sipan's territory at this time, but tens of thousands, and he will immediately go to find death with this little people.

As for the shortcut to the chicken coop on the west bank of the east and west, there is no need to look for it, these people are very familiar with it, go directly up the Tamsui River, and land near the fork of the big fork, where it is less than fifty miles away from the chicken coop, and it doesn't take a day to walk over.

When Tang Kekuan heard that there was such a shortcut, when he led the fleet to carry the common people who led the way to the vicinity of the big fork they said, and personally led a few guards to get off the boat, followed the common people who led the way to run for fifty miles, touched the vicinity of the chicken coop, and investigated the periphery of Chen Sipan's territory far away.

Yang Cong really didn't expect that in less than four days, Tang Kekuan not only inquired about the shortcut to the chicken coop on the east and west banks, but even brought the guide back.

When he received the news, he was naturally happy, originally he thought that he would have to go around at least a hundred miles to outflank the pirate Chen Sipan's lair from the east and west coast, but he never thought that it would be enough to walk fifty miles, and the guides were ready-made.

Then he began to mobilize men and horses, at this time the Fujian Navy, Zhejiang Sailor and Nanzhili Sailor Cangshan ships and centipede ships added up to more than 300 ships, just to transport people and horses, it was easy to transport 5,000 men and horses at a time, back and forth two times, in less than five days, 10,000 infantry elite gathered to the Penghu Islands.

Immediately afterward, he began to mobilize weapons, ammunition, and grain and grass baggage, and after a few trips, the grain on the Penghu Islands piled up into a mountain, not only tens of thousands of infantry elite food for a month is not a problem, but even the fishermen on Penghu Island are also stained, usually want to eat the rice that they can't eat, the governor sent more than ten bags to each family, even if they eat every day for several months.

They are mobilizing people on their side, and the pirates are also gathering on Chen Sipan's territory, but the pirates generally do not dare to approach the waters near Quanzhou, because they all know that the governor of Zhejiang and the main force of the Zhejiang-Fujian Navy Division are there, and who dares to come up to find death.

Therefore, Yang Cong's actions were not noticed by the pirates, and all the pirates did not know that Yang Cong was dispatching troops and preparing to encircle and suppress them.