In mid-April, Xu Shiyang held a pre-war meeting in Lushun and decided on a plan to occupy Changsheng Island.

The most important force in this sortie was the sailor.

In order to ensure the smooth operation, Xu Shiyang ordered sailors to experimentally transform some small ships into more suitable "landing craft".

The requirement for these new vessels is that the draft must be as shallow as possible, preferably if they can go directly to the shallows or into inland waters, but they must also have some seafaring ability to be used offshore.

Then an exit was opened at the bow of the ship, and a drawbridge was installed, and when the drawbridge was lowered, the soldiers and even cavalry carried by the landing ship could quickly land on the drawbridge.

This kind of small landing craft is not technically difficult, after all, Xu Shiyang has a lot of inland river vessels with a very shallow draft, and these ships can also carry out offshore navigation tasks in good sea conditions.

What's more, most of the Oriental ships at this time were square-headed ships with upturned bows and sterns, and it was not difficult to transform the guard plate directly in front of the bow into a drawbridge.

Xu Shiyang chose a type of offshore inland river boat that was very popular at this time, the "sand control flat-bottomed boat", and by the end of April, 30 small sloop sand boats had been transformed into landing craft.

Each of these ships could carry 60 infantry or 20 cavalry per voyage, and thirty ships could move together to send an entire field brigade ashore at once.

Such a transport force is enough for the operation of attacking Changsheng Island, but considering that the amphibious landing operations of the new army will be more frequent in the future, Xu Shiyang still asked the rear to try to build or transform special ships that are more suitable for landing operations.

"You can try all kinds of systems, don't be afraid of failure, the loss is mine, I will reward you if you succeed, and the honor is your own."

Xu Shiyang instructed the newly established Dengzhou Shipyard to do so.

On the fifth day of the fifth month of May, the Qi fleet set out from Lushun and headed for Changsheng Island in the northwest.

The fleet consisted of all 30 landing craft, 10 medium-sized ships led by "Dengyingzhou" to form an escort fleet, and another 20 ships were fully loaded with supplies and auxiliaries.

The main force of the army participating in the war was Feng Sanhu's Zhenyuan battalion, and Xu Shiyang led the Chinese army guards to accompany him.

The total strength of the Qi army in land warfare exceeded 2,000 people, and it was natural to be able to deal with only 2 or 300 Xi people who had little combat effectiveness.

In fact, the Xi people who were responsible for guarding Changsheng Island for the Tartars did not put up any resistance at all - after all, he had no barbed wire, minefields and machine guns, and no coastal artillery and permanent fortifications, and the only thing Changsheng Island could rely on at this time was 260 poorly equipped Xi people and more than 1,000 salt dings.

With such a force, it is okay to deal with a small group of pirates and pirates, and in the face of the army that poured directly ashore from strange square-headed ships, Xi Ren Mouke ate enough to support the salt of the Jurchen slave owners and paid for his own small life?

Therefore, the whole landing operation was very smooth, and the sailors responsible for operating the landing craft drove the boat directly to the shore with the help of the tide and the poles, and after lowering the drawbridge, the soldiers of the Zhenyuan battalion rushed directly to the shore.

About a quarter of an hour after the first ship landed, the soldiers of the Zhenyuan battalion occupied several empty beacon towers set up by the Jin army on the shore.

When Xu Shiyang himself landed, that Xi Ren Mouke had already directly led all his subordinates, and knelt down on both sides of the gate of the stockade to welcome the new master of Changsheng Island.

In the whole operation, the Qi army did not have any casualties, and it only took more than an hour for the entire Changsheng Island to change hands, and at the same time, several other ships landed on the empty Xizhong Island and Zhongdao, so far, Xu Shiyang has quietly closed the Fuzhou Strait.

In the afternoon, Xu Shiyang took a few guards to the east side of Changsheng Island to observe the opposite shore.

It is only less than 500 meters away from the nearest place on the mainland, and the Tartars can take a small boat to directly cross the sea to reinforce Changsheng Island, but the landing site chosen by Xu Shiyang is on the west side of Changsheng Island, and because the progress is too smooth, the Xi defenders here have not even lit the beacon tower, so the Tartar defenders in the north and south have not yet made any response.

Several guards escorted the Xi man Mouke, who had just surrendered, to Xu Shiyang's side, and the Xi man Mouke knelt down at his feet with a thud, and whispered in a sycophant tone: "The slave knocks on the master......"

Xu Shiyang glanced at him and said coldly: "I Han people don't have a title like master, and I don't like this either, you can call me a general." ”

"This ......" Xi Ren Mouke glanced up at him slightly, and found that what he said was serious, so he changed to a title that was more in line with the taste of the Han people and continued: "General." ”

"Hmm." Xu Shiyang snorted casually as an answer, and then asked the question he was most concerned about: "You come and tell me, how many Tartars are there in the north and south?" ”

"Originally, there were 100 true Jurchens and 300 unarmored slaves." Na Mouke replied smoothly: "Recently, because the Great Qi army took Lushun and Jinzhou, in order to strengthen the defense, 200 Jurchens were reinforced from Fuzhou. ”

"Hehe......." Several of the guards couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Even Xu Shiyang couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, the Tartars ...... to reinforce the fishskin Tartars to the stronghold by the sea, I really don't know what they think.

"In other words, there are 600 Tartars on the opposite side of the north and south letters?"

"Yes." The man replied, "The Golden Soldier...... No, the Tartar soldiers were stationed in the north and south of Xinkou just to take care of the salt works, and the number of troops was not much, and in the past, they were Fuso pirates or Goryeo pirates who came to grab salt, so it was enough to use fish skin tartars. ”

"Well, got it, by the way, if you light the beacon, when will they come?" Xu Shiyang asked again.

"At most, there are boats and rafts in the north and south, and they will be able to come over soon at this distance from the sea."

"Very well, then you can go and light the beacon."

Xu Shiyang grinned with bared teeth:

"Tell them ......, well......, there are two thousand pirates coming, and you are resisting."

"This ......" Xi Renmou hesitated slightly, and after a while, he gritted his teeth and agreed: "Slave ......, no, the little one will go and light the beacon." ”

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Half an hour later, two puffs of green smoke rose from the beacon tower facing the mainland on Changsheng Island - this was a signal agreed by the Tartars in advance, the two pillars of smoke represented that the enemy army had 2,000 men, and the green smoke represented that the defenders had not given up resistance.

And then it's gone.

This was the reason for Xi Ren's hesitation just now—the beacon tower was not enough to convey all the information that Xu Shiyang wanted to convey to the enemy—at least they couldn't tell from the cyan wolf smoke whether the attacker was a raiding pirate or a more deadly enemy.

What's more, as soon as the wind direction changed, the two green smoke not far away were almost directly mixed together, and it was completely impossible to see how many enemies there were.

In this regard, Xu Shiyang was very disappointed, he originally wanted to lure out all the enemies in the north and south and solve them at once, and he didn't know if the Tartar guards over there would be able to lead the troops across the short strait and run to Changsheng Island to die.

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