On May 6, the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, in Donglianghai Village, outside the city of Huang County, Dengzhou Prefecture, the local villagers were holding a wedding, and the marriage was made by Wei Hutou, a young man from the village, and Xu Erniu, a girl.

Wei Hutou has been working in Haiyangwei for more than two years, and Xu Erniu is also working in Haiyangwei's handicraft workshop. Both of them were away from home, and the two young hearts gradually came together.

"Look at the bride ~ look at the bride ~ " The children in the village love this kind of day because they can play freely without being blamed by adults

"Worship heaven and earth~"

"Erbai High Hall~"

"Husband and wife worship each other~"

"Send it to the cave room~"

"Oh~~Oh~~" Wei Hutou's childhood playmate coaxed on the side, pushing Wei Hutou into the new house

Outside the three newly built tiled houses of the Wei family, the Wei family set up ten large tables to entertain the villagers.

"Lao Wei, the tiger head child I watched grow up, and now he is not only promising, but also married a daughter-in-law~~"

"Yes~~" Lao Wei replied: "The tiger head works in Haiyang Song, eats and lives, and never arrears of wages, this is not ~ more than two years and I have also saved a little silver, I and my house are combined, so I will do this as soon as possible~"

"Tsk~tsk~ Gai Ming'er, I also told our two cows and three cows to go to work with Lord Song!"

"That's a good thing, but I heard what our tiger head said, although Lord Song makes a lot of money, but there are also many rules, your second and third cows have been naughty since they were young, so you have to be careful!"

"Haha~~ When I was a child, I can be stable now. After this month, you let your tiger leader lead the two cows and the three cows to go together! ”

"Okay, come on~~Drink and drink~~"

Just when the whole village was immersed in a joyful atmosphere, a child suddenly shouted, "Dad~ Dad, what do you see on the sea?" ”

"What's that?"

Woo~~~ boom

A cannonball flew over the sea, impartially in the middle of the old Wei family's tiled house, and the tiled house suddenly became fragments

"Tiger head~~Erniu~~" Old Wei shouted miserably

On May 6, the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the coastal area of the Tartar Navy Kouluodengzhou was ruined

In June of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Penglai Water City, Dengzhou, Shandong

The water city is under the Danya Mountain in the north of Penglai County, Dengzhou Prefecture, and is built near the sea. According to the chronicles, the Song Dynasty placed the swordfish inspection, the swordfish battle, the preparation of the Khitan, the famous swordfish village. Ming Hongwu nine years (1376) began to build the water city, the north built the water gate, the south set up the Zhenyang gate, to the earth city around it, lead the sea water into the city, change the name of the city. In the twenty-fourth year of Wanli (1596), the earth city was made of bricks and stones. During the Ming Qi period, Yuan Keli, the governor of Denglai, once trained the sailors here, controlled the soldiers and horses of Dengzhou and Dongjiang towns, and formed a sailor army of more than 50,000 people, which effectively contained and contained the military strength of the Houjin. In addition, additional enemy platforms were built on the east, west, and north sides. The whole water city is in the shape of a long bag, it is the main body of the water city, it is a place for training sailors and boats, with an average width of about 100 meters and a length of 655 meters from north to south. The depth of the water varies with the tides, with a minimum of about 3 meters. Pinglang Terrace, facing the water gate, is surrounded by a breakwater, and is about 80 meters long. The wharf is built with stone masonry along the coast of Xiaohai, which is 5~10 meters wide for ships to dock. He is an outstanding representative of ancient Chinese coastal defense architectural science. The water castle is surrounded by a water wall, with a circumference of about 3 kilometers and an area of 250,000 square meters. It is an ancient coastal defense fortress, surrounded by mountains and seas. In the place where the sea is entered, a water gate is built, and a sluice is set up to store water. In normal times, the gates are hung high, and ships can enter and exit at will; As soon as the enemy is detected, the gates are lowered and sea traffic is cut off. There is a fort on each side of the water gate, which is garrisoned and guarded, forming a defensive system that can be attacked and retreated.

In the sea outside the water city, a fleet is getting ready to go. Led by a huge warship, the keel of the ship is 39 meters long, the total length is 51 meters, the width is 14.7 meters, the depth is 23.17 meters, the draft is 6.8 meters, the ship weighs 1,683 tons, and has 4 decks. The ship was erected with 3 masts and was equipped with 102 guns, 30 guns on the low deck and main deck, and 26 guns on the upper deck. There were 12 guns on the bow floor, 14 guns on the half deck, 10 bow guns and a number of stern guns. The fleet has 11 anchors, each weighing 2 tons. There were more than 800 sailors, the largest shells had a net weight of 60 pounds, and a salvo of shells weighed a ton. This is a reference to the largest warship in the world at that time, the British Sea King, the flagship of the Haiyang Guard, the Dingyuan (deliberately renamed the name of the battleship of the Beiyang Fleet)

Around the Dingyuan were fifteen two-deck, 50---80 guns of fast sailing ships, which were sturdy, agile and powerful. They are: Zhenyuan, Laiyuan, Jingyuan, Zhiyuan, Jingyuan, Jiyuan, Pingyuan, Chaoyong, Yangwei, Zhendong, Zhenxi, Zhennan, Zhenbei, Zhenzhong, and Zhenbian

Each warship shall have a captain with the same rank as an army battalion officer; There shall be a first officer, a second officer, a sailor officer, and an artillery chief, and the position shall be the same as that of the army leader; The rest of the positions are the same as the general flag and small flag of the army

Song Youliang stood at the head of Penglai Water City in high spirits, with his hands on his hips and his eyes looking into the distance

Chen Guoying, the prefect of Dengzhou, who was standing at the head of Penglai Water City, was dumbfounded, and he exclaimed: "Such a sailor, I'm afraid only Zheng He, who went to the West back then, can be compared." ”

Song Xuezhu, who came to see him off, said: "I wish Junma a great victory in this trip." ”

"Thank you, Song will definitely live up to expectations!" Song Youliang returned the salute with a smile, "The Tartars harassed my Daming Haijiang with a naval army, killed my father and brother, and insulted my sisters, I, Song Youliang, must make the Tartars pay for their blood debts!" ”

"Let's go~~" Song Youliang raised his hand, and the Ming soldiers standing behind him roared, and they walked down the city with neat steps and walked towards the dock

Song Youliang's target this time was the Manchu Qing Dynasty's naval army base on Guanglu Island, and when it comes to the Manchu Qing Army, one person has to be mentioned - Shang Kexi. The word Yuanji, the number Zhenyang, the ancestral home of Hongdong, Shanxi, and then to Hengshui, Hebei, in 1576, his grandfather Shang Jiguan moved to Haizhou, Liaodong. His father, Shang Xueli, was born in the second year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, and died in the fifth year of Ming Qi at the age of 52. The official to the deputy commander-in-chief, who has been guarding the coastal area of eastern Liaodong for a long time, is a subordinate of Mao Wenlong, the chief soldier of the Dongjiang River. In 1625, he led the death squad from Fushun Hetuara City to attack the capital of Houjin, but was defeated, and Houjin mobilized tens of thousands of horses to rescue the capital. Soon after this incident, Nurhachi moved the capital to Shenyang.

Shang Kexi's eldest brother Shang Kejin, born in the twenty-third year of Wanli, was also a famous general in Liaodong, and Ming Chongzhen died in the battle against Houjin in the sixth year. After Shang Kexi joined the army, he served under the account of Mao Wenlong, the chief soldier of the Dongjiang River. Served as the deputy general of Hirokashima. In 1629, Yuan Chonghuan beheaded Mao Wenlong, and Huang Long, the chief soldier of Phi Dao, took over, and Huang Long died in the sixth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty (1633) due to the suicide of Hou Jin Dazhi, and then Shen Shikui took over. In the seventh year of Ming Chongzhen, Shen Shikui was still happy to go to Phi Dao, intending to falsely accuse him of a crime and murder him. This matter was discovered by Shang Kexi's subordinate Xu Erxian and others, and Shang Kexi had the intention of going. So, he sent Xu Erxian and Ban Zhifu to Shenyang to contact Houjin. When Huang Taiji heard this, he was extremely excited, shouting "God helps me", and gave Shang Kexi the name "Heaven Helps Soldiers". Shang Kexi returned by sea with the generals under his command and the military equipment of the five islands under his jurisdiction. Huang Taiji went out of the city for 30 miles to greet him, rewarded countless treasures, returned a total of 27 members of the Shang Kexi family who had been captured and could be found before, and immediately became the chief military officer, and the Han army was inlaid with a blue flag.

Later, together with Kong Youde and Geng Jingzhong, he was the vanguard of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and successively participated in a series of wars such as attacking Korea and capturing Phi Island. During this period, the sailors he led were in the limelight. His navy occupied Phi Island and infested Changshan Island from time to time. At this point, the Liaodong Peninsula and the coastal islands were lost, and the Qing army opened the gateway to the south from the sea, and the Shandong coast has become the forefront of the Qing defense. The loss of the Liaodong Peninsula is not unrelated to the fact that "the soldiers of Jianzhou took Liao as the forerunner, knew how to fight water warfare, learned the geographical advantage, and made a decision to report the direction."

In Song Youliang's plan, if he can inflict heavy damage on or even eliminate Shang Kexi's sailors in one fell swoop this time, then his plan against the Manchus will go one step further. Fifteen battleships sailed from Shandong and headed for Liaodong.

Less than three hours after departure, the fleet entered the waters of Liaodong through the Lao Tieshan Channel, and all the way saw the blue sea and blue sky, the sea and the sky were the same color, and there was no boundary. From time to time, dolphins appear in the bow and stern of the ship, and the sentries on the watchtower constantly use binoculars to look around, keeping on guard at all times

Suddenly, the sentry shouted: "A large number of ships have appeared in the northeast, and it seems that the flag is a Tartar warship!" ”