In the southern valley, in the middle of the damp, hot and humid forest, a two-color camouflage tent with a top of earth gray and light green was inlaid in it, wearing a blue soldier's uniform, with the Jinhua Volunteer Army logo on his shoulder, a small piece of color of Venus on a red background, and on his arm was their rank insignia, the logo was marked in dark green, and his rank could be clearly seen from a close distance, but it was not known what kind of official he was when he was a little farther away.

Three thousand militiamen, dressed in the uniforms of the Ming army, acted as baggage guards for the troops, responsible for transporting supplies, weapons, armor, and caring for horses.

The 3,000 regular soldiers of the Musket Corps wore uniforms, and their respective ranks were marked on the uniforms, the lowest being the first class, and a thin bar appeared on their arms, and they carried the newly issued quality assured arquebuses produced by the Jinhua Rebels, each arquebus could shoot at least 1,000 rounds without cracks, without reducing much power and range, and without exploding.

Five hundred cavalry, more than two hundred hunters, and more than a hundred scout cavalry, all hid here, waiting for the enemy to take the bait.

Three scout cavalry approached the forest from a valley trail in the distance, bringing news from outside.

"Report to the Governor, a group of pirates has landed in Yuhuan County,"

"How many are there?" Zhang Qiang asked.

"There were about a hundred people."

"Why so little?" Xuanyuan Longfei asked.

"My lord, I don't know, other news is being investigated." Scout said.

"Order Ruan Shu and Ruan Wu to hold on to the county seat, and leave the rest alone." Zhang Qiang said to the scout.

"Yes, my lord."

"Go back, mobilize your troops, scout the coast, patrol, and don't let the enemy take advantage of the loopholes." Zhang Qiang said to Xuanyuan Longfei and Du Ge.

"Yes, sir." The two men ran out of the canyon with their own personal cavalry.

Zhang Qiang said to a person beside him: "What news is there from Admiral Zhang Ying?" ”

"My lord, according to the detailed report, Zheng Cai does have the intention of attacking our territory deeply, but I don't know how many people he brought and where he landed from.

"Okay, keep probing and report back in time." Zhang Qiang said to him.

This person was sent by Zhang Ying to contact him, a veteran pirate who had already surrendered.

"My lord, Zheng Hongkui also participated in this looting, maybe he also wanted to come to our territory to make trouble, and the details we arranged for him found that he showed signs of gathering ships along the coast of Taizhou."

"Let's talk about it later, fight Zheng Cai first, and then eat Zheng Hongkui, after all, he used to be Emperor Longwu's minister from the dragon, and he has the merit of supporting him, even if we get his ships and sailors, in order to stabilize the Longwu court to the greatest extent and let them be our targets, we will eventually return it to him, let him live for two more days."

The news kept coming over, Zheng Cai was cunning, there were 100 people in this place and 200 people in that place, so that people didn't know where his main force landed from, and Zhang Qiang didn't want to lose a big loss, so he waited for Zheng Cai's main force to come from the sea and go deep into the inland and catch it all again.

In the evening, an exciting news came that Zheng Cai's big pirates landed in the waters near Sanmen County, which was really unexpected, and Zhang Qiang thought that Zheng Cai would land in the sea off Taizhou County.

But no matter what, Zhang Qiang had to seize this opportunity, and he immediately ordered the army to march.

In the dark of night, with torches, the scout cavalry surrounded the army, entrapping all the pedestrians they encountered on the road, so that they would not leak the news.

After arriving at Taizhou County, everyone got on the boat directly, boarded Zhang Ying's sailor boat, and made a detour from the sea to the waters near Longzhu Island in Sanmen County to land.

Zhang Ying's 3,000 officers and soldiers of the Sailor Division also followed, these officers and soldiers of the Sailor Division were all cold-weapon soldiers trained by Zhang Qiang before, and after Zhang Ying's training, they were already able to operate boats and become qualified sailors.

At dawn, the sailors who had made a detour from the open sea approached Dragon Ball Island, and Zhang Ying ran in, "My lord, there are hundreds of ships on the sea, what should we do?" ”

Zhang Qiang lowered his head and checked the map, "Landing from the nearby beach, you retreat and hide in the bay, waiting for me to send someone to inform you, and then you will kill from behind and cut off the enemy's retreat." ”

Zhang Qiang's 7,000 soldiers landed on a nearby beach and advanced from the mountains towards Sanmen County.

Sanmen County, Lin Chengcheng frowned, looking at the dense pirates under the city, he never thought that the enemy would appear in this place, he was sent here by Xuanyuan Longfei to assist Du Ge to guard here, but he became the target of the enemy's army, which made him sigh that his luck was too bad, why was he always injured, he had never won a battle.

Looking at the pirates below, there were at least 30,000 people, most of them were some ragged fishermen and pirates, some gorgeously dressed housekeepers, some elite looking pirates in cotton armor and leather armor, and even some pirates in iron armor.

They also have cannons, which makes his heart become cool and cool, when he was a rogue, what he was most afraid of was the artillery of the Ming army, every time the peasant rebel army and the Ming army died, it was always these cannons that caused the most damage to the rebel army.

"Where did they come from?" He held on to the walls and roared.

However, no matter how angry he was, the pirates always calmly prepared to surround the three county towns, and some fellows in Portuguese and Dutch sailors' uniforms approached the city he was guarding with cannons, carefully measuring the distance and adjusting the cannons.

On the opposite side of him, behind the mountain, Zheng Cai and Zheng Fu, Zheng Liang, as well as representatives of the Portuguese and Dutch, were carefully observing the county seat of Sanmen.

Zheng Fu looked unpumped, and said to Zheng Cai: "My lord, the Ming army would never have thought that we would land from such a remote place, and they might still be turned around by the bait we released, and they are mobilizing troops to encircle and suppress them, we can break the county seat of Sanmen, and then continue to attack Tiantai County, and directly come to an armed march from the border between the Qing army and the Ming army." ”

Zheng Liang said: "Don't be careless, Zhang Qiang never makes moves according to common sense, maybe he is waiting for us in the dark." ”

Zheng Cai smiled, "Wait for us, what can he do?" ”

The Portuguese representative said with a smile: "Yes, what can he do to us, it's a big deal for us to withdraw to the sea, our three warships together have seventy-five large warships, one hundred and twenty medium-sized warships, and four hundred and fifty small warships, as long as they dare to chase close to the sea, we will bombard him with naval artillery." ”

The representative of the Netherlands said: "Your Excellency Zheng Cai, help you to conquer the county and complete the tasks of your court, you have to help us deal with Zheng Chenggong, now Zheng Chenggong is harassing our treasure island territory, where is our sphere of influence, we will never allow others to get involved, you have to make these clear to your court." ”

Zheng Cai waved his hand impatiently, "Don't worry, our Hou Ye has already told the imperial court, as long as you help us eliminate the Ming army, we will definitely recognize your status and interests in the treasure island, that reckless place, and only Zheng Chenggong will never forget where it is, I will not go to that place." ”

"My lord, the artillery is ready," a Dutch soldier said as he approached the Dutch representative.

"Okay, wait a while, listen to Master Zheng Cai." The representative of the Netherlands said.

Zheng Cai said: "Open the artillery, bomb the damn, don't think that the Ming army has artillery, we also have it." ”

For a time, the sound of artillery rumbled, and it could be heard more than ten miles away.