Zheng Zhilong may have many merchant habits, but when it comes to the naval combat literacy of this era, then he is definitely one of the few naval commanders of this era. Mobile M.

When the Ming Navy Division was transformed into the Ming Navy, it also meant that the Ming Army's Navy Division officially separated from the vassals of the past army and became an independent military command unit. Since it is a military independent unit, the Navy naturally has its own interests and needs.

The reason why Zhang Xie, the former chief of the navy, listed Zheng Zhilong as one of the candidates for chief was not only because he was his fellow Fujian countryman, nor did he use the position of chief to further restrain the pirates who were recruited in the south and further integrate into the Ming naval system.

The main thing is also that the Naval Staff Headquarters needs a leader who is not too influenced by the Army General Staff to further expand the independent status of the Naval Staff Headquarters. The root of the naval faction of the Ming Dynasty is actually mainly from two regions. One is the southern lineage, which is dominated by Fujianese, and is based on the Zhao'an pirates and the Fujian and Guangdong sailors. One is the northern system, which is dominated by Shandong people, and is based on the Dengzhou Naval Division and Dongjiang Town Naval Division established by Yuan Kewang and Xu Xinsu who moved north.

In contrast to the South, the Navy of the North, although more formal and organized, was deeply influenced by the Army. To a certain extent, the orders issued by the General Staff of the Army are even more acceptable to the Bohai Fleet. This is unacceptable to those officers of the Navy's General Staff Headquarters.

You know, an independent military command structure also means independent budgeting and preparation, as well as the power to speak alone in front of the emperor. What's more, with the continuous expansion of the scale of overseas trade of the Ming Dynasty, the areas under the jurisdiction of the Ming Navy have also expanded from the coastline of the Ming Dynasty to the other side of the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean.

In this prospect of a bright future, young naval staff officers are naturally reluctant to become the Army's echo worms again. Therefore, Zheng Zhilong, the pirate leader who was recruited, became the best choice for the Navy General Staff, allowing him to defeat those who were originally favored by the Army General Staff.

However, the army is a special society after all, and although the Navy Staff Headquarters chose Zheng Zhilong as the second commander-in-chief, it does not mean that Zheng Zhilong can let these naval staff officers carry out his orders without discount. As a soldier, the battle record is the most convincing power stick.

The Yingkou landing battle undoubtedly gave Zheng Zhilong an excellent opportunity to show his talents in front of the officers and men of the navy and army. In the past few years, the intelligence officers of the Ming Dynasty have collected the geographical and water data near Yingkou to prepare for the situation like today.

What surprised Zheng Zhilong the most was that Yingkou Port was originally built by the Ming merchants themselves, and this port city began to focus on the attack on the land from the beginning of the survey and design stage, and there were almost no precautions against the sea. When the Manchurians took over the city, they didn't know for what reason, and they didn't make major changes to the layout of the entire city, but only added two watchtowers on the east and west sides of the wharf, and closed the wharf area separately.

It was only later that the navy learned that the Manchu generals knew nothing about the methods of naval warfare, and believed that even if the Ming army wanted to attack Yingkou from the sea, it must first land and control the dock. Therefore, the first thing they prevented was that they were worried that the Ming army would land on the dock in disguise as merchants and sneak attack, so the two watchtowers were mainly to control the situation of the dock.

Once there is a situation on the shore of the Ming army, they only need to close the wooden doors at both ends of the wharf, and then stand on the watchtower and condescendingly shoot the Ming army on the wharf, until the military camp outside the city comes to help. The Manchurians did not know about the fact that the Ming ships could only be loaded with artillery to bombard the land.

For the warships of the Ming Dynasty now, these two watchtowers, which are only equipped with light cannons, have little threat. Even if the 1,000-ton Jianghu-class warships are not used, the guns of the 5 or 600-ton Ming-class frigates are enough to clearly drop the Qing army watchtower at the Yingkou wharf.

In view of the weak defense of the Yingkou wharf, Zheng Zhilong decided to storm the wharf, and after destroying the watchtower of the Qing army at the wharf, he took control of the wharf and allowed the army to land. In addition to this main landing site, he also looked for two secondary landing sites in the harbors on the east and west sides of Yingkou, one could speed up the landing of soldiers, and the other could also confuse the Qing army.

In the command of this 10,000-person landing operation, Zheng Zhilong made an orderly arrangement, and made a meticulous arrangement for the landing order and retreat time of each ship. After reading Zheng Zhilong's landing operation plan, the naval staff officers understood why the Fujian Navy Division was beaten by Zheng Zhilong in the first place.

At 10 o'clock in the morning of October 4, two Ming warships disguised as merchant ships broke into Yingkou Port. The Qing soldiers in charge of managing the wharf also felt a little strange at first, because since the Great Khan ordered the seizure of the personnel and goods of the Sihai Trading Company, the merchant ships of the Ming Kingdom had not appeared in Yingkou Port for almost half a month.

However, the first reaction of these Qing soldiers who managed the wharf was not an enemy attack, but they felt that the merchants of the Ming Kingdom had finally returned, and the backlog of goods in Yingkou Port could finally become the materials of the Ming Kingdom.

For the troops stationed in Yingkou, if Yingkou Port lost the Ming merchants who came to trade, then they would not be able to extract taxes from the trade, and it would be difficult for them to make ends meet.

Since the Great Khan listened to the words of Fan Yongdou, the profiteer, he changed the money and grain distributed to the Manchurians into half physical and half paper money. At first, everyone thought it was good, after all, Daqing Yuan can really be used as money. But when the banknotes plummeted, the soldiers realized that they had lost their money for no apparent reason.

And what worries these sergeants the most is that in the past, because of the booming export trade in Yingkou Port, they could take the opportunity to make some extra money, so the living conditions of the Yingkou garrison were much higher than those of the garrisons in other places.

But after the Great Khan scared away the Ming merchants, Yingkou gradually became a dead port. Not only were the shops in the city closed, but even the coolies at the wharf were gone, and as soon as these people left, the prices in the city began to rise, and the life of these garrisons became even more difficult.

Therefore, Ben was sitting under a pergola on the dock, and after the Qing army who drank bad tea to kill time reminded his subordinates, he hurriedly ran out of the pergola and shouted at his subordinates.

"What are you doing there, hurry up and notify the Chamber of Commerce in the city, tell them that a ship is coming, let them hurry up to the dock to trade, and finally have a good meal tonight." Little four, don't be in a daze, go and call those dock coolies out and prepare for work..."

Since Tuna's return to Shenyang, with his repeated suggestions, Huang Taiji finally made further refinements to the Eight Banners Army. Although he did not imitate the Lighting Army to implement the latest military rank system. But it also finally established the Ming army's "general deputy participation tour" system in the Qing army, thus further strengthening the imperial court's management of the Eight Banners Army.

The total is a hundred people, although the status is equivalent to the Eight Banners, but the general of the Ebu is a group of surrendered Liaodong Ming Army, this man from two white flags, disabled because of the left foot bullet, and finally was brought to Yingkou Wharf by the benefactor as a small leader to manage the wharf.

Although in the eyes of other Manchurians, Ebu's career has come to an end because of this. But for himself, it was extremely relieved. At least guard the dock to manage law and order, and the general battlefield is desperately strong. After all, the current Ming army is not as weak as before, and if it is a little unlucky, it will become a nameless corpse that is buried in the middle of nowhere, and the family will not be able to find a place to sacrifice if they want to.

Aren't the white bones on the side of the Shaling and Liao River exactly the end of the defeat of the Ming army in Liaodong? If it weren't for the new emperor of the Ming Kingdom who overrode public opinion after ascending the throne and used money and food to collect these white bones back, who would care if the generals and ministers of the Ming Kingdom could return to their hometowns?

It is precisely because of this mentality that Ebu has a good reputation at the docks, and even those Han people have a lot of dealings with him, and they do not regard him as a fierce Manchu official.

It's just that just as he was giving a series of orders and preparing to welcome the first merchant ship half a month later, Xiao Si, who had been in a daze on the side, pointed to the direction of the port and said with a bit of a stunned voice: "Master, that, that merchant ship that doesn't seem to be trading here, cannon..."

"Cannons what?" Ebu subconsciously turned his head to look, and saw that the ships in a parallel state with the dock had no intention of docking, and the two rows of windows on the side of the ship were opened, revealing a section of pipe with a black hole.

Ebu felt his hands and feet suddenly freeze, and he opened his mouth to make a sound, but the tubes in his field of vision suddenly emitted a puff of green smoke and a loud roar, muffling his voice.

After a long time, when the cannon fire stopped, his subordinate Xiao Si hurried over and shouted loudly in his ear: "Master, what did you just say? ”

Ebu turned around and pushed him hard, and roared with all his might: "Run, run to the garrison yamen, tell him that the dock has been attacked, and ask him to ask for help from the military camp outside the city..."

Xiao Si staggered back a few steps, listened to Ebu's words, and quickly turned around and ran to the exit of the dock, but he ran a few steps and felt wrong and stopped, turned around again, and found that Ebu was holding the waist knife, moving towards the dock step by step, as if trying to prevent the Ming army from landing.

He was immediately frightened, and quickly ran back and hugged the waist of the cloth and pulled it back, and kept persuading: "Master, don't go to death, the artillery of the Ming people is too powerful, we can't stop it, let's wait for the Manchurian master outside the city to deal with them." ”

Ebu scolded while struggling: "Let go, Xiaosi let go." I'm the commander of the docks, how can I escape, if the Great Khan is to blame afterwards, I will also die, it is better to be killed by artillery now..."

"Don't mind, sir, Madame asked me to follow you, but I didn't watch you die. Even if you don't care about yourself, you have to take care of the two young ladies. If you die here, who will take care of them..."

Hearing Xiao Si mention his two daughters, Ebu finally stopped struggling, Xiao Si hurriedly dragged him while running away, while continuing to persuade: "It's not that we don't guard the dock, but now it's more important to pass on the military information, if the garrison doesn't know that the Ming army is coming, won't the situation get worse..."

Although Xiao Si just talked nonsense, after all, such an artillery sound was heard, and even the military camp outside the city could faintly hear it, so how could the garrison not hear it. However, Ebu weighed it, still accepted the reason that Xiao Si gave him, and rushed towards the exit of the dock with his head covered.

The shelling of the Ming army was a nightmare for the unsuspecting Qing army. Most of these Qing troops were composed of surrendered Ming troops and wounded and retired Manchus, and they did not have much will to fight, so after two rounds of shelling, the Ming army completely controlled the Yingkou wharf and began to implement the landing and seizure operation.

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