Huizhou capital city, She County.

The city in the mountains, with white walls and green tiles, is scattered.

The Xin'an River flows from Huizhou to Zhejiang, which is the starting point of Huizhou merchants.

The thousand-year-old Yuliang stone dam blocks the river water, the blue waves on the dam are like mirrors, the fish fly in the deep pool, the boat rattles, stirs up ripples, and the scenery in the village is harmonious and tranquil. The smoke is curling, the willows are still clinging, and in the troubled times, Shexian County is as clear as a paradise.

There have been countless mountain gentry who carried a bag with them, starting from the Xin'an River, down the river to Hangzhou, and embarking on a business travel career.

Huizhou is the hometown of the great pirate Wang Zhi, and Huizhou is also the hometown of Hu Zongxian, who executed Wang Zhi.

In 1646, Wu Chenglin, a merchant from Huizhou, dared to sell grain to Zhoushan in exchange for overseas sugar, and there was no shortage of adventurers here.

In a typical Huizhou courtyard, Lan Qin Lan Xiuming rolled up a letter that only he could read and lit it on an oil lamp. After the faint green smoke, only a small pile of ashes remained.

Lanchin spreads out expensive Korean paper. This paper is a tribute from the Li Dynasty, I don't know which tendon of the imperial capital yamen is wrong, so I have to use imported paper to write the inscription, every time the Li Dynasty tribute comes, I have to rob it, and I may not be able to buy it if I have money.

Lan Qin sighed and sharpened his pen.

The former Dengzhou capital Ninghai Prefecture Haiphong Tongzhi Lanqin is the director of the Haiphong Prefecture and prays for the holy deeds.

Qiongzhou is surrounded by the sea, standing in the ocean for thousands of miles, and is the guarantee of the whole Guangdong. Inside, the ten thousand peaks are steep and uplifting, the five finger mountains of Limu are like the pillars of heaven, and the thirteen states and counties are dotted outside, the vast thousands of miles, the upper arch Shenjing, the lower bow Zhuyi. The situation is strong, and the Central Plains has not either.

Taiwan is connected to Wuhui in the north, Yueqiao in the south, stretching for thousands of miles, the mountains and rivers are steep, the Hong Kong road is circuitous, and it is the left protection of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong provinces. Boats and boats are reaching, department stores are heels to, the area of real fertility, and the area of danger. Overseas natural dangers, chaos and safety are very important to the southeast of the country.

Zhoushan hangs in the sea, controls Japan in the east, Denglai in the north, Ouyue in the south, and Wuhui in the west. Around more than 400 miles, during which there are no less than 100 islands, the five grains are raune, the benefits of fish and salt, and tens of thousands of people can be eaten.

The two counties of Deng and Lai protrude out of the sea, like a man sticking out his tongue, and are attacked on three sides: southeast, north and south. It is overseas, then the island is surrounded, from the northeast Kongtong half ocean, west to Changshan, through here and the north is Liaoyang, this heaven and earth set up the risk.

Haiphong takes these four places as the key point.

Fang Jin's rebels and thieves traveled far overseas, colluding with foreign people, and entering the island every time they were in the middle of the storm, poisoning the people, harming thousands of miles, and causing misery.

Before the examination, the Ming Dynasty set up guards from the seven provinces and listed the islands. However, the disadvantage lies in the fact that there is no sailor division and no water war is not repaired, so that the foreign invaders take advantage of the void to land on the shore and destroy the place.

Coastal defense must be defended against the sea, build ships, and control the enemy in the ocean.

……

Lan Qin wrote the inscription, copied the copy and unveiled the post, and wrote the abstract and pasted it in yellow.

According to the regulations, the inscription was sent by the Jiangnan official in Beijing to the General Political Envoy Department, and after the General Political Envoy Department inspected it, it was sealed to the Cabinet Han Benfang.

Lan Qin was the first batch of Tatars in Nanzhili, who was not admitted to the Jinshi and became an official directly. In the 7th year of Huan Hai, he was promoted from the county to the governor of Haiphong, and his mother died and Ding Wei was registered.

It was not easy for people in the south to be officials in the Tatar court, but Lan Qin was conscientious and conscientious in his tenure, and his performance was excellent in all previous evaluations, so he could be promoted to Tongzhi, responsible for the coastal defense of a state, and reported directly to Denglai Dao, and Shangguan was very satisfied with him. In officialdom, Lanchin's image has always been that of a coastal defense expert.

The defense system is about to expire, and Lan Qin has to make some preparations first.

……

Dengzhou, Ocean Island.

Zhang Pengfei stood on the top of the highest mountain, overlooking the sea.

After fighting on the Dongjiang River for more than ten years, Zhang Pengfei is familiar with every island and every sheltered bay here.

The northbound fleet anchored in Taiping Bay, and the officers and men threw themselves into the construction site.

Just like the Yangyi from Europe, the first thing the new Dongjiang Town did when it entered Ocean Island was to build a fortress.

The entrance to Taiping Bay is 1.1 kilometers wide, and relying on the mountainous terrain, a Macao-style semi-circular fort was built, and a 12-pounder gun was enough to block the mouth of the bay.

The anchorage of the inner harbor was built with a square fortress with enemy platforms at the four corners, but it was not built into a fortress, and the city walls were not high.

The amount of earthwork in the fortress is too large to be needed on Ocean Island. In fact, Zhang Pengfei did not think that the Tatars were capable of attacking Ocean Island, and the main purpose of building forts was to stock up on food, ammunition and other supplies, which would also make the soldiers feel more at ease and sleep well during the anchorage in the harbor.

The building materials of this batch of forts, including the stones, were cut in Taipei, and placed on the bottom of the ship as ballast to be transported to Ocean Island. This was done in order to seize the time, build the main fort first, and then slowly expand it later.

Dongjiang Town was destroyed, and Liaohai had not heard of a war for ten years.

Trees have regrown on the island, certainly not the towering trees in the mountains of Taipei, Hainan, but Zhang Pengfei does not need to worry about fuel for the time being. Some trees with straight trunks are cut down, and they are still good building materials after drying.

Ding Yaokang, the political envoy of Shandong, climbed to the top of the mountain with the support of two personal soldiers, and looked south with his feet on the platform, very excited, behind the vast sea, is his hometown that haunts his dreams.

The two nodded to each other.

"Domain."

"Yu Shuai."

"Are the people settled? Nothing went wrong, did it? ”

"I was a little reluctant to cut my braids, alas, the Tatars had ruled the north for too long."

"There's no hurry, as long as we play the banner, this situation will slowly turn around."

"Well, I hope so."

After the Tatars entered the customs, Denglai Liaodong was not threatened by the sea, and the sea ban was very loose here, and the surrounding islands were inhabited by ordinary people. After Dongjiang Town took control of Haiyang and Zhangzi Islands, the first thing it did was, of course, to cut off the braids of hundreds of people on the two islands. The political envoys of Shandong also had the first batch of subjects under their jurisdiction.

There are some fields on the island, and it would be a sin to grow wheat and rice here, but Ding Yaokang still inspected the topography of the island very seriously, arranged the tuntian plan, and was meticulous to every cent of the land. In the words of the domain, sweet potatoes, potatoes, vegetables, and an extra pound of grain are all support for the soldiers.

Gu Rong panted and climbed to the top of the mountain, "You're all here." ”

Gu Rong is the second-in-command in the army, among the original Zhoushan generals, except for Ruan Jin, Gu Rong's ability at sea is the strongest, and Zhang Pengfei respects him very much.

"Mr. Gu, what do those Yangyi say?"

Gu Rong pointed to the bottom of the mountain, "Yangyi said that the wharf on the west side of the bay belongs to them, and as an obligation, they are responsible for guarding the south fort at the mouth of the bay. ”

"What did Yangyi ask for?"

"Barnaby has proposed to build communities on the western headland, and they do it according to their own rules, and we must not interfere."

Ding Yaokang: "Just don't make trouble, I'm too lazy to care about them."

Zhang Pengfei nodded, "Then let's do it, deal with it first, and then slowly run in later." ”

Haiyang Island was divided into three parts, Barnabi on the west side, the largest flat land in the southeast was the Ming army, and the Korean soldiers were on the northeast side.

The customs and habits of the three armies are different, and they need to know each other in battle in order to become a robe of life and death.

Gu Rong rubbed his hands, "The fortress fort is almost completed, can we set off to kill the Tartars?" ”

Zhang Pengfei: "Of course, this is the purpose of our visit to Dongjiang. ”

"Let's figure out where to hit first." Gu Rong broke a branch, squatted on the ground, sketched a map of Shandong with a few strokes, circled several key cities in the approximate location, and marked the strength of the green battalion.

The generals were well acquainted with the map of Shandong, and the deployment of the Shandong Tatar army was not a secret, and it was easy to get it.

In the early days of Tatar entry into the customs, the Ming system was established, and the Denglai governor and Denglai military preparation road were set up, and three battalions and land divisions were under its jurisdiction, but the green camp Dengzhou Town was not set up.

The Denglai Theater of the Ming Dynasty was in charge of the Liaodong Peninsula against the Tatar front, and the Tatars, the governor of Denglai, had nothing to do, so they were withdrawn in the ninth year of Shunzhi, and only the Denglai military reserve road was retained, and the army was also reduced and merged into a battalion.

The current situation of the Shandong garrison is as follows:

There are 340 people stationed in Texas to defend the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, which was established in the eleventh year of Shunzhi, and it was not long after arriving.

The governor of the river, under the jurisdiction of the governor of 3 battalions, 8 generals, 3000 soldiers; The city was guarded by 1 battalion with a number of 500 soldiers.

Shandong is special in that there is no full-time commander. Governor and Admiral, under the jurisdiction of Fubiao 2 battalions, 8 generals, 2000 soldiers; Jinan City garrison, 300 people.

There are 3 city garrisons in Wuding, Dezhou and Qingzhou, with a total of 2,200 soldiers.

Green Camp Linqing Town, Green Camp Yizhou Town, two barely field troops.

The original deployment was that Linqing Town controlled the mountains and seas, and Yizhou Town defended the Cao River, with a total of 2,200 town marks for the two towns, and the two town defense areas covered most of Shandong Province.

It is clear that the Shandong garrison of the Green Battalion is mainly to defend the interior.

Recently, the Tatars may have sensed danger at sea, and have just moved the Yizhou town mark to Jiaozhou.

After the adjustment, Linqing Town was responsible for river defense, and also in charge of coastal defense in the northern part of the Shandong Peninsula, and Jiaozhou Town was responsible for southern coastal defense.

The number of soldiers in the province's eight banners was 340, the number of green battalion soldiers was 20,000, and the amount of military salaries in the 11th year of Shunzhi was 652,000 taels.

Zhang Pengfei guessed that the reason for the Tatars' arrangement was that Jiaozhou was facing south and placing a town there to prepare for a possible offensive by the Ming army in Jiangnan, but they ignored the defense of the northeast side of the mountain. The defenders of Denglai Erfu were still commanded by the town of Linqing, which was far away from Linqing City by the canal.

Denglai No. 2 Mansion now has Dengzhou Battalion, Laizhou Battalion, Wendeng Battalion, a total of 3 land divisions.

Its Chinese battalion has 3,000 soldiers and horses, stationed in Wendeng, Weihaiwei and Chengshanwei, and is responsible for the easternmost part of the Shandong Peninsula, bordering the Jimo Camp Defense Area in Jiaozhou Town to the south.

The Dengzhou battalion has 2,000 soldiers and horses, and is responsible for the defense of other areas of Dengzhou Prefecture.

The Laizhou battalion has 3,000 soldiers and horses, and is in charge of the Laizhou capital.

This is the army, there is still a battalion of sailors in Dengzhou Shuicheng, a total of 386 sailors, no big war ships, 13 full-fledged sand bluff boats, and 13 border river boats.

According to the Ming army patrol outpost system inherited by the Tatars, these 13 wrecked ships were responsible for three major sea areas.

The northern area, from Tieshan in North Korea to Huangcheng Island, that is, Dongjiang Town of the former Ming Army.

Central District, from Huangcheng Island to Chengshantou.

In the southern area, from Chengshan to Haizhou Yingyou Mountain (Lianyungang).

That is, the 300 or so Dengzhou Navy Divisions have to use 13 small boats of several tens of tons to cruise the 1,100-kilometer coastline.

The entire Bohai Bay west of Huangcheng Island is in charge of the Lushun Naval Division, which is a Naval Division of the Eight Banners, with 516 officers and men, slightly better equipped, and 10 rushing boats.

There are no sailors in Tianjin.

Even if the two naval battalions of Lushun and Dengzhou are all full, the intact rate of the warships is 100%.

The Tatars used 902 people, 10 fortune boats, and 13 galleys to be responsible for sea cruising in the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea.

It's called the Arabian Nights.