The river breeze gently tugged at the Raphael's flag, and the fleet dropped anchor in Mawei Harbor.

The west side of the anchorage is Ma Limit Mountain, and the east side is Luo Xing Mountain. The elevation of Majiao Mountain is about 30 meters, the elevation of Luoxing Mountain is more than 20 meters, and the distance between the two mountains is less than 700 meters.

The Chinese tower on the world chart, Luoxing Pagoda is located on the top of Luoxing Mountain. The body of the tower is close to the Minjiang River, with a hill of more than 20 meters and 7 floors, and a pagoda of 30 meters high, making the Luoxing Pagoda the most conspicuous waterway landmark of the Minjiang River, and it is also the commanding height of the surroundings.

A few rows of birds under the blue sky and white clouds, a little sail on the river in the east, a quaint pagoda on the top of the mountain, and a landscape full of Chinese artistic conception.

At this time, this quiet and far-reaching picture was shattered by a fleet of Yiren warships.

The battleship closed its sails and stopped, the black holes of the guns sticking out of the open gun windows, glistening with metal in the sunlight.

Thirty-six undecked sailing yachts were unloaded from each transport ship. The yacht was a prototype of a longboat on the Great Galen and had a displacement ranging from 15 to 25 tons. Sloop sloop, 3-4 Furlong guns. The 25-ton sailboat actually had the conditions to fix a 4-pounder cannon in the bow, and the fleet did not carry a version equipped with a cannon. In inland water warfare, flexibility is more important. The improved light sailing boats with both oars and sails formed a patrol line around the warships, and were also the most important weapons for orderly control of navigation rights on the Minjiang River.

The first wave landed. There was no resistance on the shore, and in the binoculars, the beacon sentry lit the wolf smoke, turned and fled.

Karl Langemann moved with the Taipei battalion, which is now the most experienced unit in the federal army, and the officers and men fired enough ammunition from their weapons during the sweeping operations on Jeju Island and against Banshe. What the troops lacked was the experience of battle.

Karl deployed the Taipei battalion at Ma Limit Mountain.

The soldiers shouted the trumpet and pulled the three 12-pounder guns of the fortress artillery company up to the top of the hill, and the artillery set up gun emplacements according to the firing range. The fleet carried some bamboo baskets and rattan baskets made in Taipei, and at this time, the forcibly requisitioned people in the surrounding area were in place, and the sappers escorted these people to dig up soil around Ma Jie Mountain, load them into baskets, and shoot them for building artillery forts.

On the south bank of the Yangtze River, a Dengzhou army landed and set up two observation posts.

Orderly handed over the fleet to Thomas Merlo, followed the baggage and finally landed, establishing a headquarters under the Tower of the Stars. The Luoxing Pagoda built in the Song Dynasty was destroyed by a typhoon, and the pagoda standing by the river at this time was rebuilt for Wanli year, and it has not yet been stained with the mottled color of the Yangtze River Towers that has been washed away by the years to the ancient mottled color. Army staff officers set up two large telescopes on the top floor of the tower, giving them an unobstructed view of the surrounding situation.

The two Ming armies of the Guizhou soldiers and the Dengzhou soldiers landed, and according to the deployment, half of the men who knew how to fight in water were divided to sail the galleys and the collected junk boats to cruise on the river. The Ming army forcibly recruited sailors on the river to paddle for themselves. The bright waist knife and silver are a simple multiple-choice question for most people.

That night, the Guizhou soldiers attacked the town of Min'an in the northeast. Min'an Town is about 10 kilometers away from Luoxing Pagoda and about 30 kilometers away from Fuzhou. From Hou'an to Tingtou below Luoxing Tower, the mountains on both sides of the bank are continuous, the river flows in twists and turns, and the terrain of Min'an Town Gorge is the most dangerous, the river is deep and narrow, the narrowest place is only 600 meters, it is the throat of the mouth of the Minjiang River. Qi Jiguang fought against the Japanese in Fujian, and once built a stone fortress in Min'an Town. Now the remains of the walled city are still there, but there is no strong Qi family army back then.

Most of the officers and men of Mawei Harbor lay down in their clothes, and the sappers and civilians rushed to work overnight to complete the fortifications as soon as possible. Shou Xuan led the guards to the top of Mount Ma Limit, raised his binoculars and looked northwest. A full moon hung high in the sky, the bright moonlight sprinkled on the ground, and there was no movement in the direction of Fuzhou City.

The next day, a company of infantry coordinated with 100 Dengzhou soldiers to conduct fire reconnaissance along the Min River to the northwest. Between Mawei and Fuzhou is a mountainous area with an altitude of about 300 meters. This narrow basin sandwiched between the mountains and the river is about 6.5 kilometers long and 2 kilometers wide, and the westernmost side of the basin is close to Fuzhou, and the mountains are almost inserted into the Min River, and a narrow official road about 1.5 kilometers long winds through the foot of the mountain and the river.

There will be no lurking enemies in the villages here, and the Ming army began a systematic raid, scribing and wrapping up all of them, from small farm tools to large ploughing cattle, all packed and escorted back to Mawei. This is roughly akin to a demolition.

In the afternoon, Shou Xiang received a document from Yang Tangqing asking for help.

The progress of the Guizhou troops in the northeast was not smooth, and Yang Qianqing's night attack failed, so it was changed to a strong attack. The local gentry were very united, and the Guizhou soldiers failed in three attacks.

The fleet pulled out the Qingyunshan frigate and the Lingjiang notification ship, turned around under the tug of the dinghy, and went downstream. In the evening, he arrived near Min'an Town and anchored.

The weapons officers of both ships were dressed in gray military overcoats, and boots made of pigskin rattled the decks. The naval guns fired one after another in front of the weapons officer, and the shells hit the wall, and the stone chips flew sideways.

6 6-pounder guns, 5 4-pounder guns did not fire very fast, about 3 minutes to shoot a shot. After half an hour, the shelling stopped, the barrels were cooled and rested for 15 minutes, followed by another half hour.

Anchoring, turning around, repeating.

The muzzle flame erupts rhythmically, and against the background of the night, it looks bright and beautiful. This kind of broadside fire seems to be beyond the weight of this small stone city in front of him. This time, in the middle of cooling the barrel, Min'an Town opened the walled gate.

It was not the first time that Yang had seen the guns of the plywood ships exert salvo firepower, and every time he was impressed by this overwhelming force. He sent someone to board the Qingyun Mountain and asked the commander of the formation how to deal with Min'an Town.

The captain of the Qingyun Mountain tilted his head and thought about it, and when he came out, neither the consul nor Colonel Merlot gave specific instructions. The captain was from Tortuga and decided to follow some traditional customs.

The two battleships assembled a landing party of 30 sailors and brought the captain's decision.

"It is necessary to take some punitive measures for the resistance in Min'an Town."

It was precisely this result that the Ming army was waiting for. Yang Qianqing couldn't figure out what Shou Xian thought, so he politely let the captain of the Qingyun decide.

More than 400 Guizhou and sailors entered the town of Min'an, and the soldiers harvested their first trophies.

After the settlement of Min'an Town, Funing Prefecture further north has long been destroyed, which means that the northern flank of Mawei Port has been cleared. More than 2,000 townspeople were successively escorted to Mawei Port and placed in the open space between Majie Mountain and Luoxing Tower.

Fujian's Green Battalion was slow to move, and only four days later they left Fuzhou City and set up a large camp in Gushan Town, east of the city, 10 kilometers away from Majiao Mountain, and there was no sign of even crossing the 300-meter-high mountain.

When several Fuzhou gentry saw the banner of the Ming army, they risked their lives to send their families down the Min River and brought some information.

Bolo conquered Fujian and surrendered more than 68,500 Ming horse infantry. As before, Bolo immediately disbanded the weak soldiers who could not fight and released them to go home, which accounted for more than half of the surrendered army. The Shi Fu Department, which had the strongest combat effectiveness in the surrendered army, followed Li Chengdong into Guangdong, and the rest of the surrendered troops only sat in the counties.

Zhu Yihai of Lu Jianguo swore in Changyuan, except for Zheng Chenggong, who claimed to be a general and a criminal minister, and gathered troops on Nanao Island under the banner of Yongli, the rest of the sailors gathered under Zhu Yihai's banner. The situation in southern Fujian has been completely corroded, and most of the troops of the Fujian garrison green battalion have been transferred to Quanzhou and other places, and northern Fujian is very empty.

Lu Jianguo sent countless blanks to sue himself, the prefect and the state, and the general military Daotai abounded. The eight counties in central Fujian were all reversed, and the gradually rising righteous teachers in various places cut off the official roads and pressed the green camp into the city. At present, the scale of the righteous teachers has not yet grown, and the attacks on the state capitals in various places have no effect for the time being, but this is a process of eliminating the advantages of one and the other, and the local strength of Fujian is getting weaker and weaker day by day.

Shou Xuan was not in a hurry to be stationed in Mawei Harbor, he did not have many troops. Since the Jianzhou soldiers did not attack, he sent people to take over Changle County in the south of the Yangtze River. Because of the mountain barrier, after the federal fleet got stuck in Mawei, the connection between Changle County and Fuzhou was actually cut off. Min'an Town is like a lesson from the past, 200 Ming soldiers came to the city, and the county gentry opened the city gate and surrendered.

Changle County changed banners, and the order was sent by the Ming army to send out the task of producing grain. Changle is about 4,600 taels of silver every year, counting more than 7,000 taels of three salaries, and about 20,000 people. The Federation took 5,000 taels of silver and some raw silk and satin from the city, and forcibly levied 1,500 strong men and 100 ploughing oxen to accompany the army. Then he sent many tasks to make bamboo baskets and rattan baskets.

Along the Minjiang River, there were many righteous teachers from all walks of life who heard that at the mouth of the Minjiang River, Changle County was recovered by the Ming army, and they came to meet with soldiers. The origins of these righteous teachers are very complicated, there are heroes in the green forests in the mountains, and there are also elusive water bandits in the Minjiang River. Of course, more of them were militia groups organized by the gentry in various places. There are more than 3,000 people in total. Many people have the seal of the governor's chief soldier on their bodies, and they are several levels higher than Jin Shiying and Yang Qianqing, the two commanders.

The Shou Xiang and Ming armies selected a small number of gentry who really wanted to join the army, and carefully kept their distance from others.

Jianzhou basically inherited the Fujian defense system of the Ming Dynasty, and divided the defense area according to the judge's military station, and the province has Fuzhou military preparation road in Fuzhou, Funing military preparation road in Funing Prefecture, Xingquan military preparation road in Quanzhou Mansion, Jiannan Province stationed in Jianning Mansion, and Xunhai Road stationed in Zhangzhou Mansion.

The Ming army of Zhoushan put great pressure on Zhejiang, and Zhang Cunren, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, followed the army of Boluoban's division back to Zhejiang to defend the sea. The remaining officials in Fujian are temporary workers appointed by Bolo. With Zhu Dingxin as the political envoy of Fujian Zuobu, the first official in the province.

The commander of the green battalion who barely assembled more than 4,000 in front of the order was the general of the Ming army, and Yang Yufan, the envoy of Fujian. Jianzhou turned many surrendered Ming army generals into civilian officials, the general army was transferred to the inspector, and the deputy general was transferred to the army. After being converted to civilian officials, their soldiers were still under their command, and the soldiers and governors had stronger constraints on the local prefects and governors, which was conducive to the unification of affairs and powers, and it was a good way to fight a war of public security.

In the middle of the first month, Zhou Hezhi, the general of the Ming army, conquered Zhendongwei and Haikou City in the south of Changle County. Fuqing County was recovered, and the threat of the southern flank of the order was cleared.

After the concentration of forces, Karl Langemann increased the frequency and intensity of contact.

Combat contacts showed that Fuzhou had recently received more than 1,000 reinforcements from Jiannan Province.

Under Yang Yufan, the commander of the Jianzhou Army, Zhang Jie, the Jiannan Army, Pan Yinglou, and Zhou Shike, the Fujian Patrol Army, with nearly 6,000 people. There are still more than 1,000 defenders and some people in Fuzhou, who are oppressed by the righteous army, and it is difficult for these people to be mobilized.

Because of the relationship between Lu Jianguo, southern Fujian concentrated the main mobile forces of the Fujian Green Battalion. Jianzhou is now demolishing the east wall to make up for the west wall, and the garrison troops in various places are limited.