The atmosphere of the Zhang family's fleet has been very tense in the past few days, because the Fujian sailors who escorted the Cao boat to the north have returned. Although the grain shipping in mid-August had to take advantage of the season to go one last time, most of the Fujian Navy fleet remained, such as the main force of Haitan Town, which was holding back a force to tear apart the Zhang family and the Zheng family.

As the head snake of Fujian, the old Zhang family in Zhangzhou, with the Tiandihui rebel army swept through Fujian, the Zhang family fleet had a fair foothold on the mainland, not to mention that the time was only more than half a month, but the benefits were not obtained by Zhang Qiu floating on the sea for three or two years. The Zhang fleet has benefited much more than the Zheng family's fleet, whose main characters are all from Xin'an, Guangdong, and has achieved incredible development in the last half a month.

And many foreign bandits from the sea of Fujian came to hug the nest, so that the overall power of the Zhang family overshadowed the Zheng family, a time-honored brand in Guangdong.

But as the saying goes, the greater the harvest, the greater the responsibility. After the Fujian Foreign Naval Division returned to the throne, the task of resisting the Fujian Foreign Naval Division fell to Zhang Qiu. As for what Zheng Lianfu and Zheng Lianchang brothers are doing, they are restraining the sailors in Guangdong.

There are as many as five towns in the territory of the latter, and it is incredibly powerful, even if Gan Guobao, the governor of Guangdong, only transfers a part of it to oppress Fujian, the pressure on the shoulders of the Zheng brothers is also very great, okay? This is also because Guangdong is buying rice and grain from Siam, Annam and other countries, and the sailors are also sorting out all kinds of ships, and when the southeast wind rises next year, they will also transport grain, rice and native products to Tianjin by sea. Therefore, the Guangdong naval division could not draw out the absolute main force to deal with the foreign bandits in the sea of Fujian. It's just that the Nanao Town Water Division is the main force, supplemented by the soldiers and horses of Jieshi Town, and goes north to Fujian to help suppress. The leading general is He Sihe, the chief soldier of Nanao Town, he is a native of Fujian, a Houguan of Fuzhou, the son of He Mian, the former commander of Nanao, and was transferred from the general army of Qiongzhou Town, Guangdong to the general army of Nanao in September of the 32nd year of Qianlong.

Since the Zheng family clipper came to report the news, the sailors of Guangdong had already overwhelmed Nanao, and the Fujian foreign bandits who stayed in the area of Xiamen Bay led by Zhang Qiu clearly felt the breath of war.

On the third day of the first month of August, the Fujian foreign bandits cruising throughout Xiamen Bay gradually gathered on Kinmen Island. To say that this Kinmen was originally the important place of the Fujian Naval Division, and it was the nest of the Kinmen Association, with thirty or forty warships of the two battalions of the Naval Division. But just like Haitan, the main force went north, the nest was empty, when the foreign bandits attacked in a big way, the remaining Green Camp sailor ran away cleanly, and lost the Golden Gate to Zhang Qiu, and now this is the foothold of the old Zhang family.

In the northern waters of Kinmen Island, two sea boats, one large and one small, are floating on the water, and Bai Guan, the boss of the large sea boat, is the old man of the Zhang family, who got on the ship as early as the 17th year of Qianlong, and has also achieved the position of the ship boss over the years. Bai Guan treats people very kindly, and when he fights, he is very brave, and he has the respect of his brothers, and the sea ship under his feet is equipped with two large, four small and six guns, simply speaking, the combat power is also top-notch in the entire Zhang family fleet, and the ships patrolling the north road in the past few days are also headed by Bai Guan.

The large sea ship has three masts, which can carry two or three thousand stones, which is converted into a metric ton in the West, which is almost a displacement of two hundred tons. But the seventy or eighty men on the ship, as well as six cannons and relatively fast speed, made Bai Guan's car a patrol yaksha on the Fujian sea. After all, very few Western ships come to the waters of the Taiwan Strait, and the focus of their activities is Guangzhou Bay.

Bai Guan leaned comfortably on the chair on the bridge of the boat, his expression was very complacent, he knew that this mission was very dangerous, but he had eaten Zhang's family meal for more than ten years, so he had to be loyal to the 'king'. It's a big deal, his wife and children are living well in Fuzhou, Bai Guan has been rich and wealthy over the years, and he has already transferred his family from his hometown in Zhangzhou to Fuzhou, and the identity of the province has been revealed. Bai Guan bought a small courtyard in Fuzhou City, and also bought two street shops and hundreds of acres of paddy fields. The neighbors around thought he was doing business abroad, and no one would have thought that the man from the ordinary family would be the leader of the foreign bandits.

Bai Guan believed that if he died, the Zhang family would not be short of his pension silver. He sold his life to the old Zhang family.

"Dangdangdang...... "Three crisp gongs," "fifteen miles ahead, an unknown fleet was found." The lookout in the mast shouted as he rang the siren gong.

Bai Guan jumped up and walked quickly to the bow of the ship. His deputy, Lin Guohong, held a monocular to check, and felt that the people behind him knew that it must be Bai Guan, "Big brother, it should be the sailor of the official army, it is too far away, and the warship at the head can't see clearly." ”

Lin Guohong looked at Bai Guan's stern face and asked, "Shall we go?" Or do you want to fire a few shots first? Zhang Qiu's order was to retreat immediately after discovering the naval division of the official army, but the Zheng brothers had already engaged the official army in Guangdong in the south, and they took advantage of the carelessness of the official army on Dongshan Island. The clippers sent by the Zheng brothers to report the news came before, and the arrogance of that series made people angry. This is already somewhat related to the face-to-face dispute between the Fujian bandits and the Guangdong bandits. Now that I have seen the officers and soldiers, it would be bad if I turned around and left......

"Hit." Bai Guan said in a resolute tone, "If you don't shoot a few shots, you will be panicked when you go back." "He doesn't want to lose face as a Fujian boy in front of the Cantonese Yankees." When you see the scale of the officers and soldiers, let Huang Gui go back and report the news, and let's go and shoot a few shots. ”

"Send a signal to Huang Gui and ask him to prepare to go back and report the news. Raise the full sail and turn the rudder left. Lin Guohong nodded fiercely. Immediately shouted: "Prepare all the cannons." Everyone was ready to ......" like throwing a pebble on a calm lake, and the seventy or eighty people on the sea ship immediately got busy, sailing, steering, inspecting artillery, and carrying gunpowder shells......

The slowly accumulating sea boat is like a swimming fish, sliding a not-so-beautiful arc on the sea, and the small hull takes advantage of the hard sails on three sides to rush towards the north.

At this time, in the fleet that appeared on the northern sea, the admiral was on the boat, and Wu Bida, the admiral of the Fujian naval division, was confident, and after giving instructions to the duty officer, he continued to stand on the bow of the ship, looking around with great ambition. There were more than 100 warships of the main force of the Fujian Navy Division sailing on the sea, and there were also 20 small sentinel ships cruising around. Wu Bida didn't think there would be a failure.

There were many ships of foreign bandits, but there were too few warships on the table, and there were few guns, and even the quality of the gunners was not as good as that of the gunners of the Qing army. At present, Chinese pirates are still mainly engaged in broadside warfare, and their firepower is even greater than that of their Western counterparts compared to that of the Qing Navy and the European Navy.

If these bandits were floating on the sea, they would have been fine, but now they are hiding in Xiamen Bay and not leaving, and they are really killing themselves.

Wu Bida knows a lot about the foreign bandits in the sea of Fujian, and only when he knows himself and his opponent can he not be defeated in a hundred battles. According to the inquiries of his subordinates, he now has a rough estimate of the number of foreign bandits in Xiamen Bay. In addition to his own old background, Zhang Qiu has also gathered a lot of foreign bandits from other groups these days, and now the number of ships has swelled to the point of three or five hundred, with a total number of tens of thousands.

However, among the three to five hundred ships, it is difficult to find any of the big ships that can really fight, and the ships used by the pirates are all merchant ships used to carry stolen goods after plunder, and there are very few large ships in the main force of battle, and the main combat power is small gunboats with relatively fast speeds. Each ship has two or three guns, or even only one small cannon, and the number of troops on board is also small, and only one quick word is pursued.

So Wu Bida thinks he has the chance to win. Although the two provinces of Fujian and Guangdong attacked each other, they could be regarded as launching an offensive at the same time.

It didn't take long for the two sides to meet. On the vast sea, fifteen miles is really a very short distance.

The huge Qing army fleet cruised behind, and a large sea ship fled forward in disarray, and his ass was bitten by several sentinel ships behind it. Bai Guan was now annoyed and scared, because he found that he couldn't get rid of the burning ship of the official army. The six guns on the ship had already fired four rounds, and the gunner's level was really poor, and he didn't hit a single shot. "Let's look at Lao Tzu carefully, and then fight, look carefully."

Lin Guohong was in charge of the steering, silently calculating the distance between the two sides in his heart, as long as he entered the range of one mile, the sea ship would turn with all its might, but no matter how fast the sea ship was, it could not be as flexible as the sentinel ship of the officers and soldiers. Now there are two sentinel ships gnawing at the back of the big ship.

Lin Guohong led the Qing army sailors to Kinmen Island. Before the artillery was fired, Huang Gui had already gone back to report, it was the main force of the Fujian Navy Division, hundreds of warships, and a large area of black pressure on the sea, Huang Gui went back to report the news, Kinmen must have taken precautions, and even if he brought the officers and soldiers back to Kinmen, he would not let the foreign bandits there suffer any losses.

It's just that Lin Guohong didn't expect that Huang Gui didn't turn back to Kinmen Island, but slipped around directly.

This is the consequence of discord. This Huang Gui was originally the leader of a small group of foreign bandits on the sea, and Taiwan's Penghu sailors repaired it fiercely and took refuge in Zhang Qiu, although it was less than a month earlier than the foreign bandits who came to take refuge in Zhangjia Wharf after the situation changed greatly, but this has also become capital in Huang Gui's heart.

The power of the old Zhang family has risen sharply, and many of the original old subordinates have risen to the top, but Huang Gui is still a small follower, this person is unhappy in his heart, and he can always do something eye-catching, Bai Guan asked Huang Gui to go back to report the news quickly, but Huang Gui felt that the Qing army and sailors were invincible, coupled with the resentment in his heart, he slipped around halfway.

When the scarred Bai Guan boat led the main force of the Fujian Navy Division to kill thirty or forty miles outside Kinmen Island, Kinmen Island learned this information, and hundreds of sea ships were in a mess because of this change, and ten percent of their combat strength could not be brought into full play. The battle off Kinmen Island was a great defeat for the Fujian bandits, and Wu Bida captured and killed no less than 2,000 foreign bandits with only minor injuries.

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"Rubbish!" Chen Liang in Guangzhou received information from Fujian earlier than Chen Ming, and when he saw Zhang Qiu's defeat on Kinmen Island, Chen Liang couldn't breathe because he hated iron but not steel. The Manchus had been dazed by a series of heavy punches from the Fu Han army, and as a result, Zhang Qiu gave Qianlong a reassurance. "Damn ......, damn it!"

"That's the end of the good news. Lao Tzu killed Zhang Qiu a hundred times and didn't get rid of his hatred! (To be continued.) )