arranged for Song Liben to go to Hangzhou to report the victory, leaving Jin Yufei with a team of infantry to defend Zhoushan City, and Ren Siqi with the fleet to Cen Port. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Limited by his identity, Ren Siqi could not legally enter Zhoushan City, but he was unwilling to withdraw to Daishan Island like this, so Cen Gang was the best garrison.

Cen Port is located in the northwest of Zhoushan City 20 miles, the water depth, the port is wide, the waves are small, the shore is stable, it is the largest fishing port in Zhoushan Island, the whole fishing port has more than 3,000 people, second only to Zhoushan City. In terms of economy, Cen Port is much richer than Zhoushan City.

Because Zhoushan City is where the General's Mansion is located, it is basically a military city, and most of the people in it are military households, who make a living by cultivating the land outside the city.

And Cen Gang is different. Because of the geographical location, the southwest is separated by Jintang Island and Ningbo, and has always been a smuggling distribution center.

Although the imperial court has always forbidden the sea, the profits of the sea trade are too great to be banned at all, and countless people and countless families have gained huge profits from the sea trade. But after all, the ban on the sea is the national policy of the imperial court, and no one dares to blatantly violate it. Ships on long-distance voyages do not dare to stay on the coast of the mainland, and fishing ports such as Cen Harbor, which are close to the coast, remote and safe, are the most popular.

Every year when the sailing season comes, there are many flat-bottomed boats and sea ships from the mainland, carrying a large number of raw silk tea and other goods to Cen Port, and load the goods on the ocean sailing ships moored in Cen Port, and then after the ocean sailing ship is full of goods, they will set off from Cen Port and transport the goods to Luzon, Japan and even Malacca, Jakarta, South Seas.

Large and powerful families can organize their own ocean-going sailing ships, and small and medium-sized families along the coast do not have the strength to carry out ocean-going trade, but they want to sell raw silk goods at a good price, and they will also transport raw silk to Cen Port, after all, Cen Port is closer to the mainland, and there are few opportunities to encounter pirates. Selling raw silk to sailing ships going to the ocean will make more money than selling the goods to raw silk merchants.

The smuggling trade gave birth to the prosperity of Cen Gang, and in the town of Cen Gang, there are more than a dozen shops, including raw silk shops, silk shops, and grocery stores, all of which serve the smuggling service.

Cen Gang is located on Zhoushan Island, and it is naturally under the jurisdiction of the Zhoushan Counsellor's Mansion, so it is impossible for the Commissariat to not want to intervene with such a large profit. But behind every shop here is a family, and every family has a background behind it, and there are officials in the family who are officials in the court. Although the general of Zhoushan is a third-grade military attaché, but in this era of nobility and military cheapness, the third-grade military attache saw the bow of the Qipin County Commandery, and had to kneel when he saw the Wupin prefect, and he couldn't provoke them at all. Of course, since the store is under the rule of the General's Mansion, these families will also share the profits every year to give the General's Mansion some benefits, and everyone will be safe.

Since Ren Siqi wanted to occupy Zhoushan, he naturally checked Cen Gang clearly. In his heart, Cen Gang is more important than Zhoushan City. Therefore, he had just defeated the army of pirates in Zhoushan, and left to lead the fleet to Cen Harbor.

In less than an hour, the twenty-mile sea route reached the port of Cen where five pirate ships were moored, and they were pirates who had come here to "collect grain".

Since the fleet went to Zhoushan before dawn, it took the sea route on the south side of Jintang Island and did not alarm Cen Harbor, and the pirates here did not know anything about what happened in Zhoushan.

The pirates who came here were overjoyed by the opulence of Cen Harbor, and the piles of goods in the shops made their eyes glow green. Although it is the off-season for business, it is not yet time to go to the ocean, but there are a lot of goods in each store. Because there is the Zhoushan General's Mansion in the east of Cen Gang, and there is Wang Zhiren, the general soldier of Zhenhai's anti-Japanese army, across the sea, basically a large number of pirates dare to make trouble here. As for the small group of pirates, there are more than a dozen heavily armed thugs in each shop, and they can't deal with them.

But two days ago, when more than 100 pirates arrived from the direction of Zhoushan in five sailing ships, the shopkeepers of Cen Harbor were stunned. At first they couldn't tell who was coming, but when more than a hundred pirates came ashore from the ship, they panicked. More than a hundred fierce pirates were beyond the reach of the thugs in their shop, and after a short but fierce fight, the thugs were killed and wounded by the pirates, and the rest scattered. The shops were then overrun by pirates, and all the shopkeepers were tied up for ransom at a later date.

There are a lot of goods in more than a dozen shops in Cen Gang, but there is little grain, after all, Cen Port is only a fishing port, and there is only a small amount of arable land developed by fishermen nearby, and it does not produce much grain.

The purpose of this visit to Cen Port was to "collect grain", so as soon as the more than 100 pirates discussed, they sent a boat to transport a small amount of captured grain back to Zhoushan, while the remaining pirates stayed in Cen Port in the name of continuing to "collect grain", and were busy loading the goods in the store onto the ship, just waiting for the war on the Zhoushan side to end, and then directly returning to their respective homes. The pirates in Cen Harbor belonged to five islands, and each of them had a main force fighting fiercely under the city of Zhoushan, and they did not dare to leave without permission.

So in the past two days, when the fierce siege battle was going on under the city of Zhoushan, the pirates here in Cen Gang stayed in warm rooms, ate exquisite food, slept in comfortable beds, and waited for the end of the war. But they never expected that nearly 4,000 pirates under Zhoushan City would be easily defeated. Then the enemy unwittingly touched them right under their noses.

Seeing the five pirate ships moored in the fishing port, Ren Siqi breathed a sigh of relief.

Since the pirates did not react at all, he was naturally no longer polite, and immediately ordered some people to occupy the moored pirate ship, and the other part went directly ashore to attack the pirates on the shore.

Under Ren Siqi's order, Mao 18 sailed into the pirate ship with five boats, threw the flying claws, firmly buckled the side of the opponent's ship, and then the crew quickly climbed to the other side's deck along the flying claws, and easily occupied the five pirate ships. After taking the port of Cen Harbor, the pirates were so lax that each ship left a few pirates on duty, most of whom were enjoying themselves ashore. And where the remaining pirates were the opponents of the Daishan Water Army, they were easily eliminated.

At the same time as the capture of the pirate ship, Ren Siqi personally took two teams of infantry and 300 musketeers ashore.

The fierce battle on the ship caught the attention of the pirates, who ran out of the shops in panic and met the Daishan army.

Without speaking, the musketeers let go of their guns at a distance, and then the pikemen rushed over and there was a flurry of stabs, and most of the more than a hundred pirates were easily eliminated, and the rest fled to the mountains north of the fishing port.

For the pirates who escaped, the Daishan army did not chase after them, but quickly attacked the shops.

"Xiucai, Xiucai!" Mao Eighteen came from afar and said something in Ren Siqi's ear, which made Ren Siqi laugh all of a sudden. (To be continued.) )