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At this time, the rebels were still angry about being defeated by the security army, which not only caused huge losses to the rebels in the battle, but also was stationed on the side of Dengzhou City, which could launch an offensive against Dengzhou at any time, which made the rebels very insecure. Li Jiucheng specially sent people to discuss countermeasures in the camp of Kong Youde outside Laizhou City, at this time Kong Youde was also troubled, Laizhou City is much worse than Dengzhou City in terms of city size and solidity, Dengzhou City did not take much effort, but a Laizhou attack for more than a month without progress, but there is also a benefit to the siege of Laizhou, the rebels will Shandong Governor, Denglai Governor and other top military and political leaders are surrounded in Laizhou City, resulting in the reinforcements from all walks of life without unified leadership and coordination, They all stopped from a distance to watch, and more people were still waiting for the court to appease the rebels, and then everyone clapped their hands and went home.

There is a person here who is the person who has been poisoned the most by the idea of appeasement, Sun Yinglong, he is an old general of Liaodong, heard the news of Kong Youde's rebellion, and said to everyone: "Brother Geng Zhongming has a very good relationship with me, I can ask him to tie up Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng." "As soon as his superiors hear it, you can do it. So he gave Sun Yinglong 2,000 soldiers and dozens of boats, and set off from Tianjin to Ben Dengzhou by sea.

When Geng Zhongming heard about this, he found a dead man's head and put it in a box, and wrote a letter to coax Sun Yinglong, saying: "This is Kong Youde's head." Sun Yinglong received the head, believed it, and happily led the fleet to Dengzhou to collect Geng Zhongming. Sun Yinglong led the fleet to Dengzhou Shuicheng, the rebels welcomed him into the city, suddenly ambushed him and tied him up, and finally his head was cut off with a knife, and no one in his team escaped. The rebels got the big ship brought by Sun Yinglong, and their momentum became even more arrogant.

Originally, there was a fleet trained by Sun Yuanhua in the water city of Dengzhou, and the rebels were surrendered during the rebellion, and the whole fleet had more than 100 ships, and the new artillery was also installed on the ship, although the ship was not big, but because of the small artillery installed on the ship, the strength of the fleet was also very strong, and this time the ships from Tianjin were captured, so that the rebels had a strong maritime mobile force in their hands.

Li Jiucheng decided to use this fleet to give the security army a surprise attack, who let the security army set up camp near the sea, thinking that the back to the sea had an extra security guarantee.

For this raid, Li Jiucheng made sufficient preparations, not only dispatched most of the ships in Dengzhou, but also replenished a large amount of ammunition on board. Sent a detailed work to the occupied area of the security army to find out the news, so it also lost a lot of manpower, and the security army's visible turrets stuck in various roads, and it was too difficult to get in. However, it was not for nothing, knowing that most of the main forces of the security forces were stationed on land in the harbor near Yantai. Locals know that there are mountains on both sides stretching out into the sea, surrounding a large area of seawater, and the peaks block the wind blowing from the sea, making the sea in the harbor very calm, forming a natural harbor, where many fishing boats used to berth, and the water in the harbor is very deep so that large ships can also dock to the shore, which creates conditions for the rebel warships to approach the security forces.

In order to avenge the last revenge, Li Jiucheng also made a bloody investment, and let his son Li Yingyuan personally lead the team, he knew that it was impossible for the security army to have a fleet from Shanxi, and at most it would not be a threat to collect some fishing boats along the coast. It's still safe on board.

The wind on the sea on the morning of this day was not very strong, so that Li Yingyuan, who was standing on the bow of the ship, did not feel cold, he looked at the battleships lined up in a very comfortable mood, this original Denglai governor Sun Yuanhua is indeed a talent, and raised money and food in many ways not only cast many cannons to train the new army, but also built more than 100 warships that are several times larger than ordinary fishing boats, each battleship is equipped with three or four medium guns, these ships have an absolute advantage in dealing with old-fashioned warships, and the enemy will be sunk by artillery before they come up, The entire fleet had three or four hundred guns, and if it attacked a target on the shore, it would be extremely powerful. At the beginning, Sun Yuanhua wanted to use this fleet to support Dalinghe City, but it was just a matter of creating people, and the rare wind and waves in the Bohai Sea blocked the trip. However, Sun Yuanhua is still good to his subordinates, it is he who gave these Liaodong people a place to live, but unfortunately there is news that he has died in prison. Today, I have to use Sun Yuanhua's tactics to give the security army a blow, and the security army can't jump into the sea to beat me.

There was not much distance from Dengzhou to Yantai, and due to the repeated battles, there were very few fishing boats on the sea, and the few who saw this huge fleet were far away. It didn't take long for the fleet to reach the open sea of Yantai and approach the bay where the security forces were stationed, where only a few small fishing boats were quietly moored.

Li Yingyuan observed that there was no danger and ordered the fleet to sail into the bay, and there was a black building on the shore of the bay, where the barracks of the security forces were located, and the rebel fleet was lined up and drove there, ready to smash it with cannonballs at close distance.

The rebels were right, it was indeed the location of the garrison of the security forces, but it was no longer a simple barracks, and the security forces worked day and night to build a simple fortress there to defend the harbor.

The rebel fleet is approaching, the security forces have already received the report of the invasion of the enemy ships, the heavy artillery in the fortress has been prepared in advance, the cannon fire was ordered to fire, the first round of test shells fell in the middle of the rebel fleet, and the high column of water raised told the rebels, you have entered our range.

Li Yingyuan, who was on board, hurriedly ordered the fleet to speed up and move forward, he had already judged that the enemy's artillery range was more than the ship's artillery, and if he did not get close, he could only be beaten passively, and the rebel fleet suffered several rounds of artillery fire, and after dropping a few warships that had been pierced into the water by shells and could not move, he was finally able to use the ship's guns to return fire on the shore.

Approaching the castle of the security army, Li Yingyuan's uneasiness in his heart was even worse, he could now roughly see the outline of the castle of the security army, it was not an ordinary castle, the castle was very similar to the city built by Sun Yuanhua in Dengzhou, it was very difficult to capture such a castle if it could protect the cannon with the city, and then protect the city with the cannon. The rebels' capture of Dengzhou completely relied on Geng Zhongming's internal response, and they had nothing to do with this kind of fortified city.

The security army not only the fortified castle on the artillery on the city is not vegetarian, the fleet approaching the castle can use the ship's guns to attack the shore, the medium artillery in the castle also has a place to use, bursts of cannon fire sent groups of cannonballs to the rebel fleet, the ships of the cannon were hit with sawdust, the stirred sea water poured the people on the ship to the heart, those large artillery was changed to chain shells, the chain bombs were split in half by a ball in the air, and the iron chain was connected in the middle, which rotated in the air, flew to the ship and tore the sails, With the mast broken, the ship that has lost its power after being hit can move slowly on the surface of the sea, becoming a target for artillery fire on the shore. (To be continued.) )