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The suppression of banditry was not confined to the inland areas, and the banditry in the coastal areas of Guangdong was even more serious, especially in Guangzhou Bay (present-day Zhanjiang), Leizhou Peninsula, and Chaoshan areas. They went out to sea in small boats and fishing boats to plunder passing merchant ships, evade the encirclement and suppression of officers and soldiers on the shore, and set up hidden hiding places in coastal areas, most of which were on small islands along the coast.

At the Huizhou wharf, a brand-new warship slowly sailed out through the night, and its destination was Zhanjiang New Port. In order to train shipyard construction experience and skilled workers, two 5,000-ton freighters and a destroyer became their first products. Two freighters were launched and handed over to shipping companies in August 1901, and construction of three more began as the shipyard continued to grow. The first destroyer was launched in October 1901 and took a year to build. This destroyer adheres to Lu Liang's requirement that the battleship cannot be defeated by the enemy and cannot catch up, and uses the American Fletcher-class destroyer during World War II as a template. The Fletcher-class destroyer was the first class destroyer with the largest number of first-class destroyers produced during World War II, with a total of 175 units produced, and it is surprising that the American shipyard completed all the production tasks in two years, which makes people have to sigh at the industrial capacity of the United States at that time, which is also the reason why Lu Liang was a little disappointed that Huizhou Shipyard only completed one in a year. There is no way, there is no comparison in all aspects, and people are the embodiment of the capabilities of the entire industrial system. However, the construction of these freighters and warships trained a large number of skilled workers, and the second and third destroyers also entered the construction stage after the first was launched, and it is believed that the time will be much reduced.

The Fletcher-class destroyer was named Guangzhou-class Guangzhou, with a standard displacement of 2,100 tons, a maximum speed of 37 knots, and a crew of 353 people.

The destination of the Guangzhou is Zhanjiang New Port, and the port of Huizhou is not an ideal military wharf, which is too limited by the terrain. And Zhanjiang Port has not been developed in this era, it is just a small fishing village, but it is a natural harbor, and Luliang will not give up such a superior wharf. Huge construction teams went to Zhanjiang and Shantou, which will be built into sprawling deep-water ports. The problem is that these two places are not only undeveloped and in a pristine state, but they are also the most rampant places for banditry, where construction teams are harassed and the lines of communication for transporting construction materials and other materials are often attacked by bandits. The land bandit crackdown has begun on a large scale, and now it is the turn of the navy to deal with the pirates who are raging at sea.

Accompanying the Canton to Zhanjiang was a freighter, and 800 Marines were to be used as a landing assault force to bulldoze the bandits' nests. With the rapid expansion of the army, the head of the navy, Lu Hai, was not willing to be lonely, when the Nanhai was resting and evading the frenzied search of the coalition navy, and the destroyer was not launched on the slipway. In order to find something to do for himself, he turned his attention to the formation of the Marine Corps. After consultation, the 1st Marine Regiment was quickly formed, and the soldiers were directly drawn from the army and began training.

According to intelligence, there are countless bandit gangs in the Zhanjiang area all the way to the Leizhou Peninsula, with the larger ones having two or three fishing boats with about 100 people, and the smaller ones having less than 10 people going out to sea in small boats to plunder the fishermen. Moreover, these bandits are more inhumane than land bandits, and they often do not leave a living mouth after robbing fishing boats and cargo ships, and even often go to the land to loot fishing villages, and it is not unheard that they are more daring to capture the county seat and shoot the county order.

The land of the Leizhou Peninsula is densely covered with tropical jungles, the terrain is complex, the people live in poverty, and the bandits have a strong popular base, which brings great trouble to the clearance. Of course, this is what the 1st Mountain Brigade of the Army needs to worry about, and the task of the Navy is to compress the living space of the pirates on the sea surface and crack down on the island nests of the pirates, which is also an excellent opportunity for actual combat training. The most important thing is that the Canton is extremely fast, and it can easily dodge the many foreign freighters and warships nearby. Talking about the national treasure, it was so funny, many countries agreed that it was the British who shouted to catch the thief, and the black ate the black, and the British must hand over the treasure, and the British were so resentful that a large number of warships were transferred from the Far East Fleet to search around. As a result, the Xinchou Treaty, which was originally signed in September 1901, was dragged on until the end of October, and it is not known what the coalition forces planned in the end, but the army has all withdrawn from the north, and the naval warships have returned to China one after another. However, British warships can still be seen cruising near the Taiwan Strait, and they should not be reconciled.

On a small island off the coast of Zhanjiang, the shore is covered with rocks and waves, but I saw two hard-sailed fishing boats sailing in through a narrow gap, turning the corner and disappearing. There was a small harbor in the gap, and there was a simple wooden wharf, on which a dozen fierce men were already waiting, and the shouts and laughter and scolding of the fishing boats were endless.

"Damn, Yangjiang is really rich, continue to go there in the future!" The sea harrier, the leader of the bandits, who got off the fishing boat and stood on the shore, watched his men carry bags of grain, gold and silver to the cave, and thought of it in his heart. This place is called the big fish hole, has always been the hiding place of the bandits, two years ago the sea harrier led people to defeat the bandits who occupied this place and set it up as a nest, two years the gang of the sea harrier galloped across the sea in Guangdong, did not meet the opponent, since the chaotic party occupied Guangdong even to the imperial court worship is left, this day is getting better and better, a few days ago I heard that the harvest of the farmers east of Maoming is huge, just like to grab a sum. Unexpectedly, when I arrived in Yangjiang, I found that even ordinary farmers had a lot of grain in stock! There were even a lot of gold and silver goods, and after asking a few people, I learned that the government of the rebellious party was promoting high-yield rice seeds, and had also purchased a large amount of stored grain, and many families had young and strong people working outside the home, and sent back a lot of property. It turns out that the rebel party is so rich, so wouldn't the days after that be beautiful!

"Boss, there is news from the shore that Li Demao was overhauled by officers and soldiers, and hundreds of strong men under him were all shot!" A subordinate who guarded the house came to report, and the sea harrier was overjoyed when he heard it, it was really a double happiness! The old opponent Li Demao was actually suppressed by the officers and soldiers, and then he had no opponent on this sea!

"Boss, I heard that those officers and soldiers are very powerful, Li Demao's nest is in the big forest, even if we go, we may not be able to find it, those officers and soldiers not only look for it directly, but also have guns and cannons, I am afraid that the officers and soldiers will be unfavorable to us in the future!"

"Sanyuan, it's not the boss I said you, you are too bold, do you think the officers and soldiers can find our nest? Even if they find out that they have a ship? Even if there were a boat, would they be able to outrun us in this sea? When the signal from the top of the mountain is issued, let's hide in the sea, who can find us? The sea harrier was in a good mood at this time, and said a few more words to his subordinates. On weekdays, the sea harrier is very cruel, and the same is true for his subordinates, no one dares to say a few more words to him, Sanyuan is his most trusted subordinate, when he was selling fish in Maoming, it was Sanyuan, the broken landlord, who helped him, and later became the brains of the gang, and his words can still be listened to.

Sanyuan didn't say anything after hearing this, the pirates were exterminated by the officers and soldiers, and in any case, there was a sense of sadness for the rabbit and the fox, and the army of the chaotic party was different from the soldiers of the court in the past, and he had inquired about looking for a backer in the provisional government, but the backer was not found, so he was caught by the police of the chaotic party!

After a while, one of his subordinates came over and said, "Boss, let's get big this time!" More than 40,000 catties of rice, bacon and other grains are enough for us to eat for several months. The total amount of gold and silver is more than 3,000 taels, although it is not as good as the income of those large landlords who have tied up the tickets, but it is also a lot for the peasants. Boss, those mud legs are so developed, no worse than us working hard at sea. ”

"Fuck you! Don't you want to think about how much of the grain from the mud legs was taken by the landlord's government? It's not that we haven't had that kind of hard life, when farmers can catch up with the present leisure! The sea harrier kicked the subordinate over, and the man hurriedly knelt down and begged for mercy, and Sanyuan also pulled the sea harrier to intercede for him, so as to save the man's life.

Off the coast of Guangzhou, the destroyer Guangzhou and the freighter Qingtian had just left Huizhou Port and received a telegram from Zhanjiang that a gang of pirates had robbed the peasant households in the Yangjiang area and had escaped.