In the middle of the night on the first day of April, the moon was dark and the wind was high in the Taiwan Strait, and the waves crashed on the flagship "Keelung" one after another. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The sea was rough, and Yun Lan sat in the command cabin of the "Keelung", and his body automatically rose and fell with the rise and fall of the "Keelung".

The doors and windows of the command cabin were all closed, and the kerosene ship lamps hanging in the room were like a pendulum, swaying back and forth from left to right.

"Xiamen is a springboard into Taiwan and Fujian, and Fuzhou is the gateway to Fujian. As the saying goes, it's hard to get started! After reading the message, Yunlan's mood was the same as the light and shadow in the cabin, constantly changing and circling, dancing and dancing.

"As long as Xiamen is captured tomorrow and Wang Yide is captured alive, it will be like "capturing the thief and capturing the king first", the enemy's military morale will inevitably be depressed, and our morale will inevitably rise, and Fujian's next things will be easy to do. ”

"Wang Yide...~ It doesn't matter if he runs away!"

Wang Tiezhu smiled contemptuously, "Fujian is the first stop to enter the mainland, we must be prepared to meet demons and subdue demons, kill gods when we meet gods, and see immortals and punish immortals!" ”

"No! Inappropriate! Inappropriate! ”

Yunlan shook his head again and again, "If Fujian is disrupted and broken, you can go to Guangdong by patting your ass." I'm miserable, I have to rebuild here slowly! ”

In order to enter the mainland and attack Fujian and Guangdong, the Executive Committee made careful arrangements in advance, prepared a large number of personnel and materials, and the most important organizational preparations and planned deployments.

Yunlan is the secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee of the Baaxing Party, the governor of Fujian, and the first political commissar of the Fujian Provincial Armed Police Corps.

The newly formed Fujian Armed Police Corps is about 10,000 people, with Guo Zhongluo as commander and political commissar.

Fujian has a total of 9 prefectures: Fuzhou, Funing, Jianning, Shaowu, Yanping, Tingzhou, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, and Xinghua, and each prefecture has an armed police brigade.

There are a total of 58 counties in Fujian in this time and space, and each county is arranged to station a county squadron of 120 people.

The People's Armed Police Force is a law and order maintenance force, and the Yulin Army is responsible for large-scale operations.

At the beginning of this year, the Yulin Army was also expanded to one corps, four brigades, and eight regiments.

The first brigade was stationed in eastern Zhejiang, and Ban Xue and Wu Shimang were the military and political chiefs; The Second Brigade defended Taiwan, with Longshan Leopard and Zhang Yiba as military and political officers; The Third Brigade Kohler, McClain, and the Fourth Brigade Tan Huan and Qiu Feng were responsible for marching into Fujian and Guangdong.

The military and political officers of each brigade shall be officers of the deputy division level, all with the rank of brigadier general; The deputy rank is the rank of regimental officer, with the rank of colonel.

In the executive committee, some people proposed that the experience of TG and Maozi should be used as a reference to establish the rank of colonel.

This proposal was vetoed by Wang Tiezhu.

"Whatever song is sung on which mountain, there are only 3,000 people in a Manchu association, and the officer with a big fart is an adjutant general; There are five or six thousand people in a brigade of our Yulin Army, and it's embarrassing to go out if the rank is too low, right! ”

At this time, the Ming warship formation was spreading all its sails and advancing towards Xiamen at full speed.

Zhang Dabao, deputy commander of the Coast Guard, and Hua Renzhe, captain and political commissar of the Taipei Brigade of the Coast Guard, took six sail coast guard ships as the vanguard, and took the lead in the front of the formation.

The second echelon is the four naval warships headed by the "Keelung", which is the strongest combat power of the formation.

The third echelon is a fleet of ships transporting personnel and materials, consisting of 100 two-masted and three-masted sailing ships, loaded with two brigades of Yulin Army and 10,000 armed police, as well as all kinds of materials and equipment.

The rear guard is six sail coast guard ships of the Tainan Brigade, commanded by Jiang Li, commander of the coast guard, and Wang Xiao, captain and political commissar of the Tainan Brigade of the coast guard.

The coast guard fleet, which is the vanguard and rearguard, is all equipped with a battalion of marines.

Because of the need to accommodate the speed of the transport fleet, the formation did not start the machine power, but only relied on the power of the sails to break the waves at a speed of 8 knots per hour.

In the command cabin of the "Keelung" ship, the hands of the ship's clock fixed on the wall were already pointing to eleven o'clock.

"Let's go! Go to the sleeping pod and hurry up and take a break, there are still six hours to reach Xiamen. Wang Tiehammer stood up and twisted the wick of the kerosene ship lamp to the minimum, and the originally bright light suddenly became dim and faint.

Opening the hatch and looking at the starry sky, Wang Tiezhu sighed, "Tomorrow things are complicated, and there may not be so much time for you to sleep." ”

Yunlan shook his head, "The boat is rocking around, and it can only be a simple nap!" ”

The formation had entered a state of readiness for battle, and all ships were subject to strict light control, with only the faint glow of the navigation signal lights.

Bags of sand had been brought up from the bilges of the various ships, neatly stacked and bundled around their bridges and gun emplacements.

All inconsequential objects on the deck of the ship, including sail cables and rigging that were useless in combat conditions, were completely removed and retracted, and the masts were tied and tightened with thin wire ropes.

Except for the officers on duty, all the officers and men lay on their beds in their clothes, and seized the last moment before the battle to rest.

The Yulin Army and the armed police units on the transport fleet were also holding steel guns in their arms, silently sitting in the bilge and napping, waiting for the battle order.

At five o'clock in the morning, the Ming army's maritime formation smoothly entered Liaoluo Bay on Kinmen Island.

The surrounding area of the Kinmen Islands is offshore, and the wind and waves are relatively gentle.

The officers and men of the Yulin Army and the Armed Police Force breathed a sigh of relief, "It's finally calm!" ”

They went out to sea with the boat for exercise, and they also had more than half a year, and they experienced the test of strong winds and waves several times at sea, and most people were used to the bumps of the wind and waves, but the feeling of seasickness was always not so comfortable.

The command of the formation issued an order, and all ships seized the time to organize personnel to rest and recuperate, replenish energy, and recover their strength as soon as possible.

According to the advance plan, Zhang Dabao, deputy commander of the coast guard, led six coast guard ships in the first echelon to the west side of Liaoluo Bay and cruised on the sea south of Xiaojinmen.

Under the starry sky, Little Kinmen Island lies dark and horizontal on the sea.

The Little Golden Gate, like the Great Golden Gate, is also a desert where people go to the island, the water source is destroyed, and it is desolate, only a few wild dog wails from time to time.

Not long after, the communicator came with an order from the flagship, "Deputy commander, the command orders us to immediately enter the second level of combat readiness and make all preparations before the battle!" ”

Zhang Dabao immediately ordered the ships of the first echelon to start the steam engine and enter the state of imminent battle.

The sky gradually brightened, and the sound of the "tuk tuk" of the machine motor of the Ming military ship was also heard on the quiet sea.

Yunding Rock is the main peak of Hongji Mountain on Xiamen Island. There is a sun-viewing platform at the top of it, looking around the sea, the Kinmen Islands in the East China Sea under the mountain are lined up, scattered in the periphery of Xiamen.

The viewing platform is built with a Qing army lookout.

At sunrise, a Qing military lookout looked up at the sea and suddenly found the silhouettes of many ships on the sea south of Xiaojinmen.

"Alert! Alert! ”

The wolf smoke of the alarm suddenly rose on the viewing platform.

Soon, the beacon towers around Xiamen Bay were all filled with wolf smoke.

"There's a five-star flag hanging on the mast!"

In the Yanwu Pavilion on Huli Mountain, Lin Jianyou, the commander of the Fujian Navy Division, clearly saw the red on the mast of the Ming warship through the clairvoyant mirror, "It is said to be the military flag of the Ming bandits." ”

Wang Yide, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, put down the clairvoyant mirror and felt a little flustered in his heart, "The Ming bandit is really here!" ”

"Dashuai, as long as the Ming bandit enters our pocket array, he will shed his skin if he doesn't die!" Lin Jianyou is full of confidence and command.

The Manchu artillery positions in the outer harbor of Xiamen were arranged as if they were a pocket formation.

Gulangyu Island is the bottom of the pocket, with 76 cannons; To the south, Haicheng County, Yuzai Tail is the pocket side, equipped with 30 artillery pieces; The other side of the pocket array is Huli Mountain on the south shore of Xiamen Island, here is the Xiamen South Fort that the Manchu Qing Dynasty painstakingly operated, there are also extended positions on both sides of Huli Mountain, and nearly 200 cannons are set up in the entire Huli Mountain Fort, and the artillery fire is particularly fierce.

Wang Yide sighed a little, this Ming bandit warship did not drive straight in, but only patrolled outside the small golden gate.

The fortification of Xiamen also lasted for more than half a year, and countless money and grain were spent. It's just that it has always been said that the Ming bandit ship is strong and fierce, and I don't know if this well-planned defense can block and repel it.

At this time, on the sea surface of the outer harbor of Xiamen, the horns of the Qing army's divisional ships sounded one after another.

Hearing the alarm, the warships of the Qing army in Kinmen Town, anchored in the inner harbor of Xiamen, lifted anchor one after another, urgently hoisted their sails and rushed to the sea below the South Fort.

Seeing that the Ming army was patrolling the outer islands and did not dare to enter, Zhong Baosan, the chief soldier of Kinmen Town, calmed down a lot. He ordered the drums of war to be beaten, commanded the Qing army's division ships, and lined up in a formation on the sea with great force.

In the pocket array, the Qing army had nearly 100 ships and hundreds of artillery pieces, and its combat power should not be underestimated.

Lin Jianyou pointed to the division ships under the mountain, and said with confidence, "If the Ming bandits enter the outer harbor, I will use the artillery base as a cutting board, the division ship as a kitchen knife, and the foreign fleet as the backing to gather them in a pocket formation." ”

"Lin Junmen, this Ming bandit ship is wandering outside, why didn't it rush in!"

Xingquan Coopers Daotai Wang Shu was by Wang Yide's side, he was originally a little apprehensive in his heart, but when he saw the magnificent division ship, he was suddenly full of confidence, and he couldn't wait for the Ming warship to rush into the harbor now, and start a fight with the fort and division ships to see who killed the deer.

"Lord Wang, don't be impatient, the Ming bandit is resting before the battle." Lin Jianyou said lightly, "There is no fresh water and no supplies on the Kinmen Islands, so they will inevitably go deep today." ”

After more than an hour of rest, the soldiers of the Ming army formation were full of food and drink, and they were refreshed one by one.

At about 7 o'clock in the morning, the formation command issued an order, and all ships lifted anchor and raised their sails and entered a first-class combat state.

The first echelon and the second echelon lined up in a long column, successively passing through the outer island chain of Xiamen, from the sea surface of Mufotou, into the east waterway of Xiamen.

After entering the port of Xiamen, the two echelons launched separate operations.

Zhang Dabao and Hua Renzhe took six coast guard ships and ships to the north by relying on the coastline of Xiaojinmen to attack the north waterway of Xiamen.

Wang Tiezhu commanded four naval ships and directly pressed towards the extended position on the right side of the fort on the south coast of Xiamen Island.

Seeing that the Ming bandits did not enter the pocket array, but instead divided into two ways, running all the way to the direction of Wutong, and directly hitting the outermost edge of the pocket array all the way.

Wang Shu couldn't help but slap his forehead, and almost screamed, why didn't this Ming bandit play cards according to the routine!

Wang Yide was relatively calm, "Lin Junmen, now the plan will be released!" ”

"Don't worry, everything is under control!" Lin Jianyou was very calm, "More than 20 warships in Nanao Town have long been waiting on the Wutong Ocean, and Gu Qinglian's general army will be able to defeat the Ming bandits." ”

Wang Yide nodded slowly, in the Xiamen North Channel, the experienced and veteran Gu Qinglian is in charge of defense, and there is also artillery support from Wutong Battery, it should be no big deal!

Looking at the Ming ships under the fort on the south bank, Lin Jianyou was even more confident, "There are only four bandit ships under the mountain, so I will order Kinmen Town to attack, if the enemy is defeated, I can also retreat in time to lure the Ming bandits into the pocket formation." ”

Wang Yide and Wang Shu were overjoyed, "This plan is very good!" ”