The blue space-time gate emitted a dreamlike light, and the people on the ship only felt a few seconds of froze, and at once they crossed the distance of more than one hundred and fifty years of time and space, and entered the vast white sea of fog.

"Sail in the fog deployed! Stop the car! Bai Qijian immediately sounded the alarm bell.

In the early morning of January 11, 1856, the Bai Qi ship anchored in the misty Jintang Waterway, and the Jintang Island and Daxie Island on both sides loomed in the curling white veil.

Without waiting for his eyes to adjust to the scene in front of him, a mechanical voice sounded from the space-time box in Fan Hua's hand, "The energy consumption of this machine has been completed, and now it has entered an indefinite dormant state." ”

After a burst of "ding ding dong" alarm sound, the space-time box became silent.

"The wormhole is gone, and the space-time gate is completely closed!" Fan Hua was happy in his heart, he could finally engage in sanitation work quietly, and no longer have to run around with metal boxes all day long.

At this time, the sound of "booming" cannons and "bang-bang" gunshots were heard not far away.

The sea of fog is vast, and nothing can be seen, as if there are guns in the southeast, northwest, and north, Li Yang couldn't help blurting out, "Could it be that the relevant departments pursued it to a different time and space?" ”

"Don't worry!" Wang Tiezhu smiled, "This is our Eastern Zhejiang Military Region showing force at the Yongjiang Estuary, welcoming Bai Qijian to the new world!" ”

It didn't take long for the radar screen to show that a shallow dot was coming from the direction of Jiufeng Mountain Bay, at a speed of about one knot.

"Dangdang! Dangdang! Dangdang ......"

Breaking through the misty morning fog, the Haijing 1001 ship continued to ring the fog bell and came straight to the direction of Hengshui Ocean along the Jintang waterway.

The team actively strengthened the maritime power of eastern Zhejiang, and gave the eastern Zhejiang Coast Guard brigade 20 newly manufactured wooden sailboats. This 1001 ship is one of them. After the original old-fashioned coast guard ships in eastern Zhejiang were refurbished, they were all sold to the Taiping Army.

This type of sailboat adopts a streamlined Western-style hull, three Chinese hard sails, and a 75 hp two-expansion engine at the stern, which can reach a top speed of 14 knots. This is specially designed by the Planning Institute of the Ministry of Industry and produced by Huafu Foreign Company Shanghai Shipyard, which is specially designed for maritime security tasks.

It was only on this misty sea that the 1001 ship turned off the second expander, raised only one sail, struck the fog bell, and slowly sailed forward.

The fog bell is not struck to tell the time, but to show the presence so that collisions in the fog do not occur.

15 chains ahead, a gray-white behemoth loomed in the mist. A look of surprise flashed in the eyes of the 1001 bow lookout, "Report to the captain, a big guy has been found ahead!" ”

Wang Wenli, captain of the East Zhejiang Coast Guard Brigade, personally operated the ship and carefully approached the white ship.

You Nanzhe took more than 20 soldiers out of the cabin of the coast guard ship, carrying two mortars, four heavy machine guns, ten Lin Youde revolvers ~ pistols, ten M16A4 rifles, one hundred M1873 rifles and a large number of ammunition, and boarded the Baiqi ship together.

They were the new force of the guns department of the White Ship. With this batch of weapons and ammunition, the Bai Qi ship can sail to Keelung, Taiwan, safely and unhindered.

"Anchor!"

"Two cars into one!"

Haiying Yang kept giving orders, and the white ship started slowly and disappeared into the white channel.

"This is also our Ming warship, so tall and mighty!" Chen Xihong, the herald of the 1001 ship, looked envious, "If only I could work on this ship for a few days......

"Enlightenment, enlightenment! Revolutionary soldiers are a brick, where China needs to move! ”

Wang Wenli knocked Chen Xihong hard, and then gave an order, turned the bow of the boat, and went straight to the mouth of the Yongjiang River.

The sound of guns and artillery at the mouth of the Yongjiang River is still very intense, Zhaobao Mountain and Jinji Mountain have been occupied by the Ming Army's military engineering team, and the 10 warships of the Coast Guard have broken through to Zhenhai City to encircle and suppress the Zhenhai Division and Battalion.

The Zhenhai Division Battalion, which was formed by Man Qingqing, with a total of 15 warships and 2,000 war auxiliaries, was transferred from Wusongkou in Shanghai to Zhenhai City only a month ago.

Since the end of 1854, the Ming Army's military engineering team retreated into the countryside, the East Zhejiang Coast Guard Brigade retreated to Dinghai, and Lin Shenhe led the two battalions of the Manchu Jiaxing Association to take advantage of the situation to enter Zhenhai.

Although the Qing court did not forget to recover Dinghai, it was just that Lin Shenhe's hands were all land soldiers and horses, and he couldn't cross the sea. The sailors who could be fought by the Manchu Qing Dynasty were all fighting fiercely with the Taiping army on the Yangtze River, and they couldn't get out of the way for a while. On the eastern border of Zhejiang, the Qing army and the Ming army reached a superficial balance.

But in 1855, a lot changed in eastern Zhejiang.

After the liberation of Taiwan, the Executive Committee arranged for the organs of the Yangtze River Bureau to be relocated from Shanghai to Dinghai, and the East Zhejiang Military Region was also handed over to the leadership of the Yangtze River Bureau, and Gu Wusheng concurrently served as the political commissar of the East Zhejiang Military Region.

The Yangtze River Bureau has a huge industrial industry in Shanghai, and on the surface there are troops of the East Zhejiang Military Region, and secretly there are Lin Shenhe's men and horses, who have money, guns, and people, and their strength has greatly increased.

Through the relationship between Lin Shenhe, Hu Xueyan and Wu Jianzhang, Gu Wusheng opened up the joints of Zhejiang and Shanghai, and organized the establishment of Zhedong Commercial Bank.

Zhedong Commercial Bank has jurisdiction over Zhedong Supply and Marketing Cooperatives, Zhedong Agricultural Cooperatives, Zhedong Credit Cooperatives, and Zhedong Transportation Cooperatives, and has strongly intervened in the production, transportation, circulation, and service fields of the vast rural areas in Zhedong.

The Eastern Zhejiang Military Region has also been expanded into six military sub-districts, Zhoushan, Ningbo, Shaoxing, Hangzhou, Jiaxing, and Shanghai, each of which has an independent regiment under its jurisdiction, as well as a large number of militia joint defense units, which firmly control a large number of villages on both sides of Hangzhou Bay and between Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Ningbo.

The comprehensive penetration of the Ming Dynasty in the rural areas of eastern Zhejiang caused a serious panic among the local gentry.

The gentry were the feudal privileged class of the Qing Dynasty, including Zhishi officials, Ding Wei officials, as well as resignation and life-long pensions, alternate officials, meritorious scholars, etc., the gentry controlled a large amount of land, controlled the local economy, and were an important pillar of local governance in the Manchu Dynasty.

Many local gentry were dissatisfied with the threat to the political and economic status of their families, and submitted letters to Beijing and Hangzhou, complaining that the army had infiltrated and controlled the entire countryside in eastern Zhejiang, and that the control of the Manchu Qing Dynasty had existed in name only.

The Manchu court was shocked and asked Zhejiang to investigate as soon as possible.

Governor He Guiqing and political envoy Wang Youling and other officials jointly signed a letter, insisting that there was no substantiated evidence, and the cause was all because of the panic caused by the Ming army's rebellion in Dinghai.

Because the Taiping army invaded Zhejiang from Jiangxi, Deng Shaoliang, the governor stationed in western Zhejiang, was first defeated in Kaihua, and then died in Sui'an. Zhejiang had to urgently dispatch the general army of Dinghai Lin Shenhe to rush to the aid of the starry night. Lin Shenhe drove out the Taiping army and was promoted to acting governor of Zhejiang, stationed in the western part of Zhejiang, but the eastern coastal area of Zhejiang was empty, and the people were uneasy, which often caused speculation and panic.

He Guiqing, the governor of Zhejiang, and others strongly demanded that the Qing court immediately dispatch naval ships to Zhenhai, first, to protect the territory and the people, and to protect the supply of money and grain to the camp in the south of the Yangtze River; The second is to wait for the opportunity to cross the sea to clear the sea and completely eliminate the hidden dangers in eastern Zhejiang.

He Guiqing actually noticed all kinds of abnormalities in the countryside of eastern Zhejiang, but the Zhedong Commercial Bank involved many officials in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, including himself, including Lin Shenhe, the chief soldier of Dinghai, as well as British, French, American and other nationals, all of whom had shares.

In addition, Zhedong Commercial Bank has already become a climate, and the local money and grain taxes in eastern Zhejiang are handled by Zhedong Commercial Bank on behalf of ~, and Zhejiang's monthly supply of money and grain to Jiangnan Daying is also handled by Zhedong Commercial Bank. In the face of such a situation, he threw a mouse bogey, did not dare to start, he could only comfort himself, the war ahead was tight, and Zhejiang must not be chaotic.

The Qing court was skeptical, but finally believed the words of the Zhejiang officials, and in November 1855 urgently dispatched the Wusong Naval Division to Zhenhai.

The Manchus believed that the key to victory or defeat in the battle with the Taiping army and the Ming army was mainly the control of the Yangtze River and the control of the sea. The red single boats transferred by the Qing court from Guangdong were all lost in Dinghai, and Shi Dakai got four red single boats from Huafu Foreign Company, and beat Zeng Guofan to the ground, and fled back to Nanchang in a hurry. Therefore, the Manchu Qing Dynasty desperately wanted to regain a number of excellent warships to choke the river, suppress it from all sides, and save the situation.

In 1855, Huafu Yangxing Shipyard produced dozens of 150-ton old lock ships through standardized shipbuilding and assembly line operations. The tonnage and shape of these ships are relatively close to the coast guard ships secretly built by the shipyard, but they belong to the civilian transport type, and the power of the ships is only three sails.

The Qing court bought all of them if they had obtained a treasure. Fifteen of them were assigned to the Wusong Naval Division, and the rest were assigned to the Tongzhou Naval Division, the Sanjiang Naval Division, and the Chuansha Naval Division.

Huang Dengke, the deputy general of the Qing army, also trained sailors in Wusongkou for more than half a year, and under his command, fifteen excellent warships were also regarded as handy.

At the beginning of December 1855, Huang Dengke led 2,000 sailors to enter Zhenhai and rebuild the Zhenhai division camp.

In the past month, he relied on the Zhaobaoshan and Jinjishan forts to choke the mouth of the river, commanded warships to patrol the mouth of the Yongjiang River almost every day, and went around the sea to suppress the scattered ships of the Ming army, preventing the merchants and people of eastern Zhejiang from going to Dinghai by boat, or immediately retreating into the Yongjiang River if the war was unfavorable.

Gu Wusheng believes that the actions of the Zhenhai Naval Division Camp have seriously blocked the trade routes and affected the maritime trade in eastern Zhejiang. If it takes a long time, it will also shake the confidence of the people in eastern Zhejiang in the Ming Dynasty.

The Meteorological Observatory had long predicted heavy fog at sea on January 11. The Executive Committee decided to take full advantage of this favourable weather.

Early this morning, taking advantage of the heavy fog, the coast guard ship formation opened fire at the mouth of the Yongjiang River, attracting the fire of the Zhaobaoshan Fort and the Jinjishan Fort.

Although the cannon at the mouth of the Yongjiang River rumbled, Huang Dengke did not dare to attack rashly due to the heavy fog and fog, but only ordered the fort to hold it carefully. But he didn't expect that several martial arts teams of the Ming army would launch a surprise attack from the land, touching the Zhaobaoshan Fort and Jinjishan Fort from behind.

Hearing the report of his subordinates that the forts on both sides of the strait had been lost, and the Ming warships were approaching the naval battalion, Huang Dengke's heart was cold.

The fog on the river is vast, and the Ming warships are looming, but the cannon is rumbling, and the landing point is already approaching the naval camp.

"Hit!" Huang Dengke knew that something was wrong, and the sailor battalion had reached the threshold of life and death, "Knock down the bandit ship for me, our artillery is not vegetarian!" ”

"Boom Boom~"

The six-pounder, four-pounder, and two-pounder foreign cannons purchased by the Qing army, as well as self-made camp cannons, mountain-splitting cannons, and even bird guns and carrying guns, desperately blasted towards the mouth of the river, setting off countless arcs and splashes on the river.

The Ming Coast Guard ship has two fixed gun emplacements on the front and rear decks, rotating gun mounts, and two M1841 twelve-pounder guns are installed.

The twelve-pounder all-steel smoothbore gun, with a caliber of 4.62 inches and a barrel length of 78.0 inches, far exceeded the range of the guns equipped by the Qing army's division ships, and there was no problem in crushing the Qing army's division ships.

"Put!"

"Put!"

……

"Boom! Bang! Ten shells successively drew ten graceful arcs on the river.

Several shells fell into the river, and two shells whizzed and hit the deck and side of a Qing division ship. In the rumbling explosion, uncontrolled sea water gushed into the cabin, and the division ship instantly capsized into the river.

The Qing troops on this boat did not have time to escape and shouted, and they were immediately detained and pressed to the bottom of the river.