The thousands of guards, coolies, and civil officials in the castle were already frightened by the fierce shelling and the "crackling" flintlock guns, and hurriedly set up the poor eight generals' cannons, and mobilized all the manpower to move a large number of bricks and stones and timber to the city, ready to resist, but it was long before the well-equipped and fierce Dongjiang New Army launched a siege battle.

Thousands of people had no choice but to huddle on the top of the city, nervously watching and not daring to open fire, for fear of being bombarded by hundreds of powerful naval guns.

In less than half an hour, the wharf within a radius of several miles was already unrecognizable and in shambles, and thousands of soldiers and civilians in the city watched as the new troops of the Dongjiang River searched for hundreds of shipwrights on board and snatched the best boats, including five ships full of grain.

In a few moments, 200 elites dressed in silver helmets and silver armor unloaded a large number of clay pots and powder kegs from the huge ship, and the defenders and angry civil officials at the head of the city immediately realized what was going to happen, and immediately screamed in panic.

For a while, shouts, roars, and curses rang out loudly, and there was no end to them, but no one dared to fire a cannon or an arrow at the unscrupulous Dongjiang New Army on the dock.

In the direction of Ningyuan, less than 20 miles to the north, there were suddenly bursts of dense artillery sounds.

The dense defenders at the head of the city were stunned, and they all looked at each other, and several clever officers and soldiers shouted in horror, "Ningyuan has also suffered", and the guards Yao Xun and Yushi Li Gongyin were suddenly scattered, and they could not believe that the retaliation of the Dongjiang New Army was so unscrupulous and vicious, and they dared to launch artillery bombardment of Ningyuan City, an important town of the Ming Dynasty, and the south wharf of the city where 100,000 Guanning troops relied to transport food and armaments.

Before Yao Xun and Li Gongyin could recover from their intense fear, the officers and soldiers around them let out loud exclamations and curses again.

Li Gongyin's heart sank, and he hurriedly looked at the wharf half a mile away, and was shocked to see a group of Dongjiang New Army quickly boarding the huge cargo ship that had not yet left the shore, and the hundreds of ships of various kinds that the Guanning Army Naval Division had accumulated for six years. A raging fire had already been lit in the billowing smoke.

In just over three hours, the nine warships led by Zhu Daolin destroyed the waterway lifeline of the Guanning Army in one fell swoop, completely paralyzed the two strategic wharves in the north port of Juehua Island and the south of Ningyuan City, destroyed or set fire to more than 200 ships of all kinds, and all the warehouses and barracks in the north port of Juehua Island and the south wharf of Ningyuan City were razed to the ground by intensive artillery bombardment, and could not be restored for at least half a year.

Four o'clock in the afternoon. The nine warships that had completed the retaliation regrouped in the northwest waters of Juehua Island, escorted the 27 ships of various types that had been forcibly stolen, and set sail south.

Half a month ago, the Dengzhou Navy Division and the Guanning Army jointly snatched 3 Fu ships and 5 2,000 material transport ships loaded with grain and oil were placed at the forefront of the southbound fleet.

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In the evening, Yao Xun, the guard of Juehua Island, and Li Gongyin, the inspector of the imperial history, rushed to the south of Ningyuan City on a dilapidated fishing boat.

By the time the two arrived at the ruined wharf in the south of the city, a large area of warehouses and barracks on the shore was still burning.

In the face of such a tragic scene, thinking of the same encounter in the North Port of Juehua Island, Yao Xun and Li Gongyin, who were full of fear and grief, couldn't help but cry bitterly. Finally landed from the north side of the muddy wharf, and stumbled into the heavily guarded Ningyuan City Gate with the help of several guards, only to find that the city was already rumored and chaotic.

Ningyuan's generals at all levels and bureaucrats of all sizes gathered in the general's mansion in the city, and when they saw Li Gongyin and Yao Xun, who were covered in mud and red and swollen eyes, they hurriedly greeted them, and eagerly asked how the loss of Juehua Island was?

After listening to Li Gongyin's cry with tears on his face, everyone beat their chests and stomped their feet and scolded, except for Wu Xiang, the general soldier of Ningyuan, who was sitting on the main seat, his face sank like water. Without saying a word, his son Wu Sangui, who was standing behind him, gritted his teeth. The eyes are red.

In the evening, a five-foot-long complaint was sent to the capital overnight, with a five-foot-long complaint severely condemning the heinous crime of Zhu Daolin, the chief military officer of Dongjiang Town, and asking the emperor and the imperial court to punish him for the crime of rebellion and severely punish him.

The complaint exaggerated the tragic scene after being bombarded by naval artillery exponentially, and the words were full of blood and tears. "More than 10 giant ships carrying hundreds of huge cannons continued to shell for an hour, resulting in the destruction of Juehua North Port and Ningyuan Chengnan Wharf", "The fire within a radius of 10 miles was raging like hell on earth", "The bones of hundreds of officers and soldiers were gone, and the cries of tens of millions of soldiers and civilians shook the sky" and so on.

Zhu Daolin, who was called by Ning Yuan Wenwu as a "heinous thug" and "the first chaotic minister and thief of this dynasty", was in an extremely comfortable mood at the moment, and the fleet composed of dozens of ships of various kinds was not slow under the bright moonlight. Leisurely sailed to Dagu Harbor and continued to attack the ships of the Guanning Army Navy Division and all the ships flying the flag of the Dengzhou Navy Division that had escaped the net.

In the early morning of 30 May, nine warships of the North Sea Fleet besieged Tanggu Harbor, used a salvo of naval guns and thousands of flintlock pistols to scare away all the soldiers and civilians in the port, snatched seven ships of more than 100 tons flying the flags of the Guanning Army and the Dengzhou Naval Division, and linked the remaining 30 or so military transport ships and offshore patrol ships together, set them on fire, and then flew away.

On the afternoon of the second day of the first month of June, the murderous retaliatory fleet sank six patrol warships of the Dengzhou Navy Division in succession, and then carried 38 stolen ships to blockade the port of Dengzhou.

Under the leadership of Xu Wentao, commander of the North Sea Fleet, and Hu An, minister of military orders, the five main warships slowly advanced and unscrupulously launched a half-hour intensive artillery bombardment on the Dengzhou Naval Division warships that had fled into the water city in a hurry to take refuge.

After a lapse of half a year, it once again destroyed the two newly built batteries in the north of Dengzhou Water City, and then raised the gun muzzle and extended the shelling to the water city in depth.

Four 300-ton fast warships carrying more than 1,200 marines rushed to the pier, and under the cover of intensive artillery fire, they landed easily, and with a single charge, they smashed into the red-lit and devastated Dengzhou Water City, snatched four brand-new 3,500-material warships again with unstoppable absolute force, and then burned down all the remaining more than 80 ships of various types and the newly built shipyard on the west bank of the water city, and then calmly evacuated in a hurry.

With the vigorous support of Zhu Dadian, the governor of Shandong, and the government at all levels, after half a year of hard work and huge investment, he finally recovered a little vitality, but because he was involved in the struggle between the two major forces, he was brutally retaliated, and was interrupted again before he could regain his backbone, and completely lost the opportunity and courage to rise again.

Zhu Daolin's barbaric and cruel revenge, as well as the destruction of the Guanning Army Naval Division and the Dengzhou Naval Division, shocked the Ming Dynasty and the opposition, and Zhu Daolin's notoriety and the strong combat power of the Dongjiang Town Naval Division completely shocked the major forces of the government and the opposition.

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