Chapter Ninety-Eight: Landing
So after thinking about it again and again, Chongzhen finally agreed to Xiong Wencan's request, and agreed to temporarily hand over the area in front of Fushan to Yu Xiaotian's Fujian soldiers as a base, and allowed his boat division to use Jiaozhou Bay as a temporary military port in the north for their boat division to berth and dock, and allowed them to build wharves and trestle bridges and other wharf facilities there.
These things are finally not slow, before Xiaotian led his troops to Jiaozhou Bay, the imperial court approved it, but this is only a written confirmation of the imperial court, in fact, since last year, the Seawolf Group has purchased a large amount of land in the area of Fushan Qian, built a large walled fort, and built a temporary pier trestle bridge by the sea for ships to berth.
It's just that this matter used to operate in secret, and the local government turned a blind eye and didn't care, but now let the court make it clear, which is also equivalent to officially legalizing this matter, making it more convenient, more reasonable, and more unscrupulous for Yu Xiaotian to act here in the future.
Therefore, when Yu Xiaotian led the fleet of the boat division to Jiaozhou Bay, the Fushan Front Station had already made preparations for the defense, and the advance personnel were already here to meet the sea wolf's boat division.
In fact, Fushan Institute is the location of Qingdao City in later generations, close to the Olympic Sports Center in later generations, but in this era, this area is still a rough land, and the population is quite sparse.
The land purchased by the sea wolf advance personnel is also a piece of land designated by Yu Xiaotian, which is the famous Qingdao port area in later generations, which is just in the northeast corner of Jiaozhou Bay, and now in the location of Qingdao Port in the future, the advance personnel have built a simple temporary wharf on the shore as early as last winter, and built two trestle bridges into the sea.
During this time, Yu Xiaotian was ordered to go north, and the advance personnel here did not have time to build more trestle bridges for the sea wolf's boatmen to berth and unload personnel and materials, so they simply spent a lot of money in the local area, acquired a large number of small boats, and used these small fishing boats to directly row up, in the sea water, rammed into wooden piles, fixed the fishing boats, laid logs or thick planks on the fishing boats, and went deep into the sea water, becoming a temporary floating trestle, which can be used for several boats to berth and unload at the same time.
In short, although the conditions here are very poor, but Qingdao Port itself is a natural harbor, even if there is no trimming, it is enough for thousands of large ships to berth without any problem, and in later generations, it can even berth the world's largest 300,000-ton giant freighter, and now in Xiaotian's hand, at best, the largest ship displacement is only 1,000 tons, at most about 800 tons, stuffed here 1,800, like a play.
It's just that the unloading conditions here are far less than those on the side of Waitou Bay, after all, the infrastructure here is too weak, and there are only a few simple temporary trestles and floating trestles for ships to berth and unload.
Therefore, whether it is the unloading of personnel or materials, they have been greatly restricted, and the soldiers and generals on these ships have been floating on the sea for more than a month, almost two months, and they have been screaming in a hurry for a long time, seeing that the destination has arrived, of course, they all want to go down to the shore and step on the solid ground.
Therefore, in the fleet of Xiaotianling, the ships loaded with goods and mules and horses were unloaded using the trestle, and the rest of the personnel used the sampan carried by the ship, and after being stationed nearby, they directly unloaded the personnel to the shore with the sampan.
For a time, there was a scene of masts like a forest and boats like walls on the sea around Fushan, and more than 100 sampans were lowered from the boats at the same time, and a large number of soldiers shouted trumpets, rowed oars excitedly, and rushed towards the shore.
Such a large-scale fleet, suddenly appeared in Jiaozhou Bay, is undoubtedly quite shocking, although there are also sailors in the north, and there are also many fishing boats, but compared with these big boats from the south, it is nothing, Dengzhou Navy Division and Dongjiang Army Navy Division, two hundred warships, even if they are behemoths, but those ships, now placed next to these Fujian Navy ships, have become small, not enough to see.
Many people here are the first time to see such a big ship in their lives, and this time there are so many at the same time, which is really shocking, many people stand on the shore, looking at the fleet of Fujian sailors on the sea from a distance, their jaws drop to the ground, and if the eyeballs are not blocked by eyelids, it is estimated that even the eyeballs will roll to the ground.
So many people couldn't help but gasp, and they were amazed, obediently! How did such a big ship be built? How can it be built so big? And that's more, how much silver would it cost to build so many big ships!
Gee! This Fujian man is really rich! This sailor pulled out a boat casually, and there were a lot of boats on top of the Dengzhou sailor! I just don't know how this Fujian soldier compares to the Qi family army of Qi Dashuai back then, if they can be the same as Qi Dashuai's Qi family army back then, then the rebels can look at it!
In short, the people who gathered around the beach to watch the excitement were talking about it, saying anything, and most of them still had a certain skeptical attitude towards the Fujian soldiers and horses who came to Laizhou this time, but they still felt very powerful about this Fujian sailor, at least much stronger than the sailor in the north here.
Yu Xiaotian's ship was of course the first batch of ships to berth, and the advance personnel who were in charge here had already changed into the clothes and armor of the Ming army or official uniforms, and stood on the dock to greet Yu Xiaotian.
When Yu Xiaotian got on the boat, he tacitly calculated the time, and now it is the beginning of May, although he can occasionally receive some news about Denglai when he docks on the way, but on the whole, it is far from the detailed information obtained when he was in Fujian, but this is also a matter of no way, the current means of communication are too backward, there is no wireless telegraphy, so the fastest way to transmit news is to use carrier pigeons.
However, the carrier pigeon has considerable limitations in transmitting the message, and the carrier pigeon can not obtain new news at sea in time, so it can only unilaterally release the carrier pigeon and transmit the message to the outside world.
Therefore, along the way, he did not know much about the changes in the situation on the Denglai side in the past two months, so after he got off the ship, he did not even have time to check the preparations for receiving troops here, so he immediately asked the person in charge here about the changes in the situation here.
"General Qiyu! In the past two months, the rebels have gathered heavy forces and begun to besiege the city of Laizhou! The new governor of Shandong, Xu Congzhi, personally sat in Laizhou City to defend Laizhou City, the rebels repeatedly attacked, transported Hongyi cannons from Dengzhou to Laizhou City, set up Hongyi cannons to attack the city, just more than half a month ago, was injured by the bricks and stones of the rebel cannons, and now can not see things, Laizhou City is now led by Zhu Wannian Zhu and Xie to defend Laizhou City!
At present, the news that Lord Xu is injured and cannot take care of things has spread to the Beijing Division, and it is said that the Beijing Division has sent Zhu Dadian, the former deputy envoy of Fujian, to take over the post of governor of Shandong, and to put down the rebellion! And it is said that at present, Lord Zhu has been traveling day and night, rushing to Qingzhou Mansion to sit down, but he has not yet arrived at Qingzhou Mansion, and has not yet received news!
However, the imperial court has already sent someone to send a holy decree, so that after the general led his troops to arrive here, he immediately led his troops to Pingdu Prefecture first, attacked Pingdu Prefecture, first opened the passage from the south road of the official army to Laizhou City, and defeated the rebels operating in Jiaozhou and Pingdu Prefecture! For specific things, I haven't received any update yet! "The subordinate of Yu Xiaotian, who is in charge here, immediately reported to Yu Xiaotian about the recent changes in the situation here.
Yu Xiaotian got off the boat, and before he had time to adapt to the solid ground under his feet, his mind immediately turned sharply, for the Denglai Rebellion, he had seen some historical materials before, and he still knew quite well about the development of this history, and he could roughly grasp the rebels and the changes in the situation in the Denglai area.
As for Xu Congzhi, he also knows a little, Xu Congzhi is a relatively capable official, he was ordered to replace Yu Dacheng in danger, became the governor of Shandong, and was ordered to lead the army to Laizhou to suppress the rebels.
However, the court has been drifting on the question of whether it should be appeased or suppressed, and for several months, it has not been able to make up its mind completely.
As a result, the morale of the army was sluggish, and the generals were unwilling to fight to the death, so that the commander suffered a series of military defeats, and in the face of the rebels' attacks, he lost a large number of officers and soldiers.
This also directly led Xu Congzhi to Laizhou City, soon there were no soldiers available, a large number of officers and troops were defeated by the rebels, and there were no reinforcements, even if they were transferred from afar, they were also far away to wait and see the situation, but they refused to enter the army, which made Xu Congzhi, Zhu Wannian and other officials could only organize the defenders of Laizhou City and the soldiers and civilians inside and outside the city, cage the city to defend to the death, but they were unable to launch any form of attack on the rebels.
Now the rebels, under the leadership of Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng, have realized that if they want to expand the results of the war and gain greater weight, then the only way to go west, take Laizhou City, control the entire Denglai in their hands, and then continue to attack the hinterland of Shandong, if they can take down the whole of Shandong, even if they only take half or more of the ground in Shandong, then they can also have the qualification to compete with the current Ming court.
Therefore, after March, Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng mobilized a large number of rebels, and after taking Pingdu Prefecture and Zhaoyuan, they then took Laiyang and Wendeng, began to assemble rebels, and arrived at Laizhou City, launching a long siege of Laizhou City.
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