Tens of thousands of officers and soldiers and more than 30,000 rebels formed a new confrontation inside and outside Dengzhou City, and after Yu Xiaotian arrived in Dengzhou City, he immediately sent an order to Liu Wei, Wu Shengtian and others in Xishan Village, ordering them to immediately seize the territory of Muping County, Ninghai Prefecture, Qishansuo in the south of Zhifu Bay on Zhifu Island, and annihilate the rebels of Qishansuo in one fell swoop.

The reason why Yu Xiaotian wanted to send the advance team of soldiers and horses from Xishan Village at this time to take Qishan Institute was very simple, that is, to obtain a good port here.

Although Liu Hehe and others are currently in charge of Yangma Island, Yangma Island is not suitable for use as a port, and large ships lack good docking conditions there, and Yu Xiaotian has already made up his mind in the next step, not allowing Kong Youde to lead his troops to escape to Dongjiang Town by sea, and finally surrender to Jiannu, and serve as a dog leg for Jiannu in the future.

Therefore, he will next launch an operation at sea, cooperate with the land offensive, and completely annihilate the rebels in the city of Dengzhou, so that they cannot escape.

But to carry out a large-scale naval military operation here, it is necessary to have a good harbor for his ships to be stationed and replenished in peacetime, and he also knows very well that the next attack on Dengzhou City may not be too simple, because Dengzhou City has been built by the Ming Dynasty and the imperial court of previous dynasties, and it is a strong city.

Such a fortified city, with twenty or thirty thousand rebels stationed in the city, if you want to break through, it will not happen overnight, and it will be a long and protracted war, and for his Yu army, it will consume a lot of ammunition and materials.

He can force Zhu Dadian to find a way for him, but when it comes to ammunition, Zhu Dadian is powerless, just because Yu Xiaotian's weapons are too advanced, and Daming can't supplement him with suitable ammunition at all, so he can only provide him with some raw materials and some inferior gunpowder, which can't meet the next high-intensity battle.

In the previous battle, the ammunition consumption of the Yu family army was already quite large, but the supply had to rely on the baggage battalion to transfer it from Fushan, hundreds of miles away, to the front of the army.

In this way, land transportation is very expensive, and there is a greater risk, which is far less convenient than sea transportation and supply.

Therefore, now that he has arrived in Dengzhou City, he must obtain a good port nearby to serve as a transit base for supplies.

And the best port in this area is undoubtedly the Yantai Port of the later generations, which is now called Zhifu Bay, that Qishan is the place where Yantai City is located in the later generations, and is now controlled by the rebels.

After Wu Shengtian received the order, he did not dare to slack off, and immediately summoned the advance team of Xishan Village, and with the cooperation of the navy, took several large sand boats and rushed to Zhifu Bay.

Then they landed directly on the north shore of Qishansuo, and pounced on the Qishansuo city there, and the rebels who guarded Qishansuo were a thousand generals, with hundreds of miscellaneous soldiers, facing the Yu family army armed to the teeth, there was no ability to parry at all, it could almost be said to be a charge, and the Qishan city was broken, and the Yujia army immediately controlled the Qishan city.

Then Wu Shengtian sent troops to sweep through the area of Zhifu Island, annihilating or driving away all the scattered rebels and some bandits and Xiangma in this area, and controlled the entire Zhifu Bay in the hands of Yu's army.

According to Yu Xiaotian's instructions, the ships on the side of Fushan immediately began to enter Zhifu Bay, and transferred a large number of ammunition and materials for Yu's army.

After several months of combat operations, Yu Jiajun's weapons consumption was also very large, and some wolf tooth rifles had been rifled bald, and the barrels had to be replaced in order to continue to maintain combat performance.

The capture of Zhifu Bay saved Yu Xiaotian a lot of manpower and material resources, so that they could be replenished within a hundred miles.

After capturing Qishansuo, Yu Xiaotiantong guò Zhu Dadian, nominally took over Qishansuo, which is equivalent to actually publicly controlling Zhifu Island and Zhifu Bay.

It turned out that the soldiers of the advance team of Xishan Village changed their bodies at this time, changed into the clothes of the official army, and instantly changed their appearance and became a genuine official army, directly subordinate to the Fujian soldiers and horses.

Zhu Dadian didn't know that these people and horses who suddenly appeared in Qishansuo were actually the people and horses sent by Yu Xiaotian as early as last year, and they had been staying in the area of Yangma Island in the north of Muping County as a regimental training villager, and he thought that Yu Xiaotian had specially transferred a batch of reinforcements from Fujian in order to help him quell the rebels, and he was very grateful to Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian asked to take over the defense of Qishan and the area around Zhifu Island, saying that he wanted to supply ammunition and materials by sea through Guò, how could Zhu Dadian not agree to this request, so with a wave of his hand, the area around Zhifu Bay changed his surname to Yu.

Since this piece of meat is eaten by Yu Xiaotian, it is impossible to let him spit it out again, although it is the period of Xiaoice River at the moment, most of the Bohai Bay will be frozen in winter, but Zhifu Bay is leeward and sunny, although the sea water in the bay will also freeze, but the thickness of the ice is not large, the impact on the ship is not very large, if you force the sea, take some risks, even in winter, you can still go to sea from here.

The Dengzhou rebels, when they were finally defeated and fled in history, were also in the coldest time in winter, and fled by boat from Dengzhou Shuicheng from December to February, and finally led more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, wrapped up a lot of Dengzhou craftsmen, defected to Jiannu, and became one of the three Shun kings in later generations, and one of the biggest traitors in history.

Therefore, although the Bohai Bay is very cold in winter, it is not completely navigable, Yu Xiaotian two years in advance, he sent people to inspect the winter ice of Bohai Bay in the winter, so he knows this very well, although he does not want to interfere too much in the affairs of the Ming Dynasty now, but he is still very unhappy with the matter of letting Kong Youde lead his troops to join Jiannu, and finally decided to rewrite this history, and must not let Kong Youde finally lead the troops to flee back to the Liaodong Peninsula and take refuge in Jiannu.

Before Kong Youde surrendered to them, Jiannu had always been strict about the lack of ships and water warfare, although the Dongjiang army had long since the death of Mao Wenlong, but before Kong Youde led the people to surrender to them, they were still unable to capture the entire Liaodong Peninsula and completely eliminate this henchman.

Don't look at the Gaizhou controlled by Jiannu is not too far from Lushun on the map, but attacking Lushun by land still discourages them, and they never dare to make a move lightly, and it is precisely after Kong Youde surrendered to them that Huang Taiji obtained a usable water force, which made them quickly capture Lushun and Phi Dao and other places in the second year, completely incorporating the entire Liaodong Peninsula into their sphere of influence, and eliminating the henchmen of the Dongjiang Army behind them.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian decided this time that Kong Youde could not be allowed to lead the fleet to surrender Jiannu, and he must not let Jiannu obtain a large number of artillery pieces and technical craftsmen who made Hongyi cannons in a very short period of time, so that they could master this technology, let alone let them have a sea force that could operate in the Bohai Bay in a short period of time, nor could they obtain the technology of building ships.

Therefore, in this battle, he considered to ensure that the entire rebel army was gathered and annihilated in the city of Dengzhou, leaving no more chance for them.

Yu Xiaotian told Zhu Dadian his thoughts, of course Zhu Dadian was immediately good, this is really a great thing for him, if he just drove the rebels away from Dengzhou, for him, this rebellion would not be considered a complete achievement, but if he could annihilate the rebels in Dengzhou City, then for him, it would be a great thing.

What's more, he knows very well that although Yu Xiaotian's infantry army is very capable of fighting, in essence, the most powerful thing he has at hand is the strength at sea, and now looking at the entire Daming coast, he can't find any force that can compete with Yu Xiaotian's maritime strength.

Yu Xiaotian said that if he wants to block the rebels in Dengzhou City, then he is absolutely capable of doing this, as long as the sea is blocked, then the rebels will become a turtle in the urn, and sooner or later they will be exterminated by the official army here.

Therefore, Zhu Dadian pinned all his hopes on Yu Xiaotian, and for Yu Xiaotian's requirements, he was even more good, as long as he could do it, he promised to do it as much as possible.

After Yu Xiaotian seized the Qishan Institute, he asked to requisition the craftsmen to help him build a wharf trestle bridge on Zhifu Island, so Zhu Dadian immediately ordered the surrounding states and counties to immediately recruit the people and go to help with the work.

As long as the craftsmen and people are sent to Zhifu Island, these people will become his property, as long as he uses a little means and gives favors, he can leave these people behind, and they will become his subjects in the future, and they will definitely not let these craftsmen and people return to their hometowns.

So at the end of September, a large number of craftsmen and people who were forcibly requisitioned from all over the country began to line up in a long line and slowly moved to the area of Zhifu Bay.

And the problem of eating for these people and craftsmen, of course, had to be solved by the government, Zhu Dadian tried his best, asked for help everywhere, and repeatedly played to the imperial court, asking for more food to be mobilized for him.

But it is definitely not possible to count on the imperial court and the Shandong government, Yu Xiaotian himself has to subsidize some grain into it, but this method, compared to relying on his own food and money, it is still necessary to save a lot of food by collecting people everywhere, and now he can squeeze out some things as much as possible from the teeth of the Ming court and the government.

He opened his mouth and asked for as much gunpowder as possible to be provided, and the refined gunpowder would definitely not be available to him by the Shandong government and the imperial court, so he would then ask for at least sufficient saltpeter and sulfur for him, and the imperial court and the Shandong government could still find a way to raise a lot of money for him, at least let him save a lot of silver.

Although there are no saltpeter minerals in the north, it can be obtained through guò accumulation of fertilizer and nitrate, which itself is one of the raw materials that he has been purchasing mainly in the north.