After rounding the hill corner, the fleet shifted its direction and sailed west along the coast. A hundred miles away from Chengshanjiao is an important place on the north coastline of the Jiaodong Peninsula, known as Weihaiwei, the gateway to the Beijing-Tianjin sea. In the 31st year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, in order to resist the invasion of the Japanese invaders, the military department set up Weihaiwei here, and governed thousands of households behind the 100-foot cliff.

"Chief, the lookout post has spotted a small warship flying the Ming army flag appearing on the sea to the southwest, about five nautical miles away. ”

When the fleet passed through the waters near Liugong Island, it was finally and inevitably exposed. However, when he walked here, he was discovered by the Ming army, and the other party didn't have time to make any more countermeasures.

Wang Tom said: "Continue to monitor, if there is a change in the other party's movements, report it immediately!"

In today's fine weather conditions, at a distance of five nautical miles, as long as the other party is not blind, the existence of the northbound fleet must have been discovered, and a fleet of this size has not appeared in the coastal waters of the Jiaodong Peninsula in the past two or three years. The last time a large fleet went to sea at the mouth of the Bohai Sea may have to be traced back to the fact that Kong Youde's rebels fled to the Liaodong Peninsula with the fleet of sailors stationed in Dengzhou. Tom Wang could have imagined how shocked the Ming army on that ship would be when they saw this huge fleet of hundreds of sailing ships.

However, the appearance of a Ming warship would not affect the movement of the fleet, and the current position was only about fifty nautical miles away from the destination, and there was no force that could stop the fleet. Regardless of the mood of the Ming army on that ship, the fleet sailed past Weihaiwei two hours later and headed west for Zhifu Island.

Zhifu Bay is only more than 100 miles away from Dengzhou City, is the jurisdiction of Dengzhou Weiqi Mountain Qianhu, in the first two years of Denglai Rebellion was also inevitably affected, Qishan Qianhu more than 1,000 people, most of them died on the battlefield during the counterattack on Dengzhou City occupied by the rebels, and currently only maintained one-third of the normal establishment of troops. After Kong Youde's rebels defected to Liaodong more than a year ago, Dengzhou was basically peaceful, and the local authorities were busy resuming production for the young and strong, and they were not in a hurry to recruit troops to replenish the establishment.

There is a hill jutting into the sea on the southern coast of Zhifu Bay, the highest point is only more than 40 meters above sea level, but it just overlooks the entire Zhifu Bay. In order to defend against the invasion of the Japanese invaders during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, the wolf smoke pier platform of monitoring and early warning was built in this place, and after the discovery of the enemy's situation, the smoke was raised during the day, and the fire was lit at night, as a means of alarm transmission, and this small hill was also named Yantai Mountain because of this. The later Yantai City was also named because of this place.

There are still barracks and horse sheds built by Qi Jiguang, a famous anti-Japanese general, on this Yantai Mountain, but because the troops of the entire Qishan Institute are seriously insufficient, the troops stationed here have to be reduced from the general flag to the small flag, and only more than ten people are retained. The leader of the troops here is a half-old man in his forties and fifties, and his colleagues in the army call him Zheng Laoqi, but no one knows how this nickname came about, because the soldiers who are now on errands here are also transferred from other guards to fill the vacancies after the Denglai Rebellion.

Zheng Laoqi's two sons also served as soldiers in Dengzhou Wei, but they died on the battlefield in the Denglai Rebellion, so now he is the only man left in the family. Zheng Laoqi was originally an old oilman in the army, but now he has no head, and he has a lot of trouble in the army when he is idle. The boss felt that he was also a poor person, and it was not good to punish him again, so he simply sent him to this Yantai Mountain to garrison, out of sight and out of mind.

This place is less than ten miles away from the Qishan City in the south, and there is no big problem in terms of living security, and the errand is extremely leisurely, and every day I am in a daze with the empty Zhifu Bay. There is no need to patrol or monitor the bay day and night, because there are no permanent residents in this area, and the people who lived here have long since run away during the war. As for the Japanese Bandits, there are not even ghosts in this place, how can there be stupid Japanese Bandits who cross the sea to rob here.

On this day, Zheng Laoqi received a military salary, and he was rarely in good spirits, and he usually drank two taels of alcohol, but he drank half a catty at noon, so he couldn't sleep soundly in the camp in the afternoon. Just as he was still gritting his teeth in his dream and fighting with Kong Youde's rebels, he was suddenly woken up by a push: "Zheng Tou, a fleet has come from the sea, and it has entered Zhifu Bay!"

Zheng Laoqi replied in a drowsy voice: "What fleet?"

"It's not like a Japanese pirate, who doesn't have such a big ship. The little soldier stretched out his hands and gestured: "There are two ships that are bigger than the previous Dengzhou Sailor Dafu boat!"

"You don't have flowers, do you? There would be such a big ship coming to Zhifu Bay?" Zheng Laoqi sat up from the bed suspiciously. Although he did not quite believe the words of his subordinates, out of duty, he still put on his clothes and pants and walked out of the barracks to see the strange fleet he had mentioned.

When Zheng Laoqi saw a sailboat sailing into Zhifu Bay from east to west, he suddenly woke up half of his wine. These ships are obviously not the Fukubune type often seen on the northern coast, and they are by no means the striking Hachiman boats of the Wakos. The hulls are all pointed and long, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, more like the style of a Canton ship built in the south. And the two largest of them are indeed one size larger than the previous fortune ships in Dengzhou Water City. However, the sails of these ships are not hard sails, and the style is something that Zheng Laoqi has never seen before, which is still quite different from the Guangzhou ships in his cognition.

The ships were all hung with red and blue flags on their masts, apparently belonging to the same fleet, but Zheng Laoqi had never seen a flag of this shape in decades on the beach, let alone infer the identity of this fleet.

At this time, a small soldier next to him came over and asked, "Zheng Tou, do you want to raise a cigarette to warn?"

"The identity of the other party has not yet been confirmed, show a fart!" Zheng Laoqi scolded with a calm face: "If this is a merchant ship passing through here, how will it end up when the army is transferred to warn of it?"

Yantai Mountain is said to be a beacon tower, but in the past year or two, there has actually been no beacon fire alarm, and Zheng Laoqi is unwilling to make things big when the situation is unclear. The direction in which these ships are moving is not from the side of Yantai Mountain, so at present, you can rest assured that you can observe for a while and see the movements of the other party.

Several smaller boats reached the shore first, and slowly stopped more than ten feet from the beach. Zheng Laoqi estimated that the people on the boat had to measure the depth of the water first to avoid the big ship running aground when it docked.

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After rounding the hill corner, the fleet shifted its direction and sailed west along the coast. A hundred miles away from Chengshanjiao is an important place on the north coastline of the Jiaodong Peninsula, known as Weihaiwei, the gateway to the Beijing-Tianjin sea. In the 31st year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, in order to resist the invasion of the Japanese invaders, the military department set up Weihaiwei here, and governed thousands of households behind the 100-foot cliff.

"Chief, the lookout post has spotted a small warship flying the Ming army flag appearing on the sea to the southwest, about five nautical miles away. ”

When the fleet passed through the waters near Liugong Island, it was finally and inevitably exposed. However, when he walked here, he was discovered by the Ming army, and the other party didn't have time to make any more countermeasures.

Wang Tom said: "Continue to monitor, if there is a change in the other party's movements, report it immediately!"

In today's fine weather conditions, at a distance of five nautical miles, as long as the other party is not blind, the existence of the northbound fleet must have been discovered, and a fleet of this size has not appeared in the coastal waters of the Jiaodong Peninsula in the past two or three years. The last time a large fleet went to sea at the mouth of the Bohai Sea may have to be traced back to the fact that Kong Youde's rebels fled to the Liaodong Peninsula with the fleet of sailors stationed in Dengzhou. Tom Wang could have imagined how shocked the Ming army on that ship would be when they saw this huge fleet of hundreds of sailing ships.

However, the appearance of a Ming warship would not affect the movement of the fleet, and the current position was only about fifty nautical miles away from the destination, and there was no force that could stop the fleet. Regardless of the mood of the Ming army on that ship, the fleet sailed past Weihaiwei two hours later and headed west for Zhifu Island.

Zhifu Bay is only more than 100 miles away from Dengzhou City, is the jurisdiction of Dengzhou Weiqi Mountain Qianhu, in the first two years of Denglai Rebellion was also inevitably affected, Qishan Qianhu more than 1,000 people, most of them died on the battlefield during the counterattack on Dengzhou City occupied by the rebels, and currently only maintained one-third of the normal establishment of troops. After Kong Youde's rebels defected to Liaodong more than a year ago, Dengzhou was basically peaceful, and the local authorities were busy resuming production for the young and strong, and they were not in a hurry to recruit troops to replenish the establishment.

There is a hill jutting into the sea on the southern coast of Zhifu Bay, the highest point is only more than 40 meters above sea level, but it just overlooks the entire Zhifu Bay. In order to defend against the invasion of the Japanese invaders during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, the wolf smoke pier platform of monitoring and early warning was built in this place, and after the discovery of the enemy's situation, the smoke was raised during the day, and the fire was lit at night, as a means of alarm transmission, and this small hill was also named Yantai Mountain because of this. The later Yantai City was also named because of this place.

There are still barracks and horse sheds built by Qi Jiguang, a famous anti-Japanese general, on this Yantai Mountain, but because the troops of the entire Qishan Institute are seriously insufficient, the troops stationed here have to be reduced from the general flag to the small flag, and only more than ten people are retained. The leader of the troops here is a half-old man in his forties and fifties, and his colleagues in the army call him Zheng Laoqi, but no one knows how this nickname came about, because the soldiers who are now on errands here are also transferred from other guards to fill the vacancies after the Denglai Rebellion.

Zheng Laoqi's two sons also served as soldiers in Dengzhou Wei, but they died on the battlefield in the Denglai Rebellion, so now he is the only man left in the family. Zheng Laoqi was originally an old oilman in the army, but now he has no head, and he has a lot of trouble in the army when he is idle. The boss felt that he was also a poor person, and it was not good to punish him again, so he simply sent him to this Yantai Mountain to garrison, out of sight and out of mind.

This place is less than ten miles away from the Qishan City in the south, and there is no big problem in terms of living security, and the errand is extremely leisurely, and every day I am in a daze with the empty Zhifu Bay. There is no need to patrol or monitor the bay day and night, because there are no permanent residents in this area, and the people who lived here have long since run away during the war. As for the Japanese Bandits, there are not even ghosts in this place, how can there be stupid Japanese Bandits who cross the sea to rob here.

On this day, Zheng Laoqi received a military salary, and he was rarely in good spirits, and he usually drank two taels of alcohol, but he drank half a catty at noon, so he couldn't sleep soundly in the camp in the afternoon. Just as he was still gritting his teeth in his dream and fighting with Kong Youde's rebels, he was suddenly woken up by a push: "Zheng Tou, a fleet has come from the sea, and it has entered Zhifu Bay!"

Zheng Laoqi replied in a drowsy voice: "What fleet?"

"It's not like a Japanese pirate, who doesn't have such a big ship. The little soldier stretched out his hands and gestured: "There are two ships that are bigger than the previous Dengzhou Sailor Dafu boat!"

"You don't have flowers, do you? There would be such a big ship coming to Zhifu Bay?" Zheng Laoqi sat up from the bed suspiciously. Although he did not quite believe the words of his subordinates, out of duty, he still put on his clothes and pants and walked out of the barracks to see the strange fleet he had mentioned.

When Zheng Laoqi saw a sailboat sailing into Zhifu Bay from east to west, he suddenly woke up half of his wine. These ships are obviously not the Fukubune type often seen on the northern coast, and they are by no means the striking Hachiman boats of the Wakos. The hulls are all pointed and long, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, more like the style of a Canton ship built in the south. And the two largest of them are indeed one size larger than the previous fortune ships in Dengzhou Water City. However, the sails of these ships are not hard sails, and the style is something that Zheng Laoqi has never seen before, which is still quite different from the Guangzhou ships in his cognition.

The ships were all hung with red and blue flags on their masts, apparently belonging to the same fleet, but Zheng Laoqi had never seen a flag of this shape in decades on the beach, let alone infer the identity of this fleet.

At this time, a small soldier next to him came over and asked, "Zheng Tou, do you want to raise a cigarette to warn?"

"The identity of the other party has not yet been confirmed, show a fart!" Zheng Laoqi scolded with a calm face: "If this is a merchant ship passing through here, how will it end up when the army is transferred to warn of it?"

Yantai Mountain is said to be a beacon tower, but in the past year or two, there has actually been no beacon fire alarm, and Zheng Laoqi is unwilling to make things big when the situation is unclear. The direction in which these ships are moving is not from the side of Yantai Mountain, so at present, you can rest assured that you can observe for a while and see the movements of the other party.

Several smaller boats reached the shore first, and slowly stopped more than ten feet from the beach. Zheng Laoqi estimated that the people on the boat had to measure the depth of the water first to avoid the big ship running aground when it docked.

(End of chapter)