These guards are hundreds of kilometers away from Dengzhou City, the center of the Denglai Rebellion, so they were relatively less affected by this civil strife, and they all still maintained their basic structure. Among them, Jiaozhou Bay in the Lingshanwei jurisdiction is the largest ice-free port in the entire Jiaodong Peninsula, and the Ming army still retains a small-scale naval division in this place. Although the Haihan side did not regard it as too much of a threat, it did not want to be detected by the Ming army before the northbound fleet arrived at its destination, so during this voyage along the southern coastline of the Jiaodong Peninsula, the main fleet would keep a distance of about 30 nautical miles from the coast to avoid being discovered by the Ming troops stationed there.

However, in order to have a more realistic grasp of the situation in Jiaozhou Bay, Wang Tom still sent a reconnaissance sailing ship disguised as an ordinary merchant ship to the bay to conduct reconnaissance, and the commander was Gong 17, the field mission supervisor of the Ministry of Security, who had just made great achievements in the Hangzhou operation. In order to better disguise its identity, the reconnaissance ship also specially loaded some goods produced in Zhejiang in order to cope with possible interrogation from the local defenders.

Jiaozhou Bay covers an area of nearly 500 square kilometers, and there are 11 rivers such as Nanjiao River and Dagu River that enter the sea from Jiaozhou Bay. In 1372, Xu Da, the Duke of Ming and Wei, sent his commander Zhu Xing to Jiaozhou Bay, where he built Lingshanwei and deployed a garrison to prevent the invasion of the Japanese invaders.

Lingshanwei has three thousand households under its jurisdiction, which is administratively under the jurisdiction of Laizhou Prefecture, and militarily subordinate to the Jimo Battalion under the command of the Shandong Metropolitan Envoy. The Lingshan Acropolis is located on the south shore of the mouth of Jiaozhou Bay, and in the second year of Yongle (1404) and the first year of Hongzhi (1488), two large-scale expansions were presided over by Guo Chong, the commander of the bureau, and Zhao He, the deputy envoy of the sub-patrol. Today's Lingshan Acropolis City Friday, the city wall is covered with blue bricks, two zhang five feet high, one zhang two feet thick, there are four city gates of Chaoyang, Yuewu, Zhenhai and Cheng'en respectively in the east and west, north and south, and there is a gatehouse that strengthens the defense force on the door. There was a moat built outside the city, which was two feet five feet deep and two feet wide.

"Lingshan Acropolis Construction Chronicles" recorded: "Four gates of the hole, the street is the cross, all are square, the shape is like a chessboard, there are stones like chess pieces at the mouth of the alley, the boundary river enters from the north water gate, goes out from the south water gate, converges in the south of the city, and gradually returns to the sea." "In the middle of the city, there are facilities such as the Health Department, the Experience Division, the warehouse, and the martial arts training ground, and the garrison has more than 1,000 people.

After three constructions, the Lingshan Acropolis has become a military and political important place in the coastal area of Jiaozhou Bay, and the garrison organization is in charge of the army and the people, and the commander of the garrison is the three products, which is already a very high-level official in the local area, and the administrative area of Lingshan Wei is much larger than the prefecture-level city in later generations.

However, Lingshanwei also received an order from the Shandong Metropolitan Division during the Denglai Rebellion, and dispatched most of the troops to Dengzhou to participate in the war, during which there were really a lot of casualties, so it is currently in the post-war recovery period, and the scale of the garrison must not be able to catch up with the pre-war period. Fortunately, at that time, the activity area of the rebel army was mainly concentrated on the north coast of the Jiaodong Peninsula, but it did not directly affect the Lingshanwei side, so the Lingshan Acropolis and its surrounding facilities were intact.

Inevitably, however, a large number of people who had fled from the north during the war gathered near the Lingshan Acropolis, and these refugees, who had lost their land and means of production, had to rely on the government's limited relief to survive. Food is not the biggest problem, but in the winter there is no warm shelter is a contradiction that the government cannot solve, and the homeless refugees can only continue south to enter the relatively warmer temperature of Jiangsu Province in order to survive the bitter cold of winter. Some of the refugees met the maritime merchants who recruited immigrants for Haihan in Huai'an Prefecture, and under the temptation of the conditions of "warm south" and "food and shelter", they stepped on the migrant ship in order to survive, including Sun Zhen, who was born in Dengzhou and is currently serving in the special operations camp.

Similar to this kind of mission that requires close reconnaissance, Gong Qiqi naturally did not forget to arrange as many Shandong people who were familiar with the local situation as possible on the ship, and when Sun Zhen fled from his hometown two years ago, he also stayed near Lingshanwei for a while, so he knew the situation here quite well.

"At least half of the people who fled to Jiaozhou together died in this place. Many people were reluctant to flee further south, and as a result, when winter came, two snowstorms froze to death, and the number of people who froze to death rose to triple digits. To be honest, if it weren't for the cold, I wouldn't want to go south any further, after all, the farther I go, the smaller the chance of coming back!" Sun Zhen still couldn't help but feel palpitations when he talked about the embarrassing situation back then.

"If you don't go south, you may die in this place in vain, how wronged! Now you don't regret joining Haihan, right?" Gong Qiqi asked with a smile.

Sun Zhen hurriedly replied: "Of course I don't regret it! If I had stayed in Shandong, even if I could have survived, at most I would have gone back to Dengzhou to continue farming and farming.

Gong Qiqi nodded in agreement, he is not a political cadre, and he can't tell any big reason in this regard, he just knows how to be loyal to Haihan and try his best to complete the tasks assigned by his boss.

Sun Zhen raised his finger and said forward: "In front is the location of the Lingshan Acropolis, where a fleet of sailors was deployed in the past, and it was stationed in Tangdao Bay in front, but I don't know if it is still here now." Since this trip is aimed at Jiaozhou Bay, I suggest that you don't get too close, so as not to make extraneous branches, bypass the sea and enter Jiaozhou Bay. ”

Gong XVII did not dispute Sun Zhen's suggestion, and he received an order that the focus of the reconnaissance was on the geography of Jiaozhou Bay, rather than on the deployment of the Ming army in this area. And in order not to break away from the large army, there are certain requirements in the time of action, and you can't delay too long in this place, and going straight to the point is probably the most efficient solution.

This reconnaissance ship slowly passed through Lingshanwei on the ocean less than two nautical miles from the coast, during which it did not encounter the sea investigation they feared, and Gong Qiqi looked at it in the telescope for a long time, and did not see a single warship of the Ming Navy.

After the sailboat sailed smoothly into Jiaozhou Bay, it was only sporadically that a small number of fishing boats were seen near the shore. Sun Zhen touched the scene and said: "When I fled to Jiaozhou Bay, even if the government didn't have any relief food to distribute, it was a place where the sea ate after all, and I didn't starve to death. I remember that for two months, the granary of the government was empty, and everyone could only live on seafood and wild vegetables. At that time, I would go to the beach every day to collect all kinds of shellfish and sea vegetables after the tide receded, and sometimes the local fishermen would give us some fish and shrimp after a good harvest. ”

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These guards are hundreds of kilometers away from Dengzhou City, the center of the Denglai Rebellion, so they were relatively less affected by this civil strife, and they all still maintained their basic structure. Among them, Jiaozhou Bay in the Lingshanwei jurisdiction is the largest ice-free port in the entire Jiaodong Peninsula, and the Ming army still retains a small-scale naval division in this place. Although the Haihan side did not regard it as too much of a threat, it did not want to be detected by the Ming army before the northbound fleet arrived at its destination, so during this voyage along the southern coastline of the Jiaodong Peninsula, the main fleet would keep a distance of about 30 nautical miles from the coast to avoid being discovered by the Ming troops stationed there.

However, in order to have a more realistic grasp of the situation in Jiaozhou Bay, Wang Tom still sent a reconnaissance sailing ship disguised as an ordinary merchant ship to the bay to conduct reconnaissance, and the commander was Gong 17, the field mission supervisor of the Ministry of Security, who had just made great achievements in the Hangzhou operation. In order to better disguise its identity, the reconnaissance ship also specially loaded some goods produced in Zhejiang in order to cope with possible interrogation from the local defenders.

Jiaozhou Bay covers an area of nearly 500 square kilometers, and there are 11 rivers such as Nanjiao River and Dagu River that enter the sea from Jiaozhou Bay. In 1372, Xu Da, the Duke of Ming and Wei, sent his commander Zhu Xing to Jiaozhou Bay, where he built Lingshanwei and deployed a garrison to prevent the invasion of the Japanese invaders.

Lingshanwei has three thousand households under its jurisdiction, which is administratively under the jurisdiction of Laizhou Prefecture, and militarily subordinate to the Jimo Battalion under the command of the Shandong Metropolitan Envoy. The Lingshan Acropolis is located on the south shore of the mouth of Jiaozhou Bay, and in the second year of Yongle (1404) and the first year of Hongzhi (1488), two large-scale expansions were presided over by Guo Chong, the commander of the bureau, and Zhao He, the deputy envoy of the sub-patrol. Today's Lingshan Acropolis City Friday, the city wall is covered with blue bricks, two zhang five feet high, one zhang two feet thick, there are four city gates of Chaoyang, Yuewu, Zhenhai and Cheng'en respectively in the east and west, north and south, and there is a gatehouse that strengthens the defense force on the door. There was a moat built outside the city, which was two feet five feet deep and two feet wide.

"Lingshan Acropolis Construction Chronicles" recorded: "Four gates of the hole, the street is the cross, all are square, the shape is like a chessboard, there are stones like chess pieces at the mouth of the alley, the boundary river enters from the north water gate, goes out from the south water gate, converges in the south of the city, and gradually returns to the sea." "In the middle of the city, there are facilities such as the Health Department, the Experience Division, the warehouse, and the martial arts training ground, and the garrison has more than 1,000 people.

After three constructions, the Lingshan Acropolis has become a military and political important place in the coastal area of Jiaozhou Bay, and the garrison organization is in charge of the army and the people, and the commander of the garrison is the three products, which is already a very high-level official in the local area, and the administrative area of Lingshan Wei is much larger than the prefecture-level city in later generations.

However, Lingshanwei also received an order from the Shandong Metropolitan Division during the Denglai Rebellion, and dispatched most of the troops to Dengzhou to participate in the war, during which there were really a lot of casualties, so it is currently in the post-war recovery period, and the scale of the garrison must not be able to catch up with the pre-war period. Fortunately, at that time, the activity area of the rebel army was mainly concentrated on the north coast of the Jiaodong Peninsula, but it did not directly affect the Lingshanwei side, so the Lingshan Acropolis and its surrounding facilities were intact.

Inevitably, however, a large number of people who had fled from the north during the war gathered near the Lingshan Acropolis, and these refugees, who had lost their land and means of production, had to rely on the government's limited relief to survive. Food is not the biggest problem, but in the winter there is no warm shelter is a contradiction that the government cannot solve, and the homeless refugees can only continue south to enter the relatively warmer temperature of Jiangsu Province in order to survive the bitter cold of winter. Some of the refugees met the maritime merchants who recruited immigrants for Haihan in Huai'an Prefecture, and under the temptation of the conditions of "warm south" and "food and shelter", they stepped on the migrant ship in order to survive, including Sun Zhen, who was born in Dengzhou and is currently serving in the special operations camp.

Similar to this kind of mission that requires close reconnaissance, Gong Qiqi naturally did not forget to arrange as many Shandong people who were familiar with the local situation as possible on the ship, and when Sun Zhen fled from his hometown two years ago, he also stayed near Lingshanwei for a while, so he knew the situation here quite well.

"At least half of the people who fled to Jiaozhou together died in this place. Many people were reluctant to flee further south, and as a result, when winter came, two snowstorms froze to death, and the number of people who froze to death rose to triple digits. To be honest, if it weren't for the cold, I wouldn't want to go south any further, after all, the farther I go, the smaller the chance of coming back!" Sun Zhen still couldn't help but feel palpitations when he talked about the embarrassing situation back then.

"If you don't go south, you may die in this place in vain, how wronged! Now you don't regret joining Haihan, right?" Gong Qiqi asked with a smile.

Sun Zhen hurriedly replied: "Of course I don't regret it! If I had stayed in Shandong, even if I could have survived, at most I would have gone back to Dengzhou to continue farming and farming.

Gong Qiqi nodded in agreement, he is not a political cadre, and he can't tell any big reason in this regard, he just knows how to be loyal to Haihan and try his best to complete the tasks assigned by his boss.

Sun Zhen raised his finger and said forward: "In front is the location of the Lingshan Acropolis, where a fleet of sailors was deployed in the past, and it was stationed in Tangdao Bay in front, but I don't know if it is still here now." Since this trip is aimed at Jiaozhou Bay, I suggest that you don't get too close, so as not to make extraneous branches, bypass the sea and enter Jiaozhou Bay. ”

Gong XVII did not dispute Sun Zhen's suggestion, and he received an order that the focus of the reconnaissance was on the geography of Jiaozhou Bay, rather than on the deployment of the Ming army in this area. And in order not to break away from the large army, there are certain requirements in the time of action, and you can't delay too long in this place, and going straight to the point is probably the most efficient solution.

This reconnaissance ship slowly passed through Lingshanwei on the ocean less than two nautical miles from the coast, during which it did not encounter the sea investigation they feared, and Gong Qiqi looked at it in the telescope for a long time, and did not see a single warship of the Ming Navy.

(End of chapter)