The warship sailors cruised from Longmen Island to Qinzhou.

When Yang Chang, the prefect of Lianzhou, arrived in Qinzhou with thousands of Qing soldiers and townsmen, more than a month had passed.

Looking at Qinzhou City, which had changed the banner in front of him, the prefect Yang Chang was angry.

"This thief is fierce and abnormal, should we wait for reinforcements to arrive?" Mr. Xu Qian stepped forward to ask.

Looking at the tall Qinzhou city wall and the cannon on the wall, the prefect was also stunned at this time.

"The deserters came to report that our sailors on Longmen Island have been destroyed by the thief army."

"The army was trapped by the thieves on Longmen Island, and it was already a mud bodhisattva crossing the river, and it was difficult to protect itself, so I waited for hundreds of troops, plus this thousand village warriors, where is the opponent of the thieves, let's go back to Lianzhou quickly." Xu Qian always had a sad face, and along the way, he constantly opposed the attack on Qinzhou.

There is no other reason, the troops in his hands are too small, and the soldiers are only three hundred.

Coupled with the 1,000 villagers who were urgently recruited, it was only a little over a thousand when it was full.

Look at the current Qinzhou City, although it is not a giant city, it is more than enough to stop these rabbles at the moment.

What's more, he also faintly saw that the cannon on the city wall seemed to be a Franc machine gun.

"So what should I do?" Lord Zhihu also had no idea at this time.

In fact, according to his assumption, this group of pirates would flee after plundering the Qinzhou area, which is why he waited a month.

But who would have thought that such a conscienceless Haikou would actually settle down in Qinzhou City, and it was clear that he didn't want to leave.

"We might as well camp at Yinjindu and wait for reinforcements to arrive before attacking the city." Mr. Xu Qian proposed.

"This?" The prefect made a difficulty, and he brought thousands of troops to exterminate the thief army, but he slipped around the city and went back, which was afraid that his colleagues would laugh off his big teeth.

"General, we will be stationed in Yinjindu, if the Haikou go out of the city, then we will also know, and we will immediately send troops to defeat the thief army."

"If Haikou continues to be stationed in Qinzhou, we will continue to monitor, anyway, after the army recovers Qiongzhou, these thieves stationed in Qinzhou will also be defeated." Mr. Xu Qian continued to explain.

"Good, good!" Yang Chang nodded hurriedly.

As a result, these Qing troops had not been stationed under the city for more than an hour, and then ran back in disgrace.

The officers and soldiers of Fubo Town, who were guarding the city, were dumbfounded.

"My lord, the thieves have withdrawn."

Li Du couldn't help but smile as he looked at the Qing officers and soldiers who were gradually disappearing on the horizon in front of him.

"What does the Qing army under this city mean?"

"When they came, they neither attacked the city nor garrisoned it, but ran away in disgrace." A Ming army general always looked in disbelief at the Qing army fleeing under the city.

"There are only hundreds of soldiers, and the rest are just some temporarily recruited villagers, if they really attack the city, they can only look for death." Li Du looked at the Qing army retreating like a tide under the city, and snorted coldly.

These days, the affairs of Lianzhou have already been informed to the Ming army in Qinzhou through the merchants of the Land and Sea Chamber of Commerce.

This land and sea chamber of commerce has taken root in Guangdong for a long time, and even the prefect of Nalian Prefecture recruited thousands of brave and strong men from the countryside or the land and sea merchants contributed to it, and the Ming army naturally knew the actions of the Qing officers and soldiers.

Hai'an, since the Qing army broke the Ming army in Chengmai, the Qing army thought that it had taken control of Qionghai.

However, the Ming army underestimated the ability of the Qing army to gather military strength and cross the sea to fight.

One day, the main force of the Qing army's naval division did not go to sea, and only a few clippers cruised in the direction of Qionghai.

A large number of Qing officers and soldiers gathered in Hai'an, and the Qing army even requisitioned merchant ships and fishing boats in Guangdong for sea-crossing operations.

This assembly was on the day, and for the Qing army, this speed was indeed somewhat amazing, and it naturally exceeded the expectations of the Ming army.

Early in the morning, Hai'an Institute

More than 200 naval warships, loaded with many Qing soldiers, rushed towards Qiongzhou with great momentum.

The first landing site of Bayin Dali was chosen at Qiongshan.

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Shan is the capital of Qiongzhou, and it is naturally the first choice for the Qing army to conquer.

Since Xiao Wu occupied Qiongzhou, he deployed troops in Qiongshan, Chengmai, and Lingao to strengthen the shore fire artillery.

The Qing army's reaction speed significantly exceeded Xiao Wu's expectations.

When the Ming army's exploration ships brought the news that the Qing army was about to cross the sea to Qiongshan, more than 200 warships of the Qing army were already on their way.

There was no unified establishment of the Qing army naval division in Guangdong, and the Guangzhou naval division had already been abolished in the early years of Kangxi.

Therefore, this time, the battalions of the Cantonese sailors were under the unified command of General Baiyindari.

However, this Guangzhou general was born in the Eight Banners, and it was obviously difficult for him to command this naval battle.

Therefore, this Qing army's naval division warship was also commanded by Zhou Ding, responsible for transporting the green battalion to land operations.

Last time, the Qing army had already tested the firepower of the nearby Ming army's coastal defense batteries.

This time, the Qing army deliberately recruited a large number of fishing boats as pioneers and landed in Qiongshan.

The gunners on the coastal defense batteries of the Ming army really hit the plan, and one by one iron cannons and copper cannons began to bombard the Qing fishing boats on the sea in the distance.

"Bang bang bang!" Among the endless hills, forts stand.

Twenty coastal defense heavy artillery guns of the Ming army were constantly bombarded, and sulfur and gunpowder smoke filled the forts.

The size of the fishing boats was significantly smaller than that of the Qing warships.

The accuracy of the artillery on the Ming batteries was very impressive.

However, gradually the Ming troops on the fort also sensed that something was wrong, and ordered the fort to stop firing.

"Lama Nimu, a bunch of waste, but these fishing boats, the shore cannon bombarded me for a whole quarter of an hour." Wang An looked at the coastal artillery batteries in the distance and cursed.

At this moment, about two or three nautical miles away from the coastline, a Qing army fleet is cruising.

There were more than 200 large and small warships, connected end to end, staring at Qiongshan like a long snake.

"It's been almost three days since I went to sea, when will I attack Qiongshan?" On a rushing ship, a guard of the Humen battalion of the Qing army, with a pale face, walked to the deck and asked several sailor generals.

Starting from the Hai'an Institute, the Qing army was extremely cautious along the way, for fear that the thieves and sailors would attack and kill them.

In addition, as soon as I went out to sea, I encountered a big storm.

The fleet remained at sea for nearly three days before reaching the vicinity of Qiongshan.

However, fortunately, none of the sailors' warships were lost, which is also a blessing in misfortune.

The fleet carried a number of Qing soldiers, these Qing officers and soldiers were soldiers, different from the Ming army's expedition to Qiongzhou, its officers and soldiers were basically from the navy, so they have long been adapted to the long sea voyage.

Most of the green camps in Guangdong had never been to sea, and the three-day voyage made them miserable.

Especially in the cramped environment of the cabin, when the ship was rocked by a storm, and after staying for three days in a row, most of the officers and men were already exhausted and vomited and diarrhea.

Zhou Ding walked over, his face was also a little sad.

He didn't expect that there would be a storm on the way, and it took three days to cross the Qiongzhou Strait.

You must know that this time the green battalion soldiers were sent ashore, but now the green battalion soldiers vomit up and down, and the men and horses are exhausted.

Send them ashore at this moment, and the officers and men will certainly have no combat power to speak of.

But if they are not sent ashore, it will be a kind of torture to endure in this rough sea.

"Otherwise, we will send the sailors of the naval division and warships to land with the officers and soldiers, and set up a camp for the officers and soldiers to rest for a few days, and if the thieves attack, our sailors will resist them." On the side, Pan Yi, the general manager of the Chaozhou camp, proposed.

"That's very good, so that the officers and men of our Green Battalion can rest for a few days and wait for our army to recover before fighting." The general of the green battalion on the side hurriedly said.

"Okay, I'll wait for the sailors to send the officers and soldiers ashore, cover the officers and soldiers on the coast, and wait for the army to rest for a day before attacking!" Zhou Ding spoke.