Only then did Yu Ren understand why the Li family's power on the southeast coast had developed so strongly, but the imperial court had not moved at all.

The two were chatting, and Ying'er suddenly appeared out of nowhere. As soon as Li Ying saw Ying'er coming, she quickly broke free from Yu Ren's arms.

As soon as Ying'er appeared, another person immediately appeared behind her - Jiang Jiulang.

Yu Ren understood that Ying'er had actually gone to guard them just now.

Jiang Jiulang came over and reported to Li Ying on his preparations for tonight's attack on Chenqian Island. But when he was reporting, his eyes kept on Yu Ren. Yu Ren could feel the hatred in his eyes. Yu Ren was secretly vigilant in his heart, and it seemed that he would have to be careful of this person in the future.

Jiang Jiulang hasn't finished reporting yet. Over there, Mr. Qu had also arrived with Liu Qiang and fifty pioneers attacking the island.

After making some final preparations, Li Ying decided to let Yu Ren attack the island with Liu Qiang. In fact, Li Ying didn't want Yu Ren to take this risk for their Li family. However, Yu Ren thinks that he is most familiar with the hot air balloon in this plan, and if he doesn't go, if there is something abnormal, no one will deal with it, and it will affect the overall battle situation.

Because Li Ying was worried about Yu Ren's safety, Jiang Jiulang made a suggestion: send Shi Tingzhu, the best kung fu leader on Daqu Mountain, as Yu Ren's personal bodyguard to protect Yu Ren.

That night, everyone rushed to the vicinity of Chenqian Island by boat early, and Liu Qiang, as the leader of this attack on the island, took two merchant ships and went around to the northeast of Chenqian Island. They agreed with Jiang Jiulang, who was in charge of the follow-up attack on the island, that as soon as they seized the fort in the southwest, they would immediately launch three fireworks as a signal.

When Jiang Jiulang saw the fireworks, he immediately launched a general attack from the southwest with his nine warships.

Originally, Li Ying was going to personally bring nine warships to respond. However, Jiang Jiulang strongly objected, saying that as the head coach, she should not take risks easily. In this way, this heavy responsibility fell on Jiang Jiulang.

Tonight's night sky is full of floating clouds, and the moon only shows a bud, which is very conducive to Yu Ren and their sneak attack on the island. Although many exercises have been done before, everyone is still very careful. They all know that the stakes are high. If they fail to land on the island this time, Zhong Laosan will inevitably take strict precautions, and it will be difficult for them to have a second chance.

Seeing that Yue'er had passed midday, it was time for them to land on the island. Liu Qiang quietly drew the saber on his waist and gave everyone an order to act.

So the four sailors lowered the two canoes first. Yu Ren took the three pioneers off the canoe, and the hot air balloon was also carried on the boat.

The four sailors lightly lifted the wood pulp and paddled towards Chenqian Island in the darkness. After rowing about four or five miles, Yu Ren's canoe touched the underwater reef, and the boat shook slightly and stopped.

Everyone was prepared and not surprised. Yu Ren looked at the distance, and estimated that it was less than two miles away. He motioned for the sailor to stop the canoe there, and then motioned for the canoe behind him to lean over.

But the canoe behind always hit the reef. It took more than twenty minutes for the two canoes to come together. So, according to the pre-plan, everyone lit the hot air balloon. Yu Ren waited for the hot air balloon to begin to surface, hurriedly stepped into the bamboo basket, and added a spade of coal to the brazier.

The wind is blowing in the right direction tonight, and it is a northeasterly wind. This point, Yu Ren has also been carefully observed. Although his hot air balloon was designed with the problem of controlling the direction in mind, he made several small devices that can adjust the direction. But the influence of the wind is still very great, and Yu Ren does not dare to be sloppy.

Yu Ren's hot air balloon was slowly drifting towards Chen Qian Island in the darkness in front of him under the night wind, as he had pre-designed. The balloon also rises higher and higher. Yu Ren dared to open a few air leaks tightly and control the balloon at a low altitude as much as possible. Because he was worried that the balloon would fly too high, and the fire on it would be discovered by the pirates on the island, so that his sneak attack would fail.

However, it was the first time for Yu Ren to control a hot air balloon at sea, and when he was in Daqu Mountain, Yu Ren was worried that the top cover of the hot air balloon would break if he used too much, so he did not conduct another test. He leaked, and the hot air balloon quickly descended. Seeing that he was about to touch the sea, Yu Ren was taken aback. There are countless poisonous snakes in the sea here, and in order to make this bamboo basket as light as possible, the design is also hollow. If you let the bamboo basket sink into the water, you are afraid that you will be bitten to death by the poisonous snake in the water.

In desperation, Yu Ren pulled out the long sword he carried with him and plunged the sword into a reef that was faintly exposed to the water. The long sword made a soft sound, and the sword began to be forced, and it was quickly bent down. Fortunately, the downward momentum of the balloon was finally controlled.

Yu Ren didn't dare to relax a little, his eyes stared at the long sword in his hand. Seeing that the blade of the long sword was reduced to a straight line little by little. Yu Ren finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The hot air balloon finally slowly rose again.

After the hot air balloon flew over Chenqian Island, Yu Ren dared to open the air leak again. Soon, the hot air balloon landed on the island.

However, due to the large number of trees on the island, the hot air balloon was hung on the branches. Fortunately, for this situation, Yu Ren has already made a plan. He took a spare rope from the bamboo basket of the hot air balloon, slipped him around a thicker branch next to him, and slid down the rope to the ground.

Before going down the tree, Yu Ren had already made observations.

Standing where he is now, he can see almost the entire picture of Chen Qian Island. It's just that due to the poor light at night, I can't see the details clearly. This Chenqian Island is a large island with a radius of more than ten miles. There is a hill to the southwest and northeast of the island. He was right halfway up the hill right now.

There are no people around this hillside. But there were many houses on the southwest side. About five miles away, near the southwest corner, a row of lights could be seen. This is the only light that can be seen on the island at this time. These lights help Yu Ren see that next to them is a turret.

Yu Ren got out of the tree, followed the direction from which his balloon had floated, and soon found a string tied under the balloon on the beach.

According to the plan, Yu Ren quickly put the string away.

Soon, he tied one end of the rope bridge to a large tree. After doing all this, Yu Ren hid in a bush next to him.

After waiting for less than a quarter of an hour, Yu Ren saw Liu Qiang walking on the rope bridge with a knife first. Since the other end of the rope bridge they designed was tied to a canoe, it was not possible to carry more than one person at the same time.

By the time a group of 50 of them had landed on the island, it was already close to the fourth watch. Everyone didn't dare to delay any longer, and hurriedly sneaked to the southwest fort ten miles away.

On Chenqian Island, there is a row of stone houses, a total of nine rooms, and the houses are brightly lit, and it is obvious that there are people stationed inside. Outside the house, there were only three clear posts, and all of them faced the sea. Presumably they felt that it was impossible for anyone to attack them from behind.

Seeing all this, Yu Ren was really relieved. Liu Qiang divided his fifty men into ten teams, each team was responsible for a stone house. The extra team was led by him and was responsible for assassinating the sentinels.

The sneak attack was a success. Since the enemy was not at all a little prepared. It wasn't until they killed the three sentinels and stormed the stone house that the pirates were shocked. As a result, in this battle, they were almost bloodless. Forty or fifty pirates in the stone house were captured at once.

Liu Qiang saw that the fort had been captured by them, so he lit three fireworks according to the prior agreement.

However, after these three fireworks were lit, there was no movement on the sea, but the island exploded all at once. The brighter the lights around them, the brighter they are. The crowd watching was shocked.

Yu Ren counted it, and there were four or five hundred lights.

"Liu Qiang, didn't you say that there will be no more than two hundred people on this island in total? Now that we've tied up so much, why are there so many lights? ”

"I don't know! I came here more than a year ago. At that time, the total number of Zhong Laosan was definitely no more than two hundred. I've counted them. Liu Qiang saw so many lights turned on at once, and his heart also panicked.

"Needless to say. Let's look for gunpowder first, and blow up the cannons on the turret first. Hurry up and order, each team is responsible for one cannon. Blow up those two Western cannons and the general's cannon first. Yu Ren shouted to Liu Qiang.

Liu Qiang woke up like a dream, and hurriedly organized people to blow up the artillery.