"Lianggong, how many soldiers do we have in Vladivostok now?" Yu Zhong sat down at a rectangular conference table and asked Nian Qianyao, who was sitting on the left.

"Lord Hui, there are a total of 8,764 registered soldiers in Vladivostok, plus 1,432 servants, the total number of soldiers is 10,196." Nian Qianyao replied respectfully. In the past few years with Yu Zhong, his life has not been as sad as expected, on the contrary, Yu Zhong also handed over most of the things in Vladivostok to him. Although the days are a little tiring, after adapting to it, there is nothing.

"Hmm. Dongmei, how is our equipment? Yu Zhong asked Yue Zhongqi, who was sitting on his right.

"My lord, in addition to the thirteen main warships, our army now has five offshore cruise ships and six sloop escort ships; The harbor fort is equipped with four cannons in red clothes, 357 other naval guns of various types, and 2,700 new flintlock muskets. Plenty of ammunition. Yue Zhongqi replied. Due to Yu Zhong's deliberate promotion, he is now the capital of the fourth grade, and at the same time, he also holds the position of "Haiphong No. 1" pipe belt, and follows closely behind Nian Qianyao.

"Three hundred and fifty-seven? Then leave twenty gates. …… The rest, all of them will be loaded on the ship tomorrow, and in addition, all the thirteen capital ships will fill the quota for me, and seven hundred of the two thousand seven hundred muskets will be left, and all the others will be sent down......" Yu Zhong stood up, and added: "Bring enough ammunition." “

"My lord, what happened?" Murcha looked at Yu Zhong and asked left and right twice, and then suddenly gave such an order, and couldn't help asking.

"Nothing. I'm bored, take everyone out for a walk. Yu Zhong smiled.

*******

Cai Yin has lived a very "freehand" life these days.

Think about it, not long ago, he was just a pirate leader with a few clippers under his command and one or two hundred brothers on the sea to catch some small shrimp to eat, but now, he is already "Megatron Tiannan".

And all of this is due to a person in Taiwan now: Liu Qizhi.

Although Kangxi sent people to pacify Taiwan, the rule of the Manchus in Taiwan was not very stable, and the officials were really not very good, and there were many evildoers, which caused great resentment among the people. In addition, the platform was first attached, there were many people and few people, none of the students were naturalized, and most of the familiar ones were unwilling to obey the orders of the government, so riots broke out frequently.

Starting from the Shilang platform, up to now, there have been three riots in Taiwan in more than ten years. In the autumn and July of the 35th year of Kangxi, Wu Qiu, a citizen of Taiwan County, plotted rebellion; As a result, he was detected in advance by Taiwan's Daogao Gonggan and the general Wang Guoxing, and he was designed to be captured, and it was pacified in less than a month. In the spring and February of the 38th year of Kangxi, in Tamsui, Taiwan, the Swallow Xiao Society was familiar, and the local officials Zhuo Ge and Zhuo Wu announced that the local governor Huang Shen was harsh, killed him, and raised troops to resist arrest. Taiwan's governor Chang Guangyu and staff general Zhang Yulin sent troops to discuss, and at the same time, they sent interpreters to lure the people of the shore to attack their rear, and the two armies fought for several months without success. In the summer of May, the leader of the Neibeitou Society, Bing Leng, also killed the local general Jin Xian and others, and sent people to collude with Zhuo Ge and Zhuo Wu to oppose the Qing Dynasty. In autumn and July, Bing Leng was attacked and captured alive by a general leader of Taiwan's naval division. In August, Zhuo Ge and Zhuo Wu were captured by the people of the shore society, and dedicated to Chang Guangyu and Zhang Yulin in front of the tent.

However, just two years after the anti-Qing incidents of Zhuo Ge, Zhuo Wu, and Iic, another anti-Qing uprising broke out in Taiwan.

Liu Qizhi, a county citizen of Zhuluo (now Chiayi County, Taiwan), usually conceited himself with his fists and sticks, and often interacted with some so-called "high-rollers" on weekdays. At the beginning of this year, he put camphor in his house and lit it in the middle of the night, causing a lot of smoke and red light. So, after this rumor took effect, he immediately gathered some of his nearby accomplices, led his team to destroy the local garrison, and plundered in all directions. When Bai Daolong, the general of the Taiwan North Road, learned of this, he immediately organized his army and defeated him. However, Liu Qizhi fled into the mountains and was difficult to capture for a while.

At this point, the matter should have come to an end, Bai Daolong even submitted the request to the imperial court, but no one thought that Liu Qizhi had already been connected with the Heaven and Earth Society, an absolutely resolute anti-Qing alliance.

Soon after Liu Qizhi's incident, the Fujian Tiandi Association had already gathered some of the people to help them, preparing to cross the sea to help. However, Liu Qizhi was defeated too quickly, and by the time their people found Zhuluo, Liu Qizhi had already run into the mountains.

However, this gang of Heaven and Earth Guild members did not intend to end here. Wu Dafu, one of the gangsters, pretended to be a resident of Taiwan, bought cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks, and took advantage of Bai Daolong's just victory, when he was getting carried away and lax his defense, he falsely claimed to be a sacrifice and stabbed Bai Daolong to death during the banquet.

As a result, Taiwan's officers and troops lost their leader, and there was chaos. The Heaven and Earth Society immediately raised the slogan of "Zheng" and once again rallied the people to rebel. After Liu Qizhi, who was hiding in the mountains, learned the news, he immediately ran out, and with his Taiwanese identity, he quickly became the leader of this "righteous army". And, led the team to capture Zhuluo, and then, taking advantage of the chaos of the official army, he colluded with the "Mountain Boar Mao" social students, and made an appointment to attack the officials and troops before and after, and broke it. After that, take advantage of the situation to conquer Fengshan.

At this point, the Qing government in Taiwan could no longer control the situation, so it had to hurriedly ask Fujian for help.

Fujian Naval Commander Lan Li had stepped down two years ago, and Fujian Governor Li Siyi and the newly appointed Governor Wu Ying carelessly underestimated the enemy, and only sent the general Ouyang Kai and the deputy general Xu Yun to lead 2,000 officers and soldiers of the Naval Division across the sea to fight. At this time, Liu Qizhi fell into Anping Town again, and with the collection of manpower along the way, the number of troops had exceeded 5,000. So, Ouyang Kai died in battle, and Xu Yun led his troops to retreat. And Liu Qizhi took advantage of the situation to attack for days, and the troops were already directed at the capital city of Taiwan. In order to avoid the fall of Fucheng, Xu Yun had no choice but to lead the remnants of the army to defend Fujian after sending his subordinates to report the emergency.

However, things always go so badly.

The boat on which the informant was sitting actually hit the mouth of Cai Yin, who happened to be passing by.

And the personal soldier sent by Xu Yun to report the news was not a hard-mouthed figure, and Cai Yin easily pried out a lot of things. And in the confession of this personal soldier, there was one thing that made Cai Yin's heart very excited: in the battle with Liu Qizhi, Xu Yun's men suffered a lot of casualties, because they were afraid that the troops defending the city would be insufficient, so they transferred all the troops and guns left behind on the ships they brought to defend the city, and now they are only some empty ships parked in the port.

So, Cai Yin, who was an outlaw himself, finally decided to lead his subordinates to touch it after thinking left and right.

Taking advantage of the night, people unknowingly intend to catch all the more than a dozen ships in their hands, and then fly away.

However, Cai Yin is greedy, and Liu Qizhi is not a fool. When Cai Yin and his people had just touched the shore, Liu Qizhi sent the men and horses to collect the boat also arrived. As a result, seeing that there were many people on the other side and they were menacing, Cai Yin did not dare to be an enemy with him, and lied that he wanted to defect. Moreover, he also handed over Xu Yun's letter-sending soldier to Liu Qizhi to show his sincerity.

At this point, the riot in Taiwan has finally entered a climax.

Liu Qizhi stuffed Cai Yin's fleet into his own soldiers and horses, and after Chefu controlled this "sailor", he was still worried that the Fujian navy army would attack, and no one on his side would be able to resist. After discussing with those people in the Heaven and Earth Society, he finally decided to take a risk: taking advantage of the fact that Taiwan's war report had not yet been known to Fujian, he first sent people disguised as Xu Yun's subordinates to cross the sea to deliver a message, falsely claiming a great victory, and confusing the governor Li Siyi and the naval commander Wu Ying. After that, Cai Yin was sent to lead the fleet to break into the port of the Fujian Navy Division at night and burn the warships there.

Originally, this plan was not a clever strategy. However, who told them to face the army of the Qing court, an army with a tradition of degeneration and corruption very quickly. Originally, when Shi Lang was the admiral of the Fujian Navy Division, the military discipline of the Fujian Navy Division was not bad. But after Shi Lang left, although Lan Li was born as a fierce general, he didn't pay much attention to this, although the combat effectiveness was still about the same, the military discipline gradually fell into disuse. And by the time Lan Li left again, Fujian's sailors would no longer be the same. The number of days going to sea has suddenly decreased, and even the usual training has mostly become a coping, only half of the more than 200 warships have gone to sea, coupled with the influence of the ideological trend of "the world is peaceful", I feel that the national strength of the Qing Dynasty is thriving, and no one dares to provoke it, so the defense has also become lax.

Moreover, the Heaven and Earth Association also has a hole card among the Fujian Water Divisions, and there is one of their undercover agents in it, and this person's official position is not low, he is a six-grade battalion general.

So, late one night, Cai Yin set fire to the periphery of the Fujian Navy Division's camp in Fujian's Tiandihui, diverting the attention of the officers and soldiers of the Navy, and under the cover of the more than 300 Tiandihui gangers who took advantage of the chaos to change into Qing army clothes and sneaked into the sailors' camp, they sent small boats and found those warships with a large amount of fire oil. It's as easy as that...... Go up in flames.

At the same time, taking advantage of the chaos, Cai Yin and the battalion general also took people to "walk" more than 30 large and small warships. Moreover, the battalion commander was even more resolute in blowing up the warehouse where the sailor had stored Huoyao, along with the hundreds of artillery guns stored in it that could not be taken away.

At this point, Tiannan is shaking! The Qing court is shaken!

Kangxi was furious, dismissed Li Siyi and Wu Ying, and at the same time, transferred troops in Fujian. But......

There are not enough boats!

Yes, there are still many sailors under the command of the Qing court. Poyang Lake, Dongting Lake, Jiangsu, Zhejiang...... Sailors are simply everywhere. However, the Fujian Naval Division was the center of gravity of the Qing Naval Division, and in addition, there was only one Guangdong Naval Division that had just been formed, but because the task of the Qing Imperial Naval Division was not to go overseas to fight, but to patrol the coastal areas and guard the coast, the combat object was limited to pirates. Therefore, the biggest flaw of the ships of the Guangdong Navy Division is that the ships are small. It can't be compared with the Fujian Navy warship specially built in order to pacify Taiwan and fight with the Zheng family's sailors. Today, all the more than 200 warships of the Fujian Navy Division have either been burned to ashes or can no longer go to the sea, although there are still dozens of ships whose lives are good and have not been burned, but these ships are not Cai Yin's opponents at all. …… Cai Yin's guy and the warships that Mr. Yingqian, who knew a lot about the Fujian Naval Division, took a fancy to, and more than a dozen of them were the main warships of the Fujian Naval Division. Although it has been a long time, after so many years of tinkering, almost all of the ship's planks have been replaced with brand new, plus the ship has just been equipped with dozens of naval guns because of the Taiwan rebellion, and has not yet had time to be removed...... So, these ships were much stronger than those of other naval divisions.

At the same time, Liu Qizhi ordered Cai Yin to follow the example of Taiwan's Zheng clan and lead the newly formed fleet to harass the coastal area, disrupt the order in the southeast, and stir up the southeastern coastal provinces into a porridge, and the situation became worse and worse.

……

What to do?

It was suggested that Kangxi collect merchant ships that were engaged in overseas trade and convert them into warships. As a result, the matter was vetoed by Kangxi. He didn't recruit ships when he attacked Taiwan, and he won't do it now. Moreover, in the great chaos in the southeast, Heaven and Earth and some other anti-Qing groups will take the opportunity to make noise, and the people's will is already unstable, and if they ask those merchants for ships again, they will be used by people with good intentions to distort their meaning, and if they provoke an uprising in the interior, the situation will be even more unfavorable.

Some people also suggested that the other naval warships should be gathered and handed over to Lan Li, who was the commander of the army, and forcibly crossed the sea with more people and fewer people. However, this suggestion was even more refuted by Kangxi and Lan Li, who was summoned to Beijing. If the naval battle had only relied on a large number of people and a large number of ships, then it would not have taken so long to make preparations for the pacification of Taiwan in the first place. Most of the warships of the other naval divisions of the Qing court could only swim on the seashore, and there were not enough of them, and most of them could not hold a few cannons. This kind of ship can only become the target of Cai Yin, who has been living at sea for so many years.

It is difficult to leave and right, and the officials of the Qing court discussed and discussed it like this, but they couldn't think of a good way.

……

Everything has to have a boat.

Moreover, this fleet must be able to lead a large army to sea and engage in naval battles at the same time.

……

After thinking about it left and right, finally, the sea cucumber and little-known sea cucumber master who has always been unknown entered the eyes of Kangxi and the four ministers of the upper study.