Changshan Island, located north of Dengzhou, is a large island between the Shandong Peninsula and the Liaodong Peninsula.

After the Battle of Yanzhou, the Liang army quickly headed north and occupied the Northern Ming puppet troops in Jinan and Denglai areas. They were unable to retreat and were blocked on the Shandong Peninsula.

Some of them surrendered to Liang State, while some retreated to Dengzhou, followed Zu Kefa and fled to Changshan Island with hundreds of sea boats.

Originally, Zu Kefa was preparing to continue fleeing north and heading to the Liaodong Peninsula, but the Qing Dynasty suffered a great defeat and the people in the country were unstable. The Manchus were worried about the Han rebellion. The Qing court immediately ordered Zu Kefa to stay on Changshan Island and prohibited him from leading the defeated army to land in Liaodong, so as not to erode Manchu's territory.

The Qing Dynasty did not allow Zu Kefa to go to Liaodong, nor did they allow them to go to Hebei. Instead, Zu Kefa stayed on Changshan Island and led the navy to raid the Shandong Peninsula to support the Qing army in the future counterattack of Shandong.

Since evacuating to Changshan Island in November last year, Zu Kefa has been on the island for half a year.

Recently, the Liang State purged the honorary relatives and officials and gentry of the Northern Ming Dynasty in Shandong. In order to avoid the cleansing of the Liang State, many local tyrants and evil gentry fled to Changshan Island with their families, leaving the island with tens of thousands of people.

For a time, Changshan Island's strength increased greatly and became the Qing army's anti-liang base outside Shandong.

Zu Kefa then contacted the pseudo-Ming forces and the gentry on the Shandong Peninsula, and constantly dispatched ships to loot coastal prefectures and counties, and seized a large amount of money, grain and supplies.

In order to control the local area and avoid being reduced by the Liang State, those pseudo-Ming officials and gentry deliberately supported Zu Kefa and wanted to play the trick of raising the bandits to respect themselves. However, they did not want to clean up the Liang State, so they eliminated all these pseudo-Ming officials and gentry.

At this time, Changshan Island had become a pirate's nest.

On the hillsides on the island, there are shacks built by defeated soldiers, living in soldiers, sailors, and numerous families.

In the bay, more than a hundred sea boats of all sizes are moored on the side, and forts are being built on the shore.

At this time, five three-masted sea boats returned to the bay, and the ships approached the shore and stopped with the help of sailors on the dock.

The Qing army on the ship then lowered the boards, and the sailors took a group of women off the ship.

After the Liang army occupied Shandong, although Hong Chengchou organized an exiled government in Beijing, the Northern Ming Dynasty had actually died in name only, so the Qing court re-accompanied the Northern Ming army.

A large number of former pseudo-Ming officials gathered on Changshan Island were also enthroned by the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Zu Kefa was the admiral of the Shandong Navy, Fang Dayou was the governor, and Sun Zhixie was the censor, forming the team of Changshan Island.

At this time, in the simple hall, Fang Dayou and Sun Zhixie were discussing things when they suddenly saw Zu Kefa walking in with a calm face.

"The Zu Jun Gate is back!" the two of them couldn't help but look at each other.

Zu Kefa walked to his seat and sat down, putting his helmet aside.

Sun Zhixie frowned and said, "Is there nothing seized?"

Changshan Island is just a slightly larger island. Tens of thousands of anti-Rich forces gathered on the island, and a large amount of food and grass are consumed every day.

Now the Northern Ming government is in exile, with only one brand left, and the Qing Dynasty has also suffered heavy losses. There is no extra supplies to support Changshan Island, so the island's supply can only be found by themselves.

Zu Kefa said in a deep voice: "Gao Huan is carrying out a great purge in Shandong. Our inner responsibilities are either killed or imprisoned. I led the fleet to Fushan. When I went there, I found that Li Shou, who promised to be our inner responsibilities, was tricked by Gao Huan to Jinan and killed him."

Fang Dayou frowned and said, "So, I failed to capture Fushan County, nor did I seize the food and grass."

Zu Kefa shook his head and said, "The Liang soldiers have already been stationed in the county. I have attacked three times but failed to capture them. I can only plunder a few nearby towns and then return to Changshan Island."

"Gao Huan is cunning! Now all over the country should be eliminated. What should we do in the future?" Sun Zhixie was a little worried.

The three of them were silent for a moment, and Zu Kefa gritted his teeth and said, "If we can't defeat the county town, we will rob the countryside and arrest some people. Men sell them to be coolies, and women sell them to be prostitutes."

After being a pirate for several months, Zu Kefa also had some knowledge of the situation at sea. He knew that the Western barbarians needed population and went to Nanyang to do things for them.

The indigenous people in the South China Sea were relatively lazy. The Western barbarians needed to build colonies, and they needed Han people of higher quality.

Fang Dayou and Sun Zhixie did not object after hearing Zu Kefa's words. They were both bannermen and no longer regarded the Han people as their own.

"It is indeed a way to plunder Shandong's population and then sell it to Hongmao Yi and Wa Kingdom." Sun Zhixiu said: "However, if we attack Shandong in large quantities, we will definitely be regarded as a thorn in our eyes by Gao Huan, and the Liang army will inevitably focus on encirclement and suppress us."

Zu Kefa sneered, "There is nothing to worry about. Liang State on the coast of Shandong Province has no naval army. Our general's fleet will come whenever he wants, and leave whenever he wants. Liang army has no way to deal with us."

Fang Dayou nodded and said, "The Zujun Gate is talking about things. We are on Changshan Island, and the Liang army cannot attack us, but our fleet can attack at any time. The coast of Shandong is thousands of miles long, and the Liang army cannot set up defenses everywhere, so we can choose to land at any location. This means that only we attack Gao Huan, but Gao Huan cannot attack us. We can be said to be invincible."

The three of them talked for a while, motivated each other, and gradually restored their morale and confidence.

Zu Kefa said: "This time I have brought back more than 300 women and contacted Hongmaoyi, Zheng family and Japan, I will give you my request."

Fang Dayou said: "Recently, Red Mahogany has come to the island every month. I will discuss it with them when I go."

After the Qing army retreated to Changshan Island, for the past six months, it often plundered the coast of Shandong and robbed a large number of supplies.

The Western Yi and Zheng family who were active at sea were very well-informed, so they brought the food and military funds needed on the island to exchange for the porcelain, cloth, tea and women they stolen, forming a trade network similar to that of the Japanese pirates back then.

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On the sea west of Dengzhou, Shandong, two gunboats flying Liangjun flags were sailing on the sea, sailing towards Penglai.

The sea near China is near Ningbo as the middle line. The ocean in the south has deep and high waves, and the sea in the south is mostly made of sharp-bottomed boats, while the water near the north is shallow and small. In order to facilitate near-shore transportation, flat-bottomed sand boats are used.

However, it does not mean that the north cannot sail the slashed boat. In fact, in addition to sailing near the sea, if you want to travel far away, you still have to use the slashed boat to resist North Korea and Japan.

At this time, the two gunboats sailed through the wind and waves, sailing all the way, gradually approaching the Penglai Sea.

"Train!" A sailor walked up the boat tower and reported: "Penglai County is ahead."

Gu Sanmazi stood at the bow of the boat, looking at the vast sea and the coastline to the south, and couldn't help but sigh, "It's been more than ten years, but I didn't expect there will be a day back."

Huang Fei, who was standing next to him, saw the sea near Dengzhou, and felt quite emotional, "Yes! It's been almost ten years in a flash."

Gao Huan summoned Huang Fei to Shandong and prepared to make him the governor of the Beiyang Navy, so he happened to come to Shandong to pay homage to Gao Huan on two northbound gunboats.

At this time, Huang Fei looked at Gu Sanmazi and asked with a smile: "Guardian Gu has done it under Mao Shuai!"

Gu Sanmazi nodded and recalled: "At that time, Bei Zhi only followed the sailors who ran the boat, and the general was already a guerrilla warrior in the Denglaidao Water Camp."

Huang Fei nodded slightly, "It's been many years in a flash."
Chapter completed!