The news conveyed by Zhou Changyun immediately made the restaurant explode. These were all businessmen who came out of the sea, not ignorant local buns in the country. Naturally, they knew the strength of the United States overseas, but they still seemed a little unbelievable when they heard that they wanted to guide Denglai.

"Brother Zhou, Brother Rong asked casually, this is the island barbarian... Oh, what is your country's intention to act in Denglai? Should I follow Jiangnan or use Guangdong and Guangxi as a template?" The speaker was extremely humble, but he expressed the voices of everyone here, which resonated with everyone.

People are eager to know what the United States is here to do, whether it is to grab a hand and leave like in Jiangnan last year, or is it similar to Guangdong and Guangxi, and to deepen their business and take the basis for its management?

"This involves our country's strategy. What do people like me know about it, but you can rest assured that if you are willing to contribute to the United States, the United States will definitely not treat you badly, and will not let you be harmed by the Qing emperors! This red scarf amulet is effective within three months. Please keep it properly. Our country's soldiers will naturally not invade. If there is any dispatch within three months, I will notify you. What do you think?" Zhou Changyun asked with his fist.

"It's so good, so good!" Many merchants stood up one after another, and they also understood the key point. This is a talisman given to them by the United States, so as not to lose too much in the war. When they can use them, they will notify them separately. Whether to do it or not depends entirely on their own will. This is a matter of not suffering, everyone naturally agreed.

"Then everyone, please let me know, it's going to be bright soon." Zhou Changyun pointed to the white fish belly that came out of the window and said with a smile.

Everyone left one after another and headed to Dengzhou City south of the Shuicheng. Zhou Changyun breathed a sigh of relief and clapped his hands. A young man with a deer-headed rat walked out from behind the door. Although he looked bad, he was an intelligence officer from the Security Bureau. Zhou Changyun complained: "Why did you inform these merchants in advance? Wouldn't you leak military aircraft? Besides, these people are also wealthy merchants. If they were taken in one fell swoop, the gains would be great."

The young man said: "The people of the world are like a mess. If you want to use their intelligence, you need someone to plan. Even if the officials, gentry, military and businessmen have such ability, they will completely wipe out all their minds. Wouldn't the United States have no arms or help?"

This is also summarized by the commander-in-chief's incident in Jiangnan. It fights against the Qing Dynasty, especially in the areas where the Qing Dynasty actually controlled, the army will be destroyed, the bureaucrats will be attacked, and the gentry will be searched. If even the merchants are wiped out, there will be no grassroots organizations in the local area. In any case, the army cannot be allowed to be the grain chief and the foreman.

It was dawn, and the news of wolf smoke coming from Qishan District appeared in the eyes of the garrison of Denglai Shuicheng at the same time as the first wave of landing troops. The garrison immediately ordered the preparations for war, pulled the soldiers out of the casino, kiln and tavern in Shuicheng, and threw them onto the city wall. The rapid response of the garrison could not bring any substantial changes. After all, the Dengzhou Naval Division had less than 350 people in total. In fact, due to the shortage of food and salary, it never exceeded 300. Nanxun troops were sent to Jiaozhou Bay. At this time, there were less than 200 people in Shuicheng, and even if they were all pulled up to the city wall, it would be useless.

Of course, the garrison's reaction was not useless. He captured more than a dozen spies who were preparing to destroy the Water Gate Gate and the Red Barbarian Cannon in the North City Wall, and the plan of the Marine Corps to enter the Water City directly failed.

The front line commander was Wu Xing, the garrison commander of the Ocean Island Fortress. This Shandong man who had been alone on the Ocean Island for four years had 1,200 Ocean Island Guards under his command, two brigades of 1,000 Marines, and a 400-man task force led by Zhao Junsu. Within three days, the second wave of reinforcements would arrive, an army field battalion and an artillery battalion.

Seeing that the capital city failed, Wu Xing gave up on landing in the water city. After all, the waterway here has not been dredged for seven or eight years, and the big ship cannot be approached at all. If you want to rely on a small boat, you should fight ten meters high and three hundred meters long. The north wall and water gate of the water city equipped with six red cannons were a death sentence.

Fortunately, the water city garrison had few troops, and the soldiers in Dengzhou City did not respond. The military immediately set the landing site at Tianheng Mountain. A large brigade of marines landed first. Cooperated with Zhao Junsu's 400 task force camp, they bypassed the water city and came between Dengzhou City and Water City, and directly formed a square array to separate the two cities and cover other troops to land.

In the afternoon, the green camp soldiers in Dengzhou City launched an attack, but the number was only 300. Although they were all cavalrymen, they were helpless in the face of the hedgehog-like square formation of the land battle camp. They surrounded the square formation and looked for opportunities. Not only did they not find their weaknesses, they were shot dead and injured by more than 30. Dengzhou City gave up their assistance to the Water City. During the whole day, nearly 1,500 people and four field artillery landed under the command of Wuxing, and completely gained a foothold.

At this time, Dengzhou was no longer the world-class town in the early years of Chongzhen. At its peak, Denglai had recently gathered 100,000 troops. After all, this was the front line of fighting against Liaodong and the logistics base of the Liaoxi Corridor. Kong Youde rebelled destroyed Dengzhou Town and has not recovered since then. During the retreat of Denglai, Huang Fei swept the elite troops near Dengzhou. The Qing Dynasty occupied Shandong, inherited the Ming Dynasty system, and established a system including the governor of Denglai, but did not set up Dengzhou Town. Although it was not as brilliant as before, the three camps of Dengzhou, Wendeng and Laizhou, plus the garrisons of Jiaodong, were not a problem. But the problem is that Dengzhou is not the front line.

The Green Camp was a inferior person in the Qing Dynasty system, but in the end it was also a field force and a standing army. However, the standing army of the Qing Dynasty was different from the United States. The Green Camp was not only a field force, but also had to play many official roles such as police, patrol, and rivers on weekdays. Of course, the Green Camp also worked part-time as a small merchant and handicraft. Otherwise, the Green Camp's annual salary of twenty-four taels would not be able to support itself.

(It should be pointed out that the 24 taels of Green Camp also have to purchase lead ammunition at your own expense for training and military uniforms.)

The Green Camp itself is a lower-class person, and Dengzhou Town is even a lower-class person among the lower-class persons. The reason is that there are too many fronts in the Qing Dynasty and its financial resources are not enough. In this case, the first thing to satisfy is the front-line troops, so in the southeast and southwest directions, the Green Camp rarely owes wages, but the generally pacified north is different. It is common to owe wages, and it is also different. For example, the Green Camp in eastern and western Shandong has to deal with peasant armed forces such as Yuyuan thieves, so the wages are in a reasonable range. The three soldiers of Dengzhou are in a state of flood prevention and sea prevention all year round, and it is also an idle thing not to pay wages for half a year.

Zhu Guozhu, the governor of Denglai, located in Dengzhou City, just took office at the beginning of this year. Before receiving the invasion of the island barbarians, Zhu Guozhu's biggest confusion was how to keep his official position. After all, the establishment of the governor of Denglai was to deal with Liaodong. Now Liaodong and Shandong are all the Qing Dynasty, and this position should have been revoked. However, the invasion of the island barbarians changed all this. Zhu Guozhu must weigh the power in his hands to prevent the situation of "lost land and trapped in the city, and punished for crimes."

The three camps near Dengzhou, the strongest Wendeng Camp is in Weihai, and the Laizhou Camp is in Laizhou. After being able to deal with the island barbarians, the two thousand soldiers of Dengzhou Camp are even more embarrassed. But what makes them even more embarrassing is that most of the soldiers are in the flood area, and it will take three days to assemble. At this time, Zhu Guozhu's subordinates were not only the 200 navy troops surrounded by Shuicheng, but also the 700 horse stairs in Dengzhou City.

It is impossible to assist the water city and drive the island barbarians into the sea. What Zhu Guozhu has to do is to defend Dengzhou City and wait for reinforcements. The Wuxing will not give Zhu Guozhu this opportunity. On August 12, the second year of Yongli, the Wuxing sent Zhao Junsu to lead the task force and garrison battalion to attack the water city, while he led the Marines to block Dengzhou reinforcements.

The six-pound field artillery flew across the battlements of the Water City, and the volleys of flintlock guns swept across the board from time to time. Without the cover of the female wall, the officers and soldiers of the Dengzhou Navy dared not show their heads. Some of them hurried in a corner of the city wall, for fear of being watched by Shangguan, but were killed and injured by the falling bricks and stones.

The Korean garrison stood at the top of the city and looked at everything familiar in front of him in a daze. The flames had already ignited on the wooden buildings in the city. The rolling smoke filled most of the city. The shelling stopped. Standing here, you can see the United States' army surging from the gap. This is a new force recently. All of them were covered with double armor. The shiny breastplate could not be penetrated. And to the north of the channel, a large number of sand ships were approaching, which shows that the enemy was confident that they would attack the city wall.

An unknown anger rose in the chest of Korean Qi. He no longer cared about stopping the fleeing soldiers, nor suppressing the looted soldiers, nor preventing the enemies who climbed up. He was very angry, angry that the enemy in front of him did not follow the rules at all - they should persuade them to surrender!

The artillery fire and elite soldiers have proved the strength of the other party, which is enough to surrender the unfaithful naval officers and soldiers. They just need to tell everyone to maintain the original treatment of everyone and protect the personal property of the officers and soldiers. Is this a harsh requirement? Of course not. In the Ming and Qing Wars, after persuading the opponents to surrender, all of them were promoted to the title!

"We just demand to maintain the status quo. Is this difficult?" Han Qi murmured to himself, his face full of reluctance.

Lead flew everywhere, the soldiers knelt on the ground, and their hands and feet were quickly cut off their braids. A group of soldiers surrounded them and quickly lined up on both sides. Zhao Junsu walked out of the crowd. Han Qi saw the face clearly and said, "It's you, I recognize you. Four years ago, you were just the general flag of a garrison."

"You are just a general, surrendering to the Qing Dynasty and becoming a guard." Zhao Junsu stood with a knife, his eyes facing his former Shangguan!

"You should give your previous robes a chance to change your family, rather than surrendering to save your life!" Han Qi said angrily.

Zhao Junsu shook his head: "This is our rule."

"Silly rules, you can't sit in the world if you treat gentry, officials and generals so harshly!" Han Qi said angrily.

Zhao Junsu waved his hand and signaled the troops to come forward, saying, "Korean Enterprise, from the moment you surrender to the Qing Dynasty, your destiny was destined. No one could escape unscathed after hurting this nation. This is our rule!"

Han Qi pulled out the Yanling Knife and looked around the young faces around him. He said miserably: "Zhao Junsu, I can at least let two people be buried with him, but... there is no need."

As he said that, the knife was inserted into the owner's heart. On his dying moment, Han Qi said: "Go to Chengshanwei, Zuo Qianhu Institution, the person you are looking for is... there..."

Han Qi's body landed on the ground with a bang. Zhao Junsu squatted beside him, closed his eyes, and said to the people around him: "Can him bury him."

Zhao Junsu did not treat the Qing naval officers and soldiers, but asked them to operate the six captured ships of the Qing army to assist the subsequent troops of the United States Army in landing. The waterways in Dengzhou Water City were severely silted, and only sharp-bottomed ships below 200 tons and sand ships below 300 tons can enter. But the advantage is that the ships can enter the inner port through the water gate, and there are ready-made barracks between the dock and the east and west city walls.

Large ships can enter the Water City, and have ready-made docks, which plays a great role in the landing of the artillery battalion. The twelve twelve-pound cannons and six eighteen-pound cannons of the Artillery battalion used the Water City channel to get ashore. That night, an artillery position was built between the Water City and the north gate of Dengzhou City, while the light four-pound cannons and six-pound cannons were mounted on the south wall of the Water City to cover the artillery position under the city.

During the two days when Wu Xing attacked the Shuicheng, soldiers and horses continued to gather in the city in the winter area near Dengzhou Camp. Now Zhu Guozhu has 1,55 soldiers under his command. Not only Dengzhou Camp, but also the nearby Wendeng and the second Laizhou Battalion were gathered in again. However, these soldiers could not defend Dengzhou City with a circumference of three miles and four gates. Wu Xing was unwilling to fight with his own side with the enemy's back on Dengzhou City. After the second wave of landing troops came ashore, they gathered 2,000 people and led Zhao Junsu to fight eastward, making a move to block the largest Wendeng Camp from the battlefield. Wu Xing personally led the troops to attack the city and shouted the slogan of capturing Dengzhou City and entering the city to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The 12-meter-high city wall in Dengzhou City became a disadvantage in front of heavy artillery. The solid shells fired by the 12-pound cannon and the 18-pound cannon directly aimed at the waist of the northern city wall and bombarded violently. After a long time of shelling, the female wall, the squat and the city tower were gone. The bricks of the outer wall were all peeled off. One day the shelling, the rammed loess at the waist of the wall were peeling off, and huge holes appeared. The Qing soldiers no longer dared to stand on the city wall, and the holes outside could not be repaired. On the afternoon of August 14, the northern city wall of Dengzhou collapsed in a large area with a deafening rumbling sound, and at least forty feet of the city wall fell outward.

The firing angle of the heavy artillery was lowered and aimed at the gap in the city wall. The martial arts army ordered people to attack. Hundreds of elite soldiers shouted to charge, causing the Green Camp soldiers to counterattack and blocked the gap, but were smashed by the heavy artillery. In this way, the morale of the defenders in the city was greatly reduced. In the evening, the martial arts army sent 800 people wearing iron armor to attack the gap. Zhu Guozhu took out all the silver treasury in the city. With a heavy reward, the Dengzhou camp defended the gap.
Chapter completed!