What happened in northern Sichuan was simply a small splash of water that rose in the river, and would not have any impact on the overall situation at all. For example, the coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang thousands of miles away.

Cai Qian was driving a thousand-ton sailing warship, followed by a series of small sloop warships and a batch of transport ships. The vast fleet appeared in the Dinghai Overseas Sea like a long dragon.

The morning mist has not yet dissipated yet. Through the telescope, the scene on the shore I saw was still very vague. However, the terrain can be roughly distinguished.

This is the area they had chosen long ago. Although there was no port and large ships could not be berthed at all. The waterline here was deep enough to allow sailing warships to easily reach the coastline by 100 meters, and the Qing army's defense was also very relaxed.

So it's a good login site.

There are not many people on the shore, but there is a beacon smoke pier on a certain high slope, which is still a creation from the Ming Dynasty. According to information, a small army of about thirty or twenty people is stationed in the beacon tower.

The beacon has been lit at this moment.

"This is the first time I have done a big thing, and no one is allowed to lose the chain. Whoever dares to embarrass me, will throw his head away!"

Cai Qian's eyes were shining brightly.

Earlier, when he was guarding Zhaojiagang, he expected the Dutch to come and greet him. But there was a place where he knew that the Dutch were restless and the local people had to take care of themselves, so naturally he had no time to come to greet Zhaojiagang again.

Then he could only stay in Nanyang and watch others make achievements.

Although the fleet under his command is simply the essence of Zhao Liang's Navy, it is also a model for the future development of the Zhao Navy.

But it's not a good thing. What's the use of what you said?

Originally, they gathered the essence of the entire Nanyang Fleet, and the officers and soldiers drawn were among the best people under the Zhu brothers, but now more and more people would rather turn back and drive the red single ship.

Cai Qian was as anxious as if she had grown hair.

This time I came north to see Zhao Liang, and directly brought half of my subordinates, saying that I would do anything to achieve military achievements.

Zhao Liang did not give him face, so he would not say anything on the way he came, and he could release himself on the way back. Zhao Liang also specially greeted the Beiyang Fleet, which was not very strong, and transferred a group of ships as transport ships, carrying a full Marine brigade on it.

It is also a super-large reinforcement regiment with five establishments and a full 3,000 people, which is comparable to a local garrison division.

At the request of Cai Qian and others, the No. 1 ship led by him, that is, the thousand-ton sailing ship that Cai Qian personally took over, slowly approached the coast with two 500-ton sloop warships.

A cannon on the side of the door aimed at the small smoke pier.

Cai Qian was not prepared to take a sneak attack. Although he was engaged in a sneak attack, he was only trying to find the enemy's weaknesses and did not touch the Qing army's important defense, he was still "open and upright".

This is all over the place, so I must say hello to the owner loud enough!

From the telescope, he had seen the Qing army panicked and messy figures on the beacon tower. Cai Qian raised his arm high and then suddenly waved it: "Fire!"

"Boom..."

With the rumbling cannons, fires burst out and rocks flew. The small beacon tower was instantly submerged in dust and smoke.

This beacon tower was just a rammed earth building at the earliest. When the Japanese pirates were raging, they were changed to bricks and stones by the Ming Dynasty government. They are still very strong.

But it is precisely because its first task during construction is to monitor the enemy situation at sea, so it is chosen to be on a high ground with a wide field of view, close to the sea, so it is also very close to the cannons from the sea.

It was a bit of a bullying to use three warships to siege a beacon tower without any power to fight back. After just one round of cannons, the brick-and-stone beacon tower was smashed to pieces.

After the volley was over and the dust and smoke slightly dissipated, Cai Qian calmly issued a login order.

A large number of small boats hanging on both sides of the transport ship have been put down. The soldiers also lined up in several rows and climbed onto the boat along the rope net hanging on the side. As soon as the order arrived, they immediately shouted "Hiyo" and rowed towards the coast.

Each ship was loaded with a small team, fifty or sixty small boats, and a battalion of land soldiers were transported on it.

Before the Qing army's large troops stationed in the county on the south coast of Zhoushan Island arrived, four standard land war battalions had been sent to land, but the subsequent artillery operation encountered trouble.

Bronze cannons weighing hundreds of pounds are not so easy to deliver to the shore.

It is not difficult for ordinary infantry to catch the beach on a small boat, but bronze cannons are much more troublesome. Even the two big red ships loaded with artillery are equipped with cranes - simple lifting devices composed of pulley sets and cantilever systems, which are specially used for lifting heavy objects. Not only are they used in the army, but they are also popular in various ports controlled by Chen Jun.

These bulky bronze cannons were split into several parts. Whether it was the barrel or the cannon truck, they were firmly fixed on a large raft that was urgently formed by wooden barrels, wooden boards and thick logs, and were carefully laid to the sea through a crane. The number of empty barrels on each raft was calculated, only more is allowed but not less is allowed to be, so as to ensure that sufficient buoyancy is provided.

After the raft is in the sea, it is towed to the shore with a small boat, then unbuttoned the fixed cables, disassembled the raft, and laid the logs and wooden boards on the beach to make a simple plank road, so that the cannon wheels can be kept in the mud...

In short, an army light artillery requires at least twenty or thirty people to serve in front and behind. This is just a light artillery, the largest being a five-pound cannon, and it is a light bronze cannon.

When it was dawn, the four full land battle camps had already landed. As a result, when the sun was in the middle of the sky, the artillery battalion was all sent to the shore.

However, the Chen army soldiers had lunch on the land and had a rest. It was almost three o'clock in the afternoon when the Qing army appeared.

Dinghai Town has only 3,000 troops and eight battalions, which is still the case with full force.

But apart from Xiangshan Association, Shipu Navy Camp and Zhenhaicheng Camp, Zhoushan Island only has Zhenbiao Sanying and Dinghaicheng Camp.

There are only one thousand sixteen or seven hundred people in the full mailing.

The general Yilenge was a man of the Manchurian Zhengbai Banner. He was previously the deputy general of the Left Camp of Hebiao, Jiangnan, Jiangbei. When the Qing army was defeated in northern Jiangsu, he fled to Huai'an first and then Yangzhou, and finally ran to Zhenjiang helplessly.

Although they were defeated in a row, they were bannermen? Not only were they not dealt with, they were promoted to the position of general.

After taking office, Yileng'er caught a fierce team training and recruited Zhoushan fishermen to serve as a brave man. The reason was that this place could not provide him with safety at all.

The Qing army naval forces in Fujian and Guangdong have been beaten one by one by one by the Zhao fleet. They just didn't come to attack Jiangsu and Zhejiang, not because they couldn't defeat Jiangsu and Zhejiang naval forces.

Zhoushan is surrounded by the sea and is located in the vast ocean. Once he is defeated, he has no place to escape.

But surrendering is too rude. The main reason is that his family is still in the capital, so he dare not surrender.

Then we can only recruit people as much as possible to resist to the end.

At the same time, it vigorously strengthened the fortifications in Shenjiamen and Dinghai County, and built a large number of fortresses. After the trenches came, it drove the people to dig a large number of trenches.

But what I could not have imagined was that Chen Jun came to conquer Dinghai, not the Dinghai County Wharf, nor did he go to Shenjiamen Wharf, but landed on the north bank of Zhoushan Island. Isn’t this funny?
Chapter completed!