"Liang Gong, how many soldiers are there now in our sea cucumber?" Yu Zhong sat at a rectangular conference table and asked Nian Gengyao who was sitting on the left.

"Sir Hui, the total number of Haichuanwei's registered soldiers was 8,764, plus 1,432 servants, and the total number of soldiers was 10,196." Nian Gengyao replied respectfully. After Yu Zhong's years, his life was not as sad as expected. On the contrary, Yu Zhong handed over most of Haichuanwei's affairs to him. Although his life was a little tired, there was nothing after getting used to it.

"Well. Dongmei, how are our equipment?" Yu Zhong asked Yue Zhongqi, who was sitting on his right head.

"Sir, in addition to the thirteen main warships, our army now has five offshore cruise ships and six single-mast escort ships; the port turret has four red-clothed cannons, the remaining 357 guns of various types, and 2,700 new flintlock muskets. There are sufficient ammunition." Yue Zhongqi replied. Due to Yu Zhong's deliberate promotion, he is now the fourth-rank Dusi. At the same time, he is also in charge of the "Sea Defense One" management position, chasing behind Nian Gengyao.

"Three hundred and fifty-seven? Then leave twenty doors behind... The rest will be loaded onto the ship tomorrow. In addition, all the thirteen main ships will fill me with the designated personnel, and two thousand seven hundred muskets will be left with seven hundred, and the others will be sent..." Yu Zhong stood up and then added: "Bring ammunition enough."

"Sir, what happened?" Murcha looked at Yu Zhong and asked around twice before suddenly giving such an order, and couldn't help asking.

"It's nothing. I'm bored, take everyone out for a walk." Yu Zhong said with a smile.

*******

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

Think about it, not long ago, he was just a pirate leader with several clutches under his command and took one or two hundred brothers to catch some shrimps at sea to eat. Now, he is already "huge in the south of the world".

And all of this is attributed to a person in Taiwan now: Liu Quzhi.

Although Kangxi sent people to pacify Taiwan, the Qing Dynasty's rule in Taiwan was not very stable, and the officials were really not very good. There were many people who committed evil, which caused great public grievances. In addition, the first affiliation of the Taiwan Strait was that there were many people and few people. Their children were not naturalized, and most of them were unwilling to obey the government's orders, so riots frequently broke out.

From Shi Lang platform to now, in more than ten years, three riots have erupted in Taiwan. In the autumn of the 35th year of the Kangxi reign, Wu Qiu, a Taiwanese county resident, planned to rebel; as a result, he was killed by the Taiwanese general, Wang Guoxing, and the general, was investigated in advance and planned to capture him. In less than a month. In the spring of the 38th year of the Kangxi reign, in the Tanshui area, the Tunxiao Society was well-off, and Zhuo Wu claimed that Huang Shenke was unstoppable in the local affairs, so he killed him and raised an army to resist arrest. Taiwan's Dao Chang Guangyu,

The general Zhang Yulin sent troops to fight, and at the same time, he sent a translator to lure Anli Shesheng to attack the rear. The two armies fought for several months but failed. In May of the summer, Bing Leng, the leader of the Neibeitou Shesheng, also killed local officials and Jin Xian and others, and sent people to join Zhuo Ge and Zhuo Wu to fight against the Qing Dynasty. In July of the autumn, Bing Leng was attacked alive by a Taiwanese navy leader. In August, Zhuo Ge and Zhuo Wu were captured alive by Anli Shesheng and presented them to Chang Guangyu and Zhang Yulin's tent. The two officials ordered people to behead him and convey his head to the public.

However, just two years after the cold anti-Qing incident, another anti-Qing uprising broke out in Taiwan.

Liu Quezhi, a county resident of Zhuluo (now Chiayi County, Taiwan), usually takes a self-conceited with fists and sticks, and often deals with some so-called "heroes in the world". At the beginning of this year, he secretly placed camphor in his house and lit it late at night, causing a lot of smoke and red light. As a result, when local people asked him, he said that he had obtained the destiny, so there was a red candle in his home. So, after the rumor came into effect, he immediately integrated some of his nearby accomplices, led a team to destroy the local garrison camp, and robbed them everywhere. Bai Daolong, the general of the North Road gang of Taiwan, learned about this, and immediately reorganized the army and defeated him. However, Liu Quezhi fled into the mountains and was difficult to capture for a while.

At this point, it should have come to an end. Bai Daolong even submitted his memorials to the court, but no one expected that Liu Quzhi would have any connection with the absolutely resolute anti-Qing alliance of Tiandihui.

Shortly after Liu Quezhi's uprising, the Fujian Tiandihui tribes gathered some gang members to help him. However, Liu Quezhi was defeated too quickly. When their people found Zhuluo, Liu Quezhi had already run into the deep mountains.

However, the gang members of the Tiandihui Society did not plan to end there. Wu Dafu, one of the gang members, pretended to be a Taiwanese resident and bought cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks. While Bai Daolong had just won the victory and was complacent and was relaxed, he pretended to be rewarding the army and stabbed Bai Daolong to death during the meal.

As a result, the Taiwanese government army lost its leader and was in chaos. The Tiandihui Gang immediately put out the "Zheng" slogan and gathered the people to rebel again. After Liu Quzhi, who was hiding in the mountains, learned the news, he immediately ran out and quickly became the leader of this "rebel army" with his identity as a Taiwanese. He also led his team to capture Zhu Luo, and then, taking advantage of the chaos of the government army, he colluded with the "Shanzhu Mao" societies, and made an appointment to attack the government army from front to back and defeat them. Afterwards, he took advantage of the situation to conquer Fengshan.

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

The Fujian Navy Admiral Lan Li stepped down two years ago. Fujian Governor Li Siyi and the newly replaced admiral Wu Ying were careless and underestimated the enemy. They only sent General Ouyang Kai and Deputy General Xu Yun to lead 2,000 naval officers and soldiers across the sea to fight. At this time, Liu Quzhi was trapped in Anping Town again, and with the gathering of manpower along the way, he had already more than 5,000 troops. So, Ouyang Kai was killed in battle, and Xu Yun led the troops to retreat. Liu Quzhi took advantage of the situation to attack for days, and the troops had already pointed directly at the Taiwan Prefecture City. In order to prevent the fall of the Prefecture City, Xu Yun had to lead the remaining troops to defend the city after sending his subordinates to Fujian.

However, things are always so unhappy.

The ship the informant was on was hit by Cai Yin who happened to pass by.

The personal soldier sent by Xu Yun to report the news was not a stubborn person, and Cai Yin easily pried out many things. In the explanation of this personal soldier, Cai Yin was extremely moved: in the battle with Liu Quzhi, Xu Yun's subordinates were killed and injured. Because they were afraid that the troops were insufficient to defend the city, they transferred all the troops and naval guns left on the ships they brought to defend the city. Now the ones parked in the port are just some empty ships.

So, Cai Yin, who was a desperate man himself, finally decided to lead his subordinates to touch him after thinking left and right.

Taking advantage of the night, people were unaware of it, and they intended to catch all dozen ships in their hands and then fly away.

However, Cai Yin was greedy, and Liu Quezhi was not a fool. When Cai Yin brought his men to the shore, Liu Quezhi sent the people to collect the ship. As a result, seeing that there were many people on the other side and coming in full force, Cai Yin did not dare to be an enemy and lied that he wanted to join. He also handed over the personal soldier from Xu Yun to Liu Quezhi to show sincerity.

At this point, the riot in Taiwan finally reached its climax.

Liu Quzhi stuffed Cai Yin's fleet into his own troops. After Che's mansion controlled this "Navigation Army", he was still worried that the Fujian Navy Army would attack and no one on his side could compete. So he discussed with the people from the Tiandihui and finally decided to take risks: before Fujian knew about Taiwan's war report, he first sent people to disguise themselves as Xu Yun's subordinates to send letters across the sea, pretending to be a great victory, confusing the governor Li Siyi and the navy's admiral Wu Ying. Later, Cai Yin was sent to lead the fleet and break into the port of the Fujian Navy at night to burn the warships there.

Originally, this plan was not a clever plan. But who told them to face the Qing army, which was a traditional army that had fallen and corrupted very quickly and was extremely serious. Originally, when Shi Lang was the admiral of the Fujian Navy, the military discipline of the Fujian Navy was not good. However, after Shi Lang left, although Lan Li was a powerful general, he did not pay much attention to this. Although his combat effectiveness was still the same, the military discipline gradually faded away. When Lan Li left again, the Fujian Navy was no longer in appearance. The days of going to sea suddenly decreased, and even the usual training was mostly dealt with. Only half of the more than 200 warships went out to sea. In addition, the influence of the "peace of the world" thought, I felt that the Qing Dynasty's national strength was booming and no one dared to provoke it, so my defense became relaxed.

Moreover, the Tiandihui has a trump card among the Fujian Navy, and there is one of their undercover agents. Moreover, this person has a low official position and is a sixth-rank camp chief.

So, late one night, Cai Yin set fire to the outside of the Fujian Navy Camp in the Tiandihui Gang, diverted the attention of the navy's officers and more than 300 led by the Qianzong General of the camp to change into Qing army uniforms while the chaos was in trouble and sneaked into the Tiandihui Gang's cover of the Navy Camp, and sent a small boat and came to the warships with a large amount of tinder oil. He just... burned so easily.

At the same time, taking advantage of the chaos, Cai Yin and the General Manager Qian of the Camp and "she" more than 30 large and small warships. Moreover, the General Manager Qian of the Camp resolutely exploded the warehouse where the Navy reserved the fire yao, as well as the hundreds of cannons stored inside that could not be taken away.

At this point, Tiannan shook! The Qing court shook!

Kangxi was furious and dismissed Li Siyi and Wu Ying and searched his home. At the same time, he dispatched troops in Fujian. However...

Not enough boats!

Yes, there are many naval troops under the Qing court. Poyang Lake, Dongting Lake, Jiangsu, Zhejiang... Naval troops are everywhere. However, the Fujian Naval Army was the center of the Qing Dynasty Naval Army. In addition, there was only one Guangdong Naval Army that had just been formed. However, since the Qing Dynasty Naval Army's mission was not to go abroad to fight, but to patrol the coast, guarding the coast, and the targets of the combat were limited to pirates. Therefore, the biggest flaw of the Guangdong Naval Army's ships is that the ships are small. They cannot be compared with the Fujian Naval Warships specially built to pacify Taiwan and fight with the Zheng family Naval Army. Now, all the more than 200 warships of the Fujian Naval Army are not

After being burned to ashes, they can never get out of the sea. Although there are still dozens of ships that are not burned, these ships are not Cai Yin's opponents at all... Cai Yin and the warships that Zheng Qian of the Jian Qian, who knew very well, were more than ten of them, which were the main warships of the Fujian Navy. Kangxi was regarded as a sucker by the Dutch and bought a ship of 180,000 taels of silver. Although it has been a long time since the repairs have been repaired for so many years, the shipboard has almost been replaced with brand new ones. In addition, the ship was equipped with dozens of guns that had not yet been removed due to the Taiwan rebellion... Therefore, these warships are much stronger than the warships of other navys.

At the same time, Liu Quzhi ordered Cai Yin to imitate the Zheng family in Taiwan and lead the newly formed fleet to harass the coastal areas, disrupting the order of the southeast, and stir up the southeast coastal provinces, and the situation became worse and worse.

...

what to do?

Some people suggested that Kangxi collect merchant ships that engage in overseas trade and convert them into warships. As a result, this matter was rejected by Kangxi. He did not collect ships when he fought against Taiwan, and now he will not. Moreover, in the chaos in the southeast, the world and other anti-Qing groups took the opportunity to clamor, and the people's hearts were no longer stable. If the merchants asked for ships and were used by those who were interested and distorted, it would definitely cause public grievances. If an uprising was caused inland, the situation would be even more unfavorable.

Some people also suggested that other naval warships be brought to the leadership of Lan Li, the governor of Chongchang, who bullied the few people, and forcibly crossing the sea. However, this suggestion was refuted by Kangxi and Lan Li, who was summoned to Beijing. If the naval battles were only relied on a large number of people, there would be no need to prepare for the pacification of Taiwan for so long. Most of the warships of other naval corpses of the Qing court could only travel up the sea, and the number was not enough, and most of them could not even be used to fire a few cannons. Such ships would only become the target of Cai Yin, who had been living on the sea for so many years.

It is difficult to leave and right. The Qing court officials discussed it over and over again, but they could not think of a good idea.

...

Everything needs a boat.

Moreover, this fleet must be able to lead the army to sea and engage in naval battles.

...
Chapter completed!