Yang Cong came to Penghu this time to reset the Penghu Inspection Department. The navy warships have not been built yet, and the pirates and Japanese pirates have not started to officially clear the attack. How could he have time to consider these?

This time he led his army to the main purpose of using Penghu as the base to intercept and encircle the pirates gathered near the chicken coop.

This time, the pirates gathered near the chicken coop. According to Wang Dan's estimate, more than ten pirates gathered together, at least 30,000 to 40,000. At this moment, he built only more than 300 new warships. In other words, if the navy launched a surprise attack, the sailors who drove the ship and the musketeers on the ship, and the artillery soldiers, totaled less than 10,000.

It is definitely unrealistic to encircle 30,000 to 40,000 people. Even if they can't beat them, they will flee everywhere. At that time, they will be on sea and on land, and they don't have enough manpower. How can they chase and suppress them?

If that is true, this great opportunity may be wasted.

Therefore, he planned to gather the navy's forces near Penghu, and use Penghu as a springboard to transfer the 10,000 elite infantry gathered from Nanzhili, Zhejiang and Fujian provinces to the west of the chicken coop. Once the pirates and Japanese pirates transported troops near Guangdong, he led his army to intercept his fleet halfway and ordered the infantry to surround his nest from land.

He really didn't expect that the people in Penghu would be so excited when they saw the officials of the court, and he didn't expect that the people here would be so eager to reset the Penghu Inspection Office.

To be honest, it was not difficult for him to reset the Penghu Inspection Office. At this moment, Jiajing was eagerly looking forward to him to eliminate pirates and Japanese pirates and set up a Inspection Office. Jiajing would definitely agree without thinking about it. Moreover, the dispatch of officials and even the guards was just a piece of cake for him.

At the begging of several old fishermen, he immediately agreed to the request to reset the Penghu Inspection Department and ordered Yongning Guards to transfer Qianhutun Guards to station here. Anyway, the Fujian Navy is a fast ship at this moment, so it is not very troublesome to transport food or something.

The people of Penghu were naturally grateful for this, and even discussed raising the sacred temple for him, the Governor.

Yang Cong had no feelings about building a temple, but he discovered one thing, that is, the people here were eager to be protected by the court to ensure that they were not attacked by pirates and Japanese pirates.

People's hearts are available.

Originally, he was considering whether to send a large number of scouts to the northern part of the Eastern Federation to investigate and see if he could find a shortcut to the chicken coop from the west bank of the Eastern Federation. At this moment, he saw that the people were so dependent on the court, he immediately changed his mind.

Scouts were sent to find out where they could send people to ask the local people directly. You should know that the northern part of the Eastern Federation is five or six hundred miles away from Penghu. Even if it is a Cangshan boat and a Centipede boat, it takes two or three days to fight a round trip. Under normal circumstances, it would be good that the scouts could find the shortcut to the East Federation west coast to the chicken coop within half a month. If you ask the local people, it might be enough to fight a round trip.

Time is tight now, and the sooner it is found the shortcut to the east bank to the chicken coop, the more conducive it is to the overall strategic deployment. He naturally chose to directly ask the local people rather than sending scouts to investigate.

The next day, he ordered Tang Kekuan to select hundreds of elite soldiers, take more than ten ships of food, dressed up as a maritime merchant, and asked north along the east bank. When he met the gathering place of the people, he would indicate his identity and send food, and then directly asked the people about the shortcuts leading to the chicken coop on the east bank.

This trick was really good. Tang Kekuan walked northwards and felt very comfortable. As long as he showed his identity and gave him some food, the people along the way would cheer and cheer. When they were living Bodhisattvas, they didn't need to inquire about anything. The people were simply talking and talking. There were even many "experienced" fishermen who insisted on guiding them and taking them to the villages along the way.

In this way, they even saved the people who fled with food on their backs. As long as the fishermen shouted loudly, the people would happily rush up.

They didn't know how many fishing villages they had stopped along the way. On the afternoon of the third day, they finally arrived in the north of Dongfan, near the Tamsui River to the west of Jilong.

Unexpectedly, there were many ordinary people gathered here who were stolen by the pirate Chen Sipan and escaped.

As soon as he revealed his identity, the common people cried and asked him to help drive away the damn pirates. Seeing that he didn't have enough people, the common people took the initiative to go with them.

What a joke? He took the people to fight pirates. Tang Kekuan was not so fierce. Besides, Chen Sipan's territory now has more than a few thousand people, but tens of thousands of people. He took these people to seek death immediately.

He persuaded the common people to stay. As for the shortcut to the east bank of the west bank, there was no need to find any. These common people were very familiar with them. They just went upstream along the Tamsui River and landed near the Dabiokou. There was less than fifty miles away from the chicken coop, and it took less than a day to walk over.

When Tang Kekuan heard that there was such a shortcut, he immediately led the fleet to the near the Dabiokou they mentioned, and personally led a few personal guards off the boat. He ran fifty miles with the people who led the way and touched the chicken cage, and investigated far away from Chen Sipan's territory.

Yang Cong really didn't expect that in less than four days, Tang Kekuan not only found out the shortcut to the chicken coop on the east bank, but even brought the guide back.

He was naturally very happy when he received the news. He originally thought that he would surround the pirate Chen Sipan's nest from the east coast to at least a hundred miles, but he never thought that it would be enough to walk fifty miles, and the guides were all ready-made.

Next he began to mobilize his troops. At this moment, the Cangshan and centipede ships of the Fujian Navy, Zhejiang Navy and Nanzhili Navy had a total of more than 300 ships. Just transporting people, it would be easy to transport 5,000 people at a time. They made two trips back and forth. In less than five days, ten thousand elite in the invaders gathered on the Penghu Islands.

Immediately afterwards, he began to mobilize weapons, ammunition, food and supplies. After a few trips, the food on the Penghu Islands accumulated into mountains. Not only did tens of thousands of elite infantrymen eat for a month, but the fishermen on the Penghu Island also benefited from it. The Governor gave them more than ten bags of rice that they could not eat even if they wanted to eat. Even if they could eat it every day, they could eat it for several months.

They were mobilizing people, and the pirates were also gathering towards Chen Sipan's territory. However, pirates generally did not dare to approach the waters near Quanzhou because they all knew that the main force of the Zhejiang-Zhizhi Governor and the Zhejiang-Fu Navy were there, so who dared to come up and seek death?

Therefore, Yang Cong's actions were not noticed by the pirates, and all the pirates did not know that Yang Cong was dispatching troops and preparing to encircle them.
Chapter completed!