Only then did Yu Ren understand why the Li family's power on the southeast coast developed so strongly, but the court did not make any noise.

The two were chatting, and Ying'er suddenly emerged from somewhere. When Li Ying saw Ying'er coming, she quickly broke free from Yu Ren's arms.

As soon as Ying'er appeared, another person appeared behind her - Jiang Jiulang.

Yu Ren understood that Ying'er actually went to keep watch for them just now.

Jiang Jiulang came over and reported to Li Ying his preparations for attacking Chen Qiandao tonight. However, when he was reporting, his eyes were staring at Yu Ren. Yu Ren could feel the hatred in his eyes. Yu Ren was secretly alert in his heart, it seemed that he would be careful of this person in the future.

Before Jiang Jiulang finished reporting, Mr. Qu had already arrived with Liu Qiang and fifty vanguards who attacked the island.

After some final preparations, Li Ying decided to let Yu Ren attack the island with Liu Qiang. In fact, Li Ying didn't want Yu Ren to take this risk for their Li family. However, Yu Ren believed that he was most familiar with the hot air balloons in this plan. If he didn't go there, if something abnormal happens, no one would deal with it, which would affect the overall situation.

Because Li Ying was worried about Yu Ren's safety, Jiang Jiulang made a suggestion: Send Shi Tingzhu, the best kung fu leader in Daqu Mountain, as Yu Ren's personal bodyguard to protect Yu Ren.

That night, everyone took a boat to the vicinity of Chenqian Island. Liu Qiang, as the leader of the attack on the island, brought two merchant ships to the northeast of Chenqian Island. They agreed with Jiang Jiulang, who was responsible for the subsequent attack on the island, that as soon as they seized the fort in the southwest, they would immediately fire three fireworks as signals.

When Jiang Jiuro saw the fireworks, he immediately took his nine warships to launch a general attack from the southwest.

Originally, Li Ying was going to take nine warships to support her. However, Jiang Jiuro strongly opposed it, saying that as the head coach, she should not take risks easily. In this way, this important task fell on Jiang Jiuro.

Tonight's night sky was floating with floating clouds, and only one bud was revealed on the moon, which was very helpful for Yu Ren and the others to sneak attack on the island. Although they had already done many exercises, everyone was still very careful. They all knew that this battle was of great importance. If they failed to land on the island this time, Zhong Laosan would definitely take strict precautions, and it would be difficult for them to have a second chance.

Seeing that the moon had passed, it was time for them to land on the island. Liu Qiang quietly pulled the sword around his waist and issued an order to move to everyone.

So, the four sailors put down two canoes first. Yu Ren took three pioneers out of the canoe, and the hot air balloons were also taken by them on the boat.

Four sailors gently lifted the wood pulp and paddled towards Chenqian Island in the dark. After about four or five miles of water, the canoe Yu Ren was riding touched the underwater reef. The boat shook slightly and stopped.

Everyone was prepared and was not surprised. Yu Ren looked at the distance and was probably less than two miles away. So he signaled the sailor to stop the canoe here, and then signaled to lean towards the canoe behind.

However, the canoes behind always hit the reefs. It took more than twenty minutes before the two canoes got together. So, everyone lit the hot air balloons according to the previous plan. Yu Ren and others began to float out of the boat, quickly stepped into the bamboo basket, and added another shovel of coal to the brazier.

The wind direction tonight was just right, and it was the northeast wind. Yu Ren also carefully observed this point. Although his hot air balloon was designed with the issue of controlling the direction and made several small devices that could adjust the direction. However, the influence of the wind was still very great, and Yu Ren did not dare to be careless.

Yu Ren's hot air balloon was indeed as he had designed in advance, and was slowly drifting towards Chen Qian Island in the darkness ahead. The balloon was also rising higher and higher. Yu Ren dared to open a few leaks tightly and control the balloon to a low altitude as much as possible. Because he was worried that the balloon would fly too high, the flames on it were discovered by the pirates on the island, which made his sneak attack fail.

However, it was the first time Yu Ren controlled a hot air balloon at sea. When he was in Daqu Mountain in front, Yu Ren was worried that the hot air balloon's cloth-and-paper top cover would be damaged if used too much, so he did not conduct any further tests. With his air leakage, the hot air balloon quickly descended. Seeing that it was about to touch the sea, Yu Ren was shocked. There were countless poisonous snakes in the sea water here, and his bamboo basket was designed as hollowed out to be as light as possible. If the bamboo basket sinks into the water, I am afraid that he will be bitten to death by the poisonous snake in the water immediately.

In desperation, Yu Ren pulled out the sword he carried with him and inserted the sword into a reef that was faintly exposed to the water. The sword made a slight sound, and the sword body began to be subjected to force, and it was quickly bent. Fortunately, the downward momentum of the balloon was finally controlled.

Yu Ren did not dare to relax a little, and his eyes stared at the sword in his hand. As the sword body of the sword gradually returned to a straight line, Yu Ren finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The hot air balloon finally slowly rose again.

After the hot air balloon flew over Chenqian Island, Yu Ren dared to open the air hole again. Soon, the hot air balloon landed on the island.

However, because there were too many trees on the island, the hot air balloon was hung on the branches. Fortunately, Yu Ren had already made a plan for this situation. He took out a spare rope from the bamboo basket of the hot air balloon, put him on a thicker branch next to it, and then slid it on the ground along the rope.

Before going down the tree, Yu Ren had already made an observation.

Standing at his current location, you can almost see the whole picture of Chenqian Island. However, because the light at night is not good, you cannot see the details clearly. Chenqian Island is a large island with a radius of more than ten miles. There is a small hill in the southwest and northeast of the island. His current location is exactly halfway up the hillside.

There are no houses around this hillside. However, there are many houses in the southwest. About five miles away, near the southwest corner, you can see a row of lights. This is the only lights you can see on the island at this time. These lights can help Yu Ren see, and next to them is the fort.

Yu Ren got down the tree and drifted along the direction where his balloon came. He soon found a thin rope tied under the balloon by the sea.

According to the plan, Yu Ren quickly put the string on it.

Soon, he tied one end of the rope bridge to a big tree. Doing all this, Yu Ren hid in a bush next to him.

After waiting for less than a quarter of an hour, Yu Ren saw Liu Qiang walking onto the rope bridge with his knife first. Since the other end of the rope bridge they designed was tied to a canoe, there were no more people at the same time.

When all 50 people of their group went to the island, it was almost the fourth day. Everyone did not dare to delay any more, so they hurriedly sneaked to the southwest fort ten miles away.

Next to the fort on Chenqian Island, there are a row of stone houses, with nine rooms in total. The room is brightly lit, and it is obvious that there are people stationed inside. Outside the room, only three bright whistles were set, and they all face the sea. Perhaps they felt that it was impossible for anyone to attack them from behind.

Seeing all this, Yu Rencai was truly relieved. Liu Qiang divided his fifty men into ten teams, each team responsible for a stone house. The extra team was led by him personally to be responsible for assassinating the sentinels.

This time the sneak attack was very successful. The enemy was not prepared at all. When they killed three sentries and rushed into the stone house, the pirates suddenly realized. So, in this battle, they almost had no blood. They captured forty or fifty pirates in the stone house in one go.

Seeing that the fort had been taken away by them, Liu Qiang lit three fireworks according to the prior agreement.

However, these three fireworks lit up, and the sea had not yet moved, but the island suddenly exploded. The lights around them became brighter and more. Everyone was shocked.

Yu Ren counted and found four or five hundred lamps.

"Liu Qiang, didn't you say that there would be no more than 200 people on this island? Now we have tied up so many, why are there so many lights?"

"I don't know either! I came here more than a year ago. At that time, the total number of Zhong Laosan was definitely not more than 200. I have counted this." Liu Qiang was panicked when he saw so many lamps appearing out at once.

"No need to say more. Find gunpowder first and blow up the cannons on the fort first. Let's go ahead and give orders. Each team is responsible for one cannon. First blow up the two Western cannons and general cannons." Yu Ren shouted to Liu Qiang.
Chapter completed!