Two gunships docked in Penglai. As soon as Huang Fei and Gu Sanmazi got off the boat, Chen Tingyang brought people to greet him.

"General Huang, Guan Gu, you have finally arrived!" Chen Tingyang's face was filled with excitement.

Gao Huan asked him to govern Denglai, and the pirates on Changshan Island often plagued Dengzhou and Laizhou, which not only affected production, but also hindered the construction of shipyards and the expansion of the Hokkien, the northeast and Sakhalin Island.

Huang Fei and Gu Sanmazi hurriedly saluted Chen Tingyang, "See Zhongcheng!"

Chen Tingyang said happily: "I can look forward to you. Let's go for dinner! Let's discuss the fight against the enemy."

Chen Tingyang asked his subordinates to prepare the meal and gave it to the sailors and soldiers on the two gunboats. He pulled Huang Fei and Gu Sanmazi and other officers to the governor's office to welcome him.

At this time, at the reception banquet, Chen Tingyang complained to several naval officers, saying that the pirates on Changshan Island were haunted Denglai and plundering the people.

Gu Sanmazi put down his chopsticks and said in a deep voice: "Zhongcheng! The king and the generals are here to protect the coast of Shandong to eliminate this thief. Today, since my navy's gunboat has arrived in Dengzhou, I will go out to sea to flatten the pirates on Changshan Island tomorrow."

The navy generals all agreed.

Although the Liang State Navy was not as good as the Zheng family Navy, it was still more than enough to curb the puppet army and the Qing army Navy.

Chen Tingyang was overjoyed when he heard the words, "This is what I am waiting for!"

Although Huang Fei has not officially taken over as the Beiyang Navy, he is very concerned about the affairs of the Navy.

"Zhongcheng, as far as I know, Changshan Island is not small, and I don't know what the pirates there are, what the specific situation is." Huang Fei asked.

After all, knowing yourself and your enemy, you will win every battle. Gu Sanmazi comes from afar, and Huang Fei is worried that he will suffer a loss.

Liang Jun’s two gunboats cost more than 100,000 silver dollars on the ship alone, plus the equipment of cannons and other equipment, as well as sailors who have been trained for many years, worth more than 150,000 silver dollars.

If you lose a gunboat because of underestimating the enemy, you will have to commit suicide and apologize.

Chen Tingyang hurriedly said, "General Huang, don't worry, I have already figured out the situation on the island. Recently, many large Shandong gentry fled to Changshan Island. The Guoan Department took the opportunity to send an inmate to mingle in the island and pass the situation on the island to me."

The Liang State purged the pseudo-Ming forces in Shandong. Many gentry and wealthy gentry disliked the new policy of the Liang State and were worried about being purged by the Liang army, so they defected and went out of the sea.

Some of them ran to Changshan Island, and some of them arrived at Changshan Island, and then took the Zheng family merchant ship to Fujian and continued to fight against Gao Huan.

After all, Gao Huan cleared out the land and abolished the tax exemption privileges, which can be said to be on the opposite side of the gentry and the big gentry.

In the words of later generations, Gao Huan's Liang State regime did not represent the interests of gentry and landlords, so most gentry and landlords naturally would not support Gao Huan.

Now that the Northern Ming Dynasty has fallen, Li Jiyu and Zhang Xianzhong both started their own families, the Qing Dynasty was a foreigner, and Zheng Zhilong became the last fortress representing the interests of the gentry and wealthy families within the Han people.

The Zheng family became, and they resisted Gao Huan's last hope.

As for Qu Shisi of Guangxi and Ding Kuichu of Guangdong, he is weak and has been ignored.

The Guoan Department learned that many gentry defected, so they arranged some internal supporters and fled to Changshan Island, and even went to Fujian to invade the Minyue regime to collect intelligence for the Liang State.

At this time, Chen Tingyang waved his hand and his subordinates carried a sand table in which there was an island on it and there were models of hundreds of large and small sea ships in the harbor.

"This is the situation on Changshan Island!" Chen Ting raised his head and said, "There are about 5,000 pirates on the island, plus more than 30,000 relatives, and defected gentry families. These more than 30,000 people occupy the island, led by Zu Kefa, Fang Dayou and Sun Zhixie. They attacked the coastal areas and plundered supplies and population, and traveled like the Japanese pirates of that year."

When Gu Sanmazi heard that there were five thousand pirates, he couldn't help but calm down. There were less than 800 gunships in the Liang army. It would be difficult to destroy Changshan Island.

Chen Tingyang saw the expressions of many officers and hurriedly said, "There are many pirates and ships on Changshan Island, and it is not easy to destroy them in one fell swoop. As long as you can drive them away from Changshan Island, keep the people of Denglai from robbery, let the Beiyang Navy be free from disturbance, and the shipyard can transport timber from overseas."

Now the Liang army navy mainly protects the estuary of the Yangtze River and prevents the Zheng family from blocking the door again, so there are no extra military ships sent to Shandong.

Therefore, Shandong could only drive the pirates north first, and wait for the Beiyang Navy to establish and the shipyard warships were launched. After the navy was strong, it would destroy the pirates.

Huang Fei, Gu Sanmazi and others surrounded him, and the situation on the sand table was clearly visible.

Huang Fei pointed to the model of the sea ship in the harbor, "How are the equipment of these pirates?"

Chen Tingyang said: "Previously, the pseudo-Ming did not have the strength to develop naval forces. These ships were used to trade with the Zheng family and North Korea. Therefore, they did not cooperate with many artillery artillery, and most of them only arranged a red cannon or a thousand-jin Folang machine at the bow of the ship!"

After hearing this, Gu Sanmazi raised his eyebrows, "That's how their hundreds of ships are, the firepower is not as good as that of our gunboat."

Huang Fei looked at the sand table and saw that the ships were all anchored in a bay. He smiled and said, "There are not enough sea boats in Shandong. It is more difficult to eliminate them. However, it is not impossible to severely damage and destroy their fleets."

Gu Sanmazi said: "What the general means is to block the door and bombard it?"

"Not bad!" Huang Fei said in a deep voice: "I am more familiar with the terrain of Changshan Island. The bay where pirate ships are moored has a narrow entrance and is not large inside. Their ships are crowded together and cannon and attack fire. We can use the artillery of two gunboats to completely block the entrance and bombard the ships in the bay."

As he said that, Huang Fei looked at Chen Tingyang and said, "Zhongcheng, have the pirates built a fort on the island?"

Chen Tingyang pointed at the bay, "Here, they are building and not finished yet!"

Huang Fei and Gu Sanmazi looked at each other, and Huang Fei said, "Then you can't wait any longer. If there is a fort, it will be difficult to get to the bay."

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Changshan Island.

The Qing court did not allow Zu Kefa to go to Liaodong, nor did he allow him to go to Hebei. At first, Zu Kefa was very frightened, but after a long time, he felt that it was very good now.

After all, when he went to Hebei, he was just an ordinary general. Not to mention that many Han generals were on par with him, there were also a group of Mengman masters above his head. How could he be free to be a local emperor now?

Last year, Liang's army came to the city of Beijing, which showed that Hebei was not safe at all. It was not like him at sea that Liang's army could not come at all.

Moreover, by looting the coast of Liang State, he was able to obtain a lot of money through maritime trade.

Therefore, Zu Kefa decided to stay on Changshan Island and build a mansion on the island to prepare for long-term operation.

However, the news that the two Liang army gunships arrived in Shandong at this time made Zu Kefa a little worried.

On the fifth day of the fifth month, at dawn, Zu Kefa was lying on the bed, holding the woman he snatched.

At this time, the rumbling sound of cannons woke Zu Kefa from his dream. He only thought he had a nightmare.

"Damn it, I really think about it every day and dream about it at night. The sound of the cannon is so real..."

"Military Gate! Military Gate! Liang Bing is here!"

Just as Zu Kefa turned over and was about to continue sleeping for a while, an urgent cry from his subordinates came from outside the door.

When Zu Kefa heard the words, he finally woke up suddenly. He hurriedly sat up and listened carefully. He heard the rumbling sound of cannons and chaotic shouts from outside the house.

For a moment, Zu Kefa lost all sleepiness, so he quickly got out of bed and opened the door. When he looked out, he saw an extremely spectacular scene.

At the entrance of the bay, two Liang Army gunboats lined up, and the hull was hidden in the smoke of gunpowder, and bursts of cannon flames could be seen vaguely.

"Bang bang bang" loud noises were heard. Half of the turrets that had just been built were concentrated, and stones flew around in an instant and were smashed into pieces by the Liang army's side cannon.

Seeing this, Zu Kefa raised his eyebrows and found that it was not a dream, Liang Bingzhen had hit the house.

Seeing two Liang army gunships destroying the fort he had built with great effort, Zu Kefa couldn't help but be furious, "Okay! The two ships dare to invade Changshan Island, it's too rampant!"

At this time, Fang Dayou and Sun Zhixie hurriedly put on their clothes and came out. Seeing the scene in front of them, they were all stunned.

"Zu Junmen, what should I do now?" Fang Dayou said panic.

Zu Kefa said hideously: "Not afraid, they are coming, I am a hundred warships, but I am still afraid of them. If you send the order, each ship will rush out for me, don't let them run away!"

Zu Kefa obtained the information that after the two Liang army warships arrived in Shandong, they were worried that the Liang State would establish a navy in Shandong and then encircle and suppress Changshan Island.

Therefore, after he received the news, he planned to destroy these two Liang army warships and prevent a Liang army ship from appearing along the coast of Shandong.

Now that the two Liang Kingdom gunboats are coming, Zu Kefa naturally wants to seize the opportunity, but he may not know what a real warship is.

At this time, with his order, the pirate ships in the bay moved one after another and prepared to rush to the Liang army's gunboats.
Chapter completed!