The civil war that was about to break out was finally avoided because of Dorgon, a capable man.

After realizing this issue, Dorgon put down his interest demands and compromised with the ministers who supported Haoge. He suggested that Huang Taiji's ninth son Fulin succeed to the throne. Both sides would make a concession and no longer fight for the throne to death. He would pull back from the brink of civil war, which was about to fall into civil strife.

The two white flags could not tolerate Dorgon's succession, but there was no big resistance to Fulin's succession. Although Dorgon failed to become the nominal emperor, his power reached its peak through various operations.

Although Dorgon changed to support Fulin and had a relationship with Da Yuer, he was more of his vision and could see the consequences that would be faced if the dispute continued.

If Dorgon had not had such courageous decisions at that time, civil war would have been almost inevitable. Too many powerful countries in history would have fallen in the civil war caused by the struggle for successors, such as the Eight Kings Rebellion in the Western Jin Dynasty, and after Timur's death, he was divided into four major camps and attacked each other. There were too many such things.

The influence of many factors, coupled with the effect of some accidental factors, led to the entry of the Qing Dynasty into the pass. Even so, there was no hope of a turnaround later. However, internal strife continued within the Southern Ming Dynasty. Li Zicheng had not transformed himself from a bandit leader to a real ruler, and eventually allowed the Qing Dynasty to seize the world.

As a later generation, Kong Youde knew that the pain caused by the Qing Dynasty in China was caused by the entry of the Qing Dynasty, so of course he had to prevent this from happening.

As for the Ming Dynasty, it was no longer possible to rely on it. The vested interest groups were deeply rooted and the internal struggles were too serious, so it was difficult to form a unified opinion. Otherwise, with the size of the Ming Dynasty, even if it was already dusk, it would not be very difficult to deal with the Tartars with a size of less than one percent.

All this depends on yourself.

Shanhaiguan is not far from Juehua Island. In less than four hours, the fleet arrived at Juehua Island.

Xu Wenyi is currently taking care of Juehua Island. When Kong Youde climbed the island, Xu Wenyi greeted him, "Sir, you are here!"

"Old Xu, how about Juehua Island? Is it suitable to be a base for a navy?"

Xu Wenyi said happily, "Sir, this Juehua Island is indeed a good place. It is relatively close to Ningyuan. Whether it is Haizhou, Yaozhou, or Guanning's defense line from now on, the distance is not too far. But there is one biggest problem, that is, the sea surface will freeze after deep winter, and the sea surface of more than ten miles is not enough to become a barrier to Juehua Island. The defense of Juehua Island will become difficult. Nurhaci captured Juehua Island from the ice!"

"This is a difficult problem. Is there any good solution?"

"Sir, in my opinion, it is most appropriate to build a Lingbao! I have already explored the address. I only need to build three Lingbaos, and then equip them with enough defensive firepower to support each other. Unless Huang Taiji is willing to attack at the cost of 20,000 deaths, it is impossible to capture it!"

Kong Youde nodded, very satisfied with this method. "Okay, just do what you said! I will notify Meng Youcai to be responsible for the materials needed. If the manpower is not enough, you can recruit some on land. It will be too troublesome to transport them from Dengzhou!"

"Don't worry, my subordinates will be able to complete the task before the sea freezes!"

Next, Kong Youde walked around Juehua Island under the leadership of Xu Wenyi. It was indeed the same as Xu Wenyi said. In addition to the freezing sea surface in winter, Juehua Island is definitely a top-class military port. If it is well built, it will be of great use.

The places set up by the three diamond castles are also mutually supportive. Even if the Tartars cross the sea to attack, it will not be so easy to get rid of them.

After walking around, Kong Youde boarded the ship again, and the fleet continued to move northeast again.

“Doududududu…”

At dusk, when the fleet was about to arrive at Jinzhou Bay, the soldiers on the watchtower suddenly issued an early warning, and the loud horns resounded throughout the fleet.

"Discover enemy ships, two, No. 2 lucky ships!"

When everyone heard that they encountered an enemy ship, they did not react much. Instead, they smiled knowingly. Even if the entire Tartar fleet was dispatched, they would be just a death sentence. It was just a small problem.

Soon, these two Tartar warships appeared in sight. It seemed that the two ships had a lot of damage. Although some repairs were made, the traces of the battle could be clearly seen.

Kong Youde sent a command to Li Mingda, asking him to take five ships to surround him and try his best to capture him.

After receiving the order, Li Mingda led five warships, left the queue and rushed towards the enemy ship.

Soon, the Tartars' warships slowed down and began to turn. It was obvious that they also discovered the warships of the Tiance Army. Such a large fleet was definitely not something they could deal with. It seemed that they were going to escape.

But their escape was destined to be futile. Both ships were very drafty and the decks were full of cargo. In addition, the ships were damaged a lot, so it was obviously used as a transport ship. Moreover, when sailors saw so many enemy ships, they always made mistakes in panic and could not raise their speed at all.

The distance between the two sides quickly narrowed, and the two Tartar warships also began to shell, but the firepower of these two ships was not very good. The two ships combined only had six Flang machines, and the solid shells did not pose any threat to the Tiance Army's warships.

Seeing the shells falling constantly in the water around him, Li Mingda also sneered. He followed Xu Wenyi to attack Pi Island and Tieshan, and dealt with the Dongjiang Town Navy led by Shang Kexi, and Zhang Hua fought the Tartar Fleet. He thought that their level was not much different from that of the Dongjiang Navy, but he didn't expect that he was even half as good as the Dongjiang Navy. No wonder Zhang Hua could beat them so hard that he dared to leave the port.

However, the six-door Flang machine was not painful or itchy for him, and he didn't intend to waste shells. He directly ordered to approach at full speed and went up to beat him up.

"fire!"

Li Mingda decisively ordered the distance to almost half a mile.

Kong Youde said that he would try to capture the enemy ships, but the enemy ships could not run fast, so the shotgun was naturally the best choice. After the shot was finished, you could jump and help.

"Boom boom boom..."

After a series of shotguns, the Tartars and Han troops on the deck suffered heavy losses, and the rest of the Tartars were scared to hide in the cabin. No matter how brave they were, they had no ability to resist artillery.

No one controls the sails, these two lucky ships can only rely on the original sail position and continue to move forward, unable to change direction, and cannot avoid Li Mingda's pursuit. They can only watch the warships of the Tiance Army approaching quietly.

After a while, the five warships led by Li Mingda approached the Tartar warships.

The soldiers of the commando covered each other and boarded the enemy ships with Meng Hou's guns and short swords.

The Menghou rifle is the name of the short-barrel flintlock rifle, taken from Bi Maokang's name Menghou. After all, the flintlock rifle of the Tiance Army is based on Bi Maokang's self-producing gun.

The weapons and equipment of the commando team are different from those of the army. In order to meet the needs of the jump gang operation, they must be equipped with such close-range guns. Although the output is not enough to be able to make one man in the current capacity, the equipment volume is already close to half.

Then, they worked together in groups of three and rushed into the cabin.

There were gunshots in the cabin, and screams came, followed by a begging for mercy.

The battle quickly subsided. Neither of these two ships were the configuration of warships. Each ship had only more than 60 sailors and soldiers, less than half of the standard configuration. The previous rounds of artillery destroyed a lot. There were more than 30 people left on each ship, and they were in a state of panic and uneasy, and they could not resist the attack of the commando team.

Afterwards, Li Mingda began to be responsible for counting the seized materials and dealing with the prisoners at the same time. Those who were injured and not dead were directly thrown into the sea with one blow. Those who were not heavy in their hands were taken into custody first and wait for subsequent processing.

The Tartars and Han military flags on the two ships were each half. The Han military flags were all sailors of the former Tianjin Navy. Later, they were taken by Geng Zhongming by Geng Zhongming and then brought to Liaodong by Geng Zhongming. They were good at controlling warships, but the Tartar sailors were not trained, and they were still responsible for the control of the warships. However, half of the Tartars showed that Huang Taiji did not trust them very much.

There are a lot of supplies on these ships, including bows, arrows, armor, machetes, grain, etc., and depending on the direction of their actions, they should be planning to transport them to Songshan Fort to supply the Tartars' war needs to be besieged by Songshan Fort.

The subsequent interrogation also proved this point. They set out from Yaozhou, and the batch of supplies were transported to the fishing port in Jinzhou Bay to supply the Tatar army to fight.

If there is a sea route from Yaozhou to the fishing port, it will take less than two hundred miles to travel back and forth a day and a night, and the transportation volume is quite large. This time alone, the two ships transported 150,000 arrows, 1,200 pairs of armor, 3,000 stones of grain, and many other weapons.

If transported from land, it will take at least four or five days to deliver it, and so many supplies require at least a thousand transportation teams.

The method of transporting materials by warships was proposed by Dorgon. The Tartars had never owned warships before, and they had never thought of this at all.

"Dorgon, Songshan Fort, that's right to meet him!"

"Come on, head straight to the fishing port!"

Kong Youde was interested when he heard that the lord of Songshan Fort was Dorgon and that he used warships to transport supplies.

The two Tartar warships sent people to drive back to Juehua Island. The seized materials, except for food, a small amount, and the six Folang machines, were not available. It would be better to sell them to Ma Shilong a little, which was also a support for him.

The location where the two sides fought was already close to Jinzhou Bay, less than twenty miles away from the fishing port. In less than half an hour, the fishing port appeared in sight.

As its name suggests, the fishing port is just an ordinary small fishing port, where fishermen moor fishing boats.

However, in the late Wanli period, Liaodong was in chaos, and Liaodong's military status became increasingly prominent. This small port was also transformed into a military port. However, with the sixth year of the Tianqi period, the main warship of the Guanning Army Navy was burned by Nurhaci, and the port was no longer of great effect. It only moored some small boats for daily patrols and message transmission.

As Huang Taiji once again launched a large-scale attack on the Guanning defense line, Zu Dashou, like his previous battles, concentrated his troops to defend solid military strongholds such as Jinzhou, Songshan Fort, Dasheng Fort, and Dafu Fort. Other unimportant places were abandoned, strengthening the walls and clearing the fields, and resisting the attack of the Tartars.

The fishing port was naturally abandoned and occupied by the Tartars, becoming a mooring point for transporting combat materials ships.

There are many troops stationed here, including one Niulu Tartar, two hundred Han flags, more than 400 Mongolian and Korean minions, totaling nearly a thousand. Their mission is to defend attacks from the sea, and to transport the materials down after the transport ship arrives, temporarily store them at the dock, and transport them to the front line.

When they saw a boat approaching, the Tartars on the pier looked excited, while the Han army flags and the Korean minions all looked constipated, and they all had to do these loading and unloading work.

However, they soon discovered that the situation was a little different, because two ships came together every time. Why did more than a dozen ships come this time? Could it be that the entire fleet has arrived?

When there were more than thirty warships in sight, no matter how stupid the people realized that these were not their ships, their navy did not have so many ships in total, and the flag on the ship was not theirs. There was no doubt that this was an enemy ship.

Niulu Zhangjing, Jamal received the news and immediately issued an order, ordering all those who could move to prepare for battle. The shore soon began to prepare for defense. At the same time, Jamal sent people to Dorgon, who was attacking Songshan Fort twenty miles away, reported the situation.

Although Jamal was very confident, he only had a thousand men after all, and the enemy had more than 30 large ships, and the troops could be transported at least four or five thousand. The warships must also have artillery, so their manpower might not be able to stop them.

Seeing these serious organizational defenses by Tartars, Kong Youde almost laughed out loud, but it is not difficult to understand. Although there are artillery brought by Geng Zhongming, most of the Tartars still have huge misunderstandings about artillery, thinking that with their personal courage, they can withstand the god of war in this era.

In this case, Kong Youde used the plan and ordered all warships to close the gun windows and not to open fire without orders.

As the fleet approached step by step, Jamal was not afraid at all. He felt that if these enemy ships fired far away in the sea, they would not be able to deal with them, but when they approached the shore, they could burn these enemy ships through rockets.

When the fleet approached thirty or forty feet, the Tartars on the shore began to shoot arrows at the fleet, with cloth strips and oil wrapped around the shafts, burning the warships flying towards the Tiance Army.

I have to say that the archers of the Tartars were of good quality, and most of the arrows hit the warships, but the number of archers was not large, and there were only a few arrows scattered on each boat, and they were soon extinguished by the soldiers.
Chapter completed!