Chapter 147 Occupy Zhifu Bay

Tens of thousands of officers and more than 30,000 rebels formed a new confrontation inside and outside Dengzhou City. After the troops arrived in Dengzhou City, Yu Xiaotian immediately sent an order to Liu Di, Wu Shengtian and others in Xishan Village, ordering them to immediately seize the Qishan Institute in Muping County, Ninghai Prefecture, south of Zhifu Bay, Zhifu Island, and annihilate the rebels in Qishan. Destroy.

The reason why Yu Xiaotian sent the soldiers and horses of the advance team from Xishan Village to get the Qishan Institute at this time is very simple, which is to get a good port here.

Although Liu and others have controlled Yangma Island at present, Yangma Island is not suitable for serving as a port. Large ships lack good docking conditions there. In the next step, Yu Xiaotian has made up his mind not to let Kong Youde lead his troops to escape to Dongjiang Town by sea, and finally surrender to Jiannu and act as a hench for Jiannu in the future.

So next, he will take action at sea and cooperate with the land offensive to completely annihilate the rebels in Dengzhou City, making it impossible to escape.

However, in order to carry out large-scale maritime military operations here, he must have a good port for his ships to berth and supply. In addition, he is also very clear that it will not be too simple to attack Dengzhou City next, because Dengzhou City is a strong city after the construction of the Ming Dynasty and successive dynasties.

In such a strong city, 20,000 or 30,000 rebels are stationed. If you want to break through it, it will not happen overnight. The next will be a long and protracted war, which will consume a lot of ammunition and materials for his army.

He can force Zhu Dadian to find a way for him, but Zhu Dadian is powerless about the problem of ammunition. Just because Yu Xiaotian's weapons are too advanced, Daming can't replenish him with suitable ammunition at all. He can only provide him with some raw materials and some inferior gunpowder, which can't meet the next high-intensity attack. A tough battle.

In the previous battle, the ammunition consumption of Yu's army was quite large, but the supplies had to rely on the heavy battalion to be transferred from the floating mountains hundreds of miles away to the front of the army.

This land transportation consumes a lot, and there is a great risk, which is far less convenient than sea transportation and replenishment.

So now that he has arrived in Dengzhou, he must obtain a good port nearby as a transit base for supplies.

And the best port in this area is undoubtedly the later Yantai Port, which is now known as Zhifu Bay. The Qishan is the place where the later Yantai City is located. Now it is controlled by the rebels. Of course, it is necessary to take it down before you can control the whole Zhifu Bay.

After Wu Shengtian took the order, he did not dare to neglect it. He immediately gathered the advance team of Xishan Village. With the cooperation of the navy, he took several large sand boats and rushed to Zhifu Bay.

Then they landed directly on the north bank of Qishan and rushed to the city of Qishan. The rebel commander who guarded Qishan was with hundreds of miscellaneous soldiers. In the face of the Yu family army armed to the teeth, they had no success at all. It can almost be said that it was a charge, and they broke through the city of Qishan. The army immediately took control of Qishan City.

Then Wu Shengtian sent troops to sweep the area of Zhifu Island, annihilating or expelling the scattered rebels and some seafeis and horses in this area, and controlling the whole Zhifu Bay in the hands of the Yu family army.

According to Yu Xiaotian's instructions, the ships on the other side of Fushan Station immediately began to move to Zhifu Bay and transferred a large number of ammunition supplies for the Yu family army.

After several months of combat operations, Yu's army's weapons consumption is also very large. Some wolf-toothed rifles have been bald, and the barrel must be replaced to continue to maintain combat performance.

The capture of Zhifu Bay saved a lot of manpower and material resources for Xiaotian, so that they could be replenished within a hundred miles.

After capturing the Qishan Institute, Yu Xiaotian nominally took over the Qishan Institute through Zhu Dadian, which is equivalent to actually publicly controlling Zhifu Island and Zhifu Bay.

It turned out that the soldiers of the advance team of Xishan Village changed their bodies at this time, changed into the clothes of the officers and soldiers, and instantly changed their faces, becoming the official officers and soldiers, directly under the order of Fujian soldiers and horses.

Zhu Dadian didn't know that these people who suddenly appeared in Qishan were actually sent by Yu Xiaotian as early as last year. As a group training villagers, he had been staying in the area of Yangma Island in the north of Muping County. He also thought that Yu Xiaotian specially transferred a group of reinforcements from Fujian to help him calm down the rebellion of the rebels. I am very grateful for filial piety.

Yu Xiaotian asked to take over the defense of Qishan Institute and Zhifu Island, saying that he would supply ammunition and materials by sea. How could Zhu Dadian not agree to this request, so with a wave of his hand, the Zhifu Bay area changed his surname.

Since this piece of meat is eaten by Xiaotian, it is impossible for him to spit it out again. Although it is a small glacier period, most of the Bohai Bay will be frozen in winter, but the backwind of Zhifu Bay will also freeze to the sun. Although the seawater in the bay will also freeze, the thickness of the freezing is not be large, which will not have a great impact on ships. If it is forced If you go to sea, if you take some risks, you can still go to sea from here even in winter.

The rebels in Dengzhou, when they finally fled in history, were also the coldest time in winter. They fled by boat from Dengzhou Shuicheng from December to February, and finally led more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, wrapped up many craftsmen in Dengzhou, defected to Jiannu, and became one of the three Shun kings of later generations, and had long been the largest in history. One of several traitors.

So although Bohai Bay is very cold in winter, it is not completely unnavigable. Yu Xiaotian sent people to inspect the ice in Bohai Bay in winter two years in advance, so he knows this very well. Although he does not want to intervene too much in the Ming Dynasty now, he has asked Kong Youde to lead his troops to join Jiannu. Still very unhappy, he finally decided to rewrite this history and never let Kong Youde finally lead his troops back to the Liaodong Peninsula and defect to Jiannu.

Jiannu had been seriously lacking in the ability of ships and water warfare before Kong Youde surrendered them. Although the Dongjiang army had already collapsed internally since Mao Wenlong's death, they were unable to capture the entire Liaodong Peninsula and completely eliminate this confidant before Kong Youde led the crowd to surrender to them.

Although Gaizhou controlled by Jiannu is not too far from Lushun on the map, but attacking Lushun by land still deterred them and never dared to do it easily. It was after Kong Youde surrendered them that Huang Taiji obtained a usable water power, which enabled them to quickly In two years, they captured Lushun, Pidao and other places, completely incorporated the entire Liaodong Peninsula into their sphere of influence, and eliminated the trouble of the Dongjiang army behind them.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian decided this time that Kong Youde should not be allowed to lead the fleet to surrender to Jiannu. He must not be allowed to obtain a large number of artillery and technical craftsmen who made Hongyi cannons in a very short time, so that they could master this technology, let alone in a short time. Within them, having a maritime force that can operate in Bohai Bay also does not allow them to acquire the technology to build ships.

Therefore, what he considered in this battle was to gather and annihilate the whole rebels in Dengzhou City, leaving them no more opportunities.

Yu Xiaotian told Zhu Dadian about his idea. Of course, Zhu Dadian was immediately good, which was really a good thing for him. If he only expelled the rebels from Dengzhou, he would not have done all the work to suppress the rebellion this time, but if he could completely annihilate the rebels in Dengzhou City, then come to him That's a great thing.

What's more, he knows very well that although Yu Xiaotian's step army is very good at fighting, in fact, the most powerful thing he has at hand is his strength at sea. Now looking at the whole coast of the Ming Dynasty, he can't find any force to compete with Yu Xiaotian's maritime strength at sea.

Yu Xiaotian said that if he wants to block the rebels in Dengzhou City, then he is absolutely capable of doing this. As long as the sea is blocked, the rebels will become the turtle in the urn, and sooner or later they will be wiped out by the officers and soldiers here.

Therefore, Zhu Dadian placed all his hopes on Yu Xiaotian. For Yu Xiaotian's requirements, he was even more kind. As long as he could do it, he promised to do it as much as possible.

After Yu Xiaotian seized the Qishan Institute, he asked to recruit civilian craftsmen to help him build a wharf trestle on Zhifu Island, so Zhu Dadian immediately ordered the surrounding states and counties to immediately recruit Min Zhuang to help with the work.

This time, Yu Xiaotian can save his strength. As long as craftsmen and private husbands are sent to Zhifu Island, these private husbands will become his property. As long as he uses a little means and give favors, he can leave these people behind and become his subordinates in the future. He will never let these craftsmen and private husbands again. Back to their hometown.

So at the end of September, a large number of craftsmen and people who were forcibly recruited from various places began to queue up and slowly moved to the Zhifu Bay area.

Of course, the government has to solve the problem of eating these civilian craftsmen. Zhu Dadian tried his best to ask for help everywhere, and even sent a letter to the court, asking for more food to be mobilized for him.

But it is definitely impossible to rely on the imperial court and the Shandong government. Yu Xiaotian himself also needs to supplement some food, but this method, compared with relying on himself to pay for grain, it still saves a lot of food to search for the population everywhere. Now as long as he can squeeze out some things from the teeth of the Ming court government Just squeeze out as much as possible.

He opened his mouth and asked to provide him with as much gunpowder as possible, and the Shandong government and the imperial court would certainly not be able to take out the refined gunpowder, so he asked to provide him with at least enough saltpetre sulfur. The court and the Shandong government can still find a way to raise a lot of these materials for him. At least it can save him a lot of money.

Although there are no minerals that produce saltpeter in the north, it can obtain earth saltpeter by accumulating fertilizer and saltpeter. This earth saltpeter itself has always been one of the raw materials that his main force has been purchasing in the north. Now he wants to ask the government to get some for him, which will more or less compensate for his huge expenses in the north this time.