"Master Zhang, please." Xiamen Coast Guard Commissioner Sun Yu bowed obsequiously and followed behind Zhang Xining of Xingquan Yongdao.

This time, Zhang Xining served as the commander of the Eastern Ban Recruitment as Xingquan Yongdao, and Sun Yu also contributed to it.

The first person the British came into contact with was Sun Yu.

Americans were only one part of the plan drawn up by Wenhan and Bao Ling.

They just want the Americans to be taken advantage of, but they don’t want them to reap the benefits. The only people in the world who are qualified to be the ones to take advantage of them are the British Empire.

The second force they used was the local government of the Qing Dynasty.

After losing Dongfan Island, the local officials of the Qing Dynasty must find ways to take it back.

However, warships and transport ships are needed to cross the sea. A number of Qing warships were destroyed by their combined fleet before, and recently they were attacked by pirates one after another.

Therefore, they now have no naval warships at their disposal.

If the British extended an olive branch to them at this time, these people would definitely take the bait.

Sure enough, when Dedi, a pig trader on Xiamen Island, approached Sun Yu and expressed his willingness to raise a fleet to help the Qing army transport troops to Dongfan Island to conquer pirates.

Sun Yu was immediately moved.

Sun Yu has been in this position of coastal defense colleague for a long time.

Originally he thought this was a very lucrative position.

But so many things have happened in the past year, Sun Yu gradually found that this position was a bit hot, and he almost fell down in this position several times.

Therefore, he urgently needs a credit to move himself out of the house.

After Dedi found him, he immediately saw the huge opportunity.

So he quickly reported it to Xingquan Yongdao Zhang Xining. Zhang Xining had similar ideas to Sun Yu, and he was eyeing the Fujian chief envoy position vacated by Qingrui.

Then Zhang Xining became a lobbyist for the British.

As the saying goes, all the bustle in the world is for benefit, and all the hustle and bustle in the world is for benefit!

This was clearly demonstrated in the officialdom of the Qing Dynasty.

He told Governor Wang Yide that he persuaded the foreigners in Xiamen to dispatch warships to assist the Qing Dynasty in transporting soldiers and horses to fight against the pirates.

The reason is that these foreigners were also harassed by pirates and suffered terribly.

The governor's consent is always required to send troops. How to persuade Wang Yide is the top priority.

Wang Yide has always been conservative. If they said that foreigners came to help, then Wang Yide would definitely suspect that the foreigners had bad intentions.

Zhang Xining is an official after all, and under his operation, this matter was implemented extremely efficiently.

The troops and horses sent out on the expedition were mainly those from Xingquan Yongdao, among which Quanzhou troops and horses were the main ones.

Including 5,000 green battalions and 5,000 local regiment training. He also purchased 1,000 brown bass flintlock guns from the British.

In addition to escorting foreign ships this time, Zhang Xining also mobilized a large number of civilian ships.

And this time Zhang Xining did enough to keep it secret.

He did not reveal anything about the expedition to the east until he boarded the ship.

Even the ANBU didn't get the news.

It wasn't until the soldiers and horses arrived at Gulangyu Island to board the ship that the ANBU realized something was wrong.

By this time, the news had reached Sun Yanping.

If he had used carrier pigeons to deliver the message, it would still be too late.

However, the risk of carrying pigeons across the strait is still very high.

This time, luck was not on the side of the escort. The carrier pigeon was attacked by the Sea Harrier at sea, and the communication ship was also blocked at the mouth of the Jiulong River.

This time, Zhang Xining was fully prepared.

He knew that these gangsters had accomplices on the shore.

Therefore, while boarding the ship at Gulangyu Island, he sent the navy to blockade the entire Jiulong River estuary.

In order to gather this cross-sea army, Zhang Xining almost emptied Quanzhou Prefecture and even mobilized some of Zhangzhou's troops and horses.

Fortunately, the Xiaodao Association has just been wiped out, and the local group training has not been disbanded.

…

Outside Jilong Harbor, several huge smoke pillars suddenly appeared in the fort's field of vision.

Ma Sanhe was wearing a blue shorts military uniform at this time. Although he didn't look very good, he was quite energetic.

He and several veterans of the fort were recruited into the Chicken Coop garrison and were affiliated with the Baimi Weng Fort garrison squadron.

During this period, Jilong City repaired several forts in the harbor.

Cement and boulders were used for reinforcement in key places.

Now the defenders on the fort finally had a place to hide from the bombardment.

"Enemy fleet discovered!" Ma Sanhe shouted at the top of his lungs, just like the last time he saw the escort navy.

But this time he shouted with more confidence.

Behind him were more than a hundred young and strong guards, each armed with a musket. It was no longer the same as before, with only five or six old soldiers holding fire sticks.

Moreover, Ma Sanhe and others were also given land, and the family's livelihood was guaranteed. He worked in the garrison and received a monthly subsidy of one silver dollar.

In the past, they had no choice but to guard the fort, but now they are willing to do so.

At the foot of the mountain is the production brigade where they live. The land is contracted to each household, and it is all theirs.

Now the rice fields are as far as the eye can see, full of green seedlings.

Such a beautiful home cannot be trampled upon by foreigners.

"Everyone get to the gun positions and prepare to fight." Squadron Leader Sun Yaodong ordered.

Most of the officers in the garrison are from the training team. With them here, the team will not be in chaos.

In the guard army with strict military discipline, the first step in training the army is to train the formation and discipline.

Training queues is actually training discipline.

On the fort, there are now a total of seven cannons and two rocket launchers.

Those outdated old cannons had long been pulled back and thrown into the steel-making furnace to be used as scrap metal.

Now these seven artillery pieces are all recast in the Chinese arsenal.

Although it is still a bulky muzzle-loading gun, this kind of artillery cast by the reverse mold method far exceeds the Qing army's artillery in terms of charge capacity and quality.

Although the people in the city were evacuated, this does not mean that the guards will not resist.

Dong Liang was really afraid that the empty city plan would scare away the foreigners.

The chicken coop garrison and some militiamen were left behind, and they had to resist to retain the enemy.

The seven warships of Perry's fleet slowly entered the port area from the northwest channel.

Perry looked at the deserted Sheliao Island on his left and said: "If we build a fortress on this island, we will have no way to enter the port."

"Yes, Mr. Commander, the ideas of these Easterners are too old. They still use the methods of coastal defense hundreds of years ago. They don't even know how to learn from the outside world."

"Yes, we are equivalent to fighting an army from hundreds of years ago." Perry said with emotion.

"We are God's people and have God's care, and the gospel of the Lord will not be bathed in these pagans." Abbott used to be a pastor, and he was grateful to the Lord at all times and at all times.

"There is a fort in the southwest and another in the southeast. It looks like we need to knock out these two forts first."

Perry ordered the fleet to advance along the channel on the west side of the harbor, and the gunners on the warships were ready.

"Boom, boom, boom..." The three main warships opened fire first.

Because the caliber of their main guns mounted on the bows is larger than the coastal defense guns of the escort forces.

The Mississippi had two ten-inch guns mounted on the upper deck of the bow.

Calculating the caliber measurement method commonly used in later generations of the city, this is equivalent to a 350mm caliber giant cannon.

Compared with the main guns on future armored battleships, they will be smaller.

But in this era, it is definitely considered a giant cannon.

Soon, the other eight eight-inch guns on the ship also began to fire.

For a moment, the Baimiweng Fort shook the ground, and the huge solid shells could shatter boulders on the hillside.

Pieces of broken boulders rolled down the hillside.

The soldiers of the garrison couldn't help but hide behind the stone stacks of the fort.

"Fire the guns..." Sun Yaodong observed the US fleet in the bay along the gaps in the stone stacks.

They finally entered the attack range of the fort.

"Boom boom boom..."

The defenders on the fort also lit the revenge fuse.

The cannonball flew in an arc toward the sea.

The artillery on the fort has been calibrated in advance to shoot at Zhu Yuan.

The accuracy of the shooting was much higher, but only one shot hit the American warship in the first shot.

However, this shell did not cause much damage to the opponent.
Chapter completed!