In the morning, Dengzhou General Li Xiutang, the head of Dengzhou, was located in Penglai County, Dengzhou General, in the Dengzhou General Town Government, in the morning of his bedroom, Li Xiutang, also hugged a beautiful woman sent by a genius general in his arms.

The rumbling sounds made the roof tiles rust and the beams trembled slightly.

The woman who had just been ravaged for a night woke up first and screamed. Li Xiutang, who was burly, was about forty years old. She was very annoyed by her troubled dream. She kicked the woman out of bed and cursed, "What's the name of you, a slutty woman, early in the morning?"

"Boom," Another loud thunder came, Li Xiutang was shocked: "Woman, who was there to set off firecrackers without orders?"

"Well," General Li Xiutang's bedroom was pushed open suddenly. Li Xiaocheng, the assistant general of the General Office who was responsible for guarding Penglai Water City, stumbled in, his head and face were covered with dust.

Li Xiaocheng is Li Xiutang's distant nephew, and General Li's confidant, he rushed to the bed and shouted: "Sir, uncle, the water city can't be defended anymore."

Li Xiutang rolled and crawled at Li Xiaocheng with his upper body, pointed at his nose and cursed: "You guy is crazy, can you lose your heart? How could someone be attacked by Shuicheng? Who is attacking the city?"

"Boom boom boom boom," a series of cannons drowned out Li Xiaocheng's trembling voice.

"Damn, what are you talking about," Li Xiutang grabbed his nephew's clothes tightly and asked sternly.

"The other party is wearing a blue flag,"

Li Xiutang gasped and let go of his hand: "The pirates of the Chinese company, aren't they causing trouble in Fujian and Guangdong? How could they hit us?"

“Ha,”

The half-covered door was knocked open again, and a blood-filled man rushed in and knelt down and reported: "Sir General, the water city has fallen, the pirates are attacking Penglai City and are about to break into the city."

"Why...how could it be so fast?" Li Xiutang was extremely surprised.

"Uncle, the pirates are very familiar with the local sea routes. Last night, they had secretly lurking outside Zhenyang Gate south of the Shuicheng and the Penglai Pavilion on Danya Mountain. They had a light cannon that could be carried to the mountain by manpower, and a kind of flowering rocket... At dawn, the pirates suddenly attacked and occupied Penglai Pavilion, and fired guns and bombarded the Shuicheng from a high place. At the same time, Changshan Island to the north was also occupied by the pirates last night, and they were also in In the morning, they attacked the water city from the sea. They had a large number of ships, each with more than ten cannons, and hundreds of ships bombarded each other. Our navy warship could not escape the water gate at all," Li Xiaocheng cried and said, "The nephew's own barracks opened the Zhenyang Gate and rushed to Danya Mountain, but were attacked by the pirates who had already ambushed at the door. There were countless casualties and injuries. They occupied the Zhenyang Gate. The little nephew was lucky enough to escape with the personal guards' resistance."

Li Xiaocheng's words were a bit untrue. He was the one who opened the south gate of Penglai Water City, but he led his personal soldiers not to attack Danya Mountain to regain the commanding heights, but to sneak back to Penglai City; in short, Li Xiaocheng wanted to abandon the city and escape, but was intercepted by the sailors and musket team who had been ambushed all night.

Penglai Water City is built with a mixture of earth and stone. Its plane is slightly rectangular with a circumference of 2,200 meters. It has two gates in the north and south. It is called Shuimen, also known as Tianqiaokou. It is located in the northeast corner of the city and is connected to the sea. It is a ship entrance and exit, and is built with stones. It is as high as four battles. The water gate is about three zhang wide and five zhang deep. The south gate of the city is called Zhenyang Gate, commonly known as Tumen, located in the southeast corner of the city and is connected to the land. The arch gate is built with bricks and stones. The doorway is one zhang wide and four battles deep. The small sea is located in the middle of the water city. The plane is slightly narrow and long, with a north and south length of 655 meters. It divides the city into two halves. It is the main building in the city, accounting for half of the water surface and is used to moor ships and train navy.

There are also military facilities such as docks, flat-wave platforms, anti-wave dams, naval camps, lamp towers, forts, enemy platforms, sluices, moats, etc. They were originally a coastal defense base and a water city forbidden area, but in this era it was another scene: the water pavilions are everywhere along the coast of the small seas in the city, the singing and music of singers and dancers, and the laughter and scolding of officers and soldiers all night long, and the grand occasion is unprecedented.

When Chen Zhongji followed Yin Feng to the Ming Dynasty ruling region for inspection, he took the Xinxing and Dingyuan giant ships to cross the Bohaikou twice. The Denglai Navy had never known that this was the case.

However, that night, when Chen Zhongji heard the spy report the scene in Penglai Water City, he sighed very much: "The officers and soldiers sing and dance every night. Even if we attack in a dignified manner in the sky, it probably won't take much effort."

The fleet commander Fan Tao smiled and looked at the map and said, "Ji Zai...General Manager Chen, after capturing the water city, will we still occupy Penglai City? I think if we want to guard the water city, it is better to capture the county town in the south,"

"Then do it like this. The infantry brothers' transport ship is still behind. It will take a day to arrive at Changdao. Let your sailors occupy Penglai,"

The second to sixth of the Sailor Musket Team Ryukyu Corps has a total of five sentries, with a total of more than 550 people, mainly composed of sailors on the main battleships of the Flying Dragon and Flying Leopard. Because the Flying Dragon is too huge, the water gate of Penglai Water City can only pass through a three-meter-wide ship, and the Flying Dragon can be nearly five meters wide, so it is useless to attack the Flying Box ship of Penglai Water City. Therefore, the second and third sentries were assigned to land and lurking tasks, and the fourth, fifth and sixth sentries were responsible for attacking Penglai Pavilion to occupy the top of Danya Mountain.

The officers and soldiers of the Denglai Navy Division of the Ming army had no sense of the actions of the Chinese army at all, and had no warning at all. While they were having fun, the sailors and muskets landed on the low-corner coast east of Penglai, and moved smoothly, sending out confirmation signals with lights. The Chinese sailors lurking on the sea in front of the water city received the signal.

In the morning, the plan to attack the Water City was surprisingly smooth. The light field artillery and thunder rockets that were carried to Penglai Pavilion were at a high point, and all shots were hit inside the Water City. Although Penglai Water City was a relatively solid coastal defense base facility at that time, its biggest flaw was Danya Mountain behind it. The defense on the land side of the Water City was too weak. Once the commanding heights of Danya Mountain were occupied by the enemy, the entire Water City could only sit and wait for death.

When the Chinese naval clutch with a blue flag flying a Chinese flag on the blue background rushed into the water gate of Penglai Water City, most of the Ming naval ships moored at Xiaohai Pier were ignited by the PILI rockets, and more than fifty ships had been abandoned at the pier. The sailors of the official naval division were fleeing in all directions.

The officers and soldiers in the Shuicheng did not make any decent resistance, and most of them surrendered on the spot. Afterwards, Dengzhou General Li Xiutang fled from Penglai City with his direct battalion. As soon as he left, the Chinese army used 100 kilograms of black gunpowder to blow up the north gate of Penglai City. The brigade of sailor muskets rushed into the city. In addition, at the entrance of Liushui River to the east, 3,000 sailor muskets landed, blocking the official troops in Yantai who had rushed to reinforce after hearing the news.

The Chinese army occupied the base of the Denglai Water Division, occupied Penglai County, and occupied the Changshan Islands at the mouth of the Bohai Sea. They established a temporary supply warehouse on Changshan Island.

In order to ensure the safety of the temporary base of the Chinese Navy's Navy, the sailors and musket team sent a detachment to occupy Huangchengji in the southwest of Penglai County and Liushui River estuary in the east of Penglai, and each established two temporary fortresses.

At the same time, the Chinese army also landed at the later Lushunkou of the Liaodong Peninsula. With 1,000 sailors and musket teams and 500 student troops, they captured the Zhongzuosuo and Jinzhou Guards in one fell swoop. The Jinzhou Guards were not enough, and the only more than 1,000 defenders were unprepared and had a relaxed defense. They were secretly landed by the Chinese army at night. During the night attack, the student army rushed to the front under the leadership of the leader Wang Shuowang, constantly threw grenades forward, and directly killed the thousand households in their own room. The Chinese army's explosive firearms deprived the defenders of their only little courage, making the Chinese army seize the Jinzhou Guards within one day.

The two major defensive fortresses in the north and south of Bohaikou have fallen into the hands of the Chinese army, and the gates to the important areas of Beijing and Qu have been opened.

After Chen Zhongji arrived, he re-formed the fleet and began to march westward to target Tianjin Wei on the west coast of the Bohai Sea.

Since the Chinese army attacked the southeast coast at the beginning of the year, the Ming Dynasty's court center was busy raising money and grain some time ago and dispatched troops from the whole country to the southern coastal areas. Therefore, the court had never paid attention to the defense of the northern coastal areas. No one expected that anyone in this world could directly invade from the Bohaikou and approach the important area of ​​Jingqu.

The biggest feature of the organization of the Ming Dynasty's official army is the high centralization of the leadership system on a high degree of dispersion, the military power below is highly dispersed, and the military power above is highly concentrated. This characteristic of the military system determines that the organization of the Ming Dynasty's army is very unreasonable. A general has several battalions with varying numbers of people, unlike the Chinese army that have clear hierarchy, fixed and orderly number of soldiers, and clear responsibilities.

Moreover, this system determined that the Ming army had almost no established and large-scale field mobile troops except the three major battalions of the capital and border soldiers. In the event of a war, the Beijing army and border soldiers could not be easily used. Then they had to be transferred from various garrisons and barracks across the country, but they could not be transferred from all the garrisons here. The battalions here transferred one battalion, and the garrisons there transferred one battalion. This was the jurisdiction of the governor and the generals transferred several thousand. In this way, in the first half of the year, they were concentrated in various parts of the country in scattered. Only God knows whether a large group of soldiers who were busy gathering together without training and group training can cooperate with each other in field battles together. This is time-consuming and labor-intensive. However, the military system left by Zhu Yuanzhang was difficult to fundamentally change in the hands of the Zhu family's children of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the new-style field troops trained by Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou were killed after Zhang Juzheng, and were gradually assimilated by the old system of the garrison barracks.

Now, all the troops across the country are mobilizing to the south, and no one expected that the Chinese army had appeared in the Bohai Sea overnight.
Chapter completed!