Only then did Yu Ren understand why the Li family's power on the southeast coast had grown so powerful, but there was no movement from the imperial court.

While the two were chatting, Ying'er suddenly appeared out of nowhere. As soon as Li Ying saw Ying'er coming, she quickly broke away from Yu Ren's arms.

As soon as Ying'er appeared, another person appeared behind her - Jiang Jiulang.

Yu Ren understood that Ying'er had actually gone to watch for them just now.

Jiang Jiulang came over and reported to Li Ying his preparations for the attack on Chen Qian Island tonight. But while he was reporting, his eyes kept staring at Yu Ren. Yu Ren could feel the hatred in his eyes. Yu Ren

I was secretly wary in my heart, it seemed that I would have to be careful about this person in the future.

Jiang Jiulang hasn't finished his report yet. Over there, Mr. Qu has also arrived with Liu Qiang and fifty vanguards attacking the island.

After making some final preparations, Li Ying decided to let Yu Ren attack the island with Liu Qiang. In fact, Li Ying did not want Yu Ren to take this risk for their Li family. However, Yu Ren believed that he was most familiar with the hot air balloon in this plan.

, if you don’t go there, if some abnormal situation occurs, no one will deal with it, which will affect the overall battle situation.

Because Li Ying was worried about Yu Ren's safety, Jiang Jiulang made a suggestion: send their leader Shi Tingzhu, the best kung fu leader in Daqu Mountain, as Yu Ren's personal bodyguard to protect Yu Ren.

That night, everyone rushed to the vicinity of Chenqian Island by boat early. Liu Qiang, as the leader of the attack on the island, brought two merchant ships around to the northeast of Chenqian Island. They made an agreement with Jiang Jiulang, who was responsible for the follow-up attack on the island,

As soon as they seize the southwest fort, they will immediately set off three fireworks as a signal.

When Jiang Jiulang saw the fireworks, he immediately led his nine warships to launch a general attack from the southwest.

Originally, Li Ying was planning to personally lead nine warships to respond. However, Jiang Jiulang strongly opposed it, saying that as the commander, she should not take risks easily. In this way, this important task fell on Jiang Jiulang.

There are floating clouds in the night sky tonight, and only a bud of the moon is exposed, which is very convenient for Yu Ren and others to sneak onto the island. Although they have done many drills, everyone is still very careful. They all know that this battle will

The stakes are high. If they fail to land on the island this time, Zhong Laosan will definitely take strict precautions, and it will be difficult for them to have a second chance.

Seeing that the moon had passed its zenith and it was time for them to land on the island, Liu Qiang quietly drew the sword on his waist and issued an action order to everyone.

So, the four sailors took the lead in putting down the two canoes. Yu Ren led the three pioneers to get off the canoes, and they also took the hot air balloon on the canoe.

The four sailors gently lifted the wooden paddle and rowed towards Chenqian Island in the darkness. After rowing for about four or five miles, the canoe Yu Ren was riding touched an underwater reef, and the canoe shook slightly and stopped.

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Everyone was prepared and was not surprised. Yu Ren looked at the distance and estimated that it was less than two miles away. He then motioned to the sailor to stop the canoe here, and then motioned to the canoe behind to come closer.

But the canoe behind always hit the reef. It took more than twenty minutes for the two canoes to get together. So everyone lit up the hot air balloon according to the pre-planned plan. Yu Ren waited for the heat to arrive.

The balloon began to emerge from the boat. He quickly stepped into the bamboo basket and added a shovel of coal to the brazier.

The wind direction tonight is just right, blowing from the northeast. Yu Ren has also carefully observed this. Although the problem of controlling the direction was taken into consideration when designing his hot air balloon, he made several adjustments that can adjust the direction.

It’s a small device, but the impact of the wind is still huge, so Yu Ren doesn’t dare to be careless.

Under the night wind, Yu Ren's hot air balloon was slowly drifting towards Chenqian Island in the darkness ahead as he had planned. The balloon was rising higher and higher. Yu Ren dared to open some air leaks.

, and controlled the balloon as low as possible because he was worried that the balloon would fly too high and the fire on it would be discovered by the pirates on the island, causing his sneak attack to fail.

However, this was Yu Ren's first time controlling a hot air balloon at sea. When he was in Daqu Mountain, Yu Ren was worried that the cloth and paper top cover of the hot air balloon would break after being used too much, so he did not conduct further experiments. He

As soon as the air leaked, the hot air balloon quickly descended. Yu Ren was shocked when he saw that it was about to touch the sea. There are countless venomous snakes in the sea water here, so his bamboo basket was designed to be as light as possible.

, the design is also hollow. If you let the bamboo basket sink into the water, you may be bitten to death by a poisonous snake in the water immediately.

In desperation, Yu Ren pulled out the long sword he carried with him and inserted the sword into a reef that was vaguely exposed out of the water. The long sword made a soft sound, and the sword began to bear force, and soon it was bent under the pressure.

Well, the downward momentum of the balloon has finally been brought under control.

Yu Ren did not dare to relax even a little. His eyes were fixed on the long sword in his hand. Seeing that the blade of the long sword returned to a straight line little by little, Yu Ren finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The hot air balloon finally rose slowly again.

After the hot air balloon flew over Chenqian Island, Yu Ren dared to open the air leak again. Soon, the hot air balloon landed on the island.

However, because there were too many trees on the island, the hot air balloon got hung on the branches. Fortunately, Yu Ren had already made a plan for this situation. He took out a spare rope from the bamboo basket of the hot air balloon.

He was tied to a thicker branch nearby, and then slid to the ground along the rope.

Before getting down from the tree, Yu Ren had already made observations.

Standing where he is now, he can almost see the entire Chenqian Island. However, due to the poor light at night, he cannot see the details clearly. This Chenqian Island is more than ten miles in diameter.

There is a small hill on the southwest and northeast sides of the big island. His current position is exactly halfway up the hillside.

There are no homes around this hillside. There are many houses on the southwest side. About five miles away, near the southwest corner, you can see a row of lights. This is the only light that can be seen on the island at this time.

.These lights can help Yu Ren see that next to them is the fort.

Yu Ren got down from the tree, followed the direction in which his balloon floated, and soon found the string tied under the balloon on the beach.

According to the plan, Yu Ren quickly pulled up the string.

Soon, he tied one end of the rope bridge to a big tree. After doing all this, Yu Ren hid in a nearby bush.

After waiting for less than a quarter of an hour, Yu Ren saw Liu Qiang walking onto the rope bridge first with a knife. Since the other end of the rope bridge they designed was tied to a canoe, multiple people could not get on at the same time.

By the time all fifty of them had landed on the island, it was already close to the fourth watch. Not daring to delay any longer, everyone quickly and quietly sneaked towards the southwest fort ten miles away.

Next to the fort on Chenqian Island, there is a row of nine stone houses. The houses are brightly lit, and it is obvious that there are people stationed inside. However, there are only three bright sentries posted outside the houses, and they all face the sea. Maybe they think it is

It was impossible for anyone to attack them from behind.

Seeing all this, Yu Ren was truly relieved. Liu Qiang divided his fifty men into ten teams, each team was responsible for a stone house. The extra team was led by him personally and was responsible for assassinating the sentries.

This sneak attack was very successful. Because the enemy was not prepared at all. When they killed the three sentries and rushed into the stone house, the pirates were suddenly awakened. So, in this battle, they were almost without blood.

The forty or fifty pirates in the stone house will be captured several times.

Seeing that the fort had been captured by them, Liu Qiang lit three fireworks as agreed in advance.

However, after these three fireworks were lit, there was no movement on the sea, but flowers suddenly exploded on the island. The lights around them became brighter and brighter. Everyone watching was shocked.

Yu Ren counted a total of four to five hundred lamps.

"Liu Qiang, didn't you say that there are no more than two hundred people on this island? Now that we have tied up so many, why are there still so many lights?"

"I don't know either! I came here more than a year ago. At that time, Zhong Laosan's total number of people definitely did not exceed 200. I have counted them." Liu Qiang saw so many lights flashing at once, and he was heartbroken.

He also panicked.

"No need to say more. Find gunpowder first and blow up the cannons on the fort first. Then hurry up and order each team to be responsible for one cannon. Blow up the two Western cannons and the general cannon first." Yu Ren called to Liu Qiang.

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Chapter completed!