On November 25, 1854, several Chinese-style cargo ships started anchoring from Shanghai and sailed south. Today they were passing through Gray Turtle Ocean, a fleet of a Chinese business in Shanghai, and they were about to head to Fujian.

"I hope the navy from Ningbo will not come to us today." The cargo owner looked at the ships coming and going along the coast of Zhoushan and said worriedly.

"Master Liu, when you came, I said that the navy of Tinghai had contacted me. There was no prohibited thing on the ship, right?" The boss of the ship came over shirtlessly, with his braided around his neck and shouted: "Don't bother with money and goods! Don't bring these brothers into these ships, I'm all on these ships."

"Fuck, the imperial navy wants to mess with you, do you need a reason?" Master Liu sneered. In the sea breeze, he moved his neck and his braids were like a meteor hammer. He said, "Boss Boss, don't worry, they are all legal goods. But no one is worried, the navy never brings empty-handed when boarding the ship! I put a stack of pounds in my arms, and the navy will pay for the hard work when boarding the ship. But it's all my hard work. Who the hell wants to give these water rats?"

As he was speaking, the sailor behind shouted: "Look at the back, the foreigners are coming in smoke ship!"

The people on several boats ran to the stern and looked wide open. They saw a slight black smoke first appeared in the field of vision, and then the ship chased after him from behind.

"It's so fucking fast! Without sails, how did they do it? Foreigners know how to do it?" The boss of the ship murmured.

"Look, there is more than one smoke ship!" Master Liu stared at the gurgling black smoke line and exclaimed: "It's so terrible."

The ship boss exclaimed: "5 such a large ship? Why are all the foreign warships from Shanghai coming?"

Seeing several steamboats like hills emitting black smoke overtake me and entering the waters near Dinghai County, Zhoushan Island to anchor.

"What big thing happened in Dinghai? Why did the foreign warships in Shanghai come here? What are they doing?" The people on several Chinese ships widened their eyes.

Just as they were thinking, a sound of thunder came from the sea in the north. A group of people looked up at the sun above their heads, wondering how the thunder was coming in front.

After a while, Mr. Liu and others saw three fast-sentence ships sailing towards the port of Dinghai County with black smoke. However, the smoke on their ship did not come out of the chimney like foreigners, but was on fire.

Looking at the three express ships, Mr. Liu and the boss were dumbfounded. Their square sails were covered in eyes and burned with the Yellow Dragon Flag. The last one seemed to have been bitten by a huge tiger at the stern, revealing the inner cabin and white wood stubble, rowing towards this side with all their lives.

"This...this...this...this isn't this Zhoushan Navy?" Mr. Liu and the boss of the ship looked at each other.

Then, a huge fleet followed the escaped Qing Dynasty Huanglong Navy, and appeared in their sight with his teeth and claws.

Looking at the huge blue-bottomed cross flags, the boss of the ship couldn't even close his mouth. He pointed to the fleet and shouted, "This is the fucking Guangdong Changmao! Why are they here?"

"Boom boom boom boom!" A series of muffled thunder rolled on the sea again. Facing the courageless Manqing Naval Division, the Haisong fleet that was almost rushed to the square formation, the warships and ships in front roared, and the water droplets on the sea surface of the Manqing Naval Division rushed to the sky. The ship at the end was completely supported by the bravery of the oarser. At this moment, it was closest to it and was directly knocked down by a shell and began to sink.

"Changhai is here! Changhai is here!" Although it is half a mile (800 meters) away from Liu and the others, they could hear the screams from the two living Manchu naval masters clearly. These two Manchu warships fled into the Dinghai port in front of foreign ships, followed by the murderous long-haired Western warship.

Dinghai County on Zhoushan Island is surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the sea in the south. It is a seaside defense fortifications three miles away. This is a major coastal defense area in the Qing Dynasty.

These earthen cities are built on a line of sea and are compacted with soil and lime. They are a earthen city wall with a bottom width of 12-18 meters, a top width of 5-15 meters, a height of more than 3 meters, and a stretch of 10 miles. They almost completely surround the Dinghai County town inside with the three-sided mountains.

There are a large number of artillery bunkers "earth cows" built on it, and more than 80 artillery pieces are installed.

The central part of Tucheng is based on the small mountain Dongyue Mountain, and built a main fortress - Zhenyuan Cannon City with a brick and stone structure. It has a circumference of nearly one mile and is the backbone of the Qing army's defense against the sea, with 15 artillery pieces.

The troops were 5,000 in the Green Camp and 1,000 in the Navy.

But Luo Qianjie, who stood tall on the bridge of the "Da Songhai", did not take the Qing army seriously at all. The reason for his extremely bad mood was that he had commanded such a large ship and fleet for the first time. Although he had not experienced bad weather, he suffered a lot on the way from Guangdong to Ningbo. He was like a shepherd dog guarding the flock of sheep, and the fleet was scattered and left behind at any time.

Along the way, the fleet of Haisong's first sea expedition this time, with the assistance of almost half of the highly paid foreigners in technical positions, actually stopped and stopped. It took such a lot of effort to get here.

"The Chinese Dragon and God Knight escorted the field artillery to land on Dawukui Island, and the remaining warships followed the flagship to attack the Tucheng Fortifications!" Luo Qianjie issued an order, sending two warships with strong combat effectiveness that were almost all the "Fifth Column" to protect the land fortifications, while the remaining warships began to attack the Qing Dynasty land fortifications.

This attack was not about martial arts, but about technology, because most of the Qing Dynasty's cannons could not shoot at the Haisong warships, while the Western cannons on the Haisong warships could shell the cannons. The only problem was to manipulate these sail warships to travel outside the range of the Qing Dynasty and use naval guns to fire on land turrets.

If it were a skilled British Navy, it would be a piece of cake to do these things, but the Haisong Navy could not do it.

Both the sailors and gunners who were operating the ship were not skilled enough. In fact, the opium merchants donated the "Da Songhai". What Zhao Kuo was worried about was not the maintenance costs or ammunition costs, but that he could not find enough sailors and gunners to operate it.

Now, half of the foreigners are on the entire ship, and many sailors are still pulled from the old sailors of the Haisong Royal Transportation Company. Although they are good in water, operating such large warships is another matter.

Luo Qianjie watched a small warship as he walked into the range of the Qing Dynasty's turret due to a sailor problem. He was shot on the deck, and Luo Qianjie was so angry that he jumped.

Finally, the "Da Songhai" seemed to be a clumsy elephant walking on the single-plank bridge and staggered across the front of Tucheng.

"fire!" The roars of the officers suddenly sounded in the lower deck, mixed with childish voices. In this "exercise", Zhao Kuo sent all 80 of his "Sea Boy" onto the ship to participate in the war. Some of these 11 and 2-year-old children stood behind artillery and Zhongyang gunners, stared at the Tucheng line that appeared in the cannon window, and shouted in English to fire orders.

Dozens of artillery on the left side of the "Da Songhai" almost roared in a row, and amid the smoke and roar, shells hit the Tucheng of the Qing Dynasty like rain.

"Fuck!" Luo Qianjie and Davidson both looked at the shelling with telescopes and cursed loudly: because the group of Hai Songxin artillery artillery was not very accurate, and many of them were shot far or near.

Fortunately, under the shelling of the Haisong warship, the Qing defenders attracted the attention of the Qing dynasty. They wildly shot all the shells into the sea (the range was not enough), which gave the Crusader Fogang Flying Tiger Camp artillery a chance to land on Dawukui Island.

This small island is located between the Haisong Fleet and Tucheng, very close to Zhoushan Island. On it, the field cannons can easily hit Zhenyuan Cannon City, the main artillery of the Qing Dynasty defenders.

Soon, smoke began to spread on Dawukui Island. The army artillery was fixed and the distance was easy to measure, which was accurate than the navy. Half an hour later, Zhenyuan Artillery City was bombarded with black smoke, which marked the navy with a clearer goal.

Davidson and Luo Qianjie led seven sailing warships back and forth on the sea, shooting on the left for a while, and then changing their posture and shooting on the right for a while.

This operation is being watched. A day ago, according to the request of the British officers who came to observe in the fleet, Luo Qianjie sent a steamer to bypass Zhoushan to arrive in Shanghai in advance, informing that a military war might occur today. As a result, the warships of several powerful powers came out to watch according to international practices.

On the American warship watching from a distance, the American captain put down his telescope and said to his colleagues: "It's not like a military operation at all. This is obviously a target shooting for new recruits."

"You expect a decent naval battle in the Far East?" The American said disdainfully, "They are just copying the British."

After an hour of shooting with poor navigation and poor filling of cannons and firing speed, the defense line of the Qing Dynasty Tucheng was in ruins and the defenders began to flee.

Although Hai Song's cat is not very powerful, the mouse is still a mouse. It is already the limit to the Qing Dynasty Green Camp being able to persist for an hour under shelling (although not precise).

At this moment, 1,000 people from the Xiaodao Soldier had bypassed the Tucheng Fortifications and landed under Xiaofeng Ridge at the westernmost end, and then launched a fierce attack.

This group of legions with Fujian Xiaodaohui as its foundation has followed the fleet to fight south and north for more than a year. They grew up drinking the blood of pirates and were completely a army of war.

Moreover, he is not only experienced in the field of killing, but also has extremely rich experience in landing operations, but also has extremely excellent equipment.

The long-range attack is a flash of Western fast guns, which shoot farther than the Qing Dynasty cannons; in close combat, it is a big sword and a bayonet charge.

Even the pirates who could die together in the powder cabin were not their opponents, not to mention that the Green Camp soldier with the lowest organization on the mainland, Xiaofeng led the defenders to collapse and began to compete in Dinghai County.

"Brother, the bullets are stupid..." After a volley, their leader Ding Yuzhan took off his clothes, held up the serrated sword and crossed the top, and put on a usual iron man posture - a twisted face, but before he could finish the roar, he found that the enemies in front of him were far inferior to the pirates, and they were all running towards him with their backs.

"Big knife is a hero... for me... Yu Zhan held the knife and read the second half weakly, sighed, looked at the group of Qing soldiers and sighed: "Fuck! I have never seen such a person. Brothers, go back to the beach."

After the Knife Legion occupied the beach, 1,000 new troops of the Foshan Flying Tiger Army landed. Under the command of the French instructor's civilized stick, they began to line up and attack from the side of Tucheng in a shooting queue.

The Qing artillery could not rotate at all, and there was no defense on the side of the earthen city wall.

In the face of fear and bayonets, the Qing soldiers turned the war into a race against massacre. The only remaining officers and soldiers with brave genes were not in line with the slave civilization of the Qing Dynasty. They quickly paid the tuition with their lives. One general was beaten into a sieve, and the other general was beaten into a sieve by a bayonet.

When it was dark, the entire line of the Qing Dynasty Tucheng defense line was over, and Dinghai County was exposed to 2,000 Hai Song Changmao.

The field artillery affiliated to the Flying Tiger Camp finally landed because they were going to board the ship from Dawukui Island and transport it to the sea again, but as soon as they got ashore, the battle was completely over.

They set up artillery positions in the heights of Xiaofengling in the west of the county town, and condescending artillery bombarded Dinghai County.

Although thousands of deserters gathered in the county town and 41 cannons were placed on the city wall, when the first shell hit Dinghai County in the dark, the county magistrate and Qing soldiers flocked to the east gate.

"Fuck! We didn't bring a ladder!" At night, Xiaodao Legion under the city wall and Chen Baoqiang, Chen from Fogang Flying Tiger Camp, looked at each other and sighed at the same time.

When they led the soldiers to the city, they did not resist at all. The two of them probably had all escaped, but the problem was that they did not expect this to be so smooth. Now the problem is that there is no tool to climb the city at all.

Finally, the soldiers of the Little Knife Legion hooked the city wall with a hook, and the soldiers climbed up to open the city gate.

Without any resistance, Haisong soldiers entered the county government and released all prisoners, including of course the 18 subordinates of the Haisong Royal Transportation Company, the severely convicted prisoners.

"Are you okay?" Ding Yuzhan shouted, holding the dying Lao Wang. The latter had eaten the top ten tortures of the Qing Dynasty. The leg bones on his left leg were crushed and he could not walk at all.

"Am I dreaming?" Lao Wang saw a group of Hai Song soldiers surrounding him in the middle under the torch: "This is Zhoushan! Am I dead? In heaven?"

"You are our brother! We are coming to save you." Ding Yuzhan gritted his teeth as he looked at Lao Wang's broken body, then turned his head and shouted, "The brother of Huang Yun has found it!"

Suddenly the voice aroused cheers after cheers, and the torches jumped up, passing from Dinghai County to the coast and to the warships on the sea.

The next morning, Chen Baoqiang, who was responsible for the defense of the occupied county town, came out of a private house where he rested last night. Before he could brush his teeth, he saw black smoke rising in the city.

"What happened?" Chen Baoqiang's toothbrush fell to the ground in his shocked hands.

"Battery Commander, the people of the Little Knife Legion began to set fire and loot," a subordinate reported.

"Go and have a look with me." Chen Baoqiang picked up his military uniform and ran towards the center of the county town with a few personal soldiers. Along the way, soldiers with small knife armbands were setting fires and robbing at will, not even letting go of cattle, sheep, chickens and dogs.

When he entered the county government office, he saw Ding Yuzhan sitting carelessly on the chair in the yard, with a row of captured Qing soldiers and yamen runners in front of him.

"Where is your master's treasure hidden?" This is the first sentence Chen Baoqiang heard.

"I don't know! Grandpa Changmao, I really don't know. Although I am the second housekeeper of the master, I am the kitchen!" A middle-aged man with braids raised was snotted in front of Ding Yuzhan and begged for mercy.

"Don't play this for me. If you don't know, go to die!" Ding Yuzhan sneered and waved his head.

Immediately, a soldier slashed into the guy's head with an axe and immediately stole the corpse on the ground.

"Don't you know, do you know the fucking first housekeeper?" Ding Yuzhan stared at the man in the middle and yelled: "Have you seen him come to an end?"

"Master, I know! I know! There are some gold bars in the soil of the flower pot. Before leaving, the master handed over a car to the cloth shop owner..." The roared man burst into tears in front of the corpse.

"Captain Ding, what are you doing!" Chen Baoqiang stared at this disgusting scene and walked in with great strides.

"Brother Chen. I got up so early." Ding Yuzhan smiled.

Chen Baoqiang ignored the smile, pointed at the body and shouted at Ding Yuzhan: "Why do you kill people casually? Why are your people robbing?"

"What are you talking about?" Ding Yuzhan was stunned. He looked at the glaring officer in confusion. After a moment, he said coldly: "I don't care what your army wants to do! But you have to know that it was my first group of people who landed in, and my first group of people who entered the county town! This county town is mine! Want to share the spoils? You recruits who are even dizzy in the boat, stay with me!"

"Trophy?" Kong Wu's stout Chen Baoqiang's eyes stood up: "I'm asking why you robbed civilians! Our Song army fought for God, defended farmers and merchants! Your people were even robbed civilians!"

"You said this." Ding Yuzhan suddenly relaxed. He leaned comfortably on the back of the chair and smiled: "I thought you wanted to share the spoils."

Then he pointed to the people kneeling in front of him and said, "These people are all people who have relationships with wealthy families in the city. I need to ask about their hiding treasures. We will not stay here for a long time..."

"The military discipline does not stipulate that you have the power to rob civilians and innocent wealthy families!" Chen Baoqiang continued to roar: "God doesn't allow it! These are all poor people enslaved by the Qing demon!"

"That's your fucked army!" Ding Yuzhan looked at Chen Baoqiang, his face changed color. He said slowly: "All the enemies of our navy are pirates and qing Yao. We have the right to take away anything of them. Who told them to be less brave than us? This is the occupied area! This is the occupied area of ​​our navy and Xiaodao Army!"

As he was talking, Friedrich came in and he said to Chen Baoqiang: "Chen, order our people to go back to the beach and board the boat."
To be continued...