Chapter 1079 The Problem of Qishan Institute

The two provinces of Fuzhou and Guangzhou in the south of the Ming Dynasty were areas where piracy was rampant before the arrival of Haihan. The coastal defenses of Fujian were even in a state of desolation under the constant attack of Shibazhi. Not only was the navy weak, but many coastal areas

The defense posts were all in name only. They did not have enough troops and lacked a unified command linkage system. They were basically unable to respond to threats from the sea. They were unable to achieve the Ming Dynasty's original defense system of "setting up guards across prefectures and setting up posts in even counties".

The design requirements. However, the coastal defense situation on the Dengzhou Prefecture side of the Jiaodong Peninsula is somewhat different from that in the southern coastal areas.

Although the Denglai Rebellion that occurred two years ago greatly damaged the strength of the garrison troops in this area, and the garrison strength in many places is far from being restored to the level it should be, the entire coastline of the Jiaodong Peninsula is densely populated.

However, most of the scattered guard cities and strongholds have been relatively complete. The Denglai Rebellion has been over for more than a year. Now, the density of coastal patrols in these places has actually returned to 60 to 70% of the normal state, although there is not much combat effectiveness.

It can be said that the joint response after discovering suspicious enemy situations is still very fast.

After the Haihan main fleet was discovered by a Ming army patrol ship near Liugong Island off the coast of Weihaiwei the day before, the other party did not dare to follow, but immediately returned to the coast to report the astonishing discovery to the Weihai commander. Although there were already many people in this place

He had not encountered an enemy attack from the sea for a long time, but the Wei Commander immediately ordered the entire army to prepare for war. While continuing to send ships out to sea to investigate the situation, he also sent a warning to Ninghai Wei Jinshan Zuoqianhu Station east of Weihai Wei.

, and asked him to also send a ship out to sea to assist in the investigation - it is said that the unidentified huge fleet was heading west.

However, Weihaiwei received the warning, responded, and sent people to the Jinshan Zuo Institute, sixty miles away, to inform their colleagues. The delay had been too long, and when the Jinshan Zuo Institute received the notice, they hurriedly organized

When people went out to sea for reconnaissance, Haihan's main fleet had actually sailed through this sea area, so the Ming army's sea search was in vain.

The failure to find this huge disappearing fleet not only failed to reassure the Ming armies of Weihaiwei and Ninghaiwei, but made them even more worried that something might happen, because this sea area continues two hundred miles to the west to Dengzhou, where the capital of Dengzhou is located.

The city has been destroyed, and the local city defenses and the nearby water city are still being rebuilt. It is probably difficult to deal with the threat from the sea. From the incident area to Dengzhou City, there is also a strange mountain with thousands of households separated.

In the station's defense area, the top priority was to get the Qishan Station to join the joint investigation. So after the Jinshan Station reported to Ninghai Prefecture City, the Ninghai Guard Commander immediately sent people to Qishan Station to report the news.

When the messenger who reported the news arrived at Qishansuo City, it was already after the city had been closed for the night. The messenger shouted outside the city for a long time before a lantern came out from the top of the city. Then someone shouted from the top of the city: "Who is under the city?"

The messenger responded: "I am the messenger from Jinshan, conveying urgent military information and opening the city gate as soon as possible!"

After a while, a hanging basket was lowered on top of the city, and the envoys below the city put their identity certificates in, and then put them up for verification. Then they opened the city gate a crack and allowed the envoys to lead their horses into the city.

Feng Fei, from Qianshuo in Qishansuo, was already lying on the bed when it got dark. This was not because he was greedy for bed pleasure, but because he injured his waist during the battle with Kong Youde's rebels two years ago. Sitting for a long time will cause pain.

Only lying down can provide some relief, so whenever he has free time during the day, he will try to lie down on the bed as much as possible.

Such a physical condition will undoubtedly greatly affect the future career of a military attache. In fact, Feng Fei submitted his resignation to the Shandong Dusi after the Denglai Rebellion and wanted to return home to recuperate as soon as possible. But Jiaodong

The peninsula was in dire straits after the war, and local officers suffered heavy losses in the civil war. Now even grassroots soldiers cannot be recruited to the establishment, and there are even more vacancies for officers.

For example, the Qishan Thousand Household Office originally had a population of 1,120, divided into ten hundred-household offices, but now the actual number of people on the roster is only a little over 50%, and there are still several hundred-household offices.

There is a vacancy, and the entire command system is currently in a state of incompleteness. Moreover, the deputy position of Qishan Institute of Testing Thousand Households is vacant. If Feng Fei loses his responsibility, Shandong Dusi will really not be able to find a suitable person to take over Qishan in a short time.

So. After all, the Dengzhou Guard was the area where the military officers suffered the most serious losses during the civil war, and it was never replaced after the war. Therefore, after Feng Fei's retirement application was submitted, he was sent back by Shandong Dusi without any delay.

Since there is no way to apply for retirement in advance, all Feng Fei can do is to make himself as comfortable as possible within his ability. Anyway, there is no war in Dengzhou Prefecture now, and there is no need for him to continue to lead troops to fight.

Although there are still many armed bandits operating in the inland mountainous areas, there are more or less garrison troops stationed in Qishan City, which can act as a deterrent, so the situation in the area is relatively calm. At present, there is not enough military expenditure and food to support the recruitment of garrison troops.

New recruits joined the army, so Feng Fei stayed in Qishansuo and continued to work as a Qianhu, which was not much different from being an idler.

The last time this kind of situation occurred in the middle of the night when receiving urgent military information from other guard stations dates back to the Denglai Rebellion. Feng Fei had slept peacefully for more than a year, and it was finally broken on this day.

He put on his clothes and went to the study. Soon someone brought a messenger and presented him with proof of identity and a handwritten letter from Ning Haiwei Commander Zhang Chao.

Feng Fei opened it and browsed it quickly, then shook his head and said: "Go back tomorrow and reply to Mr. Zhang. No abnormal conditions were found at Qishan Institute today. If there is really an enemy situation as mentioned in Mr. Zhang's letter, the piers on the north coast will

Taiwan should have issued a firework warning a long time ago. I will write a letter tomorrow and report this information to Dengzhou Prefecture."

In Feng Fei's view, if the unidentified fleet mentioned in the letter was not a false alarm from Weihaiwei, it should have bypassed the coast near Qishansuo from the sea and continued to Dengzhou Prefecture.

The direction has gone. There are not even a few sea-going ships with hulls of more than 100 materials in Qishansuo, and now they can't even gather the sailors needed to go to sea. They simply don't have the ability to prevent and control the nearby sea areas. For this

This kind of co-investigation task is indeed too much to do, and we can only do it for a show, doing our best and obeying fate.

Of course, another reason why Feng Fei pays little attention to this is the word "unidentified" in military information. If it is the Japanese pirates' Yawata ship, or the naval warship that defected to Liaodong before, the hull shape is very easy to recognize.

, it is impossible for the maritime patrol officers on the Weihaiwei side not to recognize these two types of ships. In addition to these two origins, Feng Fei could not think of any other maritime armed forces near the Jiaodong Peninsula that could organize a large-scale

fleet, and could make Weihaiwei pay such attention to it and pass the warning all the way west.

Compared with the threat theory, Feng Fei thinks that this is more likely to be a fleet organized by a wealthy businessman from somewhere in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to go to Shuntian Mansion, making the ungrateful Weihaiwei misunderstood into an unidentified hostile force. This kind of thing happened last year

Once, when a large-scale merchant fleet from Zhejiang passed through the coastline of Dengzhou Prefecture and went to Shuntian Prefecture, it was mistaken by the coastal defenders for a pirate invasion.

There was great turmoil in the station, and eight hundred miles rushed to mobilize naval forces from Lingshan Guard and other places. As a result, after the incident was over, the thousands of households in the guard station where the incident occurred were punished, demoted to one level, and fined ten months' salary.

With the lessons learned from the past, if a situation like this occurs again, the response of each guard station will actually be more subtle. Even if there is a large fleet whose identity cannot be confirmed, the coastal guard station's handling method will no longer be as radical as before. It must be

Try to verify your identity first before taking follow-up actions. Of course, this is also closely related to the lack of maritime patrol force in the entire Jiaodong Peninsula after the Dengzhou Navy was kidnapped and defected. Most of the guards did not have enough combat ships to put into their jurisdiction.

Because of the sea area, it is difficult to respond in time to such large fleets transiting the border. Waiting for the news to be received on land and then passing it on station by station, often times have changed and there is a lack of timeliness.

Feng Fei decided to follow the standard handling procedures for this situation and go through the process safely. Although Zheng Laoqi, who was on duty at the Yantai Mountain pier on the seaside, was a veteran, he was also someone who had been on the battlefield after all. It was really a situation.

You should know how to deal with it. Since there is no news from there today, it should be safe and sound. Just wait until dawn and send someone over to say hello to Zheng Laoqi.

After Feng Fei dealt with the matter in a few moments, he asked his soldiers to take the messenger down to rest. He also went back to his room and slept peacefully. Unexpectedly, he anchored on the sea of ​​Zhifu Bay, which was only a few miles away from Qishan Suo.

The huge fleet mentioned in the emergency military situation. And the Yantai Mountain pier that originally had the opportunity to send out a warning has been troubled by uninvited guests from the sea. The seriousness of this emergency is far greater.

It far exceeded his expectations at this time. If he knew what the Haihan people were planning to do when they came uninvited, he might not even be able to close his eyes that night.

So on this night in early August 1634, the Haihan people who had just arrived at Zhifu Bay and the Ming army who were only a few miles away from them were lucky enough to spend a very peaceful night.

Of course, not everyone is so relaxed. After Zheng Laoqi and his men were shackled all night, their whole bodies began to ache. Zheng Laoqi drank too much at noon the day before, and went out to enjoy the sea breeze in the afternoon.

He was greatly frightened, and then his hands and feet were shackled and imprisoned. He fell ill at night. The soldiers guarding the prisoners thought that this guy was pretending to be unwell and ignored him. In the morning, they found this guy.

The guy vomited a big puddle at night, there was foam at the corners of his mouth, and his breathing was very weak, so he hurriedly reported it to Takahashi Minami.

Although Gao Qiaonan didn't care about the life or death of individual prisoners of war, there was still some use in keeping these people. He immediately brought the military doctor over to check. The military doctor here was still preparing to give Zheng Laoqi an injection, so someone came to report to Gao Qiaonan.

It was said that people came from the south.

There is a three-foot-wide dirt road from the Yantai Mountain pier to Qishansuo City in the south. Usually the pier replenishes supplies and personnel change the guard, and all transportation is completed through this road. Gaoqiao Nan took this place

Later, although the news from Zheng Laoqi's confession was that there would be no visitors from the direction of Qishan Suocheng in the near future, he still arranged for a special person to keep an eye on the south just to be safe. Unexpectedly, business came early in the morning.

Gao Qiaonan handed Zheng Laoqi to the military doctor and went out to a high place to confirm the situation with a telescope. He found that there were only two visitors, both dressed as Ming army soldiers and walking from the direction of Qishansuo City. Judging from the possible posture,

They came here to convey some order. However, Takahashi Minami really didn't expect that the order these two people came to Yantai Mountain to convey was actually related to the Haihan Fleet.

"This is really troublesome!" Takahashi Minami couldn't help but sigh helplessly. In order to ensure that the news would not be leaked, and to allow the fleet in Zhifu Bay to have enough time to complete the landing and preliminary infrastructure, the only thing he could do was

Detain all the people from Qishan and wait for one more day.

Although the Qishansuo in the south cannot prevent Haihan from landing on Zhifu Island, if they raise troops to attack, Haihan will have to divide his troops to block it. This will inevitably affect Haihan's early construction plan on Zhifu Island.

Implementation. Moreover, Haihan does not want a large-scale armed conflict to break out with the local Ming army. The purpose of building a stronghold here is not to expand into the inland areas at present, but to use it as a transit station at the intersection of the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea.

The next step is to march to the Liaodong Peninsula and prepare for Haihan's complete control of the Bohai Sea.

For the sake of follow-up plans, Haihan should try his best to avoid hostility with the local garrison in this area, but yesterday Gao Qiaonan captured a group of Ming soldiers as soon as he arrived here, and it seems that this method will continue to be used.

, until the situation can no longer be concealed. However, Minami Takahashi has not yet made up her mind on how to clean her butt in the future.

The two people who came from Qishansuo City were both Feng Fei's personal soldiers. They climbed all the way to Yantai. The situation here was a bit strange. Although there were not many troops stationed on this pier, it was not so quiet, not even a little bit.

There are no human voices.

One of them impatiently shouted Zheng Laoqi several times at the top of his voice, but there was no response. The two looked at each other, both of them showing warning signs. They pulled out their swords and slowly reached for the door of the barracks. When they pushed the door open, the situation inside the room was revealed.

But it shocked the two of them.

All the garrison troops, including Zheng Laoqi, had their hands locked behind their backs, their feet were shackled, and their mouths were gagged with cloth. The two of them were so shocked that they did not choose to enter the room to rescue their colleagues, but turned around and planned to escape.

But when they turned around, they found that dozens of men in gray had quietly appeared around them, each holding a foul-mouthed firecracker in their hands, surrounding the two of them.

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