At the beginning of the operation, two members of the Heaven and Earth Society, led by Tao Shiwen, dodged towards the main gate of the Qing army barracks. It was as fast as lightning, but silent.

"Poof" A sharp dagger stabbed out of Tao Shiwen's hand quickly, and the Qing soldiers at the door didn't even have time to react, so they covered the leaking trachea in pain, wanted to shout but couldn't shout, and stopped breathing after a few struggles.

Another Qing soldier was also dealt with by Tao Shiwen's teammates, the dagger slashed through the side of the Qing soldier's neck, cutting the carotid artery, and a stream of hot blood spurted out, and the Qing soldier was killed in a blink of an eye.

"Enter!" Tao Shiwen gestured to the rest of the Heaven and Earth Society members.

Twelve warriors broke into the barracks of the Qing army, one by one, and in an instant, the fifty-three Qing soldiers sleeping in the barracks all went to see the king of Hades in their sleep.

"The Left Bank watchtower has been cleared!" Agents of the Heaven and Earth Society made a code call that mimicked the call of a night owl.

After a while, there were also a few night owl calls on the opposite bank: "The right bank sentry tower has been cleared!" ”

Tao Shiwen walked to the river and used a red lantern to signal to the other bank that "it can be cut".

Two members of the Heaven and Earth Society swung their axes and slashed at the thick iron chains attached to the stone stakes. In less than half a pillar of incense, the chain of the barrage was cut off. Almost at the same time, the barrage was cut on the other side.

At the mouth of the river, on the Zhenhai Fort, there are dozens of black shadows waving daggers in the fort, spreading the god of death to their heart's content. After a while, the more than 300 Qing soldiers in the fort all stopped breathing.

The sky gradually brightened, and when the first rays of sunlight shone on the sea, a large fleet of ships appeared at the mouth of the river, heading towards the Yongjiang River.

The Qing army in the county seat of Dinghai (Dinghai was not the current Zhoushan Dinghai, but the current Zhenhai) did not notice it at all, because their dozen forts, sentry towers, and beacon towers on the riverside and seaside were all cleaned up. A total of more than 200 Tiandihui masters set a record for sneak attacks, and in one night, more than 1,000 Qing soldiers were killed while still asleep.

The fleet approached Dinghai, and in the middle of the Yongjiang River, several small fishing boats appeared, slowly heading towards the mouth of the river. When the fishing boat was about to enter the 30-mile sea ban cordon stipulated by the Qing court, the Qing soldiers patrolling the shore shouted: "What are you doing!" Don't go to sea! Otherwise, the arrows will be released! ”

The fishing boats did not pay attention to the roar of the soldiers, and only cared about sailing towards the sea.

"Whoosh" several rounds of random arrows shot onto the river, but the fishing boat sailed in the middle of the river, and the range of the arrows shot by the Qing soldiers was not so far, and all the feather arrows lost their kinetic energy halfway and fell into the river.

"Get on board and catch up with them!" A Qing soldier and sailor shouted.

The Qing soldiers hurriedly climbed onto the clipper, untied the cables, and rowed hard to catch up with the Diao people who tried to defy the law, dared to violate the sea ban, and openly challenged the laws of the Qing Dynasty.

"Catch up! Kill all those Diao people! Take the head to the government to receive the reward! The Qing army shouted and shouted.

There are a total of five fishing boats in front, and it is estimated that there are five or six people on each fishing boat, and if you kill these more than 20 people, you can give him a reward and promotion with more than 20 bloody heads, and you can get a reward of at least 50 taels of silver, and you can also be promoted to the general.

The Qing ships were chasing closer and closer, and when they were about to catch up to the mouth of the river, the commander of the Qing army was stunned: he saw that the mouth of the river was densely packed with sail shadows, and a large area of black pressure formed an impermeable mast forest!

"Ahh Invasion of pirates! What about the battery? Why didn't the cannon fire? Qing Jun Shi shouted.

"Boom" Shi Chang's words did not fall, and the battery really opened fire.

The "Boom" shells fell on the river, and columns of water rose around the boats of the Qing army.

"Idiot! A sucker! Where are you firing your guns? Blind? Shoot at Lao Tzu? It's a cannon shot at a thief! The Qing army commander was so angry that he pointed at the fort and scolded.

However, no matter how the commander of the Qing army scolded, the artillery on the battery still fired at them like a sea of guns.

"Smack" a solid shell hit a Qing army clipper. The cannonball smashed into the ship, the planks were torn apart, and an unlucky Qing soldier was directly hit by the cannonball, and the whole person was immediately turned into pieces of flesh and blood. The shattered planks flew sideways like shrapnel, and the blood of the Qing soldiers on the ship was splattered everywhere.

On the small fishing boat in front, someone lifted the cloth at the stern, only to see a few small cannons sticking out of the muzzles and aiming at the Qing army's fast boat.

"Ahh It turns out that they are pirates! The Qing army commander screamed in surprise and jumped into the water.

It was not much bigger than lifting a gun, weighing only more than 30 catties, but the gun tube was more slender, and the small cannon with high accuracy spewed fire, and the one-pound shell hit the Qing army's clipper, sweeping out a large area of diffuse blood mist.

The five small cannons fired quickly, and in an instant, all the Qing soldiers on the two clippers were sent to the river to feed the fish and shrimp.

The sound of gunfire alarmed the nearby county town of Dinghai, and the city was already in chaos. Because Dinghai County is within 30 miles of the sea, it belongs to the scope of the sea ban, and there is not a single family living in Dinghai City at this time, only more than 1,000 Qing troops are stationed. The Qing soldiers, who had been awakened in the morning, got up from their beds and climbed to the top of the city, and were horrified to find that a huge fleet of ships had appeared on the sea.

Due to the ban on the sea, the county town of Dinghai was dilapidated, the city wall was in disrepair, and the Qing soldiers in the city were not sure to hold this broken city at all.

"What are you still doing! Hurry back to Ningbo Fucheng to report! "The Qing army shouted at his own soldiers.

It is estimated that the forts have been occupied, and the small broken city can only give up, stay here and be killed, it is better to retreat to Ningbo Jiancheng to hold on.

Mr. Qian, who was riding on a horse, looked at the river and glared at the Ming army fleet at the mouth of the river viciously: "We have underwater hidden piles, you can come in!" When you've cut down all the underwater stakes, we'll send heavy troops from somewhere else! ”

Fan Chengmo spent more than a year arranging underwater piles in the river, not to mention thousands. It is easy to arrange the dark pile, but it is difficult to clean the dark pile, because the underwater situation cannot be seen on the water surface, so you can only send people with good water ability to dive down and cut them off one by one. And the lives of those who dive into the water are in danger. Therefore, the Qing army Qian always believed that the Ming army did not have more than ten days, and did not want to enter from the Yongjiang Estuary at all.

But then, something happened to the Qing army Qianzong stunned: twelve small boats entered from the mouth of the river, and under the guidance of five fishing boats, they entered the mouth of the Yongjiang River. Then he lowered the round objects from the boat and threw them into the water.

A deafening explosion sounded on the surface of the river, and columns of water rose one after another, and the underwater piles that Fan Chengmo had painstakingly arranged turned into pieces of wood and broken logs one after another, and surfaced from the bottom of the river and were washed into the sea by the surging river.

"What's that?" Qing Jun Qian was very surprised.

White smoke once again erupted from the "boom" battery, and the rumbling sound of cannon rang out. This time the shells were smashed into the crowd of Qing troops.

More than a dozen solid shells drilled into the crowd of Qing soldiers, and the shells pulled out blood lines. The cannonballs that landed on the ground bounced and turned the human body into stumps, broken legs, and broken torsos. At the same time, small fishing boats on the river were also close to the shore, and the small cannons on the small fishing boats continued to spew fire, and a pound of shells burrowed into the crowd.

The small boat, which was carrying out blasting operations with mines on the river, also approached the shore, and the small cannons and large-caliber two-legged guns on the small boats continued to spew fire, harvesting the lives of the soldiers on the shore.

All kinds of shells and projectiles hit the Qing soldiers, and the frightened Qing soldiers could not attack the targets on the river, so they could only flee from the river as much as possible, leave the range of the Ming army, and flee to Ningbo on a mainland inland.

At this moment, small boats were released from the Ming fleet, and the small boats full of landing divisions and soldiers rowed to the shore. Groups of Ming troops got off from small boats, some of them rushed to the already empty county town of Dinghai, and the other part of the Ming soldiers brandished various weapons and killed the Qing soldiers who tried to retreat.

Seeing the Ming army rushing over shouting from a distance, the general manager of the Qing army shouted fiercely: "Don't mess up!" Hold on to your formation! Assemble a formation and drive the pirates into the sea! ”

When the Ming army was about to rush to the Qing army, it suddenly stopped its footsteps and took on a neat formation in the shortest possible time, and more than 500 Ming troops walked in unison, steadily moving towards the Qing army formation. When the distance between the two sides was still seventy paces, the Ming army stopped advancing, and puffs of white smoke erupted from the neat square formation.

The flintlock pistol emitted a deafening sound of gunfire, and the bullet penetrated into the crowd of Qing troops, knocking down a large number of people in one fell swoop.

"Run for your life!" I don't know who shouted, and the crowd of more than 1,000 Qing soldiers suddenly became chaotic, and they spread their legs and began to flee in all directions.

More than 200 Tiandihui masters, who had already been ambushed nearby, suddenly rushed out and chased after the Qing soldiers all the way, and the backward Qing soldiers were either hacked to death or honestly knelt on the ground and surrendered.

The landing operation of the Ming army went unexpectedly smoothly, and almost no one was lost, and it was easy to go ashore. In the course of the battle, except for three masters of the Heaven and Earth Society and sixteen Ming soldiers who were accidentally slightly injured, no one was killed. More than 1,000 Qing soldiers were all scattered, more than 500 escaped, more than 200 were killed, and the rest of the 300 were captured.

Coupled with the more than 1,000 Qing soldiers killed by the Heaven and Earth Society last night, on the first day of the Ming army's landing, more than 1,500 Qing troops were annihilated, and only 19 of them were slightly injured and not killed.

Along the channel opened up by the small boat with mines, Wang Xinyu's flagship entered the Yongjiang estuary and headed for the Dinghai wharf.

After going ashore, someone came to report: "Report to the handsome!" The grain and grass needed by our army has been sent to Zhoushan! Most of the grain and grass were hoarded in Zhoushan, and some of them had been sent to the army. ”

The reason why Wang Xinyu chose to hoard grain in Zhoushan was to avoid being attacked by the Qing army and burning the grain and grass.

"The front is Dinghai County! The Tartars in the city have all run away a long time ago, there is not a single citizen in the city, and we have already occupied the county seat! Liu Sihai, who served as the vanguard in the front, came back to report.

"Let's go, let's go into town!" Wang Xinyu turned his head to greet Zheng Cong and Chen Yonghua.

Before entering Dinghai City, I saw that this once prosperous seaside county is now dilapidated, because it has been in disrepair for a long time, the city bricks are loose, and the city wall is not high, only about two zhang. Such a small city can be blasted away with a single artillery fire, no wonder the Qing army abandoned it. (To be continued.) )