What is completely different from the fiery scene of mobilizing troops and preparing for war inside and outside Songshan City is that Hu Dabao, Hu Changhai, and Gao Chengyou, who had followed Yang Zhen ashore and attacked Xu Guanbao, Xiong Yuecheng, and Gaizhou City, were attacked by Yang Zhen.

After leading his troops to evacuate the coast of southern Liaoning, they experienced a period of precarious and miserable days.

In April, Yang Zhen led his troops across the Liaohai Sea and gathered several pirate teams on the east coast of the Liaohai Sea from Gaizhou Bay to Fuzhou Bay. They not only burned Xuguan Fort, but also destroyed Xiongyue City and Gaizhou City.

, this unexpected event greatly shocked the Manchu Tatar puppet emperor Huang Taiji.

In early May, the Manchu Tatar pseudo-emperor Huang Taiji not only dictated the edict, but also reprimanded Duduo in public. He lowered the title of the so-called tenth prince of the Manchu Tatars from the original Prince of Heshuoyu to the prince of Duoluoyu, and made Daduo the prince of Duoluoyu.

The traitor's honorable title was also downgraded from the original King Zhishun to Duke Zhishun.

Many people under Duduo's Tatar banner were dismissed from their posts, demoted, or even confiscated farmland, property, and servants.

At the same time, in order to strengthen the defense power of the Manchu Tatars on the southern coast of Liaoning and make up for the defensive loopholes along the southern coast of Liaoning, the Tatar puppet emperor Huang Taiji greatly adjusted the Manchurian Zhengbai flag in the following days, setting

Garrison force with white flag.

One is to order Duoduo, Prince of Duoluoyu County, to move the administrative office of the White Banner in Manchuria to Haizhou City, so that he can personally go to the front line to take charge of organizing the defense of southern Liaoning and guard the southern gate of Shengjing in the Qing Dynasty.

The other is that the imperial edict and Prince Dorgon of Shuorui also left his luxurious palace in Shengjing, moved to Liaoyang City, and personally led the Zhengbai Banner's Yamen to go to Liaoyang to take charge, so as to serve as a retreat for Manchuria's Xiangbai Banner.

In addition, they lowered Manchuria's white flag to Aungbang Zhangjing, Yilden, to station Mele Zhangjing in Gaizhou, and lowered Manchuria's white flag to Maile Zhangjing, Zhumala to station Jia La Zhangjing in Xiong Yue.

Pirate gangs in the Xiongyue area of ​​Gaizhou.

The furious Manchu Tatar King Duduo of Henan County soon moved to Haizhou and led three thousand Manchu elites with white flags. He led Shang Kexi, who was also secretly anxious, to support nearly ten thousand days, and sent troops to the southern coast of Liaoning.

They went from the mouth of the Liaohe River to Gaizhou Bay, and from Gaizhou Bay to Fuzhou Bay. They searched the mountains and seas along the way, clearing out the pirate gangs in the southern Liaoning area and the islands on the east coast of the Liaohai Sea.

Monk Duduo's gratifying campaign was so powerful that Hu Dabao was so frightened that he abandoned his camp on Tu'er Island in mid-May, took his ships and teams, and ran all the way back to Changxing Island in Fuzhou Bay to stay away from the enemy.

The camps scattered on Tu'er Island, as well as the caves where Hu Dabao and his friends once hid, were all burned down by the Tianzhu soldiers who took advantage of the low tide to board Tu'er Island.

By the end of May, the Qing suppression army led by Governor Duduo arrived in the Fuzhou Bay area with great momentum. Duduo, the king of Yujun, personally took command of Fuzhou City and mobilized almost all the large and small ships available in Jinzhou, Fuzhou, Lushunkou and other places.

More than a hundred ships.

After having the ships to cross the bay, Prince Duduo of Yujun personally led the army and landed on Changxing Island, the largest island in Fuzhou Bay, on the first day of June.

However, what made Duduo furious was that the largest island in Fuzhou Bay, which had long been occupied by a pirate gang originating from the rest of the Dongjiang River, had long been deserted.

Duduo sent out his troops and spent two days searching the entire island, but could not find a single person.

Later, the furious Duduo sat on Changxing Island, commanding his army to cross the sea by boat, and searched all the islands in the Fuzhou Bay area. However, the pirates who had previously attacked Fuzhou, Xiongyue, Gaizhou and other places...

As if he had learned the art of invisibility, he completely disappeared.

In the end, they were only on Changxing Island and Fengming Island, Xizhong Island, Nanguan Island in Fuzhou Bay around Changxing Island, as well as Ant Island, Pig Island, Snake Island, Sea Cat Island and other large and small islands in Jinzhou Bay.

We found the cottages, water forts, wharves, houses and farmland that were reclaimed and cultivated by various pirate gangs.

This result made Doduo extremely depressed, but also helpless. In the vast ocean, who could know where those pirates who came and went without a trace had gone on their ships.

In late June, Duduo mobilized troops to search the mountains and seas but found almost nothing. He had no choice but to order the destruction of the docks, houses, camps and few farms on each island. After setting fire to the islands, he had to lead his troops to evacuate Fuzhou.

The islands in the bay returned to Fuzhou City.

Duduo intends to continue to go south along the coast, continue to search the mountains and seas, and even search the islands that the various departments of the former Dongjiang Town have occupied one by one, or take a boat out to sea to search for those who have escaped or hidden in the ocean farther away from the coast.

pirate.

However, the ships he recruited from Lushunkou, Jinzhou, Fuzhou and other places could not carry his ambitions at all.

From the end of May to the end of June, in less than a month, more than half of the more than 100 large and small ships originally mobilized were damaged, leaving only about 50 ships usable.

Although Duduo was very unwilling to do so, he had no choice but to follow the advice of Shang Kexi and others, and ordered the class with great dejection.

First, from the end of June to July and August every year, it is the typhoon season on the east and west sides of the Liaodong Peninsula. The sea waves are high and it is by no means a good time for maritime operations.

Especially since late June, the weather on the east coast of the Liaohai Sea is almost the same as the weather on the west coast of the Liaohai Sea, that is, along the Guanningjin Line of Defense. It has been cloudy for many days, and a typhoon is about to come.

People like Duduo have never been to the sea and naturally know nothing about the astronomical phenomena and climate on the sea. However, everyone who is following him, Shang Kexi and the generals under Shang Kexi, knows everything about it.

They had been stationed on various islands under the jurisdiction of Dongjiang Town for a long time, and they knew the celestial phenomena and climate at sea very well. Duduo was not willing to accept it, but they did not want to be buried in the belly of the fish with him.

Secondly, Duduo himself and the 3,000 elite men of the Manchuria Xiangbai Banner he led, whether they were virgins or mature women, including many Mongolian Niulu under the Manchuria Xiangbai Banner, most of them were landlubbers.

They were not accustomed to water fighting, not to mention that the wind and waves on the sea were completely different from the rivers and lakes they were used to in the deep mountains and forests.

During the entire process of searching the mountains and seas, they did not see a single pirate. Not only did they have no place to exert their strength, but due to the endless capsizing, collisions, and shipwrecks that occurred during this period, many people, young and old, drowned.

Moreover, in June and July, the islands along the coast of southern Liaoning were extremely humid and muggy, and many small islands had no fresh water supply. This situation caused the Manchu and Mongolian elites under the Duduo Xiangbai banner to complain incessantly.

The weather was getting worse and worse, there were not many ships left, and morale was low after a long period of ineffectiveness. Duduo could not survive without retreating.

Of course, it was fortunate that Duduo listened to Shang Kexi's advice and withdrew his troops in time in late June and returned to Haizhou City. Otherwise, he would have caught up with the heavy rain and storm that started at the end of June and lasted until mid-July.

He wanted to withdraw smoothly, or to escape unscathed, but it was not that easy.

Of course, Hu Changhai, Gao Chengyou, Hu Dabao and other people did not disappear out of thin air.

In May, Hu Dabao led his troops to evacuate from Tuer Island and went straight back to Changxing Island. At the same time, he also brought the news that the Manchu Tatars had launched an army to clear out the coastal islands to Hu Changhai and Gao Chengyou.

These two people had known that if they followed Yang Zhen and robbed Xuguan Fort, robbed Xiongyue City, and robbed Gaizhou City, the Manchu Tatars would definitely not give up.

After returning to their home base on the Changxing Islands in Fuzhou Bay, the two of them felt more and more frightened as they thought about it. At the same time, they vaguely regretted that they had listened to Yang Zhen's deceit and followed to harass the city full of Tatars and two Tatars.

The other side is also always ready to respond to the Manchu Tatars' retaliation.

When Hu Dabao arrived and explained the size of the Manchu Tatar army, Hu Changhai and Gao Chengyou had the same idea as Hu Dabao and simply walked away.

Even if I can't beat you, can't I still outrun you? Even if I can outrun you on land, can't I still outrun you on the sea?

Facing the Tatar purge, Hu Changhai and Gao Chengyou still had this little confidence.

If they hadn't been good at escaping and hiding, they would have died there long ago when Lushunkou fell. How could they be here today?

Fight if you can, and run if you can't. For Yang Zhen, it is a tactical principle, but for people like Hu Changhai and Gao Chengyou, it is a survival rule engraved in the bones and flowing in the blood.

Therefore, in late May, the army led by Duduo searched the mountains and seas along the coast. When they were still some distance away from Fuzhou Bay, Hu Changhai and Gao Chengyou ordered their men to pack up their valuable belongings.
Chapter completed!