Wu Ping led a fleet of seven three-masted ships and set off almost as fast as Fu Chun and left Shengyue Island.
Fu Chun's mission was to go to Liaodong to buy wood, but Wu Ping had no specific mission, but just to train and explore the waterway to Shandong.
More than 20 ships and more than 2,000 people were of no use idle in Nagasaki.
Chen Yue ordered Wu Ping to lead the fleet to set off for practice.
They also agreed that they did not need to return to Nagasaki.
They could just wait for the northwest monsoon to set off from Shandong to Zhoushan and record Shandong along the way.
Route to Zhoushan.
Chen Yue believes that Wu Ping's abilities will be greatly improved after this independent leadership.
Fu Chun took the route north along the Korean Peninsula, while Wu Ping led the fleet straight west.
The ships brought enough supplies, and it took half a month of smooth sailing to see the winding coast.
However, even though it was certain that it had reached the Ming Dynasty, even the fire chiefs on the ship could not determine the exact location.
Because they took the route from Zhejiang to Japan in previous years, none of them came to Shandong.
As the fleet approached the coast, they saw what appeared to be a bay in front of them.
Mountains protruded into the sea from the north and south of the coastline.
The distance between the mountains was about several miles wide, and there was a vast sea inside, like a trumpet mouth, wide on the inside and narrow on the outside.
Any experienced sailor can tell that this is a natural haven.
The ship had been sailing at sea for half a month and naturally needed additional repairs.
Wu Ping sent a small boat into the harbor to investigate and found that there was no naval defense other than civilian ships, so he ordered the fleet to enter the harbor.
If Chen Yue were here, he would have recognized this bay as Jiaozhou Bay in later generations, a famous deep-water port in the north.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the fleet sailed into Jiaozhou Bay, he faintly heard the sound of fighting on the shore.
Wu Ping was shocked.
He sent out sentries to the shore to investigate, and soon came back to report that a battle was taking place a few miles away from the coast. , look at the flags on one side, which are Manta Tartar flags, and on the other side, they are messy and disorderly, just like ordinary people.
The number of people on both sides is not too large, each seems to have hundreds of people.
After Wu Ping thought carefully, he decided that he had to ask.
Although he didn't know who was besieged and killed by Manta, there was no doubt that Manta was the enemy of the Ming Dynasty.
Moreover, the fleet has to stay on the coast of Shandong for a month or two before it can wait for the northwest monsoon to return to Zhoushan.
For such a long time, it needs local help whether it is supplies or repairs.
And those who oppose the Qing army are naturally their natural allies.
After the decision, Wu Ping immediately ordered most of the soldiers on the ship to go ashore with weapons.
The seven sea ships carried more than 600 soldiers, including a hundred Japanese warriors.
Wu Ping left about a hundred people to watch the ship, and he took five hundred soldiers ashore and headed for the battlefield.
Li Yanzhi was fighting hard with his servants and civilians and the Qing soldiers.
Seeing his men fall one by one, he fell into despair.
The people who gathered hastily could not compare with the army.
Even though their number was several times that of the Qing soldiers, they were still being killed and retreated steadily.
If Li Yanzhi had not been fighting on the front line with a long sword, his men would have been killed long ago.
Dispersed.
"Master Li, an army is coming from the sea."
Just when Li Yanzhi couldn't resist and was about to retreat, a servant suddenly screamed.
Li Yan looked sideways and saw hundreds of people approaching the battlefield in a menacing manner.
The sudden appearance of Wu Ping with his troops shocked both parties who were fighting.
They stopped the fighting and retreated slowly, because no one knew whether they were friends or foes.
Ma Guang, the Jiaonan garrison of the Qing army, looked towards the seaside in surprise.
He was about to defeat the mob when an army came across the sea.
Looking at the flag carried by this army, it has the word "Qi Yun" written on it, but it is an army I have never heard of the name.
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However, coming across the sea, it is definitely not the Qing Dynasty's own people, because as far as Ma Guang is concerned, As you know, the Qing army has no sailors at all in Shandong now.
Whether it was an enemy or a friend, Ma Guang and Li Yanzhi were both nervously judging.
Soon there was no need for them to speculate anymore, because this army had just approached the battlefield and charged at the Qing army.
Although the team of 500 people was not very large, they were organized and fierce.
The most terrifying thing was the 100 Japanese with bald buns and strange clothes who rushed in front, holding long Japanese swords, and screamed to kill them.
The Japanese pirates looked at the charging enemies, and Ma Guang's eyes bulged out.
He didn't expect Japanese pirates to come ashore at this time, but why did they ignore these mobs and instead rushed towards him?
Could it be that these Japanese pirates were colluded with the mobs?
"Archers block" Ma Guang shouted loudly.
At this time, he had no time to think too much.
There were a hundred archers under his command.
After hearing the order, they immediately rushed to the front of the formation, nocked arrows and drew their bows.
However, before they could draw their bows, a burst of firecrackers sounded one after another, and countless projectiles flew from the gaps between the Japanese warriors. came out and shot at the array of archers.
Screams rang out one after another, and the archers who had not had time to release their arrows were shot to the ground one after another.
In order to enhance the land warfare strength of Wu Ping's fleet, Chen Yue replenished him with a hundred muskets captured from the Dutch.
Taking advantage of the panic of the Qing army's archery team, a hundred Japanese warriors rushed into their ranks.
The long Japanese swords flashed with cold light and slashed down.
When the bows were broken, the strings were broken, accompanied by the shrill screams of the archers.
Following the fleeing archers, the Japanese warriors rushed into the Qing army's array and began to kill fiercely.
The Japanese warriors are all professional warriors who have practiced martial arts since childhood.
Their individual combat power is far superior to that of the average army.
Therefore, during the Japanese pirate rebellion a hundred years ago, hundreds of Japanese pirates often penetrated deep into the mainland and defeated tens of thousands of Ming troops one after another.
At that time, it was a fact that the combat effectiveness of the Ming army along the coast was weak, and the combat effectiveness of the Japanese should not be underestimated.
It was not until the emergence of Qi Jiajun that the situation of repeated battles against the Japanese pirates was completely reversed.
The current green battalion of the Qing army was formed after the surrender of the former Ming army.
Their combat effectiveness was originally not very good, but they were suddenly attacked by Japanese pirates and immediately fell into chaos.
When Ma Guang saw that something was wrong, he immediately took the lead and ran away from the battlefield.
The battle was fierce and short.
In less than a stick of incense, the Qing army of six to seven hundred people was killed and defeated.
They left nearly a hundred corpses and fled in panic.
Li Yan was stunned as he watched.
Although they were rescued, Li Yanzhi and a group of subordinates did not dare to relax, but were on guard with weapons in hand because they did not know what these "Japanese pirates" would do to them.
But what surprised Li Yanzhi was that the leader of the "Japanese pirates" was a man of Ming Dynasty, and he was a young man with a handsome face and a warm smile.
His northern Chinese dialect was even more familiar to him
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