There is a saying: "Life is like a boat against the current, when the sails of fate cross the tragic years, the terrifying waves are often the biggest test of a person's will, and the really strong will firmly cross this difficult voyage, so that hope and faith cast a more majestic navigation mark!" ”
There was a strange man in the Qing Dynasty who spent several years hunting down and killing a sea giant, thus launching a life-and-death contest between good and evil, and his ending made posterity sigh!
In the last years of Qianlong, because of the poverty of the national treasury, Annan often secretly sent pirate ships to plunder the coast of China, and by the fifth year of Jiaqing, it became more and more rampant, and Haikou even sailed to the shore of Taizhou to rob the people's wealth, which aroused the anger of a coastal defense official, who was Li Changgeng, the chief soldier of Dinghai Town, Zhejiang.
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Li Changgeng, born in the coast of Fujian, was intelligent and studious at an early age, and when he entered a private school, he carved the seven words "I am born to be useful" on his desk to encourage himself. Later, after taking the meritorious name, he always achieved the general soldier of Dinghai, loyal and courageous, heard that Haikou disturbed the people, immediately led his troops to surround and suppress, and for the first time he caught hundreds of Haikou, and searched for the seal issued by the King of Annam, killed four of the leaders, repatriated the remnants, and blamed the King of Annam on behalf of the imperial court. Jiaqing was overjoyed and made Li Changgeng the viceroy of Fujian.
Soon, a rebellion broke out in Annam, and the new king, Nguyen Phuc Anh, paid tribute to the Great Qing and made him a vassal, so the Jia Khanh Emperor made him the King of Vietnam and ordered him to strictly prohibit piracy. As a result, the original pirates were scattered all over the world, homeless, and even more vicious, they colluded with each other, elected Cai Qian and Zhu Qian as leaders, and led hundreds of boats to invade the Fujian Sea, rob fishermen, extort merchant ships, and run rampant on one side, causing headaches for officers and men.
When Li Changgeng saw the situation, he took the initiative to ask his superior Yude to suppress Kou, who knew that the Manchu Yude actually looked down on the Han officials, but instead played to Jiaqing, Li Changgeng was born in Fujian, and should be avoided. Jiaqing therefore transferred Li Changgeng to Zhejiang.
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This time, Li Changgeng was appreciated by Ruan Yuan, the governor of Zhejiang, and vigorously supported his strategy of suppressing Kou, raising 100,000 taels of silver to be used by Li Changgeng, who was encouraged to use this huge amount of money to build thirty large ships, with 400 cannons on them, personally leading officers and men to sail out to sea, looking for enemy tracks everywhere, and defeating Cai Qian many times. In the eighth year of Jiaqing, When Li Changgeng heard that Cai Qiang had gone to Dinghai Putuo Mountain for incense, he immediately went out of the ship to surround him on all sides, and a burst of shells bombarded Cai's fleet, beating Cai Qian's fleet to pieces and losing most of them, frightening Cai Qiang to jump off the boat and flee in chaos, And Li Changgeng ordered the boat division to pursue with all its might.
That Cai Was panicked like a dog that lost his family, led the remaining remnants of the defeated soldiers to flee to the Fujian sea, looked back and could not get rid of Li Changgeng's fleet, hurriedly sent people to bring tens of thousands of taels of silver ashore to bribe The Governor of Min, Yude was greedy, so in the name of appeasing Cai Qiang, li Changgeng withdrew his troops and returned to Hong Kong, Li Changgeng saw haikou surrendering, but did not dare to resist, shed a few tears, and had no choice but to return to the garrison.
Cai Qian took the opportunity to rest his men and horses, and spent a huge amount of money to build a number of giant ships, loaded with heavy artillery, looking for an opportunity to escape and go, returning to the sea to commit evil, and joining forces with Zhu Lian to plunder Wenzhou on a large scale. For a time, Cai Qian's reputation became famous, and no one in the Minhai area was invincible.
When the news reached the Qing court, Jiaqing was furious and ordered Li Changgeng to lead the Fujian-Zhejiang Water Division and encircle and suppress the giant Kou Cai and Zhu Hu. Li Changgeng was grateful to Dai De, so he trained a water army in Wenzhou, and in the late autumn of the ninth year of Jiaqing, he led the fleet to March to Ma Jiyang. On that day, the sky was clear, the sea and sky were colorful, and after the ship traveled for dozens of miles, I saw that there was an island in front of me, about one or two hundred Haikou ships, which were moored there, and the end was lined with sails, tall and mighty. Li Changgeng had no fear, and with a wave of the flag, the left and right battleships advanced in parallel! Looking at the approaching enemy ships, he ordered each ship to fire in unison.
On the opposite side, Cai Qian found that the official ship was approaching, and hurriedly ordered the fleet to line up in a straight line and fight back with huge cannons, and the sea was suddenly huge and terrifying. Li Changgeng looked quietly and found that the enemy fleet Cai was on the right and Zhu Meng was on the left. So he ordered himself to take the boat and rush straight to the middle of the enemy team, "Boom, boom! "Two cannons, knocked down the canopy of the ship in the middle of the enemy position, the ship was frightened and hurriedly retreated, Chang Geng waved the flag, led the fleet directly into the enemy position, the Haikou formation was immediately disturbed, Zhu Meng was frightened and hurriedly led the ship to flee, Chang Geng turned to attack Cai Qiang, that Cai Qiang saw that the official ship was strong, and also turned the rudder to flee, was pulled by Chang Geng full of sails, all the way to the cannon, all the way to chase, sank two enemy ships, interrupted Cai Qian's boat Pengsuo, thanks to Cai Qian's large height and ability to steer, so he desperately fled. Li Changgeng won a great victory and ordered the troops to be collected.
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In the winter of that year, Li Changgeng led a fleet to defeat Zhu Lian at Jiaziyang, and defeated Cai Qian at Qinglong Harbor in the summer of the following year, and the angry and anxious Cai Qian gathered a hundred ships and simply invaded Taiwan to the east. Jiaqing heard the news and hurriedly sent the Minister of Customs and Defense to go to the requisition.
At this time, Li Changgeng also heard the news, led the fleet to the first to reach the waters of Taiwan, saw that the Deer Er Gate was blocked by The Haikou with a large ship, so he carried troops in light boats and secretly crossed the port of Anping and went directly to the capital city. Cai Qian heard the news, hurriedly sent troops to resist, all five consecutive battles were lost, had to flee Taiwan from Beishan Port with his subordinates, the ship had just sailed out of the port, saw a person standing on the tall ship in front of him, holding the command flag, the majesty was majestic, and at first glance, Li Changgeng, who was the most feared in his life, was frightened and his legs were weak. At this time, Li Changgeng turned back and shouted, "Don't catch Cai Qian today, when will you wait!" As soon as the words fell, the left and right official ships attacked at the same time and gathered around Cai Qian.
Seeing that Cai Was about to be captured, even if the heavens were not beautiful, a strange wind suddenly blew up on the sea, setting off a wave, the waves roared, the official ship was washed away and swayed from side to side, and it was very difficult for people to stand on it. Cai led the ship tall and was not affected by the wind and waves, so he took the opportunity to take the road to escape, and when the sea breeze passed, Chang Gung's men only captured a dozen enemy ships, and they could not help but sigh from the sky. Jiaqing heard the music and scolded him to indulge in the music, take off the top of the plume, and wear the sin to make meritorious deeds to see the after-effects.
At this time, Li Changgeng was doubly indignant, and he led his troops to pursue and suppress them vigorously, chasing them to the Funing area, and then defeated the combined fleet of Cai Qian and Zhu Mao, and the erkou split into the Zhejiang Sea, and Chang Geng single-handedly grabbed Cai Qiang, and chased them bitterly from Taizhou to Dinghai. Later, Cai Was wounded and escaped, and the imperial court heard the news, rewarded Chang Geng Lingding, and Jia Qiqinmin. Chang Gung finally reduced his hatred a little, continued to train people and horses, and prepared to suppress Kou.
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At this time, it happened that Zhejiang Fu Ruan Yuanding left his post, and Chang Geng complained to the general soldier: "Alas, once Ruan Gong, who supports me, leaves, I am afraid it will be difficult to catch Cai Qiang." The general soldier advised him to go to Yude for help, and Chang Geng told him about the previous events, and the general soldier advised him to impeach Yude. When Jiaqing heard this, he immediately dismissed Yude from his post and sent the Manchu Arin Bao as the Governor of Min.
How did he know that Arin Bao was even more sinister than Yude, and after arriving in office, he found Li Changgeng and persuaded him to cut off a human head at random, pretending to be Cai Qiang to receive the reward, and Li Changgeng was furious: "I hate cheating the most in my life, I dare not accept orders, and I swear not to share the heavens with Cai Thief, either he dies or I die!" Arinbao sneered, "Then please do it yourself." "Words stopped, turned around and secretly wrote a song, impeaching Chang Geng to be timid. Thanks to Jiaqing's wisdom, he did not believe in Arin bao, but instead ordered Chang Gung to rebuild thirty more ships and continue to pursue Cai Qian.
Arin Bao was dizzy at this time, and a wave of resentment was all sent to Chang Geng, where Li Chang Geng was still repairing the ship's ordnance, he issued more than a dozen urging documents here, Chang Geng was helpless, and Yang Tian sighed: "It's okay!" If I don't die at the hands of Haikou, I won't be able to escape the cruelty of my traitors, so I might as well pledge myself to the country and die with Haikou! So he summoned the generals, the Sunrise Division.
Moreover, Cai Qiang listened to Chang Geng coming to suppress him again, frightened and fled directly to the coast of Guangdong, Chang Gung chased him all the way, Cai Qiang returned to Zhejiang from Guangdong, Chang Geng defeated Cai Qiang again in Wenzhou, and then chased to Fujian, and the two of them chased after me and fled, fighting and killing, making Cai Qiang a wreck, and finally only three sea boats were left, fleeing towards the black water ocean, Li Changgeng followed, Cai Qiang endured to the extreme, this time decided not to flee, to fight a life-and-death decisive battle with Li Changgeng.
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Both sides lined up and glared at each other! Li Changgeng personally beat the drum, the sea surface suddenly shot at each other, the sound was incessant, about two hours later, the sails of each other were all broken, at this time Li Changgeng saw the wind blowing in the direction of the enemy ship, so he ordered the soldiers to take advantage of the situation and set fire, and his own ship took the lead in rushing to the back of Cai's ship, seeing the enemy ship's flames soaring, thick smoke billowing, officers and men were about to rush onto the enemy ship to catch Cai Qiang, suddenly heard a bang, a shell of haikou was hitting the Chang Gung ship, the soldiers looked back one after another, and saw the commander Li Changgeng, covering his throat with his hands, and the blood flowing out between his fingers. He had already fallen to the ship's board, and a wisp of loyalty had passed away. The generals were furious and desperately wanted to avenge Li Changgeng, but the deputy general was Arinbao's confidant, and when he saw this, he ordered the retreat to return. Cai Qian took the opportunity to flee again.
When the news of Chang Gung's death reached The Capital Division, the Jiaqing Emperor was horrified, and ordered him to be posthumously named Zhuang Liebo, Yu Zhongyi, and ordered the magistrate to send him a coffin back to his original hometown and set up a shrine to commemorate it!
Postscript: The Governor of Min, Alin Bao, was dismissed, Ruan Yuan returned to Zhejiang as an inspector, and Zhu Huan was soon killed by the general Xu Songnian in Minhai. Cai Qiang was pursued by Chang Geng for several years, exhausted, full of wounds, and soon surrounded by li Changgeng's subordinates Wang Delu and Qiu Lianggong led by ships, Cai Qiang was worthy of the sea, a trapped beast, and finally saw that he could not get out, and decided to commit suicide! Before dying, people broke off the hull of the ship with a huge cannon, and they took the boat and sank into the vast sea in an instant. The smoke of war has dissipated, the officers and troops have returned, and the sea has returned to calm...
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