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Episode 254

The Hangzhou Bay Marines were dispatched to the nest. After all, this was the first battle with the Japanese pirates since the reconstruction of the Daming Marines. Its political significance was far greater than the essence of the war itself. The official school, the flag army, the sailor, the fire chief, the Min Shou, the helmsman, and the banshou, etc., all came to the fore, and the army rushed to the sea where Han Wu and the Japanese pirate ship encountered.

The sailors of the naval forces accounted for half of the original naval officers and soldiers, the newly recruited training recruits accounted for half, and a few Peng Fugui’s confidants were scattered on each warship.

At this time, Peng Fugui was also anxious. The three warships going out to sea were led by Qianhu Hanwu, and the deputy Qianhu was his youngest son, Peng Xiaobao. This is the youngest son born to him by the ninth concubine of Peng’s father. At the age of eight, although he has been in the ears since childhood, as his old man practiced his skills on the water, after all, he never led a soldier by himself, let alone a small number of enemies?

Peng Fugui did not easily provoke the Toyo Japanese pirates, and only took advantage of the small stock pirates when they ordered, in order to avoid trouble, all the captured Japanese pirates sank into the sea and ruined the corpses, so what was the real power of the Japanese pirates, he Not much understood.

The blue sea was endless, the seagulls flew back to the blue sky, and more than thirty warships centered on a No. 2 blessed ship, chopping waves and sailing towards the southeast. The three-masted three-sail whistle ship’s finished fonts were piloted at the forefront of the fleet.

Because the wind was blowing from the sea to the land at this time, the warship could not travel straight against the wind. It must be inclined at a certain angle to borrow the wind, and it could take turns to turn around to the accident site, so the direction of the fleet was quite the same as that of Han Wu and others. A little bit different.

On the handsome ship, the rotating steerman concentrated on keeping the sun as the direction, correcting the ship’s direction, and the fire length was measured by the satellite board to calculate the latitude. The flag bearer kept raising and lowering various signal flags according to the orders, directing the entire fleet to steer, sail, adjust, and correct the course, and proceed in an orderly manner.

Yang Ling stood on the handsome ship. Seeing Zeng Shoubei and Peng Fugui continuously issuing various instructions, I was really anxious. Although the entire Hangzhou naval fleet has come out of the nest, even if it is in distress, the handsome ship can be guaranteed to be unharmed, but Yang Ling is a mission, and Gu Dayong and Bai Chongzan are reluctant to take risks, so he strongly opposes letting him go on board.

Yang Ling also knows that it doesn’t matter if he goes out to sea with the boat, but the second brother, the younger brother and the brothers of the three ships have deep affection. If Han Wu had any good fortune, the young girl was pregnant again at this time, and the consequences would be in doubt.

The significance of this naval battle is not only related to the smooth implementation of Kaihai ’s lifting of the embargo, but other people do n’t know, but Yang Ling knows that although the emperor gave his full support, the imperial court was able to invest all the funds it had done. Raise funds to buy shares. If the Navy ’s fleet was hit hard by their setbacks, they would all invest and withdraw their shares to wait and see. I am afraid that the opposition forces will have to make a comeback.

So Yang Ling was cruel, if Han Wu’s three warships had been annihilated, it would be the power of the entire fleet. It is also necessary to defeat this Japanese pirate, so as to restore the passive political situation. If he is not on board to supervise the war, it is really difficult to guarantee whether the Hangzhou mariners will spare no effort. Therefore, Yang Ling went on his own way, leaving Cheng Qiyun and others with Gu Dayong and Bai Chongzan to sit in the Chinese army and went out to sea by themselves.

The fleet was once again approaching the location of the martial arts. The nine-masted blessed ship accelerated with full sails. Two longitudinal six-mast and fourteen-sail sharp-bottomed warships huddled behind, and then the Ma Clipper and the flat-bottomed sand ship also arranged the combat team shape.

Three whistle ships were walking in the distance, and the visibility of the clear sky was excellent, standing on the bow of the ship. There was no trace of the ship on the waves of Zhan Bi. Yang Ling couldn’t breathe anymore. He couldn’t help but walk to the bow of the boat and look over the railing.

The three whistle boats in front of them obviously slowed down and searched for the tracks of both the enemy and us in a diffuse line.

“Peng Qianhu, is this piece of water? Why … Why don’t you see a boat shadow?” Yang Ling’s voice was slightly trembling.

Peng Fugui saw that there was no ship on the sea, but let go of his heart instead, and said busyly: “Adult. I can’t find any traces. Maybe Han Qianhu has already got rid of the Japanese boat. Let’s search forward.”

Yang Ling heard a little ship in his heart. Just then someone shouted loudly: “Look at the sea, there are planks at sea.”

Yang Ling, Zeng Shoubei and Peng Qianhu hurriedly walked over to them and helped the ship’s side to look at the sea, and saw that the undulating waves sent a few pieces of broken wooden boards. Peng Fugui had changed his color at first sight: The ship sank! “

Yang Ling’s heart sank, and Zeng Baobei turned his head and ordered, “Slow down, fall off half a sail!”

At this moment, several bodies were sent to the surface of the water. Several adults held their breaths and stared nervously at the faint figure in the water. The speed of the ship slowed down, and a flat-bottomed sand boat came out from the crowd. A large ship passed through, hooked a body with a long hook, and then shouted to the handsome ship: “Master, this is a pirate, not ours.”

In fact, even if he didn’t say it, Yang Ling and others had seen it clearly from the clothing. Looking at it from a distance, several corpses in the vicinity looked from the clothing. It didn’t look like a soldier of the Ming Dynasty. They couldn’t help but a ray of hope.

A whistle ship in the front circled back, hooked the lower side of the Dafu ship with a hook gun, fixed it and put on the sampan, a hundred households jumped on the undulating sampan with bare feet and walked quickly, this man It is the confidant of following Peng Fugui for many years.

He climbed to the second floor of the fort and greeted Yang Ling, Zeng Shoubei and Peng Fugui: “Sir, we searched the nearby sea, we couldn’t find Han Qianzong or Japanese warships, we found more than 40 from the sea. The dead bodies are all Japanese people. “

Peng Fugui flashed his eyes and asked, “The three warships of Han Qianhu are just out of the Longjiang shipyard. They are very recognizable new ships. Have you checked the broken ship plates on the water? Han Qianhu’s new ship? “

The hundred households froze for a while, eating authentically: “This …”.

Peng Fugui said angrily: “Waste! Are you going to check it soon?”

Seeing that the boss was angry at the sight of the boss, he hurriedly agreed, and went back to the whistle on the roll, commanding the pawns to retrieve the shipboards on the water. After inspection, those shipboards were outdated in color, and the wood was not the south used by Hanwu’s warship Hardwood teak. This time Yang Ling also felt relieved, it was estimated that Han Wu was in a bad situation and had already led the battleship to escape.

He immediately ordered the battleship to advance with full sails. The fleet searched the sea in a goose-wing shape and traveled about five nautical miles. The sailor on the handsome ship who was in charge of the lookout suddenly shouted: “Attention, the forward sentry sent back a message and the battleship appeared. The battleship appeared ahead! “

The flag bearers immediately issued orders from all the ships, and the soldiers on the handsome ships were all tense. The gunners took their positions. Yang Ling, Zeng Shoubi and others boarded the lookout and looked into the distance. They saw a shadow in the distance, and were approaching. .

After a while, the watchman shouted again: “Admiral, the sentinel sent a message. Cancel the alert state, cancel the alert state.”

Somehow Yang Ling and others heard it. They were breathless and waited for the two sides to get closer, only to see that the three outposts of the sentinel ship were rushing back. Behind the canvas, the first two and three or five large ships are catching up. Zeng Baowei was taken aback, and immediately ordered: “Prepare to fight, and the left and right wings will be copied.”

The Yanling formation gradually became a half-moon bent inward. Welcome to the big ship opposite. At this time, it could be seen that the sails drawn by the two large ships behind the three sentinels were drawn by the Hachiman Big Bodhisattva, which was the symbol of the pirate warship. Zeng Bao prepared the flag quickly, and the entire fleet began to take the handsome ship as the center, changing the course slightly to both sides, and greeted the side of the artillery with the enemy ship.

However, the news sent back by the sailors on the observation deck was still to cancel the fighting state. Fortunately, the artillery had no accurate head 200 meters away, and its lethality was limited. Although the warships on both sides had already seen it clearly. At present, there is still no firefight. Zeng was not aware of the intention of the sentinel to return the news. While he made the fleet to attack in the most favorable position, he sent a communication boat to welcome the sentinel, and had obtained accurate information.

Peng Fugui’s old eyes were very sharp. At this time, he also saw that the situation was wrong, and he pointed out to the opposite side and shouted, “Sir, look. The flags of the three warships behind those two Japanese ships … It is the Mingming warship. It is Han Qianhu. Ground Warship “.

Yang Ling and others looked up, and the warships on both sides were closer. The flags of the three warships in the back are indeed the military flags of Daming, and the general flag in the middle is a Korean character.

Zeng Baobei saw the difference, and immediately put the army on the spot, and the two Japanese ships of the other side also dropped their sails and parked quietly on the sea.

Upon seeing this, Peng Fugui laughed and said with excitement: “Sir, our warship is safe, and these two Japanese ships must have been captured by Master Han.”

Yang Ling almost bit his tongue when he heard it: Han Wu had only three warships and 500 recruits, while the other party was 11 warships and 1,300 pirates. Han Wu not only failed but did not escape, but captured Is this possible with two enemy ships? But if this is not the case, how can it be explained?

The fleets of the two sides were so quietly anchored at sea, facing each other. When he hurried back to explore the two outposts, about halfway between the two fleets, the third outpost quickly approached the handsome ship. Yang Ling saw clearly that the general standing on the bow could not help but stretch for a long time. Sighed: The man was Han Wu.

Since Wu Ling was transferred back to Beijing last year, Han Wu arranged for Ma Ang to take over his post and transferred him to the position of a sailor. After training in the sea for more than half a year, Han Wu had some black ground that had become more black. The sea breeze and the sun had made his skin rough, and there was a short beard in his jaw, a little calmer.

When he saw Yang Ling on the ship, a glimmer of joy flashed in his eyes, but after these days of training, Han Wu ’s stability was obviously moving closer to his elder brother Han Wei. To Yang Ling and Zeng Shou prepared to pay respects.

Yang Ling hurriedly grabbed him and said, “Don’t hurry to see the ceremony, Master Han, what the **** is going on? I heard that your ship and Japanese pirates encountered the enemy and we were extremely dangerous, so Master Zeng and I led the navy fleet Hurry to come to reinforce, seeing this situation, you have also captured two enemy ships. How about the casualties of our army? “

Zeng Shoubei knew the relationship between Yang Ling and Han Wu, and he smiled happily: “Our generals and warships are all fine, sir, let’s sit down in the cabin and ask Han to tell us in detail.”

Yang Ling nodded again and again, and everyone returned to the cabin living room to sit down, and Han Wei carefully told the original story.

It turned out that Han Wei and Peng Xiaobao were performing military training at sea, and suddenly more than ten warships of Japanese pirates suddenly appeared on the surface of the sea. Han Wei had no time to turn the bow and withdraw, which immediately made people catch the news by boat. I assembled three warships and rushed towards the Japanese boat.

The main commander Han Wei was already very belligerent. The deputy general Peng Xiaobao was born with a calf, a **** body, and was used to killing the shark king Peng Fugui from an early age. Attacking the Japanese pirates made the Japanese pirate general Jiu Guiyi overjoyed.

The Dongying Kingdom’s raids are very strict, and the forces of Ouchi and Hosokawa are simply not what these raiders can handle. They lived in the country’s near islands, and their supplies and military supplies depended on the country, so they broke down in a dozen fights. Various pirates had to call friends and friends, and rushed to let them come and ask for the land.

The fleet of eleven warships composed of Jiugui was composed of three pirates. They had a small conflict with the pirates who had occupied a small island. Because they had no ability to defeat the pirates, Jiugu had to take his people. Continue to search for new destinations at sea.

Japanese pirates do not need to prepare too many supplies. Therefore, he rarely detoured around North Korea, but came directly from Dongying Sea to Daming. He used to fight to raise soldiers. Now, the nine ghosts spend a few days on the sea, eating and drinking. He saw that the Ming army had only three warships, and he expected to win in one fell swoop. Not only would he be able to obtain a large number of supplies, but he might also obtain these three large warships. Strengthening his own strength, so at the sight of the Ming Army, he rushed head-on, stomping his arms, and immediately ordered the warship to face the battle.

However, Yixiong underestimated the combat effectiveness of Daming Marines. In the past, they occasionally encountered head-on with the Ming Marines. The Ming Marines, who were short of pay, less training, and officers with low morale, were defeated by courage and military spirit. These three ships of Han Wu did not have these problems.

Although some big names secretly support Japanese pirates. However, it is difficult to cope with the pressure of arms, and it is impossible to provide pirates with a large number of weapons. Therefore, pirate weapons are mainly manufactured through smuggling and underground arsenals, so that they simply have no ability to obtain large weapons with complicated equipment.

The main weapons of the Japanese pirates were spears and knives. Since Dongying did not use coal for iron making or steel injection, but used carburizing to make steel, the forge was excellent, so the quality was better than Daming. Pirates attacked the weapon at a distance. There is only Dongying Big Bow. This bow is made of bamboo. Pull away to save effort, and can fire heavy arrows. The lethality is better than the light arrows of the Ming Army, but due to the material limitations, it is extremely difficult to maintain at sea, so it is also very few.

As for armor, it is said that the iron armor, even the leather armor, can only be worn by the leader. The artillery is very rare. They can only use the loot from the Ming army for fun after they have defeated the city or the fortress and defeated the army.

The three huge warships of Han Wu are made of fine teak wood, and the ship’s board can be used for at least sixty years. The whole ship is sturdy and abnormal. The pirate warships are purely crude. Because of financial resources and worksite restrictions, they cannot afford large ships, mainly fast commercial ships and imitation customs ships. These ships can travel fast to avoid warships and are suitable for entering shallow waters. It is similar to the inland water, but because the ship is small, it is difficult to resist the big ship, and it is more difficult to resist the attack of the firearm. It is almost the same as being used to carry people. It is not suitable for water warfare.

Mr. Jiu Gui Yixiong, who had high-quality steel knives, rode more than a dozen broken ships, and held a few long-range assault weapons, just like the Yihetuan and the Eight-Power Allied Forces, quickly realized the huge gap between their strengths.

When they greeted the uneasy Daming navy happily, after a hundred and forty steps, a total of 26 artillery on the Ming warship roared and opened fire, and the first two warships immediately scattered the flowers and became A pile of sampans on the sea, the undead pirates also fell into the water.

The other Japanese pirates took advantage of the speed and lightness of the ship, and the Ming army had a huge hull and failed to move. At the same time, the artillery was difficult to move. It avoided the artillery from approaching the three warships of Han Wu. Over here, a few more Japanese boats caught fire.

The enraged Japanese pirates extinguished the fire and yelled to drive the warship to forcibly approach. At a distance of forty steps, a fire dragon sprayed from the Ming warship. This powerful bamboo tube could spray 100 meters when the fuel was downwind. More than a hundred “flame-throwers” quickly burned the three Japanese boats that had just been fired by rockets, and the smoke was all over the sky.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Peng Xiaobao ordered the warship to leave the battle circle, circled half a circle and opened the distance, and once again used firearms to carry out long-range attacks. Pitiful robbers who had no fear of death in the empty space of the boat, jumped on the boat. But there is no use at all.

The three Japanese sailboats on fire were unable to move and became live targets there. They were ruthlessly destroyed by the Ming artillery. The remaining six Japanese sailboats turned into escape immediately.

Han Wu and Peng Xiaobao started to kill the ground and ordered the three warships to chase the six Japanese warships. At this time, the Japanese pirates did not have a weapon that could attack the Ming warships. The morale of the Ming army was greatly boosted, but the Japanese pirates’ ships were very fast. Apart from the three sails that caught fire and had no time to be destroyed, the other ships were forced to stop at sea, and the other three sailed away, quickly leaving the Ming army behind.

When the three warships of Han Wudi approached the Japanese ships that had fallen out of the fire, the Japanese pirates were still stubborn. If they could capture the live Japanese pirates as captives, the effect would be better for invigorating the army. Use a step rocket, a forty step flywheel, and a javelin in twenty steps until the hulls of both sides approach. Fire bricks and thunderbolts threw their brains up.

Such a multi-level weapon attack within a hundred steps prevented people on the deck of the Japanese boat from standing, let alone counterattack. A Japanese boat was blown open by a gunpowder barrel thrown into the cabin by the Ming army, and was gurgled. The water swept into the abyss. The other two Japanese ships fired a few arrows and were forced to surrender.

Under the deterrence of the Hanwei battleship, the pirates obliviously extinguished the fire, and took out the spare sails from the cabin. Then watched all the way and drove in the direction of Daming, and was encountering Yang Ling’s rescue fleet.

After listening to Han Wu ’s introduction, Yang Ling and Zeng Jianxiong and others were shocked. Yang Ling Xi said: “So, my sailor annihilated six ships and captured two ships, and none of the warships were damaged? Haha, good! Good! What about the casualties of the soldiers? “

Han Wei smiled bitterly: “Soldier … Did not die, injured more than forty people.”

Zeng Jianxiong said with relief: “Master Han, you have three warships against eleven Japanese warships. Five hundred recruits can win a great victory against 1,300 robbers. It is a great contribution, and the soldiers just hurt. More than forty people are really nothing. “

Han Wei shook his head and smiled bitterly, “I don’t know. The more than 40 people injured, except one of them was injured by the pirate’s bow and arrow, the rest of the people … all panicked in the first battle, and some fell off the deck. There were bruises and wounds. None of them were injured by the Japanese pirates. It seems that my naval officers and soldiers are still extremely inexperienced in battle formations. If the Japanese pirates have powerful warships and artillery. The outcome is hard to predict … “.

The Ming Navy sailors and the Japanese pirates fought head-to-head, and the news of the first battle was quickly spread. People in Jiangsu, Hangzhou and the whole Jiangnan were rejoiced at once, and the consolation of gentry celebrities and labors continued.

However, Dajie’s battle report had just been sent to Beijing, and he had rushed to the Japanese pirates along the coast of Daming. Using the coastline that could not be prevented for thousands of miles, he sneaked ashore and began to enter the pirates.

There were thousands of Japanese pirates in the sea, and they were in the sea. Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, and thousands of miles along the coast. At the same time, they warned that the pirates who landed on the shore were like tigers.

On April 7, Japanese pirates attacked Zhejiang Chang Guowei. On the same day, three other Japanese pirates attacked Taicang County, Zhapu, plundered Pinghu, Haiyan, Haining and other places, killing hundreds of casualties. On April 9, large-scale Japanese pirates invaded Shanghai, Zhapu Office, Jiangyin and other places.

On April 10th, the Japanese pirates attacked Shandong Rongcheng, killed Lucheng Cheng of the county, looted and collected civilian ships, and went south along the coast to enter the territory of Jiangsu. They merged with another Japanese pirate and used elaborate fortunes in Sheyang. One thousand six hundred people were ambushed by five hundred Japanese pirates, and more than four hundred died. The defeated soldiers fled across the river in panic, and nearly three hundred people trampled or drowned, and the commander of the army killed Chen Jingkuan.

The Japanese pirates gained great momentum. In the three days, there were several Japanese pirates attacking Daozhou, Taixing, Haining, Jiaxing, Yangzhou. Wen Shiyou and Ning De’s General Feng Zhigong both died in battle.

Various localities commanded the pirates to be unfavorable. The Japanese used the bought eyeliner to avoid the real blows and succeeded everywhere. The military sent an emergency report like a snow flake to Beijing.

Emperor Zhengde was furious. On April 27, with an order of eight hundred miles, he ordered Yang Ling, the emergency governor of Zhejiang, Zhizhi, Shandong, Guangxi, and Fujian, to preside over the gangs, and gave Tianzi sword to the warriors. Don’t talk about killing.