Return to Ming Dynasty as Prince Chapter 254: 4 from wolf smoke

The Hangzhou Bay Naval Division is dispatched. After all, this is the first battle with the Japanese pirates since the reconstruction of the Great Ming Naval Division. Its political significance is far greater than the nature of the war itself. The official school, the flag army, the sailor, the fire chief, the civil servant, the helmsman, and the squad leader are all in their positions. The army rides the wind and waves to the sea where the Han Wu and the Japanese ship encountered.

The Central Plain naval officers and soldiers accounted for half of the naval divisions, and the newly recruited and trained recruits accounted for half. There are a few confidants of Peng Fugui scattered on the battleships.

At this moment, Peng Fugui was also very anxious. The three battleships that went to sea were led by Qianhu Han Wu, and the deputy Qianhu was his youngest son Peng Xiaobao. This is the youngest son born to him by his ninth concubine. This year He is only eighteen years old. Although he has been fascinated by him since he was a child, he has cultivated all the skills on the water with him. After all, he has never led a soldier alone.

Peng Fugui does not easily provoke Japanese pirates to the East. He will only start looting when a small group of pirates are placed. In order to avoid trouble, all the captured pirates sink into the sea and destroy their corpses. So what is the real combat power of the pirates? , He didn't know much.

The blue sea is endless, seagulls fly back to the blue sky, and more than 30 warships centered on the No. 2 blessed ship, slashing the waves and sailing to the southeast. The three-masted three-sail sentry ship finished fonts lead the sentry at the forefront of the fleet. chy1123

Because the wind is blowing from the sea to the land at this time, the warship cannot go straight against the wind. It must be inclined at a certain angle to take advantage of the wind and change directions in turn to go around the accident site. Therefore, the direction of the fleet is the same as Han Wu and others The venue for performances is quite different.

On the Shuai ship, the helmsman on duty focused on keeping the sun as the direction and correcting the ship’s position, while the fire chief used the starboard to measure the horizontal latitude. The standard bearer kept raising and lowering various signal flags in accordance with orders. Command the entire fleet to steer, steer, adjust and correct course. Proceed in an orderly manner.

Yang Ling stood on the handsome ship, watching Zeng Shou Bei and Peng Fugui continue to give various orders, and his heart was really anxious. Although the entire Hangzhou Navy fleet has come out of the nest, even if it is in distress, the handsome ship can be guaranteed, but Yang Ling is an imperial commission, and Gu Dayong and Bai Chongchan are not willing to take risks, so they strongly oppose letting him go to sea with the ship.

Yang Ling dare to know that it doesn't matter if he or she goes out to sea with the ship, but those three ships have the second brother of Youniang. Youniang has a deep bond with his brothers. If there is something wrong with Han Wu, and Youniang is pregnant again, the consequences will be dire upon hearing the news.

Moreover, this naval battle is of great significance. It is not only related to the smooth implementation of the opening of the sea and the lifting of the ban, and others do not know, but Yang Ling knows that the emperor has the full support, but the funds that the court can invest have already done everything possible. *Coastal merchants raise capital and invest in shares. If the navy fleet suffers a severe setback and hits their confidence, and one after another draws capital to withdraw shares to wait and see, I am afraid that opposition forces from the ruling and opposition parties will make a comeback.

So Yang Ling was cruel. If the three warships of Han Wu have been annihilated, then the entire fleet will be used to defeat the Japanese pirates to restore the passive political situation. If he does not supervise the battle on the ship, it is really difficult to guarantee whether the Hangzhou Navy is willing to do his best. Therefore, Yang Ling insisted on going its own way, leaving Cheng Qiyun and others with Gu Dayong, Bai Chongzan and others to sit in the army, and set sail on their own.

The fleet once again turned to approach the martial arts site, the nine-masted blessing boat accelerated with full sails, and the two vertical six seven-masted fourteen-sail sharp-bottomed warships were cramped, and the horse clippers and flat-bottomed sandboats lined up behind. The battle formation.

The three sentry ships are far away, and the clear sky has excellent visibility. Standing on the bow, there is no trace of ships on the blue waves. Yang Ling can't hold back anymore. He can't bear it. Stay and walk to the bow of the ship, looking at the railing.

The three sentry ships in front of them slowed down obviously, and they looked around for the enemy and our ships in a spreading red pattern.

"Peng Qianhu, is this water area? Why...why don't you see a shadow of a boat?" Yang Ling's voice trembled slightly.

Seeing that there is no ship on the sea, Peng Fugui let go of his heart. He heard hurriedly said: "My lord, I can't find any traces. Maybe Han Qianhu has gotten rid of the Japanese boat. Let's search and search. "

Yang Ling felt calm after hearing this. At this moment someone shouted: "Look at the sea, there are planks on the sea."

Yang Ling, Zeng Shoubei and Peng Qianhu hurriedly walked over when they heard the words and looked out to the sea with the ship’s gunwale, only to see the undulating waves sending a few pieces of broken planks, Peng Fugui changed color at first sight and said: "It's a cabin. Board, a ship sank!"

Yang Ling's heart sank after hearing this, Zeng Bei turned his head and shouted: "Slow down, half sail!"

At this moment, a few more corpses were sent faintly on the water surface. Several adults held their breath and stared nervously at the faint figure in the water. The speed of the boat slowed down, and a flat-bottomed sandboat appeared more and more. , Passing between the two big boats, hooked a corpse with a long hook, and then shouted to the handsome boat: "My lord, this is a Japanese pirate, not ours."

In fact, even if he didn't say anything, Yang Ling and the others could clearly see from the clothing. Looking at it, the nearby corpses didn't look like Great Ming soldiers from the clothing. They couldn't help but feel a glimmer of hope. chy1123

A sentry ship in front came back, hooked the lower side of the Daifuku ship with a hook gun, fixed it on the sampan, and a hundred households jumped on the undulating sampan with bare feet and walked quickly over. , This person is a confidant who has followed Peng Fugui for many years, and water kung fu is naturally extraordinary.

He climbed to the second-floor fort and saluted Yang Ling, Zeng Bei and Peng Fugui: "My lord, we searched the nearby sea, but we couldn’t find the warship of Han Qianzong or the Japanese. We found four More than a dozen corpses, all of them were Japanese."

Peng Fugui's eyes flashed, and he asked: "Han Qianhu’s three battleships were all just opened from Longjiang Shipyard. They are very recognizable new ships. Have you checked the broken decks on the water? , Is it Han Qianhu’s new ship?"

The hundred households were taken aback, and said: "This..."

Peng Fugui said angrily: "Trash! Why don't you go and check it?"

When the hundred households saw the boss get angry, they hurriedly agreed, and climbed back to the sentry ship, and commanded the soldiers to get the boat boards on the water. After inspection, the color of the ship boards was old and the wood was not the southern hardwood teak used by the warship Han Wu destroys. Now Yang Ling also relaxes. It is estimated that Han Wu has already led the warship to escape.

He immediately ordered the battleship to move forward with full sails. The fleet searched the waters in a geese wing shape. After about five nautical miles, the sailor on the handsome ship who was in charge of watching suddenly shouted: "Attention, the sentry forward sends a message back. A battleship appears!"

The flag bearer immediately issued orders to the ships, and the soldiers on the handsome ship became nervous, and the gunners took their positions. Yang Ling, Zeng Shoubei and others boarded the observation deck to look into the distance. I saw a shadow of a ship faintly in the distance, coming oncoming.

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After a while, the watchman shouted again: "My lord. The sentry sends a message, cancel the alert state, cancel the alert state."

Yang Ling and the others heard it inexplicably. They calmed down, and when the two sides got closer, they saw three sentry boats hurriedly coming back, the canvas behind them, three or five big ships in the front and back. Is in hot pursuit. Zeng Defense was taken aback, and immediately ordered: "Prepare to fight, wrap up the left and right wings."

The geese formation gradually turned into an inward half moon, facing the ship on the opposite side. At this time, it can be seen that the sails of the two large ships behind the three sentry ships are painted with the Great Bodhisattva Hachiman, which is the symbol of the Japanese warship. Zeng Guard hurriedly issued a flag order, and the entire fleet began to center on the handsome ship, slightly changing its course to both sides, facing the enemy ship on the side with the artillery.

However, the news sent by the sailors on the observation platform was still the cancellation of the combat state. Fortunately, the artillery had no aim at 200 meters away and its lethality was limited. Although the battleships of the two sides had seen it clearly, they still could not exchange fire. The guard did not know the intention of the sentry ship to send back the news. On the one hand, he placed the fleet in the most advantageous attack position and sent a communication boat to face the sentry ship and obtained accurate information.

Peng Fugui’s old eyes were very sharp. At this time, he also saw that the situation was not right. He pointed to the other side and shouted: "My lord, look, the flags of the three warships behind those two Japanese ships... are the warships of Great Ming, yes Han Qianhu’s battleship."

Yang Ling and others looked up, and the warships on both sides approached again. The flags of the three warships behind are indeed the flags of Great Ming, and the general flag of the middle one is a Korean character.

Zeng guard saw the difference, and immediately ordered the army to stand in place. The two Japanese ships of the other side also lowered their sails and moored quietly on the sea, and immediately played the surrender flag commonly used among pirates.

Peng Fugui laughed when he saw this, and said excitedly: "My lord, our warship is safe and okay. These two Japanese ships must have been captured by Master Han." chy1123

Yang Ling almost bit his tongue: Han Wu has only three warships and 500 recruits, while the opponent is eleven warships, 1,300 widows, Han Wu is not only undefeated, not escaped, but captured Two enemy ships, is this possible? But if the situation is not the case, how can you explain it?

The fleets of both sides were moored at sea quietly, facing each other. Two of the detection ships that hurried back were separated from the left and right, lying between the two fleets, and the third sent quickly to the handsome ship*. Yang Ling saw the general standing at the bow of the ship, and he could not help but let out a long sigh of relief: that person is Han Wu.

Han Wu, when Yang Ling was transferred back to the capital last year, arranged for Ma Ang to take over his position and transferred him to the naval position. After more than six months of training at sea, Han Wu's originally dark face has become even more black. . The sea breeze and the sun made his skin rough, and his lower jaw had a short beard, which made him feel more calm.

Seeing Yang Ling on board, there was a glimmer of joy in his eyes, but after these days of tempering, the stability of Han Wu is obviously approaching his elder brother Han Wei*. He restrained the joy of seeing his relatives, according to The military salute earnestly bowed to Yang Ling and Zeng Defense.

Yang Ling hurriedly grabbed him and said, "Don’t rush to see him, Lord Han, what is going on? I heard that your ship and the Japanese pirates have encountered each other. The enemy and I are extremely dangerous, so I and Lord Zeng led The navy fleet rushed to reinforce it. Looking at this situation, you also captured two enemy ships. How about our casualties?"

Zeng guard knew about the relationship between Yang Ling and Han Wu, and smiled when he saw it: "Our soldiers and warships will be fine, sir, let's get in the cabin and sit down, and then ask Master Han to elaborate."

Yang Ling nodded repeatedly, everyone went back to the cabin living room and sat down, and Han Wu explained the whole story in detail.

It turned out that Han Wu and Peng Xiaobao were performing military exercises at sea, and more than ten Japanese warships suddenly appeared on the sea. Seeing that Han Wu had no time to turn the bow and retreat, he immediately asked him to report the news in a small boat. The warship rushed towards the Japanese ship.

The main commander Han Wu is already very warlike. The deputy general Peng Xiaobao was born with a calf, and he has been accustomed to fighting and killing the shark king Peng Fugui since he was young. The two men are single-minded to fight, leading five hundred who have just trained successfully. The recruits brazenly attacked the Japanese pirates, making this Japanese pirate general Kazuo Kuki overjoyed.

Japan's sweeping against bandits is very strict. The forces of Ouchi and Hosokawa are simply beyond the reach of these Japanese bandits. They live on the islands of their country. Supplies and armaments depended on the country, so they collapsed as soon as they were defeated. Japanese pirates of all walks of life had to call friends and friends, and rushed to Great Ming, which allowed them to get what they wanted.

The eleven warships of the Nine Ghosts consist of three Japanese pirates. They had a skirmish with the Japanese pirates who had already occupied a small island. Because they were unable to defeat the Japanese pirates, the nine ghosts had to take His men continued to search for new footholds at sea.

The Japanese pirates do not need to prepare too many supplies, so they rarely detour around North Korea. Instead, they came to Great Ming directly from the Sea of ​​Japan. They used to raise their troops by war. Now the nine ghosts have spent a few days at sea, eating and drinking almost. He saw that the Ming army had only three warships, and he expected to win in one fell swoop. As a result, he could obtain a large amount of supplies, and it was possible to obtain these three large battleships to strengthen his own strength, so when he saw the Ming army rushing forward, he immediately ordered the battleship to fight.

But Kazuo underestimated the combat power of the Great Ming naval division. They used to encounter the Great Ming naval division head-on occasionally. The Great Ming naval division was defeated by courage and morale, not equipped with empty salaries, little training, corrupt officers, and low morale. Not as good as them, but the three ships Han Wu do not have these problems.

Although some big names secretly support the Japanese pirates, they are unable to cope with the pressure of armament and cannot provide a large number of weapons to the pirates. Therefore, the weapons of the Japanese pirates are mainly manufactured through smuggling and underground arsenals, so they have no ability to obtain large-scale equipment with complex equipment. arms.

The main weapons of Japanese pirates are spears and knives. Because Japan does not use coal to make iron and does not need to irrigate steel, it uses carburizing method to make steel. The forger is excellent, so the quality is better than Great Ming. The Japanese long-range attack weapon was the only Japanese bow. This kind of bow is made of bamboo and wood, which saves effort and can launch heavy arrows. Its lethality is better than that of the light arrows of the Ming army. However, due to material limitations, it is extremely difficult to maintain at sea, so it is rare. chy1123

As for armor, iron armor, even leather armor, can only be worn by the boss. Artillery is very rare. They can only use the spoils from the Ming army after conquering a city or fortress and defeating an official army. Enjoyable.

The three huge battleships of Han Wu are made of good teak wood, and the board can be used for at least 60 years. The whole ship is extremely strong. The warships of the Japanese pirates were purely shoddy. Due to financial and construction constraints, they could not afford to use large ships. They mainly used fast merchant ships and imitation shut ships. These ships could travel quickly to avoid warships and were suitable for entering shallow waters. And the inner water, but because the ship is small and cannot fight against the big ship, it is more difficult to resist firearm attacks. It is not suitable for water combat because it is used to carry people.

This time, Mr. Kuji Kazuo, holding a high-quality steel knife, sitting on more than a dozen broken ships, and holding a small number of long-range weapons, previewed the farce of the Boxer Fighting the Eight-Power Allied Forces.

When they eagerly faced the uneasy Great Ming navy division, after a hundred and forty steps, a total of 26 artillery on the Ming warship roared and opened fire. The first two warships immediately scattered the flowers. , Turned into a pile of sampans on the sea, and all the Japanese pirates who were not dead fell into the water.

The other Japanese pirates used the ship to be fast and light, and the Ming army had a huge hull and poor turning around. At the same time, the artillery was difficult to move. They avoided the artillery and escaped into the dead corner and approached the three warships of Han Wu. Seventy steps later, the rockets of the Ming army shot past, and several Japanese boats caught fire.

While the enraged Japanese pirates put out the fire, they yelled and drove the warship closer. When it was 40 steps away, fire dragons sprayed out from the Ming army warships. This kind of powerful bamboo fuel can be used when downwind. Spouting a hundred meters, more than a hundred'flamethrowers' caused the three Japanese boats that had just been fired by rockets to smash their sails and burst into flames. For a while, smoke filled the sky.

Taking this opportunity, Peng Xiaobao ordered the warship to leave the battle circle, circled half a circle and opened the distance, and again used firearms to conduct long-range attacks. Poor those Japanese boats, with countless intrepid robbers, jumped angrily on the ship, but There is no use at all.

The three Japanese boats whose sails were on fire were unable to move and became living targets standing there. They were mercilessly destroyed by the artillery of the Ming army. Seeing that the situation was not good, the remaining six Japanese boats immediately turned to escape. .

Han Wu and Peng Xiaobao were able to kill themselves, and ordered three warships to chase six Japanese ships. At this time, the Japanese pirates did not have a weapon capable of attacking the Ming warships. The morale of the Ming army was greatly boosted, but the Japanese pirates sailed very fast. Except for the three sails that caught fire and were too late to be wiped out, they were forced to stop at sea, and the other three ships. Yaoyao fled, and soon left the Ming army behind.

When the three warships of Han Wu approached the Japanese ship that had fallen sails to put out the fire, the Japanese pirates still resisted. If the live Japanese pirates can be captured as prisoners, the effect of invigorating the military is naturally better. Han Wu stopped the artillery firing and the warship approached. At seventy steps, rockets were used, forty steps used flying nozzles, and javelins were projected within twenty steps. When the hulls of the two sides approached, the fire bricks and thunderbolts were thrown on.

Such a multi-level weapon attack within a hundred steps made it impossible for even people to stand on the deck of the Japanese boat, let alone counterattack. A Japanese ship was opened in a gunpowder barrel thrown into the cabin by the Ming army, and was swept into the abyss by the gurgling water. The other two Japanese ships shot a few arrows and were forced to surrender.

Under the deterrence of the Han Wu battleship, the Japanese pirates obediently extinguished the fire, took out the spare sails from the cabin and put them on, and then they were seen driving towards Great Ming all the way. Encountering the rescue fleet of Yang Ling.

Yang Ling, Zeng Jianxiong and others were amazed after hearing the introduction of Han Wu. Yang Ling said with joy: "So, my navy destroyed six sunken Japanese ships and captured two, but none of the warships were damaged? Haha, good! Good! How about the soldiers' casualties?"

Han Wu smiled bitterly: "Are you a soldier...Are you dead? More than forty people were injured."

Zeng Jianxiong said relievedly: "Master Han, you have three battleships against eleven Japanese boats, and 500 recruits against 1,300 gangsters. It is a great contribution. Soldiers It’s just that more than forty people have been injured, which is really nothing."chy1123

Han Wu shook his head and smiled bitterly: "My lord does not know that, among the forty people injured, except for one of them who was injured by a Japanese pirate's bow and arrow, the rest... are all panicked during the first battle, and some fell down. None of the decks and those with bruises were injured by Japanese pirates. It seems that my navy officers and soldiers still lack battlefield experience. If the Japanese pirates have powerful warships and artillery, the outcome is hard to predict..."

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The Ming Army navy was fighting head-on with the Japanese pirates, and news of the victory of the first battle spread quickly. For a time, the people in Suzhou, Hangzhou and even the entire Jiangnan were rejoicing, and the gentry, celebrities and laboring soldiers continued to express their condolences.

However, the battle report of the victory has just been sent to the capital, and the Japanese pirates rushing to the coast of Great Ming one after another, using the unstoppable coastline stretching for thousands of miles, sneaked ashore and began to invade.

Hundreds of Japanese pirates came from the sea, covering thousands of miles in Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, and coastal areas. At the same time, they warned that the Japanese pirates who came ashore were like tigers, and suddenly raging.

On April 7, Japanese pirates attacked Zhejiang Changguowei. On the same day, three other Japanese pirates attacked Taicang County and Zhapu, looted Pinghu, Haiyan, Haining and other places, killing hundreds of killing officers. On April 9, large stocks of Japanese pirates invaded Shanghai, Zhapu, Jiangyin and other places.

On April 10th, Japanese pirates attacked Rongcheng, Shandong~IndoMTL.com~ killed the county Cheng Lu Jiacheng, looted and collected civilian ships, went south along the coast and entered Jiangsu, where they joined another group of Japanese pirates and used detailed work to set up ambushes in Sheyang. In the defeated guard station, 1,600 people of the Ming army were ambushed by 500 Japanese pirates, and more than 400 died. The defeated soldiers crossed the river in panic and fled. Nearly 300 people stepped on or drowned themselves. The guard commander Chen Jingkuan was killed.

Come on,

The Japanese pirates had a vigorous victory. In the three days, several Japanese pirates attacked Daozhou, Taixing, Haining, Jiaxing, and Yangzhou respectively. Thousands of scholars from Taixing and Ningde general Feng Zhigong were killed in battle.

Commands and envoys from various places are disadvantageous. The Japanese use the eyeliner bought to avoid the actual attack and succeed everywhere, and the military information is like snow flakes and fly to the capital.

Zhengde was furious. On April 27th, with an urgent decree of 800 miles, the imperial Yang Ling emergency governor of Zhejiang, Zhi, Shandong, Guangdong, Guangdong, Fujian was in charge of the military affairs of Zhejiang, Zhi, Shandong, Guangdong, and Fujian. Fight against fighters!

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