The third year of Jianwen is destined to be a year that will not be peaceful.

The whole of East Asia has become full of wars because of the Ming Dynasty, the old empire, rolling up its sleeves.

Not long after the battle between Liaodong and Korea ended, the Ming Dynasty used troops in the southwest and southeast, but fortunately, the Hongwu dynasty had a solid foundation, and the central cabinet had the ability to coordinate the logistics of the two places at the same time.

At this time in the Penghu Strait, hundreds of Ming warships were along the line from Tamsui to Hsinchu, and started a fierce artillery bombardment.

The Southeast Asian pirates and pirates entrenched on the island of Taiwan obviously intended to intercept the landing of the Ming army here, and built a coastal defense camp for this purpose, in an attempt to kill and injure the Ming troops who tried to land by relying on the stone walls built over the years, but they ignored the artillery on the Ming warships.

In order to supplement the strength of this southeast naval battle, almost all the coastal defense artillery arrays in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces and the cannons on the head of Nanjing were unloaded, which was enough for 500 cannons for 100 lucky ships!

As soon as the cannon sounds, ten thousand taels of gold!

500 ships and guns fired in unison, and in an instant there was a rumbling sound, although the power and range were far inferior to modern naval warfare, but they also had the flavor of modern warfare, and the bandits entrenched on the island of Taiwan were all dumbfounded.

It's not the same thing as fighting naval battles all their lives.

Shouldn't it be suppressed by a rain of arrows before landing, and then the two sides will fight hand-to-hand with knives close to each other?

You're six hundred steps away from us and you're starting to do justice from heaven, and you're still a fart in this battle!

A complete dimensionality reduction strike.

Such a fierce artillery attack, to put it mildly, was shattered by the robbers who built a fortified fortress along the circle on this island of Taiwan.

Compared with this kind of battle situation, the swords and swords in the southwest are more like children's plays.

"Times have changed, and so have water warfare."

Xue Ke, the leading general of the Southeast Naval Battle, stood on the flagship and looked into the distance, and beside him, Zhu Mengjiong, the second son of the King of Chu who was appointed by Zhu Yunwen to enter politics, let out a heartfelt admiration.

"I remember the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu, my father Wang Zhengman, when he returned to the division, he cleared the river bandits along the way, and every time he could not break through, he had to risk the arrows and stones, and he was the first to climb the battle, and today, thousands of cannons roared, which really responded to the sentence: The tree is in ashes."

Xue Ke laughed.

"When His Majesty restructured the Beijing camp, he told me and others that the war was fought with equipment and logistics, and only when the ammunition and food were exhausted in the end, it was desperate, for this naval battle, Nanjing City even the city defense artillery was all demolished, and the coastal defense of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces was all demolished, so that there is this shocking scene today.

Thousands of cannons roared, and His Royal Highness the King of the County only saw the scene of the sky falling apart, and how did he know how much the silver behind the white flowers was consumed. ”

How much does a cannonball cost?

Most of the cannons on this ship were made after Hongwu 22 years, and a few were made in Jianwen year, with a caliber of 5 inches and 6 minutes, a length of 1 foot 4 inches, and a weight of more than 90 catties.

The shells fired are said to be artillery shells, but in fact they are not gunpowder shells that can be detonated as we imagined, but solid shells made of iron and lead, and the main means of killing is kinetic impact rather than explosion.

The technology of relying on the delay fuse to fire gunpowder shells is not uncommon, but it is not skilled enough, and it is very easy to explode.

It is not distressing to destroy a pair of gun carriages, but if the gunner is killed or injured by it, it will be a big loss.

There are not many opportunities to fire a cannon, and every skilled gunner is worth more than a cannon.

A shell requires dozens of catties of iron and lead, nearly ten taels of silver in cost and labor, and five hundred cannons in unison, but two quarters of an hour's effort is a small cost of 100,000 taels, and this cost is huge, Xue Ke doesn't need to think about it to know what kind of distress the logistics have to become.

Military spending has remained high in recent years, and the cabinet has been dissatisfied for a long time.

"Stop the gunning."

Xue Ke gave the order, and there was a flag officer behind him to play the flag, and hundreds of lucky ships stopped roaring, and after the loess in the sky was dispersed and the world returned to silence, the entire coastline, where could you still see the shadow of the bandits' company camp.

"That's all annihilated?"

Zhu Mengjiong was dumbfounded, Da Ming has not landed yet, how can there be a truth in the world that the earth will be destroyed without bloodshed?

Seeing Zhu Mengjiong's reaction like this, Xue Ke laughed, the tactics of playing with shells to wash the ground in naval warfare were still an assumption proposed by Zhu Yunwen at the beginning, therefore, strictly speaking, Xue Ke was also the first time he saw it in his life, and his heart was naturally shocked, but he would not be so naïve, thinking that the pirates and bandits on the island of Taiwan would be wiped out.

After all, it is a solid bullet, not a gunpowder bullet, and it is much inferior in lethality.

"There will be killings, of course, but they can't be anywhere."

In this era, the purpose of artillery shells washing the ground was to plow the defense line, and it was not to kill the enemy, and now the coastal coastline, the bandits built different sizes of the front stone passes are now all flat, after the Ming army landed, it was a frontal white-knuckle battle between the two armies.

After all, you still have to fight for knives.

"Herald landing on the island!"

Xue Ke ordered again, there were small sea boats on both sides of each fortune boat, and when they saw the order, they roared out in an instant, and sailed straight away.

Since Emperor Taizu implemented the sea ban and removed the Penghu Inspection Division, Taiwan Island has fallen into the hands of pirates and thieves for many years.

"They are expected to flee for their lives from Keelung."

A smile hung on the corner of Xue Ke's mouth, everything was in his calculations: "Our Chinese army stormed Tamsui and Hsinchu, the purpose is to force them in the direction of Keelung Port in the northeast, where I have already set up an encirclement. ”

That's the benefit of more people and more boats.

For this naval battle, the Ming Fujian and Zhejiang naval divisions can be said to be almost the whole army poured out, hundreds of warships, 80,000 naval divisions, even if the troops are divided into two places, in this time and space, it is impossible for any country's sea surface power to compete head-on.

The landing battle barely met much resistance, and the two quarters of an hour of shells washed the ground had already blown up the coastal defense line of the robbers along with their psychological defense line, and many of those who were splashed with rubble and iron and were slightly injured directly chose to surrender.

Most of those who survived surrendered, and only a small number of them resisted for a while.

When they fled to Keelung with great difficulty, trying to escape to the Ryukyu Islands in the northeast, they were just rushing into the encirclement of the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty dispatched so many warships, artillery, and soldiers for this naval battle, so he naturally wanted to pursue the completion of the first battle!

"What about the captives?"

The flagship was about to land, and the mountains and fields came into Zhu Mengjiong's eyes, and he turned his head and asked.

"No prisoners!"

He Xue Ke has no manpower and leisure to take care of these bandits who have been suffering for many years, he just kills them and buries them!

"Report to Nanjing."

Before the boots set foot on the land of Taiwan Island, Xue Ke raised his head confidently.

"On April 16 of the third year of Jianwen, our Fujian and Zhejiang naval divisions have landed on the island of Taiwan given by His Majesty, and have completely annihilated the pirates and pirates who have been with them.

Long live our emperor! Long live the Ming Dynasty! ”