At the moment of the beaching, the traversers standing on the bow of the boat generally agreed: Today is going well.

The Dutch cooperated with the dispatch of small boats, which were sunk in the narrow channel and blocked all the Dutch ships, Chinese ships, Japanese boats, and fishing boats that were stuck in the inland sea of the Taijiang River. After that, the tide rose again, and in the subsequent battle, the large army could take two steps less.

Everything went so smoothly that the traversers, who originally thought they would encounter many accidents, actually felt a little punched at this time.

The morale of the Aketo crew was just as high at the moment. It took only half a minute for the "Lianzhu Rapid Cannon", which emitted fire and loud noise, to shred the boat and the people on it a mile away. The first actual combat of the new big killer in this world has gained a group of cheering and screaming fans.

Of course, after the cheers, the work began, and the two boats then separated 40 sailors to go ashore. After that, Liu Zhe, the commander-in-chief of the landing, walked off the boat with a few navy members, and then a loud shout with an electric horn sounded on the beach: "All look at the front and rear, people are one step apart, and people are one ......step apart."

"One step" is the distance that the left and right feet take one step forward. In the Ming Dynasty, which was generally not tall, one step was about 110 centimeters. It took five or six traversers ten minutes, kicking and pushing, to finally put the 80 seafarers into an eight-door non-locking formation - just like the sesame seeds on the glutinous rice dumplings, a mass of loose sesame seeds, trying to maintain a distance of about 1 meter from each other.

The next moment, the Great Array activated.

The flotilla rushed to the beachhead from west to east from the open sea, in the upper left corner of the tadpoles. At this time, the area of Dayuan Island was less than 2.5 square kilometers, and the Dutch buildings were distributed in the upper right corner of the tadpoles. This meant that the Sesame Array, or Brownian Formation, laid by the traversers, needed to travel more than a mile from west to east before they could get close to the range of the Merchant House's artillery fire.

The sesame ball slowly moved forward, stepping over a few low shrubs and weeds along the way. Every 100 meters or so, a horn sounded behind them, directing the team to pause, adjust their distance from each other, and then continue walking.

After the large force began to move, the landing beach was still lively. Springboards were added to both sand boats to create a gentle slope that was two meters wide. The 10 laborers in the best condition were grouped together and some boxes were brought down from the ship.

These boxes range from army green ammo boxes for M2 machine guns to gleaming mysterious aluminum alloy flight boxes with black edges. After that, Wei Yuan and Han Xiaobo personally carried down an M2 machine gun from the Dog's Eye, and then beckoned the labor team to carry the box and open the way. COMING, HAN XIAOBO TURNED AROUND AND SMILED AT XIA XIANZE AND HIS GROUP WHO WERE STANDING AT THE BOW OF THE BOAT WATCHING THE EXCITEMENT, AND THEN WAVED THE MOTOROLA WALKIE-TALKIE IN HIS HAND: "BLOCK THE CHANNEL, IF THERE IS A SITUATION, CALL ME......"

"Kill less, take more prisoners!"

"Know, know ......"

At the same time that the traversers and their rabble were putting on a pincer attack, the Ming scouts sent out by the commander had already run back to report the enemy's situation.

Van der Hagen now knew that the pirates were led by two leaders, Xia and Liu. After exchanging a few more words with the spy surnamed Xu, the fat translator added: According to the rules of flag hoisting of pirates in the Ming Kingdom, the big leader of the other party is surnamed "Xia", and the leader surnamed Liu may be a "shopkeeper".

Although the Dutch had very clear information about the various people in Fujian, Guangdong, and the ocean, that was referring to a large force. There are so many pirates like this with only two ships along the coast of Daming, today they are fishermen, tomorrow they are pirates, and the day after tomorrow they become small shareholders in a big gang......

"So, as always, this is a bunch of damn scattered pirates, not a representative of a certain force?" Van der Hagen finally asked.

"Even if there is a big gang behind them, they should come to the north of the Ming Dynasty, my lord." The interpreter spent a long time communicating with the spies this time, and the thin black man spoke rapidly, all the while pointing his finger in a certain direction.

"I need an explanation."

"Those two ships are sand ..... from the north of the Ming Dynasty Well, it's the 'flat-bottomed junk ship', which is only found north of Fujian. After a pause, the translator came up with a new word.

"Okay, I think I understood." Van der Hagen organized all the information at this moment - a group of wandering pirates from the north of the Ming Kingdom, a group of stupid and reckless pirates who had no idea that the great East India Company employees and property existed on the island of Dayuan.

The Brown formation, which was slowly approaching from a distance, seemed to confirm Van der Hagen's thoughts.

There were about seventy or eighty Ming people in traditional blue homespun blouses, perhaps to look a little more crowded, and the pirates were so comical that they spread out in a queue like a flock of sheep grazing.

Even if it was far away, too far away for even the 8-pounder guns in the Corner Fort, the people of the merchant could hear the noisy shouts of the pirates. "Oh my God, these fools are so loud......" more than one person thought.

William Janes carefully watched the approaching enemy with a telecular. At this distance, he could already clearly see the spears and short knives in the pirates' hands, as well as several Ming land spears called "bird guns" that were fired at the sky from time to time. Not a single copper cannon was seen, nor an arquebus.

After repeating his observations, William Jeans put away his previous caution and made the following professional judgment about Van der Hagen: "Your Excellency, the enemy is scattered and untrained, and I think 50 soldiers should be sufficient. In addition, there is no need for intensive artillery fire, so that as many prisoners can be captured, and we will soon find out what secrets the two junks have. ”

"Good, I can finally do something. Go ahead and carry out your plan, Lieutenant. ”

The authorized lieutenant quickly summoned 50 musketeers. The soldiers lined up in columns, their bodies wrapped with arquebuses, and each armed with an arquebus. After stepping out of the thick wooden gate of the merchant house, the soldiers skillfully transformed into a small phalanx with four horizontal columns. By this time, the pirates, who looked like they were in a hurry, had walked only 200 meters away from the merchant hall.

After two "bang, bang" sounds, white smoke rises, and the two corner forts located in the northwest and southwest of the merchant hall sound at the same time. One cannonball smashed straight into the sand, and the other, with better luck, hit the pirate pile.

That's when the benefits of the sesame array came into play: the eight-pounder shells didn't open a bloody alley out of the crowd, and after killing the two unlucky ghosts, they got into the sand.

There was a commotion in the pirate gang. Some people stopped, some people quietly retreated, and the formation that had been moving at the same frequency suddenly became chaotic. The people in their original form pushed each other and prepared to turn in, like frightened sheep.