Chapter XXVI County Ordinances

Beginning in May of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the merchant ships of Korea and Japan that sailed through the Tsushima Strait were in bad luck. A group of pirates came out of nowhere, drove a large ship that was running fast, and when they saw a merchant ship, they went up and robbed it. If you dare to resist, you will immediately be bombarded by artillery and will not be able to find the north.

In these years, the artillery of the natives is still front-loading cannons, how can they withstand the bombardment of breech-loading guns?

Chen Cheng asked the support team to continue repairing the turret on Jeju Island........ Ahem, it was to continue to build the fortress, he and Lin Mengchu went out with the people of the combat group for less than a day, and robbed a North Korean merchant ship. When they saw the pirate ship catching up "suddenly", the people on the merchant ship were dumbfounded, they could run so fast without sails and oars?

Lin Mengchu picked up the electric horn and shouted in the newly learned Korean dialect: "Robbery, stop advancing immediately, otherwise we will open fire!" ”

A small cannon was installed on the ship, the one that Chen Cheng dragged out last time, with a caliber of 80mm, and after being refitted, it probably wouldn't have broken the ship as soon as the cannon was fired. But it's better not to use it, this small boat is not designed as a battleship, and the tonnage is small, Chen Cheng doesn't bother to name it.

When the people on the merchant ship heard that they were coming to rob, they ran faster, and then Lin Mengchu immediately ordered his subordinates to fire a cannon.

"Boom!"

The shells flew out, nearly breaking the merchant ship into two knots. A distance of two hundred meters for such an artillery is almost no different from putting it on the chest of the enemy. Seeing such a terrible shelling, the people on board immediately became honest, lowered their sails, and shouted loudly.

Then Chen Cheng led people to jump to the merchant ship and swept away the goods. Not only that, but he also tied up a dozen people and returned to his stronghold on Jeju Island. The first sortie made a big profit, and the morale was immediately high. The Koreans under Kim Sun-sun were not at all polite to their compatriots, and they were tied with ropes.

Back in the stronghold, Chen Cheng first distributed the spoils to the soldiers, and then threw the captured Koreans as free coolies on the construction site. Those who stayed behind became overseers.

Chen Cheng was able to observe movements within a hundred miles, and the Tsushima Strait was only 400 miles long and 100 miles wide, so the efficiency of the attack was very high. Within a month, Chen Cheng and his men robbed more than a dozen boats and arrested two or three hundred people.

The only problem is that in this era, there is no place to replenish diesel, the ship runs fast, the oil is burned badly, and there is no place to maintain it. However, Chen Cheng has his own plans, he has already used those free labor to dig a wharf on the edge of the stronghold, and is ready to dig another boat. There is nowhere to get diesel and gasoline these days, but there is still a lot of coal. It just so happened that he still had a lot of coal-burning steam engines in his hands, and in a few months he would be able to use a steamboat.

Such a group of powerful pirates suddenly appeared on the sea, and no matter how corrupt the Joseon Dynasty was, it got the news more than a month later. At first, they thought that the would-be robbers had started to do things again, but they didn't pay attention to it. What kind of "suddenly" fast ghost ship, what black dragon king, are all deceitful nonsense, where can there be such a thing?

The untouchables below have little knowledge, and when they see wild boars, they will think that they are mountain spirits and ghosts, and what they say cannot be taken seriously. With this in mind, the Korean court protested to the Japanese shogunate, saying that you have to restrain the behavior of pirates, and it was not easy for everyone to sit down and live a peaceful life for decades.

Isn't it good to get rich together? Do you have to come to rob?

The Tokugawa shogunate, which received the protest, was inexplicable, and now the number of ronins and low-level samurai in the country has increased again, and there are people everywhere who want to do things, where do they still care about pirates? It's all burned out now.

In July, the castle in the southern part of Jeju Island was finally repaired. The size of the team also expanded to more than 400 people, organized into two squadrons, and the rest were slave laborers. Although they were used as slaves, these people were still well fed, and there were still many people who felt that this kind of life was better.

Of course, there are still many people who don't like to be slaves, and North Koreans are also human beings, and they have the most basic needs of human beings. Many of them fled while they were doing their work and fled to the northern part of Jeju Island, where they reported to local officials that there was a gang of pirates in the south.

Those officials were shocked when they heard the news, if the court knew that there were such bandits under their rule, everyone's black gauze hats would be dropped. Being sent to a place like Jeju Island has already proved that they have no backing. But he can still maintain a decent life by exploiting the people below.

If you really don't even have this bit of decency, then wouldn't everyone be like those mud legs?

This is unbearable!

Soon, a crusade of more than 200 men was formed, ready to take out the pirates. And in order not to find an excuse to masturbate them all, the local officials also suppressed the news, thinking that they would report it together after the pirates were eliminated.

As soon as the crusade team here was dispatched, before they had walked twenty miles, Chen Cheng had already discovered the clues. So he pulled out the soldiers of both squadrons, while the auxiliaries stayed at the castle and watched over the slave laborers, lest they take advantage of the trouble.

Because of some cheating-like cheats, Chen Cheng easily found the route of the North Korean soldiers' march and found the most suitable place for ambush. When the North Korean soldiers entered the ambush circle, they first bombarded them with a high-explosive bomb, killing and wounding thirty or forty people, and even more seriously, completely destroying the morale of the opposite side.

While the enemy's morale plummeted, the morale of your own army rose a lot. Jin Sun raised his long knife and shouted: "Those who advance live, and those who retreat die!" Come with me! ”

The original thirty people have all been promoted to junior officers, they are not only physically stronger, but also better equipped, and they have also robbed many times with Chen Cheng at sea, and they have long been dead hearted, they rushed directly with the newly joined Koreans, and beat the officers and soldiers to the ground.

The combat effectiveness of the North Korean soldiers was already very bad, and the North Korean combat effectiveness on Jeju Island was even worse, and they had just received a shot, and they collapsed before the pirates could rush up. Chen Cheng then led his soldiers to the north quickly, chasing the rout all the way into the territory of the Koreans.

"Your Excellency!" Jin Sun was wearing iron armor, ran over, and hurriedly said: "The county order has closed the city gate, and we are blocked out!" ”

Chen Cheng had already seen that there were some North Koreans faintly defending the city, but he didn't pay attention to it at all, and said casually: "Let your men prepare, and when the city gate is opened, they will rush in." ”

"Yes!"

Seeing Chen Cheng summon the cannon again, the soldiers on the side were all excited. Art is explosions, and although these North Koreans don't understand art, they like to watch explosions, especially when they are made by themselves.

The artillery was quickly ready to fire, and with a roar, the power of steel and gunpowder destroyed the rudimentary gates of the North Koreans. In the panicked shouts of the defenders, Lin Mengchu led the pirates to rush in, and soon hit the vicinity of the county office. The county commander still wanted to rely on the county government to defend it, but those North Korean soldiers had no fighting spirit and had already run clean.

Lin Mengchu rushed into the back hall with a short sword and pistol, and saw that the county order had been hung on the beams of the house. She circled around the corpse, very dissatisfied with the hideous face, "It's so ugly to die, come on, take this guy down!" ”

Relying on the power of the cannons, the Joseon Dynasty was quickly captured in two counties on Jeju Island. One of the two prefectural commanders committed suicide, and the other fled back to the Korean Peninsula by boat before the pirates could kill him. After capturing two counties in one sentence, Jin Tianyang and the pirates were very happy, thinking that even if they relied on the power of the cannon, they would not be able to kill Pyongyang!

Even Cui Chengxiu, who has always been a little dull, has a thirst on his face, occupying the territory of the two counties, not to mention that they have grabbed a lot of things from the dragon heroes, and now they can taste the taste of being an official.

"You want to stay here?"

Chen Cheng smiled and said, "Then make both of you a county order and help me........ Ahem, it's to help His Majesty the Black Dragon King defend these places in the north. ”

Although Jin Sun felt that Chen Cheng's tone seemed to be a little wrong, he had been dazzled in front of the big cake of the county order, and he couldn't think of anything else. Cui Chengxiu shook his head and said, "Although I am from two classes of nobles, I have already been expelled from my home, and it is not appropriate to be a county order." ”

Lin Mengchu was not interested in these dilapidated cities, she still felt that the castle in the south was more comfortable to live in. She said to Chen Cheng: "Why don't we go back to the castle and live?" ”

The castle was built by her watch, and it was equipped with a lot of modern equipment, and although it was not as big as here, it was much better to live in. No matter how big the place is, there are no solar water heaters or bathtubs, and you can't watch movies or play games here, so what's the use of it?

Chen Cheng smiled: "I think so too. ”

He said to Jin Sun: "Cui Chengxiu will return to the south with me, and the affairs of the north will be handed over to you." ”

Later, Chen Cheng led hundreds of people back to the south, freed all the slave laborers, and distributed fields and land deeds to them in the surrounding area. Although many people secretly laughed at the fact that a pirate leader issued a land deed, many people were relieved because of it.

The young men who had followed Chen Cheng for a long time and the original Pyongyang defenders also shared a lot of land, but Jeju Island had a small population and good fields, but not many people came to cultivate them. These people are also accustomed to robbery, where can they bear the heart to farm?

Many of them have family members in North Korea, and now that they have so much money, they all have the intention of returning home. People are like this, and when they are developed, of course, they have to go back and show off. Cui Chengxiu reported the situation, Chen Cheng asked Squad Leader Lin again, and then promised to take the big guy back and prepare a lot of grain and cloth and other things.