"Boom!"

With the sound of a cannon before dawn, the Ming official army launched the first wave of attacks on Nanao Island. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoA total of 85 ships departed from Tai O Island on the fifth watch, and when the sun rose in the east, the vanguard fleet had already landed.

Shen Xi had never dared to allow the officers and soldiers to "play freely" because he was afraid that the soldiers would be greatly damaged; first, he would not be able to give an account to the imperial court, second, he would live up to the trust placed in him by the officers and soldiers and their families; and third, the pensions of the fallen soldiers would be a large amount, and with the current weak financial foundation, too many people would die at once and might make him bankrupt.

But this time Shen Xi figured it out, always plan everything, and then let the officers and soldiers implement it step by step according to the plan, then this army will never grow into a brave and warlike army, and the generals and soldiers will not become good generals and elite soldiers, but will only become bureaucrats and veterans in the army, and they will have to live a chaotic life.

Rather than doing so, it is better to boldly let go and let the officers and men play freely, and he will stand in the distance, like an exercise commander, and let the officers and men use their abilities as much as possible.

There is a loss, it doesn't matter, the most important thing is to achieve the purpose of training, it is difficult for a soldier who has not experienced a threat of death to undergo a qualitative transformation, and now it is just a group of grass robbers who can no longer parry, so what about Tatars or well-equipped pirates?

If you don't crawl out of the pile of dead people and continue to fight, someone else will walk past your corpse tomorrow.

Under the system of continuous sitting, the officers and men knew that a hundred households were a battalion, and everything revolved around this battalion, with all kinds of information about the situation on the island, and the rest depended on their understanding of the battle situation, and it was unknown how many people would be able to come down from the island in the end.

The red sun rose from the sea level in the east, and the Ming soldiers and horses had launched simultaneous attacks from the northwest of Nanao Island to four locations in Houjiang Bay.

These four directions are the responsibility of the four thousand households.

There were about 800 soldiers, that is, each Qianhu left a battalion of 100 households as Shenxi's personal guards and gunners, and 400 people stayed on Da'ao Island and the Dongjiao platoon on the coast of Huanggang, and the rest were dispatched.

Now Shen Xi has given the four thousand households the same opportunity, and it depends on whether they can successfully complete the errand.

Because Tai O Island and Nan Ao Island are not far apart, even small boats can be guaranteed, so the army set off almost at the same time. The boats were the first to land, and the vanguard of each thousand houses was three hundred houses.

Then the small boat turned back to the big ship, and loaded the second batch of men and horses from the big ship, which was also 300 houses out of every 1,000 households, that is, about 1,200 soldiers landed.

The first group of officers and soldiers who landed on the island set up camp and built the fortifications at the same time, and then marched inland; The third group of officers and soldiers of the two hundred households landed in small boats, and the third group of men who went to the island were accompanied by eight Buddha cannons, and two were deployed in the camp of each thousand households.

It's like a relay triathlon.

After landing on the island, the first thing to do is to set up a camp and build fortifications, depending on the terrain, cut down trees and dig pits, lay traps, and pile up dirt and stones to create a commanding height, so that the archers can shoot when retreating.

Even if the camp falls and fortifications are built, they cannot charge directly, and they must wait for the follow-up relay of men and horses to land before heading inland.

With a battalion like Baihu as the action unit, the officers and soldiers of each battalion are tied with silk streamers of different colors on their collars, which is to facilitate the identification of their own brothers, and at the same time, the Baihu and the general flag and the small flag that lead the team should always pay attention to whether the soldiers around them are deserters or injured and cannot move forward, because Shen Xi said that the missing soldiers are counted as deserters, no matter how fierce you rush, no matter how much money, food and materials you rob, as long as a soldier does not keep up with the team, it is likely that you will have to give up your spoils of war to others.

The third group of soldiers, although small in number, is the most crucial group, and will carry a large number of Francophone cannons, unconscionable cannons, and supporting explosives packs ashore.

After the third group of 200 men and horses built their camps, they left one battalion of 100 households to garrison the coast and defend the camp, and the other battalion of 100 households joined the attack as the team of the queen of the palace.

Although Shen Xi did not land on the island, he watched the situation on the island with a telescope on the big ship and estimated the progress of the battle.

In the blink of an eye, the battle for the island had been going on for two hours.

The war was still ongoing, and because it was the era of cold weapons, the 28 battalions of 100 households rushed into the island and were not heard from.

The area of Nanao Island is not comparable to that of Da'ao Island, Shen Xi's expectation for this battle is two days, the first day of the tentative attack and the bottom of the survey, all depending on the free play of each hundred households, and the second day then integrate the team, carry out a key attack, and break the island bandit villages one by one.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Shen Xi led some of his guards to the island for inspection, and he held a wooden board in his hand, on which were nailed with pieces of paper to facilitate his recording.

Shen Xi counted the advantages and disadvantages of each camp, evaluated the attack, defense, and intelligence acquisition of officers and men, and listed detailed data after the war, so that the generals who participated in the war would know where they had won or where they had shortcomings.

After the rules are formulated, the most important thing is to convince the upper and lower levels, instead of Shen Xi opening his mouth to say which team is better, others will blindly obey it. The more veteran he is, the more he will feel that there are a lot of things that he has to teach and receive privately in the army, and he is born with a suspicious gaze, and Shen Xi does not want to be honest in this regard.

In the past, when encountering wars, soldiers rushed to defend the camp, because the camp was relatively safe, and it was comfortable to stay in the rear, waiting for others to take care of their own military merits.

However, in this war, the officers and men hated to charge ahead by themselves, so the officers and men of the 400 households who stayed in the camp complained -- others went to burn and loot, but we stayed in the camp, and half of the others who made meritorious contributions and robbed were our own, but we were here watching others rob, what do you mean?

The officers and men in the army all know that piracy is an "industry" that makes money quickly, in their eyes, the island is a mountain of gold and silver, and Shen Xi is too famous, and a series of battles are almost all devastating or bloodless, and now it is like empty silver falling in front of them, but they can't bend down to pick it up, and it is unspeakably uncomfortable.

When the soldiers guarding the camp saw Shen Xi, they cheered up one by one, and many hundreds of households came up to ask for battle, but they were rejected by Shen Xi.

"You are here to be soldiers, not thieves, and the officers who guard the camp will be rewarded." Shen Xi's tone was unquestionable.

But the soldiers guarding the camp are still unwilling, each of them can garrison a camp of a thousand people, and now there are only a hundred people left, and the surrounding fortifications are empty and redundant, even if Shen Xi promises a reward, they would rather go to fight now than sit back and enjoy the results.

"My lord, there seems to be a signal coming from over there, should we send reinforcements?" The scout who was standing on a high place and was in charge of probing the situation came to report.

Shen Xi didn't even look at it, and directly refused: "Is there one?" Why didn't the official see it! Before, the official had already set a strategy, to ask for reinforcements, and also let the surrounding hundred battalions reinforce, instead of the soldiers and horses left behind on the coast! (To be continued.) )