Chapter XXIV
Zhang Yang is not the Holy Mother, and there is naturally a reason why he did not kill Park Ilchang. A stable Tamna County is obviously better able to provide logistics for the army than a chaotic Tamna County! In the plan, the future Tamna County will be used as a springboard and logistics support point for the army to attack Japan.
Coal on the Korean Peninsula is relatively abundant, and almost all of it is anthracite, making it ideal for ships, and it is clearly more cost-effective to transport coal from North Korea to Tamna than from the Shandong Peninsula.
Park Il-chang was now appointed by Jang Yang as the commander of the Great Song Tamna, and his main responsibility was to provide logistics for the army. Of course, Zhang Yang didn't plan to turn against Goryeo for the time being, and when Goryeo declared himself a vassal to Daikin, he would have enough reason to attack the country.
Park Il-chang's work efficiency was very high, and he prepared water for the army in one day. Zhang Yang was not stingy with those who took refuge in him, and allocated him 500 taels of silver to buy coal from Goryeo! (In this era, because there was no large-scale influx of foreign silver, the value of silver was still very high)
After resting for two days in Tamna County, Zhang Yang left a team of 100 people to garrison, and all the others boarded the ship to continue sailing north.
His next target is Fukue Island, a group of five small islands. The largest of these is Fukue Island. Less than 200 nautical miles from Tamna-gun to Fukue Island, it took Zhang Yang's fleet only two days to see the island.
Fukue Island is very close to Nagasaki, only a few dozen nautical miles! Because of the rise of the Maritime Silk Road, Nagasaki, a natural port, also attracted a large number of Chinese maritime merchants to buy raw silk here. And there are more maritime merchants, which has given birth to another special profession - pirates!
The superior geographical location of Fukue Island naturally became a gathering place for pirates, so when the flamboyant fleet first saw Fukue Island, the pirates on the island discovered it first, and went to sea to grab it!
"Matsuura-kun, these four Song ships are a bit weird?" A thin black man wrapped in a cloth said to another thin black man beside him.
The man named Matsuura glanced at the other party with disdain, and shouted with a mouthful of black teeth, "Did Watanabe-kun waste too much energy on the geisha, so that he was too timid." It's not strange that there's a big deal, just grab it. ”
The man named Watanabe was sarcastically ridiculed, and suddenly looked like a dog with his tail grabbed, and barked wildly: "Matsuura Inojiro, don't deceive people too much!" ”
"Humph!" Matsuura Izujiro glanced at him. Turning his head away in disdain.
"Sir, there are more than a dozen small boats on the sea."
"A boat?"
Zhang Yang, who was idle, suddenly became interested, and walked out of the cabin to look in the direction that Zheng Ligong was pointing. At a distance of about a nautical mile from the Dingyuan, more than a dozen small wooden boats with big farts were carrying more than twenty skinny monkey-like men (the Japanese were really not much taller than monkeys in those days). Wrapped in burlap that served as clothing, the oars shook in unison with the trumpet, and on the bow of the boat, a man no more than 1.4 meters tall pointed at the flamboyant ship with a katana and shouted something.
Zhang Yang had a moment of thunderous feeling, this familiar picture is very similar to the black uncle holding AK to the sky on the Somali sea in the later generations!
"Good boy, there are really pirates who rob warships." Zheng Ligong behind him was amused. Just a dozen or so small broken ships the size of sampan boats actually dared to rob their own warships of more than 200 tons! The ignorant are fearless.
"Inform the whole ship, don't fire yet. Wait for them to get closer before making a move, and finally have some fun. The excuses are ready-made. ”
"Yes, sir." Zheng Ligong instantly figured out how bad Zhang Yang was holding back, and after a distance of three or four hundred meters, under the bombardment of artillery, I am afraid that none of these people will be able to escape.
"Bagaya Road, the merchant ships in front of it immediately stopped, and then they all died and died."
When these small sampans had reached a distance of 200 meters, the noisy shouting and scolding woke up even the soldiers resting in the cabin, and one by one they ran to the deck with great interest, looking at the Japanese who were shouting on the sea with the look of fools.
"Hmph, they're all cheap blanks, and when they are wrapped in rags, they think they're human, and monkeys will always be monkeys." A young man who was deeply affected by the idea that 'all barbarians outside of China' sneered.
"You're right, but they can at least give us relief."
"His grandmother's, all of them are as short as monkeys." Zheng Ligong had a ghostly expression.
"Inform the artillery to fire freely, and the first artillery crew to achieve results will be rewarded with five taels of silver!"
"Yes, sir."
On the sea, Matsuura Inojiro, who had been shouting for a long time, finally noticed that something was wrong, why were there so many people on the other party's ship, and the speed of the other party's ship was too fast, with his many years of experience in pirates, the speed of the other party's ship was more than twice that of a normal merchant ship.
"Watanabe-kun, the other party is indeed weird!"
Watanabe rolled his eyes and said, "The blind can see it." ”
As soon as the words fell, I saw a flash of fire on the side of the opposite ship, a cloud of smoke rising, and a thunderous noise exploded around me! Immediately afterwards, a huge wave of 100 zhang high was set off at a distance of seven or eight zhang on the port side of his own!
Matsuura Inojiro, who was poured cold by the cold seawater, instantly understood that he had kicked the iron plate this time! Before he could say retreat, a shell hit the bow directly!
"Ahh
"Run!" Although there were more than a dozen wooden thorns poked on his body, none of them caused fatal injuries, and the bloody Matsuura Izujiro was so frightened that he was about to pee, and immediately gave the order to escape.
"Yes, give this group of artillery a reward of five taels of silver." Seeing the cannon hit the bow of the ship, Zhang Yang was in a good mood.
"Yes, sir." Zheng Ligong, as a flamboyant guard, is very aware of his bad taste.
Bang –
A shell from the Zhenyuan accurately hit Matsuura Inojiro's ship, and the entire ship was reimbursed with a single shot.
"Okay, good, this shot is good! This group will be rewarded with five taels per person! More than 20 people were killed with one shot, and Zhang Yang slapped his thigh excitedly.
The whole naval battle only lasted half an hour before it ended, because it was a completely one-sided massacre, Zheng Ligong didn't understand why Zhang Yang could see the end with relish, and he didn't pay so much attention to the battle in Tamna County.
"Let the soldiers who have never killed anyone see the blood, and do not live the mouth. The bodies were all hung from the side of the ship. ”。
Zheng Ligong, who heard such a bloody order for the first time, felt a pang in his heart, and subconsciously said, "Yes, sir." ”
From Zhang Yang's cold words, he heard Zhang Yang's hatred for the pirates.