Under the light of the rising sun, Shen Xi personally led three large ships and more than 60 medium-sized ships to advance in the direction of Nanao Island. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Although every officer and soldier has the intention of making meritorious contributions, they also have the psychology of fear of death, knowing that there is no need to go to the island to fight and die, and the officers and men all have a kind of military exercise mentality, standing on the bow of the ship, with their waists straight, and looking majestic.

Shen Xi stood at the bow of the ship and looked into the distance, his posture was upright, like a navigator with rich sailing experience, although he only felt sick to his stomach because he slept on the sea boat all night last night and came out to breathe.

"My lord, why don't you go in and rest for a while, it's just a feint today, or you can take a boat back to the shore, just wait for us to sail around Nanao Mountain, and come back to report to you." Jing Yue smiled and said.

Because it was a feint, Jing Yue was very relaxed, and he didn't see any psychological burden at all.

Shen Xi waved his hand: "Am I the kind of coach who cowers?" ”

Jing Yue smiled: "Where is that kind of person, adult?" But there is always danger on the battlefield. These three armies can leave anyone, but they can't leave you, we are all following your adult to eat. ”

Shen Xi shook his head slightly: "No one follows anyone to eat, everyone can think about military merits, you can think about it, and this official also wants it." I hope that today will be calm, and I will come back in the afternoon and land in Chenghai County. ”

"Yes, sir. You'll see. ”

Jing Yue rushed out with the order flag to flag the ships of the fleet.

This is exactly the way of maritime communication emphasized by Shen Xi, each ship must use the flag language to transmit the message, each ship has its own number, so that which ship has an accident, or which ships to attack, defense will be more moderate, Shen Xi only needs to sit firmly on the Diaoyu Tai, can do all the sea ships effective command, the introduction of the naval flag is also a great progress in the history of navigation.

After more than two hours, Nanao Island was in sight.

From a distance, the waters around Nan'ao Island are unusually clear, the sky is blue, there are no clouds and fog, and you can clearly see the sandy beaches and green trees on the edge of the island.

Even though there are many bandits on Nanao Island, the island is still in a primitive and undeveloped state, and the strongholds of the bandits on the island are all built at a distance from the coastline, which is also the cause of the small people's thinking.

The pirates are basically from the peasants, and their idea is very simple, since there is more than one group of bandits on the island, and the official army basically does not go to sea to fight, then it is more practical for them to guard against other bandits than against the official army, so they build the cottage far away from the coastline, so the advantage of this is that the cottage can be hidden in a difficult to find and higher ground, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

But the disadvantage is also obvious, this greatly reduces the difficulty of landing when the official army attacks the island, the official army can calmly land on the island, and when they arrive on the island, they can gain a firm foothold, with the amount of gunpowder and siege equipment that Shen Xi currently has on hand, it should not be particularly difficult to break through one or two cottages.

The reason why Shen Xi did not attack the island immediately was because he knew that there were a large number of bandits entrenched on the island, and they were unevenly distributed from east to west and from south to north, and it was likely that when attacking a walled city, other bandits would cut off the back route, causing huge losses.

Shen Xi can't accept a lose-lose victory, not that he has to pursue a big victory, but the current situation forces him to ensure a crushing victory that does not hurt his muscles and bones.

Therefore, Shen Xi chose forbearance, waited for the siege of Chenghai County to be relieved, integrated the soldiers and horses again, and then used the local military force to attack the island from different directions.

Although the bandits on Sishi Island had already taken precautions, the bandits were intimidated by the might of the army of bandits led by Shen Xi, and some of the bandits would definitely continue the strategy they had adopted when they fought with his main force before, that is, to take the lead, and the number of bandits remaining on the island would naturally decrease sharply at that time.

As soon as the fleet arrived at Changshanwei in the western part of Nan'ao Island, several medium-sized ships equipped with Franco's cannons approached and put a few rounds of guns in front to clear out the thieves who might be in ambush near the coastline.

Subsequently, Shen Xi sent a small fleet full of officers and men to conduct training on attacking the island, basically carrying out a beach-grabbing landing, and after gaining a firm foothold, he immediately boarded the ship and evacuated; in addition to achieving the purpose of military training, this was also to lure the snake out of the hole to see if the bandits on the island had the courage to chase them out.

In order to facilitate the lure of the enemy into the depths, the first batch of landing ships should not be too large, and the three main battleships of Shenxi hid far behind, allowing small and medium-sized ships to approach and launch a tentative landing battle.

If the bandits on the island chase them out, it is best to surround them and annihilate them, if not, the fleet will continue to sail around the island and conduct island attack drills in different places, and the soldiers on the island will explore the geographical environment close to the coast on the island to create conditions for a large-scale attack on the island in the future.

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Shen Xi's plan for attacking the island was extremely perfect, and the drill went smoothly.

From the end of the hour and the beginning of the morning to the beginning of the day, to more than an hour at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the island attack drill has lasted for three or four rounds. With the appearance of a large number of ships, the bandits on the island knew who was coming, and basically they could not shrink back, allowing the officials and soldiers to make a series of actions to land on the island and evacuate.

Shenxi did not allow the officers and soldiers to enter the coastline one mile away without authorization, the forest on the island was dense, the bushes were overgrown, and after the sting, the number of snakes, insects, rats and ants increased, and the local pirates and pirates would inevitably dig traps and arrange traps in the middle of the road, and so on, and there were even pirates and pirates in ambush.

The officers and men went deep into the island without preparation, and as a result, there was no return.

The officers and men regarded Nan'ao Island as if they were their own back garden, and the first thing they did when they went to the island was to use the existing resources on the island to build simple fortifications after logging down, occupy the position on the edge of the island, and even dig trenches, as if they wanted to gain a firm foothold on the island and prepare to fight steadily.

But when the time came, the soldiers put down all their work and did not hesitate to evacuate the island and repeat the same thing in another place.

Now the pirates and pirates on the island are a little confused, and the Ming officials and soldiers are going crazy, doing useless work again and again?

Or did the officers and soldiers not find a suitable place to gain a foothold, and they had to test the island in different directions, and once it was finally confirmed, the fleet would dock in a big way, and the officers and men would start fighting as soon as they landed on the island?

With doubts, the robbers on the island became more and more cautious, carefully watching the busy work of the officers and soldiers.

Shen Xi looked at the island in the distance with a special cylinder on the big boat, Jing Yue didn't know what Shen Xi was holding in his hand, but felt that Shen Xi's method of wasting the physical strength of soldiers was really undesirable.

Jing Yue said: "My lord, I can understand that you want to train the army, but if you train the troops like this, wouldn't it let those thieves know our movements, and what if they come again and build fortifications near the coast?" ”

Shen Xi smiled: "Anyway, we will come back in a few days, I wish that the thieves on the island would go to the coast to set up defenses." We have sea ships, many times the number of bandits, good weapons, and artillery to help them, do you think we would rather go deep into the heart of the island to fight them in offensive and defensive battles, or in skirmishes near the coast? ”

"Of course it'......"

Jing Yue thought about it, touched his head and smiled, "It's better to fight on the coast." ”

"Isn't that what it takes? If they dare to come out and build defenses, then we will fight an encounter with them, if they cower in the middle of the island, then we will occupy the edge of the island next time we come, and fight a protracted offensive and defensive war with them, the island is so big, a few fires can make the island unsafe! Shen Xi said.

Jing Yue couldn't help but be speechless, he hadn't thought of setting fire to it before.

Anyway, this time the bandits are just to drive away the thieves on the mountains of Nanao, as long as the fire goes down, even if the island is burned to the scorched earth, it doesn't matter, who said that Daming didn't plan to move residents to live on the island?

It is unlikely that there will be a garrison on the mountains of Nanao, so the next time you come to attack the island, you can use the destructive bulldozer to fight, burn all the way you go, and you can also use ships to transport the soldiers and horses of the surrounding guards and the people on the island several times, one fence at a time, no matter how big the island is, it will be dozens of miles, and no matter how many robbers there are, there are only one or two thousand people, and when the pirates find that the island is no longer suitable for them to live in, they will choose to flee, and they will lose their support when they leave the island.

Shen Xi's boat walked along the coastline of Nanao Island, and he carefully looked at the situation on the island with a homemade telescope.

It is said that the chemical factory that Shen Xi handed over to Hui Niang and Li Jin in Fucheng in Guangzhou is only a prototype, but it is already capable of making some simple glass and chemical products, including a telescope composed of concave and convex lenses.

With this thing, Shen Xi can also improve his efficiency when he is in navigation command, but he only has this pair of telescopes at hand, and he can't equip the generals and captains of the army for the time being.

Before the invention of the telescope at the beginning of the seventeenth century, Shen Xi was the only one in the world, and he was going to report this thing to the imperial court, and the whole army of the Ming Dynasty could equip it.

The tentative attack on the island lasted for four or five hours, and before the end of the day, Shen Xi ordered the withdrawal of troops, and at this time there were already fires in many places on the island, and the more they burned, the more they burned, and there was a tendency to develop into forest fires.

On this kind of island full of giant trees and shrubs, the threat of fire is quite great, Shen Xi originally wanted to use arson as a secret killing trick, but he didn't know who started the fire, but he thought that it was nothing more than the soldiers in the army who did not listen to the command and made their own decisions, or the thieves themselves lit it, indicating that they would not give in.

"Mingjin retreats, it's time for us to turn back to land...... Wait for the direct voyage to the Hanjiang River and enter Chenghai County. Shen Xi gave the order.

Jing Yue immediately took the command flag to the bow of the ship to give the order, and after receiving the signal that all the ships had sent back that all the personnel had withdrawn, the fleet led by Shen Xi swept away, leaving only Nanao Island with thick smoke rising everywhere, and many panicked thieves on the island.

It was a war in which there were no head-on engagements and no casualties, and the officers and soldiers only tried to attack in a deterrent manner, and the final result was only to burn down about sixty or seventy ships left by the thieves on the coast.

The number of thieves' ships is naturally far more than that, perhaps knowing that Shen Xi's army of bandits is coming, many of the thieves' ships have been transferred to Dongshan Island in the north, or disguised as people, escaping into the interior of the Hanjiang River and the Rongjiang River, waiting for the wind to pass, and then hiding in the depths of hard-to-find reefs or hidden caves.

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