Hong Chengchou pondered, "The Japanese have always been extremely cunning, and they are the most familiar with maritime tactics. At present, in the sea area of the Ming Dynasty, it is no exaggeration to say that they are the most powerful. ”

Mao Wenlong was reluctant, his Dongjiang army and navy were not weak now, and immediately, Mao Wenlong distinguished: "In the past, it may have been their Japanese robbers who dominated the Daming Sea, but now it is not necessarily." ”

Hong Chengchou obviously saw Mao Wenlong's unconvincedness, and he chuckled: "If the words of the chief soldier are placed in three or four years, the subordinate officials will definitely agree." But now we have to admit that the Japanese are more familiar with this sea area than we are. Just like now, we have blocked all the coastlines, but they are still able to penetrate everywhere and always quietly enter the areas we have sealed. ”

Mao Wenlong was stunned for a moment, and at this moment he felt that Hong Chengchou's words were not unreasonable. Before learning about the hiding place of the Wakos, he had strictly ordered to go down and blockade the entire sea area of Liaodong, but the Wakos were still quietly hiding on this barren island and reef and were unknown.

Nodding, Mao Wenlong admitted: "What the military advisor said is reasonable, so do you see anything?" ”

Hong Chengchou pondered for a moment, frowned and said, "Maybe this time the Japanese invaders exposed their hiding place, it should be their deliberate doing. ”

Mao Wenlong was quite surprised: "How is it possible? ”

Hong Chengchou became particularly determined, and he continued to analyze: "The Japanese are hiding on such islands and reefs, it stands to reason that they will never be so careless. From the fact that we swaggered forward undetected, and that they had already prepared an ambush when we were attacked, it is not difficult to see that they had deliberately lured us here. ”

Mao Wenlong said uncertainly: "What does the military advisor mean is that these Japanese robbers have set up an ambush and are waiting for the outside to come?" ”

Although Mao Wenlong didn't believe it in his mind, it was not difficult to find that the truth seemed to be really as Hong Chengchou said just now. After being attacked, the Japanese not only did not retreat immediately, but defended one level after another, and there was no sign that they were nervous when they were attacked.

Hong Chengchou opened his mouth and just wanted to speak, but was interrupted by a few cannon shots, Mao Wenlong and Hong Chengchou immediately followed the sound, only to see more than a dozen pirate ships out of nowhere, firing a salvo of artillery at the warships of the Dongjiang Army.

The attention of the Dongjiang Army was completely on the islands and reefs, and when they were defenseless, three warships were shelled by pirate ships, and they were immediately panicked. The horn of the enemy attack soon sounded, and the warships of the Dongjiang Army began to prepare to return fire under the orders of the captains.

However, after the bombardment, the cunning pirate ship actually turned around and ran, without the slightest nostalgia, and extremely quickly.

Mao Wenlong was furious after reacting, and immediately ordered Lihui to lead four warships to pursue. Lihui didn't dare to slack off, and after receiving the order, he left in a hurry, and soon, the four warships of the Dongjiang Army turned around and followed the fleeing pirate ships to catch up.

The warships that continued to stay behind no longer dared to be careless, and all of them raised their vigilance to prevent the Japanese from quietly coming to attack again. After such a sudden, Mao Wenlong and Hong Chengchou have woken up.

"It seems that what the military advisor said is true, these damn Japanese robbers are staying on this island and reef for the purpose of luring us in." Mao Wenlong said angrily.

"Then what does the chief soldier want to do now?" Hong Chengchou asked in a deep voice.

"No matter how they play tricks at sea, in short, let's get rid of the pirates on this reef first." After Mao Wenlong finished speaking, he immediately turned around and ordered, and all the remaining warships docked, and then the whole army boarded the island and reef.

Doing so inevitably requires a little risk, but it is good for the general army to entangle with the Japanese at sea, and after thinking about it for a while, Hong Chengchou also agreed with Mao Wenlong's opinion and followed him ashore.

Lixuan and Licheng didn't expect Mao Wenlong to go ashore as well, so they hurriedly hurried over to stop them. It's not safe on the reef now, and if Mao Wenlong has an accident, the two of them can't afford it.

"Chief soldier, it's not safe here, please ......"

Before Licheng's words were finished, he was directly interrupted by Mao Wenlong: "There is no need to say these words, talk about the situation above now?" ”

Licheng and Lixuan looked at Hong Chengchou, hoping that he would persuade Mao Wenlong, but they didn't expect Hong Chengchou to give the two of them a harmless look. Seeing that Hong Chengchou, who had always been steady, was like this, Lixuan and Licheng had no choice but to retract the idea of continuing to persuade.

"General soldier, now we are blocked by the Japanese fire on the slope, and we can't rush up at all." Licheng immediately said to Mao Wenlong.

"Is that the steep slope ahead?" As soon as Mao Wenlong looked up, he saw the slope dozens of meters away.

"Exactly, my subordinates estimated that there were at least fifty muskets on it, and the slope was too steep for us to rush up to finish in a short time. If you want to break in, it will inevitably cause a lot of casualties and pay a lot of price. Licheng's face was full of gloom.

The Japanese had a layered defense, and it was clear that they were well prepared early in the morning to face the enemy who was in the right place at the right time. At this moment, the Dongjiang Army did not have any advantages to speak of.

After Mao Wenlong looked at the slope carefully, he said in a deep voice: "Have you sent someone to find another place, maybe there are other places to go up." ”

Licheng shook his head and said, "We've all spied on it, except for this slope, all other places are cliffs. There are also Japanese robbers defending the cliff, and at the moment, only this slope is the easiest place to break through. ”

Mao Wenlong glanced at Hong Chengchou after hearing this, and it was obvious that things were as the two had guessed before. The pirates have designed a trap and are just waiting for themselves to jump into the pit.

Hong Chengchou was silent for a while, and then spoke: "Chief soldier, why don't we get two cannons from the ship and blast away the guards on the slope." ”

Mao Wenlong laughed cruelly: "It's exactly what I want." ”

Immediately, Mao Wenlong asked Licheng to take dozens of people to the ship to carry artillery. Licheng was ordered to go, but since the warship did not interfere with the actual landing, if he wanted to carry the artillery ashore, he had to move it from the warship to the small boat, and then use the small boat to transport it.

While this can be troublesome, there seems to be no better way to do it. Fortunately, to blast the guards on this slope, only two guns were enough.

In the gap between the artillery moves, Murataro, who had been observing the situation, immediately realized that something was wrong, he thought for a moment, and immediately ordered. Let the Japanese prepare all the huge stones prepared in advance, and once the Dongjiang army has set up the artillery, they will start to get the boulders down.