Feng Qirong led the Ryukyu Detachment to the western waters of Fuso, and there were many goals, not just to fight piracy.

Fighting piracy, maintaining the security of shipping routes, and thus safeguarding the interests of maritime trade were their main goals, but at the same time, they had the ambition to occupy the Osumi Islands, and wanted to turn them into part of the Ryukyu Prefecture in order to obtain a trading port near Fuso Kyushu Island, and even a military base in Fuso in the future.

Secondly, they also have an undisclosed goal, which is to subsidize the military expenses of the navy by seizing some loot in the process of fighting piracy.

With the decline in military spending in Xuanping's eight years, not only the army has been tight, but the navy has also been tight.

The army is not bad, and there is only one Liaodong campaign in the eighth year of Xuanping, but now the Liaodong campaign is almost over, although there will be plans to march to other parts of the northeast and even attack the Goryeo Peninsula in the future, but these are actually small-scale military operations, these can only be regarded as daily operations for the army that fights every day, and the scale is not even as large as the scale of suppressing bandits in the mainland.

Therefore, the army has already survived, and the next step is mainly to develop step by step.

But the navy is different, the navy's military spending is originally small, in the eighth year of Xuanping, the total military expenditure of the navy is only more than 4 million taels, although this figure sounds a lot, it seems to be on a par with the financial revenue of the whole year of the pre-Ming Dynasty, but the navy's expenses are also large.

There are also a lot of personnel in the navy, and the salary is generally relatively high, so the salary expenses are relatively large, and the maintenance of the ship also costs money, and more importantly, the scale of the army has basically been formed, and in addition to the expansion of cavalry, there will be basically no large-scale expansion plan, and the expansion plan of the navy is a bunch of them.

The size of the main fleet needs to be expanded, new naval bases are to be built in some areas, existing naval bases are to be expanded, even auxiliary ships need to be expanded on a large scale, and the marines are not enough.

In short, the current navy is in the midst of a great expansion, and there is an increase in spending everywhere, but at this time, military spending is stuck.

The top brass of the navy are now worried about the lack of military spending every day, and it is rumored that it has even affected the construction plan of the main fleet.

According to Xuanping's seven-year naval expansion plan, the navy is to build three more battleships, one of which has started last year, and two are scheduled to start this year, but only one has been started in the first half of this year, and the second has been temporarily delayed.

Even the construction plan of battleships, which is an absolute capital ship, has been delayed, so other types of ships have naturally been delayed, and the original eight 800-ton cruisers have now only started construction, and originally one will start construction in the middle of this year, but now the navy is ready to move the timetable to the end of the year.

The 400-ton frigate has also been reduced, four were started last year, and six should have been started this year, but the navy has also decided to start construction of only five this year, which is also a reduction of one.

But the program for the construction of an improved offshore patrol ship of the 180-ton class has not been reduced, but has been increased!

This is also a matter of no way, there are fewer capital ships, the navy hopes to fill them with patrol ships, and undertake the patrol and escort tasks of some capital ships, and at the same time there is a more important reason that this kind of guard patrol ships is cheap, don't look at the start of construction is more than ten or twenty ships, but the unit price is only more than 20,000 taels of silver, and the more the number of builds, the cheaper the price will be.

Because of this kind of small-tonnage ships, small tonnage, low construction difficulty, and fast construction period, basically slightly larger shipyards can be built, so the construction task of this kind of offshore patrol ship, in fact, in addition to the state-owned enterprise department and the royal assets control of the Dingsheng shipyard, there are many private shipyards to undertake a large number of orders, and even strictly speaking, the shipyards of a warship under construction, most of them are private shipyards, which are not those coastal shipyards, and even some inland shipyards can be built.

Many factors have prompted the Navy to start building more such offshore patrol ships!

After the construction of five ships last year, it was originally scheduled to start construction of 20 ships this year, but in the first quarter of this year, the Navy has already started construction of 12 ships in one go, and the total number of ships to be started this year is expected to exceed 20 ships, reaching about 25 ships, which will be five more ships than originally planned.

It can also be seen from the navy's current shipbuilding plan that the navy's military spending pressure is quite large, and it has to spend a lot of money every year to purchase new warships.

Under this kind of big background, Feng Qirong, as a naval general, naturally knows what he wants to do after he comes to Fusang, and he has to do serious tasks, but he also has to do some unsightly things.

Therefore, he strictly forbade the fleet to fire at the ships and docks of the Fusang people in the port, as well as the warehouses in the port and other facilities, which were all trophies belonging to the Tang Navy, and whoever dared to fire the cannon would be in a hurry!

After blocking the port, Feng Qirong gave Zhang Linong an order that he could land with the marines, and the fleet would continue to provide naval artillery fire support to ensure their safety at the beginning of the landing.

Theoretically speaking, as long as Zhang Linong and them are not too far away from the coastline and exceed the range of the naval guns, then they can get the support of the naval guns, of course, after going deep into the land, they have no choice but to rely on the artillery carried by Zhang Linong and them.

For Zhang Linong and other Marine Corps officers, such things as landing operations were commonplace, and there was no need for any deliberate arrangements, and the units just began to change from transport ships to small boats, and then rowed to the beach.

Because this time they also brought some pirate ships captured from Yakushima, so the scale of the landing was larger, not only did there be 300 people who landed on the shore for the first time, but also brought three five-pound field guns.

In order to bring these three field guns ashore, they specially chose an offshore vessel with a relatively shallow draft, and prepared to run aground directly on the beach and unload the guns on the spot.

The ship that was going to be used to storm the beach was not theirs either, but was captured from pirates, and the ship was not large, so there was no pity for running aground directly on the beach.

The landing operation went smoothly, and the Fuso people on Tanegashima were obviously not as stupid as those pirates, who dared to charge at the ship's guns and try to fight a beachhead blockade.

They were a little smarter, and chose to defend about 300 meters from the shore, and they also brought up some of their shotguns, but even if they did, it was unlikely that they would pose much of a threat to the landing force.

Because there are not many Fuso people on Tanegashima Island, only six or seven hundred!

After all, Tanegashima is just a small island, there are not many inhabitants on the island, and the Zijima clan is only a small daimyo and can't afford to raise too many samurai, in fact, among these six or seven hundred people, there are only about a hundred real samurai, and the rest are farmers they recruited.

And this shows the benefits of Zijima's contact with the outside world and the development of guns, giving those farmers an arquebus, and a simple training, then they can be pulled out to fight.

It's much better than those daimyo on Kyushu Island, who rely on samurai to fight!

It's a pity that even so, their strength is still too small, and these six or seven hundred people are very difficult to pose a threat to Zhang Linong's landing force!

Zhang Linong stepped on the boat again, and then rushed directly to the beachhead, and after landing on the beachhead, he began to organize the troops to defend on the spot step by step, preparing to meet the arrival of the second wave of landing troops, and at the same time pulling down the three field guns.

Although there were only three five-pound field guns, they were very important to Zhang Linong's department in the early stage of the landing, because the naval guns could not provide him with all the fire support.

For example, if he wanted to take the initiative to attack these Fusang people more than 300 meters away, then he could only use these three field guns, because this distance was already beyond the range of the naval guns.

Field artillery on land can have an effective firing range of up to 500 meters, but if you fire on the sea surface, the hit rate will drop a lot, and if you want to get the same hit rate, you need to get closer to 400 meters or even more than 300 meters.

And those warships can't get too close, these are all sea ships, and the draft is very deep, especially they are not familiar with this piece of offshore water, too close to the shore is easy to run aground or run aground.

Therefore, in order to be safe, although they sent small boats to carry out bathymetric surveys and other preparations, they still only docked at a distance of about 100 meters from the shore.

Otherwise, how can it be said that the location chosen by the Fuso people is very good, they are more than three hundred meters from the shore, so that the distance between them and the fleet is more than four hundred meters.

At this distance, they can rest assured that they can defend the battle, even if the naval guns of the Datang Navy fire, the hit rate will be very low.

Therefore, after seeing that the Fusang people stopped more than 300 meters away and stopped advancing, Zhang Linong also sighed a little: He is worthy of being the most knowledgeable indigenous in Fusang who knows the outside world the most!

Since they did not take the initiative to attack, then Zhang Linong was not polite, and after landing, he did not move in place to meet the follow-up landing troops.

So, this scene just became a little weird, there was a huge fleet floating on the sea, but no cannon was fired.

The Fuso people on the shore obviously gathered, but they did not counterattack!

This confrontation lasted for more than two hours, and in this process, the soldiers on both sides were not idle, the Fusang people were busy preparing fortifications, and Zhang Linong also commanded his subordinates to dig the breastwork on the spot.

But the fortifications on both sides are destined to be useless, because if the Fusang people don't fight, Zhang Linong won't fight either!

After more than two hours, Zhang Linong finally gathered his more than 600 soldiers, and then they began to act, but instead of attacking the six or seven hundred Fusang people on land, they went south along the coastline, because there was a wharf!

If you have watched the offensive and defensive battles of Yakushima, you can see that Zhang Linong's action is the same as the last time, and it is the first attack on the dock.

And this time, will these Fuso people resist?

If they were going to resist, under the threat of naval guns, how could they resist?