Zhang Linong landed with his own troops, but it actually took a long time, because the landing in these years was still very primitive, and if there was no ready-made wharf to use, then it would be necessary to carry out a beaching landing.

This kind of beaching and landing ships are basically not expected, and there are no special landing ships, generally use small boats carried by large ships to land, these small boats are generally multi-purpose, ships sink to escape, these ships are lifeboats, if they want to carry out sea surface replenishment, those are the ships that transport supplies back and forth, and transporting people is also their main task.

And these small boats, a big ship actually can't carry too much, so in the absence of a wharf, it is more troublesome to transport personnel or materials, and it needs to go back and forth many times.

So the first batch of marines who landed, there were less than 200 people, and after these people landed, those small boats would return, and then transport the second group of marines.

The weapons they carry are limited to personal equipment, and the heavy weapons are two-pound shotguns weighing more than 100 pounds, and as for those field guns, don't expect to be able to bring them.

Because there were relatively few people who landed for the first time, Zhang Linong did not act rashly, let alone directly lead the troops to advance from the depth, but organized the troops on the beach to list the defensive formation, and then waited for the arrival of the second batch of landing troops.

At this time, in an open space hundreds of meters away from the island, hundreds of people dressed in disorderly clothes were also gathered one after another, their weapons were not uniform, and they could even be vaguely seen to be divided into two groups.

The number of them was relatively small, about 200 people were dressed in a uniform manner, basically in the clothes of Fuso samurai, and a few of them still carried arquebuses and wore plate armor.

The number of the other group of people is a little larger, about 300 people have messy clothes and weapons, and many of them are wearing Hanfu and tied their hair, needless to say, these people are basically pirates, well, more precisely, Datang pirates!

Many of them ran from the Datang coast a few years ago when the Datang Navy was fighting pirates!

The transfer of these pirates can basically be regarded as the history of the expansion of the Tang Empire, when the Tang Empire occupied Liangguang, they ran out of the Liangguang sea area, and when the Tang Dynasty occupied the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang, they ran away from this sea area, some of them ran to the Ryukyus, and some continued to go north or simply ran to the coast of Goryeo.

And the pirates who ran to Ryukyu did not live for a few days, and the Tang Navy killed the Ryukyu Kingdom, and as a result, the Ryukyu Kingdom was finished, and the Ryukyu Kingdom became the Tang Ryukyu Mansion, so they continued to run, this time they ran to the coast of Fuso in one go, and then completely colluded with the Fuso people.

The Osumi Islands have become home to several of these large-scale pirates!

But although pirates settled in this area, pirates were pirates after all, and they did not shake the rule of the Hefu clan in the Osumi Islands, on the contrary, they cooperated quite happily with the Hefu clan, and the Hefu clan provided them with ports, supplies, and even channels to sell the stolen goods, and made a huge profit from it.

This kind of thing is naturally intolerable to the Tang Empire!

This has led to the armed forces of Yakushima, in addition to the armed forces of the Hefu clan, but also the power of the pirates!

Moreover, after Zhang Linong took out the binoculars and looked at them, he found that the pirates had more troops than those of the Liver Fu clan, and the pirates' equipment was even more powerful.

Although on the surface, the pirates were dressed in a messy manner and their weapons were not uniform, Zhang Linong saw that they had a lot of arquebuses, and there were also shotguns, and some people wore plate armor.

The samurai of the Liver Fu clan had very few guns and plates, and they didn't see any artillery.

It's no wonder that these pirates can swagger to survive on Yakushima, and their emotional strength is stronger than that of the Liver Fu clan on the island.

However, so what, whether it is these pirates or the warriors of the Liver Fu Clan, it is destined to be impossible to resist the attack of the Tang Navy today!

Zhang Linong has already made up his mind that when his troops arrive, he will first set up a temporary wharf, then unload the field artillery, and when the field artillery comes ashore, he will fuck it.

In addition to the Marine Battalion under his own command, there were also more than 300 marines on the ships of the Ryukyu Fleet, and the total strength of 800 troops was more than the combined strength of the pirates and the Hefu clan on the opposite side.

However, before launching the attack, Zhang Linong still honestly listed the defensive formation, and asked the soldiers to use the sapper shovel they carried with them to dig the fortifications, mainly to build the breast wall.

The breastwork is quite useful in defensive warfare, and it can effectively lower than the opponent's long-range firepower, of course, the defense of artillery is still not good, but there is no powerful artillery on the other side!

While Zhang Linong was waiting, the pirates and the warriors of the Liver Fu clan on the opposite side obviously knew that they couldn't continue to wait like this, and the blind could see that there were more than 200 marines on the more than 20 ships on the sea, and there would definitely be more Tang Navy soldiers landing one after another.

So after some discussion, the two of them decided to strike first!

So, they began to rush up in a chaotic formation!

And when he saw them rushing up, the corners of Zhang Linong's mouth showed a smile, it was really whimsical that these pirates still wanted to take the initiative to attack.

Didn't anyone tell them that such a swarm of bees would be beaten into a hornet's nest!

Didn't anyone tell them that before they charged, they had to push their artillery up and shell first, but now, several of their guns were lagging behind.

The half-bucketed artillerymen desperately tried to push the artillery to the front line, but they couldn't keep up with the infantry who had already begun to rush up!

Seeing this scene, Zhang Linong immediately ordered: "Send a flag to the fleet and ask for artillery support!" ”

"The whole army obeys orders, checks the guns, loads the bullets, and prepares for battle!"

The flag-whisperers began to wave the small flag in their hands, signaling to the fleet on the sea, asking for artillery fire support, while the soldiers also lowered their digging fortifications and began to check the guns in their hands and then load.

At the same time, Rear Admiral Feng Qirong on the fleet also saw the flag of the landing force with a telescope, and immediately ordered: "All ships prepare artillery support!" ”

Although it is said that it is a ship, in fact, it is still two frigates that can really approach and provide artillery support, and the other capital ships need to continue to blockade the port.

Of course, other transports are also capable of artillery support!

The transport ships of this year are all armed transport ships!

Not to mention the navy's transport ships, even if they are civilian merchant ships, if they don't bring a few guns to sea these days, then they can't expect to come back alive in the face of pirates.

The two frigates approaching at the risk of running aground, they are close to land, so they can fire earlier!

When those chaotic pirates and samurai rushed up and entered the 500-meter range of the ship's guns, the two frigates that directly anchored in order to ensure the stability of the shooting also opened fire!

There are more than twenty side guns that they can use for shelling, and these more than twenty guns are nothing for a decisive battle between fleets.

The naval side of the sea battles are often dozens of hundreds of guns, so the results are not very good, otherwise the navy will not want howitzers wholeheartedly.

It is a pity that although the grenade has completed the preliminary research and development, and the preliminary trial production has begun, it is still in the process of improvement, and the small number of grenades produced has been mostly taken away by the Guards, and the army and navy have only obtained a small number of grenades for testing so far.

In real combat, don't count on grenades for the time being.

However, for a fleet engagement, more than twenty guns are nothing, but for land artillery bombardment, support ground forces operations, this is enough, and it is very powerful.

You must know that the artillery configuration of the Datang Army is already very large, but in the infantry division of more than 15,000 people, there are only 56 field guns.

However, today, there are less than 200 marines on the shore, but they are supported by more than 20 naval guns, and the caliber is not small.

There are nine catties of naval guns, five catties of naval guns, and forty-eight catties and twenty-four catties of mortars.

Wait until the artillery is firing at the more than 500 pirates and samurai of the Liver Fu clan who are rushing towards the opposite side!

That scene can be described as spectacular!

When Zhang Linong heard the rumbling sound of cannon on the sea, he saw clouds of white smoke coming out of the two frigates on the sea, and small black dots flew out of the white smoke.

These little black dots flew over their heads and fell into the midst of enemies hundreds of meters away!

He saw with his own eyes that after a solid cannonball fell, although it was quickly absorbed by the soft sand, it still crashed into five or six pirates!

If the lethality of solid shells is only average, then those grenades are much larger!

When a 48-pound grenade exploded above the pirates' heads, Zhang Linong himself was shocked!

He could clearly see that a ball of fire flashed, and when the white smoke rose, the pirates under the cannonballs fell directly to at least twenty people!

The naval artillery support fire was only after the first round of shelling, and the pirates who rushed up had already suffered nearly 100 casualties, and then the rest of the people involuntarily stopped the pace of the charge, and they stood in place in a daze!

In the next moment, they all turned around and ran, running away faster than when they rushed over!

Seeing this scene, Zhang Linong couldn't hold back the excitement of wanting to laugh, and after a long time, he held back a sentence: "A group of fools!" ”

He has been in the army for many years, but he has never seen a charge against a naval gun, and the puppet Ming thief army would not be stupid enough to do this! ”