Chapter 424: The Battle for the Island
In the end, the flagship was rightfully named "Lushun", Huang Han's warship was called "Jinzhou", and Huang Chunsheng's warship was called "Yongping".
The remaining warships include "Ningyuan", "Funing", "Qiantun" and so on, and everyone knows that next year there will be bigger warships with more guns launched.
At that time, the flagship will definitely be updated, symbolizing the well-known name of the "Red Flag Army" base camp Tiger's Den City to be left to the new flagship.
The next day, a total of twenty-seven warships, including eighteen old lock-ship ships and seven rushing ships selected from Shi Daxuan's thirteen ships, as well as the Udvoort and Venlo, were dispatched.
How did the ignorant Kuki Jiro know that he was being targeted by a powerful sailor, and the seven pirate ships that had completed the robbery mission were ambushed on the way home.
More than 300 pirates were laughing and singing when they spotted more than a dozen Ming warships that had been outflanked, and they were stupefied.
Not a single pirate ship dared to fight in full sail and oars in an attempt to break out of the encirclement and reach its home port at hand, but unfortunately it backfired, and no armed merchant ship could escape the fate of being captured.
Not only were the seven pirate ships seized, but the three No. 2 ships that they had looted and had not yet sold became trophies.
After many days of training and several naval battles, the captain and sailors and gunners were very good at it, and they were basically able to accurately judge what kind of blow to give the enemy ship according to its equipment.
It is necessary to make the enemy lose resistance and not allow artillery fire to cause great damage to the ship.
Therefore, there was no accident in dealing with the seven pirates whose firepower and discipline were not as good as Shi Daxuan's fleet, and a scatter of bullets made the pirates cry and cry for their mother, and more than 100 pirates were captured without much effort.
This time, nearly 100 sailors and gunners of merchant ships were rescued, and more than half of these people were Hermes-Epitek, and they were crew members of armed merchant ships that had just been hacked by pirates.
Although the seven Zhuyin ships and Fu Ships of the Nine Ghost Pirate Gang, which had a displacement of three or four hundred tons, were beaten to the ground, they were not damaged and repaired were not very difficult.
In the next two days, the warships of the "Red Banner Army" waited for the rabbits on the road that the Kukijiro pirate gang must pass, and attacked the fleet that was about to go out to rob again, capturing six pirate warships.
The eight warships that had returned from the robbery were intercepted again, and the four merchant ships, along with the pirates' booty, were all captured by Huang Han.
It is possible that the Nine Ghost Private Port sensed the abnormality, and they sent a single warship out of the port in three times, all of which were rounded up by the Ming army without exception. Later, after interrogating the prisoners, it was learned that the mission of the three ships was to find their companions who had not returned within the agreed time.
Four days later, a total of twenty-four pirate warships were captured, but the pirate leader Kuki Jiro was not captured, and the second and third masters equivalent to the Nine Ghost Pirate Gang were captured.
The second master is the brother of the nine ghosts Jiro, the name is nine ghosts Shiro, he was captured because he was seriously injured by scattered bullets and lost his resistance, this kid is more tough, and he has been scolding.
In order to deter the captives, the nine ghost Shiro was shown to the public by the head of the owl, and when he saw the bloody head of the second master, the third master Kumamoto Daizo, who was still holding his neck, immediately became well-behaved, and he frowned and answered all questions.
With a few hundred captives, it was as easy as finding out what the Nine Ghosts had privately owned, and after comparing the confessions of many people, they killed seven or eight pirates who tried to deceive the "Red Banner Army" in public, and the rest were honest, and no one dared to lie anymore.
In the absence of a chance to collude confessions, there will be no loopholes only by telling the truth, and lies cannot withstand the confirmation of many people, and when the psychological defense line of the pirates collapsed, the "Red Banner Army" suppression officer also summarized the information obtained.
When the general attack was about to be launched, Huang Han held a combat meeting again, and all the generals had already known the situation of the Nine Ghosts' private harbor and the old lair, and no one thought that there was any difficulty in this battle, and the next thing to discuss was how to minimize casualties.
Shi Daxuan and Lin Minghai felt that the practice of the "Red Banner Army" generals was really fresh, and everyone did not put the siege of the city in the first place, but everyone strived to achieve zero casualties, and they were proud of not losing the soldiers under their command.
Because the plan was relatively well formulated, and because the "Red Banner Army" also did its best, the three forts in the Nine Ghosts' Private Harbor confronted the 22 warships outside the firing range for two hours, and there were dense gunfights and shouts of killing on the island.
It was five warships escorting eight merchant ships, and a hundred lifeboats were gathered to the south of the island, and because the sky was clear and breezy on the day of the attack, the lifeboats that could carry one or twenty people landed through the shoals and reefs without any danger.
Liu Sihai, Yang Jiahe, Shi Daxuan, An Xiaole and other generals were discovered by pirates when they were gathering on the south side of the island five miles from the fort.
The Minnie gun was not covered, and the gunners who landed were enough to have a hundred, and dozens of pirates who tried to react in vain could afford to shoot accurately, and were beaten so that they didn't even have time to escape.
Seeing that the pirates had no rules at all, and because the roads on the island were narrow and the hills were undulating, thousands of people could not launch an attack formation, so Liu Sihai simply did not form a formation.
He directly asked the commander-in-chief to form small battle groups to cover the advance alternately, with the sword and shield men rushing forward to kill, the self-generated gunners following up, and the Minnie gunners occupying the commanding heights and shooting accurately.
This method of warfare has crossed the era, where can the pirates be opponents, and it only took half an hour for the "Red Banner Army" to break through all the way to the lair of two or three thousand slaves.
There is no castle here, and it is somewhat like a small town of the Japanese kingdom.
There was no accident when passing through this pirate town to attack the forts, under the precise blows of more than 100 Mini guns, and under the attack of hundreds of volleys of guns, the sword and shield men, armed to the teeth, only paid the price of more than 20 wounded to capture three batteries.
Later, under the leadership of the liberated Han slaves, the "Red Banner Army" searched the whole island, and the stubborn resistance of the nine kikis Jiro was killed, and more than 100 would-be ronins were beaten into a sieve.
The pirates' nest, which had been in operation for three generations, was really extraordinary, and the "Red Banner Army" collected precious metals worth no less than 500,000 taels of silver, and the pirates' grain stocks were 20,000 stones, and there were basically no miscellaneous grains, all of which were mainly rice, white flour, rice, and wheat.
There are a lot of pigs and sheep on the island, and hundreds of acres of reclaimed fields are all planted with vegetables and fruits, which shows that the pirates' lives are relatively nourishing.
The pirates on this island, including slaves and pirates, numbered nearly six thousand, and the food stock was enough for them to hold the island for a year or two.
After taking stock, a total of 33 warships of the nine ghosts were captured, including 15 armed merchant ships that had just been robbed by pirates and had not yet been taken off or had simply been hacked by the "Red Banner Army" on the way back.
The remaining dozens of small boats and fishing boats that could not sail far away could not be taken away at all.