Volume 3 Chapter 75 Extermination of the Pirates
The lair of the pirate Li Kuiqi is also a harbor, but this harbor is a bit strange, as if the earth suddenly cracked a long strip, and then drifted a few miles into the sea, and then stopped.
To put it simply, Li Kuiqi's lair is a north-south crack, the widest place is only about three miles, but the length is more than ten miles, Li Kuiqi's cottage is in the middle of the crack, that is, about seven or eight miles away from the harbor, so it can't be seen from the outside at all.
On this day, Li Kuiqi was still asleep on the bed, when a sharp bamboo flute suddenly sounded outside, and then a strong guard rushed in and shouted: "General, general, it's not good, the imperial army is here." ”
It is difficult for Li Kuiqi to wake up when he is asleep, and everyone in this cottage knows it, so if Li Kuiqi is sleeping in an emergency, the guards will generally rush in and yell him up loudly.
The guard roared, Li Kuiqi seemed to hear it, he was about to open his eyes in a daze, but suddenly there was a piercing scream in his ears, and then the quilt covering his body was swept away.
It turned out that his new concubine was also woken up by yelling, and when she found that her buttocks were exposed, she was all seen by the guard, and immediately screamed and wrapped her body tightly with the quilt.
This concubine was taken by Li Kuiqi, although she has a little bit of beauty, but she has always resisted Li Kuiqi's affection, so Li Kuiqi loves and hates her, and she has been a concubine for a month, and she has to be strong every time, which makes him very unhappy.
At this time, Li Kuiqi was completely awakened by a scream in her ear, but he was also scared out of sweat by her.
"Stinky woman, call the soul!" , Li Kuiqi kicked the little concubine under the bed, sat up while plucking out her ears and said, "What's the matter, you're yelling?" ”
The guard hurriedly bowed his hand and said, "General, the imperial army is here, and it is estimated that it is almost at the end of the mouth at this time." ”
When Li Kuiqi heard this, he bounced up from the bed with a whoosh, picked up his clothes and armor and wrapped them around his body, then picked up the machete on the wooden frame and ran out, shouting as he ran: "Hurry up and let them get on the boat." ”
He ran to the port and took a look, and at this time the dock was in chaos, I don't know how many warships are crowding in, I don't know how many warships are crowding out, and the wharf is even more crowded with people, all looking for their own warships in a mess.
Li Kuiqi ran up and shouted: "If you are looking for anything, you can get on the boat nearby, and the full boat will leave immediately." ”
With his roar, there was finally some order on the dock, and many people found a nearby warship of the same type as their original one, and ran up quickly, and the boat full of people quickly left the dock, but more than 150 warships, more than 10,000 people, it is impossible to board the ship for a while, fortunately, they set up a secret sentry outside, otherwise, I am afraid that the Ming army has rushed to the dock and they have not finished boarding the ship.
At this time, the Ming army had already arrived at the entrance of the harbor, and hundreds of warships were rapidly arrayed.
The formation listed by the Ming army is very strange, the front fifty Daifuku ships are lined up, more than a mile wide, and the various large and small warships in the back are lined up in five columns to follow closely, and then there are more than 60 warships of various types lined up in a loose large circle formation, and the whole looks strange.
This is Zhang Bin ordered Yu Chenglong to line up like this, because last month, fifty thousand catties of Franc machines were produced, this thousand-pound Franc machine is amazing, the range is four or five miles away, and the cannonball is as big as a watermelon of more than ten pounds!
The Daming Naval Division has not been equipped with such a giant cannon for decades, and Zhang Bin wants to try the effect of the giant cannon here at Li Kuiqi, so he equips all fifty ships on the Fu ship of the five detachments under Yu Chenglong, and let them line up to give the pirate Li Kuiqi a wave of ultra-long-range attacks.
And he took Zhang Guan's detachment to press the formation for Yu Chenglong in the back, and at the same time transported more than 2,000 people under Qi Changshan and Qi Changlin to land near Li Kuiqi's cottage.
As for the pirate Liu Xiang, since there were only about a hundred warships detected, Zhang Bin simply asked Zheng Zhilong to take his five detachments to encircle and suppress.
It didn't take long for the five detachments in front of them to line up and slowly move forward, the widest part of this harbor was only about three miles, and it was quite scary for fifty ships to line up in a line more than one mile wide, and it felt like a mountain and a sea pressing forward.
At this time, Li Kuiqi had already boarded the handsome ship, he saw the formation of the Ming army from a distance through the binoculars, and couldn't help sneering, and then ordered: "All the ignition ships go forward, once the Ming fleet is close to about a mile, immediately rush up and light the fire, they have something wrong with it, put all the big ships in front." ”
Unexpectedly, when the large row of ships of the Ming army was still four or five miles away from the port, it suddenly stopped, and then there was a loud "boom, boom, boom".
The Ming army actually opened fire, and there were still four or five miles away!
Is he really sick, the range of the main guns of the Dutch battleship is only so far, and the main guns of the Ming warship are still far behind.
Li Kuiqi was about to taunt a few words, but suddenly there were a few loud "clicks" in his ears, he put down the binoculars and saw that several warships had been hit, and the mouth was as thick as a bucket, and they were all smashed through, and all the warships that were shot were sinking.
, the Ming army actually had a huge cannon with such a long range, Li Kuiqi hurriedly shouted: "Quick, order all the warships to rush up and fight with them." ”
Just kidding, if people stop there and keep bombing, I'm afraid that half of the warship on my side will be sunk after ten rounds, and that's a fart.
As soon as he finished his order, there was another loud bang from the Ming warships on the opposite side, and there were more warships that were shot this time, and there were more than a dozen warships flying sawdust and sinking downward, and a cannonball also fell near his handsome ship, and the water column that rushed to the sky poured him cold.
Obviously, the first round was just a test launch by the Ming army, and this second round was probably adjusted before it was shot.
But, no, this reloading speed can't be so fast, could it be that one Ming warship is equipped with two such main guns?
Li Kuiqi didn't understand what was going on, and there was another loud bang on the Ming warship opposite the "boom", "click", "click" This time, there were more warships that were shot, and there were more than 20 warships with sawdust flying and sinking downward!
, hell, how many huge cannons are equipped on the Ming warships, Li Kuiqi didn't dare to think about it anymore, and shouted directly: "Quick, order all the warships to move forward at full speed, and rush up to Lao Tzu." ”
At the beginning, all the pirates, including Li Kuiqi, thought that the Ming army needed at least one tea time to reload ammunition, and at that time, they had already moved closer to within four miles, and this giant cannon was equivalent to being scrapped, but they never thought that the Ming army's giant cannon did not seem to need to be loaded with ammunition, and it was bombarded one after another.
It's okay to go on like this!
All the pirates used all their might, sailing and paddling frantically towards the Ming warship.
"Boom, boom, boom" was another loud bang, and "click", "click", "click" and more than 20 warships flew sawdust and sank downward.
Half of the ships are gone!
Li Kuiqi yelled angrily: "Hurry up and rush Lao Tzu." ”
"Boom boom" was another loud bang, but this time, many warships rushed within four miles, so only a few warships were hit.
The terrible roar finally stopped, and after the five guns were released, the Ming army's giant cannon was silent.
Of course, they could continue to reload and continue to fire, but the pirate's ships were already close, and the cannon made no sense.
At this time, countless small warships suddenly poured out of the middle of the Dafu ships in the front row of the Ming army, and met the pirate ships that rushed up frantically.
When it was finally time to start fighting, Li Kuiqi gritted his teeth, raised his machete and shouted: "The archers shoot me, and the others dig out the guys, ready to take overboard, and hack these doggy officers and soldiers to death!" ”
However, when the warships of both sides were still more than 100 paces away, the Ming warships suddenly rang out with dense gunfire, "popping, popping", bullets raining down, and at least thousands of muskets were firing at the same time.
Li Kuiqi was almost desperate, how could the Ming army have so many new muskets!
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When the two sides were about to come together, "whoosh" A rain of arrows suddenly shot from the Ming warship, "Ahhhhhh
Li Kuiqi looked back in despair and looked at his cottage, the woman inside, I was afraid that I wouldn't have a chance to play.
This time, his mouth was almost crooked, it turned out that thousands of Ming troops had appeared under the cottage, and they were quickly climbing to the wall!
It's over, it's all over, Li Kuiqi directly threw the machete to the ground, and roared in pain: "Surrender, don't fight." ”
This is the horror of the weapon's lead, once the weapons of the two warring sides are a notch off, then, it is basically a one-sided slaughter.
Fifty thousand-pound cannons, plus a thousand new flintlock pistols, directly hit tens of thousands of pirates and couldn't find the north!
Looking at the white flags erected in the sparse pirate ships, Zhang Bin couldn't help but put down his binoculars and sighed: "Alas, it's a pity, at least seventy or eighty warships will be blown up and sunk at once." ”
There was silence around him.
He couldn't help but turn around and ask, "Second brother, what's wrong with you?" ”
Zhang Guan was looking at the pirate ship with the white flag in front of him in a daze, Zhang Bin turned around and asked, he came to his senses, and said in disbelief: "Surrendered so soon, it seems that there hasn't been a dock yet, right?" ”
In the naval battles of later generations, who still played the broadside, once the gunpowder weapon developed to a certain extent, there was no need for the broadside to distinguish the winner from the loser.
Zhang Bin nodded with a smile and said, "Yes, our firearms are much more powerful than theirs, and we can win without taking sides." By the way, quickly send someone to pass on my order, let them bring Li Kuiqi over, and we will go to dig his treasure house. ”
Li Kuiqi was originally a relatively brave pirate leader, but Zhang Bin really beat him up this time, and he didn't need to be tortured, so he honestly handed over his treasure.
This guy is terrible, there are almost two million taels of silver alone, and the other gold, silver and jewelry are more than Yang Liu, Yang Qi and Zhong Bin combined.
Next, according to the handling methods of Yang Liu, Yang Qi and Zhong Bin, recruit pirates and select sailors.
Fortunately, the previous bombardment only sank the warship, and the people did not kill much, most of the pirates who fell into the water swam to the shore and obediently became prisoners, and most of the other gunshot wounds and arrow wounds were not enough to be fatal, this time, Zhang Bin almost recruited another 10,000 sailors.
Now there is only the pirate Liu Xiang left, I don't know how Zheng Zhilong fought, they are not equipped with a giant cannon, so don't lose too much.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Bin was still on the dock watching his guards carrying gold and silver treasures, and Zheng Zhilong actually led a detachment to come over.
Is this guy so fierce?
According to the distance between the two pirate lairs, he just ran there and came over for a while, so wouldn't this guy have killed Liu Xiang in an instant!
Zheng Zhilong was naturally not so fierce, he quickly boarded the dock, walked up to Zhang Bin dejectedly, and said embarrassedly: "My lord, the pirate Liu Xiang led all the warships to run away, and the cottage was full of old and weak women and children, and we didn't catch anything." ”
Zhang Bin was stunned when he heard the words and ran away!
However, he was stunned for a moment, and figured it out in an instant, it was okay to run away, without the nearest nest, it would be inconvenient for Liu Xiang to come to the vicinity of Fujian to plunder, so that the pirates around Fujian would be wiped out.
He patted Zheng Zhilong on the shoulder, and said with relief: "If you run, just run, can you finish his lair without spending a single soldier." ”