For the first time, Mao Jue, who can be called Grande, confessed, he always picked money from others, the first time he let people pick it out, and argued with Li Shanhai for a day, Tie Yi finally sent 50,000 taels of silver, thousands of stones of grain, and about 30,000 weapons.

It just happened that several towns in Jeju were officially included in the command, Shen Shikui, Li Jiucheng's bird guns, single knives, long contradictory cards or something, and gave Li Shanhai this payment, who knew that Li Shanhai was not fooled, I really don't know how to learn this stick to be shrewd, Mao Jue's bayonet flintlock pistol he insisted on 5,000 sets, forcing Mao Jue to have no choice, gritted his teeth, stomped his feet, pulled out 5,000 sets from the reserve materials, and sent them over.

No way, the conditions proposed by this goods are too tempting, firstly, this war was initiated by Mao Jue, and secondly, if Mao Jue gives equipment, he Li Shanhai can call the shots, the land outside the Great Wall of Goryeo, after he Mao Jue reclaimed the famine, the Li Dynasty government gave official recognition and issued a land deed, where is the Great Wall of Goryeo? Yizhou in the south and mountains in the north, just separated most of Hamgyong Province from the Li Dynasty, and now what Mao Jue lacks is development space, which is tantamount to acquiescing in his annexation of Hamgyong Province.

Although in Mao Jue's opinion, it was a waste to issue weapons to these farmers, fishermen and ruffians, but he had to grit his teeth for this promise.

It is really information is very money, because of the lack of information in the court of the Li Dynasty, Mao Jue did not know that even if he did not come out of this blood, the court still allowed him to reclaim outside the Great Wall of Goryeo, fortunately, his arms and food were regarded as helping Li Shanhai complete the recruitment, and on November 20, more than 260 turtle-like Li Chaobanwu boats also embarked on the journey.

This time it was really a big game, the Ming army plus the Jeju Department reached a total of 15,000 men and horses, the cavalry this time has a special horse boat, enough to bring 3,000 horses, can be equipped with 2,000 cavalry, and more than 8,000 sailors, this scale, is not far from the Spanish Invincible Armada, and the land combat capability has surpassed the Spanish Invincible Armada.

This is not counting the 30,000 people of the Li Dynasty, and now it is an army of 50,000 with more than 300 warships and thousands of cannons, rushing towards the unconscious Wa Kingdom to kill it again.

It is ironic that this time it was in the name of crusading against the Japanese invaders, but the 20,000 Japanese invaders disappeared after less than three days on the coast, and the mighty fleet went straight to the Japanese mainland.

Tsushima Island is still in his own hands, and the Japanese merchant ships encountered on the first line are directly seized, and it can be said that everything is going according to Mao Jue's plan.

The only thing that was a little beyond Mao Jue's expectations was Li Shanhai.

"What's going on here, it's noon?"

Don't look at Mao Jue is the commander of the 50,000 army, there are really not many places where he commands, each boat has a captain and deputy boatswain to manage, don't look at the auxiliary corps is a temporary sign, there are training indicators in every month, and there are also their own officers, temporarily choose a highly respected one, and lead thousands of households in various villages, and also become an army, this kind of army is not even weaker than those colleagues in Liaodong, after all, everyone has about the same amount of training.

Every morning, he would look at the logbook, coordinate the route, and see if there were any internal contradictions, and Mao Jue could even take a leisurely nap at noon, but he had just laid down that day, and a crackling sound like popping beans shook him.

Yawning, Mao Jue staggered out of the back cabin and glanced outside, but he almost didn't fall off the boat.

"What's wrong with this? Still fighting? Is it a hostile attack? ”

No wonder Mao Jue was full of consternation, the Dongjiang Fleet and the Li Dynasty Fleet were advancing in parallel, after all, the small short legs of the Banwu boat, if they didn't wait for them, they might not know where they were left behind, and it was precisely because of waiting for them that the original three-day sea journey was dragged to seven days.

Who knew that on the third day, the fleet of the Li Dynasty seemed to have exploded, and a stream of green smoke rose all over the sky, and the fire could be seen spitting out continuously.

"What the hell is going on? Come on, get ready to respond! What about Shen Rong! ”

"General! General! The end is here! ”

Others are not as idle as Mao Jue, and it is not a reason to go on the expedition, as long as there is no typhoon, even if there are waves, you have to train me in a military posture.

Seeing that Mao Jue came out in a hurry, Shen Rong, this kid, immediately came running upside down, not saying that he didn't have the demeanor of an officer with 2,400 people in charge of the superintendent and the regiment, so he nodded and saluted Mao Jue.

"What's going on? There was a fight on the side! What about Li Ye? Ordered the fleet to change formation, and responded! ”

"General, what's the fight?"

With a confused face, Shen Rong looked in the direction that Mao Jue pointed to, but at a glance, he suddenly slapped his thigh.

"General, you forgot this morning's regular meeting, Li Chaobing sentenced Master Li to greet you, and he is going to train today!"

"Isn't this a cannon fire, a shot, and a training exercise?"

Shen Rong looked like he was taken for granted, but the corners of Mao Jue's mouth couldn't help twitching.

Live-fire training is indeed too common, and the Dongjiang Iron Volunteers have to train for at least ten days of live-fire training every month, the question is where is the score? In the Dongjiang River, the gunpowder equipped by the imperial court, the sulfur saltpeter dug by Mao Jue himself, the charcoal burned, and the amount of gunpowder needed can be used until next year, but on the sea, where can it be replenished? War is coming soon! When I arrived in the Japanese country, I lost the gunpowder, and I still beat a yarn?

Even if it is Mao Jue, the training program on the ship is just physical fitness.

The old face was dark, and he glanced gloomily at the smoky Li Dynasty fleet, and Mao Jue slammed a fist on the railing of the ship with a wild slap from the corner of his mouth.

"Tell logistics, Li Shanhai came to borrow gunpowder, ignore him, and don't lend him a gram!"

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In the next few days, Li Shanhai still played like the non-mainstream, it seemed that he also came prepared, the ship was full of powder kegs, in addition to exploding a boat, causing additional losses, he was like a loser every day The marching live-ammunition training was not broken, and with this training, Li Chaojun's deaths were also carried out day by day.

Not everyone can adapt to life at sea, just like in the West, the army often forbids alcohol, but the navy, especially the British Royal Navy, beer is always available, and later because the beer is too easy to spoil, it is replaced by high-grade rum distilled from molasses, a by-product of sugarcane sugar, the reason is that the sea fresh water is too easy to spoil.

On the one hand, drink with wine ginseng and water, sterilize with alcohol, on the other hand, it is also to alleviate the taste, originally the Dongjiang River did not have this tradition, coastal fishing in the morning and came back in the evening, but in the past two years, not to mention the warship, the fishing boat often has to run for ten days and a half a month, go to the open sea to fish, fortunately, the Dongjiang River has its own abundant corn liquor, winter cold, summer fresh, Dongjiang sailors almost all let Mao Jue become a big wine bag.

To treat leukemia, Mao Jue also had two guarantees of tart oranges, water and vitamins, which made the Dongjiang Fleet lose negligible due to disease.

But the Li Dynasty fleet can't do it! This group of peasants took off their cloth clothes and changed into uniforms to become soldiers, and the Li Dynasty warship was still very simple, the lower deck of the board house ship was not much stronger than the Western criminal slave trade slave ship, and it was still high-intensity training during the day, Mao Juejun had food to keep up, and Li Shanhai's subordinates had it, starting from the third day, Li Chaojun died every day, and the corpses were thrown directly into the sea, sometimes hundreds of bodies could be thrown a day

The floating corpse attracted sharks, so that every day there were many triangular fins behind the fleet as if they were having a dinner, and even the sea fish caught in the sea, the officers and soldiers of the Dongjiang Army were resistant, and the morale of the belt began to be low, which made Mao Jue begin to regret it, why did he bring this three donkeys to force him? The capacity of the barrel really depends on the shortest board.

Fortunately, on the seventh day, the miscellaneous islands off the coast of Nagasaki finally came into the eyes of the expeditionary force, and Mao Jue was really worried that Li Chaojun would die later.

It was already evening when I arrived, and compared to the last attack, this time the Japanese had obviously put a lot of effort into Iki Island, opposite Nagasaki, and next to the sea, a castle tower stood tall, and the walls of the fortress like a sawtooth were also filled with cannons, and it seemed that the Chinese New Year was approaching, and even the Japanese soldiers who defended here were lax, until the Ming warships marched less than a thousand meters from the island, and the violent sound of the sails startled the defenders of the castle tower.

In the fierce banging sound, the entire castle tower lit up, and the torches below were also blazing, and the Japanese people also built forts on the tidal flats, and in Mao Jue's telescope, these people shouted frantically, stuffed the cannonballs into the copper cannons, and then lit a fire, and then, just like in the movie, hundreds of cannons roared one after another, and the cannonballs flew out with a whistling out, and a thick smoke shrouded the sky.

It's a pity that these Japanese people obviously didn't have a good relationship with the director, and all these speeding shells fell in the sea, and the nearest Dongjiang Fleet was also a few hundred meters away.

I have to admit that the Japanese imitated the Portuguese arquebus, and the iron cannon made was still good, and the power was higher than that of the Ming bird, but in terms of cannons, the Japanese were really average, looking at the later South Korea's "Ming Liang Naval Battle", there were Japanese people carrying a bazooka like something, and the boom smashed on Li Sunsin's ship, but the protected by the protagonist's halo did not have that thing is the Japanese cannon, the big tube, although later it also imitated some more powerful metal cannons, but it is really not comparable to the Ming Dynasty.

Before the Hongyi cannon, the general cannon of the Ming Dynasty, loaded with full gunpowder, could hit two miles, and the best artillery of the Japanese people was at this level, or how could the 300,000 Japanese army be defeated and retreated by the 100,000 Ming and Li Dynasty coalition forces on the Korean battlefield with artillery and cavalry.

And what is the range of the Hongyi cannon? The farthest can be done seven or eight miles away, and some literati write that as soon as this cannon comes out, the thieves will be defeated for a hundred miles, and they are about to catch up with the magic weapon of a devil sniper with one shot eight hundred miles away.

There is an old saying in Huaxia, come and don't be rude! Since you have fired, Lao Tzu can be polite, you can't even smell the smoke of gunpowder so far away, Mao Jue is a wave of the presumptuous waves, changing the formation!

Although it is a bit unpleasant, this battle is really a bit like the Opium War, when the British army fought the Qing army, and the dense Dongjiang fleet formed a circle formation in the drinking order, and the tires began to shoot inward from the open sea opposite the Iki Island castle tower, and all the heavy guns fired were the largest calibers on the lower deck, and the same thunder of the sky and earth cracking was also unfolded at sea, but the difference between the two types of shelling effects was immediately apparent.

The big iron ball smashed on the masonry rammed earth wall with a muffled bang, and it was a huge crack that began to be smashed in a few clicks, as well as the howitzer shotgun that fell on the tidal flat battery, and countless small projectiles were smashed indiscriminately, and the empty and unobstructed battery smashed was a mess of dead and wounded in the season.

The samurai of the Japanese army, who was still holding a sword at the sea one second, lay on the cannon the next second, and blood gurgled down the barrel.

Moreover, today's Japanese army obviously does not have enough technical knowledge of artillery warfare, and they have made the same mistakes as the Qing army back then, the battery was half-crippled, braving overwhelming artillery fire, but they have been adding flesh and blood to it.

I have to admire, the bushido spirit of these little devils is enough to die, one group died, and the other group rushed to the fort with a roar, and the ten giant sail battleships that were the main force all turned four or five times, and saw that the forts on the shore were all red, and there were Japanese samurai going up.

There was a loud bang, and the gorgeously decorated palace on the top floor of the castle tower suddenly fell down with several tons of tiles, crackling and smashing on the city wall like the steps below, and buried a lot of the hidden cannon muzzles wrapped in the fortress, and the lower forts, although there was still a roar like the Japanese killing pigs, but there was obviously not much artillery fire that could be used, and the war went on for almost half an hour, and Mao Jue and others were also a little impatient, and finally turned their heads.

Around him, Shen Shikui, Geng Zhongming, Liu Chong, Shen Rong and other generals had already assembled, especially Liu Chong, who had been with this island last time, and before Mao Jue gave the order, he was already extremely excited to kneel on one knee.

"General, let our department go first!"

"Lao Liu, you've beaten Yiqi once! What's the fun? This time it's time for my fifth regiment!"

Other generals try to avoid war, but Mao Jue's command is not like this, first of all, the preservation of strength is not used, the soldiers are the general's personal soldiers, the loss of the first time there will be a large number of soldiers to replenish the source, and for the dead soldiers, the pension is also in place, when the general has a clear conscience, those who survive are the rolling dividends proportional to the risk, and they will never be in arrears! Those who are military generals can even mix with military merits, look at the huge sea! At the beginning, he was only a thousand generals, but now he is a guerrilla general, how can the generals not compete with each other?

To tell the truth, following Mao Jue, Shen Shikui, and Liu Xingzuo were really worried that Mao Jue would use their outer lines as cannon fodder, but seeing that Mao Jue's descendants were clamoring to take the lead, and several military town leaders in Jeju also moved.

Could it be that there is a vault or something in front of you?

Seeing this scene, just when Mao Jue was a little embarrassed, Shen Rong next to him shouted angrily again.

"Damn, these Li Dynasty people, what are you filling in?"

In a stunned, Mao Jue reflexively returned to the bridge and looked over, but it was during his hesitation that Li Shanhai launched an attack!

The convenience of the board house boat in the offshore sea is shown, shaking the oars, the rectangular boat and the turtle like a turtle rushing fast, not a lot of effort, the short sprint has actually made an appointment with the Dongjiang fleet, the beach landing several miles of sea full of Tengteng, this will not have to fight, even if you want to attack, the Dongjiang River has no place, just standing on the bridge, Mao Jue still stared at the circle of eyes incredibly.

This is too inconsistent with Li Shanhai's character! The last time he conquered the Japanese, his 1,000 or so people were as precious as eyes, he could dodge and dodge, he could be called a messenger of peace, how could he rush to be cannon fodder now? Mao Jue is not obliged to give his subordinates a pension!

"Old fellow, did you take the wrong medicine?"

In astonishment, the Li Dynasty troops had landed, and looking at the fire bolts lit up in the night on the shore, Mao Jue muttered incredulously.

(End of chapter)