Chapter 572: The Beginning of the Pile of Heads

Huazhou's system is that people are in position, and his subordinates must unconditionally carry out their orders, and if they do not obey, no matter whether what their superiors do is a success or failure, they will be investigated afterwards, and the subordinates will definitely receive military law.

If you don't go to Ryukyu and return to Yizhou, as long as Lin Mengchu reports this matter, it will be the consequence of losing his head, if he goes to Ryukyu, the ship will add up to less than 400 sailors and gunners, such a disparity in comparison, I feel that I am indeed not too sure, and it is also sent to death, but it is better to die in battle than to be subject to military law, so that the family can also have a very good treatment, speaking of which, on this ship Lin Mengchu was stern, but after all, there is only one person, as long as the sailors are in chaos, When the time comes, it is not impossible to conceal a reason.

But Huazhou's military law is strict, everyone doesn't have such thoughts in their hearts, and Lin Mengchu doesn't make much noise on weekdays, everyone thinks that he is a relatively gentle young man, but the sudden burst of this kind of determination and killing temperament completely deterred these people.

Lin Mengchu saw that the helmsman began to adjust the course, and the second officer began to loudly arrange for the sailors to check the sail gun position, and he couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief in his heart, fortunately, the sea was wet, and he couldn't see anything, his back was indeed soaked with cold sweat, and he couldn't help but be afraid when he thought about it.

At present, the rank of the army has been initially established, and there are strict assessments for promotion step by step, and there are strict requirements for the battles participated, the meritorious services achieved, and the number of years of service, in other words, it is becoming more and more difficult for the people below to be promoted to high positions, unless there are any outstanding meritorious achievements.

To be able to do the position of first mate at such a young age, Lin Mengchu's younger generation in the Lin family is also a young talent, his goal is naturally to be a town guard in Malacca, hoping to become a general who can lead a party like that one day, but such a tepid navy as a first mate, in a few years, he may become a captain according to the normal procedure, and if he is lucky, he may be the commander of a small fleet stationed in a certain place.

However, at present, whether it is the army or the navy, the people sitting in the officer positions in Huazhou are all young and strong people in their thirties and forties, and it is difficult to expect these people to vacate their positions.

Lin Mengchu's ambition is definitely not tolerable to live such a life, and he has been working hard, but Huazhou is completely different from the kind of system he saw in Daming when he was a child, the whole huge force is like a sophisticated machine running, and there are not many opportunities for personal performance.

This time, the king of the Ryukyus colluded with the Japanese to make a rebellion, to be precise, this is not a turmoil, strictly speaking, this is what happened in the territory of the Ryukyu Kingdom, but this world is not reasonable, it is about the size of a fist.

Of course, the sooner the situation in the Ryukyus can be quelled, the better, although there are nearly 2,000 armed men gathered by the Japanese and the local Ryukyus, and there are only more than 300 people here, and the other party may not be in the range of artillery, but Lin Mengchu is still very confident.

Unlike these people on the ship who have been on the water, Lin Mengchu has a strong confidence in the infantry phalanx in Huazhou, especially in his cabin arsenal, there are about a hundred firearms, hundreds of people on the ship, and they also have a certain amount of experience.

As long as he arrived at the port of Ryukyu at a critical moment, he would have done a great job.

At this time, there was a strange scene in the port of the Ryukyus, Japan's own merchant ships all sailed out, these people were not afraid of the Japanese pirates, they just drove out silently, and some ships were the pirates and maritime merchants of the Ming Dynasty, and their own robbers and bandits were not clear, and they had force to protect themselves, but they did not continue to stay in the port, but drove the ship out.

Inside the port

For the vast majority of Spanish merchant ships, they did not have a very clear idea of Huazhou's maritime superiority in Asia, because Huazhou's behavior in Luzon was extremely deceptive, and outsiders could not see anything at all.

And recently, there is news that the Spanish expeditionary force has occupied the city of Zhangzhou, which shows that the invincible Spanish army has achieved great success in the barbaric East, which also makes these Spanish merchant ships more proud, and the waist board is also much harder.

Seeing the surrounding merchant ships sailing out of the port one after another, I thought that these cowardly Orientals were afraid of the Japanese pirates, and they were naturally not afraid of the strong ships and guns, and they were also ready to buy the materials looted by the Japanese pirates on the shore at a low price.

These arrogant Spanish merchants knew why those people sailed out of the port after seeing the medium-sized warships in Huazhou, but the ship itself gave them a deep shock, although this level of warship is not the largest in the current Spanish Armada, but it is enough to be qualified as a capital ship.

What's even more terrifying is that the dozens of small windows on the hull below the side of the ship, the artillery of this era, especially the gunboats in the East, the guns are all placed on the deck, when Huazhou was still stationed in the Ryukyus, the gun doors on the ship were never opened, because the sailors on the ship were enough to deter, so the people of the Ryukyus did not know what was under the window.

Lin Mengchu, who had been standing on the bow of the ship nervously looking at the Ryukyus, suddenly laughed loudly, and the people around him who were nervously preparing were secretly scolding in their hearts, and they also thought to themselves, this Lin Mengchu is still younger, and in this tense and adventurous situation, it is easy to lose normalcy.

However, a few people looked in the direction that Lin Mengchu was looking at, and after being stunned for a while, they also laughed aloud, it turned out that those Spanish ships saw the battleship of Huazhou approaching, and they knew that it was powerful, and they also sailed out of the port, for fear of being killed by the fish in the pond.

They didn't have to leave the port, but many of the Japanese and Ryukyu warriors lowered their boats into the water, and many of them rowed over at a high speed shouting trumpets. It seems that he wanted to take advantage of the concealment of the Spanish merchant ship to get close to this battleship, but Lin Mengchu and his subordinates couldn't help laughing.

The pirates just wanted to jump into the gang to fight, to put it bluntly, they approached the ship and climbed onto the ship with knives and guns, and slashed and killed when they got closer.

But they thought too easily, the Huazhou army never cared who was in front of them, as long as it was someone who stood in the way, they all blasted all the way. Seeing such a stupid act of the Japanese Kou, everyone on the ship who was determined to die was greatly relaxed and calmly took their places.

When those Spanish ships saw the battleship on the opposite side, they slowly approached and began to change the direction of the hull, turned sideways, and immediately understood what the other party was going to do, they were all shocked, some shouted on the bow of the ship that I was a merchant from the Kingdom of Spain, Lin Mengchu They didn't understand at all, and some people jumped directly into the water, but the Japanese who were sticking to the Spanish merchant ship didn't know what was happening.

Suddenly, I saw that the cannon doors on the hull of the other party suddenly opened, and the muzzles of more than thirty swarthy guns were exposed, and the whole sea seemed to shake, and then the whistling sound covered everything, and the Spanish ships were already extremely strong castles in the eyes of these Japanese pirates.

But I didn't expect that the guns of the other party's battleships were not worth mentioning, as if they were paper paste, revealing holes, more than 30 shells in such a large range, and there was no accuracy, but there were always encounters, a few small boats were directly swept by the cannonballs, and the samurai and Japanese robbers wearing cloth clothes or exposed bodies on the ship were directly flesh and blood, smashed on the side of the boat or the boat, and the ship was directly overturned and sunk, and the people on it were all affected.

The small boat had this advantage, and it turned around very quickly, except for the few that were sunk, the rest turned in a panic and rowed hurriedly towards the port.

However, the second round of shelling still covered them in range, after the last fight, this time it was calibrated, and the casualties of the Japanese who went into the water were even more severe, but it was a fart to go ashore, this kind of called medium-sized, in fact, it was not so convenient for a large warship to turn around, but it gave the Japanese time to go ashore.

After the second round of shelling, the damage of those Spanish merchant ships was even more serious, many of them lost the ability to sail, Lin Mengchu's ships swaggered past the middle of these ships, and the Spanish sailors on both sides of the ship were full of resentment to watch, but did not dare to scold or do anything else.

Because when this ship encountered the first Spanish ship, the sailors on that ship were almost mad because of the damage on board, and shouted at the Huazhou battleship on the ship, and answered him with a dozen roaring firearms, and then everyone was silent and shut up.

Most of the ships had just sailed towards the outside of the harbor, and although it was crowded outside, it was much more spacious when it came into the vicinity of the pier, but the sails and rudders needed to be handled more carefully, and the sailors on the ship slowly put the pedals on the dock.

The docks were empty, and many fanatical people could be seen cheering and cheering in the distance, but now they were running far away, to places where they thought the ship's guns could not hit.

Half of the gunners and all the sailors put on simple armor, loaded the ship with ammunition, and prepared everything to stop, before slowly walking off the battleship under the leadership of Lin Mengchu.

Slowly taking a breath of humid air, Lin Mengchu whispered to himself:

"These heads are the starting point of my fame......"