Chapter 594: Attack
There were nearly 2,000 people in the Qiyun business, of which more than 700 were boatmen on the original ship, and although these people were now working for Zhoushan, they were not from Zhoushan. Naturally, such a thing as a war cannot be counted on.
However, there are still 800 soldiers and more than 300 students of the Sailor Academy. Although the skills of these people on the ship are far inferior to those of the crew, they have also gone through such a long training that life and work on the ship are not much different from peace.
Now is the time to put them to the test. Chen Yue ordered 500 soldiers and 300 cadets to form a team of 800 men to attack the two Dutch ships at dawn.
In the past two days, Sima Nan began to investigate the Dutch ship, and obtained some information from the number of Dutch who had landed and the Japanese who had gone to the ship to deliver water and food.
According to the intelligence of the investigation, there were about 200 crew members on the Dutch ship, including more than 60 Dutch, and the rest were Nanyang Javanese black slaves and some Ming people who took refuge in the Netherlands.
It is not surprising that there are Ming people on the Dutch ship, Zheng Zhilong used to work as an interpreter on the Dutch ship when he first entered the sea, and there were tens of thousands of Ming people begging for a living on Dongfan Island, and many people worked for the Dutch. Although the Dutch East India Company occupied a large amount of territory in Dongfan, Java, Batavia, and Malacca, the total number of people in East Asia was only five or six thousand, of which less than 1,000 were in Dongfan, and the shortage of numbers made them have to use the natives of the occupied land to do things for them.
However, not all of these 200 people were on board, most of them disembarked from the ship, and on the Nagasaki Peninsula, there is a special Dutch pavilion. According to investigation, there are only about a dozen Dutch on the ship at present, with a group of Javanese and Ming people guarding the ship.
In order to defeat these two armed sailing ships, Chen Yue dispatched 800 troops, which was four or five times the total number of Dutch. In order not to make a big move known, Chen Yue ordered all 800 people to stay on more than 20 three-masted sailing ships that night.
The night at Nagasaki Port is very quiet, with a slight sea breeze blowing and the ships swaying slightly with the waves.
For seafarers who live at sea all year round, the turbulent ship is far more peaceful than sleeping on the shore. Although these 800 people are not the old crew members who have been at sea all year round, they are already familiar with life at sea, and they have no problem sleeping peacefully on the cramped bed boards in the cabin.
But tonight, there are many people who can't sleep. Fighting in the war was nothing to these soldiers, and those who followed Chen Yue were all elite soldiers of the Yuan Pingnan Army. But for these students who have just joined Zhoushan, this is a cruel thing. Although some combat skills are also trained during the usual training, most of them are fighting for the first time, and the object of the battle is the legendary fierce Dutch red-haired ghost.
When the first morning light appeared in the sea and sky, Wu Ping was already fully armed and got up early. It is said to be fully armed, but in fact it is not armored, after all, it is very inconvenient to climb up and down in bulky armor to have a broadside battle. In fact, most of the sailors on the ship did not wear armor, most of them were dressed in short clothes, and all of them were barefoot and did not wear shoes. Because it's better to stand barefoot on a boat than to stand on shoes!
Under the leadership of officers at all levels, all the soldiers and cadets who went out to fight on all the ships had already gotten up and silently ate the rice balls that had been prepared long ago, and when the sky was slightly bright, Wu Ping gave an order, and everyone got off the big ship and got on the small boat tied next to the three-masted sea ship. The surprise attack on a Dutch ship with a three-masted ship was too much of a movement and required pulling the anchor before it could set sail, but a small boat rowed by man was different, and its flexibility was far greater than that of a large sea ship.
A full thirty boats, all purchased by Guo Linfeng from the Nagasaki Domain, carrying 800 cadet soldiers, rowed towards the Dutch ship two miles away by the slightest glimmer of the morning light. The oars made a slight sound on the sea, but the sound of the waves was silenced, and twenty small boats, like twenty big fish, surrounded the two Dutch armed galleons from all sides.
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It was the early hours of the morning, when people slept soundly. After sailing in the sea for nearly a month, and finally arriving at the warm harbor, how can the crew not relax themselves? Even the Qiyun only strictly restrained the soldiers and cadets, and was very indulgent to the old crew. The same was true of the two Dutch ships, and when they arrived in Nagasaki, the Dutch herded sheep in addition to their trading activities. Most of the Dutch went ashore to eat, drink, and be merry, leaving only a dozen or so accomplices, who were usually unwelcome, guarded by a gang of Javanese slaves and Ming people.
This is a Japanese port, and no one would expect to be attacked here, so even the crew members who stayed behind were unwary, wandering ashore in groups during the day and staying on the ship at night.
By the time the thirty boats approached the Dutch galleon, it was already dark, and they could see the Dutch sailing ship clearly. According to the pre-arranged plan, the thirty boats were divided into two groups and reached the bottom of the Dutch ship. Compared with the tall and large ships of the sea, the small boats resemble the low bungalows below, standing on the small boats and looking up from their backs, the side decks of the Dutch ships are at least two feet high from the boats, almost like city walls.
Fortunately, the soldiers and cadets had been prepared, and each boat had two flying claws, one end was an iron hook made of steel, and there were three iron hooks made together pointing in different directions, and the tail of the iron hook was tied to a rope several zhang long. Naval combat cannot avoid the broadside, and the flying claw is an essential tool on the ship of the Ming army.
With the command of Wu Ping, dozens of flying claws were thrown at the deck of the Dutch ship.
The claws crossed the side of the ship and landed on the top deck, making a series of crisp sounds. A dazed Javanese native was standing at the stern of the boat urinating, and when he heard the sound, he turned around and vaguely saw that there were many more things on the deck, and then he saw that the hooks were pulled by the rope and stuck on the side of the ship.
Before the Javanese native could understand, he put on his pants and walked to the side of the boat to look down, and saw dozens of people attached to the boat pulling ropes and climbing up quickly, and his eyes widened suddenly.
“@#¥%…… & A string of ghost screams came out of his mouth, probably saying that there was an enemy sneak attack or something, and the Ming soldiers and cadets who were climbing certainly couldn't understand Javanese. A soldier stopped climbing and reached out to remove the wound crossbow from behind his waist, and raised his hand to an arrow, and the Javanese natives screamed and fell into the sea with a "poof".
However, his ghostly screams had broken the silence on the ship, and many of the crew had already woken up from their sleep, and ran out of the cabin in a panic, only to see that there were suddenly countless enemies on the deck with sharp weapons!