Chapter 505: An Unbelievable Invasion

The corpses were piled up on the roadside, doused with oil and set on fire, and the 4,000-strong maritime soldiers disappeared in less than two hours.

Yang Shishi just ordered his subordinates to take a break and then immediately drove towards Zhangzhou, Fujian is mountainous, rich places are near the sea plains, several big cities, Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, are all relying on the port and sea water to eat, but after the Ming Dynasty banned the sea, Quanzhou, as the largest commercial port in the East, quickly declined, but the original status of Zhangzhou, which was not high, because of the smuggling of the nearby Haicheng County Moon Port, greatly rose.

Although those maritime merchants really pay attention to life are in Quanzhou to buy industries, but most of them are for convenience, put their houses in Zhangzhou, those sailors who run around the sea all day long, leaders at all levels, have money and go to Zhangzhou to indulge.

With so many people spending money on the market in Zhangzhou, Zhangzhou, which was originally completely seized by Quanzhou, has slowly prospered. However, most of the maritime merchants are doing illegal things, and in such a large city, some things still have to be taboo, under the transfer of intentional or unintentional.

Originally, a guard post five miles away from Zhangzhou City was also relocated to a place fifty miles away, anyway, the maritime merchants were not short of silver, and if they smashed it with money, what could not be done, in Zhangzhou City, the official armed forces were the officials in the yamen.

A group of waste people who have been raised with silver, that is, the appearance of forty or fifty people, the real strength is the private soldiers controlled by the maritime merchants themselves, who collect each other's silver every day, and the other party can fight so many more people than themselves, and the government naturally listens honestly to the words of the maritime merchants.

In Zhangzhou, the maritime merchants of Yuegang also said proudly that although Zhangzhou is the industry of the Son of Heaven, it is not the prefect of the county who is in charge, but we villains.

In peacetime, there is no need for any official soldiers in the city, the private armies of the maritime merchants are enough to stabilize everything, without their permission, even petty theft is strictly prohibited, and the market is also stable and peaceful, but private soldiers are private soldiers after all, and when these private soldiers are either transferred outside the city or sent to Changle Bay, this Zhangzhou City is an empty city.

Yang Shi and the officers around him were all there to give orders loudly, arranging for his soldiers to gather the mules, horses and livestock scattered everywhere in the battle just now, to increase the speed of the march, the most convenient way to relieve the animal power, weapons, gunpowder and supplies were loaded on horseback or carts. quickly embarked on the journey to the direction of Yuegang, and the corpses scattered everywhere were all burned.

There are also a large number of soldiers fleeing around, Yang Shishi is already too lazy to pay attention to them, these people will not affect the overall situation at all, let them go.

Without the restraint of those grassroots officers, these people are just headless flies, and they were also frightened by the killing just now, and they just wanted to run as far as possible, and they didn't have any thoughts of going back to report the news, but then again, the distance between Changle Bay and Yuegang was so long, Yang Shi's troops were advancing rapidly, and if they wanted to report the news in their heads, they had to consider whether they would be killed.

The merchants of Yuegang did not know that the four thousand private soldiers they sent out would disappear in two hours, and they were now arranged on the port side, for the defense of the Guangzhou ship, the water battle in these years, or the two ships approaching each other, jumping ship and slashing knives, and also attacking the port, putting down the sampan, rushing to the horse's head to slash, and now the other party's ships have taken the lead, and it is no longer meaningful for their side to sail out to sea.

On the one hand, it is to send people to sue the officials, don't look at the usual times, they don't want the government to take care of anything, but when it comes to such a time, it is still very useful to bring out the big brand of the government.

The maritime merchants in Yuegang thought that they had done all their homework enough, but they were not worried in their hearts, the maritime merchants in Guangdong compared with Fujian, the advantage was that the pirates in Guangdong were brave on the ship, and they were also fierce and abnormal on the road.

But now in the hands of the Fujian merchants in Yuegang, there are a large number of Japanese who are good at land warfare, and they also arrange artillery on the dock, which is all the guys in the Ming army.

Even the guards and sailors don't have such good guys, even if your Cantonese cantonese ships are strong, they can't withstand this cannon.

Seeing that the wharf was getting more and more busy, the maritime merchants' originally panicked minds gradually quieted down, and now they don't have any sentinel ships and vigilant people in the open sea and on the wharf, because the maritime merchants in Guangdong also understand the role of these small boats, and they will not be polite at all, so they all withdraw back.

In order to boost the morale of his subordinates, the leader of the Yuegang Maritime Merchants came to the front line of the possible battle with silver as a bounty, and arranged for his subordinates to cheer loudly, since the other party has sent so many men and horses, it is obvious that they are pouring out, as long as they are defeated or beaten away, they will inevitably damage the vitality of the other party.

When the time comes, take advantage of the situation to go south, and put the maritime trade of Fujian and Guangdong under the hands of Yuegang, that is really developed, if it fails, the wealth and nobility of the hard work will be ruined like this, everything is over, the Chamber of Commerce of Yuegang is also full of capital this time, as soon as it arrives at the front, it first issued two months' salary in advance, and opened a high reward.

The private soldiers of the maritime merchants, whether they were Han bandits or Japanese bandits, were all fighting for gold, silver and money, and when they saw such a great reward and reward, their morale was greatly boosted, and they were all ready to fight to the death.

But in the afternoon, all this became another extreme emotion, because what no one expected was that it was not the wide ships that appeared on the horizon, but the Western ships with towering masts and huge hulls, and if anyone had been to the waters off Macao some time ago, they would have seen that the fleet that appeared in Yuegang was the so-called 'Spanish fleet'.

Legend has it that this was an expeditionary fleet sent to punish the Portuguese, and everyone was terrified when they looked at the huge ships on the sea, because this was completely unexpected, and the artillery that had been ready to fire on the shore for a long time now had no effect at all.

This kind of shore artillery of the Ming Dynasty guard, both in terms of caliber and range, is too far worse than the opponent's naval guns, but the private soldiers of Yuegang don't know whether they are panicked, or what the reason, when the ship is gradually approaching, they try to fire a cannon, the cannon roared, and the cannonball flew out with a whistling, but it didn't even hurt the ship's hair, it fell directly into the water, and the splash was not small.

When in the open sea of Macao, it was because of the artillery battery on the shore that opened a cannon, the Spanish fleet did not know why, quickly turned and left the port, after the artillery in the port of the moon was fired, it seemed to have an effect, and the five big ships also began to slowly turn.

Could it be that this cannon is working? Everyone had this idea in their hearts, but before their euphoria was over, the ships of the so-called 'Spanish fleet' had already begun to slowly turn from the perspective of the ships perpendicular to the harbor to parallel to the coastline of the harbor.

The distance between the two sides was not far, at least the voices of the officers on the Spanish fleet were already audible, the two ships were parallel to the coastline of the harbor, the gun doors on one side of the ship were open, and nearly eighty naval guns of various calibers and sizes peeked out of the small window.

The officers on the ship shouted loudly again, and the entire Moon Harbor was as if there was a tsunami, and the harbor vibrate, and the air was full of deafening shells flying through the air, and dozens of shells streaked through the air and smashed heavily on the various fortifications and defenses of the port.

Because of the convenience of shooting, the artillery at the front and the artillery beside him were suddenly torn to pieces by the fire of the naval guns, and the private soldiers standing behind were quite dense, they were there to prepare for the hand-to-hand combat when the other party landed, but they did not expect that there was no enemy who landed on the shore at all, but there was terrible artillery fire.

At this moment, the place where the harbor was shelled was like hell, the ground was full of stumps and broken arms, and occasionally a few people who did not die there screamed loudly, this shelling, the morale of the other party was completely destroyed, the morale of the maritime private soldiers quickly collapsed, and there was no longer the courage to hold on here, and they ran to the back, and no one wanted to become the target of the opponent's artillery on the dock.

No matter how the leaders shouted at the back, how the maritime merchants raised their rewards, and even threw silver, they couldn't restrain the fleeing private soldiers, and they had to spend their lives if they had money, and the dock that looked murderous at this time quickly became empty, and even those who still had the heart to desperately shrank to the place where they thought the cannonballs could not hit, far from the coast.

The ship slowly landed, as soon as the board fell to the dock, the soldiers wearing military uniforms, armed with spears and firearms, rushed down, lined up on the dock, this is not at all the soldiers and horses in any place in the Ming Dynasty, many people still have feathers on their helmets, and now the maritime merchants who are not far away can already see the faces of these sailors on the shore, and their thoughts that they think that other pirates are grabbing territory The idea was suddenly overturned.

Those are all high-nosed and deep-eyed white people, is Franc really going to war with Daming......