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The next day, Zhu Jiang went to see Jiang Pengju after packing up, thanked him for taking care of him for more than a month, and then prepared to leave for Zhoushan Port to take a boat back to Guangdong. After arriving in Guangdong, he sent a letter to his father, explaining that he didn't want to be a soldier anymore, and he didn't know if his father could be angry, maybe the eldest brother Zhu Hai could be happy, after all, there was one less person to compete with him for the throne.

Looking at Zhu Jiang standing in front of him, Jiang Pengju really hated iron and steel, His Majesty is such a heroic person, how can future generations be like this?

Jiang Pengju and Zhu Jiang didn't have anything to say, they just told him to take care, and then let Zhu Jiang leave.

Zhu Jiang returned to his grass shed, smelled the familiar smell of pig manure, looked at this place where he had lived for a month, Zhu Jiang sighed, lifted the curtain and went out to prepare to go to Zhoushan Port.

At this moment, the sound of brass trumpets sounded in the direction of the company, which can only be blown in an emergency. The ten people who were feeding the pigs in the pigsty did not know what was going on, and they jumped out and ran out of the company. Jiang Pengju was very strict in governing the army, and if he didn't sound the three trumpets, he would have to eat the whip, so the ten people in the fourth platoon all put down what they were doing and rushed to the company headquarters.

Zhu Jiang didn't know what was going on, and instinctively wanted to follow, but just now he had already said goodbye to Jiang Pengju, and now he was no longer a soldier. But Zhu Jiang stood in place and thought for a while, if the military horn was blown so quickly, something big must have happened, if he left, wouldn't he be a deserter coward? I want to go back to Guangdong because I don't want to raise pigs, not a coward!

Thinking of this, Zhu Jiang stomped his foot, threw down the package and followed the four rows of people to the company headquarters.

The fourth platoon is the farthest platoon from the company headquarters, and when Zhu Jiang and the others arrived, the other three platoons had already arrived, Zhu Jiang organized the team and stepped forward and said: "Report to the chief, all the eleven people in the fourth platoon have arrived!" ”

Jiang Pengju didn't expect Zhu Jiang to come back, which was very unexpected, but Jiang Pengju didn't say anything, and said to the deputy company commander behind him: "Deputy company commander, you come!" ”

The deputy company commander was a young man of eighteen or nineteen, and when he heard the commander say this, he said uprightly: "Yes! Sir! ”

"Everyone listened, just now when the row was hunting pigweed, I saw four boats on the beach, more than 300 people came down from the sea, they were pirates along the coast of Zhejiang, and the company commander was ready to gather a team to destroy them!"

Jiang Pengju said at this time: "His mother's navy is a bunch of waste, and his hometown has not been cleaned up, and now the pirates are coming to the door, we are still twenty miles away from Dinghai, and when the big army comes, the daylilies will be cold, so Lao Tzu is ready to do it himself!" ”

All the soldiers swallowed and spat when they heard Jiang Pengju say this, a company is full of one hundred and twenty people, if it is full enough to fight with three or four hundred miscellaneous pirates, but a company raises pigs here, and there are less than sixty people in four platoons plus the company, and they are all old and weak, how can they fight with pirates?

Jiang Pengju looked at the fifty or sixty people in front of him, all of them were afraid, Jiang Pengju scolded: "What are you afraid of?" Don't we have twenty muskets? Those pirates are a rabble, and a few rounds of muskets can be dispersed, what are you afraid of? Didn't Lao Tzu teach you to queue up before, and give me a shot at the same time! ”

After Jiang Pengju finished speaking, he said to the deputy company commander: "You select twenty people who are accurate in training and shooting, let them prepare, and the others take weapons, and they are really not good at hand-to-hand combat!" ”

After getting Jiang Pengju's order, the entire company began to prepare in a mess, the musket platoon was led by a platoon leader, the platoon commander was originally Jiang Pengju's personal soldier, and he volunteered to accompany the old commander after Jiang Pengju's crime, the platoon commander was definitely a veteran, his military rank was captain, higher than the deputy company commander, this kind of real knife and gun battle naturally depended on him.

Others picked up the guys from the pig farm, including guillotines, dung forks, and cooking knives and frying spoons.

After the preparations were made, everyone lined up in front of the battalion headquarters and waited for the arrival of the pirates.

This group of pirates is entrenched in the sea off the Huai'an Mansion of Nanzhili, the pirates have had a hard time in recent years, because of the chaos in the Central Plains, the Manchu Qing Dynasty occupied Nanzhili in order to deal with the sailors of the Nanming Dynasty, the entire coastal area of Nanzhili is all strong and clear, and they can't grab anything when they go ashore. On the sea, it is still the territory of the Zheng family, and the Zheng family is a big pirate, but they don't talk about any friendship with these juniors, and they are exterminated when they see it. Later, the Guangdong Navy occupied the waters off Nanzhili and Zhejiang, and this group of pirates was even worse year by year.

The leader of the pirates could only lead his men to hunt some wild food and grab some lone merchant ships to survive. However, half a month ago, he got the news that these big ships that had been parked in Zhoushan poured out of the nest and all entered the Yangtze River, saying that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was going to attack Nanjing. The pirate leader who got the news was happy to die, of course he was not happy for Emperor Shenwu to be able to make a northern expedition to the Central Plains, but the big ships in Zhoushan were gone, and he should be able to get some soup to drink.

So this group of pirates poured out of the nest, selected four hundred and fifty strong, took four pirate ships, and prepared to come to Zhoushan to grab a handful and run. They also knew that Zhoushan was an important place for the Ming army, and there must be heavy troops to guard it, so they did not prepare for a frontal conflict, but just went around to the back of Zhoushan Island to see if there were any lone villages.

This group of pirates went ashore in the north of Zhoushan, and happened to meet a platoon of people who came out to hunt pigweed, and the platoon leader saw that there were many pirates, and retreated to the company headquarters with his own people. The pirates were overjoyed to find dozens of big fat pigs here. After eating pork on the island, one by one you will be ready to kill and open the meat.

The pirate leader Zhen Hailong used to be a soldier in Weihaiwei, Shandong, and he knew what the Ming army was like, and when he saw those Ming troops running away just now, he thought that he didn't dare to fight with him, so he was ready to make a spoonful of stew, kill these Ming troops, and grab a big one. Zhenhailong, who had made up his mind, restrained the pirates and followed the Ming army to kill them behind him.

Jiang Pengju stood at the entrance of the company department with a horizontal knife, and when he saw the pirates coming from the opposite side, there were three or four hundred people in a mess, and he was about to shout to get ready. How do you think that your subordinates are not veterans of the previous hundred battles, these people were farmers half a year ago, and they also raised pigs when they joined the army, and now it is not bad to see a large group of pirates dressed in colorful clothes and kill them without escaping.

Some of the twenty men with guns trembled with fright, and opened fire before the pirates were still 200 meters away. Guangdong's new muskets have a range of 150 meters, and they are still a little powerful at a distance of 200 meters, but because they are all smoothbore guns, there is no guarantee of hitting anything at a distance of 200 meters, so the training of the new army in Guangdong is a salvo, and the number is used to make up for the accuracy. Now a few people opened fire first, and naturally there was no effect.

Zhen Hailong was startled when he heard the sound of muskets in front of him, he didn't expect that there were muskets in such a place? Could it be the elite of the Ming army? But Zhen Hailong looked around again, and no one fell to the ground.

Zhen Hailong laughed: "Brothers, these muskets of the Ming army are all goods, maybe they will explode after a few shots, everyone rush, go first and reward ten taels of silver!" ”

When the pirates saw that no one was lying on the ground, they believed the boss and rushed forward with a howl.

Jiang Pengju glared at the soldier who shot first, but it was nothing for the recruit to shoot first when he was nervous, Jiang Pengju watched the pirates on the opposite side rush into a hundred meters, and shouted: "First row!" Shoot! ”

The company had a total of twenty muskets, and the deputy company commander lined up three rows, just blocking the road at the entrance of the company department, and after hearing the order of the company commander, the first row of seven muskets began to fire. At this time, the pirates had already entered eighty meters, and the muskets did not need to be aimed at this distance, just shoot directly at the crowd.

The first shot was fired by five pirates, and the distance was too close to dodge. When Zhen Hailong saw someone fall to the ground, he was afraid that his own people would be frightened by the muskets, so he hurriedly shouted behind him: "They can shoot with muskets once, rush in and kill them all!" ”

As soon as Zhenhaelong finished speaking, the second row of muskets rang out, and four pirates fell to the ground, followed by the third row of muskets, and five more fell to the ground. Before this could be reached, more than a dozen brothers fell to the ground, these pirates used to be fishermen along the coast of Shandong and Nanzhili, and when they saw this kind of musket firing continuously, the front ones shouted and ran back. Zhen Hailong led a few henchmen to bounce behind, but the hearts of the people were scattered, who cared about him, and these pirates bypassed Zhen Hailong and began to run towards the ship by the sea.

Jiang Pengju laughed when he saw the pirates running away from behind, and scolded: "These guys haven't had the combat effectiveness of the rogue yet, and they ran away with a row of guns!" Everyone stands in line and starts attacking, these guys have a few lives in their hands, so they don't need to stay alive! ”

Under Jiang Pengju's order, more than 50 people in the company began to press the pirates according to the daily training, with musketeers as the vanguard and soldiers with cold weapons in their hands behind.

Zhen Hailong saw that there were many people on his side and were scattered, and he scolded angrily, he grabbed a henchman and shouted: "You go and gather people, and ambush on a small hillside on the side of the original road where we came, this group of Ming troops is powerful firearms, and hand-to-hand combat must be inferior to us!" The henchman nodded and led a few people to gather the manpower first.

Here, Jiang Pengju began to lead the team to fight with the pirates, and when they were far away, they were muskets, and when they entered, they were bayonets, so that these recruits slowly came out of the state.

However, when they turned a hill, more than a hundred pirates rushed out from behind, and took advantage of the gap in the musket fire to rush into the ranks, breaking up the formation of the company.

Jiang Pengju saw the scolding in his heart, and knew that he was a little careless, these recruits were not veterans brought by himself before, and it was inevitable that they would be slower in the formation change, so that these pirates could seize the opportunity.

Jiang Pengju shouted: "Platoon leader, you take the musketeers back to organize the team, deputy company commander, you and I go up together, stop these pirates first!" After speaking, Jiang Pengju rushed into the pirate group with a few people and fought with the pirates.

Jiang Pengju is worthy of always boasting about how many people he has cut in Xinyang, he is really a good hand at fighting, he and the two veterans formed a triangular formation, greeted each other, and inflicted great damage on these pirates, and after a while, seven or eight people fell in front of the triangular formation.