Chapter 75, The "Tessie Pirates" who took advantage of the fire to rob (3)
The Park Dehuan brothers stared blankly at the big ships, and after a while, they remembered that according to the rules, it seemed that they should light a beacon fire at this time. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"Demeng, quick, quickly light the beacon fire." Park Dehuan shouted.
"Good...... Big brother, what's the point? Park Demeng was about to light a beacon fire, but suddenly stopped again. Jeju Island has not been attacked for decades, and this beacon tower has not been lit for decades...... As a result, the original chimney on the beacon tower has long been broken, and there is nothing to light a cigarette on the beacon tower at all.
"Hurry up and find something that can make a fire, anything." Park Dehuan shouted.
The two brothers ran down from the beacon tower and looked around for something to burn. It's just that there are no trees and weeds on this beach, and after looking for a while, the two of them only found a few small branches. Seeing that the ships were getting closer and closer, Park Dek said sharply: "It's too late, don't care so much about it first, light this thing first, and then we will run back to Jeju City to report the news." ā
It took the two of them another half a moment to plant and finally lit the fire, but the fire was not big, and the smoke was not thick or high. I guess Jeju City saw this smoke, and I wouldn't have thought that it was beacon smoke.
"Alright, let's run!" Anyway, the fire had already been lit, so Park Dehuan proposed to move in quickly. If it's the Japanese who come, aren't the two of them still here waiting to die? Although decades have passed since the Wakos, the image of the Wakos has become more and more terrifying in various legends, and the legends of the Wakos have a bloody mouth, like to eat raw babies, and do not like to drink water, but the legends such as drinking human blood when they are thirsty are becoming more and more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Therefore, Park Dehuan and Park Demeng did not dare to stay here to resist the Japanese invaders.
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"The North Koreans are still so useless!" Putting down the binoculars, Kojiro Kameda pursed his lips, "You can't even light a beacon fire." It's useless! "Kameda is a Catholic, after Japan banned Catholicism, Kameda ran out of Japan, and joined Zheng Zhilong's team, because of his outstanding sword skills, he was incorporated into the team of jumping gangs and seizing boats to follow Zheng Zhihu, and later fought bravely in several naval battles, and made some contributions, so he was promoted to squad leader and led a group of Japanese with similar identities to him. There is also a nickname for the captain of the pig-headed squad. (There are no other beasts in Japan, the most common beasts are bears and wild boars, so in Japan, it is called a pig's head, which is actually boasting of its bravery.) ļ¼
At this time, the fleet was already approaching the vicinity of Jeju Island, and the beaching was about to begin. Considering that there is a certain amount of defense on the port wharf, the invasion from the sea never directly rushed to the port of others to land, and the general tactics are to find a beach to grab the beach first and send a group of people up, and at the same time the fleet blockades the opponent's port, and then attack and take the port by sea and land.
A sharp whistle sounded, and one by one the dinghys were lowered into the sea, and the captain of the pig-headed squad took his team to the first batch of skiffs. At this time, there were no big winds and waves at sea, and there was no defensive fire on the opposite shore, so the sailors shook their oars and rowed the dinghy to the shore.
According to the plan, the Pig Head Squad Leader will take his team to occupy the nearby commanding heights first, and the Pig Head Squad Leader will look around, and the commanding heights near here are the beacon towers. As soon as the dinghy landed, he jumped into knee-deep water, drew his sword, shouted, and led a boatload of Japanese soldiers toward the beacon tower.
In fact, before putting down the dinghy, Kameda saw through the telescope the scene of the Park Dehuan and Park Demeng brothers escaping from the beacon tower, so Kameda estimated that there was no one in the beacon. However, in the process of ascending the beacon tower, Kameda was still very cautious. Everything was as he expected, there was no one on the beacon tower for a long time, and even the fire was about to be extinguished, and the brothers Park Dehuan and Park Demeng only found a little twig, and at this time it was almost all burned out, and only a little ember remained.
"North Koreans are really useless, they can't do such a thing as lighting a beacon!" Kameda put away his knife, stepped forward, unbuckled his trousers, took out something to extinguish the embers, and then said to his subordinates, "Keep your eyes open and watch if there are any North Koreans coming." When the others come up, we'll go to Jeju City. Let's all work harder and be the first to climb the walls of Jeju City! ā
The people around him also replied, "Hail! ā
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There are still more than 20 miles from the beacon tower to Jeju City, and the Park Dehuan and Park Demeng brothers first ran violently, and after running not far, they completely lost their strength, and they never had a full stomach every day, and their physique was not good.
"Big brother, I'm ...... I...... I can't walk anymore. Park Demeng said, "Let's take a break." ā
As he spoke, Park Demeng sat down with his ass.
"No...... Can't rest...... Will you be robbed...... By...... The ...... caught by the Japanese "Park Dehuan was also out of breath."
"Wako...... Not so fast. If you don't stop, you're going to die. Park sat down on the ground and couldn't stand up anymore.
"Then ...... again Rest a little longer,...... Then let's go ......" Park Dehuan also sat down. Experienced people know that when you are very tired, you can't sit down and rest, and once you sit down to rest, you can't move for a long time. The two of them were naturally the same, although reason reminded them that they had to get up and leave immediately, but they were paralyzed and couldn't move.
They didn't sit down for long, and suddenly there was a sound of footsteps on the road over there, and Park Dehuan knew that something was wrong, so he hurriedly grabbed his younger brother, barely got up and ran forward. I heard a gurgling sound from behind, it seemed that someone had discovered them, Park Dehuan couldn't care about the soreness of his legs, so he wanted to run, but he suddenly tripped under his feet and fell to the ground, and before he could get up, he was held down by a hand, he struggled to raise his head, and saw that his younger brother was also pressed to the ground by a few guys with strange hair buns not far in front.
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Jeju Mu Li Jinqing had just learned the news of the landing of the Japanese invaders, and this news was not known by the so-called beacon fire lit by the Park Deok Hwan and Park Dek Meng brothers, and the cigarettes they lit were directly ignored. Instead, a fishing boat that went out to sea saw the fleet of pirates and hurriedly returned to report it.
"This is really a house leak that happened to rain overnight!" Master Li sighed, he knew that the Li Dynasty court would definitely not be able to use the strength to help him now. And even if there were, it was too late. However, he quickly made a decision, ordered the lighting of beacons, and gathered troops and volunteers from all over the country to prepare to resist the Japanese invaders.
At the time when the Japanese invaded from time to time, North Korea still maintained a relatively good military force on Jeju Island, with a total of more than 1,500 official troops, and of course, because they had to garrison three cities separately, so the troops that could be used for mobility were about 5 or 600 people. And now, because there have been no Japanese pirates for decades, the military armament is inevitably a little relaxed, and the result is that the situation of empty salaries is becoming more and more serious, and now on this Jeju Island, there are still 1,500 regular troops on the books, but this is only the number on the books, the real number of people is at least one-third less, and the number of troops that can be used for mobility has naturally decreased, and now the number of troops that can be mobile is about 300 people.
However, the main force of Jeju Island's anti-Japanese war has always been not the regular army of the Li Dynasty, but the "volunteers" composed of local people, although these "volunteers" are not very well equipped, but after all, they are defending their families and property, at least in terms of the will to fight is much stronger than the regular army of the Li Dynasty. However, in recent years, the harvest on the island has been poor, and as a result, many people have fled to the peninsula, and the population has decreased, and the number of volunteers has naturally decreased. Li Zhoumu estimated that if there were only one or two hundred Japanese soldiers who came up, then the regular army plus the volunteers could barely fight a battle, and if there were more than 200 people, then they could only defend the city and wait for the enemy to retreat.
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The first place to be attacked was not Jeju City, but the port not far from Jeju City. This port is actually just a small fishing port, but its natural conditions are good, and it can be easily expanded, so it has become the first target of the combined fleet of "Western pirates" and "Japanese pirates".
Kameda and his men had already arrived near the harbor and were resting before the attack. The North Koreans also have some remnants of the fortifications left over from the time when they resisted the Japanese - a small stockade.
"The location of this stockade is very bad. It's too close to the coast. When the tide is high, the warships can almost always sail under its walls. And just now we got closer to the stockade and took a look, there was no artillery on it, and the Korean soldiers saw us, and they only beat the muskets indiscriminately. It was instructed from above, in a little while, when the tide rises, our boat will come a little closer, and they will fire a few shots first, and open a hole in the wall, and then we will go in and destroy those Koreans! Kameda said to his soldiers, "None of the Koreans can fight, and their soldiers -- you just saw the two guys you caught -- they don't have enough to eat, they don't have the strength to fight." But we are different, what have we eaten every day for the past six months? If we fight this kind of soldier, we can't fight ten at a time, are we too embarrassed to eat these whale meats? ā
The Japanese mercenaries under him also nodded their heads, in the past, when they were in Japan, they usually had a hard time eating a rice ball, and many of their parents had never even eaten rice balls twice in their lives. Even a noble samurai, it is not easy to eat rice balls once, and as for the meat to eat, I am afraid that this kind of thing must be done by the daimyo shogun.
The abundant supply of protein made the training intensity of these Japanese mercenaries also guaranteed, and the result of the greatly increased training time and intensity was naturally the rapid improvement of their killing skills. Kameda feels that if he is one-on-one with himself half a year ago, he will hardly have a chance at all half a year ago, and if it is a wheel war, Kameda thinks that he can cut down at least two or three of his self half a year ago.
"Even half a year ago, these North Koreans were not our opponents, and now after half a year's meat, we can't cut them, so are they still people? Don't worry, captain, let's not cut ten of them, we can cut twenty of them. ā