Chapter 155: The Pirate Gang
This bay on Jeju Island is like a dustpan magnified by an unknown number of times, with mountains leading to the sea on both sides, a natural harbor in the middle, and an improvised pier next to the coast that I don't know when it was built. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
When Mao Weizhang and Chen Jisheng landed on the mother and son boat accompanying the Fu boat, Mao Youde hurriedly said: "Report to the Supervisor that there are no defenders in this port, and there is a walled city not far away. ”
Mao Weizhang nodded, found a high ground, took out a clairvoyant mirror, observed the walled city not far away, and then handed it to Chen Jisheng, and said: "Since there is this walled city, it is natural to take it, the army has worked hard from afar, and after taking this walled city, the soldiers can stay on the island tonight to rest." ”
Then, Mao Weizhang looked back at Chen Jisheng, and then said, "Dingfu, how about handing over this walled city to you?" Chen Jisheng, the word Dingfu, calls his words but not his name, which actually expresses a kind of intimate relationship.
When Chen Jisheng heard this, he put down the clairvoyant mirror, bowed down and clenched his fists and said: "Please rest assured, such a walled city, with a battalion of men and horses, will definitely be able to take it before sunset!" ”
Mao Weizhang nodded and said, "In this way, I'll leave it to you!" ”
Chen Jisheng was just about to leave, Mao Youde and Bi Denghan, the former Jinyi Wei Baihu who had always followed Mao Weizhang's left and right, immediately bowed down and hugged their fists, and said in unison: "Lord Supervisor, I humbly ask to join the war!" ”
This is the first battle after Mao Weizhang's military standard camp landed on Jeju Island, and every general wants to participate in the war, after all, this is the best opportunity to be able to gain a firm foothold in the Dongjiang Town military standard camp in the future!
Chen Jisheng stopped when he heard the words and looked at Mao Weizhang. At this time, Mao Weizhang said: "Bidusi led the Chinese army of the standard battalion to watch the battle with me. As for Mao's guerrilla, you can take your right battalion to dismantle the twelve Franc machine guns to provide support for Vice Admiral Chen! ”
When Bidenham heard this, he whispered, "Obey your orders!" ”
Mao Youde was overjoyed, and immediately clenched his fists and said: "Humble duty!" ”
After Mao Weizhang gave the order, Chen Jisheng immediately gathered his team and arranged matters related to the attack, while Mao Youde seized the time to command his subordinates to remove twelve Franc cannons from his own ships and warships docked on the shore.
At this time, the advantages of the Franc cannon were revealed.
Each Franc machine runs, with a weight of more than 300 catties, and five or six young and strong soldiers, it can be carried forward.
And if it is a heavy Hongyi cannon like the invincible general of Shenwei, although the range and power are amazing, far more powerful than the Franc cannon, but the weight of each cannon is more than 3,000 catties, dismantling from the warship moored at sea and transporting it to the shore, it is not a project that can be easily completed.
After Chen Jisheng and Mao Youde received the order, they acted separately, commanded their subordinates, and prepared to attack the simple walled city on the hill three miles away.
And Mao Weizhang took that Bidenham and continued to stay on this high ground on the coast to wait for news.
Mao Weizhang looked at Bi Denghan, who was a little dull, and said: "Denghan's virtuous nephew, don't blame your uncle for not giving you a chance, you are still young, and there will be opportunities in the future, you were born in Jinyiwei, and you have never been in battle, and a few months ago, Mr. Meng Hou asked me to take care of you when I arrived in Dongjiang Town." I don't want you to have any accident and let Mr. Meng Hou and your father Bi Shilang blame me! ”
Bi Maokang is the word Meng Hou, and Mr. Meng Hou refers to Bi Maokang.
After saying this, Mao Weizhang said again: "Besides, you are the commander of the Chinese army in my standard camp, and your duty is to protect the Chinese army. ”
It turned out that this Bi Denghan was the Jinyi Wei Baihu who escorted Mao Weizhang to Dongjiang Town to serve as the supervisor of the imperial history of the army, and he also had an identity, that is, the second son of Bi Maoliang, the head of the Ministry of War, and the nephew of Bi Maokang, the director of the Daming Military Academy.
Bi Maokang once promoted Mao Weizhang, and now Mao Weizhang supervises the Dongjiang River, and needs to select more than 100 people from the Jinyi Guards to follow, so Bi Maokang recommended his nephew Bi Denghan.
This Bi Denghan has the same hobby as his uncle Bi Maokang, which is to study Western firearms such as ordnance and guns, but unlike his uncle, in addition, he has no understanding of the Four Books and Five Classics at all, and he can't study and study, so with the opportunity to be an official in the imperial court, Bi Maoliang let him be given the title of Jinyi Wei Baihu, which was originally just an honor and a fortune to settle down in the future.
Unexpectedly, after Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, under the purge of Jinyiwei, there was a shortage of people, so that all the children of the official eunuchs who had the position of Jinyiwei were appointed to receive the actual position.
However, Bi Denghan, who immediately volunteered to be a marquis when he was a child, was very happy after hearing about this, and soon went north to Beijing, accepted the appointment, and took advantage of the opportunity of the imperial history to supervise the army, and followed his family's family friend Mao Weizhang all the way to Dongjiang Town.
Now, after the recruitment and training of the supervising army standard battalion was completed, he took the position of Mao Weizhang's post of supervising the military capital of the military standard battalion with the title of Jinyiwei's hereditary hundred households.
Of course, Jinyiwei was originally a military position, and there has always been light and dark, this time it was just taking off the big red flying fish suit, putting on a mandarin duck jacket with armor, and turning from the light to the dark.
For such a child of a family, of course, the Jinyi Wei Experience Division did not stop it, Mao Weizhang just casually greeted Gao Shiming, Gao Shiming immediately agreed, and this matter was settled.
And the nearly 100 Jinyi Wei Xiaoqi captains who followed Bi Denghan to Dongjiang Town have naturally turned from light to darkness now, and more than 400 Dongjiang veterans under Chen Ji's department have become middle- and lower-level backbone officers in the standard battalion of the supervising army, and everyone is at least a senior or above.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! ......" Mao Weizhang and Bi Denghan were talking, when a thunderous sound suddenly sounded in the distance.
This is Mao Youde's command to use the dismantled Franc cannon from the warship to bombard the improvised city in the distance.
Iron projectiles the size of fists hit the walled walls, which were mainly made of logs, and three miles away, you could hear the sound of each other running and shouting in the walled city, and shouting and directing the defenders in the wall to shoot arrows and throw javelins.
However, although the firing range of the Franc cannon was not large, it was more than two thousand feet, that is, six or seven hundred meters away, which was a distance that bows and arrows and javelins could not reach at all.
Mao Weizhang suddenly put his mind at ease and thought: "It seems that there must be no artillery in this walled city!" ”
Listening to the shouts in the walled city, Mao Weizhang was thoughtful.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! ......" was another round of twelve cannon shots.
In this way, four rounds were fired back and forth, just enough to finish the four sub-cannons prepared in advance for each Franc cannon.
Looking at the incomplete fortifications of the walled city that had been bombarded by the Franco's machine guns, Chen Jisheng immediately ordered the 1,500 soldiers of the left battalion to prepare for an attack.
However, at this moment, Chen Jisheng heard someone in the camp shouting: "Don't open fire!" We have fallen! Don't fire! We have fallen! ”
The person who shouted actually spoke the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty with a slight accent!
Hearing this, Chen Jisheng immediately ordered the suspension of the attack.
Sure enough, a moment later, inside the log wall, which had been beaten by artillery, a man walked out with a white flag and a hand raised.
When he walked beyond the range of the bow and arrow, Chen Jisheng immediately sent someone to press him to the ground.
After a while, this person was brought to Chen Jisheng and Mao Youde, and immediately knelt on the ground, and said vigorously: "Master Jun spares his life!" The military master spares his life! ”
Mao Youde immediately stepped forward, kicked him over, and asked, "Are you the defenders on Jeju Island?" Why do you say my official language?! ”
I only heard the man say: "The military master spares his life, the little one is called Luo Acho, and he is not the defender of this Jeju Island." The little one followed my eldest brother and made a living as a maritime merchant on this island, and somehow offended the military master, and asked the military master to spare his life! ”
When Chen Jisheng and Mao Youde heard this, they were all stunned, and their feelings were fought for a long time, this walled city is not the official army on Jeju Island at all!
Chen Jisheng asked: "Are the people in the village like you, all of them are my Ming maritime merchants?" ”
Luo Achou kowtowed and said, "It's all, it's all it, it's all Jun Ye!" The small group of maritime merchants turned out to be the people of Kapitan under the command of Commander Lee, and we guarded the goods for Commander Commander Lee on Jeju Island. Later, Commander Li ascended to heaven, and we had no one to take care of it, so we made a living here, helped the past maritime merchants a little, and collected some water diversion to live! ”
When Mao Youde heard this, he laughed, stepped forward and kicked that Luo Augly again, and scolded with a smile: "After talking for a long time, what kind of serious maritime businessman are you fucking, and the co-author is a gang of fucking pirates!" ”
Then he turned around and said to Chen Jisheng: "General Chen, what Jiabidan is under the command of Li Da, it is the pirate leader Li Dan!" These guys are fucking pirates! ”
Chen Jisheng also nodded with a smile, suddenly put away his smile, and said to that Luo Augly: "If I ask you, you have to answer truthfully!" If you dare to tell half a truth, you will be beheaded immediately before the army! ”
Luo Augly knelt on the ground and wept uncontrollably, nodding vigorously.
Chen Jisheng said: "How many people are in it? Headed by whom? ”
Luo Acho immediately replied: "There are two hundred and fourteen of us, old and young, plus fifty-six maritime sailors who have docked here, and there are now two hundred and seventy people in the village. In addition, if you go back to the military master, our group of people will be led by our Brother Afu! ”
When Chen Jisheng heard this, he came up and gave him a kick in his stomach, and asked loudly: "What Brother Afu?!" Say his name! ”
Luo Augly couldn't stand these kicks, and lay on the ground and said: "Our Brother Afu, the big name is Lin Chuanfu!" ”
For Chen Jisheng, the old man in Dongjiang Town, of course he knew a little about Li Dan's gang of pirates, but when he heard this Luo Aug say Lin Chuanfu's name, he immediately knew that this Lin Chuanfu was not a ruthless character who could be ranked. I was relieved at the moment.
Soon, he asked Luo Aug to get up and sent someone to escort him to the gate of the walled city to shout.
After a while, a group of people, old and young, raised their hands and walked out of the walled city one after another, kneeling in front of Chen Jisheng.
Chen Jisheng counted them, and saw that there were indeed two hundred and seventy people, and immediately said to the left and right: "Tie them all up for me first!" ”
The guards on the left and right immediately stepped forward and tied the hands of each of the two hundred and seventy people with ropes behind their backs, and tied them firmly.