The stirrup's fishing boat sent Guo Yi and Ling'er to Taiwan, a fortune boat battleship and two eagle boats were ready to go, and Feng An carefully selected 200 soldiers, all of whom were handed over to Guo Yi's command. 【Latest chapter reading. 】

Guo Yi, who was so anxious, was eager to leave for Tortoiseshell Harbor immediately, Feng An persuaded: "Sister, the wound on Mark's leg has just healed, and he is going to teach our soldiers to practice formations, and it will only start today, no matter what, we have to wait for him to finish a lesson before leaving." ”

Xu Ling'er nodded and said: "Sister Feng An, in the Battle of Changxiao, we saw with our own eyes that 3,000 musketeers defeated 20,000 iron cavalry, and now it has reached the era of great changes, we must strengthen the practice of musket formations in order to resist the invasion of strong enemies." ”

"Let me take a look." So, Feng An took the two to the exercise ground.

The three of them stood on the outside of the exercise ground and saw groups of soldiers playing with arquebuses, Guo Yi couldn't help frowning, and asked, "General Feng, are they training?" ”

Feng An explained: "We were originally equipped with bird guns and iron cannons, but we always felt that they were not as powerful as bows and crossbows, and the gunpowder was easy to get wet, so the soldiers did not like to use them. ”

At this time, Mark had an argument with the soldiers on the exercise ground, and I saw him shouting and gesturing, showing a very funny look, which caused everyone to laugh......

The soldiers' performance made Mark stomp his feet in a hurry, and although he seemed to be very patient, no one listened to him, probably because the wound was not yet neatly resolved, and he held the arquebus for aim, and then stroked the wound on his lower leg, and finally, he sat down on the ground in anger.

The soldiers taunted him as if they were monsters, and they all leaned back and laughed......

Feng An found that the soldiers under him were too disagreeable, so he immediately straightened his face, ran forward and scolded them, Guo Yi and Xu Ling'er helped Mark up.

Although the soldiers stopped clamoring, one of the heads of a hundred households was still unconvinced and asked: "General Feng, don't we don't have bird guns and iron cannons in our hands, and we don't know how to summon, do we still need this red-haired devil to teach us?" ”

"Presumptuous!" Feng An said angrily.

"General Feng, you don't know that the climate here is humid, and gunpowder is very easy to get wet, so these things are of little use in our hands."

"Back then, the Qi family army was also equipped with bird guns, and when they really fought the Japanese invaders, they were still not as effective as the mandarin duck array......"

"How can the strange Y skills of foreign devils compare to our eighteen blades? Hehe......"

"Besides, isn't the Hongyi cannon as powerful as this arquebus?"

……

Facing the doubts of the soldiers, Feng An shook his head and paced a few steps forward, and said softly: "Guo Qianhu, you can tell them about the Battle of Changxiao." ”

Xu Ling'er knew that Guo Yi was very taboo about mentioning Oda Nobunaga, so he hurriedly replied: "Sister, talking about those may not be useful, if they really realize the power of the new arquebus, they have to do a live-fire exercise first, let's help Mr. Mark organize it." ”

"Hard work two sisters, please." Feng An replied helplessly.

Therefore, Mark didn't care about the pain of the wound, and used all his tricks to organize this exercise, Feng An, Guo Yi, Xu Linger and others gathered the soldiers to set up a formation.

"You're all listening." Feng An pointed to Guo Yi and Ling'er, and said to the soldiers: "Guo Qianhu is the Jinyi Guard under the command of the five armies and the Jinyi Guard, and the Yamen of the Jinyi Guard, see which of you dares to disobey the order again, and you will be engaged in military law!" ”

The soldiers suddenly became serious and replied in unison: "Yes!" ”

Under Mark's command, according to Oda Nobunaga's method of arranging the formation, the soldiers were arranged in a row of ten, and someone was asked to bring ten of the original bird guns and distribute them to the soldiers in the front row.

At the beginning of the exercise, the soldiers in the front row first used bird guns to send S, and Feng An sent people to start measuring the S course.

"General Feng, the farthest one is three zhang."

Feng An nodded, and asked the soldiers to prepare for the S-shot with the new arquebus, so Mark covered his stomach in front of each soldier, adjusted their postures, and taught them how to use it.

After a burst of gunsmoke, the soldier went to measure the S range again.

"General Feng, the farthest one is more than five zhang."

At this time, I heard a soldier who was not convinced: "Of course, our bird guns have been used for so many years, and the old guns are definitely not as good as the new guns." ”

Feng An didn't pay attention to them, and sent people to set up rows of straw men outside Wukaizhang and hang thick armor on them.

With the assistance of Xu Linger and Guo Yi, Mark began to train these soldiers, ambushing them in the same way as encounters on the march, the soldiers in the front row raised their guns to aim, the fork frame fell slightly forward, balanced the arquebus on the fork frame, took a step forward with his left foot, pulled the mechanical trigger that controlled the ignition, and even S fired five shells, and all the straw men in the first row fell to the ground.

After the front row of soldiers finished striking, they retreated to the back to prepare again, and the soldiers in the back row made up for the continued S hit, and S poured down a row of straw men, after the team retreated, the back row began to make up, returning to the reciprocating and continuous S strikes, until all the nine rows of straw men were knocked down by S.

When Feng An brought everyone over to check, he found that all the armor on the straw man had been penetrated, and the soldiers couldn't help but think in their hearts that if they encountered this kind of arquebus on the battlefield, their lives would be gone, and they all broke out in a cold sweat......

So, without further nonsense, the soldiers began to be trained by Mark, and no one said any more strange tricks.

Feng An pulled Guo Yi aside, and said worriedly: "Back then, when Lord Qi fought against the Japanese invaders, he had captured a lot of iron cannons and Western guns on Shuangyu Island, and after these firearms were sent to the capital, they were improved by Ma Xian, Li Huai and others in the Ministry of War, and became the bird guns we use now. I thought that our Daming's bird guns were already the best, but now it seems that compared with the batch of arquebuses shipped by Mark, both S Cheng and power are a big difference. ”

Guo Yi nodded and replied: "General Feng, send this musket to the capital, and the Shenji Battalion of the Ministry of Combat Affairs will explore it and learn to make it quickly." ”

"That's exactly what I'm going to do." Seeing that Xu Ling'er and Mark were still training soldiers, Feng An sighed regretfully: "It's a pity that you are about to leave." ”

"When we get back from Luzon, let's ask Mr. Mark to help train." Guo Yi then asked, "General Feng, have you ever found pirates disturbing the coast recently?" ”

"They've stopped lately, didn't Mr. Mark say that the Lin Feng pirate gang is in a desperate situation." Feng An replied.

Guo Yi said without worry: "Not necessarily. According to the information we received from the Ryukyus, it is very likely that Hayashi Feng has established contact with Hideyoshi Hashiba. Once they collude again, they will inevitably use Ryukyu as a base for their cooperation, and when the time comes, it will be difficult to kill them again; I have also heard Ling'er say that Lin Feng has an uncle named Lin Daoqian, who fled to Siam from Chaoyang, Guangdong, and changed his name to Lin Wuliang, and made a blood alliance with the king of Siam, became a concubine of Siam, and now settles in Pattani Port, if Lin Feng gets Lin Wuliang's support and makes a comeback again, it is not impossible. ”

After the training exercise, Feng An hosted a banquet for everyone, during which Mark introduced the latest situation in the Hawksbill Harbor.

It turned out that after the death of Lin Feng's two murderous Japanese generals, he had hoped to send a group of descendants of the Japanese to quietly contact Hideyoshi the monkey, hoping to bribe the ronin with a lot of money to come to support the tortoiseshell port. This group of people pretended to be sailors and escorted Xu Ling'er, Ma Wu and his wife, Lin Shaoqi and others to Yuegang, and their Y scheme was discovered by Xu Ling'er, and Feng An wiped them out.

In order to deal with the Japanese in the Hawksbill Harbor, under the persuasion of Xu Ling'er, Feng An let go of Li Chenghuai, the lord of the Seven Ao, and Cai De, the Nine Australians, although the two were under the command of Lin Feng, but they had a common enmity with the Hawksbill Bandits.

Unable to wait for Hideyoshi's news, Lin Feng quietly found Mark, bribed him with a lot of money, and sent him to Manila as a mediator, at this time the governor of Manila had already dispatched troops, but did not send troops to levy the tortoiseshell port, but took the opportunity to put pressure on the Ming court, trying to obtain the coastal ports of the Ming Dynasty; General Hu Shouren, the general of the Fujian army, was beyond the reach of this whip, and did not have the conditions for an expedition to Tortoiseshell Harbor, so Luo Amin and others were given a chance to recuperate.

Luo Amin led the people of Tortoiseshell Harbour to run a trading market at the port of the Renyain River, and got along well with the local residents, and now it has built a sizable town.

In fact, the Manila authorities took measures to control the scale of trade in the port market on the one hand, and imposed heavy taxes on them through the church on the other hand, and at the same time, the governor of Lavizares did not forget to send people to threaten them from time to time, so the hawksbill port was in danger of being wiped out at any time, causing these refugees to worry about it every day, some wanted to go to Pattani to join the old Australian owner Lin Daoqian, and some missed their hometown and looked forward to Zhao'an.

Three months ago, Lin Feng asked Mark to help him contact Hideyoshi, the monkey, but Mark refused, and it was at this time that Mark was called away by Father Simon Almeida.

Since Oda Nobunaga could not use cash to buy muskets, the merchants of the Coalition were reluctant to help, and after Father Simon Almeida and Oda Nobunaga reached an agreement, they could only use his disciple Mark as a captain to sell arquebuses from Manila to Japan.

After listening to Mark's account, Guo Yi and Xu Linger realized more clearly that Oda Nobunaga and Yushiba Hideyoshi both intended to plot against Ryukyu, but they took different ways. Oda Nobunaga hopes to prop up Shang Kangbo, who failed in the Ryukyu Kingdom Palace, and let him accept his control as a puppet; And Hashiba Hideyoshi does not have such strength, but he also wants to secretly C a lever and establish a force under his own command in the Ryukyus.

It seems that Yushiba Hideyoshi should have a lot of information, and he chose to send Guo Yi and Xu Ling'er to help, on the surface, because they are enemies of Oda Nobunaga and have a certain relationship with the Ryukyu government, in fact, he hopes that after they build the Ryukyu stronghold, they will be replaced by Lin Feng's people in the future.

This is an invisible war, but also a psychological warfare, everyone realized the seriousness of the situation, Feng An did not do much to stay, the next morning, Guo Yi, Xu Linger and Mark sent the three to the Beigang wharf.

Daifuku bow and tail are broad, two outboard arches, three masts, three floors, the deck is as high as a castle, and there is a deck next to it, and there are wide and flat decks and continuous hatches in the guard, leading to the cabin on the second floor.

The bow of the ship is equipped with three Hongyi cannons, six thousand-pound Franc machines, and ten bowl-mouth guns, thunderbolt cannons, spray canisters and gunpowder crossbows; The stern of the ship is equipped with firearms such as fireballs, fire bricks, and fire barrels, which can fire at enemy ships in the rear direction to cover the accompanying sailing ships; Ten sailors and fifty warriors were carefully selected, and they were numbered as six armors, and eighteen blades were also prepared in the cabin.

Two eagle boats at both ends are sharpened, do not distinguish the head and tail, advance and retreat like flying, strong mobility, surrounded by bamboo dense nails cover, bamboo between the eyes, each eagle boat ten soldiers, equipped with bird guns, arquebuses and bows, when dangerous, can rush into the enemy formation, and the Daifuku ship to cooperate with the battle.

The Dafu ship left Taiwan's North Port, and General Feng An stood on the dock, holding hands with Guo Yi, Xu Linger and others with tears in his eyes, until the sail disappeared into the vast sea......

After a three-day voyage, the fleet was able to see Luzon when the sun was set to the west, when it was suddenly intercepted by more than a dozen Spanish warships.

Standing on the bow of the Daifuku ship, Mark shouted to the Spanish warship, telling him that this was the official ship of the Ming governor's yamen, bound for the tortoiseshell harbor at the mouth of the Renyain River in the Bay of Garslan, to appease the people who had been left behind, and according to the agreement reached between the two sides, the Spaniards were not to intercept them without reason.

However, the commander of the Spanish warship claimed that the matter must be reported to the governor of Luzon, Lavizares, and that permission could be obtained before he could be released.

After listening to Mark's translation, Xu Linger hurriedly asked, "Sister, what should I do now?" ”

Guo Yi said angrily: "Where did Lavizares come from, and dare to call himself the governor of Luzon?" It's a thief! As the envoy of the governor's yamen, how can we be at their mercy and let them hurry to give way, otherwise we will open fire at once. ”

Just as Mark was shouting to the Spaniards, Guo Yi and Xu Ling'er made arrangements for the eagle ships on both sides, and once the Hongyi and Qianjin Franc planes on the Fu ship opened fire, the two eagle ships immediately moved to drive the Spanish fleet away.

After the conversation between Mark and the Spaniards, he told Guo Yi and Xu Ling'er that the attitude of the Spanish generals on the enemy ship was very tough, and they resolutely did not allow the Ming army's lucky ships to approach Luzon.

Invite the five captains to the command platform, and Guo Yi will arrange tasks for them. After a while, the soldiers on the ship were busy, Soldier C made a Hongyi cannon and a thousand catties of Franc machine, aimed the muzzle of the cannon at the Spanish fleet, and more soldiers prepared bowls, thunderbolts, spray cans and gunpowder crossbows, and everyone was ready for battle......

I saw Guo Yi waving the flag in his hand, Xu Linger and Mark beat the war drums, and the soldiers blew the battle horn......

With the three earth-shattering roars of the Hongyi cannon, a Spanish warship was almost overturned, and then six jacks of Franc machines roared in unison, and the bowl-mouth guns, thunderbolts, spray canisters and gunpowder crossbows set off layers of waves on the sea surface.

The enemy ship group quickly dispersed and began to counterattack, and a fierce battle began between the two sides at sea......

The two eagle ships took advantage of their flexibility to go around the rear of the enemy fleet, and the soldiers used the dense nails as cover, flexibly maneuvered, and coordinated in the enemy fleet, and dozens of muskets fired in unison, taking these more than 10 enemy ships by surprise......

The Daifuku ship was like a giant on the sea, and the six-door jack Franc machine sealed the sea area in front of it, spewing out a ball of fire dragons, repelling the attack of the enemy ship group, and the Spaniards found that they could not get a bargain, so they had to flee in the desert.

At this time, two nimble falcons attacked again and pursued the fleeing enemy ship......

Completely repelled the attack of the Spanish warships, and won the first battle, the soldiers on the Daifuku ship shouted in unison: "General Guo is mighty!" ”

Xu Linger admired Guo Yi's decisive courage very much, and reflected in her heart, she used to have this kind of character, and she didn't know when she became indecisive.

Finding that it was getting late, Guo Yi hurriedly Mingjin withdrew his troops, Mark took out the navigation chart to carefully identify the course, and the Dafu ship sailed along the western waters of Luzon Island, in the afterglow of the setting sun, towards the port of the Renyain River in the tortoiseshell port of Pengaslan Bay......

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